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How do you sell a $20,000 product to a busy school principal who’s never heard of your brand? How do you win back public favor when the NY Times slams your company? How do you build community when your huge Earth Day initiative is shut down by a global pandemic? You send an email of course. These are real challenges that real brands faced – and solved – with email. Listen in on email experiments that worked – and didn’t – to inform and inspire your own email strategies. Every other week, an ...
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Let’s dive into the strategies and methods used in the Powtoon webinar registration email featured in Episode 26. Ideas you don’t want to miss (04:54) Takeaway 1: Use data to personalize for relevance, not for attention (06:03) Takeaway #2: Collect data! Interviews, reviews, polls – whatever, wherever, it’s such critical stuff. (06:32) Takeaway #3:…
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When you have robust data on your leads’ pain points – how do you best use it? If you’re Anna Levitin and the Powtoon team, you use your leads’ language to craft highly relevant subject lines – and increase email opens, webinar registrations, and webinar attendance rates. About our guest Anna Levitin is an Email & Lifecycle Marketing Specialist, fo…
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Let’s dive into the strategies and methods used in the Harvie free gift email, featured in Episode 24 Ideas you don’t want to miss (02:47) Takeaway #1: Judge carefully (04:11) Takeaway #2: Segment your list… but… do so with a grain of salt. (05:29) Takeaway #3: Test your offers before defaulting to that discount (06:26) Takeaway #4: Use research to…
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When you’ve slashed your membership price for four big, back-to-back sales, how do you go back to simpler offers – especially when you know your best customers aren’t even coming for the discounts? Listen in on how we took advantage of a favorite local pop up to build a non-discount-but-still-exciting promo for Harvie. Ideas you don’t want to miss …
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Let’s dive into the strategies and methods used in the Copyhackers cart close email, featured in Episode 22. Ideas you don’t want to miss (04:39) Takeaway 1: Use your resources the way that works best for you, not how everyone says you should (07:42) Takeaway #2: Would you say this in real life? Maybe that’s okay, maybe it’s not, but you need to di…
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When you know your best prospects are feeling the pressure of cart close – how do you shift the tone to empower decision-making from a confident place? If you’re Ry Schwartz of Copy School, you serenade your subscribers right through the doors of your program. About our guest Ry Schwartz has been deep in the trenches for dozens of 6- and 7-figure p…
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Let’s dive into the strategies and methods used in the Sinch April Fool’s Day email, featured in Episode 20. Ideas you don’t want to miss (02:26) Takeaway 1: Block the big things into your content calendar (02:09) Takeaway #1.1: Feeling pressured by certain email norms? Strip it down to the why and reformat accordingly (02:48) Takeaway #2: Don’t st…
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When your audience is a bunch of email developers, designers, and marketers – split across three different products – how do you wow them… and segment them… at the same time? If you’re Megan Boshuyzen, you develop a dozen interactive April Fool’s Day emails that deliver a perfectly crafted, Buzzfeed-style user experience. About our guest Megan Bosh…
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Let’s dive into the strategies and methods used in the Drizly goodbye emails, featured in Episode 18. Ideas you don’t want to miss (06:11) Takeaway #1: Build your brand’s human side with safety nets (06:16) Takeaway #1.1: Test your sender names (07:43) Takeaway #2: Keep the customer front and center when using humor (10:24) Takeaway #3: Weave brand…
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How do you bid farewell to your subscribers after building a fan base who consistently posts your emails to social? Oh, and you’re not tasked with sending one or two goodbyes – your brief includes 19 (!) reminders. If you’re Jared Jones, formerly of Drizly, you lean into the humor of the situation and craft a sendoff that perfectly matches the absu…
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Whew, it’s been a fun season! Let’s take a peek behind the making of Email Swipes! And hey, you can even shape Season 2 when you gimme feedback on Season 1. Ideas you don’t want to miss (01:05) Why I started Email Swipes despite the fact that I’m not your classic podcast person (03:41) The one thing I’d do differently if I was launching Email Swipe…
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Let’s dive into the strategies and methods used in the Tailwind onboarding email, featured in Episode 15. Ideas you don’t want to miss (01:36) Takeaway #1: Keep your content goal-oriented (06:17) Takeaway #2: Keep your content action-oriented (07:12) Takeaway #3: Don’t forget that sender name reputation is worth more than subject line click-ability…
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How do you build community when your huge Earth Day initiative is shut down by a global pandemic? Listen in on how we used pop culture – and a dose of positivity and social responsibility – to gear up for Awara’s Earth Day sale, at the height of COVID-19. Ideas you don’t want to miss (02:01) The new idea the team came up with, to replace the origin…
