You’re going on an adventure! Let’s cut to the chase here – creating an email production workflow takes a lot more than people think. So it’s no wonder that the following question chills the bones of many email marketers: “Can you just send another email campaign?” We felt you shudder, even through the internet. It’s
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If you’re at a global company, you likely understand the importance of translating email to make sure it’s relevant to a multicultural audience – and the challenges of creating multi-language email. Even large enterprises with decently staffed teams struggle to work with resources across time zones, doing email translations, QAing multiple formats, changing imagery to
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Last year we celebrated 50 years of email. We even wrote a blog post about it (I’ll just leave this here…) But what’s better than 50 years of email? 51 years of email fun facts! So let’s dive into the weird and wonderful world of email, and uncover some interesting and fun email facts –
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Accessible Emails for All It’s our job as email professionals to provide a great email experience to everyone on our list – and that truly means everyone. Emails should be easy to read and understand, even if someone has a disability. And the World Health Organization reports at least 15% of the population has a
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So you’ve got subscribers signing up to your database in droves – nice one! So what next? They’re expecting to hear about some awesome stuff about your brand, and maybe even specific areas of your business. You don’t want to leave them hanging like a Guns N’ Roses gig. 2 hours late – I mean,
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Email marketing is cost-effective, enables you to build loyal followers, and is easy to track, test, and optimize. However, in order to ensure that your emails get opened, the use of a good subject line is so important. Roughly 80% of the US population uses email. The majority of email users check their email many
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Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day in your email marketing campaigns this year? We’ll break down why you might want to consider it if you aren’t already, and share some of our favorite St. Patrick’s Day email examples. But first, an Irish (Email) Blessing: May your boss’s approvals rise to meet you. May your subscribers adore you,
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It’s no secret that I’m a big Ann Handley fan. So when I first pitched a campaign all about how to successfully write marketing emails, I knew we had to get Ann involved. After all, her newsletter Total Annarchy has been my favorite bi-weekly inspiration for years now. I’ve been responsible for writing marketing emails
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In this season of the Bachelor, we are fortunate enough to have an NFL player who has had a whopping zero minutes of playing time during his entire career. Clayton Echard is also the only Bachelor who hasn’t been in the spotlight yet and was not a fan favorite at all. However, we’re not here
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It can be hard to judge a trend worth adopting, and it’s no different when it comes to email marketing trends. In this post, we’ll break down five of the trends we think live up to the hype. Some trends speak to us immediately and we jump at the chance to try them out. Others
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Editor’s Note: A version of this article originally appeared on B2BMarketing.net. Since the rise of data-driven marketing in the ‘80s, data became a tool that marketers relied on. We’ve since moved past the days of seemingly unlimited data, and data breaches, to more restrictions. However, all is not lost. Here’s why tighter customer privacy restrictions
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Check out the top 2022 email benchmarks in this new, comprehensive report Email is hard. And effective. And fun! Basically, email rules. 👑 Our new report, Email in 2022, includes almost 50 pages all about why email rules – it turns out we had a lot to say. The report is broken out into three
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Typically, over the course of a year, we all face challenges, pressures and setbacks in both personal and professional spheres. We can end up feeling emotionally drained, physically tired, and even negative towards those closest to us. This results in a noticeable detrimental impact in workplace productivity. This decline also seeps into our social lives,
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Here are 5 tips for integrating SMS into your email marketing campaigns, so you can deliver customers a consistent experience across communication channels.
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January is traditionally a month of cleansing, re-evaluation, and pretending that the 15th leftover turkey, cranberry and stuffing sandwich is still as amazing as the first. It’s also when people take to their inboxes to delete unread emails, remove superfluous ones and unsubscribe from marketing emails. This is called the ‘Great Unsubscribe’. But why? In
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year, especially for email designs! Tons of creative energy and strategic thought go into the holiday season, as the email marketing sector tries to attract customers to their brands at a time of increased purchasing. In fact, December sees an average monthly household spending increase of 29% (according
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Email design is so much more than what you see in an email. It’s also the strategy that goes behind creating your emails before you build them, and the brand personality that resonates with your subscriber at each touchpoint. It’s also ensuring your reader gets a great experience, regardless of device preferences, accessibility needs, or
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Every year, we take on an exciting project of creating a state of the email industry report comprised of a lot of data. (You can still catch the current version here.) Much of that data comes from SparkPost’s permissioned panel and off the massive footprint of sending 4-5 trillion emails per year. To get a
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One of the questions we regularly receive about our Permissioned Email Panel is how accurate it is in terms of forecasting inbox rates. Historically, this has been a difficult question to answer with any authority as there was no source of ground truth to measure against, and so opinions (and general faith in sample statistics)
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Back in June, we initially reported about the upcoming changes in iOS 15. Since that time, there has been a lot of discussion, articles and webinars about the topic. There’s no doubt the iOS 15 Mail Privacy Protection changes are significant and will have a direct impact on how marketers track the success of their
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Empower your team to create better email You may have heard talk of Email Design Systems in the email marketing community lately. They’re a hot topic, and marketing teams are beginning to understand how they can transform the way teams create email – enabling them to do it at pace and scale with total confidence,
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Getting GIFs right in email Lots of marketers have started using more GIFs in email to engage with their audience and bring in a level of animation – which wasn’t previously possible. And whilst brands want to stand out in their subscriber’s inbox, GIFs help do exactly that by catching the reader’s eye through moving
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“Can you just send an email?” It seems like bosses everywhere say this… and they mean no harm with that “ASAP” deadline, but we email marketers know that getting a professional email out the door requires a ton of behind-the-scenes work. Between content, design, dev, ops, approvals, testing, etc. etc. – just getting an email
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So, what are we reading over here at SparkPost? We asked our team to share some of their favorite newsletters. Check out what they said!
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