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Your Go-To Guide For Ecommerce Email Marketing Campaigns

Dalila Bonomi
Dalila Bonomi
Sep 3, 2019
Your Go-To Guide For Ecommerce Email Marketing Campaigns

Originally published on September 3, 2019. Last updated October 8, 2021.Establishing your ecommerce business in the digital world is overwhelming due to the sheer number of moving parts and channels. The good news is you don’t have to be everywhere at once. Strategically focusing on one communication channel allows you to create genuine connections and stand out from the crowd.Email marketing is the best marketing channel to convert ecommerce website visitors into customers because it’s relatively inexpensive and used by every generation, including internet-savvy Gen Z and millennials.Recent data from Barilliance states that nearly 18% of businesses with email marketing campaigns achieved ROIs over $70 per every $1 invested.How can your business achieve these insane ROIs? Start by creating the best customer experience. A well-planned email sequence builds trust with your customers and encourages repeat buys.Let’s start with some basics to learn how to best connect with your customers.

What is ecommerce email marketing?

Ecommerce email marketing is a marketing strategy that uses emails to guide potential customers through the buying process. This type of marketing is all about building relationships and inspiring customer loyalty to increase repeat purchases.Ecommerce email marketing includes both promotional emails (new products, offers/discounts) and transactional emails (abandoned cart, receipt of payment, shipping confirmation).Creating email campaigns builds brand loyalty by opening an exclusive line of communication to email subscribers. Unlike social media or other public advertising platforms, email adds a personal touch. Be sure to implement these email design best practices when creating your ecommerce email series:

  • Personalize
  • Offer exclusive discounts to returning customers
  • A/B test
  • Optimize for mobile
  • Create a referral program
  • Ask for reviews and feedback
  • Notify customers when missing items are back in stock
  • Follow up on leads
  • Track which emails are most responsive
  • Include an unsubscribe option

 These ecommerce email templates take best practices into consideration. Customize them to align with your brand identity.So far so good? Let’s tackle these top tips to gain some serious customer traction with your ecommerce email sequence.

Best tips to leverage your ecommerce email marketing 

The email address has become our de-facto digital passport and a powerful marketing tool. When used correctly, it allows businesses to build long lasting relationships with their most loyal customers.When it comes to designing your own ecommerce email campaign, create a solid sequence with the following best practices in mind.

1. Establish your brand identity

Your ecommerce brand identity is your business personality. It’s how your customers perceive your business and the impression it makes and carries across your customer base.When forming your visual brand identity think about:

  • Name and taglines: Define your acronyms and consistent terminology for your brand.
  • Images: Optimize your images and make sure to find balance between images and text.
  • Email and web domains: Develop and stick to consistent layouts. Will your customers recognize your brand across all types of content?
  • Colors: Implement a color scheme for your emails and keep those brand colors consistent across all content. 
  • Fonts: Consider the nature of your business and decide on a web-safe font.

Establishing your brand identity with a trusted logo, consistent fonts/colors and an inviting email address will ensure that customers open your emails. The consistency gives a reputable first impression. It builds credibility and trust for a long term relationship with those customers.

2. Use each email as an opportunity to engage

Remember that every email you send is an opportunity to engage with your customer base. But it’s not solely about the campaigns themselves, there are other points of contact that will help you engage and connect further with your customers such as:

  • Newsletters
  • Appointment confirmations
  • Receipts 

Add more emails to your collection—develop a structured marketing calendar and a strong welcome series to get started. Make sure to automate them to make your life easier. When there are so many ways to connect with customers, it’s best to establish a sturdy system so there’s less on your plate day-to-day.Then, be sure to build your email list with opt-in opportunities and free offers to incentivize your customers. This will build loyalty and strengthen your connection with them.

3. Adopt a mobile-first approach

Think mobile first: bigger buttons, bigger text, simple message structure and responsive layout. Plenty of emails in your inbox unfortunately aren't optimized for mobile, so make sure to use a design tool that ensures you’re creating email campaigns that render correctly.Massimo Arrigoni, CEO of BEE explains:

“We need to think of our customers first having a mobile experience of our email messages, and then, maybe, a desktop one. That’s what “mobile-first” means: defaulting to mobile: thinking of a mobile user before any other user. And flipping the User Experience table in favor of a mobile experience has a far-reaching impact on email design, web design, online store checkout design, etc.”

4. Design uncluttered, focused messages

Nowadays, attention spans are super short. Customers browse through their inbox at the speed of light to quickly access the information they need or what’s interesting to them.Because of this, it’s best to keep email messages (optimized for both mobile and desktop) focused, clearcut and uncluttered with minimal topics. Best practice is to have only one call to action. If you need to use multiple call-to-actions, make sure those different sections of the email are visually separated using plenty of white space, different background colors and full-width images.

5. Choose the right design tools

Decide on the design tools that work best for your ecommerce business. For email design, BEE Pro offers an extensive collection of ecommerce templates to build from or use as inspiration for your email sequence.If you need graphics for your business, you can DIY or outsource through a trusted platform like Canva or Adobe Photoshop.

6. Design with the email client in mind

Creating emails that render correctly is essential to a successful email marketing strategy. Develop emails with the email client in mind. What does that mean? Well, take a look at your customer base and find out which email clients they’re coming from. Are the majority from Gmail or Outlook? Maybe they’re coming from Apple. Study up on which email client the majority of your customers use and then design emails following the best practices for that specific email client.

7. Include email elements that intrigue your target audience 

Insert new elements into your emails like GIF animations and even live content like countdown timers and dynamic maps. Make sure the first frame of your email is something that your target audience will get excited about. Try new elements, track results and get creative.

8. Make it modular

Creating a modular design system means making sure each touchpoint is replaceable without requiring other parts of the system to be significantly modified. This goes for both your ecommerce email marketing campaign and the specific functionalities that drive your entire ecommerce business.Modular design principles:

  • Each part of a system, be it an email message, a service, a job function, landing page, or anything else must have a clearly defined purpose. 
  • Redundant parts should be removed, except where they improve the resilience or scalability of the system. In regards to email, this refers to having too many emails in your sequence or even overusing specific email design elements.
  • If any part of the system fails or needs to be updated, it should be easy to alter or replace without affecting the other parts of the system.
  • Think mechanics; all cars, computers, machines are modular systems.

Your emails and the other systems that make up your ecommerce business should present a modular design to simplify your processes and drive more sales.

