Best of 2017: MarketingSherpa’s most popular content about email, customer-first marketing, and competitive analysis
As you head into 2018, I hope you have grand plans on how to exceed your company’s goals, improve results and create even more effective customer-first marketing.
Whatever your plans are for 2018, it all begins with an idea — and the inspiration to carry out that idea.
Hopefully, here at MarketingSherpa, we’ve played even a small part in powering those ideas and providing that inspiration. To give you that little extra oomph before we cross the line into 2018, here’s a look at some of our readers’ favorite content from the MarketingSherpa Blog this past year.
Time to Move On: Three email marketing habits your customers are sick of seeing
We provided some ideas for email marketing habits you might want to break. Habits like tricky subject lines.
Or overlooking your email’s true call-to-action. “Actually, I kind of view it as a failure for that email if they do click on anything but my main CTA. That was the point of sending the email,” said Bart Thornburg, Senior Manager, Email Marketing, Wedding Wire.
Read the blog post to see if any of these habits look familiar to you from your email marketing campaigns.
Email Marketing: Five ideas to increase your email’s perceived value
Value, much like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder. And for marketing, that beholder is the customer.
So how can you create value for your email subscribers and make sure they perceive that value?
For one thing, you should be thinking of your emails as more than just promotions. “Content-focused emails now sell just as well as the product-focused ones,” said Blake Pinsker, Marketing and Brand Director, MVMT.
Relevance is always key. For example, including product names in cart abandonment emails, “customers seem to have a really high open rate in that one because it recognized what they had been looking at not long ago,” said Victor Castro, Director of eCommerce, Zachys Wine & Liquor.
