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Category Archives: Email Design
Email Design
November 5, 2019
At least 2.2 billion people are suffering from visual impairment or blindness. However, with medical and technological advancements, they have been ab...
Email Design
September 3, 2019
Much of the marketing effort involves encouraging prospects to read emails and click-through the CTA. The emphasis on electronic communication is part...
Email Design
August 13, 2019
GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is an extensively used file format for graphic images on the World Wide Web. Besides being an obvious standard for d...
Email Design
June 27, 2019
APNG is an extension of the PNG (Portable Network Graphics) format, thereby extending support to the animated images. It will replace the conventional...
Email Design
April 18, 2019
The dark mode is one of the most visibly prominent features in Apple’s MacOS Mojave. It is considered to be one of the most radical changes that...
Email Design
April 4, 2019
Email marketing has always been the favorite marketing channels owing to the huge ROI it yields for the brands. It has gained immense popularity as cr...
Email Design
March 19, 2019
Whenever we ask our clients the objectives of their email campaigns, the responses are many and varied. Some say, “to sell the products”. Others s...
Email Design
April 10, 2019
It’s no secret that your subscribers are receiving numerous emails in their inbox each day. Most of them are not inherently interesting and as a res...
Email Design
February 19, 2019
Email is one of the most challenging digital media, but it has remained to be a valuable marketing channel in spite of its professed death. There are ...
Email Design
January 2, 2019
User experience is what dictates the modern consumer domain. People are attracted to brands that provide an excellent user experience. In order to pro...
Email Design
December 13, 2018
Gamification is an interesting way to engage your subscribers. It is a relatively new approach that is not as explored as GIFs and other rich media el...
Email Design
November 23, 2018
‘Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.’ People usually go for the looks before venturing into the purpose. This may be accredited to the low hu...
Email Design
November 15, 2018
Every email element in an email template has a role to play in the overall visual hierarchy. If you look at the image below, right at the top is the p...
Email Marketing
November 12, 2018
Don’t you love reading email newsletters that draw you in? Whether it’s the sassy language within each email or compelling design, the key to a go...
Email Marketing
November 6, 2018
Planning a great Christmas email campaign is crucial to your shop’s holiday success. Although social media marketing might seem like the trendy thin...
Email Design
August 30, 2018
Updated: 01-December-2019 Email is the King! Even after its inception 4 decades ago, email marketing is still the most popular medium of communication...
Email Design
August 21, 2018
With number of emails being sent and received every day reaching a whopping figure of 269 billion, it is imperative for businesses to understand the i...
Email Design
August 16, 2018
Everyone loves to say a ‘lot’ in the online space, but space as such has always been a constraint. But if you can do it, you win! One of the cruci...
Email Design
August 7, 2018
It was like a breeze of fresh air for Gmail from Google, when they decided to introduce Material Design on April 11, 2018. The refreshed design is ava...
Email Design
July 31, 2018
Summary Trending HTML email examples, presented here, are to help you keep up with the times and surprise your customers with catchy emails. We, as m...
Email Design
June 28, 2018
For an email marketer, every email campaign you send is your baby as you put your heart and soul into creating an amazing one. However, it may not wor...
Email Design
May 29, 2018
An image is to a description is what spices are to a dish. Both enhance the experience one has when enjoying either. Communication has vastly been vis...
Email Design
March 19, 2018
Emails are the way of life. An average email user receives an average of 73 emails every day. And most importantly, there are efforts of multiple peop...
Email Marketing
March 5, 2018
Any email marketer worth their salt knows that it is tough to stand out and capture the attention of your subscribers with every email campaign. Plent...
Email Design
February 9, 2018
Could our ancestors have ever thought that one day, moving photographs would be for real? While moving photographs are not possible in print media, di...
Email Design
February 5, 2018
THE BEST EMAIL DESIGN HUNT 2017 Contest to Appreciate the Best Creative Mind behind an Email – This was the essence behind organizing the first-of-i...
Email Design
January 24, 2018
How many times has your heart skipped a beat on finding out the number of cart-abandonments on your website? It is a serious problem faced by every on...
Email Marketing
January 11, 2018
Email is flourishing and with more and more users and brands using it for business communications, it continues to be part of everyday life across all...
Email Marketing
December 8, 2017
We are all in the festive mood already while we count days for Christmas. It’s the time to light up and decorate your homes, bake cookies, shop gift...
