Email blast - design inspiration?

[metadog]

Hi! I am designing some email blasts and feel like I need some inspiration. Do you know of any sites that show house exceptional email blast designs? Kind of a "best of" for email marketing?

Thanks!
-M

[PrintDriver]

I don't know of any sites.
But it is funny. I turn off images in emails. Your effort is wasted. :D

[Audentia]

I detest email marketing... it makes me mad. It's almost worse than spam b/c people think I actually care about it. Most assume you will at least ignore spam.

[metadog]

Maybe you loose the design, but I also embed a text version, so you still get the message. I just send stuff out to my company's client base. I'm not a spammer.

[PrintDriver]

Yeah, I figured. I get stuff from my preferred vendors all the time that I do read on occasion. Still block the images though so the email loads faster.

Still can't help you on websites.

[Audentia]

yep I get those from vendors too.
I don't know too many sites that help...

Though I know lots of people use templates off site that do the sending... like Campaign Manager.

[CkretAjint]

http://www.campaignmonitor.com/gallery/

http://www.smith-harmon.com/

[longboy]

A good browse about Call-to-actions in email messages:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/10/13/call-to-action-buttons-examples-and-best-practices/