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Building trust with your leads with an effective email nurture programme

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Building trust with your leads with an effective email nurture programme

December 10th, 2019 - Sadie Burgess

Congratulations, you have caught your prospect’s attention, but now you need to nurture these leads into opportunities for your sales team, as at...

Email software with automatic zombie detection

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Email software with automatic zombie detection

October 30th, 2019 - Dan Hare

Our latest version of e-shot includes a useful new feature to help you identify zombies lurking in your e-mail marketing database and, even more...

Email marketing: ROI and immeasurable benefits

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Email marketing: ROI and immeasurable benefits

October 14th, 2019 - Sadie Burgess

No matter how many other innovative digital marketing tactics emerge, email marketing remains one of the best ways to reach and engage your target...

Increasing brand recognition and improving security – introducing BIMI

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Increasing brand recognition and improving security – introducing BIMI

September 26th, 2019 - Sadie Burgess

Email remains one of the most popular and effective marketing communication mediums available to successful marketing teams. There are more than...

5 minute guide to automation steps

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5 minute guide to automation steps

August 30th, 2019 - Sadie Burgess

Automated Series is the most versatile campaign tool in e-shot, enabling you to configure a sequence of emails, actions, delays and conditions,...

Why ABM makes sense

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Why ABM makes sense

August 28th, 2019 - Sadie Burgess

Like any other marketing strategy, account-based marketing is not a one-size-fits-all solution. It needs to be employed strategically.Are you...

ABM: Marketing to a market of one

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ABM: Marketing to a market of one

August 20th, 2019 - Sadie Burgess

Companies of all sizes make purchase decisions by committee. Sirius Decisions found that over a third of companies purchase by committee, while 53%...

Spotting Buyer Behaviour on your website

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Spotting Buyer Behaviour on your website

July 8th, 2019 - Sadie Burgess

Approximately 96% of visitors that come to your website are not ready to buy. However, by visiting your site they are showing interest in you and...

Understanding APIs - the building blocks connecting your marketing systems

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Understanding APIs - the building blocks connecting your marketing systems

June 17th, 2019 -

What’s an API?A.P.I is an acronym for Application Programming Interface.An API can be private or made available for use in the public domain and...

Which is the best image format for email?

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Which is the best image format for email?

June 14th, 2019 - Sadie Burgess

Images can be rendered in a plethora of file formats  – JPG, PNG, EPS, GIF, TIFF, BMP and more. But which is the right format for your mail? Which...

Rise of the machines - A definitive guide to bots

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Rise of the machines - A definitive guide to bots

June 6th, 2019 - Dan Hare

We are under threat from robots and artificially intelligent programs designed to stop us. Yes, like some dystopian sci-fi thriller, the world of...

Control the speed of your email send

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Control the speed of your email send

May 23rd, 2019 - Sadie Burgess

Our Send Speed feature gives email marketers the ability to control the speed at which their campaigns are sent. By setting a number of sends per...

Deep links: What it means for your email deliverability

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Deep links: What it means for your email deliverability

May 17th, 2019 - Sadie Burgess

It's common knowledge that content is one of the biggest influencers on the deliverability of your email. However, an element in email content...

What is a GIF and why should you care

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What is a GIF and why should you care

May 9th, 2019 - Sadie Burgess

We are all looking for ways to make our emails stand out from the crowd, something to set them apart from the other mails in the inbox. Those great...

SPF, DKIM & DMARC demystified

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SPF, DKIM & DMARC demystified

May 8th, 2019 -

What do Diana Ross and emails have in common? Well, Diana famously once sang “Do you know where you’re going to?” This same question...

Joyful Animations in Outlook

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Joyful Animations in Outlook

May 1st, 2019 - Dan Hare

I was recently deprived of my Apple Mac for a few days after it had an altercation with a glass of water and lost that dispute  rather terminally....

Making “we miss you” hit the mark

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Making “we miss you” hit the mark

April 18th, 2019 - Sadie Burgess

As marketers we all understand the importance of keeping our data clean and up-to-date and using it to maximum effect. But what happens with the...

Maintaining your email marketing database

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Maintaining your email marketing database

February 22nd, 2019 - Dan Hare

Your email marketing database is like a plant. It needs to be continually fed, watered and pruned if it is to stay in good health, yet...

Fall in love with email again

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Fall in love with email again

February 12th, 2019 - Sadie Burgess

It seems that not a month goes by without the pundits decrying that email is dead, yet it remains one of the most powerful and profitable channels...

Date-driven campaigns cheat sheet

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Date-driven campaigns cheat sheet

February 12th, 2019 - Dan Hare

It is true that marketing automation can be complex, but we recommend that you start with proven campaigns that are both high impact and simple to...

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