Archive for the ‘Email Marketing’ Category

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 [...]

The triangle of conversion

Posted: November 22, 2011 by captaininbox in bookmarks, Email Marketing, Message Content and Design

Originally published on the Pure360 site as “Single Call to Action Emails” (22 Aug 2011) There are two main types of email marketing campaign: newsletter and single call to action. Single call to action emails have only one main goal for their recipients, this could be about an event or a product or any other [...]