Email Design
December 6, 2017
Interactivity in email is gonna be the next big thing. We’ve been talking about it for quite some time, and studies have been proving us right. Expe...
Email Design
December 4, 2017
Mankind has always been on a lookout for tools making their work easier. A set of materials combine to become simple machines, a set of simple machine...
Email Marketing
December 1, 2017
You might have come across some (or all) of the following in your emails: Email starting with Hello [FirstName], Hello [FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME] or simpl...
Email Design
November 22, 2017
The success of an email campaign lies in the right combination of in-depth conceptualization, strong copywriting, world-class design and clean code. W...
Email Design
January 31, 2018
EmailMonks organizes the First Email Design Contest. A global euphoria…the best in the business showcasing their creative brilliance More than 200 a...
Email Marketing
November 17, 2017
What’s the most important thing that matters in email marketing? It’s knowing what your subscribers and customers expect from you. But of course, ...
Email Design
November 15, 2017
Have you tried placing an order with the Monks and faced some hurdles? To simplify the process of placing a custom email design and coding order with ...
Email Design
November 13, 2017
It is a fact that 22.5% of your email database decays every year. This can be due to multiple reasons like your subscribers changing jobs or abandonin...
Email Marketing
November 8, 2017
When was the last time you challenged yourself or tried something new and exceptional in your emails? Or even deviated from the normal email design? I...
Email Design
November 6, 2017
With the advent of the mobile revolution, it has become important for email marketers to rethink their email marketing strategy to engage maximum user...
Email Marketing
October 31, 2017
Remember our predictions for email design trends 2017 that we did in the beginning of this year? We hope you do! While the use of Big Data and Interne...
Email Design
October 18, 2017
Email design is a vital aspect of your email marketing campaign’s success. Many email marketers tend to take the creative liberty of opting for a re...
Email Marketing
October 12, 2017
It is a huge disappointment for all email marketers how email clients always block the images by default. You put in all your ideas and hard work in ...
Email Design
October 10, 2017
As the holiday season approaches, you must have already set up your triggered email campaigns. The success of your campaigns depends on how you set yo...
Email Marketing
October 6, 2017
Your email marketing results hugely rely on how effectively you tempt your customers to make the purchase. If your customers fail to make up their min...
Email Design
September 7, 2017
As the calendar gradually crawls to the month of September, email marketers across the globe get ready for the busiest quarter of the year i.e. the Ho...
Email Design
September 1, 2017
In this world of blink and miss, brands are trying really hard to stay in the limelight. With almost 350,000 tweets sent per minute (Source), if you a...
Email Design
August 24, 2017
Disclaimer: This email was NOT created for Annabelle Creation. It was our sheer love for horror flicks that inspired Monks to create this ‘experienc...
Email Design
August 11, 2017
Monks are back yet again with our collection of the most loved emails received in the month of July. The floodgates for holiday email marketing have o...
Email Design
July 31, 2017
Do you use animated GIFs in your emails to seek the attention of your users to a particular message and make your emails more engaging? Well, then you...
Email Design
July 26, 2017
Email design and coding is a critical task with different email clients rendering emails differently. Creating the right design and coding it the righ...
Email Design
July 17, 2017
From the text you received on your mobile, an article in a newspaper to the pavement sign on your way to work, the email on your device and even this ...
Email Design
September 11, 2018
Update: This article was originally posted on Jul 12, 2017 and has been updated to add new kinetic email examples. Email marketing has evolved over th...
Email Marketing
July 5, 2017
If your goal is to have a strong relationship with customers and form engaged communities around your brand, leverage email! With email you can identi...
Email Marketing
June 30, 2017
Looking for something new to try in your email template? Something beyond images, GIFs, cinemagraphs, and videos? Something even more unique? PRESENTI...
Email Inspirations
July 23, 2019
This article was previously published on 19th June 2017. It has been updated on 23rd July 2019. Referral leads convert 30% better than the leads gener...
Email Design
June 14, 2017
Have you ever skimmed your emails and got that “déjà vu” kind of a feeling because most of them look ‘almost’ similar? Check out these email...
Email Design
June 13, 2017
We live in a world of tactile feedbacks and interactivity. From a flick of the light switch to the ignition in your car, you interact with element A t...
Email Inspirations
June 12, 2017
The Monks are back with a round-up of some awesome email templates that made it to our inbox in the merry month of May. May is probably one of the bus...
