Make your emails eyecatching with unexpected moving pictures
Make your emails eyecatching with unexpected moving pictures
This little hack can make your marketing emails really stand out. In an email, it is not possible to embed a video that plays automatically. However, it is possible to embed an animated gif – really all is is a series of still gif images playing in sequence. There is no sound. So it is not a true video – but it can create a striking feature for your email. Any you could always put a clickable link on the image that takes the reader to a video file, possibly on YouTube. So how did I quickly and easily create this animate gif.
Stage 1 – Shoot a short video and create the animated gif. So I used this tool https://www.gifpal.com
Stage 2 – I then wanted to edit the image, there was a watermark in the bottom right-hand corner. I used a too called Ezgif https://ezgif.com crop to do this. There are a heap of other edits you can easily make.
Stage 3 – Host the animated gif online. I just uploaded it to my WordPress Media Library. And from there I can use the link to embed the image wherever I like.
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Celia Gaze
I met with Julian and prior to this I had mapped out on the wall over a series of around eight A1 size flip charts the entire wedding process from the initial inquiry right through to the end result of delivering a wedding.
Celia Gaze
I took this series of seven spreadsheets and worked with Julian to create a sales pipeline, right from the initial inquiry right through to the delivery of a wedding. So not only was Keap / Infusionsoft being used as a sales and marketing tool but has also transformed into an operational management tool for the delivery of weddings too.
Celia Gaze
So to have one system which will not only market weddings, but also deliver them is just amazing for us. From when I met Julian we were running two weddings and when we implemented Keap / Infusionsoft, and we're now just over two years later, running this year about 54 weddings, so to go from two weddings to 54 weddings in the space of two years is incredible. This is with no advertising. This is with implementing a system that actively collects the data of the customers and then uses that to do proactive marketing.
Celia Gaze
I just can't rate Julian highly enough, unbelievable for somebody to even think about what's going on in my head but yet to take my seven flip charts and translate them into a system that has had such phenomenal results in my business is unbelievable. I have absolutely no hesitation whatsoever in giving Julian Mills five stars for his work.
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This little hack can make your marketing emails really stand out. In an email, it is not possible to embed a video that plays automatically. However, it is possible to embed an animated gif – really all is is a series of still gif images playing in sequence. There is no sound. So it is not a true video – but it can create a striking feature for your email. Any you could always put a clickable link on the image that takes the reader to a video file, possibly on YouTube. So how did I quickly and easily create this animate gif.
