Changes in Email Marketing: Gmail and Yahoo Inbox Protections

Changes in Email Marketing Gmail and Yahoo Inbox Protections. Image of a person working on a laptop and tapping a safe email symbol with their index finger. DCA Virtual Business Support.

As business owners, we should care about the emails we send to our customers. It’s not about bombarding inboxes; it’s about the quality of your message. Most email recipients choose to unsubscribe because of irrelevant content, too many emails, or they don’t recall subscribing. Lucky for Gmail and Yahoo users, new inbox protections are in…

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Social Media, Email Marketing, & Landing Pages Working in Harmony

Social Media, Email Marketing, & Landing Pages Working in Harmony. Image of a person holding a smart tablet that shows a Venn diagram where 'Social Networks' and 'Email Marketing' overlap.

Social media is more than just an entryway to boosting your business’s visibility. When done correctly, it can play an integral part in shifting followers into your marketing funnel, specifically a drip campaign. In this article, we give you a rundown on how to accomplish just that! Drip Campaign Basics A drip campaign is a…

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Preparing Your Content Marketing Strategy for 2022

What organization or business has content that you enjoy? Not just like but REALLY enjoy. Maybe a specific podcast, newsletter, or blog comes to mind? Something that really resonates with you. That business went through a process of creating and evaluating to get that juicy goodness to you. That is what content marketing is all about – educating, connecting, and inspiring your followers.  The goal of the content marketing process, first and foremost, is to provide your followers with the information they’ll truly…

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Marketing Automation Myths Debunked

marketing Automation Myths

Streamlining is important for the success of any business. Which is why many businesses are turning to marketing automation to assist them. If you’ve been hiding under a rock, you may not have heard much about these amazing platforms. In a nutshell, they’ll automate your marketing, and sometimes sales, activities. If you’ve been investigating this…

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What’s New with Marketing Automation

Learn more about Marketing Automation

Good news, small business owners! Newsletter platforms are more intuitive than ever. Their features for drip campaigns and workflows have made it even easier to keep in touch with your clients and prospects. And some have gotten even smarter, incorporating in the CRM model: Lead Pages, tracking codes, and even lead scoring. The last time…

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Repurpose Your Marketing Content and Reach a Larger Audience

Repurpose your Marketing Content

Have you ever labored over content for your marketing pieces, only to post once and forget about it? Let’s face it, creating content is time consuming and, well, wouldn’t you rather be doing something fun? Wouldn’t it be great if you could reuse your content? Well, you can! And, there are many benefits other than saving…

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Alignable: Is It Worth It?

Is Alignable worth it?

Alignable is a new B2B social media network that promises to reinvent the small business economy. It claims to have millions of business owners within its web, all of whom collaborate to increase their customer base. Networking with other businesses or industry professionals is key to small business success. It leads to quality referrals and…

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Email Marketing, Automation, and Workflows

Email Automation

Good news, small business owners! Newsletter platforms are more intuitive than ever. Their automated campaigns and workflow features have made it even easier to keep in touch with your clients or prospects. At DCA Virtual Business Support, we tend to stick with MailChimp and GetResponse, although there are other highly-ranked, affordable newsletter platforms out there…

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