Journey Summit 2019 Recap OPTIZMO’s Chief Revenue Officer, Jake Dearstyne, attended the Journey Summit in Philadelphia, PA this week and wanted to provide a quick recap of the event with some highlights in case you are considering attending this show next year. The Journey Summit is a one-day content-based event for marketers in verticals pertaining…
Tom Wozniak on Road Trips, Steve Bartman, and Not Peeing During Avengers – FeedFront/This is Affiliate Marketing Podcast May 3, 2019 on FeedFront and the This is Affiliate Marketing Podcast Tom Wozniak, Head of marketing for OPTIZMO Technologies, joined Shawn Collins to chat on his podcast – This is Affiliate Marketing with Shawn Collins in…
A Primer for SMS Marketing Compliance Published on April 15, 2019 on Business2Community. If you’ve noticed an uptick in the number of marketing text messages you receive every day in 2019, you’re not alone. More and more advertisers (large and small) are taking advantage of the marketing channel. The reasons why are pretty clear. What…
An overview of The CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, with some key aspects that email marketers should be aware of when planning their campaigns.
Three Lessons Marketers Can Learn From The Fyre Festival Published on April 10, 2019 on Forbes.com At this point, a lot of people have watched one of the documentaries on the Fyre Festival (Netflix and Hulu). Like many, I watched the films with a sense of disbelief as the entire event crumbled into dust like a building…
Digital Marketing Lessons from Direct Mail Marketers It’s amazing that in the digital marketing industry, Email Marketing is looked at as being old-school. It’s been around for 40+ years now, making it the elder statesman of the online marketing arena. But, email and really most forms of digital marketing (display, social, video, mobile, etc.) are…
3 Ways Compliance Improves your Email Program Published on March 28, 2019 on FeedFront. For many email marketers, running a program that is compliant with CAN-SPAM is seen as a legal requirement, whose main benefit is avoiding potential fines or other legal penalties. However, running a compliant email program leveraging industry best practices has a number…
OPTIZMO provides a recap and review of the Traffic & Conversion Summit 2019 in San Diego.
LeadsCon Las Vegas 2019 LeadsCon, the world’s largest performance conference and exposition is just around the corner. LeadsCon Las Vegas 2019 will take place in Las Vegas, March 4-6, 2018 and the OPTIZMO Team will be joining thousands of Lead Generation experts at the Mirage for three great days of networking and educational sessions. Every…
Why Email Suppression List Management Matters Published on 1/31/19 on Business2Community. As of 2019, email marketing has officially entered middle age. Like a lot of 40+ year olds, email marketing can look back at a long history of success and, by committing to a set of best practices going forward, shows no sign of slowing…
The Ins and Outs of Merge/Purge for Email The term merge/purge (merge purge) or dedupe has a long history that has its roots in pre-internet age direct marketing. A common situation for an advertising using direct mail was the need to regularly obtain new recipient names and addresses to add to their database, in order…
It’s a Mobile First World Since the advent of the smartphone, and particularly the launch of the first iPhone in 2007, it was feasible to see a day when more consumers would access the internet from their mobile phones than their more traditional computers. The explosion of the mobile device market eventually led to a…