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Dave Marinaccio is a senior level Email Marketing Manager. He has a background with over 19 years in marketing and design and more than 11 years experience with B2B and B2C email marketing. Dave is an expert in maximizing ROI, increasing engagement and driving sales with email.
Before jumping right into email marketing and trying to sell to your email list you should know some tried and true tenets that work for the vast majority of marketers. By following some simple rules you can ensure the biggest return on your email marketing investment. I call these tenets my golden three and they are Trust, Surprise and Listen.
Responsive website design (also sometimes called adaptive web design) refers to websites created within a flexible grid. The reason for designing a website in this way is so that no matter what resolution, window size or device someone is using to view it, it should appear and function properly for them. If done correctly, using Cascading Style Sheets 3 (CSS3) Media Queries and HTML5, the site design should reorient and resize itself to fit a browser or device automatically.
Email marketing can benefit all sizes and types of companies. But, like all types of marketing, certain types of businesses have a real advantage when email marketing as compared to others. Your email marketing strategy still plays the biggest role in how well your email marketing performs, but certain types of companies do have an inherent advantage.
Marketing should never be looked at as an expense. Over time, if marketing is costing your company money, then you need to rework your strategy. Marketing, by definition, is the action or business of promoting and selling products or services. This definition is not ambiguous. So often, small business owners seem to not fully understand the value of marketing. The vast majority of big businesses get it and in many cases, good marketing strategy is part of what made them big in the first place.
Though it is impossible to predict the future, successful website design demands keeping up with the latest web design trends. As 2011 came to a close the expert creative staff here at Active Web Group took some time to reflect on the artistic ideas that came to life over the past year. New technologies and changes to the way people are viewing websites opens the door for new opportunities in 2012.
All the leading websites for E-Commerce have one thing in common: customers that come back to them time and again. The fundamental key to a successful E-Commerce website is to develop an online marketing strategy that encourages a customer to return to your site to make further purchases.
Creativity is the most obvious of the three, but possibly the hardest to implement. Each email campaign needs to throw away the old palette and start with fresh, new paint and colors.
Email marketing will need to combine with elements of social media in this new year. The Facebook email platform will make the merger of social media and email marketing easier this year. Email vendors are also offering social tools and ISPs are making inboxes more social. However, there are ways that marketers can effectively blend the different platforms.
Most customers actually prefer receiving information via email than they do from more traditional channels, according to a study conducted in 2009. This knowledge should spur everyone on to create an effective email-marketing plan that gives customers what they want. If you find this intimidating, hire someone to guide you through the process.
Successful website design demands keeping up with current web design trends. Implementing the latest styles and techniques will increase marketability and allow businesses to remain competitive. As business continues to pick up in 2011, take a few moments to consider what will become popular this year.
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