Comments on: What's at the top of your email message?

By: Brennen McElhaney

Mon, 16 May 2011 15:22:22 +0000

Jon Wessel does a lot of things right. His artist’s website is absolutely beautifully designed. http://http://jonwessel.com/ – Note that if you reload the landing page, the image changes. Nice touch!

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By: Alyson Stanfield

Fri, 13 May 2011 02:09:13 +0000

In reply to Sari Grove.

That’s wonderful, Sari! So happy to hear that it worked and that you have a new venue.

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By: Sari Grove

Thu, 12 May 2011 18:14:28 +0000

In reply to Alyson Stanfield.

Just wanted to say that the email worked so well, I got a response of a yes from the gallery right away on the painting that I chose to (embedded html code from Flickr pro album) feature at the top of the email I sent to them…This is the first time I have (just learnt how because of this blog post) embedded a painting right at the top of an email to a gallery & it is also the first time that I got a rapid yes from a gallery on an email…This may seem like a little thing, but this detail was a big deal for me just now…
Now I just have to deliver the painting to them…(This is a brand new venue for me)…

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By: Alyson Stanfield

Sat, 07 May 2011 16:34:06 +0000

Feel like I need to mention that Jon’s email was only 8.7 KB. So it wasn’t a huge-sized email by ANY stretch of the imagination.

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By: Alyson Stanfield

Sat, 07 May 2011 16:22:46 +0000

I can only speak for my own experience. Don’t forget people like me.
Sari: Congrats on the new venue! So happy to hear that the Artist Conspiracy was a motivator.
Let me know how the email works.

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By: Sari Grove

Fri, 06 May 2011 23:11:49 +0000

Ooh you are so smart Alyson! Just today I got a new venue & we agreed just to have one work of art, but to send an email first to check…So I got home, read your blog post, & figured out how to put a picture in an email body at the top…(I got the Flickr html embed code, turned on “make rich text” in my email provider, then clicked the word “Source” to allow it to accept html…) I have never been able to do this before, but your push forced me to figure it out… So tomorrow the gallery will get a snazzy email with the painting I chose plum at the top! Thanks, that is great & great timing too! (*& for anyone who is not in the ‘artist conspiracy’ yet, here’s a thumbs up from me-since it forced me to seek out new venues in the first place!)…

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By: Patricia C Vener

Fri, 06 May 2011 20:41:09 +0000

Hm, I guess it depends on the recipient and one’s reason for sending the email. I actually am one who has images turned off. It makes for speedier loading. If I’m interested I’ll turn them on. Some emails (from Agway for example) are all image and no real text. Somewhat annoying. On the other hand, if I am one of many sending an email to get someone’s attention for my art, I would consider having an image along with the text. A small image. Kind of like Alyson’s old newsletter format. Heh.

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By: Tanja

Fri, 06 May 2011 15:05:18 +0000

I also prefer e-mails without (large) pictures. Furthermore: all this doesn’t work if the recipient turned off pictures/html in his e-mail-program (which for security reasons still happens often). Then they see something like a black border with a red x, which really doesn’t look nice.

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By: Silvia - OrkaLoca

Fri, 06 May 2011 11:58:10 +0000

I don’t like very much when there are images or other stuff before the text. I like newsletters or email with a nice, may be coloured, template, but I don’t like to have to scroll down the email to read the text.
I’d prefer a small picture, like a thumb, on the side of the text.
May be this is because I am the kind of person that read film spoilers and that read the end of books as first thing. I don’t like to wait to know 🙂

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