Shift4Shop eCommerce Blog | Email Marketing

You’ve done your brainstorming sessions. You’ve done your market research. You’ve even done your prototyping and price testing. Just as you thought most of the hard work was over, you’re left with one huge challenge to overcome: launching your product.

Before you think about organizing a grand unveiling event or spending all of this quarter’s budget on giant billboards, you must go back to basics. We’re talking about email marketing.

Despite the rise of social media and video, email remains the #1 channel for marketing and sales. That’s why it’s still the most preferred medium for customer retention and onboarding strategies. 

Email lists are a great way to get in front of potential customers. You can use them for everything from product launches and discounts to newsletters with interesting articles, tips, and tricks. The key is to give people something they want in return for their email address.

Customer acquisition is necessary for any business. One of the most effective ways to attain that goal is through email marketing.

In this article, I'll provide you some practical advice on how to improve and maintain your email campaigns.

Email marketing is more popular and effective than ever, and thousands of businesses are trying to implement it into their processes. This marketing approach has amazing profitability because, according to analysts, for every 1 dollar spent, you get $42 (that is, ROI is 4200%). Inspiring, isn't it?

Every eCommerce business relies on automation to take its business forward. They also need easy access to automation data to see where the business needs improvement. Email marketing is the top priority for most eCommerce businesses since it delivers an ROI of $42 for every dollar spent.

Already gaining traction with budding eCommerce entrepreneurs, the dropshipping business model promises low start-up and operating costs. This model's low-stakes approach makes it an excellent way to test your entrepreneurial skills.

If done right, you’ll be able to sell tons of valuable merchandise, set your own prices, and build your brand without ever managing inventory and the substantial costs associated with it.

But, for your dropshipping business to take off, you first need a virtual[...]

Finding your business’s “voice” when it comes to branding and marketing can be difficult. Many advertisements are easy to ignore, and you find that many of your efforts simply aren’t reaching people. So, you’ve decided to start an email list. 

Email marketing is one of the cornerstones of eCommerce. Building an email list is a crucial step toward building an email marketing strategy, but there's more to it than just collecting as many email addresses as you can. In fact, the quality of your email list is one of the factors that determines how successful your email marketing can be. To create a high-quality email list with the most potential, it's going to require some maintenance: you need to clean your email list.

Whether you're new[...]

Email marketing is one of the best, most important methods for marketing an eCommerce business. Understanding effective email marketing is the key to growing an audience of recurring customers. Of course, the effectiveness of your email marketing can strongly depend on the tools you use to run it. Your email marketing platform has to equip you with the right features and capabilities to set up effective campaigns.

In eCommerce, a great deal of work goes into getting that first conversion: turning a casual visitor into a paying customer. Email marketing plays an important role in this process, as emails are one of the marketing methods most likely to get engagement — especially if they’re useful to the reader. One of the best forms of email marketing is the newsletter.

Over the years, emails have become a powerful channel where brands can closely engage and effectively communicate with customers without the digital distractions brought by social media.

If you're selling online, you should be using email blasts to keep your customers engaged. We have discussed in the past the importance of building, maintaining, and, most importantly of all, engaging with your email audience. That subscriber list represents people that have already demonstrated an interest in your site, your products, and your mission, and they rank among the most valuable individuals out there for your business.

When was the last time you checked your emails? It was most probably within the previous 24 hours as emails have become a part of our daily lives. But do you know how it all started? Do you know emails have been around even before the internet? If you are curious, this blog is for you.

One mistake that many businesses make is thinking that once they get a sale, their job is done. A confirmation email is defined as an email that buyers receive after completing a transaction, but it's much more than that.

Confirmation emails are another opportunity for direct communication with your customer. In this article, we’ll be looking at the best techniques to turn confirmation emails into more conversions.

What exactly is email deliverability? Quite simply, it is the rate at which your emails go to their intended target. In pretty much all cases, this target is going to be a recipient’s inbox. So, versus going to a person’s spam or somehow otherwise getting blocked, the email actually makes it all the way to its destination: the inbox.

Every email marketer’s dream is to have an email successfully arrive in an inbox. And what’s more, from that point, have that email actually get opened. Then of[...]

2020 changed the way many businesses operate, forcing them to substitute the office for a remote working environment. With this change, the need to engage and connect with consumers online increased drastically – and email marketing has played a key role in this.

Out of many eCommerce growth strategies you can choose from, none is more promising than email marketing.

Email is hands down the best way to communicate with your audience, build trust, and increase sales. The tricky part? Email marketing only works if you have a quality email list.

Email marketing is a great way to connect with leads, build relationships, and turn prospects into customers. A key element of your success as an email marketer will be your ability to write copy that engages and converts your readers.

In this guide, I’ll teach you how to create that high-converting copy. Let's take a deep dive into the world of email marketing.

There are some months when it’s easy to bring in customers and others when it isn’t. Rather than relying on your big Christmas income to tide you over, it’s time to start building up your sales in the slower periods.

Email campaigns remain one of the most effective ways to market your business, with the highest return on investment of any method. By crafting some well thought-out, targeted emails, you can catch the eye of lapsed customers — and maybe even pull in some new ones too!