<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><?xml-stylesheet href="https://feeds.captivate.fm/style.xsl" type="text/xsl"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:podcast="https://podcastindex.org/namespace/1.0"><channel><atom:link href="https://feeds.captivate.fm/the-email-marketing-show/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><title><![CDATA[The Email Marketing Show]]></title><podcast:guid>aaf9c492-8ada-5b3e-a67f-2b30b7e5607c</podcast:guid><lastBuildDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:14:43 +0000</lastBuildDate><generator>Captivate.fm</generator><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><copyright><![CDATA[Copyright 2026 Email Marketing Heroes]]></copyright><managingEditor>Email Marketing Heroes</managingEditor><itunes:summary><![CDATA[The fun email marketing podcast. Sell more of your online courses, grow your membership and bring in more coaching clients with email marketing that doesn't stink.

Sound good? Then join your fellow Email Marketing Heroes for your weekly dose of fun, practical, yet brutally honest email marketing advice.

You can listen in to a piping hot, fresh episode every 'Email Marketing Wednesday' or if you prefer learning with your eyes instead of your ears, we turn each episode into a full written blog post at EmailMarketingHeroes.com.

=> Get your free DAILY email marketing lessons direct to your email inbox at emailmarketingheroes.com/daily

Connect with us and join the discussions:
Instagram @emailmarketingheroes
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow/
Show Notes and Blog: www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=player-description]]></itunes:summary><image><url>https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png</url><title>The Email Marketing Show</title><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link></image><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><itunes:owner><itunes:name>Email Marketing Heroes</itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author>Email Marketing Heroes</itunes:author><description>The fun email marketing podcast. Sell more of your online courses, grow your membership and bring in more coaching clients with email marketing that doesn&apos;t stink.

Sound good? Then join your fellow Email Marketing Heroes for your weekly dose of fun, practical, yet brutally honest email marketing advice.

You can listen in to a piping hot, fresh episode every &apos;Email Marketing Wednesday&apos; or if you prefer learning with your eyes instead of your ears, we turn each episode into a full written blog post at EmailMarketingHeroes.com.

=&gt; Get your free DAILY email marketing lessons direct to your email inbox at emailmarketingheroes.com/daily

Connect with us and join the discussions:
Instagram @emailmarketingheroes
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow/
Show Notes and Blog: www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=player-description</description><link>https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com</link><atom:link href="https://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" rel="hub"/><itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Psychology-based email marketing ideas to make more sales online. It's a strictly 'no b.s.' zone where we hang out, have a laugh and talk email stuff.]]></itunes:subtitle><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:type>episodic</itunes:type><itunes:category text="Business"><itunes:category text="Marketing"/></itunes:category><itunes:category text="Business"><itunes:category text="Entrepreneurship"/></itunes:category><itunes:category text="Education"><itunes:category text="How To"/></itunes:category><podcast:locked>no</podcast:locked><podcast:medium>podcast</podcast:medium><item><title>Sell These &apos;Silly GPTs&apos; for $5 to Build a List of Buyers (Exact Funnel Breakdown)</title><itunes:title>Sell These &apos;Silly GPTs&apos; for $5 to Build a List of Buyers (Exact Funnel Breakdown)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Red pen in hand. Eyes locked in. We’re about to tear apart an email from one of the biggest marketers in the game, Dan Henry.</p><p>This isn’t some random beginner. This is someone who knows how to sell. Someone who has made millions. Which is exactly why this breakdown matters so much.</p><p>Because inside this email, there’s powerful psychology, smart positioning, and high-level persuasion. But there’s also one mistake that quietly weakens the whole thing.</p><p>Let’s get into it.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Red pen in hand. Eyes locked in. We’re about to tear apart an email from one of the biggest marketers in the game, Dan Henry.</p><p>This isn’t some random beginner. This is someone who knows how to sell. Someone who has made millions. Which is exactly why this breakdown matters so much.</p><p>Because inside this email, there’s powerful psychology, smart positioning, and high-level persuasion. But there’s also one mistake that quietly weakens the whole thing.</p><p>Let’s get into it.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">8a97170f-d92a-4b8e-9d10-08cc78072783</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/8a97170f-d92a-4b8e-9d10-08cc78072783.mp3" length="51037190" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>35:27</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>319</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>319</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/da7d36f8-b330-431b-a8c9-ddefbde99c7a/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>I Roasted Dan Henry’s Email… Here’s What He Got Wrong</title><itunes:title>I Roasted Dan Henry’s Email… Here’s What He Got Wrong</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Red pen in hand. Eyes locked in. We’re about to tear apart an email from one of the biggest marketers in the game, Dan Henry.</p><p>This isn’t some random beginner. This is someone who knows how to sell. Someone who has made millions. Which is exactly why this breakdown matters so much.</p><p>Because inside this email, there’s powerful psychology, smart positioning, and high-level persuasion. But there’s also one mistake that quietly weakens the whole thing.</p><p>Let’s get into it.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Red pen in hand. Eyes locked in. We’re about to tear apart an email from one of the biggest marketers in the game, Dan Henry.</p><p>This isn’t some random beginner. This is someone who knows how to sell. Someone who has made millions. Which is exactly why this breakdown matters so much.</p><p>Because inside this email, there’s powerful psychology, smart positioning, and high-level persuasion. But there’s also one mistake that quietly weakens the whole thing.</p><p>Let’s get into it.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">0028c774-7013-4cd3-8b06-10d72be6e51b</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/0028c774-7013-4cd3-8b06-10d72be6e51b.mp3" length="18161414" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:37</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>318</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>318</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/608adb94-092a-4357-a0c3-8b4384e39761/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>This Has REPLACED Scarcity In Launches (And Made Me 18x More Sales)</title><itunes:title>This Has REPLACED Scarcity In Launches (And Made Me 18x More Sales)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>It sounds ridiculous… but a teabag changed everything.</p><p>Not a new funnel. Not a better webinar. Not more urgency, countdown timers, or “last chance” emails. A teabag. And what it revealed completely flipped how launches work, and why so many leave huge amounts of money on the table.</p><p>Because here’s the uncomfortable truth. Most launches don’t fail because of price. They don’t fail because of timing. They don’t even fail because people don’t trust you. They fail for a much simpler, and far more frustrating, reason.</p><p>People don’t actually understand what you’re selling.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It sounds ridiculous… but a teabag changed everything.</p><p>Not a new funnel. Not a better webinar. Not more urgency, countdown timers, or “last chance” emails. A teabag. And what it revealed completely flipped how launches work, and why so many leave huge amounts of money on the table.</p><p>Because here’s the uncomfortable truth. Most launches don’t fail because of price. They don’t fail because of timing. They don’t even fail because people don’t trust you. They fail for a much simpler, and far more frustrating, reason.</p><p>People don’t actually understand what you’re selling.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">7f7bda71-9d75-4468-a898-ebdaba0e0834</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/7f7bda71-9d75-4468-a898-ebdaba0e0834.mp3" length="11998790" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>08:20</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>317</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>317</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/7f2666b7-dbf4-494b-b377-65e3c0962154/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Copy My 3 &apos;No Pitch&apos; Emails To Sell Anything With No Pressure</title><itunes:title>Copy My 3 &apos;No Pitch&apos; Emails To Sell Anything With No Pressure</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What if the reason your offers are not converting has nothing to do with your product or your price? </p><p>Most people think selling is about pushing harder, writing better pitches, and adding urgency.</p><p>But the truth is simpler. The emails responsible for millions in sales often do not sell anything at all. There is no pressure and no hard pitch. Instead, they prepare the reader so that when the offer appears, the decision already feels obvious.</p><p>They guide attention, build understanding, and create momentum before the sale ever happens.</p><p>If you want that same effect, keep listening.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What if the reason your offers are not converting has nothing to do with your product or your price? </p><p>Most people think selling is about pushing harder, writing better pitches, and adding urgency.</p><p>But the truth is simpler. The emails responsible for millions in sales often do not sell anything at all. There is no pressure and no hard pitch. Instead, they prepare the reader so that when the offer appears, the decision already feels obvious.</p><p>They guide attention, build understanding, and create momentum before the sale ever happens.</p><p>If you want that same effect, keep listening.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">16469d6c-1deb-4c1b-9bb9-e0732b3fe20e</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/16469d6c-1deb-4c1b-9bb9-e0732b3fe20e.mp3" length="24585542" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:04</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>316</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>316</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/8d15de2c-233b-45f0-adfe-b9e0626b031c/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>5 CTAs That Will 10x Your Email Marketing Conversion Rate</title><itunes:title>5 CTAs That Will 10x Your Email Marketing Conversion Rate</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What if a few small changes could dramatically increase the number of people clicking your emails?</p><p>You do not need to send more emails. You do not need better design or complicated tools. What you need are smarter call-to-actions.</p><p>Most marketers use the same boring phrases like “click here” or “learn more.” The problem is that people have seen these a thousand times before, and they simply ignore them.</p><p>In this article, you will discover five powerful and unusual call-to-actions that can instantly increase your click-through rates and drive more sales from the emails you are already sending.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What if a few small changes could dramatically increase the number of people clicking your emails?</p><p>You do not need to send more emails. You do not need better design or complicated tools. What you need are smarter call-to-actions.</p><p>Most marketers use the same boring phrases like “click here” or “learn more.” The problem is that people have seen these a thousand times before, and they simply ignore them.</p><p>In this article, you will discover five powerful and unusual call-to-actions that can instantly increase your click-through rates and drive more sales from the emails you are already sending.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">cffbb42a-a3df-4801-b5e1-b5ad0f923419</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/cffbb42a-a3df-4801-b5e1-b5ad0f923419.mp3" length="8988614" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>06:14</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>315</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>315</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/e63043bd-cab6-4626-8b36-8ca0f20bc7dd/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Taki Moore F***** Up This Email</title><itunes:title>Taki Moore F***** Up This Email</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>A top millionaire coach sent an email that looked almost perfect, but still managed to make a small mistake that could cost sales. </p><p>It wasn’t obvious, and most people would miss it, but it’s exactly the kind of thing that quietly adds friction and stops people from taking action. That’s why this matters, because if someone at that level can get this wrong, there’s a good chance it’s happening in your emails too, and once you see it, you can fix it quickly.</p><p>Here’s exactly what happened, and what you should do instead.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A top millionaire coach sent an email that looked almost perfect, but still managed to make a small mistake that could cost sales. </p><p>It wasn’t obvious, and most people would miss it, but it’s exactly the kind of thing that quietly adds friction and stops people from taking action. That’s why this matters, because if someone at that level can get this wrong, there’s a good chance it’s happening in your emails too, and once you see it, you can fix it quickly.</p><p>Here’s exactly what happened, and what you should do instead.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">733822d8-a89e-4b01-a97c-847bbc6d3329</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/733822d8-a89e-4b01-a97c-847bbc6d3329.mp3" length="16394822" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:23</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>314</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>314</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/1c02bd95-f4ea-46c5-b643-5f198456498b/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Your Email List Isn’t the Problem. This Is.</title><itunes:title>Your Email List Isn’t the Problem. This Is.</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Most people believe their email list is the problem. </p><p>They see low open rates, few clicks, and weak sales, so they assume their list is full of the wrong people—freeloaders who signed up for a freebie but will never buy.</p><p>So they blame the audience.</p><p>But in most cases, the list isn’t broken. The real problem isn’t who is on your list. It’s how the emails are being sent. Change the approach, and the same list can become a powerful sales engine.</p><p>That’s where the <strong>CVP framework</strong> comes in: <strong>consistency, variety, and persistence</strong>. When you use these three elements together, more people see your emails, pay attention to your message, and eventually decide to buy.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most people believe their email list is the problem. </p><p>They see low open rates, few clicks, and weak sales, so they assume their list is full of the wrong people—freeloaders who signed up for a freebie but will never buy.</p><p>So they blame the audience.</p><p>But in most cases, the list isn’t broken. The real problem isn’t who is on your list. It’s how the emails are being sent. Change the approach, and the same list can become a powerful sales engine.</p><p>That’s where the <strong>CVP framework</strong> comes in: <strong>consistency, variety, and persistence</strong>. When you use these three elements together, more people see your emails, pay attention to your message, and eventually decide to buy.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">c9a7cf70-85d8-4651-b3c8-8cfcb6dd06c9</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/c9a7cf70-85d8-4651-b3c8-8cfcb6dd06c9.mp3" length="19006406" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:12</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>313</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>313</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/26c8d6b4-3733-43b7-9ed1-dcec2abdd7f8/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Why You Can’t Consistently Hit $30K/Month (Even With a Great Offer)</title><itunes:title>Why You Can’t Consistently Hit $30K/Month (Even With a Great Offer)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p><strong>What if the reason you cannot stay above $30K months has nothing to do with your offer?</strong></p><p>Many business owners work hard to grow their income. They launch products, send emails, and see exciting bursts of sales. For a moment, everything feels like it is working. Revenue climbs close to $30,000 for the month, and it looks like the business is finally taking off.</p><p>Then the next month arrives, and the income drops again. It rises during the next launch, then falls once more. Your revenue starts to look like waves on the ocean—up and down, again and again.</p><p>If you feel like you keep hitting a $30K ceiling but cannot stay above it, you are not alone. Many online business owners experience the same cycle.</p><p>In this episode, I’ll show you why this happens and the five systems that help you break through the $30K ceiling for good.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>What if the reason you cannot stay above $30K months has nothing to do with your offer?</strong></p><p>Many business owners work hard to grow their income. They launch products, send emails, and see exciting bursts of sales. For a moment, everything feels like it is working. Revenue climbs close to $30,000 for the month, and it looks like the business is finally taking off.</p><p>Then the next month arrives, and the income drops again. It rises during the next launch, then falls once more. Your revenue starts to look like waves on the ocean—up and down, again and again.</p><p>If you feel like you keep hitting a $30K ceiling but cannot stay above it, you are not alone. Many online business owners experience the same cycle.</p><p>In this episode, I’ll show you why this happens and the five systems that help you break through the $30K ceiling for good.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">ead84b7c-4468-4cc3-be53-c8590c36ee30</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ead84b7c-4468-4cc3-be53-c8590c36ee30.mp3" length="14890310" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>10:20</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>312</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>312</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/0168205c-adb1-4be7-9ea9-3dd64010a9ad/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>This “Marketing Guru” Almost Bankrupted My Business</title><itunes:title>This “Marketing Guru” Almost Bankrupted My Business</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>I got on a sales call with one of the biggest marketing gurus in the world. I admired him. I had watched his launches. I had seen him make millions in a single day. I was a total fan.</p><p>Thirty minutes later, I almost sent him $8,000.</p><p>If I had said yes, my business would have collapsed. Within months, I would have been bankrupt.</p><p>The scariest part is that most people would have taken that deal without hesitation. It sounded smart. It sounded logical. It sounded like growth.</p><p>But it would have destroyed everything I had built.</p><p>Here is what happened, and why this lesson could save your business, too.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I got on a sales call with one of the biggest marketing gurus in the world. I admired him. I had watched his launches. I had seen him make millions in a single day. I was a total fan.</p><p>Thirty minutes later, I almost sent him $8,000.</p><p>If I had said yes, my business would have collapsed. Within months, I would have been bankrupt.</p><p>The scariest part is that most people would have taken that deal without hesitation. It sounded smart. It sounded logical. It sounded like growth.</p><p>But it would have destroyed everything I had built.</p><p>Here is what happened, and why this lesson could save your business, too.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">9e2d9eb6-c16d-4785-9467-12f0421c2bb0</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/9e2d9eb6-c16d-4785-9467-12f0421c2bb0.mp3" length="12210182" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>08:29</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>311</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>311</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/84d3e647-640d-49aa-9489-fadb5212c4fb/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>ChatGPT vs Gemini vs Claude: Which AI Builds the Best Landing Page?</title><itunes:title>ChatGPT vs Gemini vs Claude: Which AI Builds the Best Landing Page?</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Three of the biggest AI platforms in the world. One simple prompt. One clear mission.</p><p>They were all asked to build the exact same newsletter sign-up landing page. No special treatment. No extra instructions. Just one clean brief and the same copy pasted into each tool.</p><p>The goal was simple: find out which AI can actually build something that looks good and converts.</p><p>What happened next was surprising.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Three of the biggest AI platforms in the world. One simple prompt. One clear mission.</p><p>They were all asked to build the exact same newsletter sign-up landing page. No special treatment. No extra instructions. Just one clean brief and the same copy pasted into each tool.</p><p>The goal was simple: find out which AI can actually build something that looks good and converts.</p><p>What happened next was surprising.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">a0283d31-925e-41ae-afaf-d4710457a105</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/a0283d31-925e-41ae-afaf-d4710457a105.mp3" length="9835334" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>06:50</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>310</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>310</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/461e1e45-3f60-4a69-9cf9-84cd500e8806/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>This ONE Psychological Trigger Gets Clients to Chase You</title><itunes:title>This ONE Psychological Trigger Gets Clients to Chase You</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What if you never had to chase a client again? What if instead of running after people, sending follow-ups, and trying to convince someone to buy, they came to you instead? What if you could sit back with a cup of tea while your clients knocked on your door, asking to work with you?</p><p>It sounds almost too good to be true. But it works.</p><p>This one psychological trigger helped bring in more than 9,000 paying clients. It even closed 75% of sales without asking for the sale. Yes, without asking.</p><p>Let me show you exactly how it works.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What if you never had to chase a client again? What if instead of running after people, sending follow-ups, and trying to convince someone to buy, they came to you instead? What if you could sit back with a cup of tea while your clients knocked on your door, asking to work with you?</p><p>It sounds almost too good to be true. But it works.</p><p>This one psychological trigger helped bring in more than 9,000 paying clients. It even closed 75% of sales without asking for the sale. Yes, without asking.</p><p>Let me show you exactly how it works.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">c63fb40e-9093-464d-98d8-aab4dd61b1f6</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/c63fb40e-9093-464d-98d8-aab4dd61b1f6.mp3" length="21248198" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:45</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>309</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>309</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/2dbef1f9-7c03-42a6-ab70-0ec0927a391e/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How to Scale Your Online Course So Fast It Feels ILLEGAL</title><itunes:title>How to Scale Your Online Course So Fast It Feels ILLEGAL</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Most course creators believe scaling takes years. They think you have to move slowly, earn every step, and accept that real growth comes after a long grind.</p><p>That belief is what keeps them stuck.</p><p>Scaling is not about time. It is about speed. Specifically, how quickly you can turn a brand-new lead into a paying customer. The faster that happens, the faster everything grows.</p><p>If you are ready to stop crawling and start scaling with intention, keep reading because this will change how you approach growth forever.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most course creators believe scaling takes years. They think you have to move slowly, earn every step, and accept that real growth comes after a long grind.</p><p>That belief is what keeps them stuck.</p><p>Scaling is not about time. It is about speed. Specifically, how quickly you can turn a brand-new lead into a paying customer. The faster that happens, the faster everything grows.</p><p>If you are ready to stop crawling and start scaling with intention, keep reading because this will change how you approach growth forever.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">b8faa451-e572-41bb-bea1-0382db797ddc</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/b8faa451-e572-41bb-bea1-0382db797ddc.mp3" length="22662278" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:44</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>308</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>308</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/f9eecd5d-064b-46b3-af8a-c749376424a1/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How to Build an Email List From Scratch</title><itunes:title>How to Build an Email List From Scratch</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>If you want to build a serious online business, you need an email list. </p><p>It is the one channel you truly own. Social media platforms can change their algorithms, limit your reach, or disappear entirely. When someone joins your email list, however, you have a direct and reliable way to communicate with them whenever you choose.</p><p>The challenge is that everyone starts at zero. No subscribers. No audience. Just an idea and a blank dashboard. The good news is that building an email list is not complicated when you understand the right steps. </p><p>Here is how to build it properly from the ground up.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you want to build a serious online business, you need an email list. </p><p>It is the one channel you truly own. Social media platforms can change their algorithms, limit your reach, or disappear entirely. When someone joins your email list, however, you have a direct and reliable way to communicate with them whenever you choose.</p><p>The challenge is that everyone starts at zero. No subscribers. No audience. Just an idea and a blank dashboard. The good news is that building an email list is not complicated when you understand the right steps. </p><p>Here is how to build it properly from the ground up.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">2c32117b-60a4-4630-9abf-572f50fa3988</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/2c32117b-60a4-4630-9abf-572f50fa3988.mp3" length="26125766" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:09</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>307</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>307</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/36e9ddbe-2032-4512-b7d1-e188573ae3c3/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>If You&apos;re a Coach With a Small Following, This is For You!</title><itunes:title>If You&apos;re a Coach With a Small Following, This is For You!</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>If you’re a coach staring at your follower count and thinking, “Once this grows, everything will finally work,” you’re not alone. It’s one of the most common beliefs in the coaching space. More followers must mean more sales. A bigger list must mean easier launches. A larger audience must mean more authority.</p><p>It sounds logical.</p><p>But what if that belief is quietly keeping you stuck?</p><p>In a recent conversation, mindset coach Brooke Summer Adams shared how she hit her first six figures in coaching sales before she even had 2,000 followers. No giant platform. No viral growth moment. No massive email list.</p><p>What she had instead was precision, conviction, and a strategy designed for small audiences.</p><p>If your following feels small right now, this may completely shift how you see your business.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you’re a coach staring at your follower count and thinking, “Once this grows, everything will finally work,” you’re not alone. It’s one of the most common beliefs in the coaching space. More followers must mean more sales. A bigger list must mean easier launches. A larger audience must mean more authority.</p><p>It sounds logical.</p><p>But what if that belief is quietly keeping you stuck?</p><p>In a recent conversation, mindset coach Brooke Summer Adams shared how she hit her first six figures in coaching sales before she even had 2,000 followers. No giant platform. No viral growth moment. No massive email list.</p><p>What she had instead was precision, conviction, and a strategy designed for small audiences.</p><p>If your following feels small right now, this may completely shift how you see your business.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">3a519d03-53e1-430e-84bc-10f301cb524d</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/3a519d03-53e1-430e-84bc-10f301cb524d.mp3" length="59512940" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>41:20</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>306</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>306</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Why Value-Packed Emails Don’t Sell (Email Marketing Psychology Explained)</title><itunes:title>Why Value-Packed Emails Don’t Sell (Email Marketing Psychology Explained)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Let’s get straight to it. You’ve been told to pack your emails with value. You’ve worked hard to teach, explain, and share tips, thinking that more “value” would build more trust and bring in more sales.</p><p>But the truth is shocking: value-packed emails are often the reason you’re not making sales.</p><p>After helping over 9,000 paying clients, the pattern is clear. These types of emails overwhelm your audience, delay their decisions, and bury your offers. They’re long, hard to write, and easy to ignore.</p><p>So what’s going wrong? And what should you do instead?</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let’s get straight to it. You’ve been told to pack your emails with value. You’ve worked hard to teach, explain, and share tips, thinking that more “value” would build more trust and bring in more sales.</p><p>But the truth is shocking: value-packed emails are often the reason you’re not making sales.</p><p>After helping over 9,000 paying clients, the pattern is clear. These types of emails overwhelm your audience, delay their decisions, and bury your offers. They’re long, hard to write, and easy to ignore.</p><p>So what’s going wrong? And what should you do instead?</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">ed40d8a5-c72f-4a50-9f89-c0c3c9e3d7e5</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ed40d8a5-c72f-4a50-9f89-c0c3c9e3d7e5.mp3" length="37492550" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>26:02</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>305</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>305</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/4d4efe24-575f-4470-93e8-1e2015d0c770/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>The Laziest Way to Sell Online Courses In 2026</title><itunes:title>The Laziest Way to Sell Online Courses In 2026</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What if doing less could make you more? More time, more freedom, and even more sales.</p><p>Right now, course creators are tired. They are working late, trying to show up on every platform, creating new programs nonstop. They think this is the only way to grow. But all it really brings is stress.</p><p>The truth is, you don’t need to do more. You need to do <em>less</em>—but do it better. That’s what I call the lazy way. And it’s worked for me. It brought in more than 9,000 paying clients and over $3 million in sales from one Stripe account.</p><p>Let’s look at how you can do the same.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What if doing less could make you more? More time, more freedom, and even more sales.</p><p>Right now, course creators are tired. They are working late, trying to show up on every platform, creating new programs nonstop. They think this is the only way to grow. But all it really brings is stress.</p><p>The truth is, you don’t need to do more. You need to do <em>less</em>—but do it better. That’s what I call the lazy way. And it’s worked for me. It brought in more than 9,000 paying clients and over $3 million in sales from one Stripe account.</p><p>Let’s look at how you can do the same.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">40772c48-431b-4f0e-a4bc-a6a76e2cf77e</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/40772c48-431b-4f0e-a4bc-a6a76e2cf77e.mp3" length="27045062" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:47</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>304</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>304</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/70dec3a0-4363-4278-a192-4a533c908ebb/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Best Email Marketing Software for Course Creators 2026 (I’ve Tried Them All)</title><itunes:title>Best Email Marketing Software for Course Creators 2026 (I’ve Tried Them All)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Course creators don’t have time to waste. Building landing pages here, sending emails there, connecting it all with duct tape and hope? That’s old news, and it’s costing sales.</p><p>In 2026, email isn’t just about newsletters. It’s about smart automation, clean deliverability, and a system that turns new subscribers into buyers <em>fast</em>.</p><p>After trying every tool under the sun, one platform stands out. It’s simple. It’s powerful. And it’s running a seven-figure business without the mess.</p><p>Let’s break down why this tool crushes the rest, and why switching could be the smartest move you make all year.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Course creators don’t have time to waste. Building landing pages here, sending emails there, connecting it all with duct tape and hope? That’s old news, and it’s costing sales.</p><p>In 2026, email isn’t just about newsletters. It’s about smart automation, clean deliverability, and a system that turns new subscribers into buyers <em>fast</em>.</p><p>After trying every tool under the sun, one platform stands out. It’s simple. It’s powerful. And it’s running a seven-figure business without the mess.</p><p>Let’s break down why this tool crushes the rest, and why switching could be the smartest move you make all year.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">7a23c0ab-de8c-4591-8698-aa9f3a94175f</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/7a23c0ab-de8c-4591-8698-aa9f3a94175f.mp3" length="31806292" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>22:05</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>303</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>303</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/13d808c6-da9c-43c2-ad4d-35222b875c27/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>The New Funnel High-Ticket Coaches Use Instead of Webinars</title><itunes:title>The New Funnel High-Ticket Coaches Use Instead of Webinars</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>If you sell a coaching program priced between $2,000 and $8,000, you’ve probably followed the usual advice: host a webinar, book strategy calls, and nurture leads over weeks of emails or DMs. It’s time-intensive, often unpredictable, and easy to burn out.</p><p>Now imagine skipping all of that, no live events, no calls, no outreach, and still converting total strangers into high-ticket buyers.</p><p>That’s what the Reward Funnel is built for. It turns cold traffic into high-ticket buyers through a self-paced journey, no calls, no DMs, no pressure. If you want a simpler way to sell, this could be it.</p><p>Keep reading to see how it works and how to start using it in your own business.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you sell a coaching program priced between $2,000 and $8,000, you’ve probably followed the usual advice: host a webinar, book strategy calls, and nurture leads over weeks of emails or DMs. It’s time-intensive, often unpredictable, and easy to burn out.</p><p>Now imagine skipping all of that, no live events, no calls, no outreach, and still converting total strangers into high-ticket buyers.</p><p>That’s what the Reward Funnel is built for. It turns cold traffic into high-ticket buyers through a self-paced journey, no calls, no DMs, no pressure. If you want a simpler way to sell, this could be it.</p><p>Keep reading to see how it works and how to start using it in your own business.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">3c33f044-ac6a-4769-a6c7-3c3ecb811e11</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/3c33f044-ac6a-4769-a6c7-3c3ecb811e11.mp3" length="72490310" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>50:20</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>302</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>302</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Get 10x More Testimonials! Copy This Automated System For More Sales</title><itunes:title>Get 10x More Testimonials! Copy This Automated System For More Sales</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Tired of chasing testimonials? You're not alone. Most people miss their chance because they ask too late or forget to ask at all. But what if you had a system that grabbed glowing feedback at the perfect time, without you lifting a finger?</p><p>In this guide, you'll learn the exact automated method that pulls in high-quality testimonials fast using simple tools, smart timing, and zero awkward follow-ups. Whether you’re selling courses, memberships, or coaching, this will get your happy customers talking and your sales pages converting like crazy.</p><p>You don’t need to beg for feedback or hope someone remembers to say something nice. With this system, you’ll get the right words from the right people, at exactly the right time.</p><p>Let’s dive in and build your testimonial machine</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tired of chasing testimonials? You're not alone. Most people miss their chance because they ask too late or forget to ask at all. But what if you had a system that grabbed glowing feedback at the perfect time, without you lifting a finger?</p><p>In this guide, you'll learn the exact automated method that pulls in high-quality testimonials fast using simple tools, smart timing, and zero awkward follow-ups. Whether you’re selling courses, memberships, or coaching, this will get your happy customers talking and your sales pages converting like crazy.</p><p>You don’t need to beg for feedback or hope someone remembers to say something nice. With this system, you’ll get the right words from the right people, at exactly the right time.</p><p>Let’s dive in and build your testimonial machine</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">45146083-a8b7-480a-9a57-f93985d111a9</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/45146083-a8b7-480a-9a57-f93985d111a9.mp3" length="45262790" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>31:26</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>301</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>301</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/c1dfe9d4-fc6e-47e4-84ca-0bad1a306df7/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>My Launch Failed - Here&apos;s How I Fixed It</title><itunes:title>My Launch Failed - Here&apos;s How I Fixed It</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>You know that sick feeling in your stomach when something you worked really hard on just doesn’t land? That was me. My big launch — the emails, the build-up, the offer — it totally flopped. I was staring at the numbers thinking, What happened?</p><p>But here’s the thing. Launches fail even if you're experienced. Even if you’ve done this a hundred times. And yes, it stings. But it happens to all of us.</p><p>This episode is going to walk you through the exact step-by-step system I use to fix a failed launch. Not just mine. I use this with clients running six, seven, and even eight-figure online course and coaching launches. </p><p>This is the exact playbook I use to figure out what went wrong and how to make it right.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know that sick feeling in your stomach when something you worked really hard on just doesn’t land? That was me. My big launch — the emails, the build-up, the offer — it totally flopped. I was staring at the numbers thinking, What happened?</p><p>But here’s the thing. Launches fail even if you're experienced. Even if you’ve done this a hundred times. And yes, it stings. But it happens to all of us.</p><p>This episode is going to walk you through the exact step-by-step system I use to fix a failed launch. Not just mine. I use this with clients running six, seven, and even eight-figure online course and coaching launches. </p><p>This is the exact playbook I use to figure out what went wrong and how to make it right.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">76b72a35-6c0b-424c-aff7-9c8c0c5d039e</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/76b72a35-6c0b-424c-aff7-9c8c0c5d039e.mp3" length="21359366" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:50</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>300</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>300</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/eb83b2c2-b9d2-4380-aef2-0597e8198b07/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Copy This Email Style That Makes Sales (Email Copywriting Masterclass)</title><itunes:title>Copy This Email Style That Makes Sales (Email Copywriting Masterclass)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>How do you write emails that appeal to people who will actually buy from you? Not just people who reply with kind words. Not just people who say they enjoyed your email. But people who are ready to take action and spend money.</p><p>Most email marketing creates goodwill, not sales. And while goodwill is nice, it does not pay the bills.</p><p>There is a very simple switch you can make in how you write your emails that changes this completely. Once you understand it, your emails start producing sales naturally, without feeling pushy or awkward.</p><p>This approach works no matter what you sell. It works for online memberships, coaching, singing lessons, cookery programs, and even very niche offers like online tap dancing memberships or dementia support coaching.</p><p>The key is understanding how people move toward a solution.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How do you write emails that appeal to people who will actually buy from you? Not just people who reply with kind words. Not just people who say they enjoyed your email. But people who are ready to take action and spend money.</p><p>Most email marketing creates goodwill, not sales. And while goodwill is nice, it does not pay the bills.</p><p>There is a very simple switch you can make in how you write your emails that changes this completely. Once you understand it, your emails start producing sales naturally, without feeling pushy or awkward.</p><p>This approach works no matter what you sell. It works for online memberships, coaching, singing lessons, cookery programs, and even very niche offers like online tap dancing memberships or dementia support coaching.</p><p>The key is understanding how people move toward a solution.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">0d2d4a4e-f006-4232-8bbd-cda3738437e7</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/0d2d4a4e-f006-4232-8bbd-cda3738437e7.mp3" length="35435564" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>24:36</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>299</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>299</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/388f3123-cecb-4a88-b6c6-0968bf926c28/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Disney Spent $4.4 Billion to Learn This Email Marketing Mistake (I&apos;ll teach you in 14 mins for free)</title><itunes:title>Disney Spent $4.4 Billion to Learn This Email Marketing Mistake (I&apos;ll teach you in 14 mins for free)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Imagine spending <strong>$4.4 billion</strong>, yes, billion with a <em>B</em> on a shiny, magical dream project, only to nearly watch it flop. That’s what happened to Disney when they opened their Paris theme park. They had the magic, the money, the characters, the castles… but they almost lost it all. Why? Because of a massive marketing mistake.</p><p>Now here’s where it gets real: <strong>coaches and course creators are making the <em>exact same mistake</em></strong> every single day. You could have the best product in the world, the most powerful transformation, the juiciest offer, but if you mess this up, it won't matter. You’ll hear crickets instead of cha-chings.</p><p>The good news? You don’t need $4.4 billion to get it right. In fact, you can learn the fix right here, for free, in the next few minutes. What nearly sank Disney could be the reason you finally break through and explode your sales.</p><p>So let’s break it down and make your marketing unmissable.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Imagine spending <strong>$4.4 billion</strong>, yes, billion with a <em>B</em> on a shiny, magical dream project, only to nearly watch it flop. That’s what happened to Disney when they opened their Paris theme park. They had the magic, the money, the characters, the castles… but they almost lost it all. Why? Because of a massive marketing mistake.</p><p>Now here’s where it gets real: <strong>coaches and course creators are making the <em>exact same mistake</em></strong> every single day. You could have the best product in the world, the most powerful transformation, the juiciest offer, but if you mess this up, it won't matter. You’ll hear crickets instead of cha-chings.</p><p>The good news? You don’t need $4.4 billion to get it right. In fact, you can learn the fix right here, for free, in the next few minutes. What nearly sank Disney could be the reason you finally break through and explode your sales.</p><p>So let’s break it down and make your marketing unmissable.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">567c2955-6d47-4c08-80e8-3b8d3bc5f33b</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/567c2955-6d47-4c08-80e8-3b8d3bc5f33b.mp3" length="25361324" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:37</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>298</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>298</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/7d53a004-2543-47dc-affd-885464cdde91/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>This Has REPLACED Sales Calls for High Ticket Coaching</title><itunes:title>This Has REPLACED Sales Calls for High Ticket Coaching</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p><strong>If you’re a coach selling a high-ticket program, this might be the most important thing you read all year.</strong></p><p>Because there’s a brand new way to close $10,000 clients. It doesn’t use sales calls. It doesn’t require a closer. And it doesn’t rely on pressure or pushy tactics.</p><p>Instead, it works by showing your dream clients exactly what it’s like to be coached by you before they ever pay a penny.</p><p>It’s working right now. It’s real. And it’s completely changing how high-ticket sales are done.</p><p>Let’s dive into how it works and why it’s so powerful.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>If you’re a coach selling a high-ticket program, this might be the most important thing you read all year.</strong></p><p>Because there’s a brand new way to close $10,000 clients. It doesn’t use sales calls. It doesn’t require a closer. And it doesn’t rely on pressure or pushy tactics.</p><p>Instead, it works by showing your dream clients exactly what it’s like to be coached by you before they ever pay a penny.</p><p>It’s working right now. It’s real. And it’s completely changing how high-ticket sales are done.</p><p>Let’s dive into how it works and why it’s so powerful.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">d81ad9cf-a609-462d-9d18-0cfc88c69a60</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d81ad9cf-a609-462d-9d18-0cfc88c69a60.mp3" length="80295020" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>55:46</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>297</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>297</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/8fa66d46-a00e-48ad-b63f-fa003ffff844/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>The 2026 Email Marketing Blueprint for Coaches</title><itunes:title>The 2026 Email Marketing Blueprint for Coaches</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Hold up. Before you send another email using that dusty old launch template, you <em>need</em> to hear this. If you’re a coach or a course creator, the world of email marketing is shifting under your feet. What worked in 2024? Dead. What crushed in 2025? Already going cold.</p><p>Inboxes are filled with AI-written spam. Open rates are falling. Attention is vanishing. But right in the middle of this chaos? A big, shiny, golden opportunity for the coaches who know how to be <em>real</em>. This isn’t the time to panic. It’s time to rise.</p><p>This is your blueprint for winning the inbox war in 2026.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hold up. Before you send another email using that dusty old launch template, you <em>need</em> to hear this. If you’re a coach or a course creator, the world of email marketing is shifting under your feet. What worked in 2024? Dead. What crushed in 2025? Already going cold.</p><p>Inboxes are filled with AI-written spam. Open rates are falling. Attention is vanishing. But right in the middle of this chaos? A big, shiny, golden opportunity for the coaches who know how to be <em>real</em>. This isn’t the time to panic. It’s time to rise.</p><p>This is your blueprint for winning the inbox war in 2026.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">a83b02a7-313f-4b48-bb48-abc6c807d183</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/a83b02a7-313f-4b48-bb48-abc6c807d183.mp3" length="21602924" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:00</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>296</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>296</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/60c3e9f0-99a1-4dde-beef-f6e9a67f5721/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Copy This Email Style, It’ll Blow Up Your Business</title><itunes:title>Copy This Email Style, It’ll Blow Up Your Business</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p><strong>If you're tired of stressing over what to write in your emails, wasting hours on design, and still not making the sales you want, you're about to discover the most powerful email strategy you've never heard of.</strong></p><p>This isn’t guesswork. This is a tried-and-tested formula that’s quietly made millions in sales, built massive trust with subscribers, and helped coaches, course creators, and online entrepreneurs turn their email list into a profit machine.</p><p>Forget what you’ve heard about complicated sequences, AI-generated newsletters, and long-winded value bombs. This method is simple, real, and wildly effective.</p><p>You're about to learn the full system. Step-by-step. Zero planning. Zero overwhelm. And it works even if you’ve got a tiny list or limited time.</p><p>Let’s dive in.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>. </p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast. </p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know! </p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>If you're tired of stressing over what to write in your emails, wasting hours on design, and still not making the sales you want, you're about to discover the most powerful email strategy you've never heard of.</strong></p><p>This isn’t guesswork. This is a tried-and-tested formula that’s quietly made millions in sales, built massive trust with subscribers, and helped coaches, course creators, and online entrepreneurs turn their email list into a profit machine.</p><p>Forget what you’ve heard about complicated sequences, AI-generated newsletters, and long-winded value bombs. This method is simple, real, and wildly effective.</p><p>You're about to learn the full system. Step-by-step. Zero planning. Zero overwhelm. And it works even if you’ve got a tiny list or limited time.</p><p>Let’s dive in.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>. </p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast. </p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know! </p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">18908372-2fb1-471c-9c26-2a24efb69885</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/18908372-2fb1-471c-9c26-2a24efb69885.mp3" length="24270380" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:51</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>295</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>295</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/f89b873a-ae75-4a59-94b9-92fe813e7416/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Email Subject Line Formula For Coaches</title><itunes:title>Email Subject Line Formula For Coaches</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p><strong>One tiny change in your emails could explode your sales, and most coaches have no idea it even exists. Want 18 times more sales from your emails? It starts with your subject line.</strong></p><p>You might think the magic is in the body of your email, the offer, the call-to-action, the clever copy. But none of that matters if no one opens your email.</p><p>And what decides that?</p><p>Your subject line.</p><p>It’s your first impression. It’s the blinking sign outside your store. If it doesn’t pop, they don’t stop. If it doesn’t tease, they don’t click. If it doesn’t hook, your email is dead in the water.</p><p>Let’s fix that today.</p><p>There are <strong>three types of subject lines</strong> that every coach should be using. Most people only use one or two, and they use them badly. But when you learn all three and when to use them, you’ll see more people opening your emails, clicking your links, and buying your offers.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp; </p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>One tiny change in your emails could explode your sales, and most coaches have no idea it even exists. Want 18 times more sales from your emails? It starts with your subject line.</strong></p><p>You might think the magic is in the body of your email, the offer, the call-to-action, the clever copy. But none of that matters if no one opens your email.</p><p>And what decides that?</p><p>Your subject line.</p><p>It’s your first impression. It’s the blinking sign outside your store. If it doesn’t pop, they don’t stop. If it doesn’t tease, they don’t click. If it doesn’t hook, your email is dead in the water.</p><p>Let’s fix that today.</p><p>There are <strong>three types of subject lines</strong> that every coach should be using. Most people only use one or two, and they use them badly. But when you learn all three and when to use them, you’ll see more people opening your emails, clicking your links, and buying your offers.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp; </p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">65adeaf2-3a44-4af0-a247-bac4cf1f6ed8</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/65adeaf2-3a44-4af0-a247-bac4cf1f6ed8.mp3" length="23314796" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:11</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>294</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>294</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/7198a517-2ed0-42aa-86b9-f84b65ada76c/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>The Traffic Source That Brings In Paying Coaching Clients (Not Freeloaders)</title><itunes:title>The Traffic Source That Brings In Paying Coaching Clients (Not Freeloaders)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Think a huge audience is the only way to build a real coaching business? Think again. A thriving, profitable business doesn’t come from chasing followers or posting every day. It comes from reaching the right people — the ones who already want help and are ready to pay for it.</p><p>There’s a better way to grow. A smarter way. It starts with zero and leads to real results. No ads. No complex tech. No social media grind.</p><p>It all begins with building an email list of people who are ready to take action. Not just any subscribers. Buyers. Clients. Fans who say yes.</p><p>Here’s the simple strategy that gets them.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp; </p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Think a huge audience is the only way to build a real coaching business? Think again. A thriving, profitable business doesn’t come from chasing followers or posting every day. It comes from reaching the right people — the ones who already want help and are ready to pay for it.</p><p>There’s a better way to grow. A smarter way. It starts with zero and leads to real results. No ads. No complex tech. No social media grind.</p><p>It all begins with building an email list of people who are ready to take action. Not just any subscribers. Buyers. Clients. Fans who say yes.</p><p>Here’s the simple strategy that gets them.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp; </p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">f0eca546-aab3-4425-a2a1-0e3f03e78c6a</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/f0eca546-aab3-4425-a2a1-0e3f03e78c6a.mp3" length="27672236" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>19:13</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>293</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>293</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/ee790fb6-0373-459e-b854-8a4f39d53fa7/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Why Is This The Perfect Landing Page for Coaches?</title><itunes:title>Why Is This The Perfect Landing Page for Coaches?</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p><strong>Are you tired of pouring your heart into a beautiful lead magnet only to see tumbleweeds in your inbox? </strong>You’ve got the knowledge. You’ve got the skills. You’ve even got that glossy, well-designed PDF or checklist you just know could change lives. But for some reason, your email list isn’t growing. What gives?</p><p>Here’s the truth nobody talks about. It’s not that your lead magnet isn’t good enough. It’s not even that people don’t want what you’re offering. The real reason your list is stuck is simple. Your <strong>landing page</strong> isn’t doing the heavy lifting.</p><p>And today, that changes.</p><p>This episode breaks down the exact method smart coaches are using to transform their landing pages into list-building machines. This isn’t theory. This is the real deal, straight from someone who’s done it. No fluff. No gimmicks. Just practical steps to make your landing page work like magic, so you can finally get the audience you deserve.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp; </p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Are you tired of pouring your heart into a beautiful lead magnet only to see tumbleweeds in your inbox? </strong>You’ve got the knowledge. You’ve got the skills. You’ve even got that glossy, well-designed PDF or checklist you just know could change lives. But for some reason, your email list isn’t growing. What gives?</p><p>Here’s the truth nobody talks about. It’s not that your lead magnet isn’t good enough. It’s not even that people don’t want what you’re offering. The real reason your list is stuck is simple. Your <strong>landing page</strong> isn’t doing the heavy lifting.</p><p>And today, that changes.</p><p>This episode breaks down the exact method smart coaches are using to transform their landing pages into list-building machines. This isn’t theory. This is the real deal, straight from someone who’s done it. No fluff. No gimmicks. Just practical steps to make your landing page work like magic, so you can finally get the audience you deserve.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp; </p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">1019dfeb-388e-404d-84c9-25e09f947671</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/1019dfeb-388e-404d-84c9-25e09f947671.mp3" length="44184428" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>30:41</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>292</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>292</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/4e04515d-dab8-4454-953e-b9bfc5d6f8b4/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Exact System 7-Figure Coaches Use to Get 5,000 Email Subscribers</title><itunes:title>Exact System 7-Figure Coaches Use to Get 5,000 Email Subscribers</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What if growing your email list could be the single step that changes everything? Not just a few new followers here and there, but a real group of people who are ready to listen, trust you, and pay for your help.</p><p>Coaches making seven figures aren’t working with massive audiences. They’re using smart, focused systems that bring in the right people. You’re about to learn how they do it, and how you can too.</p><p>This is the exact process top coaches use to turn 5,000 email subscribers into full programs, repeat buyers, and real income. Let’s break it down.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp; </p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What if growing your email list could be the single step that changes everything? Not just a few new followers here and there, but a real group of people who are ready to listen, trust you, and pay for your help.</p><p>Coaches making seven figures aren’t working with massive audiences. They’re using smart, focused systems that bring in the right people. You’re about to learn how they do it, and how you can too.</p><p>This is the exact process top coaches use to turn 5,000 email subscribers into full programs, repeat buyers, and real income. Let’s break it down.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp; </p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">3f1a4012-ebc6-4ee3-a8f6-0a90f1e181c9</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/3f1a4012-ebc6-4ee3-a8f6-0a90f1e181c9.mp3" length="36002348" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>25:00</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>291</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>291</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Former Mind Reader Reveals the Email Method That Fills Coaching Programs on Autopilot</title><itunes:title>Former Mind Reader Reveals the Email Method That Fills Coaching Programs on Autopilot</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Everything about email marketing gets turned on its head in this episode.</p><p>Forget long nurture sequences, constant launches, and trying to out-hustle your inbox. This is a proven system for turning cold subscribers into paying clients using behavior-driven automation and real human psychology, not guesswork.</p><p>Built from years of testing, refining, and understanding how people actually make buying decisions, this strategy turns overlooked email lists into reliable sales engines. Perfect for coaching programs, service businesses, and digital offers that need a smarter, smoother path to revenue.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Everything about email marketing gets turned on its head in this episode.</p><p>Forget long nurture sequences, constant launches, and trying to out-hustle your inbox. This is a proven system for turning cold subscribers into paying clients using behavior-driven automation and real human psychology, not guesswork.</p><p>Built from years of testing, refining, and understanding how people actually make buying decisions, this strategy turns overlooked email lists into reliable sales engines. Perfect for coaching programs, service businesses, and digital offers that need a smarter, smoother path to revenue.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">924ca709-5542-4a7e-bfd8-9f1bc78c313a</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/924ca709-5542-4a7e-bfd8-9f1bc78c313a.mp3" length="80523648" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>01:23:53</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>290</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>290</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/d0f671e2-e4ce-4e31-8755-edccd38383db/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Automate Your Coaching Business In 2025 - Clients on Autopilot</title><itunes:title>Automate Your Coaching Business In 2025 - Clients on Autopilot</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Are you tired of chasing leads, posting content every day, and wondering when the next client will appear? Does your “freedom lifestyle” feel more like a 24/7 hustle? You’re not alone, but you don’t have to stay stuck in that loop.</p><p>What if you could build a coaching business that runs itself? One that works while you sleep, keeps your calendar full, and frees up your time to actually enjoy your life?</p><p>That’s not a dream. It’s possible. And in 2025, it’s easier than ever.</p><p>In this episode, you’ll learn exactly how to grow an automated coaching business without needing tech skills, a big team, or a brand-new offer. These are real strategies that work, drawn from years of experience helping thousands of coaches build systems that sell.</p><p>If you’re ready to create a business that supports your life, not the other way around, this episode is for you.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you tired of chasing leads, posting content every day, and wondering when the next client will appear? Does your “freedom lifestyle” feel more like a 24/7 hustle? You’re not alone, but you don’t have to stay stuck in that loop.</p><p>What if you could build a coaching business that runs itself? One that works while you sleep, keeps your calendar full, and frees up your time to actually enjoy your life?</p><p>That’s not a dream. It’s possible. And in 2025, it’s easier than ever.</p><p>In this episode, you’ll learn exactly how to grow an automated coaching business without needing tech skills, a big team, or a brand-new offer. These are real strategies that work, drawn from years of experience helping thousands of coaches build systems that sell.</p><p>If you’re ready to create a business that supports your life, not the other way around, this episode is for you.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">449470d8-d378-48aa-b7db-e222bf116e7c</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/449470d8-d378-48aa-b7db-e222bf116e7c.mp3" length="55868588" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>38:48</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>289</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>289</podcast:episode></item><item><title>12 Email Marketing Strategies Guaranteed to Grow Any Coaching Business</title><itunes:title>12 Email Marketing Strategies Guaranteed to Grow Any Coaching Business</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p><strong>Want more coaching clients without chasing them?</strong> Ready to turn your inbox into a money machine? Buckle up, coach, because these 12 email marketing strategies aren’t guesses. They’re proven. They've helped nearly 9,000 coaches break through income ceilings, and they can do the same for you. </p><p>Whether you coach hobbyists, professionals, or corporate clients, this is your playbook to bigger wins and bigger impact. Let’s dive into the exact email moves that turn curious leads into high-paying clients.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Want more coaching clients without chasing them?</strong> Ready to turn your inbox into a money machine? Buckle up, coach, because these 12 email marketing strategies aren’t guesses. They’re proven. They've helped nearly 9,000 coaches break through income ceilings, and they can do the same for you. </p><p>Whether you coach hobbyists, professionals, or corporate clients, this is your playbook to bigger wins and bigger impact. Let’s dive into the exact email moves that turn curious leads into high-paying clients.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">c851834f-fdcc-4fc0-8e3e-02ca04d0bf76</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/c851834f-fdcc-4fc0-8e3e-02ca04d0bf76.mp3" length="37312748" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>25:55</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>288</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>288</podcast:episode></item><item><title>This Has REPLACED Lead Magnets for Coaches Now</title><itunes:title>This Has REPLACED Lead Magnets for Coaches Now</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Still offering a free PDF to grow an email list? That might be the exact reason leads have slowed down. What once worked like magic is now barely moving the needle.</p><p>Lead magnets aren’t dead; they’ve just evolved. While the old strategies used to bring in high opt-ins and eager prospects, things have shifted. Audiences are smarter. Competition is heavier. AI tools have flooded the market with low-value freebies, and people are tired of wasting their time.</p><p>There’s a new approach that top-performing coaches and creators are using right now, and it’s working. It builds trust faster, attracts higher-quality leads, and drives more conversions.</p><p>If growing an engaged audience, getting better clients, and turning more leads into buyers is the goal, here’s how to do it.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Still offering a free PDF to grow an email list? That might be the exact reason leads have slowed down. What once worked like magic is now barely moving the needle.</p><p>Lead magnets aren’t dead; they’ve just evolved. While the old strategies used to bring in high opt-ins and eager prospects, things have shifted. Audiences are smarter. Competition is heavier. AI tools have flooded the market with low-value freebies, and people are tired of wasting their time.</p><p>There’s a new approach that top-performing coaches and creators are using right now, and it’s working. It builds trust faster, attracts higher-quality leads, and drives more conversions.</p><p>If growing an engaged audience, getting better clients, and turning more leads into buyers is the goal, here’s how to do it.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">003bd10f-ded2-4e93-9409-604580b89201</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/003bd10f-ded2-4e93-9409-604580b89201.mp3" length="24050348" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:42</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>287</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>287</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How Coaches Can Create Irresistible Email Offers That Sell</title><itunes:title>How Coaches Can Create Irresistible Email Offers That Sell</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p><strong>If you've ever launched a new coaching offer and been met with silence, no sales, no excitement, just crickets, you're not alone. It's one of the most deflating moments a coach can experience.</strong></p><p>You spend weeks crafting the perfect name, polishing your sales page, and hearing how amazing it sounds from everyone you show it to. But when launch day comes, nothing happens.</p><p>Here’s the truth. When offers flop, it’s rarely about the price, the program, or the design. The real problem is positioning. It's how your offer is framed and how your audience perceives it the moment they see it.</p><p>This episode reveals a set of proven strategies that can turn a flat offer into one that sells fast. Instead of relying on hype, these methods tap into buyer psychology, emotional triggers, and a few small copy tweaks that make a huge difference.</p><p>If you’re ready to create offers people cannot resist, let’s begin.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>If you've ever launched a new coaching offer and been met with silence, no sales, no excitement, just crickets, you're not alone. It's one of the most deflating moments a coach can experience.</strong></p><p>You spend weeks crafting the perfect name, polishing your sales page, and hearing how amazing it sounds from everyone you show it to. But when launch day comes, nothing happens.</p><p>Here’s the truth. When offers flop, it’s rarely about the price, the program, or the design. The real problem is positioning. It's how your offer is framed and how your audience perceives it the moment they see it.</p><p>This episode reveals a set of proven strategies that can turn a flat offer into one that sells fast. Instead of relying on hype, these methods tap into buyer psychology, emotional triggers, and a few small copy tweaks that make a huge difference.</p><p>If you’re ready to create offers people cannot resist, let’s begin.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">799bf07f-391c-4a70-9464-6970287dba24</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/799bf07f-391c-4a70-9464-6970287dba24.mp3" length="38681900" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>26:52</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>286</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>286</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/2f169098-9842-4a29-9a57-11463eca7e3e/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How to Make $10,000 per Month with Less Than 3,000 Subscribers</title><itunes:title>How to Make $10,000 per Month with Less Than 3,000 Subscribers</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p><strong>Think you need a massive email list to make serious cash? Think again.</strong> If you've got fewer than 3,000 people on your email list, you’re sitting on a goldmine. In this episode, you’ll discover a simple monthly plan that keeps the money flowing even when life gets busy or your ideas run dry.</p><p>You don’t need to hustle 24/7. You don’t need a big team. You just need four boxes. Fill them in every month, and you’ll be on track to hit $10,000. Let’s dive in.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Think you need a massive email list to make serious cash? Think again.</strong> If you've got fewer than 3,000 people on your email list, you’re sitting on a goldmine. In this episode, you’ll discover a simple monthly plan that keeps the money flowing even when life gets busy or your ideas run dry.</p><p>You don’t need to hustle 24/7. You don’t need a big team. You just need four boxes. Fill them in every month, and you’ll be on track to hit $10,000. Let’s dive in.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">1a952ade-e5c2-4c5e-ae96-b5ab137cb117</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/1a952ade-e5c2-4c5e-ae96-b5ab137cb117.mp3" length="16702316" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:36</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>285</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>285</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/280a9b70-7b5d-421b-977a-52147aef4b2a/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Never Do These Things in Your Email Marketing…EVER</title><itunes:title>Never Do These Things in Your Email Marketing…EVER</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p><strong>Stop what you're doing.</strong> If you're sending emails to your list, you might be walking straight into an email marketing minefield.</p><p>These aren't small mistakes. We're talking about things that can get your account shut down, your domain blacklisted, and your hard-earned audience permanently out of reach. You’ll see your open rates crash, your click-throughs nosedive, and your emails vanish into spam folders, maybe forever.</p><p><strong>The worst part?</strong> These mistakes are hiding in plain sight. They’re being recommended in online courses. They’re built into your email marketing platform. And yes, even smart, successful marketers are doing them.</p><p>In this episode, you’ll uncover five email marketing landmines that most coaches, experts, and online business owners are stepping on without realizing it. These aren't outdated tricks or theoretical risks. They are real, active dangers that can ruin your ability to sell, connect, and grow through email.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Stop what you're doing.</strong> If you're sending emails to your list, you might be walking straight into an email marketing minefield.</p><p>These aren't small mistakes. We're talking about things that can get your account shut down, your domain blacklisted, and your hard-earned audience permanently out of reach. You’ll see your open rates crash, your click-throughs nosedive, and your emails vanish into spam folders, maybe forever.</p><p><strong>The worst part?</strong> These mistakes are hiding in plain sight. They’re being recommended in online courses. They’re built into your email marketing platform. And yes, even smart, successful marketers are doing them.</p><p>In this episode, you’ll uncover five email marketing landmines that most coaches, experts, and online business owners are stepping on without realizing it. These aren't outdated tricks or theoretical risks. They are real, active dangers that can ruin your ability to sell, connect, and grow through email.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">887287c6-6707-4730-8fb4-8e2571d245d5</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/887287c6-6707-4730-8fb4-8e2571d245d5.mp3" length="22387436" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:33</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>283</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>283</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/dc10102d-aa8c-4aee-a9c1-cb603a021cd9/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Kajabi, Keap &amp; ActiveCampaign Price Hikes: Should You Switch?</title><itunes:title>Kajabi, Keap &amp; ActiveCampaign Price Hikes: Should You Switch?</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p><strong>Everybody’s freaking out.</strong></p><p>Your feed’s full of panic. Kajabi just hiked its price by $480 a year. Keap’s up 25% to 50%. ActiveCampaign’s not far behind. Even MailChimp is climbing. So now the big question: <strong>should you switch email platforms?</strong></p><p>Before you jump ship or write a rage-fueled social post, read this. Let’s unpack what’s really going on and how to beat the price hike without blowing up your business.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Everybody’s freaking out.</strong></p><p>Your feed’s full of panic. Kajabi just hiked its price by $480 a year. Keap’s up 25% to 50%. ActiveCampaign’s not far behind. Even MailChimp is climbing. So now the big question: <strong>should you switch email platforms?</strong></p><p>Before you jump ship or write a rage-fueled social post, read this. Let’s unpack what’s really going on and how to beat the price hike without blowing up your business.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">f871853a-aedc-4643-a554-28a86b5ce5fd</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/f871853a-aedc-4643-a554-28a86b5ce5fd.mp3" length="25143020" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:28</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>284</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>284</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/0bf1d587-ee9a-4200-a382-0e38d6242592/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Discover Email Marketing Best Practices That Drive Results!</title><itunes:title>Discover Email Marketing Best Practices That Drive Results!</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>If your emails aren’t bringing in clicks, sales, and loyal fans… you’re leaving money on the table. Email marketing isn’t just another channel. Done right, it’s the number one source of sales for coaches, course creators, and service providers.</p><p>But here’s the truth: most people get it wrong. Their emails fizzle out, their list loses momentum, and their subscribers drift away.</p><p>Want to fix that? Here are six best practices that will transform your emails into money-making machines.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If your emails aren’t bringing in clicks, sales, and loyal fans… you’re leaving money on the table. Email marketing isn’t just another channel. Done right, it’s the number one source of sales for coaches, course creators, and service providers.</p><p>But here’s the truth: most people get it wrong. Their emails fizzle out, their list loses momentum, and their subscribers drift away.</p><p>Want to fix that? Here are six best practices that will transform your emails into money-making machines.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">9141d85a-9b54-45a2-8027-ae084cde2449</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/9141d85a-9b54-45a2-8027-ae084cde2449.mp3" length="24454124" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:59</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>282</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>282</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/ec3dbab4-8f71-49a9-91ef-396d698b06a4/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Sell Out Your COACHING Program with This Proven Launch Email Campaign</title><itunes:title>Sell Out Your COACHING Program with This Proven Launch Email Campaign</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>You are about to discover a secret that has sold out coaching programs again and again. This is not a theory. This is a proven campaign that fills spots fast. Students use it. Coaches use it. Even masterminds and certifications use it. And it works every single time.</p><p>The secret is called <strong>The Black Widow Campaign</strong>. It sounds dramatic, and that is because it is. It is smart. It is sharp. And it is deadly effective at turning cold subscribers into paying clients.</p><p>Are you ready to see how it works?</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You are about to discover a secret that has sold out coaching programs again and again. This is not a theory. This is a proven campaign that fills spots fast. Students use it. Coaches use it. Even masterminds and certifications use it. And it works every single time.</p><p>The secret is called <strong>The Black Widow Campaign</strong>. It sounds dramatic, and that is because it is. It is smart. It is sharp. And it is deadly effective at turning cold subscribers into paying clients.</p><p>Are you ready to see how it works?</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">5af4bbc1-f160-4c39-a3c4-dfa70b2e26de</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/5af4bbc1-f160-4c39-a3c4-dfa70b2e26de.mp3" length="20657132" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:21</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>281</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>281</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/a40c6d93-879c-4e58-ba6d-155b03da5d7d/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Email Marketing Content Planning Template: Craft Your PERFECT Email Marketing Plan Now</title><itunes:title>Email Marketing Content Planning Template: Craft Your PERFECT Email Marketing Plan Now</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>It’s the start of a new month. You open your laptop to write an email, and there it is, the blinking cursor. What should you even send today? A sales pitch? A new video? Something fun? The harder you think, the more stuck you feel.</p><p>That’s why so many people hate email marketing. It feels like a chore. Not because writing emails is hard, but because trying to decide <strong>what</strong> to promote and <strong>how</strong> to write about it at the same time is a recipe for frustration.</p><p>Good news. There is a simple fix. With the right planning system, email marketing gets easier, faster, and even a little fun. In this post, you will see how to use a simple template to plan out a whole month of emails so you can stop stressing and start sending.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It’s the start of a new month. You open your laptop to write an email, and there it is, the blinking cursor. What should you even send today? A sales pitch? A new video? Something fun? The harder you think, the more stuck you feel.</p><p>That’s why so many people hate email marketing. It feels like a chore. Not because writing emails is hard, but because trying to decide <strong>what</strong> to promote and <strong>how</strong> to write about it at the same time is a recipe for frustration.</p><p>Good news. There is a simple fix. With the right planning system, email marketing gets easier, faster, and even a little fun. In this post, you will see how to use a simple template to plan out a whole month of emails so you can stop stressing and start sending.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">63b99dc1-633d-4ffb-8464-826831f2e3e6</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/63b99dc1-633d-4ffb-8464-826831f2e3e6.mp3" length="14603796" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:10</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>280</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>280</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/6aaf1155-1dcc-4cfc-81c9-c5351052d881/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Business Fails - 7 Things to STOP Doing in Your Coaching Business</title><itunes:title>Business Fails - 7 Things to STOP Doing in Your Coaching Business</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>If you think building a coaching business is all smooth sailing, think again. Even after 20+ years online and millions in sales, I still managed to screw things up in 2025. Big mistakes. Costly mistakes. The kind of mistakes that burn through millions.</p><p>But instead of covering them up, I want to put them out in the open. Because I don’t want you to waste time, money, or energy making the same errors, consider this your front-row seat to my seven biggest coaching business fails.</p><p>These are the seven things you must stop doing right now if you want to grow faster and stress less.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you think building a coaching business is all smooth sailing, think again. Even after 20+ years online and millions in sales, I still managed to screw things up in 2025. Big mistakes. Costly mistakes. The kind of mistakes that burn through millions.</p><p>But instead of covering them up, I want to put them out in the open. Because I don’t want you to waste time, money, or energy making the same errors, consider this your front-row seat to my seven biggest coaching business fails.</p><p>These are the seven things you must stop doing right now if you want to grow faster and stress less.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">b52bfb1e-ac02-4c06-a5d9-c1431f74c6cf</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/b52bfb1e-ac02-4c06-a5d9-c1431f74c6cf.mp3" length="22324947" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>23:15</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>279</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>279</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How to Email Like Alex Hormozi</title><itunes:title>How to Email Like Alex Hormozi</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Alex Hormozi didn’t just sell a book. He sold a movement. In just two days, his book launch smashed world records: 2.7 million copies sold, $100 million in revenue, and Guinness World Records to prove it.</p><p>And guess what? He didn’t do it with TikTok dances. He didn’t do it with flashy Super Bowl ads. He did it with email.</p><p>Yes, the same inbox that most of us think of as spam central. The same inbox that “marketing gurus” have declared dead for the past 20 years. Hormozi used it to pull off one of the biggest nonfiction book launches in history.</p><p>So, how did he do it? Let’s break down the email choreography behind the madness and how you can use the same playbook even on a smaller scale.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Alex Hormozi didn’t just sell a book. He sold a movement. In just two days, his book launch smashed world records: 2.7 million copies sold, $100 million in revenue, and Guinness World Records to prove it.</p><p>And guess what? He didn’t do it with TikTok dances. He didn’t do it with flashy Super Bowl ads. He did it with email.</p><p>Yes, the same inbox that most of us think of as spam central. The same inbox that “marketing gurus” have declared dead for the past 20 years. Hormozi used it to pull off one of the biggest nonfiction book launches in history.</p><p>So, how did he do it? Let’s break down the email choreography behind the madness and how you can use the same playbook even on a smaller scale.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">64773f44-df57-41b6-821e-cf2d627d48bf</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/64773f44-df57-41b6-821e-cf2d627d48bf.mp3" length="53130868" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>44:17</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>278</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>278</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/72ffcc66-1168-4c19-9e5c-59f17d2c4474/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Can ChatGPT 5 Do Email Marketing?</title><itunes:title>Can ChatGPT 5 Do Email Marketing?</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What if the latest AI model could write sales emails sharper, faster, and more persuasive than you ever imagined? What if the days of bland, robotic copy were over, and AI could finally deliver the kind of punchy, sales-driving messages you need to fill your courses and coaching programs?</p><p>That’s the big question hanging over the launch of <strong>ChatGPT 5,</strong> and after testing it head-to-head against GPT-4o, the results may surprise you.</p><p>This isn’t just another shiny new tool update. This is about whether GPT-5 can actually <strong>sell</strong>. Because at the end of the day, that’s what matters in email marketing.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What if the latest AI model could write sales emails sharper, faster, and more persuasive than you ever imagined? What if the days of bland, robotic copy were over, and AI could finally deliver the kind of punchy, sales-driving messages you need to fill your courses and coaching programs?</p><p>That’s the big question hanging over the launch of <strong>ChatGPT 5,</strong> and after testing it head-to-head against GPT-4o, the results may surprise you.</p><p>This isn’t just another shiny new tool update. This is about whether GPT-5 can actually <strong>sell</strong>. Because at the end of the day, that’s what matters in email marketing.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">892c69dc-524c-418e-a610-b916bfbcdf3d</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/892c69dc-524c-418e-a610-b916bfbcdf3d.mp3" length="22430611" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:41</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>277</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>277</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/9368a7f6-8867-4afd-960c-94b07c794c15/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>3 Emails You Should Be Sending Every Month (But Probably Aren’t)</title><itunes:title>3 Emails You Should Be Sending Every Month (But Probably Aren’t)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Let’s be honest.</p><p>You’ve probably put time into writing value-packed emails. You’ve shared advice, tips, and helpful content. But when you look at the results, no clicks, no replies, no sales, it’s frustrating.</p><p>Here’s the truth most email marketers won’t tell you: it’s not about sending more value. It’s about sending the <em>right kind</em> of value in the <em>right kind</em> of emails.</p><p>And most people are missing the three most important types.</p><p>In today’s world of short attention spans and noisy inboxes, these three emails will help you build trust, drive action, and make more sales. They’re not complex. They don’t take hours to write. But they work.</p><p>Ready to fix your email marketing in just three sends a month? Let’s go.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let’s be honest.</p><p>You’ve probably put time into writing value-packed emails. You’ve shared advice, tips, and helpful content. But when you look at the results, no clicks, no replies, no sales, it’s frustrating.</p><p>Here’s the truth most email marketers won’t tell you: it’s not about sending more value. It’s about sending the <em>right kind</em> of value in the <em>right kind</em> of emails.</p><p>And most people are missing the three most important types.</p><p>In today’s world of short attention spans and noisy inboxes, these three emails will help you build trust, drive action, and make more sales. They’re not complex. They don’t take hours to write. But they work.</p><p>Ready to fix your email marketing in just three sends a month? Let’s go.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">c5c81dc8-6ce2-4f6f-9dcb-2b5d4d2cd6db</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/c5c81dc8-6ce2-4f6f-9dcb-2b5d4d2cd6db.mp3" length="22669101" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:45</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>276</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>276</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/a9b4182a-5423-479b-98c2-fbabac4b7d1e/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>365 Email Story Ideas In 180 Seconds</title><itunes:title>365 Email Story Ideas In 180 Seconds</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>&nbsp;<em>The Fastest Trick to Never Run Out of Email Content Again</em></p><p>Ever felt that sinking feeling when you sit down to write an email… and your brain goes blank? Like, total ghost town upstairs? No stories. No spark. Just the blinking cursor mocking you?&nbsp;</p><p>What if you could get a new, juicy, relatable story idea every single day, without racking your brain or digging through dusty old memories?</p><p>Let’s dive into a mind-blowing hack that can give you 365 story ideas in less time than it takes to boil an egg. (No, seriously, just three minutes.) And it all starts with a flashing screen and a single screenshot.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&nbsp;<em>The Fastest Trick to Never Run Out of Email Content Again</em></p><p>Ever felt that sinking feeling when you sit down to write an email… and your brain goes blank? Like, total ghost town upstairs? No stories. No spark. Just the blinking cursor mocking you?&nbsp;</p><p>What if you could get a new, juicy, relatable story idea every single day, without racking your brain or digging through dusty old memories?</p><p>Let’s dive into a mind-blowing hack that can give you 365 story ideas in less time than it takes to boil an egg. (No, seriously, just three minutes.) And it all starts with a flashing screen and a single screenshot.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">d69cccae-c724-4833-bf41-c2ec5c8943d2</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d69cccae-c724-4833-bf41-c2ec5c8943d2.mp3" length="12945748" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>08:59</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>275</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>275</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/fb3bc9a5-89ae-435b-9a55-eff0e393c372/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>12 Ways to Make Money from An Email List</title><itunes:title>12 Ways to Make Money from An Email List</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p><em>You’re Sitting on a Goldmine, Here’s How to Cash In!</em></p><p>You’ve heard it before: “The money’s in the list.” But what if we told you the money is actually in the wrong bloody place, and it should be in your pocket, funding your dream vacation, buying your kid’s dream bike, or finally letting you quit your 9-to-5?</p><p>If you’ve got an email list (or even just the start of one), you could be missing out on thousands of dollars. And no, you don’t even need your own products to start earning. In this wild ride, we’ll break down 12 super-clever, real-world ways to turn your email list into pure cash. No fluff. No guesswork. </p><p>Let’s go!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>You’re Sitting on a Goldmine, Here’s How to Cash In!</em></p><p>You’ve heard it before: “The money’s in the list.” But what if we told you the money is actually in the wrong bloody place, and it should be in your pocket, funding your dream vacation, buying your kid’s dream bike, or finally letting you quit your 9-to-5?</p><p>If you’ve got an email list (or even just the start of one), you could be missing out on thousands of dollars. And no, you don’t even need your own products to start earning. In this wild ride, we’ll break down 12 super-clever, real-world ways to turn your email list into pure cash. No fluff. No guesswork. </p><p>Let’s go!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">7d7f9358-3fbf-4065-9a19-886b2b619d5a</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/7d7f9358-3fbf-4065-9a19-886b2b619d5a.mp3" length="29054164" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>20:11</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>274</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>274</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/b55c1e6b-6e46-4d4e-8178-44c9dc46c7c5/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>20 Years of Email Marketing Advice in 11 Minutes</title><itunes:title>20 Years of Email Marketing Advice in 11 Minutes</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Most people treat email like a checklist item. Write. Send. Hope. But what if the real power of email had nothing to do with luck, and everything to do with using a proven system?</p><p>Imagine sitting down with someone who’s spent two whole decades testing, tweaking, and perfecting email messages that people actually read, reply to, and buy from. That’s what this session gives you. It’s not theory. It’s not recycled advice. It’s real, battle-tested lessons from the front lines.</p><p>You’ll learn exactly what works and what doesn’t. You’ll hear why some emails get ignored, while others get opened and acted on fast.</p><p>Let’s break down the APE Method. It’s a simple three-step formula that helps you grab attention, drive action, and make more sales.</p><p>Whether you’re brand new or have been emailing for years, this will sharpen your game quickly and help you write emails that actually work.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most people treat email like a checklist item. Write. Send. Hope. But what if the real power of email had nothing to do with luck, and everything to do with using a proven system?</p><p>Imagine sitting down with someone who’s spent two whole decades testing, tweaking, and perfecting email messages that people actually read, reply to, and buy from. That’s what this session gives you. It’s not theory. It’s not recycled advice. It’s real, battle-tested lessons from the front lines.</p><p>You’ll learn exactly what works and what doesn’t. You’ll hear why some emails get ignored, while others get opened and acted on fast.</p><p>Let’s break down the APE Method. It’s a simple three-step formula that helps you grab attention, drive action, and make more sales.</p><p>Whether you’re brand new or have been emailing for years, this will sharpen your game quickly and help you write emails that actually work.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">b2e3f7af-87e8-4436-a8ac-80caf4456fde</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/b2e3f7af-87e8-4436-a8ac-80caf4456fde.mp3" length="13857748" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:33</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>273</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>273</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/d9ef6597-0bd0-4865-8531-0fc6245b3606/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Why &apos;Giving Value&apos; Is Losing You Sales</title><itunes:title>Why &apos;Giving Value&apos; Is Losing You Sales</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p><strong>Are your emails packed with tips, tricks, and value, and still not converting?</strong>&nbsp;</p><p>You're not alone. Most coaches and experts are following outdated advice that sounds smart but secretly sabotages their sales. They’re giving away knowledge, building trust… and watching buyers slip through their fingers.</p><p>Here’s the truth: “giving value” can actually push people <em>away</em> from buying. But there’s a smarter, tested way to turn your email list into a revenue machine, without burning out or drowning in free content.</p><p>In this article, you’ll discover the exact method that turned a $27K campaign into over $541K using the same list, same offer, and same timeframe. No fluff. No gimmicks. Just a psychological stacking system that gets results.</p><p><strong>If you want to finally stop guessing and start selling, keep reading. This will change how you write emails forever.</strong></p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Are your emails packed with tips, tricks, and value, and still not converting?</strong>&nbsp;</p><p>You're not alone. Most coaches and experts are following outdated advice that sounds smart but secretly sabotages their sales. They’re giving away knowledge, building trust… and watching buyers slip through their fingers.</p><p>Here’s the truth: “giving value” can actually push people <em>away</em> from buying. But there’s a smarter, tested way to turn your email list into a revenue machine, without burning out or drowning in free content.</p><p>In this article, you’ll discover the exact method that turned a $27K campaign into over $541K using the same list, same offer, and same timeframe. No fluff. No gimmicks. Just a psychological stacking system that gets results.</p><p><strong>If you want to finally stop guessing and start selling, keep reading. This will change how you write emails forever.</strong></p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">59b6348d-e444-4d6e-a8a4-7e827e695ea1</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/59b6348d-e444-4d6e-a8a4-7e827e695ea1.mp3" length="32518125" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>22:35</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>272</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>272</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/dcd6d6e4-2303-478d-a028-f23cf9082114/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Want People to Buy From You Without Selling? Here’s How</title><itunes:title>Want People to Buy From You Without Selling? Here’s How</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What if we told you there’s a way to get people practically <em>begging</em> to buy from you, without you having to be pushy, salesy, or awkward? What if you could flip a switch and suddenly, people <em>want</em> what you’ve got so badly, they chase <em>you</em>?</p><p>Sounds like magic, right?</p><p>It’s not.</p><p>This one simple idea changes everything. And once you know it, you’ll never struggle to sell online again. It’s all about letting people <strong>experience</strong> what it’s like to work with you. And it works even if your audience is super skeptical and doesn’t trust anyone.</p><p>Let’s dive in.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What if we told you there’s a way to get people practically <em>begging</em> to buy from you, without you having to be pushy, salesy, or awkward? What if you could flip a switch and suddenly, people <em>want</em> what you’ve got so badly, they chase <em>you</em>?</p><p>Sounds like magic, right?</p><p>It’s not.</p><p>This one simple idea changes everything. And once you know it, you’ll never struggle to sell online again. It’s all about letting people <strong>experience</strong> what it’s like to work with you. And it works even if your audience is super skeptical and doesn’t trust anyone.</p><p>Let’s dive in.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">30e7bced-ac50-4fa3-bd22-b9a0069b0745</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/30e7bced-ac50-4fa3-bd22-b9a0069b0745.mp3" length="12660244" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:11</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>271</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>271</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/75ff445b-985b-40cb-8b3e-9a949b7115d9/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Starting Email Marketing – Here&apos;s What to Do</title><itunes:title>Starting Email Marketing – Here&apos;s What to Do</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p><strong>WARNING:</strong> This might completely change how you think about email marketing.</p><p>If you’ve ever stared at a blank screen thinking, <em>What the hell do I even write?</em> This is your wake-up call.</p><p>This isn’t another fluffy post about “providing value.” It’s the real, raw, sweaty-palmed guide to starting email marketing when you have no idea what you’re doing.</p><p>No buzzwords. No jargon. Just honest advice from someone who’s been where you are, overthinking every word, and scared to hit send.</p><p>Your first email doesn’t need to be perfect. It just needs to <em>exist</em>.</p><p>What happens next? Confidence. Sales. Momentum.</p><p>Let’s get into it.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>WARNING:</strong> This might completely change how you think about email marketing.</p><p>If you’ve ever stared at a blank screen thinking, <em>What the hell do I even write?</em> This is your wake-up call.</p><p>This isn’t another fluffy post about “providing value.” It’s the real, raw, sweaty-palmed guide to starting email marketing when you have no idea what you’re doing.</p><p>No buzzwords. No jargon. Just honest advice from someone who’s been where you are, overthinking every word, and scared to hit send.</p><p>Your first email doesn’t need to be perfect. It just needs to <em>exist</em>.</p><p>What happens next? Confidence. Sales. Momentum.</p><p>Let’s get into it.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">55c06316-aedc-4e28-9e1d-8aaa46d4bb8f</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/55c06316-aedc-4e28-9e1d-8aaa46d4bb8f.mp3" length="41499117" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>28:49</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>270</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>270</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/f286a660-eef2-4b3f-84f4-3b83c8f4538a/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>The #1 Reason Experts Stay Poor</title><itunes:title>The #1 Reason Experts Stay Poor</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p><strong>You’re brilliant. You’ve spent years mastering your craft. You’ve taken the courses, built the website, posted on social media, and even started your own podcast. </strong></p><p>You know you can change lives, so why are your bank statements still screaming struggle?</p><p>The truth is brutal: most experts stay poor. Not because they’re not smart. Not because they don’t care. Not because they aren’t amazing at what they do. They stay poor because they’re stuck, trapped in the middle of two totally different kinds of business models. And until you choose one, you’ll keep spinning your wheels.</p><p>This episode is your wake-up call. It’s the line in the sand. You’re going to find out exactly why your growth has stalled and the one simple decision that will make everything click into place.&nbsp;</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>You’re brilliant. You’ve spent years mastering your craft. You’ve taken the courses, built the website, posted on social media, and even started your own podcast. </strong></p><p>You know you can change lives, so why are your bank statements still screaming struggle?</p><p>The truth is brutal: most experts stay poor. Not because they’re not smart. Not because they don’t care. Not because they aren’t amazing at what they do. They stay poor because they’re stuck, trapped in the middle of two totally different kinds of business models. And until you choose one, you’ll keep spinning your wheels.</p><p>This episode is your wake-up call. It’s the line in the sand. You’re going to find out exactly why your growth has stalled and the one simple decision that will make everything click into place.&nbsp;</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">3ed582f4-9300-4260-a8cb-71c248bc30ae</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/3ed582f4-9300-4260-a8cb-71c248bc30ae.mp3" length="35554797" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>24:41</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>269</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>269</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/0701a473-f9b8-4730-98ac-9a61fe0fc213/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How I Turned Failing Emails into Profit</title><itunes:title>How I Turned Failing Emails into Profit</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p><strong>Ever sent an email, crossed your fingers… and got crickets?</strong></p><p>No replies. No clicks. No sales. Just that awkward silence and the sinking feeling that your message missed the mark.</p><p>We’ve all been there. And it stings, especially when you know your offer is good. But what if I told you those flat, lifeless emails aren’t dead? They’re just sleeping. And with a few simple tweaks, you can jolt them awake and turn them into high-converting, profit-pulling machines.</p><p>In this episode, I roll up my sleeves and get hands-on with real emails from real people. I break them down, rebuild them live, and show you exactly how to inject life, emotion, and action into every line. You’ll see the exact strategies I use to transform “meh” messages into inbox blockbusters.</p><p>So if you’ve ever hit “send” and heard nothing back, keep reading. This is your moment to take control, rewrite the rules, and finally get your emails working <em>for</em> you. Let’s turn that silence into sales.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Ever sent an email, crossed your fingers… and got crickets?</strong></p><p>No replies. No clicks. No sales. Just that awkward silence and the sinking feeling that your message missed the mark.</p><p>We’ve all been there. And it stings, especially when you know your offer is good. But what if I told you those flat, lifeless emails aren’t dead? They’re just sleeping. And with a few simple tweaks, you can jolt them awake and turn them into high-converting, profit-pulling machines.</p><p>In this episode, I roll up my sleeves and get hands-on with real emails from real people. I break them down, rebuild them live, and show you exactly how to inject life, emotion, and action into every line. You’ll see the exact strategies I use to transform “meh” messages into inbox blockbusters.</p><p>So if you’ve ever hit “send” and heard nothing back, keep reading. This is your moment to take control, rewrite the rules, and finally get your emails working <em>for</em> you. Let’s turn that silence into sales.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">1f31c24a-e74e-4407-af23-4f2c0dfc3713</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/1f31c24a-e74e-4407-af23-4f2c0dfc3713.mp3" length="26012205" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>27:06</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>268</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>268</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/2cab7257-9596-473a-b9c5-771389f20573/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>The Downfall of Email Marketing</title><itunes:title>The Downfall of Email Marketing</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p><strong>Is email marketing broken? Why are your subscribers ghosting you? And why do you feel like you’re yelling into a void every time you hit send?</strong></p><p>It’s not your fault, and no, email isn’t dead. But the game has changed, and most people are playing it wrong. If you’ve ever run out of steam, struggled with ideas, or watched your sales slump despite your best email efforts, this is your wake-up call. </p><p>The old ways? They’re done. But there’s a new way forward, and this guide shows you exactly how to take back control.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Is email marketing broken? Why are your subscribers ghosting you? And why do you feel like you’re yelling into a void every time you hit send?</strong></p><p>It’s not your fault, and no, email isn’t dead. But the game has changed, and most people are playing it wrong. If you’ve ever run out of steam, struggled with ideas, or watched your sales slump despite your best email efforts, this is your wake-up call. </p><p>The old ways? They’re done. But there’s a new way forward, and this guide shows you exactly how to take back control.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">219c2c30-5ae6-41ec-8fed-11177b54d064</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/219c2c30-5ae6-41ec-8fed-11177b54d064.mp3" length="23045977" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:00</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>267</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>267</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/5a815ad9-6e19-495c-aa60-b59d4c5ccba6/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Slash Your Marketing Costs</title><itunes:title>Slash Your Marketing Costs</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p><strong>What if your biggest marketing win is the one you’re ignoring?</strong></p><p> You post every day. You write clever captions. You run ads, make videos, speak at events… and still wonder, <em>“Where are the buyers?”</em></p><p>Here’s the truth: most businesses waste time and money on stuff that looks good, but doesn’t sell. The hard part? Figuring out what’s working and what’s not.</p><p>But today, you’ll learn one simple trick that changes everything.</p><p>It’s sneaky. It’s smart. And it tells you <em>exactly</em> which parts of your marketing bring in money—and which parts are just noise. Best of all? Once you set it up, it runs on its own.</p><p>This method slashes your marketing costs, saves time, and helps you grow your business faster.</p><p>Let’s dive in.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>What if your biggest marketing win is the one you’re ignoring?</strong></p><p> You post every day. You write clever captions. You run ads, make videos, speak at events… and still wonder, <em>“Where are the buyers?”</em></p><p>Here’s the truth: most businesses waste time and money on stuff that looks good, but doesn’t sell. The hard part? Figuring out what’s working and what’s not.</p><p>But today, you’ll learn one simple trick that changes everything.</p><p>It’s sneaky. It’s smart. And it tells you <em>exactly</em> which parts of your marketing bring in money—and which parts are just noise. Best of all? Once you set it up, it runs on its own.</p><p>This method slashes your marketing costs, saves time, and helps you grow your business faster.</p><p>Let’s dive in.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">a647c137-b2e7-478b-98ac-277fc892e25c</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/a647c137-b2e7-478b-98ac-277fc892e25c.mp3" length="21583329" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:59</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>266</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>266</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/064ea6a5-8893-4411-8227-40f28b6fe18d/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>23 Ways to Build Your List in Just 12 Minutes</title><itunes:title>23 Ways to Build Your List in Just 12 Minutes</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p><strong>Stop everything. Because what you’re about to read might just be the fastest, most practical guide to growing your email list that you’ve ever seen.</strong></p><p>This isn’t another fluffy theory piece or recycled advice with zero real-world grit. This is a rapid-fire, high-impact list of&nbsp;<strong>23 real, tested ways</strong>&nbsp;to get new people onto your email list. And here’s the wild part: all of it fits into under 12 minutes of content.</p><p>Yes. You read that right. Twenty-three high-leverage strategies. Twelve minutes of fire. Each idea is something you can take action on immediately, even if you’re just getting started. Whether you’ve got a tiny list, a monster one, or no list at all, these tactics can explode your reach.</p><p>And it’s not hypothetical. These are tried-and-true methods that actually work. Some are free. Some cost a little. But every single one has the power to bring in subscribers who are excited to hear from you.</p><p>Ready to stop guessing and start growing? Let’s dive into the good stuff.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Stop everything. Because what you’re about to read might just be the fastest, most practical guide to growing your email list that you’ve ever seen.</strong></p><p>This isn’t another fluffy theory piece or recycled advice with zero real-world grit. This is a rapid-fire, high-impact list of&nbsp;<strong>23 real, tested ways</strong>&nbsp;to get new people onto your email list. And here’s the wild part: all of it fits into under 12 minutes of content.</p><p>Yes. You read that right. Twenty-three high-leverage strategies. Twelve minutes of fire. Each idea is something you can take action on immediately, even if you’re just getting started. Whether you’ve got a tiny list, a monster one, or no list at all, these tactics can explode your reach.</p><p>And it’s not hypothetical. These are tried-and-true methods that actually work. Some are free. Some cost a little. But every single one has the power to bring in subscribers who are excited to hear from you.</p><p>Ready to stop guessing and start growing? Let’s dive into the good stuff.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">2cf5eec1-88f4-45a4-b2b5-0f08fe7b1a41</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/2cf5eec1-88f4-45a4-b2b5-0f08fe7b1a41.mp3" length="21873068" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:11</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>265</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>265</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/15563251-fd61-4ef9-ac9d-97f020be248d/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Coaches: Use A.I. to Write Your Emails</title><itunes:title>Coaches: Use A.I. to Write Your Emails</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>As a coach, your voice is your brand.&nbsp;</p><p>Whether you're helping clients through transformation, strategy, or mindset work, your communication needs to sound like you, not like a templated AI assistant.</p><p>&nbsp;But what if you could train A.I. to write your emails faster, better, and still sound authentically you?</p><p>That’s exactly what we’re diving into.</p><p>In this article, you'll learn how to turn A.I., specifically ChatGPT or any comparable tool, into a powerful writing partner that can handle your email marketing without compromising your personal style.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a coach, your voice is your brand.&nbsp;</p><p>Whether you're helping clients through transformation, strategy, or mindset work, your communication needs to sound like you, not like a templated AI assistant.</p><p>&nbsp;But what if you could train A.I. to write your emails faster, better, and still sound authentically you?</p><p>That’s exactly what we’re diving into.</p><p>In this article, you'll learn how to turn A.I., specifically ChatGPT or any comparable tool, into a powerful writing partner that can handle your email marketing without compromising your personal style.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">81697afa-ce8c-4343-8438-9892446dcf6f</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/81697afa-ce8c-4343-8438-9892446dcf6f.mp3" length="24133868" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:46</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>264</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>264</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/62bd6bdf-398d-4e0e-a167-3e20da8c890e/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>The Best Time of Day to Email Your Subscribers</title><itunes:title>The Best Time of Day to Email Your Subscribers</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Want more people opening your emails? Clicking your links? Buying your stuff?</p><p>It’s not just <em>what</em> you write, it’s <em>when</em> you send it.</p><p>If you send your email at the wrong time, even the best message can get buried. But hit the right time? And boom, your email’s the first thing they see. The one they actually open.</p><p>There’s one golden hour that changes everything, and we’re about to crack it wide open.&nbsp;</p><p>Let’s dive into the real secret that makes your emails get seen, read, and loved.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Want more people opening your emails? Clicking your links? Buying your stuff?</p><p>It’s not just <em>what</em> you write, it’s <em>when</em> you send it.</p><p>If you send your email at the wrong time, even the best message can get buried. But hit the right time? And boom, your email’s the first thing they see. The one they actually open.</p><p>There’s one golden hour that changes everything, and we’re about to crack it wide open.&nbsp;</p><p>Let’s dive into the real secret that makes your emails get seen, read, and loved.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">ad618980-3dbc-45d5-ba75-8ecdc0194cb0</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ad618980-3dbc-45d5-ba75-8ecdc0194cb0.mp3" length="13921964" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>09:40</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>263</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>263</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/e3804ee6-864b-4205-9eb8-a2249229193e/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>I Sent An Email Every Day For 5 Years. This Is What Happened...</title><itunes:title>I Sent An Email Every Day For 5 Years. This Is What Happened...</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What happens if you send an email every single day for over 10 years?</p><p>People think it’s crazy. They say you’ll burn out, annoy everyone, or run out of things to say. But I did it anyway, seven days a week, no breaks, and the results shocked me.</p><p>I made millions. Built a loyal audience. And turned email into my biggest growth engine.</p><p>But more than that? People <em>missed</em> my emails when I skipped a day. They felt like they knew me. And that changed everything.</p><p>Here’s what really happens when you commit to showing up in someone’s inbox every single day.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What happens if you send an email every single day for over 10 years?</p><p>People think it’s crazy. They say you’ll burn out, annoy everyone, or run out of things to say. But I did it anyway, seven days a week, no breaks, and the results shocked me.</p><p>I made millions. Built a loyal audience. And turned email into my biggest growth engine.</p><p>But more than that? People <em>missed</em> my emails when I skipped a day. They felt like they knew me. And that changed everything.</p><p>Here’s what really happens when you commit to showing up in someone’s inbox every single day.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">cd3600cb-88fb-4cdb-8233-623139035499</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2025 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/cd3600cb-88fb-4cdb-8233-623139035499.mp3" length="26930924" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:42</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>262</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>262</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/0e4674c4-3b37-4ac6-8f1d-6946a84c61e0/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How Benita Made $20,000 in Just ONE Launch</title><itunes:title>How Benita Made $20,000 in Just ONE Launch</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Writing emails is one thing. Turning them into a $20K launch machine? That’s next level.</p><p>Benita Königbauer, a tax advisor and author, was stuck in the hustle—chasing clients, juggling work, and hitting a ceiling. Her business depended on her constant presence, and when life got hectic, income dropped.</p><p>But in just a few months, Benita flipped the script. She ran a single, strategic email launch that brought in over $20K—no ads, no big list, no burnout.</p><p>Here’s how she did it, and how you can too.</p><p>If you want to learn more from Benita, check out her website:&nbsp;<a href="https://benita-koenigbauer.de/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://benita-koenigbauer.de/</a></p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Writing emails is one thing. Turning them into a $20K launch machine? That’s next level.</p><p>Benita Königbauer, a tax advisor and author, was stuck in the hustle—chasing clients, juggling work, and hitting a ceiling. Her business depended on her constant presence, and when life got hectic, income dropped.</p><p>But in just a few months, Benita flipped the script. She ran a single, strategic email launch that brought in over $20K—no ads, no big list, no burnout.</p><p>Here’s how she did it, and how you can too.</p><p>If you want to learn more from Benita, check out her website:&nbsp;<a href="https://benita-koenigbauer.de/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://benita-koenigbauer.de/</a></p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">f6873720-150e-4394-bb78-fd2dcac99e6b</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/77103c63-f5a9-45f8-9a15-e92247c858d7/emsc-postproduction-for-recording-9-run-at-2025-04-22-003841-ut.mp3" length="31259565" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>26:03</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>261</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>261</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/f4f8ca25-2d9c-4eaa-a893-9f6a0f09e2dc/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>The ONE Way to Grow Your List as Big As You Want</title><itunes:title>The ONE Way to Grow Your List as Big As You Want</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Imagine a magic machine.&nbsp;</p><p>You drop in $100 on one side, and boom, a $1,000 pops out the other.&nbsp;</p><p>Would you stop at one hundred bucks? Of course not. You’d pour in every dollar you could get your hands on.&nbsp;</p><p>It’s not a dream. It’s not a gimmick. It’s a proven system that turns strangers into subscribers, and subscribers into sales on autopilot.</p><p>Keep reading, because today you're going to discover the one email marketing secret that unlocks infinite growth.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Imagine a magic machine.&nbsp;</p><p>You drop in $100 on one side, and boom, a $1,000 pops out the other.&nbsp;</p><p>Would you stop at one hundred bucks? Of course not. You’d pour in every dollar you could get your hands on.&nbsp;</p><p>It’s not a dream. It’s not a gimmick. It’s a proven system that turns strangers into subscribers, and subscribers into sales on autopilot.</p><p>Keep reading, because today you're going to discover the one email marketing secret that unlocks infinite growth.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">6047ae66-099d-4154-ab5e-fdcb6b244596</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/0db14838-d907-4abb-a206-f70b8cc848df/282-postproduction-for-recording-1-run-at-2025-04-14-073608-utc.mp3" length="16799084" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:40</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>260</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>260</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/691a1266-ee9e-421a-a5f6-78ed006f63f4/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Copy This Welcome Email Sequence That Makes Sales (Email Copywriting Masterclass)</title><itunes:title>Copy This Welcome Email Sequence That Makes Sales (Email Copywriting Masterclass)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p><strong>Hold up! Your welcome email might be losing your sales!</strong></p><p>Yep, while most people are out here telling their rags-to-riches story and showing off their shiny success, smart marketers are doing something way better… and it’s working like crazy.&nbsp;</p><p>If you want a welcome email sequence that gets read, builds trust, boosts deliverability,&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;makes sales, this is the guide you need. And it’s all packed into just&nbsp;<strong>five simple emails</strong>.</p><p>Let’s break it down step by step so you can copy it and get results fast.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Hold up! Your welcome email might be losing your sales!</strong></p><p>Yep, while most people are out here telling their rags-to-riches story and showing off their shiny success, smart marketers are doing something way better… and it’s working like crazy.&nbsp;</p><p>If you want a welcome email sequence that gets read, builds trust, boosts deliverability,&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;makes sales, this is the guide you need. And it’s all packed into just&nbsp;<strong>five simple emails</strong>.</p><p>Let’s break it down step by step so you can copy it and get results fast.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">32acdc8a-7074-4008-b92e-7df16abace0e</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/9d64ebca-e13d-41ba-bd39-12a623bba26c/281-postproduction-for-recording-4-run-at-2025-04-10-003921-utc.mp3" length="25379180" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:37</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>259</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>259</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/c6dde73f-9024-4571-b0db-340c9f51eb86/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>GDPR Compliant Email Marketing - What You Need to Know</title><itunes:title>GDPR Compliant Email Marketing - What You Need to Know</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Let’s be honest, nobody wakes up excited to read about GDPR.</p><p>It sounds like one of those soul-draining regulations made by a group of grumpy, bearded men in a dimly lit room, plotting ways to make online marketing harder.</p><p>But here’s the real deal: GDPR isn’t here to ruin your business. It’s here to stop those annoying spam calls, dodgy emails, and creepy messages from companies you’ve never even heard of.</p><p>And guess what? If you’re already running a decent email marketing strategy, you’re probably following most of the GDPR rules without even realising it.</p><p>So, let’s strip away the fluff and get into the&nbsp;<strong>seven simple steps</strong>&nbsp;to keep your email marketing GDPR compliant, without the stress.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let’s be honest, nobody wakes up excited to read about GDPR.</p><p>It sounds like one of those soul-draining regulations made by a group of grumpy, bearded men in a dimly lit room, plotting ways to make online marketing harder.</p><p>But here’s the real deal: GDPR isn’t here to ruin your business. It’s here to stop those annoying spam calls, dodgy emails, and creepy messages from companies you’ve never even heard of.</p><p>And guess what? If you’re already running a decent email marketing strategy, you’re probably following most of the GDPR rules without even realising it.</p><p>So, let’s strip away the fluff and get into the&nbsp;<strong>seven simple steps</strong>&nbsp;to keep your email marketing GDPR compliant, without the stress.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">a5af8770-35ef-476f-bf91-acd08cf49da1</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/33f24416-32a5-4ccf-8350-24b709787c17/280-postproduction-for-recording-5-run-at-2025-04-02-064013-utc.mp3" length="18275372" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:41</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>258</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>258</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/33f52484-5ee5-4cc7-bc8a-cf0613448f87/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>AI Writes $Million Emails for Maggie Giele (Steal This Strategy)</title><itunes:title>AI Writes $Million Emails for Maggie Giele (Steal This Strategy)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Imagine waking up to find that AI has written high-converting, revenue-generating emails for you... without you lifting a finger.</p><p>Sounds like a futuristic dream, right? Well, for Maggie Giele, it’s already a reality. </p><p>AI isn’t just a buzzword in business anymore, it’s a full-blown game-changer. And today, we’re pulling back the curtain on how she’s using it to scale faster, work less, and bring in massive profits</p><p>Steal these strategies for yourself because AI isn’t the future. It’s happening right now.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Imagine waking up to find that AI has written high-converting, revenue-generating emails for you... without you lifting a finger.</p><p>Sounds like a futuristic dream, right? Well, for Maggie Giele, it’s already a reality. </p><p>AI isn’t just a buzzword in business anymore, it’s a full-blown game-changer. And today, we’re pulling back the curtain on how she’s using it to scale faster, work less, and bring in massive profits</p><p>Steal these strategies for yourself because AI isn’t the future. It’s happening right now.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/ai-writes-million-emails-for-maggie-giele-steal-this-strategy/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">254169e1-0d05-42a1-97e6-4d90917021f2</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/24ec81ba-f51d-4268-8095-c48ec7a89127/Maggie-Giele-converted.mp3" length="62106385" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>32:21</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>257</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>257</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/e6d5eb6c-b89f-495a-aa73-dd8853502286/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>10 Creative Lead Magnet Ideas That Bring in Buyers</title><itunes:title>10 Creative Lead Magnet Ideas That Bring in Buyers</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>So you’ve been told to create a lead magnet. </p><p>You’ve spent hours putting together a free guide, a checklist, or a PDF. And what happens? A flood of new subscribers! But then… crickets.</p><p>They never buy.</p><p>Here’s the brutal truth: Most lead magnets attract freebie seekers, not actual buyers.</p><p>But what if your lead magnet could do more? What if it could bring in people who are already in the mindset to spend money?</p><p>That’s exactly what we’re diving into today: <strong>10 creative lead magnet ideas designed to attract real buyers, not just freeloaders.</strong></p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So you’ve been told to create a lead magnet. </p><p>You’ve spent hours putting together a free guide, a checklist, or a PDF. And what happens? A flood of new subscribers! But then… crickets.</p><p>They never buy.</p><p>Here’s the brutal truth: Most lead magnets attract freebie seekers, not actual buyers.</p><p>But what if your lead magnet could do more? What if it could bring in people who are already in the mindset to spend money?</p><p>That’s exactly what we’re diving into today: <strong>10 creative lead magnet ideas designed to attract real buyers, not just freeloaders.</strong></p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/10-creative-lead-magnet-ideas-that-bring-in-buyers/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">0a3a5e13-dab6-4772-a13a-fb627196a39b</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/fb42b941-ac62-4aed-8e84-9bb18315a694/278-postproduction-for-recording-1-run-at-2025-03-26-085439-utc.mp3" length="29348396" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>20:23</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>256</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>256</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/c5bf8d00-d6ab-4977-afd6-b29ca6fc34a9/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How to Use Storytelling in Your Emails to Get a 22% Higher Open Rate</title><itunes:title>How to Use Storytelling in Your Emails to Get a 22% Higher Open Rate</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>If you're tired of sending emails that get ignored, you’re not alone. </p><p>The inbox is a battlefield, and grabbing attention is harder than ever. But what if there was a simple trick that could make people <em>want</em> to open your emails? And not just open them - <em>read</em> them, <em>click</em> on them, and actually <em>buy</em> from them?</p><p>The secret? <strong>Storytelling.</strong></p><p>Yes, using stories in your emails can boost open rates by <strong>22%</strong> and increase click-through rates by <strong>up to 37%</strong>. The best part? You don’t need to be a professional writer or a natural-born storyteller.</p><p>In this article, I’ll show you exactly how to use storytelling in your emails, even if you think you have no stories to tell.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you're tired of sending emails that get ignored, you’re not alone. </p><p>The inbox is a battlefield, and grabbing attention is harder than ever. But what if there was a simple trick that could make people <em>want</em> to open your emails? And not just open them - <em>read</em> them, <em>click</em> on them, and actually <em>buy</em> from them?</p><p>The secret? <strong>Storytelling.</strong></p><p>Yes, using stories in your emails can boost open rates by <strong>22%</strong> and increase click-through rates by <strong>up to 37%</strong>. The best part? You don’t need to be a professional writer or a natural-born storyteller.</p><p>In this article, I’ll show you exactly how to use storytelling in your emails, even if you think you have no stories to tell.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-use-storytelling-in-your-emails-to-get-a-22-higher-open-rate/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">0ebf8e80-05d8-4d0d-8f56-c28ac6f56584</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/6730c8ee-756d-4d13-8e9c-2e8d0cd7e7b3/277-storytelling-in-emails-postproduction-for-recording-1-run-a.mp3" length="29219372" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>20:17</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>255</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>255</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/62f32379-205d-4317-8e07-a82cf8321131/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>From Burnout to Breakthrough: How Valerie Francis Built a Scalable Author Business</title><itunes:title>From Burnout to Breakthrough: How Valerie Francis Built a Scalable Author Business</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Writing books is hard. But turning writing into a full-time business? That’s a whole new level of challenge.</p><p>Valerie Francis, a professional novelist and literary editor, was trapped in a cycle that many creatives know too well- exhaustion, burnout, and the constant struggle to scale.</p><p>She loved working one-on-one with writers, but the work wasn’t sustainable. Every dollar she earned was tied to her being present, and when life threw curveballs, everything ground to a halt.</p><p>That’s when Valerie decided to change the game. In less than a year, she transformed her business, filling up her coaching calendar and selling over 500 digital courses – without losing her sanity.</p><p>How did she do it? Let’s dive into her journey and the strategies that made it possible.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Writing books is hard. But turning writing into a full-time business? That’s a whole new level of challenge.</p><p>Valerie Francis, a professional novelist and literary editor, was trapped in a cycle that many creatives know too well- exhaustion, burnout, and the constant struggle to scale.</p><p>She loved working one-on-one with writers, but the work wasn’t sustainable. Every dollar she earned was tied to her being present, and when life threw curveballs, everything ground to a halt.</p><p>That’s when Valerie decided to change the game. In less than a year, she transformed her business, filling up her coaching calendar and selling over 500 digital courses – without losing her sanity.</p><p>How did she do it? Let’s dive into her journey and the strategies that made it possible.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/from-burnout-to-breakthrough-how-valerie-francis-built-a-scalable-author-business/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">cc5d980a-a88a-4547-8821-965850b8c60b</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/00129a9f-68c4-4263-8037-7e975786d092/276-Valerie-Francis-converted.mp3" length="78468660" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>40:52</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>254</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>254</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/54e96bd1-f086-4108-a5aa-e6aa9e7f96ce/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>3 Lead Magnets You MUST Have (Get More Leads That Actually BUY!)</title><itunes:title>3 Lead Magnets You MUST Have (Get More Leads That Actually BUY!)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Are your lead magnets actually bringing in BUYERS, or just a bunch of freebie seekers? </p><p>If you’re stuck with an email list full of people who never open their wallets, chances are you’re using the wrong type of lead magnet. And that’s killing your sales.</p><p>In this week's episode of The Email Marketing Show, we’re diving into the <strong>three essential types of lead magnets</strong> you MUST have if you want to attract, nurture, and convert <em>real buyers</em> - not just people who love free stuff.</p><p>Most businesses only use <strong>one</strong> type of lead magnet (big mistake!), but when you add all <strong>three</strong>, you create an unstoppable system that captures leads at every stage of the buying journey.</p><p>Let’s break them down.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are your lead magnets actually bringing in BUYERS, or just a bunch of freebie seekers? </p><p>If you’re stuck with an email list full of people who never open their wallets, chances are you’re using the wrong type of lead magnet. And that’s killing your sales.</p><p>In this week's episode of The Email Marketing Show, we’re diving into the <strong>three essential types of lead magnets</strong> you MUST have if you want to attract, nurture, and convert <em>real buyers</em> - not just people who love free stuff.</p><p>Most businesses only use <strong>one</strong> type of lead magnet (big mistake!), but when you add all <strong>three</strong>, you create an unstoppable system that captures leads at every stage of the buying journey.</p><p>Let’s break them down.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/3-lead-magnets-you-must-have-get-more-leads-that-actually-buy/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">16d6172a-c11a-4a17-a65a-8348791d5d45</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/6b8f0a71-5b97-427a-a401-6b9ca4ce69b4/275-postproduction-for-recording-3-run-at-2025-03-04-094816-utc.mp3" length="21703724" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:04</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>253</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>253</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/27bd0b23-ca23-4d89-96a2-16a06ed6fb11/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>The Affiliate Marketing Playbook: How to Make Sales Without Annoying Your List</title><itunes:title>The Affiliate Marketing Playbook: How to Make Sales Without Annoying Your List</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Affiliate marketing is one of the easiest ways to generate income from your email list - without creating your own products, handling customer service, or even making a single sale yourself. But there’s a problem.</p><p>Too many people do it wrong.</p><p>They bombard their audience with spammy links, promote shady products, and burn trust faster than a bad marketer burns through ad spend.</p><p>If you’ve ever thought, “I don’t want to sound too salesy,” or “I don’t want my audience to feel like I’m just pitching them,” then you’re in the right place.</p><p>Today, I’m revealing the exact playbook for making affiliate sales without annoying your list.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Affiliate marketing is one of the easiest ways to generate income from your email list - without creating your own products, handling customer service, or even making a single sale yourself. But there’s a problem.</p><p>Too many people do it wrong.</p><p>They bombard their audience with spammy links, promote shady products, and burn trust faster than a bad marketer burns through ad spend.</p><p>If you’ve ever thought, “I don’t want to sound too salesy,” or “I don’t want my audience to feel like I’m just pitching them,” then you’re in the right place.</p><p>Today, I’m revealing the exact playbook for making affiliate sales without annoying your list.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/the-affiliate-marketing-playbook-how-to-make-sales-without-annoying-your-list/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">4bfba566-4eda-4f62-8707-744f6f3dcc5d</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/2db65b6f-f3f1-4986-ad2b-f89a9b2f171c/274-postproduction-for-recording-1-run-at-2025-02-12-090504-utc.mp3" length="63938924" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>44:24</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>252</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>252</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/f3d14753-43b0-4ac9-a349-c5865da294a5/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Webinars That Sell: Insider Secrets from Jason Fladlien</title><itunes:title>Webinars That Sell: Insider Secrets from Jason Fladlien</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>🚀 <strong>Want to turn your webinars into sales machines?</strong> You’re in the right place.</p><p>Jason Fladlien—one of the most successful webinar experts in the world—sat down with Kennedy to break down <strong>what’s working right now</strong> in the world of webinars.</p><p>From crafting irresistible offers to nailing the perfect pitch, Jason shares the <strong>insider secrets</strong> that have generated <strong>over a quarter billion dollars in webinar sales.</strong></p><p>If you’ve ever wondered why some webinars flop while others create <strong>massive sales surges,</strong> keep listening. </p><p>Jason is about to <strong>pull back the curtain</strong> on what <em>actually</em> works <u>today</u>.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>🚀 <strong>Want to turn your webinars into sales machines?</strong> You’re in the right place.</p><p>Jason Fladlien—one of the most successful webinar experts in the world—sat down with Kennedy to break down <strong>what’s working right now</strong> in the world of webinars.</p><p>From crafting irresistible offers to nailing the perfect pitch, Jason shares the <strong>insider secrets</strong> that have generated <strong>over a quarter billion dollars in webinar sales.</strong></p><p>If you’ve ever wondered why some webinars flop while others create <strong>massive sales surges,</strong> keep listening. </p><p>Jason is about to <strong>pull back the curtain</strong> on what <em>actually</em> works <u>today</u>.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/webinars-that-sell-insider-secrets-from-jason-fladlien/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">f06b556f-80f5-4ab0-ad4d-0dc82a2f0cab</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/b8dbab4f-25ff-483b-84db-add72c841f0b/emsc-postproduction-for-recording-6-run-at-2025-02-10-122429-ut.mp3" length="88034156" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>01:01:08</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>251</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>251</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/4cf8265a-8370-42a9-b32e-3b224735817e/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>7 Types of Social Proof - You Using These To Make Sales?</title><itunes:title>7 Types of Social Proof - You Using These To Make Sales?</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Imagine this: You’re scrolling through your inbox, bombarded with emails trying to sell you something. </p><p>Most get ignored. But then - bam! - one grabs your attention. </p><p>It feels different. It feels trustworthy. Why? </p><p>Because it leverages <strong>social proof</strong> in a way that doesn’t feel slimy or desperate.</p><p>Social proof is the secret sauce that makes people trust you, believe in your offer, and, most importantly, buy from you. And if you’re only using testimonials in your email marketing, you’re leaving <strong>massive money</strong> on the table.</p><p>So, let’s dive into the <strong>seven types of social proof</strong> that will make your emails more persuasive and increase your conversions - without feeling pushy.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Imagine this: You’re scrolling through your inbox, bombarded with emails trying to sell you something. </p><p>Most get ignored. But then - bam! - one grabs your attention. </p><p>It feels different. It feels trustworthy. Why? </p><p>Because it leverages <strong>social proof</strong> in a way that doesn’t feel slimy or desperate.</p><p>Social proof is the secret sauce that makes people trust you, believe in your offer, and, most importantly, buy from you. And if you’re only using testimonials in your email marketing, you’re leaving <strong>massive money</strong> on the table.</p><p>So, let’s dive into the <strong>seven types of social proof</strong> that will make your emails more persuasive and increase your conversions - without feeling pushy.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/7-secret-social-proof-hacks-that-skyrocket-your-sales-without-being-pushy/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">619f096d-e329-461b-b69a-d8876f12b127</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/8a6632a6-3d18-4618-b505-ab1368d1e602/272-postproduction-for-recording-1-run-at-2025-02-04-152726-utc.mp3" length="44152748" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>30:40</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>250</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>250</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/4703bdba-55c8-4b2f-9bd8-2907eb24b1f5/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How to Use &apos;Memory Craving&apos; to Make Your Offers Irresistible</title><itunes:title>How to Use &apos;Memory Craving&apos; to Make Your Offers Irresistible</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Imagine if your audience couldn’t stop thinking about your offer. </p><p>If they felt an emotional pull so strong, they craved it - like a favourite childhood dessert or the first thrilling rush of a rollercoaster ride.</p><p>This is the power of <strong>Memory Craving</strong>: a psychological trigger that makes people deeply desire something because it reminds them of a past experience they want to relive. </p><p>It’s the same reason people reconnect with high school sweethearts, why a certain song can bring tears to their eyes, and why they keep going back to a brand that once made them feel amazing.</p><p>And guess what? You can tap into this emotional magic in your marketing to <strong>make your offers irresistible</strong>. </p><h2>Let’s break down exactly how to do it.</h2><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Imagine if your audience couldn’t stop thinking about your offer. </p><p>If they felt an emotional pull so strong, they craved it - like a favourite childhood dessert or the first thrilling rush of a rollercoaster ride.</p><p>This is the power of <strong>Memory Craving</strong>: a psychological trigger that makes people deeply desire something because it reminds them of a past experience they want to relive. </p><p>It’s the same reason people reconnect with high school sweethearts, why a certain song can bring tears to their eyes, and why they keep going back to a brand that once made them feel amazing.</p><p>And guess what? You can tap into this emotional magic in your marketing to <strong>make your offers irresistible</strong>. </p><h2>Let’s break down exactly how to do it.</h2><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-use-memory-craving-to-make-your-offers-irresistible/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">a7d4bc9f-dd83-4129-8dba-f8f982fb991b</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/2dd99009-68c9-494c-a13e-b37fafd83437/eh_-6EKUl86ZCuv_ksm-0UT0.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/a94a90b4-4030-4cac-83f0-68f487d23a48/271-postproduction-for-recording-1-run-at-2025-02-03-111856-utc.mp3" length="34216748" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>23:46</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>249</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>249</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/ce65a1c4-0bbe-4343-8e90-c746861c1c3a/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>From Email Burnout to 10X Sales: How Karishma Transformed Her Marketing in Record Time</title><itunes:title>From Email Burnout to 10X Sales: How Karishma Transformed Her Marketing in Record Time</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>In the fast-paced world of online business, it’s easy to get stuck in the grind. </p><p>For Karishma Maini, a performance elevation coach with clients across 15 countries, email marketing felt like an endless uphill battle. She was burnt out, spending hours crafting emails that didn’t deliver results, and feeling discouraged by dwindling engagement. </p><p>But when she discovered a fresh approach, everything changed. I</p><p>In record time, Karishma went from frustration and fatigue to achieving an astonishing 10X increase in sales. Here’s how she did it - and how you can, too.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the fast-paced world of online business, it’s easy to get stuck in the grind. </p><p>For Karishma Maini, a performance elevation coach with clients across 15 countries, email marketing felt like an endless uphill battle. She was burnt out, spending hours crafting emails that didn’t deliver results, and feeling discouraged by dwindling engagement. </p><p>But when she discovered a fresh approach, everything changed. I</p><p>In record time, Karishma went from frustration and fatigue to achieving an astonishing 10X increase in sales. Here’s how she did it - and how you can, too.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/from-email-burnout-to-10x-sales-how-karishma-transformed-her-marketing-in-record-time/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">270c2017-dd38-4ab2-96d4-f1b28a25d3e4</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/a24532f3-3c8d-457e-9318-f75925513e7d/08z3XMzJH2p4ad-koFq4wnL_.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/85236302-ae99-4d57-a55b-e0a27fc5dc2b/emsc-postproduction-for-recording-5-run-at-2025-01-23-102848-ut.mp3" length="61099820" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>42:26</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>248</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>248</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/c823edf7-8443-43bd-9a7c-809b313394b7/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Consulting Session: How Can A Membership Site Owner with 1 Million Followers Turn Her Content Into Sales?</title><itunes:title>Consulting Session: How Can A Membership Site Owner with 1 Million Followers Turn Her Content Into Sales?</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<h3>How Can A Membership Site Owner with 1 Million Followers Turn Her Content Into Sales?</h3><p>It sounds like the dream: over 1 million followers across YouTube and Instagram, a treasure trove of high-value content, and a thriving multi-six-figure membership site. But for Emma Walker, a Barcelona-based entrepreneur and English pronunciation expert, there was a gap she couldn’t ignore: despite all her success, she wasn’t fully leveraging her content to drive sales.</p><p>In this consulting session, we uncover why even successful content creators struggle to monetize their platforms—and the simple strategies Emma learned to turn her audience into paying members.</p><h3>From a Passion Project to a Thriving Business</h3><p>Emma’s journey began with a simple idea: help English learners master pronunciation. As a linguistics graduate with a background in teaching English as a second language, she saw a glaring gap in resources for non-native speakers who wanted to speak more clearly.</p><p>What started as Instagram posts and short YouTube videos soon snowballed. With her engaging teaching style and a knack for explaining tricky topics (like why we say “car” instead of “cahh”), Emma built an impressive following: 850,000 subscribers on YouTube and 250,000 followers on Instagram.</p><p>But as her audience grew, Emma found herself pouring more energy into creating free content than promoting her paid membership. “I’ve always separated my value content from my promo content,” Emma confessed. “In my mind, it felt like I had to choose between helping my audience and asking for sales.”</p><p><br></p><h3>The Content-Promotion Divide</h3><p>Emma’s struggle is all too common among content creators: she was so focused on delivering value that she avoided making consistent offers in her content. While she had a welcome sequence for new email subscribers and a “Phonetic Friday” newsletter filled with educational content, these emails rarely included any calls-to-action to join her membership.</p><p>Even in her newsletter’s “life updates” section, where she mentioned working on projects for her membership, Emma wasn’t linking to her course or inviting readers to check it out. “People were actually emailing me to ask about my membership,” Emma admitted. “I realized I was making them do all the work!”</p><p><br></p><h3>The Missed Opportunity in Her Audience</h3><p>Emma had a loyal audience and a thriving membership site, but she was only converting a fraction of her followers into paying customers. With over 1 million followers and thousands of email subscribers, the potential for growth was staggering. The problem wasn’t the audience—it was the lack of structured offers and clear calls-to-action.</p><p>Here’s how Emma turned things around.</p><p><br></p><h3>Strategy #1: Integrate Promotions Into Value Content</h3><p>One of Emma’s biggest revelations was that value and promotion don’t need to be separate. Instead of keeping her promotional emails distinct from her newsletter, she began treating her newsletter as a space to showcase both her expertise <em>and</em> her membership.</p><p>The solution? Adding a "sponsored by" segment in her weekly email.</p><p>In this approach, Emma could include a small, non-intrusive call-to-action in her newsletter, such as:</p><p><em>"This week’s Phonetic Friday is brought to you by Emma’s Pronunciation Hub! Get exclusive access to over 100 in-depth lessons and pronunciation challenges. Click here to join now."</em></p><p>This way, Emma could continue delivering free value while gently introducing her audience to her membership every single week.</p><p><br></p><h3>Strategy #2: Test Different Styles of Promotion</h3><p>Emma also learned to experiment with how she presented her offers in her newsletter. Two main approaches stood out:</p><ol><li><strong>Ad-Style Promotion</strong></li><li>Create a visually distinct block within the newsletter that resembles an ad, complete with an image, headline, and a clear call-to-action. This grabs attention and makes it clear that there’s an offer without disrupting the flow of the email.</li><li><strong>Article-Style Promotion</strong></li><li>Blend the promotion seamlessly into the newsletter as if it were another article. For example:</li><li><em>“Why mastering the TH sound can instantly improve your English accent—and how my membership program can guide you through it step by step.”</em></li></ol><br/><p>Both styles were effective, and by testing them, Emma could see which approach resonated more with her audience.</p><p><br></p><h3>Strategy #3: Leverage the Power of the PS</h3><p>Did you know that 90% of readers scan the PS section of emails? Emma began using this prime real estate to add a subtle call-to-action at the end of every newsletter. For example:</p><p><em>“PS: Ready to master your English pronunciation? Join Emma’s Pronunciation Hub today and start seeing results.”</em></p><p>This soft, recurring nudge ensured that every email ended with an invitation to take the next step without feeling pushy.</p><p><br></p><h3>Strategy #4: Give a Reason to Act Now</h3><p>One of the most effective ways to convert followers into paying members is by creating urgency. Emma introduced time-sensitive bonuses, such as free courses or additional resources, to motivate her audience to join her membership sooner rather than later.</p><p>For example:</p><ul><li><em>“Join this week and get my exclusive 7-day audio pronunciation course—free for members who sign up before Sunday!”</em></li><li><em>“Sign up today and access my live workshop on British accents, happening this Monday!”</em></li></ul><br/><p>These limited-time offers gave her audience a reason to prioritize signing up, and they worked like magic.</p><p><br></p><h3>Strategy #5: Repurpose High-Performing Content</h3><p>Emma had already built a treasure trove of valuable videos, but not all of them had clear lead magnets or calls-to-action. She revisited her most popular content, such as her viral video on ED endings, and updated it with new lead magnets tailored to the topic.</p><p>In some cases, she even recreated old videos with higher production quality and included updated offers. By capitalizing on content that was already ranking well, Emma was able to generate even more leads and memberships.</p><p><br></p><h3>The Results</h3><p>By implementing these strategies, Emma transformed her approach to email marketing and content promotion. She no longer felt like she had to choose between delivering value and driving sales. Instead, she found a way to do both, seamlessly integrating offers into her content and making it easier for her audience to take action.</p><p>For Emma, the biggest shift wasn’t just in her strategy—it was in her mindset. She realized that promoting her membership wasn’t just about making sales; it was about offering her audience a deeper level of support and helping them achieve their goals faster.</p><p><br></p><h3>Key Takeaways for Content Creators</h3><p>If you’re a content creator struggling to turn your audience into paying customers, here are Emma’s biggest lessons:</p><ol><li><strong>Don’t separate value from promotion.</strong> Your audience expects you to have something to sell—give them an easy way to access it.</li><li><strong>Always include a call-to-action.</strong> Whether it’s a casual link or a PS, make it simple for your audience to take the next step.</li><li><strong>Create urgency.</strong> Offer limited-time bonuses or exclusive content to motivate your audience to act now.</li><li><strong>Repurpose what works.</strong> Update your most popular content with clear calls-to-action or recreate it for even greater impact.</li></ol><br/><p>Emma’s journey proves that even with a massive following, success comes down to strategy. By making a few simple changes, she unlocked the true potential of her business—and you can, too.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>How Can A Membership Site Owner with 1 Million Followers Turn Her Content Into Sales?</h3><p>It sounds like the dream: over 1 million followers across YouTube and Instagram, a treasure trove of high-value content, and a thriving multi-six-figure membership site. But for Emma Walker, a Barcelona-based entrepreneur and English pronunciation expert, there was a gap she couldn’t ignore: despite all her success, she wasn’t fully leveraging her content to drive sales.</p><p>In this consulting session, we uncover why even successful content creators struggle to monetize their platforms—and the simple strategies Emma learned to turn her audience into paying members.</p><h3>From a Passion Project to a Thriving Business</h3><p>Emma’s journey began with a simple idea: help English learners master pronunciation. As a linguistics graduate with a background in teaching English as a second language, she saw a glaring gap in resources for non-native speakers who wanted to speak more clearly.</p><p>What started as Instagram posts and short YouTube videos soon snowballed. With her engaging teaching style and a knack for explaining tricky topics (like why we say “car” instead of “cahh”), Emma built an impressive following: 850,000 subscribers on YouTube and 250,000 followers on Instagram.</p><p>But as her audience grew, Emma found herself pouring more energy into creating free content than promoting her paid membership. “I’ve always separated my value content from my promo content,” Emma confessed. “In my mind, it felt like I had to choose between helping my audience and asking for sales.”</p><p><br></p><h3>The Content-Promotion Divide</h3><p>Emma’s struggle is all too common among content creators: she was so focused on delivering value that she avoided making consistent offers in her content. While she had a welcome sequence for new email subscribers and a “Phonetic Friday” newsletter filled with educational content, these emails rarely included any calls-to-action to join her membership.</p><p>Even in her newsletter’s “life updates” section, where she mentioned working on projects for her membership, Emma wasn’t linking to her course or inviting readers to check it out. “People were actually emailing me to ask about my membership,” Emma admitted. “I realized I was making them do all the work!”</p><p><br></p><h3>The Missed Opportunity in Her Audience</h3><p>Emma had a loyal audience and a thriving membership site, but she was only converting a fraction of her followers into paying customers. With over 1 million followers and thousands of email subscribers, the potential for growth was staggering. The problem wasn’t the audience—it was the lack of structured offers and clear calls-to-action.</p><p>Here’s how Emma turned things around.</p><p><br></p><h3>Strategy #1: Integrate Promotions Into Value Content</h3><p>One of Emma’s biggest revelations was that value and promotion don’t need to be separate. Instead of keeping her promotional emails distinct from her newsletter, she began treating her newsletter as a space to showcase both her expertise <em>and</em> her membership.</p><p>The solution? Adding a "sponsored by" segment in her weekly email.</p><p>In this approach, Emma could include a small, non-intrusive call-to-action in her newsletter, such as:</p><p><em>"This week’s Phonetic Friday is brought to you by Emma’s Pronunciation Hub! Get exclusive access to over 100 in-depth lessons and pronunciation challenges. Click here to join now."</em></p><p>This way, Emma could continue delivering free value while gently introducing her audience to her membership every single week.</p><p><br></p><h3>Strategy #2: Test Different Styles of Promotion</h3><p>Emma also learned to experiment with how she presented her offers in her newsletter. Two main approaches stood out:</p><ol><li><strong>Ad-Style Promotion</strong></li><li>Create a visually distinct block within the newsletter that resembles an ad, complete with an image, headline, and a clear call-to-action. This grabs attention and makes it clear that there’s an offer without disrupting the flow of the email.</li><li><strong>Article-Style Promotion</strong></li><li>Blend the promotion seamlessly into the newsletter as if it were another article. For example:</li><li><em>“Why mastering the TH sound can instantly improve your English accent—and how my membership program can guide you through it step by step.”</em></li></ol><br/><p>Both styles were effective, and by testing them, Emma could see which approach resonated more with her audience.</p><p><br></p><h3>Strategy #3: Leverage the Power of the PS</h3><p>Did you know that 90% of readers scan the PS section of emails? Emma began using this prime real estate to add a subtle call-to-action at the end of every newsletter. For example:</p><p><em>“PS: Ready to master your English pronunciation? Join Emma’s Pronunciation Hub today and start seeing results.”</em></p><p>This soft, recurring nudge ensured that every email ended with an invitation to take the next step without feeling pushy.</p><p><br></p><h3>Strategy #4: Give a Reason to Act Now</h3><p>One of the most effective ways to convert followers into paying members is by creating urgency. Emma introduced time-sensitive bonuses, such as free courses or additional resources, to motivate her audience to join her membership sooner rather than later.</p><p>For example:</p><ul><li><em>“Join this week and get my exclusive 7-day audio pronunciation course—free for members who sign up before Sunday!”</em></li><li><em>“Sign up today and access my live workshop on British accents, happening this Monday!”</em></li></ul><br/><p>These limited-time offers gave her audience a reason to prioritize signing up, and they worked like magic.</p><p><br></p><h3>Strategy #5: Repurpose High-Performing Content</h3><p>Emma had already built a treasure trove of valuable videos, but not all of them had clear lead magnets or calls-to-action. She revisited her most popular content, such as her viral video on ED endings, and updated it with new lead magnets tailored to the topic.</p><p>In some cases, she even recreated old videos with higher production quality and included updated offers. By capitalizing on content that was already ranking well, Emma was able to generate even more leads and memberships.</p><p><br></p><h3>The Results</h3><p>By implementing these strategies, Emma transformed her approach to email marketing and content promotion. She no longer felt like she had to choose between delivering value and driving sales. Instead, she found a way to do both, seamlessly integrating offers into her content and making it easier for her audience to take action.</p><p>For Emma, the biggest shift wasn’t just in her strategy—it was in her mindset. She realized that promoting her membership wasn’t just about making sales; it was about offering her audience a deeper level of support and helping them achieve their goals faster.</p><p><br></p><h3>Key Takeaways for Content Creators</h3><p>If you’re a content creator struggling to turn your audience into paying customers, here are Emma’s biggest lessons:</p><ol><li><strong>Don’t separate value from promotion.</strong> Your audience expects you to have something to sell—give them an easy way to access it.</li><li><strong>Always include a call-to-action.</strong> Whether it’s a casual link or a PS, make it simple for your audience to take the next step.</li><li><strong>Create urgency.</strong> Offer limited-time bonuses or exclusive content to motivate your audience to act now.</li><li><strong>Repurpose what works.</strong> Update your most popular content with clear calls-to-action or recreate it for even greater impact.</li></ol><br/><p>Emma’s journey proves that even with a massive following, success comes down to strategy. By making a few simple changes, she unlocked the true potential of her business—and you can, too.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">72b5a69b-8f2a-45aa-9fc2-4cef8d1bf165</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/76e9b6ad-99e0-436a-9697-9407454bd44c/Emma-Walker-Email-Marketing-Podcast-Ep.mp3" length="73783340" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>51:14</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>247</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>247</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/fc42f996-755d-45d8-9114-c912327b578c/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>3 Buyer Triggers You’re Ignoring (And How They’re Killing Your Sales!)</title><itunes:title>3 Buyer Triggers You’re Ignoring (And How They’re Killing Your Sales!)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>When it comes to making sales, the secret lies not just in what you sell but in how you position it.</p><p>Whether you're a marketer, entrepreneur, or business owner, understanding why people buy can make or break your success. In this week's episode, we’ll uncover the three critical buyer triggers that influence decisions - time to results, effort required, and likelihood of success - and how ignoring them can stop your sales in their tracks.</p><p>Get ready to transform your approach and create offers that buyers can’t resist!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When it comes to making sales, the secret lies not just in what you sell but in how you position it.</p><p>Whether you're a marketer, entrepreneur, or business owner, understanding why people buy can make or break your success. In this week's episode, we’ll uncover the three critical buyer triggers that influence decisions - time to results, effort required, and likelihood of success - and how ignoring them can stop your sales in their tracks.</p><p>Get ready to transform your approach and create offers that buyers can’t resist!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/3-buyer-triggers-youre-ignoring-and-how-theyre-killing-your-sales/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">1293f5ee-d233-4be5-a5a1-4daf5c851eab</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/e2e781bf-4311-4bdd-9a2f-cee5adc61b98/abRV30POw5N_eD2n1i2CbK4L.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/4794a864-b237-4634-a7dc-14fc73fad490/269-postproduction-for-recording-1-run-at-2025-01-17-093310-utc.mp3" length="26493164" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:24</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>246</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>246</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/c9974b1a-e09f-4400-b503-8de86c9a592d/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How Liz Wilcox Used One-Word Subject Lines to Skyrocket Her Membership to $600k</title><itunes:title>How Liz Wilcox Used One-Word Subject Lines to Skyrocket Her Membership to $600k</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What if one tiny tweak could transform your email game and boost your business?</p><p>Liz Wilcox, a self-proclaimed email marketing nerd and the mastermind behind a $600k membership program, discovered the power of one-word subject lines - and the results were extraordinary.</p><p>In this article, we’ll dive into her bold strategy, her mindset shifts, and her unconventional approach to business success.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What if one tiny tweak could transform your email game and boost your business?</p><p>Liz Wilcox, a self-proclaimed email marketing nerd and the mastermind behind a $600k membership program, discovered the power of one-word subject lines - and the results were extraordinary.</p><p>In this article, we’ll dive into her bold strategy, her mindset shifts, and her unconventional approach to business success.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/the-1-word-secret-behind-liz-wilcoxs-600k-membership/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">c9119174-f80d-4653-9c56-e6e7fc010a5e</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/550b2df1-9229-42ff-a909-0a37c949a370/Q-d-EqrdT6o-ulLuf9aKTWRQ.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/cd62a102-3f60-4077-b53e-038a3e453f9a/emsc-postproduction-for-recording-3-run-at-2025-01-13-112423-ut.mp3" length="38059244" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>26:26</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>245</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>245</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/811414e4-34fd-4afd-8270-74af84eee6f4/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>7 Email Hacks You’re Missing (And One Nobody Talks About!)</title><itunes:title>7 Email Hacks You’re Missing (And One Nobody Talks About!)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<h3>Hack #1: Separate Thinking from Writing</h3><p>Writing emails can feel overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be. The trick? Don’t do all the heavy lifting at once. Instead, separate the “thinking” stage from the “writing” stage. Sit down and brainstorm a bunch of email ideas ahead of time. Think about your product, the problems it solves, your own credibility, and even funny or personal stories from your life. When it’s time to write, you’ll already have a stack of ideas ready to go. Easy!</p><p>Picture this: you’re staring at a blank page. Frustrating, right? But if you’ve already got a list of ideas waiting for you, it’s like walking into a room where the party’s already started. No more blank page doom.</p><h3>Hack #2: Use Story Prompts to Spark Ideas</h3><p>Ever feel like you’ve got nothing to write about? That’s where story prompts come in. These are little reminders to jog your memory about moments in your life that can be turned into engaging emails. One time, I even wrote an email about not leaving the house all day. Yep, that simple.</p><p>I created 365 prompts for myself—one for each day of the year. They’re like little sparks for your brain, bringing back stories you hadn’t thought of in years. You don’t need to overthink it. Your everyday life is way more interesting than you realise, and sharing those relatable stories helps build a stronger connection with your readers.</p><h3>Hack #3: Get More People to Open Your Emails</h3><p>Your email can’t work its magic if no one opens it. That’s why open rates matter. Sure, subject lines play a role, but there’s more to it. Your "from name" needs to be familiar, and the frequency of your emails needs to keep you top of mind. Sending emails regularly means your audience won’t forget who you are.</p><p>Think about it—if you’re only emailing once in a blue moon, you’re just a stranger popping into their inbox. But when you email often and share personal, well-thought-out content, your readers can’t wait to hear from you. That’s the sweet spot.</p><h3>Hack #4: Master the Art of the Opening Line</h3><p>Here’s the big one nobody talks about: your email’s opening line. It’s the gateway to everything else. If your opening line flops, your email is toast. You’ve got seconds to grab their attention—so make it count.</p><p>A killer opening line isn’t just about grabbing attention; it sets the tone for the rest of your email. Plus, having a stash of pre-written opening lines saves you from the blank page nightmare. It’s like having a cheat sheet for creativity. Once you nail that first line, the rest of the email practically writes itself.</p><h3>Hack #5: Make Links Impossible to Miss</h3><p>How many times have you read an email and thought, “Where’s the link?” Don’t make your readers play hide-and-seek. Dress up your links so they stand out. Use bold text, underline them, or even make them a button if it fits your style.</p><p>Here’s the thing: people skim emails, especially on their phones. If your link blends in, it’ll get lost in the shuffle. Mix it up too—use different phrases for links instead of the same old “Click here for more.” Keep it fresh and keep it obvious. When the link pops, the clicks roll in.</p><h3>Hack #6: Use PS Lines to Drive Action</h3><p>You know how people say the PS is the most-read part of an email? It’s true! About 90% of readers skim down to the PS. Yet, most people either skip it or throw in something bland. Big mistake.</p><p>Your PS is prime real estate. Use it to drive readers back up to your call-to-action, emphasise urgency, or even share a fun tidbit that sticks in their mind. It’s like the cherry on top of your email sundae. Don’t waste it.</p><h3>Hack #7: Craft Irresistible Subject Lines</h3><p>We can’t skip the classics. Your subject line is the first thing your readers see, so make it pop. But here’s the twist: don’t just focus on being catchy. Match your subject line to the tone of your email. It should set the stage for what’s inside.</p><p>One of my favourite tricks is using unexpected or unusual subject lines, like “00:00:00”—a fake countdown timer that grabs attention. It’s quirky, it’s eye-catching, and it works.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>Hack #1: Separate Thinking from Writing</h3><p>Writing emails can feel overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be. The trick? Don’t do all the heavy lifting at once. Instead, separate the “thinking” stage from the “writing” stage. Sit down and brainstorm a bunch of email ideas ahead of time. Think about your product, the problems it solves, your own credibility, and even funny or personal stories from your life. When it’s time to write, you’ll already have a stack of ideas ready to go. Easy!</p><p>Picture this: you’re staring at a blank page. Frustrating, right? But if you’ve already got a list of ideas waiting for you, it’s like walking into a room where the party’s already started. No more blank page doom.</p><h3>Hack #2: Use Story Prompts to Spark Ideas</h3><p>Ever feel like you’ve got nothing to write about? That’s where story prompts come in. These are little reminders to jog your memory about moments in your life that can be turned into engaging emails. One time, I even wrote an email about not leaving the house all day. Yep, that simple.</p><p>I created 365 prompts for myself—one for each day of the year. They’re like little sparks for your brain, bringing back stories you hadn’t thought of in years. You don’t need to overthink it. Your everyday life is way more interesting than you realise, and sharing those relatable stories helps build a stronger connection with your readers.</p><h3>Hack #3: Get More People to Open Your Emails</h3><p>Your email can’t work its magic if no one opens it. That’s why open rates matter. Sure, subject lines play a role, but there’s more to it. Your "from name" needs to be familiar, and the frequency of your emails needs to keep you top of mind. Sending emails regularly means your audience won’t forget who you are.</p><p>Think about it—if you’re only emailing once in a blue moon, you’re just a stranger popping into their inbox. But when you email often and share personal, well-thought-out content, your readers can’t wait to hear from you. That’s the sweet spot.</p><h3>Hack #4: Master the Art of the Opening Line</h3><p>Here’s the big one nobody talks about: your email’s opening line. It’s the gateway to everything else. If your opening line flops, your email is toast. You’ve got seconds to grab their attention—so make it count.</p><p>A killer opening line isn’t just about grabbing attention; it sets the tone for the rest of your email. Plus, having a stash of pre-written opening lines saves you from the blank page nightmare. It’s like having a cheat sheet for creativity. Once you nail that first line, the rest of the email practically writes itself.</p><h3>Hack #5: Make Links Impossible to Miss</h3><p>How many times have you read an email and thought, “Where’s the link?” Don’t make your readers play hide-and-seek. Dress up your links so they stand out. Use bold text, underline them, or even make them a button if it fits your style.</p><p>Here’s the thing: people skim emails, especially on their phones. If your link blends in, it’ll get lost in the shuffle. Mix it up too—use different phrases for links instead of the same old “Click here for more.” Keep it fresh and keep it obvious. When the link pops, the clicks roll in.</p><h3>Hack #6: Use PS Lines to Drive Action</h3><p>You know how people say the PS is the most-read part of an email? It’s true! About 90% of readers skim down to the PS. Yet, most people either skip it or throw in something bland. Big mistake.</p><p>Your PS is prime real estate. Use it to drive readers back up to your call-to-action, emphasise urgency, or even share a fun tidbit that sticks in their mind. It’s like the cherry on top of your email sundae. Don’t waste it.</p><h3>Hack #7: Craft Irresistible Subject Lines</h3><p>We can’t skip the classics. Your subject line is the first thing your readers see, so make it pop. But here’s the twist: don’t just focus on being catchy. Match your subject line to the tone of your email. It should set the stage for what’s inside.</p><p>One of my favourite tricks is using unexpected or unusual subject lines, like “00:00:00”—a fake countdown timer that grabs attention. It’s quirky, it’s eye-catching, and it works.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">0ed7a8ab-cd11-4a6f-909c-47a9c21c10f1</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/e1ab625f-0783-4020-ac95-ca904e8dbdee/7-Email-Hacks-You-re-Missing-And-One-Nobody-Talks-About.mp3" length="21896684" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:12</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>244</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>244</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/1b09d2e9-7a74-4006-8b9c-db1aab5b2578/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Consulting Session: From Full-Time Teacher to Fitness CEO: How to Build a Business with Zero Free Time!</title><itunes:title>Consulting Session: From Full-Time Teacher to Fitness CEO: How to Build a Business with Zero Free Time!</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Have you ever wondered how someone can build a successful business while juggling a full-time job, two kids, and a dog? It sounds impossible, doesn’t it? But today, you’ll discover the secrets behind making it happen. Meet Mel Bridger, a high school teacher by day and a thriving fitness and women’s health coach by… well, every other moment she can grab! If you're busy but dreaming big, this story is about to blow your mind.</p><h3><strong>Meet Mel: The Teacher Who Never Stops</strong></h3><p>Mel Bridger is not just a high school teacher; she’s also a women's health and fitness coach specializing in menopause support. Yes, she’s doing it all. Her days start early (we’re talking 6 AM sharp) and are packed with teaching, grading, and supporting students. Then, after-school life takes over: kids’ extracurriculars, dinner, bedtime routines… and oh, did we mention she runs fitness classes in the evenings too? Wednesdays and Thursdays are fully booked with sessions she delivers in person.</p><p>Despite all this, Mel has managed to grow a successful fitness business and is now expanding her offerings into staff well-being programs for schools. How? Let’s break it down.</p><h3><strong>The Big Problem: Where Does the Time Go?</strong></h3><p>If you’ve ever tried to balance work, family, and a side hustle, you know time feels like sand slipping through your fingers. For Mel, time was her biggest challenge. She struggled with:</p><ul><li><strong>Finding time to plan her business moves</strong> between her teaching job and family duties.</li><li><strong>Lack of consistency</strong> in her marketing, especially with email campaigns.</li><li><strong>Juggling creativity and exhaustion</strong> after long, busy days.</li></ul><br/><p>Sound familiar? Mel’s solution was both smart and simple.</p><h3><strong>Step 1: Turn Your Time Limits Into Creativity Boosters</strong></h3><p>Kennedy, the podcast host helping Mel, shared an eye-opening insight: Constraints don’t limit creativity—they fuel it! Think of it like this: In improv comedy, the funniest moments happen because of constraints. For example, if someone says, “Pretend you’re Winston Churchill stuck in a train station but can’t use the letter T,” magic happens.</p><p>Mel’s constraints became her springboard. She couldn’t work during the day (hello, teaching and parenting), so she blocked out Sunday afternoons to focus solely on her business. By defining her limits, she created space for creative bursts.</p><h3><strong>Step 2: Map Out a Simple Plan</strong></h3><p>Mel’s first Sunday session was all about <strong>planning her email strategy.</strong> Instead of trying to do it all at once, she broke the process into manageable chunks:</p><ol><li><strong>Plan 60 days of emails.</strong> This sounds huge, but Kennedy advised starting with just the topics. What are the main reasons her audience might buy from her? She listed these out, such as:</li></ol><br/><ul><li>Helping schools retain teachers and reduce burnout.</li><li>Supporting staff morale.</li><li>Giving schools a proactive reputation for caring about well-being.</li></ul><br/><ol><li><strong>Focus on campaigns, not random emails.</strong> Each email campaign had a theme—like the financial cost of teacher turnover—and she planned a series of emails for each topic. This way, her emails felt purposeful, not scattered.</li><li><strong>Use Sundays as creative power hours.</strong> On Sundays, Mel brainstormed ideas and wrote email drafts. Knowing she had just an hour or two kept her focused and efficient.</li></ol><br/><h3><strong>Step 3: Write Hooks First, Emails Second</strong></h3><p>Here’s a tip that changed everything for Mel: Start with <strong>email hooks</strong> before diving into the actual writing. A hook is like the headline of your email—the attention-grabber that makes someone want to read more.</p><p>For example:</p><ul><li>“You’ll never guess what’s costing schools thousands every year.”</li><li>“Why teacher burnout is bleeding your budget dry.”</li></ul><br/><p>Once she had 10 hooks written down, Mel found it much easier to write the emails themselves. Why? Because her brain wasn’t doing two jobs at once (thinking of ideas <em>and</em> writing). Instead, she stayed in flow.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Step 4: Build an Evergreen Email Machine</strong></h3><p>Mel’s next big shift? Stop writing emails for just today. Instead, <strong>create emails that work forever.</strong></p><p>Each email Mel wrote became part of an automated sequence. For example, when someone joined her email list, they’d automatically receive a series of emails over 60 days, covering all the reasons they might want to book her menopause workshops. Here’s why this mattered:</p><ul><li><strong>New leads were nurtured automatically.</strong></li><li><strong>Mel could focus on other tasks,</strong> knowing her emails were building relationships in the background.</li><li><strong>Her emails became assets.</strong> Instead of “spending” time writing one-off messages, she was “investing” time in reusable content.</li></ul><br/><h3><strong>Step 5: Make Time Work For You</strong></h3><p>Mel’s strategy wasn’t just about emails. It was about shifting her entire mindset. She stopped thinking of time as something she didn’t have and started thinking about how to use it wisely.</p><p>For example:</p><ul><li><strong>Repurpose content you already have.</strong> Mel had podcasts and videos from her fitness business. By turning transcripts into emails, she saved hours of writing.</li><li><strong>Let AI do the heavy lifting.</strong> By training AI tools with her voice and tone, Mel sped up her content creation process.</li><li><strong>Batch tasks by energy level.</strong> High-energy moments were for creative work like brainstorming hooks. Low-energy times (like late afternoons) were for simple tasks like scheduling emails.</li></ul><br/><h3><strong>The Payoff: A Business That Fits Into Her Life</strong></h3><p>With her email system in place, Mel’s business started working for her—not the other way around. Leads came in, relationships were built, and schools started booking her workshops. All this happened while she stayed consistent with her day job, family life, and fitness classes.</p><p>Mel’s story proves that you don’t need endless time to grow a business. You just need a plan that fits into your life.</p><h3><strong>Ready to Make It Happen? Here’s What You Can Do</strong></h3><p>If you’re feeling inspired by Mel’s journey, here are three takeaways to get you started:</p><ol><li><strong>Define your constraints.</strong> What time do you <em>actually</em> have? Be real with yourself and use that time wisely.</li><li><strong>Plan first, write second.</strong> Spend one session brainstorming hooks, and another writing emails. Don’t mix the two.</li><li><strong>Think long-term.</strong> Create emails and content you can reuse. Every piece you write should be an investment in your future.</li></ol><br/><h3><strong>Conclusion: If Mel Can Do It, So Can You!</strong></h3><p>Mel’s story is proof that even the busiest among us can build something amazing. Her secret? She didn’t try to fight her limits—she worked with them. By using Sundays to batch-create emails and focusing on evergreen strategies, she turned her side hustle into a thriving business without sacrificing her day job or family life.</p><p>So, what are you waiting for? Your big dream is just one small step away. Take a page from Mel’s book, start where you are, and let your creativity soar. Share this article with a friend who needs a little inspiration, and let’s all start making the most of the time we have!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you ever wondered how someone can build a successful business while juggling a full-time job, two kids, and a dog? It sounds impossible, doesn’t it? But today, you’ll discover the secrets behind making it happen. Meet Mel Bridger, a high school teacher by day and a thriving fitness and women’s health coach by… well, every other moment she can grab! If you're busy but dreaming big, this story is about to blow your mind.</p><h3><strong>Meet Mel: The Teacher Who Never Stops</strong></h3><p>Mel Bridger is not just a high school teacher; she’s also a women's health and fitness coach specializing in menopause support. Yes, she’s doing it all. Her days start early (we’re talking 6 AM sharp) and are packed with teaching, grading, and supporting students. Then, after-school life takes over: kids’ extracurriculars, dinner, bedtime routines… and oh, did we mention she runs fitness classes in the evenings too? Wednesdays and Thursdays are fully booked with sessions she delivers in person.</p><p>Despite all this, Mel has managed to grow a successful fitness business and is now expanding her offerings into staff well-being programs for schools. How? Let’s break it down.</p><h3><strong>The Big Problem: Where Does the Time Go?</strong></h3><p>If you’ve ever tried to balance work, family, and a side hustle, you know time feels like sand slipping through your fingers. For Mel, time was her biggest challenge. She struggled with:</p><ul><li><strong>Finding time to plan her business moves</strong> between her teaching job and family duties.</li><li><strong>Lack of consistency</strong> in her marketing, especially with email campaigns.</li><li><strong>Juggling creativity and exhaustion</strong> after long, busy days.</li></ul><br/><p>Sound familiar? Mel’s solution was both smart and simple.</p><h3><strong>Step 1: Turn Your Time Limits Into Creativity Boosters</strong></h3><p>Kennedy, the podcast host helping Mel, shared an eye-opening insight: Constraints don’t limit creativity—they fuel it! Think of it like this: In improv comedy, the funniest moments happen because of constraints. For example, if someone says, “Pretend you’re Winston Churchill stuck in a train station but can’t use the letter T,” magic happens.</p><p>Mel’s constraints became her springboard. She couldn’t work during the day (hello, teaching and parenting), so she blocked out Sunday afternoons to focus solely on her business. By defining her limits, she created space for creative bursts.</p><h3><strong>Step 2: Map Out a Simple Plan</strong></h3><p>Mel’s first Sunday session was all about <strong>planning her email strategy.</strong> Instead of trying to do it all at once, she broke the process into manageable chunks:</p><ol><li><strong>Plan 60 days of emails.</strong> This sounds huge, but Kennedy advised starting with just the topics. What are the main reasons her audience might buy from her? She listed these out, such as:</li></ol><br/><ul><li>Helping schools retain teachers and reduce burnout.</li><li>Supporting staff morale.</li><li>Giving schools a proactive reputation for caring about well-being.</li></ul><br/><ol><li><strong>Focus on campaigns, not random emails.</strong> Each email campaign had a theme—like the financial cost of teacher turnover—and she planned a series of emails for each topic. This way, her emails felt purposeful, not scattered.</li><li><strong>Use Sundays as creative power hours.</strong> On Sundays, Mel brainstormed ideas and wrote email drafts. Knowing she had just an hour or two kept her focused and efficient.</li></ol><br/><h3><strong>Step 3: Write Hooks First, Emails Second</strong></h3><p>Here’s a tip that changed everything for Mel: Start with <strong>email hooks</strong> before diving into the actual writing. A hook is like the headline of your email—the attention-grabber that makes someone want to read more.</p><p>For example:</p><ul><li>“You’ll never guess what’s costing schools thousands every year.”</li><li>“Why teacher burnout is bleeding your budget dry.”</li></ul><br/><p>Once she had 10 hooks written down, Mel found it much easier to write the emails themselves. Why? Because her brain wasn’t doing two jobs at once (thinking of ideas <em>and</em> writing). Instead, she stayed in flow.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Step 4: Build an Evergreen Email Machine</strong></h3><p>Mel’s next big shift? Stop writing emails for just today. Instead, <strong>create emails that work forever.</strong></p><p>Each email Mel wrote became part of an automated sequence. For example, when someone joined her email list, they’d automatically receive a series of emails over 60 days, covering all the reasons they might want to book her menopause workshops. Here’s why this mattered:</p><ul><li><strong>New leads were nurtured automatically.</strong></li><li><strong>Mel could focus on other tasks,</strong> knowing her emails were building relationships in the background.</li><li><strong>Her emails became assets.</strong> Instead of “spending” time writing one-off messages, she was “investing” time in reusable content.</li></ul><br/><h3><strong>Step 5: Make Time Work For You</strong></h3><p>Mel’s strategy wasn’t just about emails. It was about shifting her entire mindset. She stopped thinking of time as something she didn’t have and started thinking about how to use it wisely.</p><p>For example:</p><ul><li><strong>Repurpose content you already have.</strong> Mel had podcasts and videos from her fitness business. By turning transcripts into emails, she saved hours of writing.</li><li><strong>Let AI do the heavy lifting.</strong> By training AI tools with her voice and tone, Mel sped up her content creation process.</li><li><strong>Batch tasks by energy level.</strong> High-energy moments were for creative work like brainstorming hooks. Low-energy times (like late afternoons) were for simple tasks like scheduling emails.</li></ul><br/><h3><strong>The Payoff: A Business That Fits Into Her Life</strong></h3><p>With her email system in place, Mel’s business started working for her—not the other way around. Leads came in, relationships were built, and schools started booking her workshops. All this happened while she stayed consistent with her day job, family life, and fitness classes.</p><p>Mel’s story proves that you don’t need endless time to grow a business. You just need a plan that fits into your life.</p><h3><strong>Ready to Make It Happen? Here’s What You Can Do</strong></h3><p>If you’re feeling inspired by Mel’s journey, here are three takeaways to get you started:</p><ol><li><strong>Define your constraints.</strong> What time do you <em>actually</em> have? Be real with yourself and use that time wisely.</li><li><strong>Plan first, write second.</strong> Spend one session brainstorming hooks, and another writing emails. Don’t mix the two.</li><li><strong>Think long-term.</strong> Create emails and content you can reuse. Every piece you write should be an investment in your future.</li></ol><br/><h3><strong>Conclusion: If Mel Can Do It, So Can You!</strong></h3><p>Mel’s story is proof that even the busiest among us can build something amazing. Her secret? She didn’t try to fight her limits—she worked with them. By using Sundays to batch-create emails and focusing on evergreen strategies, she turned her side hustle into a thriving business without sacrificing her day job or family life.</p><p>So, what are you waiting for? Your big dream is just one small step away. Take a page from Mel’s book, start where you are, and let your creativity soar. Share this article with a friend who needs a little inspiration, and let’s all start making the most of the time we have!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">afa846a1-6c25-425e-9f23-8be8bd25cbfe</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/01e04a9b-d133-4405-a775-716094b6ec6a/emsc-postproduction-for-recording-2-run-at-2024-11-28-112001-ut.mp3" length="61795052" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>42:55</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>243</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>243</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/ed71edaf-4ec6-4805-b8fd-394cc3879aa6/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>2025 Email Marketing Trends Revealed: AI Secrets, Sales Hacks, and What Could Kill Your Business!</title><itunes:title>2025 Email Marketing Trends Revealed: AI Secrets, Sales Hacks, and What Could Kill Your Business!</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>The link I mentioned today is: https://emailmarketingheroes.com/28</p><p>Email marketing is about to change forever—and you need to know how. Imagine staying one step ahead of everyone else, crafting emails that dominate inboxes, and using cutting-edge tools to skyrocket sales. That’s exactly what this guide will do for you. From AI breakthroughs to the sneaky trends that could tank your business, we’ve got it all. Grab your coffee and buckle up because this is the email marketing ride of the year!</p><h3><strong>The AI Revolution: How Smart is Too Smart?</strong></h3><p>Artificial intelligence isn’t coming—it’s already here, and it’s only getting better. In 2025, AI tools are smarter than ever. The trick? Train one of those powerful large language models (LLMs) to write just like YOU.</p><p>Picture this: you feed the AI transcripts of your podcasts, interviews, or videos. It learns your tone, your style, even your quirks. Want to send an email about a funny moment at the movies? AI can help you turn that story into a polished email, complete with a call-to-action to boost sales.</p><p>The result? You save hours of work while still sounding 100% authentic. Sure, it’s not perfect—it’ll never replace your best writing on a good day. But on those uninspired mornings? It’s a lifesaver.</p><h3><strong>Focus, Focus, Focus: Why Sales Are Everything Under $1 Million</strong></h3><p>If your business is making less than $1 million a year, here’s your mantra: sales. Forget chasing shiny objects. Forget overcomplicating things. It’s all about getting more customers, converting them faster, and increasing their value.</p><p>Here’s the breakdown:</p><ul><li><strong>Advertising</strong>: Make sure people even know you exist.</li><li><strong>List Building</strong>: Get them onto your email list where the magic happens.</li><li><strong>Messaging</strong>: Nail the words that make your audience say, “This is for me.”</li><li><strong>30-Day Value</strong>: Know how much a customer is worth in their first month.</li></ul><br/><p>The secret sauce? Use credit cards (responsibly!) to fund ads. With 30 days to break even, your email strategy has to work fast—and we’ll show you how.</p><h3><strong>The Commoditization of Information: Why Your Course Might Be DOA</strong></h3><p>This might be the scariest trend of all. AI is making information ridiculously easy to get. Need a fitness plan? A chatbot can whip one up in seconds. Want a college study guide? Boom, it’s done. The result? People are less willing to pay for “just information.”</p><p>To survive, you need to do three things:</p><ol><li><strong>Create a True Unique Mechanism</strong>: A fancy name isn’t enough. Your method has to truly deliver results in a way nobody else can.</li><li><strong>Develop Unique Products</strong>: Think beyond courses. One marketer created a massive swipe file of rare direct mail pieces—thousands of pages nobody else could replicate. What can you offer that’s truly one-of-a-kind?</li><li><strong>Offer Services</strong>: People want more than info. They want help implementing it. Teach your audience everything for free, then sell the “done-for-you” service to those who want it.</li></ol><br/><p>This is how you stand out in a world drowning in generic courses and copycat tools.</p><h3><strong>Why “Sticky” Subject Lines Win Every Time</strong></h3><p>Let’s talk subject lines. Over the holidays, one stood out: “Why is this so sticky?” Here’s why it worked like magic:</p><ol><li><strong>It’s a Question</strong>: Questions spark curiosity. People want answers.</li><li><strong>What’s “This”?</strong>: It could mean anything! You have to open the email to find out.</li><li><strong>Sticky” Is Loaded</strong>: It’s positive, negative, mysterious—and irresistible.</li></ol><br/><p>Use this formula to boost your open rates and keep your audience hooked. Don’t just write emails; write emails they can’t wait to read.</p><h3><strong>The Future of Mobile: Are Your Emails Ready?</strong></h3><p>More people than ever are reading emails on their phones. If your email isn’t mobile-friendly, you’re leaving money on the table. Here’s what to check:</p><ul><li><strong>Short Subject Lines</strong>: Grab attention in small spaces.</li><li><strong>Clickable Links</strong>: Make buttons big enough for thumbs.</li><li><strong>Easy-to-Read Text</strong>: No one wants to squint at tiny fonts.</li></ul><br/><p>If you make it easy for your audience to read and click, they’ll reward you with more opens and sales.</p><h3><strong>The Big Shift: From Software to Codeless SaaS</strong></h3><p>Coding is becoming a thing of the past. Need an app? AI can write the code for you in minutes. This shift is opening up new possibilities for tools your customers can use. But here’s the kicker: selling software alone won’t cut it. Everyone’s doing it.</p><p>Instead, combine your software with unique services, education, or support. This hybrid approach is how you turn tools into profits.</p><h3><strong>The 30-Day Rule: Why Timing Is Everything</strong></h3><p>Here’s a pro tip that could transform your business: focus on how much a new customer is worth to you in the first 30 days. Why? If you’re running ads on a credit card (responsibly!), you have 30 days to break even.</p><p>Use automated email sequences to turn new subscribers into buyers fast. Share personal stories, offer irresistible deals, and always, always include a call-to-action. The faster you recoup your ad spend, the faster you grow.</p><h3><strong>The Party Isn’t Over: Why You Should Be Excited</strong></h3><p>Yes, email marketing is changing. Yes, AI is shaking things up. But guess what? These changes are opportunities. If you embrace unique strategies, focus on sales, and stay ahead of trends, 2025 could be your best year yet.</p><p>Picture this: your emails not only getting opened but devoured. Your audience eagerly clicking links, buying your offers, and sharing your content with their friends. That’s the future waiting for you if you take action now.</p><p>So what’s your next step? Go implement one of these ideas today. Share this article with your team, your audience, your dog—anyone who could benefit. Because the more people you help, the more you’ll grow. Here’s to making 2025 unforgettable!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The link I mentioned today is: https://emailmarketingheroes.com/28</p><p>Email marketing is about to change forever—and you need to know how. Imagine staying one step ahead of everyone else, crafting emails that dominate inboxes, and using cutting-edge tools to skyrocket sales. That’s exactly what this guide will do for you. From AI breakthroughs to the sneaky trends that could tank your business, we’ve got it all. Grab your coffee and buckle up because this is the email marketing ride of the year!</p><h3><strong>The AI Revolution: How Smart is Too Smart?</strong></h3><p>Artificial intelligence isn’t coming—it’s already here, and it’s only getting better. In 2025, AI tools are smarter than ever. The trick? Train one of those powerful large language models (LLMs) to write just like YOU.</p><p>Picture this: you feed the AI transcripts of your podcasts, interviews, or videos. It learns your tone, your style, even your quirks. Want to send an email about a funny moment at the movies? AI can help you turn that story into a polished email, complete with a call-to-action to boost sales.</p><p>The result? You save hours of work while still sounding 100% authentic. Sure, it’s not perfect—it’ll never replace your best writing on a good day. But on those uninspired mornings? It’s a lifesaver.</p><h3><strong>Focus, Focus, Focus: Why Sales Are Everything Under $1 Million</strong></h3><p>If your business is making less than $1 million a year, here’s your mantra: sales. Forget chasing shiny objects. Forget overcomplicating things. It’s all about getting more customers, converting them faster, and increasing their value.</p><p>Here’s the breakdown:</p><ul><li><strong>Advertising</strong>: Make sure people even know you exist.</li><li><strong>List Building</strong>: Get them onto your email list where the magic happens.</li><li><strong>Messaging</strong>: Nail the words that make your audience say, “This is for me.”</li><li><strong>30-Day Value</strong>: Know how much a customer is worth in their first month.</li></ul><br/><p>The secret sauce? Use credit cards (responsibly!) to fund ads. With 30 days to break even, your email strategy has to work fast—and we’ll show you how.</p><h3><strong>The Commoditization of Information: Why Your Course Might Be DOA</strong></h3><p>This might be the scariest trend of all. AI is making information ridiculously easy to get. Need a fitness plan? A chatbot can whip one up in seconds. Want a college study guide? Boom, it’s done. The result? People are less willing to pay for “just information.”