Many people are sending HTML e-mail for no obvious reason or benefit. HTML e-mail can be recognized by colored backgrounds or typefaces. It sometimes has designs or other decorations in the messages.

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The strong foothold that email marketing has may have been overshadowed by the rise of social media, but the humble email is still a highly effective means of communication with your business' ...