Email Design
June 5, 2017
Email marketing is one of the most future-proof marketing channels and if you do it correctly, it can bring your brand great laurels; of course, email...
Email Design
June 2, 2017
Email Marketing still remains one of the most popular ways to reach a large set of audience. And a successful email marketing campaign is a result of ...
Email Design
May 31, 2017
You may have big goals to give your business a kick start with email marketing. But email template designing issues can actually pose as stumbling blo...
Email Marketing
May 26, 2017
Just like your skin acts as the first line of defense for your body, signup forms are the first line of lead generation strategy for your business. On...
Email Marketing
May 25, 2017
Rich media like GIFs, videos, and cinemagraphs have created a stir in the world of email marketing. Brands can use rich media for effective email mark...
Email Design
May 19, 2017
“What is your mantra for success in business?” Ask this question to any email marketer and promptly comes the reply, The work of an email marketer...
Email Design
May 22, 2017
Outlook (Desktop Client) can be compared to that reserved kinda person who always stays aloof and never joins the amiable group of other email clients...
Email Marketing
May 17, 2017
The competition in the food and beverage industry is highly fierce and marketers use every trick in the trade to stay ahead of the pack and to make a ...
Email Design
May 8, 2017
With the growing use of mobile phones and smart devices, it is necessary that the emails you create are compatible across all these devices and you do...
Email Design
May 5, 2017
We live in an era of high-speed digitization and are deluged by the humungous flow of information we encounter every day. With a smartphone in every h...
Email Design
April 24, 2017
We have seen email marketing evolve over the years, but the pace at which it is accepting and implementing new technology today is remarkable. The new...
Email Design
April 17, 2019
Mother’s Day is around the corner and it is time to make your mom and maternal figures feel special. While the classic gift cards and a bunch of flo...
Email Design
April 12, 2017
As stats and studies indicate, visual cues help us better retrieve and remember information. Since our brain processes visual images more easily as co...
Email Marketing
April 10, 2017
Visuals have the power to tell stories and convey messages in a way that no other medium can. That’s because we are genetically wired to respond bet...
Email Design
April 7, 2017
Taking the Mailable Microsites series further, the Monks are back with yet another element that creates magic when integrated in an email- Countdown i...
Email Design
April 5, 2017
Have you ever imagined the power of the logo of your brand? It has the wherewithal to form a lasting impression of your brand. And isn’t that essent...
Email Design
March 29, 2017
Email designing can get really complicated because of the rendering issues on different email clients. There was a time when tables were used to desig...
Email Design
March 24, 2017
There are always a few gallant email marketers who refuse to stay inside the box and are always game for experimenting with the email template design....
Email Design
March 27, 2017
Cinemagraph is a unique tableau with meticulously added cinematic effects. It is truly a revolution among revolutions. Hope you have read about the po...
Email Design
March 23, 2017
A brand logo plays an imperial role in giving a brand its identity. In fact, with time people start to recognize a brand through their logo. That’s ...
Email Design
March 21, 2017
Apple is surely the top email client but your list also includes subscribers using other email clients like Outlook and web versions like office365, o...
Email Design
March 20, 2017
EmailMonks are happy to share Marketo Master Template that liberates you from all the email designing hassles. What draws attention is the fact that i...
Email Design
March 10, 2017
Have you ever come across the words “Message Truncated” or “Message Clipped” or “View Entire Message”, at the end of an email you received...
Email Design
March 8, 2017
Designing an email is not all about making it fancy. Good email designs have looks that kill and at the same time are simple, practical, and fulfil th...
Email Inspirations
March 6, 2017
When was the last time you had a good laugh? It’s been said and noted by great brains throughout history that ‘humor’ keeps the brain healthy an...
Email Design
March 3, 2017
There are two types of people in this world – those who visit nearby farmers’ market to purchase their apples and those who wait in long q...
Email Design
February 28, 2017
As humans, we love getting options along with the power to choose. With time, emails too are changing as their technology is innovating. Thus, markete...
Email Design
February 21, 2017
On 14th September, developers at Google turned every email developers’ world a tad brighter by announcing that soon their email clients shall suppor...
Email Design
February 17, 2017
Change is the only constant in this world. Since time immemorial, we’ve seen evolution constantly take place around us, be it technology, communicat...
