Email Visitor Conversion Rates Tower over PPC and SEO

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Advanced Lead Scoring Secrets — Moving from 'Good' to 'Great' as a B2B Marketer

Adam Needles presents working insights for ‘advanced’ lead scoring secrets that can help B2B marketers take their games to the next [...]

Relevance: "The Right Message" at "The Right Time?"

Saying “relevance” is the key to success in email marketing is a bit like saying something is “American as motherhood and apple pie.” Whether you’ve heard the phrase before or not, you can probably guess the general meaning, but what does it really mean?

Similarly, “relevance” in reference to email marketing success is generally understand and agreed upon. But we don’t really have a single, agreed-on definition for the term, let alone the elements that go into making an email relevant to [...]

The Tech Behind Domain-based Authentication

A colleague read my recent post and asked me how marketers could prevent spammers from spoofing their domains. In other words, it’s pretty hard to fake an IP address, but isn’t it easy to fake a “from” field and domain? (For example, Outlook Express easily allows me to put “bnussey@whitehouse.gov” in the from field.)

The solution [...]

Email Practices of Top Online Retailers – Upcoming Webinar

How are email marketing practices of the top online retailers changing, for the better or worse? Find out at a free Webinar on Thursday August 20 at 2 p.m. EDT/11 a.m. PDT, when I present results from Silverpop’s latest study comparing the email practices of retailers from Internet Retailer’s Top 500 list and 395 additional [...]

How Will the Shift to Domain-based Reputation Affect Your Email Deliverability?

I recently had a chance to pick the brain of my esteemed industry colleague, Deirdre Baird. Deirdre is the CEO of Pivotal Veracity, Silverpop’s email deliverability partner, and one of the most knowledgeable people in the industry when it comes to getting your email successfully delivered to the inbox.

Specifically, I wanted to get her thoughts [...]

B2B Thought Leadership with Debbie Qaqish

Through these special blog postings, our goal is to offer advice and insights from top B2B marketers. If you’re not already familiar with her, it is my pleasure to introduce you to Debbie Qaqish, principal, The Pedowitz Group. She has more than 30 years of sales and marketing experience, leading multiple B2B companies to [...]

Webinar Tips: 17 Lessons Learned from More Than 30 Webinars (Part 2-During/After the Webinar)

In my previous post, I listed seven key lessons I’ve learned in preparing for a Webinar. In this post, I’ll look at 10 more tips to consider during and after your Webinar presentation.

Lessons Learned: During and after the Webinar

8. Anticipate and address the routine questions. If 500 people register, 200 people will show [...]

Webinar Tips: 17 Tips Learned from More Than 30 Webinars (Part 1-Preparation)

Along with the white paper, the Webinar has become a major B2B content-based lead-generation tool, whether produced by your company or sponsored by a business partner. Dozens of elements help you deliver a great experience for attendees and high ROI for you.

In my Industry Relations role at Silverpop, I’ve presented or moderated roughly 30 Webinars [...]

UK Social Media statistics

For those email marketers using Silverpop’s Share to Social feature, which allows you to share your emails into recipient’s social networks; it can sometimes be difficult to know which networks to use – after all you don’t want to list all of them when they may not be big enough or from the right demographic. [...]