Archive for the ‘Email Marketing’ Category

Over Branding

Posted: February 22, 2012 by captaininbox in Email Marketing, Message Content and Design

There really is no need to have such large a large logo and so many images before the content. A recipient has seen the “From Name” and trusted it enough to open the email once the subject line has convinced them there is something relevant inside. Once the email is open they are in a [...]

Go for the click, not the read When you have a lot to say, you tend to say a lot but do you save it all up and say it all in one go? If you did that to a person while at work, how long will they last before they had to stop you [...]

As you may or may not know: whatever Laura Atkins, of Word to the Wise, doesn’t know about email deliverability, is probably not worth knowing. This recent blog post is particularly remarkable, so I’m linking to it from here, so less people miss out on it. The post is called “IP Address reputation primer“, it [...]

I’ve been having a conversations recently with a few on-line retailers about list building tactics and then after a quick chat with Claudiu at PadiCode about his latest blogs on on-line retail I felt compelled to publish my thoughts. Firstly, for context, go and have quick read of Claudiu’s blog “How to beat the top online fashion retailers at email [...]

I’ve just read a cracking article from the incredibly talented and knowledgeable Remy Bergsma on his Emailblog.eu called  ”Don’t hit the spam button when you actually just want to unsubscribe“(12/12/2011), I was inspired to reply but as I was writing/gibbering it got a bit long so I moved it here. If you haven’t already, read it first then [...]

Dori Thompson guest writes for the awesome Smart Insights in “The 3-5-7 rule for Email marketing” (01/11/2011). This is probably more vital information than you may, at first glance, think… So many emails are created as a giant image and then get sign off, as a giant image but don’t tested in the inbox’s preview pane with [...]