Use an Editorial Calendar for Your Email Campaign Management

After talking with hundreds of businesses about email campaigns I find one theme seems to come up again and again. Emails are rushed or last minute or late and that means you aren’t doing your best work… …but more importantly you’re probably missing out on opportunities because you don’t give yourself time and space to […]

Use Facebook Ads and a Landing Page to Build Your List

Here’s a pretty good example of a well-done ad plus landing page combo to build a list. Here’s the ad from my Facebook feed. Nothing fancy.  Take note.  The ad specifies “Biz Owners” in the headline.  That’s a good thing.  The missing link is no benefit is specified for signing up.  You do learn there […]

Email Newsletter Tips and Tricks from H&M

This article is going to look a bit long but the email newsletter tips are best shown via screen cap so you can see an email newsletter campaign that is ALMOST done right. They sure are trying hard. Here’s the story.  I’m in H&M with my kid and I see this newsletter sign up sign.  […]

Is Groupon a good use of email marketing… or a bad one?

Groupon is in the news again lately.  The combination of poor stock market performance and the firing of their CEO has writers examining and re-examining the Groupon business model. Is it an issue with a poor business model, sketchy execution, or bad executive decisions? Sure, those are issues. But you don’t build a multi-billion dollar […]

How Effective is the email newsletter sign up process at Zappos.com?

Zappos is know as one of the top eCommerce sites on the web.  Certainly top in the eyes of Amazon.com who bought them not too long ago.  I noticed recently that Zappos.com is working on building their list. How good a job are they doing at collecting email addresses? First observation I would make is […]