Jan 20, 2010
Integrated SMS, Social and Email Promo Capitalizes on Weather Event: 5 Steps MarketingSherpa - This case study
describes how Lyris customer, Eldorado
Hotel and Casino and Silver Legacy
Resort Casino, have implemented a
rapid-response, multichannel campaign
to lessen the impact of bad weather on
its business. The article describes how
the casinos take the news of a major
snow storm and turn it into a multi-
channel online marketing campaign.
Jan 18, 2010
Online Marketing Trends For 2010 MediaPost - This article features Lyris’
CMO Blaine Mathieu, who outlines the
top five online marketing trends that
every marketer should be aware of in
2010. Overall, Mathieu notes that email
will continue to be an anchor for multi-
media marketing channels since it is
“used by over 90 percent of marketers,
and despite its 'less sexy' appeal, with
its low cost, and targeted reach, it is the
perfect channel to base other online
marketing initiatives on.”
Jan 14, 2010
How to use email as your mobile launch pad iMedia Connection – In this article, Lyris’
Wendy Roth discusses how marketers
can easily and successfully incorporate
mobile into an online marketing program.
In addition, she explains that although
mobile takes time and preparation to
launch, marketers can expect enhanced
results and increased receptiveness,
especially when it is integrated with
other channels.
Jan 13, 2010
Integrate SMS and Social Marketing MarketingSherpa - Lyris’ customer
Eldorado Hotel Casino and Silver Legacy
Resort Casino is featured in this blog,
which details how the organizations are
integrating email with social and mobile
(SMS) channels to improve marketing
results. The article notes that the
casinos have seen results improve by 5
percent to 8 percent by adding an SMS
alert and Facebook updates to
campaigns that already included Web
site, paid search and email promotion.
Jan 11, 2010
Eldorado Hotel Casino Integrates Marketing Across Channels 1to1 Magazine -
This article discusses ways that Lyris
customers
Eldorado Hotel Casino and Silver Legacy
Resort Casino
have incorporated social media and
mobile into a
centralized marketing strategy that
delivers bottom-line
impact. The article notes that the casinos
are using
mobile, email, and social media marketing
in tandem and
have seen real ROI on marketing spend
with an
integrated approach.
Dec 31, 2009
Internet Marketing 101: Email trends for 2010 BizReport - Lyris’ CMO Blaine Mathieu is
featured in this article as a thought
leader on trends in measurement data
and the overall industry. The article
includes Mathieu’s commentary, "The
trend will be to move away from when
or where consumers are clicking ads
and move toward optimizing programs to
keep consumers engaged for longer
periods of time.”
Dec 21, 2009
BEST PRACTICE: Information overload B2B Marketing Online - This positive article on
best practices for B2B marketers in data
management and online analytics positions Lyris
UK as a leader in the arena of Web analytics and
the use of data to compare marketing channels.
Commentary from Lyris’ Andrew Robinson is
included in the piece, with Robinson noting, “Too
often, marketers put Web analytics, email
response, paid search and so on into separate
boxes. What we are moving towards is where
we are analysing all of these things in the same
place and against the same standards.”
Dec 17, 2009
Lyris HQ shows that social email marketing is burning hot Marketing Blog - This positive blog post showcases
Lyris HQ as an integrated and holistic solution for
interactive and social email marketing. In addition,
the post discusses the powerful combination of
email, social and mobile, and links to a video
interview with Luis Rivera.
Dec 14, 2009
Why SMS should be part of all holiday marketing Mobile Commerce Daily - Lyris customer Eldorado Hotel Casino and Silver Legacy Resort and Casino is featured prominently in this article, discussing how the casinos have incorporated a “tri-messaging” approach into its marketing efforts and how they have already seen success with mobile SMS efforts to date. The article also included validation for SMS by Blaine Mathieu, who notes, “Every year for the last five years has been the year of mobile, but this holiday season we’re seeing movement in the real world from retailers using mobile in innovative ways.”
Dec 14, 2009
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The Lay of the Email IPO Land MediaPost - Lyris’ CMO Blaine Mathieu Blaine Mathieu
discusses how Lyris has navigated through the email service
provider landscape. The article notes how Lyris is a publicly
traded company that has kept a low profile in the past, but
that in the coming year this could change as Lyris builds out
the Lyris HQ platform.
Dec 08, 2009
Mathieu: Top Five Online Marketing Trends in 2010 MediaPost Raw Blog - In a recent video interview, Lyris’ CMO Blaine Mathieu outlines the top five online marketing trends for 2010, providing marketers with a competitive advantage as they prepare for the New Year.
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Nov 25, 2009
How to integrate email, social for better results BizReport - Lyris customer Eldorado Hotel Casino and Silver Legacy Resort Casino explains how they have improved reach and engagement levels as well as customer experience, doubling mobile opt-in lists and conversion rates with Lyris HQ. Lyris’ CMO Blaine Mathieu notes, "Realigning marketing strategy to accommodate an increasingly social and mobile customer is critical to success. Eldorado and Silver Legacy have proven that integrating email with other marketing channels fuels sales and increases marketing ROI.”
