Congrats to our EIS Awards Finalists Dr. Scholl’s and Sazerac!

ALCHEMY WORX INSIGHTS

FIVE reasons why open reach will revolutionise your email marketing

Pretty big claim! But we’ve been measuring open reach across a range of clients and industries for seven years and have unearthed a wealth of valuable insights that underline why this metric should become the lynchpin of your marketing strategy. So what is open reach? It’s a customer engagement metric that measures the proportion of your base who have opened at least one message over a period of time. You can apply reach to all standard metrics, like click or purchase, but here we are focusing on open reach.

Read More »

The myth of inbox overload

This is the third instalment of Fear and Self-loathing in Email Marketing, Dela Quist’€™s iconoclastic take on the industry to which he’s devoted over 20 years of his career.

Read More »

Need More Revenue? Grow Your List!

Many email marketers tell me that growing their list isn’t within their remit and as such they don’t pay any attention to it as they’re not rewarded on list growth but on opens and clicks or on sales and revenue. Regardless of whether you’re rewarded directly for list growth or not, it benefits you to grow your list and I’m going to show you why.

Read More »

Email data predicts Yes win for Scotland

The Scottish Referendum has gripped the media over the last month and we wanted to see how email had been used by the Yes and No campaigns. In early 2013, we ran some analysis on email volumes of the Obama and Romney presidential campaigns and found a correlation between the volume of email sent and the performance of each candidate in the polls.

Read More »

Naked Email: Using a loss-aversion technique to persuade Email Worx subscribers to sign up for the Touchstone beta

In promotional messages, the call-to-action (CTA) can make or break the campaign results, so marketers are keen to find the perfect combination of its positioning, color, size, style and wording to optimize conversions. In this test, we chose to test wording -€“ specifically the hypothesis that giving the impression of an ultimatum would be more likely to elicit a response.

Read More »