The Pro's and Con's of Frequency for online retailers. There is a happy medium for the frequency of an email newsletter or special promotions. The more you mail in the short term, the more revenue you will see, but what are the long term effects?

As direct marketers, you know "the devil is in the details." Being able to drill-down on results is important to determine future strategies. It takes discipline and the application of direct marketing tenets. But you can fine-tune your results, target better and reap the rewards.

eCommerce Marketers who want to exploit the full potential of e-mail should develop plans to consistently grow their permission-based e-mail lists of customers and prospects. This allows them to build loyalty and promote cross-sell and up-sell opportunities.

Reggie Brady shares some of her favorite e-mails and explain why they're tops in her book. As you read them, think about how you might incorporate these tactics in your own e-mail programs.

It always surprises me that as eCommerce marketers we give lip service to the importance of testing, buy many of us don't take the time to fine-tune our email programs. If you are able to identify a few elements through testing that resonate with your customers and then employ those insights in your ongoing program, the improvements may be sustainable over time.

This article addresses one of the biggest challenges associated with e-mail marketing programs – establishing meaningful contact with customer targets in order to increase sales, while protecting and enhancing your brand. It illustrates that successful e-mail marketing designed to drive sales and build brands requires adopting a methodology that includes more precise prospect targeting, better permission-based models, a better overall consumer experience and better quality lists.

In this comprehensive 17-page guide from Smart Selling Tools, you will learn tips and techniques to help you:.Collect and Deliver Meaningful Lead Data .Cultivate Leads Beyond the Top of the Funnel .Uncover Opportunities Within Channels Already in Place .Create a Larger Impact with Your Email Marketing Initiatives The top 10 strategies for each category, plus a marketing tools success checklist is also included.

This new Raab Report transforms marketing automation adoption from a demanding leap to a manageable flight of steps. In this five-page report, you'll learn an incremental approach that lets companies adopt marketing automation - without the pain and cost of a massive deployment project. .

Do you wish your email marketing system delivered just a bit more functionality? Are you spending lots of time managing multiple tools and correlating the data they provide? Would it be useful if your CRM and email were tightly integrated? Maybe it's time to consider a marketing automation solution. This new report from Gleanster Research will help you.

Email marketing provides a lot more flexibility as the delivery schedule isn't dependent on outside factors. However, just because email gives you instant access to your subscribers doesn't mean you can email them impulsively or impetuously. Your emails must follow a plan that is as well thought-out and deliberate as all of your other marketing initiatives in order to remain effective.

Updated strategies and actionable steps to help B2B and B2C marketers deliver integrated and measurable email marketing campaigns in today's quickly changing online landscape.

Email marketing should be considered a key component of a company’s overall marketing strategy. In the past many companies treated email marketing as an afterthought, failing to devote the talent and resources needed to affect an appreciable return on investment. To get the most out of an ongoing email marketing campaign, a quality team of knowledgeable professionals must be assembled.

Over the next few years, more and more people are expected to check their email on their smartphones, rather than their PCs. In this free whitepaper, you'll learn how the most common mobile operating systems render your HTML emails, and more importantly, what you can do now to optimize your email creative to keep your messages looking great, no matter where they're opened.

Email marketing service provider BlueHornet recently partnered with mobile marketing solutions provider SmartReply to develop an automated sign up process via mobile text messaging for email marketing communications. In this free case study, learn how Chuck E. Cheese's, a nationally recognized leader in full-service family entertainment and dining, used text messaging as a sign up method for their Chuck E-Club email program to grow their email list and increase engagement levels.

Every popular email client will display HTML content sent in email. However, not every email client has a "web standards" compliant HTML rendering engine. Therefore, the same email may render differently across different email clients. This whitepaper offers practical solutions to help designers, coders, and non-designers alike build a successful email that will render well across all email platforms.

The effectiveness of your targeting and personalization efforts are only as good as the data used to power them. This article will help you discover effective ways of collecting subscriber data -- allowing you to drive campaigns that evolve as your subscribers' preferences and behaviors change over time.

As you look ahead to 2008 for new opportunities to improve your email marketing efforts, we encourage you to look back for a minute, as well. Remember the “email is a courtship” metaphor and “one-to-one” techniques espoused by Seth Godin and others? Even as far back as 1999, those ideas resonated strongly with all of us because they were dead-on. Jump ahead to 2008, and it’s pretty obvious that marketers have failed to realize the potential in offering true relationship email marketing to customers.

This 19-page white paper includes before and after examples of rendering issues and fixes across top email programs. It makes specific coding recommendations you can use to improve the look and performance of your emails across every major email program, including Outlook 2007.

Applying opt-in email marketing strategies and best practices to transactional emails can be a win-win for customers and marketers. But the two types of communications are not the same. This white paper is written to help email marketers and online retailers understand: What sets transactional emails apart from commercial messages; how they must comply with all federal regulations; and where to take advantage of opportunities to optimize their transactional email program.

Every email marketer can use lifecycle techniques to drive greater online revenue and brand equity. Join the lifecycle email marketing experts from BlueHornet to learn which five components you should focus on to achieve the greatest success.

Your online brand reputation can affect many areas of email marketing, including acquisition strategy, list hygiene, delivery, and conversion rates. Join experts from BlueHornet's Deliverability & Privacy Services team and Pivotal Veracity to learn ways to assess and manage your online brand reputation more easily.

"Personal and Dynamic Email Campaigns" provides key metrics that emphasize the importance of personalizing and timing emails, and tips to use email as a relevant direct marketing tool. Download this presentation now!

BrightWave Marketing designed and executed a remarketing email campaign to help CoreNet Global, the world’s leading professional association for corporate real estate and workplace executives, promote its Annual Summit. Read this case study to find out about the changes made and their results.

Denison University utilizes a multi-faceted direct marketing program to communicate with their alumni and other key constituents. Email marketing has become a more important part of their development strategy in recent years due to the cost effectiveness, tracking capabilities and growing use of email and internet to contribute to the school’s Annual Fund.

In August 2007, EmailStatCenter.com launched its First Annual State of Email Metrics survey. Approximately 55% of respondents were from client side and 45% from agencies or ESPs. Download this study to find out what the email professionals want and need in the coming years.