With the holiday season right around the corner, now is a great time to get your A-game email marketing ready. According to technology market Research firm, there will be 196,300,000,000 Worldwide emails sent and received every day in 2014. Yes, that is nearly 200 billion emails sent out and received Every single day. In reality, most business email marketing is ineffective. It doesn't grab the recipient's attention or the emails get deleted without being opened. Use these 13 email marketing hacks to create emails that capture your customers' attention, receive a high open-rate and produce conversions for your business.

Blindly throwing together an email message and sending it out without a plan in place is completely unproductive. What is your goal? If every single person on your email list opened the message what would you want him or her to do? Visit a particular page on your website to read additional information? Click through and land on a product page to complete a purchase? Identify the goal before you do anything else.

1. HAVE A PLAN.

According to salesforce, subject lines fewer than 10 characters long have an open rate of 58 percent, which is significantly higher than the industry as reported by Constant Contact.

2. USE SHORT AND SWEET SUBJECT LINES.

Your subject line needs to peek the recipient's curiosity -- its job is to get the email opened. Avoid too many details. You want your recipient to think, “I need to know more!” as soon as they glance at the subject line.

3. PIQUE CURIOSITY.

Does “Get 13 email marketing hacks now” or “Get 13 Email Marketing Hacks Now” grab your attention better? The use of capitalization throughout your subject line sparks more engagement.

4. USE CAPITALIZATION IN YOUR SUBJECT LINE.

Your recipients are more likely to open a personalized email that is addressed to their first name. First and last name is a bit too much, and no personalization reeks of a mass-spam message.

5. PERSONALIZE YOUR EMAILS.

Prior to deploying an email message, make sure that you test it on several devices. We live in a mobile world so be sure that your messages are flawless on mobile devices.

6. SEND TESTS TO MULTIPLE DEVICES.

A great subject line gets your email open, but that is just half the battle. Your message must satisfy the curiosity that triggered its opening. If you insinuate something in your subject line make sure your email message delivers. For example, if your subject line mentions email-marketing hacks, be sure your message delivers email-marketing hacks rather than something unrelated. Many companies will craft a clever subject to get the open but fail to deliver what is implied -- that results in loss of interest from the consumer and more than likely an unsubscribe.

7. CRAFT YOUR MESSAGE TO SATISFY YOUR SUBJECT LINE.

Imagine if a potential customer is reading an email and has a question when they reach the end. They typically see the standard can-spam required sender information -- company name, address, contact info and an unsubscribe link. Place a very simple “If you have any questions at all just reply to this email -- we read every message sent to us and respond within 24 hours” at the end of your emails and welcome replies.

8. INVITE YOUR RECIPIENTS TO REPLY.

Asking a question peaks interest, so doing so right before you present a call to action is a great way to increase its conversion rate.

9. ASK QUESTIONS RIGHT BEFORE YOUR CALLS TO ACTION.

Instead of linked-text calls to action such as “click here,” use bright buttons. Large buttons draw attention and if your subject line and email body do their job, the reader is going to be eager to click a big bright orange or red button.

10. USE BUTTONS FOR YOUR CALLS TO ACTION.

Always have a couple different people read your emails before you send them. Catching simple grammar mistakes before sending it to thousands of potential customers can really save face.

11. PROOFREAD YOUR EMAILS BEFORE HITTING THE SEND BUTTON.

Just because someone doesn’t open your email it doesn’t necessarily mean that they are not interested in your offer -- after all, they haven’t seen it. Don’t be afraid to resend your emails to those recipients that didn’t open it the first time.

12. RESEND YOUR EMAIL TO THOSE THAT DIDN’T OPEN IT.

Split test every part of your email newsletter. Send out multiple variations every time, split-testing templates, subject lines, message length, time sent and calls to action. Keep track of all the data and use it weekly to improve your email performance.

13. SPLIT-TEST EVERYTHING.