The Psychology of Influence and effective email marketing

One of my favorite marketing books is:  “Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion” by Dr. Robert Cialdini.  I first read it a few years back and have since re-read it twice.  Its message is that powerful… for marketers that is.   Dr. Cialdini outlines 6 methods of influence and explains why each method works.  One of […]

Design a simple and effective email marketing campaign

I’m not ashamed to say I’m a big fan of pizza.  My waistline doesn’t agree but who’s in charge here. One company that I think does an excellent job and the discipline of marketing is Papa Johns.  I’ve got a ton of great marketing campaigns and today’s example is a fundamental tenant of marketing that […]

Email Marketing Tips from Chris Brogan

I was poking around today looking for an idea for this blog post and I stumbled on a post by Chris Brogan. (http://www.chrisbrogan.com/inbox/) Rather than paraphrase what he said I’m going to simply cut and paste a portion of his content simply because I couldn’t agree more and I couldn’t write it any better myself! […]

Email Tips: Don’t do this with your email campaigns

This past week was Thanksgiving weekend and in addition to enjoying the time with friends and family I stole a few minutes away to keep an eye on email campaigns and noticed an error that is sure to suppress your open rates. Here’s what I saw:   First.  Some of you may have noticed this.  […]

Email Marketing Software Can Give You Fits.

As email marketing consultants we work with many different email marketing software packages to develop winning email campaigns for our client’s accounts. You might be familiar with one or more of the following email service providers:  Aweber, Constant Contact, iContact, Infusionsoft, MailChimp, Vertical Response, Campaigner or Lyris. During any given week in the past year […]