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In this episode Toby quizzes Adam about the email marketing he’s been doing with the Bluewire News.  What follows are 6 unexpected findings.

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1. Shorter subject lines work better

Why? They stand out in an inbox full of long subject lines, and they are more reflective of emails from friends. Who writes a 20 word subject line to a friend!

2. You get loads of replies via riddles and brain teasers

Adam discovered that asking readers to reply works well, and asking them to reply to a fun, social thing like a riddle or brain teaser works even better.  It gives you a chance to get to know your readers and vice versa without the pressure of feeling like you’re in a sales call.

3. Auto responders work great

What we can deduce from this is that subject lines ‘can’ convey a lot of info and people do pay attention to them even if they don’t click into them. Plus you can earn trust with people in just a few valuable emails.

5. Different formats of the same content have different results

The same content (eg. an expert interview) had a 7% click through as a YouTube video and a 20% click through as an e-book. What we learned is that people prefer their content in different formats that suits them.  Re-purpose your content so you don’t leave value on the table.

Ramit Sethi

Ramit Sethi

6. Follow email marketers (like Ramit Sethi)

Ramit Sethi is a personal finance expert (who is also a brilliant email marketer) that Adam is paying particular attention to at the moment. Ramit has 200,000 email subscribers and phenomenally successful online courses.  Learn from people you want to emulate!

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12 Of The Best Headline Writing Resources On The Web

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