Author: Olivia

ICM driving customer engagement

ICM driving your customer engagement with the ongoing Deliverability Project

…. and on it goes 

The ongoing Deliverability Project; the aim of which is to drive your engagement with your contacts. 

To date we’ve taken various actions that have happened in the background to drive improved email deliverability, however we’ve now reached the stage where our actions may well draw your attention. 

The reasons for us acting are to help you to improve your communications, your online presence and move towards improved compliance.

The next step is …. we intend to suppress contacts who consistently don’t open your emails. 

Why? Simply, they’re doing you more harm than good. In terms of best practice, legislation, online reputation and probably spam reports.

You may well see a drop off in the number of contacts being sent to, but you should see a higher open rate and an increase in the level of engagement. 

These contacts have been suppressed and not unsubscribed. This means you can bring them back to your live lists, see Fig1

 

Contact-Suppression
 

Fig1

If you do want to bring the con tact back then our advice would be to change the type and nature of the email you send to them.

If you have any questions or queries, please ask.

We hope that you view this as a proactive and positive action to help your email marketing efforts.

EU ruling against Facebook

EU ruling against Facebook shows direction of travel for 'legitimate interest' argument

In an article from Martech from the 5th July 2023 by Constantine von Hoffman he states that Facebook and other tech giants will be hard-pressed to monetize their first-party data in the European Union, following a ruling yesterday (July 4th 2023) by the EU’s top court that shot down Facebook’s “legitimate interest” argument for personalized ads. 

No need to worry as yet as it goes on to state: 

While the ruling only applies to Germany, a new digital competition law will soon impose similar rules across the EU. Starting in March of next year, the Digital Markets Act requires services with at least 45 million monthly active EU users to get user consent to:

  • Process personal user data, 
  • Combine it with data from other platforms 
  • Cross-use data from one service to another. 

Read the full article here