As photography can be expensive and time consuming to produce, designers are often encouraged to leverage stock imagery. The risk here is that using imagery available to everyone, at a small price, can lead to generic and unengaging designs that are unlikely to capture your audience’s imagination and drive results. “A reliance on stock imagery can run the risk of a competing company using the same images as you, which could negatively impact trust in your product or service—and harm the unique [...]
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Design, Trend
“Forms in email don’t work.” “Forms are powered by JavaScript—and that’s not supported in email.” Have you heard these words before? Us too. Many marketers think that using interactive forms in email simply isn’t possible, but we’re here to bust that myth. The truth is that interactive forms are supported in many popular email clients and can be a powerful tool to make your emails more engaging and increase conversions—if you know how to do it. [...]
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Design
What tools does Litmus use to share email performance across the team (and beyond)? What tools would you suggest? Jason Rodriguez: We use a variety of tools, but the most important ones are an internal dashboard that pulls in metrics from our ESP, Google Analytics, and a few other places. [...]
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What email clients offer Dark Mode and how does it impact your email designs? Here's everything you must know about one of the hottest email design trends. [...]
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Design, Mobile
Transactional emails are the revenue powerhouse of your email marketing program. Our 2019 State of Email research uncovered that a third of companies attribute 25% of their email revenue to transactional and triggered emails. One of the most important series of transactional emails you’ll send are around transactions themselves. Nobody wants to submit an order online only to be met with radio silence or the bare minimum communication at best. Order, shipping, and delivery confirmation emails allow [...]
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Automation, Gallery, Design
Email marketing is notorious for changing frequently—and changing fast. With so many things to keep up with, how do you know what affects your program the most? In this webinar, we took a look at the changes on the email marketing horizon and share our predictions on where email is heading in 2020 and beyond. [...]
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Design
What’s something that half of all internet users do four times a year? Forget their password. Not everyone fares so well, though. A little over 25% of people forget their password at least ten times a year, and 7% have to reset one of their passwords more than 16 times a year. We’ve all been there, too. You don’t know if you’re on a website that requires a special character or if the company doesn’t allow them in their passwords. So you hit the “reset password” button. Then your hero, the password [...]
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Gallery
With the year 2020 within reach, we’re about to enter a new decade of email design. But which visual design trends will shape the look of emails in the 2020s? Trends that dominated designs in 2019 will still be popular in the coming year. We’ll continue to see vibrant colors, bold typography, and off-grid designs. But new trends in digital design will make their way into the email design world over the coming months. [...]
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Gallery, Design, Trend
n this webinar, we take a look at email design trends through the years. How did email look in the early 2000s? Which trends joined the winners’ circle in 2019? And what’s gonna be huge in 2020—or even 2030? Watch us take a trip down email design memory lane and make predictions on what comes next. What was popular in 2019—and how far has email design come over the past decade? What’s up and coming in 2020 and beyond? Should you use any of these design trends? Learn how to figure out what trends can [...]
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Gallery, Design, Trend
Learn what ESPs are most popular with your peers—and why some ESPs are better suited to your needs than others. [...]
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Study, ESP
Interactivity has been a top email design trend for a few years, and it’s easy to see why. Interactive elements make an email more accessible, and often, more fun and engaging. The concept takes a format that has long been a single, static message, and turns it into an entire experience within the inbox. Yet it isn’t actually a pervasive design or strategy. We asked nearly 2,000 email marketers about their team’s use of interactive email design, and we’re a little surprised by the results. [...]
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Design, Trend
Animated imagery is one of the top email design trends for 2019. Email marketers everywhere are looking to add movement to their campaigns—and the most popular way of doing that is by using the power of animated GIFs. But animated GIFs aren’t the only file type that allows you to add movement to imagery. Animated Portable Network Graphics—or APNGs—are an option you might want to explore, too. [...]
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Design
In our fourth annual State of Email Workflows report, we take a detailed look at how over 3,000 email marketers: Handle crucial pre-send processes including content planning, email design, coding, testing, and reviews and approvals—and what tools they use along the way; Analyze campaigns post-send to monitor deliverability and measure the effectiveness of their campaigns; Use these insights to inform and strengthen strategy in their other marketing channels [...]
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Study
We analyzed billions of email opens by time of day and found that the results are heavily impacted by geolocation and device usage. [...]
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Study, Sendtime
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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Design
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