Nov 20, 2009
Take a tri-messaging approach to mobile marketing Mobile Marketer - Lyris’ CMO Blaine Mathieu discusses the importance of a tri-messaging approach to mobile marketing, noting, “With more than 50 percent of consumers with mobile phones sending or receiving text messages this is an evolving medium that cannot be ignored.”
Nov 18, 2009
Tips for crafting emails that subscribers love to open iMedia Connection - Lyris’ Lyris’ Wendy Roth
offers tips on crafting emails that beg to be
opened, beginning with a knockout subject
line as the first and best opportunity for
attracting attention in overflowing inboxes.
Nov 10, 2009
Eldorado hotel integrates mobile with existing email marketing initiatives Mobile Marketer - Eldorado Hotel Casino and Silver Legacy Resort Casino explain the results the casinos have seen using Lyris HQ, including additional insights to improve campaign success across all of its digital marketing channels, including mobile, and helping them better target and engage customers. Lyris CMO Blaine Mathieu explains, “Marketers are under more pressure than ever to drive performance from their online marketing campaigns, while reducing cost and complexity.”
Oct 30, 2009
Expedia CruiseShipCenters to expand online booking DMNews - Lyris customer Expedia CruiseShipCenters upgraded to Lyris' online marketing suite, Lyris HQ in January 2009 to generate more sales and build out their distribution channel. Currently, the company personalizes six different e-mail newsletters about its cruises and sends emails to more than 1.5 million subscribers a monh.
Oct 14, 2009
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7 Fixes for Terrible Subject Lines iMedia Connection – The competition for consumer attention has never been more fierce, and your email campaign’s subject line is prime real estate. Lyris’ Wendy Roth explains how social networks put further pressure on marketers to use great subject lines and offers seven ways to dodge common mistakes that can put the success of email campaigns in jeopardy.
Oct 01, 2009
Email Yin and Search Yang: A Symbiotic Relationship ADOTAS – Lyris CMO Blaine Mathieu
explains how search is an integral part
of business and describes how email
marketing and search optimization can
work in tandem to reach business
objectives. Email campaigns can now be
leveraged beyond the subscriber base
and published to the web via new social
media channels. In turn, search
marketing efforts can be designed to
drive more eyeballs to not only a
company’s website, but to a particular
email initiative.
Sep 29, 2009
Sep 21, 2009
Lyris Exhibits at ad:tech London IT-Director.com – Lyris exhibited at interactive advertising and technology conference ad:tech London in September to share insights on emerging online marketing tools.
Sep 16, 2009
eBeat eM+C - “Email is a proven, cost-effective outbound messaging tool, and social media is a highly scalable outbound and inbound tool. By integrating the two, marketers can enhance brand building, customer acquisition and retention, and create product launch success,” Lyris CMO Blaine Mathieu notes. “All of this results in a broader customer base, a stronger brand and satisfied customers.”
Sep 14, 2009
Search as lead-gen BtoB – Search marketing has been transformed into much more than simply a way to lure Web site traffic and fill e-commerce shopping baskets. For b-to-b companies, search can be seen as a critical lead-generation tactic. “We've been taking part in paid search for three or four years and spending well into six figures with middling results,” said Lyris CMO Blaine Mathieu. “A year ago, we decided to focus on it as a key to lead generation, and the results have been incredible.”
Sep 09, 2009
5 Tips for Building Stronger Communities iMedia Connection - Email is the
backbone of an integrated digital
marketing program. More of your donors
have and use email than you might
realize. Senior Manager of Training
Services at Lyris, Wendy Roth offers
readers advice on how to build strong
communities using email as a marketing
channel.
Aug 26, 2009
Lyris Launches "Cash for Email Clunkers" Promotion Direct Magazine – Lyris is gearing its offer to the first 250 marketing companies that send in the last three months of invoices from an existing e-mail marketing solution provider. The invoices must be valued at $3,000 or more.
Aug 26, 2009
Lyris Launches Cash for Email Clunkers BizReport – “Companies no longer need to accept the status quo with legacy email marketing tools," said Luis Rivera, CEO, Lyris. "The Lyris 'Cash for Email Clunkers' program offers email marketers a low-risk, low-cost and easy way to take their digital marketing to the next level.”
Aug 14, 2009
Four New Marketing Realities to Live By MediaPost Marketing Daily – In both B2B and B2C environments, customers are no longer buying on impulse. They don't have the access to credit they used to have. They're hoarding their limited resources. Bottom line: they're spending less.
Aug 04, 2009
Ways to Avoid Drowning Your Email Subscribers iMedia Connection – Think of all the email messages you send now: newsletters, offers, alerts, reminders, and transactional emails triggered by customer actions. If you run these messages only through your email channel, you could drown your recipients' inboxes. Instead, branch out beyond email to all of the channels now available to you.
Jul 16, 2009
Mobile Marketing: Start Now to Cash In on Year-End Commerce, Part 2 eM+C – Think you're going to upload an existing database and start texting away? Think again. In email, opt-in is an often skirted best practice. In mobile, opt-in is a mandatory requirement. The mobile carriers come down hard on companies that spam, and they consider it spam if a user didn't specifically send you a text message from the mobile phone number in question.
