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Karrie Beth

In today’s frenzy of information, there is more and more pressure upon email marketers to cram the most amount of information in as little a space as possible. It can be said that the days of text-based online advertising is starting to come to an end in general. We are already seeing this revolution in banner advertising, which is slowly turning into mini-movies. Today, one of the most prominent of email marketing tips that you can find on any email marketing knowledge base is that you need to start using videos and links in your email marketing campaign and here is the technological know-how for it.

This is a crucial change in the world of email marketing. It can be extrapolated that the changes in email marketing styles is not just necessitated by the use of more interesting technology but rather because of the need to avoid spam filters. Spam filters are powerful tools that are able to weed out Images need user intervention to open up in most email clients but video just requires a flash plug in and an internet connection.

Most internet marketing gurus’ most common email marketing tips today is to use videos in email. While this is based in fact you need to temper this advice with understanding the drawbacks of using video as well. Any high end multimedia solution requires that you set up infrastructure to support it. It also requires a broadband connection at the prospects end to view mails. Therefore, take the aid of the articles within an email marketing knowledge base to understand the technical constraints that you need to accommodate for. If you are lucky, then you might also get statistics on the spread of broadband geographically across the world and then accordingly decide whether to use video or not in the first place.

Using imagery is a rather contentious issue. It can be said that using images is a bit of old world technology and email clients today anyway do not allow the display of images and downloadable information. Curiously, this same argument exists for links as well. Therefore, it is crucial that another factor of email marketing that is often ignored called customer trust is also leveraged. Customer trust of your content is in the form of an opt-in or an agreement to receive marketing updates in the form of mailers or newsletters. This is what will make a client allow the download of your multimedia elements.

In summation, email marketing tips all seem to point to the increasing prevalence of videos and other multimedia in email marketing. With the availability of instruction on how to optimize these technologies on email marketing knowledge bases, videos and complex multimedia are no longer just the purview of geeky technology experts. However, remember that spam filters and email clients are also catching up with the expertise of bulk email marketers. This means that with every rise of technology in one segment, the predator also evolves on the other side.

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Karrie Beth is a best practices activist and advocate for Benchmark Email ( http://www.benchmarkemail.com ), a leading Web and permission-based email marketing service.

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