1. Email marketers face challenges with rendering across different email clients and devices that can disrupt design elements and the intended message.
2. Testing emails on different platforms is essential to ensure the message and call to action appear as intended for recipients.
3. Following best practices like using text alternatives for images, inline CSS, and table-based layouts can help maximize proper rendering.
The document provides 12 steps to improve email marketing results through creative optimization. It recommends focusing on targeted email lists, list hygiene, analytics, and sophisticated features like one-to-one emailing. The 12 steps checklist includes optimizing the subject line, from line, logo placement, image usage, text to image ratio, and number of links. Following these guidelines can help build trust and clearly communicate value to recipients.
Microsoft should leverage its brand equity and leadership in desktop technologies by extending its Office for Small Business software to an online portal solution. This would allow it to capitalize on emerging trends like workforce mobility and online collaboration, while protecting its core business through familiar functionality and bundling strategies. The extension addresses small businesses' needs for cost-effective, mobile software solutions while maintaining Microsoft's market position.
The document summarizes the key features of Soffront's marketing automation software. The software allows users to generate qualified leads 3x more through features like web form lead capture, email marketing campaigns, drip marketing, direct mail campaigns, and inbound email processing. It also provides analytics and reporting to measure campaign effectiveness and ROI. Soffront's marketing automation is part of their comprehensive CRM suite for activities like sales, customer support, and more.
This document summarizes a presentation on email design best practices. It discusses considering the entire subscriber experience from the from name and subject line to click-throughs. Proper use of preview panes, above the fold content, and mobile optimization are covered. Examples show how testing different designs can significantly impact key metrics like click-through rates and conversions. Landing page best practices are also provided. The importance of testing all elements of an email campaign is emphasized to ensure a positive subscriber experience.
This document discusses the benefits and key components of effective eNewsletters. ENewsletters are electronic newsletters delivered via email that present benefits like low costs, revenue generation through advertising and referrals, and measurable outcomes from tracking user behavior. The four key components of successful eNewsletters are the audience, message, format, and frequency. Details are provided about optimizing each component, such as targeting the right audience, crafting a relevant message, designing an easy-to-read format, and maintaining a consistent frequency of delivery.
This document provides an introduction and overview of modern marketing concepts and Compaq computers. It discusses how modern marketing focuses on customer needs rather than just promoting products. Compaq is used as an example to illustrate key marketing strategies, including market segmentation, branding, responding to competition through innovation, and adapting distribution models. The merger with HP is also summarized as a response to threats in the PC industry.
Virtual Marketing Manager from Arrow ECSArrow ECS UK
Your first point of call for information on vendor campaigns and a valuable tool to plan, implement, manage, track and measure the success of their marketing campaigns.
The document provides 12 steps to improve email marketing results through creative optimization. It recommends focusing on targeted email lists, list hygiene, analytics, and sophisticated features like one-to-one emailing. The 12 steps checklist includes optimizing the subject line, from line, logo placement, image usage, text to image ratio, and number of links. Following these guidelines can help build trust and clearly communicate value to recipients.
Microsoft should leverage its brand equity and leadership in desktop technologies by extending its Office for Small Business software to an online portal solution. This would allow it to capitalize on emerging trends like workforce mobility and online collaboration, while protecting its core business through familiar functionality and bundling strategies. The extension addresses small businesses' needs for cost-effective, mobile software solutions while maintaining Microsoft's market position.
The document summarizes the key features of Soffront's marketing automation software. The software allows users to generate qualified leads 3x more through features like web form lead capture, email marketing campaigns, drip marketing, direct mail campaigns, and inbound email processing. It also provides analytics and reporting to measure campaign effectiveness and ROI. Soffront's marketing automation is part of their comprehensive CRM suite for activities like sales, customer support, and more.
This document summarizes a presentation on email design best practices. It discusses considering the entire subscriber experience from the from name and subject line to click-throughs. Proper use of preview panes, above the fold content, and mobile optimization are covered. Examples show how testing different designs can significantly impact key metrics like click-through rates and conversions. Landing page best practices are also provided. The importance of testing all elements of an email campaign is emphasized to ensure a positive subscriber experience.
This document discusses the benefits and key components of effective eNewsletters. ENewsletters are electronic newsletters delivered via email that present benefits like low costs, revenue generation through advertising and referrals, and measurable outcomes from tracking user behavior. The four key components of successful eNewsletters are the audience, message, format, and frequency. Details are provided about optimizing each component, such as targeting the right audience, crafting a relevant message, designing an easy-to-read format, and maintaining a consistent frequency of delivery.
This document provides an introduction and overview of modern marketing concepts and Compaq computers. It discusses how modern marketing focuses on customer needs rather than just promoting products. Compaq is used as an example to illustrate key marketing strategies, including market segmentation, branding, responding to competition through innovation, and adapting distribution models. The merger with HP is also summarized as a response to threats in the PC industry.
