The Results Are in! Takeaways from VR Email Tests: Offer Edition
We’ve given you quite a few ideas lately on the different components of your email campaigns that you could test (CTAs, Personalization, etc.), but had yet to give you any tips on how to could mix up your...
Effective Tests We Should All be Conducting – But Probably Aren’t!
Imagine that Dorothy, Tin Man and Scarecrow are sitting in on your next email or website marketing meeting. “I don’t like this website, it’s dark and creepy!” exclaims Dorothy, “Do you think we’ll see any wild...
VerticalResponse Customers We Admire – How Lotus Bakeries Got it Right for Mother’s Day
“VerticalResponse Customers We Admire” is a new series where we highlight a customer and the things they’re doing right with their marketing. Below, we discuss a Mother’s Day email from...
How to Get Executive Buy-in for a Testing Program at Your Company
As you know, VerticalResponse takes testing very seriously. While we personally make an effort to dissect each and every facet of our emails in order to optimize the effectiveness of our campaigns (be it CTAs or...
New Report: Marketers Still Embracing, Learning Social Media
A new report from Michael Stelzner and his team at Social Media Examiner reveals that social media adoption by marketers is growing steadily, but that we still have room to do more and have plenty of questions when...
Customer Favorites: Top 7 Webinars Everyone’s Watching
Every Wednesday we host free webinars to help you learn more about email marketing, social media or events for your business, and much more. The webinars are also recorded and posted on our help site so a wider...
Is LinkedIn Really a Social Network?
If you’re on LinkedIn, you more than likely have your work history on it. You probably get connection requests from it all the time. Heck, you may even send your Twitter feed to it. But does all this type of...
Make Everything Bigger Syndrome: a Lesson on Proportion (with Monsters)
This is a blog post intended to lay down some foundational design principles in a way that makes sense to non-designers. Hopefully you’ll learn how to create better looking communications that enhance the...
9 Mistakes We Make with Our Email Marketing
At the end of the day, we’re all using email marketing to accomplish business goals. From growing our subscriber list to generating more sales, email marketing is the workhorse of our marketing plans. So, why...