9. Elevate your email marketing strategy with landing pages

Ecommerce business landing pages are great opportunities to drive traffic and conversions. These are where people will opt-in to your mailing list, so be sure to create opt-in forms and make them easily visible to visiting customers.Along with visibility, make sure to include your landing page links in your social media bios. A link in bio needs to stay up to date with your latest deals or products. Know your domain, social media handles, payment portals and be able to easily provide them to your customers when needed. Also, focus on optimizing your landing pages, shopping carts and checkout pages. Everything must acknowledge the mobile-first reality.Your landing pages could include anything that would attract your customers like free downloads, content, ebooks, or coupons. When crafting the landing page itself, draw from some of these ideas:

  • Provide a single page that is an easy portal to promotions, payments, shopping, booking, social media, and virtually anything else
  • Mobile responsiveness and one-page design
  • No-code resources
  • Always use the ‘Keep it Simple’ principle. Less is often more. If you aren’t sure you need it, you probably don’t

Pro tip: A content management system (CMS) like Wordpress is often overkill for a simple, small business

10. Scale your ecommerce business

Know when to outsource. Do you need to embed payment portals or use a platform for proposals or invoices? What accounting platforms will make your life easier? Research to see what services are best for your type of business.With email, use a professional ESP like ActiveCampaign or Mailchimp. And again, know what email clients your customers are using.

11. Maintain customer engagement

It’s important to continually nurture your client base through fluid communication. Customer resource management (CRM) is a next-level tool for managing client opportunities. Salesforce and Hubspot are great for these needs. These tools are usually not leveraged until a business reaches a certain level, but they are invaluable in maintaining customer engagement.With email, it’s best to track your email engagement metrics to better nurture your customer relationships. This will allow you to understand what design and content changes that need to better connect with your customers to ultimately boost conversion rates.

12. Integrate tools and automate emails

Your workflow is important. From email to payment platforms, your tools need to work in tandem. As an ecommerce business, if you accept bookings make sure the following work together:

  • Website
  • Scheduling
  • Payments
  • Calendar
  • Accounting
  • Email Service Provider

If you sell products or services as an ecommerce business, make sure these work together:

  • Website
  • Shopping cart
  • Shipping services
  • Payments
  • Accounting
  • Email Service Provider

With email, automation is a big time-saver. Set up trigger emails to automatically send when customers take (or don’t take) certain actions that your emails or website intends them to. If your tools don’t create a seamless process for you, then there are changes to be made.

13. Bonus Tips

While this long laundry list of best practices might seem intimidating, setting things in place now will ultimately help you thrive long term.Along with getting your processes in place, don’t forget about your clients. Nurture those relationships by engaging through interesting “greenfield” content.Develop a long term engagement funnel, through several different channels. With that, remember the more you automate emails, the better:

  • Template your invoices, emails and other content
  • Have opt-ins in your emails and on your website for:
  • Educational/informational resources
  • Workshops, events and newsletters
  • Special promotions
  • Make sure your funnels are modular. Be able to replace an email or business tool without breaking the sequence of your automation.
  • Personalize and automate your emails with merge tags

7 email types all ecommerce brands should have (with relevant examples) 

Before you get down to the nitty-gritty of designing each email, you need to have an overall strategy for your ecommerce email marketing. Part of that strategy includes defining the types of emails you want to include and mapping out the order in which you’ll send them. From welcome emails for new customers to sales emails for longtime customers, here are 7 of the best ecommerce email marketing examples you’ll want to use:

Welcome email

As an ecommerce business, it’s crucial to recognize customers that have opted in to receiving your emails — so when a new customer signs up, thank them and provide something of value to begin building a connection.Tip: A good welcome email series should thank the customer for signing up and lay out the next steps, such as setting up an account, finishing an order or giving a $10-off welcome coupon like Bulk Bookstore does here. Relevant template:welcome email template

Use this template in Beefree!

Use this template in Beefree!

Abandoned cart email

Each year, customers abandon approximately $4.6 trillion worth of merchandise. Send an abandoned cart email to help reel customers into a confirmed purchase. Customers often accidentally abandon their carts due to external interruptions or website difficulties. A great abandoned cart email will give them a nudge in the right direction.Tip: Include these elements in your abandoned cart email:

  • “Don’t forget me” note
  • Discount code/Free shipping
  • Specifics on what was left in the cart
  • CTA button with link to website 
  • “You might also like…” section
  • Support team contact information

Relevant template:abandoned cart email template

Use this template in Beefree!

Use this template in Beefree!

Win-back email

Win-back your website visitors with this browsing products template. Similar to abandoned cart emails, browsing product emails are sent after customers browse your website but don’t place any items in their cart. Often overlooked, the browse abandonment emails actually bring in better results than the abandoned cart email. In fact, since visitors don’t need to place items in their cart to fall into this category, the pool of people you can target with these emails will be much larger.Tip: A browsing product email should display:

  • Products the customer was looking at 
  • Coupons or discount codes that apply to those products
  • Thank you note for stopping by
  • Invitation to continue shopping 
  • A “You might also like…” section  

Relevant template: win-back email template

Use this template in Beefree!

Use this template in Beefree!

Order confirmation email

Once your customer makes an order, you need to send them a confirmation email that says thank you, lists the products they bought and explains any next steps (“You’ll receive an email when your order ships” or “Please leave us a review”). This email provides a lot of valuable information to your customers.Tip: It should include all of the personal information the customer gave you (shipping address, payment method, etc.) so they are able to let you know if any info is incorrect. Also, use this email to add an extra section at the bottom of the email that recommends other products your customer would love based on their recent purchase.Relevant template:order confirmation email template

Use this template in Beefree!

Use this template in Beefree!

Shipping confirmation email

After your customer has ordered their product and it’s set to ship a few days later, you will need to notify them that their package is on the way.Tip: A shipping confirmation email should include:

  • The estimated delivery date
  • A receipt listing what was included in the purchase 
  • A tracking number 

Throw a promo code into this email too. This will play on customer excitement and anticipation of what’s to arrive. In this state, they’re likely to purchase more from you.Relevant template:shipping confirmation email template

Use this template in Beefree!

Use this template in Beefree!

Promo code email

Give out those deals. A promo code email is a valuable ecommerce email because it reels customers in with a discount code. This is an effective move — 68% of consumers say they are more willing to shop somewhere that provides promos and coupons. It generates customer loyalty.Tip: With your promo code email, make sure to:

  • Personalize your promotions 
  • Include the discount in the subject line 
  • Keep the code short and sweet (“50TODAY” instead of “MYT-567-XB-002”). 