Virtual Marketing Manager from Arrow ECSArrow ECS UK
Your first point of call for information on vendor campaigns and a valuable tool to plan, implement, manage, track and measure the success of their marketing campaigns.
1. JVC's ProHD is an affordable HD video solution that uses the HDV format to record uncompressed 720p or 1080i video to DV tapes.
2. It features a compact and lightweight camcorder design, full HD progressive scanning, 24p frame rates for a film look, and dual recording to tapes and hard drives.
3. The GY-HD251 camcorder is a new addition that provides high quality 50p recording for smooth imaging in a compact shoulder mount design suitable for studio or field use.
This document outlines various commands that can be used via email to interact with the Meetin.gs platform. Some key functions include signing up for an account, setting up meetings from a calendar invitation, creating new meetings by email, inviting people to meetings, requesting more information about a meeting, adding materials and comments, and requesting to join a meeting. All interactions are done by replying to or sending emails to specific command addresses with the appropriate text in the subject or body to trigger the desired action in Meetin.gs.
Trademark holders can benefit from the priority registration period before the widespread distribution of the Frogans technology.
The priority registration period for trademark holders concerns trademarks holders which are interested in the Frogans project, its innovative nature, and the opportunities offered by the Frogans technology as regards publishing content on the Internet, and that wish to participate in this project by asserting their intellectual property rights in this new addressing space.
During this period, from April 15 to June 15 2015, trademark holders can register dedicated Frogans networks corresponding to their trademarks.
EverBank provides banking, lending, and investing services. It has experienced strong growth and stability during economic volatility. The document discusses EverBank's commitment to growing retail lending, extensive product line including jumbo loans, and complete benefits package for employees. EverBank aims to meet customers' needs through a range of banking, brokerage, lending, and wealth management services.
La empresa busca posicionarse en el mercado para satisfacer tanto a los ofertantes como a los demandantes. Ofrece productos a precios competitivos con promociones para atraer a los clientes. Usa estrategias de marketing para defender su posición y expandirse.
Florist message cards are available for seasonal occasions like autumn, winter, Christmas, Valentines Day, weddings, Easter and Mothers Day. The types of cards include seasonal posters, care & conditioning cards, folded leaflets and message cards. The document provides a brief introduction to florist message cards and thanks the reader, directing them to a website for more information.
This document provides information about an event management company called Gung Ho Event Management Services Pvt Ltd. It details the various services offered by the company including conference and travel planning, events, team building activities, and student educational tours. It also includes testimonials from past clients praising the company's work in organizing conferences, incentives trips, and corporate social responsibility campaigns. The document aims to showcase Gung Ho as a full-service event management provider.
Este documento discute a importância da instrução para prevenir problemas. Fornece informações sobre como a educação pode ajudar a evitar comportamentos de risco e promover estilos de vida saudáveis.
This document analyzes value versus growth investing styles through the lens of Dick Mayo's dilemma at GMO about whether to continue focusing on value stocks. It provides an in-depth comparison of the two styles, discussing their different focuses, investment philosophies, risks, typical stock features, and strategies. The document also analyzes whether value investing is still the right strategy given changing economic conditions that have favored growth stocks in recent years. Calculations are shown evaluating specific stocks like Cisco, CVS, and RR Donnelley to determine if they are over or undervalued based on criteria like P/E ratio, P/B ratio, and expected long-term returns.
Este documento explica los diferentes tipos de honorarios de abogados y cómo se determinan. Los honorarios se basan en factores como la dificultad del caso, el tiempo invertido y la experiencia del abogado. Los tipos de honorarios incluyen honorarios fijos, honorarios por hora y honorarios sujetos a un pacto de cuota litis, donde el abogado recibe un porcentaje del monto recuperado. El documento también cubre depósitos, anticipos y límites en casos de responsabilidad médica.
This document discusses key performance indicators (KPIs) for an area sales manager position. It provides information on how to design KPIs, including defining objectives and key result areas. It lists the steps to create KPIs, types of KPIs, and common mistakes to avoid when building a KPI system. The document recommends visiting kpi123.com for additional top KPI materials, including lists of sales KPIs, performance appraisal forms, and performance review phrases.
Professional power in healthcare comes from legal authority, regulations, codes of conduct, experience, and organizational roles. It gives professionals the capacity and expertise to achieve organizational goals through mobilizing resources and making decisions within their clinical specialties. While medicine has traditionally been the most powerful profession, collaborative teams aim to empower all professionals by sharing power and decision-making authority based on knowledge and the needs of patients. Differentials in power between professions still exist but effective collaboration requires acknowledging, recognizing, and resolving power imbalances.
