Archive for the ‘Data and Targeting’ Category

On the 18th of Feb, Tom Sather wrote “Warming Up IP Addresses: 5 Steps for Faster Inbox Placement” for Return Path. This adds weight nicely to my “Dedicated IPs are Good” post a little while ago. It does of course finish with the usual sales pitch but on this occasion it is well earned. The [...]

According to just about all of the major media sources Facebook intends to launch it’s own fully featured email client as part of the Web 2.0 Summit on Monday 15th of November. Facebook calls it ‘Project Titan’ and Tech Crunch & the Guardian are calling it the ‘Gmail Killer’. The email account name will most likely [...]

Reconnection Campaigns A recent email marketing craze has been the reconnection campaign. With the big B2C ISPs focussing more on recipient engagement to allocate reputation and deliverability, chopping off the people who just aren’t opening the emails is a must. You then email your engaged recipients as usual, maybe a little better now you know [...]

Luke Stat-Walker Glasner (now a qualified Jedi Master of Stats) properly annihilated Email Radio a week or so ago with his awesome metrics action. I know I often do a write up but I’ve listened to it 3 times now and I can’t do it the justice that Luke himself has. I do intend to [...]

This month I had the usual chats with people about getting better engagement from their emails. The place I tend to start is the creative, mainly because it is the easiest thing for someone, not as advanced with email as I, to interact and empathise with. Subsequently they are “more inclined to fix an email [...]

Arguably the best EmailRadio yet, the chat room was very active and the guests were consistently relevant & interesting. At some points I really struggled to keep up with both of them! Before I elaborate on the gravy, there was a small technical hitch at the start where we lost Bill and I think Jeff [...]