How was your inbox on Thanksgiving? How about on Black Friday? A little more crowded than usual? Now how many of those emails were from brands that you rarely hear from? Okay, hold that thought.One estimate predicted 25.6 million people would be…
Email Marketing's corner of the Internet — the corner where designers geek out over the latest media queries and marketing gurus praise the benefits of multivariate testing — would have you believe that if you’re not automating some part of your email…
Over 50% of opens now happen on mobile devices. And that number is growing fast.
If you’re using responsive design, great! You’re on the path to mobile-first email marketing. But remember that just because your emails look better on phones and tablets,…
Subject lines for mobile inboxes must be shorter—and better—than those you’ve labored over for your desktop versions. You not only have less space on that tiny screen: You have less attention span too, as people hurriedly triage their emails on their phones.These…
Remember in school when your English teacher taught you to write a paper by following this simple formula?Tell them what you’re going to say (intro).
Say it (body).
Tell them what you said (conclusion).Something similar works for email…
Guilt by association. Maybe that’s the problem. Maybe that's why so many marketers question their right to show up in customers' inboxes, feeling like they are somehow, in some way, intrusive and annoying and (gasp) spam.Well, you're likely not based on new…
In an ideal world, you’d send X emails and get X opens, not Y, right? I mean, hey, a 94% deliverability rate is great and something you obviously worked hard for, but when that only gets you a 13% open rate, well,…
Now that Canada's anti-spam legislation (CASL) has been in effect for six months, I thought it might be a good time to check in on its impact. To do so, I turned to my friend Matthew Vernhout. Matthew is the Chief Privacy…
I once heard a web developer explain to a client that the easier a website is to use on the front end, the more complex the programming on the back end. He was saying this to explain to the client the potential…
OK, confession time: How many of you are tired of remembering usernames and passwords and log in to various accounts with your social logins instead of creating new ones? I’ll come clean: I’ve done it. It’s just easier that way. If I…