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The Power Of Cross-channel Location-based Delivery

The power of cross-channel location-based delivery

Time zone-based sending is nothing new to anyone in the B2C email marketing world – It’s a solution to a problem so obvious, it’s almost surprising it even has a name. You can’t send emails about a sale starting (or ending) to every time zone at once and expect people to respond to your message. And on top of that, we already know the specific time you send out a message can have a real impact on the engagement rate. Enabling to set up campaigns to “Follow the sun” as they say, is one of the most basic table stakes features of modern ESPs.

But just because it can seem basic and almost obligatory doesn’t mean it can’t be improved upon. This is something we’ve thought a good deal about — how can we utilize our platform’s unique access to your data in order to take time zone-based sending to the next level? And when we looked at the current landscape of ESPs and their time zone-based sending features, we saw some holes that needed to be filled.

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How Rakuten Uses MessageGears/Snowflake To Change The Data Game

How Rakuten Uses MessageGears/Snowflake to Change the Data Game

When we teamed up with Snowflake to help marketers and tech teams really turn their data loose for cross-channel campaigns, we had high expectations for how much it would help the Super Senders we work with. We knew this partnership had the potential to be a game changer, empowering them to build and deliver whatever campaigns they could dream up without data or ESP limitations getting in the way.

But moves like this never fully hit home until you hear from a data specialist who’s in those trenches every day with a major worldwide brand, and he articulates exactly what you hoped for with your vision. It’s never been more clear: This is why MessageGears exists.

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How Going SDK-less Could Help With Push Messaging

How going SDK-less could help with push messaging

One challenge for even experienced Marketing Ops teams when they start to introduce their mobile push strategy is determining which push notification provider to partner with for delivery, and then how to thread that provider’s SDK into their app. It’s a tough question for a variety of reasons, one of them being that they often don’t even know they may not need to bother with the second part at all.

When we rolled out support for sending push notifications earlier this year, the big differentiator for us was that we are offering an alternative to the SDK for those who need it. But, even when we tell first-time users that, we often get the question: What is the MessageGears SDK-less solution, and how is it different from other vendors?

The mechanics of how push notifications get sent are a little confusing. However, when stripped down to its core, there are a few basic differences between how we send push notifications that make MessageGears stand out. First, let’s dig in a bit as to why the presence or absence of an SDK matters, and then we’ll look at why going SDK-less could be an attractive option for a lot of teams.

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Improving The Customer Experience With Deep Linking

Improving the Customer Experience with Deep Linking

With the recent roll-out of our cross-channel capabilities, MessageGears is putting a focus on empowering mobile marketing messaging and driving more audience engagement through a user’s mobile device. We’re complementing our cross-channel offering this week with Deep Linking functionality, now available as part of the MessageGears platform.

Through Deep Linking, we will have support for both iOS Universal Links and Android Deep Links, enabling marketers to create content in email or SMS messages that opens links to destinations within their app instead of in a mobile browser. For example, if you’re sending a hot new deal to a recipient for a purchase page that is part of your app, you can have mobile users go straight to the application, while desktop users and recipients without your app land at your destination URL on your website, just like today.

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MessageGears Launches New Cross-Channel Messaging Platform

MessageGears Launches New Cross-Channel Messaging Platform

After years of focusing on reinventing and improving how email marketing at scale works for the world’s biggest brands, MessageGears is thrilled to announce our new cross-channel orchestration capabilities. These exciting new tools enable marketers to orchestrate complex, cross-channel campaigns that utilize all of their live, internal data to reach customers at their preferred channel — whether that’s email, push, or SMS.

This evolution has been years in the making, as we’ve seen the changing technology needs of our clients, and the expectations of their customers continue to grow. In order to empower enterprise marketers to send the campaigns they want, cross-channel capabilities were essential. And, when you combine the upgraded platform with direct access to your data, the benefits become clear pretty quickly.

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Webinar Recap: Envisioning A Better Cross-Channel Experience

Webinar Recap: Envisioning a Better Cross-Channel Experience

Every enterprise marketer knows the challenges of messaging change dramatically at scale. Customers demand — and expect — a highly personalized experience from brands of this size, but legacy marketing clouds and traditional ESPs aren’t built to enable Super Senders to do that. Maybe you can send to multiple channels, but your ESP’s disconnected setup hinders your ability to deliver the kinds of campaigns your customers will respond to. And what’s worse is you probably think that’s just the way it has to be.

MessageGears is envisioning a better cross-channel experience. In our latest webinar, MessageGears CEO Roger Barnette and Chief Product Officer Dan Roy discussed our mission to create tools that meet the unique needs of enterprise marketers and showed off our revolutionary new cross-channel orchestration capabilities that empower marketers to send the right message to the right person at exactly the right time — and now, to the channel that will deliver the best results.

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The Importance Of Real-time Data For Transactional Email

The importance of real-time data for transactional email

One common perception of email messaging is that it mostly consists of marketing campaigns — sending personalized emails to a large group of people at once, and sending a consistent message. However, in reality, the majority of all email sent by brands consists of transactional messages, or messages sent in response to a customer interaction with a company. Although there are many types of transactional emails, a few examples include:

  • Password Resets
  • Payment Reminders
  • Purchase Receipts

Among many others. And it’s no surprise that these messages make up the majority — open rates for these messages are over twice as high, and these emails are clicked six times more than typical marketing messages.

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MessageGears Launches Industry-Leading Drag-and-Drop UI

MessageGears Launches Industry-Leading Drag-and-Drop UI

The result of years of planning and detailed work, MessageGears’ new drag-and-drop UI is the most powerful and user friendly platform on the market today.

For the marketer, it’s going to change the way they look at building both audiences and email campaigns, making the process more intuitive and visual. But it’s not just marketers who benefit from the enhanced technology. For the tech-savvy marketer or IT developer, it’s easier to climb under the hood and understand the inner workings of what’s going on with every email, as well has have the fine grain control you need.

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MessageGears’ Analytics Suite Powers Email Deliverability Excellence

MessageGears’ Analytics Suite Powers Email Deliverability Excellence

The primary goal of all email marketers is to drive customer engagement and retention, while constantly improving ROI. From content to IP/domain management and analytics, there are countless factors that go into implementing a successful email marketing campaign. However, when getting to the core of optimizing email campaigns and deliverability, it comes down to how you’re using data. Having access to all your data in an organized manner is one the most valuable resources email marketers can have.

Within the MessageGears cross-channel ESP platform, we offer one of the most powerful data analytics tools available in the ESP industry. It provides in-depth aggregate data on the entire lifespan of a specific campaign or job, down to the domain level (Gmail, Hotmail, etc.). Our analytics features not only help marketers easily digest and understand their email metrics, but also how they can improve their email efforts.

The MessageGears analytics toolset is composed of three levels of data — the account level, the campaign level, and the job level with performance by domain. Each level provides valuable data and trends to help identify potential issues and patterns with your sends.

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ESP KMS Encryption: The Answer For The Most Sensitive PII

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?

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