Are You Following These Email Marketing Blogs?
Email marketing is constantly changing, but following the right email marketing blogs can help. This Email on Acid article lists 19 blogs that you should check out.
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How To Be A Great Email Marketer
According to Kasey Steinbrinck’s research of Inbox Insights 2022, great email marketers:
How many of these describe you?
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Four Strategies To Incorporate Word-Of-Mouth Marketing
Word-of-mouth marketing is cost-effective and impactful, but how can it be incorporated into your content? Kate Winkler lists four strategies in this article, starting with “Feature relevant user-generated content.”
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One Marketer’s Way Of Measuring Content Marketing
“How do you measure content marketing?”
Camille Trent explained what she does in this LinkedIn post:
Click through for how she defines each.
Could This Be The Future Of Email Marketing?
In this Future article, Connie Chan explains why China’s version of email marketing called “private traffic” may be what’s to come for the U.S. if we want to improve engagement and build community.
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Mark your calendars, order a cake, and start party planning because April 23 is #EmailDay. Corina Leslie explains why it’s starting and how to celebrate in her LinkedIn post.
Will you be affected by a bad review? A recent study found that it depends on how a reader perceives the author of the negative review. Read on for the full story.
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10 Ways To Improve Preheader Text
Have you been ignoring your email preheader text? This Email on Acid article offers 10 ideas for preheader text designed to boost opens starting with advice to provide key details.
I like to create a list of the most important pieces of information in each issue of Opt In Weekly and give each a clear header so the subscriber can scan the preheader text like a table of contents. For marketing emails, though, I think carefully about what the hook or thesis should be and how that will appear in an email browser. What will not only pique curiosity but actually deliver? The email itself has to close the loop the teaser text opens.
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Could Your Brand Own That Conversation?
In this Springboard article, Lieu Pham breaks down how to create ownable conversations to better engage with niche communities.
The good bits:
“Ownable conversations sit at the intersection of your brand value proposition and the content zeitgeist — the big shifts, key themes, challenges, and opportunities within your industry. So in theory, it’s as simple as answering two questions:
1. What is your value proposition?, and
2. What is the content zeitgeist?”
To do this, you might want to check out the Ownable Coversations Framework in the article. The circle graph will be your guide.
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Expert Recommended Content Marketing Tools
Looking for tools to research, optimize, and distribute content? This list by Camille Trent for MarketerHire rounds up solutions recommended by a handful of top marketers.
Feels like Tim Soulo would say this piece is a level 2.8 (with a pinch of 4 since experts were surveyed?).
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