Welcome to this week's edition of the email marketing roundup. Please find selected news and inspiration below. Have a nice weekend!
Greetings from Berlin, Rene Kulka/@lukeAnker |
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A Practical Guide On How to Get Out of Gmail’s Promotions Tab
One of the most common reasons why emails are filtered down to the Promotions tab is that they contain a high number of images and links. In the email I tested above for our case study, there is little text and lots of links including linked images and icons with links to social profiles. I began my test by removing the “View in browser” header with its links, and images with links to social profiles. [...]
jeffbullas.com
Design
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LinkedIn Lead Generation Forms and Marketing Automation
If done right, the new features have a huge potential to create a more seamless experience for your customers, especially Lead Generation Forms. They not only make it easier for marketers to convert and generate more leads with automatically populated mobile friendly forms, but they also make it possible to throw a marketing automation tool into the mix! By adding the right marketing automation tool to the mix, this feature will basically enable digital marketer to create a seamless journey for [...]
apsis.com
Listbuilding Automation B2B Social
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Stop Shaming Your Users for Micro Conversions
A problematic trend is spreading like an epidemic on the web. In a desperate attempt to nudge users towards conversions like newsletter signups some websites are adding manipulative link text to their popup modals. These user-shaming labels are called manipulinks (a clever term coined by Steve Costello): they employ the practice of what is often referred to as confirmshaming — making users feel bad for opting out of an offer (logically, this practice might better be described as declineshaming). [...]
nngroup.com
Listbuilding
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How a simple newsletter grew our business and turned into a product.
At the time we were building the initial version of Ludlow, we were also working on a proof of concept machine learning / recommednation engine that would pull out contextual data from print, image, and video content, then based on preference recommend said content to users, and although research revealed a difficult path for this product, it consequently wound up in Ludlow powering the platform’s artificial intelligence. Not only were we now able to pull content from a multitude of sources, but we [...]
medium.com
Marketing
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The Zapier Guide to Facebook Lead Ads
With more than a quarter of the world's population as users, Facebook has one of the largest online audiences in the world—and an advertising platform to match. Facebook's ad platform lets advertisers integrate hyper-targeted ads into users' daily news feed experience. Facebook Lead Ads, launched in late 2015, takes it a step further. While the initial ad looks like any other ad, it is combined with a form that's pre-filled with information the user has shared with Facebook, allowing a business [...]
zapier.com
Listbuilding Social Tool
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Global Industry Benchmarks 2017 [PDF] 10.4mb
The legal services industry reports the highest ROI of all the industries represented. One might find that strange for one of the last industries to go digital at all, but their success could be attributed to that newcomer status. The marketers within the legal industry already had a knowledge base for email marketing as a discipline, and could then apply that more advanced knowledge once the legal industry was ready to use it. [...]
getresponse.com
Study
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Lessons Learned From 2,345,864 Exit Overlay Visitors
Offering specific, tangible resources (vs. non-specific promises) can positively affect conversion rates. Increasing the number of form fields in overlays can cause friction that reduces conversion rates. Overlay sizes exceeding 800×500 can be too large for some browsers and reduce load:view ratio (and overall impressions). Just because an offer is relevant doesn’t mean it’s good. Conversion rates vary considerably between blog categories. Not all content is created equal; some resources are more [...]
unbounce.com
Listbuilding Test
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E-Mail-Award 2017 - Einreichungen Newsletter [GFX]
Mit dem Preis wurden die besten E-Mail und Data-Driven Marketing Kampagnen des Jahres ausgezeichnet. Die Preisverleihung fand im Rahmen des DialogSummit, der europäschen Konferenz für Data Driven Marketing, am 04. Mai 2017 in Frankfurt statt. Bewertet wurden dabei die kreative Idee, die ansprechende Gestaltung sowie der Erfolg der Maßnahme. Die Einreichungen wurden von einer unabhängigen Jury beurteilt. Die besten drei Gewinner jeder Kategorie stellten ihre Beiträge auf dem DialogSummit einem aus [...]
e-mail-award.de (translate)
Gallery
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E-Mail-Award 2017 - Einreichungen E-Mailing [GFX]
Mit dem Preis wurden die besten E-Mail und Data-Driven Marketing Kampagnen des Jahres ausgezeichnet. Die Preisverleihung fand im Rahmen des DialogSummit, der europäschen Konferenz für Data Driven Marketing, am 04. Mai 2017 in Frankfurt statt. Bewertet wurden dabei die kreative Idee, die ansprechende Gestaltung sowie der Erfolg der Maßnahme. Die Einreichungen wurden von einer unabhängigen Jury beurteilt. Die besten drei Gewinner jeder Kategorie stellten ihre Beiträge auf dem DialogSummit einem aus [...]
e-mail-award.de (translate)
Gallery
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2017 North American Email Benchmarks & Trends Report [PDF]
In this 2017 edition of our North American Email Marketing Benchmarks & Trends Report, we discuss the six major trends in email marketing including the impact of mobile devices on the customer experience, struggles with email deliverability, the rise of contextual marketing, customer journeys, adaptive content, and the impact of marketing automation. We also provide a commentary about North American email marketing benchmarks for the full year, 2016. [...]
hubspot.net
Study Trend
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The 17 emails we send to engage customers, reduce churn & increase revenue
From the start of Baremetrics I’ve wanted to stay away from being a faceless company. Given we’re a B2B company, that’s relatively easy. We’re not dealing with 10,000 or 100,000 customers here, so making sure each and every customer gets some sort of interaction just makes sense. Keeping in touch with users makes for happier people and ultimately results in lower churn. But what are some ways to do that? Here’s a breakdown of all the ways we stay in touch with users, including the exact emails we sen [...]
baremetrics.com
Automation B2B Gallery
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CSS Grid in Email — Making fallbacks work
In email #2 we tried out CSS grid, and found an approach that works in some devices, and falls back to a similar layout for many others thanks to the hybrid-div approach. However there were some email clients that had a fairly poor experience, particularly Outlooks 2007, 10, 13 & 16 (which use Microsoft’s Word engine to render HTML), plus Gmail IMAP (which doesn’t read style tags) and some regional email clients like Mail RU (which read *some CSS*, seemingly at random). These don’t represent a huge [...]
medium.com
Design Mobile
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