Fact: More than a third of email subscribers who opt out of a list do so because they’re unhappy with the sender’s obnoxious frequency zeal. Let’s face it, our email address is valuable. We don’t want brands flooding our inbox with promotions that aren’t relevant or useful. As a marketer, it’s hard…

Email marketing is a huge part of my business success. I used email marketing to build my first business, and that got me using it for every single one of my business ventures since then. But here’s the thing about email marketing. It doesn’t just work automatically by virtue of…

Let’s just all get on the same page for a minute. Here’s what we already know about email marketing: email is the most powerful marketing channel that we have available email has an ROI of 4,300% email is the second biggest acquisition channel, right behind organic search email has more…

Email and personalization seem to go together in marketers’ minds like peanut butter and jelly. With near-magnetic proficiency, the right personalization approach can reel customers in and gradually turn them from casual buyers into full-fledged brand advocates. Or can it? You see, customers aren’t brainless zombies. They know when they’re…

With 94% of internet users regularly checking their email accounts, it’s little surprise that marketers spend hours tweaking and optimizing their email campaigns. At Zopim we’re firm believers that email marketing is the lifeblood of any online business. But, putting together a strong email marketing campaign that converts customers is…

For online retailers, the holidays are a make-it-or-break-it time of year. If results are good, the entire year is profitable. But if results are bad, it can sour even an otherwise profitable year. This season, eMarketer projects that US retail sales will increase 5.0% in November and December, up from last…

It’s a fact of life. As technology changes, so must your marketing. Today, many of your followers read your emails on retina display devices. While that doesn’t seem to be a big problem yet, it could start affecting you soon.

With organic traffic dipping and PPC costs on the rise, email opt-ins may actually be on the decline. But all is not lost—if you take the time to make your opt-in page convert better. An opt-in page is the page tasked with convincing visitors to give you their email address. A very…

Experts all over the web swear by building your email list. After all, entire businesses have been built off the back of email marketing. And it all sounds so straight forward in the beginning. Choose an email marketing provider, add some opt-in forms to your blog and then wait for…