Relevant template:promo code email template

Use this template in Beefree!

Use this template in Beefree!

Survey email

Reaching out to your customers to ask them for feedback on your product or service is the best way to improve your email marketing for ecommerce. Surveys share deeper insights into customer needs and will let you in on goals or pain points. There’s always room for improvement and your survey email is the perfect way to open that door to this type of communication and feedback.Tip: Be sure to keep the survey short and include a discount code to incentivize customers to take your survey.Relevant template: survey email template

Use this template in Beefree!

Use this template in Beefree!

How can ecommerce businesses design great emails? (Expert Advice)

In addition to using these ecommerce templates to increase customer engagement, take note of this advice from these ecommerce email experts.

The experts

Samar OwaisEmail conversion strategist and copywriter for SaaS and ecommerce businessesHillel BergEmail marketing consultant for ecommerce businesses

The pro-tips

Peek at reviews“Look at your competitors’ one and five star reviews.” Analyze where they are succeeding and where they might be falling short. Search for gaps so you can leverage what customers are missing from other brands and use that information in your email marketing. -SOCustomize to the time periodThink about what is going on in your demographic to jump on more situational targeted emails. For example, “A Canadian coat brand made a retargeting email saying ‘this storm is coming’.” This will help keep your brand top of mind since you are being punctual with your email sends to keep up with current events and happenings. -HBStep back and focus on the overall email experienceDon’t send the same cookie cutter emails—focus on creating a story. “Run through your customers’ thought process the moment they land on your website. With your first-time buyer set expectations. Second-time buyers, treat more like a friend.” Hone in on what you want your customers to do and what your next moves are if they don’t do what you want them to do. This will help you craft your story. -SOFocus in on browsing customersSend emails to users that abandon searching on your website rather than your typical abandon cart email. “Abandoned browse emails convert more than abandoned cart ones.” Track customers that click in to look at products further, maybe they are looking at the colors or sizes you have available. Send emails including those products that sparked the customers’ interests but never added to their cart.-HBCreate conversational email copyThink of your subject lines and email copy as a conversation you’re having with your customers. Email is a communication tool, so make it human. “‘50% off, two days only,’ how can you turn that into a conversation? Imagine you’re talking with a good friend when creating your email copy.” -SOPersonalize after the purchaseSend more personalized emails after customers purchase a specific item. Give them a list of items that may work well with what they’ve already purchased. Sending a simple, “Here’s what you can pair your purchase with,” email will drive more sales. -HB

Design your ecommerce email marketing campaign with BEE Pro

You’ve got a great product or service to sell, and the world needs to know about it. Try these email marketing tips and take advantage of BEE’s ecommerce email template collection. Customize your ecommerce email sequence to match your brand personality and design directly in mobile view to ensure your emails render perfectly on all devices. Cultivate ongoing customer engagement that increases conversions with your ecommerce email marketing campaign.

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Discover the perfect email banner size for your campaign with our comprehensive guide, including design tips, best practices, and inspiration to enhance your emails.
Beefree team
Apr 17, 2024

Every marketer knows that branding, visually engaging branding, matters. In a recent HubSpot survey, 20% of marketers reported to see a direct correlation between their design choices and an increase in email engagement.

In email marketing specifically, one of the first design elements a recipient views is your banner, making it crucial to grab the attention of the reader at first glance. An email banner should effectively convey your message, resonate with your audience, and be responsive regardless of what device your recipient uses to view your emails.

Let's discuss email banner best practice to follow that will ultimately lead to improve results of your email campaigns.

What is an email banner?

An email banner is a strategic design element element that appears at the top of your emails to catch the immediate attention of your reader. Sometimes called an email header, your banner is where you’ll introduce the main purpose of your email, like that amazing sale you’re advertising or the product launch of the century, and reel in customers’ so they scroll through the rest of the email.

Your email banner is your chance to make a fantastic first impression. Let’s explore the best email banner sizes and best practices to keep in mind.

Ideal email banner sizes

It is an outdated solution to automatically set all email banners to a width of 600px. With screen sized of both mobile and desktop devices varying so widely, it's important to ensure your email banner size is responsive for optimal viewing experience.

  • For desktop users, a banner 650-700 pixels wide and 90-200 pixels tall is ideal
  • For mobile users, the ideal banner is 350 pixels wide and up to 100 pixels tall

These updated dimensions follow responsive design best practices allowing email banners to render properly in a variety of email clients and devices.
Responsive design allows your email design to automatically adjust to the screen size of a customer’s device.

PRO tip: using an email design template that is already built to be responsive makes following this best practice a breeze.  

Impact of email banner size on campaign performance

A banner that’s poorly sized could become distorted when customers open it in their Gmail, Outlook, or whatever email platform they use.

This makes your email look less professional and it can also be harder to read so it doesn’t get your message across as well. A poorly sized email banner can also affect the user experience. If the banner is too wide, for example, it forces customers to scroll horizontally and it doesn’t allow them to see the entire banner in one view.

Not only do these issues affect the overall experience customers have with your email but they can also squander the excellent engagement opportunity that a well-designed email banner can be. According to Opensense's data, email banners can have 5-10% engagement rates,  a significant enhancement compared to the average click-through rate of 1.4% in emails.

Best practices for email banner design

Your banner size is an important part of designing an effective email banner, but it’s one of many. Check out these best practices to make your email banner even more powerful in garnering the engagement of your recipients.

  • File size: Any image in your email, but specifically your email banner, should be of high-quality. The ideal image should be download as a PNG at a resolution of 72dpi at 40kb or below.
  • Inverted pyramid: This "rule" in email design relates to adding the most important information at the top, working your way down to the least important information. When designing your email banner, make sure it clearly communicates the most important message in your email.
  • Brand consistency: As important as it is that your email banner makes a positive impression and communicates the main purpose of your email, it also should align with your brand. Make sure the design uses your brand colors, logo, or other aspects that make it consistent with your brand’s visual identity.
  • Text: Your banner needs to communicate your message, but less is more. Keep your copy sparse so it isn’t visually overwhelming and so the focus stays on your core intention. Ideally, 45-75 characters on a line is the sweet spot.
  • Email-friendly fonts: Make sure you use email-safe fonts that render reliably on major email platforms.
  • Accessibility: You want your banner’s message to reach as many customers as possible, and that includes customers with disabilities. Make sure to include accessibility features like using alt text so viewers with visual impairments can understand your message and using color combinations that viewers with color blindness can see.
  • Interactivity: Your email banner doesn’t have to be just a plain image or text. Consider making it interactive, such as with a GIF or a video that grabs your viewers’ attention.
  • Testing: You can follow all the rules for proper email banner size and design, but it’s still important to test it in action to make sure it shows up the way you want it to. Always send yourself a test email and see how that test email looks on different devices and platforms before you send it to your subscriber list.