Jul 07, 2009
How to Turn Your Email Program into a Dialogue iMedia Connection – Email succeeds as a direct marketing channel, in part because it's the medium that gives you the most one-to-one experience with your customers and readers. The intimacy of the inbox requires emails to hone in on personal preference and converse with the recipient rather than talking at him or her.
Jul 07, 2009
Mobile Marketing: Start Now to Cash In on Year-End Commerce eM+C – If you're thinking about adding text messaging to your marketing mix for the holiday season, the time is now. It takes time to plan a mobile marketing strategy, set up the technology and, most importantly, build your list. Don't wait until the fall, or you might come up short at the cash register.
Jun 25, 2009
Personal Touch Sends Out the Right Message MarketingWeek – Donna McNicholas, UK sales director for Lyris, sums up the challenge for those involved in using emails to communicate with consumers and potential customers: “If brands use email to communicate with their brand ambassadors then these personalised mail-outs will be successful.”
Jun 23, 2009
Analytics 101: Valuable Insights from Cheap Tools CNNMoney.com – Louis Sirico had no reason to suspect that he was flooding his customers' email inboxes with content they “didn't really care” about. Sirico is the founder of IndustryWizards.com, a San Jose, Calif.-based professional online network. But Sirico was in for a rude awakening when, using a Web analytics tool from Lyris, he began tracking whether recipients were clicking to read the articles contained in each month's newsletter or simply hitting delete. “We thought we were giving members what they wanted,” he admits. “But [after testing], we realized, ‘Wow, we need to lay out our newsletters differently.'” Using the information he gleaned from Lyris HQ Web Analytics, Sirico has “completely redesigned” the 100,000 newsletters a month IndustryWizards.com emails to its members.
Jun 16, 2009
Twitter Tool Helps Marketers Manage Social Campaigns BizReport – In the first phase, Lyris' Twitter tool allows marketers to monitor the social space through tweets and posts; in this way the marketer can see what competitors are doing and how they can beat competitors.
Jun 15, 2009
More Efficient Marketing MarketingSherpa –“In a bad economy, the last thing you want to cut back on is marketing,” says Jeremy Farber, President and Founder, PC Recycler. The team started using Lyris HQ, a search, email and analytics software package. “We’re getting more work done now with the same budget and the same people, which obviously is translating into better ROI.”
Jun 15, 2009
The Symbiotic Relationship between Email and Search iMedia Connection – Lyris CMO, Blaine Mathieu, discusses how email campaigns can now be leveraged beyond the subscriber base and published to the web via new social media channels. And in turn, how search marketing efforts can be designed to drive more eyeballs to not only a company's website, but to a particular email initiative.
Jun 09, 2009
How to Maximize Your Google PPC Campaigns MarketingSherpa –“In a bad economy, the last thing you want to cut back on is marketing,” says Jeremy Farber, President and Founder, PC Recycler. The team started using Lyris HQ, a search, email and analytics software package. “We’re getting more work done now with the same budget and the same people, which obviously is translating into better ROI.”
Jun 04, 2009
5 Ways to Improve Your Unsubscribe Process The bad news: Almost a third of the email addresses on your mailing list are going to turn over this year! However, Lyris’ Wendy Roth provides tips on how a rich unsubscribe process can offer the ability to salvage customer relationships while still providing a speedy exit to those who want out.
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Lyris Buys UK Email Marketing Consultancy NetImperative – Lyris’ global expansion is in direct response to marketers’ demand for easy-to-use solutions that allow them to successfully create, manage and measure email, social and mobile campaigns all with the technology and services of one company.
May 13, 2009
Lyris Acquires Longtime Partner Facultas ADOTAS – “We have seen tremendous momentum for our Lyris HQ integrated marketing suite in the US and recognize a large opportunity in the European market for a SaaS-based, online marketing solution,” said Luis Rivera, CEO, Lyris
May 13, 2009
Lyris Acquires UK's Facultas BizReport – "The services expertise of the Facultas team combined with new executive talent in the UK provides Lyris with a strong presence in Europe and will afford extended resources and market knowledge to new and existing Lyris customers worldwide," said Luis Rivera, CEO, Lyris
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Lyris Acquires UK Email Marketing Consultancy Web 2.0 Journal – Lyris’ global expansion is in direct response to marketers’ demand for easy-to-use solutions that allow them to successfully create, manage and measure email, social and mobile campaigns all with the technology and services of one company.
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Lyris lets Marketers Track Tweets NetImperative – “Internally at Lyris, social media and networks have become an invaluable tool, not only for marketing, but for the client services and product development teams,” said Blaine Mathieu, CMO, Lyris.
May 07, 2009
Can your online past come back to haunt you? Computerworld - When it comes to some aspects of finding a job by social networking, such as online reputation management, Sean Ryan, senior vice president of engineering and a hiring manager at online measurement tools vendor Lyris, Inc., has a completely opposite view than most. The vast majority of recruiting professionals say it's important to make sure there's nothing online that could be too personal or embarrassing or that might turn off potential employers doing a background check.
May 07, 2009
Job hunting? Use social networks to make crucial connections Computerworld - Although the total number of IT jobs is shrinking due to the recession, some companies are still hiring -- and using social-networking tools can help you land those jobs. In fact, being in the IT industry just might give you an advantage over the average laid-off worker.
