Symbols in Subject Lines… ♥ Them or ☹ Them?
As far as marketing best practices go, I’m a bit of a purist who subscribes to “playing by the rules” when it comes to subject lines. Lately, I’ve been surprised by how many emails...
Capture Customers with Images
At this point in the world of email marketing, pretty much everyone uses images, or at the very least, a logo at the top. Unless there’s some kind of emergency and you need to get information out quickly, you...
The Importance of Using Links, A Not So Trivial Tip for Serious Marketers.
Here on the VerticalResponse Blog we’ve never had a problem using puns or a play on words in our posts, and this title follows that glorious history (with apologies to Oscar Wilde). Funny title, sure, but the...
Don’t be Afraid of the Dark, er, Video
Using videos in your email can be great for engagement; including them can help you achieve higher clickthrough rates and help keep your recipients opening your emails. This might sound complicated (or even...
Make Everything Bigger Syndrome: a Lesson on Proportion (with Monsters)
This is a blog post intended to lay down some foundational design principles in a way that makes sense to non-designers. Hopefully you’ll learn how to create better looking communications that enhance the...
The Results Are in! Takeaways from VR Email Tests: Personalization Edition
Another quarter, another test! Here at VerticalResponse we’ve been keeping up with our email marketing testing (so have you, right?), so I thought I’d share some of our findings with you once again. The...
Baby Boomers Need to Read Your Email So Make It Easy on the Eyes
Amber Cleave, our Customer Retention Specialist, recently forwarded me a great article by Chad White, who writes for Smith-Harmon an email marketing agency for larger businesses. He wrote a really interesting...
Email Delivery: How Your Email Looks in Different Email Clients
Our Email Delivery Manager Kiersti Esparza, recently contributed to our blog with Part 1 which focused on Authentication, Reputation, Feedback Loops and Bounced Email. Today she’ll be talking about Email Rendering....
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