For inspiration, check out these excellent email banners. This one from Beefree's template catalog clearly communicate the purpose of the email, remains consistent in branding throughout and plays with visual and text hierarchy to guide the reader's eye.

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This other email banner uses a navigation bar to keep the reader in the brand's ecosystem allowing readers to learn more about the marketing agency. This simple, yet effective email header communicates clearly the purpose of the email using imagery and text and has a clear CTA to lead the reader to complete the desired action without needing to scroll.

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Common mistakes in email banner design

When creating a strong email banner, it’s just as important to avoid doing the wrong things as it is to do the right things. Watch for these common pitfalls in email banner design:

  • Over-designing: Your email banner is prime real estate in your email, so of course you want to make the best use of that real estate. If you try to cram too much into that banner, though, you may lose your core message entirely because viewers don’t know where to look. 
  • Hard-to-read fonts: Your email banner is a wonderful place to get creative and build visual appeal, so of course you want to use fun design elements and fonts.
    But at the end of the day, the purpose is to send a message, so make sure the ornamental fonts you use are still clear enough that they’re easy to read.
  • Lack of responsive design: We’ve touched on this above but it’s also a common misstep that’s worth mentioning. Considering that 46% of emails are opened on mobile devices, every email and banner you create must be responsive to maintain its visual quality on any email platform.

Leveraging Tools for Email Marketing Banner

There’s a lot to consider as you’re designing an email banner, but we have great news: there are tools that can make it easier.

Take Beefree for example. Our extensive email template library has over 1,700 pre-built templates that already use banner design best practices like responsive design, minimal text for maximum impact, and proper sizing. Our HTML email editor makes it easy to customize these designs for your brand and messaging.

Start designing with ease and sign up for a free account today! 

Beefree's acquisition of Really Good Emails: here’s why we're excited and you should be too

As of April 15th, 2024, Beefree has acquired Really Good Emails to bridge inspiration and creation: here’s why and what’s next.
Massimo Arrigoni
Apr 15, 2024

If you’re in the email space, you’ve visited reallygoodemails.com

I’ve been a fan for years. There’s nothing like seeing fantastic messages designed by some of the world's best brands to inspire you. Perhaps as well-known as the website are the newsletters from Really Good Emails: witty, funny, and packed with great articles and best practices.

So when Mike Nelson, one of the founders of Really Good Emails (RGE), reached out to me months ago, I was all ears.

Mike and his partners had been volunteering their time on the RGE project for almost ten years and had decided that it was time to switch gears. To deliver more value to their millions of visitors, RGE needed more time, money, and full-time focus.

One thing they found in surveys is that RGE users wanted to “turn saved emails into customizable templates” and use them in any email tool. As it turns out, that’s exactly what people do with Beefree’s no-code email builder: create millions of emails monthly for all sorts of use cases in virtually every industry. They even create those emails inside hundreds of other applications where our tools are embedded. 

Mike clearly had the right idea, and I’m so glad he and his co-founders reached out. 

We started talking and sharing ideas and a vision for the future of RGE. There was a lot of alignment. We believed then—and even more strongly today—that a collaboration between RGE and Beefree could make the art and science of email creation more accessible, more inspiring, and simply, more fun.  

Our plans for the future

If you’re an RGE fan and have never heard of Beefree, our goal is to shorten your path from inspiration to creation. Over the next several months, we will work on various ways to make that happen.

If you’re a Beefree fan, we will add more inspiration to your email design process. You’ve seen the 1,700+ templates in our catalog. Now, we’ll leverage the 15,000+ designs on the RGE site to give you creative superpowers.

If you’re involved in email creation at all, the key point is this: by bringing together RGE's vast email catalog with Beefree's intuitive design tools, we will provide new ways for you to close the gap between finding inspiration and creating something valuable from it.

I've always believed that inspiration is the precursor to creation. Seeing a design that clicks with you, that sparks that "Aha!" moment, is crucial. And Really Good Emails has been that source of "Aha!" for many, including myself. Incorporating RGE's treasure trove into Beefree's ecosystem feels like a natural step toward enhancing the creative process for our community.

Bringing Beefree and RGE together

From a product point of view, you will start seeing integrations between RGE and Beefree. We’ll start small and get fancier over time. They will start shipping soon, and we’ll keep you posted. 

While that’s in the future, there are things we can deliver to you today.

  • First, the Pro features on reallygoodemails.com become FREE for all, starting immediately. At Beefree, we love removing friction and agreed with our friends at RGE to start there. So, create new collections, add your favorite emails, and use the Chrome extension. It’s all free now.

  • Secondly, Unspam is back. It was hard for an all-volunteer team to host and grow this special email event. We have zero intention of changing the nature and objectives of the event, but we’re excited to support it and help it grow. Justine Jordan - Head of Strategy & Community at Beefree - took the lead on that, co-hosting Unspam 2024 in her own, authentic way.

  • Third, I'm super excited to welcome Mike Nelson and Matt Helbig from RGE to the Beefree team. They have a lot of innovative ideas around the future of Really Good Emails, and we can’t wait to collaborate with them. Matthew Smith and Matt Cook will help as strategic advisors.

We live in a world where email continues to be the favorite channel for companies to communicate with their subscribers and for people like you and I to hear from our favorite brands (e.g., here and here). In this world, you - email creators - play such a crucial role.

You are the key stakeholders for both RGE and Beefree. Hundreds of thousands of you use our tools every month. Through Unspam and many other initiatives, we want to increase investment in email makers and creators. 

We need to do so to continue building products that make sense and are truly helpful: successful products only come from a lot of deep listening. We want to do so because we are part of the same community, and there’s no healthy RGE & Beefree without a thriving community.

I know it’s cliché to say it, but we truly believe this is a case where the whole has a real chance of being greater than the sum of the parts. Our tools - combined - will deliver a greater amount of value to you. Our efforts - combined - will have a greater impact.

