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My 11 Favorite Online Marketing Tools

My Six ELEVEN Favorite Online Marketing Tools Last updated: August 10, 2020Originally published: March 4, 2014 Read time: 11 minutes, 2 seconds Westchester Marketing Cafe has been working remotely – using online tools – for, well, forever really. With so many people now finding themselves also working remotely, we figured it was time to update our list of favorite productivity tools. The following are my favorite online marketing tools and some tips and tricks for using them effectively. These are all products that I know and love and use myself. (There has been no compensation exchanged for any of these recommendations.) Communication Gmail Like most people, I have a business email address and a personal email address; and I know many people who have multiples of each. I prefer to have everything come into one place so I don’t have to log in and out or toggle between accounts. It…
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7 Keys To Managing Your Online Presence

Clients often ask how they can optimize their websites. We give them the wheel once we’ve built the car so to speak. This gives them more control of their online marketing efforts. Below we have comprised a list of seven key tools for clients who want to manage their online presence. Of course, we wrap all of this up in a bow by using our favorite Content Management System (CMS), WordPress! Content is still King! Fresh, relevant content is necessary to move the needle in terms of both Search Engine Optimization and effective communication. Take advantage of the blogging function on your website and share information about your products, services or upcoming projects with your consumers and clients. The last thing you want to do is squander your investment in a great new website by having it go stale. Engage your consumers and clients with Social Media. Devoting time to 2…
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Managing Email Lists (video)

Best practices for your email list marketing strategy Hi everyone, I’m Jann Mirchandani from Westchester Marketing Cafe, where we cater to your online marketing needs. Read our Email Marketing Case Study to learn how we helped one client tackle this issue We’ve been getting a lot of calls lately with questions about our best practices for email marketing strategy. So I thought I would share some of those tips with you today. The first thing you want to do is make sure that you’re using a service provider such as MailChimp or Constant Contact and there is a lot of others out there, but it’s really important to use an esp, an email service provider, so that your adhering to industry standards, best practices and CAN-SPAM laws. What that means is that you want to make sure that the people that your emailing want to hear from you, that they’ve given…
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Email Marketing Strategy

The Challenge A large, nonprofit was using MailChimp as their Email Service Provider (ESP) but they had no agency-wide email marketing strategy. They were concerned that their account would be canceled for not adhering to list management protocols. They had multiple users across various departments with varying levels of training on how to build and manage their lists. Some users imported emails into fresh lists for each campaign. Others manually added users to “their” departmental list. Still others added subscribers into a separate departmental list utilizing groups based on that department’s needs. The account grew to house over 50 lists with approximately 15,000 subscribers nearly a third of which were duplicates. This resulted in an inability to track metrics such as open and click rates. Additionally, since the subscription rate for the account is based on the number of subscribers, and they had so many duplicates, they were overpaying each month. They were – rightly –…
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Email Marketing Campaigns; What’s The Best Day To Send Them?

Clients frequently ask us when they should send out email marketing campaigns. Typically we advise on a Tuesday after people have had a chance to clear out their inboxes from the weekend, or on Thursday in anticipation of clearing out inboxes before the weekend. However, we thought it would be important to take a look at the actual results of Westchester Marketing Cafe’s email campaign over the last several years. So we went into our MailChimp reports and pulled data from all of the campaigns sent in the last two years (get the total number of campaigns that we looked at). We focused on the open rate and the click-through rate. We were surprised to see that in spite of our assumptions, Mondays/Tuesdays and Fridays were the most successful days in terms of both open and click-through rates. These test results would certainly not stand the scrutiny of a statistician but they are…
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