E-mail

Just weeks after Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica crisis, the compliance deadline for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union (and really, all companies with international reach) cannot come at a better time for businesses and consumers alike. With the regulation coming into effect before we know it, retailers need to kick their plans…

Being an email marketer requires quite a vocabulary. MBP, IPR, filters, bounces, traps, reputation … huh? These are just a few of the many terms associated with email deliverability. It can be daunting to understand the alphabet soup of the industry, especially if you're relatively new to email marketing, much less know how to read…

Wayfair understands that making shoppers’ homes a happy place starts in the inbox. Like many large retailers without physical locations, Wayfair relies heavily on marketing to bring customers to its site. From catchy television jingles and direct mail pieces to savvy partnerships with social media influencers, Wayfair is a marketing machine. And its email program…

Coherent Path evaluated 100 retailers from the Internet Retailer Top 500 list and acquired every email each of these retailers sent to email subscribers who have never purchased a product from July 2017 to December 2017. The company also purchased from each retailer and collected every email sent to them, as first-time buyers, for the first 45 days after the purchase was made from November 2017 to December 2017. Coherent Path then analyzed the communication tactics between a “purchaser” email and a “non-purchaser” email received during this time to determine how retailers interacted with the two audiences. The report also looks at how retailers are performing in other key areas such as email frequency, content and catalog exposure.

I’ve received more than 30 retailer emails today alone … and it’s not even lunch time. These emails range from basic blasts with varying degrees of relevance to me to more personalized abandoned cart reminders and follow-ups on items I’ve interacted with. It might seem that I’m reviewing these with a particularly critical eye, but…

Over the last few years, we’ve seen a shift in the email deliverability landscape. Major mailbox providers, like Gmail, have incorporated subscriber engagement factors into their filtering algorithms, making the sorting process much more dynamic (and challenging to navigate). While retailers have been closely watching subscriber engagement as a key success metric for many years,…

When measuring the success of email campaigns and overall performance health of email programs, opens and its various related metrics (open rate, click to open rate, etc.) are a common benchmark used by marketers. This metric is accepted as an accurate capture of views, as it tracks images rendered per message, counting the rate at…

Learn how SMS and email marketing can not only help retailers reach new audiences, but also convert sales online and offline.

Big data, hyperpersonalization and triggered messages have all gotten a lot of press over the last few years. It seems like everyone would be firmly seated on the one-to-one marketing bandwagon by now. However, the reality is that many marketers aren’t able to leverage data to personalize campaigns. In a recent study by Yes Lifecycle Marketing,…

Starbucks is testing a new Wi-Fi login process in its U.S. stores, asking customers to provide their email address before connecting, Geekwire has reported. Since rolling out free Wi-Fi in its U.S. stores nearly eight years ago, Starbucks has asked customers to simply accept terms and conditions in order to connect to its public network…