Do you ever find yourself wondering if you’re sending campaigns too regularly, or too rarely? Asking yourself what is the right balance? Well, look no further friend. You might think that sending a lot of campaigns would be effective; that the more calls to action you insert the better. However, this is most probably not the case. For some companies with certain subscribers, […]
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 […]
Back when I started out in email marketing, I overheard someone use the term ‘call-to-action’. “Call to what? Arms? Have we upset someone?” I thought to myself. A fictitious battle involving staplers, printers and other office equipment began raging in my imagination. It was at this point a colleague noticed that my eyes had totally […]
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 […]
Historically, fonts in email have been limited to a set of common web-safe fonts installed on all devices. This means that unless you’re particularly fond of Arial or Times New Roman the choices have been rather small. However, I recently read a few great primers which point out that it’s possible to import Web Fonts into several […]
With the rising use of social networking platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, we often hear about the “death of email” as a communication platform. While some arguments for this may seem compelling at first glance, a bit of investigation behind the uses of email reveals that it’s here for the long run. It’s the Key […]