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No matter how well you’re doing, you can always do better. So is your retention rate too low? Yes! If it’s not 100% (it never is) then your email retention rate could improve.

To determine your email retention rate, use this formula: … Continue

The Audience Development Summit 2012 shares the most profitable strategies for developing an online audience

The success of online businesses relies on the billion-dollar asset: online audiences.

Ecommerce and online advertising generates billions of dollars each year through online audiences. Without these audiences there wouldn’t be a need to produce content for multiple platforms, create engaging ads, … Continue

Looking for some help with email marketing? Here are a few tips that may help you not only get you’re emails opened, but might also help capture your readers attention after opening. … Continue

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Email newsletter best practices examine the best ways to get your email campaign into your recipients’ inboxes, opened, and read

It’s amazing to see the evolution of the email newsletter – how brands use it to communicate, how the designs have changed over the years, and how the strategies of staying relevant have advanced.

Even though email … Continue

Email newsletters are the ideal product for content marketing. They incorporate informative and actionable content with aligned products. These components have value to both consumer and publisher; the consume gets content they are interested in, and the publisher gets the chance to generate money through their email file.

Email newsletter marketing can create a mutually beneficial … Continue

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Create email newsletters that rock, with these 15 email newsletter marketing articles and 4 free white papers

How many blogs do you read per day? I often find myself reading only the articles with the catchiest headlines that I see on Twitter or in my email inbox. I have an RSS feed too, so sometimes when … Continue

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Email marketing RESULTS don’t get better until YOU get better

The other day, social media guru Chris Brogan said, “email marketing isn’t dead…. sh*tty email marketing is dead.” This blunt and honest statement about email marketing is an absolute truth.

Email marketing and email newsletters are far from dead. Even Twitter and RSS junkies HAVE to check … Continue

Claim your FREE digital copy of Increasing Website Traffic & Building Email Marketing Lists: 33 Ways to Increase Targeted Website Traffic and Build Your Double Opt-in Email Marketing Lists now. … Continue

Using the right product shot in your email newsletter can increase response rates by 20-30% … Continue

Have you brought your online publishing business to terms with the fact that you are not alone in this digital ecosystem?
Have you also pondered whether everyone else is adapting more easily than you are?
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This week we’ve been at the Mequoda Summit in Boston, and covering it live just for you!
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Don Nicholas tells publishers that email newsletters are the new newspapers
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Webinars now available on-demand in Mequoda Pro, our training library for online publishers and marketers … Continue

Less than two weeks left to get our lowest price on this Internet marketing event for publishers
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Aim to impress and engage your email newsletter subscribers every time you arrive in their inbox
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How to increase revenue per thousand emails sent
The Mequoda Email Performance Report measures your split tests to help maximize email revenue and profit
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Bristol, RI – June 11, 2009- For the sixth year in a row, the world’s most prestigious publishers and information marketers will come together in Boston for the Mequoda Group’s 2-day Mequoda Summit on October 7-9th, 2009 … Continue

Why your email newsletter program may be leaving thousands of dollars on the table…
Economics is the measurement of any business enterprise. Profitability is the price of survival.

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When the Mequoda Summit returns to Boston October 7-9, 2009, it will surely be a sellout. Don’t miss this opportunity to reserve your seat at the guaranteed lowest price.
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Online publishers now have an opportunity to monetize an international audience.

Digital products that can be downloaded from your website are only the beginning. If you conduct live events, you should also consider the potential of your overseas customers. … Continue

Online Marketing Tools: Using an Email Lifetime Value Calculator to measure the real lifetime value of an email name

The essence of the Mequoda Method is to build a database of email newsletter subscribers, send them valuable free content, build your brand, earn trust, and eventually monetize these email subscribers by selling them paid products and … Continue

A wrap-up of the best ideas from SiPA’s 25th annual mid-year marketing conference that took place this week in Las Vegas

We love the wrap-up sessions at the end of SiPA conferences. They allow us to hear the best-of the best that we may have missed, as there are always great sessions running concurrently. Here are … Continue

Email copywriting best practices for effective consumer email marketing … Continue

How Mono Topic, Multi Topic and Promo Email Newsletter Templates are used in online publishing … Continue

10 Criteria for Increasing Open Rates and Conversions on Your Email Newsletters or Promotions … Continue

Does your revenue per thousand come up short while your “white web” transactions seem curiously high? … Continue

How a publisher made one change that increased their delivery rates from 65% to 98% in days. If your email provider is not giving you a delivery report, and you are not registered with a service like Delivery Monitor, we seriously recommend that you pay attention. … Continue

Adjusting the time your emails are sent can save your customers from sifting through spammy subject lines to find your content.

Variety, the bible for show biz insiders, has provided Hollywood movers and shakers with the industry news they need for over 100 years. The company has been around the block when it comes to print … Continue

Email marketing expert Jeanne Jennings has released an authoritative handbook on her specialty. … Continue

Email newsletters are not like the direct mail campaigns of old. They are based in a volatile environment where spam laws and software capabilities constantly change, and where best practice rules are still undefined. The emerging use of preview panes in email software is the latest change to that environment. … Continue

More attention to detail would help improve the reader experience and lift response.

Many years ago my father bought a boat and was soliciting ideas for names. My brother jokingly suggested “Drug Money,” not because my father was into anything seedy, but because he had spent his entire career in the pharmaceutical industry, which was lucrative … Continue

Top Chef, Iron Chef, Rachel Ray, Bobby Flay—seems like America’s new favorite hobby is cooking. Publisher Cook’s Illustrated is also in the mix with a TV Show, a website network and a free email newsletter, which we’ll put to test today in this review. … Continue

10 Guidelines for Designing Effective Email Newsletters

While success or failure of an email newsletter should be directly tied to bottom line goals (like sales, revenue, etc.), there are some things that can help—or hurt—a newsletter’s chances of achieving those goals.

We’ve developed 10 guidelines for designing an effective email newsletter that we will use to analyze … Continue

How the business media giant capitalizes on 37 free email newsletters and email alerts

Forbes.com has a highly sophisticated email system based on its 37 free email newsletters and email alerts. Visitors to the site can sign up for free email newsletters in a variety of topics.

They can also sign up for single-story alerts by subject. … Continue

Today, the challenges of email newsletter marketing are similar.

Unfortunately, many Internet marketers spend too much time building the number of names on their list. But they don’t devote enough effort to assuring that their existing subscribers actually receive and open their email newsletter.

The math is simple but bone-chilling: If you’re sending a regular email newsletter … Continue

If breaking up is hard to do, your email newsletter could be hurting your reputation

Has this ever happened to you? You sign up for someone’s f*r*e*e email newsletter, then discover that you don’t like it or don’t have time to read it, and you can’t get off the distribution list?

That happened to me. I get … Continue

Every good wordsmith approaches the task of writing a little differently. Some writers start with an outline or by making copious notes. Others write numerous disparate paragraphs at non-stop speed and then revisit their first draft, cutting and pasting to arrange them in a “logical” order. Still others agonize over the lead or headline and … Continue

While many publishers assume that giving away a free email newsletter should be enough to maximize visitor traffic conversions, others treat their free email newsletter marketing programs like any other serious direct response program. Over the past 10 years, I’ve seen free email newsletter publishers test creative, placement and premiums to boost conversions rates. One … Continue