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Note: This blog was originally published 12/24/2015, updated 11/29/2019. As 2019 winds down, lots of people (us included) will be out of the office celebrating the holidays with family and friends. Here are some really funny, clever and snarky out-of-office messages sent this year, courtesy of HubSpot Blogs (full article here). By the way, BizzyWeb … [Read more...]
20 Writing Prompts for Quick and Creative Emails
Whether you're a small mom-and-pop or a massive corporation, one thing is the same: email marketing is a critical part of your digital marketing strategy. For every $1 you spend on email marketing, you can expect an average return of $38. That's an almost unbelievable margin. But creating a killer email isn't isn't as simple as pressing … [Read more...]
How to Build Eyeball-Worthy Emails
Nobody likes an ugly email. If I click into an email and see walls of text, no color, no images, no buttons and not even one shred of bolded text, it's booked itself a one-way ticket to the trash. Are your emails facing a similar fate? With the vast amount of emails we all receive daily, it's important to create eyeball-worthy emails that command … [Read more...]
Why Email is More Important Than Ever in 2019
Q: Is email still relevant in 2019? A: Yes. Well that was easy! See you all next week, folks. ... Alright, I guess I should go into more detail. It's easy to defend email as a lasting power when email marketing continues to be one of the marketing channels with the biggest return on investment. Email allows you to reach people in a … [Read more...]
How to Get Your 💩 in a Group with Automation
We love digital marketing, but we can't deny how frustrating it is to have to juggle dozens of different tools. Your website, your email marketing tool, your independent social media accounts, your Google Analytics, your Google My Business Listing, and that's just the bare minimum! If you also have to toss a CRM and other programs like Eventbrite … [Read more...]
Don’t Buy that List – How to Grow Your Email List for Free
Temptation comes in many forms. Sometimes it's a double chocolate brownie when you're 2 weeks into a diet, sometimes it's an extra pair of boots just in case you get tired of the other 12 you own and sometimes it's a "list of pre-screened emails and phone numbers of certified leads!" Buying an email list sure is tempting - who wants to pass up … [Read more...]
5 Simple Ways to Show Your Customers You Care
Everyone wants to feel appreciated, your customers included. Often as business owners, we're so focused on driving new business that we take our current customers for granted. Your current customers are your foundation, but beyond that a happy customer is more likely to recommend your business to others and to keep coming back for more. There are … [Read more...]
How to Get Customer Feedback
Customer feedback isn't just important - it's essential to keep your business afloat so you can improve and adapt to your customers' needs. If you aren't currently gathering customer feedback beyond reviews, there are many ways you can solicit customer feedback with minimal effort. Email Feedback This is one of the most common ways to receive … [Read more...]
How to Prioritize Your Inbox [Infographic]
Show of hands: who has at least 20 unread emails sitting in their inbox right now? We all know that stressed, overwhelmed feeling of opening your inbox an avalanche of unread emails. Did you know 28% of the workweek is spent managing emails? That's a lot of valuable time wasted. Use these tips from NetCredit to get your inbox to the coveted … [Read more...]
10 Digital Marketing New Year’s Resolutions to Live By
Wahoo! We all made it! 2018 Is finally here. Do you have your New Year's Resolutions picked out? Now's the perfect time to set some actionable goals for your business. Today we'll give you some easy-to-follow Digital Marketing New Year's Resolutions that will help guide your marketing and improve your ROI. 1. Evaluate Your Current Strategy You … [Read more...]
How to Create an Email Automation for Small Business Saturday
Take a deep breath: the holidays are right around the corner. Small Business Saturday is November 25. Are you ready? Small Business Saturday is the perfect venue for driving sales and returning customers, even if you aren't a retail business. We at BizzyWeb are big fans of working smarter, not harder. One of the best, low-effort ways to drum up … [Read more...]
What’s Your Digital Marketing IQ? [Quiz]
Pop quiz time! Do you have your number 2 pencil and eraser on hand? Just how much do you know about digital marketing? With all the buzzwords and conflicting information floating around on the internet, it's easy to lose your path. Take our quiz to find out if you're going the right direction (don't worry - this test won't count towards your … [Read more...]
