Email newsletter marketing definitely isn’t dead. In fact, it’s just as viable of a platform for marketing as ever. The most recent studies by the Direct Marketing Association found that the average return on investment for email was around $25.80 for every dollar spent on the platform. Perhaps most impressively, 8% of companies are directly able to attribute more than half of their total revenue to newsletters.

While it’s clear that outstanding email newsletter content is key to success, there are myriads of other factors which can affect your results. Are the majority of emails you send bouncing back to you? Is your spam complaint rate so high your messages aren’t even being read?

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A content marketing strategy without visual elements is like chocolate chip cookies without any chocolate. It’s still good, but it lacks the mass appeal.

Researchers believe that around 65% of the population are visual learners, who are able to best process information that’s relayed in images, infographics and video. While the average adult reads around 300 words a minute, the human brain processes images 60,000 times faster than text.

High-quality visual content can reduce your website’s bounce rate, improve social media engagement, and help you create content that people want to share.

To help you boost your business blogging strategy without an enormous investment in software and apps, we’ve created a comprehensive list of the best free and low-cost tools on the web.

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