Email Jitsu
      JASON BEAIRD - OCTOBER 1, 2011
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Why Email?
                     92% of netizens use email. Only 65% use a social network.
      Use Email
  Get Directions
     Read News
   Buy Products
Social Networks
   Share Photos
    Play Games
Do Actual Work*

                     0               25               50                    75                    100
                   * just kidding.         http://pewinternet.org/Trend-Data/Online-Activites-Total.aspx
Why Email?
Email lists are opt-in and permission based.
Allows you to engage with your exact
(or even segments of) your exact target audience.
Significantly lower production and delivery costs than other
forms of marketing.
No delay between distribution and delivery means your content
is as fresh as a hot Krispy Kreme.
Results are fast and extremely measurable.
In Summary: Pick 3


    Good        Fast

        Cheap
WHY HTML EMAIL?
 You can still deliver a plain-text alternative.
 Makes tracking open rates possible - well, easier.
 Don’t have to use ALL CAPS or punctuation ascii art to
 denote headlines or -=important=- text.
 Hooray for hyperlinks!
 Because your client wants their logo on it.
 (...and you can make it bigger.)
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WHY HTML EMAIL?
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Major email Types
   NEWSLETTER
   Scheduled, Interesting, Relevant

   EVENT OR ANNOUNCEMENT
   Time-Sensitive, Short, Irregular

   PRODUCT OR CATALOG
   Featured, New & Sale Items

   TRANSACTIONAL
   Signup, Welcome, Receipt
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http://jgx.me/9p
http://jgx.me/a0
Know your opponents
Know your opponents
         It looks like you're trying
         to design an “HTML” Email.
         Would you like me to make
         some suggestions?
           Lose the background images.
           I hate forms. They are stupid.
           Floats? I'll take root beer!
           Nobody hovers links anyway...
           CSS3? I'm still learning about
           the width property!
Know your opponents
Know your opponents
Know your opponents
  RefreshColumbia.org   SouthernSavers.com
http://campaignmonitor.com/css
https://github.com/mailchimp/Email-Blueprints/
http://jgx.me/bp
What we
 really
Need is...
http://jgx.me/bq
http://jgx.me/9n
http://jgx.me/9u
http://jgx.me/9o
http://jgx.me/br
http://jgx.me/9r
http://jgx.me/9s
http://jgx.me/bs
http://jgx.me/bt
http://jgx.me/bu
http://jgx.me/9x
http://jgx.me/9z
http://jgx.me/bw
Good (email) Design is...

                1. Layout
                2. Color
                3. Texture
                4. Type
                5. Imagery
“ Great ” Design...
…solicits strong emotional response
…justifies its creation
…inspires other designers
                 -Cameron Moll
“We are the
 music makers
 and we are the
 dreamers of
 the dreams.”
    -Willy Wonka
Questions?

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