Make your seasonal strategy sing with our tips for devising festive email campaigns.

The festive season provides marketers with a range of opportunities, both for generating revenue and for getting creative juices flowing.

From copy length on landing pages to creating an engagement index, we’ve selected the pick of articles on the web to help you work more effectively. Plus tips on the best email marketing resources online and how to get a generous discount on this season’s key conference.

From split tests to customer engagement, we’ve scoured the web this month to bring you our take on the smartest email thinking online. We discuss articles by Tim Watson, Jeanne Jennings and Mark Brownlow, while Alchemy Worx CEO Dela Quist takes a fresh look at subject lines in his latest seminar.

It has been almost a year to the day, since we last took a look at how many of you read Email-Worx on your mobile. With all the hype about the impact of mobile on email design and the likely impact on email marketing strategy, we thought it was high time we took another look.How to find out your percentage of “mobile subscribers”?

The pros and cons, and a look at whether a WYSIWYG editor is right for your email campaigns…

Using a WYSIWYG editor
In theory, WYSIWYG editors should save time, and provide non-technical users with a simple, intuitive way to create HTML email.

With sales of the new iPhone 4 reaching nearly 2 million, here at Alchemy Worx we wondered – what proportion of subscribers are reading Email-Worx on their mobile now?

To video or not to video… can an email with video imagery improve views of video content? We ran a test using our regular Dela-Vision content called ‘€œTalking Email’€, sending the email with and without video imagery. Our aim was to see whether it really had a positive impact on clicks.