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Captivating customer attention with email personalization
You know how it is – we're all constantly bombarded with information. Therefore, the attention economy has become ultra-competitive, making a marketer's job of capturing and engaging customers more challenging than ever. That's why we were grateful to have...
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The power and limitations of using ChatGPT for email marketing
Artificial intelligence has got the whole tech scene buzzing all over again. First, it was the release of ChatGPT. Next, Microsoft, who partially funded its research company Open AI, decided to bring out a Bing AI chatbot to challenge Google’s search engine dominance...
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8 essential email marketing KPIs and how to track them
Many articles talk about creating the best marketing campaign for individuals and businesses. Hey, we’ve even written some of them. But truth be told, email marketers don’t design the best campaigns overnight. The most successful marketers release email...
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How to build your email list: The ultimate guide
Trying to build an email list from scratch? We get it – without an email list, you may as well throw your beautifully designed emails into the trash. Unless you’re marketing to ghosts, you’re going to need a loyal fanbase of subscribers who are hungry for your next email...
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Email marketing in 2023: Key takeaways from the Inbox Insights survey
Email is a powerful communication channel and a versatile marketing tool. Ask a bunch of senders about their approaches to email marketing in 2023 and you’re sure to hear a different answer every time. Your business and brand are unique. So is your email...
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What is value washing, and why should you avoid it?
Maybe you’ve noticed this growing trend in marketing – a giant gas-guzzling car manufacturer that claims to be environmentally conscious or a major cigarette brand that educates on health and well-being topics. When a brand’s words are louder than its...
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Responsive emails: Five things to avoid when writing them
Email marketing is one of the most effective ways to create and maintain relationships with your audience. But when you create an email newsletter to promote your company, it’s essential that recipients can view it clearly, no matter what device they use: a phone...
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Strategies to optimize ecommerce email marketing campaigns
Professional email marketers know that most people spend about 15 seconds reading an email. That’s why you have to level up your email marketing by performing A/B tests, learning about automation, email copy, and design to make your emails worth your...
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Email headers: What they are & how to read them
Hands up if you’ve heard someone talk about email headers, but have no idea what they are. Or even worse, maybe your technical team asked you to send them the full header of your email, and you’re frantically looking for it everywhere. In this post, we’re going to tell...
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Optimize your transactional email design
When you forget a password and need to reset it, typically, you receive an email to complete the process. Or, when adding several items to your shopping cart on a website, sometimes a friendly reminder arrives via email. These are types of transactional emails...
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Create your email signature in four easy steps
We know you send and receive a lot of emails. But how are you signing those emails? Do you give your first and last names and a cheery farewell? If this is you, you’re missing out on an opportunity to brand yourself and show your contacts a bit of your personality. A...
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Effectively use newsletter graphics with these 6 tips
Newsletters don’t have to be boring like a broadsheet newspaper. They can be fun like the colorful, moving newspapers from Harry Potter. With the advent of useful design software like Canva and Figma, it’s never been easier to spruce up your newsletters with engaging...
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The many uses and benefits of email templates explained
Stop us if we're describing you: Your team thrives when producing highly professional email campaigns and communication materials. You all geek out over everything analytics and love tweaking your content and subject lines to optimize the best results and improve...
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Here’s how to write the best newsletter introductions
It can be hard to know where to start when you want to grow your business and increase brand awareness. Email marketing has a proven track record of building relationships with potential clients while offering an excellent return on investment (ROI). And email...
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All you need to know about newsletter subject lines
Yes, you read that right. There are dos and don’ts to email subject lines. Considering email is one of the most effective ways to attract new customers, build brand awareness, and increase sales figures, it's crucial for you to draft the quirkiest yet easiest subject lines...
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4 ways to design a newsletter that people will actually read
What if we told you that 42% of people prefer to hear from brands by subscribing to their newsletters? That’s in the top three preferred channels, only behind direct to website and social media. So how are they doing this? And how do you design a newsletter anyway...
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Top lifecycle marketing strategies to optimize your customer journey
Crafting an effective customer journey is no easy feat. It’s a highly data driven craft with many moving parts that needs to be carefully mapped out and executed. So, what are the most effective strategies for successfully walking customers down their different paths...
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To zero-party data and beyond: The four types of marketing data
The pursuit of customer data goes back to the dawn of the 20th century when direct response marketers began placing ads in magazines and sending mail through the Post Office. Each campaign produced customer data, which could be used to finely tune...
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DKIM setup: How to create, configure, and set up DKIM in 3 easy steps
You didn’t become an email marketer because you wanted to dive into complicated code all day. Ugh. And when you hear all these weird sounding acronyms like DKIM, SPF, and DMARC, your first instinct is probably to run for the hills. But then, when you encounter...
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The ultimate guide to high-converting email copywriting
Writing copy for email campaigns can sometimes leave us frozen like a deer in headlights. How many times has your mind gone blank when trying to write perfectly converting copy? Lucky for us, the whimsical copywriter Lianna Patch joined us for last year’s Email Camp...
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Say hello to Mailjet's new Form Builder
Everyone wants to grow their subscriber list so more potential customers open their eye-catching emails. It seems like simple math, but acquiring contacts isn’t always so easy. One of the most effective ways to keep growing your lists is with a signup or subscription form...
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Getting your Super Bowl email marketing strategy right
There’s 30 seconds left in the fourth quarter, and everybody wants to make sure that they win the big game. But we’re not talking about sports here…
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7 tips to create the best Valentine’s Day email marketing campaigns
It always seems like, as soon as Christmas decorations come down in the stores, the aisles are magically flooded with red and pink hearts. Yep, it’s that time of year already: Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, so your email marketing campaigns better be...
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How to plan an effective newsletter strategy to achieve your marketing goals
Newsletters are one of the most important parts of email marketing. Not only do they offer ample space for advertising, but they also help to maintain the relationship between customers and companies. At first glance, the topic of creating a newsletter may seem to...
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