Personalization, personalization, personalization—that’s the key to success for digital marketers these days. But the dirty secret of personalization is that you have to have the data first to make it happen. The good news? Your CRM system is the perfect place to start. As you begin to think about the ways you can personalize your digital campaigns, your CRM system can help you put framework around what you can—and can’t—personalize. Personalization can refer to the timing, segmentation strategy, or data points within an email (among other things). In […]
We’ve been hard at work on your feature requests, emfluence Marketing Platform users. Let’s take a look at what’s new in October 2019, and keep those suggestions coming! Email Throttling BA asks: We need to send to a large group, and we don’t want to overwhelm our call center. Rather than breaking up one big list into several smaller lists, is there a way to distribute the send more evenly over time? Your call center agents salute you! The emfluence Marketing Platform offers the ability to throttle the sending of […]
Black Friday is just around the corner, and turkeys and inboxes should prepare to be stuffed. While having a great offer might be the main focus of your upcoming Black Friday campaign, creating an email that stands out from the rest could be just as important. Here are a few email tricks that could accompany your offer: Use Google Fonts for more visual appeal If you’re willing to jump through a few hoops, Google Fonts can be a great way to bring some originality to your emails. They won’t be […]
Just in time for Black Friday planning, emfluence has released several key enhancements, including enhanced A/B testing, powerful segmenting tools, and clever proofing and planning tools. Create, Test, Measure and Repeat The new A/B Testing Tool makes testing email variables easier than ever. Create up to five variations of an email, with options to test everything from subject lines to call-to-action buttons, from names, email content, and more. Once you’ve created your tests, select your winning criteria, your testing time frame, and the percentage of your list you’d like to […]
Whether you use Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce, a homegrown CRM or otherwise, Marketing Lists built from sales data in your CRM system can be invaluable marketing tools if assembled and utilized properly. If you’re not already using Marketing Lists, these are especially effective when integrated into your marketing automation platform (like the emfluence Marketing Platform). By using Marketing Lists to feed your automated email campaigns, you can more efficiently target the most appropriate audience for any given campaign and include your Sales team in the list building process. Better yet, once […]
