Your email campaign pre-flight check

Use our Pre-Flight Check List to make sure your email campaigns get a thorough and systematic sani ty-check before they go out the door. You know it makes sense!

Essential Email Marketing Pre-Flight Check
  • The email includes company registration number, name and address
  • Content has been spell-checked
  • All images have alt tags
  • HTML test version sent, proofed and approved
  • Text only version proofed and approved
  • All links clicked through and checked, including the Unsubscribe and View in Browser links
  • Test send to relevant smart phones has been approved
  • All dynamic content versions test-sent, proofed and approved
  • Inbox Preview with Advanced Spam Content test run, checked and actioned
  • Any personalisation includes default 'fall-back' value for when personalised data is missing
  • All the details on your dotMailer campaign summary screen checked
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Your best practice checklist

Who's it from?

  • Your 'sent from' domain includes your company name or brand
  • Your friendly from name will be recognisable to your recipients

What's the subject line?

  • Your subject line delivers your key message in the first 50 characters
  • Your subject reflects the single, key message, offer or proposition of your email campaign
  • Your subject is compelling, and will drive recipients to both open and click through
  • Your subject avoids adjectives & exclamations!

What's in it for them?

  • The offer, benefit, takeaway or promotion is clearly and prominently displayed

What should they do next?

  • Your email has clear calls to action and links through to a relevant landing page
  • It's clear to any users who click through to your landing page what they should do next
  • Your offer has a time limit or urgency factor to drive recipients to act now
  • Recipients can share your email through social network bookmarks and a Forward-to-Friend link

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