Jenna Paton
Jenna expertly writes thought-leadership content about cross-channel marketing and customer engagement and manages the creation and execution of Dotdigital's content marketing strategy.
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Customer engagement
4 ways to drive Black Friday customers to shop again over the holidays
Prepping your Black Friday marketing strategy is essential. This is your biggest opportunity to acquire new customers and you need to be ready to turn them from one-hit wonders to repeat purchasers.
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Email marketing
What is email marketing?
Email marketing is the most effective way to connect with your leads and customers. It’s direct and efficient and the best channel you have to convert prospects into customers.
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Seasonal
How to incorporate holiday marketing into your B2B business
Holiday marketing isn’t just for ecommerce brands. B2B organizations can maximize the holidays as an opportunity to engage clients and prospects with fun and relevant email marketing campaigns.
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Email marketing
Testing Christmas creative
Email marketing during the holidays is a competitive space. It’s time to get creative to stand out from the crowd.
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Customer engagement
How to reduce barriers to purchase
Ecommerce marketing success relies on the experience you create for customers. You need to think about every step of the customer journey if you want to enjoy success, especially during busy sales periods.
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Automation
How to prepare for the 2021 holiday season
It’s never too early to begin thinking about your marketing for the 2021 holiday season. Getting ready now will help significantly as we ramp up for the busiest season of the year.
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Industry trends
What is customer-centric email marketing?
Email marketing is a service. Customers have chosen to subscribe to your brand. In exchange for their business, they expect to be surprised and delighted with a personalized, inspiring experience.
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Industry trends
Progressive Web Apps: future-proofing your ecommerce business
In the fourth and final installment of our PWA blog series, we're looking to the future. Our partners share their invaluable expertise on how you can use PWAs to future-proof your ecommerce marketing.
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Industry trends
Progressive Web Apps: an undeniable asset to your business
For our third installment of our PWA series, we hear about the unquestionable benefits PWAs can bring to businesses looking to improve customer experience and conversion rates.
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Customer engagement
It’s time to get to know your customers
Did you know that every year, on the third Thursday of January, April, July, and October it’s Get To Know You Customer Day?
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Industry trends
Progressive Web Apps: how can PWAs boost your customer experience?
In this second installment of our four-part PWA series, we hear from some more all-star partners about the benefits of moving to a PWA and how you can use them for far more than just your ecommerce store.
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Industry trends
Progressive Web Apps: a deep-dive into the next generation of ecommerce experiences
Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) combine the look, feel, and ease-of-use of an app with the simple building and coding of a website. As mobile shopping continues to grow, it's time ecommerce brands seriously consider transitioning their sites to PWAs.
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Automation
How to identify and re-engage lapsed customers
Modern customers are busy and have short attention spans. This makes maintaining engagement harder than ever. In this blog, we will look at the easy and effective way you can identify lapsed customers and tactics you can use to re-engage them to drive revenue and results.
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Email marketing
Father’s Day: email and subject line inspiration
Father’s Day is right around the corner and it’s time to put the finishing touches on our campaigns. To help you make the most of this celebration, we’ve put together some of our favorite email and subject line examples to inspire you this year.
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Email marketing
Event marketing: how to promote your event to drive attendance
Drive awareness and increase event attendance with marketing automation, the most powerful tool in an event marketer’s arsenal. Attracting the right person, at the right time is vital to your event’s success. In this blog, we’ll show you how to use marketing automation to improve attendance and visitor satisfaction with your event.
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Industry trends
The next generation of shopping experiences
Ecommerce marketing has been growing and adapting at a rate traditional technology just can’t keep up with. Add to that the ever-growing demands of customers, brands are being forced to turn to new solutions that provide experiences that drive sales and conversions.
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SMS marketing
SMS: A truly global marketing channel
SMS marketing is about way than just announcements and order confirmation. Adding SMS to your marketing channels can boost conversion rates, improve customer engagement, and encourage loyalty.
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Email marketing
What to do if you send an email by mistake
Whether it’s a tech issue of plain old human error, mistakes are bound to happen at some point. It’s how you deal with them that ultimately affect your customers’ experiences.
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Email marketing
How to use social calendar events in your marketing campaigns
Marketing isn’t all about making a quick sale. To create the kind of connection with customers that keeps them coming back, you need to think beyond selling and appeal to the person you’re marketing to.
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Automation
Ecommerce marketing: 5 email campaigns to drive conversions and increase sales
Email marketing is a money-making tactic for all brands, but especially for ecommerce merchants.
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Email marketing
The 5 don’ts of email marketing design
If you invest in your email marketing strategy, you'll want to avoid falling foul of these design faux-pas!