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When To Ignore Grammar In A Marketing Email

I read a number of articles on email marketing every week. A lot. Every now and again one stands out, perhaps as useful, or maybe it’s an idea I have not thought of. Less frequently, I come across a suggestion that seems patently wrong, and even the strongest tut is an insufficient response. One came … READ MORE »

How To Improve Your Calls To Action

A call to action can seem a little intimidating for subscriber reading a marketing email. Some boxes can come across as too demanding. A ‘Click Me’ is nothing more than an abrupt demand for action and lacks the subtle encouragement that should be our norm. We need to do better. We don’t do ourselves any … READ MORE »

How to build loyalty of subscribers

If I was to tell you that I know a way of encouraging 71% of your subscribers to make more purchases, 61% to recommend you to friends, 41% to join a loyalty program and 40% to write positive reviews comments, you’d either bite my head off to get at it or think it was a … READ MORE »

An Exciting Image Can Enliven Your Campaign

  It’s easy enough to identify those marketing emails where time and trouble has been taken to pick what they feel will be an image that could assist with completions. There appears to be two main criteria for picking images: pretty and representative. Most email marketing companies seem to stick to one or the other, … READ MORE »

Eliminating Words That Serve No Purpose

Every word or phrase in the copy of a marketing email must serve a particular purpose, one that’s not covered by any other. Copywriting is that simple. If there’s no reason for it to be there, get rid of it. It’s unwanted weight. The difficulty some people find when doing so is identifying superfluous words, … READ MORE »

Is Your Email Marketing Copy Boring?

Like a lot of writers, I regularly ask someone whose work I admire to check my copy. They don’t look for literals, poor grammar or the occasional over-used cliché, but instead read through a few randomly-selected submissions, not only for email marketing, and criticise them. It’s a bit of a risk, but only to my … READ MORE »

Are Your Email Marketing Returns Falling

Many of us must feel we’ve become experts at noticing when performance has, for no apparent reason, dropped off. We’ve all struggled with such problems all our email marketing life. All of a sudden the percentages are lower, ROI is down and no matter how closely you study the circumstances, you can’t fathom why. One … READ MORE »

Newsletters Are More Than Just Lead Magnets

Most subscribers devour newsletters. Unlike marketing emails, when they see one in their inbox, they’ll put them to one side to read at leisure, probably with a cup of coffee and biscuit. Their brain will be at its most receptive. With defences down and scepticism hibernating, they are typical of a newsletter reader. It is … READ MORE »

How Many Emails Should I send?

I went to a liaison meeting with the public where it was suggested I was avoiding questions, two in particular. I’d lost the sympathy of much of the crowd, mainly for answering honestly, and I wanted them back on board. I panicked, saying, ‘Ask any question you want, and I’ll be definitive.’ An experienced colleague … READ MORE »

Generating Trust Is A Basic Requirement 

Let’s forget Covid. Instead, we should concentrate on the basics of email marketing to ensure we can move forward without worrying too much about what’s already happened. You can’t get much more basic than generating trust in your company. It’s a truism, but not all that helpful, to say that the best way of generating … READ MORE »

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