</p><p>To survive, you need to do three things:</p><ol><li><strong>Create a True Unique Mechanism</strong>: A fancy name isn’t enough. Your method has to truly deliver results in a way nobody else can.</li><li><strong>Develop Unique Products</strong>: Think beyond courses. One marketer created a massive swipe file of rare direct mail pieces—thousands of pages nobody else could replicate. What can you offer that’s truly one-of-a-kind?</li><li><strong>Offer Services</strong>: People want more than info. They want help implementing it. Teach your audience everything for free, then sell the “done-for-you” service to those who want it.</li></ol><br/><p>This is how you stand out in a world drowning in generic courses and copycat tools.</p><h3><strong>Why “Sticky” Subject Lines Win Every Time</strong></h3><p>Let’s talk subject lines. Over the holidays, one stood out: “Why is this so sticky?” Here’s why it worked like magic:</p><ol><li><strong>It’s a Question</strong>: Questions spark curiosity. People want answers.</li><li><strong>What’s “This”?</strong>: It could mean anything! You have to open the email to find out.</li><li><strong>Sticky” Is Loaded</strong>: It’s positive, negative, mysterious—and irresistible.</li></ol><br/><p>Use this formula to boost your open rates and keep your audience hooked. Don’t just write emails; write emails they can’t wait to read.</p><h3><strong>The Future of Mobile: Are Your Emails Ready?</strong></h3><p>More people than ever are reading emails on their phones. If your email isn’t mobile-friendly, you’re leaving money on the table. Here’s what to check:</p><ul><li><strong>Short Subject Lines</strong>: Grab attention in small spaces.</li><li><strong>Clickable Links</strong>: Make buttons big enough for thumbs.</li><li><strong>Easy-to-Read Text</strong>: No one wants to squint at tiny fonts.</li></ul><br/><p>If you make it easy for your audience to read and click, they’ll reward you with more opens and sales.</p><h3><strong>The Big Shift: From Software to Codeless SaaS</strong></h3><p>Coding is becoming a thing of the past. Need an app? AI can write the code for you in minutes. This shift is opening up new possibilities for tools your customers can use. But here’s the kicker: selling software alone won’t cut it. Everyone’s doing it.</p><p>Instead, combine your software with unique services, education, or support. This hybrid approach is how you turn tools into profits.</p><h3><strong>The 30-Day Rule: Why Timing Is Everything</strong></h3><p>Here’s a pro tip that could transform your business: focus on how much a new customer is worth to you in the first 30 days. Why? If you’re running ads on a credit card (responsibly!), you have 30 days to break even.</p><p>Use automated email sequences to turn new subscribers into buyers fast. Share personal stories, offer irresistible deals, and always, always include a call-to-action. The faster you recoup your ad spend, the faster you grow.</p><h3><strong>The Party Isn’t Over: Why You Should Be Excited</strong></h3><p>Yes, email marketing is changing. Yes, AI is shaking things up. But guess what? These changes are opportunities. If you embrace unique strategies, focus on sales, and stay ahead of trends, 2025 could be your best year yet.</p><p>Picture this: your emails not only getting opened but devoured. Your audience eagerly clicking links, buying your offers, and sharing your content with their friends. That’s the future waiting for you if you take action now.</p><p>So what’s your next step? Go implement one of these ideas today. Share this article with your team, your audience, your dog—anyone who could benefit. Because the more people you help, the more you’ll grow. Here’s to making 2025 unforgettable!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">d722a30a-b441-4bad-b207-2829a0ac835e</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/515ed516-4860-4782-82ec-803347575b3a/266-Email-Marketing-in-2025.mp3" length="37634156" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>26:08</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>242</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>242</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/be94cf16-81ee-4288-9931-29e379197b71/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How Can I Use A/B Testing To Improve My Email Marketing Results?</title><itunes:title>How Can I Use A/B Testing To Improve My Email Marketing Results?</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Do you want more people to open, click, and buy from your emails?&nbsp;</p><p>This week, the spotlight is on A/B testing and how we can use it to improve our open rates, clicks and conversions so that we can maximise the sales from our email marketing.</p><p>Let’s do this!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you want more people to open, click, and buy from your emails?&nbsp;</p><p>This week, the spotlight is on A/B testing and how we can use it to improve our open rates, clicks and conversions so that we can maximise the sales from our email marketing.</p><p>Let’s do this!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/how-can-i-use-a-b-testing-to-improve-my-email-marketing-results/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">fe3bcc94-e305-4713-b5d3-58fb102f5e23</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/efb518f6-ee86-47cf-90f2-7c6040a2923c/t_c7kxEZNq1_jIlFCsJrfNnT.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 25 Dec 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/f3be0831-ca1c-459a-8221-0172cd18a643/265-converted.mp3" length="26536377" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:49</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>241</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>241</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/f76d0d71-d9f5-4e13-a755-18d81edc070a/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>What’s The Most Effective Way To Nurture Leads Through Email?</title><itunes:title>What’s The Most Effective Way To Nurture Leads Through Email?</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>With the rise of new channels and platforms, from SMS to WhatsApp - email is still the highest performing revenue generator.&nbsp;</p><p>But the important question: <strong>how do you take your subscribers and nurture them right through to becoming customers?</strong></p><p>That’s exactly what we’ll be talking about in this episode - let’s dive in!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With the rise of new channels and platforms, from SMS to WhatsApp - email is still the highest performing revenue generator.&nbsp;</p><p>But the important question: <strong>how do you take your subscribers and nurture them right through to becoming customers?</strong></p><p>That’s exactly what we’ll be talking about in this episode - let’s dive in!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/whats-the-most-effective-way-to-nurture-leads-through-email/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">08191187-539a-4480-b6fb-af9ca9e35a86</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/38bc8c72-6eca-435f-8058-44304e992aa0/Od96UrpftzBD6Ig7uXgNKKj3.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/c69d1c3a-99ad-4a4e-9f71-dbf5d106ce10/264-converted.mp3" length="42226565" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>22:00</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>240</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>240</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/5dcfc030-7c51-4405-ad99-2e6c35cb9dc5/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Consulting Session: Growing a Community Business in B2B</title><itunes:title>Consulting Session: Growing a Community Business in B2B</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Listen in to this coaching session where I give Tony Lockwood personal advice on how he can grow his community-based business in the B2B space.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Listen in to this coaching session where I give Tony Lockwood personal advice on how he can grow his community-based business in the B2B space.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e650164-c6b3-4f47-91b2-deb019aa7290</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/608978cd-20f0-46a1-b566-e5ec8a4587d5/td06ezyD4SdRQ7T487l72Rco.png"/><pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/f179c74e-a5b1-4219-9264-2e9baecea90f/TonyLockwood.mp3" length="60934508" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>42:19</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>bonus</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>242</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>242</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How Do I Write Email Copy That Sells Without Being Pushy?</title><itunes:title>How Do I Write Email Copy That Sells Without Being Pushy?</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Do you want to make more sales with your emails without coming across as pushy or salesy?</p><p>It’s a big challenge most email marketers face so in this episode, we’re diving into how to strike the perfect balance of enthusiasm, authenticity, and simplicity so that you can send more emails and make more sales.</p><p>Let’s do this!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you want to make more sales with your emails without coming across as pushy or salesy?</p><p>It’s a big challenge most email marketers face so in this episode, we’re diving into how to strike the perfect balance of enthusiasm, authenticity, and simplicity so that you can send more emails and make more sales.</p><p>Let’s do this!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/how-do-i-write-email-copy-that-sells-without-being-pushy/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">62976944-637d-4e90-b59b-0ef2caf44705</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/99f6e8ed-0178-4df0-98d3-7adfc1540bf4/JMfw89of53rNlxnIeUxQfi7Y.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/b3adc323-484b-432f-9c33-6e3ad17b6036/263-converted.mp3" length="27558705" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:21</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>239</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>239</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/9f638102-c33c-4099-9cc3-4bcb8dd51071/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How To Get Back On The Email Wagon When You Fall Off (Back To School Edition)</title><itunes:title>How To Get Back On The Email Wagon When You Fall Off (Back To School Edition)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Falling off the email marketing wagon happens to the best of us.&nbsp;</p><p>Whether life got busy, a launch took up your focus, or you just fell out of the habit - it happens. And if your list hasn’t heard from you in a while, it’s tempting to wait for the “perfect” moment to restart (eg. Monday, the start of the month, or some other arbitrary milestone)&nbsp;</p><p>But the truth is, the best time to reconnect with your audience is <strong>today.</strong></p><p>In this episode, we’re diving into how to restart your email marketing without overthinking or worrying about upsetting your subscribers.&nbsp;</p><p><em>(Plus, we’re giving you the exact framework for the perfect reintroduction email - we call it the ‘Terrible Friend’ Campaign)</em></p><p>Let’s do this!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Falling off the email marketing wagon happens to the best of us.&nbsp;</p><p>Whether life got busy, a launch took up your focus, or you just fell out of the habit - it happens. And if your list hasn’t heard from you in a while, it’s tempting to wait for the “perfect” moment to restart (eg. Monday, the start of the month, or some other arbitrary milestone)&nbsp;</p><p>But the truth is, the best time to reconnect with your audience is <strong>today.</strong></p><p>In this episode, we’re diving into how to restart your email marketing without overthinking or worrying about upsetting your subscribers.&nbsp;</p><p><em>(Plus, we’re giving you the exact framework for the perfect reintroduction email - we call it the ‘Terrible Friend’ Campaign)</em></p><p>Let’s do this!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/email-reactivation-get-back-email-wagon/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">db7a8e2a-db4c-4bc8-b38c-d71f2c749254</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/49c84dfa-c0eb-40f6-aa2a-c05e851d2f01/WCidUoiKPHQLJQEpivSiANqj.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/5173221a-cd62-4b0d-8f5c-2b02772abe3d/262-converted.mp3" length="28161402" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:40</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>238</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>238</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/915c859e-9382-42ce-bd22-a6d9c3a6cdc7/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How Do You Get Your Customers To Buy And Buy Again?</title><itunes:title>How Do You Get Your Customers To Buy And Buy Again?</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Ready to tackle one of the biggest challenges in the world of online business?</p><p>With rising ad costs and stiff competition for new leads, maximising the lifetime value of every customer is more important than ever.</p><p>Let’s take a deep dive into how we can turn new customers into repeat customers that keep coming back for more and more.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h5><br></h5><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ready to tackle one of the biggest challenges in the world of online business?</p><p>With rising ad costs and stiff competition for new leads, maximising the lifetime value of every customer is more important than ever.</p><p>Let’s take a deep dive into how we can turn new customers into repeat customers that keep coming back for more and more.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h5><br></h5><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/best-email-marketing-campaign-existing-customers/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">4b245e86-4730-454c-adb8-c0eb082c0960</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/61d7fa55-eaef-4586-951c-84b3da0b7b1b/a9O3GQf4ZNDCaBsVk7HqlctM.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/b5a1c43a-eb28-4eff-97e6-70729ea7652b/Ep-261-converted.mp3" length="33820573" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:37</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>237</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>237</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/ad319605-9c01-443f-a727-d9d30acd46ca/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Where To Find The Best Customers Who Just Buy</title><itunes:title>Where To Find The Best Customers Who Just Buy</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Do you ever feel like some of your email subscribers just won’t buy, no matter how many great offers you send them - despite having a bunch of other subscribers who seem to buy <em>everything</em> you offer?</p><p>What if we could focus more on the buyers and find out ways of adding more of those excited buyers to your email list, that’d be useful, right?&nbsp;</p><p>Well, that’s exactly what we’re digging into in this week’s episode!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h5><br></h5><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you ever feel like some of your email subscribers just won’t buy, no matter how many great offers you send them - despite having a bunch of other subscribers who seem to buy <em>everything</em> you offer?</p><p>What if we could focus more on the buyers and find out ways of adding more of those excited buyers to your email list, that’d be useful, right?&nbsp;</p><p>Well, that’s exactly what we’re digging into in this week’s episode!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h5><br></h5><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/where-to-find-the-best-customers-who-just-buy/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">18ae2a5a-0fa9-4d1d-9311-0c154547a010</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/e3a6efef-0563-432d-a9f1-4e969ff3af8a/Kk1JyL6JowrJPO2Qv_pwO1TR.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/362a3d89-07a8-4616-b304-b78d60a437f7/Ep-260.mp3" length="23488172" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:19</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>236</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>236</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/f579ba81-406e-437e-abae-aa0105a2a525/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How Can I Personalise My Emails To Increase Conversions?</title><itunes:title>How Can I Personalise My Emails To Increase Conversions?</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Email personalisation has come a long way from the days of simply adding your subscriber's first name at the start of a message.&nbsp;</p><p>Which is why, in this week’s episode, we’re diving into some truly creative and unusual ways to use personalisation to ramp up your conversions.&nbsp;</p><p>Forget the basic, automated-sounding tactics. Today, we’ll explore how to make your emails feel genuinely tailored to your audience, so they stand out in a crowded inbox.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h5><br></h5><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Email personalisation has come a long way from the days of simply adding your subscriber's first name at the start of a message.&nbsp;</p><p>Which is why, in this week’s episode, we’re diving into some truly creative and unusual ways to use personalisation to ramp up your conversions.&nbsp;</p><p>Forget the basic, automated-sounding tactics. Today, we’ll explore how to make your emails feel genuinely tailored to your audience, so they stand out in a crowded inbox.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h5><br></h5><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/how-can-i-personalise-my-emails-to-increase-conversions/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">7f685b89-85f7-4288-a582-662620e873b8</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/1017db7b-bc6d-4391-bed7-b8cd1ba7eedc/CCRi561SjKldAU5-w-oeTYya.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/5aeb8df1-442e-458c-b44c-da9828cb9b58/Ep-259.mp3" length="29725100" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>20:39</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>235</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>235</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/d31ca387-1c67-413b-9c1a-313704164e68/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>What Is The Ideal Frequency For Sending Marketing Emails?</title><itunes:title>What Is The Ideal Frequency For Sending Marketing Emails?</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>In today’s episode we’re tackling one of the most common questions in email marketing: how often should you send marketing emails?&nbsp;</p><p>Whether you're just keeping up ongoing communication with your audience or running a promotional campaign, your email frequency plays a critical role in your overall list engagement, and deliverability (and more!)</p><p>Let’s dive in!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5><br></h5><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h5><br></h5><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In today’s episode we’re tackling one of the most common questions in email marketing: how often should you send marketing emails?&nbsp;</p><p>Whether you're just keeping up ongoing communication with your audience or running a promotional campaign, your email frequency plays a critical role in your overall list engagement, and deliverability (and more!)</p><p>Let’s dive in!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5><br></h5><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h5><br></h5><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/what-is-the-ideal-frequency-for-sending-marketing-emails/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">9a648b15-9aca-4c63-b552-cc49fa3ccd24</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/f2809e68-3a6c-4aa2-9bc3-56e8e3c53548/aY5W1VtEsMC5S0efnkDryn0_.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/afa1d413-1902-4830-bf8c-8f8157638b65/Ep-258.mp3" length="20103020" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:58</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>234</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>234</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/bfb5cf2f-4a8e-4331-86a7-1744ec7b88ad/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>If I Started Over with List Building - What Would I Do?</title><itunes:title>If I Started Over with List Building - What Would I Do?</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>In this week's episode, we're tackling a popular question: <em>"How would you build your email list if you were starting all over again?"</em>&nbsp;</p><p>It’s something I’ve been asked countless times at events and on panels, and I’ve actually had to do it myself a few times over the years. So, let’s dive into the strategies I’d use today.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h5><br></h5><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this week's episode, we're tackling a popular question: <em>"How would you build your email list if you were starting all over again?"</em>&nbsp;</p><p>It’s something I’ve been asked countless times at events and on panels, and I’ve actually had to do it myself a few times over the years. So, let’s dive into the strategies I’d use today.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h5><br></h5><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/if-i-started-over-with-list-building-what-would-i-do/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">5b99a403-df7c-4cd9-96c2-c74d8b43f026</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/b0dfbc6d-c411-47ef-957e-d3f67e77aaaa/1YWxjdPEk0i1LJ587DYqKxKp.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/def4fd52-8aab-4815-a5bd-990ca23857e1/Ep-257.mp3" length="28749932" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>19:58</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>233</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>233</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How to Evergreen The Sales of a Cohorted Program</title><itunes:title>How to Evergreen The Sales of a Cohorted Program</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>In this episode we’re talking about how to make sales every single day when your offer is only available at certain times. If you run programs that are opened and closed in live rounds or cohorts, this episode is for you!</p><p>Joining us is the fabulous <a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fifi Mason</a> for her final episode as co-host of the show as we come to the end of this season. Fifi’s got a cohort-based program she opens a few times a year, and she’s wondering how to keep sales flowing even when the doors aren’t technically open.</p><p>Let’s get stuck in!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>Recent episodes</h5><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-come-up-with-your-next-email-campaign-without-overthinking-it/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Come Up With Your Next Email Campaign (Without Overthinking It)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-deliverability/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Surprising Thing That REALLY Impacts Your Email Deliverability</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/avoid-email-marketing-mistakes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why You Need to Avoid These Email Marketing Mistakes</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h5><br></h5><h5>Want to connect with Fifi?</h5><p>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people – those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can&nbsp;<a href="https://fifimason.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">find Fifi on her website</a>.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this episode we’re talking about how to make sales every single day when your offer is only available at certain times. If you run programs that are opened and closed in live rounds or cohorts, this episode is for you!</p><p>Joining us is the fabulous <a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fifi Mason</a> for her final episode as co-host of the show as we come to the end of this season. Fifi’s got a cohort-based program she opens a few times a year, and she’s wondering how to keep sales flowing even when the doors aren’t technically open.</p><p>Let’s get stuck in!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>Recent episodes</h5><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-come-up-with-your-next-email-campaign-without-overthinking-it/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Come Up With Your Next Email Campaign (Without Overthinking It)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-deliverability/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Surprising Thing That REALLY Impacts Your Email Deliverability</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/avoid-email-marketing-mistakes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why You Need to Avoid These Email Marketing Mistakes</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h5><br></h5><h5>Want to connect with Fifi?</h5><p>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people – those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can&nbsp;<a href="https://fifimason.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">find Fifi on her website</a>.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-evergreen-the-sales-of-a-cohorted-program/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">07b28823-6f6f-4ab8-ba4a-dee1b80c728e</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/e4142f14-6639-4501-b436-db6c4ea9c35c/j4IyCiJ-F4WN1Y7J7ojHCTIJ.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/b9c20c3d-0f99-47bb-9d47-82388c911a9f/Ep-256-converted.mp3" length="42342761" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>22:03</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>232</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>232</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/6c98e844-f93e-4aa0-abeb-8f96c5f807cd/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>WTF Is An Automated Customer Journey? Use the SCORE Method</title><itunes:title>WTF Is An Automated Customer Journey? Use the SCORE Method</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>WTF is an automated customer journey and why do you need to worry about it? We’re Kennedy and <a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fifi</a>, and today we’re going to dig into what automated customer journeys really are, why they work, and how to build them into your email marketing strategy.&nbsp;</p><p>Plus, we’ll even peel back the curtain on the SCORE Method, our proven framework for engaging subscribers and turning them into buyers, without all the fuss and confusion.</p><p>Let's do this.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>Recent episodes</h5><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-come-up-with-your-next-email-campaign-without-overthinking-it/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Come Up With Your Next Email Campaign (Without Overthinking It)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-deliverability/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Surprising Thing That REALLY Impacts Your Email Deliverability</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/avoid-email-marketing-mistakes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why You Need to Avoid These Email Marketing Mistakes</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h5><br></h5><h5>Want to connect with Fifi?</h5><p>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people – those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can&nbsp;<a href="https://fifimason.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">find Fifi on her website</a>.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WTF is an automated customer journey and why do you need to worry about it? We’re Kennedy and <a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fifi</a>, and today we’re going to dig into what automated customer journeys really are, why they work, and how to build them into your email marketing strategy.&nbsp;</p><p>Plus, we’ll even peel back the curtain on the SCORE Method, our proven framework for engaging subscribers and turning them into buyers, without all the fuss and confusion.</p><p>Let's do this.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>Recent episodes</h5><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-come-up-with-your-next-email-campaign-without-overthinking-it/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Come Up With Your Next Email Campaign (Without Overthinking It)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-deliverability/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Surprising Thing That REALLY Impacts Your Email Deliverability</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/avoid-email-marketing-mistakes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why You Need to Avoid These Email Marketing Mistakes</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h5><br></h5><h5>Want to connect with Fifi?</h5><p>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people – those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can&nbsp;<a href="https://fifimason.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">find Fifi on her website</a>.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/automated-customer-journey/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">5a2b1104-c787-4e75-9af1-242ada3de44a</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/7c492c5f-0956-4440-a650-ed728340d040/vXBjys0f0ik6b6pZibXz0Yhh.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/4852823a-b8bc-409b-946d-16371781a0d9/EP-255-Final.mp3" length="93287296" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>38:52</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>231</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>231</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/5297fed2-e3e8-473c-8354-5ab761ce2ca3/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How We Turned 1 Product Into $2.4million</title><itunes:title>How We Turned 1 Product Into $2.4million</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>We’re Kennedy and&nbsp;<a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fifi</a>, and this week, we’re going to take you behind the scenes of how we transformed a single product here at Email Marketing Heroes, into a massive $2.4 million in revenue.</p><p>PLUS – we’ll break down each of the core principles we used too so that you can use these to scale your business, using strategic email marketing, all while maintaining work-life balance.</p><p>Let’s get into it!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>Recent episodes</h5><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-come-up-with-your-next-email-campaign-without-overthinking-it/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Come Up With Your Next Email Campaign (Without Overthinking It)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-deliverability/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Surprising Thing That REALLY Impacts Your Email Deliverability</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/avoid-email-marketing-mistakes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why You Need to Avoid These Email Marketing Mistakes</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h5><br></h5><h5>Want to connect with Fifi?</h5><p>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people – those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can&nbsp;<a href="https://fifimason.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">find Fifi on her website</a>.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We’re Kennedy and&nbsp;<a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fifi</a>, and this week, we’re going to take you behind the scenes of how we transformed a single product here at Email Marketing Heroes, into a massive $2.4 million in revenue.</p><p>PLUS – we’ll break down each of the core principles we used too so that you can use these to scale your business, using strategic email marketing, all while maintaining work-life balance.</p><p>Let’s get into it!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>Recent episodes</h5><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-come-up-with-your-next-email-campaign-without-overthinking-it/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Come Up With Your Next Email Campaign (Without Overthinking It)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-deliverability/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Surprising Thing That REALLY Impacts Your Email Deliverability</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/avoid-email-marketing-mistakes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why You Need to Avoid These Email Marketing Mistakes</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h5><br></h5><h5>Want to connect with Fifi?</h5><p>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people – those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can&nbsp;<a href="https://fifimason.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">find Fifi on her website</a>.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/one-product-2-million-dollars/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">aaf627e5-4b3c-4cdc-8069-d804fe3ec5ba</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c783b487-0614-4242-9e48-2d631647469f/XmNTsuBaWjvElsy4s_R30-Wk.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/dac11635-ec50-4057-b862-d246e627f710/EP-254-Final-v2.mp3" length="63610816" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>26:30</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>230</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>230</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/ebde9ba1-247b-4902-abcf-ee3c12e243a8/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Creative Email Batching Techniques That Will Save You Time &amp; Energy</title><itunes:title>Creative Email Batching Techniques That Will Save You Time &amp; Energy</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Do you batch your emails? Can batching improve your email marketing? Does it make the process any easier or quicker?</p><p>We’re Kennedy and <a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fifi</a>, and these are some of the questions we answer in this podcast episode because we’ve all been there - staring at a daunting list of emails to send, not knowing where to begin.</p><p>Let's go!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>Recent episodes</h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/lies-email-marketing-platform/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Warning: 6 Lies Your Email Marketing Platform Is Telling You</a></p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-come-up-with-your-next-email-campaign-without-overthinking-it/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Come Up With Your Next Email Campaign (Without Overthinking It)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-deliverability/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Surprising Thing That REALLY Impacts Your Email Deliverability</a>.</p><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h5>Want to connect with Fifi?</h5><h5>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people – those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can&nbsp;<a href="https://fifimason.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">find Fifi on her website</a>.</h5><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you batch your emails? Can batching improve your email marketing? Does it make the process any easier or quicker?</p><p>We’re Kennedy and <a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fifi</a>, and these are some of the questions we answer in this podcast episode because we’ve all been there - staring at a daunting list of emails to send, not knowing where to begin.</p><p>Let's go!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>Recent episodes</h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/lies-email-marketing-platform/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Warning: 6 Lies Your Email Marketing Platform Is Telling You</a></p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-come-up-with-your-next-email-campaign-without-overthinking-it/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Come Up With Your Next Email Campaign (Without Overthinking It)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-deliverability/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Surprising Thing That REALLY Impacts Your Email Deliverability</a>.</p><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h5>Want to connect with Fifi?</h5><h5>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people – those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can&nbsp;<a href="https://fifimason.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">find Fifi on her website</a>.</h5><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/creative-ways-batch-your-emails/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">25da619b-ab7c-40c3-ba14-3a2d1d893ba0</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/7314501d-9246-43ef-99b7-62f2b550c7ca/evF-E_a2cKpIP2dU5PgROW4Z.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/69e4afcf-b26f-46a6-bdb4-3d6d86771317/EP-253-Final.mp3" length="59956096" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>24:59</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>229</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>229</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/3e82912a-57b8-4f43-b07b-1c690723339f/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Warning: 6 Lies Your Email Marketing Platform Is Telling You</title><itunes:title>Warning: 6 Lies Your Email Marketing Platform Is Telling You</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to another episode of The Email Marketing Show!&nbsp;</p><p>We’re Kennedy and&nbsp;<a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fifi</a>, and this week, we’re exposing six lies your email marketing platform might be feeding you – and what to pay attention to instead.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>Recent episodes</h5><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-come-up-with-your-next-email-campaign-without-overthinking-it/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Come Up With Your Next Email Campaign (Without Overthinking It)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-deliverability/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Surprising Thing That REALLY Impacts Your Email Deliverability</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/avoid-email-marketing-mistakes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why You Need to Avoid These Email Marketing Mistakes</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h5><br></h5><h5>Want to connect with Fifi?</h5><p>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people – those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can&nbsp;<a href="https://fifimason.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">find Fifi on her website</a>.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to another episode of The Email Marketing Show!&nbsp;</p><p>We’re Kennedy and&nbsp;<a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fifi</a>, and this week, we’re exposing six lies your email marketing platform might be feeding you – and what to pay attention to instead.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>Recent episodes</h5><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-come-up-with-your-next-email-campaign-without-overthinking-it/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Come Up With Your Next Email Campaign (Without Overthinking It)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-deliverability/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Surprising Thing That REALLY Impacts Your Email Deliverability</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/avoid-email-marketing-mistakes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why You Need to Avoid These Email Marketing Mistakes</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h5><br></h5><h5>Want to connect with Fifi?</h5><p>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people – those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can&nbsp;<a href="https://fifimason.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">find Fifi on her website</a>.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/lies-email-marketing-platform/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">83bb2ad1-179c-4bbb-931e-a86279a4da90</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/7ed5f8fc-371c-4a96-ad3d-54cc3fc1e986/mfKigHGgtTqWt-srhzXHH5nP.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/f4189325-21d4-4f6a-9c02-125c63f19a04/EP-252-Mix.mp3" length="88310400" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>36:48</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>228</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>228</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How To Keep Your Email Marketing Tidy (Tags, Automations and Subscribers)</title><itunes:title>How To Keep Your Email Marketing Tidy (Tags, Automations and Subscribers)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Let’s face it, your email marketing platform can get really messy, really quickly if you’re not organised.</p><p>With automations, tags, and campaigns flying all over the place, things can go from zero to chaos in no time.&nbsp;That’s why, in this week’s episode of 'The Email Marketing Show', we tackled how to stay organised with your email systems. Ready?</p><p>We’re Kennedy and<a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Fifi</a>, and if you’ve ever felt like your email list is a cluttered mess, this one's for you.</p><h2><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h2><h5><strong>Recent episodes</strong></h5><ul><li><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-come-up-with-your-next-email-campaign-without-overthinking-it/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Come Up With Your Next Email Campaign (Without Overthinking It)</a></li><li><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-measure-email-marketing-success-with-the-right-numbers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Measure Email Marketing Success with the Right Numbers</a></li><li><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/leveraging-power-ai/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How We Are Currently Leveraging The Power Of AI To Create A Smarter Business</a></li></ul><br/><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</strong></h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h5><br></h5><h5><strong>Want to connect with Fifi?</strong></h5><p>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people – those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can&nbsp;<a href="https://fifimason.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">find Fifi on her website</a>.</p><h2><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let’s face it, your email marketing platform can get really messy, really quickly if you’re not organised.</p><p>With automations, tags, and campaigns flying all over the place, things can go from zero to chaos in no time.&nbsp;That’s why, in this week’s episode of 'The Email Marketing Show', we tackled how to stay organised with your email systems. Ready?</p><p>We’re Kennedy and<a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Fifi</a>, and if you’ve ever felt like your email list is a cluttered mess, this one's for you.</p><h2><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h2><h5><strong>Recent episodes</strong></h5><ul><li><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-come-up-with-your-next-email-campaign-without-overthinking-it/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Come Up With Your Next Email Campaign (Without Overthinking It)</a></li><li><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-measure-email-marketing-success-with-the-right-numbers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Measure Email Marketing Success with the Right Numbers</a></li><li><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/leveraging-power-ai/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How We Are Currently Leveraging The Power Of AI To Create A Smarter Business</a></li></ul><br/><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</strong></h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h5><br></h5><h5><strong>Want to connect with Fifi?</strong></h5><p>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people – those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can&nbsp;<a href="https://fifimason.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">find Fifi on her website</a>.</p><h2><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/keep-email-marketing-tidy]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">9ab6b8c7-6d91-4361-acfa-3a7f150093a6</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/0c8d850f-6f63-4c98-9e74-0509c525d089/MCRDUwnbRaXHicUPGWQLVtlh.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/7795c000-a83e-4962-8161-bfe8a7c39697/EP-251-Final.mp3" length="63323520" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>26:23</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>227</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>227</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/a1a959e7-1dff-4455-bd2e-fd8260871ada/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How to Come Up With Your Next Email Campaign (Without Overthinking It)</title><itunes:title>How to Come Up With Your Next Email Campaign (Without Overthinking It)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>One of the most common challenges that email marketers face is coming up with new email campaigns.</p><p>We’re Kennedy and<a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Fifi</a>, and whether you’re stuck on what to say or when to send it, that’s exactly what we’re tackling in this week’s episode of The Email Marketing Show!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><p>Related episodes</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/summits-list-building/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>How To Use Summits To Get Visible (Even If You’re An Introvert) And Build Your Email List, With Fifi Mason</u></a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/cant-stop-procrastinating-email-marketing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Useful Strategies To Stop Procrastinating RIGHT NOW To Get Your Email Marketing Done!</u></a></p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/create-email-marketing-strategy-plan/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>How To Build The Most Impactful Email Marketing Strategy Plan To Make More Sales In Your Business</u></a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u> Grab your FREE list here</u></a>.</p><p>Join the FREE Facebook group</p><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</u></a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p>Try ResponseSuite for $1</p><p>This content is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>ResponseSuite.com</u></a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Try it out for 14 days for just $1</u></a>.</p><p>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</p><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u> The Email Hero Blueprint</u></a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><p>Want to connect with Fifi?</p><p>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people - those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can <a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>find Fifi on her website</u></a>.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the biggest mistakes you're making with your email automation strategy) and love the show, we'd appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the most common challenges that email marketers face is coming up with new email campaigns.</p><p>We’re Kennedy and<a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Fifi</a>, and whether you’re stuck on what to say or when to send it, that’s exactly what we’re tackling in this week’s episode of The Email Marketing Show!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><p>Related episodes</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/summits-list-building/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>How To Use Summits To Get Visible (Even If You’re An Introvert) And Build Your Email List, With Fifi Mason</u></a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/cant-stop-procrastinating-email-marketing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Useful Strategies To Stop Procrastinating RIGHT NOW To Get Your Email Marketing Done!</u></a></p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/create-email-marketing-strategy-plan/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>How To Build The Most Impactful Email Marketing Strategy Plan To Make More Sales In Your Business</u></a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u> Grab your FREE list here</u></a>.</p><p>Join the FREE Facebook group</p><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</u></a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p>Try ResponseSuite for $1</p><p>This content is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>ResponseSuite.com</u></a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Try it out for 14 days for just $1</u></a>.</p><p>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</p><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u> The Email Hero Blueprint</u></a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><p>Want to connect with Fifi?</p><p>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people - those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can <a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>find Fifi on her website</u></a>.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the biggest mistakes you're making with your email automation strategy) and love the show, we'd appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-come-up-with-your-next-email-campaign-without-overthinking-it/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">042d9ad1-e011-44c5-8730-f364b315ee8b</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/f50bba37-2983-4f17-8a47-d37acc2f4952/Ph2jcJMPpFYi72xTCk-JuHH4.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/c5e1e828-943f-45c4-8745-bf23a6312fca/EP-250-Final.mp3" length="77271360" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>32:12</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>226</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>226</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/936e79d1-79f5-4310-aa71-58cf675379e7/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How to Measure Email Marketing Success with the Right Numbers</title><itunes:title>How to Measure Email Marketing Success with the Right Numbers</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>When it comes to running a business, it can feel like you're constantly drowning in numbers. Open rates, click-through rates, conversion rates—it’s easy to get lost in data. </p><p>But here’s the truth: <strong>most of these numbers don’t actually matter. </strong></p><p>So, which ones do? </p><p>We’re Kennedy and <a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Fifi</u></a>, and that’s exactly what we’re tackling in this week’s episode of The Email Marketing Show!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><p>Related episodes</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/summits-list-building/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>How To Use Summits To Get Visible (Even If You’re An Introvert) And Build Your Email List, With Fifi Mason</u></a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/cant-stop-procrastinating-email-marketing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Useful Strategies To Stop Procrastinating RIGHT NOW To Get Your Email Marketing Done!</u></a></p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/create-email-marketing-strategy-plan/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>How To Build The Most Impactful Email Marketing Strategy Plan To Make More Sales In Your Business</u></a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u> Grab your FREE list here</u></a>.</p><p>Join the FREE Facebook group</p><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</u></a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p>Try ResponseSuite for $1</p><p>This content is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>ResponseSuite.com</u></a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Try it out for 14 days for just $1</u></a>.</p><p>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</p><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u> The Email Hero Blueprint</u></a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><p>Want to connect with Fifi?</p><p>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people - those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can <a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>find Fifi on her website</u></a>.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the biggest mistakes you're making with your email automation strategy) and love the show, we'd appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When it comes to running a business, it can feel like you're constantly drowning in numbers. Open rates, click-through rates, conversion rates—it’s easy to get lost in data. </p><p>But here’s the truth: <strong>most of these numbers don’t actually matter. </strong></p><p>So, which ones do? </p><p>We’re Kennedy and <a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Fifi</u></a>, and that’s exactly what we’re tackling in this week’s episode of The Email Marketing Show!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><p>Related episodes</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/summits-list-building/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>How To Use Summits To Get Visible (Even If You’re An Introvert) And Build Your Email List, With Fifi Mason</u></a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/cant-stop-procrastinating-email-marketing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Useful Strategies To Stop Procrastinating RIGHT NOW To Get Your Email Marketing Done!</u></a></p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/create-email-marketing-strategy-plan/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>How To Build The Most Impactful Email Marketing Strategy Plan To Make More Sales In Your Business</u></a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u> Grab your FREE list here</u></a>.</p><p>Join the FREE Facebook group</p><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</u></a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p>Try ResponseSuite for $1</p><p>This content is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>ResponseSuite.com</u></a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Try it out for 14 days for just $1</u></a>.</p><p>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</p><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u> The Email Hero Blueprint</u></a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><p>Want to connect with Fifi?</p><p>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people - those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can <a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>find Fifi on her website</u></a>.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the biggest mistakes you're making with your email automation strategy) and love the show, we'd appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-measure-email-marketing-success-with-the-right-numbers/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">be5291c6-1e2e-4acf-aec1-52e4d91fa76e</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/4e87a7fc-eb18-4e83-9d32-56a53d4f0f7e/yvA0dqn6hjHFEWSlvvZ4hQ2T.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/d0b1e1af-bd56-4947-a2e6-c8d70458aaea/EP-249-Final-v2.mp3" length="61883776" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>25:47</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>225</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>225</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/7c3d5ae6-2fad-4a7b-8236-4f1cb268f90c/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How We Are Currently Leveraging The Power Of AI To Create A Smarter Business</title><itunes:title>How We Are Currently Leveraging The Power Of AI To Create A Smarter Business</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Are you using AI in your business? Can it save you time, make you more efficient, and deliver a better experience to your customers? Depending on what you do and <em>how</em> you use AI, yes. </p><p>We’re Kennedy and <a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Fifi</u></a>, and today we're going to be talking <span style="font-family: var(--bs-font-sans-serif); font-size: 1.125rem; color: var(--bs-accordion-color);">about how we are leveraging the power of AI</span><em style="font-family: var(--bs-font-sans-serif); font-size: 1.125rem; color: var(--bs-accordion-color);"> right now</em><span style="font-family: var(--bs-font-sans-serif); font-size: 1.125rem; color: var(--bs-accordion-color);"> in our business. No fluff. No 'ideas' - just practical stuff that we're </span><em style="color: var(--bs-accordion-color);">actually</em><span style="font-family: var(--bs-font-sans-serif); font-size: 1.125rem; color: var(--bs-accordion-color);"> doing.</span></p><p>Ready? Let's go!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><p>Related episodes</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/summits-list-building/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>How To Use Summits To Get Visible (Even If You’re An Introvert) And Build Your Email List, With Fifi Mason</u></a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/cant-stop-procrastinating-email-marketing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Useful Strategies To Stop Procrastinating RIGHT NOW To Get Your Email Marketing Done!</u></a></p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/create-email-marketing-strategy-plan/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>How To Build The Most Impactful Email Marketing Strategy Plan To Make More Sales In Your Business</u></a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u> Grab your FREE list here</u></a>.</p><p>Join the FREE Facebook group</p><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</u></a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p>Try ResponseSuite for $1</p><p>This content is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>ResponseSuite.com</u></a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Try it out for 14 days for just $1</u></a>.</p><p>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</p><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u> The Email Hero Blueprint</u></a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><p>Want to connect with Fifi?</p><p>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people - those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can <a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>find Fifi on her website</u></a>.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the biggest mistakes you're making with your email automation strategy) and love the show, we'd appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you using AI in your business? Can it save you time, make you more efficient, and deliver a better experience to your customers? Depending on what you do and <em>how</em> you use AI, yes. </p><p>We’re Kennedy and <a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Fifi</u></a>, and today we're going to be talking <span style="font-family: var(--bs-font-sans-serif); font-size: 1.125rem; color: var(--bs-accordion-color);">about how we are leveraging the power of AI</span><em style="font-family: var(--bs-font-sans-serif); font-size: 1.125rem; color: var(--bs-accordion-color);"> right now</em><span style="font-family: var(--bs-font-sans-serif); font-size: 1.125rem; color: var(--bs-accordion-color);"> in our business. No fluff. No 'ideas' - just practical stuff that we're </span><em style="color: var(--bs-accordion-color);">actually</em><span style="font-family: var(--bs-font-sans-serif); font-size: 1.125rem; color: var(--bs-accordion-color);"> doing.</span></p><p>Ready? Let's go!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><p>Related episodes</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/summits-list-building/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>How To Use Summits To Get Visible (Even If You’re An Introvert) And Build Your Email List, With Fifi Mason</u></a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/cant-stop-procrastinating-email-marketing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Useful Strategies To Stop Procrastinating RIGHT NOW To Get Your Email Marketing Done!</u></a></p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/create-email-marketing-strategy-plan/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>How To Build The Most Impactful Email Marketing Strategy Plan To Make More Sales In Your Business</u></a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u> Grab your FREE list here</u></a>.</p><p>Join the FREE Facebook group</p><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</u></a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p>Try ResponseSuite for $1</p><p>This content is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>ResponseSuite.com</u></a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Try it out for 14 days for just $1</u></a>.</p><p>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</p><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u> The Email Hero Blueprint</u></a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><p>Want to connect with Fifi?</p><p>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people - those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can <a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>find Fifi on her website</u></a>.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the biggest mistakes you're making with your email automation strategy) and love the show, we'd appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/leveraging-power-ai/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">e145a7f4-e750-4751-b369-34587314cb6a</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/d5501d8d-b3c0-4247-b656-bc910efd3182/dVL5O8YFuFu-jF3JVxZ_9Amf.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/6946ad84-4bd5-406d-a5e7-d6a7eef25517/EP-248-Final.mp3" length="69497280" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>28:57</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>248</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>248</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/f15113c7-42fb-45f3-b7ee-8e6d0217f2d8/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How We Are Leveraging The Power Of AI In Our Business</title><itunes:title>How We Are Leveraging The Power Of AI In Our Business</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Are you using AI in your business? Can it save you time, make you more efficient, and deliver a better experience to your customers? Depending on what you do and <em>how</em> you use AI, yes.</p><p>We’re Kennedy and<a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Fifi</a>, and today we're going to be talking about how we are leveraging the power of AI<em> right now</em> in our business. No fluff. No 'ideas' - just practical stuff that we're <em>actually</em> doing.</p><p>Ready? Let's go!</p><h2>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h2><p>If you like what we shared today, know that bringing you the cutting-edge stuff that we do in our business and what works in the world of email marketing is what we teach! So if you want more of that, the best place to get it is inside our programme -<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league#:~:text=The%20Email%20Hero%20Blueprint%20is%20the%20leading%20programme%20for%20people,if%20your%20list%20is%20tiny." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a>. It's everything you need to get your email marketing to the point where it makes you sales every day. And that's both through automated emails and through live broadcasts.&nbsp;</p><h2><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h2><h5><strong>Recent episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/mistakes-email-marketing-atuomation-strategy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Biggest Mistakes You’re Making With Your Email Automation</a></p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/3-subconscious-reasons-for-not-buying/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The 3 Subconscious Questions That Stop People From Buying</a></p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/lead-magnet-email-sequence/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Create An Effective Lead Magnet Email Sequence That Gets Your Subscribers To LOVE You!</a></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5><strong>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</strong></h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h5><strong>Want to connect with Fifi?</strong></h5><p>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people – those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can&nbsp;<a href="https://fifimason.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">find Fifi on her website</a>.</p><h2><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you using AI in your business? Can it save you time, make you more efficient, and deliver a better experience to your customers? Depending on what you do and <em>how</em> you use AI, yes.</p><p>We’re Kennedy and<a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Fifi</a>, and today we're going to be talking about how we are leveraging the power of AI<em> right now</em> in our business. No fluff. No 'ideas' - just practical stuff that we're <em>actually</em> doing.</p><p>Ready? Let's go!</p><h2>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h2><p>If you like what we shared today, know that bringing you the cutting-edge stuff that we do in our business and what works in the world of email marketing is what we teach! So if you want more of that, the best place to get it is inside our programme -<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league#:~:text=The%20Email%20Hero%20Blueprint%20is%20the%20leading%20programme%20for%20people,if%20your%20list%20is%20tiny." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a>. It's everything you need to get your email marketing to the point where it makes you sales every day. And that's both through automated emails and through live broadcasts.&nbsp;</p><h2><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h2><h5><strong>Recent episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/mistakes-email-marketing-atuomation-strategy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Biggest Mistakes You’re Making With Your Email Automation</a></p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/3-subconscious-reasons-for-not-buying/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The 3 Subconscious Questions That Stop People From Buying</a></p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/lead-magnet-email-sequence/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Create An Effective Lead Magnet Email Sequence That Gets Your Subscribers To LOVE You!</a></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5><strong>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</strong></h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h5><strong>Want to connect with Fifi?</strong></h5><p>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people – those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can&nbsp;<a href="https://fifimason.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">find Fifi on her website</a>.</p><h2><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/leveraging-power-ai/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">7e7244b0-5ca4-4468-8687-1001450491aa</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/e6f7c94f-5d31-41df-9fb6-dfbd415ff083/ciyW0zArFKXJ3S8Sz3t9-xma.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/56e7b51f-a29b-43a2-91e8-e23636818c47/EP-248-Final-1.mp3" length="69497280" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>28:57</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>224</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>224</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/90dc9da4-4fd6-4593-a491-2656a174a693/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How To Send Promotional Emails WITHOUT Annoying People</title><itunes:title>How To Send Promotional Emails WITHOUT Annoying People</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>How do you make sure you get better results, more engagement, and more sales using email marketing campaigns? You need to understand the <em>psychology</em> of marketing.</p><p>We’re Kennedy and <a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Fifi</u></a>, and today we're going to share the 9 psychological strategies that we successfully use in all our email marketing campaigns.</p><p>Ready to discover all our best secrets?</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><p>Related episodes</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/summits-list-building/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>How To Use Summits To Get Visible (Even If You’re An Introvert) And Build Your Email List, With Fifi Mason</u></a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/cant-stop-procrastinating-email-marketing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Useful Strategies To Stop Procrastinating RIGHT NOW To Get Your Email Marketing Done!</u></a></p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/create-email-marketing-strategy-plan/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>How To Build The Most Impactful Email Marketing Strategy Plan To Make More Sales In Your Business</u></a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u> Grab your FREE list here</u></a>.</p><p>Join the FREE Facebook group</p><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</u></a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p>Try ResponseSuite for $1</p><p>This content is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>ResponseSuite.com</u></a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Try it out for 14 days for just $1</u></a>.</p><p>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</p><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u> The Email Hero Blueprint</u></a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><p>Want to connect with Fifi?</p><p>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people - those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can <a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>find Fifi on her website</u></a>.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the biggest mistakes you're making with your email automation strategy) and love the show, we'd appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How do you make sure you get better results, more engagement, and more sales using email marketing campaigns? You need to understand the <em>psychology</em> of marketing.</p><p>We’re Kennedy and <a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Fifi</u></a>, and today we're going to share the 9 psychological strategies that we successfully use in all our email marketing campaigns.</p><p>Ready to discover all our best secrets?</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><p>Related episodes</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/summits-list-building/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>How To Use Summits To Get Visible (Even If You’re An Introvert) And Build Your Email List, With Fifi Mason</u></a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/cant-stop-procrastinating-email-marketing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Useful Strategies To Stop Procrastinating RIGHT NOW To Get Your Email Marketing Done!</u></a></p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/create-email-marketing-strategy-plan/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>How To Build The Most Impactful Email Marketing Strategy Plan To Make More Sales In Your Business</u></a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u> Grab your FREE list here</u></a>.</p><p>Join the FREE Facebook group</p><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</u></a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p>Try ResponseSuite for $1</p><p>This content is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>ResponseSuite.com</u></a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Try it out for 14 days for just $1</u></a>.</p><p>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</p><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u> The Email Hero Blueprint</u></a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><p>Want to connect with Fifi?</p><p>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people - those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can <a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>find Fifi on her website</u></a>.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the biggest mistakes you're making with your email automation strategy) and love the show, we'd appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/send-promotional-emails-without-annoying-people/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">c514c257-6dee-4dee-b2ea-078f91cba3f8</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/796ee0ff-cf22-47bb-8c8d-b0d2f5f16cd0/HO4x47beI46s6drALL0BoMrA.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/b0f665de-4218-4a29-9da2-22c361384946/EP-247-Final.mp3" length="69643200" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>29:01</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>247</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>247</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/ac888dea-4c68-43b9-985e-8336e482d78f/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Turn Your Funnels into Sales Machines with Kate McKibbin</title><itunes:title>Turn Your Funnels into Sales Machines with Kate McKibbin</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>We’re Kennedy and <a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fifi</a>, and on this episode of <em>The Email Marketing Show</em>, we're chatting with Kate McKibbin from <a href="https://hellofunnels.co?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hello Funnels</a> to discover powerful ways to optimise your email marketing funnels. </p><p>Ready? Let's go.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><p>Related episodes</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/summits-list-building/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>How To Use Summits To Get Visible (Even If You’re An Introvert) And Build Your Email List, With Fifi Mason</u></a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/cant-stop-procrastinating-email-marketing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Useful Strategies To Stop Procrastinating RIGHT NOW To Get Your Email Marketing Done!</u></a></p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/create-email-marketing-strategy-plan/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>How To Build The Most Impactful Email Marketing Strategy Plan To Make More Sales In Your Business</u></a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u> Grab your FREE list here</u></a>.</p><p>Join the FREE Facebook group</p><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</u></a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p>Try ResponseSuite for $1</p><p>This content is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>ResponseSuite.com</u></a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Try it out for 14 days for just $1</u></a>.</p><p>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</p><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u> The Email Hero Blueprint</u></a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><p>Want to connect with Fifi?</p><p>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people - those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can <a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>find Fifi on her website</u></a>.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the biggest mistakes you're making with your email automation strategy) and love the show, we'd appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We’re Kennedy and <a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fifi</a>, and on this episode of <em>The Email Marketing Show</em>, we're chatting with Kate McKibbin from <a href="https://hellofunnels.co?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hello Funnels</a> to discover powerful ways to optimise your email marketing funnels. </p><p>Ready? Let's go.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><p>Related episodes</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/summits-list-building/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>How To Use Summits To Get Visible (Even If You’re An Introvert) And Build Your Email List, With Fifi Mason</u></a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/cant-stop-procrastinating-email-marketing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Useful Strategies To Stop Procrastinating RIGHT NOW To Get Your Email Marketing Done!</u></a></p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/create-email-marketing-strategy-plan/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>How To Build The Most Impactful Email Marketing Strategy Plan To Make More Sales In Your Business</u></a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u> Grab your FREE list here</u></a>.</p><p>Join the FREE Facebook group</p><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</u></a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p>Try ResponseSuite for $1</p><p>This content is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>ResponseSuite.com</u></a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Try it out for 14 days for just $1</u></a>.</p><p>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</p><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u> The Email Hero Blueprint</u></a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><p>Want to connect with Fifi?</p><p>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people - those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can <a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>find Fifi on her website</u></a>.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the biggest mistakes you're making with your email automation strategy) and love the show, we'd appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/turn-your-funnels-into-sales-machines-with-kate-mckibben/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">e0f14907-7b4d-4d16-ade5-15a35fc904bd</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/3ef916a6-ce99-448f-a6d1-22edc971551a/POQSLYm61NMttDvYZu0OQPnJ.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/bd49792e-c619-4061-b1ac-303f6b162615/EP-246-Final-v2-1.mp3" length="70221120" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>29:16</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>246</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>246</podcast:episode></item><item><title>9 Powerful Psychology Techniques To Improve Your Email Campaigns</title><itunes:title>9 Powerful Psychology Techniques To Improve Your Email Campaigns</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>How do you make sure you get better results, more engagement, and more sales using email marketing campaigns? You need to understand the <em>psychology</em> of marketing.</p><p>We’re Kennedy and <a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Fifi</u></a>, and today we're going to share the 9 psychological strategies that we successfully use in all our email marketing campaigns.</p><p>Ready to discover all our best secrets?</p><h2><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h2><p><strong>Related episodes</strong></p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/summits-list-building/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>How To Use Summits To Get Visible (Even If You’re An Introvert) And Build Your Email List, With Fifi Mason</u></a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/cant-stop-procrastinating-email-marketing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Useful Strategies To Stop Procrastinating RIGHT NOW To Get Your Email Marketing Done!</u></a></p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/create-email-marketing-strategy-plan/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>How To Build The Most Impactful Email Marketing Strategy Plan To Make More Sales In Your Business</u></a>.</p><h2><strong>FREE list to improve your email marketing</strong></h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u> Grab your FREE list here</u></a>.</p><p><strong>Join the FREE Facebook group</strong></p><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</u></a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></p><p>This content is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>ResponseSuite.com</u></a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. </strong><a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Try it out for 14 days for just $1</u></a>.</p><p><strong>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</strong></p><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u> The Email Hero Blueprint</u></a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><p><strong>Want to connect with Fifi?</strong></p><p>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people - those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can <a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>find Fifi on her website</u></a>.</p><h2><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the biggest mistakes you're making with your email automation strategy) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How do you make sure you get better results, more engagement, and more sales using email marketing campaigns? You need to understand the <em>psychology</em> of marketing.</p><p>We’re Kennedy and <a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Fifi</u></a>, and today we're going to share the 9 psychological strategies that we successfully use in all our email marketing campaigns.</p><p>Ready to discover all our best secrets?</p><h2><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h2><p><strong>Related episodes</strong></p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/summits-list-building/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>How To Use Summits To Get Visible (Even If You’re An Introvert) And Build Your Email List, With Fifi Mason</u></a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/cant-stop-procrastinating-email-marketing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Useful Strategies To Stop Procrastinating RIGHT NOW To Get Your Email Marketing Done!</u></a></p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/create-email-marketing-strategy-plan/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>How To Build The Most Impactful Email Marketing Strategy Plan To Make More Sales In Your Business</u></a>.</p><h2><strong>FREE list to improve your email marketing</strong></h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u> Grab your FREE list here</u></a>.</p><p><strong>Join the FREE Facebook group</strong></p><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</u></a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></p><p>This content is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>ResponseSuite.com</u></a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. </strong><a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Try it out for 14 days for just $1</u></a>.</p><p><strong>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</strong></p><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u> The Email Hero Blueprint</u></a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><p><strong>Want to connect with Fifi?</strong></p><p>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people - those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can <a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>find Fifi on her website</u></a>.</p><h2><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the biggest mistakes you're making with your email automation strategy) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/psychology-of-marketing-email-campaigns/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">0427c1fe-12ea-4542-8825-3d6d30ea0094</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/2748f0a2-856f-4d84-8923-cbe5b5011de8/wX7Gw-LLu1yopCKxP5_sj8_z.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/2048dbc2-37c4-4659-8217-c26a1677d607/EP-245-Final-v2.mp3" length="102926656" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>42:53</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>245</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>245</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/d934dbd9-e9a8-4bef-a31f-4612b02287ce/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Mistakes With Your Email Marketing Automation Strategy</title><itunes:title>Mistakes With Your Email Marketing Automation Strategy</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Do you automate your emails? Did you know you could (unknowingly) be making these very common mistakes with your email marketing automation?</p><p>We’re Kennedy and<a href="https://fifimason.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Fifi</a>, and today we're going to share what you can do better with your automated email sequences.</p><p>Ready?</p><p>Let's go.</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(1:06) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(1:31) Check out our sponsor -<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/cleanup" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Zerobounce</a>!&nbsp;</p><p>(4:51) Not showing your personality.&nbsp;</p><p>(9:03) Not sending emails out 'live' first.&nbsp;</p><p>(11:55) Not checking the data.&nbsp;</p><p>(13:31) Having too many offers in your automations.&nbsp;</p><p>(17:43) Spending too long creating your automations.&nbsp;</p><p>(18:58) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/summits-list-building/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Use Summits To Get Visible (Even If You’re An Introvert) And Build Your Email List, With Fifi Mason</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/cant-stop-procrastinating-email-marketing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Useful Strategies To Stop Procrastinating RIGHT NOW To Get Your Email Marketing Done!</a></p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/create-email-marketing-strategy-plan/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Build The Most Impactful Email Marketing Strategy Plan To Make More Sales In Your Business</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3>Want to connect with Fifi?</h3><p>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people - those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can<a href="https://fifimason.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> find Fifi on her website</a>.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the biggest mistakes you're making with your email automation strategy) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you automate your emails? Did you know you could (unknowingly) be making these very common mistakes with your email marketing automation?</p><p>We’re Kennedy and<a href="https://fifimason.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Fifi</a>, and today we're going to share what you can do better with your automated email sequences.</p><p>Ready?</p><p>Let's go.</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(1:06) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(1:31) Check out our sponsor -<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/cleanup" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Zerobounce</a>!&nbsp;</p><p>(4:51) Not showing your personality.&nbsp;</p><p>(9:03) Not sending emails out 'live' first.&nbsp;</p><p>(11:55) Not checking the data.&nbsp;</p><p>(13:31) Having too many offers in your automations.&nbsp;</p><p>(17:43) Spending too long creating your automations.&nbsp;</p><p>(18:58) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/summits-list-building/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Use Summits To Get Visible (Even If You’re An Introvert) And Build Your Email List, With Fifi Mason</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/cant-stop-procrastinating-email-marketing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Useful Strategies To Stop Procrastinating RIGHT NOW To Get Your Email Marketing Done!</a></p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/create-email-marketing-strategy-plan/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Build The Most Impactful Email Marketing Strategy Plan To Make More Sales In Your Business</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3>Want to connect with Fifi?</h3><p>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people - those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can<a href="https://fifimason.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> find Fifi on her website</a>.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the biggest mistakes you're making with your email automation strategy) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/the-biggest-mistakes-youre-making-with-your-email-automation/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">56cd1c5c-0ec3-4337-ac02-c393f3a909e0</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/2f9ec17b-bc34-4c64-863d-b2c6bec2df2a/Cod6rfNOXmBFBQuKAjVEhf1Q.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/d3c20c56-3ab8-402f-9cbe-7fff143c368c/EP-244-171-Final.mp3" length="53800576" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>22:25</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>244</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>244</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/1f99b1bd-d5c3-4739-8093-abb878fd78bb/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>The 3 Subconscious Reasons For Not Buying - What Stops People?</title><itunes:title>The 3 Subconscious Reasons For Not Buying - What Stops People?</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Do people have reasons for <em>not</em> buying from you? Yes, they do.</p><p>We're Kennedy and<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Carrie</a>, and today we're sharing the three subconscious questions people have that <em>stop them</em> from buying from you. It's super important you answer these exact questions in your marketing and sales copy because people <em>can't and won't</em> buy unless you do!</p><p>Ready to find out what these questions are and make more sales in your business?</p><p>Let's go.</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:30) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(2:44) Check out our sponsor -<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/cleanup" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Zerobounce</a>!&nbsp;</p><p>(3:34) Question one - will it work for me?&nbsp;</p><p>(7:47) Question two - how long until I see results?&nbsp;</p><p>(11:17) Question three - how much work will I need to do (and how much will it cost?)&nbsp;</p><p>(18:18) Find ways to give people immediate gratification.&nbsp;</p><p>(22:15) Join<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(23:34) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/buyer-psychology-email/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Sell More By Tapping Into The Power Of Buyer Psychology In Your Email Marketing</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/new-years-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">What To Send In Your New Year’s Emails To Get Your Clients Excited About Your Business (And Buy From You)</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/prevent-buyer-remorse/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Prevent Buyer Remorse And Turn Customers Into Raving Fans!</a></p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3>Want to connect with Carrie?</h3><p>You can find Carrie on<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> her website</a> or at<a href="https://www.fullyleveragedbusiness.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Fully Leveraged Business</a>.&nbsp;</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the 3 reasons for not buying that people have and that you need to address in your marketing) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do people have reasons for <em>not</em> buying from you? Yes, they do.</p><p>We're Kennedy and<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Carrie</a>, and today we're sharing the three subconscious questions people have that <em>stop them</em> from buying from you. It's super important you answer these exact questions in your marketing and sales copy because people <em>can't and won't</em> buy unless you do!</p><p>Ready to find out what these questions are and make more sales in your business?</p><p>Let's go.</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:30) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(2:44) Check out our sponsor -<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/cleanup" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Zerobounce</a>!&nbsp;</p><p>(3:34) Question one - will it work for me?&nbsp;</p><p>(7:47) Question two - how long until I see results?&nbsp;</p><p>(11:17) Question three - how much work will I need to do (and how much will it cost?)&nbsp;</p><p>(18:18) Find ways to give people immediate gratification.&nbsp;</p><p>(22:15) Join<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(23:34) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/buyer-psychology-email/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Sell More By Tapping Into The Power Of Buyer Psychology In Your Email Marketing</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/new-years-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">What To Send In Your New Year’s Emails To Get Your Clients Excited About Your Business (And Buy From You)</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/prevent-buyer-remorse/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Prevent Buyer Remorse And Turn Customers Into Raving Fans!</a></p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3>Want to connect with Carrie?</h3><p>You can find Carrie on<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> her website</a> or at<a href="https://www.fullyleveragedbusiness.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Fully Leveraged Business</a>.&nbsp;</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the 3 reasons for not buying that people have and that you need to address in your marketing) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/the-3-subconscious-questions-that-stop-people-from-buying/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">560c768b-328f-4a15-a49f-aa24db9aedac</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/830259da-0bfa-4acb-940f-457953f1f681/JY0fgNyPObx4ZIDgJKQ6_x5O.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/bc076036-fa77-4147-8ba2-3f5b780c51b1/EP-243-136-Final.mp3" length="60593280" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>25:15</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>243</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>243</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/1fcf07a1-e7a8-45bc-bea6-a07100364a3d/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How To Create An Effective Lead Magnet Email Sequence That Gets Your Subscribers To LOVE You!</title><itunes:title>How To Create An Effective Lead Magnet Email Sequence That Gets Your Subscribers To LOVE You!</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Do you use a lead magnet to grow your email list? Does the strategy work for you? How can you make it work <em>even better</em>? We're Kennedy and <a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Carrie</a>, and today we're sharing how to create a lead magnet sequence that will get your subscribers to<em> love you</em>.</p><p>And grow your list.</p><p>And your business.</p><p>Ready?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:35) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(2:14) Check out our sponsor -<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/cleanup" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Zerobounce</a>!&nbsp;</p><p>(2:46) Treat your lead magnets with reverence.&nbsp;</p><p>(5:15) Don't deliver your lead magnet on your Thank You page&nbsp;</p><p>(7:00) Create an awesome lead magnet consumption sequence.&nbsp;</p><p>(11:38) Use your consumption sequence to make people love you.&nbsp;</p><p>(15:38) Your lead magnet sequence is different from your Welcome sequence.</p><p>(18:19) Join<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(18:57) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/landing-pages-lead-generation/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Landing Pages For Lead Generation – How To Create The Most AMAZING Landing Pages To Attract More Subscribers To Your Email List</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/essential-email-campaigns-examples/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The 7 Proven And Essential Email Campaigns To Add To Your Marketing Strategy And Elevate Your Business</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/mistakes-email-marketing-atuomation-strategy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mistakes You’re Making With Your Email Marketing Automation Strategy</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3>Want to connect with Carrie?</h3><p>You can find Carrie on<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> her website</a> or at<a href="https://www.fullyleveragedbusiness.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Fully Leveraged Business</a>.&nbsp;</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to create an effective lead magnet sequence that will get people to love you) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you use a lead magnet to grow your email list? Does the strategy work for you? How can you make it work <em>even better</em>? We're Kennedy and <a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Carrie</a>, and today we're sharing how to create a lead magnet sequence that will get your subscribers to<em> love you</em>.</p><p>And grow your list.</p><p>And your business.</p><p>Ready?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:35) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(2:14) Check out our sponsor -<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/cleanup" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Zerobounce</a>!&nbsp;</p><p>(2:46) Treat your lead magnets with reverence.&nbsp;</p><p>(5:15) Don't deliver your lead magnet on your Thank You page&nbsp;</p><p>(7:00) Create an awesome lead magnet consumption sequence.&nbsp;</p><p>(11:38) Use your consumption sequence to make people love you.&nbsp;</p><p>(15:38) Your lead magnet sequence is different from your Welcome sequence.</p><p>(18:19) Join<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(18:57) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/landing-pages-lead-generation/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Landing Pages For Lead Generation – How To Create The Most AMAZING Landing Pages To Attract More Subscribers To Your Email List</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/essential-email-campaigns-examples/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The 7 Proven And Essential Email Campaigns To Add To Your Marketing Strategy And Elevate Your Business</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/mistakes-email-marketing-atuomation-strategy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mistakes You’re Making With Your Email Marketing Automation Strategy</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3>Want to connect with Carrie?</h3><p>You can find Carrie on<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> her website</a> or at<a href="https://www.fullyleveragedbusiness.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Fully Leveraged Business</a>.&nbsp;</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to create an effective lead magnet sequence that will get people to love you) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-create-an-effective-lead-magnet-email-sequence-that-gets-your-subscribers-to-love-you]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">e54f69aa-accd-4834-a49e-ebd2a3559a5b</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/628f6c3f-463c-4932-a595-b95ebecddb44/pUzDji9heq7l_6zuEBCTToPe.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/63615da0-3b95-4fc4-bb2a-fc88a1e89c0d/EP-242-183-Final.mp3" length="50192896" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>20:55</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>242</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>242</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/0c5b2c88-5fe7-4337-841f-119a223c42e9/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Can&apos;t Stop Procrastinating? How to Stop Putting off Your Email Marketing</title><itunes:title>Can&apos;t Stop Procrastinating? How to Stop Putting off Your Email Marketing</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Are you someone who can't stop procrastinating when it comes to doing your email marketing? Well, you're not alone.</p><p>We're Kennedy and <a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Carrie</a>, and today we're sharing some useful strategies to help you stop putting your email marketing off so you can get it done. Right now!</p><p>Ready?</p><p>Let's go.</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:34) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our FREE Facebook group.&nbsp;</p><p>(2:01) Check out our sponsor - Zerobounce!&nbsp;</p><p>(3:06) Just get started (or jump back in).&nbsp;</p><p>(5:15) Stack habits together or schedule appointments in your diary.&nbsp;</p><p>(8:50) Make things easier for yourself and remove any friction.&nbsp;</p><p>(15:45) Alternate between longer and shorter emails.&nbsp;</p><p>(17:53) Follow the 'Rule of One'.&nbsp;</p><p>(21:14) Create campaigns one email at the time.</p><p>(25:20) Don't let the fear of 'being bad' hold you back.&nbsp;</p><p>(29:29) Create a system, process, or formula that works for you.&nbsp;</p><p>(32:19) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/time-saving-tips-for-email-marketing-no-distraction/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Time-saving tips for email marketing – how to eliminate distraction with Nir Eyal</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/rule-of-one/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Supercharge Your Email Marketing Copywriting By Mastering The Rule Of One For Maximum Impact</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/lies-stopping-you-from-business-with-profit/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lies You’ve Been Told That Are Stopping You From Making Money In Your Business</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3>Want to connect with Carrie?</h3><p>You can find Carrie on<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> her website</a> or at<a href="https://www.fullyleveragedbusiness.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Fully Leveraged Business</a>.&nbsp;</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about useful strategies to get your email marketing done if you're someone who can't stop procrastinating) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you someone who can't stop procrastinating when it comes to doing your email marketing? Well, you're not alone.</p><p>We're Kennedy and <a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Carrie</a>, and today we're sharing some useful strategies to help you stop putting your email marketing off so you can get it done. Right now!</p><p>Ready?</p><p>Let's go.</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:34) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our FREE Facebook group.&nbsp;</p><p>(2:01) Check out our sponsor - Zerobounce!&nbsp;</p><p>(3:06) Just get started (or jump back in).&nbsp;</p><p>(5:15) Stack habits together or schedule appointments in your diary.&nbsp;</p><p>(8:50) Make things easier for yourself and remove any friction.&nbsp;</p><p>(15:45) Alternate between longer and shorter emails.&nbsp;</p><p>(17:53) Follow the 'Rule of One'.&nbsp;</p><p>(21:14) Create campaigns one email at the time.</p><p>(25:20) Don't let the fear of 'being bad' hold you back.&nbsp;</p><p>(29:29) Create a system, process, or formula that works for you.&nbsp;</p><p>(32:19) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/time-saving-tips-for-email-marketing-no-distraction/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Time-saving tips for email marketing – how to eliminate distraction with Nir Eyal</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/rule-of-one/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Supercharge Your Email Marketing Copywriting By Mastering The Rule Of One For Maximum Impact</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/lies-stopping-you-from-business-with-profit/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lies You’ve Been Told That Are Stopping You From Making Money In Your Business</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3>Want to connect with Carrie?</h3><p>You can find Carrie on<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> her website</a> or at<a href="https://www.fullyleveragedbusiness.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Fully Leveraged Business</a>.&nbsp;</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about useful strategies to get your email marketing done if you're someone who can't stop procrastinating) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/useful-strategies-to-stop-procrastinating-right-now-to-get-your-email-marketing-done/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">230e6c6e-89b5-45e7-a262-13987753ce8c</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/cda80f33-693f-4de9-93ce-d537bc915df8/ssQgZ-TtI34i6HH_WT4OaPtb.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/d72ecbb8-b8cb-419d-aa53-9b8fda6e4513/EP-241-134-Final.mp3" length="81846720" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>34:06</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>241</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>241</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/57c45177-78ac-4bfb-8e7b-7a4ea283282f/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How To Use Summits For List Building, With Fifi Mason</title><itunes:title>How To Use Summits For List Building, With Fifi Mason</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>How do you host your online summit or conference? Can you use a summit for list building and see more success in your business? We find out from our friend Fifi Mason, who's been running successful summits about personal branding for introverts for nearly 5 years.</p><p>Here are some awesome strategies and tips to make summits as successful and stress-free as they can be.</p><p>Let's go!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(1:16) Check out our sponsor Zerobounce!&nbsp;</p><p>(1:47) Who is Fifi Mason and what is an online summit?&nbsp;</p><p>(4:29) Why run a summit?&nbsp;</p><p>(8:30) Behind the scenes of organising a summit.&nbsp;</p><p>(13:37) Tip 1: Give yourself at least 90 days to plan and organise your summit.&nbsp;</p><p>(16:04) Tip 2: Narrow your niche.&nbsp;</p><p>(18:10) Tip 3: Choose your speakers strategically.&nbsp;</p><p>(22:14) Tip 4: Make use of your existing tech first.&nbsp;</p><p>(27:46) Tip 5: Pre-record the sessions.&nbsp;</p><p>(30:53) Subject line of the week with Fifi Mason.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><p><br></p><h2>Who is Fifi Mason and what is an online summit?</h2><p>Fifi helps introverted coaches and business owners who struggle to be visible and be the face of their business. She supports her clients in finding ways to work with their energy and personality, as not everyone with a personal brand needs to have an outgoing, gregarious personality to be successful.</p><p>The type of summits Fifi runs are <strong>pre-recorded five-day free events featuring multiple speakers.</strong> The sessions go out at set times, and attendees have 24 hours to watch the replays for free. After that, they can upgrade to an all-access pass, which allows them to watch all the recordings (and other content) after the initial 24 hours. A summit could be shorter or longer and a mixture of pre-recorded and live sessions - you (the host) get to decide how you want to run it. But this is the format Fifi has experience of.</p><h2>Why run a summit?&nbsp;</h2><p>An online summit is great for list building as your speakers and affiliate partners will promote the summit for you. Attendees will become warm leads for your business, so good money can be made from summits.&nbsp;</p><p>Here's how summits are a 'win' for everyone:</p><ul><li>Attendees get high value for free and without the need to purchase anything if they can't afford to pay for content or training just yet.</li><li>The speakers can become affiliates and earn an affiliate fee if they bring people from their audiences to the summit. Fifi also asks her speakers to offer a free giveaway to attendees, which means people can sign up for the speakers' email lists.</li><li>As for the host, it’s a great opportunity to<strong> make new connections</strong> and <strong>build authority</strong> by hosting an event with incredible speakers and <strong>grow their email list</strong> by being exposed to the speakers' audiences. The host also makes money from the sales of the All Access Pass and anything extra they might want to offer.</li></ul><br/><p>No one is getting the short end of the stick - everyone who participates in the summit gets something out of it. All in all, a summit is a<strong> great way to build rapport with other speakers and with your audience and to convert people into customers.</strong></p><h2>Behind the scenes of organising a summit</h2><p>Fifi says that organising her first summit felt daunting, especially when she realised how many tasks were needed. But her biggest barrier was the idea of interviewing speakers, as she'd never done that before. The speakers she wanted to invite were respected in the industry and had made a name for themselves - she almost felt there was a status gap there. And at first, that stopped Fifi from approaching people.</p><p>But during the lockdown, Fifi decided to go ahead and organise her first summit - everyone was online, so it felt like the perfect opportunity to reach people. As an introvert, the idea of connecting with people, managing new tasks, and promoting the event felt like a lot. There's a huge amount of work involved, so you need to be prepared for it. But it's also possible to find ways that work with your energy and personality. <strong>It's about working strategically in a way that works<em> for you</em>.</strong></p><p>Running a summit for the first time requires the most amount of work because you need to set everything up from scratch. You're building the foundations of something new. But once that's done, it becomes an asset for your business, and you can build on top of those initial foundations.</p><p>Summits are now automated in our system - every year before we roll one out, we familiarise ourselves with the sequence and tasks and update the copy (dates, speakers, etc.) but the foundations are already there. Every time you re-run your summit, you can tweak it, improve it, and add nuances to it. The idea is to start with the best you can do at the time and then add to that year on year.</p><h2>5 strategies for a successful summit</h2><p>Here are five recommendations from Fifi to make sure your first (or next) summit is a success.</p><h2>1. Give yourself at least 90 days to plan and organise your summit</h2><p>You need at least 90 days to reach out to the speakers and give them enough time to add the event to their promotional calendar and align with what they've already planned. This way, they can promote your summit to their audiences. If you're approaching big names, expect that it might take even longer for you to hear back, and for the speaker to commit to participating.</p><h2>2. Narrow your niche</h2><p>Be sure you know <em>exactly</em> who you’re targeting. Who do you want to attend your summit and why? Pick a specific topic and reason why you’re creating this summit for a particular audience. This is crucial because if you’re too broad, you’ll up not targeting enough of your audience's needs. Have a<strong> narrow and specific niche for your summit</strong>, and if you’re launching a product or service at the back of your summit, their topics need to be closely tied together.</p><h2>3. Choose your speakers strategically</h2><p>If you don't choose your speakers carefully, you might not have enough people registering and attending your summit. You'll want enough speakers that have the kind of audience you want to target.</p><p>Ideally, you'll have different types of speakers at your event:</p><ul><li><strong>Speakers with a decent following</strong> and a few thousand people on their socials. Fifi doesn’t make this a requirement, but it'd be great if your speakers could promote the event to their audiences, as this helps you reach more people.</li><li><strong>A-listers</strong> with millions of subscribers and followers. These types of speakers might not promote your summit, but they’ll attract people to it because they are sought-after speakers that attendees want to see.</li><li>Speakers you’ve chosen specifically because of the<strong> valuable topics</strong> they can talk about, even if they don't have much of an audience.</li></ul><br/><p>All in all, <strong>you want a balance of speakers – some bring status, some deliver great content, and others attract an audience.</strong></p><p>If you're expecting your speakers to promote your summit, ask them to commit to a date when they'll email or post about it. You can then hold them to that commitment and make sure they schedule the summit promotion on the dates they agreed.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>4. Make use of your existing tech first&nbsp;</h2><p>Don’t fall into the trap of investing in new tech when you haven’t explored what you already have. Shiny object syndrome, anyone? This is a trap that Fifi fell into in the past, so her advice is to <strong>review the technology you already have and pay for, and see if that works for you.</strong> This avoids unnecessary extra costs but also removes the inevitable learning curve that comes with introducing something new. Event planning and organising are exhausting in themselves without adding new complexities!</p><p>As a general rule, <strong>keep it simple – for yourself, the speakers, and your audience.</strong> Don’t introduce additional obstacles – use the technology your audience is already familiar with and reduce the amount of friction. There'll be super fancy platforms out there that will do a lot for you, but don't add the stress of having to learn something new (for yourself and your audience), as it’s only going to make things more difficult and therefore less accessible.</p><h2>5. Pre-record the sessions</h2><p>Fifi has recently experimented with hybrid events that are part pre-recorded and part live, but she recommends pre-recording your sessions with the speakers. If you’re an introvert, hosting the whole summit (depending on how long it might be) can use a lot of your energy.</p><p>This is why Fifi pre-records the interviews with her speakers and uses software (such as StreamYard) to stream them as if they were live. This is all set up in advance, so when it comes to the summit, she can sit in the background, observe, and correct whatever needs tweaking, rather than being the face of it all.</p><p>Of course, this is just a suggestion if you’re more introverted and not as forward-facing or want to be ‘on’ all the time. But you can choose to run a mixture of pre-recorded content and live streams. You could also have a few live workshops during the summit that are run by other people, so it's not always you presenting. The key is to collaborate in smarter ways.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week with Fifi Mason</h2><p>Fifi’s subject line is “Introverts get lonely too.” It's one she sent out during her second summit and that she's used in a lot of campaigns since. It’s highly specific to her audience, and that's why it works. Also, what makes this interesting is that...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How do you host your online summit or conference? Can you use a summit for list building and see more success in your business? We find out from our friend Fifi Mason, who's been running successful summits about personal branding for introverts for nearly 5 years.</p><p>Here are some awesome strategies and tips to make summits as successful and stress-free as they can be.</p><p>Let's go!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(1:16) Check out our sponsor Zerobounce!&nbsp;</p><p>(1:47) Who is Fifi Mason and what is an online summit?&nbsp;</p><p>(4:29) Why run a summit?&nbsp;</p><p>(8:30) Behind the scenes of organising a summit.&nbsp;</p><p>(13:37) Tip 1: Give yourself at least 90 days to plan and organise your summit.&nbsp;</p><p>(16:04) Tip 2: Narrow your niche.&nbsp;</p><p>(18:10) Tip 3: Choose your speakers strategically.&nbsp;</p><p>(22:14) Tip 4: Make use of your existing tech first.&nbsp;</p><p>(27:46) Tip 5: Pre-record the sessions.&nbsp;</p><p>(30:53) Subject line of the week with Fifi Mason.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><p><br></p><h2>Who is Fifi Mason and what is an online summit?</h2><p>Fifi helps introverted coaches and business owners who struggle to be visible and be the face of their business. She supports her clients in finding ways to work with their energy and personality, as not everyone with a personal brand needs to have an outgoing, gregarious personality to be successful.</p><p>The type of summits Fifi runs are <strong>pre-recorded five-day free events featuring multiple speakers.</strong> The sessions go out at set times, and attendees have 24 hours to watch the replays for free. After that, they can upgrade to an all-access pass, which allows them to watch all the recordings (and other content) after the initial 24 hours. A summit could be shorter or longer and a mixture of pre-recorded and live sessions - you (the host) get to decide how you want to run it. But this is the format Fifi has experience of.</p><h2>Why run a summit?&nbsp;</h2><p>An online summit is great for list building as your speakers and affiliate partners will promote the summit for you. Attendees will become warm leads for your business, so good money can be made from summits.&nbsp;</p><p>Here's how summits are a 'win' for everyone:</p><ul><li>Attendees get high value for free and without the need to purchase anything if they can't afford to pay for content or training just yet.</li><li>The speakers can become affiliates and earn an affiliate fee if they bring people from their audiences to the summit. Fifi also asks her speakers to offer a free giveaway to attendees, which means people can sign up for the speakers' email lists.</li><li>As for the host, it’s a great opportunity to<strong> make new connections</strong> and <strong>build authority</strong> by hosting an event with incredible speakers and <strong>grow their email list</strong> by being exposed to the speakers' audiences. The host also makes money from the sales of the All Access Pass and anything extra they might want to offer.</li></ul><br/><p>No one is getting the short end of the stick - everyone who participates in the summit gets something out of it. All in all, a summit is a<strong> great way to build rapport with other speakers and with your audience and to convert people into customers.</strong></p><h2>Behind the scenes of organising a summit</h2><p>Fifi says that organising her first summit felt daunting, especially when she realised how many tasks were needed. But her biggest barrier was the idea of interviewing speakers, as she'd never done that before. The speakers she wanted to invite were respected in the industry and had made a name for themselves - she almost felt there was a status gap there. And at first, that stopped Fifi from approaching people.</p><p>But during the lockdown, Fifi decided to go ahead and organise her first summit - everyone was online, so it felt like the perfect opportunity to reach people. As an introvert, the idea of connecting with people, managing new tasks, and promoting the event felt like a lot. There's a huge amount of work involved, so you need to be prepared for it. But it's also possible to find ways that work with your energy and personality. <strong>It's about working strategically in a way that works<em> for you</em>.</strong></p><p>Running a summit for the first time requires the most amount of work because you need to set everything up from scratch. You're building the foundations of something new. But once that's done, it becomes an asset for your business, and you can build on top of those initial foundations.</p><p>Summits are now automated in our system - every year before we roll one out, we familiarise ourselves with the sequence and tasks and update the copy (dates, speakers, etc.) but the foundations are already there. Every time you re-run your summit, you can tweak it, improve it, and add nuances to it. The idea is to start with the best you can do at the time and then add to that year on year.</p><h2>5 strategies for a successful summit</h2><p>Here are five recommendations from Fifi to make sure your first (or next) summit is a success.</p><h2>1. Give yourself at least 90 days to plan and organise your summit</h2><p>You need at least 90 days to reach out to the speakers and give them enough time to add the event to their promotional calendar and align with what they've already planned. This way, they can promote your summit to their audiences. If you're approaching big names, expect that it might take even longer for you to hear back, and for the speaker to commit to participating.</p><h2>2. Narrow your niche</h2><p>Be sure you know <em>exactly</em> who you’re targeting. Who do you want to attend your summit and why? Pick a specific topic and reason why you’re creating this summit for a particular audience. This is crucial because if you’re too broad, you’ll up not targeting enough of your audience's needs. Have a<strong> narrow and specific niche for your summit</strong>, and if you’re launching a product or service at the back of your summit, their topics need to be closely tied together.</p><h2>3. Choose your speakers strategically</h2><p>If you don't choose your speakers carefully, you might not have enough people registering and attending your summit. You'll want enough speakers that have the kind of audience you want to target.</p><p>Ideally, you'll have different types of speakers at your event:</p><ul><li><strong>Speakers with a decent following</strong> and a few thousand people on their socials. Fifi doesn’t make this a requirement, but it'd be great if your speakers could promote the event to their audiences, as this helps you reach more people.</li><li><strong>A-listers</strong> with millions of subscribers and followers. These types of speakers might not promote your summit, but they’ll attract people to it because they are sought-after speakers that attendees want to see.</li><li>Speakers you’ve chosen specifically because of the<strong> valuable topics</strong> they can talk about, even if they don't have much of an audience.</li></ul><br/><p>All in all, <strong>you want a balance of speakers – some bring status, some deliver great content, and others attract an audience.</strong></p><p>If you're expecting your speakers to promote your summit, ask them to commit to a date when they'll email or post about it. You can then hold them to that commitment and make sure they schedule the summit promotion on the dates they agreed.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>4. Make use of your existing tech first&nbsp;</h2><p>Don’t fall into the trap of investing in new tech when you haven’t explored what you already have. Shiny object syndrome, anyone? This is a trap that Fifi fell into in the past, so her advice is to <strong>review the technology you already have and pay for, and see if that works for you.</strong> This avoids unnecessary extra costs but also removes the inevitable learning curve that comes with introducing something new. Event planning and organising are exhausting in themselves without adding new complexities!</p><p>As a general rule, <strong>keep it simple – for yourself, the speakers, and your audience.</strong> Don’t introduce additional obstacles – use the technology your audience is already familiar with and reduce the amount of friction. There'll be super fancy platforms out there that will do a lot for you, but don't add the stress of having to learn something new (for yourself and your audience), as it’s only going to make things more difficult and therefore less accessible.</p><h2>5. Pre-record the sessions</h2><p>Fifi has recently experimented with hybrid events that are part pre-recorded and part live, but she recommends pre-recording your sessions with the speakers. If you’re an introvert, hosting the whole summit (depending on how long it might be) can use a lot of your energy.</p><p>This is why Fifi pre-records the interviews with her speakers and uses software (such as StreamYard) to stream them as if they were live. This is all set up in advance, so when it comes to the summit, she can sit in the background, observe, and correct whatever needs tweaking, rather than being the face of it all.</p><p>Of course, this is just a suggestion if you’re more introverted and not as forward-facing or want to be ‘on’ all the time. But you can choose to run a mixture of pre-recorded content and live streams. You could also have a few live workshops during the summit that are run by other people, so it's not always you presenting. The key is to collaborate in smarter ways.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week with Fifi Mason</h2><p>Fifi’s subject line is “Introverts get lonely too.” It's one she sent out during her second summit and that she's used in a lot of campaigns since. It’s highly specific to her audience, and that's why it works. Also, what makes this interesting is that Fifi's taken an assumption about introverts (they don't get lonely because they want to be alone) and spun it into a new truth. So check it out!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Want to connect with Fifi?</h3><p>You can find Fifi on her<a href="https://fifimason.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> website</a>. Fifi has also put together a FREE download with a 90-day task checklist that includes everything you need to organise a successful summit. You can find it<a href="https://fifimason.com/unlock-your-free-summit-task-list/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> here</a>.</p><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/lessons-inbox-free-online-email-marketing-conference/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">9 Lessons from The Inbox Online Email Marketing Conference</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-promote-a-virtual-event-inbox/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lessons Learned from Running Our 2-Day INBOX Event</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/run-your-own-online-summit-profit-and-list-growth-with-leeann-marie-webster/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Run Your Own Online Summit – Profit and List Growth with LeeAnn Marie Webster</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to use buyer psychology in email marketing) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/summits-list-building/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">fe0ad0e9-c658-4336-b528-fd199627372a</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/aa46341d-b42b-44bb-ac8e-e3c376af5274/-1UE9qBBBgOUKbjtAB00OKBJ.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/61271197-91c1-4e4e-b7e3-30e9e14685d4/EP-240-Final.mp3" length="79416256" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>33:05</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>240</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>240</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/de135abe-30ea-4e7c-b729-08ab2697ffb3/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Buyer Psychology in Email Marketing - Make MORE Email Sales</title><itunes:title>Buyer Psychology in Email Marketing - Make MORE Email Sales</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>How can you make your email marketing more effective? How do you sell <em>more</em>? By using <em>buyer psychology</em> in your email marketing.</p><p>We're Kennedy and<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Carrie</a>, and we're sharing all the good stuff about that.</p><p>Ready? Then buckle up!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:30) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(1:25) Share stories.&nbsp;</p><p>(7:58) Address people as if they're already your customers.&nbsp;</p><p>(11:05) Tell people what to do next.&nbsp;</p><p>(13:55) Share social proof.&nbsp;</p><p>(19:34) Use scarcity and urgency.&nbsp;</p><p>(25:23) Join The Email Hero Blueprint.&nbsp;</p><p>(25:58) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/marketing-ethical-dilemmas-deadlines/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Do Deadlines Well and Ethically</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-storytelling/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">EVERYTHING You Need To Know About Email Marketing And Storytelling To Write Emails That Sell Like Crazy</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/marketing-is-storytelling-comedian-kevin-rogers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Comedian’s Secrets to Storytelling – With Kevin Rogers</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3>Want to connect with Carrie?</h3><p>You can find Carrie on<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> her website</a> or at<a href="https://www.fullyleveragedbusiness.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Fully Leveraged Business</a>.&nbsp;</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to use buyer psychology in email marketing) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How can you make your email marketing more effective? How do you sell <em>more</em>? By using <em>buyer psychology</em> in your email marketing.</p><p>We're Kennedy and<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Carrie</a>, and we're sharing all the good stuff about that.</p><p>Ready? Then buckle up!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:30) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(1:25) Share stories.&nbsp;</p><p>(7:58) Address people as if they're already your customers.&nbsp;</p><p>(11:05) Tell people what to do next.&nbsp;</p><p>(13:55) Share social proof.&nbsp;</p><p>(19:34) Use scarcity and urgency.&nbsp;</p><p>(25:23) Join The Email Hero Blueprint.&nbsp;</p><p>(25:58) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/marketing-ethical-dilemmas-deadlines/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Do Deadlines Well and Ethically</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-storytelling/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">EVERYTHING You Need To Know About Email Marketing And Storytelling To Write Emails That Sell Like Crazy</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/marketing-is-storytelling-comedian-kevin-rogers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Comedian’s Secrets to Storytelling – With Kevin Rogers</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3>Want to connect with Carrie?</h3><p>You can find Carrie on<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> her website</a> or at<a href="https://www.fullyleveragedbusiness.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Fully Leveraged Business</a>.&nbsp;</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to use buyer psychology in email marketing) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-sell-more-by-tapping-into-the-power-of-buyer-psychology-in-your-email-marketing/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">e236fff3-f042-4978-8fde-80ee2da632bf</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/700e4084-fe9a-4a73-8369-b42d3f506623/cVURffDRSd8ZLeT5lv5SNO66.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/fdc0ee04-5457-4ef3-abe2-ae6dd281ba3f/EP-239-185-Final.mp3" length="65582656" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>27:19</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>239</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>239</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/f83fa6fe-694f-40ab-847a-a0840762a2a3/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Little Tricks to Write Better Emails That Aren&apos;t Boring</title><itunes:title>Little Tricks to Write Better Emails That Aren&apos;t Boring</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>How can you write better emails? Do you think your emails are boring? Do you need to be funny? Or should you try and be more interesting? And if so, <em>how</em>?</p><p>We're Kennedy and<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Carrie</a>, and we're sharing the little things you can do to make your email marketing less boring.</p><p>Ready? Then buckle up!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:30) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(3:05) Make everyday life sound interesting.&nbsp;</p><p>(4:35) Take people on a journey with you.&nbsp;</p><p>(10:27) Stay relevant to your audience.&nbsp;</p><p>(13:37) Deliver value (and selling is value!)&nbsp;</p><p>(17:37) Send emails using your name (not your company's).&nbsp;</p><p>(18:41) Show up regularly and don't shy away from expressing opinions.&nbsp;</p><p>(22:37) Tell stories (and start from the action).&nbsp;</p><p>(26:16) Join The Email Hero Blueprint.</p><p>(26:33) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-storytelling/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">EVERYTHING You Need To Know About Email Marketing And Storytelling To Write Emails That Sell Like Crazy</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-success-isabelle-lesschaeve/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Success: How Isabelle Lesschaeve Made An Extra $10,000 With Our Paparazzi Flash Sale Campaign</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/familiarity-exposure/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tap Into The Mind-Blowing Power Of Familiarity Exposure Psychology In Your Emails To Boost Sales In Your Business</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3>Want to connect with Carrie?</h3><p>You can find Carrie on<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> her website</a> or at<a href="https://www.fullyleveragedbusiness.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Fully Leveraged Business</a>.&nbsp;</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to write better emails that aren't boring) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How can you write better emails? Do you think your emails are boring? Do you need to be funny? Or should you try and be more interesting? And if so, <em>how</em>?</p><p>We're Kennedy and<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Carrie</a>, and we're sharing the little things you can do to make your email marketing less boring.</p><p>Ready? Then buckle up!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:30) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(3:05) Make everyday life sound interesting.&nbsp;</p><p>(4:35) Take people on a journey with you.&nbsp;</p><p>(10:27) Stay relevant to your audience.&nbsp;</p><p>(13:37) Deliver value (and selling is value!)&nbsp;</p><p>(17:37) Send emails using your name (not your company's).&nbsp;</p><p>(18:41) Show up regularly and don't shy away from expressing opinions.&nbsp;</p><p>(22:37) Tell stories (and start from the action).&nbsp;</p><p>(26:16) Join The Email Hero Blueprint.</p><p>(26:33) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-storytelling/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">EVERYTHING You Need To Know About Email Marketing And Storytelling To Write Emails That Sell Like Crazy</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-success-isabelle-lesschaeve/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Success: How Isabelle Lesschaeve Made An Extra $10,000 With Our Paparazzi Flash Sale Campaign</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/familiarity-exposure/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tap Into The Mind-Blowing Power Of Familiarity Exposure Psychology In Your Emails To Boost Sales In Your Business</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3>Want to connect with Carrie?</h3><p>You can find Carrie on<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> her website</a> or at<a href="https://www.fullyleveragedbusiness.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Fully Leveraged Business</a>.&nbsp;</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to write better emails that aren't boring) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/the-little-tricks-to-write-better-emails-that-arent-boring/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">8c682b8e-6469-4d1d-8481-1a27189fb0fd</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/cdd53263-5502-44aa-9682-8459c97c2fde/YU9aNrm9xpAC7DeVMSY42xc1.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/9bee3390-f0e7-465d-a4d7-2727be4213d9/EP-238-121-Final.mp3" length="66816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>27:50</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>238</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>238</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/28e3a972-682e-42ae-85ed-c45c3ce75bc2/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>The 7 Best Email Marketing Strategies That Shouldn&apos;t Work</title><itunes:title>The 7 Best Email Marketing Strategies That Shouldn&apos;t Work</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What are the BEST email marketing strategies out there? Well, we have 7 strategies for you that <em>shouldn't</em> work, but they<em> absolutely</em> do!</p><p>We're Kennedy and<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Carrie</a>, and the things we're going to share might surprise you. But trust us, they work!</p><p>Ready to get all the good stuff?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:33) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(2:42) 1. Send more emails.&nbsp;</p><p>(5:09) 2. Include one clear call to action in all your emails.&nbsp;</p><p>(8:06) 3. Talk about yourself.&nbsp;</p><p>(16:23) 4. Stop using benefit-driven subject lines.&nbsp;</p><p>(17:53) 5. Send emails that 'divide' your audience.&nbsp;</p><p>(26:20) 6. Share complaints or negative reviews.&nbsp;</p><p>(30:00) 7. Send 'ugly' emails.&nbsp;</p><p>(31:49) Join The Email Hero Blueprint.&nbsp;</p><p>(32:17) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/turn-problems-into-opportunities-haters-to-sales-talking-shrimp/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Turn Problems into Opportunities – Convert Haters into Sales with Laura Belgray from The Talking Shrimp</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-deliverability/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Truth About All The Surprising Things That REALLY Impact Your Email Deliverability</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/the-best-time-to-send-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Perfect Timing? What’s The BEST Time To Send An Email For Maximum Impact?</a></p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3>Want to connect with Carrie?</h3><p>You can find Carrie on<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> her website</a>!</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the 7 BEST email marketing strategies that shouldn't work but absolutely do) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What are the BEST email marketing strategies out there? Well, we have 7 strategies for you that <em>shouldn't</em> work, but they<em> absolutely</em> do!</p><p>We're Kennedy and<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Carrie</a>, and the things we're going to share might surprise you. But trust us, they work!</p><p>Ready to get all the good stuff?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:33) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(2:42) 1. Send more emails.&nbsp;</p><p>(5:09) 2. Include one clear call to action in all your emails.&nbsp;</p><p>(8:06) 3. Talk about yourself.&nbsp;</p><p>(16:23) 4. Stop using benefit-driven subject lines.&nbsp;</p><p>(17:53) 5. Send emails that 'divide' your audience.&nbsp;</p><p>(26:20) 6. Share complaints or negative reviews.&nbsp;</p><p>(30:00) 7. Send 'ugly' emails.&nbsp;</p><p>(31:49) Join The Email Hero Blueprint.&nbsp;</p><p>(32:17) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/turn-problems-into-opportunities-haters-to-sales-talking-shrimp/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Turn Problems into Opportunities – Convert Haters into Sales with Laura Belgray from The Talking Shrimp</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-deliverability/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Truth About All The Surprising Things That REALLY Impact Your Email Deliverability</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/the-best-time-to-send-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Perfect Timing? What’s The BEST Time To Send An Email For Maximum Impact?</a></p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3>Want to connect with Carrie?</h3><p>You can find Carrie on<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> her website</a>!</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the 7 BEST email marketing strategies that shouldn't work but absolutely do) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/the-7-best-email-marketing-strategies-that-shouldnt-work-but-absolutely-do/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">30da20d9-a2d2-4082-b520-d645c3d88d83</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/b0f0fbd9-6f2d-4fb0-b441-86928b106810/bp0NKEeaZ2uc4LRd_I5zwo6O.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/04efd633-a7cd-4931-99a1-ffd1fa0bea11/EP-237-151-Final.mp3" length="83339776" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>34:43</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>237</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>237</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/5c9351b3-4bb1-4e63-b358-83ba38179db3/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How To Build An Impactful Email Marketing Strategy Plan</title><itunes:title>How To Build An Impactful Email Marketing Strategy Plan</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>How and why should you create an email marketing strategy plan? What are the pros and cons? What can planning help you achieve in your business?</p><p>We're Kennedy and <a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Carrie</a>, and you're about to find out how planning your email marketing activities can be super simple and effective.</p><p>Ready?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:32) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(3:23) How do you create an email marketing strategy?&nbsp;</p><p>(6:23) Why is having an email marketing strategy effective?&nbsp;</p><p>(9:55) What to look out for when building your email marketing strategy.&nbsp;</p><p>(14:07) Why plan your strategy quarterly.&nbsp;</p><p>(18:25) What if you only have ONE product?&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>(23:31) Think of your subscribers as 3 separate segments.&nbsp;</p><p>(26:23) Link your promotions to your financial goals.&nbsp;</p><p>(29:21) Join The Email Hero Blueprint.&nbsp;</p><p>(29:46) Subject line of the week.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/essential-email-campaigns-examples/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The 7 Proven And Essential Email Campaigns To Add To Your Marketing Strategy And Elevate Your Business</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/mistakes-email-marketing-atuomation-strategy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mistakes You’re Making With Your Email Marketing Automation Strategy</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/building-your-email-list/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">7 New Ideas To Build Your Email List In 2024 (With Extra Tips!)</a></p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3><strong>Want to connect with Carrie? </strong></h3><p> You can find Carrie on <a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">her website</a>!</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to build an impactful email marketing strategy plan) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How and why should you create an email marketing strategy plan? What are the pros and cons? What can planning help you achieve in your business?</p><p>We're Kennedy and <a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Carrie</a>, and you're about to find out how planning your email marketing activities can be super simple and effective.</p><p>Ready?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:32) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(3:23) How do you create an email marketing strategy?&nbsp;</p><p>(6:23) Why is having an email marketing strategy effective?&nbsp;</p><p>(9:55) What to look out for when building your email marketing strategy.&nbsp;</p><p>(14:07) Why plan your strategy quarterly.&nbsp;</p><p>(18:25) What if you only have ONE product?&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>(23:31) Think of your subscribers as 3 separate segments.&nbsp;</p><p>(26:23) Link your promotions to your financial goals.&nbsp;</p><p>(29:21) Join The Email Hero Blueprint.&nbsp;</p><p>(29:46) Subject line of the week.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/essential-email-campaigns-examples/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The 7 Proven And Essential Email Campaigns To Add To Your Marketing Strategy And Elevate Your Business</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/mistakes-email-marketing-atuomation-strategy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mistakes You’re Making With Your Email Marketing Automation Strategy</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/building-your-email-list/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">7 New Ideas To Build Your Email List In 2024 (With Extra Tips!)</a></p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3><strong>Want to connect with Carrie? </strong></h3><p> You can find Carrie on <a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">her website</a>!</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to build an impactful email marketing strategy plan) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-build-the-most-impactful-email-marketing-strategy-plan-to-make-more-sales-in-your-business/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">f5123282-e38c-4892-9182-3ea99f814115</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/9d9d3756-014e-40db-b1ae-0796c5e14efb/4hui92O9-nxdAPtS-LJs4oUQ.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/60bcd301-5f76-4c9b-939e-6fafe7e76e82/EP-236-165-Final.mp3" length="75842176" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>31:36</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>236</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>236</podcast:episode></item><item><title>The Surprising Things That Impact Your Email Deliverability</title><itunes:title>The Surprising Things That Impact Your Email Deliverability</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>How do you improve your email deliverability? What can damage your sender's reputation? How can you make sure your emails land in your subscribers' inboxes?</p><p>We're Kennedy and <a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Carrie</a>, and we're here to share the truth about all the surprising things that affect your email deliverability so you can have better results.</p><p>Ready?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:33) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(2:21) What is 'email deliverability'?&nbsp;</p><p>(5:06) The technical things that impact your email deliverability.&nbsp;</p><p>(7:40) Using too many images.&nbsp;</p><p>(9:49) More reasons for not using too many images in your emails.&nbsp;</p><p>(13:55) Having little or no engagement with your emails.&nbsp;</p><p>(16:26) Using 'spammy' words.&nbsp;</p><p>(21:00) What can you do to improve your email deliverability?&nbsp;</p><p>(23:03) Keep your list clean.</p><p>(24:57) Subject line of the week.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-deliverability-2/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stop Landing In The Spam Folder &amp; Immediately Skyrocket Your Email Deliverability – With Brian Minick</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-analytics/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Master Your Metrics – Unleashing The Power Of Email Marketing Analytics</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/reengagement-email-campaign/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Create THE Most Successful Re-Engagement Email Campaign (And Smash Your Sales Targets)</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3><strong>Want to connect with Carrie? </strong></h3><p>You can find Carrie on <a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">her website</a>!</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the things that impact your email deliverability) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How do you improve your email deliverability? What can damage your sender's reputation? How can you make sure your emails land in your subscribers' inboxes?</p><p>We're Kennedy and <a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Carrie</a>, and we're here to share the truth about all the surprising things that affect your email deliverability so you can have better results.</p><p>Ready?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:33) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(2:21) What is 'email deliverability'?&nbsp;</p><p>(5:06) The technical things that impact your email deliverability.&nbsp;</p><p>(7:40) Using too many images.&nbsp;</p><p>(9:49) More reasons for not using too many images in your emails.&nbsp;</p><p>(13:55) Having little or no engagement with your emails.&nbsp;</p><p>(16:26) Using 'spammy' words.&nbsp;</p><p>(21:00) What can you do to improve your email deliverability?&nbsp;</p><p>(23:03) Keep your list clean.</p><p>(24:57) Subject line of the week.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-deliverability-2/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stop Landing In The Spam Folder &amp; Immediately Skyrocket Your Email Deliverability – With Brian Minick</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-analytics/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Master Your Metrics – Unleashing The Power Of Email Marketing Analytics</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/reengagement-email-campaign/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Create THE Most Successful Re-Engagement Email Campaign (And Smash Your Sales Targets)</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3><strong>Want to connect with Carrie? </strong></h3><p>You can find Carrie on <a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">her website</a>!</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the things that impact your email deliverability) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/the-truth-about-all-the-surprising-things-that-really-impact-your-email-deliverability/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">a40f252a-6dbe-462c-8191-dabb82248dfc</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/bcc7eb27-f711-4c51-855e-2df206fd08b6/EIqS4xvDuO-winTlJcJDFKdm.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/95be5380-1b07-40ff-9aab-577c4892e20e/EP-235-117.mp3" length="65151616" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>27:09</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>235</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>235</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/97afda77-501f-4f80-bb0c-3a2c7e7f2153/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Email Marketing Success: How Isabelle Lesschaeve Made $10,000</title><itunes:title>Email Marketing Success: How Isabelle Lesschaeve Made $10,000</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Want to hear a story about <em>fantastic</em> email marketing success? Isabelle Lesschaeve holds a full-time job as a scientist but also runs a side hustle passion business as a wine-tasting coach. By leveraging email marketing and implementing our Paparazzi flash sale campaign, Isabelle made <em>an extra $10,000.</em></p><p>We're Kennedy and <a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Carrie</a>, and you're about to meet Isabelle (with her beautiful French accent) and find out all the good stuff!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:48) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(2:08) Who is our client Isabelle Lesschaeve?&nbsp;</p><p>(4:28) How does Isabelle work with her clients?&nbsp;</p><p>(6:33) When did Isabelle first get started with email marketing?&nbsp;</p><p>(7:55) What was Isabelle's biggest barrier to using email marketing?&nbsp;</p><p>(10:06) What was the first change Isabelle made when she joined our programme?&nbsp;</p><p>(15:55) What results did Isabelle get from her email marketing?&nbsp;</p><p>(19:23) What's changed for Isabelle since joining our programme?&nbsp;</p><p>(23:20) What ONE action does Isabelle recommend people take?</p><p>(24:42) Subject lines of the week.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-success-stories/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How Our Client Lucas Reuterstig Saved His Business By Implementing Just Two Of Our Awesome Email Marketing Campaigns</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/increased-revenue-email-marketing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How April McMurtrey Increased Her Revenue By 400% In Just One Year – A Case Study</a>.</p><p>And <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/membership-conversion-rate/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How Cheryl Hatch Increased Her Membership Conversion Rate By 84% With Just Two Email Campaigns – A Case Study</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3><strong>Want to connect with Carrie? </strong></h3><p> You can find Carrie on <a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">her website</a>!</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about our client Isabelle's email marketing success) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Want to hear a story about <em>fantastic</em> email marketing success? Isabelle Lesschaeve holds a full-time job as a scientist but also runs a side hustle passion business as a wine-tasting coach. By leveraging email marketing and implementing our Paparazzi flash sale campaign, Isabelle made <em>an extra $10,000.</em></p><p>We're Kennedy and <a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Carrie</a>, and you're about to meet Isabelle (with her beautiful French accent) and find out all the good stuff!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:48) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(2:08) Who is our client Isabelle Lesschaeve?&nbsp;</p><p>(4:28) How does Isabelle work with her clients?&nbsp;</p><p>(6:33) When did Isabelle first get started with email marketing?&nbsp;</p><p>(7:55) What was Isabelle's biggest barrier to using email marketing?&nbsp;</p><p>(10:06) What was the first change Isabelle made when she joined our programme?&nbsp;</p><p>(15:55) What results did Isabelle get from her email marketing?&nbsp;</p><p>(19:23) What's changed for Isabelle since joining our programme?&nbsp;</p><p>(23:20) What ONE action does Isabelle recommend people take?</p><p>(24:42) Subject lines of the week.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-success-stories/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How Our Client Lucas Reuterstig Saved His Business By Implementing Just Two Of Our Awesome Email Marketing Campaigns</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/increased-revenue-email-marketing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How April McMurtrey Increased Her Revenue By 400% In Just One Year – A Case Study</a>.</p><p>And <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/membership-conversion-rate/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How Cheryl Hatch Increased Her Membership Conversion Rate By 84% With Just Two Email Campaigns – A Case Study</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3><strong>Want to connect with Carrie? </strong></h3><p> You can find Carrie on <a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">her website</a>!</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about our client Isabelle's email marketing success) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-success-isabelle-lesschaeve/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">4ab08bdf-c49a-46ab-9072-5a48e9efa713</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/e3f63f03-5b00-4e10-a0f3-e9b19ece288d/q8RscYF83fOQz-Xr7DDrK8wn.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/8c4e8f4a-edbc-4c59-9f2f-d7ab26d71b38/234-Final.mp3" length="62905216" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>26:13</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>234</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>234</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/9f0242a6-81bb-4cf5-be20-d64904e3da40/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>7 Proven And Essential Email Campaigns For Your Business</title><itunes:title>7 Proven And Essential Email Campaigns For Your Business</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>How many email marketing sequences do we need for our business? What are the critical email campaign examples you should have in place?</p><p>We're Kennedy and <a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Carrie</a>, and here are the 7 email campaigns we think every business should have.</p><p>Ready to take notes? (And, most importantly, take<em> action</em>?)</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:38) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(3:04) Take action - build one campaign at a time.&nbsp;</p><p>(5:07) Why are campaigns with multiple emails more effective?&nbsp;</p><p>(12:40) 1. A delivery sequence.&nbsp;</p><p>(15:40) 2. A welcome sequence.&nbsp;</p><p>(19:23) 3. A direct sales sequence.&nbsp;</p><p>(22:37) 4. A content-led sequence.&nbsp;</p><p>(27:57) 5. An objection handling sequence.&nbsp;</p><p>(33:19) 6. A risk reversal sequence.&nbsp;</p><p>(34:20) 7. A subscriber engagement sequence.&nbsp;</p><p>(39:01) Subject lines of the week.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/template-email-marketing-campaign/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Template For Email Marketing Campaigns</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/best-email-marketing-campaigns/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Run A Smashing Flash Sale With One of The Best Email Marketing Campaigns In The World</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/the-best-time-to-send-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Perfect Timing? What’s The BEST Time To Send An Email For Maximum Impact?</a></p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3><strong>Want to connect with Carrie? </strong></h3><p> You can find Carrie on <a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">her website</a>!</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the 7 email campaign examples you must have in your business) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How many email marketing sequences do we need for our business? What are the critical email campaign examples you should have in place?</p><p>We're Kennedy and <a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Carrie</a>, and here are the 7 email campaigns we think every business should have.</p><p>Ready to take notes? (And, most importantly, take<em> action</em>?)</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:38) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(3:04) Take action - build one campaign at a time.&nbsp;</p><p>(5:07) Why are campaigns with multiple emails more effective?&nbsp;</p><p>(12:40) 1. A delivery sequence.&nbsp;</p><p>(15:40) 2. A welcome sequence.&nbsp;</p><p>(19:23) 3. A direct sales sequence.&nbsp;</p><p>(22:37) 4. A content-led sequence.&nbsp;</p><p>(27:57) 5. An objection handling sequence.&nbsp;</p><p>(33:19) 6. A risk reversal sequence.&nbsp;</p><p>(34:20) 7. A subscriber engagement sequence.&nbsp;</p><p>(39:01) Subject lines of the week.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/template-email-marketing-campaign/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Template For Email Marketing Campaigns</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/best-email-marketing-campaigns/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Run A Smashing Flash Sale With One of The Best Email Marketing Campaigns In The World</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/the-best-time-to-send-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Perfect Timing? What’s The BEST Time To Send An Email For Maximum Impact?</a></p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3><strong>Want to connect with Carrie? </strong></h3><p> You can find Carrie on <a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">her website</a>!</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the 7 email campaign examples you must have in your business) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/the-7-proven-and-essential-email-campaigns-to-add-to-your-marketing-strategy-and-elevate-your-business/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">68b45e5f-a34d-471d-92aa-d896ada7809c</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/561c54f3-538c-42e5-9222-2c94698fffb9/Jjo9oxq6NSPZvGX-amTveotC.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/f1cda29b-2828-48fd-80e8-d628f749cdc1/EP-233-123.mp3" length="97857600" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>40:46</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>233</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>233</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/1697c597-9c68-4373-b963-b9c5a22876bc/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>7 New Ideas To Build Your Email List In 2024 (With Extra Tips!)</title><itunes:title>7 New Ideas To Build Your Email List In 2024 (With Extra Tips!)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What are the best ways to build an email list in 2024? What strategies are still relevant? Want to know what's working and what isn't?</p><p>We're Kennedy and <a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Carrie</a>, and you're about to get a truckload of value from this episode.</p><p>Guaranteed.</p><p>Ready to take action and get some awesome results?</p><p>Let's do this!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:33) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(1:38) Be a guest expert on other people's podcasts.&nbsp;</p><p>(16:00) Speak in other people's memberships and paid groups.&nbsp;</p><p>(21:17) Speak at live events.&nbsp;</p><p>(29:23) Leverage your social media channels.&nbsp;</p><p>(31:03) Ask people to click on the link in your bio.&nbsp;</p><p>(36:18) Leverage a free Facebook group.&nbsp;</p><p>(42:03) Leverage 'swaps' and affiliates.&nbsp;</p><p>(51:49) Join<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(53:36) Subject lines of the week.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/landing-pages-lead-generation/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Landing Pages For Lead Generation – How To Create The Most AMAZING Landing Pages To Attract More Subscribers To Your Email List</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/grow-your-email-list-helen-perry/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Grow your Email List When You Have Less Than 10k Instagram Followers, Helen Perry spills all</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/grow-your-email-list-using-facebook-pages/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Grow Your Email List Using Facebook Pages (Without Ads) – Rachel Miller Moolah Style!</a></p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3><strong>Want to connect with Carrie? </strong></h3><p> You can find Carrie on <a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">her website</a>!</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the best ways to build your email list in 2024) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What are the best ways to build an email list in 2024? What strategies are still relevant? Want to know what's working and what isn't?</p><p>We're Kennedy and <a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Carrie</a>, and you're about to get a truckload of value from this episode.</p><p>Guaranteed.</p><p>Ready to take action and get some awesome results?</p><p>Let's do this!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:33) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(1:38) Be a guest expert on other people's podcasts.&nbsp;</p><p>(16:00) Speak in other people's memberships and paid groups.&nbsp;</p><p>(21:17) Speak at live events.&nbsp;</p><p>(29:23) Leverage your social media channels.&nbsp;</p><p>(31:03) Ask people to click on the link in your bio.&nbsp;</p><p>(36:18) Leverage a free Facebook group.&nbsp;</p><p>(42:03) Leverage 'swaps' and affiliates.&nbsp;</p><p>(51:49) Join<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(53:36) Subject lines of the week.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/landing-pages-lead-generation/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Landing Pages For Lead Generation – How To Create The Most AMAZING Landing Pages To Attract More Subscribers To Your Email List</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/grow-your-email-list-helen-perry/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Grow your Email List When You Have Less Than 10k Instagram Followers, Helen Perry spills all</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/grow-your-email-list-using-facebook-pages/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Grow Your Email List Using Facebook Pages (Without Ads) – Rachel Miller Moolah Style!</a></p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3><strong>Want to connect with Carrie? </strong></h3><p> You can find Carrie on <a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">her website</a>!</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the best ways to build your email list in 2024) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/7-new-ideas-to-build-your-email-list-in-2024-with-extra-tips]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">c48afb70-af35-47b7-a04a-e0015ebba843</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/166c5e43-c288-428f-b1d2-7aa32dc4a869/GyKwWceOdnRzSYuKEKzEgRiA.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/b3516c98-1976-45fc-bb75-913e330018c6/EP-232-112.mp3" length="132632640" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>55:16</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>232</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>232</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/e43c43e1-d753-4b30-b51d-a2afb6bc2a90/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Perfect Timing? What&apos;s The BEST Time To Send An Email For Maximum Impact?</title><itunes:title>Perfect Timing? What&apos;s The BEST Time To Send An Email For Maximum Impact?</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What's the best time to send an email? It's the multimillion-dollar question we always get asked. But is there a specific time? Does <em>when</em> you send an email matter?</p><p>We're Kennedy and <a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Carrie</a>, and you're about to find out the truth about this...</p><p>Ready?</p><h2><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>(0:33) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(2:17) Is there a universal 'best time' to send an email?&nbsp;</p><p>(6:03) The best time to send an email depends on your email list.&nbsp;</p><p>(7:40) Why you shouldn't rely on open rates.&nbsp;</p><p>(11:35) The best time to send an email is when you'll send that email.&nbsp;</p><p>(16:14) Know your audience.&nbsp;</p><p>(17:52) Create email automations.&nbsp;</p><p>(21:05) So when's the best time to send an email?&nbsp;</p><p>(23:23) Join<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(23:51) Subject line of the week.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/increase-open-rate/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Increase Your Open Rates (They’re Wrong But…)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/click-through-rate-increase/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Practical Ways To Increase The Average Click-Through Rate In Your Email Marketing</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-analytics/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Master Your Metrics – Unleashing The Power Of Email Marketing Analytics</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and get your readers to click and buy, here's how. This is a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab it for FREE here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then grab<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a>.</p><p>This is (hands down) the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3><strong>Want to connect with Carrie? </strong></h3><p>You can find Carrie on <a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">her website</a>!</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the best time to send an email) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What's the best time to send an email? It's the multimillion-dollar question we always get asked. But is there a specific time? Does <em>when</em> you send an email matter?</p><p>We're Kennedy and <a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Carrie</a>, and you're about to find out the truth about this...</p><p>Ready?</p><h2><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>(0:33) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(2:17) Is there a universal 'best time' to send an email?&nbsp;</p><p>(6:03) The best time to send an email depends on your email list.&nbsp;</p><p>(7:40) Why you shouldn't rely on open rates.&nbsp;</p><p>(11:35) The best time to send an email is when you'll send that email.&nbsp;</p><p>(16:14) Know your audience.&nbsp;</p><p>(17:52) Create email automations.&nbsp;</p><p>(21:05) So when's the best time to send an email?&nbsp;</p><p>(23:23) Join<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(23:51) Subject line of the week.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/increase-open-rate/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Increase Your Open Rates (They’re Wrong But…)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/click-through-rate-increase/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Practical Ways To Increase The Average Click-Through Rate In Your Email Marketing</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-analytics/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Master Your Metrics – Unleashing The Power Of Email Marketing Analytics</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and get your readers to click and buy, here's how. This is a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab it for FREE here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then grab<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a>.</p><p>This is (hands down) the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3><strong>Want to connect with Carrie? </strong></h3><p>You can find Carrie on <a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">her website</a>!</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the best time to send an email) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/the-best-time-to-send-emails/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">d4700b98-ef44-4394-bc89-6d6788dd53b4</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/9afbf27a-1c1a-4a3e-af24-5b2c18b876e3/nTdltTxtfIBXUofrF7EsTGmw.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/f59234fc-0b14-4edb-9a8e-f4224e98a132/Final-v2.mp3" length="61956480" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>25:49</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>231</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>231</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/7d7d3475-7352-4231-b603-e354958b71e9/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Techniques To Maximise The Power Of An Email Marketing Wait List</title><itunes:title>Techniques To Maximise The Power Of An Email Marketing Wait List</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Can you use an email marketing waitlist for your next big launch? Maybe you have a membership or a course and want to generate excitement, curiosity, and demand. Can a waitlist help you do that? Also, how do you keep people on your waitlist <em>warm</em>? How long should you run a waitlist for, and how often should you contact people on it?&nbsp;</p><p>We answer all these questions and much more...</p><p>Are you ready to get all the good stuff?</p><p>Let's go!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:08) Grab our amazing resource<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/8fa9c29f23cd9c9bfc2f571b76018b1f093517a2?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=click-tricks" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Click Tricks</a> totally for FREE!</p><p>(4:18) Should you have a waitlist for your membership or course?</p><p>(11:17) When should you use a waitlist?</p><p>(14:08) How do you get people on your waitlist?</p><p>(15:22) Where possible, reward people instantly!&nbsp;</p><p>(17:50) How we use waitlists in our business?</p><p>(21:18) Give people a genuine reason to join your waitlist.</p><p>(22:52) How do you keep people on your waitlist <em>warm</em>?</p><p>(30:07) What's the <em>dual reality</em> principle?</p><p>(32:47) Subject lines of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><p><br></p><h2>Should you have a waitlist for your membership or course?&nbsp;</h2><p>Between the two of us, we’ve had experience selling courses and memberships for years, both with our current and previous businesses. And one of the strategies that go with opening the doors to your new product is having a waitlist. Do you <em>absolutely</em> need to have one? <strong>Unless your membership or course is capped in terms of the number of people who can join, we don’t think a waitlist is <em>strictly </em>necessary.</strong></p><p>A waitlist helps you create <em>demand in advance</em>, which is why we use this strategy as a key component of a couple of the email marketing campaigns we teach. It can be a useful tool to gauge an interest. Is your audience interested in your upcoming product? By joining a waitlist, people make a<em> micro commitment</em> – they're deciding they want to find out more about something you're about to offer.</p><p>Plus, if you’re new to the world of online memberships and courses and aren’t sure whether something will sell, a waitlist is a low-barrier entryway to help you figure that out. Once you develop more experience, you’ll develop a level of confidence and awareness of what’s likely to work. But if you’re just starting, you can build this awareness with a waitlist.</p><h3>Where will you talk about your waitlist?</h3><p>Should you talk about your launch only to the people on your waitlist? Absolutely not! If you're only marketing to your waitlist and not the rest of your audience, you’re leaving money on the table. Because there will be people on your email list who would never sign up for a waitlist. And yet, they might be interested when they see your sales page.&nbsp;</p><p>You also need to think about what advantage you'll give to the people on your waitlist. Why are they on the waitlist in the first place? Will you give them early access? Does the waitlist serve a <em>real</em> purpose or are you just “dressing something up in marketing”?</p><p>A great place to promote your waitlist (and your upcoming launch) is on your social media. If you have a podcast or an active social channel, you can start talking about your membership or course a couple of weeks before you open the doors. Start inviting people to jump on your waitlist - it's a great call to action and a good way of attracting those with a level of<em> intent</em> into your world.</p><h2>When should you use a waitlist?</h2><p>We have a waitlist for our Email Engine Accelerator, which is a capped programme. We can only take a small number of people each time we run it (three times a year), and demand is high because people get results. So when we talk about it, our customers want to know when the next intake is. We have a good reason to ask people <em>externally</em> (on our podcast, for example) to join our waitlist to be informed about the next opening.</p><p>Before you decide to start a waitlist though, you should think about what you'll do after the launch. Because you can't suddenly take people from your waitlist and start sending them daily emails as part of your email marketing. If you want to do that, you have to frame that transition first. You can even sell them something else if the product they joined the waitlist for isn't available anymore or they didn't buy. But you have to tell them that's what you're going to do - you have to salvage that relationship first. A way to do that is via a welcome sequence. Ours is called the Get to Know You sequence, and it's a 4-part campaign that can act as a bridge for people who transition from a waitlist we created onto our daily emails.&nbsp;</p><h3>What is a waitlist good for?</h3><p>A waitlist can give you <strong>an idea of demand and a sense of confidence. </strong>When you ask people to join a waitlist to be informed about a product you're about to launch (and they do), it tells you they're interested and that you have a viable product.</p><p>Plus, <strong>a waitlist gives something importance - it elevates it. </strong>It tells others that what you have is important and exclusive. It means you have a bunch of people who've raised their hands and expressed an interest. And the next time you launch something, you can also go back to those same people again.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><h2>How do you get people on your waitlist?</h2><h3>Give people a good reason to join your waitlist</h3><p>If you want people to join your waitlist, you have to give them a <em>good reason</em> to do so, such as an <em>emotional reason</em> (or a bunch of them). For example, in our Anticipation Action sequence or our Book Launch campaign, we ask people to join a waitlist. If it's a book you're launching, you can offer people some chapters of the book ahead of publication, for example.</p><p>If you’re selling a membership, you may offer little samples of the programme or ask people to express their preferences and get involved in specific parts of the creation process, which generates buy-in. Or you could offer a free gift to the first few people who join your waitlist. It could even be a video tour of your membership!</p><h3>Where possible, reward people instantly!</h3><p>Although it’s not always possible, try to give people something as soon as they join your waitlist. If you’re launching something live (and your product isn’t going to be available for a while), you could, for example, run a group call for the people on your waitlist and give them a preview or an outline of what’s to come. We do this in the shape of a webinar with an informal ‘behind the scenes’. Or you can give them instant access to the list of live calls.</p><p>Whatever you give them doesn’t have to be ‘big’ – it’s just something in return for joining your waitlist so they don’t feel they got nothing for that effort. It provides people with certainty, and it doesn't leave them feeling like they’ve been left alone after they gave you their email address. <strong>When you give people something in return, you trigger a sense of satisfaction.</strong></p><p>For example, if you’re starting a live programme in a month, but you're giving people on the waitlist the calendar of calls now, they can start figuring out how your membership or course fits into their lives. They sell themselves in advance. Plus, if you’re giving them the information now, you’re answering questions they might have down the line, so you save yourself some time, too.&nbsp;</p><h2>How we use waitlists in our business</h2><p>There are two different ways we use to get people on waiting lists. In a couple of cases, the waitlist is already baked into our email campaigns.</p><p>Otherwise, on a subtle level, every once in a while, we’ll send out a <em>pre-framing email</em> that goes out before a sales campaign or just casually. This could be, for example, before our Black Friday campaign. We might send an email ahead of time and ask people to let us know if they want to be told about our Black Friday offer one hour before everyone else, for example. We don’t call it a waitlist, but the application is similar.&nbsp;</p><p>So we have two different circumstances – in one case, we’re asking people to click a link and send them to a dedicated page where they have to enter their name and email address to join a waitlist. Generally speaking, that’s not a great idea because people sometimes click on links by accident or may be using a piece of technology that clicks on links for them.</p><p>What you want instead is the <em>extra commitment</em> that someone needs to take with you when they type their name and email address and <em>actively decide</em> to join your waitlist. You could even add a PS at the end of one of your emails and ask people to click on a link so you can let them know an hour before your offer opens. It adds a bit of spice to the campaign.&nbsp;</p><p>Another thing you can do is to give people a bonus (something valuable to them) for joining your waitlist. This way, <strong>you build a waitlist full of people who already appreciate the value of your product.</strong> You’re pushing the psychology of someone’s commitment a little further because they're joining your list to get a bonus.</p><h3>Give people a <em>genuine</em> reason to join your waitlist!</h3><p>When creating a waitlist, one of the most important things to do is to wrap it around a <em>genuine reason</em>. Why do you have a waitlist in the first place? Sure, it can create desire and anticipation. But ultimately, you’ll probably tell your whole email list about your product anyway. So it’s important to have a specific...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Can you use an email marketing waitlist for your next big launch? Maybe you have a membership or a course and want to generate excitement, curiosity, and demand. Can a waitlist help you do that? Also, how do you keep people on your waitlist <em>warm</em>? How long should you run a waitlist for, and how often should you contact people on it?&nbsp;</p><p>We answer all these questions and much more...</p><p>Are you ready to get all the good stuff?</p><p>Let's go!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:08) Grab our amazing resource<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/8fa9c29f23cd9c9bfc2f571b76018b1f093517a2?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=click-tricks" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Click Tricks</a> totally for FREE!</p><p>(4:18) Should you have a waitlist for your membership or course?</p><p>(11:17) When should you use a waitlist?</p><p>(14:08) How do you get people on your waitlist?</p><p>(15:22) Where possible, reward people instantly!&nbsp;</p><p>(17:50) How we use waitlists in our business?</p><p>(21:18) Give people a genuine reason to join your waitlist.</p><p>(22:52) How do you keep people on your waitlist <em>warm</em>?</p><p>(30:07) What's the <em>dual reality</em> principle?</p><p>(32:47) Subject lines of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><p><br></p><h2>Should you have a waitlist for your membership or course?&nbsp;</h2><p>Between the two of us, we’ve had experience selling courses and memberships for years, both with our current and previous businesses. And one of the strategies that go with opening the doors to your new product is having a waitlist. Do you <em>absolutely</em> need to have one? <strong>Unless your membership or course is capped in terms of the number of people who can join, we don’t think a waitlist is <em>strictly </em>necessary.</strong></p><p>A waitlist helps you create <em>demand in advance</em>, which is why we use this strategy as a key component of a couple of the email marketing campaigns we teach. It can be a useful tool to gauge an interest. Is your audience interested in your upcoming product? By joining a waitlist, people make a<em> micro commitment</em> – they're deciding they want to find out more about something you're about to offer.</p><p>Plus, if you’re new to the world of online memberships and courses and aren’t sure whether something will sell, a waitlist is a low-barrier entryway to help you figure that out. Once you develop more experience, you’ll develop a level of confidence and awareness of what’s likely to work. But if you’re just starting, you can build this awareness with a waitlist.</p><h3>Where will you talk about your waitlist?</h3><p>Should you talk about your launch only to the people on your waitlist? Absolutely not! If you're only marketing to your waitlist and not the rest of your audience, you’re leaving money on the table. Because there will be people on your email list who would never sign up for a waitlist. And yet, they might be interested when they see your sales page.&nbsp;</p><p>You also need to think about what advantage you'll give to the people on your waitlist. Why are they on the waitlist in the first place? Will you give them early access? Does the waitlist serve a <em>real</em> purpose or are you just “dressing something up in marketing”?</p><p>A great place to promote your waitlist (and your upcoming launch) is on your social media. If you have a podcast or an active social channel, you can start talking about your membership or course a couple of weeks before you open the doors. Start inviting people to jump on your waitlist - it's a great call to action and a good way of attracting those with a level of<em> intent</em> into your world.</p><h2>When should you use a waitlist?</h2><p>We have a waitlist for our Email Engine Accelerator, which is a capped programme. We can only take a small number of people each time we run it (three times a year), and demand is high because people get results. So when we talk about it, our customers want to know when the next intake is. We have a good reason to ask people <em>externally</em> (on our podcast, for example) to join our waitlist to be informed about the next opening.</p><p>Before you decide to start a waitlist though, you should think about what you'll do after the launch. Because you can't suddenly take people from your waitlist and start sending them daily emails as part of your email marketing. If you want to do that, you have to frame that transition first. You can even sell them something else if the product they joined the waitlist for isn't available anymore or they didn't buy. But you have to tell them that's what you're going to do - you have to salvage that relationship first. A way to do that is via a welcome sequence. Ours is called the Get to Know You sequence, and it's a 4-part campaign that can act as a bridge for people who transition from a waitlist we created onto our daily emails.&nbsp;</p><h3>What is a waitlist good for?</h3><p>A waitlist can give you <strong>an idea of demand and a sense of confidence. </strong>When you ask people to join a waitlist to be informed about a product you're about to launch (and they do), it tells you they're interested and that you have a viable product.</p><p>Plus, <strong>a waitlist gives something importance - it elevates it. </strong>It tells others that what you have is important and exclusive. It means you have a bunch of people who've raised their hands and expressed an interest. And the next time you launch something, you can also go back to those same people again.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><h2>How do you get people on your waitlist?</h2><h3>Give people a good reason to join your waitlist</h3><p>If you want people to join your waitlist, you have to give them a <em>good reason</em> to do so, such as an <em>emotional reason</em> (or a bunch of them). For example, in our Anticipation Action sequence or our Book Launch campaign, we ask people to join a waitlist. If it's a book you're launching, you can offer people some chapters of the book ahead of publication, for example.</p><p>If you’re selling a membership, you may offer little samples of the programme or ask people to express their preferences and get involved in specific parts of the creation process, which generates buy-in. Or you could offer a free gift to the first few people who join your waitlist. It could even be a video tour of your membership!</p><h3>Where possible, reward people instantly!</h3><p>Although it’s not always possible, try to give people something as soon as they join your waitlist. If you’re launching something live (and your product isn’t going to be available for a while), you could, for example, run a group call for the people on your waitlist and give them a preview or an outline of what’s to come. We do this in the shape of a webinar with an informal ‘behind the scenes’. Or you can give them instant access to the list of live calls.</p><p>Whatever you give them doesn’t have to be ‘big’ – it’s just something in return for joining your waitlist so they don’t feel they got nothing for that effort. It provides people with certainty, and it doesn't leave them feeling like they’ve been left alone after they gave you their email address. <strong>When you give people something in return, you trigger a sense of satisfaction.</strong></p><p>For example, if you’re starting a live programme in a month, but you're giving people on the waitlist the calendar of calls now, they can start figuring out how your membership or course fits into their lives. They sell themselves in advance. Plus, if you’re giving them the information now, you’re answering questions they might have down the line, so you save yourself some time, too.&nbsp;</p><h2>How we use waitlists in our business</h2><p>There are two different ways we use to get people on waiting lists. In a couple of cases, the waitlist is already baked into our email campaigns.</p><p>Otherwise, on a subtle level, every once in a while, we’ll send out a <em>pre-framing email</em> that goes out before a sales campaign or just casually. This could be, for example, before our Black Friday campaign. We might send an email ahead of time and ask people to let us know if they want to be told about our Black Friday offer one hour before everyone else, for example. We don’t call it a waitlist, but the application is similar.&nbsp;</p><p>So we have two different circumstances – in one case, we’re asking people to click a link and send them to a dedicated page where they have to enter their name and email address to join a waitlist. Generally speaking, that’s not a great idea because people sometimes click on links by accident or may be using a piece of technology that clicks on links for them.</p><p>What you want instead is the <em>extra commitment</em> that someone needs to take with you when they type their name and email address and <em>actively decide</em> to join your waitlist. You could even add a PS at the end of one of your emails and ask people to click on a link so you can let them know an hour before your offer opens. It adds a bit of spice to the campaign.&nbsp;</p><p>Another thing you can do is to give people a bonus (something valuable to them) for joining your waitlist. This way, <strong>you build a waitlist full of people who already appreciate the value of your product.</strong> You’re pushing the psychology of someone’s commitment a little further because they're joining your list to get a bonus.</p><h3>Give people a <em>genuine</em> reason to join your waitlist!</h3><p>When creating a waitlist, one of the most important things to do is to wrap it around a <em>genuine reason</em>. Why do you have a waitlist in the first place? Sure, it can create desire and anticipation. But ultimately, you’ll probably tell your whole email list about your product anyway. So it’s important to have a specific reason for the waitlist. An example could be that it's a<strong> limited-time offer or that you'll be capping the number of people who can join your programme.</strong></p><p>If you don’t have a real reason (perhaps because your programme is evergreen), you can still do an open-and-close launch where you only let a handful of people in. That would give you a legitimate reason for a waitlist because you have limited spaces available.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>How do you keep people on your waitlist <em>warm</em>?</h2><p>How often should you get in touch with people on your waitlist? The more time passes between someone joining your waitlist and the moment you open the cart, the <em>colder</em> people will be. Over time, they lose the excitement and drive that prompted them to sign up for the waitlist in the first place. Their desire for your product has waned and petered out.</p><p>That’s why, when we promote a sales webinar, we only do it 3-4 days in advance. So <strong>keep the time on the waitlist as short as you possibly can. </strong>Also, rather than spending time telling people that a waitlist is coming, let them know it's available<em> now</em> and build some anticipation.</p><p>A great way to do this is to promote your waitlist on your socials closer to the time of the launch by using <em>dynamic content</em>. This is something we do with our sponsorship segments for our podcast. The sponsorship piece of content is dynamically added through our podcast hosting platform, so anyone listening to any episode during the days leading up to a particular offer going live will hear it.</p><h3>Don't try to <em>keep</em> people's interest - <em>raise</em> it!&nbsp;</h3><p>What's also important is how you communicate with your waitlist. You can't keep telling people that your product is <em>coming soon</em>. Instead of focusing on <em>keeping</em> people's interest, try to <em>raise</em> it! <strong>You want people to get engaged and involved.</strong></p><p>You can do that by asking them to vote on something, for example. That increases their emotional buy-in into what you're doing, so by the time you open the cart, they're interested and involved. <strong>Don't just simmer people - raise the heat!&nbsp;</strong></p><h3>Does a waitlist work with a cold audience?&nbsp;</h3><p>We (Rob in particular) don't particularly believe you can launch your product by simply building a waitlist of cold leads. If you have a small audience or following, and you plan to spend money on ads to create a waitlist and then smash your launch, you might not get the amazing results you're expecting. Over time, we sold a lot of products online in different businesses and niches, and the waitlist strategy <em>can</em> work, but only if you do it by keeping the above principles in mind.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Of course, if you're an influencer in your niche and have a huge audience with thousands of followers who are ready and waiting to be told when your next product launches, then it's great. But a tiny social following or a completely cold ads-driven audience aren’t going to respond as well.</p><p>If this is you,<strong> consider selling organically to your audience and creating an evergreen offer instead of following the 'big launch' model. </strong>You can switch to that when you get to the point where you have a critical mass of people that you can move <em>at speed</em> (i.e. you drop an email in the morning, and you have lots of takers by the afternoon).</p><p>Otherwise, <strong>using a big launch + waitlist strategy with a <em>cold audience</em> is expensive, slow, and potentially risky. </strong>You may burn through a big budget before you can see results. Because it'll take much longer to get the number of people you need on your waiting list to make your launch work. If you go down this route, you’ll need to have the waitlist open for longer and put a lot of effort in to keep people warm and raise their interest.</p><h2>What's the <em>dual reality</em> <em>principle</em>?&nbsp;</h2><p>When we are in the situation of having a waitlist open and sending emails out to raise people's interest, we use what we call our <em>dual reality principle</em>. This is where we send the same emails to our waitlist and our generic email list but with a different call to action. We do that to build hype, excitement, and anticipation for everyone - not just the people on the waitlist.</p><p>And to do this, we use conditional content so some people see one paragraph of text in their emails and others see a different one with another call to action. If people aren’t on your waitlist, you can ask them to join it. And if they are on it already, you can give them a different call to action to take.</p><p>If you're using either our Anticipation Action sequence or our Book Launch campaign, the waitlist is baked into them already. If you have real scarcity (with limited spots available), a waiting list works beautifully. But generally speaking, the success of a waitlist strategy will also depend on how long you have it open, how you’re keeping people engaged, and how you’re transitioning them from your waitlist onto your daily email marketing, especially if they come from social media or ads.</p><p><strong>If you want immediate access to all the campaigns and strategies we talked about, head over to</strong><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong> The Email Hero Blueprint</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>This week’s subject line is “Very demanding money”. It works because it generates a lot of compound curiosity. Who’s demanding money? What are they demanding money for? Who are they demanding money from? Is it good? Is it bad?</p><p>The email was about how Netflix is now enforcing its multi-household policy on Rob’s account. But you’d have to open up the email to know that. So check it out!&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/successful-launch-melissa-litchfield/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Achieve The Most Successful Launch (Ever) And Hit Your Sales Targets – With Melissa Litchfield</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/book-launch-email-marketing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Most Perfect Way To Launch &amp; Promote Your Business Book With Email Marketing</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-build-a-pre-launch-email-list/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Small List Big Launch – With Gemma Bonham-Carter</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3>Join our FREE Facebook group</h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Not sick of us yet? If you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn all about our ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days),<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.&nbsp;</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent flow of sales without having to launch another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or 'better' subject lines. And you can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to maximise your email marketing waitlist and have a successful launch) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-waitlist/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">a1eb7c77-4d20-4ed8-80ab-a3e4f0e9b7e4</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/7ea0fe80-05a1-43af-9068-a189e5f3ae76/mikfFM6FaoadwZQ0Z3xsgwwO.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/323f9f96-3c87-43aa-9832-0c8b7f139801/230-Final.mp3" length="81607680" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>34:00</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>230</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>230</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/9756fe89-3fdb-4d98-9a6b-0658aa1ac961/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Email Marketing Success Stories - Our Client Saved His Business!</title><itunes:title>Email Marketing Success Stories - Our Client Saved His Business!</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>We always say email marketing can help you make more sales, more predictably, and in less time. But you shouldn't just take our word for it - that's why we regularly share email marketing success stories from our amazing students. Our client Lucas Reuterstig is one of them. After joining our programme and implementing just<em> two</em> of our email marketing campaigns, he saved his business, and his calendar got fully booked for 3 weeks!</p><p>Want to know how he did that?&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Let's find out!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:15) Join our FREE<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Facebook group</a>.</p><p>(3:32) Who is Lucas Reuterstig?</p><p>(6:02) When did Lucas get started with email marketing?</p><p>(7:57) What was the first thing Lucas did when he joined our programme?</p><p>(10:41) How does Lucas feel about his email marketing now?</p><p>(13:01) What's the plan for Lucas's email marketing going forward?</p><p>(15:29) What's the one action that made all the difference?</p><p>(17:13) Would you like to hear more from Lucas? (And get a special offer?)</p><p>(18:44) Subject lines of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><p><br></p><h2>Who is Lucas Reuterstig?</h2><p>Lucas runs a programme (and a podcast) called Presenter Mastery, which is a communication training program that delivers:</p><ul><li>​Confidence, so you know what to say and when, and your message becomes clear and engaging.&nbsp;</li><li>​Delivery, i.e. the scientific skills that make your audience listen.</li><li>​And content, so you can learn to use storytelling in your presentation to increase anticipation, excitement, and buy-in.</li></ul><br/><p>In their business, Lucas and his team analyse s a person's presentation style and create an individualised plan for development. They also deliver weekly calls, live training, and coaching to their community of students.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><h2>When did Lucas get started with email marketing?</h2><p>Lucas has worked with David Phillips (a public speaker for 25 years) since 2020. When they launched their first platform for communication training, they didn’t use email marketing at all. However in 2022, with a better understanding of sales funnels, they discovered another way of selling online. This was when they created the Presenter Mastery Programme, and while they knew email marketing would play a part in their business, they didn't yet know what kind of emails to send out.&nbsp;</p><p>At first, they'd only use emails as reminders for any events they had coming up. Then in February 2023, they decided to make a change - they wanted their email marketing to have meaning and to be 'spot on'. This is when Lucas found our podcast and then decided to join<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league#:~:text=The%20Email%20Hero%20Blueprint%20is%20the%20leading%20programme%20for%20people,if%20your%20list%20is%20tiny." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> our programme</a>.&nbsp;</p><h2>What was the first thing Lucas did when he joined our programme?</h2><p>Lucas joined our programme (<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league#:~:text=The%20Email%20Hero%20Blueprint%20is%20the%20leading%20programme%20for%20people,if%20your%20list%20is%20tiny." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Marketing Hero Blueprint</a>) for a specific reason - he wanted access to our email marketing templates. So the first thing he did when he came into our world was to implement our Paparazzi campaign, which is our flash sale campaign.</p><p>Immediately, Lucas found that our campaign was producing results, so in May 2023 he also implemented our webinar sequence to bring people to his live events and then offer coaching calls at the back of those.</p><p>And do you know what happened? <strong>Lucas and his team sold out on all their spots - their coaching calendars were fully booked for 3 weeks!</strong> And at that point, Lucas had to do <em>the unthinkable</em> and shut off the rest of the campaign! That's until his team came up with the idea of selling other courses they had. Phew - more sales incoming.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>In a nutshell, the combination of the two email campaigns that Lucas tailored to his business and implemented was so successful that he's been using them ever since.&nbsp;</p><h2>How does Lucas feel about his email marketing now?</h2><p>Lucas and his team had the best month in their business in January 2024. And the difference to how he felt before is night and day, he said. He no longer feels like the stressed-out, hustling entrepreneur. Now, Lucas can plan what’s coming ahead because <strong>there’s predictability in the business. </strong>And that’s thanks to having email marketing in place.</p><p><strong>Lucas and his team are comfortable knowing that email marketing makes everything work.</strong> If you already have performing ads that lead to a great webinar (like Lucas had) but don’t remind anyone about it, no one’s going to show up! <strong>Email helps reiterate what’s happening and tells people why they should take action. Without email, nothing happens</strong>!</p><p>Email marketing has become a crucial part of everything Lucas and his team do in the business. And that's no surprise. Because <strong>email marketing supports the things you're doing in your business by amplifying what already works and making it more effective.</strong></p><p>Lucas and his team now have a system that works, and they want to scale it. In fact, because of how successful the company is, Lucas has hired the services of our<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/agency?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=agency" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> agency</a> to bring more momentum to everything they do. And the priority is to build their<em> email engine</em>.</p><h2>What’s the plan for Lucas's email marketing going forward?</h2><p>Lucas believes he and his team have been lagging with their daily strategy, as they’ve only been sending emails out once a week. So they plan to ramp regular emails up and be more 'on point'. They also want to align their daily email strategy with their social media effort and overall marketing.&nbsp;</p><p>Lucas’s business is in a position where <strong>they’re driving massive sales through email but also creating higher revenue</strong>, which gives them the comfort of a safety net. <strong>They don't have to think about where the next conversion is going to come from because their sales are consistent and predictable.&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></p><p>Reflecting on previous Christmas periods, Lucas remembered how stressed he used to feel. But during the Christmas 2023 period, the sales kept rolling in. Coaching calls were booked, and everything was running smoothly without Lucas having to physically do anything. And that's because their email marketing engine is performing.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>What’s the <em>one action</em> that made all the difference?</h2><p>For Lucas, the ability to focus on email marketing specifically has made all the difference. He zoomed in on email marketing to make it work for their business. That meant setting other things aside and delegating some tasks. But doing this paid off! Because as soon as the campaigns were set up, he could replicate them, and the next part became easier.</p><p><strong>You need to invest the time upfront to make it all happen. </strong>After all, for most people, email marketing is about revenue generation. And if you dedicate time and commitment to figure it out, it'll give results.&nbsp;</p><h2>Would you like to hear more from Lucas? (And get a special offer?)</h2><p>If you want to find out more about Lucas, he has a podcast show called <strong>Presenter Mastery</strong> where he and David talk about presentation skills every week. You can also find them on<a href="https://www.presentermastery.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> their website</a>. Lucas also kindly created a <strong>special offer for all our listeners</strong>, which you can find<a href="https://www.presentermastery.com/emh1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> here</a>. This resource is something that's normally sold for 37 euros at the end of a webinar, but it’s free for you!</p><p>Did you enjoy one of the many email marketing success stories we share from students of our programme? <strong>If you want to get access to all the resources that Lucas and his team have been using to create amazing success in his business with email marketing,</strong><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league#:~:text=The%20Email%20Hero%20Blueprint%20is%20the%20leading%20programme%20for%20people,if%20your%20list%20is%20tiny." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong> check out our programme – The Email Hero Blueprint</strong></a><strong> – and jump in!</strong></p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>This week’s subject line is one that Kennedy wrote, and it's "Off the record (THEIR NAME)” (i.e. the subscriber’s name). The email was about the fact we were doing a bonus behind-the-scenes talk with someone, and we invited people to attend. It was a conversation “off the record”.</p><p>Why did the subject line work? First of all, it doesn’t tell people explicitly to go and listen to us having a conversation with someone off the record. The reader doesn’t know what this is all about, so they want to go and find out. But also, putting someone’s name in brackets makes the whole subject line...