Animation and Video in Email Best Practices

Email marketers have been anxious to embed videos in emails for years. In 2019, it’s safe to use animated GIFs to simulate video, but hold off on embedded video for now.

Email Unsubscribe Best Practices

It may seem backwards to you when I recommend that you make it as insanely easy and obvious in all of your emails to unsubscribe from receiving future emails. Read on as there is a method to my madness…

A Marketing Automation Truth Bomb

Have you ever questioned whether your organization should invest in a marketing automation (MA) platform? Or if you have already invested in one, are you questioning if you really need it? If so, you’re not alone.

Email Accessibility Compliance for Marketers

Regardless of the lack of enforcement or penalty for noncompliance to website owners and marketers, the best practice for web development and email factors in accessibility to optimize ALL users’ experience (UX).

Helpful Email Open Best Practices

The ultimate goal of an email is to get into the inbox, get in front of a recipient, entice them to open the email and then drive them somewhere to do something. Seems simple enough, right? Well, anyone who knows email marketing will tell you the devil is in the details.

Email Addresses are NOT Created Equal

When you are collecting email addresses on a form in exchange for free content, the quality of the email address matters. You can’t control which email address someone gives you, but you can control what you do with it once you have it.

Privacy Management and Consent Compliance for Marketers

How do you plan to manage privacy consent with ALL your digital assets by January 2020? How will people revoke consent and how do you plan to purge data when people do revoke consent?

Content Marketing ROI

Oh no! Not another noisy display ad that drives you to content less useful than a henway. What’s a henway? About 5-pounds, but that is beside the point. If you’re trying to justify why content is worth the investment, read on.