Kate Barrett is the founder of eFocus Marketing, providing specialist email marketing consultancy, management and training services to companies around the world.
With a proven track record and over 13 years’ experience, Kate’s expertise and passion has helped a large range of companies (including Nissan, Marks & Spencer, Argos, Vision Direct and QVC among many others) develop comprehensive strategies, implement, manage and optimise campaigns, as well as solve complex email marketing issues.
Kate is a member of the DMA Email Council, regularly speaks at events, and is the email marketing lecturer for the IDM.
Kate is also the author of the published book ‘E-telligence. Email Marketing isn’t dead, the way you’re using it is’
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Everyday people around the world pay more for that little bit of luxury. And when it comes to hotels, as in the case of the email communications we send, customers are becoming more discerning and demanding more from the service they receive. So, let’s look at how top email marketing compares...
The abundance of specific jobs available and lack of enough email marketing talent to fulfil them at the moment, is testament to the revelation within businesses since COVID; email marketing is no longer the workhorse plugging away in the background – it is the core, the beating heart, of any good...
So…. Data! Do you love it or hate it?! For me, data is the absolute power source of all you want to implement in your email marketing (and multi-channel marketing) strategies. Without data you can’t identify who you’re talking to, in order to better target your copy and offers; you can’t...
So often I speak to companies that are working away in earnest at their email strategy, with the aim of meeting targets set by line managers and directors higher up in the company, without truly understanding why they are doing it. Even worse, they’re tasked with ‘improving open and click rates’ generally...
The holiday season is the most important time of year for retailers, with a large portion of sales being done at this time. MasterCard SpendingPulse reported that holiday ecommerce sales account for an average of 14.6% of total retail spending (and much more in some cases). When Deloitte asked people...
We are living in unprecedented times….. no scrap that…. That’s how every blog post or notification seems to start nowadays doesn’t it?! And actually, how unprecedented is the time we are living in? We’ve seen global (or near global catastrophes) before, whether health related or war related, and as a society...
I hate to say it, but we are now at the end of October and Christmas is almost upon us (the marketing is starting to ramp up in earnest)! For most businesses out there, email marketing planning for the holiday season would have started months ago, if not the beginning of...
(The following is a recent discussion on the Only Influencers discussion list led by Kate Barrett. Join Only Influencers to be part of the discussion) Kate Barrett Hi everyone! I have the absolute pleasure of leading the discussion this week and I’m so excited to see what we all come up...
The recent DMA 2019 Marketer Tracker Report reported that only 14% of consumers think that over half of the emails an organisation sends are relevant to them as individuals. But maybe more shockingly, only 55% of marketers think that more than half of all the emails they send are relevant. So...