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Top 10 Tips To Craft A LinkedIn Email Engagement Strategy

Posted by Curt Keller on May 7th, 2012 at 3:26 pm

LinkedIn may just be the B2B email marketer’s dream come true. Here are millions of businesspeople, all of whom are highly motivated to expand their company’s horizons through online networking, and therefore completely open to your products and services.
LinkedIn participants love to share email addresses and get on subscription lists that match their interest, so this social network represents a permission-based list building opportunity unlike any other.
Pumping up your list to gargantuan status is not as simple as just showing up on LinkedIn, as there are various aspects to participation that best relay your brand identity and trustworthiness that are worth adhering to.
Here are the top ten tips which will help you craft the LinkedIn engagement strategy that will drive valuable contacts and customers to your email newsletter marketing campaign subscription list:

Be a person – LinkedIn participants are interested in forging connections with other individuals, not corporate entities. When you set up your user profile make sure that you cover the personal details of your life, such as education, skills, and experience.

Have a face – If you don’t have a really good photo of yourself, spend a few dollars and have a pro photographer take a portrait. Never post blurry... Read more

Video email marketing: 5 ways to make it perfect

Posted by Curt Keller on April 12th, 2012 at 3:08 pm

Video email marketing is an extremely powerful way to reach clients. Need a nudge to get started? Here are 5 ways to get your email videos right.

The Value Of Crafting Tailored Email Content For Each Customer Segment

Posted by Curt Keller on January 6th, 2012 at 10:45 am

Are you crafting custom content for different segments of your email list? Here are the benefits of creating tailored content for each set of newsletter subscribers.

Segmentation: The Best Email Marketing Strategy You’re Not Using

Posted by Curt Keller on December 15th, 2011 at 3:30 pm

If you were purchasing television spots for Coors Light Beer would you choose to have your ads appear on Dora The Explorer; for Premier Walk-In Bathtubs on Beavis & Butt-Head; for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals on Lady Hoggers; for Summer’s Eve Feminine products on The Hooters Dream Girl Challenge; or for Fisher Price toys on an Ultimate Fighter Championship Cage Match?
Then why as an email marketer are you most likely to just batch and blast precisely the same newsletter to every single subscriber on your list, regardless of age, gender, or previous behavior?
It seems difficult to believe that the majority of small business email marketers are still avoiding segmentation as if it were a modern plague, when instead it can be the single most effective online communications strategy… that you’re not using!
Marketing Perry Como to Hip Hop buyers
It would seem that it makes perfect sense: If you have a 21 year old customer who has a history of purchasing the top hit tunes from Billboard’s R&B Hip Hop charts you don’t offer them Perry Como, Andy Williams, or Eddie Fisher album collections.
Similarly if your senior citizen customer has been buying mobility scooter accessories, then your snowboard line... Read more