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If used effectively, bulk emails are a great way to reach thousands of customers and prospects in a short amount of time. These types of campaigns allow marketers to promote their businesses, sell products, and develop relationships with ease. To see positive ROI from your bulk email campaigns, your emails need to land in the [...]
Are you the type of person who likes wearing PJs while working from home? Or would you rather ditch the pants during the workweek? Well, according to this email from AI copywriting service Phrasee, you can go without pants – as long as you stay in your seat during Zoom calls, of course. This email [...]
In March 2020, the copywriting community lost a giant: Clayton Makepeace. A year later, one of his mentees, the wonderful Carline Anglade-Cole, held a tribute in his honor. She invited dozens of Clayton’s collaborators — writers, marketers, and publishers — to give a short speech about the legendary copywriter. And to everyone’s surprise (and delight) [...]
There are plenty of ways to generate buzz for your new sales launch, from running ads on Google and social media, to incentivizing your affiliate network to do the promotion for you. But whatever your business model, one tactic you should absolutely be using is email marketing. While marketers have more tools and tactics at [...]
Since the advent of the internet and the rise of digital, marketing has become a whole lot more technical. As well as understanding the art of persuasion and behavioural economics, the modern day marketer also needs to know how to interpret data and understand how the technology used in marketing works. Thanks to digital channels, [...]
Who do you picture when you hear the word “developer”? If recent statistical demographics are anything to go by, you’ll likely be picturing a white man in his late thirties. But it’s 2021 and times are changing. More women are learning to code and tackling the male-dominated arena of software development. And more ethnicities are [...]
For International Women’s Day 2020, we kicked off a series of interviews with some of the most esteemed women in the email marketing industry. These women jumped on Zoom calls and played email ping pong with me to discuss gender equality at industry conferences events. And as some of these women’s varied expertise became apparent, [...]
Rewind to February 2020 and national lockdowns, social distancing and support bubbles were phrases and concepts alien to us all. That was soon going to change. But until the pandemic hit that first peak, phrases such as “gender equality” and “gender imbalance” were all too familiar to us. It was just weeks away from International [...]
Let’s rewind a year – it’s February 2020 and International Women’s Day is on the horizon. We decide there’s no better way to start our ‘Interview with Experts’ series than with Q&A sessions with some of the email marketing industry’s most trail-blazing women. It starts with conversations about the gender balance at industry conferences. And [...]
Over a million print and e-books are self-published each year. And it’s estimated that indie authors account for around 30% of all e-book sales in English-speaking markets. Which presents you, indie author, with a challenge. How do you get your latest book release in front of the right audience when so many others like you [...]
Thanks to the internet, writers have more opportunities than ever to grow an audience and deliver premium content. And make good money while doing so. In the early noughties, blogging was the primary modus operandi for digital publishers. But in more recent years, email has become the new platform of choice. And paid subscription newsletters [...]
The most common mistake I see in newsletter landing pages is the author not considering first-time visitors. The author knows exactly what they’re offering readers. But they struggle to portray the benefits of subscribing to someone unfamiliar with the newsletter. That’s why you need to ask yourself: What would my potential subscriber need to see [...]