The Whitelist

The holidays are over and it’s back to work, fellow email marketers! Time to get refocused on email marketing ROI through better email delivery, more relevant email copywriting, and email design that renders right no matter the email client.

It’s also time for a reminder of upcoming email marketing events that will get you up to speed and in the know about email marketing tactics and techniques.
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Do you use a PDA, iPhone, BlackBerry or some other mobile device? It’s 2008. Chances are pretty good that you do. Chances are also pretty good that you know email marketing doesn’t always render the way you want on a mobile device, especially a BlackBerry.

Just as emails render differently in different email clients (which our next issue of the ClickMail Marketer will touch on), they look different depending on the mobile device too.

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A fascinating bit of information on email image blocking can be found on page six of MarketingSherpa‘s 2009 Email Marketing Benchmark Guide:

“In the version with blocked images, we see a higher percentage reading the entire headline instead of scanning and skipping down, which appears to be related to the pull of the image below. When that image is removed, people spend a bit more time reading. That underscores the power and danger of compelling images – they can engage and attract the user’s attention, but they may be stealing it from a key piece of content.”

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Email marketing has many moving parts to it…often more than those in charge of email marketing are even aware.

It is a truism that for many companies, the email marketing department is either under-staffed or under-trained. Email marketing therefore tends to be a job that people fall into rather than train for and seek out.

But part of our task as an email marketing service provider is to educate. Hence this blog, and our newly launched email newsletter. And our recent whitepaper.  After the jump, an excerpt from the whitepaper on avoiding tags that invite disaster…

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