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We always say email marketing can help you make more sales, more predictably, and in less time. But you shouldn't just take our word for it - that's why we regularly share email marketing success stories from our amazing students. Our client Lucas Reuterstig is one of them. After joining our programme and implementing just<em> two</em> of our email marketing campaigns, he saved his business, and his calendar got fully booked for 3 weeks!</p><p>Want to know how he did that?&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Let's find out!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:15) Join our FREE<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Facebook group</a>.</p><p>(3:32) Who is Lucas Reuterstig?</p><p>(6:02) When did Lucas get started with email marketing?</p><p>(7:57) What was the first thing Lucas did when he joined our programme?</p><p>(10:41) How does Lucas feel about his email marketing now?</p><p>(13:01) What's the plan for Lucas's email marketing going forward?</p><p>(15:29) What's the one action that made all the difference?</p><p>(17:13) Would you like to hear more from Lucas? (And get a special offer?)</p><p>(18:44) Subject lines of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><p><br></p><h2>Who is Lucas Reuterstig?</h2><p>Lucas runs a programme (and a podcast) called Presenter Mastery, which is a communication training program that delivers:</p><ul><li>​Confidence, so you know what to say and when, and your message becomes clear and engaging.&nbsp;</li><li>​Delivery, i.e. the scientific skills that make your audience listen.</li><li>​And content, so you can learn to use storytelling in your presentation to increase anticipation, excitement, and buy-in.</li></ul><br/><p>In their business, Lucas and his team analyse s a person's presentation style and create an individualised plan for development. They also deliver weekly calls, live training, and coaching to their community of students.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><h2>When did Lucas get started with email marketing?</h2><p>Lucas has worked with David Phillips (a public speaker for 25 years) since 2020. When they launched their first platform for communication training, they didn’t use email marketing at all. However in 2022, with a better understanding of sales funnels, they discovered another way of selling online. This was when they created the Presenter Mastery Programme, and while they knew email marketing would play a part in their business, they didn't yet know what kind of emails to send out.&nbsp;</p><p>At first, they'd only use emails as reminders for any events they had coming up. Then in February 2023, they decided to make a change - they wanted their email marketing to have meaning and to be 'spot on'. This is when Lucas found our podcast and then decided to join<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league#:~:text=The%20Email%20Hero%20Blueprint%20is%20the%20leading%20programme%20for%20people,if%20your%20list%20is%20tiny." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> our programme</a>.&nbsp;</p><h2>What was the first thing Lucas did when he joined our programme?</h2><p>Lucas joined our programme (<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league#:~:text=The%20Email%20Hero%20Blueprint%20is%20the%20leading%20programme%20for%20people,if%20your%20list%20is%20tiny." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Marketing Hero Blueprint</a>) for a specific reason - he wanted access to our email marketing templates. So the first thing he did when he came into our world was to implement our Paparazzi campaign, which is our flash sale campaign.</p><p>Immediately, Lucas found that our campaign was producing results, so in May 2023 he also implemented our webinar sequence to bring people to his live events and then offer coaching calls at the back of those.</p><p>And do you know what happened? <strong>Lucas and his team sold out on all their spots - their coaching calendars were fully booked for 3 weeks!</strong> And at that point, Lucas had to do <em>the unthinkable</em> and shut off the rest of the campaign! That's until his team came up with the idea of selling other courses they had. Phew - more sales incoming.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>In a nutshell, the combination of the two email campaigns that Lucas tailored to his business and implemented was so successful that he's been using them ever since.&nbsp;</p><h2>How does Lucas feel about his email marketing now?</h2><p>Lucas and his team had the best month in their business in January 2024. And the difference to how he felt before is night and day, he said. He no longer feels like the stressed-out, hustling entrepreneur. Now, Lucas can plan what’s coming ahead because <strong>there’s predictability in the business. </strong>And that’s thanks to having email marketing in place.</p><p><strong>Lucas and his team are comfortable knowing that email marketing makes everything work.</strong> If you already have performing ads that lead to a great webinar (like Lucas had) but don’t remind anyone about it, no one’s going to show up! <strong>Email helps reiterate what’s happening and tells people why they should take action. Without email, nothing happens</strong>!</p><p>Email marketing has become a crucial part of everything Lucas and his team do in the business. And that's no surprise. Because <strong>email marketing supports the things you're doing in your business by amplifying what already works and making it more effective.</strong></p><p>Lucas and his team now have a system that works, and they want to scale it. In fact, because of how successful the company is, Lucas has hired the services of our<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/agency?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=agency" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> agency</a> to bring more momentum to everything they do. And the priority is to build their<em> email engine</em>.</p><h2>What’s the plan for Lucas's email marketing going forward?</h2><p>Lucas believes he and his team have been lagging with their daily strategy, as they’ve only been sending emails out once a week. So they plan to ramp regular emails up and be more 'on point'. They also want to align their daily email strategy with their social media effort and overall marketing.&nbsp;</p><p>Lucas’s business is in a position where <strong>they’re driving massive sales through email but also creating higher revenue</strong>, which gives them the comfort of a safety net. <strong>They don't have to think about where the next conversion is going to come from because their sales are consistent and predictable.&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></p><p>Reflecting on previous Christmas periods, Lucas remembered how stressed he used to feel. But during the Christmas 2023 period, the sales kept rolling in. Coaching calls were booked, and everything was running smoothly without Lucas having to physically do anything. And that's because their email marketing engine is performing.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>What’s the <em>one action</em> that made all the difference?</h2><p>For Lucas, the ability to focus on email marketing specifically has made all the difference. He zoomed in on email marketing to make it work for their business. That meant setting other things aside and delegating some tasks. But doing this paid off! Because as soon as the campaigns were set up, he could replicate them, and the next part became easier.</p><p><strong>You need to invest the time upfront to make it all happen. </strong>After all, for most people, email marketing is about revenue generation. And if you dedicate time and commitment to figure it out, it'll give results.&nbsp;</p><h2>Would you like to hear more from Lucas? (And get a special offer?)</h2><p>If you want to find out more about Lucas, he has a podcast show called <strong>Presenter Mastery</strong> where he and David talk about presentation skills every week. You can also find them on<a href="https://www.presentermastery.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> their website</a>. Lucas also kindly created a <strong>special offer for all our listeners</strong>, which you can find<a href="https://www.presentermastery.com/emh1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> here</a>. This resource is something that's normally sold for 37 euros at the end of a webinar, but it’s free for you!</p><p>Did you enjoy one of the many email marketing success stories we share from students of our programme? <strong>If you want to get access to all the resources that Lucas and his team have been using to create amazing success in his business with email marketing,</strong><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league#:~:text=The%20Email%20Hero%20Blueprint%20is%20the%20leading%20programme%20for%20people,if%20your%20list%20is%20tiny." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong> check out our programme – The Email Hero Blueprint</strong></a><strong> – and jump in!</strong></p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>This week’s subject line is one that Kennedy wrote, and it's "Off the record (THEIR NAME)” (i.e. the subscriber’s name). The email was about the fact we were doing a bonus behind-the-scenes talk with someone, and we invited people to attend. It was a conversation “off the record”.</p><p>Why did the subject line work? First of all, it doesn’t tell people explicitly to go and listen to us having a conversation with someone off the record. The reader doesn’t know what this is all about, so they want to go and find out. But also, putting someone’s name in brackets makes the whole subject line pop a bit more. And it drives a lot of compound curiosity. So check it out!&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/increased-revenue-email-marketing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How April McMurtrey Increased Her Revenue By 400% In Just One Year – A Case Study</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/membership-conversion-rate/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How Cheryl Hatch Increased Her Membership Conversion Rate By 84% With Just Two Email Campaigns – A Case Study</a>.</p><p>And <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/launch-new-business/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How Our Client Jeri Anderson Made $27k In Month One Launching A Brand New Business &amp; Starting With Zero Contacts On Her List</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3>Join our FREE Facebook group</h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. 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We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-success-stories/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">c520b910-ad3e-4b25-a1aa-e9b782d69323</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c60c8878-3916-4184-b46b-f86e3fd96d24/PqOxwcJlRrizlPsWFR7D7TSt.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/a273672d-d11b-4626-8e35-078438e9dc8b/229-Final.mp3" length="20148588" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>20:59</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>229</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>229</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/4d4b6d09-7e72-4c32-a9ad-1daaaaf0d76e/index.html" type="text/html"/><podcast:chapters url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/chapter-a273672d-d11b-4626-8e35-078438e9dc8b.json" type="application/json+chapters"/></item><item><title>Practical Ways To Increase Click-Through Rate</title><itunes:title>Practical Ways To Increase Click-Through Rate</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What's a good click-through rate? How can you drive a click-through rate increase in your email marketing? Is it possible? Why does it even matter?&nbsp;</p><p>Let's find out the answers to these questions - and more!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:11) Grab our amazing resource<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/03fd66aeee40009981b62723938d539b08fd89fc?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=click-tricks" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Click Tricks</a> totally for FREE!</p><p>(4:29) Why is your click-through rate an important metric in your email marketing?</p><p>(11:33) What is the average click-through rate in your industry?</p><p>(14:30) Click-through rate average and daily emails.</p><p>(20:20) Techniques to improve your click-through rate.</p><p>(25:06) Segment your audience.&nbsp;</p><p>(27:50) Create a promotional strategy.</p><p>(30:14) Aim to trigger different emotions.</p><p>(31:59) Create calls to action that stand out.</p><p>(35:23) Keep your list clean.</p><p>(38:00) Subject lines of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><p><br></p><h2>Why is your click-through rate an important metric in email marketing?&nbsp;</h2><p>For several reasons, click-through rates are now more important than they’ve ever been. First of all, when someone clicks on the links in your emails, it gives them the ability to get to a page where they can find out more about how to put money in your pocket. Sure - sometimes you'll send them to a page where they can register for something (rather than buying). But these are the exceptions to the rule.&nbsp;</p><p>The second reason why click-through rates matter is that, as time goes on, engagement shows Gmail and all the other platforms that your emails are important to people. It tells them they're of good quality and relevant. This is why we built a specific re-engagement campaign to keep people engaged - it's called the LOL Revival campaign and is available<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league#:~:text=The%20Email%20Hero%20Blueprint%20is%20the%20leading%20programme%20for%20people,if%20your%20list%20is%20tiny." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> inside our programme</a>.</p><p>Engagement is key. You have to determine whether someone is super engaged or has disengaged with your emails. Clicking on the links in our emails is a clear indicator they are, indeed, engaged. Technically, replying and forwarding your emails are better ways of engaging, but it’s hard to get people to do that regularly. So aiming for clicks is what you should do.&nbsp;</p><h3>Click-through rates and segmentation</h3><p>Another reason why clicks are important is that they allow you to understand what each subscriber is interested in. You'll start to notice that every time you send an email about a certain topic and with a specific angle, some people will click on the links in those emails. But they might never engage with other angles. Why? Because <strong>different things work for different people. </strong>And monitoring those clicks is great for segmentation.</p><p>Be careful with segmentation, though. Don’t get too carried away by adding tags that are too specific. Try not to get too tag-happy, and only allocate tags that you’re going to use. Make sure you use clear links so that when people click on them, you know they're interested in a particular topic. So, for example, if you’re including a link that points to a resource about building your email list, make sure the link is something like “check out my list building course”. It shows a clear interest in that topic.</p><p>A great use of segmentation with link clicking is what we call a <em>link pool</em>. We use this in one of our campaigns, where we ask people to vote on what they're more interested in. This allows you to segment your subscribers efficiently because what they click on shows a higher level of intent.&nbsp;</p><h2>What is the average click-through rate in your industry?&nbsp;</h2><p>Average click-through rates can vary massively. Just like open rates and other kinds of engagement metrics, <strong>they are going to change over time and depend on what you're doing. </strong>First of all, click-through rates depend on how many opportunities you give someone to click on your links. If you’re only sending one email a week, and you only have one link in there, you're not giving people a lot of chances. But if you email your list 7 days a week, and you have at least one link in your emails (plus a bunch of other ones in your Super Signature), you’re giving someone plenty of opportunities to click on your links.</p><p>Also, when someone joins your list, you’re at the top of their consciousness. You can take advantage of the <em>recency bias</em> because you’re the most recent thing they’ve engaged with. Right now, they know your name. And <strong>for the first 60 days, you’re going to get the best open and click-through rates of your entire relationship with a subscriber.</strong> After that, those rates are going to reduce, especially if you’re continually sending people to the same product, which we call a <em>robot offer</em>. That's why for the first 60 days, we send people to different offers using our SCORE email engine. If by the end of that period, they haven’t bought, we know they had the best opportunity to do so.&nbsp;</p><p>Throughout the various campaigns we send in this time, we talk about the same offer from different perspectives and in different ways. The offer is cloaked behind different bits of content, and our <strong>click-through rates are quite high – around 10-15%.</strong> They're higher than the industry averages because we present all our links in different ways. We're also continuously refreshing the person’s attention via the different campaigns.</p><h3>Click-through rate average and daily emails&nbsp;</h3><p>After the initial 60 days, our subscribers start receiving our live daily emails, and our click-through rate drops to around 1%, which is completely normal. Why? First of all, in our daily emails, we’re almost always telling people exactly what the links are about. And they're mostly about our programme -<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league#:~:text=The%20Email%20Hero%20Blueprint%20is%20the%20leading%20programme%20for%20people,if%20your%20list%20is%20tiny." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a>. By then, people have been around long enough to know what we sell, which is why these emails don't get a huge amount of clicks.&nbsp;</p><p>But if we run a particular promotion for one week, for example, and change the content of our emails (and therefore our links), the click-through rate shoots up again. Typically, it'll be even higher than what we had in the first 60 days. And then we see it drop again when we go back to the daily live emails that talk about our core product. This is fine with us because the people who do click on the links in those emails, do it with a high level of intent.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>On average, our click-through rate is less than 5%</strong> - at around 2.62% across the board. This data includes the click-through rate we see in the first 60 days and then the long-term nurture sequence in the shape of our daily emails. We understand this data. And we know the reason for this is that we no longer churn out new campaigns for different products every 6-8 weeks like we used to do and recommend our students to do. If we did that, we’d see our average click-through rate increase significantly. We know that because we used to see this, and our members who use the same strategy have higher click-through rates when they sell different products. But we focus on just one thing, which explains our average click-through rate.&nbsp;</p><h3>Click-through rate fluctuations explained</h3><p>Here are a few more details about what we do in our business. When someone joins our email list, they go through our Welcome sequence - the Getting to Know You sequence. For those 4 days, click-through rates are quite high. In fact, for the first couple of emails, we’re getting 80-90% open rates and high click-through rates. Then people go through our SCORE email engine, which takes up to 60 days for most people, and again, click-through rates are quite high at around 10-15%, depending on which bit of a campaign someone’s in.</p><p>If we’re gathering interest and showing people a lot of different things, our click-through rate tends to be a bit lower. But when our subscribers move into the conversion part of these campaigns, the click-through rate increases again because people now have real intent.</p><p>When they come out of the engine and continue to receive our daily emails, which 99% of the time talk about<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league#:~:text=The%20Email%20Hero%20Blueprint%20is%20the%20leading%20programme%20for%20people,if%20your%20list%20is%20tiny." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a>, people start to become blind to it. They'll only click on the links if they want to find out more. And that means they have a certain level of intrigue or intent.&nbsp;</p><p>On the other hand, when we run limited-time promotions, we tend to get a 90% open rate during the 7 days. And the same happens to click-through rates – they spike up!</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>Techniques to improve your average click-through rate</h2><p>We suggest you try some of these techniques and see what works for you. You might even find that some of them<em> don't</em> work because your...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What's a good click-through rate? How can you drive a click-through rate increase in your email marketing? Is it possible? Why does it even matter?&nbsp;</p><p>Let's find out the answers to these questions - and more!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:11) Grab our amazing resource<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/03fd66aeee40009981b62723938d539b08fd89fc?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=click-tricks" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Click Tricks</a> totally for FREE!</p><p>(4:29) Why is your click-through rate an important metric in your email marketing?</p><p>(11:33) What is the average click-through rate in your industry?</p><p>(14:30) Click-through rate average and daily emails.</p><p>(20:20) Techniques to improve your click-through rate.</p><p>(25:06) Segment your audience.&nbsp;</p><p>(27:50) Create a promotional strategy.</p><p>(30:14) Aim to trigger different emotions.</p><p>(31:59) Create calls to action that stand out.</p><p>(35:23) Keep your list clean.</p><p>(38:00) Subject lines of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><p><br></p><h2>Why is your click-through rate an important metric in email marketing?&nbsp;</h2><p>For several reasons, click-through rates are now more important than they’ve ever been. First of all, when someone clicks on the links in your emails, it gives them the ability to get to a page where they can find out more about how to put money in your pocket. Sure - sometimes you'll send them to a page where they can register for something (rather than buying). But these are the exceptions to the rule.&nbsp;</p><p>The second reason why click-through rates matter is that, as time goes on, engagement shows Gmail and all the other platforms that your emails are important to people. It tells them they're of good quality and relevant. This is why we built a specific re-engagement campaign to keep people engaged - it's called the LOL Revival campaign and is available<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league#:~:text=The%20Email%20Hero%20Blueprint%20is%20the%20leading%20programme%20for%20people,if%20your%20list%20is%20tiny." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> inside our programme</a>.</p><p>Engagement is key. You have to determine whether someone is super engaged or has disengaged with your emails. Clicking on the links in our emails is a clear indicator they are, indeed, engaged. Technically, replying and forwarding your emails are better ways of engaging, but it’s hard to get people to do that regularly. So aiming for clicks is what you should do.&nbsp;</p><h3>Click-through rates and segmentation</h3><p>Another reason why clicks are important is that they allow you to understand what each subscriber is interested in. You'll start to notice that every time you send an email about a certain topic and with a specific angle, some people will click on the links in those emails. But they might never engage with other angles. Why? Because <strong>different things work for different people. </strong>And monitoring those clicks is great for segmentation.</p><p>Be careful with segmentation, though. Don’t get too carried away by adding tags that are too specific. Try not to get too tag-happy, and only allocate tags that you’re going to use. Make sure you use clear links so that when people click on them, you know they're interested in a particular topic. So, for example, if you’re including a link that points to a resource about building your email list, make sure the link is something like “check out my list building course”. It shows a clear interest in that topic.</p><p>A great use of segmentation with link clicking is what we call a <em>link pool</em>. We use this in one of our campaigns, where we ask people to vote on what they're more interested in. This allows you to segment your subscribers efficiently because what they click on shows a higher level of intent.&nbsp;</p><h2>What is the average click-through rate in your industry?&nbsp;</h2><p>Average click-through rates can vary massively. Just like open rates and other kinds of engagement metrics, <strong>they are going to change over time and depend on what you're doing. </strong>First of all, click-through rates depend on how many opportunities you give someone to click on your links. If you’re only sending one email a week, and you only have one link in there, you're not giving people a lot of chances. But if you email your list 7 days a week, and you have at least one link in your emails (plus a bunch of other ones in your Super Signature), you’re giving someone plenty of opportunities to click on your links.</p><p>Also, when someone joins your list, you’re at the top of their consciousness. You can take advantage of the <em>recency bias</em> because you’re the most recent thing they’ve engaged with. Right now, they know your name. And <strong>for the first 60 days, you’re going to get the best open and click-through rates of your entire relationship with a subscriber.</strong> After that, those rates are going to reduce, especially if you’re continually sending people to the same product, which we call a <em>robot offer</em>. That's why for the first 60 days, we send people to different offers using our SCORE email engine. If by the end of that period, they haven’t bought, we know they had the best opportunity to do so.&nbsp;</p><p>Throughout the various campaigns we send in this time, we talk about the same offer from different perspectives and in different ways. The offer is cloaked behind different bits of content, and our <strong>click-through rates are quite high – around 10-15%.</strong> They're higher than the industry averages because we present all our links in different ways. We're also continuously refreshing the person’s attention via the different campaigns.</p><h3>Click-through rate average and daily emails&nbsp;</h3><p>After the initial 60 days, our subscribers start receiving our live daily emails, and our click-through rate drops to around 1%, which is completely normal. Why? First of all, in our daily emails, we’re almost always telling people exactly what the links are about. And they're mostly about our programme -<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league#:~:text=The%20Email%20Hero%20Blueprint%20is%20the%20leading%20programme%20for%20people,if%20your%20list%20is%20tiny." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a>. By then, people have been around long enough to know what we sell, which is why these emails don't get a huge amount of clicks.&nbsp;</p><p>But if we run a particular promotion for one week, for example, and change the content of our emails (and therefore our links), the click-through rate shoots up again. Typically, it'll be even higher than what we had in the first 60 days. And then we see it drop again when we go back to the daily live emails that talk about our core product. This is fine with us because the people who do click on the links in those emails, do it with a high level of intent.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>On average, our click-through rate is less than 5%</strong> - at around 2.62% across the board. This data includes the click-through rate we see in the first 60 days and then the long-term nurture sequence in the shape of our daily emails. We understand this data. And we know the reason for this is that we no longer churn out new campaigns for different products every 6-8 weeks like we used to do and recommend our students to do. If we did that, we’d see our average click-through rate increase significantly. We know that because we used to see this, and our members who use the same strategy have higher click-through rates when they sell different products. But we focus on just one thing, which explains our average click-through rate.&nbsp;</p><h3>Click-through rate fluctuations explained</h3><p>Here are a few more details about what we do in our business. When someone joins our email list, they go through our Welcome sequence - the Getting to Know You sequence. For those 4 days, click-through rates are quite high. In fact, for the first couple of emails, we’re getting 80-90% open rates and high click-through rates. Then people go through our SCORE email engine, which takes up to 60 days for most people, and again, click-through rates are quite high at around 10-15%, depending on which bit of a campaign someone’s in.</p><p>If we’re gathering interest and showing people a lot of different things, our click-through rate tends to be a bit lower. But when our subscribers move into the conversion part of these campaigns, the click-through rate increases again because people now have real intent.</p><p>When they come out of the engine and continue to receive our daily emails, which 99% of the time talk about<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league#:~:text=The%20Email%20Hero%20Blueprint%20is%20the%20leading%20programme%20for%20people,if%20your%20list%20is%20tiny." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a>, people start to become blind to it. They'll only click on the links if they want to find out more. And that means they have a certain level of intrigue or intent.&nbsp;</p><p>On the other hand, when we run limited-time promotions, we tend to get a 90% open rate during the 7 days. And the same happens to click-through rates – they spike up!</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>Techniques to improve your average click-through rate</h2><p>We suggest you try some of these techniques and see what works for you. You might even find that some of them<em> don't</em> work because your audience is used to a different style and approach from you. So carry out some split testing first.</p><p>It's also worth pointing out that if you find something that works for you, it might not work forever. For example, if your click-through rate improves because you used an emoji in your subject line, this might be a good technique <em>for now</em> but not <em>forever</em>. Because people might get tired of something or trends could change.</p><p>Also, sometimes higher click-through rates could be coincidental if you don’t have huge numbers of data. When we run tests, we will do it by sending something to 30% of our email list. 15% will get one version and the other 15% will get a different one. Once we've identified which one performed better, we then send it out to the remaining 70% of our list. That way, the majority of your list is going to see a slightly higher-performing version of an email. And if anything, it'll be the best one out of the two you put together.</p><p>Having said that, we don't think there is <em>one</em> thing that will always increase your click-through rate. Of course, having a link in your emails is always going to improve your click-through rate! But out of other minor strategies, because you can’t remove all bias, coincidence, and circumstances to get definitive data, we recommend you aim to find out what works<em> today</em>, rather than what will always work.&nbsp;</p><h2>1. Segment your audience</h2><p>Segmenting your audience allows you to identify people with a higher level of intent in your products. For example,<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league#:~:text=The%20Email%20Hero%20Blueprint%20is%20the%20leading%20programme%20for%20people,if%20your%20list%20is%20tiny." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> inside our programme</a>, we have a bunch of different kinds of campaigns (like the Golden Cloak or the Daisy Chain) where we show people lots of different pieces of content. We pre-frame the content so that when someone clicks to watch it, we’re not only giving them value, but we're also measuring their intent around that topic.</p><p>So <strong>a great way to increase your click-through rate is to find the people who are interested in the angle you’re selling something from.</strong> In our world, if we’re using the angle that our SCORE email engine saves you time, we'll send all our conversion emails about the topic of time-saving. And that’s going to drive a much higher click-through rate because we know it’s the angle a certain person resonates with.</p><p>Segmentation is only true <em>for now</em> though. Because someone might be interested in saving time but also in simplifyinig things in their email marketing. And that angle may end up generating a higher conversion. So, when you segment your audience, make sure you've identified what they're interested in and don't send them content that's irrelevant to them. Because you won't get any clicks if you do!</p><h2>2. Create a promotional strategy&nbsp;</h2><p>Don't just send emails out for the sake of keeping in touch with people. You want to have a strategy that allows you to <em>sell</em>. If you’re not showing up with something to sell (which means there’s going to be a call to action and a link to click on) then you’re not going to improve your click-through rate! <strong>Have a reason to email that has a promotional angle – you need to have a <em>hook</em>. </strong>In other words,<strong> give people reasons to buy.</strong> That’s why <strong>you need <em>at least</em> one clickable link in every single email you send.</strong></p><p>There are probably only two or three times a year when we <em>don’t</em> send an email with a link. And even then, we still have our Super Signature at the bottom with a bunch of links in there. These emails without a direct link (which are few and far between) are often designed to <em>increase</em> the click-through rate. We use them to tell people that something’s coming the next day, for example. This gets them primed, ready, excited, and ready to click on what’s coming. We do that because we know that will increase our click-through rate. And you can probably see why we don’t do it all the time – because <strong>if you do anything too much, it stops working.</strong></p><h2>3. Aim to trigger different emotions</h2><p>Not only do you want to include a call to action in every email, but you also want to make sure they’re clear and bold. You need to <strong>tap into different emotional motivating factors.</strong> Sometimes people will click because they buy into the <em>benefit</em> of what’s on the other side of a link. Other times, a link works because it generates <em>blind curiosity</em>.</p><p>We often refer to the first email in our campaigns as the one that plants the <em>seed</em>. If you’re inside<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league#:~:text=The%20Email%20Hero%20Blueprint%20is%20the%20leading%20programme%20for%20people,if%20your%20list%20is%20tiny." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> our programme</a>, you’ll have seen our SVVC campaign training – that’s what the S stands for (seed). You’re driving curiosity. These emails have the highest click-through rate and lowest intent, but they’re still high converting because these are hyperresponsive action-takers who click and bite faster – they don’t need a lot of seducing or FOMO, which will peak towards the end of a campaign. That’s when you ramp up the <em>urgency</em> and <em>scarcity</em>.</p><p>So make sure your calls to action trigger different emotions in your subscribers because not everyone is driven and motivated by the same things. Use a combination of factors – benefits, curiosity, FOMO, urgency, scarcity, etc. And remember that overusing anything is always going to reduce its effectiveness.</p><h2>4. Create calls to action that stand out</h2><p>Always make sure your links aren’t invisible! Instead, they need to be <em>dazzling</em> – use a blue old-fashioned underlined bit of text with a call to action that stands out in terms of how it looks and the words you choose.</p><p>Put the call to action on a separate line if you have to, or highlight it in a different colour. There are a bunch of ways you can dress up your links, and that’s what we give you in our resource called<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/03fd66aeee40009981b62723938d539b08fd89fc?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=click-tricks" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Click Tricks</a>, which you can have for free.&nbsp;</p><p>In terms of having more than one call to action, we’ll only add more if the email is quite long. And when we do, we'll try and do our links in different ways.&nbsp;</p><h2>5. Keep your list clean</h2><p>Last but not least, a great way of increasing your open rates and click-through rates is to keep your list clean.<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league#:~:text=The%20Email%20Hero%20Blueprint%20is%20the%20leading%20programme%20for%20people,if%20your%20list%20is%20tiny." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Inside our programme</a>, we give you the full approach and system to do this so you can clean up your list and get rid of the dud subscribers who have fallen asleep on the job and no longer read your emails. They damage your sender's reputation and stop you from getting your emails delivered to those who want to receive them.</p><p>One of the first things we encourage our students to do, especially if they have a low click-through rate as a percentage of their entire list, is to clean up their list so they can send their emails only to the people who are alive and kicking – i.e. those who still engage and are eager to learn from you.</p><p>To keep an eye on people who are disengaging, you need the right campaigns and strategies.<strong> If you want to use our engagement campaign to clean up your list and get access the exact emails we use to achieve a click-through rate increase, head over to</strong><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league#:~:text=The%20Email%20Hero%20Blueprint%20is%20the%20leading%20programme%20for%20people,if%20your%20list%20is%20tiny." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong> The Email Hero Blueprint</strong></a><strong> </strong>and check it out if you’re not already enrolled. It's everything you need to convert more of your subscribers into customers.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>This week’s subject line is “Your unsubscribe rate.” It's quite cool because it sounds like you might be talking about the specific unsubscribe rates of the people on your list. And if they’ve been thinking about that topic themselves, this will feel quite timely.</p><p>So, whatever industry you’re in, pick something you know your audience is worried about and put ‘your’ in front of it. People will open the email because they want to know what it's all about. It grabs their attention, especially if it’s a topic they’ve been thinking about. And if they haven’t, now they’re aware of it. That means that as soon as they get into the email, they’ll want to read it. So check it out!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/reengagement-email-campaign/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Create THE Most Successful Re-Engagement Email Campaign (And Smash Your Sales Targets)</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/rule-of-one/" rel="noopener...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/click-through-rate-increase/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">975d5d03-07f6-4a0e-80bf-e4fb4cf87363</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/d11dfe58-0922-4e65-a9e4-c3c40d053719/cuLEo4nBDY9hdX_ez3RyA4Q5.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/de84a635-bf76-490e-a40f-06de6a552390/228-Final.mp3" length="96182400" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>40:05</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>228</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>228</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/7401e44b-13f8-43d6-9ce3-d8d5c9a38715/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>The Mind-Blowing Power Of Familiarity Exposure To Boost Sales</title><itunes:title>The Mind-Blowing Power Of Familiarity Exposure To Boost Sales</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What is <em>familiarity exposure</em>? Also referred to as <em>mere exposure</em>, there's a whole stack of theories around how the psychology of familiarity in marketing works and can help you make more sales.&nbsp;</p><p>That's right. Become a 'household brand', and more people will buy from you.</p><p>Want to know how it all works?</p><p>Let's find out.</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:19) Grab our amazing resource<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/03fd66aeee40009981b62723938d539b08fd89fc?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=click-tricks" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Click Tricks</a> totally for FREE!</p><p>(3:18) What is familiarity exposure?</p><p>(10:45) Refer to things that your audience is familiar with.</p><p>(14:45) Always build familiarity with you, your brand, and what you do.</p><p>(21:19) How can you apply familiarity in your marketing?</p><p>(23:10) Email marketing campaigns that use familiarity.</p><p>(24:45) Don't make the mistake of offering discounts upfront!</p><p>(27:08) How to start using familiarity in your email marketing <em>right now</em>.</p><p>(29:11) Join The Email Hero Blueprint.</p><p>(29:45) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><p><br></p><h2>What is familiarity exposure?</h2><p>The idea is quite simple - we all understand it and have experience with it. <strong>Psychologically, you can increase the likelihood of people buying from you when something feels familiar to them.</strong> So if you feel like you've heard of something before, or know a particular name from somewhere (i.e. you have a feeling of <em>vague familiarity</em>), you’re more likely to buy.</p><p>That’s why people tend to buy household famous brands, even when they’re more expensive. For a lot of products, you could buy the cheaper equivalent, and it might taste, work, or be much the same. But we pick the branded product we know (even for a higher price) because we trust that familiarity.</p><p>It’s a bit like going to a restaurant and choosing a dish from the menu that you already know you’re going to like because you’ve had it before (either there or elsewhere). <strong>We like our home comforts</strong>. We like the feeling of something familiar and comfortable. It doesn’t matter how adventure-prone or how excitable you are (or aren't) –<strong> we all find it easier to choose something we’re familiar with. Because familiarity is comforting. </strong>And that's why familiarity is baked into pretty much everything we do - email marketing and more.&nbsp;</p><p>So how can you apply this concept of familiarity exposure in your marketing?&nbsp;</p><h2>Refer to things that your audience is familiar with</h2><p>One of the things you can do is to use references in your marketing that your audience is familiar with. For example, for a while, everyone was using famous GIFs from Friends or other popular shows. And it worked because people are familiar with that type of content. Using Friends' references is a safe bet with most demographics. Kennedy isn’t a big Friends fan, but if someone sent him an email with a sofa in the subject line and the word “Pivot”, he'd still get the reference. That subject line would come pre-loaded with a lot of content – whether you love Friends or hate it, you’d know what it's referring to. And you'd probably want to know what the email is about.</p><p>You won't be sending famous GIFs, memes, or references all the time, but if you email frequently and regularly, you have plenty of opportunities to do so. And <strong>when you use things in your marketing that <em>feel familiar</em>, you immediately activate the psychology that sits underneath your words.</strong></p><h2>Always build familiarity with you, your brand, and what you do</h2><p>Another way to use this concept of familiarity is to <strong>build trust with your audience by exposing them to you and your brand.</strong> This is why celebrities can easily branch out into other products, such as perfumes or clothing ranges. Because we’re all familiar with their name and brand in the first place.</p><p>It's also why you have to show up regularly in people’s inboxes to build a relationship with your subscribers. It creates that sense of familiarity. When people think of us or what we do, for example, they probably expect it to be quite funny, cheeky, edgy, and a bit sweary, but also practical, and cut-through-the-bullshit. That’s our brand – it's what we’re all about. But if we showed up offering something super formal at a corporate event, that wouldn’t work as well for our brand.</p><p>This is why, when we launched our mastermind Level Up, a few years ago, we sold out two intakes without doing <em>any</em> marketing. We simply told people inside our audience that we were launching this mastermind, and it's all it took to sell it. Because the people who already know us and our style and like learning from us, already knew they’d have a great experience. They already trusted our brand and wanted to join in. And we were only able to do that because of this concept of familiarity.</p><h2>How can you apply familiarity in your marketing?</h2><p>One way to build this feeling of familiarity is to<strong> involve your subscribers in the creation or building process of your products or services. </strong>For example, if you're putting together a new programme, you could ask your audience to chip in and help you come up with a name for it. Or maybe they could vote on the logo or artwork for it. We did this for the original cover for our podcast, for example – we gave people a choice of two, so they'd tell us which one they preferred.</p><p>This works because when you then launch that product, people feel invested. They’re already familiar with it because they participated in the voting process by giving you their opinion. They've heard of your product, and they had something to do with it - whether it's creating, naming, or branding.</p><p>And if you don't want to go that far, you could simply ask your audience about their preferred time for a weekly coaching call, for example. If you can think of <em>any </em>decisions in your business that you wouldn't mind your audience getting involved in, jump on the opportunity and ask them.&nbsp;</p><h2>Email marketing campaigns that use familiarity</h2><p>Inside<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league#:~:text=The%20Email%20Hero%20Blueprint%20is%20about%20converting%20subscribers%20into%20higher%20value%20customers.&amp;text=This%20makes%20it%20so%20that,people%20on%20your%20email%20list." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> our programme</a>, we teach email campaigns that use this familiarity principle. One of them is<strong> </strong>the<strong> Encore campaign</strong>, based on the idea that you show someone an offer, take it away, and then come back again with the same offer before you close the cart. When people on your list see the offer the second time (even if it’s months down the line), they experience<em> a sense of familiarity</em> that wasn’t there the first time (when it was potentially a cold offer). This time, they're more likely to buy it.</p><p>Likewise, in our <strong>Open Day campaign</strong>, we run a simple survey where we ask people a quick question. When they fill in the survey, they get into the mindset of thinking they quite enjoy the idea of being able to ask <em>us</em> a question so <em>we</em> can help <em>them</em>. And a few days later, we make them an offer to join one of our Q&amp;A calls and ask us some questions. This triggers familiarity because we’ve already discussed this idea of asking us questions.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>We use this concept of familiarity in all our email marketing campaigns. </strong>And that’s the beauty of them. We have these psychological principles baked into all our campaigns already so you don’t have to worry about figuring out how to do it yourself - you just follow the instructions. If you want to know more, we do run campaign workshops<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league#:~:text=The%20Email%20Hero%20Blueprint%20is%20the%20leading%20programme%20for%20people,if%20your%20list%20is%20tiny." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> inside our programme</a>, where we explain how everything works. But you don’t need to understand it to have it working for you – you can just follow the instructions, and implement the campaigns.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>Don't make the mistake of offering discounts upfront!</h2><p>A mistake we see a lot of marketers make is to offer discounts upfront. That doesn't work because you first need to <em>legitimise the offer at full price</em>. If you show up with a discount straight away, there's no familiarity. That's why, if you follow our teachings, you'll know that our SCORE email engine takes people through a sales campaign first and <em>then</em> a content-led sales campaign. You can add a bonus or a discount in the content-led campaign, and that tends to work very well. Why? Because you've built familiarity with the offer in the sales campaign just before.&nbsp;</p><p>Your subscribers trust that this is a discount because you just told them a few days earlier how much the full price was. So now they trust you’re truly giving a discount or adding a bonus because they know it wasn’t there before! You've just legitimised the discount or bonus by creating familiarity with your offer.&nbsp;</p><p>Also, remember that <strong>the more your audience continues to see your offers consistently, the more chances you have of them buying from you. Familiarity increases sales. </strong>And it's a bit like a spice - you...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What is <em>familiarity exposure</em>? Also referred to as <em>mere exposure</em>, there's a whole stack of theories around how the psychology of familiarity in marketing works and can help you make more sales.&nbsp;</p><p>That's right. Become a 'household brand', and more people will buy from you.</p><p>Want to know how it all works?</p><p>Let's find out.</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:19) Grab our amazing resource<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/03fd66aeee40009981b62723938d539b08fd89fc?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=click-tricks" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Click Tricks</a> totally for FREE!</p><p>(3:18) What is familiarity exposure?</p><p>(10:45) Refer to things that your audience is familiar with.</p><p>(14:45) Always build familiarity with you, your brand, and what you do.</p><p>(21:19) How can you apply familiarity in your marketing?</p><p>(23:10) Email marketing campaigns that use familiarity.</p><p>(24:45) Don't make the mistake of offering discounts upfront!</p><p>(27:08) How to start using familiarity in your email marketing <em>right now</em>.</p><p>(29:11) Join The Email Hero Blueprint.</p><p>(29:45) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><p><br></p><h2>What is familiarity exposure?</h2><p>The idea is quite simple - we all understand it and have experience with it. <strong>Psychologically, you can increase the likelihood of people buying from you when something feels familiar to them.</strong> So if you feel like you've heard of something before, or know a particular name from somewhere (i.e. you have a feeling of <em>vague familiarity</em>), you’re more likely to buy.</p><p>That’s why people tend to buy household famous brands, even when they’re more expensive. For a lot of products, you could buy the cheaper equivalent, and it might taste, work, or be much the same. But we pick the branded product we know (even for a higher price) because we trust that familiarity.</p><p>It’s a bit like going to a restaurant and choosing a dish from the menu that you already know you’re going to like because you’ve had it before (either there or elsewhere). <strong>We like our home comforts</strong>. We like the feeling of something familiar and comfortable. It doesn’t matter how adventure-prone or how excitable you are (or aren't) –<strong> we all find it easier to choose something we’re familiar with. Because familiarity is comforting. </strong>And that's why familiarity is baked into pretty much everything we do - email marketing and more.&nbsp;</p><p>So how can you apply this concept of familiarity exposure in your marketing?&nbsp;</p><h2>Refer to things that your audience is familiar with</h2><p>One of the things you can do is to use references in your marketing that your audience is familiar with. For example, for a while, everyone was using famous GIFs from Friends or other popular shows. And it worked because people are familiar with that type of content. Using Friends' references is a safe bet with most demographics. Kennedy isn’t a big Friends fan, but if someone sent him an email with a sofa in the subject line and the word “Pivot”, he'd still get the reference. That subject line would come pre-loaded with a lot of content – whether you love Friends or hate it, you’d know what it's referring to. And you'd probably want to know what the email is about.</p><p>You won't be sending famous GIFs, memes, or references all the time, but if you email frequently and regularly, you have plenty of opportunities to do so. And <strong>when you use things in your marketing that <em>feel familiar</em>, you immediately activate the psychology that sits underneath your words.</strong></p><h2>Always build familiarity with you, your brand, and what you do</h2><p>Another way to use this concept of familiarity is to <strong>build trust with your audience by exposing them to you and your brand.</strong> This is why celebrities can easily branch out into other products, such as perfumes or clothing ranges. Because we’re all familiar with their name and brand in the first place.</p><p>It's also why you have to show up regularly in people’s inboxes to build a relationship with your subscribers. It creates that sense of familiarity. When people think of us or what we do, for example, they probably expect it to be quite funny, cheeky, edgy, and a bit sweary, but also practical, and cut-through-the-bullshit. That’s our brand – it's what we’re all about. But if we showed up offering something super formal at a corporate event, that wouldn’t work as well for our brand.</p><p>This is why, when we launched our mastermind Level Up, a few years ago, we sold out two intakes without doing <em>any</em> marketing. We simply told people inside our audience that we were launching this mastermind, and it's all it took to sell it. Because the people who already know us and our style and like learning from us, already knew they’d have a great experience. They already trusted our brand and wanted to join in. And we were only able to do that because of this concept of familiarity.</p><h2>How can you apply familiarity in your marketing?</h2><p>One way to build this feeling of familiarity is to<strong> involve your subscribers in the creation or building process of your products or services. </strong>For example, if you're putting together a new programme, you could ask your audience to chip in and help you come up with a name for it. Or maybe they could vote on the logo or artwork for it. We did this for the original cover for our podcast, for example – we gave people a choice of two, so they'd tell us which one they preferred.</p><p>This works because when you then launch that product, people feel invested. They’re already familiar with it because they participated in the voting process by giving you their opinion. They've heard of your product, and they had something to do with it - whether it's creating, naming, or branding.</p><p>And if you don't want to go that far, you could simply ask your audience about their preferred time for a weekly coaching call, for example. If you can think of <em>any </em>decisions in your business that you wouldn't mind your audience getting involved in, jump on the opportunity and ask them.&nbsp;</p><h2>Email marketing campaigns that use familiarity</h2><p>Inside<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league#:~:text=The%20Email%20Hero%20Blueprint%20is%20about%20converting%20subscribers%20into%20higher%20value%20customers.&amp;text=This%20makes%20it%20so%20that,people%20on%20your%20email%20list." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> our programme</a>, we teach email campaigns that use this familiarity principle. One of them is<strong> </strong>the<strong> Encore campaign</strong>, based on the idea that you show someone an offer, take it away, and then come back again with the same offer before you close the cart. When people on your list see the offer the second time (even if it’s months down the line), they experience<em> a sense of familiarity</em> that wasn’t there the first time (when it was potentially a cold offer). This time, they're more likely to buy it.</p><p>Likewise, in our <strong>Open Day campaign</strong>, we run a simple survey where we ask people a quick question. When they fill in the survey, they get into the mindset of thinking they quite enjoy the idea of being able to ask <em>us</em> a question so <em>we</em> can help <em>them</em>. And a few days later, we make them an offer to join one of our Q&amp;A calls and ask us some questions. This triggers familiarity because we’ve already discussed this idea of asking us questions.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>We use this concept of familiarity in all our email marketing campaigns. </strong>And that’s the beauty of them. We have these psychological principles baked into all our campaigns already so you don’t have to worry about figuring out how to do it yourself - you just follow the instructions. If you want to know more, we do run campaign workshops<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league#:~:text=The%20Email%20Hero%20Blueprint%20is%20the%20leading%20programme%20for%20people,if%20your%20list%20is%20tiny." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> inside our programme</a>, where we explain how everything works. But you don’t need to understand it to have it working for you – you can just follow the instructions, and implement the campaigns.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>Don't make the mistake of offering discounts upfront!</h2><p>A mistake we see a lot of marketers make is to offer discounts upfront. That doesn't work because you first need to <em>legitimise the offer at full price</em>. If you show up with a discount straight away, there's no familiarity. That's why, if you follow our teachings, you'll know that our SCORE email engine takes people through a sales campaign first and <em>then</em> a content-led sales campaign. You can add a bonus or a discount in the content-led campaign, and that tends to work very well. Why? Because you've built familiarity with the offer in the sales campaign just before.&nbsp;</p><p>Your subscribers trust that this is a discount because you just told them a few days earlier how much the full price was. So now they trust you’re truly giving a discount or adding a bonus because they know it wasn’t there before! You've just legitimised the discount or bonus by creating familiarity with your offer.&nbsp;</p><p>Also, remember that <strong>the more your audience continues to see your offers consistently, the more chances you have of them buying from you. Familiarity increases sales. </strong>And it's a bit like a spice - you can sprinkle it in everything you do and include it in all the communication you send out. The more you do it, the more natural it becomes.&nbsp;</p><h2>How to start using familiarity in your email marketing <em>right now&nbsp;</em></h2><p>The first thing you can do <em>right now</em> to build familiarity with your audience is to <strong>show up consistently.</strong> If you’re absent from people's inboxes, they won't remember who you are - there's no familiarity there. <strong>We show up <em>every single day</em> – we’re consistent about that and <em>never</em> disappear.</strong> The key is for you to come up with an email-sending frequency you can keep up with and be consistent with it. Do whatever works for you, but stick with it.&nbsp;</p><p>The second thing you can do is to <strong>share personal stories.</strong> At the start of every podcast episode, for example, we share a personal insight. And we do the same in our emails - we're always talking about things that are personal to us. We do this because<strong> it breeds familiarity with us and allows us to take up more space in people's minds. </strong>We all have the same amount of space in someone’s email inbox – because an email is an email. But we can take up <em>more space</em> in people’s minds and show our subscribers that we’re more ‘real’ than other people. They get to understand us more. And <strong>when it comes to buying something that solves the problem you solve, people are more likely to buy <em>from you</em> because you’re the person who’s taken up more space inside of their minds.</strong></p><h2>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h2><p>If you’re a member of our programme already, you don’t even have to learn how to put this principle to work. You just need to know that it does work, and it’s already built into almost every single one of our email campaigns. If you want to check it out, it’s called<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league#:~:text=The%20Email%20Hero%20Blueprint%20is%20about%20converting%20subscribers%20into%20higher%20value%20customers.&amp;text=This%20makes%20it%20so%20that,people%20on%20your%20email%20list." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> - it's everything you need for your email marketing!</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>This week’s subject line is “Shy bairns get nowt! (explained)”. This is a North-East colloquialism that means “if you don’t ask, you don’t get”. Rob cleverly put this expression together with the word “explained” in brackets because if you’re not familiar with the phrase, you may not understand what that means.</p><p>If that’s the case, you may just see a bunch of interesting words followed by the word “explained”, which suggests you’re going to find out what that’s all about. The words get your attention because you rarely see that sort of expression in what feels like a more ‘formal’ context, i.e. the subject line of an email.</p><p>Wherever you’re from, find something local or colloquial in your language and use those words in a subject line. Add the word “explained” (like we did), and see how that works for you. Check it out!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/template-email-marketing-campaign/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Template For Email Marketing Campaigns</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/psychology-of-marketing-email-campaigns/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">9 Psychological Things That We Use In All Of Our Campaigns</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/best-email-marketing-campaigns/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Run A Smashing Flash Sale With One of The Best Email Marketing Campaigns In The World</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3>Join our FREE Facebook group</h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Not sick of us yet? If you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn all about our ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days),<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.&nbsp;</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent flow of sales without having to launch another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or 'better' subject lines. And you can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about familiarity exposure and how to use it in your marketing to make more sales) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/familiarity-exposure/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">61c3e74e-5981-4556-bab0-e4cec46af5de</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/a2262521-c9da-4760-96e4-ab980c5c179a/rStBIhYuauobD4iSykrhsUsL.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/71067f25-8e18-46a9-a9b5-a0f78db91eec/227-Final-v2.mp3" length="76802880" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>32:00</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>227</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>227</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/144f78cf-7a81-4c59-b6f2-a37a996293b4/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How To Show Customer Transformations In Email Marketing</title><itunes:title>How To Show Customer Transformations In Email Marketing</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Do you collect testimonials in your business? What's the best way to show customer transformations in your email marketing? Can the success stories and case studies of your customers help you convert more of the people on your email list?&nbsp;</p><p>If you want to learn an easy way to go beyond your regular, commoner-garden testimonial, this is the place to be.&nbsp;</p><p>Let's go get the secret sauce!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:14) Grab our amazing resource<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/03fd66aeee40009981b62723938d539b08fd89fc?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=click-tricks" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Click Tricks</a> totally for FREE!</p><p>(3:33) What's the big deal about customer transformations?</p><p>(5:24) The power of social proof on potential buyers.</p><p>(10:19) Show people that something is good.</p><p>(13:41) The importance of the before-and-after story.</p><p>(17:14) Create a way to capture customer wins.</p><p>(20:08) How do you collect great customer stories?</p><p>(28:15) Genuinely build you your customers and their stories.</p><p>(29:48) Success stories help others buy.</p><p>(33:16) Subject lines of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><p><br></p><h2>What's the big deal about customer transformations?&nbsp;</h2><p><em>Everyone</em> in marketing talks about the fact you need to have social proof and testimonials. And it's true - you have to talk about the results you get for people. Of course, <em>never</em> get yourself into any hot water here. Everything you say has to be true, so you have to be careful <em>not</em> to use stories that imply, suggest, or outwardly state that people have had success from working with you if you can’t back that up. <strong>Whatever you say, write, or put out there, has to be a true claim that you can prove.</strong> Don’t be naughty!</p><h2>The power of social proof on potential buyers</h2><p>But why is it so important to share the stories of people who have experienced success with you? You have to tell others (especially potential buyers) about the<em> transformations</em> - about how you took someone from point A to point B and how you got them an outcome. That's powerful. And it's something you don't want to forget in favour of just sharing the facts about your product or service.&nbsp;</p><p>For example, Rob’s parents just bought a car, and the salesman who sold them the car asked for a nice testimonial. Before they wrote the review, Rob and his parents had a look at existing ones already out there. And they all said that the salespeople were lovely, friendly, and helpful. And that’s all great. But none of these testimonials were anything transformative! We don’t think they helped the dealership much.</p><p>So what Rob and his parents did instead was to point out how<em> their life was transformed</em> as a result of buying a car from that place. <strong>You have to go <em>beyond</em> the testimonial and focus on the transformation.</strong> And for a car, that could have to do with the feelings of increased safety, certainty, confidence, or status, for example.</p><p>If people read about us that we’re fun to learn from, for example, it's great. But people don’t necessarily buy programmes to have fun while they learn! They primarily want to know they’ll get the results they’re looking for. While having a good experience in the process is important, people care about <em>the outcome</em>.&nbsp;</p><h2><em>Show</em> people that something’s good</h2><p>Don't just <em>tell</em> people that something’s good - <em>show</em> them. Of course, you want to appeal to the conscious, logical side of people's brains too. So tell them <em>what</em> they're going to get (i.e. the deliverables). But then also show them <em>how</em> what you’re giving them is going to resonate.</p><p><strong>The most powerful part of using transformational stories as social proof in your marketing is that they turn facts into emotion.</strong> It’s hard for humans to buy from just facts – we have to initially get interested because of an emotion, curiosity, or excitement. As marketers, we need to offer the logic too, but the point is that you can't argue with how someone else feels about something. You can’t say that you believe something works (or doesn’t work) based on another person expressing how <em>they</em> feel. Because you can’t argue with <em>their </em>feelings!</p><p>Over the years, we’ve had several students come to our show and share their transformational stories. And it’s a powerful thing to do because you get to hear directly from a person. It’s not just us <em>telling you</em> what’s in our programme. You get to hear what the person was struggling with, and you might identify with their struggle. When you hear the story directly from someone who's gone through it, you can see they've been exactly where you are now (or even in a worse-off position than you).&nbsp;</p><h2>The importance of the before-and-after story</h2><p>This is why the "before" picture is important – and we don’t mean that just in the visual sense.<strong> Always tell the "before" story. </strong>In the world of email marketing, you might be struggling to get people on your email list for the first time, for example. So when you hear someone else talking about what they tried or why it was so difficult for them, suddenly you can relate. <strong>Facts become emotional.</strong></p><p>And the more facts you share, the more you give people things they can latch on to, relate to, or identify with. Maybe you also have the problem of not knowing how to convert the subscribers who are opening your emails and clicking on your links. And if you want the same transformation another client had, you start thinking that maybe this same solution will work for you. <strong>The more facts you paint as pictures, the more there is for prospective clients to grab onto and relate.</strong></p><h2>Create a way to capture customer wins</h2><p>One of the things we recommend is that you have a methodology for identifying the people in your audience who’ve had some sort of success with your solution. Is there somewhere you can collect information about <em>recent</em> successes? Note that you want them to be recent because that makes them more believable and present - they feel more timely.</p><p>To find these stories, you need some sort of "listening mechanism" in your business (and we don't mean this literally), where you can capture customer success wins. For example, we have a private members-only Facebook group where we ask our students to share their wins every week. This means we can identify people who’ve had great success with our programme, and we can ask for more information. We might not invite everyone on the podcast for an extensive interview, but we’ll often reach out to the person and ask them if we can have a conversation about their experience and find out more details.&nbsp;</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>How do you collect great customer stories?</h2><p>When we see someone sharing a win, we screenshot the message and then often have a conversation with the person about what they did. We congratulate them, give them personal significance, and then ask them more questions. You can choose to document what they tell you in various ways. For example, we have a<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/wins?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=wall-of-wins&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Wall of Wins</a> on our website - it's a huge page full of screenshots of people sharing their wins.&nbsp;</p><p>If you don’t have any wins or success stories for your programme or course, it’s most probably because you don’t have a proactive way of capturing them. Because people are most certainly having results – they’re just not sharing them! That's why inside our programme -<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> - <strong>we have a couple of email marketing campaigns that are designed to collect testimonials. </strong>Somebody buys your product, and you put them through one of those campaigns, which ask for a testimonial. You can do this by sending out the link to a simple form for your customers to fill in, so you can collect your testimonials.&nbsp;</p><p>Let's face it - not everyone’s going to write the world's greatest testimonial. But if you see an excellent one and want to dig under the surface, you can reply, thank the person, and ask them if they’d like to chat with you so you can talk about the before and after. At that point, you can send them a deeper questionnaire or hop on a call and ask them if they’d like to answer a few questions. You'll find that if the experience was transformative enough, or people got incredible results quickly, they’ll want to talk about it!</p><h3>The power of stories</h3><p>For a lot of people, receiving a testimonial is the end of the conversation. For us, it’s just the beginning. We want to know what the person did, what they tried, what was happening for them before they started working with us, etc. We want to get <em>the story</em>. Because that’s a lot more powerful than just another testimonial.</p><p>Think about the power of stories. We talk about this a lot – we use storytelling in our emails because <strong>stories connect with people.</strong> They allow you to feel something you wouldn’t normally feel. With a story, you're creating scenarios and triggering emotions. You're painting a picture that allows people to imagine what you’re saying. You can’t <em>imagine</em> a testimonial unless the person tells it as a story. It’s like the difference between...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you collect testimonials in your business? What's the best way to show customer transformations in your email marketing? Can the success stories and case studies of your customers help you convert more of the people on your email list?&nbsp;</p><p>If you want to learn an easy way to go beyond your regular, commoner-garden testimonial, this is the place to be.&nbsp;</p><p>Let's go get the secret sauce!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:14) Grab our amazing resource<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/03fd66aeee40009981b62723938d539b08fd89fc?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=click-tricks" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Click Tricks</a> totally for FREE!</p><p>(3:33) What's the big deal about customer transformations?</p><p>(5:24) The power of social proof on potential buyers.</p><p>(10:19) Show people that something is good.</p><p>(13:41) The importance of the before-and-after story.</p><p>(17:14) Create a way to capture customer wins.</p><p>(20:08) How do you collect great customer stories?</p><p>(28:15) Genuinely build you your customers and their stories.</p><p>(29:48) Success stories help others buy.</p><p>(33:16) Subject lines of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><p><br></p><h2>What's the big deal about customer transformations?&nbsp;</h2><p><em>Everyone</em> in marketing talks about the fact you need to have social proof and testimonials. And it's true - you have to talk about the results you get for people. Of course, <em>never</em> get yourself into any hot water here. Everything you say has to be true, so you have to be careful <em>not</em> to use stories that imply, suggest, or outwardly state that people have had success from working with you if you can’t back that up. <strong>Whatever you say, write, or put out there, has to be a true claim that you can prove.</strong> Don’t be naughty!</p><h2>The power of social proof on potential buyers</h2><p>But why is it so important to share the stories of people who have experienced success with you? You have to tell others (especially potential buyers) about the<em> transformations</em> - about how you took someone from point A to point B and how you got them an outcome. That's powerful. And it's something you don't want to forget in favour of just sharing the facts about your product or service.&nbsp;</p><p>For example, Rob’s parents just bought a car, and the salesman who sold them the car asked for a nice testimonial. Before they wrote the review, Rob and his parents had a look at existing ones already out there. And they all said that the salespeople were lovely, friendly, and helpful. And that’s all great. But none of these testimonials were anything transformative! We don’t think they helped the dealership much.</p><p>So what Rob and his parents did instead was to point out how<em> their life was transformed</em> as a result of buying a car from that place. <strong>You have to go <em>beyond</em> the testimonial and focus on the transformation.</strong> And for a car, that could have to do with the feelings of increased safety, certainty, confidence, or status, for example.</p><p>If people read about us that we’re fun to learn from, for example, it's great. But people don’t necessarily buy programmes to have fun while they learn! They primarily want to know they’ll get the results they’re looking for. While having a good experience in the process is important, people care about <em>the outcome</em>.&nbsp;</p><h2><em>Show</em> people that something’s good</h2><p>Don't just <em>tell</em> people that something’s good - <em>show</em> them. Of course, you want to appeal to the conscious, logical side of people's brains too. So tell them <em>what</em> they're going to get (i.e. the deliverables). But then also show them <em>how</em> what you’re giving them is going to resonate.</p><p><strong>The most powerful part of using transformational stories as social proof in your marketing is that they turn facts into emotion.</strong> It’s hard for humans to buy from just facts – we have to initially get interested because of an emotion, curiosity, or excitement. As marketers, we need to offer the logic too, but the point is that you can't argue with how someone else feels about something. You can’t say that you believe something works (or doesn’t work) based on another person expressing how <em>they</em> feel. Because you can’t argue with <em>their </em>feelings!</p><p>Over the years, we’ve had several students come to our show and share their transformational stories. And it’s a powerful thing to do because you get to hear directly from a person. It’s not just us <em>telling you</em> what’s in our programme. You get to hear what the person was struggling with, and you might identify with their struggle. When you hear the story directly from someone who's gone through it, you can see they've been exactly where you are now (or even in a worse-off position than you).&nbsp;</p><h2>The importance of the before-and-after story</h2><p>This is why the "before" picture is important – and we don’t mean that just in the visual sense.<strong> Always tell the "before" story. </strong>In the world of email marketing, you might be struggling to get people on your email list for the first time, for example. So when you hear someone else talking about what they tried or why it was so difficult for them, suddenly you can relate. <strong>Facts become emotional.</strong></p><p>And the more facts you share, the more you give people things they can latch on to, relate to, or identify with. Maybe you also have the problem of not knowing how to convert the subscribers who are opening your emails and clicking on your links. And if you want the same transformation another client had, you start thinking that maybe this same solution will work for you. <strong>The more facts you paint as pictures, the more there is for prospective clients to grab onto and relate.</strong></p><h2>Create a way to capture customer wins</h2><p>One of the things we recommend is that you have a methodology for identifying the people in your audience who’ve had some sort of success with your solution. Is there somewhere you can collect information about <em>recent</em> successes? Note that you want them to be recent because that makes them more believable and present - they feel more timely.</p><p>To find these stories, you need some sort of "listening mechanism" in your business (and we don't mean this literally), where you can capture customer success wins. For example, we have a private members-only Facebook group where we ask our students to share their wins every week. This means we can identify people who’ve had great success with our programme, and we can ask for more information. We might not invite everyone on the podcast for an extensive interview, but we’ll often reach out to the person and ask them if we can have a conversation about their experience and find out more details.&nbsp;</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>How do you collect great customer stories?</h2><p>When we see someone sharing a win, we screenshot the message and then often have a conversation with the person about what they did. We congratulate them, give them personal significance, and then ask them more questions. You can choose to document what they tell you in various ways. For example, we have a<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/wins?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=wall-of-wins&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Wall of Wins</a> on our website - it's a huge page full of screenshots of people sharing their wins.&nbsp;</p><p>If you don’t have any wins or success stories for your programme or course, it’s most probably because you don’t have a proactive way of capturing them. Because people are most certainly having results – they’re just not sharing them! That's why inside our programme -<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> - <strong>we have a couple of email marketing campaigns that are designed to collect testimonials. </strong>Somebody buys your product, and you put them through one of those campaigns, which ask for a testimonial. You can do this by sending out the link to a simple form for your customers to fill in, so you can collect your testimonials.&nbsp;</p><p>Let's face it - not everyone’s going to write the world's greatest testimonial. But if you see an excellent one and want to dig under the surface, you can reply, thank the person, and ask them if they’d like to chat with you so you can talk about the before and after. At that point, you can send them a deeper questionnaire or hop on a call and ask them if they’d like to answer a few questions. You'll find that if the experience was transformative enough, or people got incredible results quickly, they’ll want to talk about it!</p><h3>The power of stories</h3><p>For a lot of people, receiving a testimonial is the end of the conversation. For us, it’s just the beginning. We want to know what the person did, what they tried, what was happening for them before they started working with us, etc. We want to get <em>the story</em>. Because that’s a lot more powerful than just another testimonial.</p><p>Think about the power of stories. We talk about this a lot – we use storytelling in our emails because <strong>stories connect with people.</strong> They allow you to feel something you wouldn’t normally feel. With a story, you're creating scenarios and triggering emotions. You're painting a picture that allows people to imagine what you’re saying. You can’t <em>imagine</em> a testimonial unless the person tells it as a story. It’s like the difference between reading the synopsis of a film and watching the whole movie!&nbsp;</p><p>Generally speaking, testimonials are easy to collect because people can write them quite fast, especially if you put together an easy process with a form for them to fill in. But once you get those initial testimonials, they’re your foot in the door to get more. If it sounds like there's more there, dig further. Ask questions. When people have put action, commitment, and consistency in doing the work, they’ll be happy to tell you more. And they'll get some significance by hearing from you personally.</p><h2>Genuinely build up your customers and their stories!&nbsp;</h2><p>When you're sharing your customers' success stories, genuinely build those people up. Tell everyone how brilliant, clever, or smart the person is because that puts them in the highest status position. It makes them credible. Plus, it fires off a lot of emotional resonance and positivity.</p><p>Others can see that you're talking about a respected person that you think of positively. Whenever you hear us talking about a client, we share <em>from the heart</em> all the things we love about them. And we’re just being honest – we’re using this genuinely and not in a facetious or dodgy way.</p><h2>Success stories help others buy</h2><p>If someone’s joined our list, and they’ve gone through our email engine but haven't bought yet, we often find they'll eventually (finally!) buy at the back of a success story we share. Typically, these are the most difficult people for us to sell to. Because they’ve been through a lot of our content, but they're still on the fence about buying.</p><p>And oftentimes, it'll be a testimonial we share that makes the penny drop for those kinds of subscribers and gets them to decide to go ahead and buy. The story we share probably resonates, and while they weren't sure our solution would work for them, they've now heard or read something that makes them feel it does. We find that <strong>the emails that include success stories and testimonials are often some of the highest-converting emails we send.</strong> That's why we often do shout-outs about some of our students. We publicly celebrate their success because it's a lovely thing to do, and these emails do well for us.</p><p><strong>If you want to go and check out the two different testimonial campaigns we have inside our programme, you can find them at</strong><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong> The Email Hero Blueprint</strong></a><strong>. </strong>And as a special bonus when you buy, you’ll get an email asking for a testimonial and a chance for a shout-out. How about that?</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>This week’s subject line is “Our 'gateway drug'”, and the email was about when we first got into the world of surveys. We started off wanting to run <em>one</em> survey and suddenly realised the power they had. So we became addicted to them!</p><p>This phrase has a completely different connotation, of course - people think of another context when they see that. And they certainly aren’t expecting someone who teaches email marketing to talk about this topic! And that's why it worked, so check it out!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/testimonials-how-to-write-collect-automatically/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Testimonials – how to write and collect them automatically to bring in more sales with Monica Snyder</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/launch-new-business/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How Our Client Jeri Anderson Made $27k In Month One Launching A Brand New Business &amp; Starting With Zero Contacts On Her List</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/increased-revenue-email-marketing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How April McMurtrey Increased Her Revenue By 400% In Just One Year – A Case Study</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3>Join our FREE Facebook group</h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Not sick of us yet? If you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn all about our ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days),<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.&nbsp;</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent flow of sales without having to launch another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or 'better' subject lines. And you can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to show customer transformations in your email marketing) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/customer-transformations-email/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">7dad6888-7920-4dc9-8e80-48a6d5f8151c</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/76dad34f-c1b8-4354-a9ae-bd014a8e6f2e/int5bRa_4LXzj1zd_Z5ytfvO.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/c3232857-27f0-491d-b541-71aeca7e8452/226-Final.mp3" length="83144536" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>34:39</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>226</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>226</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Elevate Your Email Marketing Copywriting With The Rule Of One</title><itunes:title>Elevate Your Email Marketing Copywriting With The Rule Of One</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Want to find out how to immediately supercharge your email marketing copywriting? Then let's find out about the Rule of One. This isn’t just a technique you can use in your email writing. You can use it across<em> any kind</em> of writing you do for your business – sales pages, sales videos… everywhere! And it will massively improve your conversion.</p><p>Ready to learn how to apply it?&nbsp;</p><p>Let's go!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:25)&nbsp; Grab our amazing resource<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/03fd66aeee40009981b62723938d539b08fd89fc?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=click-tricks" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Click Tricks</a> totally for FREE!</p><p>(4:21) What is the Rule of One in copywriting?</p><p>(7:19) Use the same call to action across a whole email campaign.&nbsp;</p><p>(9:18) Send people to landing pages where they can only make ONE choice.</p><p>(11:26) Write your emails to ONE reader.</p><p>(12:24) Give people ONE call to action (per email).</p><p>(14:25) The benefits of stacking your email marketing campaigns.</p><p>(15:54) Tap into the power of storytelling.</p><p>(18:07) Your Super Signature is the exception to the rule!&nbsp;</p><p>(21:03) Subject lines of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>What is the Rule of One in copywriting?&nbsp;</h2><p>Whenever somebody writes copy for us (yes, we do hire copywriters because we're not professional copywriters ourselves), the one piece of suggestion we always give is to focus on the <em>one</em> idea we're trying to convey. What’s the <em>one</em> thing we want to say? <strong>Every time you put out any type of communication (an email, a headline, the opening of a sales video, etc.) you want to talk about <em>one</em> idea.</strong></p><p>Equally, when it comes to email marketing, <strong>every email you send should talk about <em>one</em> theme.</strong> If you're sending an email about risk, the whole email needs to be about that. You don’t want to add social proof to that email – that’s a different theme for another day.</p><p>And if you're only talking about <em>one</em> thing, you’re probably also going to use <em>one</em> single story. Unless you have a few stories that demonstrate that one thing you’re talking about. And you do this because otherwise, people’s brains get overwhelmed.</p><p>So let's get into the specifics of this...</p><h2>Use the same call to action across a whole email campaign</h2><p>The Rule of One applies to individual emails but also to email campaigns. We often pick <em>one </em>call to action and effectively use that across an entire email campaign. If we’re running the Bribe campaign, for example (where we tell people that if they buy one thing they’ll get something else for free), every email we send as part of that sequence is going to have the same call to action. We lead people to that one action by using different hooks, angles, and stories in the individual emails we send as part of that campaign.&nbsp;</p><p>Why do this? Because <strong>when you say too many things at once, people get confused and overwhelmed and end up not making decisions.</strong> The more directions you send people in, the more confused they’re likely to get.</p><h2>Send people to landing pages where they can only make ONE choice</h2><p>When we send someone to a landing page, we want them to only have <em>one thing</em> they can do on there. And that’s to click and buy or click an opt-in. There’s only <em>one</em> call to action on that page.</p><p>If you’re sending someone to a landing page to opt in for something, but you also have your blog and other items under the navigation menu, you’re giving people lots of choices and other things they could do. So they’re not going to opt in! Instead, <strong>direct people to one thing and one thing only</strong> so you don't lose their attention. Because <strong>confused brains do nothing!</strong>&nbsp;</p><p>You want to create <em>one singular</em> narrative. Your job is to build a belief, which may start with a story that leads to a theme and some kind of lesson. Then you want to tell people the <em>one thing</em> they should go and do. Remember that <strong>people are looking for help – they’re not qualified to know what action to take</strong>. That’s what they’ve come to you! So you need to help them take action or make a choice. <strong>You’re the one who’s qualified to tell them what to do to get the outcome they desire.&nbsp;</strong></p><h2>Write your emails to ONE reader</h2><p>The Rule of One also applies to the way you send your emails. You want to address your emails to <em>one</em> reader rather than a ‘collective’, saying something along the lines of “Hi guys”. Imagine writing to one person and that person only.</p><p>When you do that, suddenly your email doesn’t sound like a marketing, corporate one. Instead, it sounds personal - something you'd send to someone you have a deeper relationship with. And when you deepen the relationships with your subscribers, you’re better able to influence them. You get to take them on a journey with you and <em>feel things</em> - experience emotions. And as a result, you get them to take action.&nbsp;</p><h2>Give people ONE call to action (per email)&nbsp;</h2><p>Always address just <em>one</em> topic (one theme) in your emails and be clear on the <em>one</em> action you want people to take. Don’t give them plenty of choices because they won’t know what decision to make. Instead,<strong> tell them about the <em>best</em> action they can take so they can move on to the next step in their journey with you.</strong> That’s what each email you send does – it moves people to the next step of the journey.</p><p>At the start of an email campaign, you might want to ask people to watch a video that talks about the problem they might be experiencing. As you progress with your sequence, you can let them know about your course or programme and ask people to check it out. Your call to action <em>can</em> change in the space of a campaign. You can start with a softer approach building curiosity and then, towards the end, make your<em> one</em> main promise.</p><h2>The benefit of stacking your email marketing campaigns</h2><p>The great thing about using multiple campaigns in your marketing is that each of them can have one main promise. And each promise can be different, even if you're promoting the same product or service. That's because the campaigns stack over each other. And by using this method, you're not overwhelming your audience by telling them everything <em>at once</em>.</p><p>At the same time, you're not blowing all your chances by sending everything you have to say in one go. When you do that, things get lost. With too much being said at once, people miss it. Instead, <strong>pick every single important thing you want your subscribers to know and put it on a pedestal. Give it space to breathe – give it a whole email of its own or maybe even a whole campaign!</strong> Shine a light on it so that people who are attracted to it see it all lit up - standing high and tall about the crowd - and can see it as the promise they need to go ahead and buy the thing they’re looking for.</p><h2>Tap into the power of storytelling</h2><p>To differentiate your emails (even if the call to action is the same, and you’re driving people to the same product), you can use storytelling. It allows you to ‘decorate’ the same thing in different ways. So you take the story about whatever happened to you on a particular day and link it to your main point and call to action. We have a whole<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/208/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> podcast episode</a> on that, so go and check it out!</p><p>In other words, you can choose to send a plethora of emails that include the same call to action but go about it in loads of different ways. But remember the Rule of One - <strong>each email has <em>one</em> story, <em>one</em> lesson, and <em>one</em> main call to action.</strong></p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>Your Super Signature is the exception to the rule!</h2><p>There’s an exception to the Rule of One though, and that’s your Super Signature. If you’re inside<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> our programme</a>, you can find some training about this - it's called Super Signature Reloaded. What's your Super Signature exactly? <strong>It's a list of links at the bottom of your emails that includes everything that someone can do if they want your help.</strong></p><p>The way we see it, the Super Signature is <em>not</em> diluting your call to action because it's a separate part of the email. It's further down at the bottom. You can even put a couple of lines above it to physically separate it from your main email.</p><p>And its job is to tell people that if they’re ready to take things to the next level, there are a bunch of ways you can help - the Super Signature gives them options. These can include free things like joining<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> our Facebook group</a> or listening to our podcast, but also<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> buying our programme</a>, or<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/agency?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=agency" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> hiring our agency</a> to do your email marketing for you.</p><p>It acts like a menu of quick resources that people can access...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Want to find out how to immediately supercharge your email marketing copywriting? Then let's find out about the Rule of One. This isn’t just a technique you can use in your email writing. You can use it across<em> any kind</em> of writing you do for your business – sales pages, sales videos… everywhere! And it will massively improve your conversion.</p><p>Ready to learn how to apply it?&nbsp;</p><p>Let's go!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:25)&nbsp; Grab our amazing resource<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/03fd66aeee40009981b62723938d539b08fd89fc?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=click-tricks" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Click Tricks</a> totally for FREE!</p><p>(4:21) What is the Rule of One in copywriting?</p><p>(7:19) Use the same call to action across a whole email campaign.&nbsp;</p><p>(9:18) Send people to landing pages where they can only make ONE choice.</p><p>(11:26) Write your emails to ONE reader.</p><p>(12:24) Give people ONE call to action (per email).</p><p>(14:25) The benefits of stacking your email marketing campaigns.</p><p>(15:54) Tap into the power of storytelling.</p><p>(18:07) Your Super Signature is the exception to the rule!&nbsp;</p><p>(21:03) Subject lines of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>What is the Rule of One in copywriting?&nbsp;</h2><p>Whenever somebody writes copy for us (yes, we do hire copywriters because we're not professional copywriters ourselves), the one piece of suggestion we always give is to focus on the <em>one</em> idea we're trying to convey. What’s the <em>one</em> thing we want to say? <strong>Every time you put out any type of communication (an email, a headline, the opening of a sales video, etc.) you want to talk about <em>one</em> idea.</strong></p><p>Equally, when it comes to email marketing, <strong>every email you send should talk about <em>one</em> theme.</strong> If you're sending an email about risk, the whole email needs to be about that. You don’t want to add social proof to that email – that’s a different theme for another day.</p><p>And if you're only talking about <em>one</em> thing, you’re probably also going to use <em>one</em> single story. Unless you have a few stories that demonstrate that one thing you’re talking about. And you do this because otherwise, people’s brains get overwhelmed.</p><p>So let's get into the specifics of this...</p><h2>Use the same call to action across a whole email campaign</h2><p>The Rule of One applies to individual emails but also to email campaigns. We often pick <em>one </em>call to action and effectively use that across an entire email campaign. If we’re running the Bribe campaign, for example (where we tell people that if they buy one thing they’ll get something else for free), every email we send as part of that sequence is going to have the same call to action. We lead people to that one action by using different hooks, angles, and stories in the individual emails we send as part of that campaign.&nbsp;</p><p>Why do this? Because <strong>when you say too many things at once, people get confused and overwhelmed and end up not making decisions.</strong> The more directions you send people in, the more confused they’re likely to get.</p><h2>Send people to landing pages where they can only make ONE choice</h2><p>When we send someone to a landing page, we want them to only have <em>one thing</em> they can do on there. And that’s to click and buy or click an opt-in. There’s only <em>one</em> call to action on that page.</p><p>If you’re sending someone to a landing page to opt in for something, but you also have your blog and other items under the navigation menu, you’re giving people lots of choices and other things they could do. So they’re not going to opt in! Instead, <strong>direct people to one thing and one thing only</strong> so you don't lose their attention. Because <strong>confused brains do nothing!</strong>&nbsp;</p><p>You want to create <em>one singular</em> narrative. Your job is to build a belief, which may start with a story that leads to a theme and some kind of lesson. Then you want to tell people the <em>one thing</em> they should go and do. Remember that <strong>people are looking for help – they’re not qualified to know what action to take</strong>. That’s what they’ve come to you! So you need to help them take action or make a choice. <strong>You’re the one who’s qualified to tell them what to do to get the outcome they desire.&nbsp;</strong></p><h2>Write your emails to ONE reader</h2><p>The Rule of One also applies to the way you send your emails. You want to address your emails to <em>one</em> reader rather than a ‘collective’, saying something along the lines of “Hi guys”. Imagine writing to one person and that person only.</p><p>When you do that, suddenly your email doesn’t sound like a marketing, corporate one. Instead, it sounds personal - something you'd send to someone you have a deeper relationship with. And when you deepen the relationships with your subscribers, you’re better able to influence them. You get to take them on a journey with you and <em>feel things</em> - experience emotions. And as a result, you get them to take action.&nbsp;</p><h2>Give people ONE call to action (per email)&nbsp;</h2><p>Always address just <em>one</em> topic (one theme) in your emails and be clear on the <em>one</em> action you want people to take. Don’t give them plenty of choices because they won’t know what decision to make. Instead,<strong> tell them about the <em>best</em> action they can take so they can move on to the next step in their journey with you.</strong> That’s what each email you send does – it moves people to the next step of the journey.</p><p>At the start of an email campaign, you might want to ask people to watch a video that talks about the problem they might be experiencing. As you progress with your sequence, you can let them know about your course or programme and ask people to check it out. Your call to action <em>can</em> change in the space of a campaign. You can start with a softer approach building curiosity and then, towards the end, make your<em> one</em> main promise.</p><h2>The benefit of stacking your email marketing campaigns</h2><p>The great thing about using multiple campaigns in your marketing is that each of them can have one main promise. And each promise can be different, even if you're promoting the same product or service. That's because the campaigns stack over each other. And by using this method, you're not overwhelming your audience by telling them everything <em>at once</em>.</p><p>At the same time, you're not blowing all your chances by sending everything you have to say in one go. When you do that, things get lost. With too much being said at once, people miss it. Instead, <strong>pick every single important thing you want your subscribers to know and put it on a pedestal. Give it space to breathe – give it a whole email of its own or maybe even a whole campaign!</strong> Shine a light on it so that people who are attracted to it see it all lit up - standing high and tall about the crowd - and can see it as the promise they need to go ahead and buy the thing they’re looking for.</p><h2>Tap into the power of storytelling</h2><p>To differentiate your emails (even if the call to action is the same, and you’re driving people to the same product), you can use storytelling. It allows you to ‘decorate’ the same thing in different ways. So you take the story about whatever happened to you on a particular day and link it to your main point and call to action. We have a whole<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/208/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> podcast episode</a> on that, so go and check it out!</p><p>In other words, you can choose to send a plethora of emails that include the same call to action but go about it in loads of different ways. But remember the Rule of One - <strong>each email has <em>one</em> story, <em>one</em> lesson, and <em>one</em> main call to action.</strong></p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>Your Super Signature is the exception to the rule!</h2><p>There’s an exception to the Rule of One though, and that’s your Super Signature. If you’re inside<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> our programme</a>, you can find some training about this - it's called Super Signature Reloaded. What's your Super Signature exactly? <strong>It's a list of links at the bottom of your emails that includes everything that someone can do if they want your help.</strong></p><p>The way we see it, the Super Signature is <em>not</em> diluting your call to action because it's a separate part of the email. It's further down at the bottom. You can even put a couple of lines above it to physically separate it from your main email.</p><p>And its job is to tell people that if they’re ready to take things to the next level, there are a bunch of ways you can help - the Super Signature gives them options. These can include free things like joining<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> our Facebook group</a> or listening to our podcast, but also<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> buying our programme</a>, or<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/agency?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=agency" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> hiring our agency</a> to do your email marketing for you.</p><p>It acts like a menu of quick resources that people can access <em>if and when</em> they need to. We stick it at the bottom (in the footer) of every email we send - it's a constant for us, and it makes us sales every week because people click on it!</p><h2>You can make your call to action multiple times</h2><p>One last thing to point out is that in the main body of the email, you want to make sure you have <em>one</em> call to action, as we said. But <strong>you can make that same call to action multiple times.</strong> In a daily email, we might just have one. But sometimes when we send emails inside our campaigns, we may have links to <em>the same</em> call to action two or three times.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><h2>Join the Email Hero Blueprint</h2><p>If you want to know more about the topics we talked about here (including how to wave storytelling into your emails and set up your Super Signature),<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league#:~:text=The%20Email%20Hero%20Blueprint%20is%20the%20leading%20programme%20for%20people,if%20your%20list%20is%20tiny." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> check out the Email Hero Blueprint</a>. It’s our flagship brand new programme where you can find everything you need to get more sales from your existing subscribers.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>This week’s subject line is “anyone there??” It sounds like the typical subject line you’d use for a re-engagement campaign (such as our Revival campaign), but it had nothing to do with that. It was just a story that Rob told about being left alone somewhere.</p><p>It’s interesting because it’s designed to sound like a prompt or a nudge for people who haven’t been paying attention, but it's not. So you’re threading the line between using something attention-grabbing but that doesn’t feel clickbaity. The last thing you want is for people to feel like they've been deceived when they read your email. Also, with two question marks, you’re making a slight exaggeration, and that grabs people’s attention even more. So check it out!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-copywriting-mistakes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Biggest Mistakes You’re Making With Your Email Marketing Copywriting</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/persuasive-copywriting-email/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mindblowing Techniques To Connect More Deeply With Your Email Readers With Rob Marsh &amp; Kira Hug</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/marketing-is-storytelling-comedian-kevin-rogers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Comedian’s Secrets to Storytelling – With Kevin Rogers</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3>Join our FREE Facebook group</h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Not sick of us yet? If you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn all about our ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days),<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.&nbsp;</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent flow of sales without having to launch another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or 'better' subject lines. And you can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about mastering the email marketing copywriting technique of the Rule of One) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/rule-of-one/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">4dcf53c7-ed49-47d4-a0a2-8ba160742ce8</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/f4180c2e-3ea8-4960-8dd5-e8a6e53216dc/AzwgXMnVooe1E3vXwB-_VrDT.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/5f140e5f-b519-4eaf-9c67-f9e94c278aa2/225-Final.mp3" length="54892096" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>22:52</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>225</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>225</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/58053157-fbe4-46c6-bc49-dd337dafa547/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Smash Your Flash Sale Black Friday Campaign, With Natalie Ellis from BossBabe</title><itunes:title>Smash Your Flash Sale Black Friday Campaign, With Natalie Ellis from BossBabe</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Want to know how our friend Natalie Ellis from<a href="https://bossbabe.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Boss Babe</a> ran a super successful flash sale Black Friday campaign using a combination of social media chatbots and our email marketing campaigns?&nbsp;</p><p>If right now you're thinking that Black Friday is far away, just know that this strategy can work for <em>any</em> other holiday or promotion you decide to run throughout the year. It’s something you can rinse and repeat for anything that isn’t a big launch in your business. It doesn't require creating any new content, and if Natalie's story is anything to go by, it'll also be quicker and more profitable than <em>anything</em> you've ever done.&nbsp;</p><p>Shall we get into the good stuff?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:09) Join our FREE<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Facebook group</a>.</p><p>(2:43) Did Natalie really sell something to Richard Branson?</p><p>(4:08) What did Natalie's Black Friday promotion look like?</p><p>(6:55) What was Natalie's strategy with her Black Friday promotion?</p><p>(9:11) How did Natalie implement our Black Friday email campaign?</p><p>(12:49) When did Natalie start to promote her offer?</p><p>(15:06) Why tell people what the offer is about (in advance).</p><p>(17:30) How did Natalie keep her audience warm?</p><p>(19:21) How to replicate Natalie's success with her flash sale Black Friday campaign.</p><p>(27:13) Subject lines of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>What did Natalie’s Black Friday promotion look like?</h2><p>Natalie’s main focus is her membership. While she has different levels to it, at the moment, you can only join annually for $997. But for her Black Friday/Cyber Monday promotion, Natalie opened the doors for people to join monthly at $97. Or, if they were already inside the membership, she offered a 50% off annual upgrade. She also had something for existing annual members, which was the chance to buy an additional bundle.</p><p>You can see here that Natalie created <strong>a segmented offer with the different types of people in her audience in mind</strong>. She put together different things for non-members, monthly members, and annual members that made them all feel seen and supported. It’s also worth pointing out that Natalie didn’t create anything new content for this promotion. Even with the bundle she offered her annual members, she put together existing content.</p><p>What we think Natalie did brilliantly here is to <strong>target the most profitable segment of her list - her existing customers.</strong> We see <em>a lot</em> of people putting together flash sales or promotions and ignoring the people who are already paying them money! So if you’re putting together an offer, what can you sell to your most profitable customers? These are the people who are going to pay you the most per head.</p><h2>What was Natalie's strategy with her Black Friday promotion?</h2><p>One of the biggest ways Natalie markets her products in the front end is through social media - mainly with reels on Instagram. She asks people to comment and then puts them through a sequence in their DMs. This is similar to an email sequence, but instead of being via email, it’s <strong>through people’s DMs, where the open rate is super high at about 90%.</strong></p><p>So what Natalie and her team did for Black Friday was to <strong>combine their chatbot strategy with an email marketing strategy.</strong> For this promotion, Natalie wanted something that felt easy and fun, so she set out to make Black Friday her biggest and most fun mini-launch of the year. And something she'd never done in the past was to use an email campaign template. For the first time in her business, she decided to grab our Black Friday/Cyber Monday campaign, and (in her own words), she said the result was freaking phenomenal and incredibly successful!</p><h2>How did Natalie implement our Black Friday email campaign?</h2><p>A couple of weeks before Black Friday, Natalie started creating some hype through her Instagram reels. She specifically targeted this content to the segments of her audience who were already interested (i.e. warm leads who had an awareness of her offer). This wasn't for the cold audience out there, as, Natalie said, <strong>people who don't know you don't pay attention.</strong> She created a trailer to tell people that something was coming on Black Friday and asked them to join her waiting list about the offer.</p><p>She then popped into their DMs and asked people to share their ‘status’. Were they a member? Were they a monthly or annual member? Or were they <em>not</em> a member? And then Natalie asked for their email address. So inside her mini-chat, she created three different segments.&nbsp;</p><p>In the space of a couple of hours, her team then scheduled the posts that people would get sent on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and she started making sales from the people who were on the waitlist and her email list as a whole. She took our Black Friday email campaign template and plugged in all her copy.</p><h3>Creating a separate page for the flash sale</h3><p>Something we suggest in our template is to <strong>have a flash sale-specific page with a video explaining what’s coming and what the offer is. </strong>This is something Natalie loved and hadn’t done before. She'd normally use longer pages, but for this promotion, she created a specific page. And that, she said, was incredibly successful.</p><p>When it came to the Black Friday weekend, Natalie didn’t do much. She spent time with her family for Thanksgiving and said this was the <em>easiest </em>Black Friday promotion she’d ever done! She even made the same amount of money she had made in a previous Black Friday/Cyber Monday launch when she went to town. But this time it was <em>recurring</em> revenue, so it felt like more of a success. And she spent about one-tenth of the amount of time on it. Guess why? Because she used our Black Friday email marketing campaign!</p><h2>When did Natalie start to promote her offer?&nbsp;</h2><p>Natalie started talking about her Black Friday on social media two weeks before Black Friday. At that point, people started engaging with the chatbot and joining the waitlist.</p><p>As Natalie explained, this wasn't about educating her audience about what she does. One of the biggest mistakes we see a lot of marketers make is to educate their audience on the noisiest and highest email send day of the year.<strong> Black Friday isn’t the time to try and educate anyone on anything! It’s all about encouraging people to grab your offer.</strong></p><p>It's not the time for long webinars and getting people to know you and your business. Just <strong>focus on the people who are already aware of your world and keep the momentum going.</strong> Because that’s key in any flash sale you’ll ever do -&nbsp; you want people to buy based on reflex reaction.</p><p>With that said, if you were to create a new product that people didn’t know about yet, you’d need to start talking about it around two months in advance. You'd first want to make people problem-aware, then solution-aware, and only then present your offer. But this isn’t what Natalie had in mind for this Black Friday – she wanted fun and easy.</p><h2>Why tell people what your offer is about (in advance)</h2><p>When Natalie told her audience about her offer, she hinted it had to do with her membership. And she did that for a couple of reasons. First, she wanted people to start doing their research about the membership to decide whether they wanted to be in it. But also, she knew some people would be on the fence about joining, and she didn’t want them to join <em>before</em> the offer and <em>then </em>realise they could have saved some money by waiting for the promotion.</p><p>To share her offer, she batch-created a bunch of reels in Canva (5-10 seconds long) and then posted one a day on Instagram on the days leading up to the promotion. She always made sure she picked the audio on the day she uploaded the reel based on what was trending on the day. This is a super easy and effective process that Natalie uses, and it allows her to get her reels out in a timely way even though they're not scheduled in advance.&nbsp;</p><p>Every day, she also showed up on Instagram Stories answering the questions her audience asked about the membership, and in each of them, she'd remind people about joining her waitlist. This is how she created the hype for her offer.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>How did Natalie keep her audience warm?</h2><p>To keep people warm in the lead-up to Black Friday, Natalie kept sharing screenshots of testimonials, and sometimes she'd even create a carousel out of them. She wanted to 'sell without selling', by simply showing what happens inside her membership. And that was enough to get people excited.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>The strategy of sharing testimonials works a treat because when people know there’s a deal coming up, they prepare and do their research in advance. They want to decide whether they'll buy when the time comes.</p><p>Something else that gets people excited is reminding them about the promotion and effectively warning them not to buy in the days before the flash sale. You don't want them to miss out on the deal, right? By doing this, you may see a small dip in sales in the period leading up to a promotion, but you're getting your engine revved up for when it’s time to take the breaks off on the day of the flash sale.</p><h2>How to replicate Natalie's success with her flash sale Black Friday campaign</h2><p>Natalie told us that this promotion did so well that she didn't even close the cart on Cyber Monday - she kept it going for an extra day! She not only found that the offer was converting amazingly well...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Want to know how our friend Natalie Ellis from<a href="https://bossbabe.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Boss Babe</a> ran a super successful flash sale Black Friday campaign using a combination of social media chatbots and our email marketing campaigns?&nbsp;</p><p>If right now you're thinking that Black Friday is far away, just know that this strategy can work for <em>any</em> other holiday or promotion you decide to run throughout the year. It’s something you can rinse and repeat for anything that isn’t a big launch in your business. It doesn't require creating any new content, and if Natalie's story is anything to go by, it'll also be quicker and more profitable than <em>anything</em> you've ever done.&nbsp;</p><p>Shall we get into the good stuff?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:09) Join our FREE<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Facebook group</a>.</p><p>(2:43) Did Natalie really sell something to Richard Branson?</p><p>(4:08) What did Natalie's Black Friday promotion look like?</p><p>(6:55) What was Natalie's strategy with her Black Friday promotion?</p><p>(9:11) How did Natalie implement our Black Friday email campaign?</p><p>(12:49) When did Natalie start to promote her offer?</p><p>(15:06) Why tell people what the offer is about (in advance).</p><p>(17:30) How did Natalie keep her audience warm?</p><p>(19:21) How to replicate Natalie's success with her flash sale Black Friday campaign.</p><p>(27:13) Subject lines of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>What did Natalie’s Black Friday promotion look like?</h2><p>Natalie’s main focus is her membership. While she has different levels to it, at the moment, you can only join annually for $997. But for her Black Friday/Cyber Monday promotion, Natalie opened the doors for people to join monthly at $97. Or, if they were already inside the membership, she offered a 50% off annual upgrade. She also had something for existing annual members, which was the chance to buy an additional bundle.</p><p>You can see here that Natalie created <strong>a segmented offer with the different types of people in her audience in mind</strong>. She put together different things for non-members, monthly members, and annual members that made them all feel seen and supported. It’s also worth pointing out that Natalie didn’t create anything new content for this promotion. Even with the bundle she offered her annual members, she put together existing content.</p><p>What we think Natalie did brilliantly here is to <strong>target the most profitable segment of her list - her existing customers.</strong> We see <em>a lot</em> of people putting together flash sales or promotions and ignoring the people who are already paying them money! So if you’re putting together an offer, what can you sell to your most profitable customers? These are the people who are going to pay you the most per head.</p><h2>What was Natalie's strategy with her Black Friday promotion?</h2><p>One of the biggest ways Natalie markets her products in the front end is through social media - mainly with reels on Instagram. She asks people to comment and then puts them through a sequence in their DMs. This is similar to an email sequence, but instead of being via email, it’s <strong>through people’s DMs, where the open rate is super high at about 90%.</strong></p><p>So what Natalie and her team did for Black Friday was to <strong>combine their chatbot strategy with an email marketing strategy.</strong> For this promotion, Natalie wanted something that felt easy and fun, so she set out to make Black Friday her biggest and most fun mini-launch of the year. And something she'd never done in the past was to use an email campaign template. For the first time in her business, she decided to grab our Black Friday/Cyber Monday campaign, and (in her own words), she said the result was freaking phenomenal and incredibly successful!</p><h2>How did Natalie implement our Black Friday email campaign?</h2><p>A couple of weeks before Black Friday, Natalie started creating some hype through her Instagram reels. She specifically targeted this content to the segments of her audience who were already interested (i.e. warm leads who had an awareness of her offer). This wasn't for the cold audience out there, as, Natalie said, <strong>people who don't know you don't pay attention.</strong> She created a trailer to tell people that something was coming on Black Friday and asked them to join her waiting list about the offer.</p><p>She then popped into their DMs and asked people to share their ‘status’. Were they a member? Were they a monthly or annual member? Or were they <em>not</em> a member? And then Natalie asked for their email address. So inside her mini-chat, she created three different segments.&nbsp;</p><p>In the space of a couple of hours, her team then scheduled the posts that people would get sent on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and she started making sales from the people who were on the waitlist and her email list as a whole. She took our Black Friday email campaign template and plugged in all her copy.</p><h3>Creating a separate page for the flash sale</h3><p>Something we suggest in our template is to <strong>have a flash sale-specific page with a video explaining what’s coming and what the offer is. </strong>This is something Natalie loved and hadn’t done before. She'd normally use longer pages, but for this promotion, she created a specific page. And that, she said, was incredibly successful.</p><p>When it came to the Black Friday weekend, Natalie didn’t do much. She spent time with her family for Thanksgiving and said this was the <em>easiest </em>Black Friday promotion she’d ever done! She even made the same amount of money she had made in a previous Black Friday/Cyber Monday launch when she went to town. But this time it was <em>recurring</em> revenue, so it felt like more of a success. And she spent about one-tenth of the amount of time on it. Guess why? Because she used our Black Friday email marketing campaign!</p><h2>When did Natalie start to promote her offer?&nbsp;</h2><p>Natalie started talking about her Black Friday on social media two weeks before Black Friday. At that point, people started engaging with the chatbot and joining the waitlist.</p><p>As Natalie explained, this wasn't about educating her audience about what she does. One of the biggest mistakes we see a lot of marketers make is to educate their audience on the noisiest and highest email send day of the year.<strong> Black Friday isn’t the time to try and educate anyone on anything! It’s all about encouraging people to grab your offer.</strong></p><p>It's not the time for long webinars and getting people to know you and your business. Just <strong>focus on the people who are already aware of your world and keep the momentum going.</strong> Because that’s key in any flash sale you’ll ever do -&nbsp; you want people to buy based on reflex reaction.</p><p>With that said, if you were to create a new product that people didn’t know about yet, you’d need to start talking about it around two months in advance. You'd first want to make people problem-aware, then solution-aware, and only then present your offer. But this isn’t what Natalie had in mind for this Black Friday – she wanted fun and easy.</p><h2>Why tell people what your offer is about (in advance)</h2><p>When Natalie told her audience about her offer, she hinted it had to do with her membership. And she did that for a couple of reasons. First, she wanted people to start doing their research about the membership to decide whether they wanted to be in it. But also, she knew some people would be on the fence about joining, and she didn’t want them to join <em>before</em> the offer and <em>then </em>realise they could have saved some money by waiting for the promotion.</p><p>To share her offer, she batch-created a bunch of reels in Canva (5-10 seconds long) and then posted one a day on Instagram on the days leading up to the promotion. She always made sure she picked the audio on the day she uploaded the reel based on what was trending on the day. This is a super easy and effective process that Natalie uses, and it allows her to get her reels out in a timely way even though they're not scheduled in advance.&nbsp;</p><p>Every day, she also showed up on Instagram Stories answering the questions her audience asked about the membership, and in each of them, she'd remind people about joining her waitlist. This is how she created the hype for her offer.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>How did Natalie keep her audience warm?</h2><p>To keep people warm in the lead-up to Black Friday, Natalie kept sharing screenshots of testimonials, and sometimes she'd even create a carousel out of them. She wanted to 'sell without selling', by simply showing what happens inside her membership. And that was enough to get people excited.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>The strategy of sharing testimonials works a treat because when people know there’s a deal coming up, they prepare and do their research in advance. They want to decide whether they'll buy when the time comes.</p><p>Something else that gets people excited is reminding them about the promotion and effectively warning them not to buy in the days before the flash sale. You don't want them to miss out on the deal, right? By doing this, you may see a small dip in sales in the period leading up to a promotion, but you're getting your engine revved up for when it’s time to take the breaks off on the day of the flash sale.</p><h2>How to replicate Natalie's success with her flash sale Black Friday campaign</h2><p>Natalie told us that this promotion did so well that she didn't even close the cart on Cyber Monday - she kept it going for an extra day! She not only found that the offer was converting amazingly well but also, her members were buzzing with the best energy and even consuming more of her content inside the membership.&nbsp;</p><p>Data shows that <strong>people who buy from you once are 50% more likely to buy from you again in the future.</strong> So, to replicate some of this success, you can use Black Friday (where people typically have their credit cards in their hands and are looking for deals) to get people to buy for the first time. It doesn’t matter how noisy you think this time of year is. That’s not a reason to miss out.</p><p><strong>You can also manufacture these types of events and flash sales at any point of the year - it's not just about Black Friday. </strong>You can use any holiday or occasion. The key, Natalie says, is to <strong>think about how your ideal client is feeling during that time of year</strong> <strong>and create offers that tap into that. </strong>You can create big moments in the summer, for example, especially if you know that sales in your industry can be a bit slow then.</p><p>And you don't need to have a huge audience to do this either! Just try and think of ways to differentiate yourself and stand out. That’s how you’ll <strong>create an audience of customers who learn to buy from you on these exciting manufactured holidays.</strong> And remember that when everyone’s doing a particular thing, you can cut through the noise by doing the opposite of that. Play a 'game of opposites'!&nbsp;</p><h2>The key to Natalie's success with her Black Friday promotion</h2><p>So, to recap, here’s what Natalie did for her Black Friday/Cyber Monday promotion.</p><ul><li>She created social posts to build the hype and get into people’s DMs using chatbots.</li><li>She asked her audience simple questions to segment them into what type of customer (or non-customer) they were and presented them with offers that were relevant to them.</li><li>At the same time, she followed up with emails (using our Black Friday email marketing campaign) to the rest of her email list.</li></ul><br/><p>Natalie was able to target her audience inside their email Inbox and their social media inbox at one of the busiest times of the year. This proves that <strong>even at a time when there’s a lot of noise, you can cut through it to make sure people see <em>your</em> offers. </strong>And let's not forget that this promotion took a fraction of the time it normally takes Natalie to run, and instead of working, she got to spend quality time with her family. Isn't that the goal?</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>This week’s subject line is “Sending these to your list (10 emails)”. This subject line got a massively high click-through rate - probably around double what we normally get. The reason it worked so well is that the subject line tells people exactly what’s inside the email. It doesn’t say that the email is valuable or that you'll find a link inside it. It tells you what’s in it - and that’s 10 emails. The open rate and click-through rate were amazing, so check it out!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>About Natalie</h3><p>If you want to connect with Natalie,<a href="https://bossbabe.com/podcast/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> check out her podcast</a> or you can<a href="https://programs.bossbabe.com/offers/KzxCL7oX/checkout" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> join her amazing membership and community</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/holiday-email-campaign/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Create An Awesome Holiday Email Campaign That Gets Your Offer To Sell Like Hot Cakes So People Buy Like Crazy</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/best-email-marketing-campaigns/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Run A Smashing Flash Sale With One of The Best Email Marketing Campaigns In The World</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/new-years-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">What To Send In Your New Year’s Emails To Get Your Clients Excited About Your Business (And Buy From You)</a>.&nbsp;</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3>Join our FREE Facebook group</h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Not sick of us yet? If you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn all about our ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days),<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.&nbsp;</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent flow of sales without having to launch another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or 'better' subject lines. And you can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to run a super successful flash sale Black Friday campaign) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/flash-sale-black-friday/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">66993e88-d440-4686-8518-cf824ebae1e7</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/a817aee3-cf76-4214-83a2-3d9541241315/w3aXNl39-mJsCefjCm5-YKkM.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/687a7ecf-1b3f-4507-b827-64bdc0969e49/223-Final.mp3" length="70729216" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>29:28</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>223</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>223</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/fa47c6cb-4e0c-4647-918a-450aea323dda/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>What Are The Hot Email Marketing Trends For 2024?</title><itunes:title>What Are The Hot Email Marketing Trends For 2024?</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What's the latest in the email marketing world? Let's find out about the email marketing trends for 2024 and beyond. What can we all do to make our emails work<em> even better</em> for our businesses?</p><p>(And yes, we'll talk about AI, but probably in the way you expect us to).&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to go?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:12) Join our FREE<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Facebook group</a>.</p><p>(4:57) Let's pay more attention to deliverability and verification.</p><p>(7:35) The technical bits that are important for validation.&nbsp;</p><p>(11:11) We need to focus on engagement with our list.&nbsp;</p><p>(13:30) Put more emphasis on converting your subscribers into customers!</p><p>(17:02) Use AI for analysis and to inform your decisions for list building.&nbsp;</p><p>(20:27) Stand out by humanising your content.</p><p>(24:02) Come and find out more inside The Email Hero Blueprint.</p><p>(26:44) Subject lines of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>Let's pay more attention to deliverability and verification</h2><p>In 2024 and beyond, email deliverability is going to become more ‘problematic’. And verification is going to be more important than ever.<strong> </strong>These two elements go hand in hand. And we recommend you have all your ducks in a row to make sure your emails get into the inboxes of your subscribers.</p><p>Email marketing platforms are tightening their belts around deliverability and engagement monitoring. They're doing this so we're not all building mammoth lists of people and bombarding them with emails whether they're reading them or not.</p><p>Kennedy did a little experiment recently. He had a look at the emails he receives in his inbox and was amazed at how many big brand names whose emails he hasn’t opened for ages are <em>still </em>emailing him. These marketers aren't taking their list hygiene and verification as seriously as they should!</p><h3>The technical bits that are important for validation&nbsp;</h3><p>Now more than ever, you need to focus on validation. So make sure you set up your DNS SPF and DKIM records. If you’re not familiar with these, look for some simple tutorials on how to set them up. It’s a one-time job, and yes - it's boring. You can pay someone to do it for you if you want. But get it done because people need to know <em>for sure</em> that the person sending emails is who they say they are. And that’s why these measures are coming into force.</p><p>A few years ago, anyone could have opened an account with an email marketing platform and pretended they were an ex-president of the US. No one would have batted an eyelid! But we now live in a world where people are being scammed left right and centre. So these measures exist to protect us all. You’ll have noticed how many scams you receive via text message compared to email. That's because the world of text messaging is still unverified.&nbsp;</p><p>You can't just ignore validation because you know you’re a good, legitimate person who isn’t scamming anyone. So do that piece of work! It's similar to what's happening on social media. You can now pay a monthly fee to receive a blue tick and show you're a verified account. More people are choosing to do this because they’re genuinely finding that others are cloning their profiles!</p><h2>We need to focus on engagement with our list</h2><p>If you’re a customer of ours, we give you all the resources when it comes to re-engagement campaigns and processes to make sure the people on your list are those who are paying attention to your emails. Don't end up with subscribers who haven’t looked at your stuff in years!</p><p>We might even start tightening up the window of time that we allow people before we consider them disengaged. We'll then put them through our re-engagement campaign, and if they don't engage we remove them from our list. Permanently.</p><p>If you’re a<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> member of our programmes</a>, as part of our monthly calls, we’re going to keep you up to date with the latest email marketing trends for 2024 and beyond. If things change in the email marketing world, we'll tell you!</p><p>For example, when we started a few years ago, we would measure engagement based on open rates. At the time, that worked because they were fairly accurate. But now we measure engagement based on clicks. As always, we develop and respond to what’s working.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><h2>Put more emphasis on converting your subscribers!</h2><p>The next thing to consider when it comes to email marketing trends for 2024 is the cost of ads. A lot of us are building our lists using paid advertising on various channels. And you’ll notice that the cost of advertising is the highest it’s ever been! This means that <strong>the cost of getting new subscribers is going to increase. </strong>And the<em> one</em> skill we all need to master is our ability to <strong>monetise the subscribers on our email list.</strong></p><p>First of all, we need to build the skill of <strong>converting subscribers into paying customers<em> for the first time</em>. </strong>And then we also need to <strong>maximise how much we're able to earn from the subscribers on our list</strong> because if we’re paying more for each person we bring in, we have less time to make that money back. <strong>The marketers who are going to survive and win the ad game are those who manage to win the <em>customer</em> (not just the subscriber).</strong> The same goes for organic reach, as these costs are expected to increase as well.</p><h2>Use AI for analysis and to inform your decisions for list building</h2><p>We can't talk about email marketing trends for 2024 and not mention AI! If you work with media agencies or pay-per-click advertising, we believe they'll also change the way they work and focus more on the creative. This is because, with billions of dollars invested in Google AI, they'll always do a better job of figuring out what ads to place in front of whom, on what devices, what times, etc.</p><p>There are lots of different criteria that you need to get right – it’s a complicated cocktail. But AI is going to be able to do a better job than anyone else because they're collecting data from advertisers that are <em>way</em> bigger than any of us. And then they use that data to optimise the process.</p><p><strong>The money in media buying is going to go to people who are good at figuring out creative artwork.</strong> And a lot of them are going to use AI to make it more engaging. <strong>It all comes down to humans<em> with AI</em> replacing humans<em> without AI</em></strong> (rather than AI replacing humans).</p><p>The big opportunity here is in your ability to <strong>use AI to analyse which ads are likely to perform best.</strong> For example, you can use AI to look at 10 bits of creative, 10 headlines, and 10 bits of body copy and work out which combination will perform the best. It’s all going to be about AI <em>informing</em> the creative!</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>Stand out by <em>humanising</em> your content</h2><p>With more development in AI, we’re going to see a proliferation of content and profiles that are <em>non-human</em>. So <em>humanising</em> your email marketing is the way to go.</p><p>One of the greatest opportunities we have with content is <em>to be human</em>. It’s about creating things that AI cannot create, such as personal stories about what's happening in your life and how you feel about them. It’s about expressing your personal opinions - something AI cannot do (yet) because it's not in your head!</p><p>AI is a content factory that’s pumping out this bland "How-To" content that might have <em>some</em> personality and <em>may </em>sound like you. It's certainly going to get better over time at understanding your style, but it's never going to know what you experience daily. Not in 2024 anyway!</p><p>So when everyone on your email list is receiving so many AI-generated emails, which send people to AI-generated sales pages with AI-generated sales videos to AI-generated products, <strong>you have a<em> huge</em> opportunity to stand out by <em>being human</em>. </strong>By sharing things that <em>aren't</em> AI-generated. You can be different from all those content factories that create their emails, landing pages, sales videos, and even products at the push of a button.</p><p>Maybe there will come a day when even podcasts will be completely AI-generated. We had an idea a while ago to start another podcast that used a combination of text-to-speech to introduce different sections and then grab bits of content that we created elsewhere and put them together. We didn't do it. But just remember that <strong>something <em>real</em> is going to stand out </strong>among a lot of that type of content.</p><h2>Come and find out more inside The Email Hero Blueprint</h2><p>Email marketing has been around for a long time and will continue to be in 2024 and beyond because it's <strong>the highest return-on-investment marketing activity you can do in your business.</strong> The level of engagement you get through email marketing has not been equalled by <em>anything else</em> that anyone’s ever attempted. It enables long-term growth and sustainable scaling.</p><p>In 2024, email remains <em>central</em> to everything we’re doing. We believe <strong>we all need to double down on building smaller, more engaged audiences</strong>. Our job is to deepen the relationship with our subscribers using AI where possible but never at the risk of replacing or butchering those relationships. And this could easily happen if you remove the human from the messaging.</p><p><strong>Focus on deliverability...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What's the latest in the email marketing world? Let's find out about the email marketing trends for 2024 and beyond. What can we all do to make our emails work<em> even better</em> for our businesses?</p><p>(And yes, we'll talk about AI, but probably in the way you expect us to).&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to go?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:12) Join our FREE<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Facebook group</a>.</p><p>(4:57) Let's pay more attention to deliverability and verification.</p><p>(7:35) The technical bits that are important for validation.&nbsp;</p><p>(11:11) We need to focus on engagement with our list.&nbsp;</p><p>(13:30) Put more emphasis on converting your subscribers into customers!</p><p>(17:02) Use AI for analysis and to inform your decisions for list building.&nbsp;</p><p>(20:27) Stand out by humanising your content.</p><p>(24:02) Come and find out more inside The Email Hero Blueprint.</p><p>(26:44) Subject lines of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>Let's pay more attention to deliverability and verification</h2><p>In 2024 and beyond, email deliverability is going to become more ‘problematic’. And verification is going to be more important than ever.<strong> </strong>These two elements go hand in hand. And we recommend you have all your ducks in a row to make sure your emails get into the inboxes of your subscribers.</p><p>Email marketing platforms are tightening their belts around deliverability and engagement monitoring. They're doing this so we're not all building mammoth lists of people and bombarding them with emails whether they're reading them or not.</p><p>Kennedy did a little experiment recently. He had a look at the emails he receives in his inbox and was amazed at how many big brand names whose emails he hasn’t opened for ages are <em>still </em>emailing him. These marketers aren't taking their list hygiene and verification as seriously as they should!</p><h3>The technical bits that are important for validation&nbsp;</h3><p>Now more than ever, you need to focus on validation. So make sure you set up your DNS SPF and DKIM records. If you’re not familiar with these, look for some simple tutorials on how to set them up. It’s a one-time job, and yes - it's boring. You can pay someone to do it for you if you want. But get it done because people need to know <em>for sure</em> that the person sending emails is who they say they are. And that’s why these measures are coming into force.</p><p>A few years ago, anyone could have opened an account with an email marketing platform and pretended they were an ex-president of the US. No one would have batted an eyelid! But we now live in a world where people are being scammed left right and centre. So these measures exist to protect us all. You’ll have noticed how many scams you receive via text message compared to email. That's because the world of text messaging is still unverified.&nbsp;</p><p>You can't just ignore validation because you know you’re a good, legitimate person who isn’t scamming anyone. So do that piece of work! It's similar to what's happening on social media. You can now pay a monthly fee to receive a blue tick and show you're a verified account. More people are choosing to do this because they’re genuinely finding that others are cloning their profiles!</p><h2>We need to focus on engagement with our list</h2><p>If you’re a customer of ours, we give you all the resources when it comes to re-engagement campaigns and processes to make sure the people on your list are those who are paying attention to your emails. Don't end up with subscribers who haven’t looked at your stuff in years!</p><p>We might even start tightening up the window of time that we allow people before we consider them disengaged. We'll then put them through our re-engagement campaign, and if they don't engage we remove them from our list. Permanently.</p><p>If you’re a<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> member of our programmes</a>, as part of our monthly calls, we’re going to keep you up to date with the latest email marketing trends for 2024 and beyond. If things change in the email marketing world, we'll tell you!</p><p>For example, when we started a few years ago, we would measure engagement based on open rates. At the time, that worked because they were fairly accurate. But now we measure engagement based on clicks. As always, we develop and respond to what’s working.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><h2>Put more emphasis on converting your subscribers!</h2><p>The next thing to consider when it comes to email marketing trends for 2024 is the cost of ads. A lot of us are building our lists using paid advertising on various channels. And you’ll notice that the cost of advertising is the highest it’s ever been! This means that <strong>the cost of getting new subscribers is going to increase. </strong>And the<em> one</em> skill we all need to master is our ability to <strong>monetise the subscribers on our email list.</strong></p><p>First of all, we need to build the skill of <strong>converting subscribers into paying customers<em> for the first time</em>. </strong>And then we also need to <strong>maximise how much we're able to earn from the subscribers on our list</strong> because if we’re paying more for each person we bring in, we have less time to make that money back. <strong>The marketers who are going to survive and win the ad game are those who manage to win the <em>customer</em> (not just the subscriber).</strong> The same goes for organic reach, as these costs are expected to increase as well.</p><h2>Use AI for analysis and to inform your decisions for list building</h2><p>We can't talk about email marketing trends for 2024 and not mention AI! If you work with media agencies or pay-per-click advertising, we believe they'll also change the way they work and focus more on the creative. This is because, with billions of dollars invested in Google AI, they'll always do a better job of figuring out what ads to place in front of whom, on what devices, what times, etc.</p><p>There are lots of different criteria that you need to get right – it’s a complicated cocktail. But AI is going to be able to do a better job than anyone else because they're collecting data from advertisers that are <em>way</em> bigger than any of us. And then they use that data to optimise the process.</p><p><strong>The money in media buying is going to go to people who are good at figuring out creative artwork.</strong> And a lot of them are going to use AI to make it more engaging. <strong>It all comes down to humans<em> with AI</em> replacing humans<em> without AI</em></strong> (rather than AI replacing humans).</p><p>The big opportunity here is in your ability to <strong>use AI to analyse which ads are likely to perform best.</strong> For example, you can use AI to look at 10 bits of creative, 10 headlines, and 10 bits of body copy and work out which combination will perform the best. It’s all going to be about AI <em>informing</em> the creative!</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>Stand out by <em>humanising</em> your content</h2><p>With more development in AI, we’re going to see a proliferation of content and profiles that are <em>non-human</em>. So <em>humanising</em> your email marketing is the way to go.</p><p>One of the greatest opportunities we have with content is <em>to be human</em>. It’s about creating things that AI cannot create, such as personal stories about what's happening in your life and how you feel about them. It’s about expressing your personal opinions - something AI cannot do (yet) because it's not in your head!</p><p>AI is a content factory that’s pumping out this bland "How-To" content that might have <em>some</em> personality and <em>may </em>sound like you. It's certainly going to get better over time at understanding your style, but it's never going to know what you experience daily. Not in 2024 anyway!</p><p>So when everyone on your email list is receiving so many AI-generated emails, which send people to AI-generated sales pages with AI-generated sales videos to AI-generated products, <strong>you have a<em> huge</em> opportunity to stand out by <em>being human</em>. </strong>By sharing things that <em>aren't</em> AI-generated. You can be different from all those content factories that create their emails, landing pages, sales videos, and even products at the push of a button.</p><p>Maybe there will come a day when even podcasts will be completely AI-generated. We had an idea a while ago to start another podcast that used a combination of text-to-speech to introduce different sections and then grab bits of content that we created elsewhere and put them together. We didn't do it. But just remember that <strong>something <em>real</em> is going to stand out </strong>among a lot of that type of content.</p><h2>Come and find out more inside The Email Hero Blueprint</h2><p>Email marketing has been around for a long time and will continue to be in 2024 and beyond because it's <strong>the highest return-on-investment marketing activity you can do in your business.</strong> The level of engagement you get through email marketing has not been equalled by <em>anything else</em> that anyone’s ever attempted. It enables long-term growth and sustainable scaling.</p><p>In 2024, email remains <em>central</em> to everything we’re doing. We believe <strong>we all need to double down on building smaller, more engaged audiences</strong>. Our job is to deepen the relationship with our subscribers using AI where possible but never at the risk of replacing or butchering those relationships. And this could easily happen if you remove the human from the messaging.</p><p><strong>Focus on deliverability and remaining human, continue to tell stories and share personalised content, sell in every email, and increase the frequency of your emails.</strong> This is going to be the winning path through email marketing in 2024.</p><p>And if you’d like to be kept up to date with the email marketing trends for 2024 (and beyond) and what's working right now, as the email platforms develop a way to respond to this massive uptake in the volume of email and AI becomes even better quality, more realistic, and more human-looking and want to know how to use AI ethically, come and check out our flagship programme,<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a>.</p><p><strong>We take you through how to set up every single element of your email marketing (including the technical bits) to make it work for you so you can turn more subscribers into customers and master the central skill you're going to need in 2024 </strong>as ad prices continue to go up, and there's a proliferation of AI-generated bland content.</p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Check out all the details</a> of why it works, how, and what's included to get the incredible results that our students get.&nbsp;</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>This week’s subject line is “Warning: this is HOT”. It sounds like there might be something in the email that’s considered hot, like a hot recommendation, for example. But the subject line comes from the story in the email that was based on picking up a plate that was too hot (after being warned that the plate was indeed very hot!)</p><p>Why does this work? The subject line is a bit cryptic, but not in a way that sounds clickbaity to the point that people feel deceived when they open the email. So check it out!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/chatgpt-email-marketing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">EVERYTHING You Need To Know About AI For Email Marketing</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/reengagement-email-campaign/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Create THE Most Successful Re-Engagement Email Campaign (And Smash Your Sales Targets)</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-deliverability-2/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stop Landing In The Spam Folder &amp; Immediately Skyrocket Your Email Deliverability – With Brian Minick</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3>Join our FREE Facebook group</h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Not sick of us yet? If you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn all about our ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days),<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.&nbsp;</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent flow of sales without having to launch another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or 'better' subject lines. And you can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the hot email marketing trends for 2024) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-trends/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">c10a43e6-2b13-44d9-999e-90f009fb1c90</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/ff2d0372-8c65-4eb7-a309-af92238c0240/rgzlBaAsbbNMbKtNf1br01Pq.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/d1c2c27b-b1d3-46e7-84d2-88ad206cba6e/222-Final-v4.mp3" length="68269696" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>28:27</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>222</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>222</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/c490e01e-03d9-4879-ab9e-26d9774ce0ff/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>What To Send In Your New Year&apos;s Emails To Get Your Clients Excited About Your Business (And Buy From You)</title><itunes:title>What To Send In Your New Year&apos;s Emails To Get Your Clients Excited About Your Business (And Buy From You)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Should you take a break from emailing your subscribers during the festive period? And should you send something different in your New Year's emails?</p><p>Whether you have or haven't taken a break from your email marketing over the last few weeks, here are some ideas you can use to get your subscribers excited about your business again (and buy from you).&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Ready?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:13) Join our FREE<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Facebook group</a>.</p><p>(5:30) Should you take a break from your email marketing during the festive period?</p><p>(8:30) Emails aren't just a sales tool.</p><p>(12:20) New Year's emails aren't just about New Year's Resolutions!</p><p>(15:10) What else can you do with your emails after New Year's?</p><p>(17:52) Get people excited about your business.</p><p>(20:18) Share your real-time experiences and stories.</p><p>(22:27) Share lessons learnt and predictions in your emails.</p><p>(24:00) Encourage people to take action and solve their problems.</p><p>(26:52) Subject lines of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>Should you take a break from your email marketing during the festive period?&nbsp;</h2><p>We believe that your subscribers can choose to take a break from reading their emails over the festive period <em>if they want to</em>. If anyone decides they’re not going to check their emails during the holidays, that’s up to them. But we continue to email them – <strong>our email marketing doesn’t stop.</strong></p><p>Plus, if your business is B2C or B2b (i.e. business to small business), if people are anything like us, we check our emails on our phones, regardless of whether it’s Christmas Day or New Year’s Day. If you want something, you’ll probably buy it on those days too! So we don’t think it’s unusual for your subscribers to still check their emails during the festive period.</p><p>And even if you’re B2B, and your subscribers use their company email address and you get an out-of-office from them, chances are they're still checking their emails from time to time. So <strong>we recommend that you don’t take a break. </strong>Instead, <strong>carry on with your email marketing during the festive period.</strong></p><h3>Emails aren't just a sales tool</h3><p>We see two reasons for that. The first one is that when our subscribers first join our list, they go through automated campaigns. And we wouldn't dream of pausing those. There’s no need, anyway. Because those automations are designed to make sales, <em>even during the holiday period</em>.</p><p>The second reason is that our thing is to email people every day. If you promise your list you're going to email them <em>every day</em>, then you email them <em>every day</em>! There’s no special condition for Christmas Day or New Year's Day!&nbsp;</p><p>You see, our emails aren’t just a sales tool. They are a way we show up in people's lives to build deep relationships with the people who want to hear from us. <strong>We’re building human-to-human connections between us and the person reading our emails</strong>. So we want to be able to wish someone a Merry Christmas in real time. That way, we can also talk about the challenges or opportunities that a particular time of year may bring.</p><p>If you help people with something, you don’t suddenly stop during the holiday period. There may be<em> additional</em> things you can help with <em>because</em> of the holiday season. <strong>You can use this time of year to push people towards reflecting on what it is you do and help them through the new struggles that this time of year brings.</strong> Regardless of what market you’re in, there will be something that applies to you and what you do. People still need the knowledge and the inspiration regardless of the time of year.</p><h2>New Year's emails aren't just about New Year Resolutions!</h2><p>Also, in the New Year pretty much everyone’s talking about New Year’s resolutions. And we know that the percentage of people following through is very low. That’s often because the reason for starting a new habit is manufactured and not based on someone's personal motivation or need. We all get told it's the time of year when you’re supposed to pull up your socks, get your act together, and stop putting things off. But if that's the only reason why we set those resolutions in the first place, it's no wonder we don't stick to them.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>So by all means, you can use New Year’s resolutions (or anything that’s happening in the New Year) as an anchor for your emails. <strong>Any holiday or celebration can act as a great, pre-existing hook for your emails </strong>- people are already aware of and familiar with them, and you don’t have to explain anything.</p><p>But you don't have to buy into the whole New Year’s Resolutions hype if you don’t want to. You can apply an unusual angle to it and even play opposites while riding the wave of something that already exists.</p><h2>What else can you do with your emails after New Year’s?</h2><p>One of our favourite things to do in January is to <strong>take a behind-the-scenes tour of our business.</strong> People like finding out what’s going on. So you could share a sneak peek of what’s coming up over the next year. And that allows you to do a couple of things. The first is that you can <em>pre-frame</em> people for what to expect, get them excited, and tease them about the cool stuff that’s going to be happening, such as the fact you’re launching something new. We’d recommend you talk about things that are coming fairly soon though because otherwise, the excitement might dwindle.</p><p>But you can also use this as a good opportunity to <strong>reset the parameters, the beliefs, and the expectations around your relationship with your subscribers.</strong> For example, one of the things we talk about in our welcome sequence (the Getting to Know You sequence) when someone first joins our list is to set the scene and tell them they're going to hear from us every single day. We also tell them they can come to hang out in our free<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Facebook group</a>, listen to our podcast, or<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> join our main programme - The Email Hero Blueprint</a>.</p><p>Even if you<em> haven’t</em> taken a break from emailing your list, you can use this time to reset the parameters and the expectations of what's to come, what you’re working on, and what the New Year means to you as a business and, as a result, what it means to your audience. How does what you do benefit people?&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Plus, if you’re entering a new phase of your business, you don’t want to create a divide between the end of one phase and the start of the next one. Because that almost gives people permission to take a break and switch off, and you don’t want to do that!</p><p>Instead, use this time to set people up for what to expect. This is a good opportunity to rebuild relationships with people and remind them that you’re showing up every day (or whatever your email frequency is) with something that’s going to help them move forward. That way, by the end of this year, your audience will have made significant progress with whatever area of business or life you help with.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><h3>Get people excited about your business</h3><p>Telling people what you have planned and what you’re excited about shows them that you have plans. You're not just chilling out, pumping out the same thing over and over again. Instead, you have new, innovative stuff coming up. And even if you don’t know what it is at this stage, give them some specifics. Don’t just talk about “new developments” or “exciting projects” with no further details. That generates<em> zero</em> excitement. There’s no value or emotional attachment to any of that.</p><p>What you can do to generate <em>real excitement</em> is to say, for example, that you’re going to make an announcement the next day, which is soon enough. But also, <strong>be specific</strong>. Are you launching three new programmes this year? Tell them. If you do more, you can always over-deliver! And if you only manage one in the end, that's okay too because what you're sharing at this stage are your <em>plans</em> for the year.</p><p>This is all great stuff because it shows your subscribers that you’re re-energised. <strong>You’re reconnecting and putting effort into your communication. Your business is evolving</strong> – it’s not just a matter of rinse and repeat.</p><h3>Share your real-time experiences and stories</h3><p>You can also talk about your goals or whatever's happened to you over the past few days. You may already be doing that in your emails, but if something fun happened during the festive season, and you have bonkers stories to share, don’t miss the opportunity to tell them in real-time. It humanises you.</p><p>We don’t believe you should hold off telling a story because it’s Christmas Day and you’re not ‘allowed’ to send an email! Keep it real - people love hearing the real-time experience of you. And that’s another good reason to be sending at least three emails every single week. So people can follow you on this journey.</p><p>If Rob sends an email from a cruise ship, we tell people. Or if Kennedy sends one while he’s in Orlando, we’ll say that. We don’t wait. Sometimes the emails are retrospective, but they don’t have to be. <strong>We aren’t the type of people to hold off our fun, interesting, novel stories until the New Year.</strong> We tell them in real-time as much as we possibly can. And we think you should, too. That way, people are running in...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Should you take a break from emailing your subscribers during the festive period? And should you send something different in your New Year's emails?</p><p>Whether you have or haven't taken a break from your email marketing over the last few weeks, here are some ideas you can use to get your subscribers excited about your business again (and buy from you).&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Ready?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:13) Join our FREE<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Facebook group</a>.</p><p>(5:30) Should you take a break from your email marketing during the festive period?</p><p>(8:30) Emails aren't just a sales tool.</p><p>(12:20) New Year's emails aren't just about New Year's Resolutions!</p><p>(15:10) What else can you do with your emails after New Year's?</p><p>(17:52) Get people excited about your business.</p><p>(20:18) Share your real-time experiences and stories.</p><p>(22:27) Share lessons learnt and predictions in your emails.</p><p>(24:00) Encourage people to take action and solve their problems.</p><p>(26:52) Subject lines of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>Should you take a break from your email marketing during the festive period?&nbsp;</h2><p>We believe that your subscribers can choose to take a break from reading their emails over the festive period <em>if they want to</em>. If anyone decides they’re not going to check their emails during the holidays, that’s up to them. But we continue to email them – <strong>our email marketing doesn’t stop.</strong></p><p>Plus, if your business is B2C or B2b (i.e. business to small business), if people are anything like us, we check our emails on our phones, regardless of whether it’s Christmas Day or New Year’s Day. If you want something, you’ll probably buy it on those days too! So we don’t think it’s unusual for your subscribers to still check their emails during the festive period.</p><p>And even if you’re B2B, and your subscribers use their company email address and you get an out-of-office from them, chances are they're still checking their emails from time to time. So <strong>we recommend that you don’t take a break. </strong>Instead, <strong>carry on with your email marketing during the festive period.</strong></p><h3>Emails aren't just a sales tool</h3><p>We see two reasons for that. The first one is that when our subscribers first join our list, they go through automated campaigns. And we wouldn't dream of pausing those. There’s no need, anyway. Because those automations are designed to make sales, <em>even during the holiday period</em>.</p><p>The second reason is that our thing is to email people every day. If you promise your list you're going to email them <em>every day</em>, then you email them <em>every day</em>! There’s no special condition for Christmas Day or New Year's Day!&nbsp;</p><p>You see, our emails aren’t just a sales tool. They are a way we show up in people's lives to build deep relationships with the people who want to hear from us. <strong>We’re building human-to-human connections between us and the person reading our emails</strong>. So we want to be able to wish someone a Merry Christmas in real time. That way, we can also talk about the challenges or opportunities that a particular time of year may bring.</p><p>If you help people with something, you don’t suddenly stop during the holiday period. There may be<em> additional</em> things you can help with <em>because</em> of the holiday season. <strong>You can use this time of year to push people towards reflecting on what it is you do and help them through the new struggles that this time of year brings.</strong> Regardless of what market you’re in, there will be something that applies to you and what you do. People still need the knowledge and the inspiration regardless of the time of year.</p><h2>New Year's emails aren't just about New Year Resolutions!</h2><p>Also, in the New Year pretty much everyone’s talking about New Year’s resolutions. And we know that the percentage of people following through is very low. That’s often because the reason for starting a new habit is manufactured and not based on someone's personal motivation or need. We all get told it's the time of year when you’re supposed to pull up your socks, get your act together, and stop putting things off. But if that's the only reason why we set those resolutions in the first place, it's no wonder we don't stick to them.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>So by all means, you can use New Year’s resolutions (or anything that’s happening in the New Year) as an anchor for your emails. <strong>Any holiday or celebration can act as a great, pre-existing hook for your emails </strong>- people are already aware of and familiar with them, and you don’t have to explain anything.</p><p>But you don't have to buy into the whole New Year’s Resolutions hype if you don’t want to. You can apply an unusual angle to it and even play opposites while riding the wave of something that already exists.</p><h2>What else can you do with your emails after New Year’s?</h2><p>One of our favourite things to do in January is to <strong>take a behind-the-scenes tour of our business.</strong> People like finding out what’s going on. So you could share a sneak peek of what’s coming up over the next year. And that allows you to do a couple of things. The first is that you can <em>pre-frame</em> people for what to expect, get them excited, and tease them about the cool stuff that’s going to be happening, such as the fact you’re launching something new. We’d recommend you talk about things that are coming fairly soon though because otherwise, the excitement might dwindle.</p><p>But you can also use this as a good opportunity to <strong>reset the parameters, the beliefs, and the expectations around your relationship with your subscribers.</strong> For example, one of the things we talk about in our welcome sequence (the Getting to Know You sequence) when someone first joins our list is to set the scene and tell them they're going to hear from us every single day. We also tell them they can come to hang out in our free<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Facebook group</a>, listen to our podcast, or<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> join our main programme - The Email Hero Blueprint</a>.</p><p>Even if you<em> haven’t</em> taken a break from emailing your list, you can use this time to reset the parameters and the expectations of what's to come, what you’re working on, and what the New Year means to you as a business and, as a result, what it means to your audience. How does what you do benefit people?&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Plus, if you’re entering a new phase of your business, you don’t want to create a divide between the end of one phase and the start of the next one. Because that almost gives people permission to take a break and switch off, and you don’t want to do that!</p><p>Instead, use this time to set people up for what to expect. This is a good opportunity to rebuild relationships with people and remind them that you’re showing up every day (or whatever your email frequency is) with something that’s going to help them move forward. That way, by the end of this year, your audience will have made significant progress with whatever area of business or life you help with.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><h3>Get people excited about your business</h3><p>Telling people what you have planned and what you’re excited about shows them that you have plans. You're not just chilling out, pumping out the same thing over and over again. Instead, you have new, innovative stuff coming up. And even if you don’t know what it is at this stage, give them some specifics. Don’t just talk about “new developments” or “exciting projects” with no further details. That generates<em> zero</em> excitement. There’s no value or emotional attachment to any of that.</p><p>What you can do to generate <em>real excitement</em> is to say, for example, that you’re going to make an announcement the next day, which is soon enough. But also, <strong>be specific</strong>. Are you launching three new programmes this year? Tell them. If you do more, you can always over-deliver! And if you only manage one in the end, that's okay too because what you're sharing at this stage are your <em>plans</em> for the year.</p><p>This is all great stuff because it shows your subscribers that you’re re-energised. <strong>You’re reconnecting and putting effort into your communication. Your business is evolving</strong> – it’s not just a matter of rinse and repeat.</p><h3>Share your real-time experiences and stories</h3><p>You can also talk about your goals or whatever's happened to you over the past few days. You may already be doing that in your emails, but if something fun happened during the festive season, and you have bonkers stories to share, don’t miss the opportunity to tell them in real-time. It humanises you.</p><p>We don’t believe you should hold off telling a story because it’s Christmas Day and you’re not ‘allowed’ to send an email! Keep it real - people love hearing the real-time experience of you. And that’s another good reason to be sending at least three emails every single week. So people can follow you on this journey.</p><p>If Rob sends an email from a cruise ship, we tell people. Or if Kennedy sends one while he’s in Orlando, we’ll say that. We don’t wait. Sometimes the emails are retrospective, but they don’t have to be. <strong>We aren’t the type of people to hold off our fun, interesting, novel stories until the New Year.</strong> We tell them in real-time as much as we possibly can. And we think you should, too. That way, people are running in parallel with you. They’re going through the holiday season at the same time, and they see that likeness with you.</p><h3>Share lessons learnt and predictions in your emails</h3><p>There’s also a big opportunity to look forwards and backwards. For example, you can share the changes, trends, and predictions about your industry or your niche that you can foresee for the coming year. Talk about how that's going to affect your subscribers and give them advice. Or, reflect on the previous year and how that relates to your customers in the lessons you learnt and things you can do differently, for example.</p><p>One thing to note if you're looking backwards, is to be sure <em>not</em> to back reference specific emails. So, for example, we won’t mention we sent an email three weeks ago that talked about X. We don’t do that because someone may have subscribed just yesterday. And they wouldn’t know what we sent three weeks ago! But also, they might have missed that email and not know what we’re talking about. And we don’t want to make someone feel like an outsider. But you can talk about the last year in general and the things that happened or the lessons you learnt.</p><p>This type of content tends to work well on social video channels and podcasts. And the same thing applies to emails. It allows you to feel timely and present. Just don't forget to link this content back to how it can help your audience.</p><h3>Encourage people to take action and solve their problems</h3><p>Remember that before the New Year (so maybe around November or December) a lot of people may have already been thinking about solving a particular problem they’re experiencing. Maybe they're gearing up to do something about it in the New Year. So tap into that. Encourage people to take action - directly or indirectly, your emails can reignite that desire to get it done.</p><p>Of course, it’s also perfectly fine to decide that your emails don’t need to take any particular shift just because of the time of year. But equally, we hope we showed you that there are plenty of opportunities you can leverage <em>because</em> of the New Year. It’s the same as embracing any other holiday or occasion, such as Valentine’s Day or Black Friday. You don’t want to run away from them.</p><p>If you want some help with all this, we put together a programme to help people get to a point where they <em>never</em> have to wonder what to send, who to send it to, or when. It allows you to become <em>fluent</em> in email marketing. So <strong>if you want to make dramatic changes to your email marketing this year, take a look at our programme</strong><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong> here</strong></a><strong>.</strong> It’s brand new and we’re super excited about it. It gives you all the tools and resources you need to start making email marketing work for you.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>This week’s subject line is the eyes emoji followed by the words “Watching you (watching me)”. It vaguely reminds you of the Abba lyrics “Knowing me, knowing you”. Catchy song lyrics are an awesome source for interesting subject lines. So if you were in the relationship niche, for example, you could use “Spice up your wife” or something like that. So check it out!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/holiday-email-campaign/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Create An Awesome Holiday Email Campaign That Gets Your Offer To Sell Like Hot Cakes So People Buy Like Crazy</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-while-on-holiday/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Do Your Email Marketing While You’re On Holiday</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/b2b-vs-b2c-email-marketing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Showdown! B2B Vs B2C Emails – What Are The Differences And Who Wins The Ultimate Email Marketing Crown?</a></p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3>Join our FREE Facebook group</h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Not sick of us yet? If you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn all about our ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days),<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.&nbsp;</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent flow of sales without having to launch another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or 'better' subject lines. And you can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about what to send in your New Year's emails to see success in your business) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/new-years-emails]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">acd38946-50b0-4f55-acb4-0880af4f00a5</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/638588fb-94b3-4c08-9196-a827a3af239f/zV8z3cl0bsgGyV4Iile0gSYf.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/7a0827d4-40d2-4312-8e11-80048a87febc/Final-v2.mp3" length="69254656" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>28:51</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>221</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>221</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/4a5dbf2a-6a89-46fc-a9ab-b127497f56fa/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Master Your Metrics - Unleashing The Power Of Email Marketing Analytics</title><itunes:title>Master Your Metrics - Unleashing The Power Of Email Marketing Analytics</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Do you track any email marketing metrics? How can you use your email marketing analytics to improve your email marketing?</p><p>If this is a topic you've been avoiding, the great news is that looking at metrics, understanding them, and using them to your advantage isn't as hard as it might sound. Just collect the right data, and you'll be able to spot opportunities for improvement and growth. And yes, that means more money!</p><p>So let's get into it.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:19) Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook</a> group.</p><p>(2:59) Why do email marketing analytics matter?</p><p>(4:18) What email marketing metrics should you look at?</p><p>(7:59) What can you do if your open rates are low?</p><p>(11:55) The truth about your click-through rates.</p><p>(13:25) How to increase your click-through rates?</p><p>(20:51) What can you do when your conversion rate is low?</p><p>(25:12) What can you do when your unsubscribe rate is high?</p><p>(30:15) How can you use your email marketing analytics data?</p><p>(32:44) Why you should always calculate your EPSPM.</p><p>(35:46) Subject lines of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>Why do email marketing analytics matter?&nbsp;</h2><p>Email analytics help you figure out where the biggest levers and opportunities for your email marketing are. When you look at the <em>right</em> metrics, you can get <em>more </em>from your emails. Plus, the analytics you need to track and understand aren’t that complicated and can (mostly) be found inside your email marketing platform.</p><p>You probably think that one of the biggest metrics we suggest you track is the growth of your email list. And while that’s something you should look at, other metrics will tell you whether you have a well-refined engine that’s working for you. By knowing which email campaigns are doing well, you'll find out where you have room for improvement.</p><h2>What email marketing metrics should you look at?</h2><h3>Open rates</h3><p>If you find that one specific email in one of your campaigns has a zero open rate, you’ll want to look at that. As we always say, <strong>open rates aren’t reliable, as such. But they’re still a good indicator in comparison to each other.</strong></p><p>So if you see a surprisingly low open rate one day or on one specific email, you may want to investigate. Could it be the timing? Or the subject line? This matters because if no one opens an email, it means they haven’t seen the link to your offers. In other words, if no one opens your emails, you won't be able to influence your click-through rate.&nbsp;</p><h3>Click-through rate</h3><p><strong>Click-through rates are shown as the percentage of people who’ve clicked on your links based on how many people you sent the email to.</strong></p><p>They used to be shown as a percentage of the people who <em>opened</em> the email, which isn't great and something systems have moved away from. This is because the way open rates are tracked is broken. So it’s best to look at the percentage of people who clicked on your links based on how many people you sent the emails to. Email platforms have switched to this method of tracking, so if you’ve recently seen your click-through rates drop through the floor, that’s probably why - the way they're being tracked has changed. But that's a good thing!</p><h3>Conversion rate</h3><p>Another metric you want to track is your conversion rate. How many people took action as a result of you sending an email? When we talk about 'taking action', that could mean buying your product but also registering for a webinar, for example. It's about whatever action you're asking your subscribers to take in that email.</p><h3>Bounce rate and unsubscribe rate</h3><p>You'll also want to track your bounce rate, which looks at how many email addresses weren't deliverable.</p><p>And finally, you want to track your unsubscribe rate. Every time you send an email, some people will unsubscribe - that's just a fact. That’s the <em>cost</em> of your email marketing but also the reason why there should always be some kind of offer in every email you send.&nbsp;</p><h2>Tracking your email marketing analytics</h2><p>If you’re inside our membership<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>, you’ll know we have a piece of training that takes you through how to track your email analytics in great detail. So once you set up any email campaign, you can take a look at the open rate, click-through rate, and conversion rate of <em>each campaign</em> and, overall, at the bounce rate and unsubscribe rate of your email marketing.</p><p>This means you then have levers that you can start pulling on to improve your email marketing. So let's look at each metric in more detail.</p><h2>What can you do if your open rates are low?</h2><p>If you have a low open rate (10-30%) on one of the emails inside a campaign, it could be that the subject line needs tweaking. Otherwise, you should be looking at your engagement.</p><p>A lot of our clients, when they first come into our world, may have massive email lists, but they'll tell us they've never done any engagement management. Once someone subscribes to their list, unless they leave of their own accord, no action is being taken by the list owner to keep an eye on who’s opening the emails, who’s clicking on the links, or who’s doing anything.</p><h3>Are you implementing good email list hygiene?</h3><p>Ordinarily, what we see when people join our programme and start implementing our campaigns is that the frequency of their emails increases. And the first thing we advise our clients to look at is <em>who is likely to open those emails</em>.</p><p>If you have a list of 10,000 people and 1,000 of them open an email you send, you have a 10% open rate. But if only 5,000 of the people in your list are even using their email addresses (because all the others aren't valid anymore), you’re only really sending your emails to 5,000 people – not 10,000. The others are dead emails, spam traps, or people who no longer engage with you.</p><p>This is why it’s important to look at your business and let go of this vanity metric of how many subscribers you have on your list. It only matters if you take the time to regularly try and revive or re-engage the people who aren’t paying attention and then delete them if they don’t re-engage with you. Deleting people might sound painful, but it’s the best possible thing for the hygiene of your list. Once you start doing that, you’ll see your click-through rate go up, and you'll be able to get your list to a point where your subscribers are people who <em>care</em>.</p><h2>The truth about your click-through rates</h2><p>What happens if your open rates are good, but people aren’t clicking on the links to your offers? Typically, when you first present an offer, you’re going to see a higher click-through rate compared to the people who've gone through an entire email campaign that talks about your core offer.&nbsp;</p><p>Over time, people will click on different versions of that offer, and the click-through rate will improve. Then in your day-to-day email marketing (i.e. the email you send live each day), you’re going to see a <em>lower</em> click-through rate when talking about that same offer.</p><p>That's because the whole point of the longer-term relationship-building you’re doing with your daily emails is about waiting for the right time for people to want to buy your product. If they had an urgent need for it, they would have bought it during the first 60 days of you emailing them through your campaigns. Because that’s what those campaigns are designed to do.</p><p>The reason why people haven’t bought from you yet is that it’s not yet the right time for them. So you can expect a lower click-through rate, which, of course, means a lower conversion rate too.</p><h2>How do you increase your click-through rates?</h2><p>If you want people to click on the links in your emails, make them really obvious that there's something to click on. Spell out “Click here to do X” – no matter what action you want your subscribers to take. Let people know they can click and make sure that your links<em> look like links</em> (i.e. blue and underlined).</p><p>To make them stand out even more, you can even put them on a separate line. If your click-through rate is super low, you could use the most obnoxious-looking link for a few weeks to make sure people see it. You could even temporarily add some chevron arrows in front of it and put it all in capital letters. Once you know people are seeing it and are clicking on it, you can then dial things down again and remove all the extra bits.</p><p>We’re literally <em>obsessed </em>with getting people to click on the links in our emails, which is why <strong>we put together a resource called</strong><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/8fa9c29f23cd9c9bfc2f571b76018b1f093517a2?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=click-tricks" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong> Click Tricks</strong></a><strong>, which you can get for FREE. It includes 12 creative ways of drawing attention to the links in your email so people don't scroll past them.</strong> We did some testing a couple of years ago, and we found situations where a lower open rate could still lead to a higher click-through rate because of what the links in your emails look like. So we know it works!</p><h3>Why you want to increase your click-through rate and <em>not</em> your open rate</h3><p>Think about sales calls. You're better off having fewer calls but with higher-qualified leads than lots of calls with people who aren't necessarily interested. You'll get more people buying that way. Having loads of sales calls...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you track any email marketing metrics? How can you use your email marketing analytics to improve your email marketing?</p><p>If this is a topic you've been avoiding, the great news is that looking at metrics, understanding them, and using them to your advantage isn't as hard as it might sound. Just collect the right data, and you'll be able to spot opportunities for improvement and growth. And yes, that means more money!</p><p>So let's get into it.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:19) Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook</a> group.</p><p>(2:59) Why do email marketing analytics matter?</p><p>(4:18) What email marketing metrics should you look at?</p><p>(7:59) What can you do if your open rates are low?</p><p>(11:55) The truth about your click-through rates.</p><p>(13:25) How to increase your click-through rates?</p><p>(20:51) What can you do when your conversion rate is low?</p><p>(25:12) What can you do when your unsubscribe rate is high?</p><p>(30:15) How can you use your email marketing analytics data?</p><p>(32:44) Why you should always calculate your EPSPM.</p><p>(35:46) Subject lines of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>Why do email marketing analytics matter?&nbsp;</h2><p>Email analytics help you figure out where the biggest levers and opportunities for your email marketing are. When you look at the <em>right</em> metrics, you can get <em>more </em>from your emails. Plus, the analytics you need to track and understand aren’t that complicated and can (mostly) be found inside your email marketing platform.</p><p>You probably think that one of the biggest metrics we suggest you track is the growth of your email list. And while that’s something you should look at, other metrics will tell you whether you have a well-refined engine that’s working for you. By knowing which email campaigns are doing well, you'll find out where you have room for improvement.</p><h2>What email marketing metrics should you look at?</h2><h3>Open rates</h3><p>If you find that one specific email in one of your campaigns has a zero open rate, you’ll want to look at that. As we always say, <strong>open rates aren’t reliable, as such. But they’re still a good indicator in comparison to each other.</strong></p><p>So if you see a surprisingly low open rate one day or on one specific email, you may want to investigate. Could it be the timing? Or the subject line? This matters because if no one opens an email, it means they haven’t seen the link to your offers. In other words, if no one opens your emails, you won't be able to influence your click-through rate.&nbsp;</p><h3>Click-through rate</h3><p><strong>Click-through rates are shown as the percentage of people who’ve clicked on your links based on how many people you sent the email to.</strong></p><p>They used to be shown as a percentage of the people who <em>opened</em> the email, which isn't great and something systems have moved away from. This is because the way open rates are tracked is broken. So it’s best to look at the percentage of people who clicked on your links based on how many people you sent the emails to. Email platforms have switched to this method of tracking, so if you’ve recently seen your click-through rates drop through the floor, that’s probably why - the way they're being tracked has changed. But that's a good thing!</p><h3>Conversion rate</h3><p>Another metric you want to track is your conversion rate. How many people took action as a result of you sending an email? When we talk about 'taking action', that could mean buying your product but also registering for a webinar, for example. It's about whatever action you're asking your subscribers to take in that email.</p><h3>Bounce rate and unsubscribe rate</h3><p>You'll also want to track your bounce rate, which looks at how many email addresses weren't deliverable.</p><p>And finally, you want to track your unsubscribe rate. Every time you send an email, some people will unsubscribe - that's just a fact. That’s the <em>cost</em> of your email marketing but also the reason why there should always be some kind of offer in every email you send.&nbsp;</p><h2>Tracking your email marketing analytics</h2><p>If you’re inside our membership<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>, you’ll know we have a piece of training that takes you through how to track your email analytics in great detail. So once you set up any email campaign, you can take a look at the open rate, click-through rate, and conversion rate of <em>each campaign</em> and, overall, at the bounce rate and unsubscribe rate of your email marketing.</p><p>This means you then have levers that you can start pulling on to improve your email marketing. So let's look at each metric in more detail.</p><h2>What can you do if your open rates are low?</h2><p>If you have a low open rate (10-30%) on one of the emails inside a campaign, it could be that the subject line needs tweaking. Otherwise, you should be looking at your engagement.</p><p>A lot of our clients, when they first come into our world, may have massive email lists, but they'll tell us they've never done any engagement management. Once someone subscribes to their list, unless they leave of their own accord, no action is being taken by the list owner to keep an eye on who’s opening the emails, who’s clicking on the links, or who’s doing anything.</p><h3>Are you implementing good email list hygiene?</h3><p>Ordinarily, what we see when people join our programme and start implementing our campaigns is that the frequency of their emails increases. And the first thing we advise our clients to look at is <em>who is likely to open those emails</em>.</p><p>If you have a list of 10,000 people and 1,000 of them open an email you send, you have a 10% open rate. But if only 5,000 of the people in your list are even using their email addresses (because all the others aren't valid anymore), you’re only really sending your emails to 5,000 people – not 10,000. The others are dead emails, spam traps, or people who no longer engage with you.</p><p>This is why it’s important to look at your business and let go of this vanity metric of how many subscribers you have on your list. It only matters if you take the time to regularly try and revive or re-engage the people who aren’t paying attention and then delete them if they don’t re-engage with you. Deleting people might sound painful, but it’s the best possible thing for the hygiene of your list. Once you start doing that, you’ll see your click-through rate go up, and you'll be able to get your list to a point where your subscribers are people who <em>care</em>.</p><h2>The truth about your click-through rates</h2><p>What happens if your open rates are good, but people aren’t clicking on the links to your offers? Typically, when you first present an offer, you’re going to see a higher click-through rate compared to the people who've gone through an entire email campaign that talks about your core offer.&nbsp;</p><p>Over time, people will click on different versions of that offer, and the click-through rate will improve. Then in your day-to-day email marketing (i.e. the email you send live each day), you’re going to see a <em>lower</em> click-through rate when talking about that same offer.</p><p>That's because the whole point of the longer-term relationship-building you’re doing with your daily emails is about waiting for the right time for people to want to buy your product. If they had an urgent need for it, they would have bought it during the first 60 days of you emailing them through your campaigns. Because that’s what those campaigns are designed to do.</p><p>The reason why people haven’t bought from you yet is that it’s not yet the right time for them. So you can expect a lower click-through rate, which, of course, means a lower conversion rate too.</p><h2>How do you increase your click-through rates?</h2><p>If you want people to click on the links in your emails, make them really obvious that there's something to click on. Spell out “Click here to do X” – no matter what action you want your subscribers to take. Let people know they can click and make sure that your links<em> look like links</em> (i.e. blue and underlined).</p><p>To make them stand out even more, you can even put them on a separate line. If your click-through rate is super low, you could use the most obnoxious-looking link for a few weeks to make sure people see it. You could even temporarily add some chevron arrows in front of it and put it all in capital letters. Once you know people are seeing it and are clicking on it, you can then dial things down again and remove all the extra bits.</p><p>We’re literally <em>obsessed </em>with getting people to click on the links in our emails, which is why <strong>we put together a resource called</strong><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/8fa9c29f23cd9c9bfc2f571b76018b1f093517a2?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=click-tricks" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong> Click Tricks</strong></a><strong>, which you can get for FREE. It includes 12 creative ways of drawing attention to the links in your email so people don't scroll past them.</strong> We did some testing a couple of years ago, and we found situations where a lower open rate could still lead to a higher click-through rate because of what the links in your emails look like. So we know it works!</p><h3>Why you want to increase your click-through rate and <em>not</em> your open rate</h3><p>Think about sales calls. You're better off having fewer calls but with higher-qualified leads than lots of calls with people who aren't necessarily interested. You'll get more people buying that way. Having loads of sales calls with just anyone and everyone isn't as effective because it 'waters down' your sales process. The same thing applies to email marketing - <strong>you can get <em>fewer but more qualified </em>people opening your emails, and those will be the people who click on your emails.</strong></p><p>The idea that if you have a bigger list you’ll get more opens and more clicks (and therefore more sales) isn’t necessarily true. What you’re looking for is the<em> highest click-through rate</em>, which might not come from having more subscribers or from having a high open rate.</p><p>There are lots of things you can do to increase your open rates (including using dodgy subject lines). But that doesn’t mean you’re going to get more sales. Instead, <strong>use subject lines that help you optimise the opening of the email <em>and</em> the clicking of the link so that, over time, you get <em>the right pool of people</em>.</strong> The more emails you send, the better you'll notice you become at this.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><h3>The impact of subject lines on your click-through rate</h3><p>Your subject lines can affect your open rate, and, in turn, that can influence your click-through rate. It's worth thinking about the level of intent of the people you’re sending emails to. Most campaigns are going to have subject lines that are suitable for people at the bottom of the funnel, which is the point where you’re telling them your programme is closing soon, for example.</p><p>These aren’t the emails where you use obscure subject lines where people need to open the email to find out your offer is closing. You'll want to tell them straight up in the subject line! We call these 'label on the box' subject lines - it tells you what's in it.</p><p>There will be times when a subject line needs to help you with an outcome. But then you’ll have other types of subject lines that are more ‘obscure’ – those that use<em> compound curiosity</em>, for example, and say exactly what's inside the email. That way, people need to open and read the email to find out. And those are the subject lines that help you increase the open rates of your emails.</p><h2>What can you do when your conversion rate is low?&nbsp;</h2><p>If you’re doing a good job of optimising open rates and click-through rates, but your conversion isn’t great, it’s probably nothing to do with your emails. Often, this has more to do with your offer. Maybe you have the wrong people on your list. Or maybe your offer isn’t good or is poorly presented. Perhaps it’s not conveying the value and the transformation it can deliver.</p><p>If you’ve taken something super bland, put it on sale, and expect email marketing to work wonders for it, it won't happen. If you use your emails hoping to get massive click-through rates for something that’s ultimately rubbish, you won't convert. So you need to go back to the start. Have you got<em> the right people</em> on your list? Are they opening your emails? Are they clicking on your links?</p><p>If you do, and the page isn’t converting, you’re probably not sending enough people to it. We recently noticed one of our clients who was offering a $6,000 programme telling us they only had 60 people on their list. While we always say the size of your list doesn't really matter, when you do the maths, even if you had <em>one </em>person on a list of 60 people buying a high-ticket price product, you’d be doing better email marketing than most people! In reality, in that case, you need more people on your list.</p><p>You also need to look at your list hygiene. Are the email addresses on your list still active? Because you need a real human behind those email addresses who opens and engages with them. <strong>It's all about engagement monitoring and launching re-engagement campaigns when necessary. </strong>Don't forget that! If people aren’t engaging with your emails in a period of 60 days, put them through a revival sequence and give them one last chance to engage. If they don’t, unsubscribe them from your list.</p><h2>What to do when your unsubscribe rate is high?&nbsp;</h2><p><strong>Every time you send an email, you'll have some people unsubscribe from your list.</strong> That's just going to happen. In our welcome sequence (the Getting to Know You sequence) we tell people we’re going to email them every day with something that’s going to help them with their email marketing. But if that’s not for them, the door is always open, and they can leave (unsubscribe) at any time.</p><p>We see a lot of email marketers who are worried about sending emails because they don’t want their subscribers to leave. And massive amounts of unsubscribes all in one go aren’t good for anyone. It’s not good for you, and it’s not good for your email marketing platform. We know that. When people join our list, for example, we have the biggest spikes of unsubscribes in the first 5 days. Then the unsubscribe rate remains quite low over time, just to spike up again when we have a big influx of email marketing activity. But that's fine and to be expected. <strong>What matters is that the people who choose to say, do so for a long time.&nbsp;</strong></p><h3>How are people joining your list?</h3><p>If your unsubscribe rate is generally high, and a lot of people on your list tend to leave immediately or very quickly, it’s worth looking at where the people are coming from. What’s the intention with which people join your email list? Because we can’t rely on tricking people to join – we can’t promise them something, and then give them something else. We know that some activities for acquiring new people on your email list notoriously drive high unsubscribe rates.