Gmail announced last week that it’s adding a new, powerful tool for email marketers: annotations for the Gmail Promotions tab. The Gmail promotions annotation – which will be gradually rolling out across mobile inboxes – allows email marketers to include additional branding and offer information when an email lands in the Promotions tab. “You guys are the experts at creating value for our users, and we want to give you the keys of how emails…get previewed,” says Jordan Grossman, product manager for [...]
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emailonacid.com 
Design, Marketing, Tool
The Black Friday emails are deleted, marketers’ email lists are checked twice, we pretty much know which senders have been naughty or nice. Another year in email is coming to a close, and boy, what a ride. While most thought leaders are busy making predictions about 2019, we like to learn from the past to [...]
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250ok.com
Trend
The prospect of landing in Gmail’s promotion tab just got a little more enticing for email marketers.
Google recently announced email annotations, designed to deliver more value for emails and marketers in the Gmail promotions tab. According to Google, email annotations “let you include images, deals, expirations dates, and other offers to help bring your promotional email to life.”
The new experience gives marketers an innovative way to drive engagement with promotional email recipients by adding hig
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250ok.com
Design, Marketing
Gmail released a new set of Promotion Tab features yesterday that included a sender customized preview called PromotionCard, custom logos and deal badges. See here for the overview. I’ve created a simple tool to help you generate the markup required to display the features when your email is featured in the Top Promotions section in Gmail’s Promotion Tab (Note there is no guarantee that your email will be featured). [...]
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freshinbox.com
Design, Marketing
1. Bizzabo: Three choices – one action. The webinar invites from Bizzabo gave CTA in 3 ways. Fit and the primary option is within the header of the email, the next was in the body text, and the last option is finally the CTA button. Although using multiple options could look unnecessary as all the CTA will finally take to the same landing page. However, this repetition during can solely focus more on the aim of the email and create an additional option for the webinar registration. [...]
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chamaileon.io
Event, Gallery, Design
Email marketing is increasingly becoming a team sport as email has shifted from plain text memos to HTML layouts, and now to dynamic content. There is more people involved in any single campaign than ever before, so it’s time to take stock of who’s on your team and what role they play. [...]
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mailjet.com
Marketing
Marketing automation has swooned the world of digital marketing. But even though it might feel alluring to dive in head first to conquer the advanced flows; it’ll be your detriment. Because in all honesty: We need to get off the hype train. Even though the possibilities of marketing automation are endless, you need to learn how to walk before you leap. In reality, this means that you need to get back the basics and nail your welcome flows. That way, you’ll ensure that you get off to the right start [...]
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apsis.com
Automation, Trend
Here’s some things not to do when you’re in a crisis and need to send breach notifications: Register a new domain name. New domains tend to have no brand recognition and no reputation; Move to a new IP. New IPs need to be warmed up before being used, and this can take 30 days or more to manage; [...]
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emailkarma.net
Marketing
Unsurprisingly, Zendesk focuses on customer support and chatting with the team during its free trial email series. Zendesk sent nine emails, including one authentication message, during the 14-day [...]
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medium.com
Automation, Gallery
Regional norms: Dedicated IPs are now standard in North America, where email marketers tend to have larger lists and utilize more aggressive mailing practices required for individual reputation management. However, in the European Union and APAC regions, a shared IP setup is more standard as lists are smaller and the permission for data collection is more stringent. [...]
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250ok.com
Deliverability
Which emails have you opened recently? Cup of Jo: “There are two newsletters that I keep an eye out for every week, and the first is from my all-time favorite blog, Cup of Jo. Joanna Goddard and her team of writers are content geniuses, but they also do a great job of keeping their readers’ interests in mind and chopping up their clever phrases and colorful images into bite-sized bits of inspiration. Although I’d usually advise against subject lines like ‘Hey, What’s Up?’ and ‘Happy (Almost) Weekend, [...]
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myemma.com
Gallery
There’s some noise in the email industry around Google’s new draft API policy framework, and the verbal comment from some people (though not all) at Oath/Verizon Media Group that they will follow suit. The noise is for good reason. This action would be a real and unnecessary blow to email marketers everywhere. I understand what [...]
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returnpath.com
Intelligence, Law
Well, that took longer than we thought! However, we’re proud to announce that we finally hit and surpassed 1000 handpicked emails that we think rock in terms of email design and/or content. As you can imagine, handpicking the best email designs is a time-consuming process. We look for designs that are eye-catching, have a clear call to action, a good mixture of HTML text/images, look great across all devices and have relevant content or interesting content. Many of the emails we receive are just [...]
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curated.email
Gallery, Design, Trend
“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” I think this 1963 quote from William Bruce Cameron (often misattributed to Albert Einstein) touches on some of the potential pitfalls of marketing dashboards. In this era of data-driven marketing, dashboards can give marketers a false sense of security. They always appear authoritative, but the true value depends on what’s being measured. [...]
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marketoonist.com
Intelligence
We recently released Email Tabs in Firefox Test Pilot. This was a project I championed, and I wanted to offer some context on it. Email Tabs is a browser add-on that makes it easier to compose an email message from your tabs/pages. The experiment page describes how it works, but to summarize it from a technical point of view: [...]
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ianbicking.org
Marketing
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