Email Inspirations
February 10, 2017
March 8th is right around the corner and it’s the perfect time to show the ‘women’ in your life how much they mean to you (apart from the other ...
Email Design
February 7, 2017
In a place far far far away, there was an email marketer charting out his marketing strategy. He identified his target audience, chartered his lead ge...
Email Marketing
February 3, 2017
As humans we’ve learnt the art of evolving rapidly with time. We ache to learn and implement new technologies, ideas and learnings. The evolution of...
Email Design
January 31, 2017
We cannot say for sure what the future truly holds. But when it comes to email marketing, analyzing the trends of the previous year can help us predic...
Email Design
January 27, 2017
Any object’s value is based on its utility in day-to-day situations. When the application of an object surpasses its initially defined purpose, it i...
Email Design
January 25, 2017
As the New Year sets in, the Monks at the Monastery are glad to help and enlighten all their valued customers regarding a great deal under ‘Adaptati...
Email Marketing
July 10, 2018
Are you taking up a customer-centric approach for your email marketing so as to deliver what subscribers are looking for? If yes, you’re on the righ...
Email Design
May 15, 2018
This blog was first posted on 20th January 2017. It has been updated on 15th May 2018 with fresh email inspirations. Our inboxes are always teeming wi...
Email Design
January 18, 2017
Just imagine… You’re traveling, and you decide to skim through your inbox and see your mail, that’s when you come across a great email by your f...
Email Inspirations
January 18, 2018
Valentine’s Day is less than a month away, which means our inboxes are all set to turn red and pink. While your subscribers toil at buying fancy gif...
Email Design
January 10, 2017
Mailable microsites are the next big thing for sure as far as email marketing is concerned. From eCommerce businesses to home décor retailers, everyo...
Email Design
January 6, 2017
Have you ever lavished cinnamon on your cookies to give it a feel of exoticism? It tastes amazing, doesn’t it? Cinemagraphs are the cinnamon if emai...
Email Design
December 19, 2016
Humans, by nature, love it when they receive something that has been tailor-made for them. Be it an exclusive birthday gift, a customized vacation, or...
Email Design
December 12, 2016
Emails are not just any banal communication tool. Well-designed emails that share valuable information not only help in customer acquisition and conve...
Email Marketing
December 9, 2016
Just like ‘one size doesn’t fit all’, everyone has a different taste. Thus segmentation comes into play. ‘Segmentation’ in email mar...
Email Design
November 30, 2016
Monks believe that an email with relevant content and a design with which your subscriber can connect has the most chances of getting opened. Learning...
Email Inspirations
November 24, 2017
Snowflakes, fairy lights, reindeer and Santa! With these things showing up all over the internet, we know it is time to gear up with Christmas marketi...
Email Design
November 18, 2016
Emails are a convenience in the modern times. Right from registering your account at a social media to getting your fresh scoop of the global news, em...
Email Design
November 7, 2016
With the number of emails sent daily during a marketing campaign lifecycle, it is important to have consistent design overall. To achieve it, people a...
Email Marketing
November 4, 2016
E-commerce is catching pace in the email marketing world. With a hike in the total number of e-commerce sites, email marketing makes for the most effe...
Landing Page
November 1, 2016
An email marketing campaign is like a house. Its built brick-by-brick by combining different elements such as Email deliverability, Subject line, clea...
Email Design
October 19, 2016
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Email is no longer a digital letter travelling from outbox of the sender to the inbox of the recipient. Almost 20.5 billion emails are sent intended t...
Email Design
October 3, 2016
In the world of cut-throat competition, there is a saying that ‘Time is Money’. The more time devoted is equivalent to more money invested. With a...
Email Design
September 21, 2016
This world loves its choices. From clothes to cars, finding food to finding love and even from Instagram filter to Ice-cream flavor, everyone is spoil...
Email Design
September 7, 2016
It’s an age of being connected. Globally each person uses at least 3 connected devices. As per a study, viewing emails are the most preferred activi...
Email Design
August 31, 2016
An email coder is afraid of nothing… if only Gmail and Outlook rendering issues never existed. Hiding content in Gmail, wasn’t easy earlier unlike...
Email Inspirations
August 19, 2016
It’s not every day that you come across some visual that catches your eye, lures you to watch it, mesmerizes you and provokes you to take action as ...
Email Marketing
August 15, 2016
Relevant images, crisp text, what goes where in the layout…. phew! Email designing can be tough. But it is equally important as it drives results an...