</p><p>For example, if different businesses get together and put their products into a bundle that’s advertised together, you’ll have people who opt in because they’re interested in one or more of the products. But because they don’t have a relationship with you directly, you might have a high unsubscribe rate when you start emailing them. And this might be okay for you if you know why it’s happening. You’ll expect a big exodus of people during the first few weeks after that event, but as long as you get good sales and a return on investments, you may be fine with that.</p><p><strong>Not all methods of bringing people onto your list are created equal.</strong> If you’re running cold traffic via ads to your lead magnet and never mention that you’re going to continue emailing people, you’re going to have a high unsubscribe rate. On the other hand, if you do a guest training or run an event, and people join your list because they loved what you delivered and want more of it, you’re going to have a lower unsubscribe rate.</p><p>Your unsubscribe rate is going to change depending on the source where people came from. Just monitor the net outcome of each activity. You might be okay with a huge unsubscribe percentage from a certain lead source if you understand why that's happening.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>How can you use your email marketing analytics data?&nbsp;</h2><p>Whenever you build and run a <em>new</em> campaign to your email list for the first time, you may be tempted to check your sales. But you can (and should) look at your email marketing analytics too. What were the:</p><ul><li>Open rate.&nbsp;</li><li>Click-through rate.</li><li>Conversation rate</li><li>And the unsubscribe rate for that campaign?</li></ul><br/><p>When you then automate that campaign, you’ll have some initial data to look at. And <strong>we suggest you put a process in place to check the data every 90 days and compare it.</strong> Did you notice any changes? Is there anything you think you can improve or fix? Maybe you can tweak the hook of an email or the angle of an offer. Most of the time, you won’t have to change anything, but sometimes you'll spot things that no longer work.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>This is also super helpful if your business has changed. It’s always good to check your automated campaigns from time to time in case you’ve changed your offers or the products or services you sell.<strong> Your email marketing analytics and metrics help you make your future campaigns better. </strong>You’ll have the quantitative data that tells you what needs tweaking. Over time, you’ll also get better at this and will develop a natural hunch as to what’s going to work better.</p><h2>Why you should always calculate your EPSPM</h2><p>Finally, the North Star metric that we always use is the EPSPM, which is your <strong>Earnings per Subscriber per Month. It tells you how much you're earning from your list every single month. </strong>You calculate it by dividing the amount of money you’ve made in that month by the number of subscribers you have on your list in the same period.</p><p>Over time, tracking your EPSPM will show you a trend and tell you exactly how your email marketing is doing. When your EPSPM is increasing, it means you’re getting better at putting things in front of your email subscribers. It doesn’t matter how big your list gets because as long as you check this metric, you’re getting consistent data. And that helps you understand how your email marketing is doing. For us, this is the number that puts all the other email marketing metrics together.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>This week’s subject line is “My humiliating webcam mishap.” This is a subject line where people immediately paint a picture in their heads. It takes only seconds for the mind of a grown adult to guess what might have happened. Sure, everyone's version of it will be a little different, but they'll want to open the email to find out what happened. So check it out!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/compound-curiosity-clever-subject-lines-for-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Advanced Psychology: Using Compound Curiosity</a>.</p><p><a]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-analytics/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">1b5a45e8-c495-482a-826b-bc8767fd309a</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/39531734-bb59-4e63-866e-dd335038d474/Y8q7pmS2BL61ByCCZQG90Zpr.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/cabe233f-0b22-433a-8ad9-bd4842c9c19c/EMS-Ep-220-Final-v3.mp3" length="89625856" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>37:21</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>220</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>220</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/33ed5054-42cc-4c4b-82c1-d58006e8a27c/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How April McMurtrey Increased Her Revenue By 400% In One Year</title><itunes:title>How April McMurtrey Increased Her Revenue By 400% In One Year</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Is it possible to get <em>awesome</em> results from email marketing? Can email take your business from the brink of collapsing to amazing heights and success? Yes, it can. And we're getting to hear from one of our clients - the lovely April McMurtrey from<a href="https://www.learnreading.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Learn Reading</a>, who's sharing how she increased her revenue by 400% in just ONE year!&nbsp;</p><p>Pretty unbelievable, right?</p><p>But it's true.&nbsp;</p><p>Let's get the whole story from April!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:19) Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.</p><p>(2:51) Who is April McMurtrey?</p><p>(5:07) When did April start using email marketing in her business?</p><p>(6:42) What did April's email marketing look like when she first started?</p><p>(7:54) What's the first change April made when she joined our world?</p><p>(9:08) What happened when April started making changes to her email marketing?</p><p>(12:55) How April got a 400% increase in sales in just 12 months.</p><p>(14:32) How does April feel about her email marketing now?</p><p>(16:46) What's ONE action April recommends people take when it comes to email marketing?</p><p>(19:31) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><p><br></p><h2>Who is April McMurtrey?</h2><p>April is a Dyslexia and Reading Specialist who teaches struggling and dyslexic readers how to read. In a nutshell, April’s come up with a better, easier, and faster way of learning how to read. Isn't that overwhelmingly awesome?!</p><p>After teaching reading for 30 years, April started her private practice as a reading specialist. She then got certified in dyslexia therapy and testing and went on to develop her programme after 25 years of experience in seeing what works and what doesn't. After creating her curriculum for dyslexic and struggling learners, she launched her business and programme (backed up by a lifetime of skill and expertise) in March 2020.</p><h2>When did April start using email marketing in her business?</h2><p>April started using email marketing about a year after she launched her business. She knew she wanted to do email marketing from the start, but we all know the learning curve at the beginning is quite steep. And April had no idea where to start. Like most, April is in business to<em> help people </em>– not to necessarily learn all the stuff that goes with running a business.</p><p>When we asked her about her biggest barrier to getting started with email marketing, April told us she didn't know how to find someone who could help her learn. She had a lot of subscribers on her list but no idea what to do with them.&nbsp;</p><p>April recognised the power of emails though. She could see all the professional-sounding and impressive emails landing in her inbox, and she knew the marketers who were sending those emails were following some sort of sequence to be able to sell. That's what April wanted to be able to do, too. But at the time, she just didn't know how.&nbsp;</p><h2>What did April’s email marketing look like when she first started?</h2><p>At the start of her email marketing journey, April would send an email once every couple of months just to tell her subscribers about any products she had for sale. People on April's list had no real idea who she was, and she's pretty sure a lot of them would unsubscribe as soon as they realised she was trying to sell to them. So her emails were sporadic, and she had no automation.&nbsp;</p><h2>What’s the first change April made when she joined our world?</h2><p>After spending some time trying to learn about email marketing through podcasts, April started binge-listening to ours. And that's what eventually led her to join our membership<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a> and start implementing our strategies.</p><p>One of the first things she did was to send out daily emails. And that’s where everything changed for April. She discovered she loves the creative process of sending emails every day. She enjoys sharing what’s going on with her days and tying that into something she can teach people. Now, seeing the relationship with her audience build through daily emails is one of April’s favourite things to do.</p><h2>What happened when April started making changes to her email marketing?&nbsp;</h2><p>The first shift happened in April’s mindset. After joining our world, she felt she finally had the tools she’d been looking for and everything mapped out for her. She could see where she was, where she was going, and what she had to do to get there. And she was on fire with it!</p><p>When April started implementing email sequences (such as our Overture campaign and our Getting to Know You sequence) things picked up for her. In particular, when April launched our Golden Cloak campaign, her sales went from trickling to skyrocketing.&nbsp;</p><h3>Finding<em> her people</em></h3><p>The combination of sending daily emails and automating a few campaigns gave April control. It filled that gap she felt she had in her business, and April discovered she <em>loved </em>communicating with her audience. Suddenly, because of all the emails, the subscribers on her list turned into <em>her</em> <em>people</em> – April became their reading teacher, and they started caring about her. And that was fun.</p><p>Plus, because we always teach our students that you should give your subscribers something to click on (or something to do), April did just that. And people started replying to her and telling her just how much they loved hearing about her life and receiving all the little tricks she shared with them. April was pleasantly surprised at the rapport and deep connection that she started to be able to build with <em>her people</em>.</p><p>What April has now, thanks to email marketing, is a relationship with the people on her list. She’s open and honest about her days and her ups and downs, and people are supportive and encouraging. April truly cherishes those relationships, and sending emails is one of her favourite things to do because of the connections it allows her to build. It’s like having individual relationships with 21,000 people! April’s list is not just a crowd – the connections she established feel very personal.</p><h2>How April got a 400% increase in sales in just 12 months</h2><p><strong>After she started doing email marketing consistently, April experienced a 400% increase in sales in just one year. </strong>During this time, her social media presence also increased. But April attributes at least 80-90% of the increase in sales to what she learnt about email marketing from us. We showed her the perfect route to take, she said.&nbsp;</p><p>Now, her social media is her traffic source. Just like we recommend, it's where she builds her audience. But <strong>she built her business through email </strong>- because that's where April gets to establish and deepen her relationship with her subscribers.&nbsp;</p><p>With around 21k subscribers, April has a considerable list. But as we all know, having people on your list is one thing - <em>converting</em> them is a different game! And without the right skills and techniques, it’s a hard thing to do.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>How does April feel about her email marketing now?</h2><p>Email marketing saved April’s business. A year before our chat, April's business was 'on life support' - she felt she probably only had one month of a viable business left in the tank. <strong>Email marketing not only helped her business get off of life support but, a year later, to also thrive well beyond what April could have ever imagined.</strong> And that’s thanks to the email strategies that April learnt from us.</p><p>April is a writer – she <em>loves</em> writing and being creative. Above all else, she loves building relationships and deep connections with her audience. And spending 10-20 minutes a day putting her hands on the keyboard and getting her brain engaged is her favourite thing to do. But it’s also <em>the most effective </em>thing in her business – it's what saved April’s business and got it to where it is now. If you think about it, 10-20 minutes a day is a pretty good deal!</p><h2>What’s ONE action April recommends people take when it comes to email marketing?</h2><p><strong>The <em>one</em> action April recommends people take is to trust the process.</strong> It’s not all about you, what you can provide, or how you can perform. It’s the <em>process</em> that works – it’s the campaigns and the sequences that have been developed inside<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>.</p><p>So think about the expertise you have to offer. Be confident that the people on your list need what you have to offer and don’t give up. When you’re thinking about what you’re going to say in your emails, focus on your desire to help your people and the connection that will result from it. Don’t give up because the process works!</p><p>In even more exciting news, April is also launching a book, and setting it up for success (with email marketing, of course) is next on her agenda. If you're interested, you can find<a href="https://www.isitdyslexiabook.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> details about the book here</a>.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>This week’s subject line (courtesy of Kennedy - for once) is “Insurance payout (the whole £30)” The subject line works because it has compound curiosity but also uses specificity by mentioning the exact amount of the payout - £30. Kennedy didn’t just mention the specific amount of money but also decided to contrast it with “the whole”, which]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is it possible to get <em>awesome</em> results from email marketing? Can email take your business from the brink of collapsing to amazing heights and success? Yes, it can. And we're getting to hear from one of our clients - the lovely April McMurtrey from<a href="https://www.learnreading.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Learn Reading</a>, who's sharing how she increased her revenue by 400% in just ONE year!&nbsp;</p><p>Pretty unbelievable, right?</p><p>But it's true.&nbsp;</p><p>Let's get the whole story from April!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:19) Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.</p><p>(2:51) Who is April McMurtrey?</p><p>(5:07) When did April start using email marketing in her business?</p><p>(6:42) What did April's email marketing look like when she first started?</p><p>(7:54) What's the first change April made when she joined our world?</p><p>(9:08) What happened when April started making changes to her email marketing?</p><p>(12:55) How April got a 400% increase in sales in just 12 months.</p><p>(14:32) How does April feel about her email marketing now?</p><p>(16:46) What's ONE action April recommends people take when it comes to email marketing?</p><p>(19:31) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><p><br></p><h2>Who is April McMurtrey?</h2><p>April is a Dyslexia and Reading Specialist who teaches struggling and dyslexic readers how to read. In a nutshell, April’s come up with a better, easier, and faster way of learning how to read. Isn't that overwhelmingly awesome?!</p><p>After teaching reading for 30 years, April started her private practice as a reading specialist. She then got certified in dyslexia therapy and testing and went on to develop her programme after 25 years of experience in seeing what works and what doesn't. After creating her curriculum for dyslexic and struggling learners, she launched her business and programme (backed up by a lifetime of skill and expertise) in March 2020.</p><h2>When did April start using email marketing in her business?</h2><p>April started using email marketing about a year after she launched her business. She knew she wanted to do email marketing from the start, but we all know the learning curve at the beginning is quite steep. And April had no idea where to start. Like most, April is in business to<em> help people </em>– not to necessarily learn all the stuff that goes with running a business.</p><p>When we asked her about her biggest barrier to getting started with email marketing, April told us she didn't know how to find someone who could help her learn. She had a lot of subscribers on her list but no idea what to do with them.&nbsp;</p><p>April recognised the power of emails though. She could see all the professional-sounding and impressive emails landing in her inbox, and she knew the marketers who were sending those emails were following some sort of sequence to be able to sell. That's what April wanted to be able to do, too. But at the time, she just didn't know how.&nbsp;</p><h2>What did April’s email marketing look like when she first started?</h2><p>At the start of her email marketing journey, April would send an email once every couple of months just to tell her subscribers about any products she had for sale. People on April's list had no real idea who she was, and she's pretty sure a lot of them would unsubscribe as soon as they realised she was trying to sell to them. So her emails were sporadic, and she had no automation.&nbsp;</p><h2>What’s the first change April made when she joined our world?</h2><p>After spending some time trying to learn about email marketing through podcasts, April started binge-listening to ours. And that's what eventually led her to join our membership<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a> and start implementing our strategies.</p><p>One of the first things she did was to send out daily emails. And that’s where everything changed for April. She discovered she loves the creative process of sending emails every day. She enjoys sharing what’s going on with her days and tying that into something she can teach people. Now, seeing the relationship with her audience build through daily emails is one of April’s favourite things to do.</p><h2>What happened when April started making changes to her email marketing?&nbsp;</h2><p>The first shift happened in April’s mindset. After joining our world, she felt she finally had the tools she’d been looking for and everything mapped out for her. She could see where she was, where she was going, and what she had to do to get there. And she was on fire with it!</p><p>When April started implementing email sequences (such as our Overture campaign and our Getting to Know You sequence) things picked up for her. In particular, when April launched our Golden Cloak campaign, her sales went from trickling to skyrocketing.&nbsp;</p><h3>Finding<em> her people</em></h3><p>The combination of sending daily emails and automating a few campaigns gave April control. It filled that gap she felt she had in her business, and April discovered she <em>loved </em>communicating with her audience. Suddenly, because of all the emails, the subscribers on her list turned into <em>her</em> <em>people</em> – April became their reading teacher, and they started caring about her. And that was fun.</p><p>Plus, because we always teach our students that you should give your subscribers something to click on (or something to do), April did just that. And people started replying to her and telling her just how much they loved hearing about her life and receiving all the little tricks she shared with them. April was pleasantly surprised at the rapport and deep connection that she started to be able to build with <em>her people</em>.</p><p>What April has now, thanks to email marketing, is a relationship with the people on her list. She’s open and honest about her days and her ups and downs, and people are supportive and encouraging. April truly cherishes those relationships, and sending emails is one of her favourite things to do because of the connections it allows her to build. It’s like having individual relationships with 21,000 people! April’s list is not just a crowd – the connections she established feel very personal.</p><h2>How April got a 400% increase in sales in just 12 months</h2><p><strong>After she started doing email marketing consistently, April experienced a 400% increase in sales in just one year. </strong>During this time, her social media presence also increased. But April attributes at least 80-90% of the increase in sales to what she learnt about email marketing from us. We showed her the perfect route to take, she said.&nbsp;</p><p>Now, her social media is her traffic source. Just like we recommend, it's where she builds her audience. But <strong>she built her business through email </strong>- because that's where April gets to establish and deepen her relationship with her subscribers.&nbsp;</p><p>With around 21k subscribers, April has a considerable list. But as we all know, having people on your list is one thing - <em>converting</em> them is a different game! And without the right skills and techniques, it’s a hard thing to do.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>How does April feel about her email marketing now?</h2><p>Email marketing saved April’s business. A year before our chat, April's business was 'on life support' - she felt she probably only had one month of a viable business left in the tank. <strong>Email marketing not only helped her business get off of life support but, a year later, to also thrive well beyond what April could have ever imagined.</strong> And that’s thanks to the email strategies that April learnt from us.</p><p>April is a writer – she <em>loves</em> writing and being creative. Above all else, she loves building relationships and deep connections with her audience. And spending 10-20 minutes a day putting her hands on the keyboard and getting her brain engaged is her favourite thing to do. But it’s also <em>the most effective </em>thing in her business – it's what saved April’s business and got it to where it is now. If you think about it, 10-20 minutes a day is a pretty good deal!</p><h2>What’s ONE action April recommends people take when it comes to email marketing?</h2><p><strong>The <em>one</em> action April recommends people take is to trust the process.</strong> It’s not all about you, what you can provide, or how you can perform. It’s the <em>process</em> that works – it’s the campaigns and the sequences that have been developed inside<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>.</p><p>So think about the expertise you have to offer. Be confident that the people on your list need what you have to offer and don’t give up. When you’re thinking about what you’re going to say in your emails, focus on your desire to help your people and the connection that will result from it. Don’t give up because the process works!</p><p>In even more exciting news, April is also launching a book, and setting it up for success (with email marketing, of course) is next on her agenda. If you're interested, you can find<a href="https://www.isitdyslexiabook.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> details about the book here</a>.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>This week’s subject line (courtesy of Kennedy - for once) is “Insurance payout (the whole £30)” The subject line works because it has compound curiosity but also uses specificity by mentioning the exact amount of the payout - £30. Kennedy didn’t just mention the specific amount of money but also decided to contrast it with “the whole”, which makes it sound like it should be a really big number, but it’s not! First, he tries to build the whole thing up, but when you read £30, the whole idea comes crashing straight down.</p><p>So as you can see, Kennedy used a few techniques here – the subject line triggers curiosity by mentioning the insurance payout. People want to know <em>how</em> he won because insurance companies are well known for wiggling out of it. But also, who won? What happened? And what's the £30 all about? What does this whole thing even mean? No surprise that this subject line got really good open rates. So check it out!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/membership-conversion-rate/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How Cheryl Hatch Increased Her Membership Conversion Rate By 84% With Just Two Email Campaigns – A Case Study</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/launch-new-business/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How Our Client Jeri Anderson Made $27k In Month One Launching A Brand New Business &amp; Starting With Zero Contacts On Her List</a>.</p><p>And <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/sales-email-campaign/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How Our Client Hillary-Marie Made $16k With ONE Email Marketing Campaign (And Then Did It Again!)</a></p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3>Join our FREE Facebook group</h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The League Membership</h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how our client April increased her revenue with email marketing by 400% in just one year) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/increased-revenue-email-marketing]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">f5ac3dba-dcad-418e-9762-b21c938ec9ac</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/1fc88506-7ae8-4098-a8a4-8b648b88f8c8/L2vJiNEoEjwfieZEVP-fnLXP.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2024 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/7ae1fb2c-7857-4df6-a657-8a06c0ecea6b/219-Final.mp3" length="53396416" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>22:15</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>219</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>219</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/9da52979-099c-46a4-a308-5c3abc8e4b3d/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>B2B Vs B2C Email Marketing - What Are The Differences?</title><itunes:title>B2B Vs B2C Email Marketing - What Are The Differences?</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Is there a difference between B2B vs B2C email marketing? What works best? And can we take some of the best strategies from B2C and apply them to B2B?</p><p>Let's have a big ol' email showdown and find out which type of email marketing wins!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:29) Grab our amazing resource<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/8fa9c29f23cd9c9bfc2f571b76018b1f093517a2?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=click-tricks" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Click Tricks</a> totally for FREE!</p><p>(3:23) What do we mean by B2B, B2b, and B2C?</p><p>(6:50) The difference between B2B and B2C email marketing.</p><p>(9:46) What about the different sales cycles between B2B and B2C?</p><p>(12:13) Who is sending your emails?</p><p>(16:06) How do people join your list?</p><p>(19:33) What can B2B learn from B2C email marketing?</p><p>(24:20) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>What do we mean by B2B, B2b, and B2C?&nbsp;</h2><p>We believe there are three categories of businesses when it comes to selling:</p><ul><li>B2B - business to BIG business.</li><li>B2b - business to small business.</li><li>And B2C - business to consumer, where you sell things to do with people's hobbies and lives.</li></ul><br/><p>Most of the businesses we sell to are B2b, which means we sell to<em> owner-run businesses</em> or a <em>one-person band</em>. The owner may be working with a partner or a small team, but the business is small. And we consider ourselves one of those businesses too as unless you’re making more than $10 million a year, you're still a small business.</p><p>The key here is that <strong>businesses in the B2b category behave like consumers.</strong> When buying products or services for their company, business owners tend to use their own money. So it's worth bearing in mind that <strong>at the end of your emails, there are human beings who expect to hear from you in a certain way.</strong></p><h2>The difference between B2B and B2C email marketing&nbsp;</h2><p>Let's say you're a large government lobbying organisation to do with climate change. You'll be expected to show up in a way that's very different from the way <em>we</em> show up in people's inboxes, for example (i.e. with rude jokes full of innuendo and swear words!) The reason we act the way we do is because of our understanding of ourselves and our market. We show up in a way that’s acceptable by our market but that’s also different and makes us stand out.</p><p>A large government lobbying organisation will communicate with its clients in a completely different way. They still have to build trust and authority, just like all of us do, but it’s done differently. If they started going off on a tangent about something silly (like we do in our emails), that wouldn’t give the right indicator <em>for them</em> as a company.</p><p>And it’s not just about the words because those only contribute to a small percentage of the way someone may interpret that message. <em>How you say something </em>is what allows people to read between the lines and get the real essence of what you're like. <strong>You can build trust and authority by showing testimonials and social proof, but you can also do it through the tone in which you speak.</strong> If you get an email that reads as if a college professor wrote it, it'll have a different level of credibility than something jokey.</p><p><strong>The words aren’t <em>that</em> important. What matters the most are the campaign structures that you create, the stories you put together, and the tone you use.</strong> They can be ridiculous and funny (if you want to) for B2C but more authoritative and professional if your market is more serious. And the beauty of the campaigns we offer inside our membership<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a> is that you can take the emails and change the words without breaking the whole thing.</p><h2>What about the different sales cycles between B2B and B2C?</h2><p>Sales cycles may take a little longer for B2B compared to B2C. With B2C (and possibly B2b), you may find that consumers have the ability and the power to buy a little faster. And yet, they will still need your product to be presented through different offers before they buy.</p><p>For example, in B2B, you could use different email sequences or <em>email engines </em>(as we call them) for different phases of the sales cycle to move your prospective clients through the cycles. We often talk about having three email engines:</p><ul><li>The <strong>lead</strong> or <strong>subscriber engine</strong> is designed to get leads to become first-time customers.</li><li>Then you have the <strong>customer engine</strong> to get people to buy from you again.</li><li>And then you have the <strong>winning customers back engine</strong>, aimed at the people who haven’t bought from you for a while.</li></ul><br/><p>With B2B, you may even have <em>multiple phases of a sales cycle</em>. It could be that you've identified some leads, then booked an initial meeting, then maybe booked a demo, followed by a consultation period. After that, you may need to go through Ts&amp;Cs and the specifics of the product the client is going to buy, and then finally you seal the deal. You may even have a maintenance package after that. So you might need a bunch of email campaigns to move people from one phase to the next. That’s what email marketing helps you do. It helps you move people from where they are to the next step until they’re ready to buy. It’s a bit like a game of rounders or baseball, where you need to focus on moving from one base to the next.&nbsp;</p><h2>Who is sending your emails?</h2><p>Something we recommend for B2B and B2b as well as B2C is to <strong>be consistent with who the email comes from.</strong> Because <strong>people buy from people.</strong> When you send an email with the objective to move someone from one stage of the buyer’s journey to the next, you want that email to be <em>from a human being</em>.</p><p>That's why we recommend you use your name, the salesperson's name, or even a fictional character’s name if you want. Whatever you do, use an actual name, and you'll see your open rates go up. That's because <strong>the level and depth of your relationship with that person are going to increase.</strong> Relationships are established with people and things we can relate to. So both the person sending the email and the copy of the email itself have to be something that people can relate to.</p><p>Think about it - on a day-to-day basis, we all get emails from a lot of institutions and organisations (such as banks or credit card companies), and they all tend to come <em>from the company</em>. But we think that should change - <strong>emails should come <em>from a person</em></strong>. Because that allows us to establish deeper relationships and feel like we're communicating with actual humans.</p><p>In the past, small companies would pretend they had several members of staff to make themselves look bigger. Faking having bigger operations was a thing! But it's not anymore, and small businesses embrace having that personal touch. The world has shifted, but big businesses continue to try and look like big businesses. Remember - <strong>there's power in being seen as an individual</strong>. In a world that's being taken over by robots and AI, you want to know that there's an actual human being behind the emails you receive. If all big businesses started doing that, it would be powerful.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>How do people join your list?&nbsp;</h2><p>What was your relationship with that person in the first place? If someone joins your newsletter with the expectation that John will be sending daily tips about DIY, make sure John sends daily tips about DIY! Don't have the emails suddenly come from a company people can't even recognise.&nbsp;</p><p>Also, always remember <strong>you're sending emails to human beings.</strong> People in B2B or B2b might be buying your product because they're trying to help their business or the company they work with, but they’re also serving themselves. So how can your lead magnet, your email content, and the offers you make benefit <em>the person </em>directly? Can you save them time? Can you make them look better with their boss? Help them get a pay rise or a promotion?</p><p><strong>Think about serving <em>the individual</em> at the end of each email</strong>, even in B2B and B2b. We have a structure we teach our clients that is a way of extrapolating and communicating the benefits of something in a deep way that resonates with people. So if you're selling a solution that helps people grow their business, you can mention it'll get them more employees, or it'll afford them a better live streaming setup, for example. These are all business benefits. <strong>But because you're talking to the human being who’s running the business, you also want to mention the personal benefits <em>to the individual</em>.</strong></p><p>For instance, we may say that by building our SCORE email engine, you’ll be able to grow your business, but also for you personally, you’ll know that every new lead that comes in is being taken care of and always presented with the best possible offers and opportunities to buy without you having to be physically there. A great personal benefit is that you can be at home with your family and spend more time with them, for example. Your business will be growing, amplifying, and compounding the sales while you take the dog for a walk or your children swimming.</p><h2>What can B2B learn from B2C email marketing?</h2><p>Largely speaking, B2B needs more personification - we need to bring some elements of B2C email marketing into it. How? You can get creative and use a mascot...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is there a difference between B2B vs B2C email marketing? What works best? And can we take some of the best strategies from B2C and apply them to B2B?</p><p>Let's have a big ol' email showdown and find out which type of email marketing wins!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:29) Grab our amazing resource<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/8fa9c29f23cd9c9bfc2f571b76018b1f093517a2?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=click-tricks" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Click Tricks</a> totally for FREE!</p><p>(3:23) What do we mean by B2B, B2b, and B2C?</p><p>(6:50) The difference between B2B and B2C email marketing.</p><p>(9:46) What about the different sales cycles between B2B and B2C?</p><p>(12:13) Who is sending your emails?</p><p>(16:06) How do people join your list?</p><p>(19:33) What can B2B learn from B2C email marketing?</p><p>(24:20) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>What do we mean by B2B, B2b, and B2C?&nbsp;</h2><p>We believe there are three categories of businesses when it comes to selling:</p><ul><li>B2B - business to BIG business.</li><li>B2b - business to small business.</li><li>And B2C - business to consumer, where you sell things to do with people's hobbies and lives.</li></ul><br/><p>Most of the businesses we sell to are B2b, which means we sell to<em> owner-run businesses</em> or a <em>one-person band</em>. The owner may be working with a partner or a small team, but the business is small. And we consider ourselves one of those businesses too as unless you’re making more than $10 million a year, you're still a small business.</p><p>The key here is that <strong>businesses in the B2b category behave like consumers.</strong> When buying products or services for their company, business owners tend to use their own money. So it's worth bearing in mind that <strong>at the end of your emails, there are human beings who expect to hear from you in a certain way.</strong></p><h2>The difference between B2B and B2C email marketing&nbsp;</h2><p>Let's say you're a large government lobbying organisation to do with climate change. You'll be expected to show up in a way that's very different from the way <em>we</em> show up in people's inboxes, for example (i.e. with rude jokes full of innuendo and swear words!) The reason we act the way we do is because of our understanding of ourselves and our market. We show up in a way that’s acceptable by our market but that’s also different and makes us stand out.</p><p>A large government lobbying organisation will communicate with its clients in a completely different way. They still have to build trust and authority, just like all of us do, but it’s done differently. If they started going off on a tangent about something silly (like we do in our emails), that wouldn’t give the right indicator <em>for them</em> as a company.</p><p>And it’s not just about the words because those only contribute to a small percentage of the way someone may interpret that message. <em>How you say something </em>is what allows people to read between the lines and get the real essence of what you're like. <strong>You can build trust and authority by showing testimonials and social proof, but you can also do it through the tone in which you speak.</strong> If you get an email that reads as if a college professor wrote it, it'll have a different level of credibility than something jokey.</p><p><strong>The words aren’t <em>that</em> important. What matters the most are the campaign structures that you create, the stories you put together, and the tone you use.</strong> They can be ridiculous and funny (if you want to) for B2C but more authoritative and professional if your market is more serious. And the beauty of the campaigns we offer inside our membership<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a> is that you can take the emails and change the words without breaking the whole thing.</p><h2>What about the different sales cycles between B2B and B2C?</h2><p>Sales cycles may take a little longer for B2B compared to B2C. With B2C (and possibly B2b), you may find that consumers have the ability and the power to buy a little faster. And yet, they will still need your product to be presented through different offers before they buy.</p><p>For example, in B2B, you could use different email sequences or <em>email engines </em>(as we call them) for different phases of the sales cycle to move your prospective clients through the cycles. We often talk about having three email engines:</p><ul><li>The <strong>lead</strong> or <strong>subscriber engine</strong> is designed to get leads to become first-time customers.</li><li>Then you have the <strong>customer engine</strong> to get people to buy from you again.</li><li>And then you have the <strong>winning customers back engine</strong>, aimed at the people who haven’t bought from you for a while.</li></ul><br/><p>With B2B, you may even have <em>multiple phases of a sales cycle</em>. It could be that you've identified some leads, then booked an initial meeting, then maybe booked a demo, followed by a consultation period. After that, you may need to go through Ts&amp;Cs and the specifics of the product the client is going to buy, and then finally you seal the deal. You may even have a maintenance package after that. So you might need a bunch of email campaigns to move people from one phase to the next. That’s what email marketing helps you do. It helps you move people from where they are to the next step until they’re ready to buy. It’s a bit like a game of rounders or baseball, where you need to focus on moving from one base to the next.&nbsp;</p><h2>Who is sending your emails?</h2><p>Something we recommend for B2B and B2b as well as B2C is to <strong>be consistent with who the email comes from.</strong> Because <strong>people buy from people.</strong> When you send an email with the objective to move someone from one stage of the buyer’s journey to the next, you want that email to be <em>from a human being</em>.</p><p>That's why we recommend you use your name, the salesperson's name, or even a fictional character’s name if you want. Whatever you do, use an actual name, and you'll see your open rates go up. That's because <strong>the level and depth of your relationship with that person are going to increase.</strong> Relationships are established with people and things we can relate to. So both the person sending the email and the copy of the email itself have to be something that people can relate to.</p><p>Think about it - on a day-to-day basis, we all get emails from a lot of institutions and organisations (such as banks or credit card companies), and they all tend to come <em>from the company</em>. But we think that should change - <strong>emails should come <em>from a person</em></strong>. Because that allows us to establish deeper relationships and feel like we're communicating with actual humans.</p><p>In the past, small companies would pretend they had several members of staff to make themselves look bigger. Faking having bigger operations was a thing! But it's not anymore, and small businesses embrace having that personal touch. The world has shifted, but big businesses continue to try and look like big businesses. Remember - <strong>there's power in being seen as an individual</strong>. In a world that's being taken over by robots and AI, you want to know that there's an actual human being behind the emails you receive. If all big businesses started doing that, it would be powerful.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>How do people join your list?&nbsp;</h2><p>What was your relationship with that person in the first place? If someone joins your newsletter with the expectation that John will be sending daily tips about DIY, make sure John sends daily tips about DIY! Don't have the emails suddenly come from a company people can't even recognise.&nbsp;</p><p>Also, always remember <strong>you're sending emails to human beings.</strong> People in B2B or B2b might be buying your product because they're trying to help their business or the company they work with, but they’re also serving themselves. So how can your lead magnet, your email content, and the offers you make benefit <em>the person </em>directly? Can you save them time? Can you make them look better with their boss? Help them get a pay rise or a promotion?</p><p><strong>Think about serving <em>the individual</em> at the end of each email</strong>, even in B2B and B2b. We have a structure we teach our clients that is a way of extrapolating and communicating the benefits of something in a deep way that resonates with people. So if you're selling a solution that helps people grow their business, you can mention it'll get them more employees, or it'll afford them a better live streaming setup, for example. These are all business benefits. <strong>But because you're talking to the human being who’s running the business, you also want to mention the personal benefits <em>to the individual</em>.</strong></p><p>For instance, we may say that by building our SCORE email engine, you’ll be able to grow your business, but also for you personally, you’ll know that every new lead that comes in is being taken care of and always presented with the best possible offers and opportunities to buy without you having to be physically there. A great personal benefit is that you can be at home with your family and spend more time with them, for example. Your business will be growing, amplifying, and compounding the sales while you take the dog for a walk or your children swimming.</p><h2>What can B2B learn from B2C email marketing?</h2><p>Largely speaking, B2B needs more personification - we need to bring some elements of B2C email marketing into it. How? You can get creative and use a mascot or someone who works in your business and push them to the forefront of your marketing. You could even create characters to establish an emotional bond with your audience because that's essential to be able to relate to someone. And <strong>without a human being, there's no connection.</strong> How can you connect with a brand if you think of their company in terms of tall glass skyscrapers in the middle of some city?&nbsp;</p><p>People in the UK will be familiar with <em>comparethemarket.com</em>, which have a meerkat as the character that’s front and centre of their marketing. They personified an insurance company, which is traditionally something very dry. And that's genius because the meerkat allows us to create an immediate emotional resonance with that brand. And that takes up more space in our brains than a company without a person behind it. Or think about <em>gocompare.com</em>, whose face is a Welsh opera singer. You may not want to go to these extremes, but whatever you do, <strong>show up as a person.</strong></p><p>You could do that by introducing people from your team and sharing something they said, for example. If you look at a lot of what comedians do, they share naturally funny stories inspired by their family or friends. All the comedian has to do is deliver the story in a way that doesn’t remove the funny aspect of it. So you could share things that your team or your customers say. They don’t have to be funny - it's just about using natural content from what’s around you. Because these are the things that build relationships with people. <strong>It’s about humanising your content</strong> because you’re human and your customers are humans! And <strong>it’s time to push a more H2H (human-to-human) type of communication in email marketing.</strong></p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>This week’s subject line is “I’m spilling the tea…” which is a phrase that commonly refers to gossiping. But the story in the email was genuinely about Rob spilling a cup of tea on a plane! And this makes the subject line interesting. You take a commonly used phrase that means something, and you use it <em>literally</em> in your email. It doesn’t feel like a tricky subject line. But when you read the email, you find it goes in a different direction than where people expect. And that's what works well, so check it out!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/b2b-email-marketing-problems/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">5 MAJOR Problems With Your B2B Email Marketing (And How To Easily Fix Them)</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-storytelling/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">EVERYTHING You Need To Know About Email Marketing And Storytelling To Write Emails That Sell Like Crazy</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-send-personalised-email-to-all-the-right-people-getting-friendly-with-joe-fier/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Send Personalised Email To All The Right People – Getting Friendly With Joe Fier</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3>Join our FREE Facebook group</h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The League Membership</h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about B2B vs B2C email marketing) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/b2b-vs-b2c-email-marketing]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">3eb4a51f-bf5c-4c75-b3e8-795857ed1fc8</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/41dfeee2-5d18-486e-aef8-c3f646c70db7/3rSVefpr-twFIv9jdFg3ZLfz.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/4bcf6218-3c1a-4073-a5b1-041777fd06bd/218-Final.mp3" length="61881856" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>25:47</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>218</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>218</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/82c10f04-f2d8-45a2-830b-8ecdcfdcf743/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How To Create AWESOME Landing Pages For Lead Generation</title><itunes:title>How To Create AWESOME Landing Pages For Lead Generation</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Ever come across the terms <em>landing pages</em> or <em>squeeze pages</em>? Interesting phrase, don't you think? So let's shed some light on this - what are landing pages for lead generation? How can you create an awesome landing page to get more people on your email list? What should and shouldn't go on there?&nbsp;</p><p>Let's find out!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:23) Grab our amazing resource<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/8fa9c29f23cd9c9bfc2f571b76018b1f093517a2?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=click-tricks" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Click Tricks</a> totally for FREE!</p><p>(5:10) Do you really need a landing page to collect leads?</p><p>(7:59) Why offer a lead magnet on your landing page?</p><p>(12:31) Why do you need to put so much effort into something free?</p><p>(13:53) Don't call it a FREE anything!</p><p>(17:15) What should you include on your landing page for lead generation?</p><p>(22:05) Tell them they're joining your email list!</p><p>(24:52) Add social proof.</p><p>(26:54) Time to start sending out email campaigns.</p><p>(28:53) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>Do you really need a landing page to collect leads?&nbsp;</h2><p>The short answer is <em>yes</em>. But first, let's go over what landing pages do. To us, <strong>landing pages are lead-generation tools that help business owners and email marketers capture email addresses.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>Some people talk about sales pages as landing pages, but we find that super confusing (and our students do too!) Let's think about this for a second - your sales pages are what you're sending people links to in your emails. And if you're emailing people, you already have their email address!&nbsp;</p><p>So for the sake of clarity, what we're talking about here are <em>opt-in pages</em>, where the only thing someone can do is to put their details into a form to either register for something or grab a thing for free.</p><p>The reason why you want to collect someone's email address can be wide and varied - it could be a free class, a webinar, a master class, a report, or a lead magnet. Ultimately, a landing page is a lead-generation tool.</p><p>So you do need one.</p><p>Because otherwise, how are you going to collect email addresses?&nbsp;</p><h2>Why offer a lead magnet on your landing page?&nbsp;</h2><p>If someone comes into your world, you want to get them on your email list, right? And that’s what lead magnets are for. You give them to people <em>at the start</em> of their journey with you. Once they’re on your list, if you create new lead magnets, you don’t need to send them to your existing subscribers.</p><p>The only exception is if you’re doing a product launch and want to create a waiting list by asking your existing subscribers to qualify their interest for that product in advance. You're essentially asking them to raise their hands. This is useful for segmentation, or if you’re having a slight change of direction and want people to pre-qualify for something.</p><p>For example, we could use a PDF or Google Doc to help us pre-qualify some of our existing subscribers for our Accelerator programme, which is a higher-ticket, more intensive, high-calibre programme. We could create a document that outlines what’s involved in the programme, and ask people to tell us they're interested so we can inform them when the doors open again. That particular lead magnet would serve a <em>marketing collateral purpose</em>. But we wouldn't it to our whole list.&nbsp;</p><p>Lead generation pages are also useful to send people to a specific location. If you're doing a talk or a podcast interview, you don’t want to send people to your website. Because that’s full of information that will get them distracted. Instead, <strong>you send them to a landing page where all they can do is give you their email address.</strong></p><h2>Why do you need to put so much effort into something free?</h2><p>Creating a lead magnet (and an opt-in page to go with it) is a lot of work. But you do need to put that work in because you want your lead magnet to appear <em>valuable</em>. You want to convince people that it can do something for them.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Let's not forget that an email address is a form of currency! You may be giving something away 'for free' (i.e. no money is exchanged), but people's email address does have a value attached to them. You're asking for something precious in the form of personal data. It’s a way for you to communicate directly with that person.</p><p>More often than not, people read their emails on their phones, so you practically get access to that! And that's valuable, especially as you might also start sending them emails every day from now on. And they don’t know you yet - they don't know they can trust you. Believe it or not, there are people out there who make it very hard for subscribers to leave their lists. And that’s not the way to do email marketing, but it happens.&nbsp;</p><h3>Don't call it a FREE anything!&nbsp;</h3><p>A tip we’d like to share when it comes to creating the copy for your lead magnet is to never call it a “free” PDF, workbook, eBook, or whatever it might be. Instead, say something along the lines of “Get your totally free copy”. It’s a slight shift, and it makes a difference because <strong>the implication is that you created something of value, which is <em>not</em> free, but <em>you’re giving it to people for free</em>.</strong> This is an important distinction from a copywriting perspective – it makes people want your lead magnet more.&nbsp;</p><p>Even with our resource,<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/03fd66aeee40009981b62723938d539b08fd89fc?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=click-tricks" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Click Tricks</a>, we don't tend to say it's free. Instead, we say we're giving it to people <em>for free</em>. And that implies that it has high value. If you can, it’d be great for you to sell the same thing elsewhere and give people proof that you're selling it for money.&nbsp;</p><h2>What should you include on your landing page for lead generation?&nbsp;</h2><p>First of all, let's mention something you<em> shouldn't</em> do. <strong>Don't put your massive company logo at the top of the page.</strong> Because <strong>when it comes to opt-in pages, the message is more important.</strong> So if you want your logo on the page, have it on top but just a bit smaller. You want the thing that grabs people’s attention to be the headline – the promise that your lead magnet is going to deliver. When you design your page, don't add too many things that compete for your audience's attention. <strong>Focus on one thing and make it the most prominent - the biggest and boldest.</strong></p><p>Then, make what people are getting with your lead magnet super clear. What is it exactly? You can talk about the benefits but also the medium. Is it a PDF? Is it an instant download? Or a series of videos? Be as specific as you can be about what you’re giving them.<strong> Specificity and proof are super important.</strong> So you’ll want to say it’s a “26-page instant download”, for example, or a “12 minute and 32 seconds video training”. Build a true picture of the thing you’re going to give them so people can decide if it’s for them.</p><p>Also, another objection people have to downloading something (and giving you their email address) may have to do with its quality. Especially if it’s a free thing, is it going to be good enough? Tell them how long it’s going to take for them to see results after using your resource. For example, we have a product called <strong>Batch It Crazy</strong>, which is a batching method for writing lots of emails. And we promise that by the end of 90 minutes, you’ll have 365 ideas for your emails. So make sure you tell people what outcome you can promise them and be specific about what it can do for them.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h3>Tell them they're joining your email list!&nbsp;</h3><p>A very important thing to do from the very beginning of your relationship with your subscribers is to set up the belief that they’re joining a newsletter. Be honest with people and let them know you’re giving them something for free in exchange for their email address <em>to join your newsletter</em>.</p><p>So either say something along the lines of: “Join my newsletter and get a free copy of my thing” or “Get a free copy of my thing when you join my newsletter”. And then have some copy or a sub-heading above the opt-in box that tells people that when they give you their email address, they'll start receiving a daily hint, tip, story idea, or piece of information to help with whatever you do.</p><p>Why do this? Because <strong>the days of tricking people onto your email list are long gone!</strong> If you’re clinging to that because you’re worried that people won’t want to join your newsletter, you need to have more belief in what you offer. People always have the choice to unsubscribe if they no longer want what you send out, so be upfront. They're joining your email list - make that clear and transparent.</p><p>And if you get fewer people opting in as a result, be sure that the ones who do join will be higher-quality subscribers. You’ll have an easier time not having to filter them out of your list later on because they don’t engage and clog your deliverability. Just make it obvious on the page that they’re going to be added to your email list and <em>sell them the benefit of joining</em> – tell them how you’re going to be solving their problem even faster.</p><p>Even with the design of your landing page, don’t hide anything. Make it bright and visible – do whatever you need to do to draw everyone’s eyes onto the...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ever come across the terms <em>landing pages</em> or <em>squeeze pages</em>? Interesting phrase, don't you think? So let's shed some light on this - what are landing pages for lead generation? How can you create an awesome landing page to get more people on your email list? What should and shouldn't go on there?&nbsp;</p><p>Let's find out!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:23) Grab our amazing resource<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/8fa9c29f23cd9c9bfc2f571b76018b1f093517a2?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=click-tricks" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Click Tricks</a> totally for FREE!</p><p>(5:10) Do you really need a landing page to collect leads?</p><p>(7:59) Why offer a lead magnet on your landing page?</p><p>(12:31) Why do you need to put so much effort into something free?</p><p>(13:53) Don't call it a FREE anything!</p><p>(17:15) What should you include on your landing page for lead generation?</p><p>(22:05) Tell them they're joining your email list!</p><p>(24:52) Add social proof.</p><p>(26:54) Time to start sending out email campaigns.</p><p>(28:53) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>Do you really need a landing page to collect leads?&nbsp;</h2><p>The short answer is <em>yes</em>. But first, let's go over what landing pages do. To us, <strong>landing pages are lead-generation tools that help business owners and email marketers capture email addresses.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>Some people talk about sales pages as landing pages, but we find that super confusing (and our students do too!) Let's think about this for a second - your sales pages are what you're sending people links to in your emails. And if you're emailing people, you already have their email address!&nbsp;</p><p>So for the sake of clarity, what we're talking about here are <em>opt-in pages</em>, where the only thing someone can do is to put their details into a form to either register for something or grab a thing for free.</p><p>The reason why you want to collect someone's email address can be wide and varied - it could be a free class, a webinar, a master class, a report, or a lead magnet. Ultimately, a landing page is a lead-generation tool.</p><p>So you do need one.</p><p>Because otherwise, how are you going to collect email addresses?&nbsp;</p><h2>Why offer a lead magnet on your landing page?&nbsp;</h2><p>If someone comes into your world, you want to get them on your email list, right? And that’s what lead magnets are for. You give them to people <em>at the start</em> of their journey with you. Once they’re on your list, if you create new lead magnets, you don’t need to send them to your existing subscribers.</p><p>The only exception is if you’re doing a product launch and want to create a waiting list by asking your existing subscribers to qualify their interest for that product in advance. You're essentially asking them to raise their hands. This is useful for segmentation, or if you’re having a slight change of direction and want people to pre-qualify for something.</p><p>For example, we could use a PDF or Google Doc to help us pre-qualify some of our existing subscribers for our Accelerator programme, which is a higher-ticket, more intensive, high-calibre programme. We could create a document that outlines what’s involved in the programme, and ask people to tell us they're interested so we can inform them when the doors open again. That particular lead magnet would serve a <em>marketing collateral purpose</em>. But we wouldn't it to our whole list.&nbsp;</p><p>Lead generation pages are also useful to send people to a specific location. If you're doing a talk or a podcast interview, you don’t want to send people to your website. Because that’s full of information that will get them distracted. Instead, <strong>you send them to a landing page where all they can do is give you their email address.</strong></p><h2>Why do you need to put so much effort into something free?</h2><p>Creating a lead magnet (and an opt-in page to go with it) is a lot of work. But you do need to put that work in because you want your lead magnet to appear <em>valuable</em>. You want to convince people that it can do something for them.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Let's not forget that an email address is a form of currency! You may be giving something away 'for free' (i.e. no money is exchanged), but people's email address does have a value attached to them. You're asking for something precious in the form of personal data. It’s a way for you to communicate directly with that person.</p><p>More often than not, people read their emails on their phones, so you practically get access to that! And that's valuable, especially as you might also start sending them emails every day from now on. And they don’t know you yet - they don't know they can trust you. Believe it or not, there are people out there who make it very hard for subscribers to leave their lists. And that’s not the way to do email marketing, but it happens.&nbsp;</p><h3>Don't call it a FREE anything!&nbsp;</h3><p>A tip we’d like to share when it comes to creating the copy for your lead magnet is to never call it a “free” PDF, workbook, eBook, or whatever it might be. Instead, say something along the lines of “Get your totally free copy”. It’s a slight shift, and it makes a difference because <strong>the implication is that you created something of value, which is <em>not</em> free, but <em>you’re giving it to people for free</em>.</strong> This is an important distinction from a copywriting perspective – it makes people want your lead magnet more.&nbsp;</p><p>Even with our resource,<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/03fd66aeee40009981b62723938d539b08fd89fc?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=click-tricks" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Click Tricks</a>, we don't tend to say it's free. Instead, we say we're giving it to people <em>for free</em>. And that implies that it has high value. If you can, it’d be great for you to sell the same thing elsewhere and give people proof that you're selling it for money.&nbsp;</p><h2>What should you include on your landing page for lead generation?&nbsp;</h2><p>First of all, let's mention something you<em> shouldn't</em> do. <strong>Don't put your massive company logo at the top of the page.</strong> Because <strong>when it comes to opt-in pages, the message is more important.</strong> So if you want your logo on the page, have it on top but just a bit smaller. You want the thing that grabs people’s attention to be the headline – the promise that your lead magnet is going to deliver. When you design your page, don't add too many things that compete for your audience's attention. <strong>Focus on one thing and make it the most prominent - the biggest and boldest.</strong></p><p>Then, make what people are getting with your lead magnet super clear. What is it exactly? You can talk about the benefits but also the medium. Is it a PDF? Is it an instant download? Or a series of videos? Be as specific as you can be about what you’re giving them.<strong> Specificity and proof are super important.</strong> So you’ll want to say it’s a “26-page instant download”, for example, or a “12 minute and 32 seconds video training”. Build a true picture of the thing you’re going to give them so people can decide if it’s for them.</p><p>Also, another objection people have to downloading something (and giving you their email address) may have to do with its quality. Especially if it’s a free thing, is it going to be good enough? Tell them how long it’s going to take for them to see results after using your resource. For example, we have a product called <strong>Batch It Crazy</strong>, which is a batching method for writing lots of emails. And we promise that by the end of 90 minutes, you’ll have 365 ideas for your emails. So make sure you tell people what outcome you can promise them and be specific about what it can do for them.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h3>Tell them they're joining your email list!&nbsp;</h3><p>A very important thing to do from the very beginning of your relationship with your subscribers is to set up the belief that they’re joining a newsletter. Be honest with people and let them know you’re giving them something for free in exchange for their email address <em>to join your newsletter</em>.</p><p>So either say something along the lines of: “Join my newsletter and get a free copy of my thing” or “Get a free copy of my thing when you join my newsletter”. And then have some copy or a sub-heading above the opt-in box that tells people that when they give you their email address, they'll start receiving a daily hint, tip, story idea, or piece of information to help with whatever you do.</p><p>Why do this? Because <strong>the days of tricking people onto your email list are long gone!</strong> If you’re clinging to that because you’re worried that people won’t want to join your newsletter, you need to have more belief in what you offer. People always have the choice to unsubscribe if they no longer want what you send out, so be upfront. They're joining your email list - make that clear and transparent.</p><p>And if you get fewer people opting in as a result, be sure that the ones who do join will be higher-quality subscribers. You’ll have an easier time not having to filter them out of your list later on because they don’t engage and clog your deliverability. Just make it obvious on the page that they’re going to be added to your email list and <em>sell them the benefit of joining</em> – tell them how you’re going to be solving their problem even faster.</p><p>Even with the design of your landing page, don’t hide anything. Make it bright and visible – do whatever you need to do to draw everyone’s eyes onto the button.&nbsp;</p><h3>Add social proof</h3><p>Below the fold, you can also add social proof. Do you have testimonials? Help people decide if they want your lead magnet by showing them what others think about it. This builds on the belief that your lead magnet is a good thing, and people are getting value from it.</p><p>You could even use one of the tools in our Automate Hero suite (Scarcity Hero) to tell your audience they’re joining X amount of other people who have also subscribed to your newsletter. So when people land on your opt-in page, they can see how many other people have also downloaded your lead magnet.</p><p>And if you're worried that that number may be small, it doesn't matter. People will see and interpret numbers in different ways. Even if you have a small list or you’re just starting, people might view a small number as a sign they're getting more personalised attention or something unique. They’re joining a rather intimate group of people where they’re perhaps not just a number. And to them, that's a great thing!</p><h2>Time to start sending out email campaigns</h2><p>So what do you do next? Once people have opted in, you can offer them what's often referred to as a <em>tripwire offer</em>. If you're already inside our membership<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>, you'll know we have an email sequence called the Encore campaign, which uses reverse psychology because it involves <em>not</em> selling things straightaway and foreshadowing the sale.</p><p>One last thing to remember is to<strong> only ask people for the information you need</strong> to be able to send them your lead magnet. For example, if you’re sending a digital download, don’t ask for their physical address. If you don’t need it, don’t ask for their phone number or gender. There needs to be a good reason for the information you request in the opt-in form. Make it congruent and ask for as little information as possible.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>This week’s subject line is “Quick. Hide the sweets” and is about Rob’s hatred for Halloween and children who go around trick or treating asking for sweets. Rob just can’t be bothered with it – he’s the <em>bah-humbug!</em> of Halloween. And that was the story in the email that inspired the subject line. So check it out!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/cold-email-outreach/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cold Email Outreach – Is The Technique Sleazy or Super Effective?</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/fix-traffic-problem/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fix Your Traffic Problem For Good, With Todd Brown</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/reengagement-email-campaign/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Create THE Most Successful Re-Engagement Email Campaign (And Smash Your Sales Targets)</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3>Join our FREE Facebook group</h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The League Membership</h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about landing pages for lead generation) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/landing-pages-lead-generation/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">4501b0f5-f408-44dd-8efb-6c823f793e57</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/086fd785-7958-43a4-8d24-3693cfd95819/trcohVKtJU7y6mBsOX23jyRY.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/da760c86-536e-4bca-96b1-e44f4a7a5c78/217-Final.mp3" length="73133056" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>30:28</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>217</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>217</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/2d7f493b-003c-48dd-8351-b20a1ce04191/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How Cheryl Increased Her Membership Conversion Rate By 84%</title><itunes:title>How Cheryl Increased Her Membership Conversion Rate By 84%</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Can email marketing help grow your business and make more money? What if you have a membership? And what if you help people in teaching and education? Yes, yes, and yes! So let's hear it from our client Cheryl Hatch from<a href="https://www.preschool-plan-it.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Preschool Plan It</a>, who implemented only <em>two</em> of our email campaigns and increased her membership conversion rate by a whopping 84%!</p><p>And there's a lot more to come for Cheryl.&nbsp;</p><p>Want to get the full story?</p><p>Let's go.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:22) Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(3:13) Who is Cheryl Hatch?</p><p>(5:58) When did Cheryl get started with email marketing?</p><p>(7:37) What was Cheryl's biggest barrier with email marketing?&nbsp;</p><p>(9:16) What are some of the changes Cheryl made when she came into our world?</p><p>(14:07) Implementing her first automated campaigns.</p><p>(18:30) What results did Cheryl get with her email marketing?</p><p>(22:50) What does this increase in conversion rate mean for Cheryl?</p><p>(26:12) How does Cheryl feel about her email marketing now?</p><p>(28:13) What's the one action that had the most impact on Cheryl's email marketing?</p><p>(30:10) Subject lines of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>Who is Cheryl Hatch?</h2><p>Cheryl serves preschool teachers who work with 3 and 4-year-olds in a group setting. With two decades of experience in the education space, Cheryl launched a website jam-packed with awesome resources back in 2010 to help preschool teachers create their lesson plans. She managed to grow her audience by adding ads and affiliate links to her website. Online traffic went crazy (those were the days!), and the teachers in her audience started asking for more resources.&nbsp;</p><p>That's why, in 2016, she turned her website into a monthly recurring membership, complete with lesson plans and professional development training.</p><h2>When did Cheryl get started with email marketing?</h2><p>When she first started her email marketing, Cheryl didn't have a lead magnet. She'd simply ask her website visitors to join her newsletter. For a long time, her email marketing consisted of sending out a monthly newsletter packed with lots and lots of information. Around 2015, Cheryl started doing more research on how she could give her audience more and perhaps launch a business.</p><p>Although she had no product yet, she realised she had so much information in her newsletter that she could send it twice a month instead. That would give her a better chance to drive people back to her blog for ads and affiliates.</p><h2>What was Cheryl's biggest barrier with email marketing?</h2><p>Was that a comfortable transition for Cheryl? Not at all. Increasing the frequency of her emails was a true barrier for Cheryl - she was quite worried about annoying her audience. After all, she'd promised them a once-a-month newsletter when they first signed up, and she felt she was breaking a promise.</p><p>It took her a long time to change her mindset and understand she wasn’t sending emails for the sake of sending them. She was sending emails because she could help people! And by sharing more bite-sized information, she was also giving her audience a chance to go and implement her tips in the classroom and make a difference.&nbsp;</p><p>But until she truly realised that, emailing more frequently was her barrier.</p><h2>What are some of the changes Cheryl made when she came into our world?</h2><p>The first thing Cheryl did when she came into our world was to re-write her welcome sequence by implementing our 4-day Getting to Know You sequence. Because of the psychological tips that are at the basis of all our campaigns, Cheryl managed to increase her engagement. People started responding to her emails and telling her how much they agreed with what she was sharing. While that didn’t increase her conversions just yet, it improved her deliverability rate.&nbsp;</p><p>Cheryl also created a lead magnet in the shape of a PDF download with some activities to help teachers create a week-long lesson plan. Her lead magnet is something that Cheryl sends out at the start of every month with inspiration for the month ahead.&nbsp;</p><p>Another change that Cheryl made when she joined our world (courtesy of Rob) was to increase the frequency of her emails. She thought about it for 6 months, but eventually, Cheryl started sending out a second email every week on a Thursday. Because that's the point in the week when teachers feel burnt out and could do with some inspiration. So Cheryl sends out a quote and an image to wish her teachers a great rest of the week.</p><p>She also added a Super Signature at the bottom of all her emails, which directs people to her website or her membership offer. There’s no call to action in the email as such – just the Super Signature. And Cheryl still gets a lot of replies from the teachers in her audience acknowledging how much they needed the encouragement.</p><h2>Implementing her first automated campaigns</h2><p>Cheryl also started looking at the campaigns we offer inside our membership<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a> intending to increase her membership conversion rate. After becoming familiar with the idea of using a <em>SCORE engine of email campaigns</em> (where the acronym stands for Sales, Content-led, Objection handling, Risk reversal, and Engagement), Cheryl got to work. Because she already had the Engagement piece covered with her value-packed newsletter, she started focusing on the S (sales) and the C (content-led) campaigns first.</p><p>Rather than feeling like she's bombarding people with requests to buy, Cheryl was pleased with our approach, which helps you outline what you have to offer and how it can benefit the people in your audience. This is one of the main things Cheryl learnt from us, she said. And it's this idea of<strong> talking about your product in a way that doesn't just focus on features and benefits.</strong> Instead, she's telling her audience how they can use her products to become awesome preschool teachers.</p><p>As a result, Cheryl doesn’t feel salesy anymore. She knows she sells a product that helps people. And that's changed how she feels about talking about her membership. Her resources are exactly what every preschool teacher needs! So she's not scared about doing a call-to-action to her membership in her newsletter, for example. It's easy to let people know how the membership can truly help.&nbsp;</p><h2>What results did Cheryl get with her email marketing?</h2><p>In the 3 months between May and July 2022, Cheryl's membership conversion rate (i.e. people joining her membership from her email list) was just under 2.5%. This is when all Cheryl had in place were her lead magnet, her newsletter, and our Getting to Know You sequence.</p><p>Cheryl set herself a goal to increase her membership conversion rate to 5%. So she revamped her Getting to Know You sequence and added a sales campaign to her email engine - i.e. our 6-day Overture campaign, which Cheryl chose to send out every other day instead of daily. She also put a 3-day content-led campaign in place (our Daisy Chain campaign) with pre-recorded videos that people can watch at their own pace.</p><p>Now, instead of receiving 'welcome' emails for 4 days and then going into her newsletter, Cheryl’s new subscribers go through about 21 days of emails. When Cheryl looked at the same 3-month period for this year (May to July 2023), she noticed that <strong>the percentage of people joining her membership from her list is just under 4.6%, which takes her super close to an amazing conversion rate of 5%!</strong> And that’s with only two new email campaigns in place – she’s not even done yet!</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>What does this increase in conversion rate mean for Cheryl?</h2><p>Cheryl is now communicating how she helps people in a much better way because she's able to understand what they need. While she doesn't run live activities with her audience (because of different time zones), her emails feel ‘real’ – this is Cheryl’s voice. And people feel like they know her.&nbsp;</p><p>What's interesting is that when looking at the conversion rates of the individual campaigns, Cheryl said, the sales aren’t immediate. They’re small numbers. But over time, she achieved a huge increase in conversion because the campaigns she implemented solidified the <em>know, like, and trust</em> factor for her audience. By the time people start receiving her newsletter, they already know they can trust Cheryl. And that’s when the sales happen.</p><p>This is important because a lot of email marketers expect to run campaigns and make sales <em>instantly</em>. And to an extent, that happens. But <strong>these automations are also building the beliefs, information, context, and understanding of what someone’s offer is.</strong> The sales campaigns that are part of our SCORE email engine build the context you need for future campaigns. Our sales campaign shares the information about the offer that people need before they move on to the content-led campaign.</p><p>So while you can (and should) expect to make sales in each campaign, what also matters is the knock-on effect - it’s about the bigger picture. And that's how the email campaigns, when linked together, make a real difference.</p><h2>How does Cheryl feel about her email marketing now?</h2><p>Cheryl feels <em>great</em> about her email marketing now, and she’s excited about the campaigns she’s created. At the time of our chat, Cheryl was putting her subscribers through her newly created objection-handling campaign. And she's looking forward to working...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Can email marketing help grow your business and make more money? What if you have a membership? And what if you help people in teaching and education? Yes, yes, and yes! So let's hear it from our client Cheryl Hatch from<a href="https://www.preschool-plan-it.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Preschool Plan It</a>, who implemented only <em>two</em> of our email campaigns and increased her membership conversion rate by a whopping 84%!</p><p>And there's a lot more to come for Cheryl.&nbsp;</p><p>Want to get the full story?</p><p>Let's go.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:22) Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(3:13) Who is Cheryl Hatch?</p><p>(5:58) When did Cheryl get started with email marketing?</p><p>(7:37) What was Cheryl's biggest barrier with email marketing?&nbsp;</p><p>(9:16) What are some of the changes Cheryl made when she came into our world?</p><p>(14:07) Implementing her first automated campaigns.</p><p>(18:30) What results did Cheryl get with her email marketing?</p><p>(22:50) What does this increase in conversion rate mean for Cheryl?</p><p>(26:12) How does Cheryl feel about her email marketing now?</p><p>(28:13) What's the one action that had the most impact on Cheryl's email marketing?</p><p>(30:10) Subject lines of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>Who is Cheryl Hatch?</h2><p>Cheryl serves preschool teachers who work with 3 and 4-year-olds in a group setting. With two decades of experience in the education space, Cheryl launched a website jam-packed with awesome resources back in 2010 to help preschool teachers create their lesson plans. She managed to grow her audience by adding ads and affiliate links to her website. Online traffic went crazy (those were the days!), and the teachers in her audience started asking for more resources.&nbsp;</p><p>That's why, in 2016, she turned her website into a monthly recurring membership, complete with lesson plans and professional development training.</p><h2>When did Cheryl get started with email marketing?</h2><p>When she first started her email marketing, Cheryl didn't have a lead magnet. She'd simply ask her website visitors to join her newsletter. For a long time, her email marketing consisted of sending out a monthly newsletter packed with lots and lots of information. Around 2015, Cheryl started doing more research on how she could give her audience more and perhaps launch a business.</p><p>Although she had no product yet, she realised she had so much information in her newsletter that she could send it twice a month instead. That would give her a better chance to drive people back to her blog for ads and affiliates.</p><h2>What was Cheryl's biggest barrier with email marketing?</h2><p>Was that a comfortable transition for Cheryl? Not at all. Increasing the frequency of her emails was a true barrier for Cheryl - she was quite worried about annoying her audience. After all, she'd promised them a once-a-month newsletter when they first signed up, and she felt she was breaking a promise.</p><p>It took her a long time to change her mindset and understand she wasn’t sending emails for the sake of sending them. She was sending emails because she could help people! And by sharing more bite-sized information, she was also giving her audience a chance to go and implement her tips in the classroom and make a difference.&nbsp;</p><p>But until she truly realised that, emailing more frequently was her barrier.</p><h2>What are some of the changes Cheryl made when she came into our world?</h2><p>The first thing Cheryl did when she came into our world was to re-write her welcome sequence by implementing our 4-day Getting to Know You sequence. Because of the psychological tips that are at the basis of all our campaigns, Cheryl managed to increase her engagement. People started responding to her emails and telling her how much they agreed with what she was sharing. While that didn’t increase her conversions just yet, it improved her deliverability rate.&nbsp;</p><p>Cheryl also created a lead magnet in the shape of a PDF download with some activities to help teachers create a week-long lesson plan. Her lead magnet is something that Cheryl sends out at the start of every month with inspiration for the month ahead.&nbsp;</p><p>Another change that Cheryl made when she joined our world (courtesy of Rob) was to increase the frequency of her emails. She thought about it for 6 months, but eventually, Cheryl started sending out a second email every week on a Thursday. Because that's the point in the week when teachers feel burnt out and could do with some inspiration. So Cheryl sends out a quote and an image to wish her teachers a great rest of the week.</p><p>She also added a Super Signature at the bottom of all her emails, which directs people to her website or her membership offer. There’s no call to action in the email as such – just the Super Signature. And Cheryl still gets a lot of replies from the teachers in her audience acknowledging how much they needed the encouragement.</p><h2>Implementing her first automated campaigns</h2><p>Cheryl also started looking at the campaigns we offer inside our membership<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a> intending to increase her membership conversion rate. After becoming familiar with the idea of using a <em>SCORE engine of email campaigns</em> (where the acronym stands for Sales, Content-led, Objection handling, Risk reversal, and Engagement), Cheryl got to work. Because she already had the Engagement piece covered with her value-packed newsletter, she started focusing on the S (sales) and the C (content-led) campaigns first.</p><p>Rather than feeling like she's bombarding people with requests to buy, Cheryl was pleased with our approach, which helps you outline what you have to offer and how it can benefit the people in your audience. This is one of the main things Cheryl learnt from us, she said. And it's this idea of<strong> talking about your product in a way that doesn't just focus on features and benefits.</strong> Instead, she's telling her audience how they can use her products to become awesome preschool teachers.</p><p>As a result, Cheryl doesn’t feel salesy anymore. She knows she sells a product that helps people. And that's changed how she feels about talking about her membership. Her resources are exactly what every preschool teacher needs! So she's not scared about doing a call-to-action to her membership in her newsletter, for example. It's easy to let people know how the membership can truly help.&nbsp;</p><h2>What results did Cheryl get with her email marketing?</h2><p>In the 3 months between May and July 2022, Cheryl's membership conversion rate (i.e. people joining her membership from her email list) was just under 2.5%. This is when all Cheryl had in place were her lead magnet, her newsletter, and our Getting to Know You sequence.</p><p>Cheryl set herself a goal to increase her membership conversion rate to 5%. So she revamped her Getting to Know You sequence and added a sales campaign to her email engine - i.e. our 6-day Overture campaign, which Cheryl chose to send out every other day instead of daily. She also put a 3-day content-led campaign in place (our Daisy Chain campaign) with pre-recorded videos that people can watch at their own pace.</p><p>Now, instead of receiving 'welcome' emails for 4 days and then going into her newsletter, Cheryl’s new subscribers go through about 21 days of emails. When Cheryl looked at the same 3-month period for this year (May to July 2023), she noticed that <strong>the percentage of people joining her membership from her list is just under 4.6%, which takes her super close to an amazing conversion rate of 5%!</strong> And that’s with only two new email campaigns in place – she’s not even done yet!</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>What does this increase in conversion rate mean for Cheryl?</h2><p>Cheryl is now communicating how she helps people in a much better way because she's able to understand what they need. While she doesn't run live activities with her audience (because of different time zones), her emails feel ‘real’ – this is Cheryl’s voice. And people feel like they know her.&nbsp;</p><p>What's interesting is that when looking at the conversion rates of the individual campaigns, Cheryl said, the sales aren’t immediate. They’re small numbers. But over time, she achieved a huge increase in conversion because the campaigns she implemented solidified the <em>know, like, and trust</em> factor for her audience. By the time people start receiving her newsletter, they already know they can trust Cheryl. And that’s when the sales happen.</p><p>This is important because a lot of email marketers expect to run campaigns and make sales <em>instantly</em>. And to an extent, that happens. But <strong>these automations are also building the beliefs, information, context, and understanding of what someone’s offer is.</strong> The sales campaigns that are part of our SCORE email engine build the context you need for future campaigns. Our sales campaign shares the information about the offer that people need before they move on to the content-led campaign.</p><p>So while you can (and should) expect to make sales in each campaign, what also matters is the knock-on effect - it’s about the bigger picture. And that's how the email campaigns, when linked together, make a real difference.</p><h2>How does Cheryl feel about her email marketing now?</h2><p>Cheryl feels <em>great</em> about her email marketing now, and she’s excited about the campaigns she’s created. At the time of our chat, Cheryl was putting her subscribers through her newly created objection-handling campaign. And she's looking forward to working through the finishing touches of her risk reversal campaign, which will offer a low-dollar ticket item to show people what they can get in the membership.&nbsp;</p><h2>What’s the one action that had the most impact on Cheryl’s email marketing?</h2><p>Cheryl thinks the one action that made the most difference was changing her mindset around why she was doing email marketing. Yes, she wants to make sales. But above all, she wants to help make a change for her audience. By keeping that in mind, Cheryl can create better campaigns to promote her membership.&nbsp;</p><p>Suddenly, she feels she's being of service. And if people unsubscribe as a result, that’s okay - there are enough people out there for everyone. So <strong>it’s about switching your mindset and understanding that you email people because you know you can <em>serve</em> them. </strong>And if you talk to them like a real person (and not like some sort of sales machine), doing email marketing becomes a lot easier.<strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>This week (courtesy of Cheryl), we're sharing not one but <em>three</em> subject lines that had great open rates:&nbsp;</p><ul><li>“He looked perplexed. What did she say?” This one plays on that curiosity we always talk about. People want to know <em>who</em> looked perplexed. And what did <em>she</em> say? And who is <em>she</em> anyway? And the story was about teaching preschool math!</li><li>“Spiders: creepy or fascinating?” This subject line was used to promote one of Cheryl’s low-dollar one-off products. It sounds like a poll, but the email talks about the fact that some children find spiders creepy while others think they're fascinating. The email was about promoting the resource with some great activities to do with children in class so they can learn more about spiders.</li><li>And “It’s like a game of whack-a-mole.” This game can certainly create anxiety in some people - you hit a mole, and another one pops up. And the challenge gets harder and harder because the moles pop out faster. This email was about the feeling teachers can get in preschool when you're helping a child over here, and something else that needs your attention happens over there! The story proceeds to prove how teachers don’t have the time in their week to create lesson plans.</li></ul><br/><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/membership-retention-strategies/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Learn How To Keep Your Members Forever And Ever With THE BEST Email Marketing Membership Retention Strategies On The Planet</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-paying-members/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">What Emails Should You Send Your Paying Members? with Mike and Callie from Membership Geeks</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/price-increase-email-template-case-study/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How A League Member Made Over $10k With Just ONE Email Campaign – Case Study With Aidan O’Sullivan</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3>Join our FREE Facebook group</h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The League Membership</h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how our client Cheryl Hatch increased her membership conversion rate by 84%) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/membership-conversion-rate/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">46d51920-d5cd-454d-bce5-ee1d37f23133</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/d7df501c-bbda-46f5-bcd9-5e29e71c8f24/S8fs-rJrql0yWK15ldy1PkON.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/f4c136aa-5a3c-429f-ae3c-4107a9791998/216-Final-V2.mp3" length="80746816" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>33:39</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>216</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>216</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/85d6b8ff-661b-4293-8f64-d4552c2379a0/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>What The Heck Are Cross-selling And Upselling?</title><itunes:title>What The Heck Are Cross-selling And Upselling?</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Ever heard the terms cross-selling and upselling and wondered what they have to do with email marketing? Aren't these 'marketing things' that happen at checkout? Can you even <em>do</em> cross-selling and upselling with email marketing?</p><p>Oh yes, you can.</p><p>And when you use these strategies in the right way in your business, you'll start making loads more sales.</p><p>So let's find out how, shall we?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:11) Want a FREE resource to get more clicks on your emails? Check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/03fd66aeee40009981b62723938d539b08fd89fc?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=click-tricks" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Click Tricks</a>.</p><p>(4:05) What's the difference between cross-selling and upselling?</p><p>(7:23) How we do cross-selling and upselling in our business.&nbsp;</p><p>(12:33) Sell fast - turn subscribers into customers.</p><p>(18:10) Maximise the value of your customers (quickly).</p><p>(21:32) The biggest mistakes people make with cross-selling and upselling.</p><p>(27:44) Putting together your cross-sell and upsell offers.</p><p>(30:47) Create systems to turn customers into repeat customers.</p><p>(32:46) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>What's the difference between cross-selling and upselling?</h2><p>When it comes to the difference between cross-selling and upselling, in our business, we use the terms fairly interchangeably. And that probably upsets a lot of people in the marketing world. So here are some definitions for you:</p><ul><li><strong>Upselling</strong> is about selling someone<strong> a perceivably larger thing</strong> – something more expensive or of higher commitment.</li><li><strong>Cross-selling</strong> means<strong> selling people <em>other things</em></strong> <strong>that are around the same hierarchy</strong> as what they already bought (or maybe even lower value). And this can also mean <em>different offers of the same product</em>.&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><p>For example, you could sell a full-price membership but also a lower-rung type product for people who don't want to pay the full price. They pay less but also get less content or value. Fair, right?</p><h2>How we do cross-selling and upselling in our business</h2><p>So let’s talk about what cross-selling and upselling look like in our business. When people come into our world, we want to sell them our core product, which is our membership<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>. We then upsell our members one of two things.</p><ul><li>The first product is our Accelerator programme, which is a higher-ticket, a cohort-driven programme with limited capacity we run live a few times a year.</li><li>The second product is our<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/agency?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=agency" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Agency</a> - limited capacity and much higher ticket price.&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><p>But in all honesty, terminology doesn’t matter that much to us. It’s more about <strong>maximising how much someone is able to spend with you.</strong> So if people are in a transaction, you want to encourage them to upgrade their order and spend more money with you than they’d originally anticipated (in a totally ethical way, of course). That’s an upsell. But if the transaction is complete, and you’re offering this customer <em>other products</em> over time, that’s cross-selling territory.</p><p>What we think makes a difference is that <strong>we built a business that's sustainably profitable and manageable where we don't have to create new products all the time.</strong> We have a good ecosystem whereby people join our email list (either free or paid) and go through a sequence of emails that maximise their ability to buy something. And then<strong> we upsell them to increase their customer value.</strong> That’s why we haven’t created anything new (other than for the fun of it) for ages – we don’t <em>need </em>to. What we have is sustainable.</p><p>So if you're going to engage in activities such as teaching or speaking (we do because we love it), make sure you do it in such a way that enables you to <em>sell more of what you already offer</em>.&nbsp;</p><h2>The practicalities of cross-selling and upselling</h2><h3>Sell fast - turn subscribers into customers</h3><p>The first thing we recommend is that you never hold off going live with your product or service <em>because</em> you don’t have an upsell or cross-sell offering just yet. If you don't launch, you won't know if you can convert your front-end offer. It's tempting to wait until you've created a bigger funnel, especially if you're losing money on ads. But you're better off spending time tweaking your core offer until you find one that resonates with your audience.&nbsp;</p><p>Cross-sell and upsell offers are great for making the economics work, but they’re part of the second phase. <strong>The first phase is to ensure you are converting your core offer.</strong> Because if you're not, you're wasting your time and money. Even if you're selling your core product at a loss at first, at least you know you can sell it. And then you can add cross-sell and upsell propositions to maximise your return on costs.&nbsp;</p><p>In other words,<em> sell fast</em>. That's what we do. When subscribers come into our world, for 60 days, they go through an automated system of emails that will turn them into customers. And then in the following 90 days, they get emails that will maximise their value to our business.</p><p>And it's all automated! We don't have to be in the trenches on a daily basis wondering where the next dollar is coming from. We’re out there preaching to get people in the system <em>at the front end</em>. But once the wheels are turning, our automated system is taking care of the rest.</p><p><strong>Maximise the value of your customers (quickly)&nbsp;</strong></p><p>Something that isn't hugely talked about is that a lot of us business owners end up being out of pocket because of ad spend. Acquiring subscribers has a cost, and it can be hard to get to a point where your core offer fully covers your ad spend. But the good news is that once people are in your world, <em>with the right systems</em>, you can make that money back. And you want to do it quickly!</p><p>That's what we're really good at - <strong>getting people to buy from us fast and then maximising the value of that customer really quickly. </strong>We don't wait around - we want to get people to buy <em>now</em>. Our automated email engine turns subscribers into customers <em>fast</em> so we get our ROI. That's why we have a series of offers designed to get our customers to spend more money with us - we simply can't afford to be out of pocket!</p><p>And the good thing is that it happens <em>predictably </em>because our system is automated. We don’t have to remember to run a promotion - our email campaigns go out automatically, even when we’re busy doing something else. We’re confident and happy to go and speak at events to bring people into the front end because <strong>we know our back-end system is predictable</strong>. Every single person who comes through our front door will go through that same system. There’s no choice - it's a chain of events (we call it a <em>customer engine</em>) that turns your subscribers into customers.</p><h2>The biggest mistakes people make with cross-selling and upselling</h2><p>A mistake we often see business owners make is to present a customer with<em> a lot </em>of different offers at checkout, one after the other. As a rule of thumb, if someone says no twice, that's enough. Let them buy the product they want without having a never-ending chain of offers. As a customer, you don’t want to say no to something just to be offered something else and then another thing and another thing!</p><p>Something else we recommend you <em>don't</em> do is to make offers that are not related. <strong>We're quite strict with our cross-sell and upsell offers - we want them to be tightly related, congruent, and relevant to the main product. </strong>So don't go completely off-piste and end up offering something unrelated. It's really not about shoving stuff into your funnel to make it bigger!</p><p>Also, make sure you're not one of those people who are so focused on creating new products that you forget to create a system around what you already have. Instead,<strong> build an automated email marketing system that you set up once and runs forever</strong> (and makes you lots of money).</p><p>Once you've done that, coming up with new products is great. But only do it when you have the freedom and bandwidth to do so - not when you don't yet have a team or automation in place. Build a system around your existing offers first and then focus on new products. There's nothing wrong with pivoting if and when your business has changed. But don't do that every few months! Because otherwise you'll hit a ceiling and won't be able to scale your business.&nbsp;</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>Putting together your cross-sell and upsell offers</h2><p>We think it’s important to create some sort of congruence with the offers you put together. So for example, let's say your front-end product is a series of videos for $67. You'll need a lot of positioning, marketing, and copywriting to convince people on their checkout journey to spend, say, $97 for an eBook. It’s not impossible because it always depends on how you frame it. But <strong>if your core product has more perceived value, the upsell itself will make your core product appear even more valuable.</strong>&nbsp;</p><p>People often forget that the actual product you sell<em> is...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ever heard the terms cross-selling and upselling and wondered what they have to do with email marketing? Aren't these 'marketing things' that happen at checkout? Can you even <em>do</em> cross-selling and upselling with email marketing?</p><p>Oh yes, you can.</p><p>And when you use these strategies in the right way in your business, you'll start making loads more sales.</p><p>So let's find out how, shall we?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:11) Want a FREE resource to get more clicks on your emails? Check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/03fd66aeee40009981b62723938d539b08fd89fc?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=click-tricks" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Click Tricks</a>.</p><p>(4:05) What's the difference between cross-selling and upselling?</p><p>(7:23) How we do cross-selling and upselling in our business.&nbsp;</p><p>(12:33) Sell fast - turn subscribers into customers.</p><p>(18:10) Maximise the value of your customers (quickly).</p><p>(21:32) The biggest mistakes people make with cross-selling and upselling.</p><p>(27:44) Putting together your cross-sell and upsell offers.</p><p>(30:47) Create systems to turn customers into repeat customers.</p><p>(32:46) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>What's the difference between cross-selling and upselling?</h2><p>When it comes to the difference between cross-selling and upselling, in our business, we use the terms fairly interchangeably. And that probably upsets a lot of people in the marketing world. So here are some definitions for you:</p><ul><li><strong>Upselling</strong> is about selling someone<strong> a perceivably larger thing</strong> – something more expensive or of higher commitment.</li><li><strong>Cross-selling</strong> means<strong> selling people <em>other things</em></strong> <strong>that are around the same hierarchy</strong> as what they already bought (or maybe even lower value). And this can also mean <em>different offers of the same product</em>.&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><p>For example, you could sell a full-price membership but also a lower-rung type product for people who don't want to pay the full price. They pay less but also get less content or value. Fair, right?</p><h2>How we do cross-selling and upselling in our business</h2><p>So let’s talk about what cross-selling and upselling look like in our business. When people come into our world, we want to sell them our core product, which is our membership<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>. We then upsell our members one of two things.</p><ul><li>The first product is our Accelerator programme, which is a higher-ticket, a cohort-driven programme with limited capacity we run live a few times a year.</li><li>The second product is our<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/agency?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=agency" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Agency</a> - limited capacity and much higher ticket price.&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><p>But in all honesty, terminology doesn’t matter that much to us. It’s more about <strong>maximising how much someone is able to spend with you.</strong> So if people are in a transaction, you want to encourage them to upgrade their order and spend more money with you than they’d originally anticipated (in a totally ethical way, of course). That’s an upsell. But if the transaction is complete, and you’re offering this customer <em>other products</em> over time, that’s cross-selling territory.</p><p>What we think makes a difference is that <strong>we built a business that's sustainably profitable and manageable where we don't have to create new products all the time.</strong> We have a good ecosystem whereby people join our email list (either free or paid) and go through a sequence of emails that maximise their ability to buy something. And then<strong> we upsell them to increase their customer value.</strong> That’s why we haven’t created anything new (other than for the fun of it) for ages – we don’t <em>need </em>to. What we have is sustainable.</p><p>So if you're going to engage in activities such as teaching or speaking (we do because we love it), make sure you do it in such a way that enables you to <em>sell more of what you already offer</em>.&nbsp;</p><h2>The practicalities of cross-selling and upselling</h2><h3>Sell fast - turn subscribers into customers</h3><p>The first thing we recommend is that you never hold off going live with your product or service <em>because</em> you don’t have an upsell or cross-sell offering just yet. If you don't launch, you won't know if you can convert your front-end offer. It's tempting to wait until you've created a bigger funnel, especially if you're losing money on ads. But you're better off spending time tweaking your core offer until you find one that resonates with your audience.&nbsp;</p><p>Cross-sell and upsell offers are great for making the economics work, but they’re part of the second phase. <strong>The first phase is to ensure you are converting your core offer.</strong> Because if you're not, you're wasting your time and money. Even if you're selling your core product at a loss at first, at least you know you can sell it. And then you can add cross-sell and upsell propositions to maximise your return on costs.&nbsp;</p><p>In other words,<em> sell fast</em>. That's what we do. When subscribers come into our world, for 60 days, they go through an automated system of emails that will turn them into customers. And then in the following 90 days, they get emails that will maximise their value to our business.</p><p>And it's all automated! We don't have to be in the trenches on a daily basis wondering where the next dollar is coming from. We’re out there preaching to get people in the system <em>at the front end</em>. But once the wheels are turning, our automated system is taking care of the rest.</p><p><strong>Maximise the value of your customers (quickly)&nbsp;</strong></p><p>Something that isn't hugely talked about is that a lot of us business owners end up being out of pocket because of ad spend. Acquiring subscribers has a cost, and it can be hard to get to a point where your core offer fully covers your ad spend. But the good news is that once people are in your world, <em>with the right systems</em>, you can make that money back. And you want to do it quickly!</p><p>That's what we're really good at - <strong>getting people to buy from us fast and then maximising the value of that customer really quickly. </strong>We don't wait around - we want to get people to buy <em>now</em>. Our automated email engine turns subscribers into customers <em>fast</em> so we get our ROI. That's why we have a series of offers designed to get our customers to spend more money with us - we simply can't afford to be out of pocket!</p><p>And the good thing is that it happens <em>predictably </em>because our system is automated. We don’t have to remember to run a promotion - our email campaigns go out automatically, even when we’re busy doing something else. We’re confident and happy to go and speak at events to bring people into the front end because <strong>we know our back-end system is predictable</strong>. Every single person who comes through our front door will go through that same system. There’s no choice - it's a chain of events (we call it a <em>customer engine</em>) that turns your subscribers into customers.</p><h2>The biggest mistakes people make with cross-selling and upselling</h2><p>A mistake we often see business owners make is to present a customer with<em> a lot </em>of different offers at checkout, one after the other. As a rule of thumb, if someone says no twice, that's enough. Let them buy the product they want without having a never-ending chain of offers. As a customer, you don’t want to say no to something just to be offered something else and then another thing and another thing!</p><p>Something else we recommend you <em>don't</em> do is to make offers that are not related. <strong>We're quite strict with our cross-sell and upsell offers - we want them to be tightly related, congruent, and relevant to the main product. </strong>So don't go completely off-piste and end up offering something unrelated. It's really not about shoving stuff into your funnel to make it bigger!</p><p>Also, make sure you're not one of those people who are so focused on creating new products that you forget to create a system around what you already have. Instead,<strong> build an automated email marketing system that you set up once and runs forever</strong> (and makes you lots of money).</p><p>Once you've done that, coming up with new products is great. But only do it when you have the freedom and bandwidth to do so - not when you don't yet have a team or automation in place. Build a system around your existing offers first and then focus on new products. There's nothing wrong with pivoting if and when your business has changed. But don't do that every few months! Because otherwise you'll hit a ceiling and won't be able to scale your business.&nbsp;</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>Putting together your cross-sell and upsell offers</h2><p>We think it’s important to create some sort of congruence with the offers you put together. So for example, let's say your front-end product is a series of videos for $67. You'll need a lot of positioning, marketing, and copywriting to convince people on their checkout journey to spend, say, $97 for an eBook. It’s not impossible because it always depends on how you frame it. But <strong>if your core product has more perceived value, the upsell itself will make your core product appear even more valuable.</strong>&nbsp;</p><p>People often forget that the actual product you sell<em> is part of the marketing</em> - it needs to have perceived value in itself. So when pricing your upsell offers, think about the <em>perceived increased value</em> that it gives to your core product. If your product is $67, your upsell doesn’t have to go incrementally up. We’ve seen successful funnels where the front end might be $300, but the upsell is cheaper at $47. And that converts like crazy because of the <em>price anchoring</em> that’s offered by the front-end product people already bought.&nbsp;</p><p>The other thing you can do is to go dramatically higher. So your product might be $67, but your upsell is $1,000, for example. That works too.</p><h3>Be careful when offering your time as an upsell!&nbsp;</h3><p>When putting together your upsell offers, we recommend you <em>don't</em> offer your time (such as a coaching call) as an upsell. It’s a really tempting thing to do when creating a funnel if you don't have any other products ready. But offering your time doesn’t always work. In fact, you might find it hurts your conversion because not everyone wants to talk to someone they’ve never met – some people may find that intimidating or like to be left alone!</p><h2>Create systems to turn customers into<em> repeat</em> customers</h2><p>Cross-selling and upselling fit in your business in two places. The first place is at checkout, where you want to present your customers with congruent, well-thought-out bump offers. The second place is within your email marketing. That's the place where you use your email engine to turn those customers into <em>repeat customers</em>!</p><p>Your job as a business owner is to maximise the value of every customer. So <strong>always look at how can scale your business and make it more profitable</strong>, rather than only focusing on the front end. When people come into your world, try to sell to them <em>immediately</em>. Use ongoing email automation to maximise that person’s value to your business. Because launching something new all the time isn't sustainable!&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>This week’s subject line is “Ruining your day”. It’s a bit like that subject line you may have seen that says “bad news.” These are similar because they make people want to know what the bad news is. And subject lines like those tend to have a high click-through rate. So check it out!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/onboarding-sequence-memberships/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Create A Member Onboarding Sequence That Your Members Will Love</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/best-email-marketing-campaign-existing-customers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Best Email Marketing Campaign To Get Your Customers To Buy Again (And Again)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/member-growth-strategies/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Super Cool Member Growth Strategies To Attract New Customers With Email Marketing</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3>Join our FREE Facebook group</h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The League Membership</h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about cross-selling and upselling and how to do it right) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/cross-selling-upselling/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">6dd8352e-72fc-4a30-8750-1b65c1cf3e97</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/ef876672-d7ce-4564-92d7-74524f684281/Mdqy7DsnH1mbZYKn9bdmxRM7.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/b511714b-36d3-4918-9be4-5d85eb5f68da/215-Final.mp3" length="81322816" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>33:53</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>215</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>215</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/1116d762-c53d-43c0-b92d-20732200689a/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How Do You Create The BEST Sales Email Campaign?</title><itunes:title>How Do You Create The BEST Sales Email Campaign?</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>How do you run the perfect sales email campaign? Should you try and sell in every email you send? When do you send live, broadcast emails and when do you create automated campaigns?</p><p>These are only some of the questions we answer for you today.</p><p>And we're willing to bet you <em>can't wait</em> to get all the awesome sauce on this.</p><p>So let's just get into this, shall we? Let's go!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:09) Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.</p><p>(3:59) How often should you sell in your emails?</p><p>(7:40) When should you send out an email sales campaign?</p><p>(12:54) What kind of emails should you include in your sales campaign?</p><p>(16:50) What should you talk about in the emails inside your campaigns?</p><p>(20:51) What if people unsubscribe from your sales emails?</p><p>(23:31) What results should you expect from your sales emails?</p><p>(24:33) How to create an 'email engine' of sales campaigns.</p><p>(28:59) Join us for a FREE web class!</p><p>(29:41) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>How often should you sell in your emails?&nbsp;</h2><p>We have a controversial answer to this question. Because <strong>email marketing has a cost – every time you send an email, some people will unsubscribe.</strong> You may not be selling <em>directly</em> in an email, but you <em>always </em>have to direct people to something they can buy. Because if you're not doing that, you might be losing people through unsubscribes<em> and</em> not making sales!</p><p>But also, if you’re not selling or directing people towards your product, you’re adding more overwhelm and distraction to that person’s world. And no one needs more of that!&nbsp;</p><p>What you want to do is to stay in your lane. You have a specialism, so take everybody on your list and on your social media through the beliefs and understandings they need to buy from you. Anything you do and say outside of selling is just more shiny object syndrome. The person is going to get distracted from what you’re talking about, which doesn’t serve you or them.</p><p>Remember that the people on your list have made the decision to share their email addresses based on something they saw from you. They know you have a solution, and they're interested. So make sure that <em>in all your emails</em>, you send them information that moves them towards buying.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><h3>Email isn't the same as social media!</h3><p>The big misunderstanding is that every time you send an email you’re <em>bothering</em> someone - they're going to get annoyed. But even if you're selling to people (or moving people towards buying) in every single email you send, you have to remember email isn’t the same as social media. Social media platforms are a great place to teach people, and not traditionally a place where you sell.</p><p>Email is different. It's designed for short, useful communication that nudges people in the right direction. It's not the place to be putting long articles or to be referring people to free content all the time. Because <strong>people are on your list to solve a problem.</strong> And <strong>the faster you can help them to get to a solution to that problem, the better.</strong></p><h2>When should you send out an email sales campaign?&nbsp;</h2><h3>Our daily emails</h3><p>Let’s talk about the differences between day-to-day email marketing and sales campaigns. Fundamentally, our business is based on the idea that <strong>we email our subscribers every day of the year.</strong> We send a short email every day with a few hundred words in it. And it’s usually (although not always) some sort of story from day-to-day life with some kind of lesson (like a teaching moment or some inspiration) that segues into an offer. Sometimes we might ask people to go and listen to a podcast episode, for example. But generally speaking, <strong>we sell every day.</strong></p><p>And even when we don't sell, all of our emails have our Super Signature at the bottom, which has a menu of things that you might be interested in. If, on that day and at that exact moment, you’re looking to take the next steps, you have all the links to go and do that. In fact, our Super Signature makes sales every single week for us.</p><h3>Automated sales campaigns</h3><p>But we also have sales campaigns. These are <strong>full sequences of emails where all the emails work together</strong> – they’re not standalone bite-sized pieces. If you send an email today, one tomorrow, and one the day after, it’s like throwing snowballs at someone. It’s a bit like going to watch the sequel to a movie where it doesn’t really matter if you’ve seen the first movie or not because the second movie will still make sense on its own. Daily emails work like that. Because they don’t act together.</p><p>But with a sales campaign (while each email still needs to make sense on its own) they’re all part of a bigger picture. They’re not standalone. There’s an <em>endpoint</em> because the offer you talk about in the campaign is going to end. So<strong> all emails in that campaign lead to a specific destination.</strong> That means you have to communicate everything about this offer between the start and end date of the campaign. <strong>All the emails you send need to help you build the case, the beliefs, the excitement, the desire, and the proof for someone to go and buy from you.</strong></p><p>Plus, there needs to be a <em>consequence</em> at the end of this campaign. For example, the bonus ends, and the offer is gone. Or you're going to stop talking about this for a while. Let’s say you were selling an affiliate offer - that product might still be available via someone else, but you’re no longer offering it. You created a sales event out of it, and now the offer is over. Just remember that every email in your campaign needs to build up to an endpoint.&nbsp;</p><p>A sales campaign has a specific structure – we use the acronym SVVC (which stands for Seed, Validate, Verify, and Close) to teach the various jobs that the emails in a sequence have to do.&nbsp;</p><h2>What kinds of emails should you include in your sales campaign?</h2><h3>Send emails to sell!</h3><p>Why do you want to follow a specific structure? Because you don't want to show up in someone’s inbox pretending you’re a friend and then suddenly try to sell them something – that’s aggressive. It’s a surprising flip, and people won’t like that. <strong>What you want to do from the beginning of your relationship with each subscriber, is to train them to buy. </strong>Show them that you're selling to them regularly. Because you can't start doing it all of a sudden.&nbsp;</p><p>In fact, one of the things we see over and over is email marketers nurturing their subscribers<em> to death </em>and to the point where people no longer read their emails. They get to a point when they’re not even considering buying from you anymore – you’re just a friend who shows up!</p><p>We don’t believe in the method of giving loads and loads, hoping that people will eventually buy. Most of us don’t have the luxury of financial backing or playing the long game – we don’t have deep enough pockets! What our types of businesses need instead is an ROI – a return on investments. And a quick one at that! Because if we’ve invested money (on ads, for example) to get people on our email list, we need to make that money back.</p><p>And the only way we can do that is by having sales campaigns early in our subscriber’s journey <em>instead of</em> nurturing people to death. We don’t want people to go and buy the solution from someone else because we haven’t offered them anything, do we? <strong>A major part of selling is amplifying and putting a focused spotlight on the pain, and that doesn’t work if we do it to death.</strong></p><h3>Have <em>good</em> reasons for sending emails!&nbsp;</h3><p>You want every email you send to have its own specific reason. In a campaign, you have enough room to go <em>into detail</em> on <em>one specific thing</em> about you, your product, the audience, the beliefs, the social proof, etc.</p><p>In fact, one of the worst mistakes we see people make is to tell their audience<em> everything</em> they possibly want to say in <em>one</em> email. Doing that is a mistake! Because it means you have no more points to make in your other emails. Also, if you bury all your valuable points (such as overcoming objections or building beliefs) all in one email, people might miss it! You have to address these points in a way that’s noticeable.&nbsp;</p><h2>What should you talk about in the emails inside your sales campaign?&nbsp;</h2><p>Here are things that you can each put <em>in individual emails</em>. And please don't ask the question in the subject line and then answer it in the email. This is important because <strong>the underlying hook, strategy, or angle will ultimately make up at least 80% of the success of your email campaign</strong>, so you want to get this right.</p><p>Here are some ideas for topics (each one is <em>one separate</em> email):</p><ul><li>Explain who your product is for.</li><li>Explain the specific problem and transformation people are going to get.</li><li>Go through the success other people have experienced with this product. (You can share more than one case study in different emails).</li><li>Talk about why your product or solution is unique or better than what people may have already tried.</li><li>Send an email based on <em>personal urgency</em> – why should someone fix this problem now? Why is this problem personally urgent?</li><li>Or, instead, give everyone a<em> fixed reason</em> why they need to buy now. For example, that could be because your offer is going away, and after that, the price will be going up.</li><li>And on that last point, if you have actual urgency because the...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How do you run the perfect sales email campaign? Should you try and sell in every email you send? When do you send live, broadcast emails and when do you create automated campaigns?</p><p>These are only some of the questions we answer for you today.</p><p>And we're willing to bet you <em>can't wait</em> to get all the awesome sauce on this.</p><p>So let's just get into this, shall we? Let's go!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:09) Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.</p><p>(3:59) How often should you sell in your emails?</p><p>(7:40) When should you send out an email sales campaign?</p><p>(12:54) What kind of emails should you include in your sales campaign?</p><p>(16:50) What should you talk about in the emails inside your campaigns?</p><p>(20:51) What if people unsubscribe from your sales emails?</p><p>(23:31) What results should you expect from your sales emails?</p><p>(24:33) How to create an 'email engine' of sales campaigns.</p><p>(28:59) Join us for a FREE web class!</p><p>(29:41) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>How often should you sell in your emails?&nbsp;</h2><p>We have a controversial answer to this question. Because <strong>email marketing has a cost – every time you send an email, some people will unsubscribe.</strong> You may not be selling <em>directly</em> in an email, but you <em>always </em>have to direct people to something they can buy. Because if you're not doing that, you might be losing people through unsubscribes<em> and</em> not making sales!</p><p>But also, if you’re not selling or directing people towards your product, you’re adding more overwhelm and distraction to that person’s world. And no one needs more of that!&nbsp;</p><p>What you want to do is to stay in your lane. You have a specialism, so take everybody on your list and on your social media through the beliefs and understandings they need to buy from you. Anything you do and say outside of selling is just more shiny object syndrome. The person is going to get distracted from what you’re talking about, which doesn’t serve you or them.</p><p>Remember that the people on your list have made the decision to share their email addresses based on something they saw from you. They know you have a solution, and they're interested. So make sure that <em>in all your emails</em>, you send them information that moves them towards buying.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><h3>Email isn't the same as social media!</h3><p>The big misunderstanding is that every time you send an email you’re <em>bothering</em> someone - they're going to get annoyed. But even if you're selling to people (or moving people towards buying) in every single email you send, you have to remember email isn’t the same as social media. Social media platforms are a great place to teach people, and not traditionally a place where you sell.</p><p>Email is different. It's designed for short, useful communication that nudges people in the right direction. It's not the place to be putting long articles or to be referring people to free content all the time. Because <strong>people are on your list to solve a problem.</strong> And <strong>the faster you can help them to get to a solution to that problem, the better.</strong></p><h2>When should you send out an email sales campaign?&nbsp;</h2><h3>Our daily emails</h3><p>Let’s talk about the differences between day-to-day email marketing and sales campaigns. Fundamentally, our business is based on the idea that <strong>we email our subscribers every day of the year.</strong> We send a short email every day with a few hundred words in it. And it’s usually (although not always) some sort of story from day-to-day life with some kind of lesson (like a teaching moment or some inspiration) that segues into an offer. Sometimes we might ask people to go and listen to a podcast episode, for example. But generally speaking, <strong>we sell every day.</strong></p><p>And even when we don't sell, all of our emails have our Super Signature at the bottom, which has a menu of things that you might be interested in. If, on that day and at that exact moment, you’re looking to take the next steps, you have all the links to go and do that. In fact, our Super Signature makes sales every single week for us.</p><h3>Automated sales campaigns</h3><p>But we also have sales campaigns. These are <strong>full sequences of emails where all the emails work together</strong> – they’re not standalone bite-sized pieces. If you send an email today, one tomorrow, and one the day after, it’s like throwing snowballs at someone. It’s a bit like going to watch the sequel to a movie where it doesn’t really matter if you’ve seen the first movie or not because the second movie will still make sense on its own. Daily emails work like that. Because they don’t act together.</p><p>But with a sales campaign (while each email still needs to make sense on its own) they’re all part of a bigger picture. They’re not standalone. There’s an <em>endpoint</em> because the offer you talk about in the campaign is going to end. So<strong> all emails in that campaign lead to a specific destination.</strong> That means you have to communicate everything about this offer between the start and end date of the campaign. <strong>All the emails you send need to help you build the case, the beliefs, the excitement, the desire, and the proof for someone to go and buy from you.</strong></p><p>Plus, there needs to be a <em>consequence</em> at the end of this campaign. For example, the bonus ends, and the offer is gone. Or you're going to stop talking about this for a while. Let’s say you were selling an affiliate offer - that product might still be available via someone else, but you’re no longer offering it. You created a sales event out of it, and now the offer is over. Just remember that every email in your campaign needs to build up to an endpoint.&nbsp;</p><p>A sales campaign has a specific structure – we use the acronym SVVC (which stands for Seed, Validate, Verify, and Close) to teach the various jobs that the emails in a sequence have to do.&nbsp;</p><h2>What kinds of emails should you include in your sales campaign?</h2><h3>Send emails to sell!</h3><p>Why do you want to follow a specific structure? Because you don't want to show up in someone’s inbox pretending you’re a friend and then suddenly try to sell them something – that’s aggressive. It’s a surprising flip, and people won’t like that. <strong>What you want to do from the beginning of your relationship with each subscriber, is to train them to buy. </strong>Show them that you're selling to them regularly. Because you can't start doing it all of a sudden.&nbsp;</p><p>In fact, one of the things we see over and over is email marketers nurturing their subscribers<em> to death </em>and to the point where people no longer read their emails. They get to a point when they’re not even considering buying from you anymore – you’re just a friend who shows up!</p><p>We don’t believe in the method of giving loads and loads, hoping that people will eventually buy. Most of us don’t have the luxury of financial backing or playing the long game – we don’t have deep enough pockets! What our types of businesses need instead is an ROI – a return on investments. And a quick one at that! Because if we’ve invested money (on ads, for example) to get people on our email list, we need to make that money back.</p><p>And the only way we can do that is by having sales campaigns early in our subscriber’s journey <em>instead of</em> nurturing people to death. We don’t want people to go and buy the solution from someone else because we haven’t offered them anything, do we? <strong>A major part of selling is amplifying and putting a focused spotlight on the pain, and that doesn’t work if we do it to death.</strong></p><h3>Have <em>good</em> reasons for sending emails!&nbsp;</h3><p>You want every email you send to have its own specific reason. In a campaign, you have enough room to go <em>into detail</em> on <em>one specific thing</em> about you, your product, the audience, the beliefs, the social proof, etc.</p><p>In fact, one of the worst mistakes we see people make is to tell their audience<em> everything</em> they possibly want to say in <em>one</em> email. Doing that is a mistake! Because it means you have no more points to make in your other emails. Also, if you bury all your valuable points (such as overcoming objections or building beliefs) all in one email, people might miss it! You have to address these points in a way that’s noticeable.&nbsp;</p><h2>What should you talk about in the emails inside your sales campaign?&nbsp;</h2><p>Here are things that you can each put <em>in individual emails</em>. And please don't ask the question in the subject line and then answer it in the email. This is important because <strong>the underlying hook, strategy, or angle will ultimately make up at least 80% of the success of your email campaign</strong>, so you want to get this right.</p><p>Here are some ideas for topics (each one is <em>one separate</em> email):</p><ul><li>Explain who your product is for.</li><li>Explain the specific problem and transformation people are going to get.</li><li>Go through the success other people have experienced with this product. (You can share more than one case study in different emails).</li><li>Talk about why your product or solution is unique or better than what people may have already tried.</li><li>Send an email based on <em>personal urgency</em> – why should someone fix this problem now? Why is this problem personally urgent?</li><li>Or, instead, give everyone a<em> fixed reason</em> why they need to buy now. For example, that could be because your offer is going away, and after that, the price will be going up.</li><li>And on that last point, if you have actual urgency because the offer is closing, then send a few emails the day before and on the last day to remind people that they’re going to miss out if they don’t buy right now.&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><h3>Why so many emails?&nbsp;</h3><p>You’re effectively looking for reasons to send<em> more</em> emails. And if you put all the above information in just one email, then you literally have nothing more to say. We even send an email <em>after</em> the cart has closed to let people know that the offer is gone, and they’ve missed out. And we do that because<strong> it’s important to prove to people that when you say something, it really does happen.</strong> We call it <em>the SIPI method</em> – say it, prove it. You can even ask people to join a waiting list to be notified when that offer may become available again in the future.</p><p>So why so many emails? Because<strong> your sales campaigns help you create the right beliefs. </strong>It's not just about selling - it's also about showing people that when you say something, you deliver on that promise. And they’ll know for next time.</p><p><strong>As long as you have a <em>good</em> reason for sending emails, there’s no such thing as sending <em>too many</em> emails.</strong> That only happens when you repeat yourself or send emails for no reason. If you see people unsubscribe because of that, that’s fair enough. But as long as you’re answering questions that people actually have, they’ll be invested. And that means you won’t lose as many subscribers.</p><h2>What if people unsubscribe from your sales emails?&nbsp;&nbsp;</h2><p>We treat unsubscribes differently depending on what people are unsubscribing from. If you're running a sales email campaign around your core offer (which we call <em>your Rome</em> because <em>all roads lead to Rome</em>), you want everyone to get that product. And if people unsubscribe at the back of the emails that talk about your core product, let them go. If they’re never going to be interested in buying your main product, you probably don’t want them on your list anyway.</p><p>However, if you’re sending a campaign about something that’s <em>not</em> your Rome offer, you can do something we call <em>granular unsubscribe</em>. For example, we run a campaign a few times a year that only goes out to people who bought from us in the past but aren’t our existing customers. It doesn’t go out to our main list – only to a specific segment. And that’s an invitation to join our Email Engine Accelerator, which isn't our main offer. It’s a phenomenal, limited, small-group programme with a strict ceiling on how many people can get in.</p><p>So we send out an email campaign to invite people to join this programme and include a manual link at the bottom so people can remove themselves from that segment if they're not interested in that product. We add a specific tag to those people in our system, but we don't remove them from our list entirely. That’s what we call <em>granular unsubscribe</em>, and it allows people to remove themselves from a particular segment that’s <em>not</em> related to our Rome offer.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>What results should you expect from your sales emails?</h2><p>When you send out sales email campaigns, you can expect two things – sales and unsubscribes. And of course, the sales will help counteract and balance your unsubscribes. This is the reason why you have to make offers in all your emails – because every time you send an email, some people are going to unsubscribe. And to counterbalance that, you need to get sales.</p><p>This isn’t a game of list building – it’s a game of <em>customer acquisition</em>! How many of the subscribers on your list can you turn into paying customers?</p><h2>How to create an 'email engine' of sales campaigns</h2><p>Let's do a quick overview of how our system works as a whole. First of all, people join our email list, opt in, and get our lead magnet. Then they go through what we call our <em>email engine</em>. That is a sequence of well-thought-through email campaigns.</p><p>We have:</p><ul><li>A sales campaign,</li><li>A content-led sales campaign,</li><li>An objection-handling sales campaign,</li><li>And a risk-reversal sales campaign.</li></ul><br/><p>All our subscribers go through these campaigns after our welcome sequence (the Get To Know You sequence), which is engagement-driven. When people receive these campaigns, the emails look and feel like the daily emails we promised them when they first signed up. They roughly follow a daily cadence, even though sometimes they’re more frequent.</p><p><strong>About 80% of the people who ever buy from us do so within 60 days of joining our list and while going through the automated campaigns of our email engine. </strong>After that, they start receiving our real, live, daily emails, which are being sent to everyone who’s already completed the engine. Those emails are designed to keep people warm, engaged, and clicking and replying to our emails.</p><h3>Running additional sales campaigns&nbsp;</h3><p>Every now and then, we run sporadic sales campaigns. These might be about the same things we offer in our daily emails, but also promote specific bonuses or discounts, for example. Inside our membership<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>, we have campaigns specifically designed for this (with a strong risk-reversal element), such as our Bribe campaign or our Golden Cloak campaign.</p><p>Or, we might pick a big objection as to why people haven’t bought from us yet and run an objection-handling campaign instead. Other times, we might decide to run a campaign because we’ve launched a new product. Or we might offer an affiliate product so we can earn commissions on sales.</p><p>When those ad-hoc campaigns end, we go back to daily emails for as long as we want to or need to. Of course, for you, if you don’t send daily emails, these are the live, broadcast emails you send regularly to your list at whatever frequency you set.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>And then finally, we have <em>silent campaigns</em> that are waiting in the wings to be deployed and specifically target people's levels of engagement. If we see people who are very engaged and looking at a specific product, we send them the Tell Me More campaign to try and sell this thing they’re interested in. On the flip side, if someone’s become super disengaged (i.e. they haven’t clicked on a link in 60 days), we put them through our LOL Revival campaign. We give them a chance to re-engage, and if they don’t, we remove them from our list.</p><h2>Join us for a FREE web class!</h2><p>If you want to understand how this all fits together, we have a brand new free web class where we’re going to show you exactly how we do it, and how it all works together. Simply head over to<a href="http://emailmarketingheroes.com/engine" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> this link</a> and access our FREE web class.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>This week’s subject line is just the word “Timewaster.” This is great because, on the surface, this subject line may seem accusatory. You see it in your inbox, and you might think you’ve done something wrong, and you’re going to get in trouble. So you open the email to check, and you find out it’s really nothing, which is a lovely, relaxing feeling of relief. So check it out!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/best-email-marketing-campaigns/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Run A Smashing Flash Sale With One of The Best Email Marketing Campaigns In The World</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/template-email-marketing-campaign/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Template For Email Marketing Campaigns</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/reengagement-email-campaign/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Create THE Most Successful Re-Engagement Email Campaign (And Smash Your Sales Targets)</a></p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3>Join our FREE Facebook group</h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The League Membership</h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/sales-email-campaign-2/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e4e293c-7b6b-4aa4-991b-c5f203c5a116</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/539ef870-1de7-4b9b-9ba4-7bac259fc29b/wnV1iEcPMwc5sx4lADVIU_e7.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/f06bcfaf-0cc0-43e4-81f1-374a6e180f47/Final.mp3" length="74987776" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>31:15</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>214</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>214</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How To Create An Awesome Holiday Email Campaign</title><itunes:title>How To Create An Awesome Holiday Email Campaign</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Is it a good idea to launch a holiday email campaign to acknowledge Black Friday, Christmas, New Year's, Easter, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Back to School, and any other holiday or occasion you can think of? It could even be Tacos Tuesday if you want!&nbsp;</p><p>Yes, indeed it is.&nbsp;</p><p>So let's talk about holiday email marketing campaigns. Because you want to do these <em>right</em>.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to find out how to get your subscribers to buy like crazy when you launch your next holiday offer?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:08) Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.</p><p>(3:32) Why are holidays a good time for email marketing?</p><p>(6:40) The psychology behind deals and promotions.</p><p>(9:20) Why holidays are a tricky time for email marketing?</p><p>(10:55) Create a dedicated offer for that specific holiday.</p><p>(14:40) Prep people for the offer in advance.</p><p>(17:13) Launch your holiday offer and surround the market.</p><p>(20:24) Running a successful holiday email marketing campaign.</p><p>(21:00) Get people to click on the links in your emails -<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> check out Click Tricks</a>!</p><p>(22:24) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>Why are holidays a good time for email marketing?&nbsp;</h2><p>Psychologically speaking, when you launch a promotion or a special offer to mark or acknowledge a holiday, you're creating momentum and <strong>giving people a reason to buy. </strong>A lot of copywriting advice emphasises the importance of using the word “because” in your copy. And we often talk about that too. <strong>If you're running a discount or a special offer, give people a reason why you're doing it.</strong> It could be anything, but make sure to have a reason. And a holiday is a reason in itself!</p><p>A great example of this is Prime Day. Amazon went and created their own time of year and reason for having a sale! And it’s no coincidence that they run it in October, which is typically a quieter time for retail. They've effectively <em>manufactured a holiday</em>! Another example is Boxing Day, which is big in the UK but not everywhere in the world. A lot of people will wait until just after Christmas to buy discounted goods in the Boxing Day sale. And why wouldn't they?</p><h2>The psychology behind deals and promotions</h2><p>So why are holidays so good? Because <strong>people are in proactive, spending mode.</strong> It’s the actual opposite of when they’re scrolling on social media, and they suddenly see an ad – this is called <em>interruption marketing</em>. <strong>When a holiday is coming up, we're all out there looking for deals. </strong>And a holiday promotion (or a sale) is giving your customers an excuse to buy and justify to themselves why they’re buying something.</p><p>Think about 3 for 2 deals, for example. When we see those types of promotions, we end up buying 3 products instead of the one we originally wanted! So spend more money but still feel like we got a great deal. We got something for free, right? Would we have spent that much money in the first place? Probably not! This shows the promotion worked - we spent more and feel great about it, too. It's because of <strong>the self-justification that happens when people grab a deal.</strong> And as business owners, we can tap into that.&nbsp;</p><p>Holidays are the perfect opportunity to get customers to feel good about their purchases. And that’s not in a scammy, unethical, or dodgy way. Because you’re definitely selling them something worthwhile, and they feel happy with that purchase.&nbsp;</p><h2>Why holidays are a tricky time for email marketing?&nbsp;</h2><p>Obviously, holidays are busy times when it comes to people's inboxes. As a consumer, you must have noticed the increase in email volume. Because <em>everyone</em> is doing a promotion! Think of all the emails we get about Black Friday deals in November, for example.&nbsp;</p><p>There's definitely a lot of noise, and if you're doing your own promotion and sending emails about it, you're competing for people's attention. Your job at this point is to try and stand out. And you want to do that by making sure that in the run-up to your holiday promotion, your deliverability is good.</p><p>For example, if you only email your list once a year on Black Friday, chances are that a lot of your emails won't be delivered on that day. Email platforms like Gmail, on those days specifically, know that there’s going to be a higher volume of emails. And because of the increased security, a lot of them won't even make it to someone's inbox. So you need to make sure your sender's reputation is great by working on it all year round.</p><h2>Create a dedicated offer for that specific holiday</h2><p>So how do you stand out with your holiday email marketing campaigns? The first thing you can do is to <strong>put together a dedicated offer <em>specifically</em> for that holiday.</strong> That means you should avoid rolling the same thing out every year. Don't use every holiday opportunity to sell things<em> from the same angle</em>. If you use the same discount or offer, you're acting like the furniture store where the sale never ends! (You know the one).</p><p>In this time and age, you definitely want to be more thoughtful about the offers you create. So think about a way to tie your promotion to the specific holiday, rather than offering the same promotion again and again.</p><p>If you are the type of business that can do that, try and relate your offer to the occasion. A restaurant, for example, could have mums eating for free on Mother’s Day. We understand that’s not always possible or applicable to your business, but definitely keep it different and fresh every time. If you sell courses, for example, you could bundle a couple of them together, and then change that combination up for your next holiday promotion.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><h2>Prep people for the offer in advance</h2><p>Another tip we can give you is to prime people in advance of your promotion. Don’t just spring the offer on your list at the last minute! Instead, let them know a bit earlier. Tease them and build them up to the offer. You could do that by showcasing what's going on behind the scenes, for example. Build up their excitement so they're queued, primed, and ready for the day.</p><p>For example, a couple of days before the offer goes live you could run a piece of Facebook ad. Talk about something interesting that has to do with your niche (not your offer, necessarily), and try to build an audience around that. You just want people to get interested in what you do, so you can send them to a waiting list and ask them to opt in to hear more about your sale.</p><p>When you're ready, you start emailing the people on the waiting list and your usual subscribers, too. You could build excitement by showing the behind-the-scenes of what your offer is. That can be as simple as recording a video showing them what's in the sale but <em>without </em>telling them the price. You share when it’s going live, what they’re going to get, and how much it’s worth. But you don't tell them how much they can get it for.</p><p>This way, you build up the hype so that people are ready and waiting for you. You effectively give them the heads up. You’re telling them that there <em>is</em> going to be a sale for that particular holiday, and they can soon take advantage of it.&nbsp;</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>Launch your holiday offer</h2><p>The next step is to launch the offer. To build up the anticipation for it, you send a few emails saying that the sale is coming. You can do a preview or some teasing to add anticipation and curiosity. You could even have people guessing what’s going to be included in your offer and ask them to hit reply to get some engagement out of it.</p><p>You then send a bunch of emails about it (and probably more than you normally would), and that campaign will culminate with the announcement that the offer is finally here. You might feel uncomfortable with the amount of emails it takes to build anticipation and excitement for this promotion. But we guarantee you won’t be uncomfortable with the amount of sales it generates and how much you put in the bank because of it! That’s a good trade-off, don’t you think?</p><p>To give you an idea, you might send a couple of emails every day in the lead-up to the launch and then even 3 emails on the day when the promotion closes. The last email on the last day is the final warning to say that the cart is about to close, and you’d hate for people to miss out and have to pay full price. So <strong>be comfortable with sending lots of emails to drive people towards your offer!</strong></p><h2>Surround the market</h2><p>We use a strategy that we call <em>surrounding the market</em>. All it means is that you want to tell people <em>everywhere</em> about your promotion. So as you’re building your waiting list of people, keep running ads to those who watched your videos and showed interest in your product, for example.</p><p>You want to create what we call an <em>environment of zero competition</em> through your email list and on your social media. In other words, wherever people look, they'll see your offer because that's all you're talking about at the moment. And the great news is that you don't need a huge budget for that - just a bit of forethought.</p><h2>Running a successful holiday email marketing campaign</h2><p>By now, we hope we convinced you that you don't want to wake up on the morning of a holiday and decide to run a promotion just because everyone else is. That’s probably not going to be hugely effective for you. You missed the boat! If that's the case, just consider it a lesson learnt and get ready to...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is it a good idea to launch a holiday email campaign to acknowledge Black Friday, Christmas, New Year's, Easter, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Back to School, and any other holiday or occasion you can think of? It could even be Tacos Tuesday if you want!&nbsp;</p><p>Yes, indeed it is.&nbsp;</p><p>So let's talk about holiday email marketing campaigns. Because you want to do these <em>right</em>.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to find out how to get your subscribers to buy like crazy when you launch your next holiday offer?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:08) Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.</p><p>(3:32) Why are holidays a good time for email marketing?</p><p>(6:40) The psychology behind deals and promotions.</p><p>(9:20) Why holidays are a tricky time for email marketing?</p><p>(10:55) Create a dedicated offer for that specific holiday.</p><p>(14:40) Prep people for the offer in advance.</p><p>(17:13) Launch your holiday offer and surround the market.</p><p>(20:24) Running a successful holiday email marketing campaign.</p><p>(21:00) Get people to click on the links in your emails -<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> check out Click Tricks</a>!</p><p>(22:24) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>Why are holidays a good time for email marketing?&nbsp;</h2><p>Psychologically speaking, when you launch a promotion or a special offer to mark or acknowledge a holiday, you're creating momentum and <strong>giving people a reason to buy. </strong>A lot of copywriting advice emphasises the importance of using the word “because” in your copy. And we often talk about that too. <strong>If you're running a discount or a special offer, give people a reason why you're doing it.</strong> It could be anything, but make sure to have a reason. And a holiday is a reason in itself!</p><p>A great example of this is Prime Day. Amazon went and created their own time of year and reason for having a sale! And it’s no coincidence that they run it in October, which is typically a quieter time for retail. They've effectively <em>manufactured a holiday</em>! Another example is Boxing Day, which is big in the UK but not everywhere in the world. A lot of people will wait until just after Christmas to buy discounted goods in the Boxing Day sale. And why wouldn't they?</p><h2>The psychology behind deals and promotions</h2><p>So why are holidays so good? Because <strong>people are in proactive, spending mode.</strong> It’s the actual opposite of when they’re scrolling on social media, and they suddenly see an ad – this is called <em>interruption marketing</em>. <strong>When a holiday is coming up, we're all out there looking for deals. </strong>And a holiday promotion (or a sale) is giving your customers an excuse to buy and justify to themselves why they’re buying something.</p><p>Think about 3 for 2 deals, for example. When we see those types of promotions, we end up buying 3 products instead of the one we originally wanted! So spend more money but still feel like we got a great deal. We got something for free, right? Would we have spent that much money in the first place? Probably not! This shows the promotion worked - we spent more and feel great about it, too. It's because of <strong>the self-justification that happens when people grab a deal.</strong> And as business owners, we can tap into that.&nbsp;</p><p>Holidays are the perfect opportunity to get customers to feel good about their purchases. And that’s not in a scammy, unethical, or dodgy way. Because you’re definitely selling them something worthwhile, and they feel happy with that purchase.&nbsp;</p><h2>Why holidays are a tricky time for email marketing?&nbsp;</h2><p>Obviously, holidays are busy times when it comes to people's inboxes. As a consumer, you must have noticed the increase in email volume. Because <em>everyone</em> is doing a promotion! Think of all the emails we get about Black Friday deals in November, for example.&nbsp;</p><p>There's definitely a lot of noise, and if you're doing your own promotion and sending emails about it, you're competing for people's attention. Your job at this point is to try and stand out. And you want to do that by making sure that in the run-up to your holiday promotion, your deliverability is good.</p><p>For example, if you only email your list once a year on Black Friday, chances are that a lot of your emails won't be delivered on that day. Email platforms like Gmail, on those days specifically, know that there’s going to be a higher volume of emails. And because of the increased security, a lot of them won't even make it to someone's inbox. So you need to make sure your sender's reputation is great by working on it all year round.</p><h2>Create a dedicated offer for that specific holiday</h2><p>So how do you stand out with your holiday email marketing campaigns? The first thing you can do is to <strong>put together a dedicated offer <em>specifically</em> for that holiday.</strong> That means you should avoid rolling the same thing out every year. Don't use every holiday opportunity to sell things<em> from the same angle</em>. If you use the same discount or offer, you're acting like the furniture store where the sale never ends! (You know the one).</p><p>In this time and age, you definitely want to be more thoughtful about the offers you create. So think about a way to tie your promotion to the specific holiday, rather than offering the same promotion again and again.</p><p>If you are the type of business that can do that, try and relate your offer to the occasion. A restaurant, for example, could have mums eating for free on Mother’s Day. We understand that’s not always possible or applicable to your business, but definitely keep it different and fresh every time. If you sell courses, for example, you could bundle a couple of them together, and then change that combination up for your next holiday promotion.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><h2>Prep people for the offer in advance</h2><p>Another tip we can give you is to prime people in advance of your promotion. Don’t just spring the offer on your list at the last minute! Instead, let them know a bit earlier. Tease them and build them up to the offer. You could do that by showcasing what's going on behind the scenes, for example. Build up their excitement so they're queued, primed, and ready for the day.</p><p>For example, a couple of days before the offer goes live you could run a piece of Facebook ad. Talk about something interesting that has to do with your niche (not your offer, necessarily), and try to build an audience around that. You just want people to get interested in what you do, so you can send them to a waiting list and ask them to opt in to hear more about your sale.</p><p>When you're ready, you start emailing the people on the waiting list and your usual subscribers, too. You could build excitement by showing the behind-the-scenes of what your offer is. That can be as simple as recording a video showing them what's in the sale but <em>without </em>telling them the price. You share when it’s going live, what they’re going to get, and how much it’s worth. But you don't tell them how much they can get it for.</p><p>This way, you build up the hype so that people are ready and waiting for you. You effectively give them the heads up. You’re telling them that there <em>is</em> going to be a sale for that particular holiday, and they can soon take advantage of it.&nbsp;</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>Launch your holiday offer</h2><p>The next step is to launch the offer. To build up the anticipation for it, you send a few emails saying that the sale is coming. You can do a preview or some teasing to add anticipation and curiosity. You could even have people guessing what’s going to be included in your offer and ask them to hit reply to get some engagement out of it.</p><p>You then send a bunch of emails about it (and probably more than you normally would), and that campaign will culminate with the announcement that the offer is finally here. You might feel uncomfortable with the amount of emails it takes to build anticipation and excitement for this promotion. But we guarantee you won’t be uncomfortable with the amount of sales it generates and how much you put in the bank because of it! That’s a good trade-off, don’t you think?</p><p>To give you an idea, you might send a couple of emails every day in the lead-up to the launch and then even 3 emails on the day when the promotion closes. The last email on the last day is the final warning to say that the cart is about to close, and you’d hate for people to miss out and have to pay full price. So <strong>be comfortable with sending lots of emails to drive people towards your offer!</strong></p><h2>Surround the market</h2><p>We use a strategy that we call <em>surrounding the market</em>. All it means is that you want to tell people <em>everywhere</em> about your promotion. So as you’re building your waiting list of people, keep running ads to those who watched your videos and showed interest in your product, for example.</p><p>You want to create what we call an <em>environment of zero competition</em> through your email list and on your social media. In other words, wherever people look, they'll see your offer because that's all you're talking about at the moment. And the great news is that you don't need a huge budget for that - just a bit of forethought.</p><h2>Running a successful holiday email marketing campaign</h2><p>By now, we hope we convinced you that you don't want to wake up on the morning of a holiday and decide to run a promotion just because everyone else is. That’s probably not going to be hugely effective for you. You missed the boat! If that's the case, just consider it a lesson learnt and get ready to launch a campaign for the next holiday. Start preparing, planning, and writing the material, and go out all guns blazing on the next campaign.</p><p>Not sure where to start? Pretty much all of the email marketing campaigns inside our membership<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a> will work for this. We have a dedicated Black Friday campaign, but this can be applied to any other holiday or period. And once you tie your offer with the work you're doing on other platforms (social media, ads, etc.) you've got the recipe for a successful holiday email campaign.&nbsp;</p><h2>Get people to click on the links in your emails!&nbsp;</h2><p>Obviously, to get people to <em>see</em> your offer, you first need to make sure they open your emails and click on the links inside to go check out the sales page. And in order to do that, you'll want to maximise your chances by training your subscribers to click on the links inside your emails. Because if they don’t, they'll never get to the stage where they can enter their credit card information and buy from you! So don’t let your audience become blind to the links in your emails and scroll past them simply because they always look the same.</p><p>That’s why we created <strong>a FREE resource with 12 different ways of dressing up the links in your emails.</strong> It helps you capture people's attention and makes them want to click and go check out your offers. If you want to get your mitts onto this lovely free piece of content, go grab<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Click Tricks</a>.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>This week’s subject line is “We’ve kept this secret (from you).” And it’s an interesting idea because it sounds like we’re building up to a surprise. But then because we added the bit “from you” in brackets, it makes the subject line sound almost sinister. It’s like we didn’t tell <em>you</em>, specifically, about this thing. Does it mean everyone else knows? No one wants to be the butt of a joke, right? So people will open the email driven by curiosity to find out what that’s all about. Check it out!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/best-email-marketing-campaigns/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Run A Smashing Flash Sale With One of The Best Email Marketing Campaigns In The World</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/email-reactivation-get-back-email-wagon/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Get Back On The Email Wagon When You Fall Off (Back To School Edition)</a></p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/the-2-best-times-of-day-to-send-promotional-emails-making-bank-with-paul-counts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The 2 Best Times Of Day To Send Promotional Emails – Making Bank With Paul Counts</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3>Join our FREE Facebook group</h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The League Membership</h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to run a super successful holiday email campaign over and over) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/holiday-email-campaign/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">167bfd7a-85d9-4ed0-9d76-9baf57ba8564</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/284874c9-4b99-499f-9c7d-9602ed3d2d81/gkxSSDpfb-2vYG-cSDmLZKp7.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/13950ba0-320a-428a-b592-3bdd338121a6/Final.mp3" length="57074176" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>23:47</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>213</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>213</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/1b03734b-20b2-4c18-a5cf-ba37ba052901/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How Jeri Launched A Brand New Business And Made $27k</title><itunes:title>How Jeri Launched A Brand New Business And Made $27k</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Want to hear the story of how our client Jeri Anderson from<a href="https://westtexasweightloss.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> West Texas Weight Loss</a> launched a brand new business and used email marketing to make $27,000 in month ONE while being on vacation for a third of that time?&nbsp;</p><p>We bet you do.&nbsp;</p><p>Let's get into it, then.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:13) Want a FREE resource to get more clicks on your emails? Check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Click Tricks</a>.</p><p>(3:46) Who is Jeri Anderson and what does she do?</p><p>(7:24) When did Jeri start to use email marketing in her business?</p><p>(12:59) What were some of the barriers Jeri faced when she started email marketing?</p><p>(19:41) Starting with ZERO contacts on their email list!</p><p>(20:51) What was the first thing that Jeri did when she started email marketing?</p><p>(24:16) Driving people to discovery calls.&nbsp;</p><p>(29:18) How Jeri finds out the level of motivation from their prospective clients.</p><p>(31:59) Is Jeri running loads of sales campaigns?</p><p>(35:31) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>Who is Jeri Anderson and what does she do?</h2><p>Jeri is a long-time customer and friend of ours. Based in Texas, together with her business partner Darci, she offers a virtual 4-month weight loss programme that uses nutraceuticals and an eating plan. It's a fantastic product that enables people to lose 10-15% of their body weight in the first 60 days and gives them all the tools to keep the weight off and maintain what they've achieved.&nbsp;</p><p>Jeri and Darci's clients use an online portal where they receive daily emails. The content is used to educate people and move them through the programme but also teach them about health and nutrition, so they have all the information they need once the programme is over. Jeri and Darci also run one-on-one coaching calls once a week for the first two months of the programme and then every two weeks after that, so it's a fairly high-touch and effective programme.&nbsp;</p><h2>When did Jeri start using email marketing in her business?</h2><p>Jeri had followed us for a number of years before she started using email marketing. Before launching their weight loss business, Jeri and Darci had been running a very successful and established chiropractor clinic where they treated patients for chronic pain. They noticed their clients' pain was often perpetuated by an overloaded frame, so they started looking for ways to help their clients with weight loss too.&nbsp;</p><p>After offering the service through their clinic for 5 years, they started being approached by more and more people who wanted help with weight loss but didn't need chiropractic services. That's when <strong>they made the decision to launch a brand new business and start offering weight loss separately from the chiropractic practice.</strong> They dropped their licenses to be able to operate as coaches and made a clean separation between the two businesses. And that's when email marketing came into play.&nbsp;</p><p>That was also the time when Jeri was diagnosed with cancer, and as a result of her treatment, she decided to step back from client-facing work and focus on the backend, operational tasks within the practice. <strong>Introducing email marketing at that point felt like a natural transition</strong>, especially as the weight loss business (being virtual and not in person) needed a new method for driving traffic to it. The chiropractor practice had been established for 30 years, so there wasn't a huge need for marketing. But<strong> the weight loss business was brand new and started from zero - Jeri and Darci had no contacts on their email list whatsoever.</strong></p><h2>What were some of the barriers Jeri faced when she started email marketing?</h2><p>Jeri admits there were hundreds of barriers initially. The first obstacle was to find a CRM. In their chiropractic practice, Jeri and Darci had been using specialised management software, so Jeri struggled to pick a suitable CRM before she eventually settled on Keap. She then had to learn how to write emails correctly and get different pieces of technology working together, like Keap and<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite</a>, for example.</p><p>Jeri also had to learn how to build campaigns and automations, and all this had to happen really quickly. To put things into context, Jeri did all this while going through her cancer treatment, which was intense and challenging. She has to make regular long trips for her treatment, and that means she can't work for a few days a month. She told us she's probably working at about 50% capacity compared to how much she used to be able to do before her diagnosis.</p><p>And yet, Jeri works around it. In fact, her story is so poignant because it really shows that<strong> if she could learn email marketing while launching a brand new business while having cancer treatment, anyone can. </strong>While we think it’s a real testament to her character, Jeri shares that all it takes is the ability to look at email marketing methodically. Do one thing at a time and understand you have nothing to lose. Her advice is to set aside most of the things that clog your brain and push on with what you need to do. When you’re feeling overwhelmed with your to-do list, just start with <em>one thing</em>, and that will naturally lead to another. Over time, everything will get done - that's how it happened for Jeri. And eventually, with that approach, she was ready to launch.</p><h2>Starting with ZERO contacts on their email list!</h2><p>It's also worth mentioning that another barrier that Jeri faced is that they started <em>from zero</em> with their email list. Because Jeri and Darci wanted to create a clear delineation between the two businesses to preserve the integrity of the chiropractor practice, they went stone cold with the new business. They started driving traffic to the weight loss business through TV and radio ads and Facebook marketing. But they initially had <em>zero contacts</em> on their email list.&nbsp;</p><h2>What was the first thing that Jeri did when she started email marketing?</h2><p>The first thing Jeri did when she launched her brand new business and started using email marketing was to build campaigns in order to be able to scale their business.&nbsp;</p><p>After doing some research in the market, Jeri and Darci started running TV ads in their local area. They invested an initial $6,750 in their TV and radio ads campaign. And they did that despite knowing that competitors in their industry were spending in the region of $12-30k per month to drive traffic to their websites!</p><p>But Jeri had been following us for<em> years</em>. So she launched this business believing both in the quality of their product as well as in the effectiveness of email marketing. She <em>knew</em> this was going to work! And she was right. Because <strong>in their first month, Jeri and Darci made $27,000 from their initial spend. And Jeri was on vacation for 10 days out of that month!&nbsp;</strong></p><p>It definitely worked and paid off, but part of the reason why Jeri didn't want to throw loads more money into ads to start with was that they wanted to make sure that everything worked and was set up correctly.</p><h2>Driving people to discovery calls</h2><p>Jeri knew it was simply a matter of nailing the quality of their message and how they were delivering it. So she started bringing brand new contacts into their email engine with the intention of getting more information from them. For example, Jeri and Darci were interested in finding out how old people were, how much weight they wanted to lose, what their activity levels were, etc.</p><p>To obtain that information, Jeri started directing people to discovery calls. Their show rate for the calls was at a sky-high 93% compared to around 70-75% for their competitors. So this told Jeri that people were resonating with the language and the message within the emails. And as a result, they felt excited to join the programme.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>How Jeri finds out the level of motivation of their prospective clients</h2><p>Jeri also did something quite interesting with the landing page of their website. People find out about the weight loss programme via TV ads and social media and head over to the website. On the signup page, they find the following three options:</p><ul><li>“Do you want more information?”</li><li>“I want to book a discovery call.”</li><li>“I want to start now.”</li></ul><br/><p>If someone wants more information, all they have to do is to provide their name and email address. But the other two options are really just the same thing – they both take people through the process of booking a discovery call. The only difference between the two is the person's motivation level.</p><p>People who just want more information are still wary. Those who want to book a discovery call are interested in taking a look at the programme. But you also have people who are ready to start. And by the time they jump on a discovery call, Jeri and Darci will know how motivated they are.</p><h2>Is Jeri running loads of sales campaigns?&nbsp;</h2><p>Another thing that’s absolutely mind-blowing is that Jeri only has <em>one</em> sales campaign running at the moment. She has two more in the queue that she’s finishing up. But there's no doubt she's been able to build momentum so far. At the time of our chat, Jeri was only 5 days into their second month in business. She told us that the number of discovery calls booked was already double how many they had in the first month.</p><p>According to Jeri, this is down to the fact that the longer people stay in the]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Want to hear the story of how our client Jeri Anderson from<a href="https://westtexasweightloss.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> West Texas Weight Loss</a> launched a brand new business and used email marketing to make $27,000 in month ONE while being on vacation for a third of that time?&nbsp;</p><p>We bet you do.&nbsp;</p><p>Let's get into it, then.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:13) Want a FREE resource to get more clicks on your emails? Check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Click Tricks</a>.</p><p>(3:46) Who is Jeri Anderson and what does she do?</p><p>(7:24) When did Jeri start to use email marketing in her business?</p><p>(12:59) What were some of the barriers Jeri faced when she started email marketing?</p><p>(19:41) Starting with ZERO contacts on their email list!</p><p>(20:51) What was the first thing that Jeri did when she started email marketing?</p><p>(24:16) Driving people to discovery calls.&nbsp;</p><p>(29:18) How Jeri finds out the level of motivation from their prospective clients.</p><p>(31:59) Is Jeri running loads of sales campaigns?</p><p>(35:31) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>Who is Jeri Anderson and what does she do?</h2><p>Jeri is a long-time customer and friend of ours. Based in Texas, together with her business partner Darci, she offers a virtual 4-month weight loss programme that uses nutraceuticals and an eating plan. It's a fantastic product that enables people to lose 10-15% of their body weight in the first 60 days and gives them all the tools to keep the weight off and maintain what they've achieved.&nbsp;</p><p>Jeri and Darci's clients use an online portal where they receive daily emails. The content is used to educate people and move them through the programme but also teach them about health and nutrition, so they have all the information they need once the programme is over. Jeri and Darci also run one-on-one coaching calls once a week for the first two months of the programme and then every two weeks after that, so it's a fairly high-touch and effective programme.&nbsp;</p><h2>When did Jeri start using email marketing in her business?</h2><p>Jeri had followed us for a number of years before she started using email marketing. Before launching their weight loss business, Jeri and Darci had been running a very successful and established chiropractor clinic where they treated patients for chronic pain. They noticed their clients' pain was often perpetuated by an overloaded frame, so they started looking for ways to help their clients with weight loss too.&nbsp;</p><p>After offering the service through their clinic for 5 years, they started being approached by more and more people who wanted help with weight loss but didn't need chiropractic services. That's when <strong>they made the decision to launch a brand new business and start offering weight loss separately from the chiropractic practice.</strong> They dropped their licenses to be able to operate as coaches and made a clean separation between the two businesses. And that's when email marketing came into play.&nbsp;</p><p>That was also the time when Jeri was diagnosed with cancer, and as a result of her treatment, she decided to step back from client-facing work and focus on the backend, operational tasks within the practice. <strong>Introducing email marketing at that point felt like a natural transition</strong>, especially as the weight loss business (being virtual and not in person) needed a new method for driving traffic to it. The chiropractor practice had been established for 30 years, so there wasn't a huge need for marketing. But<strong> the weight loss business was brand new and started from zero - Jeri and Darci had no contacts on their email list whatsoever.</strong></p><h2>What were some of the barriers Jeri faced when she started email marketing?</h2><p>Jeri admits there were hundreds of barriers initially. The first obstacle was to find a CRM. In their chiropractic practice, Jeri and Darci had been using specialised management software, so Jeri struggled to pick a suitable CRM before she eventually settled on Keap. She then had to learn how to write emails correctly and get different pieces of technology working together, like Keap and<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite</a>, for example.</p><p>Jeri also had to learn how to build campaigns and automations, and all this had to happen really quickly. To put things into context, Jeri did all this while going through her cancer treatment, which was intense and challenging. She has to make regular long trips for her treatment, and that means she can't work for a few days a month. She told us she's probably working at about 50% capacity compared to how much she used to be able to do before her diagnosis.</p><p>And yet, Jeri works around it. In fact, her story is so poignant because it really shows that<strong> if she could learn email marketing while launching a brand new business while having cancer treatment, anyone can. </strong>While we think it’s a real testament to her character, Jeri shares that all it takes is the ability to look at email marketing methodically. Do one thing at a time and understand you have nothing to lose. Her advice is to set aside most of the things that clog your brain and push on with what you need to do. When you’re feeling overwhelmed with your to-do list, just start with <em>one thing</em>, and that will naturally lead to another. Over time, everything will get done - that's how it happened for Jeri. And eventually, with that approach, she was ready to launch.</p><h2>Starting with ZERO contacts on their email list!</h2><p>It's also worth mentioning that another barrier that Jeri faced is that they started <em>from zero</em> with their email list. Because Jeri and Darci wanted to create a clear delineation between the two businesses to preserve the integrity of the chiropractor practice, they went stone cold with the new business. They started driving traffic to the weight loss business through TV and radio ads and Facebook marketing. But they initially had <em>zero contacts</em> on their email list.&nbsp;</p><h2>What was the first thing that Jeri did when she started email marketing?</h2><p>The first thing Jeri did when she launched her brand new business and started using email marketing was to build campaigns in order to be able to scale their business.&nbsp;</p><p>After doing some research in the market, Jeri and Darci started running TV ads in their local area. They invested an initial $6,750 in their TV and radio ads campaign. And they did that despite knowing that competitors in their industry were spending in the region of $12-30k per month to drive traffic to their websites!</p><p>But Jeri had been following us for<em> years</em>. So she launched this business believing both in the quality of their product as well as in the effectiveness of email marketing. She <em>knew</em> this was going to work! And she was right. Because <strong>in their first month, Jeri and Darci made $27,000 from their initial spend. And Jeri was on vacation for 10 days out of that month!&nbsp;</strong></p><p>It definitely worked and paid off, but part of the reason why Jeri didn't want to throw loads more money into ads to start with was that they wanted to make sure that everything worked and was set up correctly.</p><h2>Driving people to discovery calls</h2><p>Jeri knew it was simply a matter of nailing the quality of their message and how they were delivering it. So she started bringing brand new contacts into their email engine with the intention of getting more information from them. For example, Jeri and Darci were interested in finding out how old people were, how much weight they wanted to lose, what their activity levels were, etc.</p><p>To obtain that information, Jeri started directing people to discovery calls. Their show rate for the calls was at a sky-high 93% compared to around 70-75% for their competitors. So this told Jeri that people were resonating with the language and the message within the emails. And as a result, they felt excited to join the programme.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>How Jeri finds out the level of motivation of their prospective clients</h2><p>Jeri also did something quite interesting with the landing page of their website. People find out about the weight loss programme via TV ads and social media and head over to the website. On the signup page, they find the following three options:</p><ul><li>“Do you want more information?”</li><li>“I want to book a discovery call.”</li><li>“I want to start now.”</li></ul><br/><p>If someone wants more information, all they have to do is to provide their name and email address. But the other two options are really just the same thing – they both take people through the process of booking a discovery call. The only difference between the two is the person's motivation level.</p><p>People who just want more information are still wary. Those who want to book a discovery call are interested in taking a look at the programme. But you also have people who are ready to start. And by the time they jump on a discovery call, Jeri and Darci will know how motivated they are.</p><h2>Is Jeri running loads of sales campaigns?&nbsp;</h2><p>Another thing that’s absolutely mind-blowing is that Jeri only has <em>one</em> sales campaign running at the moment. She has two more in the queue that she’s finishing up. But there's no doubt she's been able to build momentum so far. At the time of our chat, Jeri was only 5 days into their second month in business. She told us that the number of discovery calls booked was already double how many they had in the first month.</p><p>According to Jeri, this is down to the fact that the longer people stay in the engine, the better qualified they are when they jump on the discovery call. A lot of people tend to book the discovery call on the last email of the Overture campaign, which is one of the campaigns we teach inside our membership<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>. Jeri feels that the quality of the conversation they have with subscribers on their list is tenfold what they get with prospective clients who come straight from ads. Not bad, right?&nbsp;</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>This week’s subject line is “I’m now allowed to tell you this… ;-)”. The winky face at the end suggests that Rob wasn’t being too serious about the fact he’s not allowed to tell. With this subject line, he created a lot of compound curiosity. <em>What</em> is he not allowed to tell? <em>Why</em> is he not allowed to tell? And why is he being cheeky about it with the winky face at the end? So check it out!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/sales-email-campaign/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How Our Client Hillary-Marie Made $16k With ONE Email Marketing Campaign (And Then Did It Again!)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/roi-in-advertising/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How Brad 10x’d His Ad Spend In One Month – A Case Study</a>.</p><p>And <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/small-email-list/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How Kronda Adair Made $86,500 From A Small Email List</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3>Join our FREE Facebook group</h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The League Membership</h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how Jeri used email marketing to launch a brand new business) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/launch-new-business/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">e6c63549-a8c4-4acd-a8ad-2a1525a7ffd8</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/47c2d7ef-7875-4ffb-8779-b86c140b5be3/Ukw-Qll17IEa0fVjhtpLf2IW.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/f0b24442-37f5-42d3-a631-dff6e63f1111/212-Final.mp3" length="88260736" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>36:46</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>212</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>212</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/d706291d-42c1-4ed5-9487-839dfd0e5b36/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Understanding Customer Profiling - Get To Know Your Audience</title><itunes:title>Understanding Customer Profiling - Get To Know Your Audience</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What is customer profiling and do you<em> really</em> need it? Yes, you do. But only if you do it<em> the right way</em>. Because when you get it spot on, it's not as boring as it sounds. Plus, it's no longer an empty tick-boxing exercise you have to do every year. And yes, it will bring more money into your business.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to get all the juicy stuff about this?&nbsp;</p><p>Let's go.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:14) Want a FREE resource to get more clicks on your emails? Check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Click Tricks</a>.</p><p>(4:06) Customer profiling demystified - what exactly is it?</p><p>(5:19) Is there such a thing as too much segmentation?</p><p>(9:15) How can small businesses effectively profile their customers?</p><p>(11:15) Why do you want to collect customer data?</p><p>(13:12) Start running (good) surveys.</p><p>(17:18) The Phone Pshychic approach.&nbsp;</p><p>(21:35) How to run calls with your subscribers.</p><p>(26:45) Check out<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite</a>.</p><p>(28:22) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>Customer profiling demystified - what exactly is it?</h2><p>What do we, as small business owners and email marketers, need to know about subscriber and customer profiling? Let's start with this. <strong>Customer profiling is all about taking the people on your list and working out who they are, what they want, where they are, and most importantly, whether they bought from you yet or not.</strong></p><p>So immediately, on your list, you can identify two types of people – those who’ve bought from you (i.e. your customers), and those who haven’t. And out of your customers, you have people who are <em>super fans</em> (and have bought everything you ever had for sale), those who only bought one thing a long time ago and then never again, and everyone else in between.&nbsp;</p><p>Why is it helpful to have this information about the people on your list? Because it allows you to figure out what to do with them.&nbsp;</p><h2>Is there such a thing as too much segmentation?&nbsp;</h2><p>A mistake we definitely made when we got started was to apply tags within our email marketing platform that would give us <em>loads</em> of information about people, including what their interests were based on what links they clicked on in our emails. But did we really need all that information? Probably not. There are very few businesses that need to know that level of detail about someone. Most of us don’t need a huge granular level of tagging based on people’s interests.</p><p>If you have products that align specifically with each of those interests, then great. But if you don’t, then <em>too much</em> tagging is definitely a thing. Ultimately, <strong>you want to boil the business down to what you sell and then understand what would be useful information to have so that you can sell to those people.</strong> In other words, all you have to do is find out <em>enough</em> about people in order to be able to sell your product. That way, you can identify those you should sell to versus the ones you should keep away from.</p><p>So as a tiny business, you don’t need hundreds of segments. You wouldn’t send different emails every day to each of your segments anyway - most people struggle with just sending one! It’s great to have segmented data in your list, but if you have too many segments, you can't easily do anything with any of them. And that's a bit of a problem, don't you think?</p><h2>How can small businesses effectively profile their customers?&nbsp;</h2><p>Let’s look at some of the ways you can divide people up. First of all, segmenting people based on whether they've paid you money (i.e. they're customers) or they haven't yet is too generic - it doesn't provide enough information for you to make good business decisions. What you also need to capture about all your subscribers are the following three fields:</p><ul><li><strong>Recency.</strong> This includes the date when this person last bought something from you. If they haven't bought anything yet, that field will be empty.&nbsp;</li><li><strong>Frequency.</strong> This is a numerical value of how many things the person bought from you.&nbsp;</li><li>And <strong>Monetary</strong> (value). This tells you how much money this person has spent with you so far.&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><p>How you apply this in your specific business is going to be different, but against each contact in our list, we hold these three custom fields. It's worth pointing out that <strong>this information is only useful if we’re going to do something with it.</strong></p><h2>Why do you want to collect customer data?</h2><p>One of the reasons why we started collecting this data is that we want to be able to identify the people who have bought something <em>recently</em>. And we want to do that so we can make them another offer while they’re in <em>buying mode</em> with us. They're focused on what we sell, and they're investing and learning. So this is a great time to offer them something else.</p><p>Obviously, because you also hold Frequency information, if you know that person's already bought everything you have to offer, there’s no point in reaching out and asking them to buy something. And if you have a lot of people on your list who fall into that category, you might have an opportunity to create a new offer. The opposite is also true – if you’re thinking of creating a new product but you know that most people haven’t bought your existing offers, then you might want to generate some interest in what you already have instead.</p><p>Also, by looking at the Monetary custom field, you can find the people on your list who’ve spent the most money with you. Those are your <em>high investors</em> – the people who really like your stuff. So maybe you can offer them something more premium.</p><p>There’s <em>a lot</em> you can do with customer data, including pulling out averages. On average, when did most people last buy, for example? Or how many products have they bought? How much are they spending with you? Over time, when you collect and analyse this information, you'll be able to see how you’re doing and break up your subscribers into key customer segments.&nbsp;</p><h2>Start running (good) surveys</h2><p>Collecting statistically useful customer data automatically and in the background is the first step towards customer profiling. That's based on the spending behaviours of your subscribers. But there's more you can do. And that's <strong>reaching out to your subscribers and customers to get their input.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>How do you go about that? One of the methods we use (and that we’re big fans of) is running surveys. <em>Good</em> surveys though – not ones that are terrible, too long, and no one will want to complete! We like to create really simple surveys to collect data about what people are struggling with, what their biggest priority is right now, and what they’ve tried in the past. We ask a bunch of simple questions to allow people to give us data that’s going to enable us to make business decisions.</p><p>But we can't stress this enough - <em>before</em> you send out your survey, <strong>ask yourself what you're trying to do with the information you’re about to gather. </strong>Don't send out surveys for the sake of it! You want to ask questions that serve you and your business – what <em>specific decisions</em> are you trying to make? Based on that, you’ll then decide what questions to ask. For example, if you’re trying to find out how your audience refers to the problems they’re experiencing, ask them questions that allow them to give you that. <strong>Only collect information that you know you’re going to use.</strong></p><p>Another key thing is to make sure you <strong>only send your surveys out to a small percentage of your list</strong> – something like 10%. And then watch the results come in. When you see the answers, you’ll know whether you’ve worded your questions correctly in order to get the types of responses you want. If people aren't taking the questions in the way you intended or you aren't getting answers that are useful, then you can refine and adjust accordingly (if you need to).</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>The Phone Psychic approach</h2><p>This is about jumping on a call with people. It doesn't have to be the phone - it could be on Zoom, Skype, or some other digital platform that allows you to speak to your audience directly. We regularly have calls win our non-customers – i.e. the people who haven’t bought from us yet. <strong>This allows us to collect qualitative data about our subscribers and their current position, mindset, and state.</strong></p><p>When running surveys, we generally collect stats and data to segment and target people accordingly through multiple-choice questions and answers. But during these calls, we ask them questions that lead to longer-form answers. We prod, poke, and push in the right direction. If you’re inside our membership<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>, you’ll have seen our battle plan called Phone Psychic. This has our entire approach and breaks down all the questions to ask so you can identify the people to call and decide what to do with the data. It also details how to get on a call with people in the first place because you want a good angle for that.&nbsp;</p><p>One of the key things you want to do during these calls is to pick up on the language that your audience uses. For example, we noticed that our subscribers and customers rarely use the words <em>revenue</em> and <em>profit</em>. They talk more in terms of <em>making more sales</em>. And so that's the phrase we tend to use too - it's more...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What is customer profiling and do you<em> really</em> need it? Yes, you do. But only if you do it<em> the right way</em>. Because when you get it spot on, it's not as boring as it sounds. Plus, it's no longer an empty tick-boxing exercise you have to do every year. And yes, it will bring more money into your business.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to get all the juicy stuff about this?&nbsp;</p><p>Let's go.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:14) Want a FREE resource to get more clicks on your emails? Check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Click Tricks</a>.</p><p>(4:06) Customer profiling demystified - what exactly is it?</p><p>(5:19) Is there such a thing as too much segmentation?</p><p>(9:15) How can small businesses effectively profile their customers?</p><p>(11:15) Why do you want to collect customer data?</p><p>(13:12) Start running (good) surveys.</p><p>(17:18) The Phone Pshychic approach.&nbsp;</p><p>(21:35) How to run calls with your subscribers.</p><p>(26:45) Check out<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite</a>.</p><p>(28:22) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>Customer profiling demystified - what exactly is it?</h2><p>What do we, as small business owners and email marketers, need to know about subscriber and customer profiling? Let's start with this. <strong>Customer profiling is all about taking the people on your list and working out who they are, what they want, where they are, and most importantly, whether they bought from you yet or not.</strong></p><p>So immediately, on your list, you can identify two types of people – those who’ve bought from you (i.e. your customers), and those who haven’t. And out of your customers, you have people who are <em>super fans</em> (and have bought everything you ever had for sale), those who only bought one thing a long time ago and then never again, and everyone else in between.&nbsp;</p><p>Why is it helpful to have this information about the people on your list? Because it allows you to figure out what to do with them.&nbsp;</p><h2>Is there such a thing as too much segmentation?&nbsp;</h2><p>A mistake we definitely made when we got started was to apply tags within our email marketing platform that would give us <em>loads</em> of information about people, including what their interests were based on what links they clicked on in our emails. But did we really need all that information? Probably not. There are very few businesses that need to know that level of detail about someone. Most of us don’t need a huge granular level of tagging based on people’s interests.</p><p>If you have products that align specifically with each of those interests, then great. But if you don’t, then <em>too much</em> tagging is definitely a thing. Ultimately, <strong>you want to boil the business down to what you sell and then understand what would be useful information to have so that you can sell to those people.</strong> In other words, all you have to do is find out <em>enough</em> about people in order to be able to sell your product. That way, you can identify those you should sell to versus the ones you should keep away from.</p><p>So as a tiny business, you don’t need hundreds of segments. You wouldn’t send different emails every day to each of your segments anyway - most people struggle with just sending one! It’s great to have segmented data in your list, but if you have too many segments, you can't easily do anything with any of them. And that's a bit of a problem, don't you think?</p><h2>How can small businesses effectively profile their customers?&nbsp;</h2><p>Let’s look at some of the ways you can divide people up. First of all, segmenting people based on whether they've paid you money (i.e. they're customers) or they haven't yet is too generic - it doesn't provide enough information for you to make good business decisions. What you also need to capture about all your subscribers are the following three fields:</p><ul><li><strong>Recency.</strong> This includes the date when this person last bought something from you. If they haven't bought anything yet, that field will be empty.&nbsp;</li><li><strong>Frequency.</strong> This is a numerical value of how many things the person bought from you.&nbsp;</li><li>And <strong>Monetary</strong> (value). This tells you how much money this person has spent with you so far.&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><p>How you apply this in your specific business is going to be different, but against each contact in our list, we hold these three custom fields. It's worth pointing out that <strong>this information is only useful if we’re going to do something with it.</strong></p><h2>Why do you want to collect customer data?</h2><p>One of the reasons why we started collecting this data is that we want to be able to identify the people who have bought something <em>recently</em>. And we want to do that so we can make them another offer while they’re in <em>buying mode</em> with us. They're focused on what we sell, and they're investing and learning. So this is a great time to offer them something else.</p><p>Obviously, because you also hold Frequency information, if you know that person's already bought everything you have to offer, there’s no point in reaching out and asking them to buy something. And if you have a lot of people on your list who fall into that category, you might have an opportunity to create a new offer. The opposite is also true – if you’re thinking of creating a new product but you know that most people haven’t bought your existing offers, then you might want to generate some interest in what you already have instead.</p><p>Also, by looking at the Monetary custom field, you can find the people on your list who’ve spent the most money with you. Those are your <em>high investors</em> – the people who really like your stuff. So maybe you can offer them something more premium.</p><p>There’s <em>a lot</em> you can do with customer data, including pulling out averages. On average, when did most people last buy, for example? Or how many products have they bought? How much are they spending with you? Over time, when you collect and analyse this information, you'll be able to see how you’re doing and break up your subscribers into key customer segments.&nbsp;</p><h2>Start running (good) surveys</h2><p>Collecting statistically useful customer data automatically and in the background is the first step towards customer profiling. That's based on the spending behaviours of your subscribers. But there's more you can do. And that's <strong>reaching out to your subscribers and customers to get their input.