The Whitelist

You’ve seen it here before, you’ll see it here again: Transactional emails are a much-overlooked marketing opportunity! But as much as we tout transactional emails, we tout email best practices even more. And as an email marketing vendor, we’re always on the lookout for straightforward, easy-to-digest and easy-to-apply email best practices to share with you. Today courtesy of Silverpop’s Loren McDonald, we get to share with you the best of two worlds: email best practices and transactional emails.
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It’s Cyber Monday, the email marketing equivalent of Black Friday, and the perfect day to remind ourselves why email is so cost-effective, especially in a tougher economic climate like we’re experiencing right now. Off the top of my head, I can think of seven reasons our clients appreciate email marketing:

1. Email marketing costs less than direct mail. You create one email message and design and send it to as few or as many people as appropriate, only incrementally increasing your costs. (The price you pay to your email service provider is literally pennies compared to what you’d pay for printing and postage of a direct mail piece!)
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A new report from JupiterResearch says it’s time to market with your transactional emails too.

Titled “The Transactional Messaging Imperative,” the report encourages email marketers to take advantage of their transactional messages to build brand, increase revenue and, surprisingly, decrease calls to support centers. As an email marketing vendor, we’re always on the lookout for ways to improve email marketing ROI, and this definitely fits with our mission!

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