May 07, 2009
Twitter gets marketing integration support Mad.co.UK - Monitoring, sharing and measurements of social media postings has been enhanced in the latest version of Lyris HQ. Twitter feeds can now be included in the ten most popular social networking sites tracked by the solution, alongside Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Digg, StumbleUpon and others. ...
May 07, 2009
Lyris announces Twitter support for HQ MarketingServicesTalk - Lyris has announced social media enhancements in Lyris HQ, to include the monitoring, sharing and measurement of messages posted on Twitter.
May 07, 2009
May 07, 2009
Can Your Online Past Come Back to Haunt You? Computerworld – When it comes to some aspects of finding a job by social networking, such as online reputation management, Sean Ryan, senior vice president of engineering and a hiring manager at online measurement tools vendor Lyris, Inc., has a completely opposite view than most.
May 07, 2009
Twitter Gets Marketing Integration Support DataStrategy – Lyris HQ allows marketers to create, manage and measure social media campaigns from within a single integrated platform alongside email, mobile, pay-per-click, web content, web analytics and search engine marketing.
May 06, 2009
Lyris Leverages Twitter For Marketers ADOTAS - The marketing technology company has added some social media features in Lyris HQ that includes the monitoring, sharing and measurement of messages posted on Twitter.
May 06, 2009
Lyris Leverages Twitter For Marketers ADOTAS – The added Lyris HQ social media enhancements are a direct result of customer feedback received through Lyris’ own email and Twitter presence.
May 05, 2009
Now Rumors Say Apple Could Buy Twitter Sci-Tech Today.com - Facebook and Google didn't acquire Twitter, but now rumors are focusing on Apple, Inc. purchasing fast-growing Twitter for $700 million. But an analyst called an Apple acquisition of Twitter "extremely unlikely." News organizations are boosting Twitter, and companies are targeting Twitter's 25 million fickle members.
May 05, 2009
Inbox Insider: E-mailers should embrace social media DMNews - Social media has been a scary word in the e-mail space since MySpace got big back in 2006. There has been talk that social media would kill e-mail and new channels like Twitter and Facebook will mean the demise of e-mail.
May 05, 2009
Industry Buzz & Snippets: 05/05/09 MarketingVOX - Lyris HQ now measures and monitors messages posted on Twitter. The offering already does the same for sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, digg and StumbleUpon, among others.
May 05, 2009
Inbox Insider: E-mailers Should Embrace Social Media DMNews – Lyris recently updated its Lyris HQ product to include monitoring, sharing and measurement of Twitter feeds. The firm already has the functionality to measure and track messages on Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and Digg.
May 05, 2009
Now Rumors Say Apple Could Buy Twitter Sci-Tech Today – Lyris on Monday rolled out social-media enhancements in Lyris HQ to include monitoring, sharing and measurement of messages posted on Twitter.
May 05, 2009
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Marketing automation vendors embrace social components Marketing applications abound, running the gamut from relatively simple standalone tools to fully integrated suites. Increasingly, however, vendors of marketing automation applications share something in common: a scramble to add social media features.
May 04, 2009
Lyris Launches Twitter Gauge MediaPost’s Raw Live & Unadulterated blog - Lyris, which offers a suite of tools to help maximize ROI for email and other digital campaigns, said Monday at the Summit it is upgrading its Lyris HQ system to allow marketers to gauge the effectiveness of communications on Twitter.
May 04, 2009
Lyris: Marketers Track Campaigns Via Twitter MediaPost’s MediaDailyNews - Lyris is upgrading its Lyris HQ system to allow marketers to gauge the effectiveness of communications on Twitter. Lyris HQ already can track and measure campaigns across a slew of other social media sites, including Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace. The announcement came at MediaPost's Email Insider Summit.
May 04, 2009
7 Deadly Sins of Email Marketing iMedia Connection – Here are seven deadly email sins you might not even know you are committing -- but they may be aggravating your customer base all the same.
May 04, 2009
Lyris Launches Twitter Gauge Lyris Launches Twitter Gauge MediaPost Raw Live & Unadulterated Blog – Lyris, which offers a suite of tools to help maximize ROI for email and other digital campaigns, said Monday at the Summit it is upgrading its Lyris HQ system to allow marketers to gauge the effectiveness of communications on Twitter.
May 04, 2009
Marketing Automation Vendors Embrace Social Components BtoB Magazine – “For example, people go to browsers every day to search for solutions products,” Lyris’ Erick Mott said. “Social networks are enhancing the level of being found in search engines because they're being used for advice and feedback.”
Apr 03, 2009
4 tips for adjusting email to economic change iMedia Connection - Email is a proven method, and there are affordable and easy ways to bring innovation into messaging strategies and email marketing programs to successfully drive customer growth, lower marketing costs, and compete today -- as well as prepare for an eventual upturn. Here are four ideas to consider as you change for the times and adjust your strategies for the opportunities at hand.
Mar 23, 2009
2009 MarketingSherpa Email Summit Interview with Lyris 2009 MarketingSherpa Email Summit Interview with Lyris BigMarketing – Video interview with Erick Mott, director of communications for Lyris, at the 2009 MarketingSherpa Email Summit in Miami. Also features Jeremy Farber of PCRecycler, a happy Lyris customer.