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>How do you go about that? One of the methods we use (and that we’re big fans of) is running surveys. <em>Good</em> surveys though – not ones that are terrible, too long, and no one will want to complete! We like to create really simple surveys to collect data about what people are struggling with, what their biggest priority is right now, and what they’ve tried in the past. We ask a bunch of simple questions to allow people to give us data that’s going to enable us to make business decisions.</p><p>But we can't stress this enough - <em>before</em> you send out your survey, <strong>ask yourself what you're trying to do with the information you’re about to gather. </strong>Don't send out surveys for the sake of it! You want to ask questions that serve you and your business – what <em>specific decisions</em> are you trying to make? Based on that, you’ll then decide what questions to ask. For example, if you’re trying to find out how your audience refers to the problems they’re experiencing, ask them questions that allow them to give you that. <strong>Only collect information that you know you’re going to use.</strong></p><p>Another key thing is to make sure you <strong>only send your surveys out to a small percentage of your list</strong> – something like 10%. And then watch the results come in. When you see the answers, you’ll know whether you’ve worded your questions correctly in order to get the types of responses you want. If people aren't taking the questions in the way you intended or you aren't getting answers that are useful, then you can refine and adjust accordingly (if you need to).</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>The Phone Psychic approach</h2><p>This is about jumping on a call with people. It doesn't have to be the phone - it could be on Zoom, Skype, or some other digital platform that allows you to speak to your audience directly. We regularly have calls win our non-customers – i.e. the people who haven’t bought from us yet. <strong>This allows us to collect qualitative data about our subscribers and their current position, mindset, and state.</strong></p><p>When running surveys, we generally collect stats and data to segment and target people accordingly through multiple-choice questions and answers. But during these calls, we ask them questions that lead to longer-form answers. We prod, poke, and push in the right direction. If you’re inside our membership<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>, you’ll have seen our battle plan called Phone Psychic. This has our entire approach and breaks down all the questions to ask so you can identify the people to call and decide what to do with the data. It also details how to get on a call with people in the first place because you want a good angle for that.&nbsp;</p><p>One of the key things you want to do during these calls is to pick up on the language that your audience uses. For example, we noticed that our subscribers and customers rarely use the words <em>revenue</em> and <em>profit</em>. They talk more in terms of <em>making more sales</em>. And so that's the phrase we tend to use too - it's more colloquial and more relatable to our customers.&nbsp;</p><h3>Why speak to non-customers too</h3><p>You'll also want to make a point of having calls with <em>non-customers</em>. People who have already bought from you clearly believe in what you do, so their opinions are somewhat skewed. With non-customers, you get a different type of value because these subscribers haven't yet understood what you can do for them.</p><p>So get on these calls not with the intention to sell but to understand what the person is up to. And often, you'll find that when you ask someone why they haven't joined your programme yet, the next day they'll go and do just that. Because they've been possibly thinking about it. So while these aren’t sales calls (and the aim is to collect useful profiling data), they might generate more sales than you’d anticipated.</p><h2>How to run calls with your subscribers&nbsp;</h2><p>If you're interested in jumping on a call with some of your subscribers, the first thing you want to do is to record the call. Tell the person in advance that you're doing this for research purposes, and ask them if it's okay for you to use the content in your marketing. If they say yes, hit record and re-confirm they’re happy for you to go ahead.&nbsp;</p><p>After the call, grab the transcript and then head over to ChatGPT and ask it to summarise the main points and themes of the call. Then go through it and pull out phrases verbatim – <em>exactly</em> as the person says them. You could even ask ChatGPT to summarise the main reason why the person didn’t buy, what pain points they're experiencing, and what objections they have that stop them from buying from you. This is brilliant because you can then use all these words in a new email campaign. Or you can update your sales page based on what people tell you.</p><p>What’s key here is to grab their <em>exact</em> turns of phrase. You want to use the words that come from your prospective customers’ mouths in your copy. That way, when they read your content, they think you absolutely get them. <strong>This is the biggest shortcut to writing high-converting sales copy.</strong> It removes the guesswork for you. And it also addresses those underlying subconscious assumptions that we, as business owners, often make about our audience.</p><p>Once you have the information, if you feel stuck on how to overcome any objections, you can ask ChatGPT. The AI tool can act as a professional sales copywriter and come up with some suggestions for you that would be both ethical and effective.&nbsp;</p><p>You can then start emailing your audience based on the segments you’ve identified using the phrases you picked up along the way. Remember that the key to good customer profiling is to be super clear on what you're going to do with the data you collect. That way, the information you gather will help you convert better and make more sales.&nbsp;</p><h2>Check out ResponseSuite</h2><p>If you're interested in running surveys, check out the platform we put together called<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite</a>. Even before we started teaching email marketing, we were passionate about surveys. We wanted to serve our audience better and to segment them inside our email platform based on what people were telling us. But at the time we didn't have the technology to do what we wanted. So we decided to hire a software developer, get an office, and start a business.&nbsp;</p><p>There's a real need for people to be able to carry out this kind of marketing. That's why we created the platform in the first place! You can build and drag and drop surveys really easily. And then you can hook them to your email marketing platform and segment people based on which answers they choose. So go ahead and grab a completely free account<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> here</a>.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>This week’s subject line is “How to be better looking.” We took this surface-level thing that everyone aspires to (be better looking) and used it as a subject line. It's intriguing and evokes curiosity because it seems impossible. Another similar idea would be “How to make a million dollars.” It’s a bit out there and seems impossible to achieve. And that's why the subject line works. So check it out!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/customer-avatar-vs-dynamic-customer-journeys/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">What We Really Think About Customer Avatars</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/segment-your-email-subscribers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">6 Techniques To Segment Your Email Subscribers</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/when-is-it-too-early-to-segment-your-email-subscribers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">When Is It Too Early to Segment Your Email Subscribers?</a></p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3>Join our FREE Facebook group</h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The League Membership</h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! 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We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/customer-profiling-email/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">f272ddef-e548-4c07-820e-ea038049080f</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/fc28e046-c09f-4295-8482-b213cb53f593/PMHyYYGXoPO8riREBzbmpQZV.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/afaf3b7e-d14b-4369-8076-0a89c7cb91ab/211-Final.mp3" length="71330176" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>29:43</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>211</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>211</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/019362d5-a7f9-492b-b75b-6d05d0cc82de/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Latest Gmail Update (Dec 2023) - The End Of Email Marketing?</title><itunes:title>Latest Gmail Update (Dec 2023) - The End Of Email Marketing?</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Is the latest Gmail update (December 2023) going to kill your email marketing for good? Everyone's reacting to this update like it's the big apocalypse of email marketing. But is that true? Let's talk about whether this update does or doesn't affect you, and how you can go about it.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to find out the honest truth about this?&nbsp;</p><p>Let's go!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:15) Want a FREE resource to get more clicks on your emails? Check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Click Tricks</a>.</p><p>(4:09) The latest Google update - what is it all about?</p><p>(7:50) Let's talk about your email deliverability.</p><p>(8:49) Hard bounces and your sender's reputation.</p><p>(11:01) What can we do about the latest Google update?</p><p>(12:35) Don't make any decisions based on your open rates.</p><p>(14:27) Google isn't trying to kill your email marketing!</p><p>(15:59) It's all about those clicks!</p><p>(17:53) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>The latest Google update - what is it all about?&nbsp;</h2><p>Gmail is making a technical change, which, on the surface, is going to be the death of email marketing.<em> Again!</em> There’s going to be a lot of email marketing chaos at the back of this Gmail policy that's to be enforced from the 1st of December 2023. Google rolled it out into their new terms in July 2023, when they announced that <strong>any Gmail account that hasn’t been logged into for two years will be deleted.</strong></p><p>So what does this mean? First thing first, the impact of this change might not be as big as you think because “logged in” could also mean that people are using their Google Calendar or Google Drive, for example. And as long as they are, even if they're not accessing their Gmail, their accounts will stay. <strong>Only truly dormant accounts will be deleted</strong>.</p><p>And that’s fair enough because these could be email addresses that people created for a particular project or business venture and then either never used them, or they stopped checking them at some point. Why are they being deleted? Because all these accounts take up a lot of space on Google servers, so a clean-up exercise is now in order. You can imagine that renting space out for free to people on the Internet is expensive, so Google is cutting some costs and trying to become more efficient. And that's not a bad thing!</p><h2>Let's talk about your email deliverability</h2><p>So let's talk about why this could be an issue for some people. If you've been in our world for a while, you'll know that one of the things we always talk about is that the technical side of email deliverability is not all that important. It's not weighted that heavily when it comes to most of us day-to-day – not for marketers who have email lists of the size we or our clients have.</p><p><strong>What truly matters when it comes to email deliverability is <em>engagement management</em></strong>, which has to do with making sure you’re not emailing people who aren’t real accounts or who haven’t opened or engaged with your emails in some time.</p><h2>Hard bounces and your sender's reputation</h2><p>When the Google update kicks in in December, if you're still sending emails to accounts that Google has now deleted, your emails will <em>hard bounce</em>. Your email platform is going to send emails out to these deleted addresses, and your emails are going to hit a stone wall and bounce back again. And that's bad for your sender's reputation, yes.</p><p>But it's only bad if you've been emailing these accounts all along regardless of the fact these people weren't engaging with your emails! If these people were on your list and hadn't used their Gmail in two years, surely they hadn't been clicking on the links in your email for a long time (if ever).</p><p>So when it comes to your sender's reputation, this was already a bad scenario for you. But from now on, with these addresses completely deleted, you're going to see a much stronger message coming back to your domain reputation. <strong>Once the update kicks in in December, if you keep emailing these accounts, you'll hit a brick wall.</strong></p><p>But the truth is that<strong> this isn't affecting the number of people you're actually reaching with your email marketing - your reach is no different! </strong>All that’s happening is that you’re going to see the people who don’t exist anymore in a much firmer and more solid way. But even before the Google update, these people weren’t listening. So if you think about the goal of getting your message through to people, you simply weren’t!</p><h2>What can we do about the latest Google update?</h2><p>So how can we all prepare for these changes? If you’ve been in any of our programmes or followed our work, you’ll know about our <em>engagement monitoring method</em>. We talk about it more in the episode called<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/205" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> How To Create THE Most Successful Re-Engagement Email Campaign (And Smash Your Sales Targets)</a>.</p><p>If someone’s not clicked on a link in the last 60 days, we’re going to put them through a 14-day <em>re-engagement campaign</em> called the LOL Revival sequence. And if people don't re-engage with our emails during that period by clicking on one of our links, we stop sending them emails altogether. We remove the tag they’re under and take them out of the segment they’re in. We take them out of our list.</p><p>Before we even do that, we tend to watch new subscribers closely, especially in the first 14 days of joining our list. Because if they don't engage or click any of the links in your emails, we don't even put them into a revival sequence. We don't even give them a second chance!&nbsp;</p><h2>Don't make any decisions based on your open rates</h2><p>It's worth pointing out here that the decision to stop emailing someone and remove them from our list entirely is based on <em>clicks</em> - not on open rates. Why? Because as we keep saying, open rate data is incorrect and inconsistent. It's dependent on the device, the browser, the email client and service, what spam protection and firewalls people have on their system, etc. There are <em>many </em>variables that can show that emails are being opened when they're not and vice versa. So <strong>we make decisions based on whether people click on the links in our emails. </strong>And if someone hasn't clicked on a link for over 60 days, we put them through our LOL Revival re-engagement sequence.</p><p>This means <strong>we’re already taking care of the hygiene of our email list</strong>, and when Google deletes accounts that have had no activity for two years, we’ll have already identified them on the basis of 60 days of not clicking on the links in our emails. We’re ahead of the curve because <strong>we make sure we have the best engagement and the best deliverability to our audience.</strong></p><p>This means<strong> the latest Google update isn't going to affect us. And it's not going to affect any of our students either </strong>- because they're following the same process. We don't need to worry about this <em>at all</em> - we're making <em>zero changes</em> to our business because we already have a strong engagement monitoring protocol in place. And so do the members of<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>Google isn't trying to kill your email marketing!&nbsp;</h2><p>It’s easy to look at the latest Google update out of context and start panicking. On the surface, it may seem like Google is trying to make email marketing difficult for people. But they’re not! They're trying to make it better for the people <em>sending</em> emails and for those <em>receiving </em>them. And so are we! We're all on the same page here.</p><p>They’re trying to create a better customer experience for their users. Ultimately what they want (and what other email platforms want) is to make sure people continue to use them. So they're not trying to make it hard for marketers to send emails - they just want it done<em> in the right way</em>. They want you to email the <em>right </em>email addresses, and you should want that too! That’s definitely what <em>we</em> want. So we're all going in the same direction here.</p><p>And the people who are moaning and whining about these updates are those who do email marketing the lazy way. They’re building a list of people and bashing them over the head regardless of who these people are and what they’re doing. They’re using dirty tactics to grow their lists, and that's exactly what we’re trying to eliminate.</p><h2>It's all about those clicks!&nbsp;</h2><p>So the big thing you have to do in light of the latest Gmail update is to <strong>monitor the clicks on the links in your emails.</strong> Of course, you can only do that if you include enough links in your emails in the first place. If you're not, start now. Because if you don't include enough links, you're not giving people the opportunity to click and engage. So increase the frequency of your emails and make sure there’s something people can click on because that's critical for engagement monitoring.</p><p>Also, find different ways to dress up the links in your emails. If you always use the traditional “click here”, people will soon develop what we call <em>link blindness</em>. They'll stop seeing and reading certain things in your emails because they always look the same. So always try interesting, quirky, novel, and attention-grabbing ways of dressing up your links and call-to-actions.</p><p>That’s the exact reason why we put together our resource<a...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is the latest Gmail update (December 2023) going to kill your email marketing for good? Everyone's reacting to this update like it's the big apocalypse of email marketing. But is that true? Let's talk about whether this update does or doesn't affect you, and how you can go about it.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to find out the honest truth about this?&nbsp;</p><p>Let's go!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:15) Want a FREE resource to get more clicks on your emails? Check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Click Tricks</a>.</p><p>(4:09) The latest Google update - what is it all about?</p><p>(7:50) Let's talk about your email deliverability.</p><p>(8:49) Hard bounces and your sender's reputation.</p><p>(11:01) What can we do about the latest Google update?</p><p>(12:35) Don't make any decisions based on your open rates.</p><p>(14:27) Google isn't trying to kill your email marketing!</p><p>(15:59) It's all about those clicks!</p><p>(17:53) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>The latest Google update - what is it all about?&nbsp;</h2><p>Gmail is making a technical change, which, on the surface, is going to be the death of email marketing.<em> Again!</em> There’s going to be a lot of email marketing chaos at the back of this Gmail policy that's to be enforced from the 1st of December 2023. Google rolled it out into their new terms in July 2023, when they announced that <strong>any Gmail account that hasn’t been logged into for two years will be deleted.</strong></p><p>So what does this mean? First thing first, the impact of this change might not be as big as you think because “logged in” could also mean that people are using their Google Calendar or Google Drive, for example. And as long as they are, even if they're not accessing their Gmail, their accounts will stay. <strong>Only truly dormant accounts will be deleted</strong>.</p><p>And that’s fair enough because these could be email addresses that people created for a particular project or business venture and then either never used them, or they stopped checking them at some point. Why are they being deleted? Because all these accounts take up a lot of space on Google servers, so a clean-up exercise is now in order. You can imagine that renting space out for free to people on the Internet is expensive, so Google is cutting some costs and trying to become more efficient. And that's not a bad thing!</p><h2>Let's talk about your email deliverability</h2><p>So let's talk about why this could be an issue for some people. If you've been in our world for a while, you'll know that one of the things we always talk about is that the technical side of email deliverability is not all that important. It's not weighted that heavily when it comes to most of us day-to-day – not for marketers who have email lists of the size we or our clients have.</p><p><strong>What truly matters when it comes to email deliverability is <em>engagement management</em></strong>, which has to do with making sure you’re not emailing people who aren’t real accounts or who haven’t opened or engaged with your emails in some time.</p><h2>Hard bounces and your sender's reputation</h2><p>When the Google update kicks in in December, if you're still sending emails to accounts that Google has now deleted, your emails will <em>hard bounce</em>. Your email platform is going to send emails out to these deleted addresses, and your emails are going to hit a stone wall and bounce back again. And that's bad for your sender's reputation, yes.</p><p>But it's only bad if you've been emailing these accounts all along regardless of the fact these people weren't engaging with your emails! If these people were on your list and hadn't used their Gmail in two years, surely they hadn't been clicking on the links in your email for a long time (if ever).</p><p>So when it comes to your sender's reputation, this was already a bad scenario for you. But from now on, with these addresses completely deleted, you're going to see a much stronger message coming back to your domain reputation. <strong>Once the update kicks in in December, if you keep emailing these accounts, you'll hit a brick wall.</strong></p><p>But the truth is that<strong> this isn't affecting the number of people you're actually reaching with your email marketing - your reach is no different! </strong>All that’s happening is that you’re going to see the people who don’t exist anymore in a much firmer and more solid way. But even before the Google update, these people weren’t listening. So if you think about the goal of getting your message through to people, you simply weren’t!</p><h2>What can we do about the latest Google update?</h2><p>So how can we all prepare for these changes? If you’ve been in any of our programmes or followed our work, you’ll know about our <em>engagement monitoring method</em>. We talk about it more in the episode called<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/205" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> How To Create THE Most Successful Re-Engagement Email Campaign (And Smash Your Sales Targets)</a>.</p><p>If someone’s not clicked on a link in the last 60 days, we’re going to put them through a 14-day <em>re-engagement campaign</em> called the LOL Revival sequence. And if people don't re-engage with our emails during that period by clicking on one of our links, we stop sending them emails altogether. We remove the tag they’re under and take them out of the segment they’re in. We take them out of our list.</p><p>Before we even do that, we tend to watch new subscribers closely, especially in the first 14 days of joining our list. Because if they don't engage or click any of the links in your emails, we don't even put them into a revival sequence. We don't even give them a second chance!&nbsp;</p><h2>Don't make any decisions based on your open rates</h2><p>It's worth pointing out here that the decision to stop emailing someone and remove them from our list entirely is based on <em>clicks</em> - not on open rates. Why? Because as we keep saying, open rate data is incorrect and inconsistent. It's dependent on the device, the browser, the email client and service, what spam protection and firewalls people have on their system, etc. There are <em>many </em>variables that can show that emails are being opened when they're not and vice versa. So <strong>we make decisions based on whether people click on the links in our emails. </strong>And if someone hasn't clicked on a link for over 60 days, we put them through our LOL Revival re-engagement sequence.</p><p>This means <strong>we’re already taking care of the hygiene of our email list</strong>, and when Google deletes accounts that have had no activity for two years, we’ll have already identified them on the basis of 60 days of not clicking on the links in our emails. We’re ahead of the curve because <strong>we make sure we have the best engagement and the best deliverability to our audience.</strong></p><p>This means<strong> the latest Google update isn't going to affect us. And it's not going to affect any of our students either </strong>- because they're following the same process. We don't need to worry about this <em>at all</em> - we're making <em>zero changes</em> to our business because we already have a strong engagement monitoring protocol in place. And so do the members of<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>Google isn't trying to kill your email marketing!&nbsp;</h2><p>It’s easy to look at the latest Google update out of context and start panicking. On the surface, it may seem like Google is trying to make email marketing difficult for people. But they’re not! They're trying to make it better for the people <em>sending</em> emails and for those <em>receiving </em>them. And so are we! We're all on the same page here.</p><p>They’re trying to create a better customer experience for their users. Ultimately what they want (and what other email platforms want) is to make sure people continue to use them. So they're not trying to make it hard for marketers to send emails - they just want it done<em> in the right way</em>. They want you to email the <em>right </em>email addresses, and you should want that too! That’s definitely what <em>we</em> want. So we're all going in the same direction here.</p><p>And the people who are moaning and whining about these updates are those who do email marketing the lazy way. They’re building a list of people and bashing them over the head regardless of who these people are and what they’re doing. They’re using dirty tactics to grow their lists, and that's exactly what we’re trying to eliminate.</p><h2>It's all about those clicks!&nbsp;</h2><p>So the big thing you have to do in light of the latest Gmail update is to <strong>monitor the clicks on the links in your emails.</strong> Of course, you can only do that if you include enough links in your emails in the first place. If you're not, start now. Because if you don't include enough links, you're not giving people the opportunity to click and engage. So increase the frequency of your emails and make sure there’s something people can click on because that's critical for engagement monitoring.</p><p>Also, find different ways to dress up the links in your emails. If you always use the traditional “click here”, people will soon develop what we call <em>link blindness</em>. They'll stop seeing and reading certain things in your emails because they always look the same. So always try interesting, quirky, novel, and attention-grabbing ways of dressing up your links and call-to-actions.</p><p>That’s the exact reason why we put together our resource<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/03fd66aeee40009981b62723938d539b08fd89fc?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=click-tricks" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Click Tricks</a>, which is about interesting ways of dressing up the links in your emails to make sure more people are clicking and engaging. In turn, that will keep your deliverability monitoring really high. So<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/03fd66aeee40009981b62723938d539b08fd89fc?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=click-tricks" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> go and grab Click Tricks for free!</a></p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>This week’s subject line is “[First Name] and Goliath.” So if your name was Karen, your subject line would be “Karen and Goliath.” We think this is a really interesting subject line. You can take any traditional story, or a film name here (something that’s well-known) and change it over to something that’s relevant to the person you're sending the email to, such as their first name. So check it out!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/increase-open-rate/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Increase Your Open Rates (They’re Wrong But…)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/nlp-for-marketing-get-emails-opened-jon-benson/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Get Your Emails Opened Using NLP – With Jon Benson</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-deliverability-2/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stop Landing In The Spam Folder &amp; Immediately Skyrocket Your Email Deliverability – With Brian Minick</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3>Join our FREE Facebook group</h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The League Membership</h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the latest Gmail update of December 2023) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/latest-gmail-update/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">2dc8d938-83b2-4ab5-bdc6-6f43189850fb</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/43e0a78a-144e-4609-af34-83cabdb0a8f2/SrH2QCYuaX0eRQqLTv_ww8Bg.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/09ac5c1e-6a68-43de-8b6d-ba1a652175a4/210-Final-v2.mp3" length="46752256" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>19:29</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>210</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>210</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/b02cde60-1bfd-469d-afdd-b76e8a2f8156/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Best Email Marketing Campaigns? Grab The Paparazzi Flash Sale!</title><itunes:title>Best Email Marketing Campaigns? Grab The Paparazzi Flash Sale!</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Wherever we go and whatever we do, we keep being asked about the BEST email marketing campaigns people can run to make tonnes of cash.</p><p>Well, we have the perfect campaign for you. It's called the Paparazzi Flash Sale campaign, and our clients are seeing some amazing results with it right now. </p><p>Wanna know more and get your mitts on it? </p><p>Let's go. </p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(0:12) Want a FREE resource to get more clicks on your emails? Check out Click Tricks.</p><p>(2:41) What is the THE best email marketing campaign EVER?</p><p>(4:08) What is the Paparazzi Flash Sale email campaign?</p><p>(5:52) What do you need in order to launch your Flash Sale email campaign?</p><p>(7:55) Add a countdown timer and bonuses!</p><p>(9:28) How does our Flash Sale email campaign work?</p><p>(12:15) Always have a strong reason why.</p><p>(14:14) Why does the Paparazzi Flash Sale campaign work so well?</p><p>(15:44) Go grab our flash sale campaign - join The League!</p><p>(16:43) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><p>What is THE best email marketing campaign EVER? </p><p>This is a hard question to answer, especially as we have over 40 email marketing campaigns (and counting) inside our membership The League. But ONE campaign definitely that stands out (because our members can’t stop raving about it) is The Paparazzi Flash Sale campaign.</p><p>We’re consistently seeing our clients use this campaign and getting incredible results. For example, Hillary-Marie ran two versions of this campaign at two separate times and made $16,000 on each one - with a 20-21% conversion rate.</p><p>Brad joined our membership in February, ran this campaign straight after, and made $3,915 in sales. Plus, he also got a bunch of new sign-ups for his membership, which stacks up additional recurring income too! And then Marc ran the campaign and made over $1,000 selling $10-$30 low-ticket products. This campaign is a BEAST!</p><p>What is the Paparazzi Flash Sale email campaign?</p><p>The Paparazzi Flash Sale campaign is our take on the flash sale or fire sale (as it's sometimes referred to). It's a 4-day campaign that helps you sell a boatload of stuff at a discounted price and with an added bonus or two. </p><p>But let's take a step back to understand how this helps you sell. Sticking a discount on something doesn't necessarily mean you're suddenly going to make lots of sales. That's why you need a well-thought-out email campaign structure behind it. You probably already know this from experience – a discount is no magic spell that makes people buy! Because you're never going to convert 100% of the people who see it. </p><p>What you need is anticipation and moments in your campaign where you change direction. In other words, a campaign needs to have a flow to it. And the reason why our Paparazzi campaign works and is so successful is that it’s a really simple campaign to deploy. </p><p>So let's break it down. </p><p>What do you need in order to launch your flash sale email campaign? </p><p>The first thing you need to have in place is a sales page that's converting. As you know, we're in the business of email marketing here – not sales pages. So we’re going to assume you’ve created a good sales page that’s already converting well.</p><p>Once you have that page, you're going to duplicate it. You simply create a copy of it, which will become your flash sale version. Then you're going to make changes to that version only. So don’t go and tweak your actual sales page with the intention of changing it back once the flash sale is over. Instead, create a separate page for your flash sale.  </p><p>Once you've done that, you need to change the price of your product to the discounted price. But don't just delete the old price and replace it with the one one. Because if you do that, psychologically, people won’t know you’ve applied a discount! What you want to do instead is to cross out the full price and put the new price next to it. That shows people that, without a doubt, this is a sale. And you’re proving this. We like to say that a lot – if you’re going to say something, prove it.</p><p>With the price sorted, make sure that all the buttons on your flash sale page point to a place where people can buy your offer at the discounted price. </p><p>Add a countdown timer and bonuses!</p><p>And finally, another thing you can do is to add a countdown timer to the page. This is animated and ticking down and shows how long people have left to take advantage of the discounted price before the flash sale ends. A countdown timer is important because it helps you add some urgency to your sale. It’s no longer just about the discount (and people love a discount!) – it’s also about making it high on people's priority list to go and grab that discount right now. </p><p>If you want to make your discount even more effective, you can also add bonuses. And the reason this works is that you’re hitting a whole bunch of psychological triggers. Most importantly, all these factors combined have a compound effect - and that's what makes this campaign so powerful.</p><p>How does our Flash Sale email campaign work?</p><p>We run the Paparazzi campaign by sending 6 emails over 4 days - it's a very short, fast-paced campaign. We send an email a day for the first few days, and then on the last day, we send 3 emails to let people know that the flash sale is closing tonight. On that last day, we're really driving home the urgency of the fact that the sale is closing.</p><p>As with all our campaigns, the key to being able to send emails over a period of 4 days is to find lots of different reasons to email. If you only send out one email at the start of your campaign and say everything you have to say (such as talk about all the features of the product, talk about the flash sale, share testimonials, etc.) you'll soon run out of things to email about. In other words, you peak too soon. And that means all you can do is to keep repeating the same things day after day, which is not very effective for anyone. </p><p>That's why with all our email marketing campaigns, we follow a specific format called SVVC, which stands for Seed, Validate, Verify, and Close. If you’re a member of The League, you'll find full in-depth training about this format inside our membership, so go check it out.</p><p>Our Paparazzi campaign is no different - it follows the same structure. So here it goes: </p><p>The first email plans the seed and announces that something's happening. </p><p>The second one talks about the discount - it validates the interest that the original announcement piqued. </p><p>In the third email, you use social proof and share testimonials and case studies. In other words, you go and verify that everything you said is true. </p><p>And then on the last day, with the fourth email, you send an email to say that the sale is closing tonight. That's the close of the SVVC acronym. </p><p>On the last day, keep things simple!</p><p>A key principle for us is that on the last day, we don't get clever with any of our emails. This isn’t the right time for people to be distracted by stories or lessons. This campaign is very direct – there’s no fluff, no stories, and nothing that distracts people from the main focus, which is to buy. And that’s especially important on the last day.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p>Always have a strong reason why</p><p>One of the things we recommend you do is to have a strong reason why. Why are you giving a discount? Why is there a flash sale? This could be any kind of why. Robert Cialdini in his book The Psychology of Persuasion talks about this technique and how powerful it is. You can pretty much say anything as long as you explain it by giving a reason. And that's because people will believe you more, or they're more likely to comply with what you say - simply because you've given them a reason for what you're doing.</p><p>And the reason can be as bland or as honest as you want. It can be that you have a massive tax bill to pay, so you’re running a flash sale and discounting your course. It could be an offer you make to your new subscribers. Or it could be because it’s Email Marketing Wednesday! Or your birthday. You don’t have to wait for Black Friday or Christmas. Your reason can be anything, as long as you have one.</p><p>Why does the Paparazzi Flash Sale campaign work so well? </p><p>First of all, it works because of the structure of the campaign. It’s a 4-day campaign, but you’re sending more than 4 emails. And you have a very specific reason for sending each and every one of them. Your emails all drive people towards the call to action, which is to go and take advantage of the discount you've applied and the bonuses you've added to your product. And that’s what helps grease the wheels and get people buying.</p><p>Plus, you can run this email live but also automate it, which is what we do. We have it running for all our new subscribers. The flash sale runs automatically within a certain amount of time of someone joining our email list. We use a countdown timer called Countdown Hero (available for free to members of The League), and that allows us to set a unique deadline for each subscriber. The Paparazzi Flash Sale campaign is definitely a powerful one to automate and run in this way. </p><p>Why? Because it encourages your subscribers to buy from you as soon as they enter your world. And once they've bought something, they're more likely to buy more. We’ve seen this statistically proven again and again with our business and also with our clients.</p><p>So the combination of all these factors – the fact you can automate the campaign, that you have a clear structure, that you’re offering a really good discount or some sort of bonus (or both) can result in creating a big surge of sales. Buying is urgent, so your audience needs to move this to the top of their priority list right now. It's what pushes people to get...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wherever we go and whatever we do, we keep being asked about the BEST email marketing campaigns people can run to make tonnes of cash.</p><p>Well, we have the perfect campaign for you. It's called the Paparazzi Flash Sale campaign, and our clients are seeing some amazing results with it right now. </p><p>Wanna know more and get your mitts on it? </p><p>Let's go. </p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(0:12) Want a FREE resource to get more clicks on your emails? Check out Click Tricks.</p><p>(2:41) What is the THE best email marketing campaign EVER?</p><p>(4:08) What is the Paparazzi Flash Sale email campaign?</p><p>(5:52) What do you need in order to launch your Flash Sale email campaign?</p><p>(7:55) Add a countdown timer and bonuses!</p><p>(9:28) How does our Flash Sale email campaign work?</p><p>(12:15) Always have a strong reason why.</p><p>(14:14) Why does the Paparazzi Flash Sale campaign work so well?</p><p>(15:44) Go grab our flash sale campaign - join The League!</p><p>(16:43) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><p>What is THE best email marketing campaign EVER? </p><p>This is a hard question to answer, especially as we have over 40 email marketing campaigns (and counting) inside our membership The League. But ONE campaign definitely that stands out (because our members can’t stop raving about it) is The Paparazzi Flash Sale campaign.</p><p>We’re consistently seeing our clients use this campaign and getting incredible results. For example, Hillary-Marie ran two versions of this campaign at two separate times and made $16,000 on each one - with a 20-21% conversion rate.</p><p>Brad joined our membership in February, ran this campaign straight after, and made $3,915 in sales. Plus, he also got a bunch of new sign-ups for his membership, which stacks up additional recurring income too! And then Marc ran the campaign and made over $1,000 selling $10-$30 low-ticket products. This campaign is a BEAST!</p><p>What is the Paparazzi Flash Sale email campaign?</p><p>The Paparazzi Flash Sale campaign is our take on the flash sale or fire sale (as it's sometimes referred to). It's a 4-day campaign that helps you sell a boatload of stuff at a discounted price and with an added bonus or two. </p><p>But let's take a step back to understand how this helps you sell. Sticking a discount on something doesn't necessarily mean you're suddenly going to make lots of sales. That's why you need a well-thought-out email campaign structure behind it. You probably already know this from experience – a discount is no magic spell that makes people buy! Because you're never going to convert 100% of the people who see it. </p><p>What you need is anticipation and moments in your campaign where you change direction. In other words, a campaign needs to have a flow to it. And the reason why our Paparazzi campaign works and is so successful is that it’s a really simple campaign to deploy. </p><p>So let's break it down. </p><p>What do you need in order to launch your flash sale email campaign? </p><p>The first thing you need to have in place is a sales page that's converting. As you know, we're in the business of email marketing here – not sales pages. So we’re going to assume you’ve created a good sales page that’s already converting well.</p><p>Once you have that page, you're going to duplicate it. You simply create a copy of it, which will become your flash sale version. Then you're going to make changes to that version only. So don’t go and tweak your actual sales page with the intention of changing it back once the flash sale is over. Instead, create a separate page for your flash sale.  </p><p>Once you've done that, you need to change the price of your product to the discounted price. But don't just delete the old price and replace it with the one one. Because if you do that, psychologically, people won’t know you’ve applied a discount! What you want to do instead is to cross out the full price and put the new price next to it. That shows people that, without a doubt, this is a sale. And you’re proving this. We like to say that a lot – if you’re going to say something, prove it.</p><p>With the price sorted, make sure that all the buttons on your flash sale page point to a place where people can buy your offer at the discounted price. </p><p>Add a countdown timer and bonuses!</p><p>And finally, another thing you can do is to add a countdown timer to the page. This is animated and ticking down and shows how long people have left to take advantage of the discounted price before the flash sale ends. A countdown timer is important because it helps you add some urgency to your sale. It’s no longer just about the discount (and people love a discount!) – it’s also about making it high on people's priority list to go and grab that discount right now. </p><p>If you want to make your discount even more effective, you can also add bonuses. And the reason this works is that you’re hitting a whole bunch of psychological triggers. Most importantly, all these factors combined have a compound effect - and that's what makes this campaign so powerful.</p><p>How does our Flash Sale email campaign work?</p><p>We run the Paparazzi campaign by sending 6 emails over 4 days - it's a very short, fast-paced campaign. We send an email a day for the first few days, and then on the last day, we send 3 emails to let people know that the flash sale is closing tonight. On that last day, we're really driving home the urgency of the fact that the sale is closing.</p><p>As with all our campaigns, the key to being able to send emails over a period of 4 days is to find lots of different reasons to email. If you only send out one email at the start of your campaign and say everything you have to say (such as talk about all the features of the product, talk about the flash sale, share testimonials, etc.) you'll soon run out of things to email about. In other words, you peak too soon. And that means all you can do is to keep repeating the same things day after day, which is not very effective for anyone. </p><p>That's why with all our email marketing campaigns, we follow a specific format called SVVC, which stands for Seed, Validate, Verify, and Close. If you’re a member of The League, you'll find full in-depth training about this format inside our membership, so go check it out.</p><p>Our Paparazzi campaign is no different - it follows the same structure. So here it goes: </p><p>The first email plans the seed and announces that something's happening. </p><p>The second one talks about the discount - it validates the interest that the original announcement piqued. </p><p>In the third email, you use social proof and share testimonials and case studies. In other words, you go and verify that everything you said is true. </p><p>And then on the last day, with the fourth email, you send an email to say that the sale is closing tonight. That's the close of the SVVC acronym. </p><p>On the last day, keep things simple!</p><p>A key principle for us is that on the last day, we don't get clever with any of our emails. This isn’t the right time for people to be distracted by stories or lessons. This campaign is very direct – there’s no fluff, no stories, and nothing that distracts people from the main focus, which is to buy. And that’s especially important on the last day.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p>Always have a strong reason why</p><p>One of the things we recommend you do is to have a strong reason why. Why are you giving a discount? Why is there a flash sale? This could be any kind of why. Robert Cialdini in his book The Psychology of Persuasion talks about this technique and how powerful it is. You can pretty much say anything as long as you explain it by giving a reason. And that's because people will believe you more, or they're more likely to comply with what you say - simply because you've given them a reason for what you're doing.</p><p>And the reason can be as bland or as honest as you want. It can be that you have a massive tax bill to pay, so you’re running a flash sale and discounting your course. It could be an offer you make to your new subscribers. Or it could be because it’s Email Marketing Wednesday! Or your birthday. You don’t have to wait for Black Friday or Christmas. Your reason can be anything, as long as you have one.</p><p>Why does the Paparazzi Flash Sale campaign work so well? </p><p>First of all, it works because of the structure of the campaign. It’s a 4-day campaign, but you’re sending more than 4 emails. And you have a very specific reason for sending each and every one of them. Your emails all drive people towards the call to action, which is to go and take advantage of the discount you've applied and the bonuses you've added to your product. And that’s what helps grease the wheels and get people buying.</p><p>Plus, you can run this email live but also automate it, which is what we do. We have it running for all our new subscribers. The flash sale runs automatically within a certain amount of time of someone joining our email list. We use a countdown timer called Countdown Hero (available for free to members of The League), and that allows us to set a unique deadline for each subscriber. The Paparazzi Flash Sale campaign is definitely a powerful one to automate and run in this way. </p><p>Why? Because it encourages your subscribers to buy from you as soon as they enter your world. And once they've bought something, they're more likely to buy more. We’ve seen this statistically proven again and again with our business and also with our clients.</p><p>So the combination of all these factors – the fact you can automate the campaign, that you have a clear structure, that you’re offering a really good discount or some sort of bonus (or both) can result in creating a big surge of sales. Buying is urgent, so your audience needs to move this to the top of their priority list right now. It's what pushes people to get over the hill and buy.</p><p>Go grab our Paparazzi Flash Sale campaign!</p><p>If you want to try this for yourself, just head over to The League, and you’ll find everything you need in there. The Paparazzi Flash Sale campaign is one of the 40+ campaigns we have inside our membership, and you’ll be able to get full access and also get an overview of everything we’ve just described.</p><p>Plus, you get full campaign workshop training, where we walk you through every single email - why we use the words we use and how you can put your own spin on the campaign to make it apply to your product, your business, your audience, and your personality. All you have to do is to grab the template and make some tweaks. You'll see - this is probably the one campaign out of all the ones we have that requires the least amount of changes. It's super easy to apply to your business! And once you’ve run this campaign successfully, you can move on and start working through all the others.</p><p>If you're having FOMO right now, what are you waiting for? Join The League NOW and grab this campaign for yourself!</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p>Subject line of the week</p><p>This week’s subject line is the words “car thieves.” Rob wrote this in lowercase and with a full stop at the end. The story was about the fact there are two different types of people in the world – people like Rob’s girlfriend Rachel, who will leave her debit card on the dashboard of her car and other valuable stuff on show, and people like Rob’s dad, who’s one of the most security conscious people you’ll ever meet.</p><p>The email was about two different attitudes to security, but the subject line wasn’t factual, obvious, or boring – it was interesting and generated curiosity.</p><p>Useful Episode Resources</p><p>Related episodes</p><p>How Our Client Hillary-Marie Made $16k With ONE Email Marketing Campaign (And Then Did It Again!)</p><p>How Brad 10x’d His Ad Spend In One Month – A Case Study.</p><p>And How Brad Brown Made $90k By Automating Webinars.</p><p>FREE list to improve your email marketing</p><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). Grab your FREE list here. </p><p>Join our FREE Facebook group</p><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p>Try ResponseSuite for $1</p><p>This week's episode is sponsored by ResponseSuite.com, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. Try it out for 14 days for just $1.</p><p>Join The League Membership</p><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns, come and check out The League Membership. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</p><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about what we think is one of the best email marketing campaigns ever) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.  </p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast. </p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/best-email-marketing-campaigns/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">87109994-4a29-4e76-a797-300689a84b36</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/f2aa72de-90b0-48aa-84b5-16ab55c273c7/DiGBnJSPpvS1Y9so024lGhqg.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/f92651fb-c4da-4d79-8875-e7754fdf0b38/209-Final.mp3" length="44296576" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:27</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>209</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>209</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/a841c759-a12d-4afa-aa0c-aafcbf5e3237/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Email Marketing And Storytelling - Write Emails To Sell Like Crazy</title><itunes:title>Email Marketing And Storytelling - Write Emails To Sell Like Crazy</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>How do email marketing and storytelling go together? Should you share stories in your emails? If so, <em>when</em> and <em>how</em>? What type of stories should you tell and where does the inspiration come from? Also, when is it <em>not</em> good to tell a story?</p><p>Want the Secret Sauce on all this?</p><p>Let's get it!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:12) Want a FREE resource to get more clicks on your emails? Check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Click Tricks</a>.</p><p>(4:39) Why do we need to tell stories in our emails?</p><p>(6:41) More reasons to tell stories in your emails.</p><p>(8:31) What if you're in a more serious and 'boring' industry?</p><p>(10:33) What makes a good email marketing story?</p><p>(12:46) What are some tips to help you get started?</p><p>(15:01) Common mistakes people make when telling stories through email (and how to fix them).</p><p>(17:06) How often should you use stories in your emails?</p><p>(17:33) Learn how to use storytelling in your email marketing inside The League.</p><p>(17:57) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>Why do we need to tell stories in our emails?&nbsp;</h2><p>You probably already know by now that our whole approach to email marketing is story-driven. In other words, we try and weave some storytelling into<em> almost</em> every email we send (with a couple of exceptions). One of the big reasons is that <strong>there are only so many things you can say or so many ways you can talk about the product or service you sell. But there are <em>unlimited</em> stories you can relate to your offer and to the problem that your product solves.</strong></p><p>Case in point, as Rob was thinking about the idea for a story based on something that happened to him recently, he realised that the lesson he'd pulled out of the story was the same one he'd taught in the email from the day before. And that's okay! Because the lesson may have been the same, but it was framed in a different way because the story was different. Plus, not everyone would have seen Rob's email from the previous day. And even if they had, some people might relate more to one story and not the other.</p><p>This means <strong>you could potentially have the same lesson every day but frame it with a different story. </strong>And that's great if you think about it. Because there are only so many core lessons you can teach or things someone needs to learn before they buy your product. And if you can only talk about a limited set of features and benefits, you'll run out of things to say! So storytelling allows you to continue to talk about your product and what it does in different ways.</p><h2>More reasons to tell stories in your emails</h2><p>Another benefit of storytelling is that stories are usually about things that are happening or have happened in your life. So <strong>using stories helps you build rapport with your audience</strong> - it means they can get to know you. That’s also why we share interesting, silly facts about ourselves at the start of each podcast episode. Because people get to learn more about us, and this helps us become three-dimensional. We’re not just the people who talk about email marketing all the time – we're<em> real </em>people doing things with our families and living our lives outside of work like everyone else.&nbsp;</p><p>The other reason why we love storytelling is that <strong>people emote with stories.</strong> And this doesn't happen with facts, features, or benefits, for example. On the other hand, with stories, <strong>you can make people feel different emotions</strong> – afraid, anxious, excited, etc. Plus, physically, stories take up more space in people's heads and brains than pretty much any other medium.</p><h2>What if you’re in a more serious or ‘boring’ industry?</h2><p>One thing we can tell you from experience is that <strong>storytelling works for everything and everyone.</strong> It doesn't matter whether you're in a serious, 'boring', dry industry where you don't think your audience cares about stories. We’ve helped businesses in the government space, insurance, accountancy, and other niches that are quite dry, and we know storytelling works for them too. Because, ultimately, <strong>we are humans in a human’s inbox</strong>, and these people want to hear from you!</p><p>So what if everyone else in your industry is dry and boring? Even better! It means <strong>you can stand out by sharing stories and becoming the most engaging email marketer in your industry.</strong> That's the experience you can create through storytelling. And it doesn’t mean you have to be wacky and funny in everything (if that's not your brand). But you can at least be<em> interesting</em>.</p><p>People like reading stories, and if you’re a 'faceless' brand or a big corporation, you can still pick someone within your team to be the face of your brand. In fact, make a point of sending your emails from yourself or a member of your team because<strong> people buy into the person behind the brand. </strong>Look at Virgin, for example. Even a huge, massive, multi-vertical brand has a face to it through Richard Branson. And it's one of the best decisions they've ever made. So <strong>make things personal.&nbsp;</strong></p><h2>What makes a good email marketing story?&nbsp;</h2><p>A good story has to either:</p><ul><li>Share something new - for example, teach something people didn’t know.</li><li>Or include something relatable that makes them ask themselves what they'd do in that situation.&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><p>For example, when flying back from hosting a masterclass in Portugal, we were asked to switch off our phones. Why? Apparently, every 30 days, in order to continue to be certified, a plane has to land automatically. And for that, phones need to be completely switched off (not in flight mode). So if we were to put that story in an email, we might be teaching our audience something new.</p><p>The other type of content is <em>relatable content</em>, just like the stories that comedians tend to use. And by that, we don't mean you have to be funny - not if you or your brand aren’t funny. <strong>Relatable content allows people to agree with you and understand the point you're making.&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>What are some tips to help you get started?&nbsp;</h2><p>The first tip we can give you is to <strong>be observant in your everyday life.</strong> If something happens to you, think about how you can turn that into a story and share a lesson from it.&nbsp;</p><p>We find it's often helpful to think about the first or last time you did something. Or the best or worst experience you had with that thing. Or maybe the scariest or the funniest? You get the gist.&nbsp;</p><p>Just remember that <strong>any time something happens to you, you can turn that into a story.</strong> So look at the little things that happen to you on a daily basis and start getting into the mindset of getting a story out of them. All the observations you make in the world around you can become prompts for the stories in your emails. And that's all you need.</p><h2>Common mistakes people make when telling stories through email (and how to fix them)</h2><p>One of the mistakes we see people make all the time is to waffle on too much at the beginning of the story. Don't do that. You don’t need long introductions or formalities. And also, consider removing bits of the story itself. If you're going to tell a story about something that happened on a plane, don’t start from when you got to the airport (unless that's what the story is about).</p><p>A journalistic trick we learnt from our friend Janet Murray is to first write the story, and then chop off the whole beginning. In other words, <strong>start from the action and make the story more exciting.</strong></p><p>Another mistake is to make assumptions that your audience must know who you are and everything you’ve ever done and that they must have read all your emails. They don't.</p><p>Also, don't assume that your audience is familiar with the jargon and technical terms you use in your industry - because they might not. So <strong>make everything as simple and basic as you possibly can.</strong> Assume this is the first email that person’s ever received from you. That way, you’ll be able to explain stuff better.</p><p>And that doesn’t mean you can’t take shortcuts. For example, Rob will often say in his emails that he took Alfie for a walk. He might mention leash training, for example, so even if people don't know, they will assume Alfie is a dog. <strong>He implies connection without assuming knowledge. </strong>Through the wording you chose, you allow people to have the knowledge without assuming they necessarily know everything about you.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><h2>How often should you use stories in your emails?&nbsp;</h2><p>While you want to use stories in <em>most</em> emails, you don’t have to use them in <em>all</em> your emails. We don't use stories in the emails that are 'coming down the wire', such as the last email of a launch when the cart is about to close, for example. And we don't use stories in our 'seed emails', which are the ones we send at the very start of a new email campaign.&nbsp;</p><h2>Learn how to use storytelling in your email marketing inside The League</h2><p>If you want to learn our entire story framework and look at all the email campaigns we teach inside our membership that include stories, come and join us! You get access to our full training on our Bottomless Email Strategy and all our email campaigns. Plus, you learn how to write emails that convert like crazy inside our membership<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How do email marketing and storytelling go together? Should you share stories in your emails? If so, <em>when</em> and <em>how</em>? What type of stories should you tell and where does the inspiration come from? Also, when is it <em>not</em> good to tell a story?</p><p>Want the Secret Sauce on all this?</p><p>Let's get it!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:12) Want a FREE resource to get more clicks on your emails? Check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Click Tricks</a>.</p><p>(4:39) Why do we need to tell stories in our emails?</p><p>(6:41) More reasons to tell stories in your emails.</p><p>(8:31) What if you're in a more serious and 'boring' industry?</p><p>(10:33) What makes a good email marketing story?</p><p>(12:46) What are some tips to help you get started?</p><p>(15:01) Common mistakes people make when telling stories through email (and how to fix them).</p><p>(17:06) How often should you use stories in your emails?</p><p>(17:33) Learn how to use storytelling in your email marketing inside The League.</p><p>(17:57) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>Why do we need to tell stories in our emails?&nbsp;</h2><p>You probably already know by now that our whole approach to email marketing is story-driven. In other words, we try and weave some storytelling into<em> almost</em> every email we send (with a couple of exceptions). One of the big reasons is that <strong>there are only so many things you can say or so many ways you can talk about the product or service you sell. But there are <em>unlimited</em> stories you can relate to your offer and to the problem that your product solves.</strong></p><p>Case in point, as Rob was thinking about the idea for a story based on something that happened to him recently, he realised that the lesson he'd pulled out of the story was the same one he'd taught in the email from the day before. And that's okay! Because the lesson may have been the same, but it was framed in a different way because the story was different. Plus, not everyone would have seen Rob's email from the previous day. And even if they had, some people might relate more to one story and not the other.</p><p>This means <strong>you could potentially have the same lesson every day but frame it with a different story. </strong>And that's great if you think about it. Because there are only so many core lessons you can teach or things someone needs to learn before they buy your product. And if you can only talk about a limited set of features and benefits, you'll run out of things to say! So storytelling allows you to continue to talk about your product and what it does in different ways.</p><h2>More reasons to tell stories in your emails</h2><p>Another benefit of storytelling is that stories are usually about things that are happening or have happened in your life. So <strong>using stories helps you build rapport with your audience</strong> - it means they can get to know you. That’s also why we share interesting, silly facts about ourselves at the start of each podcast episode. Because people get to learn more about us, and this helps us become three-dimensional. We’re not just the people who talk about email marketing all the time – we're<em> real </em>people doing things with our families and living our lives outside of work like everyone else.&nbsp;</p><p>The other reason why we love storytelling is that <strong>people emote with stories.</strong> And this doesn't happen with facts, features, or benefits, for example. On the other hand, with stories, <strong>you can make people feel different emotions</strong> – afraid, anxious, excited, etc. Plus, physically, stories take up more space in people's heads and brains than pretty much any other medium.</p><h2>What if you’re in a more serious or ‘boring’ industry?</h2><p>One thing we can tell you from experience is that <strong>storytelling works for everything and everyone.</strong> It doesn't matter whether you're in a serious, 'boring', dry industry where you don't think your audience cares about stories. We’ve helped businesses in the government space, insurance, accountancy, and other niches that are quite dry, and we know storytelling works for them too. Because, ultimately, <strong>we are humans in a human’s inbox</strong>, and these people want to hear from you!</p><p>So what if everyone else in your industry is dry and boring? Even better! It means <strong>you can stand out by sharing stories and becoming the most engaging email marketer in your industry.</strong> That's the experience you can create through storytelling. And it doesn’t mean you have to be wacky and funny in everything (if that's not your brand). But you can at least be<em> interesting</em>.</p><p>People like reading stories, and if you’re a 'faceless' brand or a big corporation, you can still pick someone within your team to be the face of your brand. In fact, make a point of sending your emails from yourself or a member of your team because<strong> people buy into the person behind the brand. </strong>Look at Virgin, for example. Even a huge, massive, multi-vertical brand has a face to it through Richard Branson. And it's one of the best decisions they've ever made. So <strong>make things personal.&nbsp;</strong></p><h2>What makes a good email marketing story?&nbsp;</h2><p>A good story has to either:</p><ul><li>Share something new - for example, teach something people didn’t know.</li><li>Or include something relatable that makes them ask themselves what they'd do in that situation.&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><p>For example, when flying back from hosting a masterclass in Portugal, we were asked to switch off our phones. Why? Apparently, every 30 days, in order to continue to be certified, a plane has to land automatically. And for that, phones need to be completely switched off (not in flight mode). So if we were to put that story in an email, we might be teaching our audience something new.</p><p>The other type of content is <em>relatable content</em>, just like the stories that comedians tend to use. And by that, we don't mean you have to be funny - not if you or your brand aren’t funny. <strong>Relatable content allows people to agree with you and understand the point you're making.&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>What are some tips to help you get started?&nbsp;</h2><p>The first tip we can give you is to <strong>be observant in your everyday life.</strong> If something happens to you, think about how you can turn that into a story and share a lesson from it.&nbsp;</p><p>We find it's often helpful to think about the first or last time you did something. Or the best or worst experience you had with that thing. Or maybe the scariest or the funniest? You get the gist.&nbsp;</p><p>Just remember that <strong>any time something happens to you, you can turn that into a story.</strong> So look at the little things that happen to you on a daily basis and start getting into the mindset of getting a story out of them. All the observations you make in the world around you can become prompts for the stories in your emails. And that's all you need.</p><h2>Common mistakes people make when telling stories through email (and how to fix them)</h2><p>One of the mistakes we see people make all the time is to waffle on too much at the beginning of the story. Don't do that. You don’t need long introductions or formalities. And also, consider removing bits of the story itself. If you're going to tell a story about something that happened on a plane, don’t start from when you got to the airport (unless that's what the story is about).</p><p>A journalistic trick we learnt from our friend Janet Murray is to first write the story, and then chop off the whole beginning. In other words, <strong>start from the action and make the story more exciting.</strong></p><p>Another mistake is to make assumptions that your audience must know who you are and everything you’ve ever done and that they must have read all your emails. They don't.</p><p>Also, don't assume that your audience is familiar with the jargon and technical terms you use in your industry - because they might not. So <strong>make everything as simple and basic as you possibly can.</strong> Assume this is the first email that person’s ever received from you. That way, you’ll be able to explain stuff better.</p><p>And that doesn’t mean you can’t take shortcuts. For example, Rob will often say in his emails that he took Alfie for a walk. He might mention leash training, for example, so even if people don't know, they will assume Alfie is a dog. <strong>He implies connection without assuming knowledge. </strong>Through the wording you chose, you allow people to have the knowledge without assuming they necessarily know everything about you.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><h2>How often should you use stories in your emails?&nbsp;</h2><p>While you want to use stories in <em>most</em> emails, you don’t have to use them in <em>all</em> your emails. We don't use stories in the emails that are 'coming down the wire', such as the last email of a launch when the cart is about to close, for example. And we don't use stories in our 'seed emails', which are the ones we send at the very start of a new email campaign.&nbsp;</p><h2>Learn how to use storytelling in your email marketing inside The League</h2><p>If you want to learn our entire story framework and look at all the email campaigns we teach inside our membership that include stories, come and join us! You get access to our full training on our Bottomless Email Strategy and all our email campaigns. Plus, you learn how to write emails that convert like crazy inside our membership<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>This week’s subject line is “Cash withdrawal (declined).” This one's interesting because people want to know what happened. Did Rob have no money? It sounds like the sort of juicy, negative subject line that works and sells, just like in the news.</p><p>And this email was about the fact that everyone thinks of their email list as this cash machine they can just ‘withdraw cash from’. But actually, most people find that not to be the case. And our email shared how to fix that. So check that out!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/marketing-is-storytelling-comedian-kevin-rogers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Comedian’s Secrets to Storytelling – With Kevin Rogers</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-copywriting-mistakes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Biggest Mistakes You’re Making With Your Email Marketing Copywriting</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/buyer-psychology-email/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Get Your Customers To Buy Using Buyer Psychology In Email Marketing</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3>Join our FREE Facebook group</h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The League Membership</h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about email marketing and storytelling) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-storytelling/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">d8ce43e4-caec-418e-a194-9ba32f20d9b1</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/3529e698-78ab-4cab-9d73-33417bb73dd8/5ELRtyBrJIp3Tu3KHQLerg7f.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/dd730d7b-7717-4f22-aeb5-29874bd1f261/208-Final.mp3" length="46099456" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>19:12</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>208</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>208</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/04bfb948-8f2d-4645-9987-d402a04300fd/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How To Achieve A Successful Launch - With Melissa Litchfield</title><itunes:title>How To Achieve A Successful Launch - With Melissa Litchfield</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Did you just launch a new membership, course, or programme? Was it a successful launch? Or did you not hit your targets? You're probably looking at the sales and revenue you made, but what about all the other metrics? You could have a traffic problem, an issue with your offer, or perhaps with your conversion. But how do you find out?</p><p>Our guest Melissa Litchfield tells us<em> exactly</em> what metrics we need to look at and what they all mean.</p><p>Ready to find out?</p><p>Let's go!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:13) Want a FREE resource to get more clicks on your emails? Check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Click Tricks</a>.</p><p>(3:20) Did Melissa really cry for one hour when one of her favourite Nemo slippers got covered in vomit?</p><p>(5:39) How can you tell if your launch was successful?</p><p>(8:08) What's hiding behind your numbers?</p><p>(9:41) What metrics help you decide whether your webinar was successful?</p><p>(14:39) What about your email metrics?</p><p>(17:33) Remove friction and make buying from you easy!</p><p>(20:44) Ask for one action at the time.</p><p>(22:00) Should you focus on your email list growth?</p><p>(28:10) Subject line of the week with Melissa Litchfield.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>How can you tell if your launch was successful?&nbsp;</h2><p>Our friend Melissa helps people with launches, and more often than not, her clients will tell her they had a 'failed launch' because they only made a certain amount of sales. They’re looking at the end result, i.e. the revenue or how many students or members they brought into their program. But that's not all there is to it!</p><p>And that's why Melissa asks a lot of questions about what went on <em>during</em> the launch. For example, how many people showed up live at your webinar? How many dropped off within the first 5 minutes? If a lot of people do, then you might have a 'hook' issue. How many people stayed until the end of the webinar, and how many spots of your program did you sell live?</p><p>When you're making sales on a live webinar, it means you're hitting your audience's pain points and helping them see that you've got the perfect solution for them. But if you find you didn't sell a lot of spots, then maybe you need to re-work your pitch.</p><p>And if your webinar was absolutely perfect, great! But what about your email metrics? What are your open rates and click-through rates like? Did enough people open your emails? And did at least 2% of them click through to the offer page? <strong>It's only when you're able to look at several steps within your funnel and your email sequence that you can fully nail down what you need to tweak or fix to have a more successful launch next time.</strong></p><h2>What's hiding behind your numbers?</h2><p>If you feel you didn't make enough sales because you didn't have enough people on your webinar, how many people had registered? If that number's less than 100, maybe you have a traffic issue. And that means you need a bigger pool of people signing up for your free event.</p><p>Often, Melissa finds, you'll have multiple things happening within your sales funnel, so it's important you don't just look at the end result and the money that was generated. You've probably spent a lot of time preparing for a launch, and if it doesn't go the way you'd hoped, it doesn't mean you've wasted your efforts. You might have a messaging problem on your sales page, for example. You just need to know what needs tweaking so you can improve your funnel and make more sales in your next launch.</p><h2>What metrics help you decide whether your webinar was successful?</h2><p>One of the first things Melissa asks her clients when checking whether they had a successful launch is how many people were registered for the webinar or other 'hype event', such as a masterclass or a challenge. Once you know that, you can start diving into the metrics of the live event. For example:</p><ul><li>What was the engagement rate?</li><li>How many people showed up for the event?</li><li>How much did you make per person? I.e. what were your 'earnings per registrant'? You can work this out by dividing how much you made in your launch by the number of people who registered for your webinar.&nbsp;</li><li>And how many people dropped off within the first 5 minutes?</li></ul><br/><p>One thing worth pointing out, Melissa says, is that metrics do change when her clients automate their webinars and make them evergreen after having a couple of successful launches. In Melissa's experience, running traffic to a recorded webinar can create different results.&nbsp;</p><h2>What about your email metrics?</h2><p>When it comes to evaluating email metrics, open rates and click-through rates are important. <strong>For a live successful launch, the typical click-through rate on a sale email is between 2-6%. </strong>But you may need to lower your expectations for automated webinars, where the excitement and engagement aren't as high because there's no active set time after which the cart is closing.</p><p>Your click-through rate gives you an indication of how strong your offer is, but there are other things to look at. For example, what's your call to action? Are you giving people something for free to download? Or is it a paid offer? And if so, is it clear that they have to pay? If you don't make that clear, you might have a high click-through rate but also a high abandonment rate because people decide not to go through and buy.</p><p>Often, increasing your click-through rate can be as easy as sending super engaging storytelling-type emails that speak to your audience. Make sure people resonate with your message and show them not only that you have the perfect solution for them, but also that you've helped others in the same situation (social proof).&nbsp;</p><h2>Remove friction and make buying from you easy!&nbsp;</h2><p>Webinars or challenges typically have multiple steps that we push people through. And the truth is that <strong>there is potential for people to drop off at every step of the process. But this also means you also have an opportunity to optimise your funnel.</strong></p><p>A few years ago, for example, we hosted a 5-day challenge in a Facebook group. Without thinking too much about it, we introduced a small step between people registering for the challenge and them getting into the Facebook group. And while that didn't seem like a big deal, it crippled the number of people who actually got into the challenge!</p><p>So don't do what we did. Instead, <strong>make it super simple for people to register and implement a one-click registration process</strong>, especially if you’re driving existing subscribers to a new challenge or webinar. And for your new subscribers, think of creating some sort of video on a Thank You page where people can just click on a button and join your Facebook group. Let them know that the content they’re looking for is to be hosted in a separate group, and all they have to do is click and join.</p><p>A piece of software that Melissa recommends using for this is called URLgenius. Instead of sending people to a separate browser where they'd be asked to sign into their Facebook account (which could be a barrier), you can create a link that opens their Facebook app. So<strong> think of anything you can do to remove barriers, reduce friction, and make it as easy as possible for someone to go from registrant to challenger.</strong> Because every time you add a step, you're potentially creating friction and causing people to leave the process.&nbsp;</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><h2>Ask for one action at a time</h2><p>We always ask our subscribers to take a lot of action, don't we? We might want them to join a Facebook group, take a survey to find out what they’re currently struggling with, whitelist our email address so our emails don’t go into spam, etc. So do these things one by one to avoid putting people off.&nbsp;</p><p>When you're giving people something for free, for example (such as a download that people can consume whenever it's convenient to them) it's a less 'taxing' demand on their time than asking them to register for a 60-minute live webinar that they need to attend at a specific date and time. And while there’s an intent to consume the content and eventually buy, there are only so many things that people can process at any one time.</p><p>So when you're asking your subscribers to do something, remember that everyone else is also doing email marketing. People are being asked to do things from all over the place! <strong>Your job is to reduce friction so people take the action <em>you</em> want.</strong> So if you need someone to register for a webinar but also want them to fill in a survey because that’s part of your process, make sure that one thing leads to the next, rather than them all being asked at once.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><h2>Should you focus on your email list growth?</h2><p>So when you're evaluating whether you had a successful launch, take a step back. <strong>Don't just focus on the end number - look at where the bottleneck is. Are there any issues or steps you can optimise?</strong></p><p>Melissa finds that often her clients don't have a big enough pool of people in their audience – there simply aren’t enough registrants to make the sales that you want to make. And that means you have a<em> traffic</em> problem, rather than a conversion rate problem. Plus, in order to fully evaluate a situation, you need data. Sometimes it comes down to the numbers at the top of the funnel. And it's only when you get to the bottom of the funnel that the percentages and the data come in.</p><p>In simplistic terms, if you want 100 people watching your webinar or joining your challenge, and you have a 10% conversion rate, you'll need at least 1k people to see your sales page. And in order to...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Did you just launch a new membership, course, or programme? Was it a successful launch? Or did you not hit your targets? You're probably looking at the sales and revenue you made, but what about all the other metrics? You could have a traffic problem, an issue with your offer, or perhaps with your conversion. But how do you find out?</p><p>Our guest Melissa Litchfield tells us<em> exactly</em> what metrics we need to look at and what they all mean.</p><p>Ready to find out?</p><p>Let's go!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:13) Want a FREE resource to get more clicks on your emails? Check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Click Tricks</a>.</p><p>(3:20) Did Melissa really cry for one hour when one of her favourite Nemo slippers got covered in vomit?</p><p>(5:39) How can you tell if your launch was successful?</p><p>(8:08) What's hiding behind your numbers?</p><p>(9:41) What metrics help you decide whether your webinar was successful?</p><p>(14:39) What about your email metrics?</p><p>(17:33) Remove friction and make buying from you easy!</p><p>(20:44) Ask for one action at the time.</p><p>(22:00) Should you focus on your email list growth?</p><p>(28:10) Subject line of the week with Melissa Litchfield.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>How can you tell if your launch was successful?&nbsp;</h2><p>Our friend Melissa helps people with launches, and more often than not, her clients will tell her they had a 'failed launch' because they only made a certain amount of sales. They’re looking at the end result, i.e. the revenue or how many students or members they brought into their program. But that's not all there is to it!</p><p>And that's why Melissa asks a lot of questions about what went on <em>during</em> the launch. For example, how many people showed up live at your webinar? How many dropped off within the first 5 minutes? If a lot of people do, then you might have a 'hook' issue. How many people stayed until the end of the webinar, and how many spots of your program did you sell live?</p><p>When you're making sales on a live webinar, it means you're hitting your audience's pain points and helping them see that you've got the perfect solution for them. But if you find you didn't sell a lot of spots, then maybe you need to re-work your pitch.</p><p>And if your webinar was absolutely perfect, great! But what about your email metrics? What are your open rates and click-through rates like? Did enough people open your emails? And did at least 2% of them click through to the offer page? <strong>It's only when you're able to look at several steps within your funnel and your email sequence that you can fully nail down what you need to tweak or fix to have a more successful launch next time.</strong></p><h2>What's hiding behind your numbers?</h2><p>If you feel you didn't make enough sales because you didn't have enough people on your webinar, how many people had registered? If that number's less than 100, maybe you have a traffic issue. And that means you need a bigger pool of people signing up for your free event.</p><p>Often, Melissa finds, you'll have multiple things happening within your sales funnel, so it's important you don't just look at the end result and the money that was generated. You've probably spent a lot of time preparing for a launch, and if it doesn't go the way you'd hoped, it doesn't mean you've wasted your efforts. You might have a messaging problem on your sales page, for example. You just need to know what needs tweaking so you can improve your funnel and make more sales in your next launch.</p><h2>What metrics help you decide whether your webinar was successful?</h2><p>One of the first things Melissa asks her clients when checking whether they had a successful launch is how many people were registered for the webinar or other 'hype event', such as a masterclass or a challenge. Once you know that, you can start diving into the metrics of the live event. For example:</p><ul><li>What was the engagement rate?</li><li>How many people showed up for the event?</li><li>How much did you make per person? I.e. what were your 'earnings per registrant'? You can work this out by dividing how much you made in your launch by the number of people who registered for your webinar.&nbsp;</li><li>And how many people dropped off within the first 5 minutes?</li></ul><br/><p>One thing worth pointing out, Melissa says, is that metrics do change when her clients automate their webinars and make them evergreen after having a couple of successful launches. In Melissa's experience, running traffic to a recorded webinar can create different results.&nbsp;</p><h2>What about your email metrics?</h2><p>When it comes to evaluating email metrics, open rates and click-through rates are important. <strong>For a live successful launch, the typical click-through rate on a sale email is between 2-6%. </strong>But you may need to lower your expectations for automated webinars, where the excitement and engagement aren't as high because there's no active set time after which the cart is closing.</p><p>Your click-through rate gives you an indication of how strong your offer is, but there are other things to look at. For example, what's your call to action? Are you giving people something for free to download? Or is it a paid offer? And if so, is it clear that they have to pay? If you don't make that clear, you might have a high click-through rate but also a high abandonment rate because people decide not to go through and buy.</p><p>Often, increasing your click-through rate can be as easy as sending super engaging storytelling-type emails that speak to your audience. Make sure people resonate with your message and show them not only that you have the perfect solution for them, but also that you've helped others in the same situation (social proof).&nbsp;</p><h2>Remove friction and make buying from you easy!&nbsp;</h2><p>Webinars or challenges typically have multiple steps that we push people through. And the truth is that <strong>there is potential for people to drop off at every step of the process. But this also means you also have an opportunity to optimise your funnel.</strong></p><p>A few years ago, for example, we hosted a 5-day challenge in a Facebook group. Without thinking too much about it, we introduced a small step between people registering for the challenge and them getting into the Facebook group. And while that didn't seem like a big deal, it crippled the number of people who actually got into the challenge!</p><p>So don't do what we did. Instead, <strong>make it super simple for people to register and implement a one-click registration process</strong>, especially if you’re driving existing subscribers to a new challenge or webinar. And for your new subscribers, think of creating some sort of video on a Thank You page where people can just click on a button and join your Facebook group. Let them know that the content they’re looking for is to be hosted in a separate group, and all they have to do is click and join.</p><p>A piece of software that Melissa recommends using for this is called URLgenius. Instead of sending people to a separate browser where they'd be asked to sign into their Facebook account (which could be a barrier), you can create a link that opens their Facebook app. So<strong> think of anything you can do to remove barriers, reduce friction, and make it as easy as possible for someone to go from registrant to challenger.</strong> Because every time you add a step, you're potentially creating friction and causing people to leave the process.&nbsp;</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><h2>Ask for one action at a time</h2><p>We always ask our subscribers to take a lot of action, don't we? We might want them to join a Facebook group, take a survey to find out what they’re currently struggling with, whitelist our email address so our emails don’t go into spam, etc. So do these things one by one to avoid putting people off.&nbsp;</p><p>When you're giving people something for free, for example (such as a download that people can consume whenever it's convenient to them) it's a less 'taxing' demand on their time than asking them to register for a 60-minute live webinar that they need to attend at a specific date and time. And while there’s an intent to consume the content and eventually buy, there are only so many things that people can process at any one time.</p><p>So when you're asking your subscribers to do something, remember that everyone else is also doing email marketing. People are being asked to do things from all over the place! <strong>Your job is to reduce friction so people take the action <em>you</em> want.</strong> So if you need someone to register for a webinar but also want them to fill in a survey because that’s part of your process, make sure that one thing leads to the next, rather than them all being asked at once.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><h2>Should you focus on your email list growth?</h2><p>So when you're evaluating whether you had a successful launch, take a step back. <strong>Don't just focus on the end number - look at where the bottleneck is. Are there any issues or steps you can optimise?</strong></p><p>Melissa finds that often her clients don't have a big enough pool of people in their audience – there simply aren’t enough registrants to make the sales that you want to make. And that means you have a<em> traffic</em> problem, rather than a conversion rate problem. Plus, in order to fully evaluate a situation, you need data. Sometimes it comes down to the numbers at the top of the funnel. And it's only when you get to the bottom of the funnel that the percentages and the data come in.</p><p>In simplistic terms, if you want 100 people watching your webinar or joining your challenge, and you have a 10% conversion rate, you'll need at least 1k people to see your sales page. And in order to get 1k impressions on your page, you may want 10k people to see your ad. So<strong> reverse engineer the process based on the targets you want to hit.</strong></p><p>And often, in order to hit your sales targets, you'll have to first grow your list. If your audience stays the same with every launch, then you're missing an opportunity. So focus on that during the nurture phase, while you prepare for your launch.&nbsp;</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>A subject line that has worked well for Melissa is “Why I’m not joining another mastermind this year.” Why did people open her email? Because we all like gossip or intel! Melissa didn’t actually give the answer in the email, so she received some responses from people who wanted to know. Plus, the subject line is around a controversial topic because everyone seems to be joining masterminds, so why wouldn't she? Check it out!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>About Melissa</h3><p>Melissa and her agency specialise in helping course creators launch and skyrocket their course revenue with paid traffic and sales funnels. If you want to get in touch with Melissa and find out more about her digital advertising agency, head over to her<a href="https://litchfieldmedia.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> website</a> or check out her<a href="http://www.instagram.com/litchfieldmedia" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Instagram</a> or<a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@litchfieldmedia" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> TikTok</a> for some great tips.&nbsp;</p><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-build-a-pre-launch-email-list/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Small List Big Launch – With Gemma Bonham-Carter</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/sales-spike-launch/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Create 3 Big Sales Spikes During Your Launch with Mara Glazer</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/book-launch-email-marketing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Most Perfect Way To Launch &amp; Promote Your Business Book With Email Marketing</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3>Join our FREE Facebook group</h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The League Membership</h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to achieve your most successful launch EVER so you can hit your sales targets) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/successful-launch-melissa-litchfield/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">80338abc-3439-4b6f-91f2-82a03342a0e0</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/027b5ba7-4b60-4019-afeb-f3e4530ceffd/ElfIVhjSj5D0hNZejGZHgeOe.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/c3838401-f257-44d3-86fd-1e88ed990740/207-Final.mp3" length="71766976" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>29:54</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>207</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>207</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/6dc1548f-2d41-4b67-8d33-ae5b726edccb/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>The BEST Email Marketing Membership Retention Strategies</title><itunes:title>The BEST Email Marketing Membership Retention Strategies</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Are you a membership site owner who worries about how to keep your members interested and engaged so they never leave? Then you're about to find out <em>exactly</em> what membership retention strategies you can use to retain your members month after month.</p><p>We know you've worked really hard to get those people in, and we all feel sad when our members decide to cancel. So let's find out what you can do to stop people from ever wanting to leave and how your email marketing can help with that.</p><p>Let's go!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:21) Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook Group</a>.</p><p>(4:05) Why retaining members can feel like an uphill battle.</p><p>(8:00) Create an awesome onboarding sequence.</p><p>(10:51) Set the right expectations with your marketing.</p><p>(13:11) Create a level of community within your membership.</p><p>(15:18) How does email marketing help with retention in your membership?</p><p>(16:38) Don't stop with the marketing and offer an upgrade.</p><p>(22:20) How often should you email your members?</p><p>(25:02) Should you send your members a round-up newsletter?</p><p>(29:24) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>Why retaining members can feel like an uphill battle</h2><p>If you have a membership, you’ll see the number of active subscribers go up and down all the time, and that's normal. But when you see people starting to leave, naturally, you want to stop that from happening. So you start looking for strategies for retention. When we started our membership,<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>, we definitely made the mistake of focusing on retention too soon and too quickly.</p><p>Why? Because retention strategies (if employed too soon and before you have a good number of members) are small needle movers. Sure, you can always think of things to do to help your members stay, but the maximum amount of money you'll ever be able to make if you only focus on retention is whatever those existing members are worth to you every month.</p><p>But if you focus on gaining more members instead, then there’s no ceiling to how much you can make. There's certainly one on retaining members, but<strong> there's no ceiling on growth.</strong> And that’s why you have a membership in the first place, right? Because it’s <em>scalable</em>. <strong>You'll have more gains by focusing on growth, so you need to work on acquisition <em>first</em>, and <em>then</em> you start looking at membership retention strategies.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>Remember - <strong>selling is the bigger lever you have to grow your business</strong>. But also, the more data you have (and you’ll have more data when you acquire more members), the more you’ll know what’s working and what you need to tweak as a result.</p><h2>What are some best practices for retaining members?&nbsp;</h2><h3>1. Create an awesome onboarding sequence</h3><p>If you find that people are joining your membership and immediately asking for a refund or cancelling after seeing the content, then you need to address that first. This isn't a retention problem - it's an <em>onboarding</em> problem. Because as soon as people join, you want them to enjoy themselves and find what they’re supposed to find.</p><p>So the first thing we recommend you do is to create <em>the best</em> onboarding sequence you can. You want people to have a good experience and not feel overwhelmed by all the content you have. What's the first thing you want them to do? Let them know by <strong>creating an email sequence that orientates them, welcomes them, and <em>resells</em> your membership.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>If you want to find out more, head over to the episode,<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/onboarding-sequence-memberships/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> How To Create A Member Onboarding Sequence That Your Members Will Love</a>. And, as we said before, remember that <strong>when people first join your membership, they’re not <em>members</em> yet.</strong> They might still leave within the first month or so - by cancelling and asking for a refund. So you still have to get them over the psychological hurdle of going from being a <em>new customer</em> to being <em>a member</em>. And a great onboarding sequence will help with that.&nbsp;</p><h3>2. Set the right expectations with your marketing</h3><p>The next thing you need to do is to ensure that you set the right expectations with your marketing. For example, we could sell our membership by promising people they would turn into billionaires by tomorrow. And that might drive up our front-end conversions, but it would really damage our retention because that's not how email marketing works! So that's not what we should promise (and we don't) because if people joined based on that promise, they would cancel and ask for refunds very quickly.&nbsp;</p><p>So we do the opposite. We tell people the truth - email marketing isn’t a quick fix! But we are also clear on what can happen 3, 6, or 12 months down the line if people join and choose to do the work. So before someone's even made the decision to join (pre-sale) <strong>we're using our emails and our sales pages to set the right expectations.</strong> We tell them they're going to want to do email marketing for a long time and ask them to hang around.</p><h3>3. Create a level of community within your membership</h3><p>We'll caveat this one by saying that creating a community might help with your retention, but if it's not your style, it's not the be-all-end-all. We've all heard the saying that people join your membership for the outcome and then 'stay for the community'. But that’s a very broad and sweeping statement. Maybe community isn't your strongest point or what your membership is all about! Maybe you run a results-driven membership instead, and that's okay.</p><p>So if community is your bag, by all means, create one. But also be mindful of the fact that<strong> people want to get results. And if they don’t, they’ll probably leave, despite how good the community is. </strong>Let's also remember that the world is changing – human beings have changed. We are more impatient and have lower attention spans than ever. We want to get results <em>right now</em>.</p><p>People won't keep paying you without getting any results just because they don’t want to lose their friends! With social media, everyone’s connected in multiple platforms and ways, so no one really loses a community when they leave a membership. So if you want, create one. But it’s not all going to hang on that.</p><h2>How does email marketing help retention in your membership?&nbsp;</h2><p>One of the things we love about email is that it gives you a consistent way to show people the value of your membership even if they haven't logged in for a while. <strong>Email marketing will help you resell your membership. </strong>Because it allows you to keep in touch with your members regularly in a bunch of different ways.</p><p>It could be to let them know that something new has landed and invite them to go and take a look. Or it could be a weekly roundup (something we do on a Saturday and that we'll dive into a bit more later). With email, you can <strong>direct people to specific content and things happening inside the membership so they get engaged with it and think that the membership is and continues to be valuable.</strong> It’s a weird trick that the mind does - even if you don't look at the content or use it regularly, you know you have it there for when you need it.</p><h3>Don't stop with the marketing!</h3><p>Also, remember that one of the reasons that got people excited to join your membership in the first place is the marketing you did – the promise of what’s inside. So don’t turn it off. Even if some people aren't consuming the content and doing the work, don’t stop with the marketing.</p><p>And one of the ways we do that is by <strong>talking about member wins. </strong>We share our members’ stories to keep our existing members motivated if they haven’t got quite as far as others yet. And if some people haven’t logged in or haven't had the chance to do the work yet, it shows them what’s possible. It might even get them excited and motivated to get back on the wagon.</p><p>So <strong>keep reminding people that your membership works.</strong> And even if someone decides to leave because they’re not making the time to take action, at least you know they’re not leaving because your solution doesn’t work. That way you won’t create any bad press for yourself. Show your members' wins and remind others that when they take action, your solution works. In turn, that motivates them to go and get results, which is what you (and they) want.</p><h3>Offer an upgrade</h3><p>Another thing we like to do is to offer some kind of upgrade from the membership. When people buy from you again (because they've just upgraded to something else or have bought an additional thing), they feel renewed excitement and passion. For example, can you offer an annual plan to your pay-monthly members? Or can you invite people to upgrade to a different level of membership, or to join a mastermind or some sort of accelerator level?</p><p>These are good membership retention strategies because they allow you to <strong>recharge and reinvigorate your members’ passion for what you teach.</strong> And that’s important because people don't necessarily <em>choose</em> to keep paying you every month – it’s more that you take the money from them. And that's different because it's something passive - something that happens because they didn't make the active decision to cancel.</p><p>But when they’re<em> actively</em> buying from you again, they feel excitement. Think about it – you don’t feel excited when you see]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you a membership site owner who worries about how to keep your members interested and engaged so they never leave? Then you're about to find out <em>exactly</em> what membership retention strategies you can use to retain your members month after month.</p><p>We know you've worked really hard to get those people in, and we all feel sad when our members decide to cancel. So let's find out what you can do to stop people from ever wanting to leave and how your email marketing can help with that.</p><p>Let's go!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:21) Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook Group</a>.</p><p>(4:05) Why retaining members can feel like an uphill battle.</p><p>(8:00) Create an awesome onboarding sequence.</p><p>(10:51) Set the right expectations with your marketing.</p><p>(13:11) Create a level of community within your membership.</p><p>(15:18) How does email marketing help with retention in your membership?</p><p>(16:38) Don't stop with the marketing and offer an upgrade.</p><p>(22:20) How often should you email your members?</p><p>(25:02) Should you send your members a round-up newsletter?</p><p>(29:24) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>Why retaining members can feel like an uphill battle</h2><p>If you have a membership, you’ll see the number of active subscribers go up and down all the time, and that's normal. But when you see people starting to leave, naturally, you want to stop that from happening. So you start looking for strategies for retention. When we started our membership,<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>, we definitely made the mistake of focusing on retention too soon and too quickly.</p><p>Why? Because retention strategies (if employed too soon and before you have a good number of members) are small needle movers. Sure, you can always think of things to do to help your members stay, but the maximum amount of money you'll ever be able to make if you only focus on retention is whatever those existing members are worth to you every month.</p><p>But if you focus on gaining more members instead, then there’s no ceiling to how much you can make. There's certainly one on retaining members, but<strong> there's no ceiling on growth.</strong> And that’s why you have a membership in the first place, right? Because it’s <em>scalable</em>. <strong>You'll have more gains by focusing on growth, so you need to work on acquisition <em>first</em>, and <em>then</em> you start looking at membership retention strategies.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>Remember - <strong>selling is the bigger lever you have to grow your business</strong>. But also, the more data you have (and you’ll have more data when you acquire more members), the more you’ll know what’s working and what you need to tweak as a result.</p><h2>What are some best practices for retaining members?&nbsp;</h2><h3>1. Create an awesome onboarding sequence</h3><p>If you find that people are joining your membership and immediately asking for a refund or cancelling after seeing the content, then you need to address that first. This isn't a retention problem - it's an <em>onboarding</em> problem. Because as soon as people join, you want them to enjoy themselves and find what they’re supposed to find.</p><p>So the first thing we recommend you do is to create <em>the best</em> onboarding sequence you can. You want people to have a good experience and not feel overwhelmed by all the content you have. What's the first thing you want them to do? Let them know by <strong>creating an email sequence that orientates them, welcomes them, and <em>resells</em> your membership.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>If you want to find out more, head over to the episode,<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/onboarding-sequence-memberships/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> How To Create A Member Onboarding Sequence That Your Members Will Love</a>. And, as we said before, remember that <strong>when people first join your membership, they’re not <em>members</em> yet.</strong> They might still leave within the first month or so - by cancelling and asking for a refund. So you still have to get them over the psychological hurdle of going from being a <em>new customer</em> to being <em>a member</em>. And a great onboarding sequence will help with that.&nbsp;</p><h3>2. Set the right expectations with your marketing</h3><p>The next thing you need to do is to ensure that you set the right expectations with your marketing. For example, we could sell our membership by promising people they would turn into billionaires by tomorrow. And that might drive up our front-end conversions, but it would really damage our retention because that's not how email marketing works! So that's not what we should promise (and we don't) because if people joined based on that promise, they would cancel and ask for refunds very quickly.&nbsp;</p><p>So we do the opposite. We tell people the truth - email marketing isn’t a quick fix! But we are also clear on what can happen 3, 6, or 12 months down the line if people join and choose to do the work. So before someone's even made the decision to join (pre-sale) <strong>we're using our emails and our sales pages to set the right expectations.</strong> We tell them they're going to want to do email marketing for a long time and ask them to hang around.</p><h3>3. Create a level of community within your membership</h3><p>We'll caveat this one by saying that creating a community might help with your retention, but if it's not your style, it's not the be-all-end-all. We've all heard the saying that people join your membership for the outcome and then 'stay for the community'. But that’s a very broad and sweeping statement. Maybe community isn't your strongest point or what your membership is all about! Maybe you run a results-driven membership instead, and that's okay.</p><p>So if community is your bag, by all means, create one. But also be mindful of the fact that<strong> people want to get results. And if they don’t, they’ll probably leave, despite how good the community is. </strong>Let's also remember that the world is changing – human beings have changed. We are more impatient and have lower attention spans than ever. We want to get results <em>right now</em>.</p><p>People won't keep paying you without getting any results just because they don’t want to lose their friends! With social media, everyone’s connected in multiple platforms and ways, so no one really loses a community when they leave a membership. So if you want, create one. But it’s not all going to hang on that.</p><h2>How does email marketing help retention in your membership?&nbsp;</h2><p>One of the things we love about email is that it gives you a consistent way to show people the value of your membership even if they haven't logged in for a while. <strong>Email marketing will help you resell your membership. </strong>Because it allows you to keep in touch with your members regularly in a bunch of different ways.</p><p>It could be to let them know that something new has landed and invite them to go and take a look. Or it could be a weekly roundup (something we do on a Saturday and that we'll dive into a bit more later). With email, you can <strong>direct people to specific content and things happening inside the membership so they get engaged with it and think that the membership is and continues to be valuable.</strong> It’s a weird trick that the mind does - even if you don't look at the content or use it regularly, you know you have it there for when you need it.</p><h3>Don't stop with the marketing!</h3><p>Also, remember that one of the reasons that got people excited to join your membership in the first place is the marketing you did – the promise of what’s inside. So don’t turn it off. Even if some people aren't consuming the content and doing the work, don’t stop with the marketing.</p><p>And one of the ways we do that is by <strong>talking about member wins. </strong>We share our members’ stories to keep our existing members motivated if they haven’t got quite as far as others yet. And if some people haven’t logged in or haven't had the chance to do the work yet, it shows them what’s possible. It might even get them excited and motivated to get back on the wagon.</p><p>So <strong>keep reminding people that your membership works.</strong> And even if someone decides to leave because they’re not making the time to take action, at least you know they’re not leaving because your solution doesn’t work. That way you won’t create any bad press for yourself. Show your members' wins and remind others that when they take action, your solution works. In turn, that motivates them to go and get results, which is what you (and they) want.</p><h3>Offer an upgrade</h3><p>Another thing we like to do is to offer some kind of upgrade from the membership. When people buy from you again (because they've just upgraded to something else or have bought an additional thing), they feel renewed excitement and passion. For example, can you offer an annual plan to your pay-monthly members? Or can you invite people to upgrade to a different level of membership, or to join a mastermind or some sort of accelerator level?</p><p>These are good membership retention strategies because they allow you to <strong>recharge and reinvigorate your members’ passion for what you teach.</strong> And that’s important because people don't necessarily <em>choose</em> to keep paying you every month – it’s more that you take the money from them. And that's different because it's something passive - something that happens because they didn't make the active decision to cancel.</p><p>But when they’re<em> actively</em> buying from you again, they feel excitement. Think about it – you don’t feel excited when you see your monthly bill and all the subscriptions that come out of your account! But if you get an opportunity to buy something new or upgrade to something better, then you’ll feel good about it again.</p><p>And this also helps people further cement their identity as members because they’re investing more in order to be in your upgraded offer. They're taking your membership to the next level, and they know it.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>How often should you email your members?</h2><p>We see both ends of the spectrum here – people who email<em> all the time</em> and people who <em>never</em> email because they’re too worried about their members leaving. When it comes to our business, we’ve definitely done too much emailing but never too little. And now we’ve settled on <strong>two emails a week</strong> once people have gone through our onboarding sequence.</p><p>Our members get an email on the day of a live session most Wednesdays and then our round-up email every Saturday. That’s where we tell everyone what’s new and what’s coming up in a very strict, newsletter-type format. Both those emails are very formulaic and based on a template that gets sent out automatically every week. We do that to <strong>invite people to pay attention.</strong></p><p>And if there’s anything else going on (like a quarterly members award event, for example), we’ll email them separately and send that email in addition to our regular ones.</p><h2>Should you send your members a round-up newsletter?&nbsp;</h2><p>The roundup email is one of the membership retention strategies we use, and we suggest that, if you send one out, you think of it that way. We review the format of ours every 6-8 weeks to try and understand how we can use it more strategically. Because<strong> the newsletter has to serve <em>you</em> as a business – not just serve the members.</strong></p><p>So what can you include in your round-up email?</p><ul><li>Your latest piece of content or training. Give people a reason to log in and go and see what's new.&nbsp;</li><li>Celebrate wins and talk about what people achieve by being members. Show growth because people like to be part of something that's growing (who wants to be in something that's dwindling away?) When people are committed, they feel good and enthusiastic.</li><li>Let your members know that they can refer your membership to others by thanking those who have done so already.</li></ul><br/><p>Obviously, always give people the option to opt out (and only from this email, rather than all your communication) because not everyone wants to receive the round-up email every week.</p><h2>Check out our email marketing retention strategies inside The League</h2><p>So there are two different ways you can use email marketing to increase retention in your membership:</p><ul><li>Pre-sales, with the marketing you do to get the <em>right</em> people in. Remember that it's often better to have a slightly lower conversion rate upfront than to have lots of people joining and then leaving really quickly.</li><li>And on the flip side of that, once people are members, use email to make them stick around. How do you make them identify as members to the point that it'd feel like their lives would be a bit empty if they were to leave your membership?</li></ul><br/><p>If you want to find out more about this, have a look at the campaigns inside our membership<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>. You can check out our onboarding automation, look at the membership retention strategies we have in there, and grab the campaigns for them. It's as easy as that!</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>This week’s subject line is something we’ve mentioned before because it’s a classic, and it’s “Kennedy’s vacuum cleaner is a dick”.</p><p>Continuing our trend of having subject lines that break the mold, the story was that Kennedy got himself a new cleaning robot. But it looks like the thing has a bit of a personality of its own (or a personality disorder, if you ask Kennedy). So that was the unusual story that prompted the subject line. Check it out!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/membership-the-league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Everything You Need To Know About Our Membership The League (THE Behind The Scenes!)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/why-retention-is-important-for-memberships/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why Retention is Important for your Membership, with Liz Beadon</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-paying-members/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">What Emails Should You Send Your Paying Members? with Mike and Callie from Membership Geeks</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3>Join our FREE Facebook group</h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The League Membership</h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about membership retention strategies with email) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/membership-retention-strategies/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">a1ff6180-3fb2-4965-94b3-9f9b46bd8d73</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/2a7a15d6-68bc-4e93-bbb8-866d3ec3514d/fCVBmyhc05cjWlS13ghUhqNB.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/73911323-3778-4401-a555-498cee3f3c8b/206-Final-v2.mp3" length="74825536" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>31:11</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>206</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>206</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/a1b98ca4-10ec-4914-a011-9e3a300e3285/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How To Create  A Successful Re-Engagement Email Campaign</title><itunes:title>How To Create  A Successful Re-Engagement Email Campaign</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Are your subscribers not interacting with your emails? Are they not clicking on your links and buying from you? Is it time to launch a re-engagement email campaign? What does that even do anyway?&nbsp;</p><p>Let's find out, shall we?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:15) Want a FREE resource to get more clicks on your emails? Check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Click Tricks</a>.</p><p>(4:00) Have you been neglecting your email list?</p><p>(7:03) Collect some data before you launch a re-engagement campaign.</p><p>(7:36) Focus on clicks - not open rates!</p><p>(10:05) Are people disengaged from your list?&nbsp;</p><p>(11:15) What to include in your re-engagement email campaign.</p><p>(13:30) Why you should get rid of those who don't engage.</p><p>(15:22) Don't be afraid of deleting subscribers from your list!</p><p>(16:32) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>Have you been neglecting your email list?&nbsp;</h2><p>A lot of people who start working with us admit they've been neglecting their email list for a while. This happens a lot, to a lot of marketers, and for a lot of different reasons.</p><p>But the good news is that we've got a campaign for that exact scenario. It's called The Terrible Friend, and it works like this: <strong>you show up and tell your subscribers that you've been a terrible friend.</strong> Because you know that people on your list get value from the topic you teach, but you've still gone and ignored them. So you tell them that the plan going forward is to email them regularly. You'll email on specific days of the week (ideally every day) with valuable information.</p><p>And the important bit about this campaign is that you give them a blatant way of saying no. If they’ve moved on and are no longer interested in your solution, you give them the option to click on a link and remove themselves from your email list (i.e. to opt out). Because chances are that if you haven't emailed in a while, some people have forgotten who you are.</p><p>And that makes sense. <strong>If you haven't emailed anyone for ages, launching this campaign gives you the opportunity to step things up and start emailing regularly again.</strong> So be humble and admit it's you who didn't get in touch. People will relate and connect with the human element of this mistake.</p><h3>Collect some data before you launch a re-engagement campaign</h3><p>If you haven't emailed your list in a while, you haven't really been in a position for your subscribers to disengage. So before you launch a re-engagement email campaign, you want to send some emails and collect some data.&nbsp;</p><p>We recommend you gather at least one month of data from the emails you send (especially if you email daily) as this will give you a good indication of where people are after you’ve ignored them for ages. You do this to find out whether people are opening your emails and clicking on your links.</p><h2>Focus on clicks - not open rates!</h2><p>When you look at your data, focus on clicks rather than open rates. Because Apple and Android are blocking what they’re allowing to be reported back to the email marketing platforms. For example, Apple might mark all of your emails as <em>open</em> while Android may make it look like <em>none</em> of your emails were delivered.<strong> Technology is always changing, and you can't rely on open rates</strong> - not on a contact-by-contact basis.</p><p>But by looking at clicks, you can decide to re-engage the people who haven't been engaging and delete those who are no longer interested. There's one downside to clicks though. Some larger corporations use <em>phishing protection</em> <em>antivirus systems</em> to make sure the email lists their employees sign up to are safe. This piece of software clicks on the links in your emails and checks where the page goes. So to you, it looks like a click from a human being, but it's not.&nbsp;</p><p>Having said that, there's a way around this. We use a bit of technology inside our Automate Hero suite of tools (included for free in our membership<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>) that lets us know that a real person was on our website for a bunch of seconds. And we know that’s a human being because a bot would click on the link and come back out in about one second. But if someone stays on the page for 8-9 seconds, we know they're an actual person. We call this ‘proof of life’ because it tells us that there's a real individual behind the email address. And if they click on our links, it's likely they still want to keep hearing from us.&nbsp;</p><h2>Are people disengaged from your list?</h2><p>Once you start emailing regularly again, you want to check that people are clicking on the links inside your emails. And to do that, you need to include links that people can actually click on!&nbsp;</p><p>As a side note, let's not forget that when people click on the<em> unsubscribe</em> link in your emails, that's still a click. And it counts towards your engagement, rather than it being logged as spam.&nbsp;</p><p>If people aren't clicking on your emails, you need to decide what disengagement means to you. You can set your own parameters (something that makes sense in your business), but for us (because we email every day) <strong>if someone hasn't clicked on a link in any 60-day period, we consider that person on the <em>verge of disengagement</em></strong>. And that’s when we start approaching with a re-engagement email campaign.</p><h2>What to include in your re-engagement email campaign?</h2><p>Our re-engagement email campaign should <em>not </em>sound like you're a needy boyfriend/girlfriend telling people they've not been paying attention to you. Instead, you want to give them a chance to re-engage, rather than inviting them to leave if they're no longer interested. (Don't do that just yet).</p><p>Our re-engagement email campaign, which we call the <strong>LOL Revival Campaign</strong>, is broken down into 3 phrases, which are designed to get people to click and engage with our content.&nbsp;</p><ul><li>L is for <em>learn</em>.</li><li>O is for <em>opinion</em>.</li><li>L is for <em>loss</em>.</li></ul><br/><p>In the first phase (<em>learn</em>) we tell people about a cool thing they can go and have a look at. And then in the second phase (<em>opinion</em>), we point them to something we’d like their opinion on. In other words, during these phases, we use different psychological hot buttons and triggers for people to start engaging with our emails again.</p><p>It's only after those two phases that we go into the <em>loss </em>phase, where we tell them we noticed they’ve not been paying attention for a while. Here's where you give them a polite opportunity to either opt back in and let you know they’re still interested or to tell you that you’re not for them anymore.</p><p>And that’s okay – because you don’t want to hold people hostage! <strong>There’s no point in having people on your email list that you're too scared to email in case they unsubscribe.</strong> Those you want on your list are the ones you feel you can email every day. Because if that's not the case, then you've got the wrong subscribers on your email list!</p><p>What’s really nice about having a re-engagement email campaign is that you can run them live and then automate them. We don’t run our campaigns live anymore.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>Why you should get rid of those who don't engage</h2><p>Re-engagement is a fundamental activity in your email marketing. Every time you send an email Gmail and the other service providers check how many people engage. If the percentage of people who <em>don’t</em> engage is high, Gmail and the likes are going to get the idea that your emails aren’t valuable. So they’re going to demote you from the Primary inbox and send you to the Promotions folder. And from there to the Spam folder until you potentially get blacklisted.</p><p>And that’s also true if people enter the wrong email address when they register or if they’re no longer using that email address (and you’re getting bounces). There’s also a scenario where you may have <em>spam traps</em> on your list. These are email addresses that were once real but are no longer valid and are used by service providers to identify senders who don't follow email best practices.</p><p>In a nutshell, <strong>not having an engaged email list damages your reputation as a sender.</strong> And the result is that the people who want to receive your emails won't get them. <strong>If your reputation is bad or you’ve been blacklisted, when someone tries to sign up for your email list because they want your lead magnet, they won’t get it!</strong> Because you haven't proved that you’re a good sender.</p><p>This means that your subscribers won't get your marketing. But also, potentially, your customers won't get their login details for your programme!</p><h2>Don't be afraid of deleting subscribers from your list!</h2><p>So make sure you have a re-engagement email campaign set up in your business. If people don't engage with you in X amount of days, give them a good chance to click on your links again and let you know they're still around. And if they don't, either stop emailing those people or (better still) remove them from your list.&nbsp;</p><p>That might sound a bit scary, but by doing that, you’ll immediately see an increase in your email deliverability. More people receiving your emails means more people open them, click on links, and buy - because they are actually seeing your marketing! You'll have a cleaner list and you'll be able to send love to it regularly. Trust us when we say this is a powerful way to increase your sales and your revenue.</p><p>[thrive_leads...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are your subscribers not interacting with your emails? Are they not clicking on your links and buying from you? Is it time to launch a re-engagement email campaign? What does that even do anyway?&nbsp;</p><p>Let's find out, shall we?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:15) Want a FREE resource to get more clicks on your emails? Check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Click Tricks</a>.</p><p>(4:00) Have you been neglecting your email list?</p><p>(7:03) Collect some data before you launch a re-engagement campaign.</p><p>(7:36) Focus on clicks - not open rates!</p><p>(10:05) Are people disengaged from your list?&nbsp;</p><p>(11:15) What to include in your re-engagement email campaign.</p><p>(13:30) Why you should get rid of those who don't engage.</p><p>(15:22) Don't be afraid of deleting subscribers from your list!</p><p>(16:32) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>Have you been neglecting your email list?&nbsp;</h2><p>A lot of people who start working with us admit they've been neglecting their email list for a while. This happens a lot, to a lot of marketers, and for a lot of different reasons.</p><p>But the good news is that we've got a campaign for that exact scenario. It's called The Terrible Friend, and it works like this: <strong>you show up and tell your subscribers that you've been a terrible friend.</strong> Because you know that people on your list get value from the topic you teach, but you've still gone and ignored them. So you tell them that the plan going forward is to email them regularly. You'll email on specific days of the week (ideally every day) with valuable information.</p><p>And the important bit about this campaign is that you give them a blatant way of saying no. If they’ve moved on and are no longer interested in your solution, you give them the option to click on a link and remove themselves from your email list (i.e. to opt out). Because chances are that if you haven't emailed in a while, some people have forgotten who you are.</p><p>And that makes sense. <strong>If you haven't emailed anyone for ages, launching this campaign gives you the opportunity to step things up and start emailing regularly again.</strong> So be humble and admit it's you who didn't get in touch. People will relate and connect with the human element of this mistake.</p><h3>Collect some data before you launch a re-engagement campaign</h3><p>If you haven't emailed your list in a while, you haven't really been in a position for your subscribers to disengage. So before you launch a re-engagement email campaign, you want to send some emails and collect some data.&nbsp;</p><p>We recommend you gather at least one month of data from the emails you send (especially if you email daily) as this will give you a good indication of where people are after you’ve ignored them for ages. You do this to find out whether people are opening your emails and clicking on your links.</p><h2>Focus on clicks - not open rates!</h2><p>When you look at your data, focus on clicks rather than open rates. Because Apple and Android are blocking what they’re allowing to be reported back to the email marketing platforms. For example, Apple might mark all of your emails as <em>open</em> while Android may make it look like <em>none</em> of your emails were delivered.<strong> Technology is always changing, and you can't rely on open rates</strong> - not on a contact-by-contact basis.</p><p>But by looking at clicks, you can decide to re-engage the people who haven't been engaging and delete those who are no longer interested. There's one downside to clicks though. Some larger corporations use <em>phishing protection</em> <em>antivirus systems</em> to make sure the email lists their employees sign up to are safe. This piece of software clicks on the links in your emails and checks where the page goes. So to you, it looks like a click from a human being, but it's not.&nbsp;</p><p>Having said that, there's a way around this. We use a bit of technology inside our Automate Hero suite of tools (included for free in our membership<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>) that lets us know that a real person was on our website for a bunch of seconds. And we know that’s a human being because a bot would click on the link and come back out in about one second. But if someone stays on the page for 8-9 seconds, we know they're an actual person. We call this ‘proof of life’ because it tells us that there's a real individual behind the email address. And if they click on our links, it's likely they still want to keep hearing from us.&nbsp;</p><h2>Are people disengaged from your list?</h2><p>Once you start emailing regularly again, you want to check that people are clicking on the links inside your emails. And to do that, you need to include links that people can actually click on!&nbsp;</p><p>As a side note, let's not forget that when people click on the<em> unsubscribe</em> link in your emails, that's still a click. And it counts towards your engagement, rather than it being logged as spam.&nbsp;</p><p>If people aren't clicking on your emails, you need to decide what disengagement means to you. You can set your own parameters (something that makes sense in your business), but for us (because we email every day) <strong>if someone hasn't clicked on a link in any 60-day period, we consider that person on the <em>verge of disengagement</em></strong>. And that’s when we start approaching with a re-engagement email campaign.</p><h2>What to include in your re-engagement email campaign?</h2><p>Our re-engagement email campaign should <em>not </em>sound like you're a needy boyfriend/girlfriend telling people they've not been paying attention to you. Instead, you want to give them a chance to re-engage, rather than inviting them to leave if they're no longer interested. (Don't do that just yet).</p><p>Our re-engagement email campaign, which we call the <strong>LOL Revival Campaign</strong>, is broken down into 3 phrases, which are designed to get people to click and engage with our content.&nbsp;</p><ul><li>L is for <em>learn</em>.</li><li>O is for <em>opinion</em>.</li><li>L is for <em>loss</em>.</li></ul><br/><p>In the first phase (<em>learn</em>) we tell people about a cool thing they can go and have a look at. And then in the second phase (<em>opinion</em>), we point them to something we’d like their opinion on. In other words, during these phases, we use different psychological hot buttons and triggers for people to start engaging with our emails again.</p><p>It's only after those two phases that we go into the <em>loss </em>phase, where we tell them we noticed they’ve not been paying attention for a while. Here's where you give them a polite opportunity to either opt back in and let you know they’re still interested or to tell you that you’re not for them anymore.</p><p>And that’s okay – because you don’t want to hold people hostage! <strong>There’s no point in having people on your email list that you're too scared to email in case they unsubscribe.</strong> Those you want on your list are the ones you feel you can email every day. Because if that's not the case, then you've got the wrong subscribers on your email list!</p><p>What’s really nice about having a re-engagement email campaign is that you can run them live and then automate them. We don’t run our campaigns live anymore.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>Why you should get rid of those who don't engage</h2><p>Re-engagement is a fundamental activity in your email marketing. Every time you send an email Gmail and the other service providers check how many people engage. If the percentage of people who <em>don’t</em> engage is high, Gmail and the likes are going to get the idea that your emails aren’t valuable. So they’re going to demote you from the Primary inbox and send you to the Promotions folder. And from there to the Spam folder until you potentially get blacklisted.</p><p>And that’s also true if people enter the wrong email address when they register or if they’re no longer using that email address (and you’re getting bounces). There’s also a scenario where you may have <em>spam traps</em> on your list. These are email addresses that were once real but are no longer valid and are used by service providers to identify senders who don't follow email best practices.</p><p>In a nutshell, <strong>not having an engaged email list damages your reputation as a sender.</strong> And the result is that the people who want to receive your emails won't get them. <strong>If your reputation is bad or you’ve been blacklisted, when someone tries to sign up for your email list because they want your lead magnet, they won’t get it!</strong> Because you haven't proved that you’re a good sender.</p><p>This means that your subscribers won't get your marketing. But also, potentially, your customers won't get their login details for your programme!</p><h2>Don't be afraid of deleting subscribers from your list!</h2><p>So make sure you have a re-engagement email campaign set up in your business. If people don't engage with you in X amount of days, give them a good chance to click on your links again and let you know they're still around. And if they don't, either stop emailing those people or (better still) remove them from your list.&nbsp;</p><p>That might sound a bit scary, but by doing that, you’ll immediately see an increase in your email deliverability. More people receiving your emails means more people open them, click on links, and buy - because they are actually seeing your marketing! You'll have a cleaner list and you'll be able to send love to it regularly. Trust us when we say this is a powerful way to increase your sales and your revenue.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>This week’s subject line is “Unfair advantage (today’s training)” and it was for an email that was sent in the build-up to a webinar. We were telling people we wanted to share with them an unfair advantage that we have in our business. So check it out!&nbsp;</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/increase-open-rate/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Increase Your Open Rates (They’re Wrong But…)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/what-is-a-high-unsubscribe-rate-what-to-do/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">What to do if you have a high unsubscribe rate</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/best-marketing-email-platforms/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">6 Things You Didn’t Know Your Email Marketing Platform Could Do</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3>Join our FREE Facebook group</h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The League Membership</h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to create a successful re-engagement email campaign) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/reengagement-email-campaign/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">62e5ef86-2b3e-47b8-999d-8fab8a29f080</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/0ee347ae-eb54-4d51-a70a-07a3c153fefc/f6Rf6oEG1Mhw_6RGcRZLvy7b.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/864a704e-7f1c-4202-8014-add20f9723a2/205-Final.mp3" length="42716416" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:48</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>205</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>205</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/92bd0a87-afc1-45f2-b0fd-ed3fdfd24297/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Is Email Nurturing A Waste Of Time (And How Do You Do It)?</title><itunes:title>Is Email Nurturing A Waste Of Time (And How Do You Do It)?</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Is email nurturing a big waste of time? Do you really have to keep someone on your list for years and years before they buy anything from you?</p><p>The answer is no.&nbsp;</p><p>There's a better way to make sales in your business and use email marketing to your advantage.&nbsp;</p><p>Want to know how?</p><p>Let's find out.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:15) Want a FREE resource to get more clicks on your emails? Check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Click Tricks</a>.</p><p>(3:11) Check out our sponsor<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/postermywall" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Poster My Wall</a>.</p><p>(3:50) What do we mean by nurturing your email list?</p><p>(6:23) What should you actually do to nurture your email list?</p><p>(9:11) Our SCORE email engine.</p><p>(11:46) Nurturing your list with your daily emails.</p><p>(14:02) How you 'keep people warm'.&nbsp;</p><p>(15:07) The 'penny-drop' moment.</p><p>(16:52) What you shouldn't do to nurture your list.</p><p>(20:01) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>What do we mean by nurturing your email list?&nbsp;</h2><p>A lot of people think that the whole idea of email marketing is to get people on your email list and then spend the next 20 years making them think that <em>maybe</em> <em>one day</em> they <em>might</em> buy from you because you’ve been such a lovely person to them for so long. And for those people, this is their entire email marketing strategy.</p><p>But that’s not a strategy.</p><p>That's hoping, praying, and wishing.</p><p>And that's not what nurturing is in our book. Nurturing isn't about turning subscribers into customers <em>via long-term sequences of a million emails that are designed to get people to buy over a number of years</em>. If you do that, you're accepting these people into your world and then effectively putting them 'in the oven'. You're trying to 'keep them warm' until <em>one day</em> they <em>may or may not </em>buy from you. That's not what we mean by nurturing your email list.&nbsp;</p><p>And if you're doing it that way, you <em>are</em> wasting your time.&nbsp;</p><h2>What should you actually do to nurture your email list?&nbsp;</h2><p>What you should do instead is to <strong>have sales campaigns that are designed for people to buy from you <em>right now</em>.</strong> And if they don’t buy, by all means, you carry on with nurturing sequences that 'keep them warm’ but only to glide back into another sales campaign at some other point.</p><p>When someone joins our list, they go through our email engine, which is designed to <em>sell</em>. If they get to the end of a sales sequence and don’t buy, they go into our closest thing to long-term nurture, which is our day-to-day emails. But they don’t particularly know or notice that - they'll simply feel like an offer has come to an end because there's no huge difference in how the various emails look and feel. And <strong>every 5-8 weeks, we’ll run another sales campaign.</strong>&nbsp;</p><h3>Most people buy within the first 60 days of joining your list</h3><p>When you think about it, the reason why anyone joins an email list is because they have a problem that they want to solve. They want to learn about the thing you teach. And when we looked at the data in our business, it’s no surprise we found that <strong>if people don’t buy from us in the first 60 days of joining our email list, their chance of <em>ever </em>buying from us plummets to less than 5%.</strong></p><p>And this makes perfect sense. If someone joins your list to learn about how to train their puppy, for example, they need to fix that problem <em>now</em> - not two or six months down the line! <strong>If your marketing strategy is based on nurturing these people for 90-180 days (or even longer), you’re missing out on the time during which your subscribers need to solve their problems.</strong> So you have to tell them about your core product or service <em>right now</em> and give them a chance to buy.&nbsp;</p><h2>Our SCORE email engine</h2><p>This is what we do with our SCORE email engine, which is a bunch of 5 different email campaigns, where each campaign is made up of several emails (between 6 and 25). Every subscriber on our list goes through it in the first 60 days of joining.</p><p>Each campaign represents a different phase of our SCORE engine, which means it appeals to a different type of buyer or subscriber. So here are the 5 campaigns making up the SCORE acronym/engine:</p><ul><li><strong>S for Sales.</strong> The first campaign appeals to your more urgent buyers – they want to solve their problem <em>right now</em>. That's why we kick off our chain of campaigns with a sales-led one.</li><li><strong>C for Content.</strong> Then we move to a content-led campaign. We lead with education but turn that into an offer. It’s not content for content’s sake - it's not distracting people or adding more overload.</li><li><strong>O for Objection-handling.</strong> This is specifically created to address the objections that people have to buying. For example, it could be that they don’t believe the product or service will work for them or that they don't have what it takes to get results.&nbsp;</li><li><strong>R for Risk reversal or Risk removal.</strong> This is where we reduce or remove the risk of buying. Because sometimes people think that the risk of investing is way higher than their ability to get the results they need.</li><li><strong>E for Engagement.</strong> And finally, the last campaign is designed to generate engagement.&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><p>By this point (and by the end of the 60 days), we've given someone plenty of opportunities to buy. Because everyone who joins our list - no matter when they join or what's going on in our business or personal lives at the time - goes through that same sequence of campaigns. And <strong>if they haven’t bought by the first 60 days it's because the timing isn’t right for them.</strong></p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>Nurturing your list with your daily emails</h2><p>After the initial 60 days of someone joining our email list, we launch into our long-term nurture activity of daily emails. If you’re familiar with our work, you’ll know that for anyone who is <em>not</em> emailing every day, we recommend you increase the frequency of your emails to <em>daily</em>. That’s what we do. Every day, we send out an email to our list to<strong> continue to build a relationship with our subscribers – to nurture the person and the relationship.</strong> The job of these emails is to ‘keep people warm’.&nbsp;</p><p>Our daily emails not only help us make sales - we get sales every week thanks to our Super Signature and our calls to action. But they also serve us in keeping in touch with people until we're ready for our next big promotion.&nbsp;</p><h3>Show up in between promotions</h3><p>For example, every year in June we run our Inbox event. And because we only host it once a year, we can only talk about it in the two weeks leading up to the event. But outside of that, we need to do something to nurture our subscribers. Because if we don’t, by the time we’re ready to promote the event, they won’t be paying attention. And that’s where 'keeping them warm' comes into play - <strong>it's about checking in with people regularly through our daily emails.</strong></p><p>In a nutshell, here's how it works. People come into our business, go through a whole email engine, and a lot of them buy from us within the first 60 days. But whether they do or don’t, they go into this nurturing phase where we send them daily emails. And when we have something coming up (like an event, a challenge, a summit, or a webinar) we turn up in their inbox with an offer, and they're <em>still</em> paying attention because we've kept them warm with our daily emails.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>This way, we get the best of both worlds. We get sales very fast (which is what any business needs to do to survive), and then we’re able to take all those subscribers and customers and maintain that relationship through our daily emails.</p><h2>How you 'keep people warm'</h2><p>So what can you share in your daily emails to nurture your email list? <strong>We keep our list warm by using storytelling and giving them insight into our day-to-day lives.</strong> There are always random things that happen to you in a day that people can learn and benefit from. That's why we always start our podcast episodes by sharing a random fact about ourselves, for example. It's memorable, and people care and pay attention to what we talk about.</p><p>Your day-to-day emails will also address the timing issue. If someone's not bought from you yet because the timing wasn't right, it means that their focus, attention, and priority were on something else. And there’s only a certain amount of marketing that can fix that. <strong>If what you sell isn’t a priority for someone right now, then all you can do is keep showing up. You want to be there for them by giving them interesting insights and titbits until it's time for them to buy.</strong></p><h2>The 'penny-drop' moment</h2><p>What you're looking for (and the reason why someone eventually buys) is the 'penny-drop' moment. <strong>With everything we do in our business, we are constantly teaching the same thing from different angles. </strong>We are continually saying the same things over and over again until there's a penny-drop moment when someone suddenly gets it, and they’re ready to buy.</p><p>Our job is to keep explaining the same concepts by using different analogies, stories, metaphors, lessons, hooks, etc. And when the right one hits, suddenly that person is fully on board and ready to buy. They know that what you sell is for them.</p><h2>What you <em>shouldn't</em> do to nurture your list</h2><p>So make sure you...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is email nurturing a big waste of time? Do you really have to keep someone on your list for years and years before they buy anything from you?</p><p>The answer is no.&nbsp;</p><p>There's a better way to make sales in your business and use email marketing to your advantage.&nbsp;</p><p>Want to know how?</p><p>Let's find out.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:15) Want a FREE resource to get more clicks on your emails? Check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Click Tricks</a>.</p><p>(3:11) Check out our sponsor<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/postermywall" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Poster My Wall</a>.</p><p>(3:50) What do we mean by nurturing your email list?</p><p>(6:23) What should you actually do to nurture your email list?</p><p>(9:11) Our SCORE email engine.</p><p>(11:46) Nurturing your list with your daily emails.</p><p>(14:02) How you 'keep people warm'.&nbsp;</p><p>(15:07) The 'penny-drop' moment.</p><p>(16:52) What you shouldn't do to nurture your list.</p><p>(20:01) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>What do we mean by nurturing your email list?&nbsp;</h2><p>A lot of people think that the whole idea of email marketing is to get people on your email list and then spend the next 20 years making them think that <em>maybe</em> <em>one day</em> they <em>might</em> buy from you because you’ve been such a lovely person to them for so long. And for those people, this is their entire email marketing strategy.</p><p>But that’s not a strategy.</p><p>That's hoping, praying, and wishing.</p><p>And that's not what nurturing is in our book. Nurturing isn't about turning subscribers into customers <em>via long-term sequences of a million emails that are designed to get people to buy over a number of years</em>. If you do that, you're accepting these people into your world and then effectively putting them 'in the oven'. You're trying to 'keep them warm' until <em>one day</em> they <em>may or may not </em>buy from you. That's not what we mean by nurturing your email list.&nbsp;</p><p>And if you're doing it that way, you <em>are</em> wasting your time.&nbsp;</p><h2>What should you actually do to nurture your email list?&nbsp;</h2><p>What you should do instead is to <strong>have sales campaigns that are designed for people to buy from you <em>right now</em>.</strong> And if they don’t buy, by all means, you carry on with nurturing sequences that 'keep them warm’ but only to glide back into another sales campaign at some other point.</p><p>When someone joins our list, they go through our email engine, which is designed to <em>sell</em>. If they get to the end of a sales sequence and don’t buy, they go into our closest thing to long-term nurture, which is our day-to-day emails. But they don’t particularly know or notice that - they'll simply feel like an offer has come to an end because there's no huge difference in how the various emails look and feel. And <strong>every 5-8 weeks, we’ll run another sales campaign.</strong>&nbsp;</p><h3>Most people buy within the first 60 days of joining your list</h3><p>When you think about it, the reason why anyone joins an email list is because they have a problem that they want to solve. They want to learn about the thing you teach. And when we looked at the data in our business, it’s no surprise we found that <strong>if people don’t buy from us in the first 60 days of joining our email list, their chance of <em>ever </em>buying from us plummets to less than 5%.</strong></p><p>And this makes perfect sense. If someone joins your list to learn about how to train their puppy, for example, they need to fix that problem <em>now</em> - not two or six months down the line! <strong>If your marketing strategy is based on nurturing these people for 90-180 days (or even longer), you’re missing out on the time during which your subscribers need to solve their problems.</strong> So you have to tell them about your core product or service <em>right now</em> and give them a chance to buy.&nbsp;</p><h2>Our SCORE email engine</h2><p>This is what we do with our SCORE email engine, which is a bunch of 5 different email campaigns, where each campaign is made up of several emails (between 6 and 25). Every subscriber on our list goes through it in the first 60 days of joining.</p><p>Each campaign represents a different phase of our SCORE engine, which means it appeals to a different type of buyer or subscriber. So here are the 5 campaigns making up the SCORE acronym/engine:</p><ul><li><strong>S for Sales.</strong> The first campaign appeals to your more urgent buyers – they want to solve their problem <em>right now</em>. That's why we kick off our chain of campaigns with a sales-led one.</li><li><strong>C for Content.</strong> Then we move to a content-led campaign. We lead with education but turn that into an offer. It’s not content for content’s sake - it's not distracting people or adding more overload.</li><li><strong>O for Objection-handling.</strong> This is specifically created to address the objections that people have to buying. For example, it could be that they don’t believe the product or service will work for them or that they don't have what it takes to get results.&nbsp;</li><li><strong>R for Risk reversal or Risk removal.</strong> This is where we reduce or remove the risk of buying. Because sometimes people think that the risk of investing is way higher than their ability to get the results they need.</li><li><strong>E for Engagement.</strong> And finally, the last campaign is designed to generate engagement.&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><p>By this point (and by the end of the 60 days), we've given someone plenty of opportunities to buy. Because everyone who joins our list - no matter when they join or what's going on in our business or personal lives at the time - goes through that same sequence of campaigns. And <strong>if they haven’t bought by the first 60 days it's because the timing isn’t right for them.</strong></p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>Nurturing your list with your daily emails</h2><p>After the initial 60 days of someone joining our email list, we launch into our long-term nurture activity of daily emails. If you’re familiar with our work, you’ll know that for anyone who is <em>not</em> emailing every day, we recommend you increase the frequency of your emails to <em>daily</em>. That’s what we do. Every day, we send out an email to our list to<strong> continue to build a relationship with our subscribers – to nurture the person and the relationship.</strong> The job of these emails is to ‘keep people warm’.&nbsp;</p><p>Our daily emails not only help us make sales - we get sales every week thanks to our Super Signature and our calls to action. But they also serve us in keeping in touch with people until we're ready for our next big promotion.&nbsp;</p><h3>Show up in between promotions</h3><p>For example, every year in June we run our Inbox event. And because we only host it once a year, we can only talk about it in the two weeks leading up to the event. But outside of that, we need to do something to nurture our subscribers. Because if we don’t, by the time we’re ready to promote the event, they won’t be paying attention. And that’s where 'keeping them warm' comes into play - <strong>it's about checking in with people regularly through our daily emails.</strong></p><p>In a nutshell, here's how it works. People come into our business, go through a whole email engine, and a lot of them buy from us within the first 60 days. But whether they do or don’t, they go into this nurturing phase where we send them daily emails. And when we have something coming up (like an event, a challenge, a summit, or a webinar) we turn up in their inbox with an offer, and they're <em>still</em> paying attention because we've kept them warm with our daily emails.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>This way, we get the best of both worlds. We get sales very fast (which is what any business needs to do to survive), and then we’re able to take all those subscribers and customers and maintain that relationship through our daily emails.</p><h2>How you 'keep people warm'</h2><p>So what can you share in your daily emails to nurture your email list? <strong>We keep our list warm by using storytelling and giving them insight into our day-to-day lives.</strong> There are always random things that happen to you in a day that people can learn and benefit from. That's why we always start our podcast episodes by sharing a random fact about ourselves, for example. It's memorable, and people care and pay attention to what we talk about.</p><p>Your day-to-day emails will also address the timing issue. If someone's not bought from you yet because the timing wasn't right, it means that their focus, attention, and priority were on something else. And there’s only a certain amount of marketing that can fix that. <strong>If what you sell isn’t a priority for someone right now, then all you can do is keep showing up. You want to be there for them by giving them interesting insights and titbits until it's time for them to buy.</strong></p><h2>The 'penny-drop' moment</h2><p>What you're looking for (and the reason why someone eventually buys) is the 'penny-drop' moment. <strong>With everything we do in our business, we are constantly teaching the same thing from different angles. </strong>We are continually saying the same things over and over again until there's a penny-drop moment when someone suddenly gets it, and they’re ready to buy.</p><p>Our job is to keep explaining the same concepts by using different analogies, stories, metaphors, lessons, hooks, etc. And when the right one hits, suddenly that person is fully on board and ready to buy. They know that what you sell is for them.</p><h2>What you <em>shouldn't</em> do to nurture your list</h2><p>So make sure you don’t make the common mistakes that a lot of people make with this idea of long-term nurture. You shouldn't have the view that when people join your email list you then have to nurture them for years to come. <strong>The nurturing happens <em>after</em> you've put your best foot forward and given your subscribers the opportunity to buy.</strong></p><p>Definitely <strong>don't miss out on nurturing relationships with your day-to-day emails.</strong> Because those will help you make sales and address the timing issue. Keep telling people how you help and always give them the opportunity to buy. <strong>You need a clear call to action in all your emails and ensure you constantly train your subscribers to click on the links in them. </strong>If you don’t, you’re training people out of doing anything.</p><p>Also, <strong>don't make the mistake of droning on and being boring!</strong> Always share new, fresh ways of explaining what you do and the transformation you offer. Everyone wants a slightly differently nuanced transformation, and until they hear the right words - the ones that fit that gap in their mind that they’re trying to fill - they won’t take any action.</p><h3>Nurturing 'done right' helps you sell!</h3><p>Remember - <strong>long-term nurturing is about showing up so people know who you are when they’re hunting around for the person who solves a particular problem.</strong> That’s why you want to be in their inbox regularly. Nurturing is what happens to keep on top of people’s minds - it's about saying the same things in new ways, but only after you’ve given them the best opportunity to buy through your main SCORE email engine. This is how sales-driven email marketing is done - you should try it!</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>This week’s subject line is “Sneak a peek (at the slides)”. The email was about the fact we had a webinar coming up, and whenever we do, we grab a screenshot of an interesting slide of the presentation we will be sharing, throw it into an email, and then give people a little sneak peek of what we’re working on. People love to look at that stuff, so check it out!&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-trial-email-sequence/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Use THIS Free-Trial Email Sequence To Turn Your Subscribers Into Paying Customers</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/lead-magnet-email-sequence/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Create A Lead Magnet Email Sequence That Gets Your Subscribers To LOVE You</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/automated-customer-journey/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">WTF Is An Automated Customer Journey? Use the SCORE Method</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3>Join our FREE Facebook group</h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The League Membership</h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about email nurturing and how to do it properly) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/email-nurturing/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">b681f184-9c2b-4782-aaa2-48956e56ceb0</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/d3ebea40-8033-4e42-95d4-32fc35afd302/davxefeYvc-Uf2EdJkJ1hkvs.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/ac5eb074-7638-400e-ae6a-f5096da3cd1a/204-Final.mp3" length="51669376" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>21:32</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>204</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>204</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/292eb1b9-6d87-4440-ba46-f89b21de4db3/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Making Sales With ONE Email Marketing Campaign - Hillary&apos;s Story</title><itunes:title>Making Sales With ONE Email Marketing Campaign - Hillary&apos;s Story</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Our awesome client Hillary-Marie recently made $16,000 worth of sales with an email marketing campaign she implemented from being part of our membership<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>. And you know what's even better? She copied and pasted that campaign, ran it again for a different segment of her list, and made another $16,000!</p><p>Want to find out Hillary-Marie's success story?</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</p><p>(0:18) Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook Group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(3:45) Check out our sponsor<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/postermywall" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Poster My Wall</a>.</p><p>(4:25) Who is League member Hillary-Marie?</p><p>(7:14) When did email marketing become a part of Hillary-Marie's business?</p><p>(9:55) What did Hillary-Marie's email marketing look like before she joined The League?</p><p>(13:47) What was the first change Hillary-Marie implemented when she joined The League?</p><p>(17:59) What results did Hillary-Marie experience in her business?</p><p>(22:55) What ONE action had the most impact on Hillary-Marie's email marketing?</p><p>(24:21) What's next for Hillary-Marie and in her business and email marketing?</p><p>(26:31) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>Who is League member Hillary-Marie?</h2><p>Hillary-Marie (here she is on<a href="https://www.instagram.com/hillarymarietap/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Instagram</a>) runs a business called<a href="https://www.itaponline.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> iTapOnline</a> - an online tap dance school where she helps teachers and adults around the world unlock the joy of tap dance. Hillary-Marie has a membership that gives people access to all her courses and classes and also runs a certificate 10-week programme for teachers once a year.&nbsp;</p><p>What Hillary-Marie sells is a super affordable B2C proposition. It can be a hobby for some people, but for the teachers who are enrolling in the certificate programme, their participation often comes from a desire to serve the needs of their students while enjoying their own tap dance journey along the way.</p><p>Hillary's students are anywhere from absolute beginners to advanced and are often people who don’t have access to a local tap class at their speed or level. So Hillary-Marie tapped (see what we did there?) into the opportunity to segment her two audiences (adult students and teachers) and serve them both simultaneously with the same exact offer.</p><h2>When did email marketing become part of Hillary-Marie’s business?</h2><p>Hillary-Marie started her membership in 2016, and email marketing was always a part of her journey. From the start, she used email marketing to ask people to buy from her, so she started collecting email addresses straight away. But at that time, she was only reaching out to her audience when she had something free to offer or a product she wanted people to buy. Looking back, Hillary-Marie can see that only getting in touch when she had something to sell wasn't the best approach.</p><p>About a year ago Hillary-Marie came to a crossroads in her business. As an artist and a dancer, she had always relied on social media quite heavily. But she came to the realisation that she'd either have to 'sell her soul' to social media (and spend all her time on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, etc.) to churn out as much organic content as possible, or she could invest her time, energy, and money into email marketing instead. And <em>not</em> sell her soul!</p><p>Thankfully, email marketing is the route that Hillary-Marie decided to take. And she's glad she did because email has given her an opportunity to share stories in a way that feels honest and genuine, rather than just playing the game of the algorithm in social media.</p><h2>What was Hillary-Marie’s biggest barrier to doing email marketing?</h2><p>Hillary-Marie can see now that she tried to make email marketing more complicated than it needed to be. When she joined<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>, she started sending out our daily 'snowball' emails. But (contrary to our advice to write and send the emails <em>daily</em>), she decided to write and schedule 30 emails at a time. That was <em>not</em> the easiest option. And we're all glad to report that Hillary-Marie switched to our way of thinking and now writes and sends her emails live on a daily basis.</p><p>In hindsight, she knows now that she was trying to make things more systemised and complicated than they needed to be. And while there’s definitely a place for systems, software, integration, and segmentation, she didn’t need all of that to get started.</p><h2>What did Hillary-Marie’s email marketing look like before she joined The League?</h2><p>Before joining<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>, Hillary-Marie was following the product launch formula for her certificate programme once a year. So she'd create a lot of pre-launch content and send that out via email with multiple videos. It involved a lot of content creation that didn’t yield great results. And because this was only done once a year, there was a lot of pressure on this process – Hillary-Marie felt she couldn’t really mess this up!</p><p>Hillary-Marie also hosts a podcast, and back then she was using email marketing to ask people to check out her latest podcast episode. Or, whenever she created a free lead magnet, she’d email her list to let them know so they wouldn’t miss out on the free goodness. But she wasn't even promoting her membership - she only had a very soft ask in her emails (i.e. to head over to the podcast). Hillary-Marie felt that people on her list already knew what she did, so if they were choosing not to buy it was because they didn't want to participate. And she knows now that's not necessarily the case!&nbsp;</p><p>In a nutshell, Hillary-Marie was sending out a lot of broadcasting emails and only using automation for onboarding her students. She knew about systems and automated campaigns but wasn’t using them for marketing purposes. Not yet, anyway!</p><p>Before she started working with us, Hillary-Marie was sending out emails once a week and didn’t have any real feelings about her email marketing. She just knew it wasn't successful because it wasn’t bringing in sales and results. It simply wasn't working for her.&nbsp;</p><h2>What was the first change Hillary-Marie implemented when she joined The League?</h2><p>When she found us, Hillary-Marie started sending out daily snowball emails, but she recognises now that she overcomplicated the process unnecessarily. She decided to batch-write her emails and have someone in her team send them out. And, naturally, she got a lot of pushback on that. Because they didn’t think there was value in sending emails every day. But Hillary-Marie went ahead and put her foot down – convinced that daily emails would make a difference to her business and determined to give it a go.</p><p>And she did see a change! Not only her business didn’t go under, but she also started making more money! People didn’t unsubscribe from her list, and she didn’t start getting nasty responses from those who didn't want to hear from her. In fact, her open rate, her click rate, and her sales increased! And Hillary-Marie got to a point where she felt quite pleased with her email marketing. It’s no coincidence that she now has a strong emotional connection to it!</p><p>Thanks to the daily emails alone, Hillary-Marie was able to increase the clients signed up to her membership from 120-130 to over 250. She simply achieved this by contacting people and telling them she had something they might be interested in.</p><p>Looking back, Hillary-Marie thinks it was very ignorant of her to think that her audience would know about her products and that if they chose not to participate it was because they weren’t interested. That’s just not how it works – you can have people on your list who aren’t aware of what you have to sell. People simply aren't listening quite as much as you think they are, which is why daily emails are beneficial.&nbsp;</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>What results did Hillary-Marie experience in her business?&nbsp;</h2><p>After implementing the daily emails, Hillary-Marie started building her email engine and using our campaigns. She decided, as a priority, to focus on people who were already on her list but hadn't bought from her yet. And she did that because every year she offers 50 spots on her certification programme, and she wanted to fill the cohort. Her approach was something that unfortunately a lot of people find terrifying and shy away from - i.e. selling <em>harder </em>to their existing list. And that's exactly what the people on her list needed from her.&nbsp;</p><p>It's great to see this principle in action with Hillary-Marie because it's exactly what we teach. Businesses build and grow over time (especially if you sell a membership), but there's something to be said about complementing that growth with big spikes in income.&nbsp;</p><h3>Making $16k over a few days... twice!</h3><p>When she implemented our sales campaigns Hillary-Marie made $16,000 in sales over the course of a few days. And she achieved this because she wasn’t afraid of selling. She knew that the people on her list had joined it because they’d seen something they were interested in. So she thought it was time to let them know exactly what they could buy, and perhaps those who weren't interested in the membership would want to join the certification programme.</p><p>Hillary-Marie achieved these amazing results by implementing our...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Our awesome client Hillary-Marie recently made $16,000 worth of sales with an email marketing campaign she implemented from being part of our membership<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>. And you know what's even better? She copied and pasted that campaign, ran it again for a different segment of her list, and made another $16,000!</p><p>Want to find out Hillary-Marie's success story?</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</p><p>(0:18) Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook Group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(3:45) Check out our sponsor<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/postermywall" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Poster My Wall</a>.</p><p>(4:25) Who is League member Hillary-Marie?</p><p>(7:14) When did email marketing become a part of Hillary-Marie's business?</p><p>(9:55) What did Hillary-Marie's email marketing look like before she joined The League?</p><p>(13:47) What was the first change Hillary-Marie implemented when she joined The League?</p><p>(17:59) What results did Hillary-Marie experience in her business?</p><p>(22:55) What ONE action had the most impact on Hillary-Marie's email marketing?</p><p>(24:21) What's next for Hillary-Marie and in her business and email marketing?</p><p>(26:31) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>Who is League member Hillary-Marie?</h2><p>Hillary-Marie (here she is on<a href="https://www.instagram.com/hillarymarietap/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Instagram</a>) runs a business called<a href="https://www.itaponline.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> iTapOnline</a> - an online tap dance school where she helps teachers and adults around the world unlock the joy of tap dance. Hillary-Marie has a membership that gives people access to all her courses and classes and also runs a certificate 10-week programme for teachers once a year.&nbsp;</p><p>What Hillary-Marie sells is a super affordable B2C proposition. It can be a hobby for some people, but for the teachers who are enrolling in the certificate programme, their participation often comes from a desire to serve the needs of their students while enjoying their own tap dance journey along the way.</p><p>Hillary's students are anywhere from absolute beginners to advanced and are often people who don’t have access to a local tap class at their speed or level. So Hillary-Marie tapped (see what we did there?) into the opportunity to segment her two audiences (adult students and teachers) and serve them both simultaneously with the same exact offer.</p><h2>When did email marketing become part of Hillary-Marie’s business?</h2><p>Hillary-Marie started her membership in 2016, and email marketing was always a part of her journey. From the start, she used email marketing to ask people to buy from her, so she started collecting email addresses straight away. But at that time, she was only reaching out to her audience when she had something free to offer or a product she wanted people to buy. Looking back, Hillary-Marie can see that only getting in touch when she had something to sell wasn't the best approach.</p><p>About a year ago Hillary-Marie came to a crossroads in her business. As an artist and a dancer, she had always relied on social media quite heavily. But she came to the realisation that she'd either have to 'sell her soul' to social media (and spend all her time on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, etc.) to churn out as much organic content as possible, or she could invest her time, energy, and money into email marketing instead. And <em>not</em> sell her soul!</p><p>Thankfully, email marketing is the route that Hillary-Marie decided to take. And she's glad she did because email has given her an opportunity to share stories in a way that feels honest and genuine, rather than just playing the game of the algorithm in social media.</p><h2>What was Hillary-Marie’s biggest barrier to doing email marketing?</h2><p>Hillary-Marie can see now that she tried to make email marketing more complicated than it needed to be. When she joined<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>, she started sending out our daily 'snowball' emails. But (contrary to our advice to write and send the emails <em>daily</em>), she decided to write and schedule 30 emails at a time. That was <em>not</em> the easiest option. And we're all glad to report that Hillary-Marie switched to our way of thinking and now writes and sends her emails live on a daily basis.</p><p>In hindsight, she knows now that she was trying to make things more systemised and complicated than they needed to be. And while there’s definitely a place for systems, software, integration, and segmentation, she didn’t need all of that to get started.</p><h2>What did Hillary-Marie’s email marketing look like before she joined The League?</h2><p>Before joining<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>, Hillary-Marie was following the product launch formula for her certificate programme once a year. So she'd create a lot of pre-launch content and send that out via email with multiple videos. It involved a lot of content creation that didn’t yield great results. And because this was only done once a year, there was a lot of pressure on this process – Hillary-Marie felt she couldn’t really mess this up!</p><p>Hillary-Marie also hosts a podcast, and back then she was using email marketing to ask people to check out her latest podcast episode. Or, whenever she created a free lead magnet, she’d email her list to let them know so they wouldn’t miss out on the free goodness. But she wasn't even promoting her membership - she only had a very soft ask in her emails (i.e. to head over to the podcast). Hillary-Marie felt that people on her list already knew what she did, so if they were choosing not to buy it was because they didn't want to participate. And she knows now that's not necessarily the case!&nbsp;</p><p>In a nutshell, Hillary-Marie was sending out a lot of broadcasting emails and only using automation for onboarding her students. She knew about systems and automated campaigns but wasn’t using them for marketing purposes. Not yet, anyway!</p><p>Before she started working with us, Hillary-Marie was sending out emails once a week and didn’t have any real feelings about her email marketing. She just knew it wasn't successful because it wasn’t bringing in sales and results. It simply wasn't working for her.&nbsp;</p><h2>What was the first change Hillary-Marie implemented when she joined The League?</h2><p>When she found us, Hillary-Marie started sending out daily snowball emails, but she recognises now that she overcomplicated the process unnecessarily. She decided to batch-write her emails and have someone in her team send them out. And, naturally, she got a lot of pushback on that. Because they didn’t think there was value in sending emails every day. But Hillary-Marie went ahead and put her foot down – convinced that daily emails would make a difference to her business and determined to give it a go.</p><p>And she did see a change! Not only her business didn’t go under, but she also started making more money! People didn’t unsubscribe from her list, and she didn’t start getting nasty responses from those who didn't want to hear from her. In fact, her open rate, her click rate, and her sales increased! And Hillary-Marie got to a point where she felt quite pleased with her email marketing. It’s no coincidence that she now has a strong emotional connection to it!</p><p>Thanks to the daily emails alone, Hillary-Marie was able to increase the clients signed up to her membership from 120-130 to over 250. She simply achieved this by contacting people and telling them she had something they might be interested in.</p><p>Looking back, Hillary-Marie thinks it was very ignorant of her to think that her audience would know about her products and that if they chose not to participate it was because they weren’t interested. That’s just not how it works – you can have people on your list who aren’t aware of what you have to sell. People simply aren't listening quite as much as you think they are, which is why daily emails are beneficial.&nbsp;</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>What results did Hillary-Marie experience in her business?&nbsp;</h2><p>After implementing the daily emails, Hillary-Marie started building her email engine and using our campaigns. She decided, as a priority, to focus on people who were already on her list but hadn't bought from her yet. And she did that because every year she offers 50 spots on her certification programme, and she wanted to fill the cohort. Her approach was something that unfortunately a lot of people find terrifying and shy away from - i.e. selling <em>harder </em>to their existing list. And that's exactly what the people on her list needed from her.&nbsp;</p><p>It's great to see this principle in action with Hillary-Marie because it's exactly what we teach. Businesses build and grow over time (especially if you sell a membership), but there's something to be said about complementing that growth with big spikes in income.&nbsp;</p><h3>Making $16k over a few days... twice!</h3><p>When she implemented our sales campaigns Hillary-Marie made $16,000 in sales over the course of a few days. And she achieved this because she wasn’t afraid of selling. She knew that the people on her list had joined it because they’d seen something they were interested in. So she thought it was time to let them know exactly what they could buy, and perhaps those who weren't interested in the membership would want to join the certification programme.</p><p>Hillary-Marie achieved these amazing results by implementing our Paparazzi flash sale campaign - a super easy one. It's relatively short with simple and not long-winded emails. Over a few days, she got a 3% conversion rate from people who had never purchased from her before.</p><p>The icing on the cake is that Hillary-Marie took that same exact campaign and duplicated it to send to her Level Two programme for previous graduates and made another $16k in sales with just some minor alterations to her emails. Isn't this mindblowing?!</p><h2>What ONE action had the most impact on Hillary-Marie's email marketing?</h2><p>The one action Hillary-Marie would recommend people take is to email your list to let them know what you have to offer. She adds that it's important to do that in a way where you’re curating a specific campaign and an experience via email to help them decide that what you sell is truly the best thing that's out there for them. Because otherwise they just don't know!</p><p>"Don't just send any email," Hillary-Marie says. But curate a campaign experience and put people through it in a way that’s mindful and thoughtful. So you can convert easily.</p><h2>What's next for Hillary-Marie in her business and email marketing?</h2><p>Because her certification programme is converting so well, Hillary-Marie wants to start launching it twice a year. In her words, she ‘eats our campaigns for breakfast’ because she’s always looking for the next campaign she can automate and add to her email engine. While she continues to dedicate herself to the automation of her email engine, doing two launches a year will be Hillary-Marie's main focus going forward.&nbsp;</p><h2>Does Hillary-Marie feel like email marketing has taken over her life?</h2><p>While email marketing does take some time and work upfront to implement campaigns, that's an investment of a couple of hours to build an asset that can be reused in her business and that will continue to serve her for time to come. She knows she can do it once, invest the time, and then enjoy the benefits of that later. And that's a win in our eyes!&nbsp;</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>This week’s subject line is “When I get high…” This subject line works because there's an obvious assumption that people make when they read it. But if they know your personality (and people on our list know Rob's), they'll also know that there's got to be another meaning to those words.</p><p>So the subject line throws them off-piste a little. It's only when they read the email that they find out it was about being on a plane up in the air. It works because it generates intrigue and curiosity, so check it out!&nbsp;</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/membership-the-league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Everything You Need To Know About Our Membership The League (THE Behind The Scenes!)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/price-increase-email-template-case-study/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How A League Member Made Over $10k With Just ONE Email Campaign – Case Study With Aidan O’Sullivan</a>.</p><p><a href="about:blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tell Me You’re A Member Of The League Without Telling Me You’re A Member Of The League</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3>Join our FREE Facebook group</h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The League Membership</h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns, come and check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how our client Hillary-Marie made $16k worth of sales with an email marketing campaign... twice!) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/sales-email-campaign/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">c34b07b8-16cf-480b-81eb-4c997ed792c7</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/7c8b80d1-092d-4010-b094-18f5cabbaf7c/WxzSwkw8wk07XnxJTdYQc4rG.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/72fbe5a9-7b60-4a3c-82a0-5532e1ff8531/203-Final.mp3" length="67923136" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>28:18</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>203</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>203</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/15fa9e89-981f-4ac6-b94c-2441e7ac9a72/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>The Biggest Email Marketing Copywriting Mistakes You&apos;re Making</title><itunes:title>The Biggest Email Marketing Copywriting Mistakes You&apos;re Making</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Are you making any of these email marketing copywriting mistakes? Curious to know what we're talking about? If you're keen to improve your email copy, we've got some super-easy tips here for you. Check them out!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:09) Want a FREE resource to get more clicks on your emails? Check out Click Tricks.</p><p>(4:30) Check out our sponsor<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/postermywall" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Poster My Wall</a>.</p><p>(5:09) Is successful email marketing all about copywriting?</p><p>(12:06) Boring subject lines.</p><p>(13:01) The wall of text.</p><p>(14:58) Beating around the bush.</p><p>(16:10) Sounding like you're writing your English coursework.</p><p>(17:31) Not using stories or making them too long.</p><p>(19:59) Assuming your audience knows your industry the way you do.</p><p>(22:20) Doing 'back referencing' the wrong way.</p><p>(26:10) Subject line of the week.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>Is successful email marketing all about copywriting?</h2><p>First thing first, let's get this out of the way...</p><p>Do you need to be a great writer/copywriter to be successful at email marketing? In our opinion, no. Because no one likes to receive emails from the <em>slick</em> copywriter (unless that’s what you do). <strong>Rather than having perfectly written and polished copy, you want to connect with your audience!</strong></p><p>And when you think about it, this is true of sales copy too. Because the minute you say something that doesn't resonate with your readers, you lose them - they'll close the page and be gone forever. With email though, if the person's on your list, you get more attempts than just one to grab and hold their attention.</p><p>You don't have to write one big thing with a beginning, a middle, and an end – it’s not a long journey! Email marketing is done in short bursts, so it doesn’t matter if you get lost along the way because you'll get another crack at it tomorrow.&nbsp;</p><p>But there's another reason why email marketing isn't all about the copy. And it's this...</p><h2>The 3 elements of successful email marketing</h2><p>There are 3 key elements to email marketing:</p><ul><li>The words/copy.&nbsp;</li><li>The structure.</li><li>And the strategy.</li></ul><br/><p>The <strong>copy</strong> is what you say in your emails to make people engage with you and<em> feel things</em>. And that<strong> only accounts for 20% of the impact an email can have. </strong>This is true for any form of communication because it's all to do with the <em>para language</em>, i.e. what runs parallel to the language. In other words,<strong> it's about how you say something or the context in which you say it.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><strong>Structure is way more important than copy</strong>, and it's about how many emails you send, when you send them, how long you wait in between emails, who you send them to, etc. And <strong>strategy is about the hooks and the angles in your emails.</strong></p><p>Remember, we're talking about <em>strategy</em> here - not tactics. Tactics are things you do, i.e. individual points of action. <strong>A strategy strings together lots of tactics in a specific way - it's where the tactics compound one another.</strong> If you have a bunch of tactics that are not compounding the results of each other, then you don't have a strategy.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>So if you’re worrying about the words, don’t. Because you can have the best words in the world, but if the structure and the strategy aren’t there, your email marketing isn’t going to work. Instead, you could use the simplest, dumbest words you want, but if you’re talking about something that’s concise and resonates with people, those emails are going to win every time over perfect words that end up disengaging your audience. In other words, <strong>you're better off sending out a well-structured campaign made of 12-20 fairly average emails compared with <em>one</em> flawlessly-written email based on good-practice copywriting.</strong></p><h2>Common mistakes in email marketing copywriting</h2><p>Having said that words only account for 20% of your email marketing, you want to get that right! So here are some common mistakes we see people make in their email marketing copy (and how to fix them).&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><h2>The snooze-fest and writing boring subject lines</h2><p>If you’re writing subject lines based on formulas (i.e. which look and sound formulaic), then stop! Because everyone’s seen them and is using them. We have specific training to help you write subject lines that make sales, and we can teach you how to <strong>come up with original, innovative, provocative, and attention-grabbing subject lines.</strong></p><p>The best tip we can give you is to look at your emails (once you've written them) and then tease out your own unique subject lines that display your personality and use<em> compound curiosity</em>.</p><h2>The wall of text (More white space, please!)</h2><p>White space on emails is a great thing. Think about it - when you're sending 'real' emails (i.e. transactional emails back and forth with someone), you don’t do a lot of interesting stuff with the format. Generally, you just take it from left to right and all the way across. You write and hit send.</p><p>With email marketing though, while you want to try and create the feel, the personality, and the personal nature of a real transactional email, <strong>you want to keep short sentences.</strong> The emails Rob sends out, for example, are often made of one-sentence paragraphs (or, rarely two). Because a big wall of text is always hard to read, especially on a mobile phone.&nbsp;</p><p>So use one/two sentence paragraphs and include lots of white space. You can even write a short sentence on one line, add a few dots, and pick up (starting with the dots) on the next line. It makes it a lot easier to chew, and it means people can consume your emails one little bit at a time.</p><h2>Beating around the bush</h2><p>Are you going on and on and on in your emails? Then just get straight to the point because <strong>you want to make <em>one</em> point per email! </strong>And if you don't have a clear strategy of what that is, your emails will go round in circles.&nbsp;</p><p>The benefit of making <em>one point per email</em> is that it gives you a great excuse to send more emails - because you have more things to say, right? So if today’s email is about social proof, then you’re not allowed to talk about the discount! Make today's email about social proof and nothing else. This helps you create clarity and allows the reader to lock into that one thought, which can now grow in their heads.&nbsp;</p><h2>Sounding like you’re writing your English coursework&nbsp;</h2><p>Email marketing is not the same thing as writing essays - you don't need your emails to sound clever or intelligent. Instead, you want them to sound <strong>simple and accessible</strong>, regardless of who your audience is. <strong>Your emails need to read as something that anyone can access, understand, and get value from.</strong> You’re not trying to impress anyone or score points.</p><p><strong>The only purpose of your emails is to drive sales</strong>, and a lot of the time, when people think they can't do email marketing because they're not good writers, it's because they think the writing has to be impressive, intellectual, and intelligent.</p><p>And that’s not true. <strong>You just have to sound like you.</strong> So if you have an amazing use of the language and that’s you, then great. But if you talk very casually in real life, that’s what you want to translate in your emails.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>Not using stories or making them too long</h2><p>Are you just telling facts in your emails? Then please don't. Because <strong>you're going to connect a lot more deeply with your audience if you use some storytelling.</strong> Of course, not every email needs to be a story. But weave in <em>some</em> stories. The good news is that this is easy enough to do because you can turn <em>anything </em>into a story!&nbsp;</p><p>When you use stories though, make sure they're not too long. Don't include details that aren't important - cut them out. The quickest way to do that is by <em>starting in the action</em> - with the big moment. You can chop off a lot of the context, which you can then build in by implication.</p><p>For example, if you say “I remember the day I got married,” you don’t necessarily need to specify that it was in a church (unless the church is relevant to the story). Instead, let people fill in the gaps. Let them imagine and picture where the wedding might have happened because a lot of the story can be implied.&nbsp;</p><h2>Assuming your audience knows your industry like you do&nbsp;</h2><p>Don't assume your audience knows what you do and don't use jargon. For example, if we send out an email saying we're going to teach people how to improve their EPSPM, a lot of people won’t know what we’re talking about! So we'd have to break it down and explain that EPSPM refers to the Earnings per Subscriber per Month, and it's how much you earn for every subscriber you have on your list.</p><p>Why is this important? Because when someone reads anything they don’t understand, it’s like they’re trying to read with their eyes half closed! <strong>Make it easy for people – don’t assume they know anything about your industry and don’t get technical. </strong>At the same time, don’t get condescending, and ensure that what you're talking about is super clear.</p><h2>Doing 'back referencing' the wrong way</h2><p>'Back referencing' is about referring to an email you’ve previously sent that people may have not seen. Nobody gets 100% open rates, so if you send an email today and refer back to something you sent in the past, and the person hasn't seen it, you'll lose their...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you making any of these email marketing copywriting mistakes? Curious to know what we're talking about? If you're keen to improve your email copy, we've got some super-easy tips here for you. Check them out!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:09) Want a FREE resource to get more clicks on your emails? Check out Click Tricks.</p><p>(4:30) Check out our sponsor<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/postermywall" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Poster My Wall</a>.</p><p>(5:09) Is successful email marketing all about copywriting?</p><p>(12:06) Boring subject lines.</p><p>(13:01) The wall of text.</p><p>(14:58) Beating around the bush.</p><p>(16:10) Sounding like you're writing your English coursework.</p><p>(17:31) Not using stories or making them too long.</p><p>(19:59) Assuming your audience knows your industry the way you do.</p><p>(22:20) Doing 'back referencing' the wrong way.</p><p>(26:10) Subject line of the week.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>Is successful email marketing all about copywriting?</h2><p>First thing first, let's get this out of the way...</p><p>Do you need to be a great writer/copywriter to be successful at email marketing? In our opinion, no. Because no one likes to receive emails from the <em>slick</em> copywriter (unless that’s what you do). <strong>Rather than having perfectly written and polished copy, you want to connect with your audience!</strong></p><p>And when you think about it, this is true of sales copy too. Because the minute you say something that doesn't resonate with your readers, you lose them - they'll close the page and be gone forever. With email though, if the person's on your list, you get more attempts than just one to grab and hold their attention.</p><p>You don't have to write one big thing with a beginning, a middle, and an end – it’s not a long journey! Email marketing is done in short bursts, so it doesn’t matter if you get lost along the way because you'll get another crack at it tomorrow.&nbsp;</p><p>But there's another reason why email marketing isn't all about the copy. And it's this...</p><h2>The 3 elements of successful email marketing</h2><p>There are 3 key elements to email marketing:</p><ul><li>The words/copy.&nbsp;</li><li>The structure.</li><li>And the strategy.</li></ul><br/><p>The <strong>copy</strong> is what you say in your emails to make people engage with you and<em> feel things</em>. And that<strong> only accounts for 20% of the impact an email can have. </strong>This is true for any form of communication because it's all to do with the <em>para language</em>, i.e. what runs parallel to the language. In other words,<strong> it's about how you say something or the context in which you say it.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><strong>Structure is way more important than copy</strong>, and it's about how many emails you send, when you send them, how long you wait in between emails, who you send them to, etc. And <strong>strategy is about the hooks and the angles in your emails.</strong></p><p>Remember, we're talking about <em>strategy</em> here - not tactics. Tactics are things you do, i.e. individual points of action. <strong>A strategy strings together lots of tactics in a specific way - it's where the tactics compound one another.</strong> If you have a bunch of tactics that are not compounding the results of each other, then you don't have a strategy.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>So if you’re worrying about the words, don’t. Because you can have the best words in the world, but if the structure and the strategy aren’t there, your email marketing isn’t going to work. Instead, you could use the simplest, dumbest words you want, but if you’re talking about something that’s concise and resonates with people, those emails are going to win every time over perfect words that end up disengaging your audience. In other words, <strong>you're better off sending out a well-structured campaign made of 12-20 fairly average emails compared with <em>one</em> flawlessly-written email based on good-practice copywriting.</strong></p><h2>Common mistakes in email marketing copywriting</h2><p>Having said that words only account for 20% of your email marketing, you want to get that right! So here are some common mistakes we see people make in their email marketing copy (and how to fix them).&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><h2>The snooze-fest and writing boring subject lines</h2><p>If you’re writing subject lines based on formulas (i.e. which look and sound formulaic), then stop! Because everyone’s seen them and is using them. We have specific training to help you write subject lines that make sales, and we can teach you how to <strong>come up with original, innovative, provocative, and attention-grabbing subject lines.</strong></p><p>The best tip we can give you is to look at your emails (once you've written them) and then tease out your own unique subject lines that display your personality and use<em> compound curiosity</em>.</p><h2>The wall of text (More white space, please!)</h2><p>White space on emails is a great thing. Think about it - when you're sending 'real' emails (i.e. transactional emails back and forth with someone), you don’t do a lot of interesting stuff with the format. Generally, you just take it from left to right and all the way across. You write and hit send.</p><p>With email marketing though, while you want to try and create the feel, the personality, and the personal nature of a real transactional email, <strong>you want to keep short sentences.</strong> The emails Rob sends out, for example, are often made of one-sentence paragraphs (or, rarely two). Because a big wall of text is always hard to read, especially on a mobile phone.&nbsp;</p><p>So use one/two sentence paragraphs and include lots of white space. You can even write a short sentence on one line, add a few dots, and pick up (starting with the dots) on the next line. It makes it a lot easier to chew, and it means people can consume your emails one little bit at a time.</p><h2>Beating around the bush</h2><p>Are you going on and on and on in your emails? Then just get straight to the point because <strong>you want to make <em>one</em> point per email! </strong>And if you don't have a clear strategy of what that is, your emails will go round in circles.&nbsp;</p><p>The benefit of making <em>one point per email</em> is that it gives you a great excuse to send more emails - because you have more things to say, right? So if today’s email is about social proof, then you’re not allowed to talk about the discount! Make today's email about social proof and nothing else. This helps you create clarity and allows the reader to lock into that one thought, which can now grow in their heads.&nbsp;</p><h2>Sounding like you’re writing your English coursework&nbsp;</h2><p>Email marketing is not the same thing as writing essays - you don't need your emails to sound clever or intelligent. Instead, you want them to sound <strong>simple and accessible</strong>, regardless of who your audience is. <strong>Your emails need to read as something that anyone can access, understand, and get value from.</strong> You’re not trying to impress anyone or score points.</p><p><strong>The only purpose of your emails is to drive sales</strong>, and a lot of the time, when people think they can't do email marketing because they're not good writers, it's because they think the writing has to be impressive, intellectual, and intelligent.</p><p>And that’s not true. <strong>You just have to sound like you.</strong> So if you have an amazing use of the language and that’s you, then great. But if you talk very casually in real life, that’s what you want to translate in your emails.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>Not using stories or making them too long</h2><p>Are you just telling facts in your emails? Then please don't. Because <strong>you're going to connect a lot more deeply with your audience if you use some storytelling.</strong> Of course, not every email needs to be a story. But weave in <em>some</em> stories. The good news is that this is easy enough to do because you can turn <em>anything </em>into a story!&nbsp;</p><p>When you use stories though, make sure they're not too long. Don't include details that aren't important - cut them out. The quickest way to do that is by <em>starting in the action</em> - with the big moment. You can chop off a lot of the context, which you can then build in by implication.