Channel | Email

Don’t Forget About E-Zine Footers

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

The footer, the text that appears beneath the actual newsletter content, is the best place for administrative messaging and CAN-SPAM compliance, but it also offers a great opportunity to continue to sell your products and services and to reinforce your branding.

Survey Shows Online Spending Boom

Those who follow e-mail spending patterns may be in for a surprise. Four years after the dot-com bust, direct marketers are creating a mini-boom, according to Direct magazine’s 2005 online marketing survey.

Quick Tips for Improving E-mail Deliverability

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

With all the talk about the numerous sender authentication protocols, it’s easy to overlook some basic actions that can help improve your e-mail deliverability. A new white paper from e-mail services provider Silverpop, “Deliverability: What the Pros Already Know,” calls attention to some of these basics

Volvo to Build on E-Zine with Extranet

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

It can be hard to develop a sense of community between franchises and their parent company, and even harder to do it between the individually owned franchises. But Volvo Rents is tightening the communications gap all around with its e-newsletter, The Rental Channel. And it hopes to do even better when it puts the same…

This One’s For You: How to Do Multiple Editions

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

The question is enough to daunt any writer: How do you come up with stories for dozens if not hundreds of personalized e-mail newsletter editions? The answer is you don't. Instead, you should use a content database that can spit out the versions with little human intervention.

Zipcar Goes Extra Mile with E-mail Newsletter

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

What does Matt Malloy have to do to get you out of that car today? According to Malloy, vice president of marketing for Zipcar, an up-and-coming car-sharing service, all it really takes is good word of mouth, a highly automated online system, and an e-mail newsletter full of engaging content.

Why E-Mail is Broken–And What to Do About It

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

E-mail is broken. And it’s broken in two major ways: Trust and infrastructure. First, the channel isn’t trustworthy. The legitimate senders of e-mail can’t trust the medium to deliver their mission-critical communications and the recipients of e-mail can’t trust that they’ll get what they want … and not what they don’t.

Want Feedback? Conduct a Survey

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

The message bears repeating: Continually request feedback from your subscribers by using short, interactive surveys. This is the best way to learn whether or not your newsletter is relevant.

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