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Email Newsletters Provide Actionable Sales Information

by Matthew Wygant on December 21, 2009

An email newsletter list is the classical permission marketing asset and the founding element of many content marketing programs. E-mail newsletters are just OK at generating new leads, but they’re terrific for determining the sales-readiness of subscribers and moving them closer to conversion.

If you haven’t seen campaign analysis data from an e-mail newsletter mailing, you’ll be surprised by the amount of actionable information that’s available. Not only can you see your open rate, but you can see exactly who opened your newsletter, how many times they opened it, and which links and downloads they clicked on. You can also analyze the data from the other direction by calling up a list of which specific subscribers clicked for more information about a specific application or product.

Protein Discovery‘s monthly newsletter, Sample Prep, has provided prospects, customers, investors, partners, reporters, and other subscribers with company and product news for more than three years.

I have done concept, copy, and coding for each issue. Mailchimp provides a suite of online services for list management, composition, distribution, and subscriber activity analysis. Tompert Design created the header art (and the Protein Discovery logo).

Example

Issue #37 of Protein Discovery’s HTML newsletter Sample Prep:

For help with e-mail newsletter writing, delivery, and subscriber activity analysis, contact Matthew Wygant by calling (408) 905-7630 or by sending e-mail to matthew@wygant.net.

Follow the Federal Research Grant Money Using the RePORTER Database

December 13, 2009

If your target market includes federally funded research scientists, you will be pleased to find loads of useful information in the NIH’s RePORTER (Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool Expenditures & Results) database. The RePORTER Query Interface Here’s what the RePORTER Query interface looks like: Example: Who Has Money For Your Target Application Say you’ve got [...]

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AdWords Won’t Deliver All the Sales Leads You Need

December 2, 2009

Unless you’ve seriously sandbagged your forecast, an AdWords program will not deliver all the sales leads you’ll need to make it. Here’s why. Most Internet users do not click on ads at all. According to the comScore study released October 1, 2009, the percentage of users who click on display ads in a month has [...]

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Create Your Market Then Dominate It

November 20, 2009

Product Launches Have Changed Back in the day, product launches were much more binary, flip-of-the-switch events than they are now. On the day of an official product launch, you’d meet with the press, display your new product at a trade show, and kick off a big in-your-face print advertising campaign in the journals. Even if [...]

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