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http://www.kurtjohansen.com - Australia's Leading Email Marketing Strategist helps you get your business up and running & into email marketing with these 7 Killer Tips. Download his free email marketing book "7 Killer Tips To Get Your Emails Read" from http://www.kurtjohansen.comTRANSCRIPT
The Art of Email Marketing
Using the “7 Killer Tips To Get
Your Emails Read”
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Kurt JohansenMBA
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Killer Tip Number One:
“The Secret to Creating Credibility and Why It’s A Must To Use An Email Address People Will Trust & Recognise.”
Or
“Who Are You ?”
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First questions:
• Who are you? • What do you want?
Have an email address or name which is recognizable to the recipient.
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• Use your name or your main address.
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From Frank Kern ([email protected])
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• AVOID using
Hotmail or Gmail addresses in Email Marketing.
• It doesn’t ooze ‘professionalism’.
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Killer Tip Number Two:
“Revealing The Closely Guarded Secret Used By Experts That’s Guaranteed To Get All Your Emails Opened.”
Or
“What Do You Want?”
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Ensure your intrusion in their life is pleasant.
ALWAYS…
Use their first name in the email address line.
AND…
Engage them with an alluring subject line.
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Create curiosity
Step 2 of the “7 Killer Tips To Get Your Emails Read” serves only one purpose
And that is…
To get your email opened.
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• General Rules to Obey for Subject Line.
- Limit to 50 characters or 6-8 words.
- Start words with a Capital Letter and test use “ ”
Create curiosity to force them to open the email.
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–Some Examples:
• Hi Pam, “Inside This Email We Have Included...”
• Hi Rob, “I know It’s Friday But…”
• Hi Mary, “I Must Apologise For…”
• Hi Tammy, “This Month’s VIP Club Offer Is…”
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Killer Tip Number Three:
“How To Write Attention Grabbing Headlines Which Will Explode Off The Screen”
Or
“The Email Headline”
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• Killer Tip 3:
serves as the ENTRANCE or GATEWAY to your email message.
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• Writing headlines is a “learned” skill
• Get help if you need
• I like to include images based around the headline, such as:
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“With 11 letters of offers out there this well-positioned and much loved residence is bound to be sold this weekend…”
So Paul, If you are considering owning …
For those born on the 4th of July it means
“HAPPY BIRTHDAY.”
For all others it means…
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“Have you ever heard the phrase,
‘Safe as the Bank of England’ ?”
Well…
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• Headlines depends on your list.
• “Bulk” email marketers are ignoring headlines.
• Test with your list.
• I find headlines are a great segue into Killer Tip 4.
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Killer Tip Number Four:
“Discover Million Dollar Techniques To Cause The Reader To Take Action”
Or
“The Email Content”
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• Email Content Is King – Or is it?
• Depends on the message and who is receiving it.
• The email often will not relate to everyone on your list – it happens.
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• Email Content Is King – Or is it?
• Segment your lists as much as possible and send them meaningful offers and information.
• Match the message to the right person.
• One email = one main message.
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• Long Emails:
Learn copywriting or as we know it
Emotional Direct Response Advertising.
Get help if needed.
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• Short Emails:
Becoming popular with some marketers.
This strategy entices recipients to click on a link and be transported to a sales page or video.
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• Short Emails: An example of one I recently received is:
From: Frank Kern
Date: Wednesday, 11:19 AM
Subject: beautiful!
This video does a beautiful job of showing you adetailed process map of what a killer launch look like.
http://www.productlaunchformula.com/blue.php?1715
It'll play automatically.
Enjoy :-)
Frank
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Killer Tip Number Five:
: “How To Sneak Under The Spam Filter’s Radar - Invisible Stealth Attack Tactics Used By Gurus To Get Past The Toughest Security Defences”
Or
“How To Send Your Email”
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• Emails are filtered
• Know which words to modify or avoid
• Use a reputable email sending program to do this.
• I recommend: http://budurl.com/SmartEmailSystem
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Some words I have found to modify or change:
• Exciting, • interview,
• opportunity, • discover, • overseas,
• free,
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• Modify by:
Old Word Modified Word
Exciting, Ex*citing
interview, inter-view opportunity, opp*ortunity discover, dis*cover overseas, over-seas
free fr*ee
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• Two formats:
1.HTML and Text
HTML – images Text – words
• Which one do I use to send?
BOTH
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Killer Tip Number Six:
“Magical Words That Will Get Your Prospects To Behave Like A Puppet On A String”
Or
“Call To Action and Effective PS’s ?”
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• A call to action is VITAL in marketing.
• Eliminate generic ‘Click Here’ buttons.
Instead try : or
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• Include PS’s at the end of your email.
• Research tells us 76% of PS’s are read.
• Try to include at least two or three PS’s and
• Offer a PS ‘Special’ to test effectiveness.
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Killer Tip Number Seven:
“Unleash The Full Power Of Your Email Campaign By Knowing When To Send OutYour Emails For Best Effect”
Or
“When To Send Emails”
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• Email Marketing needs to be consistent.
• Keep in regular contact – minimum fortnightly
• Tuesdays or Wednesdays best less cluttered
• Don’t discount other days - TEST.
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• Record results:• Open rates;• Click-through link rates;• Read rates.
discover what is best for your list by testing.
If you can’t measure it – you can’t improve it !
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