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Dos and Dont's of Alt text in Emails - EmailMonks

Dos and Dont's of Alt text in Emails - EmailMonks | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it
1. Keep it succinct
2. Proper punctuation is a must
3. Include the text that is present in the image
4. Don’t ‘COPY and PASTE’ image captions
5. Count on context
6. Quotes are not needed
7. Distinguish the decorative images
8. Test
9. Style it a little
10. Innovate
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Bottom-line: take advantage of it. 

 

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Email Rendering Issues in Outlook and Hacks to Save the Day - EmailMonks

Email Rendering Issues in Outlook and Hacks to Save the Day - EmailMonks | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it
  • Background images not supported
  • Animated GIFs do not work
  • Additional padding below images
  • DPI Scaling
  • Additional page break
  • Links getting converted to purple or blue
  • No support for position and float
  • Rendering CSS issues
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As usual, EmailMonks provides specific solutions to common issues. CT for the fixes.

 

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Top Email Design Trends for Digital Marketing Success - SEMrush

Top Email Design Trends for Digital Marketing Success - SEMrush | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it
The journey of email trends takes the Monks back to the email design trends of 2016 that made an impact, and with those in mind let’s understand what the scope for emails is, in 2017:

  • Light-weight GIF has dominated the emails sent in 2016. These GIFs aren’t very heavy in file size like a video but still have the power to make an impact with gradual animation.
  • Flat Design in Emails inspires to maintain a continuity to the recent UI that has been observed in both Android and iOS platforms.
  • Minimalistic Email Design has been adopted in brand logos, websites and also email designs. It includes reduced elements combined with minimal text to add relevant context in emails.
  • Unconventional Email Template Design is all about creating email template designs that surprise and delight subscribers. These are rare but STAND OUT.
  • Email Master Templates are great when it comes to easing the process of designing, and coding similar looking email templates to fasten the process. It aids in giving your brand a consistency which in-turn enables subscribers to connect well with your brand.
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10 Glorious Email Design Examples - Creative Market

10 Glorious Email Design Examples - Creative Market | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it
Never, ever underestimate email! The old-school email newsletter (at least by today’s standards of social media and online video) is still
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How Simple Design Solutions Can Improve Your Business’s Email Marketing Campaigns [Infographic] - Relevance

How Simple Design Solutions Can Improve Your Business’s Email Marketing Campaigns [Infographic] - Relevance | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it
Many email marketing campaigns fail to live up to expectations. What can business owners do when this happens? Use this infographic to improve email design.
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Note the dearth of eyeballs over copy.

 

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4 email marketing lessons an eye tracking study can teach you - CampaignMonitor

4 email marketing lessons an eye tracking study can teach you - CampaignMonitor | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it
Here are four actionable tips that the study supports:

1. Design emails using an inverted pyramid design

2. Write a value proposition

3. Use a CTA button

4. The power of testing emails
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Understanding Retina Images in HTML Email – Litmus Software, Inc.

Understanding Retina Images in HTML Email – Litmus Software, Inc. | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it
We dissect retina images, how to use them in email campaigns, and some important considerations email marketers need to keep in mind. 
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Just a bit of code will do ya.

 

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13 of the Best Examples of Beautiful Email Design - HubSpot

13 of the Best Examples of Beautiful Email Design - HubSpot | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it
There are brands out there that have also figured out how to create emails that are pretty darn beautiful. While plain text or bare-bones emails can still be extremely effective, sometimes you want to amaze your subscribers with creative, captivating, or delightfully understated email design.

If you're looking to dabble in something a little more adventurous for your next email marketing campaign, check out the examples
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Too many to scoop, so please CT to be inspired. 

 

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3 Tricks to Get More Clicks From Images in Your Emails - GetResponse Blog

3 Tricks to Get More Clicks From Images in Your Emails - GetResponse Blog | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it

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Click through for details, especially GetResponse users.

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Is this the future of email design? | Litmus

Is this the future of email design? | Litmus | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it

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More email design ideas. Use Litmus to test your layout across all different devices.

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The Power of the Mighty GIF in Your Emails - Digital Marketing Blog by Adobe

The Power of the Mighty GIF in Your Emails - Digital Marketing Blog by Adobe | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it

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As usual, you'll want to run it through Litmus to ensure compatibility across all devices.

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Email Marketing Design Tips | Right On Interactive

Email Marketing Design Tips | Right On Interactive | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it

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A few basics. Remember that eye-tracking studies show that people start with the upper left, travel down, then go across.

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It’s Time To Spice Up Your Email Content - MarketingLand

It’s Time To Spice Up Your Email Content - MarketingLand | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it

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Soak these in. Can you rethink your email away from text and a hero shot to something like this (of course, it has to be responsive). Jump out of the box!

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Email Marketing: Graphic design elements lift clickthrough 11.97% | MarketingExperiments

Email Marketing: Graphic design elements lift clickthrough 11.97% | MarketingExperiments | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it

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As usual, the moral of the story is...TEST!

