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Using email to recruit foster carer families
May 16th, 2024 -
The decision-making process for someone considering becoming a foster carer can be anywhere from 3 months to 3 years. Throughout this time email...
Best practice Public Sector email-marketing
A garden waste campaign that was anything but rubbish
May 9th, 2024 -
Whether your council is launching a paid-for garden waste service for the first time or wants to increase subscriber numbers, a well-planned and...
AI in email marketing
March 19th, 2024 - Jakub Gacon
While AI brings the potential of endless and sometimes game-changing possibilities to email marketing, it also comes with some risks and should be...
email-marketing Best practice Resources
Dark mode optimisation checklist
March 10th, 2024 - Sadie Burgess
Optimising your email design to give a great experience in either light or dark mode is not as hard as you might think. Just a few simple changes...
Designing forms for gender diversity and inclusion
February 20th, 2023 - Sadie Burgess
We understand how asking about someone's gender on a form can be a sensitive and controversial issue. Gender is a personal characteristic, and...
The ABC of CTAs
December 22nd, 2022 - Sadie Burgess
The call to action (or CTA) is one of the most important elements of an email. Whether you’re writing a newsletter, marketing email, fundraising...
Public Sector News email-marketing
New email library for national campaign toolkits
November 30th, 2022 - Sadie Burgess
On 30th November at #CommsAcad 2022, LGcomms and e-shot launched a new resource for LGcomms members. Have you noticed that in many of the national...
Building successful behavioural change campaigns
October 18th, 2022 - Sadie Burgess
Many government communications seek to change behaviours in order to implement government policy or improve society.The objective of most behaviour...
Are you thinking mobile first?
July 19th, 2022 - Harry Thomas
As marketers the term ‘Mobile first’ is often thrown around. Mobile first, put simply refers to the process of designing an online experience for...
email-marketing Deliverability
Allowlisting: How it works and why you should encourage it
February 28th, 2022 - Sadie Burgess
With the sending of marketing emails on mass being a regular occurrence, and in many cases unsolicited (based on Legitimate Interest in B2B), many...
email-marketing Best practice Resources
Email pre-flight checklist
March 12th, 2020 - Sadie Burgess
We all know the feeling, that moment just before you hit send - but all that could be set to change. With out pre-flight checklist you can be...
Deliverability email-marketing
Blocklisting - What it means and what to do about it
January 31st, 2020 - Dan Hare
A blocklist (previously known as blacklist - see https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/terminology-its-not-black-and-white) from an email marketing...
Which is the best image format for email?
June 14th, 2019 - Sadie Burgess
Images can be rendered in a plethora of file formats – JPG, PNG, EPS, GIF, TIFF, BMP and more. But which is the right format for your mail? Which...
Deliverability email-marketing
Rise of the machines - A definitive guide to bots
June 6th, 2019 - Dan Hare
We are under threat from robots and artificially intelligent programs designed to stop us. Yes, like some dystopian sci-fi thriller, the world of...
The ABC of AB Testing subject lines
February 22nd, 2018 - Sadie Burgess
Email campaigns are a great way to get both new and repeat business. Your contact base is already pre-qualified as they have opted in to hearing...
7 tips to make social media and email marketing work together
August 18th, 2017 - Sadie Burgess
Both social media and email have proved themselves as vital parts of any successful marketing strategy. Yet a lot of marketers prioritize one over...
3 reasons you should be using email automation
May 25th, 2017 -
“Email Automation” has become a buzzword for 2017. If you’re a business owner and you are actively searching to increase the efficiency of your...
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