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You can spend countless hours crafting the most attractive, well written emails but if hardly any of your subscribers open them then all of that effort has been for nothing. Thankfully, it’s surprisingly easy to improve your email open rate, once you know what to do. In this article, we’re going to outline five sure-fire [...]
According to research, 72% of US adults send or receive personal emails via smartphone at least weekly. And 68% of consumers polled say their preferred way of receiving commercial messages is email. So it’s no shock, then, that email opt-in forms can be found on almost every blog and ecommerce site. As these stats prove, email [...]
Every single year email adapts and transforms itself to meet changing user tastes and preferences. 2017 is no different. So, what does this year hold in store for the age old, yet still super effective communication tool? Well, in this article we’re going to pool together our collective knowledge of email marketing and make what [...]
[Updated for 2021] Valentine’s Day is big business. According to the National Retail Federation, consumers spent $21.8 billion on gifts for partners, friends, and even pets, in 2021. And this year’s pandemic and international lockdowns meant that a lot of that money was spent online. Keen to grab a piece of that consumer spend, brands [...]
In 2013 Gmail introduced its new website design, complete with the ‘Promotions Tab’. By introducing tabs, including Promotions and Updates, Google made it easier for people to focus on messages that are important to them. These tabs also help people read emails of the same type at once. The tabbed approach certainly does help users [...]
Spam email messages have been a plague since email became popular. Email providers, such as Gmail, have to make very difficult (and frequently incorrect) choices about which messages to deliver and which ones might harm users. As an email marketer, this can lead to messages not reaching their desired location, the inbox of your subscribers. [...]
Black Friday is the biggest day of the year for most ecommerce businesses. Months of planning go into their campaigns, with careful consideration paid to how their goods are merchandised and presented to potential customers. As a result of this our email inboxes are inundated with promotional offers from almost every brand, from Apple to Ann Summers. At EmailOctopus [...]
One of the best ways of improving your email marketing is to try and learn from the best in their field. Everlane are one of those companies who I always open their emails, everytime they send to me. Everlane is an upstart clothing brand that have no traditional retail stores. Instead they use beautifully shot videos [...]
We’ve created three beautiful, responsive, email templates for your use. Wayfair is a set of three responsive email marketing templates, which can be used for product announcements, blog posts, weekly newsletters or transactional emails. Each of the templates has been pre-tested, and works across desktop and mobile clients including iOS Mail, Gmail and Outlook. The [...]
This week was the Apple WWDC, where they announced the new release of iOS 10. Although iOS 10 is not out till the Autumn, we’ve got our hands on the beta. Many email marketing campaigns are now reporting in excess of 40% open rates for iOS devices, so we’ve rounded up a few new nifty features [...]
It’s common knowledge in the email marketing industry that email send time can have a huge effect on your open rates. We analysed the millions of emails sent through the EmailOctopus platform and, like many studies before us, found that email send day can have an impact, as well as time. What to consider One [...]
Email design has moved forward over the past few years, dramatically. Yes, we’re still limited by horrible tables and clients which barely support CSS; but thanks to some incredibly clever workarounds, a lot of effort and the growth of mobile devices we’re beginning to see some spectacular looking emails. Here’s a round-up of the best, [...]