Well, it’s that time of the year: generally a significant time of the year for retailers, they’ll be hoping huge Christmas sales will bring them a prosperous end to 2009. The Big retailers will use £millions flexing their marketing muscle, bringing awareness to their products. It’s a colossal advantage over the small retailers, but the [...]

Know the rules We all talk about opt-outs and opt-ins under the general heading of permission but there are some very specific rules defining when you need to apply positive consent (opt-in) versus a negative option (opt-out). Understanding these rules and deciding what your permission strategy will be is the first thing you need to [...]

Permission email marketing promotions are a really good way to communicate with your customers, clients and prospects and getting your best offers across simply and regularly. It doesn’t need to be that complicated either; in fact the challenging part is creating your content. Here is permission email marketing in its simplest form: 1. Permission email [...]

Many businesses fall into the same trap with email marketing; it’s not merely a case of sending and an email to a list of targets and hope they will visit you or your website – great if it were. Simply presenting your products or services even to targeted prospects is useless unless there’s a convincing [...]