Email marketing: driving customer retention with email, a checklist

I found an interesting post on the Email Institute blog with tips to drive customer retention with email.

It contains some interesting insights that I would like to share with you, of course with permission of the Email Institute.

In these challenging economic times all marketers are under pressure to deliver smarter, more effective and accountable campaigns.

Acquiring new customers will always be important for long-term growth, but the demands of the economic slowdown leads to a greater emphasis on retaining existing customers and fortifying customer loyalty.

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Bronto’s take on the impact of Facebook’s Project Titan on email (marketing)

A few weeks ago, Facebook announced its “Project Titan”. Yes, I know that you know that. But since I’m sometimes slow and more of an opinion than a news kind of guy (some say BS guy), I’m only posting about it now.

And because I’m also tired today, I’m going to share the views of the email strategists at Bronto, who posted their opinions about the so-called “Gmail killer” on their blog (why is everything a killer these days?).

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