Tag: Email Marketing Campaign

Email Templates: Keep or Change?

Free email marketing templates are one of the most accessible tools available to SMEs. They reduce design costs, speed up production, and eliminate the need for an in-house design team. But how effective are they – really – and how often should you be changing yours? Let's break it down. Templates vs Custom Design Teams: … READ MORE »

Can Email Marketing Data Be Too Good?

One of email marketing's greatest strengths? Data. It's instant. It's reliable. It's rich. Best of all, it's yours – not something your competitors can get their hands on. But here's the catch: there's a lot of it. And while data is powerful, too much of it can be paralysing if you don't know where to start. Open rates, click-throughs (CTR), conversions, … READ MORE »

Dodgy Pricing Tactics in Email Marketing

A Shortcut to the Spam Folder A recent feature in Which? – that bastion of consumer trust – had a headline that should make any email marketer sit up: "Dodgy pricing tactics exposed". And they weren't pulling punches. In the wake of the Ticketmaster backlash and the growing spotlight on misleading pricing, this is the kind of attention … READ MORE »

Poor Email Marketing Delivery Metrics: Why?

When your email campaign underperforms, deliverability should be one of the first things you check. If your message doesn't land in the inbox, it doesn't matter how brilliant your copy is or how enticing your offer sounds. Worse still, if your emails are being filtered into spam folders, it can damage your sender reputation further – a … READ MORE »

Email Image SEO: Tags, names & captions

While nothing is straightforward in email marketing, the different aspects of images, as used in email, social media and on websites, can be very time-consuming to get spot on. That it is worth all the effort is a given. That just makes it irritating. Search engine optimisation of images might seem mystical, but there is … READ MORE »

Smart email marketing strategies

At a local event, I sat through a talk by a self-proclaimed street photographer. But instead of focusing on gritty urban landscapes, he zeroed in on the people walking through them – capturing moments that felt personal, intentional, and oddly familiar. Why am I telling you this story? How does it relate to email marketing? … READ MORE »

Colour can boost email marketing sales

The psychology of colour fascinates me. It should also fascinate you, but for different reasons. I delve into the various facets of the effects of colour because I, like a significant proportion of the male population, am partially colour-blind. You should research the subject because the use of colour can positively or adversely affect those … READ MORE »

How To Cheaply Change Email Design

It is a truism that most people do not like change. But don’t let that fool you: it is true. Yet customers expect change. If you stick with the same old, you will appear to these change-haters as someone who doesn’t care. You need to ensure you do not upset the subscribers to email marketing … READ MORE »

Mobile Images; The Great Untapped Resource

Whether or not the near future will be one of watching where every penny, let alone pound, is spent on email marketing, the one thing we should be searching for is a cheaper source of images. Stock images are generally of a high quality. If you’ve been searching for a specific kind of picture for … READ MORE »

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