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What We Can Do in 2021 as Your ESP

What we can do in 2021. It may have been a while since you reviewed the features the that Dundee Email List Services offers based on the Lyris ListManager platform. .  After all this email program is over 20 years old, but always up-to-date.  That just proves it’s stable, competitive, well tested and continues to deliver email to millions of people worldwide. Our competition grows yearly. Review their new features, you’ll find that their new features are usually one of our standards. And if they don’t do what we do, they have their reasons: So let’s dive in and review.

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The other side of ROI for email marketing

Everyone is always talking about ROI, how to increase it, how to keep it, and is it enough.  ROI, known as return on investment is a mathematical formula that calculates a ratio between net income and investment.  Simply put, ROI is used to gauge the effectiveness of an investment. Business owners do this all the time, whether or not they are aware of it; when making advertising and marketing decisions.  Questions such as which advertising platform will give the best bang for the buck, to what ad should run, when, and where. Business owners, however, may not be aware of

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What Change Makes Email Marketing a Big Con?

We all know that change happens in the world, in the country, in our business, in our life.  For example: Our country has a new President, who introduced several changes; some see these changes as good, but some people see these changes as detrimental. Companies have increased the use of artificial intelligence replacing a live person for an AI with that all-important initial phone call and website contact: some like this as they seemly get immediate help, but some say this only adds to their frustration when trying to resolve a problem. Larger and more expensive TV sets are available

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Hitting the email industry benchmark

Regardless of whether you consider yourself a seasoned email marketer or a novice, on average, every dollar spent on email marketing returns thirty-seven dollars: An ROI of 37:1, and higher in some cases. How are you doing, hitting the average ROI   mark? To find out if you’re hitting the average benchmark, start with the list of main items you track each time an email campaign is sent, These include: open clicks unsubscribes These interactions between your list members and your email campaigns determine your subscriber’s engagement; Which in turn yields list performance. Track list performance over the course of several

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Improve Your Email Marketing Growth In 3 Quick Steps.

From inbox to inbox, email campaigns sound so simple until you sit down to create one. At the start of an email campaign, marketing growth can seem like a  simple process that quickly becomes unbelievably complicated; especially when you add many moving parts to the equation. And the total number of moving parts doesn’t matter.  Your team could be a one-man operation that is totally unorganized or large with many layers both streamlined and efficient. In either case, the goal is getting out an email campaign in the most effective way.   Develop your plan – it should include A

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Email Automation, easier than boiling water.

You own a small newspaper for a mid-sized town in Michigan.  It’s Spring.  There is an overabundance of melted snow which drains all the chemicals from the farmlands into the local ground water.  Consequentially the local government ordered a “boil order” which means, to use the water for consumption, it should be boiled. A printed story would be too late.  The local government placed a “boil order” on Facebook, but not everyone looks at Facebook and if they do, may not see it in their newsfeed. The local paper has an announcement list, which more than half the town and

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Email Marketing, What is New was Once Old

Solomon observed “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun” a proverb recorded in Ecclesiastes 1:9 These words of wisdom can be applied to everything including our daily lives, history, current events, and yes, even email marketing. Marketing itself, creating promotions, campaigns and advertising, to sell or trade for products and services has been around since the dawn of time, or nearly.  The modern marketing jargon and methods may have changed but the concept is the same.  This includes the concept of branding. Branding facilitates product recognition,

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How to achieve email marketing success in 2021

The year 2020, a year to remember and a year to forget. The ongoing paramedic continues to interfere with businesses in ways that are unimaginable, resulting in loss income and in some cases seemly unrecoverable debt cause by shorten hours and closed doors: Per State ordinances. With a dwindling walk-in customer base, there has never been a more critical time to reach out to your customers to let them know you’re still here and ready to do business. It’s the right time to send a targeted email campaign; Several in fact. Start 2021 on a positive note, with these top

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How to Organize Your remote Employees

Working alone from home, day after day takes discipline.  Granted you can get up and move when you want to, make something to eat or munch all day,  let the dog out, wash the dishes, even sneak in some TV time. On the working side, you may find yourself reading more emails than normal and spending valuable time sorting through email conversations to find the one you need to answer. You still have deadlines and then there are the online meetings you have to get dressed for.  To make life easier, from the email side, suggest to your employer or

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6 Simple Steps For Your Email Marketing Holiday Season

Email Marketing during the holiday season has always been a challenge Consumers are overrun with advertisements for Black Friday, the more people are inundated with advertisements, the more they can tune out. So, how can you take advantage of the holiday without getting lost in all the noise? We have put together an email marketing calendar with steps to make the most of your holiday email marketing! Assemble your contacts: Your current email marketing list is a great place to start, but don’t forget to include your social media accounts, outlook, gmail and website subscribers. Do not leave anyone out,

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