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Email remains one of the most important and effective marketing channels. Yet, a recent study suggests email marketers are running the risk of negatively impacting their email program by not following best practices Even the most seasoned marketers know that you can’t focus on the big picture without locking down basic best practices. Join Validity […]
Learn about the smartest way to deliver email communications. Entrust and Red Sift mobilize brands to improve their email security strategy and create a more consistent email experience for their recipients – it’s a win-win for both InfoSec and Marketing teams. Join our experts as they explain what marketing managers need to know to become […]
Virtual events platform Hopin last week acquired live-streaming studio Streamyard for a reported $ 250 million. The move represents consolidation in the virtual events space. Two start-ups combine. U.K.-founded and London-based Hopin, a statrt-up not yet two years old, has as its mission giving event organizers “the ability to recreate the in-person event experience as […]
Here we are, at the end of December, and you know what I’m not seeing? A lot of predictions for 2021. Now, this isn’t surprising. In 2020, anything I predicted, or anything anybody else predicted, surely didn’t happen. A meme that circulated early in the pandemic sums it up best: “Those who made their five-year […]
As the bell rang to close the New York Stock Exchange at 4pm EST today, investors, Salesforce and Slack users, and the martech community at large were awaiting the anticipated announcement of a multi-billion acquisition of the popular collaboration platform by the CX and CRM giant. Slack already has close integrations with Salesforce, but the […]
The digital transformation that has been accelerated by the COVID outbreak has affected all parts of the martech stack, from platforms to apps. While the volume of email marketing campaigns has increased, not much attention has been paid to how email marketing itself has had to change. “In March all of our inboxes were kind […]
With the first-ever at-home holiday season upon us, email marketing campaigns will be an even more important tool for marketers. But how to cut through the noise of what might be record-setting volumes of emails? First, marketers need to understand that campaigns ideally need to have already started; or at least have a launch date […]
Now that we’ve made it to the make-it-or-break-it fourth quarter, advice is flowing fast and furiously about 2020 holiday planning. I wrote some of that advice, too, like my September column “Predictions for holiday 2020 v. 400.0? Be ready for anything” about managing holiday campaigns when you don’t know what’s going to happen next. But […]
The continued dominance of email as a marketing channel is elevated further in a time when people are paying more attention to their inbox in real-time than ever before. But that doesn’t mean marketers don’t need to keep abreast of new technologies and tactics. Among the possibilities for today’s email campaigns is modifying content at […]
So many unprecedented things have happened in 2020 that I’m afraid to start listing them in case that unlocks a portal to even more horrors. And we still have four months to go, bringing with it more hurricanes, the U.S. elections, COVID-19 2.0 and – maybe most frightening of all – the holiday shopping season. […]
Food and technology have been on everyone’s mind in the past six months, and for SAP CX these two worlds collided this spring in a 7-day span when its SAP Commerce Cloud was used to launch a new direct-to-consumer platform for Brakes, a leading food supplier in the U.K. “This is where the pandemic has […]
On Wednesday, September 16 at 1pm EDT, MarTech Today’s, Editorial Director and host of MarTech Live, Kim Davis, will be talking with marketing leaders about email marketing, from the technology that powers it to the challenges of integrating email across other marketing channels. Kim’s guests will include: Michael Barber, Founder, Barber & Hewitt April Mullen, Director […]
Whenever I think I’ve seen it all after 20+ years as an email professional, a brand does something to surprise me – and often not in a good way. As we work our way through the COVID-19 experience, companies are striving for revenue any which way they can. Most are doing it by ramping up […]
Three years ago – remember three years ago? When life was normal, and we could eat, shop and travel, and I had logged 130,000 work miles in the air and now I haven’t left home in three months …. Where was I? Oh, yes. Three years ago, I wrote about progressive profiling and how critical […]
There is no precedent for what we are all going through. There is no playbook for how to keep businesses operating while ongoing shelter in place orders turn workers into remote employees – if they’re lucky. The company I work for held its first 100% virtual all-hands meeting. It was a sobering moment that gave […]