Hi Jamie!
Thank you for the feedback! I am constantly testing to see what works best, or what will make the readers engage more with my emails and click over to my website. I agree that the emails with the pictures are prettier, but it’s not engaging, unfortunately. I have over 100,000 email subscribers, of which 26% open my emails, and only 2% click over to get the recipe. You’d be surprised to know that with the new format, that number has doubled. Subscribing to newsletters is free for the readers but not for us, the content providers. Keeping my subscribers’ emails costs me thousands of dollars a month. Without anyone clicking over to my website, it’s like throwing money to the wind. 😕 I hope you understand and still come by to “visit”. 😊