</p><p>For example, if you say “I remember the day I got married,” you don’t necessarily need to specify that it was in a church (unless the church is relevant to the story). Instead, let people fill in the gaps. Let them imagine and picture where the wedding might have happened because a lot of the story can be implied.&nbsp;</p><h2>Assuming your audience knows your industry like you do&nbsp;</h2><p>Don't assume your audience knows what you do and don't use jargon. For example, if we send out an email saying we're going to teach people how to improve their EPSPM, a lot of people won’t know what we’re talking about! So we'd have to break it down and explain that EPSPM refers to the Earnings per Subscriber per Month, and it's how much you earn for every subscriber you have on your list.</p><p>Why is this important? Because when someone reads anything they don’t understand, it’s like they’re trying to read with their eyes half closed! <strong>Make it easy for people – don’t assume they know anything about your industry and don’t get technical. </strong>At the same time, don’t get condescending, and ensure that what you're talking about is super clear.</p><h2>Doing 'back referencing' the wrong way</h2><p>'Back referencing' is about referring to an email you’ve previously sent that people may have not seen. Nobody gets 100% open rates, so if you send an email today and refer back to something you sent in the past, and the person hasn't seen it, you'll lose their interest. Because when someone doesn't understand the context, they don't feel part of the 'in crowd' - they don't know what's going on. And as an email marketer, you definitely don’t want people on your list to feel like that.</p><p>The only time we use back referencing in our emails is when we know <em>for sure</em> that someone’s read that email because they’ve engaged with the content. For example, we have campaigns where we ask people to watch a video, and because we track all of that, we know when they've seen it and how much of it they've watched. So in those cases, we can confidently refer back to the video in further emails down the line.</p><p>Or, let's say you're sending out a series of emails about signing up for a webinar. If you know someone hasn't registered, you can say you've noticed they haven't registered yet and they've perhaps missed the emails you sent out over the last week or so. This is a good way to leverage the 'back referencing' technique. The previous emails you've sent (in this case about registration) give you an excuse to send today's email.&nbsp;</p><h2>Don't worry too much about spelling and grammar!</h2><p>So when it comes to writing emails,<strong> don’t worry too much about your spelling and grammar.</strong> Sure, try to get it right. But if you don’t, it’s fine! You probably know that Kennedy is dyslexic, and he tells people from the start that if they sign up for his list, they'll probably find typos. And if they're offended by those, it’s probably best they don’t register.</p><p>Just remember that <strong>the structure and the strategy are more important than the copywriting</strong> <strong>– the way the emails link together is more impactful for your engagement and sales.</strong> But if you want to make your copy better, do pay attention to these mistakes.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>This week’s subject line is “Something magical.” It talks about the fact that we used to go to magic conventions a lot. And as you can see, this subject line has nothing to do with selling the benefits of a particular product. In fact, the goal of this subject line isn't to be clever or enticing. It's more about differentiating today's email from tomorrow's.&nbsp;</p><p>If someone's on our list, they like receiving our emails. They know our general approach and the structure and strategy of our email marketing. And that means that sending out subject lines like these is still appealing to them. So check it out!&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/compound-curiosity-clever-subject-lines-for-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Advanced Psychology: Using Compound Curiosity</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/persuasive-copywriting-email/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mindblowing Techniques To Connect More Deeply With Your Email Readers With Rob Marsh &amp; Kira Hug</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/avoid-email-marketing-mistakes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why You Need to Avoid These Email Marketing Mistakes</a>.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3>Join our FREE Facebook group</h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The League Membership</h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the biggest mistakes you’re making with your email marketing copywriting) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-copywriting-mistakes/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">91a5da00-1f11-41ba-97d9-c4f8057d1610</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/06f866ac-1592-40bd-b945-cc683578fa57/HzuiaCRypbnBEVub0zeVZy6D.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/320d28e4-efa5-4043-8cdb-3bd86d6fef55/202-Final.mp3" length="66851776" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>27:51</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>202</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>202</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/69197496-9af7-48c3-babf-f5e0cafaf286/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How To Promote Your Book Launch With Email Marketing</title><itunes:title>How To Promote Your Book Launch With Email Marketing</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Are you thinking of writing a business book? Or maybe you have already? Want to find out how you can promote your book launch with email marketing?</p><p>Let's have a bit of a chat about that, shall we?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:18) Want a FREE resource to get more clicks on your emails? Check out Click Tricks.</p><p>(4:28) Check out our sponsor<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/postermywall" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Poster My Wall</a>.</p><p>(5:08) Should you write a business book?</p><p>(10:53) How to use your book to bring in thousands of email subscribers!</p><p>(16:35) How to make your business book profitable.</p><p>(22:07) Pre-launch business book email ideas.</p><p>(24:48) Business book launch email ideas.</p><p>(27:10) Create scarcity with special editions.</p><p>(30:18) Business book buyer email sequence.</p><p>(32:02) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>Should you write a business book?</h2><p>A lot of business owners write books these days because we all recognise that some people like to learn by reading a book (while others prefer courses or videos). And it's definitely something that's on our radar for the future too. However, it's not something we're planning to do straight away because the way we teach tends to be very visual.</p><p>Having said that, when our clients ask us about writing a book for their business, our first question is always to check where their book fits within their business. Do they want to write a book because it gives them status? Or is it a step towards being noticed by a big brand like Netflix, for example? Is the book something they'll use on their front end so they can capture email addresses and send people through some sort of sales funnel?&nbsp;</p><p>Before you even think of writing a book, you need to know exactly where it fits in your business. And if you decide to go ahead, <strong>you definitely want your book to help you with your list building and your sales.</strong></p><p>Here's how.</p><h2>How to use your book to bring in thousands of email subscribers!&nbsp;</h2><p>Something we think is key when writing a book is having the ability to collect the email addresses of your readers. Whether you're going through traditional publishing or the self-publishing route, you want email addresses that you can market to.</p><p>A few years ago, Kennedy wrote a book in the magician niche. And in every chapter of the book he included a call to action asking people to opt into his email list. How? Simply by inviting them to grab a free resource related to the topic in that chapter in exchange for their email address. Whether it's diagrams, cheat sheets, or videos (i.e. anything that<em> adds value</em> to your book), use that as an excuse to bring in email subscribers.</p><p>This is valuable to you because <strong>once people are in your world, you can acquire them as customers.</strong> If you self-publish your book on Amazon and collect money from the sales but are none the wiser as to who your readers are, you're missing a trick! Because you can't market them directly.<strong> It's only by getting your readers to opt in that more opportunities open up for you.</strong></p><p>So make sure that you:</p><ol><li>Do the advertising and bring people to your platform.</li><li>Seed things throughout the book that boomerang people back to you and your world.&nbsp;</li></ol><br/><p>And now, let’s talk about what a book funnel might look like.</p><h2>How to make your business book profitable</h2><p>A book funnel obviously has the book as its starting point - you want people to come into your world and grab the book as the first thing they do. It can be a paid-for product or it can be free. If it's free, you can ask customers to pay for the cost of shipping and handling. And if you do, be mindful of how you phrase that, as you don’t want the “free + shipping” option to be more expensive than buying the book on Amazon! So definitely play with the economics of it.</p><p>You can then have a <strong>bumper offer on the shopping cart</strong> where, just before they buy, you’re offering the customer to buy something else together with the book for an extra, say, $17-27. This could be the audiobook, an additional chapter, or a digital workbook with exercises, for example. It’s something extra that’s <em>complimentary</em> to the book, rather than content you’ve taken out of it. So, again, be careful of how you frame that and make sure that whatever your bumper offer is, it’s not a physical product that’s going to cost you more to produce or send out.</p><h3>Use one-click upsell offers</h3><p>Another thing you can do is to have a <strong>one-click upsell on the next page</strong>. This is where you may be offering a course version of the book for $97, for example. Or you could even present a more expensive upsell, such as an implementation session for, say, $297, or a trial to your membership if you have one.</p><p>Another thing we've seen that we think works really well is to present a webinar registration form that offers an implementation session related to the content of the book. The idea is that people print off some worksheets and come to the webinar to learn how to apply the teachings of the book to their specific situation.&nbsp;</p><h2>Pre-launch business book email ideas&nbsp;</h2><p>Before you launch your book, you can <strong>build some excitement in advance and get people interested in it.</strong> Definitely start by letting people know that you're writing a book. When the time is right, you can tell them you've written a chapter, for example, and ask them to opt in with their email address to read it. Mind you, this doesn't have to be the introduction or the first chapter - in fact, it's probably more interesting if you intrigue them by giving them one of the middle chapters of the book.&nbsp;</p><p>Or you could do a <strong>"Help me choose" pre-launch exercise</strong>, where you invite your audience to choose one of the titles or the book cover designs that you have shortlisted. By asking people to vote, you're getting them <em>involved</em>.</p><p>Kennedy, for example, when he was promoting his book, took a screenshot of the Contents page so people could see in advance what topics the book would cover. The trick here is to choose chapter titles that are fun and enticing, so you can get people excited about getting the whole thing.&nbsp;</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>Business book launch email ideas&nbsp;</h2><p>Our book launch campaign opens with the announcement of the fact that the book has finally arrived. For example, if you're launching a physical book, the day your shipment of copies arrives is exciting and interesting. So make sure you bring people along for the journey with you. Make them <em>excited</em> (as excited as you are) about the fact you’ve published a physical book.</p><p>Another thing you can do is to let everyone know that the people who pre-ordered the book are now getting their copy. And that makes everyone else who hasn't bought one yet feel like they're missing out!</p><h3>Ask people to take photos with the book</h3><p>Also, ask people to take photos of themselves with the book once they receive it and then share them both on social media and in your emails. Kennedy did this by sending out a physical note with the book and asking people to email in their photos - offering a prize for whoever took their photo in the most unusual place. And these photos aren't just perfect for your emails, but they're also great for social media posts and ads. So don't miss out on this opportunity!</p><p>As for adding these photos to your emails, we always say that images in emails aren't necessary. But this is a scenario where using photos is a good thing. It shows that real people all over the world are buying it, and it's undeniable - you're saying that people are buying this book, and you're <em>proving</em> it. You can also do this via testimonials, so ask people to send theirs in as soon as they've read the book.&nbsp;</p><h3>Create scarcity with special editions</h3><p>Or, you can create some scarcity in your launch campaign by selling some sort of special or limited edition and letting people know how many of those are left so they want to hurry up and buy. We have a tool for that called Scarcity Hero that's included for free in our membership<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>.</p><p>Kennedy, with his book, sold 100 collector's edition copies (hardback with a dust jacket), which were significantly more expensive. Remember that <strong>you don’t have to re-invent stuff all the time - simply dressing your book up differently allows you to present it differently.</strong></p><h2>Business book buyer email sequence&nbsp;</h2><p>At this point, you have a bunch of people who are about to buy your book or have bought your book. So what are you going to follow up with? <strong>You put them in your SCORE email engine to<em> ascend</em> them and move them to the next piece in your sales funnel.</strong> Because your book is usually the front end, you want to start moving them into the back end of your business by selling them your other offers. Make sure you do this straight away because this is the point where they're most interested in learning about this topic or developing this area from you.&nbsp;</p><p>A business book offers opportunities for email list growth and can act as a front-end piece that allows you to ascend people to your more expensive offers. With all that said, we're not telling you to drop everything and go and write a book <em>right now</em>. If it's already on your radar, then go ahead and use some of these strategies. But don't derail everything you've been thinking about doing in order to go and write a book - you don't <em>need </em>to have one]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you thinking of writing a business book? Or maybe you have already? Want to find out how you can promote your book launch with email marketing?</p><p>Let's have a bit of a chat about that, shall we?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:18) Want a FREE resource to get more clicks on your emails? Check out Click Tricks.</p><p>(4:28) Check out our sponsor<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/postermywall" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Poster My Wall</a>.</p><p>(5:08) Should you write a business book?</p><p>(10:53) How to use your book to bring in thousands of email subscribers!</p><p>(16:35) How to make your business book profitable.</p><p>(22:07) Pre-launch business book email ideas.</p><p>(24:48) Business book launch email ideas.</p><p>(27:10) Create scarcity with special editions.</p><p>(30:18) Business book buyer email sequence.</p><p>(32:02) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>Should you write a business book?</h2><p>A lot of business owners write books these days because we all recognise that some people like to learn by reading a book (while others prefer courses or videos). And it's definitely something that's on our radar for the future too. However, it's not something we're planning to do straight away because the way we teach tends to be very visual.</p><p>Having said that, when our clients ask us about writing a book for their business, our first question is always to check where their book fits within their business. Do they want to write a book because it gives them status? Or is it a step towards being noticed by a big brand like Netflix, for example? Is the book something they'll use on their front end so they can capture email addresses and send people through some sort of sales funnel?&nbsp;</p><p>Before you even think of writing a book, you need to know exactly where it fits in your business. And if you decide to go ahead, <strong>you definitely want your book to help you with your list building and your sales.</strong></p><p>Here's how.</p><h2>How to use your book to bring in thousands of email subscribers!&nbsp;</h2><p>Something we think is key when writing a book is having the ability to collect the email addresses of your readers. Whether you're going through traditional publishing or the self-publishing route, you want email addresses that you can market to.</p><p>A few years ago, Kennedy wrote a book in the magician niche. And in every chapter of the book he included a call to action asking people to opt into his email list. How? Simply by inviting them to grab a free resource related to the topic in that chapter in exchange for their email address. Whether it's diagrams, cheat sheets, or videos (i.e. anything that<em> adds value</em> to your book), use that as an excuse to bring in email subscribers.</p><p>This is valuable to you because <strong>once people are in your world, you can acquire them as customers.</strong> If you self-publish your book on Amazon and collect money from the sales but are none the wiser as to who your readers are, you're missing a trick! Because you can't market them directly.<strong> It's only by getting your readers to opt in that more opportunities open up for you.</strong></p><p>So make sure that you:</p><ol><li>Do the advertising and bring people to your platform.</li><li>Seed things throughout the book that boomerang people back to you and your world.&nbsp;</li></ol><br/><p>And now, let’s talk about what a book funnel might look like.</p><h2>How to make your business book profitable</h2><p>A book funnel obviously has the book as its starting point - you want people to come into your world and grab the book as the first thing they do. It can be a paid-for product or it can be free. If it's free, you can ask customers to pay for the cost of shipping and handling. And if you do, be mindful of how you phrase that, as you don’t want the “free + shipping” option to be more expensive than buying the book on Amazon! So definitely play with the economics of it.</p><p>You can then have a <strong>bumper offer on the shopping cart</strong> where, just before they buy, you’re offering the customer to buy something else together with the book for an extra, say, $17-27. This could be the audiobook, an additional chapter, or a digital workbook with exercises, for example. It’s something extra that’s <em>complimentary</em> to the book, rather than content you’ve taken out of it. So, again, be careful of how you frame that and make sure that whatever your bumper offer is, it’s not a physical product that’s going to cost you more to produce or send out.</p><h3>Use one-click upsell offers</h3><p>Another thing you can do is to have a <strong>one-click upsell on the next page</strong>. This is where you may be offering a course version of the book for $97, for example. Or you could even present a more expensive upsell, such as an implementation session for, say, $297, or a trial to your membership if you have one.</p><p>Another thing we've seen that we think works really well is to present a webinar registration form that offers an implementation session related to the content of the book. The idea is that people print off some worksheets and come to the webinar to learn how to apply the teachings of the book to their specific situation.&nbsp;</p><h2>Pre-launch business book email ideas&nbsp;</h2><p>Before you launch your book, you can <strong>build some excitement in advance and get people interested in it.</strong> Definitely start by letting people know that you're writing a book. When the time is right, you can tell them you've written a chapter, for example, and ask them to opt in with their email address to read it. Mind you, this doesn't have to be the introduction or the first chapter - in fact, it's probably more interesting if you intrigue them by giving them one of the middle chapters of the book.&nbsp;</p><p>Or you could do a <strong>"Help me choose" pre-launch exercise</strong>, where you invite your audience to choose one of the titles or the book cover designs that you have shortlisted. By asking people to vote, you're getting them <em>involved</em>.</p><p>Kennedy, for example, when he was promoting his book, took a screenshot of the Contents page so people could see in advance what topics the book would cover. The trick here is to choose chapter titles that are fun and enticing, so you can get people excited about getting the whole thing.&nbsp;</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>Business book launch email ideas&nbsp;</h2><p>Our book launch campaign opens with the announcement of the fact that the book has finally arrived. For example, if you're launching a physical book, the day your shipment of copies arrives is exciting and interesting. So make sure you bring people along for the journey with you. Make them <em>excited</em> (as excited as you are) about the fact you’ve published a physical book.</p><p>Another thing you can do is to let everyone know that the people who pre-ordered the book are now getting their copy. And that makes everyone else who hasn't bought one yet feel like they're missing out!</p><h3>Ask people to take photos with the book</h3><p>Also, ask people to take photos of themselves with the book once they receive it and then share them both on social media and in your emails. Kennedy did this by sending out a physical note with the book and asking people to email in their photos - offering a prize for whoever took their photo in the most unusual place. And these photos aren't just perfect for your emails, but they're also great for social media posts and ads. So don't miss out on this opportunity!</p><p>As for adding these photos to your emails, we always say that images in emails aren't necessary. But this is a scenario where using photos is a good thing. It shows that real people all over the world are buying it, and it's undeniable - you're saying that people are buying this book, and you're <em>proving</em> it. You can also do this via testimonials, so ask people to send theirs in as soon as they've read the book.&nbsp;</p><h3>Create scarcity with special editions</h3><p>Or, you can create some scarcity in your launch campaign by selling some sort of special or limited edition and letting people know how many of those are left so they want to hurry up and buy. We have a tool for that called Scarcity Hero that's included for free in our membership<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>.</p><p>Kennedy, with his book, sold 100 collector's edition copies (hardback with a dust jacket), which were significantly more expensive. Remember that <strong>you don’t have to re-invent stuff all the time - simply dressing your book up differently allows you to present it differently.</strong></p><h2>Business book buyer email sequence&nbsp;</h2><p>At this point, you have a bunch of people who are about to buy your book or have bought your book. So what are you going to follow up with? <strong>You put them in your SCORE email engine to<em> ascend</em> them and move them to the next piece in your sales funnel.</strong> Because your book is usually the front end, you want to start moving them into the back end of your business by selling them your other offers. Make sure you do this straight away because this is the point where they're most interested in learning about this topic or developing this area from you.&nbsp;</p><p>A business book offers opportunities for email list growth and can act as a front-end piece that allows you to ascend people to your more expensive offers. With all that said, we're not telling you to drop everything and go and write a book <em>right now</em>. If it's already on your radar, then go ahead and use some of these strategies. But don't derail everything you've been thinking about doing in order to go and write a book - you don't <em>need </em>to have one at all costs. But if you do, all these tips will be super helpful!<strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>This week’s subject line was “You, me, Kennedy and 2,000 people” and it had to do with our Inbox live event, where we had over 2,000 people registered. So the email is basically saying “Let’s get together with the both of us and 2,000 other people.” It’s intriguing, right? So check it out!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/facebook-group-email-list-loop/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How We Used A Facebook Group To Build Our Email List From Scratch</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/building-email-lists-traffic-loops/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stop Wasting So Much On List Building by Using Traffic Loops</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/viral-list-growth-derek-videll/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Viral List Growth Using Giveaways With Derek Videll</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3>Join our FREE Facebook group</h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The League Membership</h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to support and promote your book launch with email marketing) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/book-launch-email-marketing/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">efff3d09-dbdf-4305-a4bf-cfb84236c8c6</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/4edd0c82-3be4-497d-ab2e-47c4af1ca5ed/-dks0hq9DdTGgiLJrNAmT-ms.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/f20f04ff-69c5-4835-8b92-72542d0972b3/Final-201.mp3" length="79870336" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>33:17</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>201</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>201</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/85cae3af-227c-46aa-a1bb-b407367def2e/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>5 MAJOR B2B Email Marketing Problems (And Fixes)</title><itunes:title>5 MAJOR B2B Email Marketing Problems (And Fixes)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Are you a B2B marketer? Are you struggling to make email marketing work for your business? Let's talk about the five B2B email marketing problems we see all the time. Of course, we won't leave you high and dry. We'll share the reasons why these problems are so common but also give you some practical tips on how to fix them.</p><p>Ready to get all the good stuff on this?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:11) Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook Group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(5:12) Check out our sponsor<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/bounce" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ZeroBounce</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(7:00) What do we mean by B2B?</p><p>(10:40) Solve the problem of the PERSON working for the business.</p><p>(12:13) One - no one is joining your B2B email list.</p><p>(15:23) Kennedy's case study.</p><p>(19:49) Two - you're getting A LOT of unsubscribes.</p><p>(29:38) Three - you're not making enough sales.</p><p>(32:51) Four - your subscribers aren't opening your emails.</p><p>(38:29) Five - your subscribers aren't clicking on the links in your emails.</p><p>(40:25) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>What do we mean by B2B?</h2><p>First things first, we have a slightly different philosophy on B2B. We actually think there are two types of B2B marketing - b2b (smaller business to smaller business) and B2B (business to big business).</p><p>We make this distinction because we believe that <strong>in b2b, the businesses you’re marketing to make decisions just like consumers.</strong> Take us, for example. We sell a business solution, but often our customers are people who are spending their own money on their businesses. They spend and invest money like consumers. In fact, some of the people who buy from us have such a small business (or their business is so new) that they’re not even making any money yet! They're investing their own money by putting it into the business.</p><p>So the first thing we recommend you do is to evaluate whether you fit in the traditional B2B category. Are you selling to someone who works for a big business (B2B) or are you selling to a small business owner who's currently alone in their venture (b2b)?&nbsp;</p><p>The advice that follows is mainly about B2B. But if you’re a b2b marketer, everything else we talk about on our podcast and blog will apply to you. Focus on this, and we promise it'll change the way you communicate with your audience. It definitely did for us, and it made a huge difference.</p><h2>Solve the problem of the PERSON working for the company&nbsp;</h2><p>If you consider yourself a B2B marketer, the first thing to remember is that <strong>you're still selling to human beings - people who have busy days and lives.</strong> They might have short attention spans, but they still have emotions! They have stuff they care about. And when it comes to the work they do, they still want to do a good job and get good results for their boss.</p><p>In fact, because they're so busy and pulled in all directions (in their personal and professional lives), they want to get their job done in the easiest way possible. Because that can perhaps relieve some stress and alleviate pressure. And this is where you come in.</p><p>So with that in mind, let's look at the 5 major problems we see with B2B marketing and how to fix them.&nbsp;</p><h2>Problem One - No one is joining your B2B email list</h2><p>If people aren't joining your list, it's worth pointing out that the person you're talking to (i.e. the ideal prospect for your list) might be someone who works in a specific department for a big company. You want to get their attention so they join your email list. But getting your emails adds a new layer of distraction to their (already busy) personal and professional lives. In other words, they have a lot going on, and you're coming along asking them to join your list.&nbsp;</p><p>Put yourself in their shoes. Why would they want to do that? You must present them with a really exciting reason for them to want to give you their work email address, which is already bombarded with a lot of other stuff.</p><p>If the reason why they should join your list isn't interesting enough, then you're fighting a losing battle. So <strong>you need the most compelling positioning and messaging to get someone to pay attention and then join your list. </strong>Simply asking a person who works in a big company to join your newsletter isn't going to cut it! However you position your lead magnet, quiz, newsletter, or whatever you're offering, needs to be more compelling than you think. <strong>You can't grab people's attention with something dull and bland - they simply won't care!&nbsp;</strong></p><h3>Kennedy's case study&nbsp;</h3><p>When Kennedy first started working as an entertainer, he was selling to big corporations with multiple locations and over 200 staff. Typically, the ideal subscriber for his list would be someone working for the CEO of the company - someone with the job to organise a big sales or marketing conference, for example.&nbsp;</p><p>Kennedy was aware that this job might not be that person's main focus - it was just something they were tasked with. So what would be helpful for that person? What might they need or want? Perhaps a lead magnet along the lines of “Six ways to get the most value from the next entertainer you hire for your conference.” Why? Because that’s the problem that the person is trying to solve! They want to organise an event as smoothly and easily as possible. They want to do a good job.&nbsp;</p><p>So in order to grab someone’s attention, focus on the problem that the <em>person</em> is trying to solve. <strong>The reason for opting into your B2B email list doesn’t need to solve the <em>business</em>’s problem. It has to solve the problem that the<em> individual within the business</em> is facing.</strong></p><h2>Problem Two - You're getting A LOT of unsubscribers</h2><p>If you’re seeing a lot of people unsubscribe from your list, one of the ways of fixing this is to have a lead magnet on a topic that’s a lot wider than buying your product or service. If your lead magnet is too specific, once people download it, they won't have a reason to hang around. But if you’re helpful in your email marketing and focus on solving the emotional problems that your subscribers are experiencing in their lives, you can be helpful above and beyond what you do.</p><h3>Keep people in your world</h3><p>Ultimately, you want to drive people to work with you. But the truth is that someone might not be ready to buy right now. For whatever reason, they're not prepared to solve their problem. But that's not to say they won't be down the line. So you do need them to stay on your list. And people are more likely to stay if you're generally helpful, rather than making your emails all about you.&nbsp;</p><p>Another issue is that people move jobs and businesses. So ideally, what you want is for someone to give you their personal email address. That way, no matter where they go and work, they take you (and your helpful advice) with them. And this gives you more longevity in your relationship with that person. <strong>You want people to continue to know who you are and why they should read your emails regardless of whether they change jobs.</strong></p><p>How do you do that?</p><ul><li>Give great advice.</li><li>Make your emails about<em> them</em> and not about you.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Help people to solve their problems and nudge them in the right direction with your emails, regardless of whether they end up buying from you.</li><li>Use our approach to email marketing, i.e. share hints, tips, stories, ideas, and things that connect <em>with the human in the business.</em></li></ul><br/><p>These things will keep people subscribed to your email list because they'll know that they can go to the office (or log into their work email address) and look forward to what you're going to say.&nbsp;</p><h3>What if people don't remember who you are?&nbsp;</h3><p>If you think that people are unsubscribing from your list because they don't remember who you are, make sure you include your first name <em>and</em> your brand in the sender. People might remember the brand more than your name (in fact, they might not even know your name to start with), but they also want to know that the emails come from a real human being! So <strong>create a personal connection</strong> - it makes it more unlikely for people to unsubscribe from your list.&nbsp;</p><p>Another reason why people might forget who you are and unsubscribe is that you don’t email often enough. <strong>In order to be remembered, you need to email often.</strong> If you’re not showing up regularly, people will simply forget who you are. And if you can’t remember who someone is when you receive their email, you’ll automatically assume it’s unsolicited spam. So, <strong>increase the frequency of your emails to at least a few times a week, so people can’t forget who you are.&nbsp;</strong></p><h3>Unsubscribes aren't a bad thing!&nbsp;</h3><p>Generally speaking, unsubscribes are not a problem if increasing the frequency of your emails is part of your business model. But you need to be careful that unsubscribes don’t come from the fact that your emails aren’t good enough!<strong> You can either have high retention or high churn, and both models work.</strong></p><p>We take the approach of high churn with our list (and clean it regularly and quite aggressively) because we want to keep it the leanest it can be. As much as possible, the only people we want on our list are hyper-fans.</p><p>So when someone joins our email list, we send them our Get to Know You sequence (which is our Welcome sequence). At the back of that, people will either decide to stay (and typically stay for a while), or they’ll...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you a B2B marketer? Are you struggling to make email marketing work for your business? Let's talk about the five B2B email marketing problems we see all the time. Of course, we won't leave you high and dry. We'll share the reasons why these problems are so common but also give you some practical tips on how to fix them.</p><p>Ready to get all the good stuff on this?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:11) Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook Group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(5:12) Check out our sponsor<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/bounce" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ZeroBounce</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(7:00) What do we mean by B2B?</p><p>(10:40) Solve the problem of the PERSON working for the business.</p><p>(12:13) One - no one is joining your B2B email list.</p><p>(15:23) Kennedy's case study.</p><p>(19:49) Two - you're getting A LOT of unsubscribes.</p><p>(29:38) Three - you're not making enough sales.</p><p>(32:51) Four - your subscribers aren't opening your emails.</p><p>(38:29) Five - your subscribers aren't clicking on the links in your emails.</p><p>(40:25) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>What do we mean by B2B?</h2><p>First things first, we have a slightly different philosophy on B2B. We actually think there are two types of B2B marketing - b2b (smaller business to smaller business) and B2B (business to big business).</p><p>We make this distinction because we believe that <strong>in b2b, the businesses you’re marketing to make decisions just like consumers.</strong> Take us, for example. We sell a business solution, but often our customers are people who are spending their own money on their businesses. They spend and invest money like consumers. In fact, some of the people who buy from us have such a small business (or their business is so new) that they’re not even making any money yet! They're investing their own money by putting it into the business.</p><p>So the first thing we recommend you do is to evaluate whether you fit in the traditional B2B category. Are you selling to someone who works for a big business (B2B) or are you selling to a small business owner who's currently alone in their venture (b2b)?&nbsp;</p><p>The advice that follows is mainly about B2B. But if you’re a b2b marketer, everything else we talk about on our podcast and blog will apply to you. Focus on this, and we promise it'll change the way you communicate with your audience. It definitely did for us, and it made a huge difference.</p><h2>Solve the problem of the PERSON working for the company&nbsp;</h2><p>If you consider yourself a B2B marketer, the first thing to remember is that <strong>you're still selling to human beings - people who have busy days and lives.</strong> They might have short attention spans, but they still have emotions! They have stuff they care about. And when it comes to the work they do, they still want to do a good job and get good results for their boss.</p><p>In fact, because they're so busy and pulled in all directions (in their personal and professional lives), they want to get their job done in the easiest way possible. Because that can perhaps relieve some stress and alleviate pressure. And this is where you come in.</p><p>So with that in mind, let's look at the 5 major problems we see with B2B marketing and how to fix them.&nbsp;</p><h2>Problem One - No one is joining your B2B email list</h2><p>If people aren't joining your list, it's worth pointing out that the person you're talking to (i.e. the ideal prospect for your list) might be someone who works in a specific department for a big company. You want to get their attention so they join your email list. But getting your emails adds a new layer of distraction to their (already busy) personal and professional lives. In other words, they have a lot going on, and you're coming along asking them to join your list.&nbsp;</p><p>Put yourself in their shoes. Why would they want to do that? You must present them with a really exciting reason for them to want to give you their work email address, which is already bombarded with a lot of other stuff.</p><p>If the reason why they should join your list isn't interesting enough, then you're fighting a losing battle. So <strong>you need the most compelling positioning and messaging to get someone to pay attention and then join your list. </strong>Simply asking a person who works in a big company to join your newsletter isn't going to cut it! However you position your lead magnet, quiz, newsletter, or whatever you're offering, needs to be more compelling than you think. <strong>You can't grab people's attention with something dull and bland - they simply won't care!&nbsp;</strong></p><h3>Kennedy's case study&nbsp;</h3><p>When Kennedy first started working as an entertainer, he was selling to big corporations with multiple locations and over 200 staff. Typically, the ideal subscriber for his list would be someone working for the CEO of the company - someone with the job to organise a big sales or marketing conference, for example.&nbsp;</p><p>Kennedy was aware that this job might not be that person's main focus - it was just something they were tasked with. So what would be helpful for that person? What might they need or want? Perhaps a lead magnet along the lines of “Six ways to get the most value from the next entertainer you hire for your conference.” Why? Because that’s the problem that the person is trying to solve! They want to organise an event as smoothly and easily as possible. They want to do a good job.&nbsp;</p><p>So in order to grab someone’s attention, focus on the problem that the <em>person</em> is trying to solve. <strong>The reason for opting into your B2B email list doesn’t need to solve the <em>business</em>’s problem. It has to solve the problem that the<em> individual within the business</em> is facing.</strong></p><h2>Problem Two - You're getting A LOT of unsubscribers</h2><p>If you’re seeing a lot of people unsubscribe from your list, one of the ways of fixing this is to have a lead magnet on a topic that’s a lot wider than buying your product or service. If your lead magnet is too specific, once people download it, they won't have a reason to hang around. But if you’re helpful in your email marketing and focus on solving the emotional problems that your subscribers are experiencing in their lives, you can be helpful above and beyond what you do.</p><h3>Keep people in your world</h3><p>Ultimately, you want to drive people to work with you. But the truth is that someone might not be ready to buy right now. For whatever reason, they're not prepared to solve their problem. But that's not to say they won't be down the line. So you do need them to stay on your list. And people are more likely to stay if you're generally helpful, rather than making your emails all about you.&nbsp;</p><p>Another issue is that people move jobs and businesses. So ideally, what you want is for someone to give you their personal email address. That way, no matter where they go and work, they take you (and your helpful advice) with them. And this gives you more longevity in your relationship with that person. <strong>You want people to continue to know who you are and why they should read your emails regardless of whether they change jobs.</strong></p><p>How do you do that?</p><ul><li>Give great advice.</li><li>Make your emails about<em> them</em> and not about you.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Help people to solve their problems and nudge them in the right direction with your emails, regardless of whether they end up buying from you.</li><li>Use our approach to email marketing, i.e. share hints, tips, stories, ideas, and things that connect <em>with the human in the business.</em></li></ul><br/><p>These things will keep people subscribed to your email list because they'll know that they can go to the office (or log into their work email address) and look forward to what you're going to say.&nbsp;</p><h3>What if people don't remember who you are?&nbsp;</h3><p>If you think that people are unsubscribing from your list because they don't remember who you are, make sure you include your first name <em>and</em> your brand in the sender. People might remember the brand more than your name (in fact, they might not even know your name to start with), but they also want to know that the emails come from a real human being! So <strong>create a personal connection</strong> - it makes it more unlikely for people to unsubscribe from your list.&nbsp;</p><p>Another reason why people might forget who you are and unsubscribe is that you don’t email often enough. <strong>In order to be remembered, you need to email often.</strong> If you’re not showing up regularly, people will simply forget who you are. And if you can’t remember who someone is when you receive their email, you’ll automatically assume it’s unsolicited spam. So, <strong>increase the frequency of your emails to at least a few times a week, so people can’t forget who you are.&nbsp;</strong></p><h3>Unsubscribes aren't a bad thing!&nbsp;</h3><p>Generally speaking, unsubscribes are not a problem if increasing the frequency of your emails is part of your business model. But you need to be careful that unsubscribes don’t come from the fact that your emails aren’t good enough!<strong> You can either have high retention or high churn, and both models work.</strong></p><p>We take the approach of high churn with our list (and clean it regularly and quite aggressively) because we want to keep it the leanest it can be. As much as possible, the only people we want on our list are hyper-fans.</p><p>So when someone joins our email list, we send them our Get to Know You sequence (which is our Welcome sequence). At the back of that, people will either decide to stay (and typically stay for a while), or they’ll immediately go. And that’s fine by us because it means we’re left with a small but super profitable list of active people who buy. It’s more profitable, it's easier to manage, and it makes our deliverability higher. The hygiene of that list is much easier to maintain.&nbsp;</p><h3>Watch out for surges of unsubscribers</h3><p>While unsubscribes aren’t a bad thing, you want to avoid sudden surges of unsubscribes. If you send something out, and suddenly a lot of people unsubscribe (and that’s not a typical pattern for you), then you want to figure out what caused it.</p><p>But if you have a consistently high unsubscribe rate, it's not a huge problem if that’s by design, and your marketing and sales are making up for that. <strong>Keep your list clean by making sure that people either buy from you and stay on your list or if they're going to just grab your lead magnet and not buy, let them go.</strong> You're not for them, and they're not for you.</p><p>What you don't want to do is to cling to every single person on your list. Because you're probably spending money to acquire subscribers, and if some of them go, that's fine. Focus on nurturing those who stay and on turning them into hyper fans so they'll buy from you. In the long run, the amount they spend with you will more than cover the cost of the people who unsubscribe.</p><p>Both models (high retention and high churn) are valid and can be hugely successful. You just need to pick your path and make sure it’s profitable for you. As long as you’re getting results and hitting the income, sales, and profit target you set for yourself, carry on with what you’re doing. But don’t get too hung up on regular unsubscribes.</p><h2>Problem Three - You’re not making enough sales</h2><p>What happens if you’re not making enough sales in your business from your email marketing? We believe that<strong> if you’re not making sales in the first 60 days of someone being on your email list, the chance of them ever buying from you plummets down to less than 5%.</strong> That’s what we’ve seen in our business and a few others too.</p><p>And it makes sense. Because when someone joins your email list, they have a problem they want to solve. And if they haven’t decided to solve it <em>with you</em> within the first couple of months of being in your world, it means they’ve probably found the solution somewhere else or that problem isn't that important to them.&nbsp;</p><p>The way to fix this is to make sure that when someone joins your email list, you have a bunch of email campaigns, automations, and systems in place to give them the best chance of buying from you <em>within the first 60 days</em>. Or, if you have a longer selling cycle, then account for that. Break that cycle down into key checkpoints to give yourself a better chance to hit your sales target at every milestone. And always remember that your job as a marketer is to get your emails opened but also to drive clicks, engagement, and <em>sales</em>.&nbsp;</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>Problem Four - Your subscribers aren't opening your emails</h2><p>People often look at B2B marketing as this weird animal where you have to be super professional and use very benefit-drive subject lines. It’s easy to think that you can’t inject the same personality that you would in a B2C email. But that's simply not true because you’re talking to <em>a human within a business</em>!</p><p>So while you have to be professional to an extent (depending on what business you’re talking to) <strong>you can still have personality and use curiosity-driven subject lines.</strong> This is even more important in B2B because people's inboxes are full of random cold outreach emails from other marketers who are trying to get them to pay attention. And often, they use benefit-driven subject lines with no personality at all.</p><p>It's worth pointing out that a strong subject line isn’t what you write for the headline of a sales page (i.e. very benefit- and outcome-driven). You want to write subject lines that get people to open your emails to see what's inside. And they do that because the minute they see your subject line they <em>feel</em> something. They’re either confused, bewildered, interested, intrigued, or whatever. The point is that they’re feeling an <em>emotion</em>. And those emotions are more useful to you in terms of open rates and (down the line) sales.</p><h3>Use curiosity-driven subject lines</h3><p>So remember that you’re talking to a human within the business – not to the business entity. And as professional as they might be, they’re still people who can’t help but open an email with a curiosity-driven subject line because <strong>being curious is at the core of human nature – no matter who you are or what you do.</strong> So talk about things that are going to<em> intrigue</em> your audience – and not necessarily <em>benefit</em> them.</p><p>If you're not sure about this, split test. Grab two subject lines (for the same email) and send them to different sections of your email list. Then see which one performs better in terms of open rates. That way, you can start noticing patterns in your business and see what type of subject lines your audience tends to open more. What’s common about these subject lines? Do they all use humour? Are they all very short?</p><p>We find that<strong> the compound curiosity approach we use always outperforms benefit-driven subject lines.</strong> But by all means, test it out in your business and find out what works for you.</p><h2>Problem Five - Your subscribers are not clicking the links in your emails</h2><p>And last but not least, let’s talk about the links in your emails not getting clicked. When that happens, it means people can’t see your sales page or your appointment booking page. And a likely reason why this might be happening is that the call to action in your emails isn’t clear enough – or there isn’t one at all! We see that a lot, especially in the B2B world.</p><p>Remember that even in B2B you still have to ask people to go and do <em>something</em>. It could be to book an appointment, a demo, a free call, book a free trial, etc. But it needs to be something. And you also need to <strong>make sure that your call to action stands out</strong>. Because if it’s buried in the middle of paragraphs or at the very end of your email, you might find that people become 'link blind' – they simply don’t see it.</p><p><strong>We have a</strong><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong> FREE resource on this called Click Tricks</strong></a><strong>. It’s a free PDF with 12 different ways to dress up and present the links in our emails. You can use it to make sure your calls to action stand out and are compelling and exciting.&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>This week’s subject line is “We are ranked 18,281,928!!” And the email was about the fact that Rob saw a tourist attraction that claimed to be one of the top 25 Wonders of The World. But aren’t there only 7 Wonders of The World? We can’t just make that list longer to make sure that everyone’s included – it loses its meaning!</p><p>So this subject line worked because it <em>looks</em> like a big proclamation of fame or achievement. But instead, it’s a weird backward flip on what people would expect. So check it out!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/compound-curiosity-clever-subject-lines-for-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Advanced Psychology: Using Compound Curiosity</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/automated-customer-journey/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">WTF Is An Automated Customer Journey? Use the SCORE Method</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/unsubscribe-rate/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why You Shouldn’t Worry About Your Unsubscribe Rate</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3>Join our FREE Facebook group</h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The League Membership</h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/b2b-email-marketing-problems/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">0ab355ed-f437-46e9-a923-4de4187240ce</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/d25b1276-2bb0-47b6-9614-bc5ce983ec62/JDkf_ztyqi7akdGrk9YTEytc.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/f60366e2-1d1c-4d5b-828c-9ad218cb7d59/Final-v2.mp3" length="102625216" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>42:46</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>200</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>200</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/7041c829-5100-4ab2-85b3-69eb13aa2c3b/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Stop Landing In The Spam Folder &amp; Immediately Skyrocket Your Email Deliverability - With Brian Minick</title><itunes:title>Stop Landing In The Spam Folder &amp; Immediately Skyrocket Your Email Deliverability - With Brian Minick</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Do you know how many of the email addresses on your list are invalid? What happens when your subscribers mark your emails as spam rather than unsubscribing? How can you improve your sender reputation and your email deliverability? And did you know that <strong>you're losing approximately 22% of your subscribers every single year?&nbsp;</strong></p><p>We discuss this (and more!) with Brian Minick from ZeroBounce. And we <em>guarantee</em> you - you want to know what Brian has to say here. So listen or read on, and you can thank us later!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:12) Want a FREE resource to get more clicks on your emails? Check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Click Tricks</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(3:10) Check out our sponsor<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/bounce" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ZeroBounce</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(4:58) Did Brian really jump from the side of a cruise ship?</p><p>(6:20) What is email validation and why do you want to do it?</p><p>(9:44) Why deliverability rates aren't accurate.</p><p>(11:43) The truth about disposable email addresses.</p><p>(16:08) How to deal with typos.</p><p>(19:50) Other reasons why email addresses aren't valid.</p><p>(24:33) How to build an email list based on quality and not quantity.</p><p>(26:47) Make informed business decisions with ZeroBounce.</p><p>(31:40) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>What is email validation and why do you want to do it?&nbsp;</h2><p>Having validated over 18 <em>billion</em> email addresses over the years to check if emails to those addresses are deliverable, ZeroBounce did some research back in 2022. And they found that, <strong><em>on average</em>, about 22% of email lists are decaying year on year. </strong>This means that next year you won't be able to deliver 22% of the emails you delivered this year.</p><p>And part of the reason why is because of job shifts and email addresses getting shut down or abandoned. But there's more, and we're going to go into details with Brian a little later. But for now, let's let that number sink in - it's a terrifying statistic! Sure, if you have more personal accounts on your email list (rather than business ones), you're looking at a slightly slower decay. But that number could be higher if you're B2B. Brian confirmed that ZeroBounce (who are B2B) are seeing their own database reduce by 32% every year!</p><p>If you've been following our work for a while, you'll know that our approach to email marketing is based on building a list over time and <em>nurturing</em> those people. We make offers from the start, but not everyone will buy straight away - some people can take a couple of years before they become customers. And if these people aren't even going to be on your list next year, you definitely want to sell to them quickly! <strong>You want to turn them into paying customers to keep them in your world.</strong> Because when they become customers, they're more likely to get in touch and let you know if they changed their email address, for example.</p><p>But let's get into more detail...&nbsp;</p><h2>Why deliverability rates aren't accurate</h2><p>When your emails aren't getting delivered, you might see your bounce rate increase. However, Email Service Providers (ESPs) don't do a great job of explaining <em>why</em> that is. ZeroBounce, in their analysis, focuses on <em>deliverability</em>. When your emails are <em>delivered</em>, it means they've landed in someone's inbox. ESPs, on the other hand, will consider an email as delivered when it's left their system and has gone somewhere. In reality, it could be in someone's spam folder (blocked by a spam filter) or the Promotions folder. All it means is that the email has been <em>sent</em>.</p><p>The reason why ESPs report on 'sent' rather than 'delivered' is that they can't tell the difference! But also, this way, they show you a great-looking number. What you really want to know though, is whether your emails end up in the subscriber's actual inbox.&nbsp;</p><p>But what are some of the other reasons for email list decay?&nbsp;</p><h2>The truth about disposable email addresses&nbsp;</h2><p>A lot of websites out there let people create <em>disposable </em>email addresses - these are valid email addresses that give you access to an inbox and allow you to send and receive emails. People typically use them to get past gated content that requires an email address (like a lead magnet or a coupon) but without using their real email address. These are anonymous.</p><p>But once the person has grabbed the piece of content they wanted, they leave that website, and they're gone. That email address is no longer a marketable contact. So if you send emails to that address, they'll either bounce or go unread. It's a completely useless contact because it's just like a 'burner email address' with a one-time use.&nbsp;</p><p>The good news for us marketers is that disposable email addresses can be detected. So, as a business, you can make some decisions. If you're a charity that accepts donations from anonymous people, then this use case works for you. It’s a valid and safe scenario for accepting disposable email addresses onto your list. But otherwise, if the emails are bouncing, and you're never getting engagement, you're building a list of vapour!</p><p>From a marketer’s point of view, these email addresses are a waste of space because these people won't ever buy anything from you. Plus, because the emails aren't being received, <strong>disposable email addresses are hurting your deliverability and reputation as a sender.</strong> And in the long run, this affects your ability to reach the people with legitimate email addresses who want to receive your marketing and buy from you. So it's important that you know this technology exists, and you take measures to rule these people out.&nbsp;</p><h2>How to deal with typos</h2><p>Another issue that affects the decay of your email list is... typos. These are incredibly common. And a lot of people accidentally type the wrong username or domain when filling in opt-in forms. Simple errors can be detected and corrected, but that's not always possible.&nbsp;</p><p>ZeroBounce has technology that allows the user (in real-time) to detect the error and have the chance to correct it. When a potential typo is identified, the user is presented with an additional screen where a suggestion is made about the correct email address. The user can then confirm and proceed or deny and correct the typo. This is a seamless experience that works with a message that appears on the screen on the page that immediately follows the sign-in form.&nbsp;</p><p>And this is great news for us email marketers! It means we're not sending emails to the wrong address. And in turn, that means the emails won't bounce and hurt your deliverability.&nbsp;</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>Other reasons why email addresses aren't valid</h2><p>Other issues affecting list decay are spam traps and 'complainers' or 'abusers'. These are people who mark your emails as spam rather than unsubscribing. And when that happens, it negatively impacts your reputation in terms of how the email servers perceive you as a sender. <strong>If enough people are marking you as spam, you’ll potentially end up being blacklisted, and the rest of your emails might go straight into people’s spam folders.</strong></p><p>This is because email providers take feedback from their customers. And if a lot of users consider you spam, the email servers make decisions about your domain, your IP address, etc. Their job is to put content in front of their users that they actually want. So if enough people are considering you spam, they won't want to send your content to others.</p><p>Of course, as an email marketer, you can't predict this behaviour - you don't know that specific subscribers will decide to mark you as spam rather than using the unsubscribe link you provide at the bottom of your emails. So what can you do? First thing first, <strong>make sure your unsubscribe links are clear and visible - don't hide them!</strong></p><p>But also, don't consider unsubscribes as something negative. The truth is when someone unsubscribes from your list, they're opening the email and clicking on a link. This is considered engagement, and it helps you build a good sender reputation.&nbsp;</p><h3>ZeroBounce can detect 'complainers'</h3><p>Because ZeroBounce works with a lot of sending partners, they receive data feeds that allow them to detect 'complainers' who tend to mark emails as spam rather than unsubscribe. They have a record of 5 million 'complainers', so if someone is known to ZeroBounce (and you're one of their clients) they're able to give you a heads up before you even accept someone like that on your list.&nbsp;</p><p>Once you have access to data and statistics (and know, for example, that a certain email address is associated with someone who's 10 or more times more likely to report you as spam), you can decide whether to accept specific email addresses or not. Unfortunately, these are the types of issues that you can't deal with on your own as a business - you need the data. And ZeroBounce has access to it!</p><h2>How to build an email list based on quality and not quantity</h2><p>So if you already have an email list, how do you find out how many of those email addresses are problematic? Brian explains <strong>it’s about quality and not quantity. </strong>Quantity is easy – anyone can add email addresses to their lists. But you want to focus on<em> quality</em> instead. Whatever the size of your list, what matters is that certain rates (such as bounce rates or complaint rates) stay low. It's a percentage game - stats matter for you and for the ESPs.&nbsp;</p><p>If you've acquired your email list over time, ZeroBounce...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you know how many of the email addresses on your list are invalid? What happens when your subscribers mark your emails as spam rather than unsubscribing? How can you improve your sender reputation and your email deliverability? And did you know that <strong>you're losing approximately 22% of your subscribers every single year?&nbsp;</strong></p><p>We discuss this (and more!) with Brian Minick from ZeroBounce. And we <em>guarantee</em> you - you want to know what Brian has to say here. So listen or read on, and you can thank us later!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:12) Want a FREE resource to get more clicks on your emails? Check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Click Tricks</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(3:10) Check out our sponsor<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/bounce" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ZeroBounce</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(4:58) Did Brian really jump from the side of a cruise ship?</p><p>(6:20) What is email validation and why do you want to do it?</p><p>(9:44) Why deliverability rates aren't accurate.</p><p>(11:43) The truth about disposable email addresses.</p><p>(16:08) How to deal with typos.</p><p>(19:50) Other reasons why email addresses aren't valid.</p><p>(24:33) How to build an email list based on quality and not quantity.</p><p>(26:47) Make informed business decisions with ZeroBounce.</p><p>(31:40) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>What is email validation and why do you want to do it?&nbsp;</h2><p>Having validated over 18 <em>billion</em> email addresses over the years to check if emails to those addresses are deliverable, ZeroBounce did some research back in 2022. And they found that, <strong><em>on average</em>, about 22% of email lists are decaying year on year. </strong>This means that next year you won't be able to deliver 22% of the emails you delivered this year.</p><p>And part of the reason why is because of job shifts and email addresses getting shut down or abandoned. But there's more, and we're going to go into details with Brian a little later. But for now, let's let that number sink in - it's a terrifying statistic! Sure, if you have more personal accounts on your email list (rather than business ones), you're looking at a slightly slower decay. But that number could be higher if you're B2B. Brian confirmed that ZeroBounce (who are B2B) are seeing their own database reduce by 32% every year!</p><p>If you've been following our work for a while, you'll know that our approach to email marketing is based on building a list over time and <em>nurturing</em> those people. We make offers from the start, but not everyone will buy straight away - some people can take a couple of years before they become customers. And if these people aren't even going to be on your list next year, you definitely want to sell to them quickly! <strong>You want to turn them into paying customers to keep them in your world.</strong> Because when they become customers, they're more likely to get in touch and let you know if they changed their email address, for example.</p><p>But let's get into more detail...&nbsp;</p><h2>Why deliverability rates aren't accurate</h2><p>When your emails aren't getting delivered, you might see your bounce rate increase. However, Email Service Providers (ESPs) don't do a great job of explaining <em>why</em> that is. ZeroBounce, in their analysis, focuses on <em>deliverability</em>. When your emails are <em>delivered</em>, it means they've landed in someone's inbox. ESPs, on the other hand, will consider an email as delivered when it's left their system and has gone somewhere. In reality, it could be in someone's spam folder (blocked by a spam filter) or the Promotions folder. All it means is that the email has been <em>sent</em>.</p><p>The reason why ESPs report on 'sent' rather than 'delivered' is that they can't tell the difference! But also, this way, they show you a great-looking number. What you really want to know though, is whether your emails end up in the subscriber's actual inbox.&nbsp;</p><p>But what are some of the other reasons for email list decay?&nbsp;</p><h2>The truth about disposable email addresses&nbsp;</h2><p>A lot of websites out there let people create <em>disposable </em>email addresses - these are valid email addresses that give you access to an inbox and allow you to send and receive emails. People typically use them to get past gated content that requires an email address (like a lead magnet or a coupon) but without using their real email address. These are anonymous.</p><p>But once the person has grabbed the piece of content they wanted, they leave that website, and they're gone. That email address is no longer a marketable contact. So if you send emails to that address, they'll either bounce or go unread. It's a completely useless contact because it's just like a 'burner email address' with a one-time use.&nbsp;</p><p>The good news for us marketers is that disposable email addresses can be detected. So, as a business, you can make some decisions. If you're a charity that accepts donations from anonymous people, then this use case works for you. It’s a valid and safe scenario for accepting disposable email addresses onto your list. But otherwise, if the emails are bouncing, and you're never getting engagement, you're building a list of vapour!</p><p>From a marketer’s point of view, these email addresses are a waste of space because these people won't ever buy anything from you. Plus, because the emails aren't being received, <strong>disposable email addresses are hurting your deliverability and reputation as a sender.</strong> And in the long run, this affects your ability to reach the people with legitimate email addresses who want to receive your marketing and buy from you. So it's important that you know this technology exists, and you take measures to rule these people out.&nbsp;</p><h2>How to deal with typos</h2><p>Another issue that affects the decay of your email list is... typos. These are incredibly common. And a lot of people accidentally type the wrong username or domain when filling in opt-in forms. Simple errors can be detected and corrected, but that's not always possible.&nbsp;</p><p>ZeroBounce has technology that allows the user (in real-time) to detect the error and have the chance to correct it. When a potential typo is identified, the user is presented with an additional screen where a suggestion is made about the correct email address. The user can then confirm and proceed or deny and correct the typo. This is a seamless experience that works with a message that appears on the screen on the page that immediately follows the sign-in form.&nbsp;</p><p>And this is great news for us email marketers! It means we're not sending emails to the wrong address. And in turn, that means the emails won't bounce and hurt your deliverability.&nbsp;</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>Other reasons why email addresses aren't valid</h2><p>Other issues affecting list decay are spam traps and 'complainers' or 'abusers'. These are people who mark your emails as spam rather than unsubscribing. And when that happens, it negatively impacts your reputation in terms of how the email servers perceive you as a sender. <strong>If enough people are marking you as spam, you’ll potentially end up being blacklisted, and the rest of your emails might go straight into people’s spam folders.</strong></p><p>This is because email providers take feedback from their customers. And if a lot of users consider you spam, the email servers make decisions about your domain, your IP address, etc. Their job is to put content in front of their users that they actually want. So if enough people are considering you spam, they won't want to send your content to others.</p><p>Of course, as an email marketer, you can't predict this behaviour - you don't know that specific subscribers will decide to mark you as spam rather than using the unsubscribe link you provide at the bottom of your emails. So what can you do? First thing first, <strong>make sure your unsubscribe links are clear and visible - don't hide them!</strong></p><p>But also, don't consider unsubscribes as something negative. The truth is when someone unsubscribes from your list, they're opening the email and clicking on a link. This is considered engagement, and it helps you build a good sender reputation.&nbsp;</p><h3>ZeroBounce can detect 'complainers'</h3><p>Because ZeroBounce works with a lot of sending partners, they receive data feeds that allow them to detect 'complainers' who tend to mark emails as spam rather than unsubscribe. They have a record of 5 million 'complainers', so if someone is known to ZeroBounce (and you're one of their clients) they're able to give you a heads up before you even accept someone like that on your list.&nbsp;</p><p>Once you have access to data and statistics (and know, for example, that a certain email address is associated with someone who's 10 or more times more likely to report you as spam), you can decide whether to accept specific email addresses or not. Unfortunately, these are the types of issues that you can't deal with on your own as a business - you need the data. And ZeroBounce has access to it!</p><h2>How to build an email list based on quality and not quantity</h2><p>So if you already have an email list, how do you find out how many of those email addresses are problematic? Brian explains <strong>it’s about quality and not quantity. </strong>Quantity is easy – anyone can add email addresses to their lists. But you want to focus on<em> quality</em> instead. Whatever the size of your list, what matters is that certain rates (such as bounce rates or complaint rates) stay low. It's a percentage game - stats matter for you and for the ESPs.&nbsp;</p><p>If you've acquired your email list over time, ZeroBounce can analyse your entire email list to give you an idea of how many email addresses are undeliverable or risky. Once you get past this step, you can clean it, upload it, or send it through the ESP (depending on which one you’re using, ZeroBounce might have an integration with them) and let them run the analysis. It's a quick and easy job for ZeroBounce - they take about 45 minutes to run the data on a list of 100k email addresses and can give you information on each one. That allows you to effectively validate your list.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><h2>Make informed business decisions with ZeroBounce</h2><p>Historically, ZeroBounce finds that 57% of people's email addresses are considered valid and safe to send. That leaves 43% of addresses that aren’t necessarily ‘bad’, but they need looking into in order to understand why the report highlighted them. If certain categories of email addresses are coming up for you, you have some important business decisions to make.</p><p>If you have invalid email addresses, for example, you'll want to get rid of them. Because you really don't want those people in your CRM or ESP, <em>especially</em> if you're paying per contact! And with regards to other categories of 'bad' email addresses, you can benefit from the experience of ZeroBounce - they'll help you make decisions specific to your business.&nbsp;</p><p>If you’re still in the early days of your list-building activity, knowing about the quality of your contacts will help you build a good sender reputation from the start. Because at the end of the day, <strong>your subject line, your content, or your offer can be great, but if your emails don't get delivered, no one will see them!&nbsp;</strong></p><p>So if you're a podcast listener and want to give<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/bounce" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ZeroBounce</a> a test drive, <strong>Brian is offering 1,000 FREE validations</strong>. And if your list is smaller than that, even better! Now's the best time to be proactive and start looking at your data because doing the cleanup at a later date is going to be a lot harder. So check it out!&nbsp;</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>This week’s subject line is “trapped in the airport.” The email was about our 36-hour journey home from Austin back in June. We drew a parallel between the intricacies of marking sure people don’t slip through the cracks in the airport and ensuring subscribers haven't slipped through the cracks of your email automation.</p><p>It’s a curiosity-driven hook that leads from the storytelling in the subject line, which also starts with a lowercase - and that's curiosity-invoking in itself. It comes across as if the email was potentially rushed because you are (indeed) “trapped in an airport”. So check it out!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/best-marketing-email-platforms/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">6 Things You Didn’t Know Your Email Marketing Platform Could Do</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/lies-email-marketing-platform/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Warning: 6 Lies Your Email Marketing Platform Is Telling You</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-deliverability/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Surprising Thing That REALLY Impacts Your Email Deliverability</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3>Join our FREE Facebook group</h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The League Membership</h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to stop landing in the spam folder and improving your email deliverability) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/email-deliverability-2/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">a94fc1cf-afbc-4579-9df2-ccbbe04c6088</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/94791b48-3ce0-4df7-90bc-f5b3b4de4202/KEn_Byemk41ltxKr8nNQbfx-.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 16 Aug 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/8109cbc1-0dcc-4b8e-b955-746d58b6de5f/Final-2.mp3" length="80122816" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>33:23</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>199</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>199</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/eb8ac97b-1974-4213-a9a5-b6b116fc083c/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Cold Email Outreach - Is The Technique Sleazy or Super Effective?</title><itunes:title>Cold Email Outreach - Is The Technique Sleazy or Super Effective?</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What is cold email outreach? Is it a necessary technique or a spammy annoyance? And how do you even do it? Let's talk about the ins and outs of cold outreach emails. Are they really as icy as people think? Not if you do it right...&nbsp;</p><p>So let's find out!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:23) Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook Group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(4:28) Check out our sponsor<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/bounce" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ZeroBounce</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(6:17) A chilly introduction - what is cold email outreach?</p><p>(7:55) Is cold email outreach the same as spam?</p><p>(8:54) Why cold email outreach isn't as 'frosty' as you think.</p><p>(11:29) Why do cold emails sometimes feel sleazy?</p><p>(13:43) Cold outreach done wrong.</p><p>(16:08) Using social proof in your cold outreach emails.&nbsp;</p><p>(17:44) What's the difference between inbound marketing and cold outreach?&nbsp;</p><p>(19:38) Running cold outreach to a lead magnet.</p><p>(23:51) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>A chilly introduction - what is cold email outreach?&nbsp;</h2><p>A lot of people ask us about cold email outreach. And the truth is that this technique isn't really email marketing. With cold outreach, people aren't joining your list - you're emailing them out of the blue (i.e. <em>cold</em>). <strong>It's a type of <em>prospecting</em> and <em>email lead generation</em>. </strong>It’s about finding people you want to work with or who will buy from you.</p><p>We believe that this practice only fits a certain type of business – certainly, we wouldn’t use cold outreach to try and sell a $37 course about how to send daily emails! However, we would use it (and <em>have</em> used it) for something specific - like being invited to speak on a podcast.</p><h2>Is cold email outreach the same as spam?</h2><p>Spam refers to unsolicited emails sent out by some sort of automation programme to people who were not expecting or wanted your email. And to be fair, the practice of cold outreach seems to fit all those parameters! Because effectively, you're taking a bunch of people, dropping them into some sort of automation system (doing it manually sounds like a lot of work and effort), and then sending them a series of emails (let's say 3-7) that they weren't expecting.</p><p>And to make matters worse, there's probably no 'unsubscribe' link at the bottom because this isn't an email list they joined. If people aren’t interested in what you have to sell, you simply ask them to hit reply and let you know so you can take them out of the automation. So that's how cold email outreach works.</p><h2>Why cold email outreach isn't as 'frosty' as you think&nbsp;</h2><p>Despite all this, cold outreach isn’t as big of a problem as you may think. It doesn’t have to be as 'frosty' as receiving a DM from someone offering help with something that’s completely irrelevant to you!</p><p>And while we’re not cold email outreach experts, we have used this technique in a specific way in order to get booked on podcasts and do training in other people’s communities. Otherwise, we use referral introductions and our network of friends and contacts we've made from being part of various groups and masterminds.&nbsp;</p><p>It's also worth pointing out that, when we do cold outreach, we don't use our existing email marketing platform - we use a specific cold outreach email automation tool. Why? Because <em>email marketing platforms are opt-in systems</em>. That means that if you start loading a bunch of email addresses and send emails to people out of the blue, you'll definitely hurt your own email deliverability. So we use a specialist outreach tool and <em>then</em> ask people to opt into our list.</p><p>Effectively, <strong>we think of outreach as another ads channel</strong> – it’s the same methodology as running Facebook or YouTube ads, for example. It's just a different type of ad that lands in people’s email inboxes. And if people want more information, then they can take a step into our world and opt-in to receive our email marketing.</p><h2>Why do cold emails sometimes feel sleazy?&nbsp;</h2><p><strong>The reason why a lot of cold outreach sucks is that it’s devoid of any personality </strong>– it’s robotic and sounds like ChatGPT! So whenever we do cold outreach, we drip it in personality. Even if what we’re talking about is of no interest to the person we're reaching out to, we still want to elicit replies and give people emotional value. We want to get some sort of reaction – whether that’s to say we’re fun, crazy, or even a bit extra! We are ourselves “plus 5” in those emails - amped up. And that's because<strong> we want to grab people’s attention</strong> <strong>and make our audience feel like they can’t ignore us.</strong></p><p>And yes, we do get a handful of complaints. But that’s still good because it means our emails are so full of personality that it's only natural some people won't like them. If everyone liked us or felt indifferent to our content, it'd mean our emails are too bland and don't have enough personality. Not everyone likes our style, and if people are offended by it, that's okay - people are offended for different reasons.&nbsp;</p><h2>Cold outreach done wrong</h2><p>So why is the cold outreach most people send out terrible? Because it uses personalisation in the wrong way. If you’re sending someone an email to say you liked their latest piece of content (and you simply copy and paste the title of that piece of content) most of the time, the email will just come across as bland and uninteresting.</p><p>In our podcast outreach emails, we're quite far into the emails before we talk about the topic we teach. And that's because we want a whole chunk of the email opening to be about getting people to pay attention and care.</p><p>A lot of outreach emails feel sleazy because they’re not talking about the person or their interests. In our emails, we’re very tongue-in-cheek about it. We're quite open about the fact that what we're sending is blatantly an outreach email. And we know the person on the receiving end knows that too! So just by talking about it in our email, we make it a lot more genuine.</p><p>We always talk about <em>selling through honesty</em>, and so we’re honest about the fact we feel terrible reaching out in this way. But we’re doing it anyway because we really want to ask something of this person. If a cold outreach email feels sleazy is because it's <em>disingenuous</em>.&nbsp;</p><h2>Using social proof in your cold outreach emails</h2><p>The job of a genuine outreach email isn't to tell people how excellent you are and how much experience you have. Because everyone does that! No one would purposefully turn up in someone’s inbox and tell them they’re terrible at what they do, right? So <strong>the only way you can stand out is through personality.</strong></p><p>And with regards to using social proof, make sure you only do that when you have the person’s attention. Think about an email sales campaign or a sales page – social proof comes <em>way</em> down the line. So if you start a cold outreach email with social proof, people don’t care!</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>What’s the difference between inbound marketing and cold outreach?</h2><p>As we said earlier, cold outreach is <em>prospecting</em>. You’re reaching out to someone because you’ve identified them as a person who might find what you teach valuable, useful, and insightful. Something that helps their growth. But it’s still cold prospecting. So it’s great for things like getting booked on podcasts, stages, or events.</p><p>Email marketing, on the other hand, is <em>conversion</em>. It’s the next stage from the initial prospecting. So depending on what you sell, you’re going to want to have them both. If you sell a $37 eBook, doing outreach is probably going to be a waste of your time. But if you currently have a business model that’s entirely outreach-driven, then you’d be missing a trick if you stopped doing it. If your clients have an average lifetime value of thousands of dollars, it's a technique worth testing out.&nbsp;</p><h2>Running cold outreach to a lead magnet&nbsp;</h2><p>You can also build a <em>permission-based</em> list where you have content you put out on the Internet or ads that drive people to a lead magnet and get them to opt into your email list. This is <strong>cold outreach to a lead magnet.</strong> So you get a list of prospects, you send them a cold outreach sequence of 4 or 5 emails, and let them know that the emails are going to stop unless people tell you they’re interested in hearing more.</p><p>If they don’t, you don't get back in touch with them. But if they opt into your lead magnet and move onto your email list, then you start sending them emails through your email marketing platform. And then you turn those people into customers.</p><p>So you could have a business model where you<strong> use cold outreach to attract people into your world by offering a free resource that helps with something they're struggling with, and then you use email marketing as a conversion mechanism.</strong> If you don’t do this already, test it out and let us know how it goes!&nbsp;</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>This week’s subject line is “STOP it with the passive income.” This email was about the fact that having a course or a membership isn’t really passive income, as such. The reason why the subject line works is that, first of all, it has “STOP” in it, and the subconscious response it elicits in people is for them to stop scrolling and pay attention – it’s an embedded command.</p><p>But the idea is also a contradiction to what most people think. Why would they stop doing passive income,...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What is cold email outreach? Is it a necessary technique or a spammy annoyance? And how do you even do it? Let's talk about the ins and outs of cold outreach emails. Are they really as icy as people think? Not if you do it right...&nbsp;</p><p>So let's find out!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:23) Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook Group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(4:28) Check out our sponsor<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/bounce" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ZeroBounce</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(6:17) A chilly introduction - what is cold email outreach?</p><p>(7:55) Is cold email outreach the same as spam?</p><p>(8:54) Why cold email outreach isn't as 'frosty' as you think.</p><p>(11:29) Why do cold emails sometimes feel sleazy?</p><p>(13:43) Cold outreach done wrong.</p><p>(16:08) Using social proof in your cold outreach emails.&nbsp;</p><p>(17:44) What's the difference between inbound marketing and cold outreach?&nbsp;</p><p>(19:38) Running cold outreach to a lead magnet.</p><p>(23:51) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>A chilly introduction - what is cold email outreach?&nbsp;</h2><p>A lot of people ask us about cold email outreach. And the truth is that this technique isn't really email marketing. With cold outreach, people aren't joining your list - you're emailing them out of the blue (i.e. <em>cold</em>). <strong>It's a type of <em>prospecting</em> and <em>email lead generation</em>. </strong>It’s about finding people you want to work with or who will buy from you.</p><p>We believe that this practice only fits a certain type of business – certainly, we wouldn’t use cold outreach to try and sell a $37 course about how to send daily emails! However, we would use it (and <em>have</em> used it) for something specific - like being invited to speak on a podcast.</p><h2>Is cold email outreach the same as spam?</h2><p>Spam refers to unsolicited emails sent out by some sort of automation programme to people who were not expecting or wanted your email. And to be fair, the practice of cold outreach seems to fit all those parameters! Because effectively, you're taking a bunch of people, dropping them into some sort of automation system (doing it manually sounds like a lot of work and effort), and then sending them a series of emails (let's say 3-7) that they weren't expecting.</p><p>And to make matters worse, there's probably no 'unsubscribe' link at the bottom because this isn't an email list they joined. If people aren’t interested in what you have to sell, you simply ask them to hit reply and let you know so you can take them out of the automation. So that's how cold email outreach works.</p><h2>Why cold email outreach isn't as 'frosty' as you think&nbsp;</h2><p>Despite all this, cold outreach isn’t as big of a problem as you may think. It doesn’t have to be as 'frosty' as receiving a DM from someone offering help with something that’s completely irrelevant to you!</p><p>And while we’re not cold email outreach experts, we have used this technique in a specific way in order to get booked on podcasts and do training in other people’s communities. Otherwise, we use referral introductions and our network of friends and contacts we've made from being part of various groups and masterminds.&nbsp;</p><p>It's also worth pointing out that, when we do cold outreach, we don't use our existing email marketing platform - we use a specific cold outreach email automation tool. Why? Because <em>email marketing platforms are opt-in systems</em>. That means that if you start loading a bunch of email addresses and send emails to people out of the blue, you'll definitely hurt your own email deliverability. So we use a specialist outreach tool and <em>then</em> ask people to opt into our list.</p><p>Effectively, <strong>we think of outreach as another ads channel</strong> – it’s the same methodology as running Facebook or YouTube ads, for example. It's just a different type of ad that lands in people’s email inboxes. And if people want more information, then they can take a step into our world and opt-in to receive our email marketing.</p><h2>Why do cold emails sometimes feel sleazy?&nbsp;</h2><p><strong>The reason why a lot of cold outreach sucks is that it’s devoid of any personality </strong>– it’s robotic and sounds like ChatGPT! So whenever we do cold outreach, we drip it in personality. Even if what we’re talking about is of no interest to the person we're reaching out to, we still want to elicit replies and give people emotional value. We want to get some sort of reaction – whether that’s to say we’re fun, crazy, or even a bit extra! We are ourselves “plus 5” in those emails - amped up. And that's because<strong> we want to grab people’s attention</strong> <strong>and make our audience feel like they can’t ignore us.</strong></p><p>And yes, we do get a handful of complaints. But that’s still good because it means our emails are so full of personality that it's only natural some people won't like them. If everyone liked us or felt indifferent to our content, it'd mean our emails are too bland and don't have enough personality. Not everyone likes our style, and if people are offended by it, that's okay - people are offended for different reasons.&nbsp;</p><h2>Cold outreach done wrong</h2><p>So why is the cold outreach most people send out terrible? Because it uses personalisation in the wrong way. If you’re sending someone an email to say you liked their latest piece of content (and you simply copy and paste the title of that piece of content) most of the time, the email will just come across as bland and uninteresting.</p><p>In our podcast outreach emails, we're quite far into the emails before we talk about the topic we teach. And that's because we want a whole chunk of the email opening to be about getting people to pay attention and care.</p><p>A lot of outreach emails feel sleazy because they’re not talking about the person or their interests. In our emails, we’re very tongue-in-cheek about it. We're quite open about the fact that what we're sending is blatantly an outreach email. And we know the person on the receiving end knows that too! So just by talking about it in our email, we make it a lot more genuine.</p><p>We always talk about <em>selling through honesty</em>, and so we’re honest about the fact we feel terrible reaching out in this way. But we’re doing it anyway because we really want to ask something of this person. If a cold outreach email feels sleazy is because it's <em>disingenuous</em>.&nbsp;</p><h2>Using social proof in your cold outreach emails</h2><p>The job of a genuine outreach email isn't to tell people how excellent you are and how much experience you have. Because everyone does that! No one would purposefully turn up in someone’s inbox and tell them they’re terrible at what they do, right? So <strong>the only way you can stand out is through personality.</strong></p><p>And with regards to using social proof, make sure you only do that when you have the person’s attention. Think about an email sales campaign or a sales page – social proof comes <em>way</em> down the line. So if you start a cold outreach email with social proof, people don’t care!</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>What’s the difference between inbound marketing and cold outreach?</h2><p>As we said earlier, cold outreach is <em>prospecting</em>. You’re reaching out to someone because you’ve identified them as a person who might find what you teach valuable, useful, and insightful. Something that helps their growth. But it’s still cold prospecting. So it’s great for things like getting booked on podcasts, stages, or events.</p><p>Email marketing, on the other hand, is <em>conversion</em>. It’s the next stage from the initial prospecting. So depending on what you sell, you’re going to want to have them both. If you sell a $37 eBook, doing outreach is probably going to be a waste of your time. But if you currently have a business model that’s entirely outreach-driven, then you’d be missing a trick if you stopped doing it. If your clients have an average lifetime value of thousands of dollars, it's a technique worth testing out.&nbsp;</p><h2>Running cold outreach to a lead magnet&nbsp;</h2><p>You can also build a <em>permission-based</em> list where you have content you put out on the Internet or ads that drive people to a lead magnet and get them to opt into your email list. This is <strong>cold outreach to a lead magnet.</strong> So you get a list of prospects, you send them a cold outreach sequence of 4 or 5 emails, and let them know that the emails are going to stop unless people tell you they’re interested in hearing more.</p><p>If they don’t, you don't get back in touch with them. But if they opt into your lead magnet and move onto your email list, then you start sending them emails through your email marketing platform. And then you turn those people into customers.</p><p>So you could have a business model where you<strong> use cold outreach to attract people into your world by offering a free resource that helps with something they're struggling with, and then you use email marketing as a conversion mechanism.</strong> If you don’t do this already, test it out and let us know how it goes!&nbsp;</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>This week’s subject line is “STOP it with the passive income.” This email was about the fact that having a course or a membership isn’t really passive income, as such. The reason why the subject line works is that, first of all, it has “STOP” in it, and the subconscious response it elicits in people is for them to stop scrolling and pay attention – it’s an embedded command.</p><p>But the idea is also a contradiction to what most people think. Why would they stop doing passive income, which is something that's really sought after and a lot of people want to do? So the subject line drives curiosity. Check it out!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-book-top-podcast-guests-with-email-outreach-done-right-with-james-carbary/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Book Top Podcast Guests With Email – Outreach Done Right With James Carbary</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-get-results-from-your-email-outreach-warming-up-with-jason-bay/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Get Results From Your Email Outreach – Warming Up With Jason Bay</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/write-better-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Little Tricks to Write Better Emails That Aren’t Boring</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3>Join our FREE Facebook group</h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The League Membership</h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about cold email outreach and how we do it) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/cold-email-outreach/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">564a2c34-9469-421a-b9d4-b9bb8af3b409</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/4af42fdd-2b18-4955-afdc-d1a65a96982e/Ws7ZbnacqWOzPP6gzf7OT1jn.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/8217c933-2715-4374-906d-8e93b1d86c46/Final-1.mp3" length="61008256" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>25:25</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>198</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>198</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/0068166a-05a9-4751-8f6e-e4956963d219/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How Brad 10x&apos;d His Ad Spend In One Month - A Case Study</title><itunes:title>How Brad 10x&apos;d His Ad Spend In One Month - A Case Study</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Can email marketing help you get a crazy ROI in advertising? Brad Gouldemond - a member of<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a> - shows that you can. When Brad started his business, he invested in ads, he got a few thousand people to join his challenge (which he run and managed with email marketing), and the rest, as they say, is history!</p><p>Well, not really.</p><p>He made <em>a lot</em> of money.</p><p>That's the rest of the story.&nbsp;</p><p>Wanna hear it?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:18) Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook Group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(3:39) Check out our sponsor<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/bounce" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ZeroBounce</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(5:27) Who is Brad Gouldemond?</p><p>(8:15) When did Brad introduce email marketing in his business?</p><p>(10:22) What was Brad's biggest barrier with email marketing when he first started?</p><p>(13:16) What did Brad's email marketing look like before he joined The League?</p><p>(15:36) How did things change for Brad when he joined The League?</p><p>(21:33) How does Brad feel about his email marketing now?</p><p>(23:32) What ONE thing had the biggest impact on Brad's email marketing?</p><p>(25:51) Does Brad feel like email marketing has taken over his life?</p><p>(32:09) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>Who is Brad Gouldemond?</h2><p>At the time of our chat,<a href="https://www.instagram.com/bradguld/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Brad</a>'s been in business for about three years. A musician and a speaker, he started his business during Covid. Brad is now based in Nashville and mentors aspiring Christian artists and songwriters to learn how to write better songs. He gives them connections but also teaches them how to find great producers and release their music in a way that feels authentic to them. A lot of artists don't have the confidence to put themselves out there with their music and their songwriting, so Brad's membership helps with that.</p><p>This shows that if you're a coach or sell courses or a membership, you're not just helping people with information, tools, techniques, and strategies. You're also giving your audience the <em>permission</em>, inspiration, and desire to do what they want to do. And email marketing can help with that.&nbsp;</p><p>If you want to connect with Brad, you can<a href="https://www.instagram.com/christianmusicmentor/?hl=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> find him on Instagram</a> or sign up for his<a href="https://www.christianmusicworkshop.com/webinar-registration-576218991673925083692" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Christian Music Workshop</a>.</p><h2>When did Brad introduce email marketing in his business?</h2><p>In March 2020, Brad launched his business without an email list. All he had was $5,000 (out of his retirement fund) that he put into Facebook ads. He ended up with a whopping 3,000 people joining his challenge, and that's when he started email marketing. Because he had to welcome them and communicate with them about the challenge.</p><p>After that, he soon created a page for his academy, decided how much to charge, and came up with a 5-day sales sequence. And <strong>he made TEN TIMES his ad spend back during that challenge - <em>in one month</em>!&nbsp;</strong></p><p>But what to do next? Brad could see the value of email marketing clear as day, but he had no idea how to get results intentionally, consistently, and predictably through it.&nbsp;</p><h2>What was Brad's biggest barrier with email marketing when he first started?&nbsp;</h2><p>The biggest challenge Brad had when he first got started is that he didn't know about email marketing at all. It'd worked really well for him when he first launched his business, but he felt he had no idea how to get the same results again.</p><p>At the time of starting up in business (during lockdown), ad costs were low. Brad leaned into that and got a crazy ROI on advertising! But how could he take his skills in communication and music and make them work <em>consistently </em>for his business by using email marketing?</p><p>The answer, Brad said, was to find people (just like us) who are good at what you want to learn (i.e. email marketing) and take their advice, which is what Brad eventually did...</p><h2>What did Brad’s email marketing look like before he joined The League?</h2><p>Before he joined<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>, Brad’s emails were sporadic. He was running challenges three times a year and sending emails around those. But otherwise, he'd be ignoring his list for 3-4 months. And that's simply because he didn't know what to send them. As many business owners do, he was more focused on serving his paying clients (and making money) and didn't pay enough attention to nurturing people on his list. He just didn't know how to do it!&nbsp;</p><p>So instead of sending automated email sequences, he'd create broadcast-type emails. He didn't know what worked or what to say, and he felt it was really hard for him to get the ball rolling with email marketing. At the time, Brad had an evergreen webinar he wanted to launch, but he just didn't know how to use email marketing to make that convert. Part of it was because of the (then) prohibitive cost of ads, but a big reason was down to Brad not being able to figure out his emails and copy.&nbsp;</p><p>And that's where we come in...&nbsp;</p><h2>How did things change for Brad when he joined The League?</h2><p>Brad found us through a web search while looking for email marketing advice to be able to create great sequences without hiring an expensive copywriter. He came across our webpage and noticed how we stand out – our copy shows personality, it’s interesting, and the branding is amazing (Brad’s words, not ours!). And Brad wanted his emails to have personality, too!</p><p>He had this specific idea of wanting to launch a <em>flash sale sequence</em> to convert more of the people who were coming into his world through webinar sign-ups. So when he realised we had a flash sale email campaign included in our membership<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a> (plus a bunch of other cool stuff), he decided to join.&nbsp;</p><p>And, unsurprisingly, the first thing he did was to implement our flash sale campaign - the Paparazzi campaign. By that point, Brad had about 9-10k people on his list, so a good-sized list by all standards, but his audience wouldn't buy! Up until then, Brad had only been able to make about $100-$200 from the regular sales he ran to his list. And he didn't quite know what he was doing wrong.&nbsp;</p><h3>The amazing results Brad had by launching ONE campaign!</h3><p>So what happened after Brad launched the Paparazzi campaign? After a few tweaks to it, he <strong>made an offer for his $47 membership and made $4,460 in four days! </strong>Plus, his open rates on those emails were incredible - sky-high compared to what he was used to.&nbsp;</p><p>The campaign gave Brad awesome results because of the <strong>psychological stacking of our campaigns</strong> <strong>and because we only use what works!</strong> We have a lot of half-baked campaigns that we’re still testing in our own business, but until they’re proven and robust enough, we don’t include them in our membership. The email sequences we give to our members are <em>watertight</em> – we know they work! And remember that <strong>you’re always going to get better results by sending a ‘half-good email’ than <em>never</em> sending that perfect email!&nbsp;</strong></p><p>As Brad nicely put it, "Success always leaves clues", so it's about looking for people who are successful in what you want to learn and going and learning from them! That's exactly what he did when he made the decision to join<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>.&nbsp;</p><h2>How does Brad feel about his email marketing now?</h2><p>Brad definitely feels more confident now, and his confidence comes from taking action. Over time, and after noticing how some people got offended by a couple of his subject lines, Brad started tweaking his emails to suit his style and match his voice. Working with artists and songwriters, Brad finds his audience is sensitive, so he takes the working principles of our campaigns and tweaks them in a way that makes him feel confident. And when you see your open rates soar and the results come in, you build even more confidence!</p><p>With a proven plan or roadmap to follow and clear step-by-step instructions (just like Brad did when he joined<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>), you build that confidence. And it's the same for Brad's clients - by following his guidance, they get the confidence to do what they do best.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><h2>What ONE thing had the biggest impact on Brad’s email marketing?</h2><p>Having email templates that he could tweak to put his heart and voice into was the biggest and most impactful thing for Brad. He'd tried using templates before, but that had never worked for him. Whereas our campaigns do work! Brad puts his own voice into them - he gives them a feeling of authenticity by adding a tad more gentleness to appeal to his creative and sensitive songwriters.</p><p>He’s still using the principles, the mindset, and the philosophies that we teach inside<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>, but, at the same time, he also...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Can email marketing help you get a crazy ROI in advertising? Brad Gouldemond - a member of<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a> - shows that you can. When Brad started his business, he invested in ads, he got a few thousand people to join his challenge (which he run and managed with email marketing), and the rest, as they say, is history!</p><p>Well, not really.</p><p>He made <em>a lot</em> of money.</p><p>That's the rest of the story.&nbsp;</p><p>Wanna hear it?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:18) Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook Group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(3:39) Check out our sponsor<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/bounce" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ZeroBounce</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(5:27) Who is Brad Gouldemond?</p><p>(8:15) When did Brad introduce email marketing in his business?</p><p>(10:22) What was Brad's biggest barrier with email marketing when he first started?</p><p>(13:16) What did Brad's email marketing look like before he joined The League?</p><p>(15:36) How did things change for Brad when he joined The League?</p><p>(21:33) How does Brad feel about his email marketing now?</p><p>(23:32) What ONE thing had the biggest impact on Brad's email marketing?</p><p>(25:51) Does Brad feel like email marketing has taken over his life?</p><p>(32:09) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><h2>Who is Brad Gouldemond?</h2><p>At the time of our chat,<a href="https://www.instagram.com/bradguld/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Brad</a>'s been in business for about three years. A musician and a speaker, he started his business during Covid. Brad is now based in Nashville and mentors aspiring Christian artists and songwriters to learn how to write better songs. He gives them connections but also teaches them how to find great producers and release their music in a way that feels authentic to them. A lot of artists don't have the confidence to put themselves out there with their music and their songwriting, so Brad's membership helps with that.</p><p>This shows that if you're a coach or sell courses or a membership, you're not just helping people with information, tools, techniques, and strategies. You're also giving your audience the <em>permission</em>, inspiration, and desire to do what they want to do. And email marketing can help with that.&nbsp;</p><p>If you want to connect with Brad, you can<a href="https://www.instagram.com/christianmusicmentor/?hl=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> find him on Instagram</a> or sign up for his<a href="https://www.christianmusicworkshop.com/webinar-registration-576218991673925083692" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Christian Music Workshop</a>.</p><h2>When did Brad introduce email marketing in his business?</h2><p>In March 2020, Brad launched his business without an email list. All he had was $5,000 (out of his retirement fund) that he put into Facebook ads. He ended up with a whopping 3,000 people joining his challenge, and that's when he started email marketing. Because he had to welcome them and communicate with them about the challenge.</p><p>After that, he soon created a page for his academy, decided how much to charge, and came up with a 5-day sales sequence. And <strong>he made TEN TIMES his ad spend back during that challenge - <em>in one month</em>!&nbsp;</strong></p><p>But what to do next? Brad could see the value of email marketing clear as day, but he had no idea how to get results intentionally, consistently, and predictably through it.&nbsp;</p><h2>What was Brad's biggest barrier with email marketing when he first started?&nbsp;</h2><p>The biggest challenge Brad had when he first got started is that he didn't know about email marketing at all. It'd worked really well for him when he first launched his business, but he felt he had no idea how to get the same results again.</p><p>At the time of starting up in business (during lockdown), ad costs were low. Brad leaned into that and got a crazy ROI on advertising! But how could he take his skills in communication and music and make them work <em>consistently </em>for his business by using email marketing?</p><p>The answer, Brad said, was to find people (just like us) who are good at what you want to learn (i.e. email marketing) and take their advice, which is what Brad eventually did...</p><h2>What did Brad’s email marketing look like before he joined The League?</h2><p>Before he joined<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>, Brad’s emails were sporadic. He was running challenges three times a year and sending emails around those. But otherwise, he'd be ignoring his list for 3-4 months. And that's simply because he didn't know what to send them. As many business owners do, he was more focused on serving his paying clients (and making money) and didn't pay enough attention to nurturing people on his list. He just didn't know how to do it!&nbsp;</p><p>So instead of sending automated email sequences, he'd create broadcast-type emails. He didn't know what worked or what to say, and he felt it was really hard for him to get the ball rolling with email marketing. At the time, Brad had an evergreen webinar he wanted to launch, but he just didn't know how to use email marketing to make that convert. Part of it was because of the (then) prohibitive cost of ads, but a big reason was down to Brad not being able to figure out his emails and copy.&nbsp;</p><p>And that's where we come in...&nbsp;</p><h2>How did things change for Brad when he joined The League?</h2><p>Brad found us through a web search while looking for email marketing advice to be able to create great sequences without hiring an expensive copywriter. He came across our webpage and noticed how we stand out – our copy shows personality, it’s interesting, and the branding is amazing (Brad’s words, not ours!). And Brad wanted his emails to have personality, too!</p><p>He had this specific idea of wanting to launch a <em>flash sale sequence</em> to convert more of the people who were coming into his world through webinar sign-ups. So when he realised we had a flash sale email campaign included in our membership<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a> (plus a bunch of other cool stuff), he decided to join.&nbsp;</p><p>And, unsurprisingly, the first thing he did was to implement our flash sale campaign - the Paparazzi campaign. By that point, Brad had about 9-10k people on his list, so a good-sized list by all standards, but his audience wouldn't buy! Up until then, Brad had only been able to make about $100-$200 from the regular sales he ran to his list. And he didn't quite know what he was doing wrong.&nbsp;</p><h3>The amazing results Brad had by launching ONE campaign!</h3><p>So what happened after Brad launched the Paparazzi campaign? After a few tweaks to it, he <strong>made an offer for his $47 membership and made $4,460 in four days! </strong>Plus, his open rates on those emails were incredible - sky-high compared to what he was used to.&nbsp;</p><p>The campaign gave Brad awesome results because of the <strong>psychological stacking of our campaigns</strong> <strong>and because we only use what works!</strong> We have a lot of half-baked campaigns that we’re still testing in our own business, but until they’re proven and robust enough, we don’t include them in our membership. The email sequences we give to our members are <em>watertight</em> – we know they work! And remember that <strong>you’re always going to get better results by sending a ‘half-good email’ than <em>never</em> sending that perfect email!&nbsp;</strong></p><p>As Brad nicely put it, "Success always leaves clues", so it's about looking for people who are successful in what you want to learn and going and learning from them! That's exactly what he did when he made the decision to join<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>.&nbsp;</p><h2>How does Brad feel about his email marketing now?</h2><p>Brad definitely feels more confident now, and his confidence comes from taking action. Over time, and after noticing how some people got offended by a couple of his subject lines, Brad started tweaking his emails to suit his style and match his voice. Working with artists and songwriters, Brad finds his audience is sensitive, so he takes the working principles of our campaigns and tweaks them in a way that makes him feel confident. And when you see your open rates soar and the results come in, you build even more confidence!</p><p>With a proven plan or roadmap to follow and clear step-by-step instructions (just like Brad did when he joined<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>), you build that confidence. And it's the same for Brad's clients - by following his guidance, they get the confidence to do what they do best.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><h2>What ONE thing had the biggest impact on Brad’s email marketing?</h2><p>Having email templates that he could tweak to put his heart and voice into was the biggest and most impactful thing for Brad. He'd tried using templates before, but that had never worked for him. Whereas our campaigns do work! Brad puts his own voice into them - he gives them a feeling of authenticity by adding a tad more gentleness to appeal to his creative and sensitive songwriters.</p><p>He’s still using the principles, the mindset, and the philosophies that we teach inside<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>, but, at the same time, he also makes sure the emails feel authentic to his people.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><h2>What’s next for Brad’s email marketing?</h2><p>The next project on the cards for Brad is automating his webinar. He’s been doing live webinars for months now, and he’s starting to get burnt out. Plus, he wants to be able to take a break! And that’s why email marketing is so important. Because it helps with time and energy management.</p><h2>Does Brad feel like email marketing has taken over his life?</h2><p>Email marketing is a priority for Brad because that's where his ROI is! <strong>You have to look at email marketing as an investment in your business</strong> - you do the work upfront, but then you've automated your processes for time to come. Email marketing gives you freedom, money, and peace of mind so you can focus your attention on other things.</p><p>As Brad put it, if you take care of the bread and butter of your business (and creating emails <em>is</em> the backbone of your business!), then you have more time to focus on something else. So you may need to invest some initial time in setting things up. But the time and money you spend creating your email engine and writing your emails will pay off - for weeks, months, and even years! We definitely have sequences in our business that we haven't changed for years because they're automated at the right frequency, and they just work!</p><p>So if you have a list but don't know how to use it or how to make money from it, you can learn. You can do it in a way that doesn't spam people, so you never have to worry about having them unsubscribe. If you're stuck in paralysis, you think you have a ‘small list’, or you’re just starting out with email marketing, you can do it! <strong>Brad went from <em>no subscribers</em> to making $50k in one month</strong> and he passed six figures within the first eight months. It's not just about the ROI on advertising - it's about how email marketing can enhance that exponentially.</p><p>So are you ready to get some awesome results too? Check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>!&nbsp;</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>This week’s subject line is the word “APPALLING service.” This one works because people want to know about "the bad" more than they want to know about "the good". That's why newspaper headlines are always so negative. People want to read on to find out <em>who</em> got the appalling service, <em>what</em> it was, etc. It’s a subject line that generates lots of questions. So check it out!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/price-increase-email-template-case-study/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How A League Member Made Over $10k With Just ONE Email Campaign – Case Study With Aidan O’Sullivan</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/sheilfg-email-marketing-case-study/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How Sheila Went from the Starting Blocks to Total Clarity – an Email Marketing Case Study</a>.</p><p>And<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/small-email-list/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> How Kronda Adair Made $86,500 From A Small Email List</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3>Join our FREE Facebook group</h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The League Membership</h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how one of our members got some crazy ROI on advertising when he first started out) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/roi-in-advertising/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">ee4d5a8c-d8a3-47e6-bf24-8506fa8b07ed</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/98dd362f-19cb-4843-ae6e-4df00a689834/WcRky66FgQrv1Jv2LU2m_odV.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/66da94ab-0528-4dfd-a857-6c7f9fb3c124/197.mp3" length="80014336" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>33:20</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>197</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>197</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/694732f7-8105-44c0-921e-a6b70e998bf2/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Member Growth Strategies: How to Attract New Members Using Email Marketing!</title><itunes:title>Member Growth Strategies: How to Attract New Members Using Email Marketing!</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Do you have a membership and are interested in finding out how to get more members? We all do, right? So let's talk about member growth strategies <em>that work </em>and will help you attract MORE customers with your email marketing.</p><p>They work.</p><p>Seriously.</p><p>It's the stuff we do.</p><p>Ready to find out more?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:10) Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook Group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(4:25) Check out our sponsor<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/bounce" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ZeroBounce</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(6:12) How can membership site owners build their email list?</p><p>(10:43) Do you need a big email list?</p><p>(12:59) Do the things with the biggest impact for best results!</p><p>(14:51) Focus on getting more out of your existing subscribers.&nbsp;</p><p>(17:24) What strategies can membership site owners use to increase sales?&nbsp;</p><p>(19:49) Sell from different angles and use psych sequencing.&nbsp;</p><p>(22:30) How did we grow our membership using email marketing</p><p>(24:39) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><p>If you have a membership, go and check out our friends Mike and Kelly over at<a href="https://www.membershipgeeks.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Membership Geeks</a>. They run<a href="https://www.membershipacademy.com/?utm_source=tmg&amp;utm_medium=ctalink&amp;utm_content=main_menu&amp;utm_campaign=tmgsite" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Membership Academy</a>, which is a membership about having memberships, and they<a href="https://www.membershipgeeks.com/podcast/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> host an awesome podcast too</a>. You'll love them as much as we do!</p><h2>How can membership site owners build their email lists?&nbsp;</h2><p>As a membership site owner trying to attract more members using email marketing, your first job is to build and grow your email list. And you can do that by either investing <em>time </em>or <em>money</em> into it. You can also buy <em>subscribers </em>or <em>buyers</em> (i.e. customers who have bought something).</p><p>And in reality, you probably want both. Because buyers have proven not only that they’re interested in your niche and what you sell, but also that they’re willing and able to pay for it - they have the disposable cash to invest right now.</p><h3>Driving traffic to a low-cost offer</h3><p>One way to grow your email list is to drive traffic to a low-cost offer. For example, we run ads from Facebook and YouTube into our Splinter offer to a piece of software called Countdown Hero. It’s a low-cost item, and through our email campaigns, we offer people a bunch of upsells to upgrade what they get with the tool and, ultimately, to join our membership,<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>.</p><h3>Driving traffic to a free opt-in</h3><p>Another way to build your email list is to drive traffic to a free opt-in. You add people to your list, and you then make them an offer for a paid product. And if they don't buy it, they go into what we call our SCORE email engine. We do that because it's important that you <strong>turn subscribers into members as fast as humanly possible - the longer it takes for people to buy from you for the first time, the less likely they are to buy from you <em>ever</em>.</strong> So this is really key!</p><p>The moment people make their first contact with you is when they're at their highest level of intent - what you sell is <em>the most important</em> to them. So your job is to send them to a free lead magnet and then try and convert them as soon as possible.&nbsp;</p><p>These strategies all work, but <strong>it’s about bringing the right types of people in</strong>, i.e. those who show the highest level of intent to solve the issue you address with what you sell.&nbsp;</p><h2>Do you need a big email list?&nbsp;</h2><p>A membership can feel like a huge, ongoing commitment. And a lot of people think that in order to sell one, you need a big email list. That's what we're being told by marketers everywhere. But that’s simply not true.&nbsp;</p><p>The truth is that <strong>you need to make more money from every subscriber you already have on your list.</strong> It's about maximising sales from your existing audience, and that's what we teach inside our very comprehensive membership,<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3>Do the things with the biggest impact for best results!</h3><p>So what do you do to make more money from every subscriber? You need to have your email marketing do the heavy lifting for you.&nbsp;</p><p>Let's look at some figures as an example. If you sell a membership for $27 per month, and the average time someone stays with you is 3 months, that customer will make you less than $100. So you can't afford to spend more than $100 to acquire a new lead. Plus, once they're gone, you need to start again. But <strong>when your email marketing does the work for you, then every subscriber you have becomes more profitable.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>And at that point, it doesn't matter if the cost of ads grows. Because you know you can convert well. So the key is for you to <strong>have a great conversion system that allows you to make money from someone in the first 7 days. </strong>The more money you make from each subscriber-turned-customer, the more you can spend on your ads to make sure your offers get seen over someone else's.&nbsp;</p><h3>Focus on getting more out of your existing subscribers</h3><p>We made our first 6 figures in our business from about 2,000 subscribers on our list. People often think that because we live and breathe email marketing we must have a monster list. But we don’t. <strong>We do well because we focus on how we serve and on creating the most value for the list we have.</strong></p><p>And what even is a <em>big</em> list anyway? List size is all relative, and it depends on the niche you're in and what you sell. If you sell paper clips, you'll need a big list. If you sell aeroplanes, not so much. And if all or most of your subscribers are also buyers, you need less of them. Because they're all paying for what you sell.&nbsp;</p><p>So rather than focusing on the size of your list, <strong>work out how much you can make from every subscriber on your list so you can start to grow it and know, predictably, that the amount of money you make will grow too.</strong> When you know in advance how much you make per subscriber per month, you'll also know how much you can afford to spend to get more subscribers.</p><p>And remember - the subscribers who are 'pre-qualified' (i.e. who have shown interest and are willing to pay) are worth more. So what you <em>don't</em> want to do is to go into this <em>blind</em>, i.e. spending a lot of money and effort in building your list, and then hoping for the best.&nbsp;</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><h2>What strategies can membership site owners use to increase sales?</h2><p>So what can you do to increase sales from your existing email list? First thing first, <strong>ask yourself how much you want to earn from your membership <em>right now</em>. </strong>Once you know that, take a look at your:</p><ul><li><strong>Conversion rate</strong> - how many subscribers turn into paying customers.</li><li><strong>Retention rate</strong> - how long members stay with you.</li><li>A <strong>member's lifetime value</strong> - how much a customer makes you while they stay as members.&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><p>So, for example, if your membership costs $500 per month, and your average retention rate is 3 months, it means that a member is worth around $1,500 to you. And that’s what you have to play with. It means you can’t spend more than that to acquire someone new.</p><p>And once you know those numbers, you reverse engineer how many subscribers you need in order to get the members you want. How much can you pay to get that many subscribers? How much can you invest in your lead acquisition? The beautiful thing is that a membership gives you recurring revenue, so if you capitalise on that through the value you give, you can definitely increase those numbers.&nbsp;</p><h3>Sell from different angles and use psych sequencing</h3><p>A key strategy to use if you want to grow your membership is to use email marketing to<strong> sell from different angles</strong> because people buy for different reasons and from different types of marketing.&nbsp;</p><p>Let's take our membership,<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>, as an example. Some people join it because they want access to our email campaigns. Others because they want to join our coaching calls. And while some people will ask us questions, others will just listen. We also have people who join because they want access to our software.</p><p>So we talk about each of the elements of the membership from different angles. We mention the gain, the fear of loss, the pain people experience, the case studies of people who had success, etc. It's a strategy called <strong>psych sequencing</strong>, which is our unique method of using lots of different email marketing campaigns one after the other.&nbsp;</p><p>The campaigns we give our customers inside<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a> are the ones we created to sell our own products from different angles and perspectives. We use different hooks to appeal to people in different ways. We stack the reasons why people buy side by side to create the most conversions.</p><h2>How did we grow our membership using email...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you have a membership and are interested in finding out how to get more members? We all do, right? So let's talk about member growth strategies <em>that work </em>and will help you attract MORE customers with your email marketing.</p><p>They work.</p><p>Seriously.</p><p>It's the stuff we do.</p><p>Ready to find out more?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:10) Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook Group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(4:25) Check out our sponsor<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/bounce" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ZeroBounce</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(6:12) How can membership site owners build their email list?</p><p>(10:43) Do you need a big email list?</p><p>(12:59) Do the things with the biggest impact for best results!</p><p>(14:51) Focus on getting more out of your existing subscribers.&nbsp;</p><p>(17:24) What strategies can membership site owners use to increase sales?&nbsp;</p><p>(19:49) Sell from different angles and use psych sequencing.&nbsp;</p><p>(22:30) How did we grow our membership using email marketing</p><p>(24:39) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><p>If you have a membership, go and check out our friends Mike and Kelly over at<a href="https://www.membershipgeeks.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Membership Geeks</a>. They run<a href="https://www.membershipacademy.com/?utm_source=tmg&amp;utm_medium=ctalink&amp;utm_content=main_menu&amp;utm_campaign=tmgsite" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Membership Academy</a>, which is a membership about having memberships, and they<a href="https://www.membershipgeeks.com/podcast/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> host an awesome podcast too</a>. You'll love them as much as we do!</p><h2>How can membership site owners build their email lists?&nbsp;</h2><p>As a membership site owner trying to attract more members using email marketing, your first job is to build and grow your email list. And you can do that by either investing <em>time </em>or <em>money</em> into it. You can also buy <em>subscribers </em>or <em>buyers</em> (i.e. customers who have bought something).</p><p>And in reality, you probably want both. Because buyers have proven not only that they’re interested in your niche and what you sell, but also that they’re willing and able to pay for it - they have the disposable cash to invest right now.</p><h3>Driving traffic to a low-cost offer</h3><p>One way to grow your email list is to drive traffic to a low-cost offer. For example, we run ads from Facebook and YouTube into our Splinter offer to a piece of software called Countdown Hero. It’s a low-cost item, and through our email campaigns, we offer people a bunch of upsells to upgrade what they get with the tool and, ultimately, to join our membership,<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>.</p><h3>Driving traffic to a free opt-in</h3><p>Another way to build your email list is to drive traffic to a free opt-in. You add people to your list, and you then make them an offer for a paid product. And if they don't buy it, they go into what we call our SCORE email engine. We do that because it's important that you <strong>turn subscribers into members as fast as humanly possible - the longer it takes for people to buy from you for the first time, the less likely they are to buy from you <em>ever</em>.</strong> So this is really key!</p><p>The moment people make their first contact with you is when they're at their highest level of intent - what you sell is <em>the most important</em> to them. So your job is to send them to a free lead magnet and then try and convert them as soon as possible.&nbsp;</p><p>These strategies all work, but <strong>it’s about bringing the right types of people in</strong>, i.e. those who show the highest level of intent to solve the issue you address with what you sell.&nbsp;</p><h2>Do you need a big email list?&nbsp;</h2><p>A membership can feel like a huge, ongoing commitment. And a lot of people think that in order to sell one, you need a big email list. That's what we're being told by marketers everywhere. But that’s simply not true.&nbsp;</p><p>The truth is that <strong>you need to make more money from every subscriber you already have on your list.</strong> It's about maximising sales from your existing audience, and that's what we teach inside our very comprehensive membership,<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3>Do the things with the biggest impact for best results!</h3><p>So what do you do to make more money from every subscriber? You need to have your email marketing do the heavy lifting for you.&nbsp;</p><p>Let's look at some figures as an example. If you sell a membership for $27 per month, and the average time someone stays with you is 3 months, that customer will make you less than $100. So you can't afford to spend more than $100 to acquire a new lead. Plus, once they're gone, you need to start again. But <strong>when your email marketing does the work for you, then every subscriber you have becomes more profitable.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>And at that point, it doesn't matter if the cost of ads grows. Because you know you can convert well. So the key is for you to <strong>have a great conversion system that allows you to make money from someone in the first 7 days. </strong>The more money you make from each subscriber-turned-customer, the more you can spend on your ads to make sure your offers get seen over someone else's.&nbsp;</p><h3>Focus on getting more out of your existing subscribers</h3><p>We made our first 6 figures in our business from about 2,000 subscribers on our list. People often think that because we live and breathe email marketing we must have a monster list. But we don’t. <strong>We do well because we focus on how we serve and on creating the most value for the list we have.</strong></p><p>And what even is a <em>big</em> list anyway? List size is all relative, and it depends on the niche you're in and what you sell. If you sell paper clips, you'll need a big list. If you sell aeroplanes, not so much. And if all or most of your subscribers are also buyers, you need less of them. Because they're all paying for what you sell.&nbsp;</p><p>So rather than focusing on the size of your list, <strong>work out how much you can make from every subscriber on your list so you can start to grow it and know, predictably, that the amount of money you make will grow too.</strong> When you know in advance how much you make per subscriber per month, you'll also know how much you can afford to spend to get more subscribers.</p><p>And remember - the subscribers who are 'pre-qualified' (i.e. who have shown interest and are willing to pay) are worth more. So what you <em>don't</em> want to do is to go into this <em>blind</em>, i.e. spending a lot of money and effort in building your list, and then hoping for the best.&nbsp;</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><h2>What strategies can membership site owners use to increase sales?</h2><p>So what can you do to increase sales from your existing email list? First thing first, <strong>ask yourself how much you want to earn from your membership <em>right now</em>. </strong>Once you know that, take a look at your:</p><ul><li><strong>Conversion rate</strong> - how many subscribers turn into paying customers.</li><li><strong>Retention rate</strong> - how long members stay with you.</li><li>A <strong>member's lifetime value</strong> - how much a customer makes you while they stay as members.&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><p>So, for example, if your membership costs $500 per month, and your average retention rate is 3 months, it means that a member is worth around $1,500 to you. And that’s what you have to play with. It means you can’t spend more than that to acquire someone new.</p><p>And once you know those numbers, you reverse engineer how many subscribers you need in order to get the members you want. How much can you pay to get that many subscribers? How much can you invest in your lead acquisition? The beautiful thing is that a membership gives you recurring revenue, so if you capitalise on that through the value you give, you can definitely increase those numbers.&nbsp;</p><h3>Sell from different angles and use psych sequencing</h3><p>A key strategy to use if you want to grow your membership is to use email marketing to<strong> sell from different angles</strong> because people buy for different reasons and from different types of marketing.&nbsp;</p><p>Let's take our membership,<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>, as an example. Some people join it because they want access to our email campaigns. Others because they want to join our coaching calls. And while some people will ask us questions, others will just listen. We also have people who join because they want access to our software.</p><p>So we talk about each of the elements of the membership from different angles. We mention the gain, the fear of loss, the pain people experience, the case studies of people who had success, etc. It's a strategy called <strong>psych sequencing</strong>, which is our unique method of using lots of different email marketing campaigns one after the other.&nbsp;</p><p>The campaigns we give our customers inside<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a> are the ones we created to sell our own products from different angles and perspectives. We use different hooks to appeal to people in different ways. We stack the reasons why people buy side by side to create the most conversions.</p><h2>How did we grow our membership using email marketing?</h2><p>We talked more about how we've grown our membership back in the episode <a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/109/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Create Urgency For an Evergreen Membership or Course Without Product Launches</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>But what it all boils down to is using strategies to <strong>grow your email list and maximise the sales you make from every subscriber.</strong> That’s how people can afford the increasing ad costs. Once you know you can convert your subscribers predictably into customers, you never have to worry about the size of your list. But you have to get your numbers dialled in.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>If you're already inside</strong><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong> The League</strong></a><strong>, go and put our campaigns to use.</strong> They're based on psych sequencing, which allows you to appeal to different psychological angles and needs. <strong>And if you're not already a member, go and check it out. </strong>You’ll get immediate access to the whole framework - our SCORE method. All you have to do is to implement the campaigns. But if you want to know more about them and understand the psychology behind them, we give you training and coaching too.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>This week’s subject line is the words: “Quick. OVER THERE…” with a little chevron that looks like an arrow pointing off to one side.</p><p>The hook of the email was this idea of <em>us vs them</em>, and it’s about shady marketing that tries to distract consumers away from the truth in order to buy a product. It's not a good technique. And obviously, it’s the language of the subject line here that grabs the reader's attention. It’s funny, and the arrow pointing to the side adds curiosity to it. So check it out!&nbsp;</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/membership-the-league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Everything You Need To Know About Our Membership The League (THE Behind The Scenes!)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-paying-members/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">What Emails Should You Send Your Paying Members? with Mike and Callie from Membership Geeks</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/why-retention-is-important-for-memberships/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why Retention is Important for your Membership, with Liz Beadon</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3>Join our FREE Facebook group</h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The League Membership</h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about super cool member growth strategies to attract more customers) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/member-growth-strategies/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">9c154c59-f990-41e8-8bae-e49cf26b06fb</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/845703c8-ca8b-4188-92af-f954066454b7/NrpQCEObD5ObJrrM_rn-vdt2.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 26 Jul 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/f2bd5722-0cf0-47b7-9dea-467bc78cd0d6/Final.mp3" length="64121536" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>26:43</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>196</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>196</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/636a3b36-5979-4353-8b30-7bbcbe6c31da/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How To Prevent Buyer Remorse And Turn Customers Into Raving Fans!</title><itunes:title>How To Prevent Buyer Remorse And Turn Customers Into Raving Fans!</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>How do you prevent buyer remorse and get your customers to buy from you over and over again? What can you do to make sure the people who buy from you<em> never</em> regret it? And how exactly do you turn them into repeat buyers and raving fans?!</p><p>We spill ALL the beans today.&nbsp;</p><p>Are you ready for it?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:33) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook Group</a>. </p><p>(4:34) Check out our sponsor <a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/bounce" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ZeroBounce</a>. </p><p>(6:22) What is buyer remorse?</p><p>(7:43) What's the psychology behind buyer remorse and why does it happen?</p><p>(11:44) Remorse is a natural physiological response.</p><p>(15:48) How the heck can email marketing help with buyer remorse?</p><p>(16:39) Resell people on the product to gain the ability to sell more to them!</p><p>(21:03) Teach the best bits first!</p><p>(22:49) How to prevent buyer remorse in your onboarding sequence.</p><p>(25:44) Subject line of the week.</p><h2><strong>What is buyer remorse?</strong></h2><p>Buyer remorse is a sense of regret that happens at the back of people buying something. It can happen immediately, as soon as they bought the product, or after it's been delivered. But it can also kick in quite a long time down the road, like a year later, for example.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>What's the psychology behind buyer remorse and why does it happen?&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>Buyer remorse can happen for a number of reasons.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>People don't have confidence in themselves</strong></h3><p>If you sell a course, a membership, or coaching, buyer remorse could happen when someone loses confidence in themselves. Doubt creeps in and the person who bought your product suddenly isn't sure whether they can do the work.&nbsp;</p><p>You (as the vendor) may have done everything you needed to do to sell it, but your customers are now doubting their own ability to get the work done. And so they start to regret buying your product.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>People have been burnt out before</strong></h3><p>Another reason why people experience buyer remorse could be that the minute the money leaves their account, they're triggered into a time when they were burnt in the past.</p><p>Maybe they bought something, but the person who sold them the product didn't deliver on their promise. Or maybe the product wasn't good. We've all had bad experiences in the past, and we're all jaded somehow. So sometimes people regret buying from you, but it's not because of something you did. Rather, it's because someone else may have done something not as ethical or good as you.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The product isn't what it promised to be</strong></h3><p>What could also happen is that someone buys a course, and they're excited about it. But then they get started and realise the programme isn't what it said in the advertising. Sure - any good marketing is meant to get people excited. But that should never be to the detriment of content.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>People worry about what others might think</strong></h3><p>Another reason for buyer remorse is that people buy something but then start worrying about what others might think. This is all to do with the fear of being judged by others!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Remorse is a natural physiological response</strong></h3><p>Remorse can also be a natural physiological response to all the tension and excitement that kicks in if you've been thinking about buying something for a long time, for example. At some point, you may feel apprehension, and that can be disguised as excitement.&nbsp;Because, physiologically, we have very little ability to tell the difference between terror, tension, or anxiety and excitement – they feel the same to us! So it's when we've paid for something (and the money's gone) that suddenly all the doubts appear, and we feel remorse.</p><p>For a lot of people though, <strong>buyer remorse boils down to that moment when they start to realise that what's standing in between them and getting the results they want is their own ability to do the work</strong> - to make time to prioritise, study, and apply whatever it is they bought. People might start to understand that it's up to them to make your teachings work in their situation, and suddenly they doubt themselves.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>How the heck can email marketing help with buyer remorse?</strong></h2><p>Over the years, we’ve come up with a few strategies to use email marketing to prevent buyer remorse. The first one is to make sure we do a really damn good job of reselling how amazing the product is. We want to<strong> tell them how it's going to help them get the outcome they want.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>How do you do that? You <strong>repaint the transformation you promised them.</strong> We do that in our series of Thank You videos but also in our follow-up sequence called the Refund Reduction campaign, which is available inside our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. The campaign is designed to get people to consume your product. But even if they don’t consume it, they’ll still feel the benefits and won't ask for their money back.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Resell people on the product in order to gain the ability to sell more to them!</strong></h3><p>Basically, <strong>your marketing doesn’t stop when someone buys.</strong> Because, first of all, <strong>you want to make people feel great about what they just bought. </strong>But also, <strong>you want them to buy something else from you in the future</strong>. And it’s going to be a lot harder to get someone over the hump of buying something else if they wish they hadn’t bought anything at all! <strong>In order to buy from you again, people need to love the fact they bought from you in the first place!&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>So in the follow-up emails that deliver the product, we signpost people to its various elements. Over a few days, you want to show people how good your product is - even if they never look at it. Why? Because you want to<strong> increase the customer value by selling more offers to the same people. </strong>That's how businesses become successful - by selling multiple products to the same customers.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>If someone buys from you, but you never resell them on that product, there's a chance they won't buy from you again. So your job is to <strong>remind your customers of the problem you solve.</strong> Be specific and tell them<em> exactly</em> how and where in your programme they can find the answer to their burning question (which ideally is what sold them on your product in the first place).&nbsp;Remind people that they’ve got access and give them all the details again.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Teach the best bits first!</strong></h3><p>Also, remember that when people buy courses, they don't always go through them or complete them. So make sure you pick the sexiest bits of your programme and tell your audience about them in your post-purchase sequence. </p><p>In fact, teach the sexy bits first! Place them at the start of your programme to make it more interesting. The unsexy bits that naturally every course will have can go later, but let people get excited about the greatest parts first. They can always do the unsexy work later.&nbsp;</p><p>For example, when people join our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, we send them a link to our Getting Started videos. We tell them to watch these videos in order to get the best results. We know our customers feel good about this content because it reminds them that our programme is great and tells them what's going to happen next, what to expect, what the outcome is going to be, and why it’s important.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>How to prevent buyer remorse in your onboarding sequence</strong></h2><p>When someone joins <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, we first map out what the different elements of the membership are. We talk about our email campaigns, the automated software suite of tools that you can plug into your email marketing system, our two coaching calls a month, our members-only podcast, the video training, etc.</p><p>And then we map out all the actions that we want someone to take. For example, we ask people to subscribe to the members’ only podcast, register for the next group call, get into our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook group</a>, etc. After that, we need to figure out where people should start because we want to make their journey easy. Our membership has a lot of material in there, so we need to tell people where to start, in order to reduce their feelings of overwhelm.</p><p>This is why, after our three Getting Started videos, we tell people to jump onto our Success Track. We don't want to leave people with no place to go. The idea is to guide them through and help them figure out what to do next because they're new to the content, and it can feel intimidating. So we give them a bit more direction.&nbsp;Your onboarding sequence needs to keep people moving along the path. </p><p><br></p><p>And if you want to find out more about this, here's the episode&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/186" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Create A Member Onboarding Sequence That Your Members Will Love</a>. So remember to address the key questions that someone might have when they join your programme - do this to prevent buyer remorse!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And if you want all the]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How do you prevent buyer remorse and get your customers to buy from you over and over again? What can you do to make sure the people who buy from you<em> never</em> regret it? And how exactly do you turn them into repeat buyers and raving fans?!</p><p>We spill ALL the beans today.&nbsp;</p><p>Are you ready for it?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:33) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook Group</a>. </p><p>(4:34) Check out our sponsor <a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/bounce" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ZeroBounce</a>. </p><p>(6:22) What is buyer remorse?</p><p>(7:43) What's the psychology behind buyer remorse and why does it happen?</p><p>(11:44) Remorse is a natural physiological response.</p><p>(15:48) How the heck can email marketing help with buyer remorse?</p><p>(16:39) Resell people on the product to gain the ability to sell more to them!</p><p>(21:03) Teach the best bits first!</p><p>(22:49) How to prevent buyer remorse in your onboarding sequence.</p><p>(25:44) Subject line of the week.</p><h2><strong>What is buyer remorse?</strong></h2><p>Buyer remorse is a sense of regret that happens at the back of people buying something. It can happen immediately, as soon as they bought the product, or after it's been delivered. But it can also kick in quite a long time down the road, like a year later, for example.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>What's the psychology behind buyer remorse and why does it happen?&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>Buyer remorse can happen for a number of reasons.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>People don't have confidence in themselves</strong></h3><p>If you sell a course, a membership, or coaching, buyer remorse could happen when someone loses confidence in themselves. Doubt creeps in and the person who bought your product suddenly isn't sure whether they can do the work.&nbsp;</p><p>You (as the vendor) may have done everything you needed to do to sell it, but your customers are now doubting their own ability to get the work done. And so they start to regret buying your product.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>People have been burnt out before</strong></h3><p>Another reason why people experience buyer remorse could be that the minute the money leaves their account, they're triggered into a time when they were burnt in the past.</p><p>Maybe they bought something, but the person who sold them the product didn't deliver on their promise. Or maybe the product wasn't good. We've all had bad experiences in the past, and we're all jaded somehow. So sometimes people regret buying from you, but it's not because of something you did. Rather, it's because someone else may have done something not as ethical or good as you.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The product isn't what it promised to be</strong></h3><p>What could also happen is that someone buys a course, and they're excited about it. But then they get started and realise the programme isn't what it said in the advertising. Sure - any good marketing is meant to get people excited. But that should never be to the detriment of content.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>People worry about what others might think</strong></h3><p>Another reason for buyer remorse is that people buy something but then start worrying about what others might think. This is all to do with the fear of being judged by others!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Remorse is a natural physiological response</strong></h3><p>Remorse can also be a natural physiological response to all the tension and excitement that kicks in if you've been thinking about buying something for a long time, for example. At some point, you may feel apprehension, and that can be disguised as excitement.&nbsp;Because, physiologically, we have very little ability to tell the difference between terror, tension, or anxiety and excitement – they feel the same to us! So it's when we've paid for something (and the money's gone) that suddenly all the doubts appear, and we feel remorse.</p><p>For a lot of people though, <strong>buyer remorse boils down to that moment when they start to realise that what's standing in between them and getting the results they want is their own ability to do the work</strong> - to make time to prioritise, study, and apply whatever it is they bought. People might start to understand that it's up to them to make your teachings work in their situation, and suddenly they doubt themselves.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>How the heck can email marketing help with buyer remorse?</strong></h2><p>Over the years, we’ve come up with a few strategies to use email marketing to prevent buyer remorse. The first one is to make sure we do a really damn good job of reselling how amazing the product is. We want to<strong> tell them how it's going to help them get the outcome they want.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>How do you do that? You <strong>repaint the transformation you promised them.</strong> We do that in our series of Thank You videos but also in our follow-up sequence called the Refund Reduction campaign, which is available inside our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. The campaign is designed to get people to consume your product. But even if they don’t consume it, they’ll still feel the benefits and won't ask for their money back.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Resell people on the product in order to gain the ability to sell more to them!</strong></h3><p>Basically, <strong>your marketing doesn’t stop when someone buys.</strong> Because, first of all, <strong>you want to make people feel great about what they just bought. </strong>But also, <strong>you want them to buy something else from you in the future</strong>. And it’s going to be a lot harder to get someone over the hump of buying something else if they wish they hadn’t bought anything at all! <strong>In order to buy from you again, people need to love the fact they bought from you in the first place!&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>So in the follow-up emails that deliver the product, we signpost people to its various elements. Over a few days, you want to show people how good your product is - even if they never look at it. Why? Because you want to<strong> increase the customer value by selling more offers to the same people. </strong>That's how businesses become successful - by selling multiple products to the same customers.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>If someone buys from you, but you never resell them on that product, there's a chance they won't buy from you again. So your job is to <strong>remind your customers of the problem you solve.</strong> Be specific and tell them<em> exactly</em> how and where in your programme they can find the answer to their burning question (which ideally is what sold them on your product in the first place).&nbsp;Remind people that they’ve got access and give them all the details again.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Teach the best bits first!</strong></h3><p>Also, remember that when people buy courses, they don't always go through them or complete them. So make sure you pick the sexiest bits of your programme and tell your audience about them in your post-purchase sequence. </p><p>In fact, teach the sexy bits first! Place them at the start of your programme to make it more interesting. The unsexy bits that naturally every course will have can go later, but let people get excited about the greatest parts first. They can always do the unsexy work later.&nbsp;</p><p>For example, when people join our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, we send them a link to our Getting Started videos. We tell them to watch these videos in order to get the best results. We know our customers feel good about this content because it reminds them that our programme is great and tells them what's going to happen next, what to expect, what the outcome is going to be, and why it’s important.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>How to prevent buyer remorse in your onboarding sequence</strong></h2><p>When someone joins <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, we first map out what the different elements of the membership are. We talk about our email campaigns, the automated software suite of tools that you can plug into your email marketing system, our two coaching calls a month, our members-only podcast, the video training, etc.</p><p>And then we map out all the actions that we want someone to take. For example, we ask people to subscribe to the members’ only podcast, register for the next group call, get into our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook group</a>, etc. After that, we need to figure out where people should start because we want to make their journey easy. Our membership has a lot of material in there, so we need to tell people where to start, in order to reduce their feelings of overwhelm.</p><p>This is why, after our three Getting Started videos, we tell people to jump onto our Success Track. We don't want to leave people with no place to go. The idea is to guide them through and help them figure out what to do next because they're new to the content, and it can feel intimidating. So we give them a bit more direction.&nbsp;Your onboarding sequence needs to keep people moving along the path. </p><p><br></p><p>And if you want to find out more about this, here's the episode&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/186" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Create A Member Onboarding Sequence That Your Members Will Love</a>. So remember to address the key questions that someone might have when they join your programme - do this to prevent buyer remorse!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And if you want all the details of our onboarding sequence and our Refund Reduction campaign, they’re all inside our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. If you’re not already a member, go and check it out, and you’ll get instant access.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h2><p>This week’s subject line is “100% discount (sort of)”. The “sort of” adds much more believability and credibility to the subject line. Plus, it makes the context of the email more curious.</p><p>The email was about our campaign called The Golden Cloak, which has a bribe built into it. It talks about the fact we have this free thing, but it’s “sort of” free because it's only really free when you buy something else. So check it out!</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h2><h3><strong>Related episodes</strong></h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/best-marketing-email-platforms/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">6 Things You Didn’t Know Your Email Marketing Platform Could Do</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-trial-email-sequence/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Use THIS Free-Trial Email Sequence To Turn Your Subscribers Into Paying Customers</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/membership-the-league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Everything You Need To Know About Our Membership The League (THE Behind The Scenes!)</a></p><p><br></p><h2><strong>FREE list to improve your email marketing</strong></h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to prevent buyer remorse with email marketing) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>leaving us a review&nbsp;</strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/prevent-buyer-remorse/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">612ced54-a2df-4d2d-b5c5-c52bd1a49720</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/4a0a722a-b706-450e-a8a6-969e2195dea6/_qeMHa_GxrqjkjC-dKYpNqNV.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/3337b307-e1df-4735-abf3-fdbdac6c2cf0/NEVER-Give-Your-Customers-Buyer-Remorse.mp3" length="65868736" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>27:27</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>195</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>195</podcast:episode></item><item><title>What Is The ‘Foot-In-The-Door’ Technique And Why Does It Work So Bloody Well?!</title><itunes:title>What Is The ‘Foot-In-The-Door’ Technique And Why Does It Work So Bloody Well?!</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What on earth is the foot-in-the-door technique, and why does it work so bloody well every single time?&nbsp;</p><p>If you want to find out how to make more sales with this incredibly simple technique, you're in the right place!&nbsp;</p><p>Let's get this show on the road! &nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:25) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook Group</a>. </p><p>(3:43) Check out our sponsor <a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/bounce" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ZeroBounce</a>. </p><p>(5:32) What is the foot-in-the-door technique?</p><p>(7:22) Why does this technique work so well? </p><p>(11:56 ) You get to upgrade buyers. </p><p>(13:15) An example of the foot-in-the-door technique.</p><p>(14:58) When does the foot-in-the-door technique fail? </p><p>(27:05) Ascension vs descension marketing.</p><p>(31:54) How can the foot-in-the-door technique be used in your email marketing?</p><p>(37:28) How to use the foot-in-the-door technique if you sell a membership.</p><p>(39:16) Subject line of the week.</p><h2><strong>What is the foot-in-the-door technique?&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>The foot-in-the-door technique is a marketing tool that <strong>gets someone to make a small commitment with you in order to increase conversions for a larger commitment.</strong> In other words, you want people to do a simple, easy thing and <em>then</em> you encourage them to buy something more. It's about getting people 'in motion' because something that's already moving (as opposed to something that's static) has momentum to keep going.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Why does this technique work so well?</strong></h2><h3><strong>It creates momentum</strong></h3><p>We all know that momentum works. It's not magic or psychology - it's just physics! If you've ever tried to push a broken-down car, getting the wheels to start turning at first is really hard. But when you get the car going (and it's in momentum) it gets much easier. And human beings are exactly the same.</p><p>So as a business owner, you want to get people into motion. Because when <strong>human beings commit to something, they're more likely to be consistent with it.&nbsp;</strong>Robert Cialdini talks about this in his book <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Influence-New-Expanded-Psychology-Persuasion/dp/0063138794/ref=asc_df_0063138794/?tag=googshopuk-21&amp;linkCode=df0&amp;hvadid=500792593882&amp;hvpos=&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvrand=5074883177995499360&amp;hvpone=&amp;hvptwo=&amp;hvqmt=&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvdvcmdl=&amp;hvlocint=&amp;hvlocphy=9045930&amp;hvtargid=pla-1211825204069&amp;psc=1&amp;th=1&amp;psc=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion</a>, and he calls it the Commitment Consistency Principle. It’s the idea that if we say or do something that makes us internally back it up, we’ll stand by it. Because we like to be seen as consistent - to ourselves and others.</p><p>So if someone bought a small product from you (like an eBook or a paid-for lead magnet), they're more likely to buy a course you have <em>on the same topic</em> when you offer it to them. And that's because they've already committed to something and shown their interest.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>You only show your main offer to pre-qualified people</strong></h3><p>Aside from putting people in momentum, the foot-in-the-door technique works because it allows you to show your main offer to the people who've already told you they're interested. If you have a new programme and email your whole list about it (several times, as the case might be), some people might leave because they're not interested. </p><p>But if you only email the people who already showed you they have an interest by making a small commitment (like watching a video about that topic), then you can tell them about your offer and be more confident they'll buy.&nbsp;</p><p>For example, if you've made a video about a particular topic, and someone's watched 80% of it, they must be interested, right? So tell them about your paid offer. Because they already have their foot in the door, and they're more likely to keep going after that.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>You get to upgrade buyers </strong></h3><p>The other benefit of using this technique is that if you have a front-end offer (smaller commitment), you can then upsell buyers and sell them something else. For example, if you have a membership that's available at a monthly offer, definitely show them the annual option too.&nbsp;</p><p>Having said that, if you have multiple products or offers and show them all at once, people might get confused in trying to understand what they need. So rather than packaging all your products up as different options and leaving people to figure out what they need, get them to make a small commitment first, and then upgrade them later.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>An example of the foot-in-the-door-technique</strong></h2><p>A good example of this comes from our friends Martin and Lyndsay from Jammy Digital, who sell Content Marketing services around blogging and SEO. They sell blog templates for around $47 but also have a done-for-you service at a much higher price point. And 60% of the people who buy their done-for-you service bought the $47 product first. They put their foot in the door first by buying a low-resistance product and only <em>then</em> made a larger commitment.</p><p><br></p><p>And this is interesting, right? Because all these people first bought templates to write blog posts themselves and then decided they didn't have the time, patience, or inclination to do it and hired an agency to do it for them. It goes to show there’s no real logic to a lot of marketing, sales, or people’s buying habits! So don't assume that because someone bought a certain product from you, they won't be interested in more.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>When does the foot-in-the-door technique fail?&nbsp;</strong></h2><h3><strong>The higher-commitment offer is 'blind' or unrelated</strong></h3><p>This technique doesn't always work. In fact, it will fail if you don't have the right thinking behind it. If the offer is 'blind', then it won't work. For example, if you create a short video about, say, the future of email marketing, and then target the people who watched that with an offer for a 3-day in-person boot camp on using AI to write sales sequences, it won't work. Because the fact they watched the video tells you nothing. It's a blind offer.&nbsp;</p><p>It's also too unrelated - it doesn't qualify people. If you have a free lead magnet or a paid, low-cost entry product that talks about how to write a short sales sequence with AI, then it's different. The two products are on the same topic - they are related. And the smaller-commitment product helps you sell the larger-commitment one. But the link has to be explicit.&nbsp;</p><p>A ridiculous example of something that wouldn't work is someone selling a product about dog training and then offering a service about weight loss. And while that's a ludicrous example, we see a lot of people unknowingly making this mistake. Because it's easy to think that two products are related, but the link needs to be <em>really tight</em>. They need to be <em>strictly and directly correlated</em> - a lot more than you think.&nbsp;<strong>What leads someone from one purchase to another is a really tight path.</strong>&nbsp;</p><p>We have a campaign inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> that helps you create the most tightly bridged upsell from one offer to the next, whether that’s immediate or you’re asking someone to buy something now and then another product sometime later. And when you do this right, you're looking at a conversion rate of 40% and above.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>You haven't qualified people for their problem</strong></h3><p>Let's talk about another reason why the foot-in-the-door technique might not work for you. And we'll use the example of our <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/des-open?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=des" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bottomless Email Strategy</a> course, which teaches people how to send emails every day. When people buy that course, at some point, we'll also offer them our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. </p><p>But without a lot of education about the difference between sending individual, broadcast emails and automated campaigns or sequences, people might not buy. They might just think that what they get with the course is enough. &nbsp;</p><p>But the thing is - people buy different things to solve different problems. So <strong>you have to qualify a person not for what they want or need, but for their problem. </strong>Because that's how you get them to buy multiple products. And the same principle applies when you want them to go from a lead magnet (or a lower-cost product) into a higher-commitment type offer. That's when the foot-in-the-door technique will work for you.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Ascension vs descension marketing</strong></h2><p>Another point worth mentioning is this idea of <em>ascension marketing</em> vs <em>descension marketing</em>. There's a popular theory that you should sell someone something cheap and <em>then</em> go with something more expensive. In other words – the foot-in-the-door technique. But you don’t have to do that <em>as your first attempt</em>. In fact, through email marketing, you have multiple opportunities to sell people more things from different angles over time. </p><p>We’ve tested this idea of <em>ascension marketing</em> quite extensively in our business. But we've also tested the opposite, which...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What on earth is the foot-in-the-door technique, and why does it work so bloody well every single time?&nbsp;</p><p>If you want to find out how to make more sales with this incredibly simple technique, you're in the right place!&nbsp;</p><p>Let's get this show on the road! &nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:25) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook Group</a>. </p><p>(3:43) Check out our sponsor <a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/bounce" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ZeroBounce</a>. </p><p>(5:32) What is the foot-in-the-door technique?</p><p>(7:22) Why does this technique work so well? </p><p>(11:56 ) You get to upgrade buyers. </p><p>(13:15) An example of the foot-in-the-door technique.</p><p>(14:58) When does the foot-in-the-door technique fail? </p><p>(27:05) Ascension vs descension marketing.</p><p>(31:54) How can the foot-in-the-door technique be used in your email marketing?</p><p>(37:28) How to use the foot-in-the-door technique if you sell a membership.</p><p>(39:16) Subject line of the week.</p><h2><strong>What is the foot-in-the-door technique?&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>The foot-in-the-door technique is a marketing tool that <strong>gets someone to make a small commitment with you in order to increase conversions for a larger commitment.</strong> In other words, you want people to do a simple, easy thing and <em>then</em> you encourage them to buy something more. It's about getting people 'in motion' because something that's already moving (as opposed to something that's static) has momentum to keep going.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Why does this technique work so well?</strong></h2><h3><strong>It creates momentum</strong></h3><p>We all know that momentum works. It's not magic or psychology - it's just physics! If you've ever tried to push a broken-down car, getting the wheels to start turning at first is really hard. But when you get the car going (and it's in momentum) it gets much easier. And human beings are exactly the same.</p><p>So as a business owner, you want to get people into motion. Because when <strong>human beings commit to something, they're more likely to be consistent with it.&nbsp;</strong>Robert Cialdini talks about this in his book <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Influence-New-Expanded-Psychology-Persuasion/dp/0063138794/ref=asc_df_0063138794/?tag=googshopuk-21&amp;linkCode=df0&amp;hvadid=500792593882&amp;hvpos=&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvrand=5074883177995499360&amp;hvpone=&amp;hvptwo=&amp;hvqmt=&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvdvcmdl=&amp;hvlocint=&amp;hvlocphy=9045930&amp;hvtargid=pla-1211825204069&amp;psc=1&amp;th=1&amp;psc=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion</a>, and he calls it the Commitment Consistency Principle. It’s the idea that if we say or do something that makes us internally back it up, we’ll stand by it. Because we like to be seen as consistent - to ourselves and others.</p><p>So if someone bought a small product from you (like an eBook or a paid-for lead magnet), they're more likely to buy a course you have <em>on the same topic</em> when you offer it to them. And that's because they've already committed to something and shown their interest.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>You only show your main offer to pre-qualified people</strong></h3><p>Aside from putting people in momentum, the foot-in-the-door technique works because it allows you to show your main offer to the people who've already told you they're interested. If you have a new programme and email your whole list about it (several times, as the case might be), some people might leave because they're not interested. </p><p>But if you only email the people who already showed you they have an interest by making a small commitment (like watching a video about that topic), then you can tell them about your offer and be more confident they'll buy.&nbsp;</p><p>For example, if you've made a video about a particular topic, and someone's watched 80% of it, they must be interested, right? So tell them about your paid offer. Because they already have their foot in the door, and they're more likely to keep going after that.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>You get to upgrade buyers </strong></h3><p>The other benefit of using this technique is that if you have a front-end offer (smaller commitment), you can then upsell buyers and sell them something else. For example, if you have a membership that's available at a monthly offer, definitely show them the annual option too.&nbsp;</p><p>Having said that, if you have multiple products or offers and show them all at once, people might get confused in trying to understand what they need. So rather than packaging all your products up as different options and leaving people to figure out what they need, get them to make a small commitment first, and then upgrade them later.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>An example of the foot-in-the-door-technique</strong></h2><p>A good example of this comes from our friends Martin and Lyndsay from Jammy Digital, who sell Content Marketing services around blogging and SEO. They sell blog templates for around $47 but also have a done-for-you service at a much higher price point. And 60% of the people who buy their done-for-you service bought the $47 product first. They put their foot in the door first by buying a low-resistance product and only <em>then</em> made a larger commitment.</p><p><br></p><p>And this is interesting, right? Because all these people first bought templates to write blog posts themselves and then decided they didn't have the time, patience, or inclination to do it and hired an agency to do it for them. It goes to show there’s no real logic to a lot of marketing, sales, or people’s buying habits! So don't assume that because someone bought a certain product from you, they won't be interested in more.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>When does the foot-in-the-door technique fail?&nbsp;</strong></h2><h3><strong>The higher-commitment offer is 'blind' or unrelated</strong></h3><p>This technique doesn't always work. In fact, it will fail if you don't have the right thinking behind it. If the offer is 'blind', then it won't work. For example, if you create a short video about, say, the future of email marketing, and then target the people who watched that with an offer for a 3-day in-person boot camp on using AI to write sales sequences, it won't work. Because the fact they watched the video tells you nothing. It's a blind offer.&nbsp;</p><p>It's also too unrelated - it doesn't qualify people. If you have a free lead magnet or a paid, low-cost entry product that talks about how to write a short sales sequence with AI, then it's different. The two products are on the same topic - they are related. And the smaller-commitment product helps you sell the larger-commitment one. But the link has to be explicit.&nbsp;</p><p>A ridiculous example of something that wouldn't work is someone selling a product about dog training and then offering a service about weight loss. And while that's a ludicrous example, we see a lot of people unknowingly making this mistake. Because it's easy to think that two products are related, but the link needs to be <em>really tight</em>. They need to be <em>strictly and directly correlated</em> - a lot more than you think.&nbsp;<strong>What leads someone from one purchase to another is a really tight path.</strong>&nbsp;</p><p>We have a campaign inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> that helps you create the most tightly bridged upsell from one offer to the next, whether that’s immediate or you’re asking someone to buy something now and then another product sometime later. And when you do this right, you're looking at a conversion rate of 40% and above.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>You haven't qualified people for their problem</strong></h3><p>Let's talk about another reason why the foot-in-the-door technique might not work for you. And we'll use the example of our <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/des-open?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=des" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bottomless Email Strategy</a> course, which teaches people how to send emails every day. When people buy that course, at some point, we'll also offer them our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. </p><p>But without a lot of education about the difference between sending individual, broadcast emails and automated campaigns or sequences, people might not buy. They might just think that what they get with the course is enough. &nbsp;</p><p>But the thing is - people buy different things to solve different problems. So <strong>you have to qualify a person not for what they want or need, but for their problem. </strong>Because that's how you get them to buy multiple products. And the same principle applies when you want them to go from a lead magnet (or a lower-cost product) into a higher-commitment type offer. That's when the foot-in-the-door technique will work for you.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Ascension vs descension marketing</strong></h2><p>Another point worth mentioning is this idea of <em>ascension marketing</em> vs <em>descension marketing</em>. There's a popular theory that you should sell someone something cheap and <em>then</em> go with something more expensive. In other words – the foot-in-the-door technique. But you don’t have to do that <em>as your first attempt</em>. In fact, through email marketing, you have multiple opportunities to sell people more things from different angles over time. </p><p>We’ve tested this idea of <em>ascension marketing</em> quite extensively in our business. But we've also tested the opposite, which means we don't even attempt the foot-in-the-door technique until later. In other words, if we offered everyone a lower-cost product and<em> only then</em> tried to upsell our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, only the people who bought something from us in the first place would see that offer. But if we try and sell <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> to everyone in our world, more people see it. And that means we make more money overall.&nbsp;</p><p>We've also seen a technique that sits somewhere between <em>ascension and descension marketing</em> - a bit of a hybrid if you like. And it's about acquiring subscribers on a paid basis by asking people to buy a low-end price product. And from there, you present your highest-touch offers, such as a coaching programme or a mastermind, for example.</p><p>Pure <em>descension marketing</em>, on the other hand, happens when you offer your customers your high-end product, and they say no. In that case, you then present them with other products at a lower price.&nbsp;</p><p>So if you're acquiring subscribers for free (which for the longest time we were, through our Facebook group), you can sell them your core offer first (in our case, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>), and if they don't buy, then you can use the foot-in-the-door technique.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>How can the foot-in-the-door technique be used in your email marketing?&nbsp;</strong></h2><h3><strong>The Daisy Chain campaign</strong></h3><p>Inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, we have a campaign called The Daisy Chain, which is the epitome of foot-in-the-door. And it’s an interesting example of getting someone to make a small commitment to increase the conversion of a larger commitment.</p><p>We use this campaign for people who we've already sent a sales video to but didn't buy. So we send them another short video where they can learn something. And if they watch that, we'll send them more emails because, by this point, they've made a small commitment towards a larger one (i.e. watching a slightly longer, closely-related video). And when you put this video together, remember that it has to be a <em>tight fit and cannot be unrelated</em>. If done right, that second video is what sells them your offer.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Using a discount coupon</strong></h3><p>Another way we apply the foot-in-the-door technique in our business is to run ads to a sales page for a $99 product. On that page, at the top, we also offer a time-bound $30 coupon <em>in exchange for someone's email address</em>.</p><p>When people enter their email addresses to claim the discount, the page refreshes. We take them to a different version of that page using our Countdown Hero software, which gives them a <em>timed commitment</em>. That means that for a couple of days, they can get the product for $67.</p><p>And this works because we’ve legitimised the fact it’s a real discount. But also, people are now committed. By giving us their email address, they’re putting their foot forward and saying they’re interested in buying this. And they’re doing that by asking for a coupon code, which only works on our website and for this specific product and nothing else.</p><p>That's why the conversion with this technique is really high - it qualifies the person as ready to buy. And of course, because we now have a name and email address, we can follow up via email and let them know that their coupon code is running out.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>How to use the foot-in-the-door technique if you sell a membership&nbsp;</strong></h2><h3><strong>The Splinter campaign</strong></h3><p>If you have a membership or an ongoing subscription, we have a campaign inside our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> just for that. It's called the Splinter Campaign, and we use it to sell our highest commitment and primary offer <em>first</em>. And then, further down our email engine, if someone hasn’t bought yet, we come back to this idea of&nbsp;<em>ascension marketing</em> and apply the foot-in-the-door technique.</p><p>We sell our core offer by using a <em>hook </em>to leverage people into it. And we do that by <em>splitting</em> something that’s normally inside the membership and pulling it aside. In other words, we sell it separately for a one-off price. And when people buy that, we upsell them to the membership.</p><p><strong>If you want access to a bunch of campaigns that are already trialled and tested to use this technique, go and check out our membership </strong><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>The League</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h2><p>This week’s subject line is the words, “Can I take your bag [+ the little bag emoji]?” And that’s a question that someone might hear in everyday life but when it’s used in an email subject line, it seems weird.</p><p>So you can pick any common phrase that you’ve heard over and over again but doesn’t naturally belong in an email. Another example is “Would you like fries with that?” It works well because it breaks the pattern but has a sense of familiarity at the same time. Check it out!</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h2><h3><strong>Related episodes</strong></h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-trial-email-sequence/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Use THIS Free-Trial Email Sequence To Turn Your Subscribers Into Paying Customers</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/sales-spike-launch/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Create 3 Big Sales Spikes During Your Launch with Mara Glazer</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-coaches/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Simple Formula For Coaches To Sell On Autopilot With Email Marketing</a>.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>FREE list to improve your email marketing</strong></h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the foot-in-the-door technique and how you can apply it to your business) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>leaving us a review&nbsp;</strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/foot-in-door-technique/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">68b68527-43ba-492a-9499-a5d8a74492d7</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/f7d4f523-a648-4f6b-abc7-5aefa675d996/jWjOD9vqkqVSHDlCZUmomy6s.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/7e04f11a-46bb-445d-8d2c-bed660d0cdac/What-Is-The-Foot-In-The-Door-Technique-And-Why-Does-It-Work-So-.mp3" length="97551589" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>40:39</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>194</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>194</podcast:episode></item><item><title>What&apos;s The BEST Email Marketing Course On The Planet?</title><itunes:title>What&apos;s The BEST Email Marketing Course On The Planet?</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>If you're thinking of buying an email marketing course, what should you look out for? What should a course even help you do?&nbsp;Should you invest in one? And what will you learn?</p><p>If you want answers to all these questions, well, you're about to get them!&nbsp;</p><p>Check this out!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:18) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook Group</a>. </p><p>(4:45) What can an email marketing course help you do?</p><p>(11:19) Can an email marketing course save you time?</p><p>(15:01) The 3 key elements of a good email marketing course - strategy.</p><p>(18:54) Email marketing campaigns. </p><p>(22:32) Technology.</p><p>(25:46) The best email marketing courses.</p><p>(26:36) The best email marketing copywriting courses.</p><p>(28:22) The best sales funnels courses.</p><p>(29:52) Subject line of the week.What can an email marketing course help you do?&nbsp;</p><h2><strong>What can an email marketing course help you do?&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>Why would you invest in an email marketing course? You might be someone who does email marketing quite 'loosely' at the moment. That means you might have a list of people who bought something from you, and you send them a newsletter (sometimes) with some random information and a link to your website. Every time you send an email, you hope for the best. And (no offense, but...) you're probably not getting great results from your email marketing.&nbsp;</p><p>If you’re currently sending emails of any description to anybody at scale, and you're not getting results, chances are there’s something strategically off somewhere. And it’s probably nothing to do with your copywriting skills – because that’s one of the smaller elements of email marketing.&nbsp;<strong>By studying a good email marketing course, you’ll learn a <em>better system</em> for doing email.</strong> And we don’t mean the tech here - it's about the <em>systematic way</em> in which you approach your email marketing.</p><p>For example, you might learn a way that’s easier than what you’re currently doing, which may be a collection of different things you’ve put together based on what you've seen others doing. And that's probably not working very well. </p><p>If you go ahead and buy an email marketing course, you should be clear on the outcome. And the way we see it, ultimately, is that a course has to help you <strong>make more money from each subscriber you already have on your list</strong>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What if you don't have an email list yet?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>You may be someone who's just getting ready to start so you don't have an email list yet. A lot of people who join our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> are at this point – they either don’t have a list or they have a 'small one' (of 400-500+ people) and want to do more with it.&nbsp;</p><p>In reality, only about 20% of our members are people who do email marketing 'the perfect way'. Yes, it would be ideal to have everything set up and up and running before you even gain your first subscriber. That would mean that every single person you bring in is not having enough time to get disengaged. It would also mean that everyone would be going through a well-put-together bunch of campaigns that maximise the value of each subscriber.</p><p>The bottom line is that <strong>email marketing courses help people at different stages</strong>. Whether you're starting your email list from scratch, or you already have one and want to get better results and earn more per subscriber, an email marketing course can help.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Can an email marketing course save you time?&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>You're probably wondering if an email marketing course can save you time compared to how long it'd take you to figure things out for yourself. And the answer is yes. A lot of our members tell us that without our teachings, they'd still be going around in circles. We're all busy, and we all think we don't have enough time to invest in a course. But just like when you outsource anything, you have to first invest that time upfront so you can reap the benefits later. In other words, you do the work now to free up some time down the line.&nbsp;</p><p>So <strong>a good email marketing course will save you time by cutting out the learning curve. </strong>With a course, you don't have to figure things out yourself and can go straight to the results.</p><p>You'll also save time because you'll know&nbsp;exactly what to do, when to do it, where, why, and how. <strong>The way we teach email marketing allows you to build a bunch of assets that run for you forever.</strong> Realistically, the only thing you have to do on a daily basis is to send a daily email, which takes less than half an hour. But <strong>with email marketing, you're creating an asset that's going to serve you forever and give you returns like nothing else.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>When you create email marketing automations, you make sales week after week while you're doing something completely different - whether in your business or your personal life. Because automating your campaigns means your emails will be sent and sales will be made.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>The 3 key elements of a good email marketing course</strong></h2><p>Not all courses are created equal, obviously. Different courses have different elements, so what are the 3 key components that make a good email marketing course?</p><p>Here's our take on it. You need:</p><ul><li>Strategy.</li><li>Email marketing campaigns.&nbsp;</li><li>And technology.</li></ul><br/><h3><strong>Email marketing strategy&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>A good email marketing course needs to have a good strategy. If all you get are words that you can copy and paste, it won't work. Because it won't sound like you or fit into what you're doing. You can study all the theories and strategies in the world about a topic, but it still doesn’t mean you’re going to be any good at it. Knowing how a machine works doesn't mean you'll be able to operate it, right?</p><p>So when it comes to strategy for our email marketing course (which, in our case is a membership called <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>), you want to understand how the campaigns link together and <strong>compound to create massive sales</strong>. In our SCORE email engine, for example, a campaign links to the next, and you want to know how that affects things. The way we help you understand that is by using <em>frameworks</em>. We love for our get using these to create <em>massive</em> results.</p><p>When it comes to strategy, you also want <em>personalised help for your unique situation</em> because your business is different from all others. Every business is a unique cocktail of circumstances, so you need individual <em>support</em>. That’s why twice a month we work with our members on a group coaching call – our Hotline Call. This is where we address any specific challenges you might have and help you apply what we teach to make sure it's personalised <em>to you</em>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Email marketing campaigns</strong></h3><p>The second key component of a good email marketing course is having access to email marketing campaigns that you can implement in your business. It’s about knowing exactly what to send, when to send it, who to send it to, and why - in order to get maximum sales.</p><p>With email marketing, only roughly 20% is about the words inside your emails. That's why we don't follow your typical copywriting formats. Because when you send as many emails as we do in order to make sales, you'll end up with formulaic emails that look and feel like everyone else's. And you don't want that.</p><p><strong>What matters the most (the remaining 80%) is <em>the purpose behind the emails</em> – the thinking, the idea, the hooks, and the angles.</strong> So you could send an email with the best words ever (from a copywriting perspective), but if the rest isn’t in place, the whole thing isn’t going to work.</p><p>That's why our campaigns are strings of emails that work together - with a beginning, a middle, and an end. They take the subscriber on a journey from non-customer to paying customer. And it’s definitely not just about the words. It’s about the thinking, the ideas, and everything behind it, which is why pure fill-in-the-blanks campaigns don’t have the same strength. They won't give the same results as the campaigns we put together (very intentionally) inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Technology</strong></h3><p>The third element that a good email marketing course should have is technology. This is important because everything you do in your business (including your tech) should be based on what you want to achieve. It needs to bend at your will.</p><p>It’s why, as part of our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, we had a software developer create an entire toolkit of tech tools that open up some extremely advanced and previously impossible possibilities for all email marketing platforms. It's called Automate Hero, and it's included for free in our membership - and not available anywhere else.</p><p>So if you want to get results from your email marketing, you need these three things:</p><ul><li>The strategic thinking and understanding of how it all links and works together so none of your subscribers are dropping through the cracks. </li><li>The campaigns, the hooks, and the psychology behind the words. </li><li>And the technology piece, with tools that integrate with your email...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you're thinking of buying an email marketing course, what should you look out for? What should a course even help you do?&nbsp;Should you invest in one? And what will you learn?</p><p>If you want answers to all these questions, well, you're about to get them!&nbsp;</p><p>Check this out!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:18) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook Group</a>. </p><p>(4:45) What can an email marketing course help you do?</p><p>(11:19) Can an email marketing course save you time?</p><p>(15:01) The 3 key elements of a good email marketing course - strategy.</p><p>(18:54) Email marketing campaigns. </p><p>(22:32) Technology.</p><p>(25:46) The best email marketing courses.</p><p>(26:36) The best email marketing copywriting courses.</p><p>(28:22) The best sales funnels courses.</p><p>(29:52) Subject line of the week.What can an email marketing course help you do?&nbsp;</p><h2><strong>What can an email marketing course help you do?&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>Why would you invest in an email marketing course? You might be someone who does email marketing quite 'loosely' at the moment. That means you might have a list of people who bought something from you, and you send them a newsletter (sometimes) with some random information and a link to your website. Every time you send an email, you hope for the best. And (no offense, but...) you're probably not getting great results from your email marketing.&nbsp;</p><p>If you’re currently sending emails of any description to anybody at scale, and you're not getting results, chances are there’s something strategically off somewhere. And it’s probably nothing to do with your copywriting skills – because that’s one of the smaller elements of email marketing.&nbsp;<strong>By studying a good email marketing course, you’ll learn a <em>better system</em> for doing email.</strong> And we don’t mean the tech here - it's about the <em>systematic way</em> in which you approach your email marketing.</p><p>For example, you might learn a way that’s easier than what you’re currently doing, which may be a collection of different things you’ve put together based on what you've seen others doing. And that's probably not working very well. </p><p>If you go ahead and buy an email marketing course, you should be clear on the outcome. And the way we see it, ultimately, is that a course has to help you <strong>make more money from each subscriber you already have on your list</strong>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What if you don't have an email list yet?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>You may be someone who's just getting ready to start so you don't have an email list yet. A lot of people who join our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> are at this point – they either don’t have a list or they have a 'small one' (of 400-500+ people) and want to do more with it.&nbsp;</p><p>In reality, only about 20% of our members are people who do email marketing 'the perfect way'. Yes, it would be ideal to have everything set up and up and running before you even gain your first subscriber. That would mean that every single person you bring in is not having enough time to get disengaged. It would also mean that everyone would be going through a well-put-together bunch of campaigns that maximise the value of each subscriber.</p><p>The bottom line is that <strong>email marketing courses help people at different stages</strong>. Whether you're starting your email list from scratch, or you already have one and want to get better results and earn more per subscriber, an email marketing course can help.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Can an email marketing course save you time?&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>You're probably wondering if an email marketing course can save you time compared to how long it'd take you to figure things out for yourself. And the answer is yes. A lot of our members tell us that without our teachings, they'd still be going around in circles. We're all busy, and we all think we don't have enough time to invest in a course. But just like when you outsource anything, you have to first invest that time upfront so you can reap the benefits later. In other words, you do the work now to free up some time down the line.&nbsp;</p><p>So <strong>a good email marketing course will save you time by cutting out the learning curve. </strong>With a course, you don't have to figure things out yourself and can go straight to the results.