Archive for March, 2010

How to find the right time to ask your customer to act

Posted by Bob Lancaster on March 4th, 2010 under email marketing  •  No Comments

If you subscribe to our informative email, you know that we send it in the middle of the night. By testing, we learned that email messages sent before 9 a.m. EST dramatically lifted click-through rates for our list. Here are the key takeaways from our testing: http://bit.ly/cLr7PL

Email Subject Lines, Do symbols hurt email marketing response?

Posted by Bob Lancaster on March 1st, 2010 under email marketing  •  No Comments

[S]o, while it appears there is still at least some validity to the commonly held belief that special characters in the email Subject Line reduces deliverability, our research (this experiment plus two others conducted with different products and industries) suggests that when they serve to do so, these negative factors are dwarfed by the power [...]

B2B Contact Databases Are Poor List Growth Sources

Posted by Bob Lancaster on March 1st, 2010 under email marketing  •  No Comments

This morning, I took one of the numerous bits of B2B spam that I received, and I replied to the sender. This time around, it was a staffing services company, looking to help me with all of my staffing needs. He’s ready and willing to help me with all of my staffing needs in the [...]