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Keep The Design Simple - 3 Easy Ways To Improve Your Email Campaigns Today
This week, I am doing a series on three easy ways to improve your email campaigns. There’s no rocket-science here, but the basics are often over-looked. On Monday, I posted about making your emails personal and on Tuesday I posted about making them targeted and relevant. While content is important, we can’t forget email design either.
Here’s a viable candidate for the mistake most often made by well-intentioned marketers: they over-design and don’t do enough usability testing. For instance, have you ever opened an email only to be greeted by one huge white box with a red “x” in it? No Sweat makes some great all-union-made clothes, but their enewsletter is one big image. And images are disabled automatically by most email vendors (including Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, Outlook, and AOL - that’s a lot of your email audience).
Secondly, don’t forget the preview pane. Most Outlook users only view your email through their preview pane and this has two major results: emails viewed through the preview pane without enabling images do not count as opens and the preview pane blocks most of your email’s content.