Email Inspirations
July 14, 2017
With fall right around the corner and students across the country all pepped up to go back to school, it’s one of the highest grossing retail holida...
Email Design
August 3, 2016
As email marketers around the world explore different ways of engaging recipients, interactive email design is emerging as the most bankable one ̵...
Email Design
April 19, 2017
As an email marketer, you need to take care of a lot of things. Apart from writing engaging and relevant content, you need to add design elements to p...
Email Design
July 23, 2016
An email template is like the skeletal structure of an email campaign. Without a proper email template, no amount of user interactive elements and con...
Email Design
July 13, 2016
Designing an email template is an intricate part of the email marketing campaign, and also the most challenging one considering the user experience va...
Email Marketing
May 1, 2017
It is intriguing to know how well email subscribers respond to illustrations and the extent to which it influences their construction of meaning. When...
Email Marketing
May 27, 2016
Email signature or sig line, is the much loved to flaunt part of an email. While in general it is just information tagged at the end of your email to ...
Email Marketing
April 30, 2016
Email designers and coders put their heart and soul to build and create a beautiful email design that looks wonderful in the inboxes and appeal to the...
Email Marketing
April 7, 2016
Mother’s day is approaching and it’s time for email marketers to pioneer and give their subscribers a never-seen-before email. Ideally, as an emai...
Email Marketing
April 1, 2016
At a time when many email marketers are working hard to attain a noticeable place in subscribers’ cluttered inbox, they often fail to understand tha...
Email Marketing
March 16, 2016
For most of you who have been passionately following the Monks, you have seen us put forward a lot of proven, vintage as well as new age heavenly emai...
Email Marketing
March 11, 2016
Just like plants need cultivation and nurturing to bear flowers & fruits, and yield the best crops; leads require proper nurturing too. Even thoug...
Email Marketing
March 9, 2016
Whether you are at home, college or at office; April fool’s day is all about having fun, playing crazy pranks, and splashing the dash of laughter. B...
Email Marketing
February 26, 2016
Themed holiday email marketing have always worked for businesses. Whether it’s St. Patrick’s Day or any other holiday, emails carry various offers...
Email Marketing
February 25, 2016
The whole world is going gaga over Star Wars and it’s no surprise why. Apart from being an impeccable movie series, Star Wars can teach many lessons...
Email Marketing
February 19, 2016
International Women’s Day falls on 8th March and is a great occasion for email marketers to make use of holiday email template examples. As per a st...
Email Marketing
February 11, 2016
Imagine you are heading back home all frazzled & jaded, and you get a promotional call from the same guy who’s been annoying you since a month. ...
Email Marketing
February 7, 2016
The cupid’s month has arrived and people from all over the world are going gaga for 14th of February. To articulate the love, affection, and care to...
ESP Feature Watch
January 29, 2016
When several trends are making their existence in the email marketing industry to give the best email experience to the subscribers, Campaign Monitor ...
Email Inspirations
October 16, 2015
As per the latest figures shared by Kantar Worldpanel, the grocery market has witnessed a rise of 1.1%, fastest since June 2014. With intent to capita...
Email Inspirations
September 28, 2015
It’s just about a month to go for Halloween and we are sure you must have already planned a few Halloween campaigns around your products and service...
Email Marketing
September 21, 2015
“A picture is worth a thousand words”, when Arthur first used this phrase in one of his newspaper’s articles, he didn’t know that he is constr...
Email Marketing
June 26, 2017
A deeply curious nature is what has brought us humans to where we are today. What lies behind a closed door, what’s inside a wrapped box, what’s t...
Email Inspirations
June 26, 2015
Have you ever wondered why most people on your list never respond back to your emails? Well, it’s because 70% of email lists are normally inactive. ...
Email Marketing
June 16, 2015
Before a week, we published ideas as to how different industries could use menus in email with three different sample menu types. The idea got an over...
Responsive or Mobile Emails
May 26, 2015
Responsive emails are in vogue.89% of marketers plan or (few already have) adopted responsive email design since its evolution. While we published an ...
Email Marketing
August 18, 2014
A little different from what we generally write, today Monks share with you some tips regarding the support of custom fonts in Email HTML. Fonts are t...
Email Marketing
May 27, 2014
Like the video popularity, Animation as well has started winning hearts. Animation is a lot easier than video deployment. All that is needed is a stat...