Email Design Podcast: The 2017 State of Email Creative

Email Design Podcast 86

In the 86th episode of The Email Design Podcast, I join host Kevin Mandeville to discuss the findings from Litmus’ 2017 State of Email Creative report. We walk through each section of the report, discussing: How marketers find email inspiration The value of email brand guidelines The adoption of responsive email design…

Campaign Monitor: What I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Getting Started

I got serious about email marketing back in 2006 when I started the Retail Email Blog. Since then, I’ve worked for three of the largest ESPs in the world—Responsys, ExactTarget, and Salesforce—and learned a ton about email marketing. If I could go back to 2006 and give myself one piece of email…

20 Things Successful Email Marketing Programs Do

20 Things Successful Email Marketing Programs Do

While it’s difficult to fail at email marketing, success can be elusive. Shifting consumer behaviors and expectations, new technologies, improving cross-channel integration, changing anti-spam and privacy laws, evolving inbox provider capabilities—all can make getting ahead a huge challenge. Less than 10% of marketers say their email programs are very successful, according to…

The 30+ Emails that Email Marketers Love Most

30 Must-Subscribe Brands

The first step in designing a great email of your own is often receiving a great email from another brand. In a word, the first step is Inspiration. To get their inspiration fix, 64% of marketers subscribe to 20 or more brands’ emails. Just over 9% of marketers subscribe to 100 or…

Report: 2017 State of Email Creative

2017 State of Email Creative

Email creative is unlike web or print design. It has its own unique constraints and opportunities that marketers must master to make the most of the channel. The rendering of your design is affected by the email client and screen size used to view it, whether images are disabled, and more. And…

Smart Insights: Email Marketing Trends in 2018

2018 is fast approaching, so Smart Insights’ breakdown of six emerging email and marketing automation trends is timely. Their top email marketing trends in 2018—which were informed by contributions from experts, including myself—covered: GDPR, which Tim Watson of Zettasphere said would be “very disruptive if not terminal for email 3rd party data…

Are You Satisfying All 4 Levels of the Hierarchy of Subscriber Needs?

Creating relevance is the key to boosting email marketing performance, return on investment, and deliverability. However, it can be confusing and daunting to craft a plan that increases the relevance of your email messages. We have a four-part framework that will set you on the right path. It’s called the Hierarchy of…

Outstanding Email Marketing Examples of Defensive Design

Defensive design consists of design techniques that allow an email to communicate its message effectively when images are blocked. The most common defensive design tactics include: HTML text, as opposed to graphical text that embedded in images ALT text, which is text that appears in the place of your images when they…

Sending Remarkable Email: A SendGrid Interview with Chad White

The great folks at SendGrid have been longtime supporters of my books, so I was extra thrilled to sit down and chat with SendGrid CMO Scott Heimes about the 3rd Edition of “Email Marketing Rules.” During our chat, we discussed: Our mutual background in journalism What inspired me to write the 1st…

The Marketing Book Podcast: “Email Marketing Rules” by Chad S. White

I had the honor of being the very first email marketing book author on The Marketing Book Podcast, which is hosted by Douglas Burdett. During episode #130, Douglas and I talk about: How email marketing is de-siloing and being integrated with other channels and business functions How email is granted media, not…