Are You Making This Mistake in Your Email Footer?
After years of using a certain Internet service provider, I decided to make a switch. That meant that the numerous email newsletters and other services I had subscribed to so many years ago needed to be changed to reflect a new email address. You’d think changing an address would be simple, right? Wrong!
The Power of a Single Call to Action
We recently published a newsletter for a client. Typically, each issue includes a quick survey. To boost response on a recent survey, we created a simple, dedicated email to encourage subscribers to click on the link to answer a couple of questions. We were seeking many more survey completions with this dedicated email.
Designing Emails for Mobile Devices
As I introduced in my first blog about the recent ExactTarget Connections 2011 conference, this was a great session that reviewed the many issues surrounding designing emails for mobile devices. Chris Studabaker of ExactTarget delivered the seminar.
8 Essential Email Design Best Practices
As more marketers realize the outstanding ROI potential of email, inboxes continue to get increasingly crowded and competitive. Here are eight email design tips to help your organization’s email campaigns cut through the inbox clutter and drive powerful conversions.
5 Great Email-Marketing Lessons from MarketingSherpa
Getting embroiled in the details of our everyday work is all too easy. When attending a conference, however, we have the opportunity to back away from the details, learn about new industry strategies, and get important reminders about the basics, too. After returning from MarketingSherpa’s Email Summit 2011, I compiled a list of the latest and greatest email-marketing lessons to share with you.
How to Create an Effective Call-to-Action – 10 Tips to Help Drive Conversions in Your Email Campaign
What do you want your subscribers to do, and why should they do it? In email marketing, that’s what your call-to-action should clearly and concisely communicate. Although a call-to-action is one of the most important factors driving conversion, many email marketers don’t give nearly enough attention to theirs. Here we discuss why you need to go beyond the generic “Click here,” and provide 10 tips for how to create effective calls to action.