“As a marketing executive, you know how important it is to have a strong email list. A newsletter is a great way to stay in touch with your audience, promote your content, and generate leads. But growing your newsletter subscriber base can be a challenge.

There are a lot of different ways to grow your newsletter subscriber base, but not all methods are created equal. Some methods, like running giveaways, can attract a lot of subscribers, but they may not be all that targeted. If you’re not careful, you could end up with a list of subscribers who aren’t interested in your content or who you can’t reach with your marketing messages.”

Great advice from Social Media Hat.

Imagine writing an email that’s so effective it lands you a job at the White House.

Well, that’s what happened to Maya Shankar, a PhD cognitive neuroscientist. In 2014, the Department of Veterans Affairs asked her to help increase signups in their veteran benefit scheme.

Maya had a plan. She was well aware of a cognitive bias that affects us all—the endowment effect. This bias suggests that people value items higher if they own them. So, she changed the subject line in the Veterans’ enrollment email.

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Picture this: you put all your creative energy into writing a great marketing email. You choose every word carefully and create a beautiful design to appeal to your target audience. Finally, you hit the send button, sit back, and sip your coffee, ready for the responses to pour in. But your inbox stays empty. 

Sooner or later, this scenario happens to every business. You might wonder if you made a mistake with your email. (Maybe that pun-filled subject line wasn’t as funny as you thought?) But even the best emails can get overlooked or lost in crowded inboxes. In fact, 80% of customers ignore marketing emails at least half the time. 

Become an expert with this info from Constant Contact.

“While it may come at the end, your email footer shouldn’t be an afterthought.

Email footers need to check certain boxes, but a well-crafted footer goes beyond. It contributes to your brand and engages your subscribers.

The goal is to provide essential information, adhere to regulations, and make sure your emails end on a high note.

You want to optimize every element of your email campaigns. These email footer examples will help you get the most out of any template — down to the last word and pixel.”

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Learn the top three places to ask people to sign up for your email list from Constant Contact Senior Producer of Webinars Stephanie French and former Director of Product Marketing Morgan Bell. Watch the full on-demand webinar here:

If you’re looking to create more relevant, engaging content that meets subscribers where they’re at—look no further than dynamic email content. These highly tailored emails that target subscribers’ wants, likes, and needs are more likely to prompt engagement (and conversions) from subscribers—since you’re serving them something relevant to the interests they already have. 

Sounds simple, right? Why aren’t we all using this powerhouse tool, like yesterday? 🤯

Well, it’s a little bit more complicated than it sounds, but we can explain. Read on to discover how you can harness the power of dynamic email content to create super-duper engaging and personalized emails.

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Networking is a huge part of any business career. And, in the process, you end up with stacks of business cards that get exchanged for future reference. But what can or should you do with the information on those cards?

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“If you’re like me, you constantly wish you could find a couple of spare hours in the day to get some extra work done. In an alternate reality where the days are longer, you’d even gain some extra time to binge-watch that new Netflix show at the end of the day. Alas, in this reality, we only have so much time to get things done. “

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“Have you ever wondered what opt-in process is the best for your email marketing campaigns? Is it single opt-in or double opt-in? Although the debate between these two processes has been going on for years, there wasn’t a definitive answer – until now.”

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