Friday, July 30th, 2010

  • Profile:  Professionally trained multimedia producer turned email marketing specialist, having 4 years of experience in the Dutch email marketing business working at an ESP (Blinker). Areas of interest include email design, end user experience and campaign management. Very community and people minded. Personally sports, photography, music and movies keep me busy.
  • Website:  http://www.blinker.nl
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All contributions by remy



Word of mouth

A question that is asked on many surveys and during other contact moments between companies and (potential) clients. The organizations would like to know how you first got to know them, so they’re able to measure to some extent the quality and result (ROI) of their marketing channels. Some channels have better facilities in place to measure that result though: email marketing is quite measurable... [Read more]

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Testing, testing, 1-2-3…is this thing on?

In email marketing, too many times have I seen beautiful mailings let down by silly mistakes. A lost character (what’s that Z doing there on top of the mailing?), a double, missing or otherwise malformed link and also wrong or missing images. A quick scan through about fifty mailings received in a period of just ten days revealed that nearly half (!) had something wrong with them and about three... [Read more]

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Unsubscribe! I mean change my email! D’oh!

Email marketing personal preferences As a professional marketer, it’s really amazing to me (and sort of disturbing) how so many companies using email marketing won’t let you change your email address, or just personal preferences in general from their email campaigns. I just did a test with a random set of twenty companies and only five had the option to change my email address and/or... [Read more]

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A subscriber welcome snapshot

When I did a little research on email welcome programs I chose to subscribe for the newsletters of four of the biggest camera-makers: Canon, Nikon, Olympus and Pentax. The subscribing experience was quite varied across the board: Olympus sent me a very nice welcome email (shown below) with just about all the information I could wish for: However, I was unable to subscribe for Nikon or Canon... [Read more]

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Blinker

Blinker brengt klanten dichtbij Dat is de filosofie van Blinker en dus onze tagline. Want dat is precies wat we voor, en met, u willen bereiken als u klant wordt bij Blinker. Uw prospects klanten maken en uw klanten dichterbij uw organisatie brengen. Online marketing steeds belangrijker Het Internet biedt fantastische mogelijkheden. Mogelijkheden die u -al dan niet- bekend zijn maar waarvan blijkt... [Read more]

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