Boost Your Conference ROI with Targeted Emails
The first rule of email marketing is, “It’s not about you.” Even though you have metrics to meet, any email campaign that puts your company first will get derailed before it gets to your customer’s inbox. Whether you’re building one email or a campaign, you must focus on the needs of your audience. Start by […]
The Changing Role of Email Marketing
The days of indiscriminate email blasts are long gone. Part of this shift is due to the changing role of marketing itself from a broadcast or interruption process to an attraction process. More than ever before, educators are in the driver’s seat of any relationship that develops between them and your organization. They will research […]
The Importance of Engaging Subject Lines and Preheaders for your Emails
Testing each component of your email should be part of every campaign. Two make-it-or-break-it elements in terms of open rate and engagement are the subject line and the preheader. Even if a reader is predisposed to open emails from you, the subject line and the preheader usually determine whether a particular email gets opened or […]
How to Choose Your Best Social Media Channels
Every time you turn around it seems like there is a hot new social media channel competing for our attention. As a marketer, how do you decide where your company should focus its time and resources? The good news is, you don’t need to be on every social media platform. Even with all the buzz […]
7 Tips for Creating Successful Lead Generation Email Campaigns
Experts agree about the importance of email in generating leads. According to Marketing Profs, email is still the highest performing digital marketing tactic we have in our tool kits. Marketing Sherpa reports that email is the primary lead generation tool with 81% of survey respondents stating email is their most effective channel for lead generation. […]
How to Re-engage Inactive Email Subscribers
There is an old maxim in marketing: It’s less expensive to generate business from existing customers than it is to land new ones. This has certainly proven itself in education subscription businesses such as magazines and software licensing, where renewals are far more profitable than new subscribers. And if you know your acquisition cost per […]
Keep it Clean! The Importance of Data Hygiene to Sales and Marketing Efforts
Data is an education company’s most important asset. Accurate data allows company leaders to make good decisions about business initiatives. Creating marketing and sales programs that efficiently generate qualified leads depends on clean, accurate data. Maintaining data hygiene in databases means that each area of the company is working with the same data for an […]
{Survey Results} How Educators Interact with Email — Part 1
{Survey Results} How Educators Interact with Email — Part 1 In February 2017, Agile Education Marketing asked educators all about email. Do they like receiving emails about education products and services? What prompts them to open and act on these emails? How many of these emails do they receive daily? Part 1 of our survey […]
{Survey Results} How Educators Interact with Email — Part 2
In February 2017, Agile Education Marketing asked educators all about email. Do they like receiving emails about education products and services? What prompts them to open and act on these emails? How many of these emails do they receive daily? Part 2 of our survey results reveals how administrators and teachers interact with emails daily. […]
How Can Email, Social Media and Online Advertising Work Together?
By: Connie Davis, Director of Strategic Accounts The triangle’s three sides make it the strongest shape in nature. It’s scientific fact. Another fact: Email, social media and online advertising are stronger together than they are in isolation. These three channels in particular are especially important to marketers for building pipelines and driving early-stage engagement. • […]
5 Words of Wisdom for Writing Better Emails
By Suzanne Morgan, Senior Account Manager At Agile, we’ve created, programmed, deployed, and measured lots of emails. And by lots, we mean millions. We do it for a reason. Our data tells us that 41 percent of educators value email for communicating with education vendors about products and services. Clearly, educators are willing to listen […]