Mar 16, 2009
Tri-Messaging Moves Integrated MarComm Forward MediaPost Marketing Daily - Your campaigns and marketing operations may not be currently optimized to manage, measure and monetize information sharing and engagement online, but it is influencing business results. Consider integrated marketing strategies and tactics that apply "tri-messaging" -- a catalyst for conversations and interactions across multiple channels.
Feb 26, 2009
Special Protocols for New Email Subscribers iMedia Connection - A good welcome program helps get subscribers on board with your email program quickly, while not overwhelming them with your standard email. This can help you reduce spam complaints, unsubscribes, and inactivity down the road.
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Diseased Email Addresses and How to Prune Them iMedia Connection - Abandoned or inactive addresses can waste your money and harm your sender reputation. Take these three steps to trim the problem areas while leaving healthy segments intact.
Feb 02, 2009
Guest comment: Holding back NetImperative - As marketing budgets get tight, it can be tempting to bombard customers with emails. Kieran Cooper, Managing Director at Lyris UK, explains why, when it comes to email marketing, less can sometimes be more.
Jan 30, 2009
How to craft irresistible subject lines The Marketing Blog - Company director of product management J.D. Peterson says recipients responded better to "Lyris: Newsletter" than the other variations the company tried.
Jan 29, 2009
New Arrivals eM+C - Social media enhancements to its Lyris HQ integrated online marketing suite enables marketers to leverage e-mail marketing campaigns on 10 popular social networking sites, such as Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace.
Jan 29, 2009
Put Your E-mail Campaigns to the Test BtoB Online – “There’s always room for improvement with e-mail marketing campaigns, and testing them is a great way to get there,” said J.D. Peterson.
Jan 28, 2009
New Lyris HQ tool allows email to become social NetDirectBusiness Blog - Email marketing is going social thanks to an enhancement to the Lyris HQ suite. The new functionality allows email marketers to simply scale email messages into social conversations.
Jan 27, 2009
New Lyris HQ Tool Allows Email to Become Social BizReport - "Lyris HQ's social media enhancements allow marketers to broaden the reach and ROI of their online campaigns to the ever-growing number of users spending time and consuming content on social networking sites,” said Blaine Mathieu.
Jan 26, 2009
Social media can boost customer loyalty DMNews - Like other Web 2.0 topics, social media marketing is not clearly defined or broadly understood. However, marketing messaging in general — distributed via e-mail, social and mobile channels — is becoming more conversational in nature and less oriented to pitch-like tactics.
Jan 19, 2009
Managing ROI On A Shrinking Budget MediaPost Marketing Daily - In 2009, prioritizing expenses will remain top of mind, and marketers are going to increasingly need to demonstrate they can manage, if not increase, return on investment (ROI).
Jan 13, 2009
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10 email marketing resolutions for 2009 MyCustomer.com - The new year may have started in earnest but there is still time to make a few resolutions to improve your marketing strategies - so why not start in your inbox?
Jan 08, 2009
Email Marketing ADOTAS - It’s important to remember that your target audiences have many other marketers sending them messages– and it can all become a blur when email volumes increase in the PC, social or mobile inbox.
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Lyris HQ Goes Mobile DestinationCRM - Unlike email, there's a lot of baggage that comes with mobile.
Dec 12, 2008
Lyris Launches HQ for Mobile BizReport – One year after LyrisHQ launched for email, the company is adding mobile functionality to the product. With the platform, marketers can send one-off messages, schedule an entire campaign or sign up for recurring messages to be delivered to consumers' mobile devices.
Dec 12, 2008
Lyris Debuts Mobile Marketing Solution BtoB – Online marketing company Lyris has introduced a new Short Message Service (SMS) texting solution to enable marketers to send targeted text communications to opt-in customers on their mobile devices. The new product, Lyris HQ Mobile, will be offered as part of the Lyris HQ integrated online marketing suite.
Dec 12, 2008
Why (List) Size Isn’t Everything Fresh Business Thinking (UK)– It is tempting for marketers to brag about their mailing list size. But when it comes to email, it’s not the size of the list that matters, it’s what you do with it.
Dec 09, 2008
Email Marketers Need To Discourage Against PPC Obsession MediaPost’s Online Media Daily – It stands to reason that the current economic climate could lead to a greater investment in online marketing, but at least one executive wants to make sure the buzz around Pay Per Click doesn't overtake what email marketing can offer.
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Inbox Insider: E-mail Continues to Gravitate Toward Mobile DMNews – As the mobile Web gets more popular and smartphones are more ubiquitous, we are seeing e-mail platforms expand their offering to the mobile space. Be it through an SMS platform or just through the optimization of e-mail on the mobile Web, the lines between e-mail and the mobile phone are becoming less defined.
Dec 08, 2008
Lyris Debuts Mobile Marketing Solution Mobile Marketing Watch – Lyris Inc., the online marketing provider, has unveiled Lyris HQ Mobile, a new SMS texting solution that allows marketers to send timely and targeted text communications to opt-in audience.
