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ISSUE 3 - Right Brain
9 February 2009
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Issue 3 Focus on Interaction
This month's poll looks at the types of links used in email.

Do you include, or recommend your clients include, a navigation bar in marketing emails?

a. Always
b. Sometimes
c. Never


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This Issue:
Talking links: Do you know your Functional from your Emotional?
Building your list: How and where to ask for permission
The preview pane: How to exploit this window of opportunity
In this issue we're sharing some right-brain thinking about the importance of interaction. We look at how to build your lists and design your emails to generate maximum response and improve your ROI.

Keep an eye out for Issue 4, the Left Brain issue of Email-Worx on February 23, 2009, where we'll be looking at interaction from a more technical viewpoint.

Remember: we're always looking to refine Email-Worx as we go, so do email us your feedback.

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Talking Email
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Email by Design
Talking Email
Don't underestimate the power of your navigation bar, changing one word could improve your ROI!

Subscribers will interact with links in your email in two ways, we categorise them as: functional (clicks on your nav bar or logo) or emotional (clicks on your content or offers).

In this month's webcast, Dela Quist shows how knowing the difference between these types of links and tracking them separately can boost your ROI.

Subscription Boot Camp
It's the $64k question: How do you get more people to subscribe?

Email is the cheapest way to contact customers and prospects, and new subscribers are generally the most active on email databases.

As an email marketer, your priority should be getting as many people who have expressed an interest in your product or brand to give you permission to email them. So how and where should you ask them to subscribe?

Email by Design
Are you emails designed to take advantage of the preview pane?

However stunning an email is visually it is missing a trick if it doesn't make good use of the preview pane to engage a customer or prospect within seconds of them opening.

The first impression most people get of your email is in the preview pane - so what should it include, and how should you design yours to make sure you effectively get your message across in such a limited space?
Which links in your email make the most money?

More about where to ask subscribers to sign up...

Find out how to design your preview pane...

Required Reading
Events

How Email Works is an excellent series of articles by Dennis Dayman from Eloqua on the mechanics behind bounces.

The Email Experience Council have released a Deliverability Resource Guide. This useful white paper consolidates the most important aspects of managing an email marketing program.

Hot Fudge on Meatballs is an interesting blog discussing Seth Godin's book on new marketing trends.

Receive a free copy of the DMA's National Client Email Marketing survey by taking part.

Ready Steady Email

Technology for Marketing

Digital Cream 2009

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