I recorded myself while rehearsing my talk for Smashing Conf 2019. It's not perfect and I might have stuttered more than once. Plus, my Macbook fans became crazy towards the end. But this way everyone can enjoy the talk while it's still hot. [...]
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youtube.com 
Design
In einer aktuellen Story auf OMR.com gibt es spannende Einblicke in die Wachstumsstrategie des jungen Medienunternehmens „Morning Brew“, das einen gleichnamigen Newsletter mit aggregierten und kommentierten Wirtschaftsnachrichten veröffentlicht: Dank eines Weiterempfehlungsprogramms ist der Verteiler von 100.000 im Jahr 2017 auf aktuell über 1,5 Millionen E-Mail-Abonnenten angewachsen. LeserInnen, die den Newsletter empfehlen, erhalten je nach Anzahl [...]
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emailmarketingblog.de 
Listbuilding
You’re looking to include bulleted lists in your HTML emails? Here's how to code lists that work in all email clients—and follow accessibility guidelines. [...]
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litmus.com
Design
I’m here to tell you that your email marketing metrics (or KPIs) are wrong. Your email opens and clicks are probably inflated by 50% or more. In fact, we’re finding that email marketing key performance indicators (KPIs) are becoming increasingly more unreliable as time goes on, rather than less. However, not all is doom and gloom; there are solutions to help alleviate this issue with email reporting, giving you a better sense of the truth. But be ready for a wake-up call on how well your emails are [...]
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medium.com
Marketing
Have your subject line writing strategies and tactics kept up with the times? Check and see if you’re accounting for these six changes in subject line writing, going from the oldest to the newest trend. [...]
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oracle.com
Subjectline
What’s the average email open rate? How about a good click-through rate? And what are the average email marketing statistics in your industry? You’ll find the answers to these and other questions in the Email Marketing Benchmarks report. [...]
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getresponse.com
Study
GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is an extensively used file format for graphic images on the World Wide Web. Besides being an obvious standard for developing quality images on websites, it is used for adding quality images even in email. GIF is better than any other format if you want to add lossless, compressed animations in[...]
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emailmonks.com
Gallery
Eine Händlerin setzte den Versand ihres Newsletters an eine Empfängerin fort, auch nachdem diese ihre ursprünglich erteilte Einwilligung widerrufen hatte. Die Empfängerin beschwerte sich offenbar bei der Wettbewerbszentrale. Die Möglichkeit zur Abmahnung bzw. Geltendmachung von Unterlassungsansprüchen bei unerlaubter E-Mail-Werbung besteht nicht nur für den betroffenen Empfänger. Auch Wettbewerber und qualifizierte Einrichtungen zum Schutz von Verbraucherinteressen können die Abgabe einer [...]
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absolit.de
Law
Google’s mission is to sift through the ocean of data out there and bubble up the most critical information so you can find it more easily. They do that in their search results and they increasingly do that in Gmail, whether it’s through Gmail Highlights, featuring the “Top Deals” in the Promotions tab, or through their latest feature, Email Annotations. [...]
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oracle.com
Subjectline, Design, Marketing
The protection of your customer data is not only of the highest priority for you, but also for the email service provider that is sending on your behalf. Article 33 of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) stipulates what happens in the case of abreach involving personal data: In this case, the data controller (here, the companydoing the marketing) must inform the data subjects (customers whose data has been breached) [...]
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certified-senders.org
Marketing
I pretty frequently get requests for help from someone who has been impersonated—or whose child has been impersonated—via email. Even when you know how to "view headers" or "view source" in your email client, the spew of diagnostic wharrgarbl can be pretty overwhelming if you don't know what you're looking at. Today, we're going to step through a real-world set of (anonymized) email headers and describe the process of figuring out what's what. [...]
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arstechnica.com
Ted Goas is a Principal Product Designer at Stack Overflow—the world’s largest Q&A platform for software developers. And I was thrilled to see Ted toss a hat in the ring to speak at Iterable Activate this year about email design systems. It’s a hot topic! Email design systems are a terrific way to speed email production and reinforce brand standards, but they’re not yet terribly widespread. So we were lucky to have Ted with us to explain how to build one from scratch during his session, “Design [...]
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vimeo.com
Design
Having a relevant email list packed with potential buyers and returning customers is crucial if you want to ensure continuous growth for your online store. But what makes a good email popup? If you’re asking yourself this question, you’ve come to the right place. In this post, I’ll show you 9 email popup examples from top brands and share why they work. Let’s get started. [...]
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sleeknote.com
Listbuilding, Gallery
Fehlende Schnittstellen, umfassende Datenschutzbestimmungen oder langwierige Freigabeprozesse: E-Mail-Marketing kann schon einmal an den Nerven zehren. Vielleicht ist es in solchen Momenten hilfreich zu wissen, dass es noch wesentlich schlimmer geht: Joe Pettersson beschreibt in einem Thread auf Twitter, wie eine Bank in Großbritannien den Abmeldeprozess im E-Mail-Marketing aufgebaut hat. Die Geschichte beantwortet endlich auch die Frage, warum die Newsletter-Abmeldung bei einigen Unternehmen auch im [...]
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emailmarketingblog.de
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In addition to giving our CRM away for free, we’re also giving away free email. This means I know where our leads were coming from, whether or not our sales team was following up with those leads, how much money is in our pipeline, and could even write personalized emails based on where prospects are in their customer lifecycle! That's a solid sales and marketing setup for exactly $0. We're also adding Facebook, Google, and LinkedIn Ads tools to the CRM -- for free. Now you can report on your ad [...]
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hubspot.com
ESP
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