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How to Craft Irresistible Subject Lines iMedia Connection – Anyone with an inbox (or two or three) knows email marketing is big business. It reaches millions each year with offers for newsletters, exclusive deals and solutions to problems you probably didn't even know you had.
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How Online Agencies Can Prosper Through Integration iMedia Connection UK – What can agencies do to better integrate their online campaigns, and which tools could provide them with the means to do this? Learn more about streamlining your campaigns to impress clients and deliver better results.
Oct 30, 2008
3 Steps to Superior Email Snippets iMedia Connection – A good subject line may catch a reader's eye, but the text that follows can determine whether your email is opened or deleted.
Oct 27, 2008
Digging deeper with DMA’s latest Power of Direct report BtoB Magazine - The release this month of the Direct Marketing Association’s annual Power of Direct Marketing report, a forecast of direct marketing’s impact on the U.S. economy, revealed the slowdown in growth expected in this economically battered year, with a rebound projected for late 2009. But the report’s more granular findings revealed intriguing trends within industry groups and among various slices of direct marketing media and tools. In short, some sectors are performing better (or worse) than others, as are the direct marketing tools marketers choose to use.
Oct 22, 2008
Marketers Set to Strengthen Customer Focus in 2009 1to1 Media – After speaking to several technology vendors at DMA08 last week about business trends in the current economic downturn, it seems as though either marketers plan to focus more on customers, or the technology vendors that provide their customer relationship tools are just remaining hopeful. The bottom line is everyone agrees that it's more important than ever to allocate investments and capital spending on strategies that can be measured in the long term, such as customer relationships.
Oct 21, 2008
Introducing ClickZ's Layoff Tracker for Digital Marketing Jobs ClickZ – We all knew this moment was coming, and now it's official. The economic chill has begun to impact jobs in the digital media and marketing sectors. The list of companies to cut staff since the global credit crisis began includes AdBrite, Zillow, eBay, and Heavy.com. On the contrary, a glance at the ClickZ job board shows firms are actively hiring digital marketing pros. Among them are Adify, GSI Commerce, Lyris, Encyclopedia Britannica, and others.
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Tips & Stats to Help Your Email Campaign Succeed 90blog – In order to help marketers increase open and click-through rates, as well as overall email campaign effectiveness, this article points to some information from Lyris HQ (formerly EmailLabs).
Oct 08, 2008
Can Email Still Be Used Effectively? Content Maker Network Blog – Email still reigns as the most effective marketing and communications tool to come along since the telephone, and public, competitive, and even governmental pressure on our service providers have caused them to introduce an increasingly broad array of tools to monitor and manage the spam problem.
Oct 08, 2008
Letting Someone Else Worry About Email Deliverability Elink Directory – In order to be assured your marketing or customer service emails get all the way to your customers each and every time, you will have to find a way to keep up on the latest tricks of email design that will get your email delivered.
Oct 02, 2008
Your Website from the Ground Up in 10 Steps SEO Articles and Newsletters; also appeared on Internet Search Database– The following 10 steps will give you some insight into what you need to address when creating a search friendly Web site from the ground up. There is an endless supply of analytics options out there to choose from. Advanced choices such as Lyris HQ (formerly ClickTracks) can give you rather in-depth statistics.
Oct 01, 2008
How Much Marketing is too Much? CRM Magazine – Experts estimate that the average person gets beaten up by between 1,600 and 6,000 advertising messages daily, but consumers have learned to defend themselves with a simple tactic—they’re ignoring you. This article explains how to overcome the challenge of getting customers to pay attention.
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How to E-Market to Busy, Distracted Readers ADOTAS – Words make or break an email campaign. Complicating the situation is the fact that people read a computer screen differently than they do a printed page. For one thing, they have a vastly shorter attention span. It is estimated that the average email is only open for 2-5 seconds before the reader takes an action. It’s helpful to consider the lessons learned from the Internet, as email marketing is a similar digital medium.
Sep 17, 2008
Do's and Don'ts: Building e-mail lists DMNews - Growing an email list is no easy task - marketers must not only be patient, but also adhere to increasingly-stringent opt-in and opt-out laws. Despite privacy concerns, building an email list organically allows marketers to track customer behavior as well as target customers based on buying habits. DMNews asked two experts for their two-cents on how to care for your growing house file and encourage those all-important opt-ins.
Sep 17, 2008
Lyris Swigs to Loss in Q4: Quick Facts RTTNews – Wednesday, Lyris Inc. (LYRI.OB: News ) reported a fourth-quarter loss of $2.0 million or $0.02 per share, compared to net income of $2.1 million or $0.02 per share in the same quarter a year ago.
Sep 16, 2008
The Path to Marketing Nirvana is Paved by Integration DMNews - Fast-growing marketing channels are creating chaos for those trying to expand and improve their online communications efforts. Dozens of point tools exist but these, at best, only solve a fraction of marketers' problems — and, at worst, exacerbate them.
Sep 16, 2008
Why Your Marketing Program Will Never Really Be Integrated iMedia Connection - According to the audience members at iMedia's Brand Summit in Coronado, Calif., integrated marketing is an ideal that has yet to be fully realized. And according to Monday morning's panelists, it's a quest that has no concrete destination.