Presentation is all about mastering email marketing for events, covering the core essentials and touching on social media and email automation. Prepared and delivered for the Active Network, October 2012.
The GY-HM70 camcorder provides professional and long-lasting performance for capturing scenes in bright and stunning detail. It features a dynamic 16x F1.2 lens for sharp images even in low light, dual SD card slots for failsafe recording, and dual battery mounts for unprecedented recording times. The camcorder's flexible recording formats and powerful onboard processor support both HD and SD workflows.
Engineers and Managers, A Multi-perspective Analysis of ConflictStephen Peacock
This dissertation examines conflict between managers and engineers from a psychological and sociological perspective using the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster as a case study. The literature review identifies five research questions to guide the study:
1. Does Normalization of Deviance still occur in organizations?
2. Can managers and engineers be distinguished by their attitude to risk?
3. Can engineers and managers be distinguished in their use of values and concepts of rationality?
4. What decision models do managers and engineers follow?
5. How does organizational culture influence manager and engineer decision-making?
The author develops survey and interview methods to collect data from managers and engineers in various industries. The results will be
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The document discusses the design process for an email marketing campaign manager. It outlines conducting secondary research on email marketing and user research. The methodology involves taking a systems approach to study email marketing. Key areas identified include information overload from emails and the need for effective campaign design. User research found expectations around features, reporting, support and pricing. Next steps involve further user research, creating user personas, analyzing findings, and wireframing the interface.
Email marketing is still an effective tool for businesses. While email was once a novelty, it is now an established form of communication, with over 247 billion emails sent daily. Email provides an efficient and low-cost way for healthcare practices to communicate with current and prospective patients. When done correctly, email marketing can have a high return on investment and help establish a practice as a trusted source of information. To be successful, emails must be mobile-friendly, targeted to the intended audience, and encourage recipients to take further action.
The document provides an 11-step checklist for improving email marketing results through creative optimization. It discusses best practices for subject lines, sender names, logo placement, use of images and links, personalization, file size, and length of text. Following the recommendations can help emails stand out, build trust, clearly communicate the purpose and calls to action, and ultimately increase open and click-through rates. The checklist covers techniques for both business-to-business and business-to-consumer email marketing.
This white paper assembles a wide range of tactics and information regarding deliverability into five core best practices to help marketers get up to speed quickly with the constantly changing deliverability landscape and key strategies for improving results.
1. JVC's ProHD is an affordable HD video solution that uses the HDV format to record uncompressed 720p or 1080i video to DV tapes.
2. It features a compact and lightweight camcorder design, full HD progressive scanning, 24p frame rates for a film look, and dual recording to tapes and hard drives.
3. The GY-HD251 camcorder is a new addition that provides high quality 50p recording for smooth imaging in a compact shoulder mount design suitable for studio or field use.
This document outlines various commands that can be used via email to interact with the Meetin.gs platform. Some key functions include signing up for an account, setting up meetings from a calendar invitation, creating new meetings by email, inviting people to meetings, requesting more information about a meeting, adding materials and comments, and requesting to join a meeting. All interactions are done by replying to or sending emails to specific command addresses with the appropriate text in the subject or body to trigger the desired action in Meetin.gs.
Trademark holders can benefit from the priority registration period before the widespread distribution of the Frogans technology.
The priority registration period for trademark holders concerns trademarks holders which are interested in the Frogans project, its innovative nature, and the opportunities offered by the Frogans technology as regards publishing content on the Internet, and that wish to participate in this project by asserting their intellectual property rights in this new addressing space.
During this period, from April 15 to June 15 2015, trademark holders can register dedicated Frogans networks corresponding to their trademarks.
EverBank provides banking, lending, and investing services. It has experienced strong growth and stability during economic volatility. The document discusses EverBank's commitment to growing retail lending, extensive product line including jumbo loans, and complete benefits package for employees. EverBank aims to meet customers' needs through a range of banking, brokerage, lending, and wealth management services.
La empresa busca posicionarse en el mercado para satisfacer tanto a los ofertantes como a los demandantes. Ofrece productos a precios competitivos con promociones para atraer a los clientes. Usa estrategias de marketing para defender su posición y expandirse.
Florist message cards are available for seasonal occasions like autumn, winter, Christmas, Valentines Day, weddings, Easter and Mothers Day. The types of cards include seasonal posters, care & conditioning cards, folded leaflets and message cards. The document provides a brief introduction to florist message cards and thanks the reader, directing them to a website for more information.
This document provides information about an event management company called Gung Ho Event Management Services Pvt Ltd. It details the various services offered by the company including conference and travel planning, events, team building activities, and student educational tours. It also includes testimonials from past clients praising the company's work in organizing conferences, incentives trips, and corporate social responsibility campaigns. The document aims to showcase Gung Ho as a full-service event management provider.