Give us a bit of time to execute all of this, and keep us honest as we do so. If you have questions, we maintain a FAQ here and welcome your comments and feedback by emailing community@beefree.io

With heartfelt enthusiasm, optimism, and anticipation for what’s to come,

Massimo Arrigoni 

CEO, Beefree

Best Practices in Email Marketing for Digital Agencies

Delve into the email marketing best practices that can empower digital agencies to harness the full potential of emails. From crafting compelling content to leveraging automation and segmentation, these practices are essential for driving engagement, nurturing leads, and achieving remarkable results
Beefree team
Apr 10, 2024

For fast-paced digital marketing agencies, it's common to focus on nurturing and expanding your clients' businesses, that you leave little room to promote your own services. While this is unintentional, this oversight may be hindering your agency's growth potential.

That's where email marketing comes in as a game-changer forbusy agencies. With email creation becoming more intuitive, powerful, and 37% of brands increasing their email budgets it's clear to see that email continues to grow as an effective marketing solution.

Let's delve into the best practices that can elevate your agency's email marketing game and unlock new avenues of success.

Why email marketing benefits digital marketing agencies

With 4.3 billion email users, email continues as a sustainable, cost-effective, and high-converting solution to effortlessly balance client acquisition and client retention.

This single strategy enables targeted outreach to engage and move audiences through different stages of the buyer's journey. For new audiences, email marketing can be used to show them your work, promote services, and reasons to work with you. For customer loyalty and retention, email can be used to upsell and/or communicate the consistent value you bring to your clients.

Email marketing presents a lucrative opportunity for marketing agencies of all sizes to thrive and grow. By consistently engaging potential clients and ensuring your presence remains prominent, you establish top-of-mind recall for marketing services.

#1: Segmentation to keep the balance

As your organization grows, you will notice that your audience has a wide range of interests depending on their demographics, business, and needs. Segmentation involves dividing your email list into different groups based on specific criteria, such as industry or stage in your client acquisition journey.

Segmentation enables you to send targeted and personalized content to each group, increasing the relevance and effectiveness of your campaigns and ROI. For example, if you have a segment of subscribers who are interested in social media marketing, you can tailor your emails to provide them with valuable tips and resources in that area.

Seer Interactive, for instance, is a digital marketing agency serving a variety of audiences from digital marketers who need to stay up to date on best practices to prospective customers. You can see in the example below how Seer differs their emails based on the audience.

Email for digital marketers:

Focuses on speaking to digital marketers who are interested in learning more about how to improve their services, what's new in the industry, and new tools and solutions.


Email for potential clients:

The second email targets potential clients who are likely in the discovery phase of what an agency does. Seer provides some insights to help the reader make more informed decisions with comparisons, a checklist, and an article with what to expect. This email, while does not directly promote Seer's services, let's the reader know that this agency is here to help keeping them top of mind.

Segmenting your audience using the customer journey funnel

As mentioned earlier, one of the most beneficial aspects of email marketing for agencies is the ability to maintain balance between client acquisition and customer retainment. In our professional experience, the best way to do this is to map out your customer journey and plan out how each stage serves your audience and of course moves them through the journey. While your client’s journey may vary depending on your services, but typically it entails the following: 

  • Awareness: In this stage, prospects have heard your name but are just getting to know who you are. This is where you can create a sequence of emails for them to get to know your agency, the services you offer, and what makes you unique. 
  • Consideration: This audience is weighing their options about the best marketing agency for them. This is where you will likely begin to provide statistics about the returns you’ve achieved for other clients or share testimonials. 
  • Decision/conversion: This is the stage when prospects just need that final push to take action and sign on as clients. In this stage, you can offer incentives or a free trial of one services.
  • Loyalty: This is the stage when a business has signed on as a client or made a purchase and your goal is to retain them. You’ll want to send these clients loyalty-boosting content like announcements about new products, appreciation for their support, and informative content that is helpful to them.

Ultimately, segmentation is a great way to keep your subscribers engaged and drive client acquisition and retention. Once you have a clear understanding of your client journey and the goals at each stage, now it's time to grow your email list.

#2: Building and growing your email list

To maximize the effectiveness of your email marketing campaigns, it is essential to first start building a quality list of people who are interested in what you have to offer and say.

  1. Make it easy to subscribe: Whether you're using a form on your website or a landing page, make sure that your process is simple. Only ask for only essential information, ideally only up to three. Some suggestions are name, email address, and a question that could help you segment them into groups such as "are you looking for an agency?" This simple question could help segment new subscribers to cold vs. hot leads. Don't forget to use a clear CTA that communicated what the next step is.  
  2. Leverage social media: Promote your email list on social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok, and Twitter/X to reach a wider audience and encourage sign-ups.
  3. Offer valuable incentives: Provide something of value, such as appealing discounts on a client’s first service or exclusive content like a guide to social media marketing in exchange for people signing up to your email list.
  4. Regularly clean your list: While building and growing your email list, it is important to regularly examine your subscribers and remove those who are not engaging. This helps maintain a healthy list and ensures that your metrics accurately reflect subscriber engagement.
  5. Don’t forget existing clients: Add your existing clients to your mailing list so they can stay up to date on your latest services and offers. Additionally create a segment of former clients who have not engaged with your agency in a while. This segment is perfect for targeted emails meant to re-engage them, like personalized information about where they left off in the process and a call-to-action button for them to jump back in.
  6. Provide compelling content consistently: Deliver content that is interesting, informative, and valuable to keep subscribers engaged and to make them more likely to tell others about your mailing list. The friends they tell may become subscribers and eventually clients.

Keep these best practices in mind to build a high-quality subscriber list who are genuinely interested in your brand. 

#3: Designing high-converting emails

The effectiveness of your email campaigns is directly influenced by the design choices you make. Research shows that visually appealing designs can significantly enhance engagement rates.

Email design best practices

Strategic design choices not only make your emails more appealing, but also drive higher conversions.

  1. Personalize your emails: HubSpot ranks message personalization as one of the most effective strategies for email marketing. Tailor the content based on their interests or past interactions with your brand, such as by including a section for recommended services. This increases engagement and makes your emails more relevant.
  2. Use professional and high-quality visual design: Use high-quality images and graphics that support your message and reflect your brand's identity. A visually appealing email is more likely to capture attention and encourage click-throughs. In fact, according to Campaign Monitor, communications with visuals receive 650% more engagement than those without.
  3. Include a clear call-to-action (CTA): Wordstream found that one CTA in your email can garner 371% more clicks and over 1600% higher sales. Your CTA should be prominent, concise, and action-oriented. Make it easy for recipients to understand what they need to do next, whether it's making a purchase, signing up for an event, or downloading a resource.
  4. Maintain consistent branding: Ensure that your email templates align with your brand's colors, fonts, and overall visual style. Consistency helps build recognition and reinforces trust with your audience, and according to GaggleAMP, customers who feel connected to your brand account for 37% of revenue and spend twice as much.
  5. Design for mobile devices: According to eMarketer, over half of emails are opened on mobile devices. Be sure your emails are mobile-friendly so they still look clean and engaging for your recipients.

