👎Emojis - Do they work? 👍💩

Solomon Bush
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I am almost finished rebuilding my landing page, and I decided to add emojis. But I am still on the fence about them... What do ya'll think? -- Should I use emojis?

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Angi Bowman
We did some A/B testing in drip campaign subject lines, and emojis increased the open rate. However, we haven't tested them on landing pages nor will we. In our market, emojis on a landing page wouldn't work well at all.
Solomon Bush
@lucky__angi Thanks for the insight! That’s really interesting. Do you think it would work well with my target market - software engineers on small teams or startups?
I depend on the contexte / design of your page I think. Everybody know what emoji are, so maybe, people will feel more safe and secure watching something they know on your page.
Solomon Bush
@jacquelinclem Yeah that's what I was thinking too. I have heard that music studios add something call the "millennial-whoop" into songs. They said that market research shows that songs that have this sound send a subconscious signal to the millennial age group that this song is "for them." I was wondering if perhaps emojis acted the same way. Lol. idk, just an idea.
Benoit Chambon
Actually, it's almost the same question I ask myself when I write an email: on one hand, not putting some emojis makes me feel like my message is cold and distant; on the other hand, emojis are more often used in messages with friends (or kind of), not in professional ones - depending the sector you work in or communicate with. Just stay yourself man :)
Solomon Bush
@benoit_chambon This is great advice I like what you said about being yourself. 👍! And I feel the same way, it's definitely hard to know that fine line between professionalism and adding flavor to emails or marketing materials.
Lior Galante Cohen (Vaza)
Brief on Demand by Amy
I love using emojis, but my answer would probably be - it depends. What are you trying to say with your landing page? Do you have a whimsical or a more professional look? You should also check whether these emojis look good on different devices.
Solomon Bush
@lior_galante_cohen This is great advice! I didn't even think about how it might show up different on different devices/browsers. But I think for my use case, I am trying to convey a radical new approach to log-aggregation systems. But I guess I'll just do some A/B testing to confirm where my audience is at.
Alina Ihnatiuk
Emoticons don't work, but they add meaning. I always use them to express my emotions 1000%
Solomon Bush
@antonovna That makes sense. I see them a lot on startup launch pages and was wondering if they knew something I didn't