Guy Hanson
Director, Professional Services, Response Consulting
Guy has been working in the email marketing industry for the past decade. He is a passionate advocate for the intelligent use of customer data to drive responsive email programs, and has developed this knowledge to become one of the UK’s leading e-marketing experts. Prior to joining Return Path, Guy headed up the email and digital division of one of the UK’s leading marketing services companies, and built up extensive cross-vertical experience through his hands-on involvement with highly successful email programs for blue-chip brands such as PizzaExpress, Exxon Mobil, and Renault. Outside of Return Path, Guy is an established member of the DMA’s email marketing council, with a primary focus on legal, data & best practice issues.

May
9

Mobile Mobile Everywhere


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In her excellent recent blog post, my colleague Stephanie Colleton delved into the findings of Return Path’s recently released mobile email viewership infographic. With almost 1/3 of marketing emails now being viewed on a mobile device, the key implication for marketers is to optimise their for these smaller, more portable environments, and Stephanie offered some great tips for how to achieve this for today’s campaigns.

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Apr
24

New White Paper: Return Path and the Direct Marketing Association UK Highlight a Tidal Shift in Email Deliverability


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The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) UK and Return Path, have launched a new White Paper uncovering the latest data and trends on email deliverability, produced collaboratively by the DMA Email Marketing Council, and with key inputs from Return Path’s own …

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Mar
12

Valentine’s Day campaigns show email turn-offs


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After my Valentine’s Day analysis of online dating sites and what’s so great about their email, I decided to compare their performance around the holiday to a sample of retail marketers to measure the effectiveness of these sorts of big seasonal marketing drives.

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Feb
17

Love is in the air… but not always in the inbox


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Valentine’s Day is a difficult one for single people, and a great many of the UK’s 15m singles turn to online dating sites to find a special someone with whom to spend the evening.

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Nov
3

12 Days of Christmas: Silent Night (and Day!) – When Your Subscribers Stop Engaging


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In my previous contribution to this series, I talked about how email marketers should implement a re-activation strategy as part of a broader approach to drive up subscriber engagement. Engagement metrics are now playing an important role in informing ISP filtering decisions. Inactive addresses are also costing you money to broadcast, and – to add insult to injury – they are diluting your campaign performance metrics too.

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Oct
17

12 Days of Christmas: Scrooge Isn’t The Only Complainer At Christmas Time!


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For any email marketer, having a good sender reputation is the first building block in ensuring that your marketing emails achieve delivery to your subscribers’ inboxes. Sender reputation is used by ISPs, spam filter vendors, and corporate domain administrators as …

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