Leverage email templates

Email marketing templates are a great asset for your email design. Many email marketing tools offer pre-designed emails that you can easily customize to suit your needs and brand guidelines.

By using pre-built templates, your agency can significantly reduce the time and effort required to create engaging emails, ultimately boosting your return on investment (ROI) by maximizing the impact of your email marketing efforts.

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Ensure responsive, mobile-optimized, HTML email design

When designing your marketing emails, designing in HTML helps ensure that your emails will be readable in nearly any email app (like Gmail, Outlook, and so on) and device. Fortunately, you don’t have to be an HTML coder to create HTML emails.

Now a days, there are many tools that offer an easy-to-use design interface so you can design your emails and export the HTML the solution builds for you. These tools, streamline and make the design process more efficient, without the need to have any knowledge on HTML or CSS.

By utilizing an HTML email design tool, such as Beefree, not only can you enjoy the peace of mind that your emails will render well, but you also benefit from a solution that helps you and your agency save time, increase productivity, and get more done with less resources.

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However, not all HTML email builders are made equal.

#4: Choosing the right email marketing software for your agency

A stellar email campaign starts with effective and productive email marketing software. When choosing email marketing software, it's important to consider factors such as ease of use, customization options, integration capabilities with other tools, and more.

Factors to consider when choosing email marketing software

How do you determine which of the many email marketing tools is the best fit for your agency’s needs? Here are some important factors to consider while you weigh your options:

  1. Check out the features: Every software has its own collection of features like scheduled sending, automated options for sending a series of emails, personalization, design capabilities, and so on. Compare tools and their features against your list of must-haves.
  2. Examine the pricing: Cost matters in your ROI. Pick a service that fits your budget.
  3. Consider other capabilities: Some tools offer email marketing along with other helpful services like social media ads, website analytics, and so on. Consider whether there are email marketing tools that will also replace some of your other software.
  4. Try A/B testing: If you’re able to try out multiple email tools at the same time, consider sending a few campaigns with each tool to see if one performs better than the other.
  5. Weigh the integration capabilities: Consider email marketing platforms that may integrate with some of the other tools you use, like your client management system. This applies to email tools that integrate with other email tools too, like BeeFree which provides a user-friendly way to design your emails and smoothly send them with nearly any email sending platform
  6. Preview emails: Check out examples of what other businesses have created using each email tool.
  7. Read reviews and research: See what other businesses (and especially other marketing agencies, if possible) have to say about each tool.

Recommended email marketing tools

Here's a quick rundown of some recommended email design tools that can help maximize your ROI:

HubSpot

  • Key features: AI-driven marketing automation, built-in analytics, advanced segmentation, customizable templates.
  • Benefits: Targeted emails improve ROI and overall marketing strategy. HubSpot's AI can help with segmentation and crafting tailored emails for each recipient.

MailChimp

  • Key features: Easy usability, broad template selection, robust automation, analytics.
  • Benefits: Good for beginners and seasoned marketers alike, MailChimp offers an intuitive platform with high flexibility.

Constant Contact

  • Key features: User-friendly interface, diverse template library, event management tools, social media integration.
  • Benefits: Great for small to midsize businesses. It offers a range of features that can help streamline and automate your email marketing processes.

GetResponse

  • Key features: All-in-one platform, landing page builder, advanced analytics, webinar hosting
  • Benefits: If you're looking for more than just email marketing, GetResponse offers a suite of tools including landing page and webinar solutions.

ActiveCampaign

  • Key features: Advanced automation, CRM integration, messaging features, customer behavior tracking
  • Benefits: ActiveCampaign is ideal for businesses with a focus on customer relationships. It offers extensive automation and tracking capabilities for a more personalized approach.

Beefree

  • Key features: Specializing in HTML email design, with an extensive catalog of email templates to use and a drag-and-drop email editor for complete customization
  • Benefits: While emails cannot be exported via Beefree like the above, Beefree integrates with all major email sending platforms for easy use with your favorite software. Additionally, the application offers free and cost-effective plans to help you get started.
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To ensure you're choosing the right tool, consider your organization's unique needs, the tool's capabilities, and how well it integrates with your existing marketing tech stack.

#5: Automating Your email marketing efforts

Leveraging automation in your email marketing strategy can significantly enhance your outreach efforts and improve your email marketing ROI. By automating certain aspects of your email campaigns, you can ensure timely and targeted communication with potential clients, increasing the likelihood of engagement.

Automation allows you to schedule emails to be sent at optimal times and personalize content based on user behavior. This not only saves time and resources but also maximizes the impact of your emails. There are several ways that your agencies can incorporate automation, but here are some:

  • Sending an email to clients who started but didn’t complete your inquiry process.
  • Automated welcome series for new clients that introduces them to your work process.
  • Automated follow-ups for webinars, events, or meetings.

Benefits of email marketing automation

  1. Increased efficiency: With automated emails, you can reach a larger number of clients or reach clients more reliably without having to manually send individual emails.
  2. Engagement and lead nurturing: Marketing automation sometimes offers advanced features like lead scoring and nurturing. You can segment your audience based on their behavior or interests, ensuring that they receive relevant content tailored specifically for them.
  3. Advanced user segmentation: Automation allows you to segment your email list based on various criteria such as demographics, purchase history, or engagement level. This enables you to send personalized messages that resonate with each segment of your audience.
  4. Increased conversions: By sending targeted and timely emails through automation, you can significantly improve conversion rates. Whether it's encouraging a purchase or promoting an upcoming event, automated emails can help drive more conversions for your agency.

#6: Tracking and measuring for success

To ensure the effectiveness of your email marketing efforts, it is crucial to track and measure key metrics such as open rates, click-through rates, and conversion rates. This data helps you recognize trends, such as what designs or content resonate the most with your clients, and help make informed decisions for your next campaign.

Important metrics to track

Here are some key metrics that you should track throughout your agency’s email marketing campaigns.

