John Bonini
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How to Write Engaging Transactional Emails, featuring Beth Dunn
Think back to the most important email you sent last month. What comes to mind? It could've been a newsletter or promotion, but it’s also possible that the most important email you sent last month was actually written months ago—in the form of a transactional email.
How to Successfully Promote Your Content Through Email featuring Joe Pulizzi
For most brands, a person’s email address is as good as any currency. Not just because it’s how they communicate with and, advertise, promote, sell, and even deliver their products to customers, but more importantly, because it signals the subscriber's willingness to listen.
How to Write Great Email Copy featuring Ann Handley
Writing for email may be one of the most difficult jobs in marketing. Different segments require different messaging. The devices your subscribers are using affect the perceived value of your copy. (What’s helpful on desktop may be long and laborious on mobile.) And subject lines? You have just a few short words to compel your subscribers to open, otherwise all that copy you wrote has significantly less impact. The words we choose matter.
How to Write Emails That Sell: An Analysis of Influential Language
Most people are turned off by the dominant sales pitch. But does that mean they’re turned off by sales in general, or is there a better approach to take in our email campaigns?
Google’s New Smart Reply Feature for Inbox: Here’s How it Works
This week, Google announced it will be rolling out a nifty new feature to its Inbox app called Smart Reply. The idea behind it is simple: after you receive an email to your inbox, Google will suggest—or perhaps more appropriately, predict—phrases to use when replying. But, is this a cool, useful new feature? Or yet another “yay, technology” moment that’ll never generate any widespread adoption?
A First Look at AOL’s Alto Mail App: What Email Marketers Need to Know
AOL has reintroduced its webmail app, Alto. Alto supports all the global email providers, allows you to pull them all together in one inbox, and easily switch between them all in one app. Beyond the usual display options in most email apps, Alto boasts some pretty unique organizational tools that automatically highlight important (and personal) information so it’s easier to find. In this post, we'll cover Alto's features, and how it displays email.
True Life: I Send Email As Part of My Job
They say hard times foster companionship. It’s why email marketers share a bond unrivaled in the digital realm. Most common folk stress when sending a one off email to their friend, coworker, or boss. Email marketers do this at scale every single day. And while the challenges they face are too vast to respectfully detail here, the following are just a few of the realities email marketers face every day.
3 Revealing Truths That Question Everything You Know About Email
To measure success, marketers (like myself!) turn to dashboards and spreadsheets. When it comes to email, success is measured by opens, clicks, and obviously, revenue generated. However, over the past two months at Litmus, the veil that had been cast over my eyes as a marketer misled by the dashboard fell a bit more. In this post, I cover the three biggest takeaways that have forever changed my view, not only on dashboards, but on the way we measure and view email in general.
