If you’re anything like me, this year has flown before your eyes and now it’s almost 2022. As we approach the end of 2021, the holiday season is slowly creeping up on us all. For some, this is a time full of festivity, but for others, the thought of the new year approaching is all too much.

This season brings about great opportunity for businesses to employ marketing endeavors before the new year. The planning stage however is short, giving little opportunity to organize what will happen and when it will happen.

Holiday retail sales in 2020 reached $789.4 billion in the US, despite the pandemic and between 2018 and 2020, grew by over $66 billion. These numbers are set to continue to grow during 2021, as online shopping demands increase, rising by 6.4 million between 2019 and 2021.

Launching a new product is daunting in a world of digital marketing. There are endless opportunities, and therefore it is important that you feel confident when advertising your brand identity and product. Perfect your marketing plan by ensuring you are reaching your target audience via email marketing, utilizing the power of social media, writing blogs to inform customers and  boost SEO’s regarding your product. 

There are no two ways about it. Email marketing is one of the most popular, cost-effective and highest performing marketing channels currently available. A recent eMarketer study shows that the average ROI of email marketing is 122%. The ROI of email marketing is approximately four times higher than its next closest competitor. Every study shows us that email marketing is performing well and looks to remain the case for years to come.

The current landscape between financial services firms and their customers remains precarious and dubious, to say the least. Firms are having to navigate boundaries that stand between complete transparency and understanding to develop symbiotic relationships with their customers. Digital marketing helps to bridge the gap between these firms and their customers – something that has been realized and become increasingly essential to firms all over the world amid the Covid-19 pandemic. 

Read on further to learn about 5 powerful and proven digital marketing strategies for any financial service firm.

Today, email marketing stands as one of the most effective tools in your marketing arsenal, but only if you know how to use it correctly.

Email campaigns might seem like an outdated marketing method, but they are a tried and true method of connecting with your audience. While perfecting the content and design elements is an essential part of creating an email campaign, it’s more important to understand how to succeed.

Marketers have been using email marketing campaigns for years, pushing products, events, and anything else they want their audience to engage with. If the majority of people are checking their email every day (most are checking multiple times a day), why aren’t your campaigns working? While it might seem that email marketing as a whole doesn’t work, but it might just be that your processes are out of date. Engaging with your audience is like a game of chess: it requires strategy and planning, as well as the flexibility to adapt your approach when things don’t work. Below, we have five email marketing practices that don’t work anymore.