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Email List Organization Made Easy with Folders and Favorites

December 20, 2018 by George Mirotsos in Product

At ContactPigeon we take Christmas wishes really seriously. After all, we still believe in Santa Claus! 🎅 This December we decided to bring on the Christmas spirit early by releasing a long requested feature, Email List Folders. This new enhancement is designed to make your list management and email marketing easy peasy. Chances are, you already have many lists in your account (an average ContactPigeon user loves to segment their customers), which is why we bet you’ll start believing that Santa takes the shape of ContactPigeon’s product team this year. So go ahead and create that extra segment variation, we’ve got you organized!

Black Friday Report for Ecommerce 2018 [Infographic]

December 5, 2018 by Joyce Qian in Ecommerce

As we flip over the most recent Black Friday Cyber Monday chapter of the retail year, it’s time to dive into data to call out a few key eCommerce trends from this year’s biggest shopping event. This is our second Black Friday Report since 2017 where we analyzed millions of transactional records across ContactPigeon’s eCommerce 250+ clients across North America and Europe. Consumer enthusiasm drove online sales to new heights this Black Friday 2018 weekend at $18B in turnovers just in the United States. This trend reflects globally as well, as more retailers across Europe and Asia adopt the occasion

[Infographic] Email Marketing: Realize the ROI & Improve Bottom Line

October 15, 2018 by Guest Contributor in Email Tips

Email marketing has come a long way since AOL laid the foundations for what Is now one of the most ubiquitous forms of communication back in 1999. Although email hasn’t changed too much since it’s initial conception, it continues to evolve. Today, global email users amount to virtually half the entire planets population. Although this may not be fully accurate considering users have duplicate accounts, this figure is expected to grow steadily. (Statista, 2018). It is a common misconception that email is dying out and being replaced by social media. This couldn’t be farther from the truth. Email isn’t going

5 Free Email Marketing Tools for High Performing Newsletters

October 11, 2018 by ContactPigeon in Email Tips

Email marketing continues to be one of the key communication and marketing channels between brands, business, and customers, and creating an optimized email marketing campaign has never been easier due to all of the free email marketing tools available. How many businesses are using email marketing to reach their customers? A recent survey conducted by The Manifest consisting of digital marketers working for U.S. companies — 73 percent working for B2C companies, and 27 percent for B2B companies — showed that 32% of businesses are sending out emails on a daily basis, while 41% are doing so weekly. With that volume, you

4 New Features to Upgrade Your Email Marketing

ContactPigeon Product Update Email Marketing Features

September 12, 2018 by George Mirotsos in Product

This summer, we didn’t take it easy by chilling on the beach. We took the feedback you gave us on our email channel and turned them into exciting features in ContactPigeon. In the first fall product update, I am really excited to introduce not one, not two, but FOUR unique features to upgrade your email marketing game. Don’t worry, the Pigeons got a lot of rest too during the summer so you can expect many more great things to come! From email tools that improve your open rates to overall sales conversions, here are 4 awesomely new features available in your ContactPigeon

Ways to Use Coupon Offers in Your Marketing Strategy

Coupon offers for eCommerce Marketing Strategy

October 19, 2017 by ContactPigeon in Automation

Coupon offers and specific deals are an excellent way to encourage people to buy your products or services. Not only can they encourage lead conversion, but they can also drive up customer retention and boost customer loyalty. Despite their power, however, it can be daunting figuring out how to use coupons in the most effective way possible to drive up sales for your e-commerce company. After all, there are countless types of coupon offers that companies can make available — as well as endless ways that they can be made available to consumers. If you’re a marketer or e-shop owner who wants

Cyber Monday Trends and Insights We Can Apply to 2017

October 3, 2017 by ContactPigeon in Ecommerce

Cyber Monday is the first Monday after Thanksgiving and has historically been one of the biggest shopping days of the year. Last year, shoppers spent $3.36 billion online, a 9.4-percent increase from the year before. It has surpassed Black Friday, the Friday after Thanksgiving, as the day where shoppers shell out the most cash. Here are some Cyber Monday trends that we’ve seen in the past and projections on what we can expect going forward. How Cyber Monday Got Started? In 2005, The National Retail Federation sent out a press release coining the term Cyber Monday. According to their

14 Most Powerful Words in Email Marketing [Infographics]

September 12, 2017 by ContactPigeon in Email Tips

You have tested the design and tweaked the “Call to Action” button repeatedly to increase engagement in your email marketing. While you are seeing an uplift in open and clicks, you are looking for more. But what more can you do? Examining how you write your email copy can be the solution to increasing those engagement rates. Using words that are direct and persuasive can be effective when it comes to inspiring your readers to take action. We have gathered 14 most power phrases for you to try in your next email campaign. These words play on a few psychological

Why Email Marketing is the Best Way to Reach Millennials [Infographics]

August 22, 2017 by ContactPigeon in Email Tips

In recent years, marketing has gone through a drastic shift. Businesses now turn to the Internet to promote their products and generate more leads. Incidentally, there’s one demographic in particular that is best reached via digital channels, particularly email marketing: Millennials. Millennials, also known as Generation Y, are those who reached adulthood during the earliest years of the 21st century (while the exact years demarcating the generation are disputed, several historians believe that Millennials are individuals that were born between 1988 and 2004). Since Millennials were born after the dawn of the computer age, they are accustomed to consuming most of their

How to Write an Effective Automated Welcome Email for Ecommerce

June 19, 2017 by ContactPigeon in Automation

Visitors who browse your website and subscribe, they do it for a reason. They care about what you have to say and expect something from you. A welcome email campaign is the least you can do in order to introduce them to your brand, the products you offer and convince them that you can make their everyday life better whether you offer services, cosmetics, clothing or electronics. In summary, the welcome email is a branded campaign with the goal to explain what you offer, in the context of a series of warm messages, welcoming the new subscriber to your family.

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