
Designing For Dynamic Email Messages
It’s not so different from the usual design challenge, though: we have a set of assets, rules and restrictions to which the visual design...

Survey: Email Marketers Focused On Integrating Social, Improving Metrics
When asked to identify their top five priorities for the year, social integration and improving analytics were highest on the minds of...

5 Keys To A Successful Holiday Email Strategy
Following are five keys to a successful holiday email strategy for you to focus on — it’ll distract you from the impending family...

Report: Mobile Now Driving 36 Percent Of All Email Opens
Reading email is one of the primary activities of smartphone owners. Indeed, several reports over the past year have indicated that more...

A Matter of Preference: Go Beyond Barely Functional With Your Email Preference Center
I subscribe to an ever-revolving variety of email programs, looking at old, new, large and small email offerings, and the experience...

Lifecycle Of An Email Subscriber: What To Send When
The folks on your email list are your best prospects, but if the HubSpot study is any indication, subscribers are getting bored or emails...

How Comics Taught Me Email
The superhero movies this summer have me reminiscing on my life in comic books. See, prior to email I spent a number of years in the US...

Explicit And Implicit Email Preferences
Email is seemingly tailor-made for collecting customer information. In a perfect program, collection begins at the point of sign up. Yet...

The Three Most Underrated Internet Marketing Strategies Of 2012
In the online marketing world, we seem to be regularly gripped by a passion for the next big thing, the hip new marketing tactic that...

Are You Leaving Potential Email Subscribers On The Table?
If you’re an experienced marketer, you probably have some tried and true techniques for getting more email subscribers. But you may be...

E-mail Open Rates Declining, Click-Through Rates Rising [Study]
The findings are included in Silverpop’s 2012 Email Marketing Metrics Benchmark Study, and include analysis of e-mails sent in 2011 and...

Tracking Offline Email Conversions
Email is a unique channel. Because it is sent digitally, and click-throughs drive traffic online, retail email marketing is traditionally...

Four Responsive Email Layouts
Recognizing the industry needed a scalable design strategy that acknowledged the growing stable of web-enabled devices, Ethan Marcotte...

Four Tips For Writing Emails That Sell
Because email feels so personal, your messages need to connect with the people you’re talking to. You need to keep each individual...

Taking Triggered Email To The Next Level
For an average sender, triggered campaigns make up a low percentage of overall email volume, typically less than 5%. But don’t let the...

Mobile In The Wild: A Look At Amazon Emails
Mobile email is no longer coming soon. It’s here, and it’s here to stay. Mobile-friendly tactics like single column, large text, and big...

Seasonal Tips For Engaging Email Subscribers
It’s almost summer, and that means it’s time to change up your emails. Why’s that? Tailoring your emails to the season will help you meet...

Staffing Your Email Team — 8 Key Roles
Well-run email marketing programs account for as much as 20 percent of a retailer’s online revenue. While some might view that as an...

“Optimizing” Pre-Image Optimization
The harsh truth on email image blocking comes as one of the earliest lessons in email design. It’s hardly a new one, though, and we have...