Email Copy

Words to avoid using in a marketing email

There are many online articles, some written by me, suggesting words that should not be included in a Subject Line of a marketing email, the intent being to stop it from being diverted into the Spam folder. It’s a risk to pepper them within email copy as well. In addition, there are other words to … READ MORE »

A Simple Brand Building Method

Using email marketing as a method of brand building is so effective that many companies refrain from investing in other methods. This could well be a mistake. Missing out on simple and cheap ways of presenting your company to a much wider catchment is a fundamental error. I edited a magazine. You are not interested … READ MORE »

What To Say About The Mini Budget

I’ve had an email from my accountant. Not the concerning moment you might think as I subscribe to their newsletter and ‘incident related’ emails. They obviously know about my job in email marketing and mostly keep the information they send relevant to my needs. That’s something we should all learn from. The personalisation means I … READ MORE »

The Best Methods Of Using Email Introduction

We’ve all been at meetings where a lead we’ve been pursuing is present and we have to approach them cold. There’s a persistent rumour that some people are a natural at this but there’s little doubt introducing themselves to strangers is a skill learnt by multiple failures and successes. Using emails to secure leads for … READ MORE »

Is A Brand Refresh Better Than A rebrand

We’ve recently covered a rebrand for your company, although my concern that it is not always optimum for anyone who depends on email marketing probably came through. I hope it did. Our data is what makes us competitive, and a rebrand can cost us the dependability of our testing data. Also, nothing is more likely … READ MORE »

More Rules And When To Ignore Them

We’ve recently covered the unbreakable rules in graphic design you should follow when modifying your free email marketing templates and also mentioned those times when these inviolable rules can be broken with impunity. Here are some more of them, together with some instances when it can be useful to ignore them. With modern software, the … READ MORE »

An Introduction To Split Testing

In these blogs, the importance of repeated testing is often reinforced. Split-testing, also known as A/B testing, is the way of perfecting all forms of email communication, but particularly those used in email marketing. It can, should actually, be used for landing pages as well. It’s the most effective way of increasing ROI. Intuition can … READ MORE »

Crafting Landing Pages Is A Critical Skill

We all concentrate on the design of the marketing email as the prime requirement of our campaigns. There are spam filters to negotiate, exciting subject lines to capture the imagination, headlines to entrance and images and copy to keep people reading, all the time focusing on the click-through button. It doesn’t sound easy, because it’s … READ MORE »

Using Newsletters To Generate Leads

I’ve taken time away from researching email marketing and have been concentrating on newsletters. I mostly subscribe to those from email marketing companies, but I’ve also included those for my hobbies and local interest. In normal circumstances I open around 70% of them, and have built up quite a knowledge of what makes the difference … READ MORE »

What’s Wrong With Your Email Design

Here’s a little experiment you can try. I first saw it used by a content manager, whom I was assisting, against the owner of a website, but it works just as effectively for email marketing. She asked the chap, “What’s your favourite bit of your website?” He mentioned a feature that I had already identified … READ MORE »

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