For the past couple of years I've enjoyed checking out the annual Email Marketing Look book from Chad White of the Retail Email Marketing blog. This year it's part of Responsys, but still looks great and I think will inspire email marketers at different levels, for example, how to use Email marketing to...
- Build a brand and develop relationships
- Personalise through contextual or behavioural emails
- Support different devices and platforms - support for mobile and tablet devices are to the fore in this years examples - important given the evidence of the increased importance of mobile email reading/scanning.
The only disappointment was examples of social media integration were a bit thin.
You can download the LookBook for the full-set, here is my selection of what inspired me most:
Nike UK Enewsletter which gets the Sell-Inform-Entertain balance right
Volvo UK email with responsive design for mobile in a campaign to download an app
Best Buy Personalised post-purchase triggered email