Sep 15, 2008
Lyris Executive Departs for Responsys ClickZ News – As Lyris ramps up, it's also seen the defection of some senior executives, including consulting services director Stefan Pollard, but Lyris has also recently been dramatically expanding. Among the new hires at Lyris: Brian Bailard, SVP, global sales; Heidi Mackintosh, chief financial officer; and Daryl Michalik, senior product manager for PPC.
Sep 11, 2008
CEOs Split on Paying for Good Grades USA Today - CEOs use raises, bonuses and stock options as carrots to get workers to excel. Do they apply similar pay-for-performance strategies to their children's education?
Sep 11, 2008
Letting Someone Else Worry About Email Deliverability Energized Content – The crisis in email deliverability is not a fluke and it really isn't something we don't understand. We know the reason and we know why it continues to be a challenge to online merchants such as you and I. The issue has to do with spam filters that are constantly in a state of evolution.
Aug 14, 2008
New Arrivals eMarketing and Commerce Weekly E-newsletter (no link available) - According to the company, Lyris ListManager 10, Delivery Edition, enables marketers to send campaign e-mails in parallel over multiple IP addresses in an effort to improve inbox delivery rates.
Aug 13, 2008
Lyris Revamps ListManager Biz Report Blog - Online marketing experts Lyris have revamped and relaunched their ListManager platform, which now gives marketers to digest and diagnose email deliverability issues. Marketers can now send email messages over multiple IP addresses to improve inbox delivery rates.
Aug 13, 2008
Don’t Go Without Your Briefs DonorPowerBlog.com - The number-one reason for lame, ill-conceived websites, I'm pretty sure, is lack of planning and poor alignment of goals. Lyris HQ would probably agree with me, and recommends Creative Briefs: Your Map to Message Success.
Aug 12, 2008
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Aug 11, 2008
Lyris ListManager 10 Delivers ADOTAS - Lyris Inc. announced today the newest version of its flagship on-premise email marketing engine, Lyris ListManager 10, Delivery Edition.
Aug 07, 2008
Web Analytics Vendor Cross-Check H2/2008 CMS Watch - It is all too easy to select vendors for your shortlist based on their supposed "leadership" status in the market -- status either given by analyst firms or by the vendors themselves. As our Web Analytics Report 2008 amply describes, web analytics represents a range of technologies suited to different scenarios.
Aug 05, 2008
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Aug 01, 2008
Brace Yourself for the Beijing Olympics Internetnews.com, TMCNet - NBCOlympics.com will provide e-mail alerts to viewers. E-mails also open enterprises to spammers and phishers, while streaming videos and Websites from which they can be downloaded could be used by cybercriminals to launch attacks on a corporation's systems.
Aug 01, 2008
NBC Plans E-Mail Alert Service for Games TV Technolgy.com - Beyond its online, mobile, cable and over-the-air coverage of the XXIXth Olympiad, NBC Olympics will deliver opt-in e-mail alerts to help fans stay on top of the action.
Jul 30, 2008
Online Marketing Just For Smaller Businesses bMighty.com Blog - For many smaller companies, online marketing is – or should be -- a crucial component of their business. But online marketing, which involves SEO, e-mail marketing, and pay per click ads, takes time, some money, and increasingly, some expertise. Products designed for small and midsize businesses are finally entering the market.
Jul 29, 2008
Creating Powerful Leads on Integrated Marketing TheMarketingStorm Blog - As many of you know, I am the Program Manager for the 10th Annual Marketing World 2008: a Frost & Sullivan Executive MindXchange. It took place last week in Beaver Creek, CO. One of the many interactive workshops was titled, "Creating Powerful Leads Through Integrated Online Marketing". The workshop host [Blaine Mathieu] took many notes on what was discussed and put together the following wrap-up for the session attendees.
Jul 22, 2008
Five Steps to a Cleaner Email List Catalogue/e-business - Given that a list full of incorrect addresses and unresponsive names costs you money every time you send out a mailing—and increases the risk of your being labelled a spammer or blacklisted from an ISP—you can’t afford not to clean your file. Email and online marketing solutions provider Lyris has made the cleaning process much less daunting with its white paper “Spring-Clean Your Email List: Five Easy Steps”.
Jul 17, 2008
Web Analytics Buyer’s Guide, Assessing Vendors’ Competencies and Value WebAnalysis Blog - John Lovett from Jupiter Research released his new report titled Web Analytics Buyer’s Guide, Assessing Vendors’ Competencies and Value. In this report he analyzed the web analytics market and various vendors, and concluded: “The Web analytics feature race is largely over and we are left with Web Analytics providers competing on Price and Flexibility.”
Jul 16, 2008
It’s not the Tools, It’s the Craftsman JupiterResearch - Our recently published Web Analytics Buyer’s Guide reveals that the functionality gap between Web analytics tools is narrow and differentiators will surface in flexibility and data integration capabilities.
Jul 15, 2008
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Jul 09, 2008
Send, Analyze, Target, Resend: The Art And Science of Successful Integrated Email Campaigns Media Post’s Email Insider - Email marketing campaigns continue to prove their value, even as new media channels emerge to pull marketing dollars in different directions. But today’s email marketing strategies and tactics are different than they were even five years ago, and there’s a lot more to a successful campaign than just looking at open and click-through rates.
