COVID-19, or commonly called “coronavirus,” has changed daily life for nearly every person across the globe. Confined to our homes, whether willingly or out of necessity, customers across 77 countries are practicing self-isolation and social distancing in an effort to reduce the spread of this pandemic. Read more
Sending emails manually takes a lot of effort- and as your ecommerce business grows, it’s not sustainable long term. Email automation creates opportunities where manual email marketing and newsletter blasts fall short by creating an omnipresent marketing force.
Today, I’m going to go over what email automation is and how you can use it to boost your ecommerce marketing.
Adding SMS marketing to your email automation workflow may be the best thing you do for your marketing strategy in 2020 and beyond.
Far from a new channel in the digital marketing world, many marketers and online sellers are beginning to adopt SMS as a primary vector in their omnichannel strategies.
Why now? Why SMS?
There are plenty of things that lead to the rise in SMS marketing, and why marketers are now integrating it alongside their email strategies.
In this piece, we’ll explore how the climate between generational adoption of text-based messaging, plus how the climate in the marketing and ecommerce industry paved the way for SMS to take more than a supporting role in omnichannel marketing strategies.
Are you looking to get started with email marketing?
Or maybe you’re looking for an alternative to Mailchimp?
Finding the best email marketing service can be hard. There are many options to choose from and finding the right one is not as easy as saying: “This one is the best for all.” Read more
It’s that time of year again: the 2020 Omnichannel Statistics Report is live!
This year, we deliver the same marketing automation and timing statistics as we did in 2019. However this year, we decided to do something a little different.
With the rise of SMS marketing across the ecommerce industry, including among our own marketers, we decided to focus on how SMS performed for our marketers this year, and how they impacted omnichannel campaigns.
And the insights we’ve uncovered might surprise you (and hopefully, convince you to give this underappreciated channel a chance).
Let’s jump in: Read more
2019 was a year of success and failure for the retail industry.
DTC marketing brands seized an even larger share of the market (18% over last year) while native brick-and-mortar shops plummeted, with 9,300 closing.
The future seems to be brighter than ever: but is that so? With the rising costs and the ever looming Amazon and its knock-offs, will direct to consumer marketing still be viable in 2020?
Yes, and here’s why. Read more
According to market research, 35 percent of email users will open emails based entirely on the subject line. Furthermore, 69 percent of email users will mark messages as spam based on the subject line. This proves two things.
First, a quality, catchy email subject line is essential to getting customers to open your email. Second, a low-quality subject line will end up getting the email flagged as spam. On most major email platforms, such as Gmail, an email will get sent to users’ spam folder if enough people mark it as spam. This can kill an entire ad campaign. Read more
