Email may be the most powerful aspect of your integrated content marketing strategy. It’s a one-on-one conversation with a reader who has chosen to opt in and hear what you have to say. Best of all, thanks to its versatility and trackability, it’s the perfect avenue for communication with customers. But, as mentioned in my Using An Integrated Content Marketing Strategy article, your marketing efforts will be far more effective when your activities are coordinated pieces of a larger machine…

Marketing tactics often are devised as individual ideas. You want to promote a new book, so you create a website that provides information about the book. The author wants to get his or her name out there, so he or she creates a Twitter account or Facebook page. Taken individually, these are good ideas to move the needle. But there’s something missing. And that something is strategy. Creating a website to promote a book is a great idea – as…

Are you about to send your next promotional email, but aren’t quite sure what subject line you should use to maximize your open-rate? Perhaps you’re a lifestyle publication touting your latest issue, which contains a feature on a hot celebrity and an equally hot fall fashion spread. Your art department is sure the email’s subject line should mention the sizzling fall fashions, but your editorial team insists the celebrity interview is the topic that’ll get readers to open and read.…