You’ve seen them on websites and in emails for years: subtle call-to-action boxes that feature a thin border and text label of the same color with no button fill. These little guys are commonly known as ghost buttons, and they’ve created quite a division in the digital marketing space. Some marketers swear by their effectiveness while others call them poor performers. At emfluence, we like to say that as with most things email, it really depends. Why Use a Ghost Button? Thanks to a pretty simple design that often blends […]

Ever wish you had a time traveling DeLorean to go back and fix costly email errors? Everyone makes mistakes, but smart email teams know how to stop them from ever happening. In part two of our webinar series with our friends at Email On Acid, emfluence CEO David Cacioppo and Email On Acid’s Geoff Traub joined emfluence’s Cory LaGrange for a discussion on all the things that can go wrong with email, and how to prevent email disasters before they strike.  Disasters can strike at every point in the email […]

Ever wished there was an Un-Send button?  Don’t worry, so has just about every other email marketer in the world. Whether it’s a mistyped date, a broken $$firstName variable, or you sent next month’s email a few weeks too early, mistakes in email happen. In emfluence alumna Sara Theurer’s original post, written back in 2014, the Oops email was just coming into its own. At the time, the idea that you could resend an email with corrections was a new idea—and the engagement rates were impressive. It wasn’t uncommon for the […]

Looking to uplevel your personalization game? Learn how to leverage variable content blocks in the emfluence Marketing Platform to customize the messaging in your campaigns: In this video, you’ll learn: How to create variable content blocks How to use variables to personalize campaigns How to test variable content within emfluence

Want to build a custom integration to your data sources? Using the emfluence Marketing Platform’s API, you can create an integration that matches your marketing needs. Watch our quick video from the 2020 And Then Some Conference to see how: In this video, you’ll learn: How to understand triggers Building your integration to our API Troubleshooting integrations