Playing cat and mouse with html email
September 13, 2007 – 4:18 pmI created the visual below for an html email for an IT recruitment website.
It was sent out to 20,000 email addresses and was very successful.
They came back to me and asked me to come up with a follow up html email. I racked my brains. I thought of all the mouse clichés I could. Finally I came up with this one that they quite liked.
The problem is I’ve got to come up with a third!
Amazing.. I never thought that it’ll be that much easy.. but yet to try it
14 Responses to “Playing cat and mouse with html email”
I’d be tempted to use a mouse in a wheel (like in their cages) with a slogan like ‘put your mouse to a better use’, something like that anyways.
By Adam_Y on Sep 15, 2007
Cool, Adam_Y, I like it! Thanks for the suggestion.
By Rob Cubbon on Sep 16, 2007
Those are really nice - I like the clean graphic look. Unfortunately, I’m not creative enough to come up with a third for you right now… but I’ll think about it!
By Data Governance on Sep 19, 2007
Thanks for the compliment and encouragement. I look forward to your and anyone else’s ideas!
By Rob Cubbon on Sep 20, 2007
Nice! But here I have an idea to give to you. It actually happens in the reality. My house actually very clean but don’t know why there is one day a mouse come inside my house.. And guess what? The wire of my computer “mouse” was teared by the real mouse. I was speechless that time. Maybe the mouse is jealous about the “mouse”
By Killer on Sep 24, 2007
Great story! And thanks for the suggestion.
By Rob Cubbon on Sep 24, 2007
it’s a great concept. I like it very much. However, maybe try to make the cat looks more interested to the mouse. Maybe that will make the image more funny and appealing.
By SL Lindens on Sep 29, 2007
You mean the cat should be looking at the mouse, but the mouse should be looking straight ahead? I think that’s a good point.
By Rob Cubbon on Sep 30, 2007
So in coincidence..Last night I just found a mouse inside my room.. I was scared and went to my parent’s room to sleep. sighs.. Anyway you post is so nice..
By Sharm on Oct 4, 2007
When you think about technology definitely mouse refers to a device that allows us to point a particular icon on the website. However, When I see a REAL MOUSE I gonna shout it loudly
By H Word on Oct 6, 2007
I used to get non techie teachers ask me “what do you say for the plural of these kinds of mice?” to which I would reply with a straight face “mouses”.
By Andy on Oct 8, 2007
Well it looks like this mouse has really put the cat amongst the pigeons.
@Sharm, I hope you aren’t getting anymore visitations of this kind, and thanks for the compliment.
@H Word, me too!
@Andy, The Compact Oxford English Dictionary (third edition) and the fourth edition of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language endorse both computer mice and computer mouses as correct plural forms for computer mouse.(I got that from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_%28computing%29#Etymology )
By Rob Cubbon on Oct 12, 2007
Looks great, I hope the emails for our IT recruitment site can be as appealing.
By IT Recruitment on Mar 12, 2008
Well, if you want to suggest a cool creative graphic designer to do HTML emails for your site you could always recommend me! Thanks for the encouraging comment, IT Recruitment!
By Rob Cubbon on Mar 13, 2008