As the nature of retail changes, some businesses may not have quite as many opportunities for direct, face-to-face interactions with their clientele. As such, businesses require new ways to engage their customers, to build relationships, and to remain top-of-mind.
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There’s a lot you can accomplish with a good email marketing strategy— like increasing sales, building brand loyalty, and sharing important information with your regular and recurring customers.
By now, we’ve all seen the statistics about email marketing: Study after study and survey after survey show that marketers put a lot of stock in email, with somewhere around nine out of 10 marketers saying that email generates a reliable ROI. In short, email is one of the tools that marketers trust.
Email overload is a familiar feeling. Most of us have somehow found ourselves on mailing lists that overdo it, flooding our inboxes with daily messages that get promptly deleted.
At enCOMPASS, we have been steadfast in our advocacy for email marketing: We consistently see the proof that it offers immense value to marketers and small business owners, and represents a cost-effective way to connect with customers, drive website traffic, and increase sales.
Email marketing may not be new and it may not seem flashy, but the fact is that it remains a powerful tool for reaching customers… especially customers who you may not be reaching through social media or through traditional advertising.
Black Friday and Cyber Monday have become the two most consequential shopping days of the year. Indeed, these two days often prove record-breaking, not only in the number of dollars spent and the number of ecommerce purchases made, but also in the number of marketing emails sent.
Amidst flashier, more high-tech marketing solutions, the email newsletter has sadly been lost in the shuffle. Yet ignoring this key form of customer outreach could be detrimental to your broader marketing outcomes. The simple reality is that email newsletters work; they remain one of the most valuable ways for businesses to directly engage with their customers. When properly managed, an email newsletter can lead to a greater brand rapport, to increased website traffic, to more conversions, and beyond.
As digital communication channels mature, and as they become increasingly ubiquitous in everyday life, we’re seeing more and more flags raised about issues like online privacy and security. Slowly but surely, those raised flags are spilling over into legislative action, and in some cases that legislative action has implications for marketers.
Among small business owners, you can find a spectrum of opinions regarding the practice of content marketing.
Some entrepreneurs balk at the idea, seeing it as little more than a waste of time to produce regular blog posts and social media updates.
