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Email Marketing · March 25, 2014

Gmail's New Promotions Grid

In August of last year Google rolled out Gmail’s new tabbed inbox interface. This included the introduction of the new Social, and Promotions tabs. While this first gave some email marketers pause, we can say, almost six months later, that this has not significantly hurt open rates.Read more in 1:17 ↗
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Email Marketing · May 30, 2013

Email lists + Facebook’s “Custom Audiences” = Marketing Success

Focused marketing is good marketing. Within the past month + a few days, Facebook launched a potential game changer for marketers all over the world. In the past, your fate with marketing on Facebook was in the hands of the mother of all social media companies’ advertising algorithms. Pay per clicks and other advertising would go out to random people across the wonderful world of Facebook, who had “interest” in your offerings, and hopefully you would be reaching the demographic you wanted.Read more in 2:54 ↗
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Email Marketing · January 10, 2013

Digital Marketing 2.0 Seminar 2013 - January 10 & 16

You Are Invited To Monstrous Media Group's Digital Marketing 2.0 Seminar! Topics will include Social Media, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube, Pinterest, & Instagram, Website Best Practices, Email Marketing, Blogging, Search Engines and SEM vs. SEO, Display/Banner Advertising Online, Online Directories, Inbound Links, Optimized Press Releases, Local Listings, QR Codes, Mobile Media, and more!!Read more in 0:37 ↗
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Email Marketing · December 1, 2011

Email Marketing - Timing Is Everything

When is the best time to send your email? Great question. In fact the time you decide to launch your campaign can have an impact on the overall results of your email campaign. This detail may not be as important as the audience you select, the subject line, or the list you are using, but it is a factor. But if you are working to get the maximum results and put everything in your favor then these are commonly accepted as the BEST times to launch your campaign.Read more in 3:02 ↗
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Email Marketing · August 9, 2010

Why Email Marketing Works

Have you received an email marketing campaign lately? How about a SPAM campaign message? Did you read it or just skim the subject line and author and then tossed it in the trash?  Does email marketing work? You bet it does! Whether or not you read that marketing blast you just proved it was an effective campaign just by acknowledging its existence. So why is email marketing so effective? Well, email marketing works for a variety of reasons. Companies like emailContactor.com use modern email marketing services and solutions that support database integration, segmentation and various other tricks and techniques for improving the targeting of outgoing messages. Advanced methods generate on-the-fly emails customized down to an individual recipient basis and then as if from the gods above give all of that data to you in an easy readable report.Read more in 3:30 ↗