Este documento discute a importância da instrução para prevenir problemas. Fornece informações sobre como a educação pode ajudar a evitar comportamentos de risco e promover estilos de vida saudáveis.
This document analyzes value versus growth investing styles through the lens of Dick Mayo's dilemma at GMO about whether to continue focusing on value stocks. It provides an in-depth comparison of the two styles, discussing their different focuses, investment philosophies, risks, typical stock features, and strategies. The document also analyzes whether value investing is still the right strategy given changing economic conditions that have favored growth stocks in recent years. Calculations are shown evaluating specific stocks like Cisco, CVS, and RR Donnelley to determine if they are over or undervalued based on criteria like P/E ratio, P/B ratio, and expected long-term returns.
Este documento explica los diferentes tipos de honorarios de abogados y cómo se determinan. Los honorarios se basan en factores como la dificultad del caso, el tiempo invertido y la experiencia del abogado. Los tipos de honorarios incluyen honorarios fijos, honorarios por hora y honorarios sujetos a un pacto de cuota litis, donde el abogado recibe un porcentaje del monto recuperado. El documento también cubre depósitos, anticipos y límites en casos de responsabilidad médica.
This document discusses key performance indicators (KPIs) for an area sales manager position. It provides information on how to design KPIs, including defining objectives and key result areas. It lists the steps to create KPIs, types of KPIs, and common mistakes to avoid when building a KPI system. The document recommends visiting kpi123.com for additional top KPI materials, including lists of sales KPIs, performance appraisal forms, and performance review phrases.
Professional power in healthcare comes from legal authority, regulations, codes of conduct, experience, and organizational roles. It gives professionals the capacity and expertise to achieve organizational goals through mobilizing resources and making decisions within their clinical specialties. While medicine has traditionally been the most powerful profession, collaborative teams aim to empower all professionals by sharing power and decision-making authority based on knowledge and the needs of patients. Differentials in power between professions still exist but effective collaboration requires acknowledging, recognizing, and resolving power imbalances.
Presentation is all about mastering email marketing for events, covering the core essentials and touching on social media and email automation. Prepared and delivered for the Active Network, October 2012.
The GY-HM70 camcorder provides professional and long-lasting performance for capturing scenes in bright and stunning detail. It features a dynamic 16x F1.2 lens for sharp images even in low light, dual SD card slots for failsafe recording, and dual battery mounts for unprecedented recording times. The camcorder's flexible recording formats and powerful onboard processor support both HD and SD workflows.
Engineers and Managers, A Multi-perspective Analysis of ConflictStephen Peacock
This dissertation examines conflict between managers and engineers from a psychological and sociological perspective using the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster as a case study. The literature review identifies five research questions to guide the study:
1. Does Normalization of Deviance still occur in organizations?
2. Can managers and engineers be distinguished by their attitude to risk?
3. Can engineers and managers be distinguished in their use of values and concepts of rationality?
4. What decision models do managers and engineers follow?
5. How does organizational culture influence manager and engineer decision-making?
The author develops survey and interview methods to collect data from managers and engineers in various industries. The results will be
cnc, mesin cnc, fanuc, haas, makino, yaskawa, doosan, mesin bubut, mesin milling, mesin tapping, wirecut, mesin press, mesin pabrik, mesin otomotif, sparepart mesin cnc
The document discusses the design process for an email marketing campaign manager. It outlines conducting secondary research on email marketing and user research. The methodology involves taking a systems approach to study email marketing. Key areas identified include information overload from emails and the need for effective campaign design. User research found expectations around features, reporting, support and pricing. Next steps involve further user research, creating user personas, analyzing findings, and wireframing the interface.
Email marketing is still an effective tool for businesses. While email was once a novelty, it is now an established form of communication, with over 247 billion emails sent daily. Email provides an efficient and low-cost way for healthcare practices to communicate with current and prospective patients. When done correctly, email marketing can have a high return on investment and help establish a practice as a trusted source of information. To be successful, emails must be mobile-friendly, targeted to the intended audience, and encourage recipients to take further action.
The document provides an 11-step checklist for improving email marketing results through creative optimization. It discusses best practices for subject lines, sender names, logo placement, use of images and links, personalization, file size, and length of text. Following the recommendations can help emails stand out, build trust, clearly communicate the purpose and calls to action, and ultimately increase open and click-through rates. The checklist covers techniques for both business-to-business and business-to-consumer email marketing.
This white paper assembles a wide range of tactics and information regarding deliverability into five core best practices to help marketers get up to speed quickly with the constantly changing deliverability landscape and key strategies for improving results.
