It’s almost time to start thinking up new campaigns and strategies for 2017. As we (frighteningly quickly) draw near the end of this year, we think there’s no better time than now to ask ourselves some hard questions about email–where’s it’s going, what it should do and how it should do it. We came up with six hard-hitting marketing questions and tossed them over to… Read more »
Email marketing isn’t going anywhere. We’ve known that for years (despite claims to the contrary)–and we’ve got the research to back it up. In our recently released white paper, original BrightWave research found that email is the number one channel that Millennials prefer brands to get in touch. (Don’t have time to dig into the white paper? Check out our infographic.) For this webinar, originally delivered… Read more »
Newsflash: It’s 2016. Designing for desktop only is a sure-fire way to land your email in the trash and irritate your audience. Making emails that function as well on mobile as they do on desktop should be a standard practice for your team because scalability matters—particularly to hard-to-please Millennials, as we found out in our recent original research on Millennials and email. We recognize two… Read more »
Even with brands they like or do business with, the number one reason that Millennials unsubscribe is because they receive emails too often. Nearly half of the nice, young folk we surveyed earlier this year told us that this is the reason they opt out of a program–and there’s a good chance this audience makes up the bulk of your list. If not now, soon…. Read more »
We’ve already revealed that Millennials prefer email to most other forms of brand communication. Naturally, this got us wondering why that is. Can a platform as seemingly utilitarian as email really be the hot thing among such a finicky demographic? Email outranks other outreach efforts for a number of reasons but the biggest reason is scheduling. Specifically, the power to fit email anywhere in one’s… Read more »
Millennials just love social media, right? Aren’t they the generation for whom if you don’t share it, it didn’t happen? Well, our recent research most definitely debunked the myth that social is always important for Millennials–particularly in our fine channel of choice. A meager 8.7% of Millennials say that relevant, engaging content would make them want to share an email. Despite their deep love of… Read more »
In the age of “clicks and bricks,” the digital experience for customers needs to be as polished as their experience would be in store. Imagine that the welcome email is the first time your customer walks into your store. What do you want them to see? What do you want them to feel? These are elements that must be considered when crafting an effective welcome… Read more »
Okay! You’ve spent the last three weeks ideating, creating mock-ups and identifying the perfect audience segmentation. You’ve built the email creative…and tested to ensure that the best email ever devised looks pristine from Lotus Notes 2 through the Gmail app. You send the email and wait 24 hours to look at the reporting metrics… A 0.2% open rate? WHY?? There are several reasons why this… Read more »
BrightWave has conducted extensive primary research that shows something we’ve long sensed: Millennials prefer email as the channel for keeping in touch. Here’s a visual guide to engaging this growing part of your audience. Intrigued? Read our full white paper to get five actionable insights on Millennials and email. DOWNLOAD THE WHITE PAPER.
As a cost-effective channel, email has long been the uncelebrated workhorse of many marketing programs. Sales took a dive? Send an email. Running a special promotion on toasters? Send an email. Need to push more web traffic? That’s right—you send an email. It is true that email delivers astonishingly high ROI (up to $38 according to a 2015 VentureBeat study), but the appetite for and… Read more »
One reason that email is an enduring, powerful channel for marketers: the ability to prove itself with numbers. If you aren’t using the phrase, “Let’s test into it!” on a daily basis, you’re doing it wrong. Testing can be daunting when terms like “statistical significance,” “holdout group” and “hypothesis” are thrown around, but it is truly one of the most powerful tools for optimizing your… Read more »
We fancy ourselves experts in the big marketing clouds (Adobe, IBM, Oracle and Salesforce, to name a few), building and deploying beautiful, functional emails, and uploading and segmenting complex data—all the while providing insights on ISP and recipient actions for those emails. However, sometimes we need a little help that the cloud can’t provide. This help might be in the form of advanced features,… Read more »
BrightWave helped us develop the strong, consistent, brand-appropriate look and feel that we were missing—and helped us push the boundaries a little bit, too.
