Archive for the ‘email tracking’ category

New Year’s Eve

January 19th, 2012

Have you got any plans for New Years’ Eve? I am wondering about spending that evening with my friends. But I take into consideration also the option of sitting for the whole day just with my boyfriend. Why not? It is not so bad idea when we take into consideration the fact that it is only a convention that we tend to spend that time with our friends or we go to a ball. I believe that everybody should do whenever they want to. There should be no obligations and needs. If one wants to be an email marketer and take care of the best email marketing services – it should be ok, whether one wants to become a pop artist – others should accept his decision, if somebody wants to become a doctor – his or her family should not neglect this fact. The same is with the possibilities of spending New Year’s Eve. One should be able to decide what he or she would like to do because it is his or her life and the decision process is one of the most human things in our life. It determinates our humanity.

Untrustworthy companies

November 26th, 2011

Do you know what are the aims of the companies which work using the online resources? I think that the answer to such question is not easy because there are different companies representing various businesses and each activity depends on the individual profile of activity of a certain firm. Anyone, depending on his needs or interests, may find a certain firm which takes up different activity. There are email marketing companies, websites offering books’ and films’ reviews as well as online shops or auctions. To sum up, everybody can get anything he or she needs thanks to the Internet and the possibilities which it offers. But nowadays people are still afraid to any companies which are working with the usage of the Internet and online reality. It is strange because these days we have more and more companies which work in such a way and it should slowly begin to be a rule rather that an exception. Thus, people are still not easy to believe other ones, especially when they work with the usage of the Internet.

Aim of the email marketing companies

October 26th, 2011

Internet is another source of business-related stuff. What I mean by this statement is that people love to carry out many online campaigns that are connected with certain business. No wonder that there are a lot of email marketing companies which have a concrete aim to gain the Internet users’ for another firms which need to possess more clients in order to develop themselves. And everything is based on the certain tools and programs which are the best for reaching the target. There is a lot of equipments which could be used in such activity. What is more, many programs are available on the Internet and could be downloaded free of charge. So we do not need to be surprised that there are so many websites devoted to email marketing business or simply with online advertising. Nowadays such domains are really useful and began to be more popular among people from different jobs or companies. Many firms which begin their adventure with the online activities decide to carry out an online advertising campaign prepared by specialists.

Open rate as a monitoring of the effectiveness of sending emails.

August 5th, 2010

Email open rate is a form of email tracking – it helps in monitoring of the effectiveness of delivered email messages. It means that this is a percentage of the messages that have been opened divided into the number of the sent emails. Of course the assumption is as following – if somebody has opened the email, and not put it directly into the message bin – it means that he has also read it. Thanks to that assumption, we can say that open rate is a kind of measure of email marketing activity, which aim is to gain more clients. More clients means directly that also more money, because the clients who are interested in the attractive offers introduced by a certain company, often buy in it something or order some services. This is how the email marketing business works – there are many forms of advertising the certain company’s activity and there are also some form, such as the mentioned above open rate, that control and monitor their effectiveness. It the activity do not bring benefits, it means that the firm can lose money.

Effective or not?

May 11th, 2010

Open rate is one of the measurements of how effective the advertisement is. Such testing gives good indication whether a commercial will have to be improved or it can be send to potential customers. Great thing about it is that those testing can examine each part of the advertisement separately giving a good indication of whether or not those parts have to be improved. Open rate is an easy technically test it can measure how many recipients have opened the message. Knowing the numbers of the messages send, they can calculate the open rate, and that would be the ratio between those two. Most of the companies that have anything to do with advertising vie the email they will use those sorts of tests to predict the response of the recipients. Test is very easy to proceed it is also very cheap companies offer such test services, they are carried out professionally and quickly. Most of the calculations are done by the computer software. Such acting will save a lot of time and reduces the effort.

Effective or not?

March 1st, 2010

Open tracking one of the most vital options for testing the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. Every message send with this application attached to it will send back an information of whether or not the recipient have opened this email and if they have clicked any links attached. this is the way every marketer can also check if an element should be used in a message. Sending only this particular element you want to test with open tracing application will give you the answer. If the response of it will be satisfying it can be used in a leaflet or any other form of advertising. Open tracking is most often in html format since it gives the creator much more opportunities. Not only will be possible to measure the response but also the text can be more fancy and colourful. This action will definitely have greater influence on recipients. People will pay more attention to areas and words that will be highlighted and exposed. Those key words may play tricks on people’s minds.

Software that will tell you.

October 19th, 2009

Sometimes it is essential to know what time of the day is the best to get a response from someone. To know this and much more people have started to use email analytics programme. This software is used to analyse all the statistical data of your emails, send, received, time, et cetera. It can answer you questions like, what time do you get best respond from certain person.  It will tell you who do you send most emails to, what is the ratio of messages received and send. Email analytics software is a useful tool in hands of company that needs to know a lot about their customers and they have to take great care of them. So for example if its necessary to give a customer an impression that u take great care of them you can not allow to send them many emails its you who have to send messages and ask. This is could happen in more luxurious shops etc. Email analysis is another branch of emailing or email marketing however it is done mostly by programmes but could be analysed by person.

How to hunt down emails

October 9th, 2009

Sometimes, we may be in need to learn about the origin of an email we have just received. Or if we want to employ someone we should learn a bit more about this person. In such situations we use email tracing. Email tracing is very simple procedure if you are using programmes like Microsoft Outlook Express 6. First you have to open file menu for a message, than press properties and pick up details. Thats the way to display headers, it is a part of an email to store control information. Second part is body section, thats a part of email that has been created by MTA (Mail Transfer Agent).  Each email programme has a bit different ways to learn about headers. So to compare let’s take Microsoft Outlook 10. We have to pick up a message, than click on it with right mouse button and choose options from popped out list, there will be a box in a window with all headers information.  Email tracing in some programmes is as easy as two clicks of our mouse, first click is to pick up a message and second is to press a button on tool bar.