</p><p>You'll also save time because you'll know&nbsp;exactly what to do, when to do it, where, why, and how. <strong>The way we teach email marketing allows you to build a bunch of assets that run for you forever.</strong> Realistically, the only thing you have to do on a daily basis is to send a daily email, which takes less than half an hour. But <strong>with email marketing, you're creating an asset that's going to serve you forever and give you returns like nothing else.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>When you create email marketing automations, you make sales week after week while you're doing something completely different - whether in your business or your personal life. Because automating your campaigns means your emails will be sent and sales will be made.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>The 3 key elements of a good email marketing course</strong></h2><p>Not all courses are created equal, obviously. Different courses have different elements, so what are the 3 key components that make a good email marketing course?</p><p>Here's our take on it. You need:</p><ul><li>Strategy.</li><li>Email marketing campaigns.&nbsp;</li><li>And technology.</li></ul><br/><h3><strong>Email marketing strategy&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>A good email marketing course needs to have a good strategy. If all you get are words that you can copy and paste, it won't work. Because it won't sound like you or fit into what you're doing. You can study all the theories and strategies in the world about a topic, but it still doesn’t mean you’re going to be any good at it. Knowing how a machine works doesn't mean you'll be able to operate it, right?</p><p>So when it comes to strategy for our email marketing course (which, in our case is a membership called <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>), you want to understand how the campaigns link together and <strong>compound to create massive sales</strong>. In our SCORE email engine, for example, a campaign links to the next, and you want to know how that affects things. The way we help you understand that is by using <em>frameworks</em>. We love for our get using these to create <em>massive</em> results.</p><p>When it comes to strategy, you also want <em>personalised help for your unique situation</em> because your business is different from all others. Every business is a unique cocktail of circumstances, so you need individual <em>support</em>. That’s why twice a month we work with our members on a group coaching call – our Hotline Call. This is where we address any specific challenges you might have and help you apply what we teach to make sure it's personalised <em>to you</em>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Email marketing campaigns</strong></h3><p>The second key component of a good email marketing course is having access to email marketing campaigns that you can implement in your business. It’s about knowing exactly what to send, when to send it, who to send it to, and why - in order to get maximum sales.</p><p>With email marketing, only roughly 20% is about the words inside your emails. That's why we don't follow your typical copywriting formats. Because when you send as many emails as we do in order to make sales, you'll end up with formulaic emails that look and feel like everyone else's. And you don't want that.</p><p><strong>What matters the most (the remaining 80%) is <em>the purpose behind the emails</em> – the thinking, the idea, the hooks, and the angles.</strong> So you could send an email with the best words ever (from a copywriting perspective), but if the rest isn’t in place, the whole thing isn’t going to work.</p><p>That's why our campaigns are strings of emails that work together - with a beginning, a middle, and an end. They take the subscriber on a journey from non-customer to paying customer. And it’s definitely not just about the words. It’s about the thinking, the ideas, and everything behind it, which is why pure fill-in-the-blanks campaigns don’t have the same strength. They won't give the same results as the campaigns we put together (very intentionally) inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Technology</strong></h3><p>The third element that a good email marketing course should have is technology. This is important because everything you do in your business (including your tech) should be based on what you want to achieve. It needs to bend at your will.</p><p>It’s why, as part of our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, we had a software developer create an entire toolkit of tech tools that open up some extremely advanced and previously impossible possibilities for all email marketing platforms. It's called Automate Hero, and it's included for free in our membership - and not available anywhere else.</p><p>So if you want to get results from your email marketing, you need these three things:</p><ul><li>The strategic thinking and understanding of how it all links and works together so none of your subscribers are dropping through the cracks. </li><li>The campaigns, the hooks, and the psychology behind the words. </li><li>And the technology piece, with tools that integrate with your email marketing platform and open up additional functionalities that will enhance your email marketing.</li></ul><br/><h2><strong>The best email marketing courses</strong></h2><p>With that all said, what are the best email marketing courses to grow your list? We have a couple:</p><ul><li>Our <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/5k?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=first-5k" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">First 5k Subscribers</a> course helps you get your first 5,000 subscribers using low-cost and no-cost traffic.</li><li>And <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/loops/71f9fbe142bfda2d09acd907798be58b6766fc3a?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_campaign=group-loops" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Group Loops</a> is our programme for using a Facebook group in order to build your email list.</li></ul><br/><p><br></p><h2><strong>The best email marketing copywriting courses</strong></h2><p>When it comes to email marketing copywriting courses, we want to caveat this by saying <strong>you don’t need to be a great copywriter to send amazing emails that make loads of sales.</strong> As we said, we don’t follow the specific structure that other courses teach. Because even if you were to hire a copywriter to write your emails for you, you'd still end up with very formulaic emails that might have <em>a bit</em> of personality sprinkled on them (at best), but it wouldn't be baked in from the ground up.</p><p>What you want instead is to <strong>become really good at writing interesting and funny emails that people like to receive and that help you make sales.</strong></p><p>That’s what you’re looking for and the reason why our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> exists. In all honesty, if there was something else out there that's just as good, we’d be telling you about that course and not have bothered with our own membership! </p><p>But <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> is by far <em>the place to go</em> for more intricacies, such as learning how to use storytelling in your emails. You also get a bunch of different structures you can follow, such as our <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/des-open?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=des" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bottomless Email Strategy Package</a>, which teaches you to write emails that are interesting to read.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>The best sales funnels courses</strong></h2><p>And finally, when it comes to the best sales funnel courses, a good place to start is our <a href="https://member.emailmarketingheroes.com/log-in/?redirect_to=/training/sales-page-sorted/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sales Page Sorted course</a>. This isn’t about technology because you can do that in a million different ways, and most of them are fine. Instead, it’s about the words you use and the strategy behind those words. This course teaches you everything you need in order to write copy for all the different pages you have and to pull together both sales videos and written sales letters that will move people along your funnels.</p><p>And if you decide to jump into <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, you’ll get all the strategy, the email campaigns, and the technology. Simple!</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h2><p>This week’s subject line is “Breaking my silence.” This was a story about the fact that Rob is generally an introvert. He rarely talks to people when he’s out and about, but being a dog owner has changed that. And it means he now talks to other dog owners while he walks his dog. Interesting and intriguing subject line, right? Bet you wondered what that was all about. So check it out!</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h2><h3><strong>Related episodes</strong></h3><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/best-marketing-email-platforms/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">6 Things You Didn’t Know Your Email Marketing Platform Could Do</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/membership-the-league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Everything You Need To Know About Our Membership The League (THE Behind The Scenes!)</a></p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/build-email-marketing-list-league-members/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tell Me You’re A Member Of The League Without Telling Me You’re A Member Of The League</a>.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>FREE list to improve your email marketing</strong></h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about email marketing courses and what they can do for you) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>leaving us a review&nbsp;</strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-course/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">3231ae15-24ce-4f6c-b7da-dea225647a65</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/94a9807f-cc65-40c9-bf6d-7a193d4238e3/cmttqD_ft1bHsN2whnQsQh6r.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/846061c6-e7c3-41cf-ba2f-f09c99d9186a/The-BEST-Ever-Email-Marketing-Course.mp3" length="75973402" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>31:39</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>192</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>192</podcast:episode></item><item><title>The Simple Formula For Coaches To Sell On Autopilot With Email Marketing</title><itunes:title>The Simple Formula For Coaches To Sell On Autopilot With Email Marketing</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Are you a coach or consultant? Then you need to learn how to build a system that helps you sell on autopilot so you don't have to hustle to fill your next coaching group or programme. This is why we're here to tell you all you need to know about email marketing for coaches.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to learn how to get more of<em> the right clients</em> in less time and with less work?&nbsp;</p><p>Let's do this!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:10) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook Group</a>. </p><p>(6:10) Why should coaches focus on email marketing?</p><p>(8:56) How email marketing helps coaches and consultants.</p><p>(13:57) Email marketing helps you move people towards buying from you.</p><p>(16:31) Create an email engine to sell on autopilot. </p><p>(17:55) The typical sales funnel for a coach.</p><p>(21:29) What happens when people don't qualify?</p><p>(24:51) The best lead magnets for coaches. </p><p>(26:34) Social media vs email marketing for coaches.</p><p>(29:39) How can coaches sell using email marketing?</p><p>(31:37) Subject line of the week.</p><h2><strong>Why should coaches focus on email marketing?&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>Coaches who sell high-ticket items, small-group coaching, or one-on-one coaching often worry about how email marketing might apply to their specific businesses. And coaching is indeed different.</p><p>First of all, as a coach, you’re selling high-ticket items, so you tend to have a much more intimate relationship with your audience. You're giving more personal attention and help. And that requires someone to have a high level of trust in you before they go ahead and spend that amount of money. For example, we have a coaching programme called The Email Engine Accelerator. This is a larger investment and an intensive experience. And we use email marketing to communicate to people that they can trust us and that the process works.</p><p>Another reason why coaching businesses are different is that often service providers feel they need to hustle for the next client. Long before we were working together and even figured out how to do email marketing, we both had a high-ticket coaching business for small groups. And it always felt like we had to hustle to find the next cohort of clients or fill any spots.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>How email marketing helps coaches and consultants</strong></h3><p>With email marketing, you can replace the idea of hustling. Email helps you generate leads, so you're <em>attracting new prospects </em>for your coaching programmes. But it also helps you<em> nurture</em> those leads and build both the perceived value of the outcome and people's confidence at the same time. You need to give people reassurance and make sure they believe that your progamme works and will give them results despite what they have or haven't tried before. </p><p>Through simple, automated email sequences, you need to give people confidence in your, your system, the results they can get, and the fact that they can successfully follow your approach. And the way to do that is by overcoming objections. Show people how your programme works<em> in spite</em> of their previous failings or the fact they might have no experience of doing this before.&nbsp;</p><p>If you have a coaching business (or have a coaching element in your business), you can write emails (once) that will move people from one place to the next. Focus on building people's confidence and moving them through the stages of becoming paying clients. </p><p>The great thing is while you're busy serving your clients and delivering a round of your coaching programme, you are also<em> nurturing future clients</em>. You could be selling all your spots for the next cohort <em>way</em> in advance! With email, you no longer have to hustle because your coaching clients are already lined up. This benefits your cash flow too because people pay in advance, and you can use that money to generate more leads. <strong>With email marketing, you can sell on autopilot. Filling your coaching programmes is completely hands-off.</strong></p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Email marketing helps you move people towards buying from you</strong></h2><p>One of the reasons why this works so well is because with coaching often you don’t know where anybody is in your world. How close are they to buying from you? That’s why you feel you have to hustle. So the reason why we say coaches specifically should focus on email marketing is that <strong>you want to move each person towards their next step.</strong></p><p>Through email, you can send people specific content, such as a video where you pitch, for example. Or the link to a webinar or to an application form. You want to drive people towards applying to work with you, and that might have to be done in stages. </p><p>First, they book a call, then you get them to attend the call, and then you close them on the call. And while all of this happens, you also want people to renew or join you for the next cohort, or whatever the case might be. It's a whole process. And if notice that people are dropping out at specific phases, maybe you need to reassess and look at what you do closely to understand where you can spot opportunities for improvement.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Create an email engine to sell on autopilot</strong></h3><p>The great thing about all this is that you write your emails once, and you have a consistent process. Every single person who goes through a particular phase receives the same emails. If they work, that's great. If they don't, you go and change them. </p><p>We often talk about creating what we call <em>email</em> <em>engines</em> – or chains of email sequences. This is the asset in your business that you're building. You build it once, and it turns into more sales. It gives you a bigger return than what you invested.</p><p>We just gave the example of sales calls earlier, but you don’t have to do those. We have a member inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> (Sheila Bennett) who filled a significant amount of spaces in her high-price mastermind without talking to a single person. Because <strong>with the right conversion tools, you get to move people from one stage to the next.</strong> They consume some key content, qualify, and move on to the next phase.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>The typical sales funnel for a coach</strong></h2><p>When it comes to sales funnels, as a coach, you have two major options. The first one (which is something we see a lot of coaches do) is to have the prospect fill in a form that takes them straight to the coach's calendar booking system so you can book a call with them. The problem with doing that is you'll have people booking onto calls who, for whatever reason, aren't ready to work with you. At this point, you don't know much about the client, and they potentially don't know much about what you do.&nbsp;</p><p>So what we do instead is to have people <em>raise their hand</em> for something - we want them to say they're interested by replying to an email, clicking on a link, watching a video, etc. Ultimately, we want them to fill in an application form where they answer a bunch of questions about who they are, what they’re looking for, why they want what we offer, etc. The questions are designed to <em>pre-qualify</em> them and only if they pass a set of specific filters, do they get the calendar booking system for the call.</p><p>Of course, the decision is made by a system, and whichever one you use, it's always going to have limitations because it's not human! But the key here is that having an application form in our funnel pulls out people who aren't serious. And that means we get <em>fewer and better-quality people</em> showing up on the calls. The people you talk to are more likely to buy your stuff, and that’s what we’re looking for.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What happens when people don't qualify?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>When someone doesn't qualify at your application form stage (for example because they're not ready to invest), you still don't want them to get to a dead end. For example, we send those people to a page where they can play a video that tells them that based on their answers, it looks like we might not be a fit to work together. But in that same video, we also explain what's involved in the programme, what the price is, etc.</p><p>Now they have all the information, they still have a choice. And we present them with two buttons:</p><ul><li>The first button allows them to tell us they still want to talk to us about applying for the programme and takes them to our Calendly form to book a call.</li><li>The other button is for people who think they’re not ready for this programme. But they still get access to a 2-minute summary of a down-sell offer, which, in our case, is for our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. This means that the funnel doesn't have a dead end!</li></ul><br/><p><br></p><h2><strong>The best lead magnets for coaches</strong></h2><p>When it comes to lead magnets, we see a lot of coaches make the mistake of using something that doesn't attract the right people. As a coach, you want to make sure your lead magnet attracts <em>the right people for you </em>and pushes away anyone who doesn't want what you sell. So don't have a lead magnet that does the wrong thing!</p><p>Focus on attracting people who are at the phase of fixing the issue you solve - not those who are in victim mode or still basking in their problem. Because if someone isn't searching for a solution, they're hard to sell to! So always check how your lead magnet is framed – make sure it attracts people who are looking for a solution and not those who are addicted to their own misery and...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you a coach or consultant? Then you need to learn how to build a system that helps you sell on autopilot so you don't have to hustle to fill your next coaching group or programme. This is why we're here to tell you all you need to know about email marketing for coaches.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to learn how to get more of<em> the right clients</em> in less time and with less work?&nbsp;</p><p>Let's do this!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:10) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook Group</a>. </p><p>(6:10) Why should coaches focus on email marketing?</p><p>(8:56) How email marketing helps coaches and consultants.</p><p>(13:57) Email marketing helps you move people towards buying from you.</p><p>(16:31) Create an email engine to sell on autopilot. </p><p>(17:55) The typical sales funnel for a coach.</p><p>(21:29) What happens when people don't qualify?</p><p>(24:51) The best lead magnets for coaches. </p><p>(26:34) Social media vs email marketing for coaches.</p><p>(29:39) How can coaches sell using email marketing?</p><p>(31:37) Subject line of the week.</p><h2><strong>Why should coaches focus on email marketing?&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>Coaches who sell high-ticket items, small-group coaching, or one-on-one coaching often worry about how email marketing might apply to their specific businesses. And coaching is indeed different.</p><p>First of all, as a coach, you’re selling high-ticket items, so you tend to have a much more intimate relationship with your audience. You're giving more personal attention and help. And that requires someone to have a high level of trust in you before they go ahead and spend that amount of money. For example, we have a coaching programme called The Email Engine Accelerator. This is a larger investment and an intensive experience. And we use email marketing to communicate to people that they can trust us and that the process works.</p><p>Another reason why coaching businesses are different is that often service providers feel they need to hustle for the next client. Long before we were working together and even figured out how to do email marketing, we both had a high-ticket coaching business for small groups. And it always felt like we had to hustle to find the next cohort of clients or fill any spots.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>How email marketing helps coaches and consultants</strong></h3><p>With email marketing, you can replace the idea of hustling. Email helps you generate leads, so you're <em>attracting new prospects </em>for your coaching programmes. But it also helps you<em> nurture</em> those leads and build both the perceived value of the outcome and people's confidence at the same time. You need to give people reassurance and make sure they believe that your progamme works and will give them results despite what they have or haven't tried before. </p><p>Through simple, automated email sequences, you need to give people confidence in your, your system, the results they can get, and the fact that they can successfully follow your approach. And the way to do that is by overcoming objections. Show people how your programme works<em> in spite</em> of their previous failings or the fact they might have no experience of doing this before.&nbsp;</p><p>If you have a coaching business (or have a coaching element in your business), you can write emails (once) that will move people from one place to the next. Focus on building people's confidence and moving them through the stages of becoming paying clients. </p><p>The great thing is while you're busy serving your clients and delivering a round of your coaching programme, you are also<em> nurturing future clients</em>. You could be selling all your spots for the next cohort <em>way</em> in advance! With email, you no longer have to hustle because your coaching clients are already lined up. This benefits your cash flow too because people pay in advance, and you can use that money to generate more leads. <strong>With email marketing, you can sell on autopilot. Filling your coaching programmes is completely hands-off.</strong></p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Email marketing helps you move people towards buying from you</strong></h2><p>One of the reasons why this works so well is because with coaching often you don’t know where anybody is in your world. How close are they to buying from you? That’s why you feel you have to hustle. So the reason why we say coaches specifically should focus on email marketing is that <strong>you want to move each person towards their next step.</strong></p><p>Through email, you can send people specific content, such as a video where you pitch, for example. Or the link to a webinar or to an application form. You want to drive people towards applying to work with you, and that might have to be done in stages. </p><p>First, they book a call, then you get them to attend the call, and then you close them on the call. And while all of this happens, you also want people to renew or join you for the next cohort, or whatever the case might be. It's a whole process. And if notice that people are dropping out at specific phases, maybe you need to reassess and look at what you do closely to understand where you can spot opportunities for improvement.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Create an email engine to sell on autopilot</strong></h3><p>The great thing about all this is that you write your emails once, and you have a consistent process. Every single person who goes through a particular phase receives the same emails. If they work, that's great. If they don't, you go and change them. </p><p>We often talk about creating what we call <em>email</em> <em>engines</em> – or chains of email sequences. This is the asset in your business that you're building. You build it once, and it turns into more sales. It gives you a bigger return than what you invested.</p><p>We just gave the example of sales calls earlier, but you don’t have to do those. We have a member inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> (Sheila Bennett) who filled a significant amount of spaces in her high-price mastermind without talking to a single person. Because <strong>with the right conversion tools, you get to move people from one stage to the next.</strong> They consume some key content, qualify, and move on to the next phase.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>The typical sales funnel for a coach</strong></h2><p>When it comes to sales funnels, as a coach, you have two major options. The first one (which is something we see a lot of coaches do) is to have the prospect fill in a form that takes them straight to the coach's calendar booking system so you can book a call with them. The problem with doing that is you'll have people booking onto calls who, for whatever reason, aren't ready to work with you. At this point, you don't know much about the client, and they potentially don't know much about what you do.&nbsp;</p><p>So what we do instead is to have people <em>raise their hand</em> for something - we want them to say they're interested by replying to an email, clicking on a link, watching a video, etc. Ultimately, we want them to fill in an application form where they answer a bunch of questions about who they are, what they’re looking for, why they want what we offer, etc. The questions are designed to <em>pre-qualify</em> them and only if they pass a set of specific filters, do they get the calendar booking system for the call.</p><p>Of course, the decision is made by a system, and whichever one you use, it's always going to have limitations because it's not human! But the key here is that having an application form in our funnel pulls out people who aren't serious. And that means we get <em>fewer and better-quality people</em> showing up on the calls. The people you talk to are more likely to buy your stuff, and that’s what we’re looking for.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What happens when people don't qualify?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>When someone doesn't qualify at your application form stage (for example because they're not ready to invest), you still don't want them to get to a dead end. For example, we send those people to a page where they can play a video that tells them that based on their answers, it looks like we might not be a fit to work together. But in that same video, we also explain what's involved in the programme, what the price is, etc.</p><p>Now they have all the information, they still have a choice. And we present them with two buttons:</p><ul><li>The first button allows them to tell us they still want to talk to us about applying for the programme and takes them to our Calendly form to book a call.</li><li>The other button is for people who think they’re not ready for this programme. But they still get access to a 2-minute summary of a down-sell offer, which, in our case, is for our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. This means that the funnel doesn't have a dead end!</li></ul><br/><p><br></p><h2><strong>The best lead magnets for coaches</strong></h2><p>When it comes to lead magnets, we see a lot of coaches make the mistake of using something that doesn't attract the right people. As a coach, you want to make sure your lead magnet attracts <em>the right people for you </em>and pushes away anyone who doesn't want what you sell. So don't have a lead magnet that does the wrong thing!</p><p>Focus on attracting people who are at the phase of fixing the issue you solve - not those who are in victim mode or still basking in their problem. Because if someone isn't searching for a solution, they're hard to sell to! So always check how your lead magnet is framed – make sure it attracts people who are looking for a solution and not those who are addicted to their own misery and still in victim mode.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Social media vs email marketing for coaches</strong></h2><p>When it comes to social media and email marketing, coaches need both. That's because <strong>you need somewhere to build an audience (social media) and somewhere to convert them (email marketing)</strong>.</p><p>You want to create this cool infrastructure and <em>loop</em> where people come through our social media, and you get them onto your email list. It's a two-directional relationship between the two. Social media and email marketing work together as long as you push the same agenda. For us, our social media focus is on our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook group</a>. And we might not have a huge audience there, but we have the <em>right</em> audience. And from there, we use email marketing to convert. Rember that you'll always get much higher engagement and profitability from emails than you do from social media.</p><p>We’re not saying that email marketing replaces social media – it simply has a different job.<strong> Email is used to sell – it’s for conversion.&nbsp;</strong>It allows you to know what someone is interested in because they’ve clicked on the links in your emails. So you get to create a sensible path to move people closer to buying. And that's something you can't really do on social media.&nbsp;</p><p>This is why we recommend that coaches use email marketing to convert. If you haven't already, go and check out our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. We have all the campaigns you need, such as The Temptress campaign, The Explorer High Ticket campaign, and even our Open Day campaign. This is a type of free trial campaign where you could let people sit in and maybe observe some of your sessions for free so they can try before they buy.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>How can coaches sell using email marketing?&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>As a coach or consultant, these are the four things you want to do with email marketing:</p><ol><li>Identify people's specific problems and narrow them down to the<em> specific</em> problem you solve.&nbsp;</li><li>Get them to raise their hand and say they're interested.&nbsp;</li><li>Create the desire for <em>your</em> <em>specific</em> solution to that problem. You want people who are interested in what <em>you</em> sell, specifically.&nbsp;</li><li>Move people onto some kind of conversion event (a webinar, a sales call, a video sales letter, etc.) and sell!</li></ol><br/><p>So <strong>the biggest opportunity coaches have to stop this hustle mindset is to have a system that’s generating leads and converting them into coaching clients.</strong> With email marketing, you can do this time after time and <em>on autopilot</em>.</p><p>You get to create an asset where you use emails to nurture people and move them towards the sale. <strong>If you want access to our campaigns, go and check out </strong><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>The League</strong></a><strong>, and you can start using them immediately.</strong>&nbsp; </p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h2><p>This week’s subject line is “This guy is selling our stuff!” followed by the shocked face emoji. And this is pretty much the definition of how we try and grab people’s attention with an opening hook.</p><p>The email was about the fact we did a partnership with someone. We got in front of his audience, and he's now selling some of our products for us. Of course, this is great for us because it helps us build an audience and make money from it, too.</p><p>The wording in this subject line helped people go and open the email. There’s an implication that someone might have stolen our stuff. And you can tell it's a fine balance between generating interest and curiosity and being too clickbaity, right? So go check it out!</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h2><h3><strong>Related episodes</strong></h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/building-email-lists-traffic-loops/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stop Wasting So Much On List Building by Using Traffic Loops</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-agency/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why We Started an Email Marketing Agency</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/buyer-psychology-email/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Get Your Customers To Buy Using Buyer Psychology In Email Marketing</a>.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>FREE list to improve your email marketing</strong></h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about email marketing for coaches) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>leaving us a review&nbsp;</strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-coaches/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">4485a5e5-48a2-4b92-b784-63212ed10104</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/9050cd8f-b9d4-41fc-a407-244ae3eedf6c/hn1RAVnIGZadqbI_W77yI5Wk.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/95c5b430-65af-4f43-bb28-f1186042984c/Coach-or-Consultant-Sell-on-autopilot.mp3" length="80907410" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>33:43</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>191</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>191</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How Emily Made Over $14k In 7 Days With Just ONE Email Marketing Campaign</title><itunes:title>How Emily Made Over $14k In 7 Days With Just ONE Email Marketing Campaign</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Would you like to find out how our member Emily Moncuit from <a href="https://emilysnotebook.co.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Emily’s Notebook</a> made over $14k in only 7 days by using ONE of our email marketing campaigns?</p><p>It sounds too good to be true, doesn't it? You join a membership, do one thing, and make a whole bunch of money. And when you implement the next action, you make <em>more</em> money! Mindblowing!</p><p>But let's hear it from Emily...&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:20) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook Group</a>. </p><p>(3:25) Who is League member Emily Moncuit?</p><p>(5:59) When did Emily get started with email marketing?</p><p>(8:29) What was Emily's biggest barrier to making email work for her?</p><p>(9:35) What did Emily's emails look like before she joined The League?</p><p>(12:54) What were the first changes that Emily made when she joined The League?</p><p>(16:37) What impact has email marketing had on Emily's revenue and sales?</p><p>(19:03) How does Emily feel about her email marketing now?</p><p>(22:30) The one action that had the most impact on Emily's email marketing.</p><p>(25:12) Subject line of the week.</p><h2><strong>Who is League member Emily Moncuit?</strong></h2><p>Emily teaches people how to draw (step-by-step) with a particular emphasis on supporting their well-being and integrating a drawing habit into their day. Emily used to sell a high-level ticket offer in the form of a course, but she's now transitioning into a membership model. Her business is evolving because there's a massive demand for drawing, as people have been disconnected from their creativity.</p><p>Drawing is something we might be good at when we're in school, but traditionally and culturally at some point, it gets discouraged. And people are told to get "a proper job". That's when drawing becomes a hobby, and if we treat it like a hobby it's not part of&nbsp;our creative reasoning and evolution as human beings. So there’s a deeply rooted psychological connection that people have with drawing.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>When did Emily get started with email marketing?</strong></h2><p>Emily started drawing in 2019 after her divorce to find a way to cope. At the time, she worked as a director in a government position where she was involved in community regeneration. Overnight, she started her creative journey by drawing every day, and at some point, she decided to do this as a career.&nbsp;</p><p>Emily tells us her email journey before joining <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> is pretty shocking. She would send emails sporadically and about once a week. Ironically, while she was used to doing a lot of face-to-face work to build communities on the ground, she didn’t know how to translate that to the online space. She had a mental block to community building and thought she needed the face-to-face, live context every week. As a result, her emails were very unfocused and with no real call to action.</p><p>When she first implemented our first sequence of tasks, Emily says, it was like stepping into the light! She had a busy first month after she met us. In fact, she was as resentful as she was elated because she got results but also had loads of questions about how to do things.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>What was Emily’s biggest barrier to making email work for her?</strong></h2><p>The biggest barrier for Emily was psychological - she didn't believe she could connect with people via email because in order to do that, people need to open your emails. And what if they don't? So she thought she needed to do social media instead.&nbsp;</p><p>And this is no surprise because we know that everyone thinks their business and audience are different from everyone else's.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>What did Emily’s emails look like before she joined The League?</strong></h2><p>Before she started working with us, Emily wasn't truly understanding what her audience’s challenges were or didn't know how to create a conversation with them. She was throwing spaghetti to the wall hoping it'd stick. And that approach gave her no real results and definitely no consistent revenue from email marketing.</p><p>Emily was only sending one email a week, and that wasn't frequent or consistent enough. Every week, she'd publish a blog post and then send an email out with the link, encouraging people to read her work and sign up for her free weekly event. But that was it. <strong>She had no direction or strategy, and her emails felt very random.</strong> Plus, these were all live emails – Emily didn’t use any automation. &nbsp;</p><p>Speaking of automation and systems, that's one of the reasons Emily said she resented us when she first came into our world. She realised that her existing email marketing platform couldn't do what she wanted, and she needed to switch. Thankfully, through our amazing community, we were able to put her in touch with an expert who could help. And Emily attributes part of her success to our community as well as to our teachings.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>What were the first changes Emily made when she joined The League?</strong></h2><p>The first thing Emily did when she joined <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> was to change her email signature – she added links for paid products to her footer and found that people do click on those links! <strong>Adding links to the footer of your emails is one of the things we encourage people to do on our Success Tracker.</strong> That way, even if you have no particular way of making an offer, people can still go and check your products out. <strong>The Super Signature turns every email into a sales email.</strong></p><p>After that, Emily ran our LOL Revival Campaign. This allowed her to remove anyone who wasn't engaging with her list, and as we always say, this helps with the deliverability of your emails.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>At the time, Emily was selling a high-ticket offer and doing live launches 2-3 times a year. So she'd implement our campaigns in the lead-up to launching a course. And they work! At the time of this interview, Emily was in the middle of an Overture campaign - on day 3, she'd made 38 sales thanks to the automated sequence she implemented - all while going about her day. Because <strong>that’s the beauty of an automated campaign – you set it up once and let it run without the chaos of having to post something at the last minute. </strong>We give people a strategy and a structure, and that's what email marketing is all about!</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>What impact has email marketing had on Emily’s revenue and sales?</strong></h2><p>Emily has recently changed her business model from a high-ticket offer course to a membership and a self-liquidating offer, and by using our Overture campaign,<strong> she made £11,673 (over $14k) in 7 days</strong>. <strong>She also made around £5,600 (just under $7k) in 5 days’ worth of emails in her Black Friday campaign</strong>.&nbsp;</p><p>Not bad for a few days worth of work, don't you think?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>How does Emily feel about her email marketing now?</strong></h2><p>Doing email marketing has helped Emily with her community building. And while she'll admit she doesn’t always understand some of the psychology that we use or implement, <strong>the interaction she’s getting with her community happens privately in her own space</strong> – not on social media. Emily doesn’t have a massive following, but she has grown her email list to just over 8,000 subscribers.</p><p>Emily feels excited about email marketing now - she looks forward to thinking about what she can say. Because while people may think email marketing is quite rigid, it's actually very creative. There's a lot you can do - including questionnaires and surveys. And it helps shape how you communicate with your audience going forward. So she's excited about email being another extension of the creativity she already has in her business. Email marketing allows her to drop into people's inboxes and send them on many wonderful journeys inside her world.&nbsp;</p><p>Emily has now built a system through email that she can put more and more people into and scale beautifully as her audience grows. </p><p><br></p><h2><strong>The <em>one action</em> that had the most impact on Emily’s email marketing</strong></h2><p>The one thing that Emily recommends people focus on is <strong>growing their email list.</strong> A lot of people depend on social media, but it's really all about creating your own platform with email. So she advises people to look at their onboarding and how they're communicating with their audience from the get-go.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Did email marketing take over Emily’s entire life?</strong></h2><p>A lot of the emails in our campaigns, Emily says, only take 3-4 sentences, so it doesn't take Emily long to create an email sequence. Plus, the emails and campaigns are built into a structure and automated. Emily pointed out it takes less time to send an email than to do social media, so once you know what you sell and how to build it, you treat email as your sales team.&nbsp;Regardless of what type of trial you’re running, what should your email campaign look like? &nbsp; </p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h2><p>This week’s subject line is “I’m leaving.” It has the curiosity element that leaves people wondering what is going on. Is someone leaving the business? Or what is he leaving? Why? When? And who exactly? So it’s all about compound curiosity. Check it out!</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h2><h3><strong>Related episodes</strong></h3><p><a...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Would you like to find out how our member Emily Moncuit from <a href="https://emilysnotebook.co.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Emily’s Notebook</a> made over $14k in only 7 days by using ONE of our email marketing campaigns?</p><p>It sounds too good to be true, doesn't it? You join a membership, do one thing, and make a whole bunch of money. And when you implement the next action, you make <em>more</em> money! Mindblowing!</p><p>But let's hear it from Emily...&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:20) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook Group</a>. </p><p>(3:25) Who is League member Emily Moncuit?</p><p>(5:59) When did Emily get started with email marketing?</p><p>(8:29) What was Emily's biggest barrier to making email work for her?</p><p>(9:35) What did Emily's emails look like before she joined The League?</p><p>(12:54) What were the first changes that Emily made when she joined The League?</p><p>(16:37) What impact has email marketing had on Emily's revenue and sales?</p><p>(19:03) How does Emily feel about her email marketing now?</p><p>(22:30) The one action that had the most impact on Emily's email marketing.</p><p>(25:12) Subject line of the week.</p><h2><strong>Who is League member Emily Moncuit?</strong></h2><p>Emily teaches people how to draw (step-by-step) with a particular emphasis on supporting their well-being and integrating a drawing habit into their day. Emily used to sell a high-level ticket offer in the form of a course, but she's now transitioning into a membership model. Her business is evolving because there's a massive demand for drawing, as people have been disconnected from their creativity.</p><p>Drawing is something we might be good at when we're in school, but traditionally and culturally at some point, it gets discouraged. And people are told to get "a proper job". That's when drawing becomes a hobby, and if we treat it like a hobby it's not part of&nbsp;our creative reasoning and evolution as human beings. So there’s a deeply rooted psychological connection that people have with drawing.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>When did Emily get started with email marketing?</strong></h2><p>Emily started drawing in 2019 after her divorce to find a way to cope. At the time, she worked as a director in a government position where she was involved in community regeneration. Overnight, she started her creative journey by drawing every day, and at some point, she decided to do this as a career.&nbsp;</p><p>Emily tells us her email journey before joining <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> is pretty shocking. She would send emails sporadically and about once a week. Ironically, while she was used to doing a lot of face-to-face work to build communities on the ground, she didn’t know how to translate that to the online space. She had a mental block to community building and thought she needed the face-to-face, live context every week. As a result, her emails were very unfocused and with no real call to action.</p><p>When she first implemented our first sequence of tasks, Emily says, it was like stepping into the light! She had a busy first month after she met us. In fact, she was as resentful as she was elated because she got results but also had loads of questions about how to do things.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>What was Emily’s biggest barrier to making email work for her?</strong></h2><p>The biggest barrier for Emily was psychological - she didn't believe she could connect with people via email because in order to do that, people need to open your emails. And what if they don't? So she thought she needed to do social media instead.&nbsp;</p><p>And this is no surprise because we know that everyone thinks their business and audience are different from everyone else's.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>What did Emily’s emails look like before she joined The League?</strong></h2><p>Before she started working with us, Emily wasn't truly understanding what her audience’s challenges were or didn't know how to create a conversation with them. She was throwing spaghetti to the wall hoping it'd stick. And that approach gave her no real results and definitely no consistent revenue from email marketing.</p><p>Emily was only sending one email a week, and that wasn't frequent or consistent enough. Every week, she'd publish a blog post and then send an email out with the link, encouraging people to read her work and sign up for her free weekly event. But that was it. <strong>She had no direction or strategy, and her emails felt very random.</strong> Plus, these were all live emails – Emily didn’t use any automation. &nbsp;</p><p>Speaking of automation and systems, that's one of the reasons Emily said she resented us when she first came into our world. She realised that her existing email marketing platform couldn't do what she wanted, and she needed to switch. Thankfully, through our amazing community, we were able to put her in touch with an expert who could help. And Emily attributes part of her success to our community as well as to our teachings.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>What were the first changes Emily made when she joined The League?</strong></h2><p>The first thing Emily did when she joined <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> was to change her email signature – she added links for paid products to her footer and found that people do click on those links! <strong>Adding links to the footer of your emails is one of the things we encourage people to do on our Success Tracker.</strong> That way, even if you have no particular way of making an offer, people can still go and check your products out. <strong>The Super Signature turns every email into a sales email.</strong></p><p>After that, Emily ran our LOL Revival Campaign. This allowed her to remove anyone who wasn't engaging with her list, and as we always say, this helps with the deliverability of your emails.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>At the time, Emily was selling a high-ticket offer and doing live launches 2-3 times a year. So she'd implement our campaigns in the lead-up to launching a course. And they work! At the time of this interview, Emily was in the middle of an Overture campaign - on day 3, she'd made 38 sales thanks to the automated sequence she implemented - all while going about her day. Because <strong>that’s the beauty of an automated campaign – you set it up once and let it run without the chaos of having to post something at the last minute. </strong>We give people a strategy and a structure, and that's what email marketing is all about!</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>What impact has email marketing had on Emily’s revenue and sales?</strong></h2><p>Emily has recently changed her business model from a high-ticket offer course to a membership and a self-liquidating offer, and by using our Overture campaign,<strong> she made £11,673 (over $14k) in 7 days</strong>. <strong>She also made around £5,600 (just under $7k) in 5 days’ worth of emails in her Black Friday campaign</strong>.&nbsp;</p><p>Not bad for a few days worth of work, don't you think?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>How does Emily feel about her email marketing now?</strong></h2><p>Doing email marketing has helped Emily with her community building. And while she'll admit she doesn’t always understand some of the psychology that we use or implement, <strong>the interaction she’s getting with her community happens privately in her own space</strong> – not on social media. Emily doesn’t have a massive following, but she has grown her email list to just over 8,000 subscribers.</p><p>Emily feels excited about email marketing now - she looks forward to thinking about what she can say. Because while people may think email marketing is quite rigid, it's actually very creative. There's a lot you can do - including questionnaires and surveys. And it helps shape how you communicate with your audience going forward. So she's excited about email being another extension of the creativity she already has in her business. Email marketing allows her to drop into people's inboxes and send them on many wonderful journeys inside her world.&nbsp;</p><p>Emily has now built a system through email that she can put more and more people into and scale beautifully as her audience grows. </p><p><br></p><h2><strong>The <em>one action</em> that had the most impact on Emily’s email marketing</strong></h2><p>The one thing that Emily recommends people focus on is <strong>growing their email list.</strong> A lot of people depend on social media, but it's really all about creating your own platform with email. So she advises people to look at their onboarding and how they're communicating with their audience from the get-go.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Did email marketing take over Emily’s entire life?</strong></h2><p>A lot of the emails in our campaigns, Emily says, only take 3-4 sentences, so it doesn't take Emily long to create an email sequence. Plus, the emails and campaigns are built into a structure and automated. Emily pointed out it takes less time to send an email than to do social media, so once you know what you sell and how to build it, you treat email as your sales team.&nbsp;Regardless of what type of trial you’re running, what should your email campaign look like? &nbsp; </p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h2><p>This week’s subject line is “I’m leaving.” It has the curiosity element that leaves people wondering what is going on. Is someone leaving the business? Or what is he leaving? Why? When? And who exactly? So it’s all about compound curiosity. Check it out!</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h2><h3><strong>Related episodes</strong></h3><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/automated-webinars-email/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How Brad Brown Made $90k By Automating Webinars</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/use-facebook-group-welcome-new-members/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How Facebook Groups and Webinars Make Matthew Harrington a Happy Man</a>.</p><p>And&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/price-increase-email-template-case-study/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How A League Member Made Over $10k With Just ONE Email Campaign - Case Study With Aidan O'Sullivan</a>.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>FREE list to improve your email marketing</strong></h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to create the perfect free-trial email sequence for your email marketing) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>leaving us a review&nbsp;</strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/emily-case-study/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">c438b024-c01f-4ea8-ab28-8b83938568c7</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/b7783ceb-8d2a-4e1d-a40a-6e99a99e77cd/CAFiLXW6RYwwGH95vJTAAqs5.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/e2d2b5c6-6132-4140-9038-110255c55932/She-Made-Over-14k-in-7-Days.mp3" length="63906920" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>26:38</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>190</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>190</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Use THIS Free-Trial Email Sequence To Turn Your Subscribers Into Paying Customers</title><itunes:title>Use THIS Free-Trial Email Sequence To Turn Your Subscribers Into Paying Customers</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Do you run free trials for your membership, course, or product? If you want to know if a trial offer is a good idea and want to get your hands on a free-trial email sequence for your business, here are some of the strategies we use to sell our own membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>And there's some <em>really</em> juicy stuff in here! Ready?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:20) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook Group</a>. </p><p>(5:00) Should you run a free trial?</p><p>(8:29) Trials help with risk reversal.</p><p>(11:37) A trial isn't a discount!</p><p>(14:28) Should you give full or limited access?</p><p>(17:38) Do you need a free-trial email campaign?</p><p>(21:14) The elements to include in your free-trial email campaign.</p><p>(25:54) To bill or not to bill?</p><p>(28:44) Free-trial email sequence key elements.</p><p>(32:13) Subject line of the week.</p><h2><strong>Should you run a free trial?</strong></h2><p>If you have a membership, getting people into it is probably your main focus. And trials can definitely help with that. They are exciting, and any type of trial (free or paid) will get more people into your membership.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>The problem with a free trial is that many of those who join might leave afterwards. And that's because they haven't invested or overcome any sort of barrier to be there. So they're not likely to start doing the work. And without that, they can't get any results, which means there's no value for them in staying after the end of the trial.&nbsp;</p><p>But when people invest in your membership, they'll do the work. The fact they paid money to join shows commitment because people won't want to lose the money they invested.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Trials help with risk reversal</strong></h2><p>One of the big pros of running<strong> a trial </strong>is that it<strong> acts as a <em>risk reversal</em> strategy.</strong> In our SCORE email engine, the R stands for Risk Reversal. (And if you're wondering, the whole acronym stands for Sales, Content, Objection Handling, Risk Reversal, and Engagement). How does a trial take care of the risk reversal element?</p><p>There are different ways of running a trial and lots of possibilities and combinations that go from a free trial to charging the full price of the membership. In other words, you could charge someone any amount you decide for them to join for 2 days, a week, a month, or however long you want.&nbsp;</p><p>A trial allows people to try out the membership at a lower risk (or no risk). And how much you charge may have an impact on retention (i.e. whether people stay at the end of the trial). So<strong> you may need to play around with the duration and the price of the trial to understand what works for your business.</strong></p><p>And another decision you may want to make is around whether you give people full or limited access to your membership. The key is to<strong> find the combination that gives you the most money.</strong> If your trial is priced higher than free or $1, you're going to get fewer people signing up. But at least you get some money in your pockets. If you charge $1 or run the trial for free, then obviously you're not making much money in the process.&nbsp;</p><p>We suggest you <strong>work out how much someone is worth to you over the lifetime of that person being a customer.</strong> And if that’s hard to calculate, try to work out <em>on average </em>how much someone is worth to you over a year. Look at the gross number per person.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>A trial isn't a discount!</strong></h2><p>In our business, we currently have a $1 trial. But we've also tested offering a full-month trial as well as a 14-day trial. The idea is that you could run a trial and give access for however long you choose. <strong>What's important is the way you frame it</strong>. You want to make sure people understand they're joining for $1, for example, and that gives them access for X amount of time. But after that, they will continue staying members.</p><p>Membership site owners are often reluctant to run trials because they don't want to offer discounts. But <strong>a trial isn't a discount! It's a strategy to reduce risk </strong>to help people understand whether your membership is the right choice for them. Will it work for them? Will they like it? And will they get results? By offering a low-risk trial, you help them answer these questions. </p><p>So when you encourage people to take the trial, you need to use language that doesn't suggest that they'll take the trial and leave. What you do instead is to ask them to join the membership for $1 for the first month, for example, and then stay on at the full price. <strong>It<em> sounds</em> like the language of a discount, but the emotional trigger that makes people jump on the offer is risk reduction.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Should you give full or limited access?</strong></h2><p>When running trials, you also want to think about what type of access to your membership you'll give people. What we do, for example, is an access-all-areas trial for $1 for 14 days. This means we allow people to get into entire membership for 14 days for $1. It means they can join, access, implement, and run our campaigns or use our Automate Hero tools and make money during that period of time for $1. And to us, that's great. Because<strong> people who get results will want to stick around.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>The alternative is to run a limited-access trial. This is where you give people access to <em>some</em> of your content for $1 for a certain period of time. It could be that they can only consume pre-recorded content, but not the live calls, for example. Or the other way around.</p><p>Another type of trial we love and run a few times a year is the Open Day. This is where someone comes along for free but with limited access. People get to attend one live group coaching call inside our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> and see what it's like.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Do you need a free-trial email campaign?&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>A key point to consider when running a trial is whether people should go through your standard onboarding process or whether you want a separate one that's designed to convert people so they sign up at the full price.&nbsp;</p><p>And the answer to this question can vary. Because the job of the onboarding sequence is to get people to remain members after the trial. But if people join on a trial, you want them to understand that the membership is worth its full price. Obviously, people who sign up at the full price have already realised that your membership is worth it. But those who came in via the trial may not.&nbsp;</p><p>So consider this - how much selling did you do upfront? Did you sell the value of the membership upfront and before people signed up for the trial? If you have, then you should be able to put people on the same onboarding sequence that you use for your new (paying) members.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Where our trial offer sits in our email engine</strong></h3><p>For example, our risk reversal offer doesn't sit on the front end - it's something we offer down the line. We do this to maximise profitability by selling the membership to those people who are ready and willing to buy at full price first. And then, at some point, we make our risk reversal offer. But by then, we've already sold the value of our membership.&nbsp;</p><p>The advantage of presenting our trial offer in that way is also to ensure we have enough things to email people about. <strong>For a period of time, day in and day out in our emails, we use loads of different angles to try and sell our membership.</strong> And when we eventually offer a trial, we do it with some urgency and for a limited period of time.&nbsp;</p><p>That's why we use the same onboarding sequence. Because by the time we offer the trial, people have been through a full sales campaign, our content-led campaign, and an objection-handling campaign.</p><p>But if you're leading with the trial offer (and haven't sold the full value of the membership upfront), then you may need a different onboarding to clarfy that the product is worth a lot more. And if everyone joins your membership via a trial, then the trial email sequence is the only onboarding you'll ever need!&nbsp;</p><p>The key is to <strong>find the balance between reselling people and making sure you deliver a valuable onboarding experience.</strong></p><p><br></p><h2><strong>What to include in your free-trial email campaign</strong></h2><p>Regardless of what type of trial you’re running, what should your email campaign look like?</p><p><br></p><h3>Create FOMO&nbsp;</h3><p>The first thing you want a free-trial campaign to do is to <strong>create a specific type of FOMO</strong> – the idea that they’re not in the in-crowd. For example, in our free-trial sequence, we use the same language we use inside our membership. </p><p>We don't do it in a pushing or jarring way - it's very inclusive. But we might talk about our Interrogator campaign, for example, and you'd only know what that is if you're in our world because that's the terminology we created for ourselves and our clients. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Sell the outcome of the trial</strong></h3><p>Another thing you can do in your free-trial email campaign is to<strong> stack up the return on investment (or the emotional result or overall outcome) that people get during the trial.&nbsp;</strong>In this campaign, you're no longer selling the membership - you're telling people what <em>can</em> happen during the trial. </p><p>We do this by sharing case...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you run free trials for your membership, course, or product? If you want to know if a trial offer is a good idea and want to get your hands on a free-trial email sequence for your business, here are some of the strategies we use to sell our own membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>And there's some <em>really</em> juicy stuff in here! Ready?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:20) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook Group</a>. </p><p>(5:00) Should you run a free trial?</p><p>(8:29) Trials help with risk reversal.</p><p>(11:37) A trial isn't a discount!</p><p>(14:28) Should you give full or limited access?</p><p>(17:38) Do you need a free-trial email campaign?</p><p>(21:14) The elements to include in your free-trial email campaign.</p><p>(25:54) To bill or not to bill?</p><p>(28:44) Free-trial email sequence key elements.</p><p>(32:13) Subject line of the week.</p><h2><strong>Should you run a free trial?</strong></h2><p>If you have a membership, getting people into it is probably your main focus. And trials can definitely help with that. They are exciting, and any type of trial (free or paid) will get more people into your membership.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>The problem with a free trial is that many of those who join might leave afterwards. And that's because they haven't invested or overcome any sort of barrier to be there. So they're not likely to start doing the work. And without that, they can't get any results, which means there's no value for them in staying after the end of the trial.&nbsp;</p><p>But when people invest in your membership, they'll do the work. The fact they paid money to join shows commitment because people won't want to lose the money they invested.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Trials help with risk reversal</strong></h2><p>One of the big pros of running<strong> a trial </strong>is that it<strong> acts as a <em>risk reversal</em> strategy.</strong> In our SCORE email engine, the R stands for Risk Reversal. (And if you're wondering, the whole acronym stands for Sales, Content, Objection Handling, Risk Reversal, and Engagement). How does a trial take care of the risk reversal element?</p><p>There are different ways of running a trial and lots of possibilities and combinations that go from a free trial to charging the full price of the membership. In other words, you could charge someone any amount you decide for them to join for 2 days, a week, a month, or however long you want.&nbsp;</p><p>A trial allows people to try out the membership at a lower risk (or no risk). And how much you charge may have an impact on retention (i.e. whether people stay at the end of the trial). So<strong> you may need to play around with the duration and the price of the trial to understand what works for your business.</strong></p><p>And another decision you may want to make is around whether you give people full or limited access to your membership. The key is to<strong> find the combination that gives you the most money.</strong> If your trial is priced higher than free or $1, you're going to get fewer people signing up. But at least you get some money in your pockets. If you charge $1 or run the trial for free, then obviously you're not making much money in the process.&nbsp;</p><p>We suggest you <strong>work out how much someone is worth to you over the lifetime of that person being a customer.</strong> And if that’s hard to calculate, try to work out <em>on average </em>how much someone is worth to you over a year. Look at the gross number per person.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>A trial isn't a discount!</strong></h2><p>In our business, we currently have a $1 trial. But we've also tested offering a full-month trial as well as a 14-day trial. The idea is that you could run a trial and give access for however long you choose. <strong>What's important is the way you frame it</strong>. You want to make sure people understand they're joining for $1, for example, and that gives them access for X amount of time. But after that, they will continue staying members.</p><p>Membership site owners are often reluctant to run trials because they don't want to offer discounts. But <strong>a trial isn't a discount! It's a strategy to reduce risk </strong>to help people understand whether your membership is the right choice for them. Will it work for them? Will they like it? And will they get results? By offering a low-risk trial, you help them answer these questions. </p><p>So when you encourage people to take the trial, you need to use language that doesn't suggest that they'll take the trial and leave. What you do instead is to ask them to join the membership for $1 for the first month, for example, and then stay on at the full price. <strong>It<em> sounds</em> like the language of a discount, but the emotional trigger that makes people jump on the offer is risk reduction.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Should you give full or limited access?</strong></h2><p>When running trials, you also want to think about what type of access to your membership you'll give people. What we do, for example, is an access-all-areas trial for $1 for 14 days. This means we allow people to get into entire membership for 14 days for $1. It means they can join, access, implement, and run our campaigns or use our Automate Hero tools and make money during that period of time for $1. And to us, that's great. Because<strong> people who get results will want to stick around.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>The alternative is to run a limited-access trial. This is where you give people access to <em>some</em> of your content for $1 for a certain period of time. It could be that they can only consume pre-recorded content, but not the live calls, for example. Or the other way around.</p><p>Another type of trial we love and run a few times a year is the Open Day. This is where someone comes along for free but with limited access. People get to attend one live group coaching call inside our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> and see what it's like.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Do you need a free-trial email campaign?&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>A key point to consider when running a trial is whether people should go through your standard onboarding process or whether you want a separate one that's designed to convert people so they sign up at the full price.&nbsp;</p><p>And the answer to this question can vary. Because the job of the onboarding sequence is to get people to remain members after the trial. But if people join on a trial, you want them to understand that the membership is worth its full price. Obviously, people who sign up at the full price have already realised that your membership is worth it. But those who came in via the trial may not.&nbsp;</p><p>So consider this - how much selling did you do upfront? Did you sell the value of the membership upfront and before people signed up for the trial? If you have, then you should be able to put people on the same onboarding sequence that you use for your new (paying) members.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Where our trial offer sits in our email engine</strong></h3><p>For example, our risk reversal offer doesn't sit on the front end - it's something we offer down the line. We do this to maximise profitability by selling the membership to those people who are ready and willing to buy at full price first. And then, at some point, we make our risk reversal offer. But by then, we've already sold the value of our membership.&nbsp;</p><p>The advantage of presenting our trial offer in that way is also to ensure we have enough things to email people about. <strong>For a period of time, day in and day out in our emails, we use loads of different angles to try and sell our membership.</strong> And when we eventually offer a trial, we do it with some urgency and for a limited period of time.&nbsp;</p><p>That's why we use the same onboarding sequence. Because by the time we offer the trial, people have been through a full sales campaign, our content-led campaign, and an objection-handling campaign.</p><p>But if you're leading with the trial offer (and haven't sold the full value of the membership upfront), then you may need a different onboarding to clarfy that the product is worth a lot more. And if everyone joins your membership via a trial, then the trial email sequence is the only onboarding you'll ever need!&nbsp;</p><p>The key is to <strong>find the balance between reselling people and making sure you deliver a valuable onboarding experience.</strong></p><p><br></p><h2><strong>What to include in your free-trial email campaign</strong></h2><p>Regardless of what type of trial you’re running, what should your email campaign look like?</p><p><br></p><h3>Create FOMO&nbsp;</h3><p>The first thing you want a free-trial campaign to do is to <strong>create a specific type of FOMO</strong> – the idea that they’re not in the in-crowd. For example, in our free-trial sequence, we use the same language we use inside our membership. </p><p>We don't do it in a pushing or jarring way - it's very inclusive. But we might talk about our Interrogator campaign, for example, and you'd only know what that is if you're in our world because that's the terminology we created for ourselves and our clients. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Sell the outcome of the trial</strong></h3><p>Another thing you can do in your free-trial email campaign is to<strong> stack up the return on investment (or the emotional result or overall outcome) that people get during the trial.&nbsp;</strong>In this campaign, you're no longer selling the membership - you're telling people what <em>can</em> happen during the trial. </p><p>We do this by sharing case studies of some of the action-takers within our community who come in, launch a campaign, and make the equivalent of 3 years' worth of our membership in a few days. So <strong>sell the outcome of the trial. </strong>&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Make your trial a limited-time offer</strong></h3><p>Then <strong>tell people there's a limited time to take the offer</strong>. This is another reason why we don't make our trial offer on the front end. Because it would be hard to close it down. Instead, as we already explained, we make this offer somewhere down the line and use our Countdown Hero software to let people know they have limited time to take it. </p><p>This is important because people are clinical and jaded and wonder why you're doing something. If you're ever going to offer a discount, there needs to be a good reason for it. Our reason is always honest - we tell people they can join for $1, make a whole bunch of money, and then want to hang around forever. They'll want to buy all our stuff and become raving fans. </p><p>In fact, we often offer the $1 trial as an upsell for people who bought something else from us. So it's important you <strong>always wrap your offer around a reason</strong> - it doesn't have to be a hugely good reason, as long as you give one.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>To bill or not to bill?</strong></h2><p>Another decision you have to make when you run a trial is whether you want to automatically renew the membership (and bill people) as soon as the trial ends. If you're going to re-bill someone, you have to be crystal clear (not just upfront but <em>overt</em>) about the fact you're doing that.&nbsp;</p><p>So, for example, we say that our membership will cost $1 for the first 14 days and then we'll bill your card for the full amount after that, and the membership will automatically continue. You don't have to do anything but can obviously cancel at any time.</p><p>We're completely upfront and fair about this, so no one can feel like they’ve been misled or scammed. What you <em>don't</em> want is to bury this in the small print somewhere in some obscure piece of copy where it can be overlooked. You don't want anyone to have any nasty surprises because that would put you in a sticky situation. That's why we also put the information on the shopping cart. We want people to be crystal clear on what's going to happen when they give us their credit card information.&nbsp;</p><p>And of course, the reason why we re-bill automatically is because it increases our conversion for the trial. If you don't do this, conversions are going to be very low. And not necessarily because people don't want to be in your membership, but because they don't get around to renewing when the time comes. The job of the trial is to make it easy and convenient for them. </p><p>If you don't re-bill, you can send email reminders before the trial is over to tell people they're not in a contract with you and if they want to stay, they'll need to sign up and pay. But conversion will be a lot lower than with automatic re-billing.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Our Open Day trial</strong></h3><p>We also run another type of trial where we allow people to come in for a day. For this type of trial, we don't ask for credit card information. It's absolutely free, and we do this because it reduces friction and increases the number of people who enrol by just providing their name and email address. </p><p>Inside our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, we share a great Open Day email sequence, which is designed to convert people who attend this type of trial.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Free-trial email sequence key elements</strong></h2><p>So when you put together an email campaign for a free trial (or a paid trial), remember to <strong>tell people what they're going to get during this period. Sell the outcome!</strong> If you're only selling the trial at this point and not the whole membership, then <strong>introduce urgency.</strong> Also, share some kind of reason why you're offering a trial. And remember to <strong>share case studies!</strong></p><p>Another point worth remembering is that while you may be tempted to just send <em>one</em> email about the trial and then move on, you should create a whole campaign out of it. This is one of the key strategies in our business and teaching. You want to <strong>take everything you’d normally put in one email and make it into a sequence.</strong></p><p>If you want to get your hands on the campaigns that we have to do this and apply this idea of risk reversal, you can grab them inside our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. You'll find our Splinter campaign and our Open Day campaign in there too.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h2><p>This week’s subject line is “Do this on your NEXT launch…”. This email was about us sharing the fact we were doing a live Zoom call to talk about a marketing strategy we use for scarcity.&nbsp;</p><p>This subject line works well for two reasons. First of all, we were driving people's attention to something other than what we normally do. Most of our emails are about <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, but this one was totally different. And also, the subject line has a specific tactic-sounding ring to it - something you can do on your next launch. And people love a tactical tip. So check it out!</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h2><h3><strong>Related episodes</strong></h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/create-urgency-without-product-launches/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Create Urgency For an Evergreen Membership or Course Without Product Launches</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/buyer-psychology-email/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Get Your Customers To Buy Using Buyer Psychology In Email Marketing</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/best-marketing-email-platforms/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">6 Things You Didn’t Know Your Email Marketing Platform Could Do</a>.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>FREE list to improve your email marketing</strong></h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. 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Then let's talk about everything you need to know about our awesome membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>.</p><p>(Spoiler alert - this is some pretty cool stuff!)</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:10) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook Group</a>. </p><p>(4:20) What is our membership all about?</p><p>(6:04) Why we created The League.</p><p>(9:25) People buy for different reasons.</p><p>(13:07) Why you want to sell from different angles.</p><p>(16:23) The 'trifecta' of features you get inside The League.</p><p>(22:36) What about the technical aspects of email marketing?</p><p>(26:59) And we have Battle Plans too!</p><p>(29:20) Who's The League for?</p><p>(30:54) Subject line of the week.</p><h2><strong>What is our membership all about?</strong></h2><p>People ask us questions about our membership all the time. How does it work? Will it work for me? Well, first things first, its full name is <strong>The League of Email Marketing Heroes</strong>. When we first launched it, we didn’t know what to call it, and it was one of our members (shoutout to Fifi Mason!) who suggested the name we're using.</p><p>And we might be biased, but we genuinely think it's<em> </em><strong><em>the best</em> email marketing resource on the planet</strong> that teaches you to make more sales (and more predictably) in your business using email marketing. And we <em>obsess</em> over improving it. All. The. Time.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Why we created The League?</strong></h2><p><strong>People buy for different reasons, so you need different ways to sell and present your offers. </strong>But also, there's a benefit to selling a smaller number of products - it's more profitable and efficient in many ways. For example, if you only sell one thing, you only need one sales page and not 10!&nbsp;</p><p>When you sell a smaller number of products, you need to sell them to more people,&nbsp;which means having to<strong> get more first-time subscribers to become customers and then having more of those customers buy another product.</strong> That’s how you make more sales from the same product and the same people – you sell more of your products to the people who are already your customers and maximise your customer value along the way. And then you bring in the next set of subscribers and do the same thing again. This is how we sell. And that's also what we teach inside our membership. &nbsp;</p><p>And the great thing about this method is that people don't end up feeling overwhelmed about which of your products they want to pick. Because there's only one! That's why we only sell our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, our programme Accelerator, and our <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/agency?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=agency" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Writing Agency</a>. We have a few front-end products to get people to our main services, but broadly speaking, we don't need to switch our promotions up to talk about different things.</p><p>And that means we're great at understanding our core product - our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. We know how to talk about it and to make sure it's <em>the best</em> email marketing membership on the planet because we're not distracted by other things. We're able to focus on this one product, make it better, and fill it with deep content.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>People buy for different reasons</strong></h2><p>If you have people on your email list who haven't bought yet, it's because they haven't heard the angle that makes the penny drop. They haven't yet realised why they need to buy and take action <em>right now</em>. So your job is to keep communicating about the thing you sell in different ways until someone hears something that makes them want to buy.&nbsp;</p><p>If you don't have at least 20-30 different angles (or campaigns) to sell your one thing, then you’re doing your product a disservice. Because it means you haven’t said what you need to say in all the different ways it could be said!</p><p>If you only have one campaign, you may be able to handle <em>some</em> objections. Or share <em>some</em> social proof. Or even create some urgency. But that’s only from that one angle. And <strong>the motivators (the psychological reasons why people buy things) are different.</strong></p><p>Someone might buy a new pair of shoes because they’re the latest model from their favourite designer. But someone else might want those shoes only because there’s a discount. And that's their motivator. A third person might want to buy because there’s an offer where you buy one and get one half-price. We created our method (and that's what we teach inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>) because <em>it works</em>. And because no one else was doing it!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Why you want to sell from different angles</strong></h2><p>We sold as many spots of our membership using <em>a whole lot</em> of campaigns. What would have happened if we only had <em>one</em> campaign? If it’s taken that much effort and variety of campaigns to get as many people in, imagine what would happen if we only created <em>one</em> and then moved on? </p><p>By running one campaign we sold $27,000 worth. But when we added what we call our SCORE email engine (which is basically <em>more </em>campaigns), we sold over $500,000 worth of spots in a number of months. So<strong> the difference in the results you get from talking about something from different angles is astronomical!</strong></p><p>Since 2006,<strong> we have built a bank of proven campaigns</strong>, and that’s how our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> started - we give others the same campaigns we use and see success with in our business. And of course, we keep adding more campaigns. We run them inside the business first and only launch them when we know they work. We do this less frequently now because we have a lot of campaigns, but whenever we have new ideas, we create new sequences, test them out, and then offer them inside our membership.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>The 'trifecta' of features you get inside The League</strong></h2><p>When you access our campaigns, you get every single email that's part of that sequence. This means you don't have to figure out what to send or to piece things together yourself.<strong> We give you all the campaigns, teach you how they work, and show you how you can use them. </strong>All you need to do is to tweak them slightly so they suit your business and your stories.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>The Hotline group coaching calls</strong></h3><p>To go with the campaigns, we also have <strong>two group coaching calls every month </strong>– we call them Hotline group coaching calls. We have League members from all over the world joining these calls, and we help every single person to apply email marketing to their specific situation. It's all about their product or service, their business, and the lifestyle they want to build around that.&nbsp;</p><p>We have people at all stages of their business asking us which campaign to use or how to make a specific campaign work for their individual situation. <strong>In a nutshell, we help people figure out what their email marketing strategy should be, based on their circumstances. </strong>We want every single person to leave the call inspired with new ideas and never feel they've hit a roadblock.&nbsp;</p><p>In fact, we even have people who join the call, don't ask a question of their own, but always walk away with ideas for something they can do in their business. And that's just by listening to us answer other people's questions. Because we address everyone's questions in deep and detailed ways, we always have members seeing opportunities or solutions to problems they didn't think they had. And those are the kinds of things that can change your business. And even your life! </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The campaign workshops</strong></h3><p>The other live interaction we have inside our membership is through our campaign workshops. Every month, we grab one of the most recent campaigns that we published, and we dissect it. We dig into every single email of the campaign, look at its structure, and explain it. <strong>We go deep into the psychology of each email of the campaign and give people an opportunity to ask questions about how it all applies to them.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>The reason we do this is that it helps you do a better job with each campaign. But even if you never run a specific sequence of emails, you can still use some of the techniques, strategies, and psychology behind it for something else. It could be a sentence, a hook, or simply an idea from a campaign that doesn't relate to your business specifically, and apply it to something else you want to do.</p><p>Every email you come across in our campaigns is almost like a piece of a puzzle that you can put together in different combinations. So by attending a campaign workshop (or watching the replay), you learn how to become better at email marketing rather than just filling in the blanks (which also works).&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>What about the technical aspects of email marketing?</strong></h2><p>While we think email marketing is more about psychology, there's also a technical element to it that can hugely enhance your results.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Want the behind-the-scenes of all the behind-the-scenes? Then let's talk about everything you need to know about our awesome membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>.</p><p>(Spoiler alert - this is some pretty cool stuff!)</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:10) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook Group</a>. </p><p>(4:20) What is our membership all about?</p><p>(6:04) Why we created The League.</p><p>(9:25) People buy for different reasons.</p><p>(13:07) Why you want to sell from different angles.</p><p>(16:23) The 'trifecta' of features you get inside The League.</p><p>(22:36) What about the technical aspects of email marketing?</p><p>(26:59) And we have Battle Plans too!</p><p>(29:20) Who's The League for?</p><p>(30:54) Subject line of the week.</p><h2><strong>What is our membership all about?</strong></h2><p>People ask us questions about our membership all the time. How does it work? Will it work for me? Well, first things first, its full name is <strong>The League of Email Marketing Heroes</strong>. When we first launched it, we didn’t know what to call it, and it was one of our members (shoutout to Fifi Mason!) who suggested the name we're using.</p><p>And we might be biased, but we genuinely think it's<em> </em><strong><em>the best</em> email marketing resource on the planet</strong> that teaches you to make more sales (and more predictably) in your business using email marketing. And we <em>obsess</em> over improving it. All. The. Time.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Why we created The League?</strong></h2><p><strong>People buy for different reasons, so you need different ways to sell and present your offers. </strong>But also, there's a benefit to selling a smaller number of products - it's more profitable and efficient in many ways. For example, if you only sell one thing, you only need one sales page and not 10!&nbsp;</p><p>When you sell a smaller number of products, you need to sell them to more people,&nbsp;which means having to<strong> get more first-time subscribers to become customers and then having more of those customers buy another product.</strong> That’s how you make more sales from the same product and the same people – you sell more of your products to the people who are already your customers and maximise your customer value along the way. And then you bring in the next set of subscribers and do the same thing again. This is how we sell. And that's also what we teach inside our membership. &nbsp;</p><p>And the great thing about this method is that people don't end up feeling overwhelmed about which of your products they want to pick. Because there's only one! That's why we only sell our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, our programme Accelerator, and our <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/agency?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=agency" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Writing Agency</a>. We have a few front-end products to get people to our main services, but broadly speaking, we don't need to switch our promotions up to talk about different things.</p><p>And that means we're great at understanding our core product - our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. We know how to talk about it and to make sure it's <em>the best</em> email marketing membership on the planet because we're not distracted by other things. We're able to focus on this one product, make it better, and fill it with deep content.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>People buy for different reasons</strong></h2><p>If you have people on your email list who haven't bought yet, it's because they haven't heard the angle that makes the penny drop. They haven't yet realised why they need to buy and take action <em>right now</em>. So your job is to keep communicating about the thing you sell in different ways until someone hears something that makes them want to buy.&nbsp;</p><p>If you don't have at least 20-30 different angles (or campaigns) to sell your one thing, then you’re doing your product a disservice. Because it means you haven’t said what you need to say in all the different ways it could be said!</p><p>If you only have one campaign, you may be able to handle <em>some</em> objections. Or share <em>some</em> social proof. Or even create some urgency. But that’s only from that one angle. And <strong>the motivators (the psychological reasons why people buy things) are different.</strong></p><p>Someone might buy a new pair of shoes because they’re the latest model from their favourite designer. But someone else might want those shoes only because there’s a discount. And that's their motivator. A third person might want to buy because there’s an offer where you buy one and get one half-price. We created our method (and that's what we teach inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>) because <em>it works</em>. And because no one else was doing it!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Why you want to sell from different angles</strong></h2><p>We sold as many spots of our membership using <em>a whole lot</em> of campaigns. What would have happened if we only had <em>one</em> campaign? If it’s taken that much effort and variety of campaigns to get as many people in, imagine what would happen if we only created <em>one</em> and then moved on? </p><p>By running one campaign we sold $27,000 worth. But when we added what we call our SCORE email engine (which is basically <em>more </em>campaigns), we sold over $500,000 worth of spots in a number of months. So<strong> the difference in the results you get from talking about something from different angles is astronomical!</strong></p><p>Since 2006,<strong> we have built a bank of proven campaigns</strong>, and that’s how our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> started - we give others the same campaigns we use and see success with in our business. And of course, we keep adding more campaigns. We run them inside the business first and only launch them when we know they work. We do this less frequently now because we have a lot of campaigns, but whenever we have new ideas, we create new sequences, test them out, and then offer them inside our membership.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>The 'trifecta' of features you get inside The League</strong></h2><p>When you access our campaigns, you get every single email that's part of that sequence. This means you don't have to figure out what to send or to piece things together yourself.<strong> We give you all the campaigns, teach you how they work, and show you how you can use them. </strong>All you need to do is to tweak them slightly so they suit your business and your stories.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>The Hotline group coaching calls</strong></h3><p>To go with the campaigns, we also have <strong>two group coaching calls every month </strong>– we call them Hotline group coaching calls. We have League members from all over the world joining these calls, and we help every single person to apply email marketing to their specific situation. It's all about their product or service, their business, and the lifestyle they want to build around that.&nbsp;</p><p>We have people at all stages of their business asking us which campaign to use or how to make a specific campaign work for their individual situation. <strong>In a nutshell, we help people figure out what their email marketing strategy should be, based on their circumstances. </strong>We want every single person to leave the call inspired with new ideas and never feel they've hit a roadblock.&nbsp;</p><p>In fact, we even have people who join the call, don't ask a question of their own, but always walk away with ideas for something they can do in their business. And that's just by listening to us answer other people's questions. Because we address everyone's questions in deep and detailed ways, we always have members seeing opportunities or solutions to problems they didn't think they had. And those are the kinds of things that can change your business. And even your life! </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The campaign workshops</strong></h3><p>The other live interaction we have inside our membership is through our campaign workshops. Every month, we grab one of the most recent campaigns that we published, and we dissect it. We dig into every single email of the campaign, look at its structure, and explain it. <strong>We go deep into the psychology of each email of the campaign and give people an opportunity to ask questions about how it all applies to them.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>The reason we do this is that it helps you do a better job with each campaign. But even if you never run a specific sequence of emails, you can still use some of the techniques, strategies, and psychology behind it for something else. It could be a sentence, a hook, or simply an idea from a campaign that doesn't relate to your business specifically, and apply it to something else you want to do.</p><p>Every email you come across in our campaigns is almost like a piece of a puzzle that you can put together in different combinations. So by attending a campaign workshop (or watching the replay), you learn how to become better at email marketing rather than just filling in the blanks (which also works).&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>What about the technical aspects of email marketing?</strong></h2><p>While we think email marketing is more about psychology, there's also a technical element to it that can hugely enhance your results. It's through automation and technology that you can run flash sales or urgency-based campaigns, for example.</p><p>Let's say you're running a time-bound campaign where you give a discount to people for the first 48 hours after they join your list. You want to do this automatically for everyone who joins your list, regardless of when they join. </p><p>And in the past, we used to run these types of campaigns using a third-party tool which we loved. As a result, we'd recommend it to all our clients too. It was a no-brainer, but the tool obviously had a cost, and we felt quite uncomfortable telling people they should subscribe to it.&nbsp;</p><p>This is why we created a whole suite of tools that are included in our membership at no extra cost. It's called Automate Hero, and we have a few tools within the suite that fully integrate with your email marketing platform. We talk about the details in this episode called <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/178/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">6 Things You Didn't Know Your Email Marketing Platform Could Do</a>.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>And we have Battle Plans too!</strong></h2><p><strong>What you learn inside our membership </strong><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>The League</strong></a><strong> is the system for automating the sales function of your business. </strong>You get the campaigns, the training, the coaching, the community through the Facebook group of members, and the technology to make sales more predictably in your business without ever wasting your time.</p><p>On top of that, we also have a bunch of <strong>Battle Plans</strong>, which are training courses worth between $47-$247. We only rarely sell them outside our membership, but they are free to our members, and they help with specific bits of email marketing, such as subject line inspiration or the technical aspects of list building.</p><p>The whole thing is very modular, and we’ve built it that way to get you fast results. It's not unusual for us to have people who join our membership, implement <em>one</em> campaign and make thousands of dollars worth of sales within days. And you can obviously build the campaigns as and when you're ready, add to them, and have them running for you automatically and making you money!</p><p>We also created a <strong>Success Track</strong> that people can follow step by step to start getting results. And if at any point you feel stuck and want to know how it all applies to your business, you can just come and ask the question. Through <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, you get to build this system over time and always improve and refine it. It's a different approach to email marketing but one that will make a massive difference!</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Who is The League for?&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>While we say that our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> is mainly for coaches, course creators, and membership site owners, we have all sorts of businesses in there - from martial art studios to bakeries, insurance brokers, magicians, musicians… you name it!</p><p>And they’re based all over the world with all sorts of business models. We have people with digital, online businesses but also people with brick-and-mortar businesses. The truth is that we could all be communicating with our email lists a little better and have<em> the best</em> system that allows you to at least double the sales you make from your email subscribers. That’s what our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> is designed to do. So if you’re not already a member, go and check it out to take advantage of all this. Let's get stuck in!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h2><p>This week’s subject line is “Price decrease!” It’s a weird and interesting one. Because people see this and wonder if you’re running a sale. Has the price gone down for something? This is odd and rare because people often talk about prices going up, not down.&nbsp;</p><p>The story was about the fact we were in Florida and about to book an Uber. But the price was too high, so we closed the app and started downloading a competitor’s. And right there and then, Uber sent us an offer with a price decrease, so we booked our ride with them. It’s not a great tactic, but it’s going to get them the business.</p><p>So that was the story, and the subject line grabs people’s curiosity. They are left wondering what’s going on and why someone would decrease their prices. Check it out!</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h2><h3><strong>Related episodes</strong></h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/flagship-product-order-your-offers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Little-Known Right Order to Make Your Offers (For Maximum Sales)</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/best-email-marketing-campaign-existing-customers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Best Email Marketing Campaign To Get Your Customers To Buy Again (And Again)</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/build-email-marketing-list-league-members/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tell Me You’re A Member Of The League Without Telling Me You’re A Member Of The League</a>.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>FREE list to improve your email marketing</strong></h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about this amazing behind-the-scenes of our membership The League) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>leaving us a review&nbsp;</strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/membership-the-league/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">78579405-cda9-4708-8a6c-febbdb613027</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/269f3a0f-7634-4bd0-96f0-8075918ee5f6/yjJ4mgdpo1tb_n81ZQg7452v.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/e6872cce-5637-4af5-9c73-1609ecd808a9/Behind-The-Scenes-Of-Our-Membership-The-League.mp3" length="78471753" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>32:42</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>188</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>188</podcast:episode></item><item><title>The Stupidly Simple Emails That Make Webinars Convert Like Crazy with Dave Dee</title><itunes:title>The Stupidly Simple Emails That Make Webinars Convert Like Crazy with Dave Dee</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Do you run webinars in your business? Whether you do or you don't, you <em>need to</em> check out this conversation with Dave Dee about selling with webinars and email marketing. Dave's tried-and-tested tips (and this <em>exact</em> email sequence) work a treat and will help you convert like crazy. </p><p>Trust us - you do want <em>all</em> the details (and wording!) of this stupidly simple email campaign.&nbsp;</p><p>Here we go.</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:10) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook Group</a>.</p><p>(3:03) Did Dave really embarrass himself trying to speak Italian at a presentation in Italy?</p><p>(5:06) The killer webinar &amp; email marketing combination.</p><p>(7:03) Crafting the perfect live webinar email sequence.</p><p>(10:54) How to increase your webinar show-up rate.</p><p>(13:53) The first email of the sequence.</p><p>(17:27) Writing the second email of the sequence.</p><p>(19:38) The third and fourth email of the sequence.</p><p>(26:41) Subject line of the week with Dave Dee.</p><p>(28:38) Get this FANTASTIC gift from Dave Dee!</p><h2><strong>The killer webinar &amp; email marketing combination</strong></h2><p><strong>If you want to make sales in your business you need two things - email marketing and a conversion mechanism.</strong> Dave Dee is an expert at webinars - his choice of conversion mechanism to be used in conjunction with email marketing.&nbsp;</p><p>Dave believes that <em>live</em> webinars (not pre-recorded ones) are a tremendous way to build your list. You can generate leads using Facebook, LinkedIn, or other methods and drive them to webinars to build your list and convert leads into appointments (if you're a coach, for example) or sales.&nbsp;</p><p>Dave's model is based on running a live webinar once a month and driving traffic to that webinar via email. It's great for list building but also for sales, especially if you sell a higher-ticket item. In fact, Dave's even sold a $100,000 product with this exact system by driving people to a landing page and inviting them to a live webinar.</p><h2><strong>Crafting the perfect live webinar email sequence</strong></h2><p>We're all familiar with webinars as, post-pandemic especially, they're everywhere – not just in B2B spaces but also in B2C. So to stand out, you have to use email in a more efficient and effective way. And here’s the<em> exact </em>sequence you want to use to promote your next (or first, if you haven't done one before) webinar.&nbsp;</p><p>Typically, Dave runs his webinars on a Thursday, so his emails go out from Monday to Thursday. Dave finds that if you start emailing a lot earlier than that, people will register but then forget and not show up. So 4 days is plenty of time - in fact, a lot of people will sign up on the last day!&nbsp;</p><p>In the four days leading to the webinar, Dave sends out a daily email (at 6:30 am) where he'll promote the webinar in the PS (and drive people to the registration page). On top of that, he sends out a solo email to promote the webinar (at 2:30 pm) - and that's what helps to increase registration.&nbsp;</p><p>And here's a big tip. Everyone teaches that once someone registers for a webinar, you need to put them on a separate list and stop emailing them the invitations. Don't. Do. That. What you want to do instead is to <strong>send the entire sequence of invitation emails to <em>everyone </em>on your list - including the people who already registered.</strong> Sounds crazy and counterintuitive? Maybe. But it works.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>How to increase your webinar show-up rate</strong></h2><p>The people who register for your webinar will also go on a separate reminder sequence, but you want to keep sending them your regular emails too. And the reason for that is to increase your show-up rate. <strong>Dave typically gets a 50-60% show-up rate to his live webinars</strong>, which, for context, is <em>very</em> high!</p><p>So people who have already registered for the webinar receive daily emails but also a reminder sequence where they'll be notified that the webinar is coming in 3 days, 2 days, one day, one hour’s time, etc.&nbsp;</p><p>Of course, sending so many emails may make you feel a little uncomfortable at first, but the economics of the final result (making more sales because you have more people showing up) are worth doing, even if you get a few complaints or people unsubscribing. And that's if you get any at all! Because, as Dave points out, if you have a good relationship with your list where you're delivering value with your daily emails (with infotainment and loads of personality) people won't complain or leave!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>The first email of the sequence</strong></h2><p>The structure of the emails is important, and the first one - your core email - is <em>everything</em>. Your whole campaign is built on that one email, so make sure you come up with a super hot title for your webinar. Without that, none of this matters because people won't opt-in. The webinar title is mission-critical!</p><p>Then your first email (following Dave's method) will go out on a Monday with the subject line: “Big announcement.” And it'll say something along the lines of:</p><p><br></p><blockquote>“Hey, on Thursday I’m doing this live masterclass/webinar/training titled X. And I would like to invite you to attend as my guest. Here’s what you’re going to discover.”</blockquote><p><br></p><p>To that, you add 5 or 6 bullet points to tell your subscribers what they’re going to learn - make sure you tease and intrigue. Then you say:</p><p><br></p><blockquote>“If this interests you, save your spot here.”</blockquote><p><br></p><p>And typically, Dave will also point out that limited spots are available, which is always true. Because regardless of the platform you’re using to deliver your webinar, there are always limits to how many participants you can have. In fact, Dave recommends you get the smallest package of attendees possible with the platform they’re using (as long as you can upgrade easily) because, in subsequent emails, you can legitimately say that you’ve sold. And it won't be a lie!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Writing the second email of the sequence</strong></h2><p>The second email (out on a Tuesday) uses the subject line: “One-word update.” Marketers out there might argue these are terrible subject lines, but they get huge open rates because they seem natural and non-salesy.&nbsp;</p><p>This email gives an update on the webinar. If you sold out, you can say you filled all the spots and potentially even had to upgrade your plan to let more people in. Or you could say:</p><p><br></p><blockquote>“Wow! Registrations are going crazy here - we’re about to sell out! Make sure that if you haven’t registered yet, you do that.”</blockquote><p><br></p><p>This is important because<strong> if someone’s already registered (and they’re reading this email) they’re going to think they’ve made a great decision.</strong> The email reaffirms that the decision to attend was a great choice. And it also acts as a reminder to show up because this webinar is popular.</p><p>So the person who’s already registered isn’t going to be annoyed with you when they read this. And those who haven’t registered yet, are being reminded to go and do it if they don't want to miss out. Then you add a PS that says: “Here’s the original email for your convenience” and you copy and paste the first email in the PS.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>The third and fourth emails of the sequence</strong></h2><p>On the third day, you use the same opening talking about how registrations for the webinar are going crazy, but you send something a little different. For example, you can share the answer to a question your received from your audience. And then you finish your email with:</p><blockquote>“If you haven’t registered yet, click here. PS: Here’s the original email for your convenience.”</blockquote><p><br></p><p>You're still sharing great content, but the email also acts as another reminder that people need to show up on time. By positioning the email in this way, you build excitement for the webinar. And that's how you get a high show-up rate.&nbsp;</p><p>The fourth email goes out on the day of the webinar and uses the subject line: “Agenda for our meeting.” The people who see that obviously <em>have to</em> open the email!</p><p>And this is where Dave talks about what he's going to be discussing in the webinar. He does this by slightly re-writing the bullet points he’s already shared. The only change is that, at the end of the email, he tells people who have already registered to show up 5 minutes early so they make sure they get in and don't miss out on anything. And then he adds:</p><p><br></p><blockquote>“If you haven't registered yet, and you're interested in this, here's your last opportunity.”</blockquote><p><br></p><p>And then he shares the link to register for the webinar one last time. The bit "if you're interested in this" is key here - because it's genuine. It's not along the lines of "If you miss this, you're missing the biggest opportunity that will change the Internet forever!" You want to use gentler and nicer language than that - something that feels sincere and not hyperbolic.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Spend time on that first email!&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>The main tip from Dave is to spend time on that first email of the sequence because if that's not hot, the rest doesn't work. But the beauty of this method is that it's simple. He's tested multiple combinations of emails and eventually stripped it all down to this process, which removes a lot of work and frustration.&nbsp;</p><p>This sequence simply works - even with cold leads. It helps you build a legitimate list and ensures you're never spamming anyone. Dave spent more than a decade going deep into...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you run webinars in your business? Whether you do or you don't, you <em>need to</em> check out this conversation with Dave Dee about selling with webinars and email marketing. Dave's tried-and-tested tips (and this <em>exact</em> email sequence) work a treat and will help you convert like crazy. </p><p>Trust us - you do want <em>all</em> the details (and wording!) of this stupidly simple email campaign.&nbsp;</p><p>Here we go.</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:10) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook Group</a>.</p><p>(3:03) Did Dave really embarrass himself trying to speak Italian at a presentation in Italy?</p><p>(5:06) The killer webinar &amp; email marketing combination.</p><p>(7:03) Crafting the perfect live webinar email sequence.</p><p>(10:54) How to increase your webinar show-up rate.</p><p>(13:53) The first email of the sequence.</p><p>(17:27) Writing the second email of the sequence.</p><p>(19:38) The third and fourth email of the sequence.</p><p>(26:41) Subject line of the week with Dave Dee.</p><p>(28:38) Get this FANTASTIC gift from Dave Dee!</p><h2><strong>The killer webinar &amp; email marketing combination</strong></h2><p><strong>If you want to make sales in your business you need two things - email marketing and a conversion mechanism.</strong> Dave Dee is an expert at webinars - his choice of conversion mechanism to be used in conjunction with email marketing.&nbsp;</p><p>Dave believes that <em>live</em> webinars (not pre-recorded ones) are a tremendous way to build your list. You can generate leads using Facebook, LinkedIn, or other methods and drive them to webinars to build your list and convert leads into appointments (if you're a coach, for example) or sales.&nbsp;</p><p>Dave's model is based on running a live webinar once a month and driving traffic to that webinar via email. It's great for list building but also for sales, especially if you sell a higher-ticket item. In fact, Dave's even sold a $100,000 product with this exact system by driving people to a landing page and inviting them to a live webinar.</p><h2><strong>Crafting the perfect live webinar email sequence</strong></h2><p>We're all familiar with webinars as, post-pandemic especially, they're everywhere – not just in B2B spaces but also in B2C. So to stand out, you have to use email in a more efficient and effective way. And here’s the<em> exact </em>sequence you want to use to promote your next (or first, if you haven't done one before) webinar.&nbsp;</p><p>Typically, Dave runs his webinars on a Thursday, so his emails go out from Monday to Thursday. Dave finds that if you start emailing a lot earlier than that, people will register but then forget and not show up. So 4 days is plenty of time - in fact, a lot of people will sign up on the last day!&nbsp;</p><p>In the four days leading to the webinar, Dave sends out a daily email (at 6:30 am) where he'll promote the webinar in the PS (and drive people to the registration page). On top of that, he sends out a solo email to promote the webinar (at 2:30 pm) - and that's what helps to increase registration.&nbsp;</p><p>And here's a big tip. Everyone teaches that once someone registers for a webinar, you need to put them on a separate list and stop emailing them the invitations. Don't. Do. That. What you want to do instead is to <strong>send the entire sequence of invitation emails to <em>everyone </em>on your list - including the people who already registered.</strong> Sounds crazy and counterintuitive? Maybe. But it works.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>How to increase your webinar show-up rate</strong></h2><p>The people who register for your webinar will also go on a separate reminder sequence, but you want to keep sending them your regular emails too. And the reason for that is to increase your show-up rate. <strong>Dave typically gets a 50-60% show-up rate to his live webinars</strong>, which, for context, is <em>very</em> high!</p><p>So people who have already registered for the webinar receive daily emails but also a reminder sequence where they'll be notified that the webinar is coming in 3 days, 2 days, one day, one hour’s time, etc.&nbsp;</p><p>Of course, sending so many emails may make you feel a little uncomfortable at first, but the economics of the final result (making more sales because you have more people showing up) are worth doing, even if you get a few complaints or people unsubscribing. And that's if you get any at all! Because, as Dave points out, if you have a good relationship with your list where you're delivering value with your daily emails (with infotainment and loads of personality) people won't complain or leave!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>The first email of the sequence</strong></h2><p>The structure of the emails is important, and the first one - your core email - is <em>everything</em>. Your whole campaign is built on that one email, so make sure you come up with a super hot title for your webinar. Without that, none of this matters because people won't opt-in. The webinar title is mission-critical!</p><p>Then your first email (following Dave's method) will go out on a Monday with the subject line: “Big announcement.” And it'll say something along the lines of:</p><p><br></p><blockquote>“Hey, on Thursday I’m doing this live masterclass/webinar/training titled X. And I would like to invite you to attend as my guest. Here’s what you’re going to discover.”</blockquote><p><br></p><p>To that, you add 5 or 6 bullet points to tell your subscribers what they’re going to learn - make sure you tease and intrigue. Then you say:</p><p><br></p><blockquote>“If this interests you, save your spot here.”</blockquote><p><br></p><p>And typically, Dave will also point out that limited spots are available, which is always true. Because regardless of the platform you’re using to deliver your webinar, there are always limits to how many participants you can have. In fact, Dave recommends you get the smallest package of attendees possible with the platform they’re using (as long as you can upgrade easily) because, in subsequent emails, you can legitimately say that you’ve sold. And it won't be a lie!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Writing the second email of the sequence</strong></h2><p>The second email (out on a Tuesday) uses the subject line: “One-word update.” Marketers out there might argue these are terrible subject lines, but they get huge open rates because they seem natural and non-salesy.&nbsp;</p><p>This email gives an update on the webinar. If you sold out, you can say you filled all the spots and potentially even had to upgrade your plan to let more people in. Or you could say:</p><p><br></p><blockquote>“Wow! Registrations are going crazy here - we’re about to sell out! Make sure that if you haven’t registered yet, you do that.”</blockquote><p><br></p><p>This is important because<strong> if someone’s already registered (and they’re reading this email) they’re going to think they’ve made a great decision.</strong> The email reaffirms that the decision to attend was a great choice. And it also acts as a reminder to show up because this webinar is popular.</p><p>So the person who’s already registered isn’t going to be annoyed with you when they read this. And those who haven’t registered yet, are being reminded to go and do it if they don't want to miss out. Then you add a PS that says: “Here’s the original email for your convenience” and you copy and paste the first email in the PS.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>The third and fourth emails of the sequence</strong></h2><p>On the third day, you use the same opening talking about how registrations for the webinar are going crazy, but you send something a little different. For example, you can share the answer to a question your received from your audience. And then you finish your email with:</p><blockquote>“If you haven’t registered yet, click here. PS: Here’s the original email for your convenience.”</blockquote><p><br></p><p>You're still sharing great content, but the email also acts as another reminder that people need to show up on time. By positioning the email in this way, you build excitement for the webinar. And that's how you get a high show-up rate.&nbsp;</p><p>The fourth email goes out on the day of the webinar and uses the subject line: “Agenda for our meeting.” The people who see that obviously <em>have to</em> open the email!</p><p>And this is where Dave talks about what he's going to be discussing in the webinar. He does this by slightly re-writing the bullet points he’s already shared. The only change is that, at the end of the email, he tells people who have already registered to show up 5 minutes early so they make sure they get in and don't miss out on anything. And then he adds:</p><p><br></p><blockquote>“If you haven't registered yet, and you're interested in this, here's your last opportunity.”</blockquote><p><br></p><p>And then he shares the link to register for the webinar one last time. The bit "if you're interested in this" is key here - because it's genuine. It's not along the lines of "If you miss this, you're missing the biggest opportunity that will change the Internet forever!" You want to use gentler and nicer language than that - something that feels sincere and not hyperbolic.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Spend time on that first email!&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>The main tip from Dave is to spend time on that first email of the sequence because if that's not hot, the rest doesn't work. But the beauty of this method is that it's simple. He's tested multiple combinations of emails and eventually stripped it all down to this process, which removes a lot of work and frustration.&nbsp;</p><p>This sequence simply works - even with cold leads. It helps you build a legitimate list and ensures you're never spamming anyone. Dave spent more than a decade going deep into webinars, so you can trust that this simple, straightforward method is the way to go to sell like crazy. Try it out!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Subject line of the week with Dave Dee</strong></h2><p>This week’s subject line (and one that gets Dave a huge amount of open rates) is “[FIRST NAME]?” Dave used this subject line for the email promoting a $15,000-per-person mastermind he was running. And he sold 17 spots via email!</p><p>Of course, Dave points out, if you're going to use a subject line like this, it's important that your emails come across as personal. You don't want to send a big marketing pitch - it needs to look and feel like something personal. Check it out!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h2><h3><strong>About Dave Dee</strong></h3><p>If you want to connect with Dave, you can find him on <a href="https://davedee.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">his website</a>. Dave’s also sharing a gift with us all – a report that details (slide by slide) how to create a webinar that converts. It’s called <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/fvqndlf5nvr73gg/7FigDEEmail.pdf?dl=0" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">"The ultimate 7-figure one-to-many sales presentation template" and you can download it for FREE</a>. If you decide (after reading the report) that you want more, you can subscribe to get Dave’s daily emails. Awesome, right?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Related episodes</strong></h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/automated-webinars-email/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How Brad Brown Made $90k By Automating Webinars</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/use-facebook-group-welcome-new-members/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How Facebook Groups and Webinars Make Matthew Harrington a Happy Man</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/fix-traffic-problem/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fix Your Traffic Problem For Good, With Todd Brown</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h3><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about this stupidly simple method for selling more with email marketing and webinars) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-webinars/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">f92aca07-4a4c-49ed-a880-84facf8b9b01</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/14b62caf-b23b-471c-b91f-2cabe5947af2/7_NYW9O75_iyVXiYw2NVjeFN.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/5d823a7c-09b6-43a9-97a8-51bcb8a0d5e5/Convert-Like-Crazy-With-Webinars.mp3" length="73298463" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>30:32</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>187</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>187</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How To Create A Member Onboarding Sequence That Your Members Will Love</title><itunes:title>How To Create A Member Onboarding Sequence That Your Members Will Love</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Do you run a membership or are thinking of putting one together? How do you welcome new members and make sure they feel reassured they're in the right place and know what to do next? Today we share how you can create an onboarding sequence for memberships that your customers will absolutely LOVE!</p><p>Since launching our membership, we've had many different approaches to onboarding. And we can tell you this - simply giving people their login details isn't enough. New members need more hand-holding than that! So let's take you behind the scenes of our onboarding process and show you why it works so well.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:10) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook Group</a>. </p><p>(2:42) What is a member onboarding sequence?</p><p>(5:03) Being new to something is terrifying! </p><p>(9:12) Why you shouldn't treat a brand new person like a member just yet.</p><p>(11:30) The 3 key steps we use in our onboarding sequence.</p><p>(12:59) Make sure each step leads to the next one in the sequence.</p><p>(15:23) The email we send in our onboarding sequence.</p><p>(19:36) Example of the first email in a member onboarding sequence.</p><p>(22:35) Create an onboarding sequence your members will love!</p><p>(23:22) Subject line of the week.</p><h2><strong>What is a member onboarding sequence?&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>Simply put, when someone joins your membership, you need to<em> onboard </em>them so they don’t get lost. You don’t want someone leaving because they feel overwhelmed, right? So you've got to take care of them. That's what an onboarding process is. </p><p>If someone joins our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, we have over 40 campaigns, 20 video trainings, and lots of unique phrases and terminology. So we understand that someone can easily get overwhelmed. And that's why we have an <em>onboarding sequence </em>to avoid that.</p><p>When you become a customer of something new for the first time, it's terrifying! If you don’t have a grasp of the thing you’re learning you just don’t know what you don’t know. And you'll have to ask questions. Sometimes you don't even know if you're in the right place. Are all the things you need even in the membership?</p><p>People who join your membership know what problem they have and the promise you made them. But they don't necessarily know the solution. So as a membership owner, it's your job to make it simple for your members. You want to make it easier for them to learn what you teach and fit it into their lives.&nbsp;</p><h2><strong>Email onboarding best practices</strong></h2><h3><strong>Why you shouldn't treat a brand new person like a member just yet</strong></h3><p>The first thing we'd like you to think about is that<strong> there's a difference between someone who joins your membership for the very first time and a member.</strong> To us, the job of the onboarding process is to take someone from being this new person who dipped their toe in the waters for the first time to being a fully-fledged member. It’s an interesting mindset switch, but it's so important that we even recommend you tag these two categories of people in completely different ways in your system.</p><p>For example, when people buy things on the Internet, sometimes they ask for refunds. And we always used to think it was a bit painful to make a sale and then have someone ask for the money back 29 days later. But then we reframed our mindset and started thinking of that money as not being ours at all during those first 30 days. Imagine you're only <em>holding</em> the money for a while. That way, in the rare event they ask for a refund, you don't take it personally because you don't see that money as yours yet.</p><p>So a brand new person isn't a 'member' just yet. And when you think of it that way, you can treat those people differently and take even better care of them. </p><p>If we gave you a drink in a plastic sippy cup, for example, you wouldn't take as much care of it as you would of Rob's grandmother's china! So think of anyone new as a delicate china cup that needs to be handled with extra care and managed carefully. If you do this, you'll create an awesome onboarding process that doesn't make people feel overwhelmed or puts them off. All you want to do is to <strong>have a series of short, easy steps that nudge new people across to become members.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The 3 key steps we use in our onboarding sequence</strong></h3><p>We have 3 steps to help us turn a brand-new person into a member:</p><ol><li>On our Thank You page, we ask people to fill in a survey so we can respond to them differently.</li><li>We ask people to watch 3 welcome videos which we call the Start Here videos. These are designed to reinforce the beliefs that made people buy and combat buyer's remorse.&nbsp;</li><li>And finally, we encourage people to get started on our Success Track so they can get results quickly. </li></ol><br/><p>What's worth pointing out here is that<strong> we also have a small email sequence for each step</strong>. Why? Because in a dream world, most members would complete these 3 steps within an hour of joining. But that's not true for everyone, so we create small email sequences to remind people to take these steps. We do this to make sure no one ever finds themselves at a dead end. If there was no handover between one step and the next, people would end up lost.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Make sure each step leads to the next one in the sequence</strong></h3><p>To put things into perspective, about 90% of people who join our membership fill in the survey immediately. About 90% of those people watch the Welcome Videos and about 90% of those start the Success Track. So we have a bunch of people who don’t follow the steps at all and get lost along the way. But you always have to factor in the people who, for whatever reason, join your membership now but don't immediately take the next step with you.</p><p>That's what the short sequences of emails do. And if people take the steps we recommend straight away, they won't even see those emails - they're only there for people who need them to make sure they don't get lost. When each part of your onboarding sequence hands over to the next piece, you make sure that whenever people drop off or disengage, you get to follow up with them and show them the map for what comes next.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>The emails we send in our onboarding sequence</strong></h2><p>In our onboarding sequence, we have 21 pre-written emails that get sent out over 21 days. Just like our daily emails, they have a story in them, a lesson, and a call to action to signpost them to a specific element of the membership. Every day, we follow the same format in our emails but will tell them about something different they can go and check out inside of our membership.&nbsp;</p><p>On top of that, every week on a Wednesday and a Saturday we send out live emails. On Wednesdays, we'll talk about the live elements of the membership, such as a Hotline Call or a campaign workshop, for example. And on Saturdays, we'll send out a roundup email of what happened in the week and what's coming up next. We also celebrate wins from some of our members.&nbsp;</p><p>So the 21 pre-written emails go out every day <em>except</em> on a Wednesday and a Saturday when our members receive live emails.<strong> To the reader, the whole sequence is very seamless</strong> - they won't be able to tell whether we wrote the email that day or whether it was pre-written in advance. But for us, that means producing a very joined-up and taken-care-of sequence with no extra work. </p><p>As always, <strong>the full details of this sequence are inside </strong><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>The League</strong></a><strong>, where we tell you what the emails are, what we do with them, how we structure them, etc.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>And another thing we like to do is to send out a handwritten postcard in the mail to every new member so they feel taken care of and <em>seen</em> - not just like another number on the Internet!</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Example of the first email in a member onboarding sequence&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>So what's inside the very first email of our member onboarding sequence? And why does the content of that email work so well? The key or us to is to <strong>keep that email <em>short</em> and not full of instructions that will overwhelm people.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>Think about it. If you stop someone on the streets asking for directions and they give you several sets of instructions, you'll probably follow the first step and then forget what they said. What would be more sensible is for someone to give you the first set of instructions and then stop there, find someone, and ask again. That's what we do with our onboarding sequence.&nbsp;</p><p>So in the first email, we talk about how excited we are for the person who just joined our membership. We tell them what happens next and <strong>give them some benefit-driven bullet points to re-sell them our membership. </strong></p><p>For example, we let them know they’re getting all our campaigns, our coaching calls, and access to our Facebook group. We also tell them they’re going to know exactly what emails to send and <em>when</em> to make more sales in less time and get really good results with their email marketing. <strong>We’re not telling them <em>what</em> they’re going to get – we’re giving them the outcomes and transformation.</strong> And we also send a GIF of Kennedy, which adds a bit of personality.</p><p>But when it comes to instructions, we give them their login details and share the <em>first step</em> we...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you run a membership or are thinking of putting one together? How do you welcome new members and make sure they feel reassured they're in the right place and know what to do next? Today we share how you can create an onboarding sequence for memberships that your customers will absolutely LOVE!</p><p>Since launching our membership, we've had many different approaches to onboarding. And we can tell you this - simply giving people their login details isn't enough. New members need more hand-holding than that! So let's take you behind the scenes of our onboarding process and show you why it works so well.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:10) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook Group</a>. </p><p>(2:42) What is a member onboarding sequence?</p><p>(5:03) Being new to something is terrifying! </p><p>(9:12) Why you shouldn't treat a brand new person like a member just yet.</p><p>(11:30) The 3 key steps we use in our onboarding sequence.</p><p>(12:59) Make sure each step leads to the next one in the sequence.</p><p>(15:23) The email we send in our onboarding sequence.</p><p>(19:36) Example of the first email in a member onboarding sequence.</p><p>(22:35) Create an onboarding sequence your members will love!</p><p>(23:22) Subject line of the week.</p><h2><strong>What is a member onboarding sequence?&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>Simply put, when someone joins your membership, you need to<em> onboard </em>them so they don’t get lost. You don’t want someone leaving because they feel overwhelmed, right? So you've got to take care of them. That's what an onboarding process is. </p><p>If someone joins our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, we have over 40 campaigns, 20 video trainings, and lots of unique phrases and terminology. So we understand that someone can easily get overwhelmed. And that's why we have an <em>onboarding sequence </em>to avoid that.</p><p>When you become a customer of something new for the first time, it's terrifying! If you don’t have a grasp of the thing you’re learning you just don’t know what you don’t know. And you'll have to ask questions. Sometimes you don't even know if you're in the right place. Are all the things you need even in the membership?</p><p>People who join your membership know what problem they have and the promise you made them. But they don't necessarily know the solution. So as a membership owner, it's your job to make it simple for your members. You want to make it easier for them to learn what you teach and fit it into their lives.&nbsp;</p><h2><strong>Email onboarding best practices</strong></h2><h3><strong>Why you shouldn't treat a brand new person like a member just yet</strong></h3><p>The first thing we'd like you to think about is that<strong> there's a difference between someone who joins your membership for the very first time and a member.</strong> To us, the job of the onboarding process is to take someone from being this new person who dipped their toe in the waters for the first time to being a fully-fledged member. It’s an interesting mindset switch, but it's so important that we even recommend you tag these two categories of people in completely different ways in your system.</p><p>For example, when people buy things on the Internet, sometimes they ask for refunds. And we always used to think it was a bit painful to make a sale and then have someone ask for the money back 29 days later. But then we reframed our mindset and started thinking of that money as not being ours at all during those first 30 days. Imagine you're only <em>holding</em> the money for a while. That way, in the rare event they ask for a refund, you don't take it personally because you don't see that money as yours yet.</p><p>So a brand new person isn't a 'member' just yet. And when you think of it that way, you can treat those people differently and take even better care of them. </p><p>If we gave you a drink in a plastic sippy cup, for example, you wouldn't take as much care of it as you would of Rob's grandmother's china! So think of anyone new as a delicate china cup that needs to be handled with extra care and managed carefully. If you do this, you'll create an awesome onboarding process that doesn't make people feel overwhelmed or puts them off. All you want to do is to <strong>have a series of short, easy steps that nudge new people across to become members.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The 3 key steps we use in our onboarding sequence</strong></h3><p>We have 3 steps to help us turn a brand-new person into a member:</p><ol><li>On our Thank You page, we ask people to fill in a survey so we can respond to them differently.</li><li>We ask people to watch 3 welcome videos which we call the Start Here videos. These are designed to reinforce the beliefs that made people buy and combat buyer's remorse.&nbsp;</li><li>And finally, we encourage people to get started on our Success Track so they can get results quickly. </li></ol><br/><p>What's worth pointing out here is that<strong> we also have a small email sequence for each step</strong>. Why? Because in a dream world, most members would complete these 3 steps within an hour of joining. But that's not true for everyone, so we create small email sequences to remind people to take these steps. We do this to make sure no one ever finds themselves at a dead end. If there was no handover between one step and the next, people would end up lost.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Make sure each step leads to the next one in the sequence</strong></h3><p>To put things into perspective, about 90% of people who join our membership fill in the survey immediately. About 90% of those people watch the Welcome Videos and about 90% of those start the Success Track. So we have a bunch of people who don’t follow the steps at all and get lost along the way. But you always have to factor in the people who, for whatever reason, join your membership now but don't immediately take the next step with you.</p><p>That's what the short sequences of emails do. And if people take the steps we recommend straight away, they won't even see those emails - they're only there for people who need them to make sure they don't get lost. When each part of your onboarding sequence hands over to the next piece, you make sure that whenever people drop off or disengage, you get to follow up with them and show them the map for what comes next.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>The emails we send in our onboarding sequence</strong></h2><p>In our onboarding sequence, we have 21 pre-written emails that get sent out over 21 days. Just like our daily emails, they have a story in them, a lesson, and a call to action to signpost them to a specific element of the membership. Every day, we follow the same format in our emails but will tell them about something different they can go and check out inside of our membership.&nbsp;</p><p>On top of that, every week on a Wednesday and a Saturday we send out live emails. On Wednesdays, we'll talk about the live elements of the membership, such as a Hotline Call or a campaign workshop, for example. And on Saturdays, we'll send out a roundup email of what happened in the week and what's coming up next. We also celebrate wins from some of our members.&nbsp;</p><p>So the 21 pre-written emails go out every day <em>except</em> on a Wednesday and a Saturday when our members receive live emails.<strong> To the reader, the whole sequence is very seamless</strong> - they won't be able to tell whether we wrote the email that day or whether it was pre-written in advance. But for us, that means producing a very joined-up and taken-care-of sequence with no extra work. </p><p>As always, <strong>the full details of this sequence are inside </strong><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>The League</strong></a><strong>, where we tell you what the emails are, what we do with them, how we structure them, etc.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>And another thing we like to do is to send out a handwritten postcard in the mail to every new member so they feel taken care of and <em>seen</em> - not just like another number on the Internet!</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Example of the first email in a member onboarding sequence&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>So what's inside the very first email of our member onboarding sequence? And why does the content of that email work so well? The key or us to is to <strong>keep that email <em>short</em> and not full of instructions that will overwhelm people.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>Think about it. If you stop someone on the streets asking for directions and they give you several sets of instructions, you'll probably follow the first step and then forget what they said. What would be more sensible is for someone to give you the first set of instructions and then stop there, find someone, and ask again. That's what we do with our onboarding sequence.&nbsp;</p><p>So in the first email, we talk about how excited we are for the person who just joined our membership. We tell them what happens next and <strong>give them some benefit-driven bullet points to re-sell them our membership. </strong></p><p>For example, we let them know they’re getting all our campaigns, our coaching calls, and access to our Facebook group. We also tell them they’re going to know exactly what emails to send and <em>when</em> to make more sales in less time and get really good results with their email marketing. <strong>We’re not telling them <em>what</em> they’re going to get – we’re giving them the outcomes and transformation.</strong> And we also send a GIF of Kennedy, which adds a bit of personality.</p><p>But when it comes to instructions, we give them their login details and share the <em>first step</em> we want them to take. Only when they get there, do we give them the next piece of the process.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Create an onboarding sequence your members will love!</strong></h2><p>If you’re not doing this right now, make the change! You'll significantly improve your onboarding experience and make it less overwhelming for your new customers. If you’re not already a member of <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, go and check out the onboarding experience we put together to see all the intricacies of it. And of course, when you join, you’ll get access to the whole campaign too. Just go grab it!&nbsp;</p><p>If you want to apply all this without even thinking about it, it’s already baked into the campaigns, frameworks, and systems that we give you inside our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. So go and check it out!</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h2><p>This week’s subject line is “This 1 word cost £61,000”. There’s lots of curiosity in this subject line as people are wondering what the word was and why it could possibly cost so much.</p><p>The story was about the fact Rob was listening to one of those shows on the radio where you enter a contest, and if you get picked and receive a phone call, you need to answer using a specific word or phrase to win the money. But the woman in question failed to answer with the right word, which cost her £61,000! So Rob went on to talk about how the words we use are important and can be the difference between whether we make money or <em>don't</em> make money in our businesses. Try it out!</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h2><h3><strong>Related episodes</strong></h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/lead-magnet-email-sequence/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Create A Lead Magnet Email Sequence That Gets Your Subscribers To LOVE You</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/writing-the-perfect-welcome-email/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Writing The Perfect Welcome Email – Saying Hello With Gavin Bell</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/mistakes-email-marketing-atuomation-strategy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mistakes You’re Making With Your Email Marketing Automation Strategy</a>.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>FREE list to improve your email marketing</strong></h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about creating an awesome onboarding sequence for memberships) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>leaving us a review&nbsp;</strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/onboarding-sequence-memberships/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">e022d835-1acc-4a8f-88c6-4a6f5146def3</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/1f575500-e9b2-45b7-8747-a0cc5de69110/u5-eQaQ_wygtnxuZ0cLGiywI.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/897182eb-db10-4add-befd-8d90c9e60dcb/How-To-Create-A-Member-Onboarding-Sequence.mp3" length="60103492" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>25:02</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>186</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>186</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Buyer Psychology in Email Marketing - Make MORE Email Sales</title><itunes:title>Buyer Psychology in Email Marketing - Make MORE Email Sales</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>How can you make your email marketing more effective? How do you sell <em>more</em>? By using <em>buyer psychology</em> in your email marketing.</p><p>We're Kennedy and<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Carrie</a>, and we're sharing all the good stuff about that.</p><p>Ready? Then buckle up!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:30) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(1:25) Share stories.&nbsp;</p><p>(7:58) Address people as if they're already your customers.&nbsp;</p><p>(11:05) Tell people what to do next.&nbsp;</p><p>(13:55) Share social proof.&nbsp;</p><p>(19:34) Use scarcity and urgency.&nbsp;</p><p>(25:23) Join The Email Hero Blueprint.&nbsp;</p><p>(25:58) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/marketing-ethical-dilemmas-deadlines/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Do Deadlines Well and Ethically</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-storytelling/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">EVERYTHING You Need To Know About Email Marketing And Storytelling To Write Emails That Sell Like Crazy</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/marketing-is-storytelling-comedian-kevin-rogers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Comedian’s Secrets to Storytelling – With Kevin Rogers</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3>Want to connect with Carrie?</h3><p>You can find Carrie on<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> her website</a> or at<a href="https://www.fullyleveragedbusiness.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Fully Leveraged Business</a>.&nbsp;</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to use buyer psychology in email marketing) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How can you make your email marketing more effective? How do you sell <em>more</em>? By using <em>buyer psychology</em> in your email marketing.</p><p>We're Kennedy and<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Carrie</a>, and we're sharing all the good stuff about that.</p><p>Ready? Then buckle up!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:30) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(1:25) Share stories.&nbsp;</p><p>(7:58) Address people as if they're already your customers.&nbsp;</p><p>(11:05) Tell people what to do next.&nbsp;</p><p>(13:55) Share social proof.&nbsp;</p><p>(19:34) Use scarcity and urgency.&nbsp;</p><p>(25:23) Join The Email Hero Blueprint.&nbsp;</p><p>(25:58) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/marketing-ethical-dilemmas-deadlines/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Do Deadlines Well and Ethically</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-storytelling/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">EVERYTHING You Need To Know About Email Marketing And Storytelling To Write Emails That Sell Like Crazy</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/marketing-is-storytelling-comedian-kevin-rogers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Comedian’s Secrets to Storytelling – With Kevin Rogers</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3>Want to connect with Carrie?</h3><p>You can find Carrie on<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> her website</a> or at<a href="https://www.fullyleveragedbusiness.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Fully Leveraged Business</a>.&nbsp;</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to use buyer psychology in email marketing) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/buyer-psychology-email/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">f0611bd7-85ec-4e0c-aaf8-cbecfba8963a</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/8d6dbdb5-00aa-4bff-a726-9d3a81626c2e/nyi1B5OG5RNi7khRPeH4g5qR.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 10 May 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/e6f73f55-c0ed-4a08-9db0-6567f6b350b4/Use-Psychology-To-Get-People-To-Buy.mp3" length="98965336" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>41:14</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>185</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>185</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/94ed2868-164f-487d-a06e-eeff2fcd71dd/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How To Take Email Marketing Split Testing To The Next Level, With Matt Bacak</title><itunes:title>How To Take Email Marketing Split Testing To The Next Level, With Matt Bacak</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Do you split test? How do you do it? What kind of things do you split test and what do you do with the data? These are some of the questions we answer in this conversation with the awesome Matt Bacak about taking split testing for email marketing and taking it to the next level. </p><p>Are. You. Ready?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:12) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook Group</a>.</p><p>(3:15) Does Matt really make animals out of paper?</p><p>(7:23) Split testing vs optimisation.</p><p>(10:52) Testing is like a game - can you win?</p><p>(11:34) What should you split test?</p><p>(18:23) What is radical testing?</p><p>(24:29) Examples of radically different split tests.</p><p>(28:41) Tracking and managing data for split testing.</p><p>(35:19) Be better than you were yesterday.</p><p>(41:21) How to connect with Matt Bacak.</p><h2><strong>Split testing vs optimisation</strong></h2><p>A lot of marketers say they split test. But what most people do, in Matt’s opinion, isn’t split testing - it's <em>optimisation</em>. A direct-response copywriter, for example, might 'split test' two different headlines. But if you're only making slight variations, that's an optimisation technique. So according to Matt a lot of marketers are 'optimisers' rather than 'testers'.&nbsp;</p><p>When Matt talks about testing, he means trying things that are <em>radically different</em>. For example, different angles, variations, or offers - such as a beautifully designed page created by a graphic designer vs a basic, ‘ugly’ one created by a direct response marketer.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Testing is like a game - can you win?&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>To Matt, split testing in email marketing is like a game. Can you 'win' against someone else or yourself? Testing is closely linked to increasing profits, and Matt doesn't go one day without split testing anymore.&nbsp;</p><p>He'll often run tests that 'fail', where the thing Matt thought was going to work doesn't. But he'll still gain knowledge and get answers to the question he asked himself on a particular day.&nbsp;</p><p>Matt's been doing email marketing for 25 years. And this is how he makes it fun - by testing <em>radically different</em> variations.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>What should you split test?&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>We asked Matt how he comes up with ideas. And a recent test Matt did was around trying to work out who out of some big-name players has better study points when it comes to webinars.&nbsp;</p><p>Typically, when people find something that works, they tend to repeat it several times. In fact, as a rule of thumb, Matt starts paying attention if he sees something 3 times or more. Because that means the thing works. So, as an example, he decided to test a few options he'd seen for the 60-minute webinar reminder email against each other.</p><p>And every time Matt tests, he’ll learn something new. He likens testing to driving down the road at night time. You may know the destination, but you can't always see what’s in front of you until you shine your lights on it. And when someone shines a light through something they’re doing, Matt feels compelled to pay attention. In fact, Matt even looked at what type of emails the US presidents send. And a fun fact he shared is that President Obama had 25 people on his split testing team while he was in office!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So for Matt, <strong>split testing is all about shining the light brighter on the things that get repeated often. </strong>He'll monitor people who are hard to beat because they're the ones on his radar - the ones he's paying attention to.&nbsp;And he'll always test things that are already <em>proven</em> to work. </p><p><br></p><h2><strong>What is radical testing?</strong></h2><p>We asked Matt to tell us more about the idea of <em>radical testing</em>. And he explained that the easiest thing to change when split-testing two emails is using different subject lines. However, he's talking about two <em>radically different</em> subject lines.&nbsp;</p><p>And when looking at the data, it's not about open rates. <strong>Open rates are for egos</strong>, Matt says! <strong>What matters is that you get the <em>right people</em> to open your emails <em>at the right time</em> and <em>do the right thing</em>.</strong></p><p>Sure, you might send an email and a lot of people open it. But if someone feels like your email wasn't meant for them when they open it, they're going to unsubscribe. They'll immediately find themselves in the wrong frame of mind at the start of the conversation (and before they even read the email). And that's not the reaction you want! If you send an email that <em>sounds</em> amazing but turns out to be a let-down, you'll get different reactions from people. And none of them will be what you want!</p><p>So <strong>the easiest thing to do when testing (the thing with the most dramatic impact) is to take <em>radically different subject lines</em></strong>. This means you're completely changing the words and<em> having radically different conversations</em>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Examples of radically different split tests</strong></h3><p>For example Matt once sent out a question to his audience about calling webinar replays 'reruns' instead - just like with TV shows. As he describes it, Matt will always come from 'a place of zero'. With every test,  he assumes he doesn't know anything. Because he doesn't know how something will go until he tests it. And he finds he's normally wrong 80% of the time! Often, what he believes works won't work, and what he thinks won't work usually does! So in the process, Matt will question <em>everything</em>. </p><p>For example, something experts say in the marketing world is that you should always use 'you' instead of 'I' in your emails. But what if this idea can be challenged? What if maybe this 'rule' only applies to specific scenarios and situations? What if it's not always the right thing to do?&nbsp;</p><p>There's a lot of 'assumed wisdom' in the marketing world that's been diluted over the years. One we often mention is the idea of <em>reciprocity</em> (originally introduced by Robert Cialdini). This principle is often applied to lead magnets. A free lead magnet should evoke reciprocity from your subscribers because you're giving something out for free. But it's not really free, is it? Because people are giving you their email addresses for it!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Tracking and managing data for split testing</strong></h2><p>We also asked Matt how he and his team keep track of the data from split testing. And Matt pointed out that <strong>in order to get good data from email marketing you need time and enough test subjects</strong> (i.e. statistical significance). Matt and his team will typically test at least 10,000 people per test and run five different variations in order to collect solid data.</p><p>Back when Matt first started, emails were being sent out every 2 weeks. They were long emails that might generate sales for 2 whole weeks. But now things have changed, and it's typical for marketers to send out emails every day that only make sales within the first 6 hours (and more so in the first 2). After that, the email has often run its course.</p><p>When it comes to tracking, because Matt's been doing email marketing for so long, he still likes to still use Excel spreadsheets. He has someone pull the data out once a week for activities carried out in the previous week, and Matt will generally take a look at monthly reports. This means he's looking at 'true data', where any variations, such as a fluke in the tech or impacted deliverability, can be taken into account.</p><p>When looking at his reports, Matt will focus on specific metrics, such as subscribers' clicks and total dollar amount.&nbsp;The 'winners' for each split test get highlighted so Matt can see how many people received that subject line, how many clicked on it, and how much money that resulted in. Every single winner from split testing goes into what Matt calls ‘the winner file’. And typically Matt looks for subject lines in that file that won more than 2 or 3 times because those are the subject lines he should automate.</p><p>He'll also look at data and accounts every Monday. So he definitely has a good grasp on the numbers in his business. And if the numbers are down, he'll investigate.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Be better than you were yesterday!</strong></h2><p>Generally speaking, Matt will decide what to split test based on who he wants to ‘beat’ on any given day. He's been testing since around 2006, and before that he thought he didn't need to - that what he was doing was working every time. At some point though, he realised he was leaving money on the table because of his ego - he was too scared to find out the truth!&nbsp;</p><p>When he did the maths and worked out how much he could increase his conversion rate, he decided to start split testing. And he's been doing it every single day ever since. Because even on the days when he doesn't beat his own 'winners', he still learns the answer to the question he asked himself.&nbsp;</p><p>It's worth mentioning that compared to when Matt started testing, things are much easier now - you can use segmentation in your email marketing platform, for example. </p><p>And one last gem that Matt left us with is that<strong> if you want to win at the email marketing game, you want to adapt. The greatest way to adapt is to have knowledge that nobody else has. And you gain that by beating yourself. And Matt's goal in business is to be </strong>better than the guy he was yesterday. </p><p><em>Boom!</em></p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h2><h3><strong>About Matt Bacak</strong></h3><p>If you want to connect with Matt, you can find him on his <a...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you split test? How do you do it? What kind of things do you split test and what do you do with the data? These are some of the questions we answer in this conversation with the awesome Matt Bacak about taking split testing for email marketing and taking it to the next level. </p><p>Are. You. Ready?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:12) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook Group</a>.</p><p>(3:15) Does Matt really make animals out of paper?</p><p>(7:23) Split testing vs optimisation.</p><p>(10:52) Testing is like a game - can you win?</p><p>(11:34) What should you split test?</p><p>(18:23) What is radical testing?</p><p>(24:29) Examples of radically different split tests.</p><p>(28:41) Tracking and managing data for split testing.</p><p>(35:19) Be better than you were yesterday.</p><p>(41:21) How to connect with Matt Bacak.</p><h2><strong>Split testing vs optimisation</strong></h2><p>A lot of marketers say they split test. But what most people do, in Matt’s opinion, isn’t split testing - it's <em>optimisation</em>. A direct-response copywriter, for example, might 'split test' two different headlines. But if you're only making slight variations, that's an optimisation technique. So according to Matt a lot of marketers are 'optimisers' rather than 'testers'.&nbsp;</p><p>When Matt talks about testing, he means trying things that are <em>radically different</em>. For example, different angles, variations, or offers - such as a beautifully designed page created by a graphic designer vs a basic, ‘ugly’ one created by a direct response marketer.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Testing is like a game - can you win?&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>To Matt, split testing in email marketing is like a game. Can you 'win' against someone else or yourself? Testing is closely linked to increasing profits, and Matt doesn't go one day without split testing anymore.&nbsp;</p><p>He'll often run tests that 'fail', where the thing Matt thought was going to work doesn't. But he'll still gain knowledge and get answers to the question he asked himself on a particular day.&nbsp;</p><p>Matt's been doing email marketing for 25 years. And this is how he makes it fun - by testing <em>radically different</em> variations.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>What should you split test?&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>We asked Matt how he comes up with ideas. And a recent test Matt did was around trying to work out who out of some big-name players has better study points when it comes to webinars.&nbsp;</p><p>Typically, when people find something that works, they tend to repeat it several times. In fact, as a rule of thumb, Matt starts paying attention if he sees something 3 times or more. Because that means the thing works. So, as an example, he decided to test a few options he'd seen for the 60-minute webinar reminder email against each other.</p><p>And every time Matt tests, he’ll learn something new. He likens testing to driving down the road at night time. You may know the destination, but you can't always see what’s in front of you until you shine your lights on it. And when someone shines a light through something they’re doing, Matt feels compelled to pay attention. In fact, Matt even looked at what type of emails the US presidents send. And a fun fact he shared is that President Obama had 25 people on his split testing team while he was in office!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So for Matt, <strong>split testing is all about shining the light brighter on the things that get repeated often. </strong>He'll monitor people who are hard to beat because they're the ones on his radar - the ones he's paying attention to.&nbsp;And he'll always test things that are already <em>proven</em> to work. </p><p><br></p><h2><strong>What is radical testing?</strong></h2><p>We asked Matt to tell us more about the idea of <em>radical testing</em>. And he explained that the easiest thing to change when split-testing two emails is using different subject lines. However, he's talking about two <em>radically different</em> subject lines.&nbsp;</p><p>And when looking at the data, it's not about open rates. <strong>Open rates are for egos</strong>, Matt says! <strong>What matters is that you get the <em>right people</em> to open your emails <em>at the right time</em> and <em>do the right thing</em>.</strong></p><p>Sure, you might send an email and a lot of people open it. But if someone feels like your email wasn't meant for them when they open it, they're going to unsubscribe. They'll immediately find themselves in the wrong frame of mind at the start of the conversation (and before they even read the email). And that's not the reaction you want! If you send an email that <em>sounds</em> amazing but turns out to be a let-down, you'll get different reactions from people. And none of them will be what you want!</p><p>So <strong>the easiest thing to do when testing (the thing with the most dramatic impact) is to take <em>radically different subject lines</em></strong>. This means you're completely changing the words and<em> having radically different conversations</em>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Examples of radically different split tests</strong></h3><p>For example Matt once sent out a question to his audience about calling webinar replays 'reruns' instead - just like with TV shows. As he describes it, Matt will always come from 'a place of zero'. With every test,  he assumes he doesn't know anything. Because he doesn't know how something will go until he tests it. And he finds he's normally wrong 80% of the time! Often, what he believes works won't work, and what he thinks won't work usually does! So in the process, Matt will question <em>everything</em>. </p><p>For example, something experts say in the marketing world is that you should always use 'you' instead of 'I' in your emails. But what if this idea can be challenged? What if maybe this 'rule' only applies to specific scenarios and situations? What if it's not always the right thing to do?&nbsp;</p><p>There's a lot of 'assumed wisdom' in the marketing world that's been diluted over the years. One we often mention is the idea of <em>reciprocity</em> (originally introduced by Robert Cialdini). This principle is often applied to lead magnets. A free lead magnet should evoke reciprocity from your subscribers because you're giving something out for free. But it's not really free, is it? Because people are giving you their email addresses for it!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Tracking and managing data for split testing</strong></h2><p>We also asked Matt how he and his team keep track of the data from split testing. And Matt pointed out that <strong>in order to get good data from email marketing you need time and enough test subjects</strong> (i.e. statistical significance). Matt and his team will typically test at least 10,000 people per test and run five different variations in order to collect solid data.</p><p>Back when Matt first started, emails were being sent out every 2 weeks. They were long emails that might generate sales for 2 whole weeks. But now things have changed, and it's typical for marketers to send out emails every day that only make sales within the first 6 hours (and more so in the first 2). After that, the email has often run its course.</p><p>When it comes to tracking, because Matt's been doing email marketing for so long, he still likes to still use Excel spreadsheets. He has someone pull the data out once a week for activities carried out in the previous week, and Matt will generally take a look at monthly reports. This means he's looking at 'true data', where any variations, such as a fluke in the tech or impacted deliverability, can be taken into account.</p><p>When looking at his reports, Matt will focus on specific metrics, such as subscribers' clicks and total dollar amount.&nbsp;The 'winners' for each split test get highlighted so Matt can see how many people received that subject line, how many clicked on it, and how much money that resulted in. Every single winner from split testing goes into what Matt calls ‘the winner file’. And typically Matt looks for subject lines in that file that won more than 2 or 3 times because those are the subject lines he should automate.</p><p>He'll also look at data and accounts every Monday. So he definitely has a good grasp on the numbers in his business. And if the numbers are down, he'll investigate.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Be better than you were yesterday!</strong></h2><p>Generally speaking, Matt will decide what to split test based on who he wants to ‘beat’ on any given day. He's been testing since around 2006, and before that he thought he didn't need to - that what he was doing was working every time. At some point though, he realised he was leaving money on the table because of his ego - he was too scared to find out the truth!&nbsp;</p><p>When he did the maths and worked out how much he could increase his conversion rate, he decided to start split testing. And he's been doing it every single day ever since. Because even on the days when he doesn't beat his own 'winners', he still learns the answer to the question he asked himself.&nbsp;</p><p>It's worth mentioning that compared to when Matt started testing, things are much easier now - you can use segmentation in your email marketing platform, for example. </p><p>And one last gem that Matt left us with is that<strong> if you want to win at the email marketing game, you want to adapt. The greatest way to adapt is to have knowledge that nobody else has. And you gain that by beating yourself. And Matt's goal in business is to be </strong>better than the guy he was yesterday. </p><p><em>Boom!</em></p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h2><h3><strong>About Matt Bacak</strong></h3><p>If you want to connect with Matt, you can find him on his <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/listbuildingclub/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">free Facebook group</a>.</p><h3><strong>Related episodes</strong></h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-mistakes-chris-davis/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Mistakes That Almost Got Me Fired (Avoid These) – With Chris Davis</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/when-is-it-too-early-to-segment-your-email-subscribers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">When Is It Too Early to Segment Your Email Subscribers?</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-subject-lines-to-make-sales/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Use Email Subject Lines To Do More Than Get Your Emails Opened</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h3><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about email marketing split testing) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-split-testing/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">47277908-7601-43b2-8371-414b8b283278</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/49eb15c5-9ee4-4185-8b44-be91bec42232/AwNg8ipsDANvP4GBMZ7Da5jM.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/648a781c-4030-4091-b8bd-be891397a64c/Next-Level-Split-Testing.mp3" length="103746789" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>43:14</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>184</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>184</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How To Create An Effective Lead Magnet Email Sequence That Gets Your Subscribers To LOVE You!</title><itunes:title>How To Create An Effective Lead Magnet Email Sequence That Gets Your Subscribers To LOVE You!</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Do you use a lead magnet to grow your email list? Does the strategy work for you? How can you make it work <em>even better</em>? We're Kennedy and <a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Carrie</a>, and today we're sharing how to create a lead magnet sequence that will get your subscribers to<em> love you</em>.</p><p>And grow your list.</p><p>And your business.</p><p>Ready?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:35) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(2:14) Check out our sponsor -<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/cleanup" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Zerobounce</a>!&nbsp;</p><p>(2:46) Treat your lead magnets with reverence.&nbsp;</p><p>(5:15) Don't deliver your lead magnet on your Thank You page&nbsp;</p><p>(7:00) Create an awesome lead magnet consumption sequence.&nbsp;</p><p>(11:38) Use your consumption sequence to make people love you.&nbsp;</p><p>(15:38) Your lead magnet sequence is different from your Welcome sequence.</p><p>(18:19) Join<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(18:57) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/landing-pages-lead-generation/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Landing Pages For Lead Generation – How To Create The Most AMAZING Landing Pages To Attract More Subscribers To Your Email List</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/essential-email-campaigns-examples/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The 7 Proven And Essential Email Campaigns To Add To Your Marketing Strategy And Elevate Your Business</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/mistakes-email-marketing-atuomation-strategy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mistakes You’re Making With Your Email Marketing Automation Strategy</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3>Want to connect with Carrie?</h3><p>You can find Carrie on<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> her website</a> or at<a href="https://www.fullyleveragedbusiness.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Fully Leveraged Business</a>.&nbsp;</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to create an effective lead magnet sequence that will get people to love you) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you use a lead magnet to grow your email list? Does the strategy work for you? How can you make it work <em>even better</em>? We're Kennedy and <a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Carrie</a>, and today we're sharing how to create a lead magnet sequence that will get your subscribers to<em> love you</em>.</p><p>And grow your list.</p><p>And your business.</p><p>Ready?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:35) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(2:14) Check out our sponsor -<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/cleanup" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Zerobounce</a>!&nbsp;</p><p>(2:46) Treat your lead magnets with reverence.&nbsp;</p><p>(5:15) Don't deliver your lead magnet on your Thank You page&nbsp;</p><p>(7:00) Create an awesome lead magnet consumption sequence.&nbsp;</p><p>(11:38) Use your consumption sequence to make people love you.&nbsp;</p><p>(15:38) Your lead magnet sequence is different from your Welcome sequence.</p><p>(18:19) Join<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(18:57) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/landing-pages-lead-generation/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Landing Pages For Lead Generation – How To Create The Most AMAZING Landing Pages To Attract More Subscribers To Your Email List</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/essential-email-campaigns-examples/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The 7 Proven And Essential Email Campaigns To Add To Your Marketing Strategy And Elevate Your Business</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/mistakes-email-marketing-atuomation-strategy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mistakes You’re Making With Your Email Marketing Automation Strategy</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3>Want to connect with Carrie?</h3><p>You can find Carrie on<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> her website</a> or at<a href="https://www.fullyleveragedbusiness.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Fully Leveraged Business</a>.&nbsp;</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to create an effective lead magnet sequence that will get people to love you) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/lead-magnet-email-sequence/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">46e446d7-62ee-472b-9594-eee4a80ae2b3</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/e3985cc6-badb-419c-8f64-d9e85e5a4ce0/I3W44VzOsUcNOMq8O-yMW9Gw.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/198c5b16-4723-4c43-966d-91b7107b6b66/The-PERFECT-Lead-Magnet-Sequence.mp3" length="78351590" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>32:39</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>183</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>183</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/c93a5a88-ac18-43ea-acd8-f58f44b24bb8/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Fix Your Traffic Problem For Good, With Todd Brown</title><itunes:title>Fix Your Traffic Problem For Good, With Todd Brown</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Are you struggling to build your email list? Do you think you have a traffic problem? Then think again! Because today, Todd Brown explains exactly why list building has absolutely <em>nothing</em> to do with traffic (<em>zero</em>, <em>nil</em>, <em>null</em>) and <em>everything</em> to do with maths and economics. Ready to learn how to fix your traffic problem <em>for good</em>? &nbsp;</p><p>If you do nothing else, just pay attention to this. You'll never look at your business the same way again. Honestly!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:22) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook Group</a>.</p><p>(2:44) Did Todd really work in a bakery?</p><p>(5:12) You are an investor in your own business.</p><p>(9:58) Is your traffic too expensive?</p><p>(13:58) The 'Golden Ratio'.</p><p>(18:28) The true economical foundation of your business.</p><p>(20:40) You don't have a traffic problem!</p><p>(23:09) Decrease costs or increase value?</p><p>(30:00) It's a game of iteration.</p><p>(37:23) Subject line of the week with Todd Brown.</p><h2><strong>You are an investor in your own business</strong></h2><p>This is probably one of <em>the</em> most important marketing principles you’re going to learn. <em>Ever</em>. It doesn't matter what product you sell, in what marketplace, and at what price point.<strong> If you’re an entrepreneur, you are an investor.</strong> Because you are <em>investing</em> in the acquisition and development of assets. And these assets are your customers or clients.&nbsp;</p><p>The day you acquire a new customer (or <em>new buyer</em>), they'll spend a certain amount of money with you in their first transaction, and that's the average <em>value</em> of that new buyer. If they buy from you more than once, that value increases - that's the<em> future value</em> of that asset.</p><p>There's also a <em>cost</em> (to you) attached to acquiring that customer. Maybe you're paying for social media ads? As a business owner and therefore an investor in your own business, you need to know these two numbers - the <em>cost</em> and the <em>value</em> of acquiring a new buyer.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Is your traffic too expensive?&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>So with that cleared up, it's easier to understand that when most entrepreneurs complain they have a 'traffic problem', they're really saying that <em>the traffic to acquire a new buyer is too expensive</em>. If it costs you $100 to run Facebook ads to acquire <em>one</em> buyer who only spends $50 with you, you're losing money. Simply because acquiring that customer is costing you more than what they'll spend with you.</p><p>But if you get that buyer to spend <em>more</em> with you in their first transaction (and also to buy from you again and again), then you increase the <em>value</em> of that asset to your business. And then you can easily pay for the traffic to acquire them in the first place. </p><p>So <strong>if your traffic is too expensive, you need to increase the <em>value</em> of your asset.</strong> And you no longer have a traffic problem! Because you're now able to pay to acquire that customer. <strong>It’s a simple mathematical equation!</strong></p><p>Conversion rates, opt-in rates, upsell rates, and lots of other performance metrics tell you whether a marketing campaign is working. But what they don't tell you is whether that campaign is financially <em>viable. </em>Because as an investor in your own business, something is only viable for you if you're making money back. And in order to know if you do, <strong>you need to know the <em>cost</em> and <em>value</em> of each asset.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>When you're able to manipulate those two numbers, the game becomes easier. And it doesn't matter if you're paying an arm and a leg to get a click, a lead, or a sale. If the asset is worth that amount <em>and more</em>, you're winning.<strong> If your customers have a <em>high lifetime value&nbsp;</em>that's more than what you're paying to acquire them, you no longer have a traffic problem!</strong></p><p><br></p><h2><strong>The 'Golden Ratio'</strong></h2><p>We think it’s great that Todd talks about small and micro business owners such as the people we serve (i.e. those who sell courses, memberships, and coaching) as <em>investors</em>. Because it’s important to emotionally detach yourself from the product or service you created. Sure, you want it to be good quality and good value. But if you were 'just a money person’ investing money into your business, you'd only continue to do so if it made financial sense.</p><p>Todd talks about this concept of the 'Golden Ratio'. <strong>For every $1 you spend on Facebook ads (or other traffic sources), you want to make at least $1 in sales revenue.</strong> You can replace that $1 with any number, but as long as the two numbers in that equation match, you have your Golden Ratio, which means <strong>you're acquiring a new buyer for free.</strong></p><p>Dan Kennedy once said something along the lines of "the typical marketer or entrepreneur will <em>get a customer to generate a sale</em>. But the savvy direct-response marketer thinks about <em>generating a sale to make a customer</em>. " This may sound like a simple play on words, but, as Todd pointed out, it's very profound! <strong>As direct-response marketers, we are running campaigns designed to turn prospects into buyers.</strong> </p><p><br></p><p>The point of all front-end marketing campaigns is to turn cold traffic, visitors, or prospects into new buyers. In other words, <strong>the aim of the front end is gaining the maximum number of new buyers</strong> - it's not about maximum profit or contribution to the bottom line. You’re trying to acquire the highest number of buyers you possibly can. And if you adhere to the Golden Ratio, you're acquiring buyers <em>for free</em> - no matter what your numbers are.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>The true economical foundation of your business</strong></h2><p>Mathematically, that would mean you’re making no money. But you’re acquiring <em>buyers</em>. And that’s enormously valuable because <strong>the real heart and soul of the business are the subsequent transactions that a customer makes with you.</strong></p><p>And because of that, <strong>the back end (i.e. your email marketing) becomes your primary vehicle to generate further transactions.</strong> This is the true economical foundation of your business. <strong>You’re acquiring assets (at a cost) that have a<em> future value</em> to you. And then you’re nurturing them by delivering value to them to increase that future value. </strong>Your job as a marketer is to acquire as many assets as possible. And your job as a business owner and investor is to <strong>make their future value greater than their cost.</strong></p><p><br></p><h2><strong>You don't have a traffic problem!</strong></h2><p>Funnels, lead generation, and list building are maths problems. It’s not about the fact you’re not converting well. You probably <em>are</em> converting! But the numbers are making it impossible for you to win the game. You can never win if the economics don’t work!</p><p>If you’re paying $5 per click, and all you sell is a $19 eBook, you won't be making any money from this business. Because it would simply be too expensive for you to acquire new buyers. That's <em>not</em> a traffic, source, or marketing problem. </p><p>Even if you had a crazy high sales conversion rate of 10-15%, you’d still be losing money. You have to either change the price point or your whole business model in order to increase the value of each customer. Or it'll never work. This will never be fixed with better marketing because it's a numbers problem!</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Decrease costs or increase value?&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>If you feel your traffic is too expensive, you might be tempted to try and reduce the cost per click (and get cheaper traffic). That's certainly one way to go in order to achieve the Golden Ratio. The problem is that the value of traffic is largely determined by the marketplace because it depends on supply and demand. So the bulk of what you pay for traffic is mostly out of your control, and there's only so much you can do to reduce your costs.&nbsp;</p><p>The second thing you can do (and the easier and smarter option because it gives you longevity) is to work on the <em>value</em> of a buyer.&nbsp;<strong>Increasing the value of an asset is easier than reducing the cost to acquire it. </strong>Also, <strong>getting buyers to spend more with you is much simpler than getting someone to buy from you for the first time. </strong>Increasing the average transaction is easier than converting more prospects. So what can you offer your existing customers to increase their average transaction size? </p><p>As Todd explained, it doesn’t matter whether you only sell high-ticket products to low volumes or low-ticket products to large volumes - there's value in both business models. High-ticket items give you a tremendous advantage because you could have crappy marketing on the front end (and convert below average) and still continue to run your business. And that's because, in that scenario, your back-end campaigns only have to extract a large amount of money from a small number of buyers. </p><p>As an example, you could potentially grow a large business with a small 1.5% sales conversion - because it's all about the numbers! If a customer you acquired for $100 is worth to you six times more, you don't have to be a tremendous marketer to make that business model work.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>It's a game of iteration</strong></h2><p>Don't you agree that this conversation is the single most important list-building and audience growth acquisition conversation you could ever have?&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>People often buy into this idea that...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you struggling to build your email list? Do you think you have a traffic problem? Then think again! Because today, Todd Brown explains exactly why list building has absolutely <em>nothing</em> to do with traffic (<em>zero</em>, <em>nil</em>, <em>null</em>) and <em>everything</em> to do with maths and economics. Ready to learn how to fix your traffic problem <em>for good</em>? &nbsp;</p><p>If you do nothing else, just pay attention to this. You'll never look at your business the same way again. Honestly!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:22) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook Group</a>.</p><p>(2:44) Did Todd really work in a bakery?</p><p>(5:12) You are an investor in your own business.</p><p>(9:58) Is your traffic too expensive?</p><p>(13:58) The 'Golden Ratio'.</p><p>(18:28) The true economical foundation of your business.</p><p>(20:40) You don't have a traffic problem!</p><p>(23:09) Decrease costs or increase value?</p><p>(30:00) It's a game of iteration.</p><p>(37:23) Subject line of the week with Todd Brown.</p><h2><strong>You are an investor in your own business</strong></h2><p>This is probably one of <em>the</em> most important marketing principles you’re going to learn. <em>Ever</em>. It doesn't matter what product you sell, in what marketplace, and at what price point.<strong> If you’re an entrepreneur, you are an investor.</strong> Because you are <em>investing</em> in the acquisition and development of assets. And these assets are your customers or clients.&nbsp;</p><p>The day you acquire a new customer (or <em>new buyer</em>), they'll spend a certain amount of money with you in their first transaction, and that's the average <em>value</em> of that new buyer. If they buy from you more than once, that value increases - that's the<em> future value</em> of that asset.</p><p>There's also a <em>cost</em> (to you) attached to acquiring that customer. Maybe you're paying for social media ads? As a business owner and therefore an investor in your own business, you need to know these two numbers - the <em>cost</em> and the <em>value</em> of acquiring a new buyer.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Is your traffic too expensive?&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>So with that cleared up, it's easier to understand that when most entrepreneurs complain they have a 'traffic problem', they're really saying that <em>the traffic to acquire a new buyer is too expensive</em>. If it costs you $100 to run Facebook ads to acquire <em>one</em> buyer who only spends $50 with you, you're losing money. Simply because acquiring that customer is costing you more than what they'll spend with you.</p><p>But if you get that buyer to spend <em>more</em> with you in their first transaction (and also to buy from you again and again), then you increase the <em>value</em> of that asset to your business. And then you can easily pay for the traffic to acquire them in the first place. </p><p>So <strong>if your traffic is too expensive, you need to increase the <em>value</em> of your asset.</strong> And you no longer have a traffic problem! Because you're now able to pay to acquire that customer. <strong>It’s a simple mathematical equation!</strong></p><p>Conversion rates, opt-in rates, upsell rates, and lots of other performance metrics tell you whether a marketing campaign is working. But what they don't tell you is whether that campaign is financially <em>viable. </em>Because as an investor in your own business, something is only viable for you if you're making money back. And in order to know if you do, <strong>you need to know the <em>cost</em> and <em>value</em> of each asset.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>When you're able to manipulate those two numbers, the game becomes easier. And it doesn't matter if you're paying an arm and a leg to get a click, a lead, or a sale. If the asset is worth that amount <em>and more</em>, you're winning.<strong> If your customers have a <em>high lifetime value&nbsp;</em>that's more than what you're paying to acquire them, you no longer have a traffic problem!</strong></p><p><br></p><h2><strong>The 'Golden Ratio'</strong></h2><p>We think it’s great that Todd talks about small and micro business owners such as the people we serve (i.e. those who sell courses, memberships, and coaching) as <em>investors</em>. Because it’s important to emotionally detach yourself from the product or service you created. Sure, you want it to be good quality and good value. But if you were 'just a money person’ investing money into your business, you'd only continue to do so if it made financial sense.</p><p>Todd talks about this concept of the 'Golden Ratio'. <strong>For every $1 you spend on Facebook ads (or other traffic sources), you want to make at least $1 in sales revenue.</strong> You can replace that $1 with any number, but as long as the two numbers in that equation match, you have your Golden Ratio, which means <strong>you're acquiring a new buyer for free.</strong></p><p>Dan Kennedy once said something along the lines of "the typical marketer or entrepreneur will <em>get a customer to generate a sale</em>. But the savvy direct-response marketer thinks about <em>generating a sale to make a customer</em>. " This may sound like a simple play on words, but, as Todd pointed out, it's very profound! <strong>As direct-response marketers, we are running campaigns designed to turn prospects into buyers.</strong> </p><p><br></p><p>The point of all front-end marketing campaigns is to turn cold traffic, visitors, or prospects into new buyers. In other words, <strong>the aim of the front end is gaining the maximum number of new buyers</strong> - it's not about maximum profit or contribution to the bottom line. You’re trying to acquire the highest number of buyers you possibly can. And if you adhere to the Golden Ratio, you're acquiring buyers <em>for free</em> - no matter what your numbers are.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>The true economical foundation of your business</strong></h2><p>Mathematically, that would mean you’re making no money. But you’re acquiring <em>buyers</em>. And that’s enormously valuable because <strong>the real heart and soul of the business are the subsequent transactions that a customer makes with you.</strong></p><p>And because of that, <strong>the back end (i.e. your email marketing) becomes your primary vehicle to generate further transactions.</strong> This is the true economical foundation of your business. <strong>You’re acquiring assets (at a cost) that have a<em> future value</em> to you. And then you’re nurturing them by delivering value to them to increase that future value. </strong>Your job as a marketer is to acquire as many assets as possible. And your job as a business owner and investor is to <strong>make their future value greater than their cost.</strong></p><p><br></p><h2><strong>You don't have a traffic problem!</strong></h2><p>Funnels, lead generation, and list building are maths problems. It’s not about the fact you’re not converting well. You probably <em>are</em> converting! But the numbers are making it impossible for you to win the game. You can never win if the economics don’t work!</p><p>If you’re paying $5 per click, and all you sell is a $19 eBook, you won't be making any money from this business. Because it would simply be too expensive for you to acquire new buyers. That's <em>not</em> a traffic, source, or marketing problem. </p><p>Even if you had a crazy high sales conversion rate of 10-15%, you’d still be losing money. You have to either change the price point or your whole business model in order to increase the value of each customer. Or it'll never work. This will never be fixed with better marketing because it's a numbers problem!</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Decrease costs or increase value?&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>If you feel your traffic is too expensive, you might be tempted to try and reduce the cost per click (and get cheaper traffic). That's certainly one way to go in order to achieve the Golden Ratio. The problem is that the value of traffic is largely determined by the marketplace because it depends on supply and demand. So the bulk of what you pay for traffic is mostly out of your control, and there's only so much you can do to reduce your costs.&nbsp;</p><p>The second thing you can do (and the easier and smarter option because it gives you longevity) is to work on the <em>value</em> of a buyer.&nbsp;<strong>Increasing the value of an asset is easier than reducing the cost to acquire it. </strong>Also, <strong>getting buyers to spend more with you is much simpler than getting someone to buy from you for the first time. </strong>Increasing the average transaction is easier than converting more prospects. So what can you offer your existing customers to increase their average transaction size? </p><p>As Todd explained, it doesn’t matter whether you only sell high-ticket products to low volumes or low-ticket products to large volumes - there's value in both business models. High-ticket items give you a tremendous advantage because you could have crappy marketing on the front end (and convert below average) and still continue to run your business. And that's because, in that scenario, your back-end campaigns only have to extract a large amount of money from a small number of buyers. </p><p>As an example, you could potentially grow a large business with a small 1.5% sales conversion - because it's all about the numbers! If a customer you acquired for $100 is worth to you six times more, you don't have to be a tremendous marketer to make that business model work.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>It's a game of iteration</strong></h2><p>Don't you agree that this conversation is the single most important list-building and audience growth acquisition conversation you could ever have?&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>People often buy into this idea that you'll come up with a marketing campaign, launch it, and you'll have arrived.&nbsp;Unfortunately, that’s not the game. It’s a game of iteration. You track and test everything, and you improve over time. You shouldn’t think that the day you launch your first campaign, you hit a home run!</p><p><br></p><p>And we all have fears when launching a campaign. Because no one wants to come across as obnoxious, pushy, sleazy, and slimy. <strong>The key is to have the intention to offer your buyers more value</strong>. There will always be people out there who love you, tolerate you, or can't stand you at all. And that's okay - your marketing and your business aren't for everyone. You have no control over what other people think about you. But despite how people feel about you and your marketing, it doesn't change who you are or your motivations.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Subject line of the week with Todd Brown</strong></h2><p>Todd shared the most jarring subject line he ever received in his life, which is something his once boss sent him a long time ago. Picture the fact that Todd received this email in his office (at the time) with glass doors all around. And the subject line said “naked pics of barry white”. Todd was literally <em>terrified</em> of opening this email in case someone saw what was in it. In the end, he opened it, and the email had absolutely nothing to do with the subject line.</p><p>But there's a lesson there. The subject line worked because it broke a pattern and was unexpected. Now, don't go using this exact subject line (Todd says), but you get the point, right? So try it out!</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h2><h3><strong>About Todd</strong></h3><p>If you want to connect with Todd, you can find him on <a href="https://toddbrown.me/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">his website</a>, where you can also find out more about the E5 Method.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Related episodes</strong></h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-market-yourself-belinda-weaver/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Making Yourself Choosable with Belinda Weaver</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/lies-stopping-you-from-business-with-profit/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lies You’ve Been Told That Are Stopping You From Making Money In Your Business</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/mistakes-email-marketing-atuomation-strategy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mistakes You’re Making With Your Email Marketing Automation Strategy</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h3><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to fix your traffic problem <em>for good</em>) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/fix-traffic-problem/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">ec52dc25-f37b-4057-8027-5716dcb1f5b2</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/d3654ce2-86fe-420d-9152-be034a0f0aba/CQOOW3Qf0PHJ_YiEnXBc4Abm.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/76a59ec2-f828-4da7-8abe-bff7c87d5da3/How-To-Fix-Your-Traffic-Problem.mp3" length="100524324" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>41:53</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>182</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>182</podcast:episode></item><item><title>WTF Is An Automated Customer Journey? Use the SCORE Method</title><itunes:title>WTF Is An Automated Customer Journey? Use the SCORE Method</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>WTF is an automated customer journey and why do you need to worry about it? We’re Kennedy and <a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fifi</a>, and today we’re going to dig into what automated customer journeys really are, why they work, and how to build them into your email marketing strategy.&nbsp;</p><p>Plus, we’ll even peel back the curtain on the SCORE Method, our proven framework for engaging subscribers and turning them into buyers, without all the fuss and confusion.</p><p>Let's do this.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>Recent episodes</h5><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-come-up-with-your-next-email-campaign-without-overthinking-it/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Come Up With Your Next Email Campaign (Without Overthinking It)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-deliverability/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Surprising Thing That REALLY Impacts Your Email Deliverability</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/avoid-email-marketing-mistakes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why You Need to Avoid These Email Marketing Mistakes</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h5><br></h5><h5>Want to connect with Fifi?</h5><p>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people – those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can&nbsp;<a href="https://fifimason.