Category: Email Marketing

You don’t need any coding skills to build these email templates. August 12, 2019 1 min read Disclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you’ll find interesting and useful. If you purchase them, Entrepreneur may get a small share of the revenue from the sale from our commerce partners. When you’re creating your company’s digital marketing plan, it’s tempting to go for strategies that employ the newest bells and whistles. Getting involved on new social media platforms like TikTok or adding chatbots to your site can be important for staying on trend, but sometimes older, reliable strategies work best. Email marketing was one of the first forms of digital marketing, and it still consistently outperforms other methods. With Postcards Business Plan, you can create eye-catching emails in a few clicks. Postcards is a must-have email template builder that streamlines your digital marketing campaigns. You can […]

People love videos, and videos boost engagement rates. So try embedding a video into your next email. July 17, 2019 5 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Millions of people around the world are watching YouTube every day. Wouldn’t it be awesome if your emails had that kind of engagement? Well, they can. By simply adding video into your email marketing, you can turn those boring messages of yours into entertaining experiences for subscribers. Proof? MarTech Advisor says that adding videos to your email content can boost click rates up to 300 percent.  Related: Why You Shouldn’t Be Afraid of Email Marketing Still. be forewarned: If you want to use video in your email marketing, there’s a right way (versus a wrong way) to do it. By following the best practices for using video in your email campaigns I’ve described below, you’ll likely see better engagement, which of course can lead to […]

Email marketing automation drives more conversions and higher ROI. Here are 5 easy ways to do it. July 10, 2019 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Email marketing is one of the most effective marketing tactics available to businesses today, but the power of email marketing grows exponentially when you automatically send targeted messages based on specific customer behaviors rather than doing it manually. The reality is no small business owner has time to write individual messages and send them to people one-by-one at just the right times. Even if you have the budget to hire a staff or agency to help you, there aren’t enough hours in the day to manually leverage every email marketing opportunity available to you. That’s where automation changes the game. Here are five email marketing messages that you can set up to go out to customers and subscribers automatically […]

Your subscribers will thank you for taking the ‘Effective Email & Newsletter Marketing’ class with Jeff Goins. March 30, 2019 2 min read Disclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you’ll find interesting and useful. If you purchase them, Entrepreneur may get a small share of the revenue from the sale from our commerce partners. Digital marketing has grown by leaps and bounds over the past decade: pay-per-click ads, social media strategies, and online content marketing have captured consumers in ways that no one could have predicted. However, there’s still a compelling case to be made for good old-fashioned email marketing. Email marketing is still one of the most effective ways to gain and retain customers. Consumers who purchase products through welcome or promotional emails spend an average of 138 percent more than those who don’t receive email offers, and email subscribers are three times more […]

Ensure your content gets seen — even when social media is going haywire. March 18, 2019 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Last week saw Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp go down for several hours for millions of users, throwing business owners’ content marketing into limbo — and teens into a near-crisis. The social media giant Facebook has thrown around impressive growth stats for years, saying, for example, that users still spend an average of 41 minutes a day on the platform. But building your audience on Facebook, Instagram or any private company’s channel can be a double-edged sword when its algorithm gets switched up or its systems go down. So, whether you’re a coach, service provider, ecommerce business or local brick and mortar, it may be time to reconsider email marketing: It’s one of the best ways to reach customers, build relationships and increase sales, especially if you’re on a budget. Yet, as a […]