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 »
Newsflash, email marketers: ESP tightening and new Canada anti-SPAM regulations are taking effect soon that a savvy email marketer will not want to ignore. With Google and Microsoft both updating their DMARC, or email authentication, policies on July 1, 2016 deliverability rates could take a hit for those who aren’t in compliance. (Hint: if you don’t know what that is, take a peek at this… Read more »
It’s enough to make an email marketer cringe. An unchecked subject line with a blatant spelling error. An ESP mishap that results in pushing send—to thousands of the wrong audience. This is the dark side of the inbox. The good news: all of these blunders, and countless others, are avoidable. The first step is knowing the mistake and why it’s important to be cautious…. Read more »
As BrightWavers, we love to geek out over the most innovative ideas in the marketing industry. This year our teams came out in numbers for the mammoth industry conferences: IBM Amplify, Salesforce Connections and Oracle’s Modern Marketing Experience. After rocking out to Stevie Wonder and fraternizing with Fabio, we got to work. We were schooled on the importance of effective consumer communication and the powerful… Read more »
“Right Message, Right Person, Right Time” has long been the mantra guiding strategic email marketing. With the emergence of multi-channel marketing over the last few years, we’ve also added “Right Channel” to the mix. While this is fundamentally sound advice, another piece of the puzzle has recently entered the spotlight – the customer journey. This approach serves to tie every step of the lifecycle together… Read more »
We attend festivals with unfamiliar bands, put our names on month-long restaurant waiting lists and stand in line for hours just to get inside a bar. Even as adults, we are constantly experiencing FOMO – the fear of missing out. FOMO that something is going to happen that you wish you were a part of, so with little hesitation you join the crowd. The same… 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.