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Let’s dive into the strategies and methods used in the POWERUP Toys abandoned cart email, featured in Episode 11. Ideas you don’t want to miss (02:08) Takeaway 1: Research gives you relevance. (03:03) Takeaway 2: Templates have their place, but they’re limited (03:26) Takeaway 3: Use abandoned carts to motivate, not just remind (05:29) Takeaway 4: …
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Let’s dive into the strategies and methods used in the Tailwind onboarding email, featured in Episode 7. Timestamps (3:23) Takeaway 1: Convert users by helping them to get to the aha moment (5:13) Takeaway 2: Use fun to increase engagement, but temper it with relevance (6:34) Takeaway 3: Use future pacing to help readers get over barriers and into …
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How do you convince your audience to take time out of their busy day to set the goals they need to succeed with your software? You make a crazy ask and intro yourself with a little inbox mediation – complete with visualization GIF! Because when you’re talking to an audience using visuals to grow, what better way to help them see their success than …
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What happens when you know your customers use your product to tap into their inner child? If you’re Sophia Dagnon, you humanize the product and playfully nudge your abandoned customers, helping them experience the post-purchase joy even before they complete their order. Timestamps: (3:07) The first step the GetUplift team takes before they touch an…
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Let's dive into the strategies and methods used in Hannah's webinar registration email, featured in Episode 13. Takeaways (4:38) Takeaway #1: Vanity metrics are so easy to get sucked into (5:57) Takeaway #2: Sometimes you can turn a "no" into a "yes, if..." (7:29) Takeaway #3: You can't please the people you normally please – 100% of the time. (8:1…
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What happens when you know your subscribers are itching to hear your growth story – as it happens – but sharing your vulnerability feels really… scary? If you’re Hannah Shamji, you push past the fear to treat your subscribers as friends – and turnaround more conversions than ever. Timestamps: (4:30) How Hannah’s research brain – and TikTok culture …
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Let's dive into the strategies and methods used in the Rev holiday email, featured in Episode 9. Takeaways (2:32) Takeaway#1: Creativity isn’t magic (3:25) Takeaway #2: Safe risks are the name of the game (4:28) Takeaway #3: Humor is a vehicle for building connection – not just likeability (7:03) Takeaway #4: Be understanding of clients/boss’ hesit…
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How do you win back public favor when the NY Times slams your company? They say no press is bad press, and for Nick, the NYT thumbs-down was just the opportunity he'd been waiting for. Here's how his overhaul of the Rev email program rebuilt brand equity, reinvigorated the dispirited team, and grew a cult-like following. Timestamps: (3:14) Why the …
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Let's dive into the strategies and methods used in the Licorice.com feedback request email, featured in Episode 5. Takeaways (2:03) Takeaway #1: Show, don't tell. (But, for real.) (3:32) Takeaway #2: Turn likability into reciprocity by using You vs. We (5:23) Takeaway #3: Couple logic with inspiration to get over your fear of surveying customers (6…
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When you sell out of thousands of pounds of licorice mere months after launch, how do you learn why? And how to do it again? Especially if – like most brands – you’re hesitant to bother your customers? Listen in on how Licorice.com’s customer survey email gave them – not just decision data – but warm and fuzzy validation that has them hitting send …
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About this episode Let's dive into the strategies and methods used in the Valentine’s Day love letter email Devin wrote for the Bit.ly customers, featured in Episode 3. Takeaways (1:37) Takeaway #1: Take stock of your customer lifecycle after big changes. (3:47) Takeaway #2: Don’t be scared to sell. The products you’re pitching provide value, as lo…
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What happens when you’re about to hit deadline but legal still hasn’t given you approval? You come up with a new idea – that takes the internet by a storm. Because when you’re not trying to win the conversion battle in one day, you have the freedom to try out of the box ideas like a Valentine’s Day love letter to your customers. Ideas you don't wan…
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Let's dive into the strategies and methods used in the dazzlingly simple email Jo wrote for a pricey EdTech brand we featured in Episode 1. Plus, don't miss the surprise sequel to this email story! Takeaways (1:35) Takeaway #1: Email isn’t dead, but it is getting stale. Instead of chasing new, shiny platforms, how can you do email “fresh”? (3:08) T…
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How do you sell a $20,000 product to a busy school principal who’s never heard of your brand? Well, if you’re Joanna Wiebe, you take inspiration from everywhere and you weave a dazzlingly simple strategy using the famous 9-word email and a missed opportunity you spotted from another brand. Ideas you don't want to miss (3:05) Why email isn't dead (d…
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How do you sell a $20,000 product to a busy school principal who’s never heard of your brand? How do you win back public favor when the NY Times slams your company? How do you build community when your huge Earth Day initiative is shut down by a global pandemic? You send an email of course. These are real challenges that real brands faced – and sol…
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