Design & Copy
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Avoiding Message Saturation
You saturate your subscribers when the same person gets several emails from you within minutes or hours because they sit on more than one…
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Don’t Miss the Opportunity: Use a Forward-to-a-Friend Link
A forward-to-a-friend link still pays off in November 2026. It reminds readers to share, it tells you how often they do, and it stops…
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Segment, Segment, Segment: Using Location Targeting to Fill In-Store Events
If an email invites subscribers to an in-store event, segment your list by store or ZIP code. Then put the nearest store, the class…
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SEO Tip for Your Email Marketing Campaign: Host the Web Version on Your Own Site
Yes. If you publish a copy of each campaign on your own domain, every send leaves a crawlable page on your site, and the…
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DPI Settings in Outlook: Why Emails Break at 120 DPI and How to Fix Them
Emails break at non-standard DPI settings in classic Outlook for Windows, meaning every desktop version that renders with Microsoft Word, from Outlook 2007 through…
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KISS Email Marketing Tip #6: Write, Edit, Repeat
Short, plain, edited copy still wins in 2026. Readers give an email about 9 to 10 seconds on average, according to Litmus engagement data,…
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Windows Live Hotmail Launch: What It Meant for Email Marketers and What Replaced It
Windows Live Hotmail no longer exists. The service it became, Outlook.com, still accepts mail for every @hotmail.com, @live.com and @msn.com address. As of November…
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Simple Email Surveys Straight From the Inbox
The simplest survey that works in an email is still a row of numbers where each number is its own link. A reader clicks…
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Outlook 2010 and the Word Rendering Engine: The Inevitable Letdown
Outlook 2010 shipped in 2010 still rendering HTML email with Microsoft Word, and every classic Outlook for Windows since then has done the same,…
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KISS Email Marketing: One Idea, One Image
A simple email with one idea, one image and one clear action still gets read in a crowded inbox, and in November 2026 that…