Samples - web design, blog posts, and infographicsErik Boman
This document provides tips for designing effective emails and content for responsive websites. It discusses keeping email designs simple to ensure compatibility across different email clients. When designing for mobile, it's important to use small viewports, concise copy, and limit images. For responsive websites, it recommends using images that scale well at different sizes, ensuring good contrast for varying lighting, and tight, scannable copy to accommodate different screen widths. Content needs to be designed with a wide range of devices and contexts in mind.
In a recession, more marketers are turning to email marketing as it is more affordable than other tactics. However, the increased competition means marketers must focus on relevance and building a good reputation to get their emails opened. The document provides 20 best practices for email marketing, focusing on creating relevant content, personalizing messages, optimizing for deliverability and compliance, and testing emails. Following these practices can help marketers improve their email marketing performance despite the challenging email landscape.
This document provides tips for creating effective marketing emails. It discusses how email offers the highest ROI of any direct marketing channel. The keys to a great email include making it permission-based, personalized, relevant and optimized for the subscriber's device. Extensive testing of subject lines, content and design is important to maximize opens, clicks and conversions. Engagement can be increased by incorporating customer reviews, sharing options and interactive elements into emails.
For retailers, the holiday season is omnipresent. You’re either neck deep in it or you’re preparing for it. In this presentation, Chad White, the Salesforce Marketing Cloud’s Lead Research Analyst and author of “Email Marketing Rules,” discusses the 6 things retailers need to work on before the upcoming holiday season: (1) Reassessing program goals, (2) Getting mobile-friendly, (3) Optimizing snippet text, (4) Increasing targeting and personalization, (5) Building out triggered emails, and (6) Keeping inactivity in check. This slide deck includes links to research reports, articles, and real-world examples so you can go in depth on the topics that are most important to you.
6 Retail Email Marketing Priorities for 2015Chad S. White
Getting ready for the holiday season is almost a year-round effort—which is to say you’re preparing for November and December the other 10 months of the year.
To help you prep, I discuss 6 retail email marketing priorities in this slide deck, which includes supplemental links to research reports, articles, and real-world examples that allow you to take a deep-dive into the topics that are most important to you:
1. Reassessing program goals
2. Getting mobile-friendly
3. Optimizing snippet text
4. Increasing targeting and personalization
5. Building out triggered emails
6. Keeping inactivity in check.
Check out this slide deck and see why making progress on each of these priorities between now and October will get your email program in excellent shape for the upcoming holiday season.
The document provides tips for designing the perfect email newsletter, including using HTML templates for colors and graphics, including both text and HTML versions, keeping layouts simple, prominently placing logos and calls to action, testing designs with different email clients, and testing newsletter content and templates to improve performance. Graphics and images should be relevant, words can become links, and consistency across newsletters and websites increases brand awareness. Designs also need to avoid triggers for spam filters.
The document discusses an upcoming webinar on advanced B2B email marketing techniques. It provides information about the speaker and SalesFUSION, the company hosting the webinar. The webinar will cover topics like email marketing best practices, campaign types, deliverability, and integration with CRM. The goal is to educate attendees on leveraging emerging marketing technologies and applying industry best practices.
InboundCon 2016: 10 Tricks to Growth Hack your Email Marketing - Jeff GoldenbergPowered by Search
This document outlines Jeff Goldenberg's top 10 ways to hack email marketing. It provides tips on always collecting emails, using lead cards and ads to capture addresses, personalizing messages, segmenting lists, improving deliverability, increasing open and click through rates, designing for mobile, automating email sequences, and testing strategies. Quick wins are suggested like automating welcome, nurturing, and ecommerce emails. The importance of strategy before tools is emphasized.
The document discusses seven strategies for refreshing email marketing campaigns: 1) Focus on basics like subject lines and alt text, 2) Grow the email list through opt-ins, 3) Enhance design impact with visuals and preheader text, 4) Ensure emails are relevant, 5) Include interactive elements, 6) Analyze email analytics, and 7) Automate workflows. It provides examples and tips for each strategy, such as writing compelling subject lines that convey offers, including valuable preheader text, and making opt-ins easy to find and complete. The goal is to engage subscribers and maximize email marketing returns.
Seventy percent of readers immediately delete emails that render poorly or require a lot of pinching and scrolling. On the other hand, responsive emails, designed to automatically adjust to any screen size, receive a 21% higher click-to-open rate than conventional emails. Here's how to design them and pitfalls to avoid.
This white paper provides guidance on effective email marketing. It discusses permission-based email marketing and its cost effectiveness compared to other forms of marketing. It offers tips for email marketing such as crafting compelling subject lines, personalizing the "from" address, using mail merge to personalize content, providing quality over quantity, and testing email content and design. It also discusses growing an email list through incentives, making signups easy, leveraging existing contacts, and making the email experience worthwhile for subscribers. The white paper concludes by covering email template design considerations like theme, headlines, images, and content to clearly communicate the purpose and call to action of the email.
