doug Morneau

Doug is an Author, Investor, Speaker, Podcaster, Fractional CMO, ERP Consultant, and Media Buyer - specializing in Sponsored Email. a CrossFit & Olympic Weightliufting athlete, husband, dad, and granddad. 

His first book “THREE BIG LIES – The Real Truth About Renting Email Lists to Generate Targeted Leads and Sales” became an International Best Seller.

From Subscription to Success: The Rise of Email Newsletters as Digital Goldmines

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In a digital world teeming with information overload, a phoenix rises from the ashes of traditional content: the email newsletter. This once modest player in the digital realm has undergone a spectacular transformation, emerging as a potential standalone business powerhouse and a lucrative revenue stream for existing online brands. The Power...

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Can We Trust AI With Email Marketing? An Experiment With OpenAI's GPT-4: Insights and Implications

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Artificial Intelligence: a term that's as exciting as it is intimidating. It's revolutionized numerous industries, and email marketing is no exception. But the question lingers - can AI truly be trusted? Can machine learning and complex algorithms understand the intricacies of human communication and psychology in order to effectively market a...

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Is Cold Email Spam?

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Unsolicited emails, cold emails, and spam are a hot topic for the Only Influencers crowd as well as email professionals. There is a great deal of uncertainty regarding what constitutes spam, cold email, and illegal email. Many people mistakenly believe that all unsolicited or cold emails are spam, and that spam...

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How to Prevent or Reduce Website Traffic Declines in 2023: 8.8 Million Opportunities -- Google, SEO, and Email

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As a marketer with a deep love and passion for email marketing I can’t ignore all the other marketing tactics and tools available to help our clients grow their business and reduce the risk of something very bad happening. What could this very bad thing be?  I’m happy you asked. The...

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How to Make Your Email Marketing Content Relevant

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I choose data, analytics, and research before emotion and personal preference to influence my website and or email content. We each have unique talents that we bring to the market whether as a team member and employee, or entrepreneur.  Sometimes I’ve found I’m too close to a topic to have an...

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Email for the Win

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Time to rise up! Let’s look at email marketing with the backdrop of a cookie-less world with the demise of third-party cookies. This past week I was on a Zoom call with a fellow marketer asking for some marketing strategy advice.  No sooner did the words email marketing leave my mouth...

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How to leverage a mergers and acquisition strategy for email list growth

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Q - What is your Superpower? A question I’ve asked a couple of hundred times to my podcast guests. A - Email Marketing There are lots of discussions going on every day about email list growth, new opt-in subscriber acquisition. There are seminars, webinars, “experts” from every part of the world....

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Lazy Marketers Ruin Everything

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Gary Vaynerchuk was quoted as saying “marketers ruin everything”, however, I don’t agree with that broad definition. I’m a glass-half-full guy. Let’s preface that with “Lazy”. Lazy Marketers Ruin Everything! Integrity, truth in advertising, authentic brands, and great products are everywhere.  However, so are the lazy marketers who cut corners, hack...

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Marketing Channels Strategy

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While there are many emerging marketing channels strategies you/we/me can choose, we may best be advised to start with the assets we have, before chasing the newest shiny object. Lets face it, if we have a solid email subscriber list one could argue that you/we have prospects and clients that use...

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Will Clubhouse (the newest social media app) Make You A Better Email Marketer?

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As a marketer, I’m always looking for opportunities to get better results for our clients. In case you missed the hottest new shiny object, let me introduce you to Clubhouse. Clubhouse is a live audio-only social media platform that acts much like a live event with speakers on stage, and an...

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Temp Email and The Fake Email Generator

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Temporary email, fake emails, and disposable email addresses are nothing new and they are not going away any time soon. Caution is warranted: The results are costly to you as an email marketer. If subscribers have used a random email generator to create a temporary email address, they are most likely...

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Increase Conversions With Timely Relevant Messaging... Email Marketing for the Buyer's Journey!

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The tough part is consistent execution and achieving that goal.  So how do we use email marketing to acquire a customer and satisfy that customer? Let’s start at the beginning.  When you have a problem, where is the first place you look for a solution? Google? Facebook? Youtube? You and I...

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Should you sell advertising in your email newsletters?

I’d suggest by the feedback I’ve gotten over the years, that most email marketers are thinking about this question the wrong way. Maybe a better way to frame that question would be; “What brand could you partner with, that would bring great relevant value to your current email subscribers”  As email...

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Are Email Marketers Missing Their Share of the $41.1 Billion Advertising Spend?

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As the world of digital advertising and marketing has planted its stake firmly in the ground in support of “NATIVE” (Sponsored) Advertising, the consumers have made it clear that they support the move. The line between online content written by journalists and story-like ads that are paid for by specific corporations...

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