April Monthly List Building Ideas – 5 Ways to Build Your Email Marketing List
In an attempt to give you 5 new ways to build your email marketing list each month, here are new ideas you can put to work for your business. 1. Retail Packages – If you’re shipping products,...
Small Business Tax Day Survey – Are You Getting a Refund This Year?
Today many small businesses around the country are busier than ever—as April 15 is here! For those of you interested in how other VerticalResponse small business customers are faring this tax season, we wanted to...
Lessons in the New Marketing Experience
Yesterday I attended the New Marketing Experience Conference that was put on by our friend Chris Brogan and New Marketing Labs. This conference was packed with social media advice. Instead of writing paragraph...
San Francisco Giants: Nice Thank You Email
I was fortunate enough to attend Opening Day baseball here in San Francisco. The day after the game, we got a great email from the San Francisco Giants thanking us for coming to the game. I just though it had some...
Social Media Campaign Ideas to Build Fans & Increase Engagement
Many social media programs are goaled on the amount of friends or followers as well as the engagement levels of those friends and followers. Contests, give-a-ways and polls are all great ways to build your...
B2B Sales Pitching: Why Soft Selling Works
If your business sells to other businesses you might have it rough; you could be selling something pretty expensive that has a long sales cycle, you could have a specific time of year when businesses have the...
GrowCo: How to Finance Anything
I’ve got a new article up on Inc.com for my column Girl Power: Female CEOs. I recently attended Inc’s GrowCo. Conference where over 500 small businesses attended to get inspired about their businesses...
Email Delivery: Authentication, Reputation and Feedback Loops, What it All Means
Our Email Delivery Manager, Kiersti Esparza, has written a few blog posts about how we get your email into your recipient’s inbox. From the time you click “launch”, there’s a ton of hard...
eMarketer: Combining the Strengths of Social and Email
eMarketer reported on a study by Strongmail that said that this year social media will make email marketing more powerful. “Even though people are spending more time using social media, they are not abandoning...