October 2017 Marketing and Holiday Planning [Infographic]
October is finally here. Grab your pumpkin spice lattes, plastic skulls and knee-high boots, it's time to jump into fall marketing. Now is the perfect time to steer your marketing efforts toward the upcoming holidays and end of fiscal years. We love this simple infographic from Constant Contact to help you chart October's peak events and generate … [Read more...]
4 Secrets for Making Your Emails More Readable
Do you ever feel like you and your customers are speaking two different languages? You send out an email about a program or a sale that explains it in detail, only to get emails and calls in response asking about the program or sale. What gives? Can't people just read the email? Actually...they might not. Your emails should be built with your … [Read more...]
How to Use Email to Boost Your Real Estate Sales [Infographic]
Trying to go from "for sale" to "sold?" If your emails are falling flat, it's time to shake up your email marketing strategy to land more sales. This infographic from Constant Contact shows the three essential emails for any realtor: 1. Send Out Homeowner Tips To position your business as a credible authority, focus on homeowner tips that … [Read more...]
The Anatomy of a Successful Email
Did you bring your scalpel? We're continuing our dissection of successful marketing tools to narrow in on what makes them work. Today we're slicing open some successful emails to see how they're built. For our purposes today, I'm defining "successful" as achieving one of the below: Open Rate above industry averages Click Rate above industry … [Read more...]
4 Email Content Ideas for Health Professionals [Infographic]
As anyone in the healthcare industry can confirm: there just aren't enough hours in the day. And as a health professional, your first priority is your patients or clients. You probably know that you should be marketing...but you just don't have the time. Lucky for you, there is a way to do both. Emails aren't just useful for sending out … [Read more...]
Why Aren’t People Opening Your Emails?
Ever feel like you're just shouting into a void? That no matter how amazingly beautiful your emails are, no matter how Earth-shattering the subject matter, it doesn't even matter because barely anyone is opening them? Don't lose hope! The bad news is that people aren't opening your emails. The good news is that you can fix that. If your emails … [Read more...]
How to Use Email Marketing Automation, Without Turning Your Subscribers Off
Do you want more time in your day? Of course you do. While you're busy juggling all your obligations, it's easy to overlook marketing. Email marketing is one of the easiest and least expensive ways to connect with your audience...but who has the time? That's where email marketing automation comes in. Set it once, then walk away.You don't have time … [Read more...]
Look Great in the Inbox: The 7 Don’ts of Email Design
We are LIVE on today's BizzyWebinar! There are two ways to "bee a fly on the wall" and watch our webinar: View it on our Google Plus page to stream the video and take advantage of the Q&A Tool to ask questions live on the webinar. Stream the live YouTube video below. After the broadcast, we will have the video both in … [Read more...]
Stand Out Subject Lines: Get Open, Get Read, Get Results
We are LIVE on today's BizzyWebinar! There are two ways to "bee a fly on the wall" and watch our webinar:View it on our Google Plus page to stream the video and take advantage of the Q&A Tool to ask questions live on the webinar.Stream the live YouTube video below. After the broadcast, we will have the video both in our BizzyWebinar … [Read more...]
60 Ways To Grow Your List in 60 Seconds [VIDEO]
Earlier this week, Dave shared 60 tips for growing your email list. It's a fantastic resource (if we do say so ourselves) but there's only one problem...it's a little long. We decided to give it another try, without any pesky things like "slide transitions" or "pausing to breath" eating up precious time. We try to be efficient. We had to tap into a … [Read more...]
60 Ways to Grow Your Email List
We are LIVE on today's BizzyWebinar! There are two ways to "bee a fly on the wall" and watch our webinar:View it on our Google Plus page to stream the video and take advantage of the Q&A Tool to ask questions live on the webinar.Stream the live YouTube video below.After the broadcast, we will have the video both in our BizzyWebinar … [Read more...]
4 Ways to Segment Your Email List
What does your email list look like? No, not how many emails you have. How is it organized? Is it organized? Too many companies overlook list segmentation, when it's one of the most important features of email marketing. By breaking out your list, you can send targeted emails to the people most likely to act. That's powerful.Azure Collier … [Read more...]
