The holiday season is here, and you know what means: every merchant with an email list is ramping up their email schedule. Before you join them, give some thought to the effect that increased mailing frequency is likely to have on your list. (Click on the headline for more…)
Gaining Insights Into Your Web Traffic
Web buyers are becoming a larger and larger percentage of everyone’s business these days. It’s important to keep in mind that not all web buyers are created equal. Your web buyers generally fall into one of two categories: (Click on the headline for more…)
Online Strategies For Selling to the 55+ Market
An excellent article in a recent issue of Internet Retailer, titled Generation Buy, made some interesting observations on selling online to consumers in the 56-to-64-year-old age range. What caught my attention were two key differences in this age group: (Click on the headline for more…)
Nearly 20% of All Commercial Emails Never Delivered
At a recent Direct Gardening Association conference, presenter Ken Lane of Hathaway and Lane cited a study by Return Path that found that 16.3% of commercial, permissioned emails never reach the inbox they were sent too – and no bounce notification is ever received.
I thought I may have misheard, so I looked up the study. (Click on the headline for more…)
A Terrific Example of an Information-Rich Website
If you’re on the mailing list for our snail mail newsletter, Let’s Grow, you should have just received one discussing the competitive advantages that information-rich websites provide. A superb example (click on the headline for more…)