Shift4Shop eCommerce Blog | Email Marketing

Every marketer knows the frustration of watching potential customers show interest and then leave without taking action. It’s the inevitable cycle and challenge of turning interest into action. 

Artificial intelligence undeniably impacts marketing, sales, and business operations. It plays a crucial role in strategic analysis, targeting, and other aspects of the business world. 

You already know that email marketing is a powerful strategy for engaging your audience and boosting conversions. In fact, about 79% of millennials in the US stated they enjoy being contacted by brands through email.

If you’re the owner of an online store, one of the best ways to build and maintain relationships with your customers is through email marketing. However, determining the optimal email frequency remains a challenge.

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.

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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.

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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[...]