MarkCom Conseil's curator insight, November 3, 2014 9:48 AM

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Email Design: A Community of Hacks | Litmus

Email Design: A Community of Hacks | Litmus | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it

Digest...


Unlike the internet and web browsers, which have made huge strides in the last few years to make design and development an easier, more consistent process, the email client landscape is stuck in the past. While there are only a handful of major web browsers, there are dozens of popular email clients, each with their own rendering engine.

 

Since each email client renders only a fraction of the HTML and CSS that email designers typically use, the same code can often appear broken across different programs or apps. This leads to an equally broken experience for subscribers and the potential for decreased engagement and conversions. In extreme cases, subscribers will get fed up and unsubscribe, leading to broken trust in your brand.

 

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We use Litmus all the time, and it's for the reasons above. Email developers need to hack their way to improvements constantly, and it's the dirty little secret in Marketing Automation that relies so heavily on email communication. Litmus embedded in your MAP is well worth the additional expenditures.

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Email Marketing: Promotional vs. letter-style test increases conversion 181% | MarketingExperiments Blog | #TheMarketingAutomationAlert

Email Marketing: Promotional vs. letter-style test increases conversion 181% | MarketingExperiments Blog | #TheMarketingAutomationAlert | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it

Conclusion...


By limiting the amount of graphics and focusing on engaging the customer in a conversation, the treatment outperformed the control by 181%.

 

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Essentially the same messaging, but the winner far less sales-y. Nice lesson to learn.

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Why Your Email Marketing Campaign Should Focus On Mobile First - Forbes | #TheMarketingAutomationAlert

Why Your Email Marketing Campaign Should Focus On Mobile First - Forbes | #TheMarketingAutomationAlert | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it
When getting your message out, don't forget about mobile readers. (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) There's been some big mobile news recently.


Key excerpt...


The Pew Internet & American Life Project, a non-partisan and non-profit “fact tank,” released their “Cell Phone Activities 2013” report. They found that 91% of American adults own a cell phone and of those 52% send or receive e-mail.

 

Cracking the 50% marker is an important milestone because too many e-mail marketing campaigns focus on how the e-mail will be seen first on a desktop computer before considering how it looks on mobile—when new data suggests businesses should be thinking mobile first if they want to appease their consumers.

Marteq's insight:

We're now at the point where you need to think mobile first. MOBILE FIRST, THEN DESKTOP.


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Justin Argyelan's curator insight, September 21, 2014 9:19 PM

This article provides statistics from numerous email marketing research studies that prove that email marketing campaigns should focus more on mobile rather than desktop. Too many e-mail marketing campaigns focus on how the e-mail will be seen first on a desktop computer before considering how it looks on mobile. Yesmail, a company focused on e-mail marketing solutions, analyzed data on more than 5 billion marketing e-mails and found that 49% of all e-mails were opened on a mobile phone device. Despite these results, the majority of e-mails aren't being designed and written for the mobile experience.Consider that within Apple’s iPhone e-mail app, only about 30 characters can be seen within the subject line. That’s dramatically less than the 140 characters you get for a post on Twitter. If you’re not leading with the most compelling information at the beginning of your subject line, it very likely won’t be seen by half of your readers. Another report from Movable Ink shows that 62% of e-mails were opened on mobile devices, which includes smartphones (48.07%) and tablets (13.79%), while desktops accounted for only 38%. Again, demonstrating the proliferation of mobile e-mail penetration. Email marketing campaigns focused on mobile are no longer an afterthought and should instead be a forethought due to the fact that millions of people are walking around carrying access to their e-mails right in their palm. 

John Lam's curator insight, September 29, 2014 12:36 AM

In this interesting article, it discusses about marketers who focus on developing e-mail advertising should also focus on creating effective mobile version of their e-mail advertisements. The rate of users checking their e-mails on mobile devices have increased to a all time high of 52%. Marketers have been very slow in creating mobile versions of their e-mail ads especially under the iphone and android platform. If marketers want more effective e-mails ads to draw the attention of their audience, they need to develop ads that are penetrating to the mobile device users. 

 

I believe that marketers need to expand on all outfits of marketing if they want gain the attention of their audience. I agree that some people have different methods of checking their e-mails, and that it is important that marketers develop ads that suitable for whatever methods or devices they use to check e-mails. Creating effective mobile e-mail ads is a good way to increase click-through rates, and potential customers. 

Cassandra Roderick's curator insight, November 9, 2014 11:48 PM

This article analyzes company's email marketing tactics. It's important for them to focus on how the email appears on a mobile device. As the article discusses, 91% of Americans have a cell phone and 52% of those receive emails. They should take this into account, because most of these people probably are checking their emails on their phones. 

Another thing to keep in mind, is that the subject line should be very direct in the beginning. With 82% of all mobile messages being viewed on the Apple iOS email app, marketers should realize that only 30 characters on shown on the email in the list view. They only have a certain number of characters to catch the eye of the consumers. 

Although marketers have always focused on how the email looks on the PC first, they should be considering how it looks on a smart phone before anything else. It shouldn't be an afterthought, because more and more individuals today are using their smart phones before their PC.