Author Archives: Connect by Email

What’s your email marketing strategy?

So you’ve got a list of customers who want to receive email from you, and you have an idea of some of the things you’d like to send them, but you’re having trouble pinning down an overall strategy? You may…

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Email Marketing: I’m Calling Your BS

Well, Absolute isn’t calling your BS, but we found an article by somebody else who is

The basic premise here is this: “What are your excuses for not doing email marketing?”

Common reasons to slack when it comes

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I can’t see images in emails!

So you’ve just gotten an HTML email in your inbox, and you’re all excited to open it – wait – this isn’t right! There are a lot of little red X boxes instead of images! Why is this happening?

Well,…

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Is your subject line sending your email straight to the trash?

By Luke Petterson

Well, that depends. Does your email subject line length rival some Shakespearean lines, or is it concise and to the point? Does it frequently include the words Reminder, Help, Percent Off or FREE? For that matter, IS…

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Email list churn, and how to avoid it

By Luke Petterson

Your business may have a decent sized email mailing list that you’ve compiled over time. If your business depends on using it’s email list to communicate with your clients or subscribers, you need to know about “email…

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Why You Should Be Using Email Marketing

By Luke Petterson

mailbox 300x225 Why You Should Be Using Email MarketingWhy should you be using email marketing? Email marketing has the uncanny ability to captivate your consumer audience, that’s why! The proof is in the numbers, we’ll be taking a look at the numbers here.

According to

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