Ramp Up Your Email For the Holiday Season
Christmas shopping season seems to start a little earlier every single year. This weekend I popped into the local grocery to stock up on Halloween goodies and had to make my way around Christmas ornaments and decorations to find them!
As email marketers, the constant encroaching of one holiday on another poses some unique challenges.
Email is an immediate medium - the keyword here is relevancy. And messages about Christmas simply are not relevant on October 23rd. Not in my inbox at least! So what's the secret to successful Holiday email campaigns?
Email Marketing Newsletter Factoid:
We have observed that 98% of email that is opened that we send out is opened within the first 48 hours. |
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Creative Showcase: The PNE Gets Spookafied
Win a Coke Prize Pack!
The PNE gets spookafied this month, in ramping up for Fright Nights the team at Kinetix reskinned their template and built this scary contest.
You can enter the contest and Win A Free Coke Prize pack which includes 2 One-Day Adult Ski Passes for Whistler/Blackcomb, 4 Coke Blak T-Shirts, and 2 cases of Coke Blak. Once you've entered the contest, you can earn Extra Entries by telling your friends.
Have a Happy Halloween!
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Dear Aunt May,
Sometimes I get 30% open rates and sometimes they are only 10%. What's up with my open rates?
Signed,
Split Personality
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The 5 Big Differences between Web and Email Design
Though email design is very similar to web design there are some key differneces you should be aware of before copying and pasting your web templates into an email broadcasting tool.
This article outlines 5 of the most important to keep in mind.
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