Crafting Email Text that Delivers Your Message

by Stan Brown on September 22, 2010

in email marketing

In the high tech world of digital media, using plain text email to market a product or service may strike some as an old-fashioned approach out of step with the times. That mindset couldn’t be further from the truth.

Effective, well-rounded email programs often use both HTML and text to ensure optimum rendering and delivery. The fact is, with HTML formatting often disabled by image-blocking platforms or aggressive spam filters, plain text email is still “old reliable” for delivering a marketing message that gets read and acted on.

The Art and Science of Email Text

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