Just when you thought it was dead, it’s back like the Terminator. Is email still relevant in 2020? With an average ROI coming out to $38 for every $1 spent, it’s one of the best marketing channels for 2020.
But it’s evolved and requires new tools and multiple skill sets to make it work harder for your brand.
The following list of 28 email marketing resources will help your business increase deliverability, capture new contacts, generate leads, establish a connection with new clients and earn more revenue from your email marketing program.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Email Tools
Growbots - Growbots is an automated email system that helps identify your ideal business customer, puts them into a list and automatically deploys your emails to them. We use Growbots for our B2B lead generation program in wine, franchise sales and professional services. The list generation is where we find that it saves us the most time. The platform not only helps generate the leads you need to drive business growth, it also allows you to nurture large volume of leads. The system automates the entire process so you can do other mission critical activities.
Seamless - We use Seamless to supplement our B2B list generation. We have found that for account based selling, Seamless is a bit easier to get the right contacts.
Leadfuze - LeadFuze works a bit differently from Growbots by using AI to discover specific leads in particular roles and industries. We like this platform because it provides in-depth data such as contact numbers, social accounts, and more. Moreover, LeadFuze can help you build your list by crawling the web around the clock and tagging prospective clients that match your criteria.
Cold Email Platforms
Cold email platforms specialize in sending communication to contacts who are not yet in your email database. You do not want to send cold emails through the same email service provider(ESP) as you opted to enlist. Cold email platforms are specifically made to do this in a way that is CAN-SPAM compliant.
Mailshake - This is the platform that we use the most if we don’t have a client on Growbots or Leadfuze. It will send personalized cold emails at scale. It has more functionality that we don’t use, such as setting up tasks to engage with prospects via phone and social media, all in one sequence, on one dashboard.
Mail Click Convert - Bulk email marketing software that enables you to email purchased lists without any restrictions.
Email Service Providers (ESP)
Mailchimp - All-in-one marketing platform that helps manage and talk to clients, customers, and other interested parties. Focuses on healthy contact management practices, beautifully designed campaigns, and powerful data analysis. This is the ESP that we use and recommend the most. It works well with a wide range of needs and just about anyone with opposable thumbs can use it.
Campaign Monitor - We have many clients on Campaign Monitor who really love it. Template design is a bit trickier than Mailchimp, but designers love this. It also enables campaign optimization with the help of advanced analytics and detailed reports.
Bronto - Seamlessly integrates with virtually all ecommerce platforms, including ones you've built yourself, and other marketing technologies, so you can get a true single customer view. Lots of great functionality. Great deliverability.
Consumer Intelligence
Tower Data - API's to help you to improve the quality and depth of your data by enabling you to quickly and securely verify email addresses and match demographics and behavioral data to your customer list in real-time.
Facebook Insights (log into your Business Manager) - Track user interaction on their Facebook Page. Facebook Insights can be seen by all the admins of your page and it can help you better understand the demographics of your consumers.
Google Analytics (log into your GA account, go to Audience) - Google Analytics lets you measure your email performance and get key demographic data on your website visitors. And it’s free! But it does need to be configured by a PRO so you can get the most out of it.
Email Lists To Purchase
We’ve purchased email lists for clients from all three of these providers below. We’ve used Exact Data the most frequently, but all three are reputable organizations.
Web & Email Optimization Platforms
All of these are so fun to use, we geek out on all of them.
Privy - Easy to use for small internal teams with limited coding skills. Has a fun drag & drop designer.
Optimonk - Engaging website visitors with user-friendly popups, side messages, notification bars and full screens.
OptinMonster - Powerful lead generation software that converts abandoning visitors into subscribers with dynamic marketing tools and Exit Intent® technology.
Optimizely - The platform’s ease of use and speed of deployment empower organizations to create and run bold experiments that help you make data-driven decisions and grow faster.
Chatbots
Drift - We use Drift for a number of clients. Chatbots are a super secret weapon to both qualify your web visitors and quickly grow your email database. Love this tool!
Partnership Platforms
Dojo Mojo - Online platform that helps its users grow their email list through sweepstakes and partner programs.
Tracking
Google Analytics - Best way to track how your email’s triggered consumer action on your site.
Lucky Orange - Literally see what consumers are doing on your site with heatmaps and recordings. This provides a nice visualization of how consumers are moving around your site.
Crazy Egg - Uses heatmaps, scrollmaps, and other visual reports to show you exactly how your customers respond to your website’s design elements.
Kissmetrics - A lot more than just analytics, Kissmetrics provides user based insights, customer journey reporting and deep customer insights to amplify your personalization efforts.
Dashboard Tools
Google DataStudio - Google’s reporting solution for power users who want to go beyond the data and dashboards of Google Analytics. The data widgets in Data Studio are notable for their variety, customization options, live data and interactive controls.
Tableau - We built custom dashboards in Tableau that pulls in what feels like an unlimited amount of data that can be sliced and diced in numerous ways.
Landing Page Tools
Unbounce - Create custom landing pages with Unbounce that convert more visitors than any website—no coding required. This is truly easy to use.
Leadpages - Generate leads and increase revenue using the industry-leading landing page creator with an accompanying suite of lead generation and opt-in tools.