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Putting love into Valentine subject lines

Author's avatar By Tim Watson 14 Feb, 2012
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Last October I wrote about how to put hearts, smilies and other symbols into the the subject line to make it standout in the inbox.

Whilst there was debate in the comments on that post about whether it made the email look like spam or not, its certainly a technique that many marketers have been using this Valentines. Maybe too many?

My thanks go to Andrew Kordek of Trendline Interactive and Cathy Conk from Netflix for letting me show the examples below. Note how the iPhone in particular shows a coloured heart with 3D effect.

Mobile email version

Desktop email version

Everyone is going ♥ crazy...

What do you think? If you have run split tests using the heart symbol over Valetines and are willing to share the results then please add a comment or contact me.

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By Tim Watson

Tim is founder of email marketing consultancy Zettasphere and EOS Implementer at Traction Six. Experience includes Operations Director at Email Reaction and Marketing Director (fractional) in the US delivering a 310% revenue increase to $5m. Tim has 15 years of email marketing expertise with a heavily analytical approach to strategic choices. Connect with Tim via LinkedIn or Twitter.

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