Jul 08, 2008
Online Marketing: Are Your Campaigns Under Control? Smallbiztechnology.com - With so many tools available today for small and medium sized businesses to market online, it's not too difficult to create an effective email newsletter or campaign, track website statistics and keywords, manage a pay-per-click campaign, and even manage website content without the IT department. The list of providers is huge... from Constant Contact to Google Adwords and Analytics.
Jul 03, 2008
Jul 01, 2008
Individuals Create, Enterprises Manage Content Software Magazine - As digital content grows exponentially, more alternatives emerge for managing it, including open source alternatives and packages targeting SMBs; high-end CMSs continue to innovate as well.
Jul 01, 2008
Jul 01, 2008
Marketing automation, all packaged up Inside CRM Blog - Microsoft isn’t standing pat on CRM Dynamics Online, with its first service upgrade officially arriving today. One of the new additions is a little surprising – a bit of marketing automation punch.
Jul 01, 2008
Industry Buzz & Snippets MarketingVOX - Lyris has upgraded its HQ product for the marketing and ad industry. HQ for Agencies enables users to manage online marketing campaigns.
Jun 30, 2008
Lyris Pushes Web Marketing Toolset Downstream CRMBuyer, E-Commerce Times - Lyris is billing its latest release as a marketing toolkit that lets SMBs function like their much larger competitors. The application includes new analytics, design, content management and campaign management features.
Jun 27, 2008
Lyris HQ combines 5 platforms into 1 advertising space BizReport - Small and mid-sized marketers now have a new platform for nearly every advertising need. Lyris HQ is a new platform which incorporates the five Lyris platforms many marketers are already familiar with: Hot Banana, Bid Hero, Click Tracks, Email Labs and Email Advisors.
Jun 20, 2008
4 Ways to Fix Your Email Marketing. A solid contact strategy is the key to success. destinationCRM.com - There's no denying that email marketing can be a powerful and positive influence on your customers -- but you've got to make sure you get it right, right from the start. A good contact strategy can serve as a roadmap to email marketing activities -- and developing a solid contact strategy is key to email marketing success, whether you're sending to a list of 1,000 or 100,000.
Jun 19, 2008
Lyris HQ Review: Email Service Provider FreshClicks.net - Lyris HQ is an online Marketing Resource Management (MRM) tool, but this review will focus primarily on their Email Service offering (Email Labs) that is bundled in Lyris HQ.
Jun 06, 2008
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Jun 03, 2008
Banes of deliverability: data source's role in e-mail bounces DM News - Remember the old phrase, “Garbage in, garbage out?” This maxim applies directly to e-mail marketing, because if your data source isn't in good shape, your e-mail campaign won't be either — and bounces will skyrocket. Here are a few questions to consider when you're looking at the impact that your data sources are having on your e-mail marketing efforts.
May 29, 2008
Targeting e-mail campaigns when your database grows BtoB Magazine - When companies see exponential growth of their e-mail database, they run the risk of sending unwanted e-mails to some recipients if they don’t effectively target their campaigns, said Joel Doss, a software sales account representative at Lyris Inc., an Internet marketing solutions company. The best way to avoid that problem is to create highly specific segments within the e-mail list so the messages sent to particular groups are relevant, he said.
May 21, 2008
May 20, 2008
Security Backlash: How to Repair Your Business's Email Reputation ITSecurity.com - All it takes is one complaint from an overzealous anti-spam vigilante for your company’s email newsletter to mistakenly wind up on a blacklist. An email blacklist essentially blocks all messages from a particular server, which could prove very costly to a company’s bottom line.
May 19, 2008
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CRM's Salesforce.com Certifies Hot Banana for AppEx TMCNet.com - Lyris has announced that Hot Banana Software, a Web content management product that's part of the Lyris HQ integrated marketing platform, has been certified on Salesforce.com's (News - Alert) AppExchange.
Apr 29, 2008
eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit Presents Innovations From the Exhibit Hall MarketWire - Year after year, sponsors of the global eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit series have selected the event as the ideal place to launch new products and make major company announcements. Next week, in San Francisco, is no exception, and Summit sponsors are gearing up to release news in the exhibit hall that will propel the marketing optimization industry forward.
Apr 17, 2008
Lyris Snatches Benefitstreet Exec ADOTAS – Technology platform Lyris, Inc. today announced the hiring of Heidi Mackintosh as vice president and chief financial officer. Mackintosh replaces Joe Lambert who is leaving to “pursue other interests,” the company said.
Apr 16, 2008
Apr 07, 2008
No sweat for new Lyris partner DMNews - American Apparel, a multichannel retailer of sweatshop-free clothing, has launched a push to make its e-mail marketing more personalized.
Mar 28, 2008
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Feb 29, 2008
Best practices for working with your ESP BtoB Magazine - Some marketers treat their e-mail service providers like their morning alarm clocks—they set them and forget them, confident that they will do what they are supposed to do. But an ESP-client relationship needs a lot more nurturing and care...
Nov 29, 2007