Earlier this year, we launched a benchmark dashboard which allows our customers to compare some of their key metrics in Campaign, Contact and Lead Management to...
Earlier this year, we launched a benchmark dashboard which allows our customers to compare some of their key metrics in Campaign, Contact and Lead Management to a set of Eloqua Benchmark Indices. Contrary to many survey-based benchmarking metrics reports, this handy report is based on cold hard data aggregated and refreshed every single day from thousands of marketing campaigns launched by leading marketers in over a dozen vertical groupings This week, we thought we would go...
Earlier this year, we launched a benchmark dashboard which allows our customers to compare some of their key metrics in Campaign, Contact and Lead Management to a set of Eloqua Benchmark Indices. ...
The ongoing saga of re-branding Hotmail is fairly convoluted as you can see in the diagram above. However, Microsoft may have nailed it this time. Earlier this...
The ongoing saga of re-branding Hotmail is fairly convoluted as you can see in the diagram above. However, Microsoft may have nailed it this time. Earlier this month Jessica Hastings wrote about "our outlook on Outlook.com." Here's a follow up from a deliverability perspective. What is Outlook.com? You may be asking yourself, "Are they trying to make Hotmail more like Outlook, as in the Outlook I use for work?" I'll admit at first I thought so too. But it's more of a...
The ongoing saga of re-branding Hotmail is fairly convoluted as you can see in the diagram above. However, Microsoft may have nailed it this time. Earlier this month Jessica Hastings wrote about...
Have you noticed all the brands taking advantage of the Summer season? From flashy fireworks to Olympic fever, here are some of the season's coolest, smartest,...
Have you noticed all the brands taking advantage of the Summer season? From flashy fireworks to Olympic fever, here are some of the season's coolest, smartest, and most noteworthy emails to hit my inbox. Enjoy! Betty Crocker put together this very pinterest-y 4th of July top 10 list, with a great poll banner in the middle to help encourage feedback and interaction. There were LOTS of animated fireworks going off in my inbox for the 4th of July, here's a roundup of a few...
Have you noticed all the brands taking advantage of the Summer season? From flashy fireworks to Olympic fever, here are some of the season's coolest, smartest, and most noteworthy emails to hit my...
If your company has an online community that you’re encouraged to participate in, on what day will you get the most bang for your activity buck? We recently did...
If your company has an online community that you’re encouraged to participate in, on what day will you get the most bang for your activity buck? We recently did a bit of data crunching on our own Topliners community in response to a member’s comment that you could tell it was a Friday based on all the activity happening on the community. Our 2012 data showed us that mid-week is the busiest time on our own community, with a peak on Wednesday. Sorry, Jennifer, Friday’s...
If your company has an online community that you’re encouraged to participate in, on what day will you get the most bang for your activity buck? We recently did a bit of data crunching on our own...
We couldn't be more proud to announce that our fourth annual Email Design Look Book is available for download! This year, the curated collection features twenty...
We couldn't be more proud to announce that our fourth annual Email Design Look Book is available for download! This year, the curated collection features twenty stand out campaigns from non-profits to retailers, from the US all the way to Brazil. The search led by myself, our Research Director, Chad White and Designer, Kathryn Alva helped the team to find email creative that captured cutting edge ideas in our industry including mobile optimization, Pinterest campaigns,...
We couldn't be more proud to announce that our fourth annual Email Design Look Book is available for download! This year, the curated collection features twenty stand out campaigns from non-profits...
Recently, several top brands have been including tall, self-contained promotional banners at the top of emails, claiming more real estate than what is usually...
Recently, several top brands have been including tall, self-contained promotional banners at the top of emails, claiming more real estate than what is usually allotted to preheaders, headers or navigation bars. For the past several years, creative best practices have called for primary messages in which all of the key points - and certainly the call to action - fall "above the fold" in an email preview pane, or above the point in which a subscriber would have to scroll down...
Recently, several top brands have been including tall, self-contained promotional banners at the top of emails, claiming more real estate than what is usually allotted to preheaders, headers or...
Role accounts make up a small percentage of every distribution list and are especially prevalent in the world of B2B. These are email addresses such as sales@,...
Role accounts make up a small percentage of every distribution list and are especially prevalent in the world of B2B. These are email addresses such as sales@, info@, etc., and were built for efficiency and functionality, definitely not one to one communications. With engagement playing such a heavy hand in reputation today, one to one communications are more essential than ever. New School Marketing is all about building relationships. Wouldn't you rather build that...
Role accounts make up a small percentage of every distribution list and are especially prevalent in the world of B2B. These are email addresses such as sales@, info@, etc., and were built...
After working hard on creating an email campaign, crafting the perfect copy, choosing the best images, did you check to see how it would look on a mobile...
After working hard on creating an email campaign, crafting the perfect copy, choosing the best images, did you check to see how it would look on a mobile device? It might seem like a trivial activity, but data shows that making your email “mobile-friendly” is fast becoming a “must” on your checklist. Around one-third of email accessed in 2010 was done using a mobile device, according to comScore. And as you can imagine, that number is going up Just as importantly, people are...
After working hard on creating an email campaign, crafting the perfect copy, choosing the best images, did you check to see how it would look on a mobile device? It might seem like a trivial activity,...
We've hit spam traps, and now we're blacklisted! Marketers first ask the question "How did we get spam traps on our list?" followed by "How do we remove these...
We've hit spam traps, and now we're blacklisted! Marketers first ask the question "How did we get spam traps on our list?" followed by "How do we remove these spam traps from our list?" Unfortunately spam traps don't make themselves known, and finding them in a list of thousands or millions of recipients is like trying to find a needle in a hay stack. Registering spam trap hits are generally an indicator of a greater systemic problem and not the problem itself. How Spam...
We've hit spam traps, and now we're blacklisted! Marketers first ask the question "How did we get spam traps on our list?" followed by "How do we remove these spam traps from our list?" ...