For many, 2017 began not with a bang, but with a shudder.

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But in the email marketing world, the future looks brighter than ever.

We at Phrasee had a front row seat to the zenith of the email marketing renaissance, cleaning up at award shows, signing new clients and honing our craft as the marketing world came around to embrace email once more.

And we aren’t alone.

Our email marketing cohorts and their Twitter accounts are, apparently, alive and well too.

And, if January is any indication, 2017 should be yet another great year in email marketing tweets.

Here are a phew of our phavourites from the month that was…

Phrasee’s phavourite email marketing tweets of the month: January 2017

Our soundtrack for the year is already sorted…

How to motivate during a creative brainstorm/rapid prototyping session, try it you wont be disappointed https://t.co/4ZO9tNn6u4 #emailgeeks

— Todd Fraser (@onyourtodd) January 12, 2017

And we know where we’ll be getting our weather updates…

Meet Poncho the Weather Cat, the star of this month’s Best Email Ever! #EmailGeeks https://t.co/InwNoBmaSx pic.twitter.com/mCTUp8OXnW
— PostUp (@postupdigital) January 3, 2017

And luckily we have all of you wonderful people to keep giving us tips on how to stay on top of our game…

 

A bad sender reputation is like a hangover–it’s hard to get rid of, and it makes everything else hurt. #emailmarketing #emailgeeks

— Chris Marriott (@CSMarriott) January 17, 2017

And what not to do, if we want to stay in your good graces (which we do)…

 

There’s a very special, extra warm corner of hell reserved for people who make non-linked text look like links.
— Frode Myklebust (@famyklebust) January 18, 2017

And to remind us to take pleasure in the little things, lest our very sanity be jeopardised…

When your code renders perfectly in gmail app before you start looking for fixes. Holy shit, I did that? pic.twitter.com/G5yY5Iy6JM

— Anne Tomlin (@pompeii79) January 16, 2017

Because sanity is important. So are great memes.

 

This free & easy CSV Splitter tool just saved my sanity. https://t.co/VR4XL4JUy2
I highly recommend it to #emailgeeks & #datapros. pic.twitter.com/TEJpvDYIi0
— Julie Cleland (@JulieC_Blayzer) January 11, 2017

Having your own Giphy page helps (congrats, MailChimp!)

 

loving your work @MailChimp your very own @giphy page! https://t.co/ICfzL0b97L #emailgeeks pic.twitter.com/h4uAlSuTF3
— Darren Hepburn (@DarrenHepburn) January 11, 2017

We need things like that, because our jobs are hard sometimes…

 

Too real. pic.twitter.com/zGyoBcVHX7
— Anne Tomlin (@pompeii79) December 29, 2016

And the job market isn’t what it used to be…

mate you missed off the call to action pic.twitter.com/2xsJJMjYVT
— Elliot Ross (@iamelliot) January 16, 2017

So self-improvement is key. Nobody wants to fall into a rut…

 

My professional development goals for 2017 pic.twitter.com/AtemqwzwRM
— email snarketing (@EmailSnarketing) January 3, 2017

And if we weren’t here to keep things on the up-and-up, who knows what depths this industry might delve into…

 

Looks legit… pic.twitter.com/ubrVtrOV0C
— Jacques Corby-Tuech (@iamacyborg) January 22, 2017

So we must always keep questioning ourselves, and striving to do better…

Are there too many GIFs on Twitter?
— Jason Stockwell (@jj_stockwell) January 17, 2017

No, Jason. No there aren’t. And there never will be.

So tweet on, you wondrous email dynamos. We’ll be watching, and we’ll see you all next month!

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