--- title: "Monday Buzz: Email Designs to Inspire You" id: "24583" type: "post" slug: "monday-buzz-email-designs-to-inspire-you" published_at: "2014-08-11T18:20:33+00:00" modified_at: "2026-11-09T18:23:01+00:00" url: "https://associationsnow.com/2014/08/11/monday-buzz-email-designs-to-inspire-you/" markdown_url: "https://associationsnow.com/2014/08/11/monday-buzz-email-designs-to-inspire-you.md" excerpt: "An array of email designs that could give you ideas for your own marketing messages. Also: Take a few small steps toward a big donation with the ASAE Foundation’s Small Steps app." taxonomy_category: - "Marketing / Communications" taxonomy_post_tag: - "AssociationsNow" - "Digital Communication" - "inspiration" - "Marketing" - "Technology" taxonomy_content_format: - "Article" taxonomy_role: - "C-Level" - "Executive Team" - "VP" taxonomy_persona: - "Association Professionals" --- [Home](https://associationsnow.com/) » [Articles](https://associationsnow.com/format/article/) » Monday Buzz: Email Designs to Inspire You Like marketing in general, email marketing is a science with a lot of art involved. (See [my blog post from last week](http://associationsnow.com/2014/08/tiny-reminder-value-experiments/) .) Need some inspiration? You’ll find a ton of it at [Really Good Emails (opens in a new tab)](http://reallygoodemails.com/) , a roundup site sponsored by MailChimp that shows off examples that effectively convey information and help drive good messaging. A few of our favorites: [CrashPlan’s colorful email digest (opens in a new tab)](http://reallygoodemails.com/product-update/product-launch-silverlinings/) , [Digg’s simple (but effective) digest (opens in a new tab)](http://reallygoodemails.com/email-digest/subscription-email-design-from-digg/) , and Pinterest’s [many (opens in a new tab)](http://reallygoodemails.com/onboarding/business-onboarding-from-pinterest-business-division/) [onboarding (opens in a new tab)](http://reallygoodemails.com/onboarding/getting-started-onboarding-series-pinterest/) [emails (opens in a new tab)](http://reallygoodemails.com/onboarding/onboarding-email-from-pinterest/) . Some of them are bold, but even the simpler ones succeed in doing one thing: keeping people interested in your product. If you’re looking to rethink your email strategy, it could be a great place to borrow a few ideas. ### Small Steps, Big Results https://twitter.com/jmhoehn/status/498116197939179520 **Conferences involve a lot of walking.** *A lot.* Why not do something special with all those footsteps? [The ASAE Foundation’s Small Steps app (opens in a new tab)](http://www.asaeannualmeeting.org/smallsteps.cfm) turns exercise (or at the very least, fast walking from session to session at the [ASAE Annual Meeting & Exposition (opens in a new tab)](http://www.asaeannualmeeting.org/) ) into charity. Thanks to a promised donation from Choose Chicago, the foundation will receive $25 for every mile attendees walk with the app on. So go for a run! Besides making you healthier, it’s for a good cause. *(ht @[jmhoehn (opens in a new tab)](https://twitter.com/jmhoehn/) and numerous other walkers)* ### Other good reads **Emails at work tend** to break your flow. Don’t let them, [writes Crew’s Andrea Ayres (opens in a new tab)](http://blog.pickcrew.com/to-work-better-focus-on-flow/) . **If you wish your networking** were a little more like dating app Tinder, [the app Weave might interest you (opens in a new tab)](http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/08/weave-groups-events/) . **Want to encourage** engaged volunteers? Idea Architects’ Jeffrey Cufaude breaks down “[10 crimes against increased volunteer engagement (opens in a new tab)](http://www.ideaarchitects.org/2014/08/management-misdemeanors-10-crimes.html) .” (Really Good Emails screenshot) [Ernie Smith](https://associationsnow.com/author/ernie-smith/) Ernie Smith is a former senior editor for Associations Now. 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