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…
Okay, bodacious is a dated word but I’m old and it’s a good fit for my point: Marketers should be striving to master the basics before chasing the latest and greatest email trends that will make them bold, audacious, bodacious. Yet the…
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…
Those who are running email campaigns understand the importance of sending out a well-composed email. Every element of the email message from headline to the content to the design must be optimized in order to increase the chances of recipients to perform…
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,…
What’s new under the deliverability sun? Apparently not much. The latest study by Return Path, tracking email deliverability rates worldwide, really doesn't tell us anything new. In fact, its true usefulness might be in helping us to stop worrying so much about…
Nominations for the eec's email marketing awards are officially open and new for this year there are now TWO different awards!Nominating your clients, peers or co-workers (or even yourself) couldn't be easier; it’s free and you quickly nominate one or multiple people…
As an email marketer, you know how difficult it is each year to come up with different ideas for you various festive campaigns.That said, major holidays are an opportunity to market to your subscribers when they may be most receptive to offers.Following…
Everybody takes feedback differently.When it comes to managing your email program you have an important relationship with your email designer. That person is responsible for coming up with the brilliant creative that will sell thousands or maybe even millions of dollars each…
As much as email has evolved and progressed these past few years, with segmentation, personalization, and dynamic content, it’s shocking that do-not-reply emails still regularly show up in our inboxes.Can anything be less customer friendly than that?A do-not-reply email is any email…