I once got chewed out for not having completed work on an email template before it was sent into production. This one made me giggle.
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15% off only your art for friends & family! Greetings username,
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Mel Brackstone...
Strangely enough, I get a lot of emails that look like this, and yet my version of this email came to me in a perfectly readable format!
The interwebs can be a little confuzzling….
Ben Ryan:
Well the html version is more readable, but all the links are broken. The twitter status or sending it to Facebook is busted.
Mel Brackstone...
I found the facebook link worked, people have seen it, and I’ve had one comment, but when I click to link to see the comment, it’s nowhere to be found…
Ben Ryan:
That bit might be ‘facebook’ :)
Ben Ryan:
It worked on FB but it just links back to the email – should’ve had a better landing page I think. The email template is for us, a landing page is for the people we push it to. Different audiences.
Mel Brackstone...
oh! yes, I see what you mean….
and the comment was deleted by the commenter, as it happens, so I’m not going completely barking mad…..yet