Creative Email Call-to-Action Ideas That Really Drive Action [Infographic]
If you send out regular emails to your customers, you know the frustration of crafting the perfect email and seeing those open rates shoot up...but the click through rates stay at rock-bottom. Once your readers open your email, they don't click on anything. Why is that?The answer is frustratingly simple: you're not giving them something they want … [Read more...]
6 Things You Can Learn from Your Email Analytics
By Miranda Paquet, Constant Contact Making sense of your email analytics can be tricky at first.How do you know which numbers to focus on? What do all those numbers really mean anyway? Is this really worth your time?To approach your email reports with confidence, you have to understand what information you have available and how to use that … [Read more...]
10 Words You Should Never Use in Email [Infographic]
Are you addicted to exclamation points?! Perpetually signing-off with "thanks?" Sorry, but interjecting an apology into each sentence? You may be coming off as rude in your emails. A vague phrase or easily-misinterpreted word is the difference between a successful email campaign and a flop. This infographic from Outsource-Philippines outlines 10 … [Read more...]
7 Ideas for Your First Autoresponder Series
Every day, you've got a thousand things demanding your attention. Can you really afford to spend time emailing out each one of your leads? Autoresponder emails are a sleek, automated way to follow up with new contacts. The best part? With Constant Contact, they take only minutes to set up.Miranda Paquet of Constant Contact has 7 simple ideas for … [Read more...]
[Infographic] The Email Obstacle Course: What Happens Between Send and Receive
We've all lost a couple emails to the nebulous void of cyberspace. Why is that? At what point between "sent" and "received" does an email just...vanish?This infographic via Constant Contact breaks down the life cycle of an email to get to the bottom of disappearing emails: * * *Rethinking your email strategy? Check out our Buzz Builders online … [Read more...]
Improve Your Open Rates with These 12 Subject Line Tweaks
You have two seconds to capture your audience. Go.A great subject line and an ok subject line is the difference between a click and an instant trip to the trash bin. This week, Dave will be showing you how to make your subject lines stand out. Looking for a quick fix? Miranda Paquet of Constant Contact has some tips for tweaking your subject lines. … [Read more...]
How to Make Your Website and Email Work Together
It's no secret that we're a little obsessed with Constant Contact. Alright, maybe more than a little obsessed. Can you really blame us? Constant Contact makes it easy to streamline your online marketing with emails, promotions, events, surveys and more. One other important feature of Constant Contact: you can sync it with your website. Today, we're … [Read more...]
Email Design Best Practices: How to Design the Perfect Email in 2016 [Guide]
by Ryan Pinkham, Constant ContactFirst impressions matter. And when someone opens your email, what they see is going to determine what they do next.Following email design best practices ensures your email looks good and delivers real results.If you’re using an email marketing service like Constant Contact to do your email marketing, you’re in … [Read more...]
The What, When, and Who of Successful Emails [Infographic]
Jason Fidler, Constant ContactHere at Constant Contact, we’re always uncovering new data to help you create effective email campaigns.Whether it’s providing the best time to send emails based on the industry you’re in, or taking a look at what types of content result in the best click-through rates, we work hard to ensure that small businesses and … [Read more...]
15 Last-Minute Holiday Email Ideas to End 2015 with a Bang
by Ryan Pinkham, Constant ContactLet’s face it.No matter how hard you try, it’s difficult to ever be completely prepared for the holiday season.Hopefully you’ve prepared your store or office to make sure you’re providing the best experience to customers.But what about your marketing?A tool like email marketing makes it quick and easy to promote … [Read more...]
3 Ways to Automate Your Email Marketing this Holiday Season
Bria Sullivan, Constant ContactThe holidays are a busy time for your business.And with so much to do, you may be wondering how you’re going to keep up with your growing list of marketing responsibilities, while also keeping your business running smoothly.When it comes to your email marketing, one of the best ways to save time while still driving … [Read more...]
5 Ideas to Make This Your Most Profitable Holiday Season Yet
Ryan Pinkham, Constant ContactIf the holidays are a busy time for your small business, you know how important the next few months will be.Consumers are expected to spend big this holiday season. If you want them to shop small, you need to plan ahead.Luckily, there are simple steps you can take to set your business up for success.Here are five … [Read more...]
