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

Should I Use Images in My Marketing and Autoresponder Emails?

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

4.9638 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2016

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Today's question comes from Glenn, who asks about using ConvertKit email templates. Should he use images or stick to text only? Glenn discusses the email marketing service ConvertKit (http://askpat.com/convertkit). Do you have a question about email marketing? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/.

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0:00.0

AskPath.

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Hey, what's up everybody?

0:12.0

Pavlin here and welcome to episode 568 of Ask Pat.

0:15.0

Thank you so much for joining me today.

0:17.0

As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.

0:20.0

Okay, here's today's question from Glenn.

0:23.3

Hey, Pat, this is Glenn Taylor.

0:24.9

I have a question about ConvertKit as it relates to email templates being either all text or involving images and graphics.

0:36.2

So I definitely see the benefits of all the amazing functionality

0:40.4

with ConvertKit and how easy it is to use and setting up courses and automation. But the emails

0:45.9

themselves, I feel like I need some convincing that such a lean email that's text only, especially

0:52.1

if you've got a lot to say, we'll get as much engagement

0:55.9

in terms of click-throughs and read-read-throughs. I know that emails with a lot of graphics

1:05.7

can be seen as very marketing e and commercial versus the argument that text only is more personal.

1:18.3

But I also know from being a marketer for many years that images, embedded videos, graphics,

1:26.0

you know, stir the emotions and the multiple senses versus just a lot of text.

1:34.3

So, yes, content is king, and that ultimately is what matters, but I'm also wondering

1:40.6

if it's a missed brand opportunity or if it will not engage customers as much.

1:47.2

This is kind of like the one thing that's preventing me from going with and try and

1:52.1

convert kit versus some other email tool that allows for sending both HTML and text only

1:59.6

email. So I would love your thoughts on this if you either have already talked about this or could

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