Email Marketing

This post is a part of Made @ HubSpot, an internal thought leadership series through which we extract lessons from experiments conducted by our very own HubSpotters. My role at HubSpot is the French Marketing Automation Manager — essentially, I’m in charge of the marketing automation for HubSpot leads and…

Think email marketing is dead? Think again.. Email marketing is actually thriving. In HubSpot’s 2020 State of Marketing Report, roughly 80% of marketers said their brand’s email engagement had improved in the last year. Our researchers also discovered that brands make an average of $42 for every dollar spent on…

Email marketing is an undeniably powerful strategy for lead acquisition and customer retention — in fact, 59% of marketers say email is their biggest source of ROI, and 93% use email as a major channel for content distribution. Of course, creating an email marketing campaign isn’t easy, and it might…

There are a lot of myths out there: For instance, some say the Loch Ness monster is real, and others say lightning strikes in the same place twice. Oftentimes, it’s fun to discuss myths with friends and debate whether or not they’re true.. Sometimes, the most popular myths are debunked…

There are few times more exciting in a company than during a product launch. Anticipation brews and a sense of optimism emerges around the prospect of a growth in market share. Still, a question always arises when a new product launches: do enough people know about this product launch for…

The first marketing email was sent in 1978, resulted in $13 million in sales, and kicked off what has become one of the most highly used marketing channels even to this day. Given its early beginnings, email isn’t as shiny as some newer channels like messaging and social, but it…

The other day, I received the following email from Adobe and opened it on my desktop at work: This email from Adobe gave me a top-notch email experience on desktop. However, I didn’t have time at the moment to “Learn more”, so I marked the email as unread and saved…

As a marketer, you might’ve heard coworkers talking around the watercooler about how email marketing is dead. It’s been a common concern for many marketing departments. Well, I’m here to let you know that you don’t have to worry because email marketing is still going strong. In fact, 40 percent…

99% of people check their email every day. With a statistic like that, it’s not hard to see why email marketing is a go-to for marketing campaigns. What’s confusing, though, is that sometimes, email marketing ROI can look a little bleak. An un-successful email campaign in a world where opening…

  During my summer break in 2009, I was sitting on my couch, watching Disney Channel, and eating a snack — chips and salsa to be exact. Well, chips and a one gallon Tupperware full of my aunt’s famous spicy salsa. While I’m watching TV, all of a sudden, I…