This document provides guidance for marketers and designers on email design best practices. It outlines 10 common mistakes to avoid, such as relying too heavily on graphics that may be blocked by email clients. Designers should create emails that look good with or without images. Call-to-actions and critical information should be in text, not graphics, to ensure they are visible. Alt text for images should provide value if the image is blocked, not just say how to view it. The preview pane area should attract readers to open the email with a compelling call-to-action or teaser, not just graphics.
Get response increase-your-emails-impactbakor Balla
This document provides guidance on effectively structuring email content according to industry best practices. It discusses optimizing the preheader, header, content, and footer sections of emails. The preheader should entice readers to open the email with a call to action. The header above the email preview pane should clearly communicate the purpose and main offer using the logo, navigation, and compelling call to action. The content should focus on selling the key benefits rather than just products. Testing different section designs is recommended to improve open and click-through rates.
This white paper discusses best practices for email marketing, focusing on implementing right-time email marketing to boost subscriber engagement and customer retention. Right-time email marketing involves sending personalized, relevant messages to subscribers based on their behaviors and interests at optimal times. The paper outlines a 4-step process for organizations to develop a right-time email strategy: 1) Lay the foundation for automated processes; 2) Define the customer lifecycle; 3) Develop a right-time contact strategy; and 4) Test and optimize programs. Implementing right-time marketing techniques can generate response rates 600% higher than traditional campaigns according to research.
For advertisers and affiliate managers: a workshop that will provide all with a better understanding of how to buy and measure the performance of their email campaigns.
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2. Design Concept:
Introduction “the development of a successful email
Email marketers face a handful of challenges when it marketing campaign is about much more
comes to getting across their messages. Deliverability than graphics and creativity.”
is the first hurdle—can you get the email past the
spam filters into the inbox? Once it’s there, you have
another problem: can they even read it? Missed Communication Opportunities
Think about sending a birthday card to a friend. You
An email can be designed one way, but display to the trust that the post office will route your card correctly.
reader in an entirely different—and often jumbled— And you expect that the envelope will prevent the
way. While HTML code is a universal language, this card from getting torn. The mail carrier will place
doesn’t mean all emails are read, or rendered, the it safely in her mail box, and naturally you assume
same by different email software. Design elements that your friend will see the card exactly as you sent
such as images, text blocks, logos, tables, videos and it. But what if it showed up in a different language?
line elements won’t always translate the same way And your signature somehow shrunk and became
for each subscriber. Some users may see centered illegible? And the teddy bear holding birthday
text, while others might completely miss seeing a balloons suddenly disappeared?
table because it was shifted to the very bottom of the
message. Chances are your friend would be annoyed, throw it
away and never knew you mailed it.
Recipients don’t have the time for or interest in
deciphering emails. Unless the campaign is carefully This is what happens with emails when they’re not
designed and appears in the inbox as intended, the rendered properly: they may make it to the inbox, but
reader— a potential customer—is likely to delete the they don’t show up in a way that makes sense to the
email without trying to read it. The result: a failed reader. That’s why the development of a successful
campaign, possible opt-outs, no sale, and no traffic email marketing campaign is about much more than
to the website. graphics and creativity. Marketers must be strategic
in their email development, informed about potential
This white paper describes the challenges associated rendering issues, and careful about their design
with designing emails to render properly—and choices.
the consequences of doing it poorly—and outlines
solutions to maximize the readability of an email What causes rendering problems?
campaign. Email marketing has morphed significantly since the
beginning of the last decade, becoming more powerful
Rendering: Technical Definition in the process. Shifts in technology, including the
proliferation of handheld email devices and the
“To convert any coded content to the
introduction of new browsers to the marketplace have
required format for display.” planted roadblocks in front of effective campaigns.
Rendering: What is it, and why does it matter? Campaigns that change shape, form or even language
According to PC Magazine, the definition of the upon delivery are one of the biggest challenges facing
word render is “to convert any coded content to the email marketers. Sometimes it’s the aesthetics of
required format for display.” The key word in this the email that are altered, or the branding is often
definition is “required.” Sending an email campaign misrepresented, or key calls to action are hidden. This
requires attention to details such as how the message can happen when:
will display on the recipient’s screen.
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3. • Images are blocked due to the user’s security of the message should be provided for each campaign a
setting, or the email defaults to some other marketer sends. Time and time again, marketers with
unintended setting in Outlook, or a consumer- the best of intentions send campaigns that have the key
driven email platform like Yahoo. message and call to action hidden because of a blocked
image.
• The font changes when the email is delivered and
opened (compared to what was previewed in the Furthermore, an email marketer needs to make sure
email service provider’s preview window). that customers also can view a “text-only” version
• Consumer-driven free platforms may reformat of the email. With the advent of technology like a
text for some email messages, making a font Blackberry or an iPhone in everyone’s pocket, they
larger or centered, even though it wasn’t intended are dealing with consumers and business people
that way by the email designer. who have the ability to read a message on the go.
