Promoting Your Event: Five Tips & Best Practices

Special events are great for promoting a product or service and strengthening relationships with face-to-face interaction. Existing clients have a unique opportunity to engage with your business and get a deeper sense of your capabilities and personality. Setting the date, scheduling staff and finalizing logistical details are important factors, but they don’t guarantee success. You need people to actually …

The Do’s and Don’ts of Images in Emails

Did you know the average person reads only 20 percent of a webpage but will view every image? Utilizing images and visuals is important for successful marketing campaigns. The crucial consideration when including these elements is finding a balance that benefits your email’s effectiveness without distracting from it. Below are a few best practice do’s …

Follow-up for the Win

Everyone has their own tricks when it comes to marketing. However, the common thread in successful marketing comes down to follow-up: How quickly and efficiently you respond to business inquiries will determine your success in the short- and long-term. Read on for some important things to remember. Don’t snooze on potential business Picture this: You …

Referral Marketing for Mortgage Businesses Part 2: Best Practices

In our last post about referral partner marketing, we discussed the importance of nurturing relationships with customers and partners for revenue growth. In this post, we’ll dig a little deeper into the best practices eRelevance uses to generate maximum responses from referral marketing campaigns. Multi-channel Approach In our busy multi-screen, multi-channel world, email blasting isn’t …

Referral Marketing for Mortgage Businesses Part 1: It’s About Who You Know

For small businesses, we know marketing to existing clients consistently generates repeat business—it’s an essential and cost-effective growth strategy. And for mortgage companies and lenders—since a customer can only come back so many times—prospect marketing has huge benefits. However, it can be tricky to get people to pay attention when they have no idea who …

Texting Done Right

We’ve written here before about the power of moving beyond an email-only marketing strategy to drive more revenue from existing customers.  In fact, we know for small- to medium-size businesses (SMBs) targeted, multi-channel marketing is no longer just a good idea, but a necessity for growth. SMS text messages have become an important component of a multi-channel mix that works.  SMS now is one …