Author Archives: Tim Penton

About Tim Penton

A 10 year media veteran, incubated at Haymarket Publishing and honing his digital skills for the last 5 years with tech start ups, Tim joined eCircle in 2011 as a Business Development Manager in the Media team. Tim’s role at eCircle means he has to consistently produce successful customer acquisition and branding campaigns for his clients across all sectors, and he is also an avid blogger and Tweeter, focusing on digital generally and email marketing specifically (with a bit of music and sport thrown in for good measure).
11
Apr. 2012

Email and the Zero Moment of Truth

Marketers have historically focused on three critical stages in the consumer journey, when they can try to influence buying behaviour: stimulus, shelf, experience. All this simply meant was that we were hoping for some sort of Pavlovian response to our stimulus (be it an email, TV advert, or whatever) so that when buyers were at the shelf, they chose to buy [...]

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15
Nov. 2011

“Hello, good evening, and Welcome…”

Newsletter and welcome email strategy may not seem like the sexiest topic for a blog, but it appears like it should be essential reading for a lot of companies, following my study into some of the highest traffic sites in the UK.   The reason I chose this topic for my talk at mediaPro in the first place, was because [...]

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18
Aug. 2011

I Predict A Riot! Or at least organised one on my smart phone…

The 6th August 2011 was an important date for two key reasons: 1. It was the world wide web’s 20th birthday – on the 6th August 1991 Tim Berners-Lee published the first web page, the first step on the way to the world wide web as we know it today. 2. Parts of London were besieged by rioters, marking the [...]

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4
Jul. 2011

So, has the cookie crumbled…?

A month on after the introduction of the new European e-privacy law what impact has it had?

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23
May. 2011

Is Big Brother watching you…?

In his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell describes a world of perpetual war, pervasive government surveillance and incessant public mind control, pretty much a total lack of privacy or self-determination.

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