When faced with the choices of free email marketing templates, it is all too easy to panic and pick the next one on the list. That’s the problem with choice. A better way is to have some idea of what will suit your product before a new email marketing campaign. It will be no relief … READ MORE »
You will have designed a top-class marketing email. The customer will have been captivated by your offer. They have clicked through to a landing page. Ask yourself what they will want to be presented with. I prefer a clear and uncluttered design of marketing email and, more importantly, the landing page as well. Call me … READ MORE »
It is no exaggeration to say that a good, and we’ll come to what it meant by good, landing page design is the keystone of email marketing. So what do I mean by landing page? For the purposes of this article, a landing page is a special page on your website where people who click … READ MORE »
Learn from the criticisms of others. These are comments from subscribers to e-newsletters (from now on just newsletters) gleaned from forums and blogs. Some appear to contradict which merely means you have a choice. 1/ Clear, simple and short For a newsletter which arrives every morning containing a précis of, for instance, news of a … READ MORE »
Sorry to start on a rather depressing note, but I’ve recently read an obituary of a book illustrator who revolutionised her art. The way she used, one could say targeted, the pictures was intriguing. Email marketers should learn from her. We have never been so spoiled by choice of image, with a plethora of companies … READ MORE »
Have you ever had that feeling when reading the latest ‘in-depth’ report on email marketing that ‘I knew that already’? Some conclusions would have been remarkable only if they’d said anything different. Yet even the expected results can make you exasperated. A recent report stated that fewer than 50% of companies segmented their email marketing … READ MORE »
Simply knowing that a contact is subscribed isn’t going to be good enough in the post-GDPR world; consent will need to be specific. If you are already using a signup form that contains an opt-in checkbox with, “Yes, sign me up”, then that’s going to cease being the gold standard on May 25. In preparation … READ MORE »
The good news is that there is only one function of a landing page. It is there to ensure a customer completes. This makes it the easiest page to design and, more importantly, a doddle to test. If you have access to free email marketing templates then the only sensible option is to choose from … READ MORE »
There is something exciting about opening one of the free email marketing templates and being able to modify it to your heart’s content. Who doesn’t enjoy the buzz from authority and creativity? After all, they are designed to be altered. But take care in your rampage. You should have a plan. One endless source of … READ MORE »
We have covered various methods of avoiding the bogeyman of email marketing: spam filters. Don’t stop reading when I say that no one can be definitive. Everyone, and that includes me, is guessing to an extent. Experience helps, but when it starts to become useful, they change the rules. We can deduce some of the … READ MORE »