  1. Open rate: Shows the percentage of recipients who opened your email out of those who received it. It gives insight into the effectiveness of subject lines and sender names.
  2. Click-through rate: Measures the percentage of recipients who clicked on a link within your email. It helps you evaluate the effectiveness of your email content and call-to-action.
  3. Conversion rate: Tells you how many recipients took the desired action after clicking through your email. In the case of a marketing agency, that action could be filling out your website’s contact form.
  4. Bounce rate: Tracks the percentage of emails that were not delivered to recipients' inboxes due to invalid or non-existent email addresses.
  5. List growth rate: Allows you to assess how quickly your email list is expanding so you can adjust your acquisition strategies accordingly.
  6. Email sharing/forwarding rate: Measures how often recipients share or forward your emails to others. It can indicate whether your content resonates with your audience and has potential for increased reach.
  7. Unsubscribe rate: Monitors the percentage of recipients who unsubscribe from your emails after receiving them. High unsubscribe rates may indicate issues with targeting, content relevance, or frequency.

To learn more about how to measure and make informed decisions based on each metrics read: 8 Email Metrics That Actually Matter in 2024

Unlocking the power of email marketing for agencies

Digital marketing agencies have a unique business model and a unique use for email marketing. Unlike many businesses, you aren’t trying to use your email marketing to make a quick sale or appeal to impulse buyers. You’re trying to establish a genuine and ongoing connection with potential clients and show them the concrete value you can bring to their businesses. Agency-specific strategies like those above can help you make the most of every email you send.

Want a more efficient way to create compelling marketing emails? The Beefree "Business" plan is the perfect solution for growing agencies to scale their email marketing processes and campaigns. Start your free 15-day Business trial today

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Frequently asked questions for agencies

1. How can email marketing help digital agencies maximize their ROI?

Email marketing helps digital agencies maximize their ROI by allowing them to reach a targeted audience, build relationships with clients, and drive traffic to their website or landing page.

2. What are some best practices for email marketing in digital agencies?

Some best practices for email marketing in digital agencies include segmenting the audience according to interests or needs and other factors, personalizing emails, creating compelling subject lines and content, optimizing for mobile devices, and analyzing campaign data to make improvements.

3. How often should digital agencies send emails to their subscribers?

The frequency of sending emails will depend on factors such as the industry, target audience, and goals of the campaign. However, it is generally recommended to maintain a consistent schedule that provides value without overwhelming subscribers.

4. What metrics should digital agencies track to measure the success of their email marketing campaigns?

Digital agencies should track metrics such as open rates, click-through rates (CTRs), conversion rates, bounce rates, and unsubscribe rates to measure the success of their email marketing campaigns.

5. Are there any legal considerations when conducting email marketing for digital agencies?

Yes, there are legal considerations when conducting email marketing. Digital agencies need to comply with anti-spam laws like the CAN-SPAM Act in the United States and GDPR in Europe by including clear opt-in/opt-out options, providing accurate sender information in each email sent, and following other guidelines.

Elevate Your Email Campaigns: Optimal Banner Size & Design Tips

Discover the perfect email banner size for your campaign with our comprehensive guide, including design tips, best practices, and inspiration to enhance your emails.
Beefree team
Beefree team
17 Apr
2024

Every marketer knows that branding, visually engaging branding, matters. In a recent HubSpot survey, 20% of marketers reported to see a direct correlation between their design choices and an increase in email engagement.

In email marketing specifically, one of the first design elements a recipient views is your banner, making it crucial to grab the attention of the reader at first glance. An email banner should effectively convey your message, resonate with your audience, and be responsive regardless of what device your recipient uses to view your emails.

Let's discuss email banner best practice to follow that will ultimately lead to improve results of your email campaigns.

What is an email banner?

An email banner is a strategic design element element that appears at the top of your emails to catch the immediate attention of your reader. Sometimes called an email header, your banner is where you’ll introduce the main purpose of your email, like that amazing sale you’re advertising or the product launch of the century, and reel in customers’ so they scroll through the rest of the email.

Your email banner is your chance to make a fantastic first impression. Let’s explore the best email banner sizes and best practices to keep in mind.

Ideal email banner sizes

It is an outdated solution to automatically set all email banners to a width of 600px. With screen sized of both mobile and desktop devices varying so widely, it's important to ensure your email banner size is responsive for optimal viewing experience.

  • For desktop users, a banner 650-700 pixels wide and 90-200 pixels tall is ideal
  • For mobile users, the ideal banner is 350 pixels wide and up to 100 pixels tall

These updated dimensions follow responsive design best practices allowing email banners to render properly in a variety of email clients and devices.
Responsive design allows your email design to automatically adjust to the screen size of a customer’s device.

PRO tip: using an email design template that is already built to be responsive makes following this best practice a breeze.  

Impact of email banner size on campaign performance

A banner that’s poorly sized could become distorted when customers open it in their Gmail, Outlook, or whatever email platform they use.

This makes your email look less professional and it can also be harder to read so it doesn’t get your message across as well. A poorly sized email banner can also affect the user experience. If the banner is too wide, for example, it forces customers to scroll horizontally and it doesn’t allow them to see the entire banner in one view.

Not only do these issues affect the overall experience customers have with your email but they can also squander the excellent engagement opportunity that a well-designed email banner can be. According to Opensense's data, email banners can have 5-10% engagement rates,  a significant enhancement compared to the average click-through rate of 1.4% in emails.

Best practices for email banner design

Your banner size is an important part of designing an effective email banner, but it’s one of many. Check out these best practices to make your email banner even more powerful in garnering the engagement of your recipients.

  • File size: Any image in your email, but specifically your email banner, should be of high-quality. The ideal image should be download as a PNG at a resolution of 72dpi at 40kb or below.
  • Inverted pyramid: This "rule" in email design relates to adding the most important information at the top, working your way down to the least important information. When designing your email banner, make sure it clearly communicates the most important message in your email.
  • Brand consistency: As important as it is that your email banner makes a positive impression and communicates the main purpose of your email, it also should align with your brand. Make sure the design uses your brand colors, logo, or other aspects that make it consistent with your brand’s visual identity.
  • Text: Your banner needs to communicate your message, but less is more. Keep your copy sparse so it isn’t visually overwhelming and so the focus stays on your core intention. Ideally, 45-75 characters on a line is the sweet spot.
  • Email-friendly fonts: Make sure you use email-safe fonts that render reliably on major email platforms.
  • Accessibility: You want your banner’s message to reach as many customers as possible, and that includes customers with disabilities. Make sure to include accessibility features like using alt text so viewers with visual impairments can understand your message and using color combinations that viewers with color blindness can see.
  • Interactivity: Your email banner doesn’t have to be just a plain image or text. Consider making it interactive, such as with a GIF or a video that grabs your viewers’ attention.
  • Testing: You can follow all the rules for proper email banner size and design, but it’s still important to test it in action to make sure it shows up the way you want it to. Always send yourself a test email and see how that test email looks on different devices and platforms before you send it to your subscriber list.