If the customer has the ability to switch to a text-
only version, as opposed to an HTML-based email,
Design Challenge: the marketer has a greater ability of appealing to
Design for both mobile and desktop. a customer who doesn’t have time to wait for a
Assume images will be turned off. graphics-heavy marketing email to open.
Only half of email marketers design for
Variety of devices, platforms and settings maximum success
generate differences in rendering Current statistics show that less than 50% of all email
In a perfect world, a marketer could choose which marketers actually design and render their customer-
device or email client displayed their email. But driven email correctly (Email Experience Council,
there’s no way to control how customers choose to Deliverability Resource Guide 2009). About one
open these messages. The differences among devices, out of five emails show blocked content or invisible
platforms and a sender’s personal settings greatly graphics.
affect the rendering of email campaigns.
50%:
Microsoft Outlook, for example, has several versions
Only half of all email marketers design
currently in use by businesses, each version with
different rendering and display properties than the their messages correctly.
next. Consumer email clients have frequent platform
changes, including Yahoo! Mail Beta and Microsoft’s
If one out of every five emails from a campaign is not
Live Mail Beta. These frequent changes no longer
doing its job, the marketer is quickly losing business.
guarantee that emails will open the way they are
Because an email didn’t render correctly, potential
supposed to simply because they are working on a
business was cut by 20%. And for a campaign that
broad-based email platform.
had 100 potential customers, that means the marketer
The all-important call to action is often lost due only reached 80.
to images rendering improperly
Coding for email development can’t be done by
When the email marketer is working with the preview
just any Web developer
pane, such as with Microsoft Outlook, they have limited
Designing an email for a marketing campaign and
area to work with. They need to make it count. A
designing a website are two very different things.
compelling call to action must be visible without having
While proper email rendering is based on coding
to open the email entirely and the subject line should be
HTML just like a website, these two items differ in
clear. And in case a user’s security settings block images
practice and implementation.
from being displayed, a link to a browser-based version
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4. Microsoft Outlook 2007
Worst email client to design for because it
uses Explorer as its rendering engine
Emails not only have to wrestle with security settings to sign up for free accounts through Gmail, Hotmail
and smaller window sizes, but many email clients and Yahoo and send your test email to those accounts.
simply translate messages differently because they Also send test emails to an email using Outlook and
each use their own rendering engines. Rendering to a Blackberry or an iPhone.
engines decide how things will look. Many do not
support some design elements that are commonly A comprehensive email test system by Litmus allows
found on websites. for advanced testing to see what an email will look like
on a variety of email programs and servers, from the
So when a designer codes an email the same way subject line, to the preview pane, to the opened email.
as the company website with complex HTML code, Furthermore, this process allows an email marketer
many email clients will choose an alternative format. to understand where there needs to be improvement,
This is especially true if there are interactive features development or correction done before the email is
and graphics embedded in the material. For example, sent to their potential customers or clients.
even simple design components such as margins are
not supported by Microsoft Outlook 2007, which Testing emails is equivalent to a magazine publisher
often renders the text unreadable. reviewing proofs and print samples before mailing to
subscribers. Without this important step, publishers
Best way to determine which rendering would lose their audiences fast. The same is true for
problems affect your email: Test. Test. Test. email marketers.
While there are a variety of technical issues that
could lead to improper or failed delivery of an email ”Worst offenders” that complicate rendering
marketing program, an email marketer has the ability While there are a growing number of proponents
to test their email marketing program to determine if for the adaptation of universal HTML standards, a
what they are sending to customers is effective once handful of popular email clients still do not support
it is received. basic email design components. The Email Standards
Project, a group of passionate email industry insiders,
Testing can be done in a few ways. One way would be has conducted tests to determine which email clients
What Will Your Email Really Look Like?
Outlook 2007 View Google Gmail View Lotus Notes 8View
The original layout,
the way it was
intended to look Source: http://www.email-standards.org/clients
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5. Email rendering becomes a problem when
designs include the following HTML coding
elements. Designers should either eliminate
these codes from their emails, or understand
that some recipients might not view the email
as it was originally intended. This list does
not include all design challenges, just those
that the design community feels are essential
components of email design.
• Background images
• Margins, borders and padding
• Float and clear properties
• List-style images (custom bullets)
While these lists comprise the major stumbling
blocks to email rendering, designers still
encounter other ISPs, browsers and email
clients that have issues with accurately
displaying some cosmetic components of
emails. Luckily, there are ways around most
complications.
