Archive for January, 2011

It has become quite the thing to get social share links into emails. Often called SWYN an abbreviation of “share with your network”. The idea is to provide as many viral options as possible for recipients to spread the word. ReTweet to tweet a link to everyone who follows you and Facebook Like are the [...]

Email Anatomy

Posted: January 11, 2011 by captaininbox in Email Marketing

One of my many brain dumps, this time I’ve taken an email apart and addressed each section. The full report is available for download now and it’ll only cost you a tweet! Subject Lines Subject lines are what get you the opens. There is lots of advice about subject lines and it is the most popular [...]

The majority of email marketing content on t’interweb is about how to get better results with best practice but for many this is a big step and actually they just need to keep their head above water until they are in a position to really get their knees dirty. Six key steps businesses should take to avoid [...]

The tekkiness of a person has been long been categorised  by the domain in your email address: out of the big 4 AOL is least tekkie because their software was about making it easy and Gmail is the most tekkie because their users evolved through invites from Google through universities, now Facebook Messaging is on the way [...]

Cracking post from JP (November 23 2010) with a cheeky 8 steps for reaction campaigns in Reactivating and Engaging Inactive Email Recipients in 8 Steps. It can be hard to let go of addresses until you’ve suffereded the consequences once but then it’s even hard to come back from. As I said in Dangerous Reconnections getting it [...]

Monday Note: Measuring the Nomads

Posted: January 5, 2011 by captaininbox in bookmarks, Email Marketing
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URL:  http://www.mondaynote.com/2010/12/05/measuring-the-nomads/ “The more diverse and ubiquitous the internet gets, the harder it becomes to measure. Especially with the mobile version’s rapid growth. And Audience measurement is much more complex on mobile devices than it is on PCs.” This is great article on the complexities of it all and give some details about what is [...]