Simon Wakeman - marketing, public relations and digital communications

Category archive: Email marketing

Why coding email marketing properly is important

Friday, March 28th, 2008 at 11:13 pm

An email that demonstrates why good coding can increase your email marketing response rates.

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Categories: Email marketing, Marketing

Statistics, research and analysis round-up - w/e 13 July 2007

Friday, July 13th, 2007 at 9:24 pm

A round-up of statistics, analysis and research that I spotted this week.

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Categories: Blogging, Email marketing, Marketing, Public relations, Search engine optimisation, Social media, Statistics, research and analysis

What does the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive mean for marketing and public relations?

Sunday, July 1st, 2007 at 6:51 pm

I’ve been wading through consultation papers on a new UK law that could affect marketing and public relations people by April 2008.

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Categories: Advertising, Blogging, Branding, Direct marketing, Email marketing, Marketing, Public relations, Regulations and laws, Sales

Statistics, research and analysis round-up - w/e 8 June 2007

Saturday, June 9th, 2007 at 10:14 pm

A round-up of statistics, analysis and research that I spotted this week.

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Categories: Business development, Customer experience, Direct marketing, Email marketing, Marketing, Podcasting, Public relations, Sales, Search engine optimisation, Social media, Web strategy

Marketing with interactive media

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007 at 6:28 am

If you’re looking for a comprehensive overview of the digital marketing space, then a good place to start is a new report from GroupM.

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Categories: Blogging, Branding, Direct marketing, Email marketing, Marketing, Public relations, RSS, Social media, Video podcasting, Web strategy

Delivering truly integrated marketing and public relations campaigns

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007 at 9:25 pm

Nick Porter, director at Iris PR, has an interesting article about how agencies need to delivery genuinely integrated campaigns on the BrandRepublic website.

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Categories: Advertising, Direct marketing, Email marketing, Marketing, Public relations, Social media

Statistics, research and analysis round-up - w/e 30 March 2007

Friday, March 30th, 2007 at 11:08 pm

A round-up of statistics, analysis and research that I spotted this week.

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Categories: Advertising, Email marketing, Marketing, Public relations, Statistics, research and analysis

Direct mail, opt-in, opt-out and saving the environment

Monday, February 26th, 2007 at 7:00 am

The UK direct marketing industry is responsible for producing 550,000 tonnes of paper mailings each year. Is it time they started sending mailings to people who have actually asked for them?

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Categories: Direct marketing, Email marketing, Regulations and laws

Keeping it legal with email marketing

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007 at 7:23 am

E-consultancy reports a piece of research by CDMS claiming that 31% of the UK’s top companies are failing to comply with EU directives on Privacy and Electronic Communications.

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Categories: Email marketing, Regulations and laws

MarketingSherpa Marketing Wisdom for 2007

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007 at 9:13 pm

My feedreader is awash with predictions, tips and hints for surviving 2007 in the world of marketing and public relations. The MarketingSherpa Marketing Wisdom 2007 is one of the best I’ve seen.

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Categories: Blogging, Email marketing, Marketing, Podcasting, RSS, Social media

New email and website rules for UK companies

Saturday, January 6th, 2007 at 7:35 am

UK marketers and businesses may not be aware of some new rules for UK companies using websites and email that were introduced on 1 January 2007.

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Categories: Email marketing, Regulations and laws, Web development

Email marketing vs RSS marketing

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006 at 10:58 pm

After a good week or so completely offline I’m now back to find more than 800 emails in my inbox, and that’s after the junk filter has done its best. I also have more than 1,500 unread entries in my RSS reader.

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Categories: Email marketing, General, Marketing, RSS

Getting email marketing to the inbox

Thursday, October 19th, 2006 at 7:02 am

Getting your email marketing to the inbox can be a challenge. The Internet Advertising Bureau has just released a great new free guide to doing this successfully.

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Categories: Email marketing, Marketing

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