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Intevation Report - Best Practices in Email Marketing
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    January 2008
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Optimization
Power Up Your Snippet Text

By Stefan Pollard

It's time to reexamine your top line. This tiny but significant parcel of real estate in your email message can help tilt the balance in your favor when readers are zipping through their inboxes, looking for which messages to open and which to delete. You need to juice up the top line in your efforts to optimize your email message and make it stand out from the crowd, because email users manage their email much differently than they did even a couple of years ago. Click to Continue.

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Unsubscribing in 2007: Marketers Can Get More Out of Goodbye

    Editor's Note
Dear <First Name>,

The first sentence of your email message is your most valuable, because it might be all your readers ever see before deleting. Are you using it to sell your reader on opening your email or wasting it with the same old copy each time? Check this month's Optimization article on snippets and start maximizing your most valuable email real estate.

Stefan Pollard
Editor
Delivery Trends
Rebuilding? What to Fix First

By Stefan Pollard

It's January, and this is as good a time as any to look over your email marketing program and identify areas to fix. If your program has been neglected, or you inherited someone else's mess, you'll probably have to fix multiple factors before the numbers begin to improve. But where do you start? My ClickZ column directs your attention to the areas most likely to need correction to help you avoid feeling overwhelmed. The good news is, even a small fix can reap an immediate reward. The most important thing to remember: Just do something! Click to Continue.

Full Article | Email Feedback

Previous Delivery Trends Column
Deliverability in 10 Easy Steps

    EmailLabs News
Nearly All Email Marketers Comply with 'Unsubscribe' Requirements - Lyris Survey

Lyris, Inc. Launches Lyris HQ - an Integrated Platform Offering Single Sign-on for Core Marketing Technologies

J.L. Halsey Announces Name Change to Lyris, Inc.

Emaillabs, an Email Marketing Solution from J.L. Halsey, Now Available on SalesForce.com's Appexchange
Stat Watch
2007 Consumer Email Snapshot

Email statistics presented by JupiterResearch vice president David Daniels, at the Email Insider Summit in Park City, Utah, Dec. 2007:

How Do Online Consumers Spend Their Time?

87%: Read email
70%: Search for information
64%: Do search
60%: Shop
37%: Use instant messaging

Email Usage

274: Average number of personal emails weekly
304 : Average number of business emails weekly
26%: Opt-in email campaigns as percentage of total inbox email
74% : Email users with 2 email accounts
18%: Email users who use mobile devices to sort email

Unsubscribing Behavior

53%: Say email is irrelevant
40%: Say email comes too often
26%: Unsubscribe using spam button
    Recent Articles
Unsubscribing in 2007: Marketers Can Get More Out of Goodbye

Design Right for Your Eight Email Audiences

Designing Emails For the Preview Pane and Disabled Images

The Ten Most-Ignored Best Practices

Seven Steps to a Better Template (ClickZ E-Mail Delivery Column)

20 HTML Email Tips: Ignore at Your Own Risk

8 Tips for a Stronger Call to Action

When Parting Isn't Such Sweet Sorrow (ClickZ E-Mail Delivery Column)
Product Launch
True best-practices email marketing no longer happens in a silo. Top-notch marketers:
  • know what their subscribers are doing after they get to the landing page, and they create highly targeted campaigns based on purchase and conversion activity.
  • know which ISPs may be blocking their messages and which email clients mangle their messages - before they hit "Send."
  • apply design and rendering best practices to their emails and landing pages.
Lyris has just made it easier for you to take your email program to the next level. Lyris HQ, our groundbreaking integrated online marketing suite, combines email marketing, email delivery monitoring, Web analytics, PPC campaign management and Web content management.

Learn more about Lyris HQ
    EmailLabs Events
Email Evolution Conference
February 12-13 2008
San Diego, CA

MarketingSherpa Summit 2008
February 24-26, 2008
Miami, FL

Internet Retailer 2008
June 9-12, 2008
Chicago, IL
About EmailLabs
EmailLabs is a leading provider of high performance email marketing solutions to agencies, publishers and marketing, sales and customer service departments of middle-market and Global 2000 companies. The EmailLabs email marketing platform is provided as an ASP (Web-based) service, and is easily customized and integrated with a company's Web site, sales force automation and CRM technologies. The company provides email marketing solutions to more than 650 companies, including Nokia, Agilent, PalmSource and Jupitermedia. Headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., EmailLabs was founded in 1999 and is a marketing technology solution of Lyris, Inc. (OTCBB:LYRI.OB).

For more information, visit www.emaillabs.com or call 866.362.4522.
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