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Personalized email marketing: We have the technology!
So why isn't anyone doing it? Well, it's not that nobody is doing it (otherwise we wouldn't have much of a blog post on our hands) ... it's just not being done as often or as well as it could be. I mean, I think we've all received the email that seems to be relying on "Hi [$$FIRSTNAME$$]" to totally nail it with email personalization. Alas, first name alone just isn't cutting it these days.
Thing is, email personalization doesn't need to be insanely complicated to resonate with recipients. Just like any other piece of marketing content, useful personalization is the stuff that simply makes your marketing more relevant, and more helpful. That's all!
So, what are some ways you could make your email marketing more personal? I like to tell stories through examples, so I dug up some companies that are leveraging email personalization abilities in ways that are really useful to the recipient. Because no matter how awesome your creative or compelling your copy, excellent marketing comes down to being useful. Let's take a look at seven examples of excellent email personalization I found in my inbox (and a couple of my co-workers' inboxes ... thanks guys). attack.