Top design recommendations for
successful email rendering
Simply put, it’s best to keep things simple.
render emails properly, and which design elements Email recipients don’t have a lot of time
provide the most challenges. to figure out confusing content, and it is hard to
do something so complex that it will look good
The following email clients, ranked in order of how everywhere. If an email can’t get its message across
without complicated designs, perhaps the overall
Lucky Thirteen campaign strategy needs to be reconsidered.
The thirteen rules of email rendering.
For any email marketer looking to boost campaign
metrics by improving message rendering, there are
poorly they performed on those tests, cause email
ways to fix issues they are experiencing, and ways
designers the most frustration because of improper
to avoid them in the future. The following “Lucky
email rendering. Their rendering engines do not
Thirteen” guidelines are best practices for email
support commonly used design code and, as a result,
campaign design:
email recipients using these readers are not able to
see many emails as they were originally designed. 1. Don’t use background images that are essential to
your campaign message. There’s nothing wrong
1. Outlook 2007 with plain backgrounds. In fact, they have a
2. Gmail history of better readability and keep the size of
3. Lotus Notes 8 your emails down, which is an important factor
4. Windows Live Hotmail in deliverability.
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6. 2. Remember that you are not designing a web must be complete. The message must be easily
page; the window will be much narrower in the understood, with or without graphics.
recipient’s email client than in their browser. And
many times you need to design for the preview 8. Avoid using external style sheets (CSS). Many
pane, which is even smaller. Therefore create email clients disable style sheets and therefore
a fluid design without wide images, and avoid your hard work and beautiful design templates
margins and padding which tends to shift text won’t come through on the other side. Instead,
when rendered in Outlook 2007, Gmail, Lotus use tables and inline styles which work best for
Notes 8 and Hotmail. templates that are utilized by several staff of
varying design skills.
3. Instead of float and clear, just use hard break
codes like <br> tags. 9. Sometimes designers find that emails have
trouble rendering width/height settings when
4. There’s no need for custom bullets in most cases. percentage values are are used. Many email
If you absolutely must have a design element clients ignore a percentage because it does not
that acts as a custom bullet, consider including recognize it as a valid property. Instead, always
an image of your bulleted list. Keep in mind, use pixel sizes instead of percentages to avoid the
however, there’s still a chance your image will be images showing up extra large.
blocked.
10. Not only should you define the size by pixel
5. To tackle the common problem of image height and width but you should also keep image
suppression, use HTML text and alt tags. When original image file sizes small. There’s no need to
images are turned off in a user’s settings, an alt use images with anything greater than 72-96 dpi
tag enables them to see or “read” what your image since screen resolution is much lower than what’s
represents. For example, if the image is a $5 commonly used for printing. In addition, smaller
coupon, include an alt tag that says, “$5 coupon.” file sizes make for faster page loading time.
That way, a customer can see the text of your
promotion even if the images are blocked. They 11. Work with common, identifiable fonts—
would then know to visit your web version of the Arial, Tahoma, Courier—that are universally
email if they want the coupon. recognized. Also, do not use periods or extra
spaces in between letters or make the font of the
6. In addition, don’t overlook providing text for the email too big. When this occurs an email client
call to action, or forget to link to the action you like Hotmail will translate the HTML coding
want people to take. For example, if a potential different from the way it was intended. There have
customer can’t see your button that says, “Free been reported instances of Hotmail converting
Quote,” that links to a data collection form, you’ve text to ASCII text, which then renders the email
missed out on that opportunity. By employing more or less useless to most of your audience.
these principles, marketers will see increased
opens, more click-throughs, and ultimately new 12. To avoid being caught by spam filters, don’t
conversions. design off-balance emails. Off-balance emails use
more images than HTML, or are all text and no
7. Similarly, include a link in the email that allows images. And never use JavaScript. Many spam
the reader to click to see the email in the available filter programs look for a good balance between
web browser, instead of in the email itself. Make images, HTML and text in your message, and can
sure the email has hyperlinks in the message detect if an email contains Java.
itself—not only attached to an image. Customers
look for information through an email, not just 13. Use an HTML table when coding page layout.
in the images or graphics; therefore, the message This will display the content of the email
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7. consistently for all readers, and will prevent text
from centering itself or moving to other areas. It For more information about email marketing and
is important to use the attributes within the table list acquistion, including strategy, deliverability
and tags to control the overall display. Therefore, and best practices, visit www.goldlasso.com. For
if an email marketer aligns all of their text to the a copy of our “Lucky Thirteen” email designer’s
left, when the customer opens it, that’s the way it reference checklist, email service@goldlasso.com.
will be viewed.
Conclusion: To be successful, email marketing
must be accessible
Email marketing offers a fantastic cost-controlled
opportunity for marketing and sales growth, but only
if the targeted email is rendered correctly and the
message is consistent and accessible to the recipients.
Email campaigns that are carefully designed to
display properly enable customers to clearly, quickly
and easily get the message—and respond to the call
to action.
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