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Emailing has been long considered as an effective means of communicating with existing customers as well as prospective customers. Many websites send emails as an online marketing tool to let people know about their services and offers they have at present. But does such advertising really work? Probably, but not always! There could be various reasons behind this.

• Email doesn’t always reach to its destination due to number of corporate fire walls and webmail system built to filter consolidated bulk emails called spam mails.
• Creative activities done in the mail often are not visible in all email reading system. People keep on wondering about the mail but can’t figure out what is it.
• Recipients of emails are responsive immediately after they subscribe to a website. Gradually they lose interest and stop responding.
• Every recipient has different preferences for offer made to them. First, their preferences have to be identified to send them relevant mail.
• With the increasing rate of spamming it is really difficult to distinguish between spam email and legitimate emails by the filters which sometime bounce back the advertisement.
• To offer them more relevant advertisement, regular communication is required which is not possible on regular basis.

Most people think that email marketing costs nothing, but as a matter of starting such marketing even from a scratch cost a good sum of money to the company. Hence, before this technique of advertisement is taken up, it is important that a thorough research is done so that maximum success can be assured.

As anyone familiar with the industry will know, minimalism has been a rising trend for websites over the past few months, but it is important to remember that there is a fine line between something being minimalist and something being plain empty. So, in short, it is possible for a web design to be too minimalist – and here’s how:

• Designers forget that it’s just a style. It is important for everyone involved to remember that minimalism is just a style, like grunge or retro – not every design needs it and not every website will look good when done in this style. 
• Everyone thinks that minimalism works for all websites. This is actually a misconception – it tends to work best on ‘artsy’ websites, such as portfolios for creative industries – not so much for a heavy-duty equipment supplier. 
• A minimalist design means little to no content. When people look at non-minimalist websites, they often say that they are cluttered or ugly, but this does not mean that a minimalist style calls for as little content as possible – you still need to aim for content-rich. 
• Designers become lazy and begin to misuse the style. Whilst it may not seem like there is a lot to a minimalist web design, it actually takes a lot of practice to master. Are you an advocate for minimalism because you love it or because you cannot be bothered to do it another way?

The next time you are working on a minimalist web design for yourself or a client, take a step back and take a look at the bigger picture to avoid being too minimalist – remind yourself that it is just a style, that it won’t work for all websites, and that you still need adequate content.