Sometimes I get questions that beg for a blog post response because so many people want the same answer. This one, from a Canadian marketer on my list who asked me how to collect permission-based emails that complied with Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) was my inspiration for today’s post. He asked me to give a webinar on “emailing in a time of...
Read MoreLast year on Cinco de Mayo I published my secret recipe for frozen margaritas. This year I decided to go more historical with a great E-Newsletter case study. Every Cinco de Mayo, history buff and Texan Les McGee gets one more holiday to showcase his email marketing creativity. Les sells 100% made-in-the-USA United States and State Flags and flagpoles for Betsy Ross...
Read MoreIt’s Part 4 of the 5-Part series on building lead-generation web forms on your website. Let’s get real. Today’s lesson is The Big 3 Delusions of Drip Marketing Campaigns–the next step in following up with sales leads. Here are the top 3 “no-no’s”: 1. Customers/subscribers/prospects/readers are dying to hear from you. No....
Read MoreThis is Part 3 of my 5-article series on how to build lead-generating web forms. In this article I want to discuss the importance of relevant follow up. Have you ever submitted a web form and gotten a canned reply that had absolutely nothing to do with what you thought you signed up for? That’s laziness, IMHO. (I guess it could also be incompetent technology....
Read MorePatrick Loo had an unusual marketing challenge: He wanted to shrink his list. Most marketers struggle with the opposite challenge. They want to build their list. The bigger the better. But as a loan originator for 20 years and a former manager of a large mortgage office, Patrick’s database had grown in size to 9,500 contacts. Today he’s one of the top 8 of 50 loan...
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