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April 12, 2006 : Simple Sale; Notes on the Virtual World
From: The Land of Nod
Subject Line: Save up to 80% in our Spring Cleaning Sale
Date: Wednesday, April 12, 2006

This campaign doesn't do anything "new" per se, but it's a great execution of your classic graphical text SALE message. And with 80% off, which I believe is the highest percent off I've ever seen in a sale EDM, you can bet the open and click-through rates will rock.

I'm fascinated by the use of the word "in" rather than "at" in the Subject Line, as in "Save up to 80% in our Spring Cleaning Sale." We would typically use "at" here, however since this is an online sale in a virtual location rather than a retail store sale at a physical location, it makes sense. Moving forward, I suppose we should expect to see more changes in prepositions and other parts of speech in order to better describe the burgeoning virtual world.

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