Forget the mobile and social media hype. Email is the sales powerhouse to focus your efforts on. For every $1 spent $44.25 is the average return. With such a massive ROI, email marketing is the best way to convert leads and increase profits. It’s no wonder, 67% of marketers say that email is key for […]
Why 5 Emails Are Better Than 1 – This Tough Love Cost Me a Project
Recently a client asked me to write a single email to promote his business. This was to be sent to a list he’d created after scouring the web for prospects. Now, I could have taken his money, written the email and wished him all the best. But I thought I’d make him aware of a few realities… […]
The Folly of Building Your Farm on Rented Land
A few years back, Facebook was flipping the marketing world upside down. It was hailed as the future, and that it would reshape the marketing landscape forever. We were told we had to go where our customers were. To focus more marketing efforts on persuading them to become our Fans and Like our posts, and do all our promotional legwork for us. […]
Email continues to trample all over social media as a sales tool and pitching your email copywriting services to clients
Being the savvy readers that you are, I know you’re well aware that email continues to be a marketing workhorse. Time and again, studies show that it generates a higher ROI than most other channels, particularly now that email readership is rocketing on smartphones. Over the last few years, however, email has become the forgotten […]
Email readership on smartphones is rocketing. But the biggest implication isn’t for email
Email is enjoying a resurgence. Despite being often maligned and left to gather dust, as marketers play with their shiny new social media toys, email continues to generate responses and sales. Social media ‘gurus’ might tell you that nobody reads stale old emails anymore, but the figures tell a different story. Readership of email on […]
How to Write Email Subject Lines that Get Your Emails Opened and Devoured
Writing subject lines for email campaigns can be tricky. Their impact can decide whether your emails are ripped open and every word devoured, or dumped nonchalantly in the junk pile. At this time of year there’s even more noise than usual in people’s inboxes. And so your subject line has to be able to demand attention if […]