Hints & Tips

With all the recent love we’ve been giving Business to Business (B2B), we thought we’d switch on over to Business to Consumer (B2C) email. Unlike their B2B counterparts, B2C purchases can be near on instant, they usually involve one person, are low risk and lower cost. Someone could buy a 65p packet of gum, or […]

There are some email mistakes I see time and time again that can really hinder performance. The senders of these emails can’t be blamed too much though. After all, if no one tells them there’s something wrong with their email, how are they to know? If you’re new to email marketing, or consider yourself to be […]

With things finally beginning to warm up again, many businesses are preparing their summer events. Inboxes everywhere are already starting to fill up with invites to seminars, training days, sales events, and if you’re lucky, cocktail parties. We recently covered how to create a smart invite that lets subscribers RSVP from directly inside an email […]

There are many ways to send out email invitations, but I’d like to show you how you can create (what i consider to be) the perfect email invitation. It works in all email clients, makes engagement super-easy and allows you to collect RSVP data in one click. Traditionally sending out email invitations has had some limitations. […]

Recently we looked at how effective pop-overs can be when capturing new subscribers. If getting these subscribers is your first step; a welcome email should definitely be your second. This week we’re taking a look into the practice of using welcome emails, as well as providing tips on designing or improving your own. But first […]

While we may be groaning at the ever earlier arrival of Christmas products in the shops, it’s bang on time to begin planning your Christmas email program. That out-of-place looking chocolate selection box and curiously fake snow actually serve as a great reminder to get your own Christmas plans underway. Christmas is obviously a huge […]

Being subscribed to a poorly managed email program can often feel like you’re stuck on a one way street. You receive an endless stream of promotional emails with little or no other benefits to yourself. Needless to say, this is a pretty bad way to manage email marketing. Subscribers will soon tune out if there’s […]

Most email users read their messages in an HTML enabled email client. This means they can see nice rich content such as alternating fonts, colours, images & tables i.e the emails that we’re all used to receiving on a daily basis. However, some email users can only get access to what’s called ‘text’ email. This […]

Ten Things to Do Before Launching an Email Campaign You’ve written out your copy, added your links, verified your subscriber list and are ready for launch. If you’re anything like me you’ll now be hovering nervously over the ‘launch’ button whilst going through a mental checklist to make sure you haven’t forgotten something. Don’t panic! […]

If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably got your inbox sorting technique down to a tee. Fast and furious scanning through swathes of emails, assessing entire groups of messages in seconds flat. Read, mark as read, spam, delete, delete, delete. It’s a pretty efficient but brutal process to be sure, and sometimes even the most […]