Archive for the 'Service Emails' Category

Email Marketing Redux

Reaching Existing Customers Through Email:
For existing customers, I generally think of email marketing efforts as forming three major categories of intent. These three types represent what marketers are trying to accomplish by sending the email message — though, obviously each time you email your customers, it’s more than likely a blend of these three types […]

20 Tips for Welcome Email Format and Content

We all hate signing up for site registrations — tired of creating (and remembering) passwords, dealing with retailers’ idiosyncrasies for profile information, security, etc. Until a reasonable identity aggregation service comes along (sadly, Passport and OpenID didn’t work, but Paypal and Google Checkout just might make the cut!) users are doomed to maintain […]

Marketing Power of Confirmation Emails

A pet project of mine is to ensure that etailers understand the enormous untapped potential in transactional email (shipping confirmations, etc.) I’ve written about it before, but just for good measure here’s another article from eCommerce Cache: Asserting the Marketing Potential of Confirmation E-mails