Too often Marketing Operations professionals are seen as the “plumbers” of the team. Their work is invisible until the shower backs up and then their colleagues only see them as fixers. When everything is running smoothly, their work goes unnoticed. It’s time for Marketing Operations to present itself as what it actually is —the foundation of the building, not the plumbing for the house.

Before GDPR went into effect, Openprise took steps towards compliance. Emailed everyone in our database about our updated Privacy Policy: We sent this one out earlier than just about everybody, and positioned it as a model for GDPR compliance in the email offer. We didn’t particularly want people to read it so we sent in […]

It’s May 25th, 2018, the day GDPR takes effect. Pencils down. You’ve done all you can for GDPR compliance. You have: Put up a cookie warning banner Added opt-in to your forms Updated your privacy policy and sent out the notification Updated your subscription center Put in new policies and processes Asked all your data […]

As the implementation date for GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation, the EU’s digital privacy requirements) on May 25th nears, many companies are making efforts to ensure they’re compliant. Others are still wondering what they need to do or have decided it’s not important. While most marketers are in the know, I’ve heard a few stories […]

This is part 6 of our new blog series on automated data onboarding / list loading. Thus far we finished covering data preparation and decision-making tasks. Today we will discuss the final set of tasks: action execution. If you need to read the previous parts of this blog series, you can find the start of […]

This is part 5 of our new blog series on automated data onboarding / list loading. Thus far we finished covering data preparation tasks. Today we will move right into decision making tasks. If you need to read the previous parts of this blog series, you can find them here, here, here, and here. B. […]

This is part 4 of our new blog series on automated data onboarding / list loading. Last time we started covering data preparation tasks. Today we will finish discussing the rest of the data preparation tasks. If you need to read the previous parts of this blog series, you can find them here, here, and […]

The Problem Link scanners / spam filters / click bots are network security devices enterprise IT deploys to block links to risky websites. These devices will click on every link within an email you send before the email is delivered to the recipient’s email server. These phantom clicks are sometimes followed by real human clicks, […]

Welcome back to our blog series on automated data onboarding / list loading. If you miss the introduction, you can find it here. If you missed the second blog on setting up the input, you can find it here. Step 2: Set Up Automated Tasks Automated tasks for list loading—or any data driven process for […]

Welcome back to our blog series on automated data onboarding / list loading. If you missed the introduction, you can find it here. Step 1: Set Up an Input File & a Shared Folder The first step in automating list loading is to set up how data enters the process. You need a standard file […]