The Admail.net Blog

Admail.net makes email marketing simple. Browse through our posts to learn valuable email marketing tips, best practices, and stay up-to-date on current email marketing techniques and Admail.net services.

  • 14 Apr 2010
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  • Author: Dan Lukens

Improved Email Template Previews

A new Admail feature to help you get the most out of our email campaign system. You can now see larger previews of our email templates to help you selected the correct template for your message. READ MORE

  • 31 Mar 2010
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  • Author: Dan Lukens

Text Email or White-Paper Template?

Ever wonder if you should use an HTML email template or a plain text email for your simple email campaigns? Admail discusses the pros and cons of the two formats on the Admail blog. READ MORE

  • 31 Mar 2010
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  • Author: Dan Lukens

Suppression List Option Added!

Admail.net has added a new feature to their List Builder. Now all users can upload their own suppression files. This will improve contact management and will assist in better, more self sufficient email marketing campaigns. READ MORE

  • 08 Mar 2010
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  • Author: Dan Lukens

An Example of Alt Text & Slicing Done Right

A graphical representation of how alternate text and slicing of your images can improve the look of your email. READ MORE

  • 22 Feb 2010
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  • Author: Dan Lukens

12 Email Marketing Best Practices From Admail.net

A comprehensive guide to effectively communicating through email marketing. This post is collection of best practice tips and advice developed by the email marketers at Admail.net over a period of 15 years. This is a great beginners guide for any email marketer. READ MORE

  • 29 Jan 2010
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  • Author: Dan Lukens

Creating Image Based Emails and Using Alt Text & Slicing

A detailed explanation of creating alternate text and slicing images to create imaged based html emails in the admail email campaign builder. READ MORE

  • 18 Jan 2010
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  • Author: Dan Lukens

The Open Rate: What does it all mean?

When confronted with statistics like open rates do you really understand what it all means? If you don't, you should. Be educated about your statistics and avoid analytic paralysis in your email marketing campaign. READ MORE

  • 11 Jan 2010
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  • Author: Dan Lukens

Simple HTML Code Every Email Marketer Should Know

Easy to use and remember html code that can be helpful in any marketer's tool chest. READ MORE

  • 24 Dec 2009
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  • Author: Dan Lukens

Upcoming Holiday "Gifts" In Email Builder 2.0

Email Builder 2.0 is coming and its a holiday treat that all of our customers are bound to love! READ MORE

  • 14 Dec 2009
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  • Author: Dan Lukens

Reprogram Your Brain To Send Good Emails: Use Thumbnails

When you send out an email campaign, use your head! There are several ways to improve the deliverability of your html emails, one of them being using appropriately sized images. Using images that are very large is a red flag for spam filters and makes the emails less appealing and harder to load. READ MORE

  • 07 Dec 2009
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  • Author: Dan Lukens

Largely overlooked ways to improve your email readership

An instructional post describing how to improve the result of any Admail.net email marketing campaign by getting on your recipients contact list and by using familiar branding. READ MORE

  • 18 Nov 2009
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  • Author: Dan Lukens

Best Practices: Honesty is the Best Policy!

Advertising requires honesty and this applies, by law, to mass mailing sent out to mail lists. If your business uses html mass email marketing don't forget that your reputation depends on your following Federal Trade Commission guidelines. By using common sense and best practices, along with Admail's email builder, you can produce an effective and business-driving bulk email campaign. READ MORE

  • 13 Nov 2009
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  • Author: Dan Lukens

Admail.net Continues To Grow, Recruits New Content Manager

At Admail.net customer service has always been number one. To maintain that quality and to provide their customers with an even higher level of support, Admail.net has hired Dan Lukens as their new Content Manager. READ MORE

  • 12 Nov 2009
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  • Author: Dan Lukens

7 Rules for Designing Your Email for Mobile Devices

7 fast and easy ways to design your emails to be compatible with mobile devices. READ MORE

  • 30 Jun 2009
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  • Author: Robert Hicks

Why Buying a List can be a Bad Idea!

Buying a list of emails to send email marketing to can be enticing because it's easy, but the negative consequences are not worth the trouble in the end. READ MORE

  • 13 Apr 2009
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  • Author: Robert Hicks

5 Seconds You Can't Afford To Waste

FACT: In five seconds or less, your company's email subject and content will determine whether a customer decides to keep your newsletter or update;  Or flag-it as SPAM. READ MORE

  • 11 Apr 2009
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  • Author: Robert Hicks

Internet Explorer 8 Users "Just say No"

When using your Admail Email Builder Templates with Images - IE 8's default security setting will ask you "Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered securely" and the answer is "No". If you say yes the unsecured Images in your Template  (photos, logos, etc) will not load and you will find yourself stuck!  See sample screen shot below. READ MORE

  • 22 Mar 2009
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  • Author: Robert Hicks

6 tips for your next e-mail

Here are tips for your next email. Covers topics like subject line, preview panes, handling image blocking, and personalization. READ MORE

  • 09 Mar 2009
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  • Author: Robert Hicks

Text email can and does work!

One question I often hear from clients is "Does text email work?" and invariably I tell them "Text is King." Why do I say this? Text emails are less likely to be BLOCKED and if the content of the email is important to the recipient it can be just as effective--sometimes even more! READ MORE

  • 04 Sep 2008
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  • Author: Thaddeus Quintin

Let Me Count The Ways

A number of updates have been taken live over the past few weeks--we wanted to officially mention them before the next wave of updates comes. READ MORE

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