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How email is significant in modern workplace collaboration

Workplace collaboration is an excellent practice that helps your brand achieve its true potential. By considering input from multiple people, projects become more refined, take less time, and promote inclusivity. Collaboration had a different meaning back in the day...

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Millennials and Gen Z: Differences in email marketing

Millennials are growing up! The generation born between 1981 and 1996 is now 26–41. They're starting families and moving forward in their careers. The next generation, Gen Z, encompasses individuals born from 1997 onward, i.e., from kids still in elementary school...

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Optimizing your global strategy with email localization

If you love to travel, you definitely know how it feels when you experience different cultures, traditions, and customs of distinct countries. Of course, sometimes, hopping on a plane and heading to some far-off exotic destination is easier said than done. The COVID-19...

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3 email marketing ideas for companies that love sports

You’re here because you know the power of email marketing and want to maximize your return on investment (ROI) in the sports marketing field. So strap in, and we’ll tell you how to use digital marketing to reach your business goals. Creating engaging email content is...

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The 4 best ways to use emojis to optimize email subject lines

We don’t need to tell you how common it is to use emojis for digital communication. But how did emojis become symbols of human emotions? Today, emojis are so popular that we even have an emoji keyboard and an emojipedia explaining each one’s origin. They’ve...

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The truth about compliance and data privacy between the EU and U.S.

There’s been news recently about an agreement on protecting EU personal data transferred across borders to the United States. Plus, there’s also talk of a comprehensive federal data privacy bill in Washington, D.C. So, is any of this going to make a difference...

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Email marketing metrics: What do they tell you?

In the mind of many marketers, emailing is mostly about having a contact list, coming up with engaging content ideas (from the subject line to CTAs), and pressing send with the satisfaction of a job well done. Yet, funnily enough, this is just half of the job. There is...

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10 common email marketing mistakes to avoid in your campaign

Steve Jobs once said, “It’s impossible to fail if you learn from your mistakes.” If you’re here today, it either means you want to learn from others’ mistakes or you’ve made a few yourself. Either way, email marketing blunders are a chance to dissect bad thinking and...

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How to improve the design of your responsive emails

Did you think responsive email design meant sending emails that guaranteed you’d never be ghosted again? It’s okay if you did. But seriously – responsive emails are specifically-coded emails to look tailor-made to whatever device they’re being read on. When emails...

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How to add and send animated GIFs in emails

We all love a good animated GIF. Nearly 40 years have passed since the world saw its first GIF (a rotating globe created in 1987), and they still intrigue and entertain us. These days...

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Getting close to your audience using empathetic emails

We all know the best digital marketing strategies build long-term customer loyalty. After all, what business owner in their right mind wouldn’t want to grow and retain their client...

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How to create eye-catching newsletters in 8 easy steps

The email newsletter is among the most potent weapons in your email marketing arsenal. They leap buildings with optimal newsletter design, fly around on social media, and...

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Designing the perfect newsletter for marketing

Sometimes a tried-and-true method can be more successful than an innovative one, and this principle applies to newsletter marketing. Working in ecommerce and digital marketing...

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Summer email marketing: Best newsletter ideas and subject lines for the summer

Who doesn't love the summer? It’s a great time to kick back and enjoy yourself. For some, summer vibes are all about sipping cocktails by the pool and dancing by the main stage...

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How marketing emails can improve any industry

Anything a company does to promote its products or services can be considered marketing. It might include advertising, selling, or – you guessed it – email. Although social...

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4 email hacks to launch a successful Kickstarter campaign

The grand total of $55K funded one entrepreneur’s Potato Salad Kickstarter – a monumental 31,576% above his goal. Exploding Kittens, a card game for people who...

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The email marketer’s checklist for a relaxing summer vacation

Ahh, summer vacation – a time to swim in the ocean, BBQ by the river, and check your work emails... Wait, hold on a second. How many times have you peeked at Slack, checked your...

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The importance of lifecycle email marketing campaigns

Just imagine what it would be like if they made a version of Disney’s “The Lion King” for digital marketers. Instead of “The Circle of Life,” there would be a hit song called “The...

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How to deliver the best customer onboarding email

Believe it or not, most businesses execute their customer onboarding emails all wrong. That’s because they often send useless, nagging messages, which can be worse for your...

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The 7 best templates for a successful transactional email strategy

In transactional and marketing emails, information hierarchy is crucial. The information it contains is paramount to your audience, whether your email is an alert, notification, or...

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Email marketing strategies for small businesses

There was a time when paid advertising was king for small businesses. But local TV spots, direct mail, and prominent billboards are now considered costly and difficult to track. Now...

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Reducing email’s carbon footprint

When it comes to protecting our planet, every step toward cleaner practices – small and big – counts. So, what if we told you that emailing, as clean and green as it seems...

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Father’s Day email marketing ideas to cut through the crowded inbox

Ahh, dads – they’re a species of their own, aren’t they? With their eccentric habits and top-notch “jokes”. Father’s Day is just around the corner, but it’s not all fun and games. Some...

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Email personalization and data privacy: What marketers need to know

More than ever, people seem to care an awful lot about protecting the privacy of their personal data. Does that mean the days of blindly checking the “Agree” box for terms...

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