
How Mobile Is Making Us Rethink Email Marketing
Thanks to smartphones and tablets, email marketing has fundamentally changed. Best practices surrounding design and when to send are...

Despite Mobile Email’s Growth, 58% Of Email Marketers Not Designing For It
On one hand, there’s the report earlier this week that says 41 percent of all commercial email is opened on mobile devices — a number...

4 Reasons I Love Designing Email
Image via Shutterstock The Valentine’s holiday had me wearing the customary rose-tinted glasses and thoroughly enjoying it, from the...

Mobile Email Opens Now 41% & On Pace To Surpass PC By End Of 2013
That’s according to the latest bi-annual report from the digital marketing agency Knotice, which is based on a sampling of 500 million...

Forget Opens: The Stat You Really Need To Track Is Sales
Too many email marketers are focusing on opens. By “opens,” I mean open rates, the ratio of people who receive a marketing email to those...

Four Ways Facebook Can Increase Email Sales
A successful retail email campaign involves much more than just an email. Because it creates customer engagement and results in revenue,...

Corralling Email Content To Create Value
Image via shutterstock.com There are a lot of supposed monarchies when it comes to email marketing. Depending on the conversation,...

Email Marketing Equals Dollar Signs
Open and click-through rates are common metrics used to evaluate the success of email campaigns. But we all know that for retailers,...

Choose The Best Responsive Email Layout For Your Message
The concept of responsive email has entered into the industry consciousness, though the actual deployment is still far from common....

How To Integrate Pinterest Into Your Emails
More than just a social hub to share images, Pinterest has become a lifestyle brand itself. Exuding a feeling of simple, clean, nearly...

Studies: As Mobile Email Usage Soars, Marketers Budget More For Email, Mobile And Social
Next year looks to be a strong one for email marketing according to a StrongMail survey of more than a thousand marketers released today....

Ensuring The Email Is Right Before Hitting Send
That moment before you click send on an email to millions of subscribers can really make you sweat, no matter how many times you’ve done...

Email Design Tip: The Fold & Your Call To Action
What your readers see in the email you send (its layout and design) significantly impacts how they react to it; namely, whether or not...

Learning By Example: 9 More Responsive Emails
A few months back, I wrote a post outlining four responsive emails and the tactics they applied to content. I’ve received significant...

Mobile Email Marketing: Tips For The Holiday Season
But that’s not news. What makes this retail holiday season special? This year over 30% of those messages will likely be read on some type...

Why Sending Receipts Via Email Is A Good Idea
I recently read an article about advances in the technology associated with printed receipts, their benefit as a transactional record,...

3 Basic Ways To Boost Sales By Targeting Emails
But, if you’re still only using email blasts to your whole list, you’re missing out on an opportunity. You can increase your sales even...

B2B Marketers Can’t Ignore Mobile Any Longer
Many times after I’ve spoken on mobile search or mobile marketing, I’m approached by someone in B2B who is wondering if mobile search is...

Expanding Your Online Presence: The Email/Social Merge
As an email marketer, you know that the most valuable connections happen in private email inboxes. But activity on social networks, where...