Simon Wakeman - marketing, public relations and digital communications

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

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