Archive for: July 4th, 2012

Email Marketing Design Week: Ralph Lauren

Jul. 04 Email Marketing Design Comments Off

As today is a holiday in USA, I thought featuring a Fourth of July email would be nice. The next email marketing design comes from Ralph Lauren, wishing its subscribers a happy Fourth of July:

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The email is not offering any Ralph Lauren fashion, but instead promotes two books: The Star-Spangled Banner and The Hamptons by Ricky Lauren.

Also, the introductory photograph is a nice touch on the American holiday: it could be much worse with screaming offers and ads. Also note that the subject line was ‘Happy Fourth Of July From Ralph Lauren’, which returns in the pre-header top left of the email. Below the ‘Join our e-mail list’ (nice touch for when this email is forwarded to you!) was a lot more legal text, irrelevant to show in this example.

Compared to some other Fourth of July ‘standard’ deals, this is a subtle spin-off on the theme which is pretty cool.

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Email Marketing Design Week: Gucci

Jul. 04 Email Marketing Design Comments Off

Gucci has very recently sent out a message combining two important things in email marketing design: purpose and aesthetics. The below email has a very simple purpose: showing the Jackie bags style, with good design and a cool animation.

Here’s the email, with subject line ‘Icons of Heritage: the Jackie’:

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Consistent color style, quality product photography -and- a subtle product animation (see below): it’s all there. The text content fits in nicely with telling a little bit of the history. Here’s the animated bag:

Animated Gucci Bag

I wonder why it’s not done more often, for products that could use it: just flip them around in 3 or 4 frames. It helps in getting a sense of the product without having to go to a website to view it 360 degrees (or multiple photos).

On the one hand, marketers want clickthroughs, but on the other hand: why not drive people to your offline shops? Who knows, they might buy more than just a bag.

Furthermore, the email clients not supporting animated gifs (Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010) are mostly used in the corporate world, while this is clearly a B2C email. So the larger part of the audience for this email would be able to see the animation: great success!

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