To code or to not code. Webinar recap with Mark Robbins and Dmytro Kudrenko on the technical facet of e-mail advertising and marketing — Stripo.e-mail
We at Stripo just lately held a webinar with two rock stars of the e-mail world: Mark Robbins, a software program engineer at Parcel.io, and Dmytro Kudrenko, the founder and CEO of Stripo. The central theme of your entire webinar was the technical state of e-mail advertising and marketing, the issues related to it, and whether or not entrepreneurs must be tech-savvy or not.
So, let’s bear in mind all of the vital highlights and insights mentioned to maintain you on the slicing fringe of e-mail advertising and marketing’s technical facet.

Non-standardization is an issue
Immediately, there’s a lack of technical requirements within the e-mail trade. Every e-mail platform and e-mail consumer has its personal imaginative and prescient for the way forward for e-mail advertising and marketing usually and e-mail particularly. Such versatility in visions results in the next:
- all ESPs, e-mail builders, e-mail shoppers, and different e-mail creation instruments have completely different guidelines for coding emails and rendering them, which makes it laborious to design an e-mail that renders as deliberate throughout all e-mail shoppers (particularly with out coding);
- making emails suitable with display readers, which frequently requires code changes, is hard as a result of not all platforms enable entrepreneurs to edit the e-mail code when wanted;
- interactive parts work in a different way or are utterly reduce out of the code by the platforms themselves, so it is vital to have good fallback options in emails.
All this results in the truth that entrepreneurs want to vary lots in e-mail code, simplifying and including many circumstances to the code for every case. That is troublesome to do with out entry to the code.
Nonetheless, regardless that some e-mail entrepreneurs skip interactivity, making emails accessible is crucial.
E-mail accessibility suffers from a scarcity of requirements
It’s price beginning with the truth that Mark and the E-mail Markup Consortium revealed a not-very-rosy truth for all of us: 99.97% of emails despatched don’t meet accessibility necessities resulting from imperfect code.
E-mail accessibility has grow to be an enormous e-mail development. Nonetheless, a scarcity of requirements, correct e-mail testing, and locked e-mail code from entrepreneurs cease it from flourishing to the fullest. Some platforms try to beat this tendency on their very own. For instance, we at Stripo made an enormous accessibility replace on making all emails (and their code) that customers create in our editor absolutely suitable with display readers. Nonetheless, that is only a drop within the ocean.
Solely with the appearance of e-mail requirements and thorough accessibility testing by entrepreneurs can we alter the state of affairs.
Constructing e-mail requirements is a should
Elevating consciousness amongst e-mail platforms and pointing them to the dearth of technical requirements is important for bettering issues. Every marketer can notify their platform in varied ways in which their created emails don’t meet accessibility necessities, and so they don’t have any entry to e-mail code to repair these items manually on their very own. Ship them emails, point out it in evaluations or feedback below the movies. Buyer evaluations can do miracles.
As well as, it’s price elevating consciousness throughout the e-mail advertising and marketing group as effectively. Ask technicians and managers to spend extra time on accessibility. Everybody can contribute to fixing a worldwide downside.
Turn out to be higher e-mail technicians to resolve issues
For the time being, whereas there isn’t a world progress in constructing technical requirements, entrepreneurs ought to take into consideration delving into the technical a part of creating emails. This doesn’t imply that each e-mail marketer ought to grow to be a programmer with ten years of expertise and code emails from scratch. Nonetheless, Mark advices to begin understanding the e-mail code with fundamentals will likely be an excellent plus.
Beginning with foundations could be sufficient for now. Work out what’s HTML. What’s CSS? Why is e-mail code completely different from internet code? Have a look at a few of these primary, basic issues like syntax explanations and understanding how the code is put collectively. These items will assist you understand how emails work, methods to repair little issues and methods to clearly talk with programmers figuring out their capabilities.
The perfect locations and instruments to begin your e-mail programming journey are:
- Parcel lessons from the coding guru Mark Robbins;
- Email Resources, e-mail coding programs;
- ChatGPT will help you resolve easy issues and discover solutions to primary questions (however depend on it partially, because it lacks understanding some e-mail coding nuances).
Wrapping up
This was an excellent webinar. Greater than an hour of worthwhile insights and suggestions from e-mail advertising and marketing gurus will assist entrepreneurs perceive there’s a downside with lack of technical requirements in e-mail advertising and marketing, that influence accessibility, interactivity and pressure entrepreneurs to be extra tech-savvy. And we revealed you methods to simply begin your information gaining. Figuring out the fundamentals of coding will open up new dimensions of understanding how emails work, will let you resolve issues your self, and in addition take an lively half in creating superior emails.
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