When it first came on the scene in the early to mid 1990s, e-mail marketing was the hottest, most productive marketing tool on the map. Then things changed. Too many marketers sent millions of e-mails (hunting) instead of building relationships with their subscribers (farming). The authors share their wisdom about how to make e-mail an effective tool for finding new customers and mining existing customers more profitably.

Drive more value from all your marketing and communications channels--together! Demolish your silos and sync all your messaging, strategies, and tactics (really!). Optimize every medium and platform, from iPad and Facebook to TV and direct. This book is a must-read for every senior marketing, communications, and PR decision-maker. It’s not about social media. Or new (or old) media. It’s about results—and there’s only one way to get results. You must finally bite the bullet, tear down your silos, and integrate all your marketing and communications. That’s how you choose the best platforms and messages for each customer. That’s how you make research and metrics work. That’s how you overcome today’s insane levels of complexity and clutter. You’re thinking: Oh, that’s all I need to do? “Just” integrate my whole organization? Are you nuts? No. We’re not. It can be done. This book’s authors have done it. They’ve shown others how to do it. And now they’re going to show you. Step by step. Strategy. Tactics. Research. Metrics. Culture. Social. Mobile. Direct. Broadcast. Print. All of it. With you, the marketing/communications decision-maker, right at the center...right where you belong! Even now, organizational silos prevent most companies from conversing coherently with customers, delivering the right targeted messages, and building real synergies across all their marketing and communications programs. Now, Gini Dietrich and Geoff Livingston show how to finally break down those silos, bridging traditional and newer disciplines to drive more value from all of them. You’ll learn how to create a flexible marketing hub with integrated spokes including sales, PR, advertising, customer service, HR, social media, and the executive team. Then, you’ll learn how to use your hub to speak cohesively with each customer through the tools and platforms that deliver the best results at the lowest cost. Dietrich and Livingston guide you through hands-on strategic planning, illustrating key points with real case studies and offering practical exercises for applying their principles. You’ll learn how to perform baseline analyses of media from iPad apps to radio, optimize resource allocation, change culture to overcome siloed behavior, use measurement to clear away obstacles, and gain more value from every marketing investment you make. Pull it all together--finally! How to successfully integrate your tactics, tools, messages, and teams Better goals, better results: beyond “SMART” to “SMARTER” Specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, time-bound, evaluate, and reevaluate Better listening: stakeholders, customers, and research that works How to make sure you hear what really matters Four powerful ways to market in the round When to go direct, come from above, use the groundswell, or execute flanking maneuvers

Email marketing's power is matched only by how incredibly misunderstood it is. Email Marketing Rules demystifies this vital channel, taking you step by step through 150 best practices, providing extensive tactical checklists, and giving you strategic frameworks for long-term success. Updated and greatly expanded, the 3rd Edition of Email Marketing Rules will help you... Set the right program goals by understanding "deep metrics" and properly interpreting campaign, channel, and subscriber metrics Build high-performance lists by identifying valuable subscriber acquisition sources, using appropriate permission practices, and managing inactives wisely Ensure your emails are delivered by understanding the factors that cause inbox providers to block senders Craft relevant messaging with effective subject lines, savvy designs, and smart targeting Automate your messaging so you address moments that matter and create highly engaging subscriber journeys Develop solid workflows that avoid errors and speed up production

Email Marketing Success: The Ultimate Guide to Building a Successful Email Marketing Campaign, Learn How to Build an Email List That Converts Nowadays, most people read their emails on their mobile phones and studies show that 3.7 billion people have access to email and 3 billion non-spam emails get read every hour of every day. This is where email marketing comes into play. Most companies are now trying to create well-designed emails that are more personalized rather than generalized to attract the attention of the consumer and make sure the email gets opened. Email will continue to be the main point of communication in the internet so it is important to take advantage of it and create effective email marketing strategies to help your business succeed. This book will teach you all the best practices and effective strategies for a successful email marketing campaign that will help your business grow and succeed. You will discover how to understand and target your audience so you would know which content or products to offer and will keep your clients coming back for more. This book will teach you about the following: What's Email Marketing and Why Your Business Needs It Getting Started With Email Marketing Building Your Mailing List Writing Emails That Will Inspire Your Audience to Take Action Measuring Results and Optimizing Your Strategy Despite the widespread use of email, not many companies know how to take advantage of this or are not implementing effective email marketing strategies. It is important that you include email marketing as one of the marketing strategies your company would employ. If you want to discover more on how you can create an effective email marketing strategy that would ensure great business for your company, scroll up and click "add to cart" now.

"Email Marketing Rules is your guide to understanding the best practices of this complex, often misunderstood channel as you craft the best executions for your brand. After breaking email marketing down into 120 easy-to-understand rules, Chad White then reassembles them around key concept and principles." -- Back Cover

If the idea of starting an email marketing campaign overwhelms you, the authors of Email Marketing: An Hour a Day will introduce you to email marketing basics, demonstrate how to manage details and describe how you can track and measure results. Case studies, step-by-step guides, checklists, quizzes and hands-on tutorials will help you execute an email marketing campaign in just one hour a day. When you feel comfortable with the basics, learn how to use video and audio enabled email, implement tools like mobile devices and leverage social networks.