B2B marketers can learn a lot from Frank Kern. The thing is, most marketers in the corporate world have never heard of him. Funny when you consider that the world’s ‘highest paid direct response info marketing copywriter’ has made over $47 million for himself and his clients. What’s more impressive is that no development labs, factories or […]
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 […]
Why Brief is Better when it comes to B2B Email Copywriting
Writing B2B emails is one of your trickiest tasks as a copywriter. They might be brief (100 words max). But that just means you’ve got more to pack into every word. Business people can be stressed and busy at the best of times. They don’t have time to patiently check through every message. If you’re […]
Want to to increase your email’s click throughs? Make it easy to share
With 55 million updates on Twitter every day and several million more on Facebook, it’s no wonder marketers are excited about social media. Whilst making a message that goes ‘viral’ is more pot luck than a defined strategy, you can certainly improve your message’s chances of being shared by including links to social media sites. You’d have thought […]
Asked to write an email campaign? Suggest they use print as well…
There’s no question that email marketing is popular these days. As mentioned in my last post, a survey of small businesses found that 46% were already emailing customers, and another 36% planned to start. Email marketing offers many benefits. But any suggestions it’s going to kill off direct mail are wide of the mark. Email […]
Are You Actively Promoting Your Email Copywriting Expertise? This is Why You Should…
It might be Facebook and Twitter getting all the attention these days. But there’s one old warhorse of internet marketing that continues to deliver real results – and that’s email. It might not be as sexy as its social media cousins. But email continues to be a reliable, trusty marketing tool for building relationships, delivering special offers and attracting website […]
WordPress Autoresponder Plugin Released
Do you wish you could do more with posts you spent hours researching and writing only to see them disappear into the dark depths of your archives? Well, now you can thanks to a new autoresponder plugin for WordPress. Whilst autoresponders are nothing new, the best thing about this plugin is that enables you to […]