Email design and coding has always been about the ever important call to action. While button styles have changed over the years on thing that has always remained present is the need to have text links through out the copy. Email designers, coders and the people sending the email are often putting the words “Click here” on their links. While the mistake of adding the words “Click here” into an email might be an innocent or seemingly a minor one it really is a big problem for a few reasons. Firstly it doesn’t tell anyone anything, it is a instructional command and does not give the user any information about where that click might take them. Secondly on the web…
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Calls-to-action. What are they and how can I use them effectively?
What is a call-to-action? In email marketing a call-to-action (usually abbreviated as CTA) is a button, banner or some type of graphic or text meant to encourage a user to click. The action you want people to take could be anything: purchasing items to booking hotels and attending events. Calls-to-action are common place not only in email marketing but on websites, ebooks and even at the end of blog posts. Email newsletters should have some sort of call-to-action, a response you want readers to complete. But how do you encourage users to act? How do you create an effective call-to-action? Here are a few quick, essential tips for creating a quality CTA. Striking design For a reader to click on…