Recognizing market needs, SharpSpring, the leading marketing automation platform for associations, has released its retargeting feature to complement its already robust functionality.  While version 1.0 of the tool is officially live, full integration with SharpSpring, which will allow for better segmentation and reporting, is still in beta. 

As a SharpSpring partner, HighRoad has been getting granular with the tool prior to its official release. For those SharpSpring users or for those considering the SharpSpring platform, here are some best practices to help you navigate this valuable new feature.

For every crafted email, there’s always uncertainty around its intended destination—the right inbox. You’d think that after crafting the right words, getting them approved, reworking, dropping the messaging into your branded template, and testing, the email would get to the right place. But we all know this just isn’t always the case. So how do we ensure that the effort we’re putting into our emails isn’t getting lost?

In short, email delivery ultimately comes down to two things— clean data and consistent engagement.

You wouldn’t put on your favorite sports sweatshirt and head out to your yard with only a rake, would you? Even if that is how you did it growing up, you know that using only a rake means a lot of extra work and a sore back at the end of the day.

This will sound outrageous to many email marketers according to a recent report by Litmus, but it’s time you plan for the apology email. Not planning for one because you think will never be in that boat is a missed opportunity for three reasons: it means you’re playing it too safe, you may be in a culture of fear, and you have poor quality assurance.

Already boasting, the “world’s largest organization representing specialists who treat the ear, nose, [and] throat,” can now add multiple award winner for innovation in marketing technology in their back pocket. We’re just drying the digital-ink from our last announcement of their ASAE MM&C Gold Circle award in June, only to turn around and discover the American Academy of Otolaryngology has received yet another award! What could be causing AAO-HNS to be winning all these awards you’re wondering? The Academy, representing, 12,000 otolaryngologists (head and neck surgeons), makes member benefits personal with HighRoad’s Intelligent Contextual Email - or ICE for short.

If you have been to an association technology conference, you have seen organizations get recognized for their innovation and execution when it comes to membership management and marketing.