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ESP KMS Encryption: The Answer for the Most Sensitive PII
For marketing/communications teams at businesses with especially sensitive customer data and sophisticated encryption needs — financial and healthcare organizations, for instance, or any company with leadership that makes enterprise data security and enterprise data protection a top priority — the attitude toward email marketing often approaches ambivalence.
Because they can’t risk sending any personally identifiable information (PII) up to the cloud, where it’s outside their control and vulnerable to a security breach, they believe they can’t send personalized messaging campaigns. After all, if they can’t afford to allow the data to leave from behind the security of their firewall, how can they do anything more sophisticated with their ESP than spray and pray?
Is Your Real-Time Marketing Really Real Time?
Every marketer needs to ask this question: “Is my real-time email marketing really real time?” If you haven’t started asking this question, you will soon. Email marketing has proven itself to be a prime real-time marketing tool. Still, many marketers are surprised to find that what they call “real time” isn’t so real time after all.
While real-time marketing is most closely associated with brands sending timely messages to a mass audience, one of the biggest impacts of real-time marketing comes in sending personalized messages to individuals. However, more personalization usually means more delays. The key to all real-time marketing is speed. But the very infrastructure of email marketing is based on a series of time-consuming tasks, such as list creation, data syncing, and batch delays. Each activity introduces another delay, any of which can quickly turn a real-time marketing opportunity into a real missed opportunity.
The Operationally Efficient Email Marketer
Technology and big data have been changing email marketing for many years now, in many cases for the better. But, in some cases, the technological revolution is making the email marketer’s job harder, less efficient, and taking them away from the work that attracted many of them to the industry to begin with.
Our upcoming webinar — in concert with the Email Experience Council — will address these changes and offer advice for the email marketer who’s struggling to adjust to the new reality. We’ll look at this phenomenon through the lens of research we recently completed, asking email marketing pros from across the country to discuss their opinions on the state of the industry, how efficient their teams are, and how they see their jobs changing.
8 Strategies for Smart Email List Growth
Even as email marketing approaches its 30th birthday, it’s still widely recognized as one of the most essential — and effective — channels for digital marketers. However, before you can begin to maximize email’s ROI, you must build an email list.
With more businesses investing in email marketing, the modern consumer is becoming increasingly protective of their inbox. This means that you must continually offer email content that offers value to your subscribers. You also need to optimize your subscriber acquisition strategy to keep your list growing, and stay ahead of the competition. We’ve put together a few ideas that can be implemented quickly and will increase your chances of converting your anonymous prospects into subscribers.
IP/Domain Warmup Best Practices
IP/domain warmup is a process where organizations starting to mail off of fresh IPs and domains, gradually ramp up their volumes, while ISPs (internet-service providers) assess the quality of the new mail stream. The goal is to establish a strong sender reputation by slowly ramping up to full volume starting with your most engaged subscribers over a period of time. Typically, this process takes ~3-6 weeks but will vary with each sender.
