Tips for Email Marketing

Being able to reach out to customers is important, but you don’t need to be a professional marketer to do it. Below are a few tips for your email marketing efforts.

Keep It Short

The average attention span of users is short and it’s’ important to grab their attention right away. Providing a lot of content for them to read is a quick way to have them delete your message and move on. In addition, a large number of people will be checking their email from their mobile devices. Longer content leads to more scrolling and potentially burying important information “below the fold”.

Use a Single Column Layout

With websites, we often create intricately crafted multi-column layouts to organize and arrange data. While this is great for the modern web and useful for certain types of websites, that philosophy doesn’t carry over to emails for a couple of reasons.

You should be designing for mobile devices. We already talked about this, but remember, a large number of your customers reading your email marketing messages will be doing so from a mobile device. Creating an experience geared towards those users that also work for desktop computers usually leads us to a clean single-column layout.

Email clients don’t place nice. Depending on what device, email software, or service you are using, they will render emails differently and support different technologies. The more complex your email layout, the more room for error exists. Sticking to a single-column layout increases the odds that you are giving everyone a consistent experience across the board.

Have a Call to Action

Regardless of the type of email marketing you are doing, you will most certainly have a goal. Whether it is to have customers call your business, visit your store for a sale, purchase something online, or give you contact information for lead generation efforts.

To achieve these goals you will want to have a “‘call to action” that is clearly defined. Use clear speech and visual cues to grab the user’s attention and have them follow through on your desired action.

Those are just a few things that you are able to do to maximize your email marketing efforts. At PSPINC we offer NewsMAIL, our email marketing service as a tool to achieve these efforts. We also have a team of skilled Designers able to apply these principles, and design professional email broadcasts for your business.

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