Email Marketing: Email Templates Vs. Text Only, Which Is Better?

AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2014

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Today's question is from Brent, who wants to know why someone would choose to send text-only emails through an email service. Brent's site is http://edtech.tv/. Do you have a question about email marketing? Record your question at http://www.askpat.com/. Thanks to AWeber for sponsoring the show! Go to http://www.aweber.com/askpat for more information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	AskPat.com.
0:10.6	What's up everybody? Pat Flynn here and welcome to episode 61 of Ask Pat. I'm here to help
0:15.5	you as always by answering your online business questions. And we have a great question today
0:20.0	from Brent about email marketing.
0:22.5	And before we get to that, and speaking of email, I'd like to welcome and also give a shout
0:26.9	out to today's new sponsor, which is Aweber.
0:30.6	Aweber is sponsoring Ask Pat Now, which is awesome, because I use Aweber.
0:33.9	I've used Aweber for years to help me with my email marketing and sending out newsletters
0:38.3	and broadcast to all my subscribers.
0:40.3	I cannot recommend them enough.
0:42.3	If you go to Aweber.com slash ask Pat, you'll, that's my referral link and you'll also get
0:49.3	a $1 30 day free trial to check it out.
0:52.3	Again, that's Aweber, an amazing, amazing email marketing service that I use and highly
0:57.0	recommend.
0:58.1	Now, let's get to today's email type question from Brent.
1:03.2	Hey, Pat.
1:04.0	This is Brent from edtech.tv.
1:07.0	I am working on being a little bit better with my mailing list.
1:22.0	And one thing that I noticed is that, you know, services like Aweb or MailChimp, they give you like all these beautiful designs, but most marketers only use just simple text.
1:24.3	And so I'm wondering, which is better?
1:28.8	Why I use simple text instead of all the pretty graphics and everything like that?
1:33.5	Is there a reason that people choose to do it that way? Thanks for everything. Hope you're doing well.
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