International companies, as well as companies working in multilingual markets, such as Switzerland, must communicate with users in different languages in their email marketing. No matter whether the content of the marketing messages is adapted to the individual target markets or whether a standardised communication strategy is followed: every additional…
The head office supplies the products, the independent retailer on location takes care of the sales and the direct customer contact. Simply put, this is the concept of indirect distribution via trading partners. It is a common distribution model in retail, automotive and many other industries. Both parties ultimately pursue…
Mobile marketing is important for PoS – 57.8% of German retail companies agree with this statement (source: artegic). Special feature of mobile communication: Smartphones allow fixed location retailers to locate devices and therefore establish a location-based real-time communication – provided that the user has given his consent. Geolocation is one…
Customer demands and marketing competition are continuously growing. In direct digital marketing, it is important to lead a number of granular communications at different touchpoints and to do this in the most individualised manner possible for each user. This is not an easy task, as the recipient determines the location,…
Email Marketing is the most used digital marketing tool in German retail. In addition, it also plays a major role as a sales driver in email marketing. One in three retailers now generated a quarter of their online turnover via email marketing, compared to 2010 when it was only 5…
Personalised email marketing offers increase customer loyalty and Return on Investment. However, many companies shy away from apparently complex data analysis procedures, which can detect preferences and provide suitable contents based on the personal data collected. There are many simple, obvious triggers for personal communication. We have compiled some of…
37.6 % of German retail companies focus on lifecycle emails in email marketing, a further 41.8 % are planning its use. This is illustrated by artegic’s recent study Digital direct Marketing in Retail 2016. In lifecycle email marketing, the customer is approached with the most suitable, individualised contents in every…
Content marketing is one of the most talked about trends in online marketing. Instead of promoting companies, products or brands in an aggressive way, content marketing focuses on targeting via editorial content. Especially in B2B, content marketing allows companies to come across as an expert, offering specialised knowledge, studies or…
No email marketing sender likes to loose recipients. For this reason, newsletter unsubscriptions are often paid little attention to or even made difficult for the recipient. This is a mistake, as the correct design of the unsubscription process prevents problems and even results in increased efficiency. Generating new newsletter subscriptions…
Usability is an often used keyword in design. Applications, products and services do not only need to be functional but also easy, intuitive and smooth to use. This also applies to email marketing newsletters. artegic AG has compiled 6 tips for you on what to bear in mind when creating…