Archive for category: email design



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Dynamic Content Case Study

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    2012-03-27 06:09

Consumers these days expect messages with content that will be valuable and relevant for them. The more value you bring, the more successful your campaign will be. It’s a common standard to send personalized, one-to-one messages. But, as your database grows, you will find yourself creating more and more segments. So, let’s say you end up with 140 list segments. All very important, all profitable. Of course it would be too time consuming to create 140 different creatives for each one! In order to solve this, you can use automated personalization like Dynamic Content, which will allow you to bring highly relevant content using different variables in a SINGLE creative.

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Email marketing traps – what not to put in a newsletter

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    2011-10-19 07:44

We want to know all about industry’s practices and how to translate them into a successful mailing campaign. However, we often forget that sometimes trying too much is simply too much – especially for a customer. It not only makes the open and click rates slump, but can also significantly damage the brand reputation.

Most of us know the email marketing ABC and yet, from time to time in my inbox I bump into things which get me really stunned.

So, today, on the menu: the review of ideas I will never buy – my personal selection.

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How CTA can successfully optimize your subject line

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    2011-09-29 07:11

Subject line’s purpose should reach far beyond a simple unique open. It should generate RIA: recognition, interest, action.

Each of those three issues has already been discussed in detail on many specialist corporate (and not only) blogs, including this one.

Today I’d like to focus on the third one: action. Email marketing basics will tell you that nothing inspires action better than a powerful call to action. Let’s analyze a handful of picks from my inbox to see if and how CTAs can improve the engagement metrics.

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Urgency in email campaigns. Is your last chance really your last chance?

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    2011-09-06 07:02

Creating the sense of urgency in your newsletter is supposed to be one of the killer tactics for boosting engagement rates and turning your prospects into customers. Information about a limited offer is bound to push to action those readers who normally have the tendency to hesitate and delay purchases.

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Re-engagement campaign revisited

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    2011-07-19 11:35

Is the re-engagement season officially started? I just got two requests. Quite extraordinary, as they’re the first two I got this year and both within a week’s time.

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9 tips to increase brand recognition and reputation via email

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    2011-06-30 10:57

It’s the era of information and with it comes the growing awareness of the marketing strategies that are attacking us from every corner. The customers are getting better at spotting sham, and with it their selectivity grows. This means that you need to double your efforts for the message to get through, and find new approach measured by metrics other than CTR or ROI. Purely transactional attitude is not a long-term strategy anymore.

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Happy Easter

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    2011-04-21 14:51

Easter seems to be an unpopular email motif.

Out of 250 newsletters in my inbox (on week’s share) 25 used it – with only 13 including it in the subject line. Two days before the Good Friday I still haven’t got a single Easter wishes email!! Well, only family and friends, but that doesn’t count…

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Charity – a new brand promotion strategy

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    2011-04-05 03:27

I really lack inspiration for this week post. Mainly because my inbox provides no breathtaking creatives. A glimpse at messages from the last ten days brings variations of the same few ideas: spring/summer collections, limited offers, deadlines, last calls, sales, discounts, free shipping offers and essential style tips. Just how much shopping can your wallet bear?

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