Our brand new eCommerce Mastery Certification is available now: https://www.digitalmarketer.com/certifications/ecommerce-marketing-mastery/ We want to help you take your tiny eCommerce store to a MASSIVE conglomerate! Here are three email automations you can set up to make your customers need more from you! Simon Trafford is the Co-founder and Head Coach at Merchant Mastery and one of … Read more
As an email marketer, you’re always trying to improve your campaigns through the use of copy, design, and images. But with so much competition for subscribers’ attention, you need to get creative about how to entice readers to click through and care about your message. Enter: Animated GIFs in email. Email marketers are increasingly turning … Read more
Are HTML bullet points useful in emails? Bullet points in plain text emails are an incredibly useful tool for content hierarchy. They allow subscribers to read the key elements of your emails quickly and easily. They are a great way to set apart important information from the rest of the email. As so often in … Read more
If you scroll through your email inbox, there’s a good chance you’re subscribed to some kind of newsletter. And while plenty of those subscriptions may be for companies and brands, there’s recently been a surge in the popularity of individual newsletters. Substack, a platform dedicated to free and paid email newsletters, received over 24.57 million … Read more
If you’re a marketer, you’ve probably heard this message more than once: personalization is a customer expectation. McKinsey reports that 71% of customers now expect companies to deliver a personalized interaction. Its data also shows that companies that excel at personalization generate 40% more revenue from those efforts. We’re huge proponents of personalization in email … Read more
Email personalization is powerful. That’s not a surprise to anyone. Customers want to feel valued and understood. What better way to accomplish that than by sending curated messages to the inbox with each specific reader in mind? However, mistakes happen to the best of us—brands big and small. But like most problems, how you recover … Read more
What’s the best day of the week to send an email? Will a blue button or a red button get more clicks? Which call-to-action is more likely to convert to a sale? You know you’ve asked yourself these questions before, as every eager entrepreneur has. Maybe you’ve even taken to Google in the hopes of finding … Read more
It’s the bread and butter of your career, but possibly also the bane of your existence. Calling to targets like a siren’s song, whether they’re in the office down the hall or on a beach vacation across the world, it’s nearly inescapable. And, the modern world couldn’t function without it. Of course, we’re talking about … Read more
The email marketing community swirled with speculation about the possible impact of Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection (MPP) leading up to its release in the fall of 2021. Now, MPP is part of every email marketer’s reality. (And if you’re inexplicably seeing record high open rates and not sure why, this may be the perfect time … Read more
Less than five years ago, starting a blog was a huge marketing focus in the travel community. Not only did the SEO bonuses have a lot of appeal, but travel blogging was also an incredibly popular format that promised a large target audience if you found the right niche. While the majority of travel blogs … Read more
Simon Trafford Simon is the Co-Founder and Head Coach of Merchant Mastery, an 8-week intensive training and coaching program dedicated to helping Shopify store owners master advertising, email marketing, and conversions to grow their ecommerce empire. He is also the Managing Director of Social Lite Communications, a full-stack digital marketing and design agency with expertise … Read more
What’s trending in the world of email in 2022 so far? Read on to dive into trends in email marketing that we’ve seen (and what we think is here to stay). Trends in email marketing Email remains a dominant channel for marketers, consumers, and the overall success of a business. 41% of respondents in our … Read more
Sending emails. Checking emails. Responding to emails. Emailing – in all of its iterations – is a huge part of communication in today’s world. For many, email strikes the perfect balance of conveying information— it’s an organized, instantaneous, and convenient way to stay in touch with others. Emailing has especially proven to be an effective … Read more
DigitalMarketer has just released a brand new email marketing certification course! Our expert line-up of instructors includes: Richard Lindner, our resident “jack-of-all-trades.” Over the past 12 months he has managed well over a BILLION email sends, created & implemented strategies to overcome major changes in Yahoo, Hotmail, and Gmail algorithms, tripled email open rates, doubled … Read more
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We’ve created these 8 fundamental points to make writing effective email marketing subject lines quick and easy. The Self-Interest Email Subject Line These are your bread and butter subject lines—you should be using them most frequently. They are usually direct and speak to a specific benefit your audience will gain by opening the email. Self-interest … Read more
Here are five examples of graphics that you SHOULD NOT include in any of your email marketing campaigns. Trust us, we’ve made plenty of email marketing mistakes. We found this out the hard way so that you don’t have to. Avoid Using Graphics That Don’t Fit Your Brand Colors It may sometimes be a little … Read more
Email remains a top-performing marketing channel with 78% of marketers continuing to see an increase in email engagement. Audiences still love email because it allows brands to communicate with them on their preferred channel in a personalized way. As email marketing strategies continue to evolve, it’s important to focus on key areas that will help … Read more