For inspiration, check out these excellent email banners. This one from Beefree's template catalog clearly communicate the purpose of the email, remains consistent in branding throughout and plays with visual and text hierarchy to guide the reader's eye.

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This other email banner uses a navigation bar to keep the reader in the brand's ecosystem allowing readers to learn more about the marketing agency. This simple, yet effective email header communicates clearly the purpose of the email using imagery and text and has a clear CTA to lead the reader to complete the desired action without needing to scroll.

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Common mistakes in email banner design

When creating a strong email banner, it’s just as important to avoid doing the wrong things as it is to do the right things. Watch for these common pitfalls in email banner design:

  • Over-designing: Your email banner is prime real estate in your email, so of course you want to make the best use of that real estate. If you try to cram too much into that banner, though, you may lose your core message entirely because viewers don’t know where to look. 
  • Hard-to-read fonts: Your email banner is a wonderful place to get creative and build visual appeal, so of course you want to use fun design elements and fonts.
    But at the end of the day, the purpose is to send a message, so make sure the ornamental fonts you use are still clear enough that they’re easy to read.
  • Lack of responsive design: We’ve touched on this above but it’s also a common misstep that’s worth mentioning. Considering that 46% of emails are opened on mobile devices, every email and banner you create must be responsive to maintain its visual quality on any email platform.

Leveraging Tools for Email Marketing Banner

There’s a lot to consider as you’re designing an email banner, but we have great news: there are tools that can make it easier.

Take Beefree for example. Our extensive email template library has over 1,700 pre-built templates that already use banner design best practices like responsive design, minimal text for maximum impact, and proper sizing. Our HTML email editor makes it easy to customize these designs for your brand and messaging.

Start designing with ease and sign up for a free account today! 

Beefree's acquisition of Really Good Emails: here’s why we're excited and you should be too

As of April 15th, 2024, Beefree has acquired Really Good Emails to bridge inspiration and creation: here’s why and what’s next.

If you’re in the email space, you’ve visited reallygoodemails.com

I’ve been a fan for years. There’s nothing like seeing fantastic messages designed by some of the world's best brands to inspire you. Perhaps as well-known as the website are the newsletters from Really Good Emails: witty, funny, and packed with great articles and best practices.

So when Mike Nelson, one of the founders of Really Good Emails (RGE), reached out to me months ago, I was all ears.

Mike and his partners had been volunteering their time on the RGE project for almost ten years and had decided that it was time to switch gears. To deliver more value to their millions of visitors, RGE needed more time, money, and full-time focus.

One thing they found in surveys is that RGE users wanted to “turn saved emails into customizable templates” and use them in any email tool. As it turns out, that’s exactly what people do with Beefree’s no-code email builder: create millions of emails monthly for all sorts of use cases in virtually every industry. They even create those emails inside hundreds of other applications where our tools are embedded. 

Mike clearly had the right idea, and I’m so glad he and his co-founders reached out. 

We started talking and sharing ideas and a vision for the future of RGE. There was a lot of alignment. We believed then—and even more strongly today—that a collaboration between RGE and Beefree could make the art and science of email creation more accessible, more inspiring, and simply, more fun.  

Our plans for the future

If you’re an RGE fan and have never heard of Beefree, our goal is to shorten your path from inspiration to creation. Over the next several months, we will work on various ways to make that happen.

If you’re a Beefree fan, we will add more inspiration to your email design process. You’ve seen the 1,700+ templates in our catalog. Now, we’ll leverage the 15,000+ designs on the RGE site to give you creative superpowers.

If you’re involved in email creation at all, the key point is this: by bringing together RGE's vast email catalog with Beefree's intuitive design tools, we will provide new ways for you to close the gap between finding inspiration and creating something valuable from it.

I've always believed that inspiration is the precursor to creation. Seeing a design that clicks with you, that sparks that "Aha!" moment, is crucial. And Really Good Emails has been that source of "Aha!" for many, including myself. Incorporating RGE's treasure trove into Beefree's ecosystem feels like a natural step toward enhancing the creative process for our community.

Bringing Beefree and RGE together

From a product point of view, you will start seeing integrations between RGE and Beefree. We’ll start small and get fancier over time. They will start shipping soon, and we’ll keep you posted. 

While that’s in the future, there are things we can deliver to you today.

  • First, the Pro features on reallygoodemails.com become FREE for all, starting immediately. At Beefree, we love removing friction and agreed with our friends at RGE to start there. So, create new collections, add your favorite emails, and use the Chrome extension. It’s all free now.

  • Secondly, Unspam is back. It was hard for an all-volunteer team to host and grow this special email event. We have zero intention of changing the nature and objectives of the event, but we’re excited to support it and help it grow. Justine Jordan - Head of Strategy & Community at Beefree - took the lead on that, co-hosting Unspam 2024 in her own, authentic way.

  • Third, I'm super excited to welcome Mike Nelson and Matt Helbig from RGE to the Beefree team. They have a lot of innovative ideas around the future of Really Good Emails, and we can’t wait to collaborate with them. Matthew Smith and Matt Cook will help as strategic advisors.

We live in a world where email continues to be the favorite channel for companies to communicate with their subscribers and for people like you and I to hear from our favorite brands (e.g., here and here). In this world, you - email creators - play such a crucial role.

You are the key stakeholders for both RGE and Beefree. Hundreds of thousands of you use our tools every month. Through Unspam and many other initiatives, we want to increase investment in email makers and creators. 

We need to do so to continue building products that make sense and are truly helpful: successful products only come from a lot of deep listening. We want to do so because we are part of the same community, and there’s no healthy RGE & Beefree without a thriving community.

I know it’s cliché to say it, but we truly believe this is a case where the whole has a real chance of being greater than the sum of the parts. Our tools - combined - will deliver a greater amount of value to you. Our efforts - combined - will have a greater impact.

Give us a bit of time to execute all of this, and keep us honest as we do so. If you have questions, we maintain a FAQ here and welcome your comments and feedback by emailing community@beefree.io

With heartfelt enthusiasm, optimism, and anticipation for what’s to come,

Massimo Arrigoni 

CEO, Beefree

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