Email marketing campaign broadcast checklist

Get your email campaigns right first time, every time!

About the Email broadcast template guide

Author: Dave Chaffey
Last updated: August 2011

How will this guide help me?

There’s a lot that can go wrong when sending out an email campaign or enewsletter! This checklist is designed to help you to create more consistent quality checklists which work better for your subscribers and your brand.

This guide shows you

  • Create more engaging emails which increase response
  • Avoid embarrassing mistakes if customers receive errors in their email communications
  • Achieve consistency within your team when different people have different experience levels
  • Workbook format makes it quick to review and decide on the changes you need to make to improve your online marketing results

What does the checklist include?

The template has 5-10 action items to review in these areas:

  • Engaging email headers checklist
  • Effective lead-ins
  • Copywriting tone-of-voice
  • Persuasive offers and messaging
  • Email legal requirements including privacy

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About Smart Insights Templates

What make's our templates different?

The Smart Insights system for digital marketing improvement includes many templates to help you plan and manage your marketing. The templates are Word or Excel checklists to help you review a company's approach to digital marketing or Excel calculators and models to enable you to better plan digital marketing. All our templates are:
  • Focused on improvement –  Each template will support you to review current ways of working and recommend improvements.
  • Available in Word or Excel – Supplied in the most commonly used apps, they can be imported into other programmes.
  • Provided as an unbranded template –  Unlike our guides, these templates are plain, so you can easily modify to add your own company logo
  • Field-tested – Dave Chaffey and the authoring team have years of experience in online marketing, we know the questions that need answering, so that's we include

How will the templates help me?

Our templates are designed to be used as "live documents" to help you and your team when planning or managing digital marketing.  This is how our guides help:
  • Company owners and marketing managers - many of templates cover planning and strategy.
  • Digital marketing and Ecommerce managers - as well as planning and strategy you can audit specific digital channels like search or social media marketing with our templates.
  • Digital marketing specialists - templates are available for each of the main digital channels, so whether you work on Social media marketing, SEO, PPC, email marketing or conversion rate optimisation for the website there is a template to help. If there isn't, get in touch and we can develop one .
  • Consultants and agency specialists - review your own techniques and process against the best practice templates to help you provide structured insights and recommendations for clients.
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