E-mail Marketing


Recent E-mail Marketing Articles

Movable Ink: A Fresh Approach to E-mail Marketing

Looking for ways to stand out in a sea of e-mail promotions? Check out this cool tool.  Read more

Cause Marketing: Do a Good Deed to Get a Good Deed

Everybody loves to do good. Here are four steps - and a few creative ideas - to kick-start a cause marketing campaign for your business.  Read more

What Do Angry Birds and TED Have In Common?: Interview with MailChimp

Ben Chestnut, CEO of MailChimp, described in the Read more

7 Tips for Writing E-mails That Won't Get Deleted

Crazy-busy people read their e-mail with their finger on the delete key. Sales strategist and author Jill Konrath shares her guidelines to increase your e-ma...  Read more

How to Create a Killer E-mail Newsletter

Nine tips for designing an e-mail newsletter that won't have customers reaching for the Unsubscribe button  Read more

7 E-mail Marketing Tips for Valentine's Day

These tips will help you to capitalize on Valentine's Day (or any holiday) with effective e-mail marketing.  Read more

How to Write a Compelling E-mail Subject Line

A subject line is like a handshake. A good one will announce confidence and respect, but a bad one can leave the recipient unimpressed.  Read more

How to Double Your Gift Card Sales

Consumers spent more than $23 billion on gift cards last year. We've pinpointed the best strategies for small businesses to help gift card sales soar.  Read more

Christopher McCann, Co-founder of StartupDigest 

Young Silicon Valley entrepreneur Christopher McCann answers questions about starting a successful e-mail newsletter business.  Watch video

Ben Lerer, Co-founder of Thrillist.com 

Founder of a men's shopping website and popular e-newsletter, Ben Lerer shares his strategies for building a successful online business.  Watch video

Writing an E-Newsletter that Gets Results

Here’s a newsflash: sending regular e-newsletters can be a cost-effective way to build relationships with customers and prospects. Just make sure you do no...  Read more

Ryan Allis and Aaron Houghton, Founders of iContact 

For iContact co-founders Ryan Allis and Aaron Houghton, there is very little time for bonding, beyond a few trips to a lake to water-ski.  Watch video

Connecting Your E-mail and Social Marketing

Your business has accumulated an e-mail list, but you have no idea how to connect those e-mail subscribers to your Facebook page, your Twitter followers a...  Read more

How to Improve Your E-Mail Marketing

Your customers and clients are overloaded with e-mail every day. We asked experts for their tips and tricks for more effective e-mail marketing.  Read more

Constant Contact Out Of Touch

Who uses Constant Contact anymore? Someone does. Would you believe they actually still have about 350,000 accounts. What a sad statement for a company tha...  Read more

Should I Buy an E-mail List?

A Startup Toolkit reader wrote asking 'Should I buy the email list of a local business in my industry that's going out of business?' My initial gut feelin...  Read more

E-Mails That Sell

How to use employee e-mail as a sales tool  Read more

Yesmail Releases E-Marketing Solution

The new tool allows marketers select customers from a pre-qualified list.  Read more

Dear Customer…

Managing e-mail campaigns.  Read more

E-mail: On Messages

6 questions to every small business should consider before creating an e-mail marketing campaign.  Read more

How E-mail Marketing Works

While avoiding spam like the plague, integrating legitimate e-mail marketing with other advertising strategies yields best results for small and mid-size bus...  Read more

New Tool for Opt-in E-mails

Global IntelliSystems, a Deerfield Beach, Fla.-based e-mail service provider, announced Wednesday a new service to help e-marketers get opt-in e-mails past a...  Read more

Building E-mail Relationships with Preferences

Earn the trust of your customers by letting them choose the types of communications they want to receive from you. E-mail has giv...  Read more

How to Use E-mail to Find New Customers

Mailing to rented or purchased e-mail lists won't establish the trust you need to reap -- and keep -- customers. Here are some strategies that will.  Read more

8 Easy Ways to Boost E-mail Deliverability

For smaller businesses, getting opt-in messages through spam filters can be a formidable task.  Read more