Email preference centers have been around for a long time, and far too many haven’t been updated since they were first published. Let’s talk through the necessities and nice-to-haves of a solid preference center and banish the boring forms of the past. Default vs. Hyper-Customized Preferences The level of complexity for most legacy preference centers tends to be low. Most, if not all, ESPs [...]
 brightwave.com        Customization   

I’ve been working with PizzaExpress as a developer for their emails since I started at the email agency ActionRocket. The exciting thing about these guys is they love to push email to include some cool interactivity and really want to experiment with the channel to get results. The brief came in to add some interactivity to the new dessert menu – they always have lovely photography of all the food and one image had all the new desserts. As usual, I had been flicking through Curated Emails and seen so [...]
 curated.email        Design   

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 [...]
 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. [...]
 marketoonist.com        Intelligence   

Salesforce is a big dog in the SaaS industry. Ever wondered how they tackle onboarding? Below we’ll break down the free trial onboarding series for Salesforce, one email at a time. Salesforce sent 6 [...]
 medium.com        Automation     B2B     Gallery   

For those of you signed up to our great weekly newsletter, you’ll have noticed some spooky goings on in your inbox last week. We decided to spend a bit of time on it for a Halloween special and send out an email no’one would be expecting… The brief: What scares us #emailgeeks the most? [...]
 emaildesignreview.com        Design   

Attribution is a problem as old as email, and it’s a huge topic – much too big to fully address in a simple blog article. And, sadly, I don’t have all the answers. In fact, I’m not sure that anyone does. But it is a topic that deserves much more attention. The more aware we are of it as a problem that holds us email marketers back from delivering the valuable emails that our consumers want, the more likely we will work individually and collectively toward an answer. [...]
 onlyinfluencers.com        Webanalytics   

Implemented as an easy-to-find button when opening a message, the Unsubscribe feature lets users easily stop receiving emails without ever having to leave their Yahoo Mail inboxes. An option to unsubscribe from an email sender appears in each email. And in case users erroneously clicked the Unsubscribe button, they can reverse the unsubscribe action, up to three seconds after the initial click. Our Unsubscribe feature helps keep inboxes clean and filled only with relevant content, making the entire [...]
 tumblr.com        Unsubscribe   

Der Wegfall der Rechtsgrundlage zur Zusendung von E-Mail-Werbung führt auch dann zur Frage der Löschung, wenn die betroffene Person nicht ausdrücklich die Löschung verlangt. Denn wenn Daten zu einem Zweck verarbeitet werden und sich dieser Zweck erledigt oder die Rechtsgrundlage zur Verarbeitung für diesen Zweck nicht mehr gegeben ist, dann sind die entsprechenden Daten zu löschen . Werden alle Daten gelöscht, dann kann später weder geprüft werden, ob jemals E-Mail-Werbung zugesendet wurde, noch die [...]
 email-marketing-forum.de    (translate)     Law   

Die Datenschutzgrundverordnung hat in den letzten Monaten für viel Wirbel gesorgt, auch unter E-Mail-Marketern. Dabei sind die tatsächlichen Auswirkungen der DSGVO geringer, als vielfach kolportiert. Die deutsche Datenschutzkonferenz (DSK), der Zusammenschluss der deutschen Datenschutzaufsichtsbehörden, hat nun eine neue Orientierungshilfe herausgeben, mit man sich als Online-Marketing-Experte befassen sollte. Vorweg ist wichtig zu wissen, dass die Orientierungshilfen der DSK eine Behördenmeinung [...]
 absolit.de    (translate)     Law   

The SpamAssassin 3.4.2 release was the first from that project in well over three years. At the 2018 Open Source Summit Europe, Giovanni Bechis talked about that release and those that will be coming in the near future. It would seem that, after an extended period of quiet, the SpamAssassin project is back and has rededicated itself to the task of keeping junk out of our inboxes.
 lwn.net        Spam     Deliverability   

Tricksy From Field. As you might see in the above screenshot there are two emails in the Sent folder despite them being addressed to and received by account holder. We double checked the email headers to see if what we saw in the displayed From/To fields was correct, and as you can see in the screenshots the “From” field has a weird structure: [...]
 ycombinator.com        Study   

Die DSGVO enthält keine spezielle Regelung hinsichtlich der Gültigkeit einer eingeholten Einwilligung in zeitlicher Hinsicht. Die Regelung zum Widerruf der Einwilligung in Art. 7 Abs.3 DSGVO und die Normierung des Zweckbindungsgrundsatzes wurden vom Gesetzgeber vermutlich als ausreichend erachtet, um das Verfallsdatum von Einwilligungen im Einzelfall zu bestimmen. Im Falle eines wirksam erklärten Widerrufs lässt sich die Gültigkeitsdauer der Einwilligung klar bestimmen. Was aber gilt, wenn eine [...]
 datenschutzbeauftragter-info.de    (translate)     Law