As an email marketer you have probably already discovered that getting your newsletter or email campaign to display as you intended across the main email clients can be a challenge. The most popular email clients in business for example – Gmail (including Gmail for Businesses) and Microsoft Outlook 2007 / 2010 are pretty restrictive and only support about 40% of HTML / CSS styles. Even more challenging for email marketers – HTML ‘Best Practices’ for designing Websites are unfortunately often ‘Worst Practices’ for designing email campaigns, so your most experienced website designer / coder is probably designing email campaigns that won’t display right in a lot of email inboxes. (Hint: Always use the Pinpointe email campaign preview tool to see how your [...]
Top 10 Email Marketing Mistakes
At Pinpointe, we see very smart customers make mistakes that cause their email response rates to suffer. Here are the most common mistakes we see our new customers make: Not running the SPAM checker Pinpointe has a built-in email SPAM checker that evaluates your email content using the popular spamassassin spam engine, gives you a spam score and provides suggestions to help get your email to the inbox. Wise customers use it before sending any email campaign. Yet some customers don’t run the spam check and confidently send their email campaign to thousands of recipients, only to learn that 25% of their emails were blocked or filtered by spam filters because their spam score was too high. In the Pinpointe [...]
Webinar – Use Split Testing to Improve Email Responses
Watch Webinar This is our third in a series of webinars for your business email marketing. Based on analysis of thousands of Business to Business email campaigns and a few hundred million emails that have been sent through Pinpointe’s B2B email marketing platform, we share results of several email split tests to help you improve your email marketing results in a business to business (“B2B”) environment. Join us in this interactive webinar session that includes question and answer sessions throuhhout. Topics covered include:
Webinar: Writing Tips to Improve Email Responses
This is the SECOND in our series of Webinars on Email Marketing deliverability. Which is more important – a great subject line, or a fantastic graphic design and witty content? Will having more links in your email increase your email response rate, or decrease it? We’ll explain in this ‘Email Writing Tips’ webinar .
Based on analysis of 100′s of millions of B2B emails and thousands of email campaigns that have recently been sent through Pinpointe’s email marketing platform, we’ll cover specific writing tips that will help you to improve email response rates. First, we’ll break the email down into sections, including the subject, send-from, introduction, body and signature. Then we’ll cover email writing tips for each section to explain what you can do to maximize responses.
Join us in this 50 minute on-demand Webinar, where we cover:
- The Top 9 Best / Worst Performing Email Subjects
- What content should all good emails have in common?
- Optimizing your Subject Line
- Embedded Link analysis – how to optimize links in your email
The accompanying slides and Q and A summary are below… And hey, please Diggit, Fave or Tweet about it!
Webinar: Tips to Improve HTML Email Response Rates
This is the first in our series of Webinars on Email Marketing deliverability. The interactive session demonstrates tips to improve delivery and email response rates for your well crafted HTML emails. We also cover tips to help ensure your email gets read once it actually makes it to the inbox.
Email Marketing 101 focuses on email content and covers the following topics:
Designing for the Inbox: Think “Above the Fold”
21 DOs and DON’Ts – Tips to Improve Email Delivery
The on-demand version, accompanying slides and 10 page Q and A sumamry are included.
7 Quick Tips to Improve Email Results in 2011
With 2011 on the horizon, email marketers can take this time to prepare successful strategies. Here are a few tips to improve performance and increase ROI for a strong new year:
The Ideal Email Subject Line Length
We ran multiple experiments on subject lines and summarized one particular case study example in our recent webinar: “Use Split Testing to Improve Email Responses (you can download the slides and view the on-demand version). Here are the email subject variations:
Install an SPF Record to Improve Email Delivery
This entry applies to anyone who will be outsourcing any of their outbound email sending from servers other than their corporate email servers. You are likely an IT person who had landed here because someone from the marketing department said ‘Hey IT dude – we started using an ESP and we want to maximize email delivery’. If you are using an Emails Service Provider (ESP) like Pinpointe, Constant Contact or Exact Target, then this applies. If you are just sending outbound emails from Outlook, then this does not apply. What is “SPF” and what does it do? SPF stands for “Sender Policy Framework”, and helps to control forged e-mail. SPF is not directly about stopping spam – it is about [...]
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