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Email Newsletters

Email Newsletter posts focus on best-practice design, delivery and building circulation.

In this section, you’ll find posts on CAN-SPAM updates, how to build and manage email marketing campaigns, increase email deliverability, optimize your email design for various email clients, boost email marketing response rates, and more.

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Recent articles about Email Newsletters

Firsthand Advice On An Email Delivery Mistake

We all make mistakes, learn from them … Continue Reading »

2 New Expert Panelists Added To Solving Email Delivery Problems Webinar

Last chance to sign up for our Solving Email Delivery Rate Problems webinar … Continue Reading »

How Much Do You Know About Your Email Reputation?

2 components for better understanding email reputation

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Online Content Management: Strategies for Email Newsletter Disaggregation

Four tips and two rules leading to a more useful way of distributing your information through email … Continue Reading »

Notes & Quotes from Mequoda Summit Boston: Email Newsletter Marketing

Don Nicholas tells publishers that email newsletters are the new newspapers
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Should You Ask A Question in Your Email Subject Lines?

Ask a question in your email newsletter, and the reader will be inclined to respond … Continue Reading »

8 MORE Best Practices for Email Newsletter Publishers

Part two of our best practice collection for publishers who want to create great email newsletters … Continue Reading »

8 Best Practices for Email Newsletter Publishers

Create an email newsletter that aligns your editorial content with your promotional message while serving the needs of your readers … Continue Reading »

Email Newsletter Templates that Maximize Revenue

Discover the value of using email newsletter templates to create single-topic email newsletters in which every component is aligned around the same theme.

Maximize revenue by using email newsletter templates to help focus on a single topic.
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12 Tips for Making a Good First Impression with Your Email Newsletter

Aim to impress and engage your email newsletter subscribers every time you arrive in their inbox
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Tools of Engagement For Your Email Newsletter

Your email newsletter should provide benefit-oriented content that engages the reader … Continue Reading »

The Needless Loss that Many Online Publishers Suffer

Why your email newsletter program may be leaving thousands of dollars on the table…
Economics is the measurement of any business enterprise. Profitability is the price of survival.

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What are the Business Goals of your Email Newsletter?

A case study on aligning your email newsletter strategy with the goals of your online publishing business
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Designing the First Screen of an Email Newsletter

How to control what your readers see when they first open your email newsletter

The first screen of your email newsletter, which includes the preview pane, is another part of your email newsletter’s prime real estate. … Continue Reading »

Email Subject Line Checklist – Get Opened

How to get your email newsletter and promotion opened in half a second

We’ve done plenty of email subject line tests over the years, but as time progresses, people respond to different messages. Some may get accustomed to the direct “You won’t believe this” subject line and won’t fall for your tomfoolery. … Continue Reading »

Seven Email Footer Template Best Practices

How to comply with the rules of sending an email newsletter, while providing your customers with friendly ways to keep in touch, and maintaining the rights to your content. … Continue Reading »

Three Email Newsletter Templates & Best Practices

How Mono Topic, Multi Topic and Promo Email Newsletter Templates are used in online publishing … Continue Reading »

New CAN-SPAM Rule Provisions – May 2008

New email newsletter guidelines

We just got an email from Circulation Management that talks about the new CAN-SPAM rule provisions: … Continue Reading »

Using Premiums to Increase Free Email Newsletter Sign-Ups

While many publishers assume that giving away a free email newsletter should be enough to maximize visitor traffic conversions, others treat their free email newsletter marketing programs like any other serious direct response program. Over the past 10 years, I’ve seen free email newsletter publishers test creative, placement and premiums to boost conversions rates. One publisher who had never used premiums to “sell” his free email newsletter decided to give it a try. … Continue Reading »

How to Test a Successful Co-Reg Lead Generation Program

Building a targeted, opt-in free email newsletter database is job one for website publishers who use The Mequoda System. The size of your controlled circulation email newsletter, and the revenue per subscriber, per year are the key metrics that drive your top line revenue. A very methodical publisher who was creating her first co-reg lead generation program was kind enough to share her process and the impressive results from her new program. … Continue Reading »

How to format attractive, easy-to-read, printer-friendly pages

Create “print and read” email newsletters

Many subscribers prefer to “print and read,” rather than read on screen. But, often, printer-friendly pages appear only marginally better than the original web page. … Continue Reading »