Author Archives: Alex Williams

How to add a “Pin It” Button to your Email Campaign

(Getting a lot of questions on this recently, so I thought I would throw up a quick blog post to direct people to.) If you want to test out having users “Pin” content from your email on Pinterest, here is how to build the url that will sit behind the “Pin it” button: We’ll create [...]

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If a great email falls in the inbox and no one opens it, does it make a sound?

Not a super lengthy post here, just something quick I wanted to show you about creative, strategy, and execution happening in silos instead of working together. I almost deleted a great email tonight… The only reason I paused before deleting this email in Gmail was that I used to be in a band with a [...]

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iOS 5 & Email Marketing – Part 1

Since the release of iOS 5, Apple’s new software for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad has been installed on 1 in 3 compatible devices.  We have been analyzing how all of the new features will impact the massively growing number of email marketing campaigns being read on Apple gadgets. For example, one client of Trendline logged [...]

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Do your Email Subject Lines have C.U.R.V.E.?

There are 2 ways you can look at the practice of writing Subject Lines – an unforgiving onslaught of repetition under duress that drains your creativity and mojo like a vampire from True Blood…OR…an exciting and rewarding challenge that is always teaching you to become a better marketer and communicator. Those of us who choose the [...]

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Event: The Art & Science of Writing Effective Subject Lines

Trendline’s Sr. Digital Strategist Alex Williams will be speaking in Portland Oregon on February 23rd as part of the AMA’s professional development workshop. Look for a webcast after the event on the blog. From Canned Spam to Filet Mignon: The Art & Science of Writing Effective Subject Lines February 23 | 5:30pm Living Room Theaters [...]

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The 2010 Email Marketing Awards – “The Trendies”

When you have been working on email marketing as long as the team here at Trendline has , you get a heck of a lot of emails. We are collectively signed up for thousands of email programs. We do this to keep our fingers on the pulse of the industry, monitor trends, and advise clients on [...]

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Turning it up to 11 at Trendline Interactive

My first post as the newest member of Trendline Interactive was as hard to write as my first ever blog post on Email Marketing. How do you say everything you want to say in a few paragraphs? After a few false starts working through Jay Baer’s Blog Post Worksheet (which I have given to numerous clients [...]

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