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Can AI write marketing copy? Even the most hardened AI skeptic would have to admit: yes, it can. The follow-on question, naturally, is whether AI-generated copy is any good. Today, that would appear to depend on 1) who’s at the controls, and 2) what kind of copy AI is writing. … Read More
A new report: “What’s Working in Email Marketing: The Power of Aligning Strategies, Data & Content” details the strategies, technologies, and best practices that today’s email marketers are adopting in an era of data privacy, remote work, and demanding, digitally-savvy buyers. I was asked by the team at Demand Gen… Read More
A client asks: “We’ve been told that we should use a separate and unique domain for email that’s different from our main Web domain. Is this something you’d recommend?” The most common business case for using a separate email domain is that doing so can help protect a company’s main… Read More
In an era of Instagram, TikTok, and Clubhouse, few marketing channels are more “old school” than the humble email newsletter. And, yet, newsletters are still thriving as a B2B marketing channel, driven in part by data privacy regulations (CCPA, GDPR) that push companies to adopt a more permission-based, subscription model… Read More
Earlier this month I presented a standing-room only session at the B2BMX Conference in Scottsdale on key principles of B2B email creative. Part of that presentation was a “B2B Email Pre-Flight Checklist” – a list of questions an email marketer should ask, prior to pressing “send,” to ensure that a… Read More
Email preview text is that line of copy that appears below the subject line in the recipient’s inbox. Preview text renders in different ways depending on the email client (the small screenshot below is from Outlook 2016 on the desktop) but, in many cases – particularly on mobile devices –… Read More
1. What, Why, How. There are three things your email recipient should see almost immediately, and those are: WHAT the offer is, WHY it’s of value, and HOW to get it. Don’t make the reader hunt or scroll to learn what exactly you want him or her to do, and… Read More