Whether it’s because you, as the leader, spend considerable time on the road (or simply off-site with clients) or because your agencies or vendors are located elsewhere (even when in the same city), you are already dealing with the challenges of partially remotely located teams and human resources.
Effective Management: 4 Tips That Help Retain Top Talent
Previously published on LinkedIn. One of the most important skills that a leader must develop and practice is people management. And as a lot of research shows, how you manage your team can have the biggest impact on your organization’s ability to retain top talent. Regardless of the kind of organizational structure you lead under,…
3 Tips to Building a Winning Email Marketing List
An article published December 3rd by eMarketer noted some of the common challenges publishers are facing with their email marketing efforts. US publishing professionals’ responses indicated that they were facing challenges with simple email marketing tactics including list growth and list maintenance. List growth was the most common hurdle, cited by the majority of respondents,…
Video: 7 Steps to a Killer Welcome Email Campaign
Came across a fantastic video from the folks at http://www.EmailDelivered.com. This is a great overview and basic steps everyone should be taking to build long-term relationships with your customers. As noted in the video description, it starts with trust.
5 Ways to Build Trust With Your Email Audience
It goes without saying that if you’re doing email marketing, there are right ways to go about initiating, engaging and maintaining that one-to-one relationship with your customers. The term thrown around is “best practices”, but the basic idea is that you should treat your email audience with respect and like real human beings. You need…
4 Tips For Being Effective On Instagram
First, whether you had the day off and spent it relaxing, or you had a regular work day, for those in the US, best wishes on this Labor Day. I spent a great day with visiting friends in the morning, and with the family in the afternoon. But, today is the first Monday of the month,…
Intro to Parallax Scrolling
Here are some interesting insights on Parallax Scrolling I recently learned as I researched the design technique, and explored its potential and limitations. I found a Wikipedia entry that describes it this way: Web designers began incorporating parallax scrolling in 2011, using HTML5 and CSS3. Websites with parallax backgrounds are becoming an increasingly popular strategy,…
7 Tips For Mobile Optimized Email Templates
If you’re in digital marketing, I’m certain you’ve heard or read about the ongoing debate about mobile optimized email template vs responsive design email. In my opinion, there are arguments to be made for or against both, so I won’t get into that debate today. Regardless, as a digital marketer, you should be looking at…
The Anatomy of a Link
I’m doing a lot of reading on SEO these days, and learning a lot. Thought I would share a simple starting point for understanding SEO. Here is a basic explanation from SEOMoz: Just as search engines need to see content in order to list pages in their massive keyword-based indices, they also need to see…
3 Tips To Better Email Preheader Text…& Other Insights.
In my last post on this series, I said I would be writing a 5 part series on 5 elements of effective mobile optimized email creative. Before I get into the 2nd topic on the series, I want to share some context and tools you might use to help you do mobile optimized email marketing…
7 tips to get your emails into Gmail’s primary inbox
I came across a blog post by a blogger by the name of Luke Guy who did some interesting testing to determine what seems to cause an email to land in Gmail’s primary inbox vs their new promotions tab. For those of you catching up on this, mid last year, Google’s Gmail email service updated their…