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Bill Baird's SPARKletter Internet Marketing Best Practices
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Micro-Headlines:
The Latest Email Marketing Tactic

The latest email marketing tactic emerging is the microheadline: a small, bold headline at the top of the email browser window which reiterates the benefits and urgency of the offer in the email below.

Generally shown in very small type, a microheadline enables you to ensure that the most important piece of your message gets through (and is seen first, because text loads faster than graphics, and people read from the top of the email downward).

This also enables you to provide the reader with a reason to want to "unhide" the graphics, which may be blocked by their email browser when they may actually want to see what they say.

Here's a recent example from Time-Life:





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