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">find Fifi on her website</a>.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WTF is an automated customer journey and why do you need to worry about it? We’re Kennedy and <a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fifi</a>, and today we’re going to dig into what automated customer journeys really are, why they work, and how to build them into your email marketing strategy.&nbsp;</p><p>Plus, we’ll even peel back the curtain on the SCORE Method, our proven framework for engaging subscribers and turning them into buyers, without all the fuss and confusion.</p><p>Let's do this.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>Recent episodes</h5><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-come-up-with-your-next-email-campaign-without-overthinking-it/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Come Up With Your Next Email Campaign (Without Overthinking It)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-deliverability/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Surprising Thing That REALLY Impacts Your Email Deliverability</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/avoid-email-marketing-mistakes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why You Need to Avoid These Email Marketing Mistakes</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h5><br></h5><h5>Want to connect with Fifi?</h5><p>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people – those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can&nbsp;<a href="https://fifimason.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">find Fifi on her website</a>.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/automated-customer-journey/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">ab9048a8-9582-4def-bc9b-c9e2a8a6bf3c</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/a70b179e-c2b9-4a1c-bcbc-2968eae0bfef/qHKGFqVLbnM3BPv1jdIgDqN0.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 12 Apr 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/9096a2a5-8aa4-42c6-81cf-7737d6fdbbfa/WTF-Is-An-Automated-Customer-Journey-Use-the-SCORE-Method.mp3" length="92552798" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>38:34</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>181</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>181</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/e111659f-8779-4fa6-bb57-1ccfe502a4b4/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>EVERYTHING You Need To Know About AI For Email Marketing</title><itunes:title>EVERYTHING You Need To Know About AI For Email Marketing</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Can you use AI for email marketing? <em>Everyone</em> is talking about ChatGPT at the moment. Unless you live under a rock, you'll have seen or heard something about AI or even tried it yourself. So can tools such as ChatGPT help with your email copywriting?&nbsp;</p><p>Let's dive into all this!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:48) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook Group</a>. </p><p>(5:55) Should you use AI software like ChatGPT for email?</p><p>(9:29) Can this new AI software create stories for your emails?</p><p>(16:04) Where could you use AI for your email marketing?</p><p>(21:04) What is the best AI email marketing copywriter?</p><p>(24:25) What are the drawbacks of using AI email marketing software?</p><p>(26:35) What happens when you combine our powerful email templates with AI?</p><p>(28:01) Writing your own emails makes you a better marketer.</p><p>(29:48) Only you can craft better messaging for your marketing.</p><p>(33:32) Subject line of the week.</p><h2><strong>Should you use AI software like ChatGPT for email?&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>Last year we did a podcast episode about AI called&nbsp;<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/artificial-intelligence-in-email-marketing-ai/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Write Emails Using Artificial Intelligence (AI)</a>. But AI is such a hot topic right now that it felt it needed revisiting. </p><p>Are emails written by AI 'good enough'? The fact they're written by a computer is great, yes. Only a few years ago, the thought of this happening would have been ludicrous. But now these things are possible, and that's amazing.&nbsp;</p><p>The real question is - if you'd paid an email marketing agency to write an email for you, and you got something along the lines of what you get from an AI tool, would you be happy?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>The answer is no.&nbsp;</p><p>Because it's amazing that a computer can take a prompt and write an email for you that not only makes sense but also covers the topic appropriately. But is it as good as what a human could write? Is it as good as what an agency could produce? Or even as good as something that <em>you</em> could write yourself with our teachings and frameworks? No.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>To borrow an expression from our friend Jon Benson, when you read an email out loud that was written by AI, it's a bit like hearing the radio announcer's voice in your head. You know that tone - it sounds artificial. And <strong>humans connect with other humans. They connect with your personality. </strong>So as soon as you put AI in the mix, you're taking that humanity away. And that's a big loss.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Can this new AI software, such as ChatGPT, create stories for your emails?</strong></h2><p>We’re not saying AI has no place in marketing – it’s actually extremely useful. But can it create the stories we include in our emails? A lot of our approach is based on storytelling because stories are compelling and persuasive. And yes, AI can help you find stories.</p><p><br></p><p>In fact, Rob did a little experiment and asked ChatGPT to come up with a story that happened to him that day that he could tell his friends down the pub. And when the software started typing about elephants dancing in the streets, Rob had to stop it. The tool was writing a dream. So Rob asked the tool to try again, but this time to make the story believable. It had to be something that could happen in real life, be logical, and follow the laws of physics and nature.</p><p><br></p><p>In the end, the tool came up with the story about Rob seeing a cat in the street. Initially, the cat seemed a bit shy and cautious. But then Rob found something in his pocket and fed the cat, and the cat became friendlier. All good here. </p><p><br></p><p>Then Rob asked the tool to relate that story to a lesson about email marketing. And sure enough, the tool came back very quickly saying that the story about the cat was a bit like building relationships with your subscribers. When they first come into your world, they’re going to be cynical and skeptical because they don’t quite know what to make of you. But over time, by delivering value, rewarding them, and treating them well (like Rob did with the cat) you nurture the relationship. And, just like the cat, your subscribers become more trusting.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Do you really want to share stories that aren't true?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>So the tool did it! It created a story that could work. However,&nbsp;if you ask AI to create stories for you, they're not going to be true. This story was realistic, but it didn’t really happen to Rob!</p><p><br></p><p>And for us, <strong>the real superpower of great marketing is that it’s founded in truth</strong>. When people come up to us at events and mention things we’ve said or shared, we don’t have to scrap our heads trying to remember. Because what we say isn't made up or fictional - it's real! And <strong>we make sure that what we share is always real because we want to build trust.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>So, as more and more people use tools such as ChatGPT or Jasper,<strong> you have a real opportunity to stand out by telling stories that are real.</strong> Plus, your individual style is also unique and something that will stand out over anything AI-generated. A piece of software can write your stories for you, but by writing them yourself (and ensuring they're true) you can stand out both through content and style.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Where could you use AI for your email marketing?</strong></h2><p>With that said, there are a few places where you<em> could</em> use email marketing.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Email subject line AI generator&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>AI could be useful in helping you come up with subject lines. We don’t necessarily recommend that you start doing this. But if you wanted, you could copy and paste your emails into the platform and ask it to generate a few subject line ideas for you.</p><p>There's a problem with that though. ChatGPT (or other AI tools) haven't studied our <strong>Subject Lines That Drive Sales course</strong>. And that teaches you a different approach to creating subject lines. For us, it's not about pulling out the benefits of what you're selling - that's what everyone else seems to be doing. And most of the time,<strong> AI software is going to come up with benefit-driven, very linear subject lines that won't use the techniques we recommend, such as compound curiosity.</strong> But if you were really stuck, you could use AI for this purpose.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Email prompt ideas&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>You could also use AI to come up with prompt ideas for the stories you want to share in your emails. To be fair, it might take you longer to work out what prompts to type into the tool to get the story you want than to use one of the story generator shortcuts we created. But it's an option.</p><p>Or, you could put the bare basics of an idea or your first draft into the tool, and ask it to re-write the story for you in a different style. You may want it casual, fun, and upbeat, for example. If you don't consider yourself a confident writer, this could help.&nbsp;</p><p>You could also do what Rob did. You could come up with a story, and ask the tool to relate it to a lesson about what you sell. It might not be in your exact style (so you then have to edit it), but the tool could help you build that bridge between the story and the lesson.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Transactional emails</strong></h3><p>Another option is to have AI software write your transactional emails for you, such as the email that sends out the login information for your course, for example. Those emails are important, but they often fall to the bottom of your priority list because you have other more pressing emails to write - the ones that get you sales! So you could ask an AI tool to re-write some of your more transactional emails in a more interesting and inspiring way, for example.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>What is the best AI email marketing copywriter?&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>When it comes to choosing the best AI tool to use, we can think of 3 main players in the email copywriting space:</p><ul><li>ChatGPT,</li><li>Jasper,</li><li>and CopyPro.</li></ul><br/><p>There are definitely others, but these are the main ones. The first thing you want to consider when choosing one is what they’re powered by. And in reality, they're all powered by the same thing but interfaced differently. </p><p><br></p><p>They all have training and information fed to them, so you want to take that into account. Have they been taught email marketing techniques? We don’t know much about the direct response digital marketing training that ChatGPT has had, for example. But Jasper claims to have read 10% of the Internet. And it&nbsp;also has some frameworks specifically for headline structures, Facebook ads, and blog articles. When it launched, it definitely had a very content-heavy approach (rather than a marketing-heavy one), but it seems more balanced now. </p><p>If you think about what we do, for example, a <em>Rob-and-Kennedy</em> subject line is very different from what's considered a <em>good</em> subject line in traditional copywriting. We know that our technique works, and that’s not to say others don’t, but AI can’t replicate the way we do things. And that means you'll have different results based on the techniques that are being used, where the inspiration is pulled from, and how it’s worded, structured, or written.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>What are the drawbacks of using AI email marketing software, like ChatGPT?</strong></h2><p>If you use AI to write your emails, you might find they all sound the same - like they've been written by a radio announcer. When we write our...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Can you use AI for email marketing? <em>Everyone</em> is talking about ChatGPT at the moment. Unless you live under a rock, you'll have seen or heard something about AI or even tried it yourself. So can tools such as ChatGPT help with your email copywriting?&nbsp;</p><p>Let's dive into all this!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:48) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook Group</a>. </p><p>(5:55) Should you use AI software like ChatGPT for email?</p><p>(9:29) Can this new AI software create stories for your emails?</p><p>(16:04) Where could you use AI for your email marketing?</p><p>(21:04) What is the best AI email marketing copywriter?</p><p>(24:25) What are the drawbacks of using AI email marketing software?</p><p>(26:35) What happens when you combine our powerful email templates with AI?</p><p>(28:01) Writing your own emails makes you a better marketer.</p><p>(29:48) Only you can craft better messaging for your marketing.</p><p>(33:32) Subject line of the week.</p><h2><strong>Should you use AI software like ChatGPT for email?&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>Last year we did a podcast episode about AI called&nbsp;<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/artificial-intelligence-in-email-marketing-ai/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Write Emails Using Artificial Intelligence (AI)</a>. But AI is such a hot topic right now that it felt it needed revisiting. </p><p>Are emails written by AI 'good enough'? The fact they're written by a computer is great, yes. Only a few years ago, the thought of this happening would have been ludicrous. But now these things are possible, and that's amazing.&nbsp;</p><p>The real question is - if you'd paid an email marketing agency to write an email for you, and you got something along the lines of what you get from an AI tool, would you be happy?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>The answer is no.&nbsp;</p><p>Because it's amazing that a computer can take a prompt and write an email for you that not only makes sense but also covers the topic appropriately. But is it as good as what a human could write? Is it as good as what an agency could produce? Or even as good as something that <em>you</em> could write yourself with our teachings and frameworks? No.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>To borrow an expression from our friend Jon Benson, when you read an email out loud that was written by AI, it's a bit like hearing the radio announcer's voice in your head. You know that tone - it sounds artificial. And <strong>humans connect with other humans. They connect with your personality. </strong>So as soon as you put AI in the mix, you're taking that humanity away. And that's a big loss.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Can this new AI software, such as ChatGPT, create stories for your emails?</strong></h2><p>We’re not saying AI has no place in marketing – it’s actually extremely useful. But can it create the stories we include in our emails? A lot of our approach is based on storytelling because stories are compelling and persuasive. And yes, AI can help you find stories.</p><p><br></p><p>In fact, Rob did a little experiment and asked ChatGPT to come up with a story that happened to him that day that he could tell his friends down the pub. And when the software started typing about elephants dancing in the streets, Rob had to stop it. The tool was writing a dream. So Rob asked the tool to try again, but this time to make the story believable. It had to be something that could happen in real life, be logical, and follow the laws of physics and nature.</p><p><br></p><p>In the end, the tool came up with the story about Rob seeing a cat in the street. Initially, the cat seemed a bit shy and cautious. But then Rob found something in his pocket and fed the cat, and the cat became friendlier. All good here. </p><p><br></p><p>Then Rob asked the tool to relate that story to a lesson about email marketing. And sure enough, the tool came back very quickly saying that the story about the cat was a bit like building relationships with your subscribers. When they first come into your world, they’re going to be cynical and skeptical because they don’t quite know what to make of you. But over time, by delivering value, rewarding them, and treating them well (like Rob did with the cat) you nurture the relationship. And, just like the cat, your subscribers become more trusting.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Do you really want to share stories that aren't true?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>So the tool did it! It created a story that could work. However,&nbsp;if you ask AI to create stories for you, they're not going to be true. This story was realistic, but it didn’t really happen to Rob!</p><p><br></p><p>And for us, <strong>the real superpower of great marketing is that it’s founded in truth</strong>. When people come up to us at events and mention things we’ve said or shared, we don’t have to scrap our heads trying to remember. Because what we say isn't made up or fictional - it's real! And <strong>we make sure that what we share is always real because we want to build trust.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>So, as more and more people use tools such as ChatGPT or Jasper,<strong> you have a real opportunity to stand out by telling stories that are real.</strong> Plus, your individual style is also unique and something that will stand out over anything AI-generated. A piece of software can write your stories for you, but by writing them yourself (and ensuring they're true) you can stand out both through content and style.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Where could you use AI for your email marketing?</strong></h2><p>With that said, there are a few places where you<em> could</em> use email marketing.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Email subject line AI generator&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>AI could be useful in helping you come up with subject lines. We don’t necessarily recommend that you start doing this. But if you wanted, you could copy and paste your emails into the platform and ask it to generate a few subject line ideas for you.</p><p>There's a problem with that though. ChatGPT (or other AI tools) haven't studied our <strong>Subject Lines That Drive Sales course</strong>. And that teaches you a different approach to creating subject lines. For us, it's not about pulling out the benefits of what you're selling - that's what everyone else seems to be doing. And most of the time,<strong> AI software is going to come up with benefit-driven, very linear subject lines that won't use the techniques we recommend, such as compound curiosity.</strong> But if you were really stuck, you could use AI for this purpose.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Email prompt ideas&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>You could also use AI to come up with prompt ideas for the stories you want to share in your emails. To be fair, it might take you longer to work out what prompts to type into the tool to get the story you want than to use one of the story generator shortcuts we created. But it's an option.</p><p>Or, you could put the bare basics of an idea or your first draft into the tool, and ask it to re-write the story for you in a different style. You may want it casual, fun, and upbeat, for example. If you don't consider yourself a confident writer, this could help.&nbsp;</p><p>You could also do what Rob did. You could come up with a story, and ask the tool to relate it to a lesson about what you sell. It might not be in your exact style (so you then have to edit it), but the tool could help you build that bridge between the story and the lesson.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Transactional emails</strong></h3><p>Another option is to have AI software write your transactional emails for you, such as the email that sends out the login information for your course, for example. Those emails are important, but they often fall to the bottom of your priority list because you have other more pressing emails to write - the ones that get you sales! So you could ask an AI tool to re-write some of your more transactional emails in a more interesting and inspiring way, for example.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>What is the best AI email marketing copywriter?&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>When it comes to choosing the best AI tool to use, we can think of 3 main players in the email copywriting space:</p><ul><li>ChatGPT,</li><li>Jasper,</li><li>and CopyPro.</li></ul><br/><p>There are definitely others, but these are the main ones. The first thing you want to consider when choosing one is what they’re powered by. And in reality, they're all powered by the same thing but interfaced differently. </p><p><br></p><p>They all have training and information fed to them, so you want to take that into account. Have they been taught email marketing techniques? We don’t know much about the direct response digital marketing training that ChatGPT has had, for example. But Jasper claims to have read 10% of the Internet. And it&nbsp;also has some frameworks specifically for headline structures, Facebook ads, and blog articles. When it launched, it definitely had a very content-heavy approach (rather than a marketing-heavy one), but it seems more balanced now. </p><p>If you think about what we do, for example, a <em>Rob-and-Kennedy</em> subject line is very different from what's considered a <em>good</em> subject line in traditional copywriting. We know that our technique works, and that’s not to say others don’t, but AI can’t replicate the way we do things. And that means you'll have different results based on the techniques that are being used, where the inspiration is pulled from, and how it’s worded, structured, or written.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>What are the drawbacks of using AI email marketing software, like ChatGPT?</strong></h2><p>If you use AI to write your emails, you might find they all sound the same - like they've been written by a radio announcer. When we write our emails, we type as we speak. And that's why this idea of <em>subvocalisation</em> kicks in - when people read our emails, they hear our voices in their heads. And they can't do that if your emails are written by AI email marketing software.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Plus, if you're not telling true stories (because you're using AI to generate them), you'll find it harder to create rapport. You may have AI write a story for you today that's all about you being vegan, and in a few weeks, they might start talking about steak! This is an extreme example of two contradicting stories, but it's easily done if you send out stories that aren't true.&nbsp;</p><p>And let's not forget that what you get out of these tools cannot be the final version of your email. It will need editing, and you'll have to add your own features or spin to it. The prompts will need maneuvering so they feel like you, and the AI-generated stories (while they might be good enough) will need tweaking.&nbsp;</p><p>Another drawback is that ChatGPT and the other AI tools can't write anything that's strategic.<strong> You'll only ever have individual emails - not campaigns of emails that are chained together to build a marketing argument that moves people from point A to point B and creates a desire for what you sell. </strong>Even if a tool could write a sequence of emails to help you sell something, they'd be standalone emails in a row, rather than emails that were strategically created to build on each other.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>What happens when you combine our powerful email templates with AI?&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>Inside our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, we release a lot of email templates and campaigns. So how can you use AI in conjunction with what we teach? </p><p>As we said earlier, you could use AI to rewrite stories for you. For example, if one of our templates recommends you write a story about something funny that happened when you were a child, you might jot down a vague story and then ask AI to write it in a more interesting way.</p><p>Or you could ask AI software to articulate something you’re struggling with or find a new way of saying something. For example, on the last day of a launch or promotional campaign, we’ll send out 3 emails. There are reasons why we send those emails, but they also all say that the offer expires today. So you could use AI to come up with 3 interesting ways of telling your subscribers that your offer is closing tonight, for example. Just remember that once you have the ideas, you might need to tweak them and add your personality and style.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Writing your own emails makes you a better marketer</strong></h2><p>Overall, we’re not saying you can’t use AI. It definitely has its place, and a lot of people are using AI to help with their marketing, whether it's email marketing, content, or sales pages. AI is worth monitoring, but is it going to become your email marketing solution any time soon? No.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And honestly, writing emails ourselves day in and day out has helped us not just to make sales but also to get a better grip on our messaging. Because the truth is that the further away you move from regularly doing something (including talking about your business), the rustier you become.</p><p>We talk about email marketing all day long, and that’s helped up create frameworks, ideas, analogies, and metaphors. <strong>The more emails you write, the more you get to understand and refine your messaging.</strong> By sending out emails regularly, you get to see what people resonate the most with. As you pay attention to that, you get to come up with new ways to sell the same thing and appeal to different people. And by doing that regularly, you'll eventually find something that appeals to most people. And that's what you'll roll out more of.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Only <em>you</em> can craft better messaging for your email marketing</strong></h3><p>Every time you write something, it gives you more clarity and understanding about what you do and what it means to others. The more ideas you come up with, the deeper you go into your messaging and come up with angles that are interesting and unique.&nbsp;</p><p>And when you eventually land on something that gets you a great response and resonates differently with people - it could be a turn of phrase, a way of describing something, or a metaphor - you'll want to capitalise on it. You'll want to take that thing outside of email marketing and also use it in your sales pages, your webinars, your videos, etc.</p><p>But <strong>you can only do that if you get to experiment every single day on how to craft messages for your marketing. </strong>This doesn't work if all you're doing is pressing a button and getting AI to write for you. Take Rob, for example - he has to come up with a new way of writing about our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> <em>every single day</em>. And because of that, he's more experienced that anyone who's <em>not</em> doing the same in their own business.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Check out The League</strong></h2><p>So use AI for inspiration or to rewrite ideas - it's fun. But <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> was created pre-AI so you always know <em>what to say</em>, <em>who to say it to</em>, <em>when to send it</em>, and <em>how to send it</em> without having to ask a computer to do it. Because remember that they don't have context, thinking, or strategy! So go and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h2><p>This week’s subject line is “Cancel the flights!”. The sentence was designed to be reminiscent of the tone that a big, busy business executive in a film would assume when talking to their assistant. The email had a story about an event we’re speaking at and promoting, and the message was about getting your tickets for the events <em>right now</em> (and worry about the logistics later). Pretty cool, right?</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h2><h3><strong>Related episodes</strong></h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/artificial-intelligence-in-email-marketing-ai/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Write Emails Using Artificial Intelligence (AI)</a></p><p><a href="https://sarabussandri.com/repurposing-your-own-content-no-time-saving/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Get Your Emails Opened Using NLP – With Jon Benson</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/compound-curiosity-clever-subject-lines-for-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Advanced Psychology: Using Compound Curiosity</a>.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>FREE list to improve your email marketing</strong></h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about AI for email marketing and how tools such as ChatGPT for email copywriting can help) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>leaving us a review&nbsp;</strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;</p><p>Not...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/chatgpt-email-marketing/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">538f7ba8-1a12-4338-8827-db48deff1214</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/d9e91301-9d4a-4957-8f36-7841691d7206/Wj9za9YUCzNcU-mQ4W_GJhtx.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/4ba58989-420f-402e-9176-c7c701bc94aa/ChatGPT-email-marketing.mp3" length="84831002" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>35:21</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>180</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>180</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Mindblowing Techniques To Connect More Deeply With Your Email Readers With Rob Marsh &amp; Kira Hug</title><itunes:title>Mindblowing Techniques To Connect More Deeply With Your Email Readers With Rob Marsh &amp; Kira Hug</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>How do you connect more deeply with your audience when sending out emails? Rob&nbsp;Marsh and Kira Hug from <a href="https://thecopywriterclub.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Copywriter Club</a> tell us all about the persuasive copywriting techniques that professionals use in order to build and maintain strong relationships with their email readers. </p><p>And you can start using these techniques too. Straight away! </p><p>Ready to take notes?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:17) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook Group</a>.</p><p>(2:27) Did Kira really eat a hamster once? </p><p>(4:31) The importance of using your real voice.</p><p>(7:36) The persuasion technique called LIKING.</p><p>(12:41) The persuasiong technique called SIGNIFICANCE.&nbsp;</p><p>(15:43) When should you add persuasion techniques to your writing?</p><p>(17:38) Do persuasive techniques only work in email marketing?</p><p>(18:47) The persuasion technique of ANCHORING.</p><p>(20:35) Building trust with your audience. </p><p>(21:45) Subject line of the week with Rob Marsh and Kira Hug.</p><h2><strong>The importance of using your real voice</strong></h2><p>Rob and Kira help people become copywriters or improve their copywriting skills, and a huge part of that is teaching people how to connect with their audience. Because if you’re not establishing a strong connection with your subscribers and are just throwing copy into the wild, people are going to ignore you!</p><p>So the first thing we all need to do in order for people to feel the emotion coming through their screens when they read our emails is to <strong>create a brand voice that reflects the way we talk. </strong>That means <em>not</em> polishing yourself to sound like a super sleek marketer. Because who would trust that person? Instead, <strong>pull your own voice into the copy</strong>. And to do that, you want to almost imagine you're dictating an email to yourself.&nbsp;</p><p>This also means not worrying too much about misspellings and grammatical mistakes. Because guess what? Most people won't notice. And those who will might reply back to point out an error, which is good for you because it creates engagement. And engagement with your emails tells Gmail and the other platforms that your emails are worth reading and responding to. In other words, you're increasing your credibility as an email sender! </p><p>And that's why copywriters and marketers sometimes make mistakes <em>on purpose</em> in order to generate that engagement. At the end of the day, if you're delivering value, typos shouldn't matter that much.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>The persuasion technique called LIKING</strong></h2><p>Robert Cialdini, in his book "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" talks about the technique of<em> liking</em>. You help people <em>liking</em> you through exposure and repeatedly showing up and sharing personal details. This helps people connect with you.</p><p>For example, we (Rob and Kennedy) do this by sharing personal facts about ourselves at the start of each podcast episode. And people tend to remember those about us. </p><p>Another example is that Rob Marsh had a lot of responses when he shared about his mother passing away. Of course, it doesn't have to be something as deep as personal as that - the time he shared about giving up Coke Zero worked just as well. <strong>Sharing personal details helps you create personal connections, which is vital because people buy from people they like and trust.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Evoking nostalgia and using pop culture</strong></h3><p>When it comes to sharing personal details, think about putting boundaries in place that you’re comfortable with so you don't suddenly feel completely vulnerable and exposed to the world. You might not be comfortable sharing something as deep and meaningful as a personal loss, so Kira recommends you think about things that evoke <em>nostalgia</em>.&nbsp;</p><p>To do that, you can use pop culture. If you mention The Simpsons in an email, for example, people don't need to be super fans to be able to get your reference. For the most part, they'll be aware of the show. And <strong>as soon as you start talking about something that everyone knows about, you open a doorway for people to come in quickly and connect with you. </strong>And that's very different from sharing a personal story about when you were 10 years old that you might not be too comfortable talking about. </p><p>It's not even about whether people agree with you or not - all that matters is that they understand the reference. Because that's what helps you build the relationship. And it doesn't even need to be something super significant - it could be something as small as sharing someone's birthday. That is enough to create a connection with someone.&nbsp;</p><p>So <strong>when sharing personal details and stories about yourself, put barriers around the things that are part of your world that you don't want to talk about. </strong>You can choose what you talk about and <em>not</em> talk about with your audience.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>The persuasion technique called SIGNIFICANCE</strong></h2><p>Another copywriting technique Rob and Kira recommend is <em>significance</em>. This helps the person you’re talking to feel they’re important. So when you create any type of copy, make your audience feel like you understand and empathise with what they're going through.</p><p>A way to apply this is by using <em>flattery</em>. This works because when you say something good about a person (even when they know you might be insincere or have an ulterior motive) it increases their liking of you. So think about anything you can write in your emails to help your readers feel significant, heard, and important. Because that helps you connect more deeply with your audience.</p><p>Kennedy did a lot of research around flattery (due to his line of work as a Psychological Mind Reader), and a cool trick anyone can use to go beyond 'bland flattery' is to tell the person <em>why</em> you admire them or you’re paying them a compliment - it makes what you say feel more believable and 'solid'.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>When should you add copywriting persuasion techniques into your writing?</strong></h2><p>Should these persuasion techniques be embedded in the writing process from the start or can they be sprinkled on at the end? Kira explained that she will often start with some of these persuasion techniques, especially in order to create a <em>pattern interrupt</em> for people. </p><p>Because we live in a busy world with a lot of messages coming from all directions, we need to constantly think about how we’re going to grab the attention of our readers (and get them to open and read our emails). So sometimes you have to start your emails with these techniques.&nbsp;</p><p>However, details like flattery or adding specific details around nostalgia or pop culture can be inserted later, unless they’re the very theme of the email, in which case you might want to start from there.</p><p>The good news is that the more you do it, the more natural this becomes. You start thinking about the person you're writing to and the things you can share. And especially with email (unlike a sales page), you can use these techniques over the course of several emails. You may use more <em>liking</em> in one email and more <em>significance</em> in the next. </p><p><strong>Over time, using these techniques helps you deepen the connection with your audience.</strong> And if you ever notice you're starting to sound like every other business owner or marketer, it's time to pump up your voice so you can better hold people's attention.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2>Do persuasive copywriting techniques only work with email marketing?</h2><p>Email marketing is brilliant and unique in the way it’s <em>personal</em>. Because even though you may be writing an email and sending it out to many people, it’s a one-to-one type of communication for the person receiving it. So using techniques such as <em>liking</em>, <em>significance</em>, or even <em>anchoring</em> (more on that below) can have a bigger impact when used in email marketing than it does in other types of communication (such as a sales page, for example).</p><p>So this is a definite advantage that email has over other types of communication. Plus, because it’s constant and regular, and you're present every day, it allows you to build rapport over time. A sales page, on the other hand, is a one-off piece as it's rare that someone comes back to a sales page day after day.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>The persuasive technique of ANCHORING</strong></h2><p><em>Anchoring</em> is the idea of attaching whatever you’re talking about to something else the audience is already familiar with. It’s most commonly talked about in the context of pricing, but it’s broader than that.</p><p>For example, if you want to make your product seem valuable you anchor it to something that’s perceived as valuable, such as a Rolls Royce. Equally, if you want to position it as something everyone can afford, you can associate it with Walmart. </p><p><em>Anchoring </em>allows you to attach your product with ideas that people already have in their heads so the value they associate with the other thing is automatically translated to your product too. It helps you give your offers <em>relative value</em>, and it's a great technique to frame your products and to use in your email marketing.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2>Building trust with your audience</h2><p>And finally, another useful technique is <em>building trust</em>. You always need to understand the stress levels of the audience and 'read the room'. What is someone dealing with in their minds and in their lives while reading your emails? </p><p>We often talk about<em>...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How do you connect more deeply with your audience when sending out emails? Rob&nbsp;Marsh and Kira Hug from <a href="https://thecopywriterclub.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Copywriter Club</a> tell us all about the persuasive copywriting techniques that professionals use in order to build and maintain strong relationships with their email readers. </p><p>And you can start using these techniques too. Straight away! </p><p>Ready to take notes?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:17) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook Group</a>.</p><p>(2:27) Did Kira really eat a hamster once? </p><p>(4:31) The importance of using your real voice.</p><p>(7:36) The persuasion technique called LIKING.</p><p>(12:41) The persuasiong technique called SIGNIFICANCE.&nbsp;</p><p>(15:43) When should you add persuasion techniques to your writing?</p><p>(17:38) Do persuasive techniques only work in email marketing?</p><p>(18:47) The persuasion technique of ANCHORING.</p><p>(20:35) Building trust with your audience. </p><p>(21:45) Subject line of the week with Rob Marsh and Kira Hug.</p><h2><strong>The importance of using your real voice</strong></h2><p>Rob and Kira help people become copywriters or improve their copywriting skills, and a huge part of that is teaching people how to connect with their audience. Because if you’re not establishing a strong connection with your subscribers and are just throwing copy into the wild, people are going to ignore you!</p><p>So the first thing we all need to do in order for people to feel the emotion coming through their screens when they read our emails is to <strong>create a brand voice that reflects the way we talk. </strong>That means <em>not</em> polishing yourself to sound like a super sleek marketer. Because who would trust that person? Instead, <strong>pull your own voice into the copy</strong>. And to do that, you want to almost imagine you're dictating an email to yourself.&nbsp;</p><p>This also means not worrying too much about misspellings and grammatical mistakes. Because guess what? Most people won't notice. And those who will might reply back to point out an error, which is good for you because it creates engagement. And engagement with your emails tells Gmail and the other platforms that your emails are worth reading and responding to. In other words, you're increasing your credibility as an email sender! </p><p>And that's why copywriters and marketers sometimes make mistakes <em>on purpose</em> in order to generate that engagement. At the end of the day, if you're delivering value, typos shouldn't matter that much.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>The persuasion technique called LIKING</strong></h2><p>Robert Cialdini, in his book "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" talks about the technique of<em> liking</em>. You help people <em>liking</em> you through exposure and repeatedly showing up and sharing personal details. This helps people connect with you.</p><p>For example, we (Rob and Kennedy) do this by sharing personal facts about ourselves at the start of each podcast episode. And people tend to remember those about us. </p><p>Another example is that Rob Marsh had a lot of responses when he shared about his mother passing away. Of course, it doesn't have to be something as deep as personal as that - the time he shared about giving up Coke Zero worked just as well. <strong>Sharing personal details helps you create personal connections, which is vital because people buy from people they like and trust.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Evoking nostalgia and using pop culture</strong></h3><p>When it comes to sharing personal details, think about putting boundaries in place that you’re comfortable with so you don't suddenly feel completely vulnerable and exposed to the world. You might not be comfortable sharing something as deep and meaningful as a personal loss, so Kira recommends you think about things that evoke <em>nostalgia</em>.&nbsp;</p><p>To do that, you can use pop culture. If you mention The Simpsons in an email, for example, people don't need to be super fans to be able to get your reference. For the most part, they'll be aware of the show. And <strong>as soon as you start talking about something that everyone knows about, you open a doorway for people to come in quickly and connect with you. </strong>And that's very different from sharing a personal story about when you were 10 years old that you might not be too comfortable talking about. </p><p>It's not even about whether people agree with you or not - all that matters is that they understand the reference. Because that's what helps you build the relationship. And it doesn't even need to be something super significant - it could be something as small as sharing someone's birthday. That is enough to create a connection with someone.&nbsp;</p><p>So <strong>when sharing personal details and stories about yourself, put barriers around the things that are part of your world that you don't want to talk about. </strong>You can choose what you talk about and <em>not</em> talk about with your audience.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>The persuasion technique called SIGNIFICANCE</strong></h2><p>Another copywriting technique Rob and Kira recommend is <em>significance</em>. This helps the person you’re talking to feel they’re important. So when you create any type of copy, make your audience feel like you understand and empathise with what they're going through.</p><p>A way to apply this is by using <em>flattery</em>. This works because when you say something good about a person (even when they know you might be insincere or have an ulterior motive) it increases their liking of you. So think about anything you can write in your emails to help your readers feel significant, heard, and important. Because that helps you connect more deeply with your audience.</p><p>Kennedy did a lot of research around flattery (due to his line of work as a Psychological Mind Reader), and a cool trick anyone can use to go beyond 'bland flattery' is to tell the person <em>why</em> you admire them or you’re paying them a compliment - it makes what you say feel more believable and 'solid'.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>When should you add copywriting persuasion techniques into your writing?</strong></h2><p>Should these persuasion techniques be embedded in the writing process from the start or can they be sprinkled on at the end? Kira explained that she will often start with some of these persuasion techniques, especially in order to create a <em>pattern interrupt</em> for people. </p><p>Because we live in a busy world with a lot of messages coming from all directions, we need to constantly think about how we’re going to grab the attention of our readers (and get them to open and read our emails). So sometimes you have to start your emails with these techniques.&nbsp;</p><p>However, details like flattery or adding specific details around nostalgia or pop culture can be inserted later, unless they’re the very theme of the email, in which case you might want to start from there.</p><p>The good news is that the more you do it, the more natural this becomes. You start thinking about the person you're writing to and the things you can share. And especially with email (unlike a sales page), you can use these techniques over the course of several emails. You may use more <em>liking</em> in one email and more <em>significance</em> in the next. </p><p><strong>Over time, using these techniques helps you deepen the connection with your audience.</strong> And if you ever notice you're starting to sound like every other business owner or marketer, it's time to pump up your voice so you can better hold people's attention.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2>Do persuasive copywriting techniques only work with email marketing?</h2><p>Email marketing is brilliant and unique in the way it’s <em>personal</em>. Because even though you may be writing an email and sending it out to many people, it’s a one-to-one type of communication for the person receiving it. So using techniques such as <em>liking</em>, <em>significance</em>, or even <em>anchoring</em> (more on that below) can have a bigger impact when used in email marketing than it does in other types of communication (such as a sales page, for example).</p><p>So this is a definite advantage that email has over other types of communication. Plus, because it’s constant and regular, and you're present every day, it allows you to build rapport over time. A sales page, on the other hand, is a one-off piece as it's rare that someone comes back to a sales page day after day.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>The persuasive technique of ANCHORING</strong></h2><p><em>Anchoring</em> is the idea of attaching whatever you’re talking about to something else the audience is already familiar with. It’s most commonly talked about in the context of pricing, but it’s broader than that.</p><p>For example, if you want to make your product seem valuable you anchor it to something that’s perceived as valuable, such as a Rolls Royce. Equally, if you want to position it as something everyone can afford, you can associate it with Walmart. </p><p><em>Anchoring </em>allows you to attach your product with ideas that people already have in their heads so the value they associate with the other thing is automatically translated to your product too. It helps you give your offers <em>relative value</em>, and it's a great technique to frame your products and to use in your email marketing.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2>Building trust with your audience</h2><p>And finally, another useful technique is <em>building trust</em>. You always need to understand the stress levels of the audience and 'read the room'. What is someone dealing with in their minds and in their lives while reading your emails? </p><p>We often talk about<em> relevancy</em> as well. If you write an email to someone who's dealing with conflict in their country, but you completely miss the mark and fail to acknowledge what's going on for them, there's a good chance you'll lose that person, and they won't come back.&nbsp;</p><p>If you're not mindful about using the right persuasive techniques at the appropriate time you could lose people. So be aware of what's going on in your audience's world so you can build trust with them.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Subject line of the week&nbsp;with Rob Marsh and Kira Hug</strong></h2><p>This week we have <em>two</em> subject lines! Rob Marsh’s favourite subject line is "That will be $27,000. Oh, and bring cash", she said. The reason why this worked well is that it sounds like the beginning of a story. There’s an immediate hook here where the reader is wondering what’s happening. Plus, the number catches their attention – it’s a big number, especially coupled with the phrase “bring cash”. Because $27,000 in cash is a lot of notes! The subject line worked because it's intriguing.</p><p>And Kira’s favourite subject line is “That time I tied up Rob…” We feel this one needs no explanation - it worked because it obviously creates intrigue. No wonder Rob and Kira had a decent open rate on that one, right?</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h2><h3><strong>About Rob Marsh and Kira Hug</strong></h3><p>If you want to connect with Rob and Kira, you can find them on <a href="https://thecopywriterclub.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">their website</a> or their <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/thecopywriterclub/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">free Facebook group</a> or you can check out their podcast,&nbsp;<a href="https://thecopywriterclub.com/podcast/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Copywriter Club podcast</a>. And if you <a href="https://thecopywriterclub.com/robandkennedy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">head over here</a>, you'll find a checklist of 27 different persuasion techniques for you to download and include in your own writing.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Related episodes</strong></h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-market-yourself-belinda-weaver/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Making Yourself Choosable with Belinda Weaver</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/write-better-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Little Tricks to Write Better Emails That Aren’t Boring</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/the-therapeutic-benefits-of-writing-your-own-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Therapeutic Benefits of Writing Your Own Emails</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h3><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about persuasive copywriting techniques you can use in your email marketing) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/persuasive-copywriting-email/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">d621cd79-001a-4484-b103-1f5f2c3e43fd</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/ac097b92-c0f9-4406-8da0-fbf6e6893124/sTXVP9CMpWASN5rtIL2Lulv6.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/38e34e78-3cc5-48f4-8570-9aa3d469c6f9/Copywriting-Techniques-To-Connect-Deeply.mp3" length="59747182" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>24:54</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>179</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>179</podcast:episode></item><item><title>6 Things You Didn&apos;t Know Your Email Marketing Platform Could Do</title><itunes:title>6 Things You Didn&apos;t Know Your Email Marketing Platform Could Do</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What if your email marketing platform could do <em>more</em> than you think it can? What if there was a super simple way for you to do some things that <em>sound</em> very technical - and something that only big companies with huge budgets could do? Well, we're here to show you 6 amazing things that the best marketing email platforms can do (thanks to a little sprinkle of magic from us).&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to have your mind blown and your business changed for the better?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:10) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook Group</a>. </p><p>(5:18) Introducing our software - Automate Hero.</p><p>(7:33) Tracking where your customers are coming from.</p><p>(12:29) Showing people the right offers.</p><p>(15:20) Creating urgency for every subscriber.</p><p>(18:33) Offering hot leads the product they're after.</p><p>(22:38) Targeting subscribers based on their browsing behaviours.</p><p>(26:58) Increasing the consumption of your sales videos.</p><p>(29:00) Want access to these tools? Join our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. </p><p>(33:27) Subject line of the week.</p><h2>Introducing our software - Automate Hero&nbsp;</h2><p>Automate Hero is a tool we created for our members inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> that plugs into your existing email marketing platform and adds some technical capabilities that <em>sound</em> complicated but are really really easy to do.&nbsp;</p><p>So here are the 6 amazing things that our members can do by using Automate Hero.&nbsp;</p><h2><strong>1. Tracking where your customers are coming from</strong></h2><p>This is all about being able to <strong>know <em>for sure</em> how someone first came into your world and when and how they first became a customer</strong> by buying one of your products or services.&nbsp;</p><p>Automate Hero gives you the ability to track this inside your email marketing platform. And it doesn't use pixels or cookies. Because we know those things are often inaccurate and not easy to use. Installing Automate Hero takes 10 minutes, and then it'll be up and running forever. But the key here is that you'll be able to track the information <em>with accuracy</em>.&nbsp;</p><p>So if a podcast listener decides to download one of our lead magnets and then a month later joins our membership via a link in one of our emails, we can track that.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Do more of what's working and stop doing what isn't!&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>And this is really powerful because it allows you to <strong>accurately review your activity over a period of time and determine what's working in your business.</strong> If you relied on the data from the ads reporting platforms, for example, you'd never get anywhere because the numbers often don't even add up!&nbsp;</p><p>As we always say, knowing what works in your business is key, so you can do more of what's working and stop doing what isn't. This is why, at the end of 2022, we stopped investing in our Instagram strategy. Because when we looked at the data, we realised that less than 1% of our members were coming via that route. So we redirected all that time, money, and effort into strategies that give us a return on investments.&nbsp;</p><p>And knowing where people originally come from and when they buy is important because the buyer's journey is hardly a linear one. If someone becomes a customer years down the line, we'll still be able to track it!</p><p><br></p><h2>2. Showing people the <em>right</em> offers</h2><p>The second functionality that Automate Hero allows your marketing email platform to perform is sending people the right offers instead of showing them something they already bought.&nbsp;</p><p>So imagine someone opts into your lead magnet and is presented with an offer for a product or service they’ve already bought. When that happens, you're not only missing out on an opportunity to direct this person to something they might actually want to buy. But if you're showing them something they already have, they'll also end up disengaging and not paying as much attention.</p><p>Through our tool Redirect Hero, <strong>you can check (in real-time) which products or services a particular subscriber has bought from you</strong> by verifying the tags or list against that person inside your email marketing platform. Based on that, you get to send them to different sales pages. And that means you show fewer irrelevant offers to people.&nbsp;</p><p>It also means that <strong>you can dynamically and automatically increase how much someone spends with you</strong>, which translates to a more profitable business.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>3. Creating urgency for <em>every</em> subscriber</strong></h2><p>What do you do when you have an evergreen product or service that is always available to buy? How do you create urgency? Simple. You add countdown timers. </p><p>Our software Automate Hero allows you to post a countdown timer on any page you host and say there are only X amount of products available at a particular price. And suddenly, whatever you're selling becomes more desirable. People have to jump off the fence and buy <em>now</em> because the offer is soon going away.&nbsp;</p><p>We use this strategy and tool for our own membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, which is an evergreen product. To create urgency, we use email campaigns with special offers and countdown timers. Because we want everyone who joins our list to have the same opportunities, no matter when they join, <strong>each timer is individual and based on whenever a person came into our world</strong>.</p><p>Automate Hero allows us to create an evergreen launch-like urgency that <em>cannot</em> be skipped. And that's because we don't use cookies - there are ways around those! Instead, we use technology that’s built into the email marketing platform through our tool.&nbsp;</p><h2><strong>4. Offering hot leads the product they're after</strong></h2><p>The next capability our suite of tools allows your email marketing platform to perform is to target your most interested customers by putting them in front of an offer for the very product or service they've been looking at. </p><p>This is the virtual equivalent of a customer walking into a shop and picking up a product and looking at it. You know for a fact that soon enough, a sales assistant will come over and tell you all about the product and help you buy it.</p><p>In the online world, you need an automated version of that - and this is exactly it. If someone clicks on a link inside one of our emails and looks at our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> 3 times in the space of 60 days, but they don't buy, we put them into an email sequence that's specifically designed to sell them our membership.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The Tell Me More campaign</strong></h3><p>The campaign is called Tell Me More and it's made of 6 emails sent out over 6 days. What's so special about this automation? It contains a bribe. And it works and converts, but not because of the bribe. It works and converts because we know that people are at a point where their buying intent is super high. They're very close to making a decision - the time is right for them to buy. So they do.&nbsp;</p><p>This uses a piece of technology that we call Click Count, which shows how many times someone clicks on a specific offer. Of course, when you're a member of <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> and have access to this tool, you can customise it so it works for you. Whatever parameters you set, they must tell you that, based on their online behaviours, this person is red hot - they're about to buy. You just need the equivalent of an in-store sales assistant to help them get over the line.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>5. Targeting subscribers based on their browsing behaviours</strong></h2><p>The fifth functionality we can enable your email marketing platform to do for you is to customise how you follow up with people who've been on your sales pages. When looking at pages, people have different habits - both in terms of browsing and buying behaviours. Someone will look through a page in order while someone else may jump from section to section or scroll up and down. That means you want to be able to target them differently depending on what they've seen on a page.&nbsp;</p><p>For example, if you know someone has seen the price but not the bonuses, you may want to talk to them differently to someone who's seen the bonuses and not the price. In other words, you'll want to send different sets of emails.&nbsp;</p><p>For this, we created a tool called Page Hero, which is an invisible piece of code that you place on your page that tracks every single subscriber - where they click, how long they spend on a page, etc. Based on that information, you can decide what emails to send them.&nbsp;</p><p>If someone’s had your sales page open on their laptop for more than three days, for example, you might want to send them a special offer to make them buy now. That's exactly what countdown timers do – they move people from thinking they’ll buy “someday” to buying “right now”. Pretty cool, right?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2>6. Increasing the consumption of your sales videos</h2><p>The last tool we have in our arsenal right now is something that enables you to increase the consumption of your sales videos (or any video). It's called Video Hero and it allows you to tag someone in your marketing email...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What if your email marketing platform could do <em>more</em> than you think it can? What if there was a super simple way for you to do some things that <em>sound</em> very technical - and something that only big companies with huge budgets could do? Well, we're here to show you 6 amazing things that the best marketing email platforms can do (thanks to a little sprinkle of magic from us).&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to have your mind blown and your business changed for the better?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:10) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook Group</a>. </p><p>(5:18) Introducing our software - Automate Hero.</p><p>(7:33) Tracking where your customers are coming from.</p><p>(12:29) Showing people the right offers.</p><p>(15:20) Creating urgency for every subscriber.</p><p>(18:33) Offering hot leads the product they're after.</p><p>(22:38) Targeting subscribers based on their browsing behaviours.</p><p>(26:58) Increasing the consumption of your sales videos.</p><p>(29:00) Want access to these tools? Join our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. </p><p>(33:27) Subject line of the week.</p><h2>Introducing our software - Automate Hero&nbsp;</h2><p>Automate Hero is a tool we created for our members inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> that plugs into your existing email marketing platform and adds some technical capabilities that <em>sound</em> complicated but are really really easy to do.&nbsp;</p><p>So here are the 6 amazing things that our members can do by using Automate Hero.&nbsp;</p><h2><strong>1. Tracking where your customers are coming from</strong></h2><p>This is all about being able to <strong>know <em>for sure</em> how someone first came into your world and when and how they first became a customer</strong> by buying one of your products or services.&nbsp;</p><p>Automate Hero gives you the ability to track this inside your email marketing platform. And it doesn't use pixels or cookies. Because we know those things are often inaccurate and not easy to use. Installing Automate Hero takes 10 minutes, and then it'll be up and running forever. But the key here is that you'll be able to track the information <em>with accuracy</em>.&nbsp;</p><p>So if a podcast listener decides to download one of our lead magnets and then a month later joins our membership via a link in one of our emails, we can track that.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Do more of what's working and stop doing what isn't!&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>And this is really powerful because it allows you to <strong>accurately review your activity over a period of time and determine what's working in your business.</strong> If you relied on the data from the ads reporting platforms, for example, you'd never get anywhere because the numbers often don't even add up!&nbsp;</p><p>As we always say, knowing what works in your business is key, so you can do more of what's working and stop doing what isn't. This is why, at the end of 2022, we stopped investing in our Instagram strategy. Because when we looked at the data, we realised that less than 1% of our members were coming via that route. So we redirected all that time, money, and effort into strategies that give us a return on investments.&nbsp;</p><p>And knowing where people originally come from and when they buy is important because the buyer's journey is hardly a linear one. If someone becomes a customer years down the line, we'll still be able to track it!</p><p><br></p><h2>2. Showing people the <em>right</em> offers</h2><p>The second functionality that Automate Hero allows your marketing email platform to perform is sending people the right offers instead of showing them something they already bought.&nbsp;</p><p>So imagine someone opts into your lead magnet and is presented with an offer for a product or service they’ve already bought. When that happens, you're not only missing out on an opportunity to direct this person to something they might actually want to buy. But if you're showing them something they already have, they'll also end up disengaging and not paying as much attention.</p><p>Through our tool Redirect Hero, <strong>you can check (in real-time) which products or services a particular subscriber has bought from you</strong> by verifying the tags or list against that person inside your email marketing platform. Based on that, you get to send them to different sales pages. And that means you show fewer irrelevant offers to people.&nbsp;</p><p>It also means that <strong>you can dynamically and automatically increase how much someone spends with you</strong>, which translates to a more profitable business.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>3. Creating urgency for <em>every</em> subscriber</strong></h2><p>What do you do when you have an evergreen product or service that is always available to buy? How do you create urgency? Simple. You add countdown timers. </p><p>Our software Automate Hero allows you to post a countdown timer on any page you host and say there are only X amount of products available at a particular price. And suddenly, whatever you're selling becomes more desirable. People have to jump off the fence and buy <em>now</em> because the offer is soon going away.&nbsp;</p><p>We use this strategy and tool for our own membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, which is an evergreen product. To create urgency, we use email campaigns with special offers and countdown timers. Because we want everyone who joins our list to have the same opportunities, no matter when they join, <strong>each timer is individual and based on whenever a person came into our world</strong>.</p><p>Automate Hero allows us to create an evergreen launch-like urgency that <em>cannot</em> be skipped. And that's because we don't use cookies - there are ways around those! Instead, we use technology that’s built into the email marketing platform through our tool.&nbsp;</p><h2><strong>4. Offering hot leads the product they're after</strong></h2><p>The next capability our suite of tools allows your email marketing platform to perform is to target your most interested customers by putting them in front of an offer for the very product or service they've been looking at. </p><p>This is the virtual equivalent of a customer walking into a shop and picking up a product and looking at it. You know for a fact that soon enough, a sales assistant will come over and tell you all about the product and help you buy it.</p><p>In the online world, you need an automated version of that - and this is exactly it. If someone clicks on a link inside one of our emails and looks at our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> 3 times in the space of 60 days, but they don't buy, we put them into an email sequence that's specifically designed to sell them our membership.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The Tell Me More campaign</strong></h3><p>The campaign is called Tell Me More and it's made of 6 emails sent out over 6 days. What's so special about this automation? It contains a bribe. And it works and converts, but not because of the bribe. It works and converts because we know that people are at a point where their buying intent is super high. They're very close to making a decision - the time is right for them to buy. So they do.&nbsp;</p><p>This uses a piece of technology that we call Click Count, which shows how many times someone clicks on a specific offer. Of course, when you're a member of <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> and have access to this tool, you can customise it so it works for you. Whatever parameters you set, they must tell you that, based on their online behaviours, this person is red hot - they're about to buy. You just need the equivalent of an in-store sales assistant to help them get over the line.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>5. Targeting subscribers based on their browsing behaviours</strong></h2><p>The fifth functionality we can enable your email marketing platform to do for you is to customise how you follow up with people who've been on your sales pages. When looking at pages, people have different habits - both in terms of browsing and buying behaviours. Someone will look through a page in order while someone else may jump from section to section or scroll up and down. That means you want to be able to target them differently depending on what they've seen on a page.&nbsp;</p><p>For example, if you know someone has seen the price but not the bonuses, you may want to talk to them differently to someone who's seen the bonuses and not the price. In other words, you'll want to send different sets of emails.&nbsp;</p><p>For this, we created a tool called Page Hero, which is an invisible piece of code that you place on your page that tracks every single subscriber - where they click, how long they spend on a page, etc. Based on that information, you can decide what emails to send them.&nbsp;</p><p>If someone’s had your sales page open on their laptop for more than three days, for example, you might want to send them a special offer to make them buy now. That's exactly what countdown timers do – they move people from thinking they’ll buy “someday” to buying “right now”. Pretty cool, right?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2>6. Increasing the consumption of your sales videos</h2><p>The last tool we have in our arsenal right now is something that enables you to increase the consumption of your sales videos (or any video). It's called Video Hero and it allows you to tag someone in your marketing email platform based on how many minutes and seconds of a sales video they've watched.&nbsp;</p><p>This allows you to send people different emails based on how much of your content they've consumed. If they've only watched a few minutes of a video, for example, you can send them an email to remind them to watch it. Or if they've watched most of it but not completed it, your message will be different.&nbsp;</p><p>All you need to do is to place the video on a page that you host so you can add a little piece of code onto it and get this functionality to work. Easy as pie.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Want access to these tools? Join our membership The League</strong></h2><p>These 6 capabilities may sound difficult (if not impossible!) and technical. But they're not! With Automate Hero, they're super simple. There's absolutely no technical knowledge or coding required - just some copying and pasting! And you can continue to use your existing email marketing platform.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>If you want access to the software we created, check out our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. We give you all the campaigns, training, and coaching to help you more than double your sales through email marketing. The Automate Hero suite effectively gives your existing email marketing platform superpowers, and it's dead easy to integrate. </p><p>Currently, it works with some of the most popular email markeing platform, including Keap, AWeber, ActiveCampaign, Convertkit, Drip, GetResponse, Klaviyo, Mailchimp, MailerLite and more! Plus, we'll be adding more platform intergreations and more exciting functionalities as time goes on. If you're already a member and aren't using Automate Hero, whatcha waiting for? Go and log in right now!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h2><p>This week’s subject line is “A shit start to the day.” where the word 'shit' is replaced by the poop emoji. This email had a story in it about Rob's dog's morning habits. And it worked well because of the emoji, but also because it has a quirky, double meaning to it. It definitely drives curiosity, and it makes perfect sense when you read the whole email. Try it out!</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h2><h3><strong>Related episodes</strong></h3><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/whats-working-in-your-marketing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Two Things to Start Collecting So You Know What’s Working in Your Marketing</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/best-email-marketing-campaign-existing-customers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Best Email Marketing Campaign To Get Your Customers To Buy Again (And Again)</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-email-marketing-audit/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Audit Your Email Marketing</a>.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the 6 slightly technical and amazing things that the best marketing email platforms can do) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>leaving us a review&nbsp;</strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/best-marketing-email-platforms/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">638a4ea7-9c47-4fc0-81cf-6acb11dbd181</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/364c97b3-90fe-4270-9c90-dd7d5e81c79d/z8o27rmrcT2_RdfmTcniNT6U.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/fbf104f4-e13e-464a-83a0-654142e3aca6/Your-Email-Platform-Can-Do-These-6-Things-2.mp3" length="84355573" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>35:09</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>178</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>178</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Turn Every Client Into Two More Using Simple Referral Marketing</title><itunes:title>Turn Every Client Into Two More Using Simple Referral Marketing</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>How do you grow your business by turning each and every client into two more? Today we share our proactive referral marketing strategy, which is something that will help you grow your business exponentially.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to go through the steps to do this? </p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:13) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook Group</a>. </p><p>(6:03) Creating a memorable hook.</p><p>(8:59) Creating <em>more</em> memorable hooks.</p><p>(12:32) Step One - planting the seeds.</p><p>(17:43) Step Two - watering the seeds.</p><p>(20:05) Step Three - asking for the referral.</p><p>(22:14) Rewarding the referral.</p><p>(24:09) Sending a gift that doesn't fit in a drawer.</p><p>(27:30) Offering double-ended incentives.</p><p>(30:12) Subject line of the week.</p><h2><strong>Creating a memorable hook&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>Having a referral strategy is a great way to grow your business, especially if you work with clients on a one-to-one basis or in small groups. If you have a service-based high-touch business that serves a small number of clients, this referral strategy works like a dream. But we're going to show you how to use this strategy that Kennedy's been using for his entertainment business for over 15 years for a membership, course, or programme as well.&nbsp;</p><p>The first thing you want to do is to <strong>create a memorable hook for your products, services, or brand.</strong> For example, for our podcast (<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/?post_type=post" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Marketing Show</a>) we have a tune that sticks in your head. It's annoying and simple, and that's done on purpose. Because that's the whole point of marketing - you want to <strong>create something that people will talk about.</strong></p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Creating <em>more</em> memorable hooks</strong></h2><p>With our podcast, we didn't stop at the tune. That's why we came up with a secondary memorable hook - <em>Email Marketing Wednesday</em>. It's so obtuse and weird (and purposely a bit crap) that it becomes memorable. It also allows to create some tension and conflict, which is memorable in people's minds. We don't disagree much on our show otherwise. While we might not agree on everything in business and life, there's no tension or friction between us - there's no real drama on the show. So we created some through a memorable hook.&nbsp;</p><p>Also, at the start of each episode, we read out a fact about each other. And we know that some of these things stick in people's minds because they come up to us at events and tell us they remember! And <strong>having something that people remember about your product or your brand helps you create more referrals because it means they have something to tell their friends and family about.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Another thing we do on the podcast is to play a game with our guests where one of us has to guess one true fact about our guest. It's something interesting to describe the podcast by, so <strong>think about giving people a pre-loaded 'script' to talk about you and your products or services.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>But memorable hooks aren't the only thing you need. If you want to grow your business exponentially, you need a <em>proactive</em> referral strategy. Your intention here is to turn every gig or client into two more. So how will you do that?&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Step One: Planting the seeds</strong></h2><p>The first stage of Kennedy’s referral marketing technique is all about planting seeds. And you do that as soon as someone gets in touch to enquire about becoming a client. You ask them how they heard about you. And if they say they found you on the internet or via an ad, you act surprised and let them know that actually most of your work comes from customers recommending you to others.&nbsp;</p><p>That does two things for you. First of all, it plants the seed that people do refer you. That means that once you've worked with this client and you ask them for a referral, you're going to feel less bad for asking them. Plus, they're going to be more open and less guarded about your request because you already informed them that people normally refer you.</p><p>The second thing you do when you tell someone that most of your work comes from referrals is to give them<em> social proof</em>. If people recommend you, you must be really good! You're having this conversation with someone before they've even worked with you, so by telling them that your existing and previous customers refer you all the time, you're encouraging this client to go ahead and work with you.&nbsp;</p><p>So don't overlook the importance of asking this question and talking about referrals, but also acting surprised. It helps the conversation stand out, and they're more likely to remember it.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Step Two: Water the seeds</strong></h2><p>When you're working with this client, make sure you mention referrals again. Did someone actually refer you to this client? Ask them who it was again and tell them you want to make sure you send a little Thank You note or a gift to that person. </p><p>Right now, you're watering the seeds and reminding this person again that referring you is something that people do all the time. It helps build that belief that you're someone who gets referred again and again.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Step Three: Asking for the referral</strong></h2><p>If you mention referrals before you start working together and then while you're working with them (as per the previous two steps), it's a lot easier for you to ask for that referral at the end of the work. And it'll be more straightforward to get one because you'll have done the groundwork in advance.</p><p>When you get to this stage, you can even create an automated email sequence that goes out when the work is complete to ask your client for a testimonial and a referral. This helps you amplify the number of people who refer you.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Rewarding the referral</strong></h2><p>A step that a lot of people miss out on is rewarding the referral. The reason why this works (psychologically) is that you're giving someone praise for the action of referring you.&nbsp;</p><p>So you could send the person a gift, for example. Before you do that though, make sure you consider the legality of gifting people within your industry. In some sectors, you'll find there's a price point you need to stay under if you want to send a gift to a client. But broadly speaking, as long as the gift isn't a high-price item that can be misinterpreted as a bribe, you're good to go.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Sending a gift that doesn’t fit in a drawer</strong></h3><p>When thinking of Thank You gifts, we like to send things that cannot be put in a drawer - we call them <em>un-drawerables</em>. A card, for example, fits in a drawer. And if you send someone a card, it'll be effective there and then - the person receiving it will think it's a nice and thoughtful gesture, but eventually, that card is going to end up in a drawer and out of sight/out of mind.</p><p><br></p><p>A gift that <em>doesn't</em> fit in a drawer (like a mug, water bottle, or flowers, for example) means people get to show off or are reminded that someone appreciates them. That not only makes them feel good, but it means your brand gets talked about over and over (especially if the person works in an office and people see and ask about the gift!)</p><p><br></p><p>As long as that gift stays visible and on someone's desk, for example, you're amplifying the emotional response of that person feeling acknowledged and good about the referral. This emotional, positive feedback will encourage them to refer you again and again. </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Offering double-ended incentives</strong></h3><p>The other thing we do where possible and appropriate is offering what we call a <em>double-ended incentive</em>. This is something that rewards both parties – the new customer and the existing one.&nbsp;</p><p>For example, members of <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> who refer others will get 50% off their next month while the new member gets 50% off their first month. This is a generous discount, and of course, if you have a high-ticket service, you might not be able to offer 50%, but maybe you could offer 10% off?</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Want to join The League?&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>If you want to find out more about creating a consistent stream of sales in your business and build what we call a <em>core email engine </em>to support that, come and join us inside our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. We'll help you get amazing results with your email marketing while building your business and making sales more consistently.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h2><p>This week’s subject line is “we waited.” (purposely all in lower case and with a full stop at the end). The story is about waiting for something, and it has a bit of an ominous feel to it. As it happens with most of our emails, this one was about promoting The League, but we pulled the subject line from that story.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h2><h3><strong>Related episodes</strong></h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/best-email-marketing-campaign-existing-customers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Best Email Marketing Campaign To Get Your Customers To Buy Again (And Again)</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/compound-curiosity-clever-subject-lines-for-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Advanced Psychology: Using Compound...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How do you grow your business by turning each and every client into two more? Today we share our proactive referral marketing strategy, which is something that will help you grow your business exponentially.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to go through the steps to do this? </p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:13) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook Group</a>. </p><p>(6:03) Creating a memorable hook.</p><p>(8:59) Creating <em>more</em> memorable hooks.</p><p>(12:32) Step One - planting the seeds.</p><p>(17:43) Step Two - watering the seeds.</p><p>(20:05) Step Three - asking for the referral.</p><p>(22:14) Rewarding the referral.</p><p>(24:09) Sending a gift that doesn't fit in a drawer.</p><p>(27:30) Offering double-ended incentives.</p><p>(30:12) Subject line of the week.</p><h2><strong>Creating a memorable hook&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>Having a referral strategy is a great way to grow your business, especially if you work with clients on a one-to-one basis or in small groups. If you have a service-based high-touch business that serves a small number of clients, this referral strategy works like a dream. But we're going to show you how to use this strategy that Kennedy's been using for his entertainment business for over 15 years for a membership, course, or programme as well.&nbsp;</p><p>The first thing you want to do is to <strong>create a memorable hook for your products, services, or brand.</strong> For example, for our podcast (<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/?post_type=post" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Marketing Show</a>) we have a tune that sticks in your head. It's annoying and simple, and that's done on purpose. Because that's the whole point of marketing - you want to <strong>create something that people will talk about.</strong></p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Creating <em>more</em> memorable hooks</strong></h2><p>With our podcast, we didn't stop at the tune. That's why we came up with a secondary memorable hook - <em>Email Marketing Wednesday</em>. It's so obtuse and weird (and purposely a bit crap) that it becomes memorable. It also allows to create some tension and conflict, which is memorable in people's minds. We don't disagree much on our show otherwise. While we might not agree on everything in business and life, there's no tension or friction between us - there's no real drama on the show. So we created some through a memorable hook.&nbsp;</p><p>Also, at the start of each episode, we read out a fact about each other. And we know that some of these things stick in people's minds because they come up to us at events and tell us they remember! And <strong>having something that people remember about your product or your brand helps you create more referrals because it means they have something to tell their friends and family about.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Another thing we do on the podcast is to play a game with our guests where one of us has to guess one true fact about our guest. It's something interesting to describe the podcast by, so <strong>think about giving people a pre-loaded 'script' to talk about you and your products or services.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>But memorable hooks aren't the only thing you need. If you want to grow your business exponentially, you need a <em>proactive</em> referral strategy. Your intention here is to turn every gig or client into two more. So how will you do that?&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Step One: Planting the seeds</strong></h2><p>The first stage of Kennedy’s referral marketing technique is all about planting seeds. And you do that as soon as someone gets in touch to enquire about becoming a client. You ask them how they heard about you. And if they say they found you on the internet or via an ad, you act surprised and let them know that actually most of your work comes from customers recommending you to others.&nbsp;</p><p>That does two things for you. First of all, it plants the seed that people do refer you. That means that once you've worked with this client and you ask them for a referral, you're going to feel less bad for asking them. Plus, they're going to be more open and less guarded about your request because you already informed them that people normally refer you.</p><p>The second thing you do when you tell someone that most of your work comes from referrals is to give them<em> social proof</em>. If people recommend you, you must be really good! You're having this conversation with someone before they've even worked with you, so by telling them that your existing and previous customers refer you all the time, you're encouraging this client to go ahead and work with you.&nbsp;</p><p>So don't overlook the importance of asking this question and talking about referrals, but also acting surprised. It helps the conversation stand out, and they're more likely to remember it.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Step Two: Water the seeds</strong></h2><p>When you're working with this client, make sure you mention referrals again. Did someone actually refer you to this client? Ask them who it was again and tell them you want to make sure you send a little Thank You note or a gift to that person. </p><p>Right now, you're watering the seeds and reminding this person again that referring you is something that people do all the time. It helps build that belief that you're someone who gets referred again and again.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Step Three: Asking for the referral</strong></h2><p>If you mention referrals before you start working together and then while you're working with them (as per the previous two steps), it's a lot easier for you to ask for that referral at the end of the work. And it'll be more straightforward to get one because you'll have done the groundwork in advance.</p><p>When you get to this stage, you can even create an automated email sequence that goes out when the work is complete to ask your client for a testimonial and a referral. This helps you amplify the number of people who refer you.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Rewarding the referral</strong></h2><p>A step that a lot of people miss out on is rewarding the referral. The reason why this works (psychologically) is that you're giving someone praise for the action of referring you.&nbsp;</p><p>So you could send the person a gift, for example. Before you do that though, make sure you consider the legality of gifting people within your industry. In some sectors, you'll find there's a price point you need to stay under if you want to send a gift to a client. But broadly speaking, as long as the gift isn't a high-price item that can be misinterpreted as a bribe, you're good to go.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Sending a gift that doesn’t fit in a drawer</strong></h3><p>When thinking of Thank You gifts, we like to send things that cannot be put in a drawer - we call them <em>un-drawerables</em>. A card, for example, fits in a drawer. And if you send someone a card, it'll be effective there and then - the person receiving it will think it's a nice and thoughtful gesture, but eventually, that card is going to end up in a drawer and out of sight/out of mind.</p><p><br></p><p>A gift that <em>doesn't</em> fit in a drawer (like a mug, water bottle, or flowers, for example) means people get to show off or are reminded that someone appreciates them. That not only makes them feel good, but it means your brand gets talked about over and over (especially if the person works in an office and people see and ask about the gift!)</p><p><br></p><p>As long as that gift stays visible and on someone's desk, for example, you're amplifying the emotional response of that person feeling acknowledged and good about the referral. This emotional, positive feedback will encourage them to refer you again and again. </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Offering double-ended incentives</strong></h3><p>The other thing we do where possible and appropriate is offering what we call a <em>double-ended incentive</em>. This is something that rewards both parties – the new customer and the existing one.&nbsp;</p><p>For example, members of <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> who refer others will get 50% off their next month while the new member gets 50% off their first month. This is a generous discount, and of course, if you have a high-ticket service, you might not be able to offer 50%, but maybe you could offer 10% off?</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Want to join The League?&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>If you want to find out more about creating a consistent stream of sales in your business and build what we call a <em>core email engine </em>to support that, come and join us inside our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. We'll help you get amazing results with your email marketing while building your business and making sales more consistently.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h2><p>This week’s subject line is “we waited.” (purposely all in lower case and with a full stop at the end). The story is about waiting for something, and it has a bit of an ominous feel to it. As it happens with most of our emails, this one was about promoting The League, but we pulled the subject line from that story.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h2><h3><strong>Related episodes</strong></h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/best-email-marketing-campaign-existing-customers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Best Email Marketing Campaign To Get Your Customers To Buy Again (And Again)</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/compound-curiosity-clever-subject-lines-for-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Advanced Psychology: Using Compound Curiosity</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/best-email-marketing-strategies-that-work/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">7 Email Marketing Things That Shouldn’t Work (But Do)</a>.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about referral marketing) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>leaving us a review&nbsp;</strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/referral-marketing-strategy/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">d0706a87-a73d-4daf-970e-e006afbf0937</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/3b851f71-ce74-40fc-a76d-b2752284698d/38gyic4TuRWe36ebXlupzOF8.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 15 Mar 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/93b6c61e-303c-4fbd-adb6-f9b816328655/Grow-Your-Business-Exponentially.mp3" length="76390316" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>31:50</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>177</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>177</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How to Create 3 Big Sales Spikes During Your Launch with Mara Glazer</title><itunes:title>How to Create 3 Big Sales Spikes During Your Launch with Mara Glazer</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>How do you create a sales spike during your launch? Do you rely on making the majority of your sales on the last day? What if we told you there's a way to generate not ONE spike but at least THREE during the launch of your new product or service? <em>Genius</em> copywriter Mara Glazer tells us how.</p><p>If you have a membership, coaching programme, or course, you're going to want to take notes.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p><strong>﻿</strong></p><p>(0:14) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook Group</a>.</p><p>(4:05) Does Mara Glazer really hold the record for the most push-ups in her old high school?</p><p>(6:31) Why you need 'copy choreography'.</p><p>(8:51) Create a priority notification list. </p><p>(9:41) Give them an idea of the price but don't tell them what it is. </p><p>(11:30) Keeping people engaged during the pre-notification period. </p><p>(12:33) Opening the doors. </p><p>(16:37) Creating the last sales spike. </p><p>(18:39) Using the 'micro-membership' concept and the 24-hours special bonus. </p><p>(24:19) Subject line of the week with Mara Glazer.</p><h2><strong>Why you need 'copy choreography'</strong></h2><p>One of the things that Mara helps people with is launching programmes, memberships, and courses. And if you've ever launched anything, you'll know that most people tend to rely on a big sales spike or boost on the very last day.&nbsp;</p><p>But if you get really smart and use what Mara calls <em>copy choreography</em>, <strong>you can create sales spikes throughout your launch</strong> - not just at the last minute. All you need to do is to ensure you have the right components in the right places. In other words, you want to <strong>think about the sequencing of events that need to happen (and in what order) to create more than one sales spike throughout your campaign.</strong></p><p>And that means your first step is to brainstorm the copy choreography before sending out your email campaigns. Makes sense, right?</p><p>So here's what you do.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2>Create a priority notification list</h2><p>Once you've planned the sequence of events, you need to think about building anticipation with your audience <em>before</em> the cart opens.&nbsp;</p><p>One way Mara does this with her clients is by creating a priority notification list that people can sign up for in order to be informed when the doors to the membership or course open for the first time. If you're launching a brand new membership, here you're giving people the chance to join as founding members and be grandfathered in at the best possible price.&nbsp;</p><p>The key here is to encourage people to sign up for the pre-notification list by <strong>offering an awesome sexy bonus.</strong> This is how you create the first sales spike.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3>Give an idea of the price but don't tell them what it is</h3><p>Another great tip from Mara here is to give an indication of what's included in the membership but without giving an exact price. Instead, you can give an idea. </p><p>For example, you could say that the price of the membership is less than a casual dinner with their best friend. This tells people that the membership is affordable and inexpensive. But <strong>the bonus is what will make them go ahead and buy</strong>. It's as if you were selling the bonus harder than the product itself by lifting it on a pedestal for the people who sign up for the pre-notification list. </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Keeping people engaged during the pre-notification period</strong></h3><p>The pre-notification list is promoted for about 2-3 weeks. During this time, to keep people engaged and interested, Mara will send out relevant videos that help position the membership through email marketing and social media. Each video sits on its own page with an opt-in underneath to give people the chance to sign up for the pre-notification list if they haven't already. </p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Opening the doors</strong></h2><p>Once the doors open, people have <em>three days</em> to join and claim their priority notification bonus. After this time, the bonus disappears, but people can still join. There is, however, a difference in price. If the founding members got to join the membership at the price of $37 per month, for example, once the pre-notification period of three days ends, the bonus disappears and the price goes up to $47.&nbsp;</p><p>This price then remains available for <em>one week</em>, and people in the email list receive:</p><ul><li>2 emails a day for the first 5 days;</li><li>3 emails a day on the sixth day;</li><li>4 emails on the last day.</li></ul><br/><p>And with only a handful of hours left to sign up, that's where the copy choreography skills really come into play.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2>Creating the last sales spike</h2><p>After seven days have passed, the cart stays open for another week. But what's really key here is that it's clear that there are 'consequences' for people who didn't take action within a certain window of time. </p><p>For example, if someone doesn't buy within the first three days, they miss out on the bonus and the founding price. If they don't sign up within the first seven days, they miss out on the early-bird price.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3>Using the 'micro-membership' concept and the 24-hour special bonus</h3><p>And after the second week, Mara explains, that's typically the end of the promotion. However, in a recent launch that Mara and her team managed for a client, they extended it a little longer. </p><p>Out of an email list of 10,000 subscribers, they had signed up 552 members in the first period. They then decided to take a small portion of the membership programme and offer it to everyone who hadn't bought yet. People were offered a snippet of the membership for $7 a month, and through doing this, the client signed another 100 members. This didn't create extra work - the client simply offered a 'micro-membership' for a fraction of the price. And, of course, when you do this, you have an opportunity to upsell to these members. </p><p><br></p><p>Another strategy that Mara mentioned for creating sales spikes is introducing a 24-hour special bonus. Doing this creates a reason to send that extra email and gives your audience a compelling, solid argument to act <em>now</em> instead of waiting until the end of the promotion.&nbsp;</p><p>Mara's number one tip in all this is to <strong>make sure that what you offer is sexy enough</strong>. This is <em>crucial</em> for the success of the whole campaign. Because your offer needs to deliver everything it promises and be packaged and positioned in the sexiest of ways. As we always say, <strong>you can spend all the money in the world to promote a turd, but you're still showing people a turd! </strong>So make sure your offer is great and truly converts. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Subject line of the week with Mara Glazer</strong></h2><p>One of Mara’s best-performing subject lines is “I saw this on Facebook and thought of you”. There are a couple of reasons why this works so well, Mara said.</p><p>First of all, it sounds like something one of your friends might send you. But also, it has intrigue and mystery. The person receiving this wants to know what you saw that made you think of them. And of course, it helps if you start the email with something that you did indeed see on Facebook, and then lead into your message from there.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h2><h3><strong>About Mara</strong></h3><p>You can get in touch with Mara on <a href="https://www.maraglazer.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">her website</a>, where you can find access to some free email templates to send to your list and fill your calendar with sales calls. And of course, you can look at all the ways you can work with Mara and her awesome team.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Related episodes</strong></h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/best-email-marketing-campaign-existing-customers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Best Email Marketing Campaign To Get Your Customers To Buy Again (And Again)</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/create-urgency-without-product-launches/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Create Urgency For an Evergreen Membership or Course Without Product Launches</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-build-a-pre-launch-email-list/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Small List Big Launch – With Gemma Bonham-Carter</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your eail marketing</strong></h3><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Try...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How do you create a sales spike during your launch? Do you rely on making the majority of your sales on the last day? What if we told you there's a way to generate not ONE spike but at least THREE during the launch of your new product or service? <em>Genius</em> copywriter Mara Glazer tells us how.</p><p>If you have a membership, coaching programme, or course, you're going to want to take notes.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p><strong>﻿</strong></p><p>(0:14) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook Group</a>.</p><p>(4:05) Does Mara Glazer really hold the record for the most push-ups in her old high school?</p><p>(6:31) Why you need 'copy choreography'.</p><p>(8:51) Create a priority notification list. </p><p>(9:41) Give them an idea of the price but don't tell them what it is. </p><p>(11:30) Keeping people engaged during the pre-notification period. </p><p>(12:33) Opening the doors. </p><p>(16:37) Creating the last sales spike. </p><p>(18:39) Using the 'micro-membership' concept and the 24-hours special bonus. </p><p>(24:19) Subject line of the week with Mara Glazer.</p><h2><strong>Why you need 'copy choreography'</strong></h2><p>One of the things that Mara helps people with is launching programmes, memberships, and courses. And if you've ever launched anything, you'll know that most people tend to rely on a big sales spike or boost on the very last day.&nbsp;</p><p>But if you get really smart and use what Mara calls <em>copy choreography</em>, <strong>you can create sales spikes throughout your launch</strong> - not just at the last minute. All you need to do is to ensure you have the right components in the right places. In other words, you want to <strong>think about the sequencing of events that need to happen (and in what order) to create more than one sales spike throughout your campaign.</strong></p><p>And that means your first step is to brainstorm the copy choreography before sending out your email campaigns. Makes sense, right?</p><p>So here's what you do.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2>Create a priority notification list</h2><p>Once you've planned the sequence of events, you need to think about building anticipation with your audience <em>before</em> the cart opens.&nbsp;</p><p>One way Mara does this with her clients is by creating a priority notification list that people can sign up for in order to be informed when the doors to the membership or course open for the first time. If you're launching a brand new membership, here you're giving people the chance to join as founding members and be grandfathered in at the best possible price.&nbsp;</p><p>The key here is to encourage people to sign up for the pre-notification list by <strong>offering an awesome sexy bonus.</strong> This is how you create the first sales spike.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3>Give an idea of the price but don't tell them what it is</h3><p>Another great tip from Mara here is to give an indication of what's included in the membership but without giving an exact price. Instead, you can give an idea. </p><p>For example, you could say that the price of the membership is less than a casual dinner with their best friend. This tells people that the membership is affordable and inexpensive. But <strong>the bonus is what will make them go ahead and buy</strong>. It's as if you were selling the bonus harder than the product itself by lifting it on a pedestal for the people who sign up for the pre-notification list. </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Keeping people engaged during the pre-notification period</strong></h3><p>The pre-notification list is promoted for about 2-3 weeks. During this time, to keep people engaged and interested, Mara will send out relevant videos that help position the membership through email marketing and social media. Each video sits on its own page with an opt-in underneath to give people the chance to sign up for the pre-notification list if they haven't already. </p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Opening the doors</strong></h2><p>Once the doors open, people have <em>three days</em> to join and claim their priority notification bonus. After this time, the bonus disappears, but people can still join. There is, however, a difference in price. If the founding members got to join the membership at the price of $37 per month, for example, once the pre-notification period of three days ends, the bonus disappears and the price goes up to $47.&nbsp;</p><p>This price then remains available for <em>one week</em>, and people in the email list receive:</p><ul><li>2 emails a day for the first 5 days;</li><li>3 emails a day on the sixth day;</li><li>4 emails on the last day.</li></ul><br/><p>And with only a handful of hours left to sign up, that's where the copy choreography skills really come into play.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2>Creating the last sales spike</h2><p>After seven days have passed, the cart stays open for another week. But what's really key here is that it's clear that there are 'consequences' for people who didn't take action within a certain window of time. </p><p>For example, if someone doesn't buy within the first three days, they miss out on the bonus and the founding price. If they don't sign up within the first seven days, they miss out on the early-bird price.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3>Using the 'micro-membership' concept and the 24-hour special bonus</h3><p>And after the second week, Mara explains, that's typically the end of the promotion. However, in a recent launch that Mara and her team managed for a client, they extended it a little longer. </p><p>Out of an email list of 10,000 subscribers, they had signed up 552 members in the first period. They then decided to take a small portion of the membership programme and offer it to everyone who hadn't bought yet. People were offered a snippet of the membership for $7 a month, and through doing this, the client signed another 100 members. This didn't create extra work - the client simply offered a 'micro-membership' for a fraction of the price. And, of course, when you do this, you have an opportunity to upsell to these members. </p><p><br></p><p>Another strategy that Mara mentioned for creating sales spikes is introducing a 24-hour special bonus. Doing this creates a reason to send that extra email and gives your audience a compelling, solid argument to act <em>now</em> instead of waiting until the end of the promotion.&nbsp;</p><p>Mara's number one tip in all this is to <strong>make sure that what you offer is sexy enough</strong>. This is <em>crucial</em> for the success of the whole campaign. Because your offer needs to deliver everything it promises and be packaged and positioned in the sexiest of ways. As we always say, <strong>you can spend all the money in the world to promote a turd, but you're still showing people a turd! </strong>So make sure your offer is great and truly converts. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Subject line of the week with Mara Glazer</strong></h2><p>One of Mara’s best-performing subject lines is “I saw this on Facebook and thought of you”. There are a couple of reasons why this works so well, Mara said.</p><p>First of all, it sounds like something one of your friends might send you. But also, it has intrigue and mystery. The person receiving this wants to know what you saw that made you think of them. And of course, it helps if you start the email with something that you did indeed see on Facebook, and then lead into your message from there.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h2><h3><strong>About Mara</strong></h3><p>You can get in touch with Mara on <a href="https://www.maraglazer.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">her website</a>, where you can find access to some free email templates to send to your list and fill your calendar with sales calls. And of course, you can look at all the ways you can work with Mara and her awesome team.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Related episodes</strong></h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/best-email-marketing-campaign-existing-customers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Best Email Marketing Campaign To Get Your Customers To Buy Again (And Again)</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/create-urgency-without-product-launches/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Create Urgency For an Evergreen Membership or Course Without Product Launches</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-build-a-pre-launch-email-list/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Small List Big Launch – With Gemma Bonham-Carter</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your eail marketing</strong></h3><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to create not one sales spike but THREE during your launch) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/sales-spike-launch/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">47ac99d2-fa04-4b33-bcaf-8c11ae315767</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/ea77b7c2-8a1c-42fe-9ac8-cb28273a3196/1R6yhvBfEf8NQWXnNZGxuYuH.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/84ae2c39-9df4-4d73-8959-ef982c1536a5/How-To-Create-Sales-Spikes-converted.mp3" length="22386743" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>26:39</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>176</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>176</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Email Marketing vs Social Media (Why We Keep Ditching Our Social Media)</title><itunes:title>Email Marketing vs Social Media (Why We Keep Ditching Our Social Media)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Social media vs email marketing. Is one better than the other? Want to know what we <em>really</em> think about all this?&nbsp;</p><p>And yes, we might be a bit biased towards email, but there are specific reasons why we keep ditching social media platforms - want to know what they are?&nbsp;</p><p>Let's find out!&nbsp;</p><p>(0:32) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook Group</a>. </p><p>(5:10) We don't hate social media!</p><p>(7:54) Why knowing your numbers matters.</p><p>(10:36) Find out what your top sources are.</p><p>(12:15) What is social media really good for?</p><p>(15:18) Social media vs email marketing in action.</p><p>(18:15) Don't have time for email marketing? Think again!</p><p>(20:35) Do email marketing first.</p><p>(22:53) Subject line of the week.</p><h2><strong>We don't hate social media!</strong></h2><p>We always get accused of being haters of social media. But we're not! We <em>are</em> on social media. Daily! If anything, we<em> love</em> hanging out in our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">free Facebook group</a>. And we recognise that <strong>social media has its place (and its own set of rules) when it comes to making sales and growing your business.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Some people may use email marketing to build their lists and tap into an audience, while others use it to nurture their community. Inside the private Facebook group for our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, for example, we discuss how people use our email marketing campaigns, and we help them refine their work. So we don’t <em>hate</em> social media - we actively use it.&nbsp;We even used to run a Twitter chat, and we've certainly dabbled with Instagram.</p><p><br></p><p>But <strong>the only social media we use now is our Facebook group. And that’s because that allows us to nurture relationships and keep the conversation going.</strong> Facebook isn't an outbound platform for us. Instead, it's something that allows people to <em>lean into us</em>. We get to connect with the people who are excited about our work and want to come into our world to learn from us.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Why knowing your numbers matters</strong></h2><p>Having said that, we keep ditching social media platforms. We stopped our Twitter chat and don't invest in our Instagram as much anymore. And that's because of what the numbers are telling us. We always look at data to see what's working and what isn't. We track everything we do by using UTMs. These are bits of code that we add at the end of every link we share. So when people subscribe to our email list or become customers, we know how they came into our world.&nbsp;</p><p>Can you say the same about your subscribers or customers? Where are they coming from? If you're a member of&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, we have some training on UTMs and tracking in the Battle Plans area. We even have some specific tools within our Automate Hero software to help our members track their numbers. (And it's all free!)</p><p>Why does looking at data matter? Because <strong>if you know how people come into your world, you can do more of what's working. And if you don't, it means you're running blind.&nbsp;</strong>Without tracking, you won't know if you're moving in the right direction and towards your destination. Because you can’t fully rely on gut instinct to do that. You need to know for a fact that what you're doing is working.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Find out what your top sources are&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>In our business, we check our numbers every 90 days to identify the top 10-15 traffic sources that brought subscribers into our business. <strong>We evaluate our sources based on how much money they brought in, i.e. on how many paying customers they generated.&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></p><p>And a lot of the time, you'll see the 80/20 rule apply here. That means that approximately 80% of the sales come from two or three of your traffic sources. And that tells you where you can zero in so you can focus on what’s helping you grow your business.</p><p><br></p><p>When we recently looked at our figures, we noticed that barely any of our sales came from Instagram or Twitter – less than 1% of our members originally came from these social media platforms. For us, the truth when it comes to social media vs email marketing is that people who come through our social media channels don't buy from us quickly enough to give us a return on investments. And that meant we had to think about social media differently because our Facebook group and our podcast, for example, work really well for us.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>What is social media really good for?</strong></h2><p><strong>We think of social media as a way to tap into an existing audience so we can get in front of people and then move some of them onto our email list.</strong> Because your email list is where the selling happens.</p><p>And at the start, we were worried about only having our Facebook group. But then we realised that many businesses that are wildly successful don’t close any sales on social media – not without having an email list as well. Because with email marketing you have full control - you won’t be a victim of the latest algorithmic changes. And those are happening all the time!</p><p>We believe <strong>social media gives you a pool of people you can tap into, but in order to make sales and make your business successful, you need to sell by email.</strong> </p><p>And that’s where the argument between social media vs email marketing happens. Because <strong>if you put 10% more of your time into email marketing, you’ll make more sales and have a bigger impact than if you put 10% more of your efforts into any social media channel.</strong> This is undeniable. You could have about 100 people on your email list, and make sales from sending them an offer. But you’d need<em> a lot </em>more followers on your social media platforms to make any sales!</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Social media vs email marketing in action&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>As an example of this, one of our members recently shared with us that he'd decided to only promote his upcoming launch on Instagram. Three days from the launch, he started to get a bit worried though because he found he wouldn't get the reach he needed to get conversions. Eyeballs weren’t landing, the clicks weren’t moving from Instagram to the sales page, and the sales just weren't coming in!&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>So with only a few days to go, he launched one of our email campaigns (choosing to shorten a 5-day automation to 3 days because he was short on time), and he told us he ended up switching off sales notifications because they were coming in so quickly that they were interrupting his other work!</p><p>What’s worth noting is that a lot of the people who eventually bought via his email list were probably some of the same ones who also followed him on Instagram. But the big flurry of sales only came in when he switched on the email campaign. </p><p>This proves that <strong>only posting on social media isn’t a good sales generation tactic.</strong> And it might be if you have a couple of million followers, but generally speaking, <strong>if you have an ordinary-sized audience, social media alone doesn’t move the needle. 100 subscribers on your email list are worth a lot more than 100 followers on any social media platform.</strong> Because when it comes to social media vs email marketing, email is always going to convert more. If all we had were social media followers, we wouldn’t even have a business to speak of!</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Don't have time for email marketing? Think again!</strong></h2><p>We always find it interesting when people tell us they don’t have time to do email marketing. What are they doing instead? And is whatever they’re doing making any sales? Because you could be getting a lot of engagement and comments, but that isn't worth a thing if you're not moving people to your email list so you can make sales. </p><p>If you're not generating a profit (which is the one job any business has), then wouldn't you be better off diverting any time you're currently investing in other activities into email marketing instead? Because <em>that</em> would make you sales - <strong>email is the most direct line to sales.</strong>&nbsp;</p><p>And once you have money lining your pockets, you'll have time to do other things, such as social media. At that point, you'll have a predictable system where you don't have to worry about where the sales are coming in from. And with more sales, you have more time. So <strong>focus on the</strong> <strong>things that make you sales first and <em>then</em> add other activities because by that point you can afford to do that.</strong></p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Do email marketing first</strong></h2><p>In other words, <strong>if you only have time for just one thing, do email marketing.</strong> Because you’ll want to do the thing that makes you sales first. When it comes to how social media and email marketing fit together, you <strong>prioritise what makes you money and then use the time you have left to do anything else -&nbsp; <em>including</em> social media.</strong> </p><p>Because let's not forget that creating social media content can be very time-consuming.&nbsp;Every platform works in a different way, and various types of content won't perform in the same way. But compare that with the time it takes you to write an email. That’s a lot faster, right? And if that makes you sales directly, it’s also a lot more efficient!</p><p><br></p><p>So<strong> </strong><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/"...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Social media vs email marketing. Is one better than the other? Want to know what we <em>really</em> think about all this?&nbsp;</p><p>And yes, we might be a bit biased towards email, but there are specific reasons why we keep ditching social media platforms - want to know what they are?&nbsp;</p><p>Let's find out!&nbsp;</p><p>(0:32) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook Group</a>. </p><p>(5:10) We don't hate social media!</p><p>(7:54) Why knowing your numbers matters.</p><p>(10:36) Find out what your top sources are.</p><p>(12:15) What is social media really good for?</p><p>(15:18) Social media vs email marketing in action.</p><p>(18:15) Don't have time for email marketing? Think again!</p><p>(20:35) Do email marketing first.</p><p>(22:53) Subject line of the week.</p><h2><strong>We don't hate social media!</strong></h2><p>We always get accused of being haters of social media. But we're not! We <em>are</em> on social media. Daily! If anything, we<em> love</em> hanging out in our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">free Facebook group</a>. And we recognise that <strong>social media has its place (and its own set of rules) when it comes to making sales and growing your business.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Some people may use email marketing to build their lists and tap into an audience, while others use it to nurture their community. Inside the private Facebook group for our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, for example, we discuss how people use our email marketing campaigns, and we help them refine their work. So we don’t <em>hate</em> social media - we actively use it.&nbsp;We even used to run a Twitter chat, and we've certainly dabbled with Instagram.</p><p><br></p><p>But <strong>the only social media we use now is our Facebook group. And that’s because that allows us to nurture relationships and keep the conversation going.</strong> Facebook isn't an outbound platform for us. Instead, it's something that allows people to <em>lean into us</em>. We get to connect with the people who are excited about our work and want to come into our world to learn from us.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Why knowing your numbers matters</strong></h2><p>Having said that, we keep ditching social media platforms. We stopped our Twitter chat and don't invest in our Instagram as much anymore. And that's because of what the numbers are telling us. We always look at data to see what's working and what isn't. We track everything we do by using UTMs. These are bits of code that we add at the end of every link we share. So when people subscribe to our email list or become customers, we know how they came into our world.&nbsp;</p><p>Can you say the same about your subscribers or customers? Where are they coming from? If you're a member of&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, we have some training on UTMs and tracking in the Battle Plans area. We even have some specific tools within our Automate Hero software to help our members track their numbers. (And it's all free!)</p><p>Why does looking at data matter? Because <strong>if you know how people come into your world, you can do more of what's working. And if you don't, it means you're running blind.&nbsp;</strong>Without tracking, you won't know if you're moving in the right direction and towards your destination. Because you can’t fully rely on gut instinct to do that. You need to know for a fact that what you're doing is working.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Find out what your top sources are&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>In our business, we check our numbers every 90 days to identify the top 10-15 traffic sources that brought subscribers into our business. <strong>We evaluate our sources based on how much money they brought in, i.e. on how many paying customers they generated.&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></p><p>And a lot of the time, you'll see the 80/20 rule apply here. That means that approximately 80% of the sales come from two or three of your traffic sources. And that tells you where you can zero in so you can focus on what’s helping you grow your business.</p><p><br></p><p>When we recently looked at our figures, we noticed that barely any of our sales came from Instagram or Twitter – less than 1% of our members originally came from these social media platforms. For us, the truth when it comes to social media vs email marketing is that people who come through our social media channels don't buy from us quickly enough to give us a return on investments. And that meant we had to think about social media differently because our Facebook group and our podcast, for example, work really well for us.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>What is social media really good for?</strong></h2><p><strong>We think of social media as a way to tap into an existing audience so we can get in front of people and then move some of them onto our email list.</strong> Because your email list is where the selling happens.</p><p>And at the start, we were worried about only having our Facebook group. But then we realised that many businesses that are wildly successful don’t close any sales on social media – not without having an email list as well. Because with email marketing you have full control - you won’t be a victim of the latest algorithmic changes. And those are happening all the time!</p><p>We believe <strong>social media gives you a pool of people you can tap into, but in order to make sales and make your business successful, you need to sell by email.</strong> </p><p>And that’s where the argument between social media vs email marketing happens. Because <strong>if you put 10% more of your time into email marketing, you’ll make more sales and have a bigger impact than if you put 10% more of your efforts into any social media channel.</strong> This is undeniable. You could have about 100 people on your email list, and make sales from sending them an offer. But you’d need<em> a lot </em>more followers on your social media platforms to make any sales!</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Social media vs email marketing in action&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>As an example of this, one of our members recently shared with us that he'd decided to only promote his upcoming launch on Instagram. Three days from the launch, he started to get a bit worried though because he found he wouldn't get the reach he needed to get conversions. Eyeballs weren’t landing, the clicks weren’t moving from Instagram to the sales page, and the sales just weren't coming in!&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>So with only a few days to go, he launched one of our email campaigns (choosing to shorten a 5-day automation to 3 days because he was short on time), and he told us he ended up switching off sales notifications because they were coming in so quickly that they were interrupting his other work!</p><p>What’s worth noting is that a lot of the people who eventually bought via his email list were probably some of the same ones who also followed him on Instagram. But the big flurry of sales only came in when he switched on the email campaign. </p><p>This proves that <strong>only posting on social media isn’t a good sales generation tactic.</strong> And it might be if you have a couple of million followers, but generally speaking, <strong>if you have an ordinary-sized audience, social media alone doesn’t move the needle. 100 subscribers on your email list are worth a lot more than 100 followers on any social media platform.</strong> Because when it comes to social media vs email marketing, email is always going to convert more. If all we had were social media followers, we wouldn’t even have a business to speak of!</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Don't have time for email marketing? Think again!</strong></h2><p>We always find it interesting when people tell us they don’t have time to do email marketing. What are they doing instead? And is whatever they’re doing making any sales? Because you could be getting a lot of engagement and comments, but that isn't worth a thing if you're not moving people to your email list so you can make sales. </p><p>If you're not generating a profit (which is the one job any business has), then wouldn't you be better off diverting any time you're currently investing in other activities into email marketing instead? Because <em>that</em> would make you sales - <strong>email is the most direct line to sales.</strong>&nbsp;</p><p>And once you have money lining your pockets, you'll have time to do other things, such as social media. At that point, you'll have a predictable system where you don't have to worry about where the sales are coming in from. And with more sales, you have more time. So <strong>focus on the</strong> <strong>things that make you sales first and <em>then</em> add other activities because by that point you can afford to do that.</strong></p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Do email marketing first</strong></h2><p>In other words, <strong>if you only have time for just one thing, do email marketing.</strong> Because you’ll want to do the thing that makes you sales first. When it comes to how social media and email marketing fit together, you <strong>prioritise what makes you money and then use the time you have left to do anything else -&nbsp; <em>including</em> social media.</strong> </p><p>Because let's not forget that creating social media content can be very time-consuming.&nbsp;Every platform works in a different way, and various types of content won't perform in the same way. But compare that with the time it takes you to write an email. That’s a lot faster, right? And if that makes you sales directly, it’s also a lot more efficient!</p><p><br></p><p>So<strong> </strong><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>if you’re not a member of The League yet, go and check it out</strong></a><strong>.</strong> We give you a plan and the most predictable system to turn people into customers – day and night, wherever you are, and whatever you happen to be doing.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h2><p>This week’s subject line is “Making waaaaaay less money?” This one had a great click-through rate because it has that general sense of being contradictory to what people would expect us to talk about.</p><p>The story was about the fact we had a call with one of our lovely subscribers, and when we asked her how much more money she wanted to make in her business, she told us she was making enough. We pointed out she had the capacity to make more, but she said she said that wasn't her goal. She had other objectives.</p><p>So the email was about the fact you shouldn’t make assumptions about your audience. We naturally assume that everyone in our world wants to make more money, but some people have other goals. They might just want to master their skill or email marketing, for example, or be interested in different things.</p><p>Want to know how this might work in your business? Try and come up with some sort of contradictory subject line based on what you do. Say you teach weight loss, for example. A contradictory subject line could be something like “Piling on the pounds!” Try it out.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h2><h3><strong>Related episodes</strong></h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/facebook-group-email-list-loop/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How We Used A Facebook Group To Build Our Email List From Scratch</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/use-facebook-group-welcome-new-members/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How Facebook Groups and Webinars Make Matthew Harrington a Happy Man</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/pinterest-marketers-build-list-meagan-williamson/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tricks To Grow Your Email List With Pinterest – With Meagan Williamson</a>.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about social media vs email marketing) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>leaving us a review&nbsp;</strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/social-vs-media-email-marketing/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">3658c03a-e96f-4635-918e-c83cc052a64b</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/79d22971-3885-4f8e-b797-d56325be40f5/NCeFtUGGZS1FMVb87qsKZbp0.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/b783c965-89a1-4076-ac25-71eb1d09c974/The-Truth-About-Email-vs-Social-Media-converted.mp3" length="23980871" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>24:59</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>175</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>175</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How Brad Brown Made $90k By Automating Webinars</title><itunes:title>How Brad Brown Made $90k By Automating Webinars</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Do you run live webinars and promote them through your email marketing? Have you ever thought about switching to automated webinars? Oh, the possibilities...</p><p>You see - one of our members, Brad Brown, went from running two live webinars a week to an automated one. And here he shared the story of how he made $90k in the process. He not only increased his sales and profits but also smashed his ad spend and freed up his time to grow his business in different ways. </p><p>What's not to love here?&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to hear <em>exactly</em> what Brad did (and what <em>you</em> can do in your business)?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:19) Join <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">our FREE Facebook Group</a>.</p><p>(4:23) When did Brad start using email marketing in his business?</p><p>(9:11) What were the biggest barriers to email marketing?</p><p>(10:24) Why did Brad join <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>?</p><p>(12:55) Switching to automated webinars.</p><p>(18:16) Implementing other email campaigns.</p><p>(20:34) The ONE action with the most impact.</p><p>(22:28) What's next for Brad and email marketing? </p><p>(23:14) Has email marketing taken over Brad's life?</p><p>(25:26) Subject line of the week.</p><h2><strong>When did Brad start using email marketing in his business?</strong></h2><p>Brad and his business partner run an online coaching business where they help people become the best runners they can be - no matter whether they're new to running or they're professional athletes.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>When they first started, Brad and his business partner would travel around South Africa helping the organisers of a famous running race, and ten years or so ago, they ended up setting up a business together. Like many, they started with one-on-one coaching, but in order to leverage their time, they eventually built a training platform that connects with all the main running apps and created a community of engaged runners around the world.&nbsp;</p><p>So when did they start with email marketing? Quite early on. Brad had a lead magnet that he used to grow his email list. From selling digital training plans that would be emailed out to runners, he built an online platform in late 2018 where he's been relying on email regularly and consistently.  </p><p><br></p><h2><strong>What were the biggest barriers to email marketing?&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>Brad believes that, at first, he struggled with messaging. They were creating a lot of content (YouTube, podcast, etc.) and that felt a bit like bombarding their audience. They had no real strategy around selling through email marketing, and as a result, they dabbled with different promotions or webinars to find something that worked.&nbsp;</p><p>Emails would all be live (broadcast and not automated) at that point and mainly around the YouTube videos that were published every week. <strong>The barrier was that nothing was selling on an ongoing basis.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Why did Brad join The League?</strong></h2><p>Before Brad joined <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, their business was purely event-based, which means they helped people train for events and marathons. But when Covid hit, people stopped training, and that brought the business to a halt. So Brad and his partner started looking at what they could do to grow while people couldn’t train for events.</p><p>While focusing on the over-50s as a niche, Brad and his partner decided to run a live webinar. That became so successful that over the following two years, they delivered a staggering 60 live webinars, with the aim to accommodate the most time zones possible. And that meant they were up early in the morning and then late at night. The team was burning out.&nbsp;</p><p>On top of that, they were also spending $45k a month on Facebook ads. And while the ads were generating a return on investment, their model wasn’t sustainable. So they started looking for a way to automate things. </p><p>It was around that time that Brad heard us being interviewed on a podcast and started following us. He joined our membership with the intention of setting up automated email marketing sequences, so the first thing he did after joining <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> was to start building his email engine. And the first thing he did was to implement our Getting To Know You sequence, which is our version of the welcome sequence.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Switching to automated webinars</strong></h2><p>When Brad started creating email marketing campaigns, the whole thing was messy. People were getting multiple emails a day, Brad and his business partner were still running live webinars around the clock, and their costs were climbing. In June 2022 Brad finally turned on the Evergreen Webinar sequence, which means he switched to automated webinars. And that completely changed their business.&nbsp;</p><p>Because people in different time zones could now choose a suitable time to attend the automated webinars, <strong>the attendance rate increased</strong>. Brad found success in using a warm-up sequence prior to the webinar starting and also in sending out a workbook, with a view to delivering extra value to their audience.&nbsp;</p><p>When running webinars, there are three distinct actions you're asking people to take. <strong>You have to get them to register, attend, and then convert (i.e. buy).</strong> While evergreen/automated webinars have a reputation for converting less than live ones, Brad didn't find this to be true. </p><p><br></p><p>Their webinar format of one hour and forty minutes is also unusual when it comes to widespread marketing advice. But Brad and his partner provide <em>so much value</em> that by simply implementing the tips in the webinar, someone could improve their running. And this builds a lot of trust in their audience, which, in turn, makes Brad's business stand out.&nbsp;</p><p>When Brad turned on the sequence for automated webinars, he didn’t know how it was going to work. But the results have been amazing, and<strong> the business turned over more than $90k</strong> as a result of building this automation. Plus, <strong>because the attendance rate and the conversion rate have both increased, the business doesn't need as many leads anymore. That means that ad costs have decreased by about 75%! </strong>And that translates to more money in their pockets, which is absolutely fantastic!</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Implementing other email campaigns</strong></h2><p>Since joining our membership, Brad and his business partner have also implemented other email marketing campaigns. <strong>They have a core email engine made of 'train carriages' </strong>(i.e. various automated campaigns), <strong>and this means their revenue is more consistent.</strong> As a business, they're not chasing their tail and starting from scratch every month. In fact, with more revenue and more time, they can focus on other things, such as writing a book or planning an online summit. And these are things that couldn't have happened when Brad and his partner were running two webinars a week!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>In other words, <strong>creating automated campaigns means Brad has more time to build the business and work <em>on</em> it rather than <em>in</em> it. </strong>And that's made a huge difference. The evergreen webinar sequence (used as a lead generation tool) has also been built into their email engine. So if someone comes to their business via the webinar but doesn't buy, they then receive other campaigns that sell the same product from different angles. Or if people come through a lead magnet, at some point they'll be presented with an offer to attend the webinar. &nbsp;</p><p>All in all, doing email marketing this way means that <strong>cost per acquisition is down and profitability is up. </strong>Plus, they have the bandwidth to expand and do more. Whereas before, growing would have meant more staff and bigger premises - i.e. more costs!</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>The ONE action with the most impact</strong></h2><p>We ask this question to all the members we interview as case studies. Because we want to know what <em>one</em> action they took that made all the difference.</p><p>And what Brad recommends that people do is pick someone they trust and follow their advice. There's so much information out there that it's easy to fall into the trap of selecting bits and pieces of advice here and there and trying to piece them together yourself. Don't do that. Because that's when things end up being messy. And that's true of email marketing as well as running, Brad says!</p><p>That's why when Brad joined <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, he threw himself into the process. He decided to start from scratch with their email marketing and build everything from the ground up. He&nbsp;locked himself in his office for about a month and didn’t come out until he had a coherent and functional system for his email marketing. Now, his subscribers don’t receive emails that aren’t relevant, and Brad’s sales <em>outside of webinars</em> have also increased. They sell a lot more of their membership too, and that’s been awesome!</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>What’s next for Brad and email marketing?</strong></h2><p>The next thing Brad wants to focus on when it comes to email marketing is to figure out why people aren't buying online. In other words, they want to address people's objections down to the various segments of their audience. And, <em>of course</em>, we have a campaign that does just that, which is called The...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you run live webinars and promote them through your email marketing? Have you ever thought about switching to automated webinars? Oh, the possibilities...</p><p>You see - one of our members, Brad Brown, went from running two live webinars a week to an automated one. And here he shared the story of how he made $90k in the process. He not only increased his sales and profits but also smashed his ad spend and freed up his time to grow his business in different ways. </p><p>What's not to love here?&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to hear <em>exactly</em> what Brad did (and what <em>you</em> can do in your business)?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:19) Join <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">our FREE Facebook Group</a>.</p><p>(4:23) When did Brad start using email marketing in his business?</p><p>(9:11) What were the biggest barriers to email marketing?</p><p>(10:24) Why did Brad join <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>?</p><p>(12:55) Switching to automated webinars.</p><p>(18:16) Implementing other email campaigns.</p><p>(20:34) The ONE action with the most impact.</p><p>(22:28) What's next for Brad and email marketing? </p><p>(23:14) Has email marketing taken over Brad's life?</p><p>(25:26) Subject line of the week.</p><h2><strong>When did Brad start using email marketing in his business?</strong></h2><p>Brad and his business partner run an online coaching business where they help people become the best runners they can be - no matter whether they're new to running or they're professional athletes.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>When they first started, Brad and his business partner would travel around South Africa helping the organisers of a famous running race, and ten years or so ago, they ended up setting up a business together. Like many, they started with one-on-one coaching, but in order to leverage their time, they eventually built a training platform that connects with all the main running apps and created a community of engaged runners around the world.&nbsp;</p><p>So when did they start with email marketing? Quite early on. Brad had a lead magnet that he used to grow his email list. From selling digital training plans that would be emailed out to runners, he built an online platform in late 2018 where he's been relying on email regularly and consistently.  </p><p><br></p><h2><strong>What were the biggest barriers to email marketing?&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>Brad believes that, at first, he struggled with messaging. They were creating a lot of content (YouTube, podcast, etc.) and that felt a bit like bombarding their audience. They had no real strategy around selling through email marketing, and as a result, they dabbled with different promotions or webinars to find something that worked.&nbsp;</p><p>Emails would all be live (broadcast and not automated) at that point and mainly around the YouTube videos that were published every week. <strong>The barrier was that nothing was selling on an ongoing basis.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Why did Brad join The League?</strong></h2><p>Before Brad joined <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, their business was purely event-based, which means they helped people train for events and marathons. But when Covid hit, people stopped training, and that brought the business to a halt. So Brad and his partner started looking at what they could do to grow while people couldn’t train for events.</p><p>While focusing on the over-50s as a niche, Brad and his partner decided to run a live webinar. That became so successful that over the following two years, they delivered a staggering 60 live webinars, with the aim to accommodate the most time zones possible. And that meant they were up early in the morning and then late at night. The team was burning out.&nbsp;</p><p>On top of that, they were also spending $45k a month on Facebook ads. And while the ads were generating a return on investment, their model wasn’t sustainable. So they started looking for a way to automate things. </p><p>It was around that time that Brad heard us being interviewed on a podcast and started following us. He joined our membership with the intention of setting up automated email marketing sequences, so the first thing he did after joining <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> was to start building his email engine. And the first thing he did was to implement our Getting To Know You sequence, which is our version of the welcome sequence.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Switching to automated webinars</strong></h2><p>When Brad started creating email marketing campaigns, the whole thing was messy. People were getting multiple emails a day, Brad and his business partner were still running live webinars around the clock, and their costs were climbing. In June 2022 Brad finally turned on the Evergreen Webinar sequence, which means he switched to automated webinars. And that completely changed their business.&nbsp;</p><p>Because people in different time zones could now choose a suitable time to attend the automated webinars, <strong>the attendance rate increased</strong>. Brad found success in using a warm-up sequence prior to the webinar starting and also in sending out a workbook, with a view to delivering extra value to their audience.&nbsp;</p><p>When running webinars, there are three distinct actions you're asking people to take. <strong>You have to get them to register, attend, and then convert (i.e. buy).</strong> While evergreen/automated webinars have a reputation for converting less than live ones, Brad didn't find this to be true. </p><p><br></p><p>Their webinar format of one hour and forty minutes is also unusual when it comes to widespread marketing advice. But Brad and his partner provide <em>so much value</em> that by simply implementing the tips in the webinar, someone could improve their running. And this builds a lot of trust in their audience, which, in turn, makes Brad's business stand out.&nbsp;</p><p>When Brad turned on the sequence for automated webinars, he didn’t know how it was going to work. But the results have been amazing, and<strong> the business turned over more than $90k</strong> as a result of building this automation. Plus, <strong>because the attendance rate and the conversion rate have both increased, the business doesn't need as many leads anymore. That means that ad costs have decreased by about 75%! </strong>And that translates to more money in their pockets, which is absolutely fantastic!</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Implementing other email campaigns</strong></h2><p>Since joining our membership, Brad and his business partner have also implemented other email marketing campaigns. <strong>They have a core email engine made of 'train carriages' </strong>(i.e. various automated campaigns), <strong>and this means their revenue is more consistent.</strong> As a business, they're not chasing their tail and starting from scratch every month. In fact, with more revenue and more time, they can focus on other things, such as writing a book or planning an online summit. And these are things that couldn't have happened when Brad and his partner were running two webinars a week!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>In other words, <strong>creating automated campaigns means Brad has more time to build the business and work <em>on</em> it rather than <em>in</em> it. </strong>And that's made a huge difference. The evergreen webinar sequence (used as a lead generation tool) has also been built into their email engine. So if someone comes to their business via the webinar but doesn't buy, they then receive other campaigns that sell the same product from different angles. Or if people come through a lead magnet, at some point they'll be presented with an offer to attend the webinar. &nbsp;</p><p>All in all, doing email marketing this way means that <strong>cost per acquisition is down and profitability is up. </strong>Plus, they have the bandwidth to expand and do more. Whereas before, growing would have meant more staff and bigger premises - i.e. more costs!</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>The ONE action with the most impact</strong></h2><p>We ask this question to all the members we interview as case studies. Because we want to know what <em>one</em> action they took that made all the difference.</p><p>And what Brad recommends that people do is pick someone they trust and follow their advice. There's so much information out there that it's easy to fall into the trap of selecting bits and pieces of advice here and there and trying to piece them together yourself. Don't do that. Because that's when things end up being messy. And that's true of email marketing as well as running, Brad says!</p><p>That's why when Brad joined <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, he threw himself into the process. He decided to start from scratch with their email marketing and build everything from the ground up. He&nbsp;locked himself in his office for about a month and didn’t come out until he had a coherent and functional system for his email marketing. Now, his subscribers don’t receive emails that aren’t relevant, and Brad’s sales <em>outside of webinars</em> have also increased. They sell a lot more of their membership too, and that’s been awesome!</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>What’s next for Brad and email marketing?</strong></h2><p>The next thing Brad wants to focus on when it comes to email marketing is to figure out why people aren't buying online. In other words, they want to address people's objections down to the various segments of their audience. And, <em>of course</em>, we have a campaign that does just that, which is called The Interrogator.</p><h2><strong>Has email marketing taken over Brad’s life?</strong></h2><p>Brad admits that email marketing took a lot of his time when he first started out because, as a business, they have a lot of sub-niches within their main niche. And that means Brad had been running a lot of parallel campaigns. </p><p>But now that the engine is up and running, Brad doesn’t even need to think about it. The sales are coming in, and that feeling is something you can’t put money on, Brad says.</p><p>In other words, Brad (just like a lot of our members) invested early on in the process. And that means that email marketing has now become an asset, and the business is getting returns. Plus, they no longer have to be awake around the clock to run live webinars!</p><p><strong>If you’re not a member of The League yet, </strong><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>go and check out the details here</strong></a><strong>. We give you all the campaigns and systems to have the kind of results that Brad and our other members are getting in their businesses. </strong>So what are you waiting for?</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h2><p>This week’s subject line is “Alexa, give me a 25-minute timer”. The story from Rob here was about how he asked Alexa for a timer to do a certain task for a set period of time. And that’s a subject line that gets people to pay attention. Try it out!</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h2><h3><strong>Related episodes</strong></h3><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/use-facebook-group-welcome-new-members/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How Facebook Groups and Webinars Make Matthew Harrington a Happy Man</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/price-increase-email-template-case-study/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How A League Member Made Over $10k With Just ONE Email Campaign – Case Study With Aidan O’Sullivan</a>.</p><p>And <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/increased-sales-with-email-marketing-cody-burch/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How Cody Burch Increased Sales by Exactly 1,000% in 1 Month with Just 10 Emails</a>.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h3><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how switching to automated webinars improved our member Brad's business) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>leaving us a review&nbsp;</strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.&nbsp;</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/automated-webinars-email/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">cf7e5351-e831-4bd4-b01c-8a9a48104525</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/6bde928e-0467-4258-8f96-786bbe32718a/8NjjFI4mhEpvuUblUvqL4QsI.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/5e11820b-7dc6-4782-b439-ce88b832ff08/Made-90k-With-Automated-Webinars-converted.mp3" length="25432775" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>26:30</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>174</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>174</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How Do You Get Your Customers To Buy And Buy Again?</title><itunes:title>How Do You Get Your Customers To Buy And Buy Again?</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Ready to tackle one of the biggest challenges in the world of online business?</p><p>With rising ad costs and stiff competition for new leads, maximising the lifetime value of every customer is more important than ever.</p><p>Let’s take a deep dive into how we can turn new customers into repeat customers that keep coming back for more and more.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h5><br></h5><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ready to tackle one of the biggest challenges in the world of online business?</p><p>With rising ad costs and stiff competition for new leads, maximising the lifetime value of every customer is more important than ever.</p><p>Let’s take a deep dive into how we can turn new customers into repeat customers that keep coming back for more and more.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h5><br></h5><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://emailmarketingheroes.com/best-email-marketing-campaign-existing-customers/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">59f37858-c9df-4e44-a355-4b3474e811a5</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/d72fa165-a043-407f-9b5c-020f1eef2147/aFxYgHr7pKfHZpNMWMBB_SK5.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/a81e029d-b2eb-49c7-9d99-56d61e3c2a2b/Ep-261-converted.mp3" length="33820573" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:37</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>173</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>173</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Get Your Emails Opened Using NLP - With Jon Benson</title><itunes:title>Get Your Emails Opened Using NLP - With Jon Benson</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Can you use NLP for marketing to get more of your emails opened? This week we talked to Jon Benson from <a href="https://cp2.copypro.ai/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Copy Pro</a> and <a href="https://pages.jonbenson.com/order1667852187457" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">EPIC Email</a> about using NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) in your email marketing to grab your audience's attention and get more of your emails opened.</p><p>Ready to find out a handy trick or two to sell <em>more</em> and <em>ethically</em>?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:18) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook Group</a>.</p><p>(3:00) Is Jon really allergic to pollinated fruit?</p><p>(4:47) Who is Jon Benson?</p><p>(6:47) What is NLP and why does it matter in email marketing?</p><p>(8:15) Creating a pattern interrupt.</p><p>(9:50) How to grab people's attention. </p><p>(12:04) How to 'promote' in your emails.</p><p>(16:50) How to create links people will want to click on.</p><p>(19:26) You don't need to create new content all the time.</p><p>(21:52) Subject line of the week with Jon Benson.</p><h3><strong>Who is Jon Benson? </strong></h3><p>Jon Benson is known as the person who invented the video sales letter and was the first to sell copyrighting software. Somewhere along his business journey, Jon also started thinking about ways he could apply the same NLP and persuasion tactics to emails. Known for successfully employing and teaching techniques such as <em>pattern interrupt</em> and <em>future pacing</em>, Jon introduced these concepts into the world of email marketing. And that's how EPIC Email was born.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What is NLP and why does it matter in email marketing?</strong></h3><p>But first thing first, what is Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)? Jon sees NLP as <strong>a tool to help you make sales. </strong>It's based on the idea that human beings can be persuaded to take action through simple language commands - all without being manipulated.</p><p>We all know that the word 'manipulation' has a negative connotation, but it’s not necessarily bad. Parents 'manipulate' their children into eating their vegetables all the time after all! For Jon, <strong>selling is the art of ethical manipulation or persuasion, and NLP is a building block for that.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Creating a pattern interrupt</strong></h3><p>One of the things we have to do at the beginning of every sales conversation (no matter the medium) is to <em>grab attention</em>. Because without the attention of your audience, you’re shouting into a void!</p><p>When it comes to emails, grabbing attention is not as active as it would be if you were standing on stage. So <strong>to grab the attention of your subscribers and get them to pay attention to your emails, you want to create a <em>pattern interrupt</em>.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Jon will typically start an email with just one or two sentences that either seem out of place or that direct someone into something they’re not normally used to seeing in an email. For example, an email that converted well for Jon started with the phrase “Look around your room”. That’s not a request – it's a <em>command</em>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to grab people's attention</strong></h3><p>The idea here is that <strong>you can use words that create patterns where you engage someone’s mind without them knowing you’re doing it. </strong>This is NLP, and it works because it's unusual - it's not something you tend to write at the start of an email. &nbsp;</p><p>Another email starter Jon used in the past is “What’s the one thing you remember the most about your father?” So it's all about starting your emails with something interesting or a story, so people want to click on the email and read more.</p><p>What we just described with this idea of grabbing your audience's attention is the E in the EPIC Email acronym, which stands for 'Engaged'. <strong>How do you grab attention and engage someone? You do that by <em>disengaging</em> them from their current pattern of thoughts.</strong> </p><p>And this is a necessity for all email marketers because people are bombarded with messages, emails, texts, etc. So you want to do something that breaks that pattern and 'forces' them to pay attention.&nbsp;</p><p>To come up with ideas for this, ask yourself what your audience is generally doing when they read your emails. How can you interrupt whatever activity they might be doing? You can do that by shouting something outrageous, but that's not the only way of doing it.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to 'promote' in your emails</strong></h3><p>The P in EPIC Email stands for 'Promote'. Of course, if you have no engagement first, promotion falls on deaf ears. So make sure you grab your audience's attention first.</p><p>For Jon, promotion is about persuading at the highest level, ethically. It's <em>not</em> about ripping people off and trying to sell them something they don't need. Instead, you want to tell people what they're going to gain by buying your product or service. </p><p><strong>Persuasion is benefit-driven, so tell your prospective customers what the benefits of using your product are.</strong> And in order to do that, consider their values. Who are you speaking to and what do they value? Because knowing that will inform the terminology you're going to use. </p><p>But you also need to be able to show them how you can help them through <strong>logical statements</strong>, such as studies, for example.</p><p>And then finally, you use <strong>fear</strong>, which is normally reserved for the last part of the email. This is where you explain what could happen if someone <em>doesn't</em> take action. And in order to do this, you need to know and understand people's pain points.&nbsp;</p><p>So <strong>the promotion sequence in email marketing is</strong> <strong>1) benefit, 2) logic and 3) fear.</strong> And you want to follow this up with a direct link, if possible.&nbsp;You can use simple NLP commands such as, "Look here" or "Check this out". </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to create links people will want to click on</strong></h3><p>Jon also gave us a great tip about creating hyperlinks. Often, Jon will use the subject line - or the opening line of the email - as the hyperlink that leads to the sales page. Why? Because if that phrase was powerful enough to grab people's attention and get the email opened, it's probably attractive enough for people to click on.&nbsp;</p><p>Do you need to use your subject lines word by word? Not necessarily. Jon's suggestion is to do a split test where you use the subject line verbatim and compare how that performs against an email where you change the words slightly. For example, you could expand a command such as "Click here" with "Click here<em> to do X</em>".&nbsp;</p><p>We do something similar where we identify the links that were clicked on the most and then use them as subject lines of subsequent emails. And most of the time, we'll have great open rates on those emails because the subject line is already proven. We already know it's interesting and works. </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>You don't need to create new content all the time</strong></h3><p>One thing that became clear through our conversation with Jon is that people often worry about not knowing the tactics or strategies for good email marketing. But a lot of the time<strong> it’s about trying different things out and seeing what sticks.</strong></p><p>And one of the biggest advantages of emailing every day is that you can try things out more often. The more you try something different, the more chances you have of getting good results. It’s not about creating brand-new content from scratch every single time. </p><p>If you need a great subject line for a new promotion, for example, you have a whole database of them - simply check what performed well in the past. As we always say, <strong>marketing isn’t the pretty pictures department - it's the data department! </strong>And if more marketers looked at it this way, we’d have more successful launches and enterprises.</p><p>Jon pointed out that only 10-15% of what he creates is new - the rest of the time it's about repackaging something you've used before.<strong> The art of marketing isn’t about creating something new every time – it’s about seeing what works and doing <em>that</em> most of the time.</strong> So feel free to experiment and see what happens.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week with Jon Benson</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject line (courtesy of Jon Benson) is “‘Automatic’ email selling machine”. And the word ‘automatic’ is the one that converted, so Jon put it in quotation marks to make it more effective. If you want to get attention in a subject line, quotation marks can be a good strategy.&nbsp;</p><p>People often read sarcasm in quotation marks, but in this case, they were used to soften the arrogance, the overpromise, and the hype. Without them, the subject line could have come across as aggressive. By softening the subject line, you give it more credibility and create less resistance.</p><p>Another way to do that is to use a question mark, which generates a question in the mind of the readers and makes them wonder why you're sending this to them. You’re creating that pattern interrupt in their subconscious brain, and that's something you can do both in subject lines and the first part of your emails.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Jon</strong></h5><p>If you want to connect with Jon, you can find him at <a href="https://cp2.copypro.ai/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Copy Pro</a> or <a href="https://pages.jonbenson.com/order1667852187457" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">EPIC...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Can you use NLP for marketing to get more of your emails opened? This week we talked to Jon Benson from <a href="https://cp2.copypro.ai/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Copy Pro</a> and <a href="https://pages.jonbenson.com/order1667852187457" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">EPIC Email</a> about using NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) in your email marketing to grab your audience's attention and get more of your emails opened.</p><p>Ready to find out a handy trick or two to sell <em>more</em> and <em>ethically</em>?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:18) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook Group</a>.</p><p>(3:00) Is Jon really allergic to pollinated fruit?</p><p>(4:47) Who is Jon Benson?</p><p>(6:47) What is NLP and why does it matter in email marketing?</p><p>(8:15) Creating a pattern interrupt.</p><p>(9:50) How to grab people's attention. </p><p>(12:04) How to 'promote' in your emails.</p><p>(16:50) How to create links people will want to click on.</p><p>(19:26) You don't need to create new content all the time.</p><p>(21:52) Subject line of the week with Jon Benson.</p><h3><strong>Who is Jon Benson? </strong></h3><p>Jon Benson is known as the person who invented the video sales letter and was the first to sell copyrighting software. Somewhere along his business journey, Jon also started thinking about ways he could apply the same NLP and persuasion tactics to emails. Known for successfully employing and teaching techniques such as <em>pattern interrupt</em> and <em>future pacing</em>, Jon introduced these concepts into the world of email marketing. And that's how EPIC Email was born.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What is NLP and why does it matter in email marketing?</strong></h3><p>But first thing first, what is Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)? Jon sees NLP as <strong>a tool to help you make sales. </strong>It's based on the idea that human beings can be persuaded to take action through simple language commands - all without being manipulated.</p><p>We all know that the word 'manipulation' has a negative connotation, but it’s not necessarily bad. Parents 'manipulate' their children into eating their vegetables all the time after all! For Jon, <strong>selling is the art of ethical manipulation or persuasion, and NLP is a building block for that.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Creating a pattern interrupt</strong></h3><p>One of the things we have to do at the beginning of every sales conversation (no matter the medium) is to <em>grab attention</em>. Because without the attention of your audience, you’re shouting into a void!</p><p>When it comes to emails, grabbing attention is not as active as it would be if you were standing on stage. So <strong>to grab the attention of your subscribers and get them to pay attention to your emails, you want to create a <em>pattern interrupt</em>.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Jon will typically start an email with just one or two sentences that either seem out of place or that direct someone into something they’re not normally used to seeing in an email. For example, an email that converted well for Jon started with the phrase “Look around your room”. That’s not a request – it's a <em>command</em>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to grab people's attention</strong></h3><p>The idea here is that <strong>you can use words that create patterns where you engage someone’s mind without them knowing you’re doing it. </strong>This is NLP, and it works because it's unusual - it's not something you tend to write at the start of an email. &nbsp;</p><p>Another email starter Jon used in the past is “What’s the one thing you remember the most about your father?” So it's all about starting your emails with something interesting or a story, so people want to click on the email and read more.</p><p>What we just described with this idea of grabbing your audience's attention is the E in the EPIC Email acronym, which stands for 'Engaged'. <strong>How do you grab attention and engage someone? You do that by <em>disengaging</em> them from their current pattern of thoughts.</strong> </p><p>And this is a necessity for all email marketers because people are bombarded with messages, emails, texts, etc. So you want to do something that breaks that pattern and 'forces' them to pay attention.&nbsp;</p><p>To come up with ideas for this, ask yourself what your audience is generally doing when they read your emails. How can you interrupt whatever activity they might be doing? You can do that by shouting something outrageous, but that's not the only way of doing it.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to 'promote' in your emails</strong></h3><p>The P in EPIC Email stands for 'Promote'. Of course, if you have no engagement first, promotion falls on deaf ears. So make sure you grab your audience's attention first.</p><p>For Jon, promotion is about persuading at the highest level, ethically. It's <em>not</em> about ripping people off and trying to sell them something they don't need. Instead, you want to tell people what they're going to gain by buying your product or service. </p><p><strong>Persuasion is benefit-driven, so tell your prospective customers what the benefits of using your product are.</strong> And in order to do that, consider their values. Who are you speaking to and what do they value? Because knowing that will inform the terminology you're going to use. </p><p>But you also need to be able to show them how you can help them through <strong>logical statements</strong>, such as studies, for example.</p><p>And then finally, you use <strong>fear</strong>, which is normally reserved for the last part of the email. This is where you explain what could happen if someone <em>doesn't</em> take action. And in order to do this, you need to know and understand people's pain points.&nbsp;</p><p>So <strong>the promotion sequence in email marketing is</strong> <strong>1) benefit, 2) logic and 3) fear.</strong> And you want to follow this up with a direct link, if possible.&nbsp;You can use simple NLP commands such as, "Look here" or "Check this out". </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to create links people will want to click on</strong></h3><p>Jon also gave us a great tip about creating hyperlinks. Often, Jon will use the subject line - or the opening line of the email - as the hyperlink that leads to the sales page. Why? Because if that phrase was powerful enough to grab people's attention and get the email opened, it's probably attractive enough for people to click on.&nbsp;</p><p>Do you need to use your subject lines word by word? Not necessarily. Jon's suggestion is to do a split test where you use the subject line verbatim and compare how that performs against an email where you change the words slightly. For example, you could expand a command such as "Click here" with "Click here<em> to do X</em>".&nbsp;</p><p>We do something similar where we identify the links that were clicked on the most and then use them as subject lines of subsequent emails. And most of the time, we'll have great open rates on those emails because the subject line is already proven. We already know it's interesting and works. </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>You don't need to create new content all the time</strong></h3><p>One thing that became clear through our conversation with Jon is that people often worry about not knowing the tactics or strategies for good email marketing. But a lot of the time<strong> it’s about trying different things out and seeing what sticks.</strong></p><p>And one of the biggest advantages of emailing every day is that you can try things out more often. The more you try something different, the more chances you have of getting good results. It’s not about creating brand-new content from scratch every single time. </p><p>If you need a great subject line for a new promotion, for example, you have a whole database of them - simply check what performed well in the past. As we always say, <strong>marketing isn’t the pretty pictures department - it's the data department! </strong>And if more marketers looked at it this way, we’d have more successful launches and enterprises.</p><p>Jon pointed out that only 10-15% of what he creates is new - the rest of the time it's about repackaging something you've used before.<strong> The art of marketing isn’t about creating something new every time – it’s about seeing what works and doing <em>that</em> most of the time.</strong> So feel free to experiment and see what happens.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week with Jon Benson</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject line (courtesy of Jon Benson) is “‘Automatic’ email selling machine”. And the word ‘automatic’ is the one that converted, so Jon put it in quotation marks to make it more effective. If you want to get attention in a subject line, quotation marks can be a good strategy.&nbsp;</p><p>People often read sarcasm in quotation marks, but in this case, they were used to soften the arrogance, the overpromise, and the hype. Without them, the subject line could have come across as aggressive. By softening the subject line, you give it more credibility and create less resistance.</p><p>Another way to do that is to use a question mark, which generates a question in the mind of the readers and makes them wonder why you're sending this to them. You’re creating that pattern interrupt in their subconscious brain, and that's something you can do both in subject lines and the first part of your emails.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Jon</strong></h5><p>If you want to connect with Jon, you can find him at <a href="https://cp2.copypro.ai/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Copy Pro</a> or <a href="https://pages.jonbenson.com/order1667852187457" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">EPIC Emails</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-market-yourself-belinda-weaver/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Making Yourself Choosable with Belinda Weaver</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/write-better-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Little Tricks to Write Better Emails That Aren’t Boring</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/the-therapeutic-benefits-of-writing-your-own-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Therapeutic Benefits of Writing Your Own Emails</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to use NLP for marketing and getting your emails opened) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/nlp-for-marketing-get-emails-opened-jon-benson/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">32d9f633-bc15-413c-8fcb-0dd572196140</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/27a37977-df97-4db2-b82b-32ee4f570c74/WpnjnA8OFR-BXvhUPTnOm5Gc.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/f0c8313e-e537-47b7-9826-91307e0e6fc2/Use-NLP-To-Get-Emails-Opened-converted.mp3" length="24809159" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>25:51</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>172</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>172</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Mistakes With Your Email Marketing Automation Strategy</title><itunes:title>Mistakes With Your Email Marketing Automation Strategy</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Do you automate your emails? Did you know you could (unknowingly) be making these very common mistakes with your email marketing automation?</p><p>We’re Kennedy and<a href="https://fifimason.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Fifi</a>, and today we're going to share what you can do better with your automated email sequences.</p><p>Ready?</p><p>Let's go.</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(1:06) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(1:31) Check out our sponsor -<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/cleanup" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Zerobounce</a>!&nbsp;</p><p>(4:51) Not showing your personality.&nbsp;</p><p>(9:03) Not sending emails out 'live' first.&nbsp;</p><p>(11:55) Not checking the data.&nbsp;</p><p>(13:31) Having too many offers in your automations.&nbsp;</p><p>(17:43) Spending too long creating your automations.&nbsp;</p><p>(18:58) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/summits-list-building/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Use Summits To Get Visible (Even If You’re An Introvert) And Build Your Email List, With Fifi Mason</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/cant-stop-procrastinating-email-marketing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Useful Strategies To Stop Procrastinating RIGHT NOW To Get Your Email Marketing Done!</a></p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/create-email-marketing-strategy-plan/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Build The Most Impactful Email Marketing Strategy Plan To Make More Sales In Your Business</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3>Want to connect with Fifi?</h3><p>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people - those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can<a href="https://fifimason.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> find Fifi on her website</a>.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the biggest mistakes you're making with your email automation strategy) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you automate your emails? Did you know you could (unknowingly) be making these very common mistakes with your email marketing automation?</p><p>We’re Kennedy and<a href="https://fifimason.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Fifi</a>, and today we're going to share what you can do better with your automated email sequences.</p><p>Ready?</p><p>Let's go.</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(1:06) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(1:31) Check out our sponsor -<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/cleanup" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Zerobounce</a>!&nbsp;</p><p>(4:51) Not showing your personality.&nbsp;</p><p>(9:03) Not sending emails out 'live' first.&nbsp;</p><p>(11:55) Not checking the data.&nbsp;</p><p>(13:31) Having too many offers in your automations.&nbsp;</p><p>(17:43) Spending too long creating your automations.&nbsp;</p><p>(18:58) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/summits-list-building/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Use Summits To Get Visible (Even If You’re An Introvert) And Build Your Email List, With Fifi Mason</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/cant-stop-procrastinating-email-marketing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Useful Strategies To Stop Procrastinating RIGHT NOW To Get Your Email Marketing Done!</a></p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/create-email-marketing-strategy-plan/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Build The Most Impactful Email Marketing Strategy Plan To Make More Sales In Your Business</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3>Want to connect with Fifi?</h3><p>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people - those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can<a href="https://fifimason.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> find Fifi on her website</a>.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the biggest mistakes you're making with your email automation strategy) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/mistakes-email-marketing-atuomation-strategy/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">72dfced7-8b14-42bf-8cd1-1a526734dc98</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/cc11620d-06b2-4a74-9a61-fecccf405036/qSlLMZ8HetD6-oI0kdR2fvoN.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/7e24b708-ca00-4fba-a540-b50ddeaf9709/EP-244-171-Final.mp3" length="53800576" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>22:25</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>171</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>171</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/6032a8a3-6953-43bb-a5d0-94471b8d33ce/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How We Used A Facebook Group To Build Our Email List From Scratch</title><itunes:title>How We Used A Facebook Group To Build Our Email List From Scratch</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Facebook group, email list. Can you use one to grow the other? We certainly did. And here's exactly how we built our email list to make the first $100k+ in this business in 12 months using a FREE Facebook group.&nbsp;</p><p>Want to know how you can do that too in your business?&nbsp;</p><p>Let's dive in.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:15) Join <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">our FREE Facebook Group</a>.</p><p>(3:53) Our Facebook group - how we started.</p><p>(6:41) Our Facebook group - how we captured people's attention.</p><p>(10:36) Stop doing things that aren't working.</p><p>(12:34) Why we created a traffic loop.</p><p>(14:53) Try different types of posts.</p><p>(17:27) Your Facebook group is full of your ideal clients!</p><p>(19:47) Use traffic loops to make more sales.&nbsp;</p><p>(22:31) Check out our new course - <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/loops/71f9fbe142bfda2d09acd907798be58b6766fc3a?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_campaign=group-loops" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Group Loops</a>.</p><p>(24:45) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Our Facebook group - how we started</strong></h3><p>When we first started our business, we thought having a Facebook group was a cracking idea. And the reason for that was (and still is) that we wanted to leverage Facebook’s massive audience. Because there are <em>billions</em> of people on the platform! And we wanted some of those people to see our offers. </p><p>Back then, we couldn't afford to pay for ads though. And in order to do what we do, we had to build our email list.</p><p>So we started a free Facebook group. Then we bought a bunch of courses to learn about the conventional wisdom that other people were teaching. We even put a member of staff in charge of our Facebook group. </p><p>But the whole thing just failed. Our Facebook group was tumbleweed – a ghost town. People weren’t joining, there was no engagement, and the Facebook group wasn't doing anything for us.</p><p>Of course, we didn’t want to have a Facebook group for the sake of having one. We wanted to leverage the algorithm by genuinely doing what Facebook wants to do. And that's to attract people to communities and keep them on the platform. <strong>We wanted to leverage Facebook to build an email list. </strong>So what we're sharing here is<strong> how to create and run a Facebook group that helps you get people onto your email list and make sales.</strong></p><h3><strong>Our Facebook group - how we captured people's attention</strong></h3><p>At first, we couldn’t get the Facebook group to work for us. People simply wouldn't engage or post. So we gave up. </p><p>But then we realised that in the previous 18 years of running various businesses, we'd never been able to make a lot of conventional wisdom work for us – certainly not around email marketing. And the same happened with Facebook marketing.</p><p>So we decided to figure this Facebook group thing out ourselves. We needed people to join our email list and having a Facebook group seemed to be the only thing that would allow us to do that for free and at scale - in a way that would bring in people consistently and could be scalable. Unfortunately, we didn't have the luxury of having a large email list that would allow us to launch a Facebook group and make it popular. We were at a disadvantage there. So Kennedy took on this task - he made it his <em>obsession</em> to figure it all out.&nbsp;</p><p>He started out by making two posts every single day, even if at first he was shouting into the void because the community wasn't engaged. Often, Kennedy would post twice a day and get no responses. But he kept going. And <strong>it wasn't until we hit 100 members that people started to comment. </strong>When we hit 300 members, people started to post themselves, and that was a real milestone.&nbsp;</p><p>We got to that point by posting consistently and talking about our Facebook group wherever we were - during podcast interviews, training in other communities, etc. We treated our Facebook group as our lead magnet and started mentioning it in every conversation. Eventually, it all started working. Facebook started recommending our group to people as something they might want to join, and that’s when we started capturing people’s attention.</p><h3><strong>Stop doing things that aren't working</strong></h3><p>Another thing we did was to stop doing the things that were <em>not</em> working. A lot of conventional wisdom was giving us tips that weren’t working for us for any sustained period of time. So we started testing other strategies instead. And that's what made all the difference.&nbsp;</p><p>One of the things we wanted was to make sure we didn’t rely on just one method of getting people's email addresses. We knew that the Facebook group wasn't going to be our business model – we wanted people inside our email list! So we’d ask people who joined our Facebook group to also give us their email addresses and join our list.</p><p><br></p><p>And as the group started growing, we started thinking of different ways to move people from the group and onto our list. We'd give people the option to give us their email addresses when joining the group, but would also create specific posts in the Facebook group to recommend our lead magnets so people would join our list by downloading those. In other words, we'd give people more opportunities to join our list because that's our ultimate destination. That's how we grow our business.&nbsp;</p><p>Of course, you have to get the balance right here. You don't want to pitch your products all the time, even if they're free. So we looked at <strong>creating the right balance of value, questions, engagement, and pitches for free lead magnets.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why we created a traffic loop</strong></h3><p>The advice from experts about Facebook groups was very one-directional. But that didn't work for us, so we created what we call a<em> traffic loop</em>, which is something critical to get the maximum return on your investments.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>We created a loop where people come into the Facebook group and join our email list.</strong> But we know that Facebook relies on people <em>engaging </em>– they want people to comment and post. Because that’s what makes Facebook recommend your group to more people. So to leverage that, we started emailing our list (that we’d grown mainly through our Facebook group) by signposting content we’d shared in the Facebook group and asking them to go and check it out and share their opinions. That way, we'd create a surge of comments and engagement on the posts that, in turn, got Facebook’s attention.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And what happened then? Facebook started recommending the group to more people. So <strong>we used the Facebook group to grow our list and our list to create more engagement in the Facebook group and reach a bigger audience - we created a<em> traffic loop</em>. </strong>Moving people from your Facebook group onto your email list and then aiming to sell to them from there isn't everything. <strong>You need to create this traffic loop and perpetual growth. </strong>Because that's what will work this year and beyond.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Try different types of posts</strong></h3><p>Another thing we did in the early days of driving engagement inside our Facebook group was to run live training sessions. Kennedy went live in the group <em>daily</em> for a period of around two months by delivering content that was repurposed from our emails and by sharing some sort of story. In other words, <strong>we used the same framework we teach with daily email marketing but with Facebook live videos inside our group.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>We even did a 24-hour podcast lunacy (not once but twice!) where we stayed awake and had guests and interviews to drive interest and engagement to the group. Now, we wouldn’t recommend you do that, as in all honesty, it didn't make a huge impact on the group. But<strong> find different reasons to post and go live.</strong> You want to show people the person behind the group, and live training sessions are a great way of doing that.</p><p>Now that our group has grown and is more engaged, we don’t need to do that anymore, but in the early days, it was a good way to kickstart things and get the ball rolling. It's something that gets people’s attention and prompts them to join the group.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>We have 30+ different types of posts!&nbsp;</strong></h4><p>Did you know we use 30+ different types of posts inside our Facebook group to drive engagement and encourage people to take various types of action? We may ask them to invite other people to the group, for example. Or prompt them to buy. But the key is to be varied.&nbsp;</p><p>This is one of the things we learnt and tested out. We even tried different themes for the various days of the week that would dictate the post for the day, like a Monday Motivation post. Initially, this got us great engagement, but after a while, things died down because people got used to it. And that's why you need variety.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Your Facebook group is full of your ideal clients!</strong></h3><p>The other thing we love about having a Facebook group (and the reason why recommend you have one) is that it’s a great way of understanding the people you’re selling to.<strong> Your group is full of your ideal customers, i.e. the people who are going to buy from you and grow your business.</strong> What they post or ask in the group and the way they comment will give you ideas for more content.</p><p><br></p><p>But also, <strong>how you present your product and services is completely informed by how people communicate about the problems that they are trying to solve.</strong> This means you can...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Facebook group, email list. Can you use one to grow the other? We certainly did. And here's exactly how we built our email list to make the first $100k+ in this business in 12 months using a FREE Facebook group.&nbsp;</p><p>Want to know how you can do that too in your business?&nbsp;</p><p>Let's dive in.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:15) Join <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">our FREE Facebook Group</a>.</p><p>(3:53) Our Facebook group - how we started.</p><p>(6:41) Our Facebook group - how we captured people's attention.</p><p>(10:36) Stop doing things that aren't working.</p><p>(12:34) Why we created a traffic loop.</p><p>(14:53) Try different types of posts.</p><p>(17:27) Your Facebook group is full of your ideal clients!</p><p>(19:47) Use traffic loops to make more sales.&nbsp;</p><p>(22:31) Check out our new course - <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/loops/71f9fbe142bfda2d09acd907798be58b6766fc3a?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_campaign=group-loops" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Group Loops</a>.</p><p>(24:45) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Our Facebook group - how we started</strong></h3><p>When we first started our business, we thought having a Facebook group was a cracking idea. And the reason for that was (and still is) that we wanted to leverage Facebook’s massive audience. Because there are <em>billions</em> of people on the platform! And we wanted some of those people to see our offers. </p><p>Back then, we couldn't afford to pay for ads though. And in order to do what we do, we had to build our email list.</p><p>So we started a free Facebook group. Then we bought a bunch of courses to learn about the conventional wisdom that other people were teaching. We even put a member of staff in charge of our Facebook group. </p><p>But the whole thing just failed. Our Facebook group was tumbleweed – a ghost town. People weren’t joining, there was no engagement, and the Facebook group wasn't doing anything for us.</p><p>Of course, we didn’t want to have a Facebook group for the sake of having one. We wanted to leverage the algorithm by genuinely doing what Facebook wants to do. And that's to attract people to communities and keep them on the platform. <strong>We wanted to leverage Facebook to build an email list. </strong>So what we're sharing here is<strong> how to create and run a Facebook group that helps you get people onto your email list and make sales.</strong></p><h3><strong>Our Facebook group - how we captured people's attention</strong></h3><p>At first, we couldn’t get the Facebook group to work for us. People simply wouldn't engage or post. So we gave up. </p><p>But then we realised that in the previous 18 years of running various businesses, we'd never been able to make a lot of conventional wisdom work for us – certainly not around email marketing. And the same happened with Facebook marketing.</p><p>So we decided to figure this Facebook group thing out ourselves. We needed people to join our email list and having a Facebook group seemed to be the only thing that would allow us to do that for free and at scale - in a way that would bring in people consistently and could be scalable. Unfortunately, we didn't have the luxury of having a large email list that would allow us to launch a Facebook group and make it popular. We were at a disadvantage there. So Kennedy took on this task - he made it his <em>obsession</em> to figure it all out.&nbsp;</p><p>He started out by making two posts every single day, even if at first he was shouting into the void because the community wasn't engaged. Often, Kennedy would post twice a day and get no responses. But he kept going. And <strong>it wasn't until we hit 100 members that people started to comment. </strong>When we hit 300 members, people started to post themselves, and that was a real milestone.&nbsp;</p><p>We got to that point by posting consistently and talking about our Facebook group wherever we were - during podcast interviews, training in other communities, etc. We treated our Facebook group as our lead magnet and started mentioning it in every conversation. Eventually, it all started working. Facebook started recommending our group to people as something they might want to join, and that’s when we started capturing people’s attention.</p><h3><strong>Stop doing things that aren't working</strong></h3><p>Another thing we did was to stop doing the things that were <em>not</em> working. A lot of conventional wisdom was giving us tips that weren’t working for us for any sustained period of time. So we started testing other strategies instead. And that's what made all the difference.&nbsp;</p><p>One of the things we wanted was to make sure we didn’t rely on just one method of getting people's email addresses. We knew that the Facebook group wasn't going to be our business model – we wanted people inside our email list! So we’d ask people who joined our Facebook group to also give us their email addresses and join our list.</p><p><br></p><p>And as the group started growing, we started thinking of different ways to move people from the group and onto our list. We'd give people the option to give us their email addresses when joining the group, but would also create specific posts in the Facebook group to recommend our lead magnets so people would join our list by downloading those. In other words, we'd give people more opportunities to join our list because that's our ultimate destination. That's how we grow our business.&nbsp;</p><p>Of course, you have to get the balance right here. You don't want to pitch your products all the time, even if they're free. So we looked at <strong>creating the right balance of value, questions, engagement, and pitches for free lead magnets.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why we created a traffic loop</strong></h3><p>The advice from experts about Facebook groups was very one-directional. But that didn't work for us, so we created what we call a<em> traffic loop</em>, which is something critical to get the maximum return on your investments.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>We created a loop where people come into the Facebook group and join our email list.</strong> But we know that Facebook relies on people <em>engaging </em>– they want people to comment and post. Because that’s what makes Facebook recommend your group to more people. So to leverage that, we started emailing our list (that we’d grown mainly through our Facebook group) by signposting content we’d shared in the Facebook group and asking them to go and check it out and share their opinions. That way, we'd create a surge of comments and engagement on the posts that, in turn, got Facebook’s attention.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And what happened then? Facebook started recommending the group to more people. So <strong>we used the Facebook group to grow our list and our list to create more engagement in the Facebook group and reach a bigger audience - we created a<em> traffic loop</em>. </strong>Moving people from your Facebook group onto your email list and then aiming to sell to them from there isn't everything. <strong>You need to create this traffic loop and perpetual growth. </strong>Because that's what will work this year and beyond.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Try different types of posts</strong></h3><p>Another thing we did in the early days of driving engagement inside our Facebook group was to run live training sessions. Kennedy went live in the group <em>daily</em> for a period of around two months by delivering content that was repurposed from our emails and by sharing some sort of story. In other words, <strong>we used the same framework we teach with daily email marketing but with Facebook live videos inside our group.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>We even did a 24-hour podcast lunacy (not once but twice!) where we stayed awake and had guests and interviews to drive interest and engagement to the group. Now, we wouldn’t recommend you do that, as in all honesty, it didn't make a huge impact on the group. But<strong> find different reasons to post and go live.</strong> You want to show people the person behind the group, and live training sessions are a great way of doing that.</p><p>Now that our group has grown and is more engaged, we don’t need to do that anymore, but in the early days, it was a good way to kickstart things and get the ball rolling. It's something that gets people’s attention and prompts them to join the group.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>We have 30+ different types of posts!&nbsp;</strong></h4><p>Did you know we use 30+ different types of posts inside our Facebook group to drive engagement and encourage people to take various types of action? We may ask them to invite other people to the group, for example. Or prompt them to buy. But the key is to be varied.&nbsp;</p><p>This is one of the things we learnt and tested out. We even tried different themes for the various days of the week that would dictate the post for the day, like a Monday Motivation post. Initially, this got us great engagement, but after a while, things died down because people got used to it. And that's why you need variety.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Your Facebook group is full of your ideal clients!</strong></h3><p>The other thing we love about having a Facebook group (and the reason why recommend you have one) is that it’s a great way of understanding the people you’re selling to.<strong> Your group is full of your ideal customers, i.e. the people who are going to buy from you and grow your business.</strong> What they post or ask in the group and the way they comment will give you ideas for more content.</p><p><br></p><p>But also, <strong>how you present your product and services is completely informed by how people communicate about the problems that they are trying to solve.</strong> This means you can present what you sell in a way that you know <em>for a fact</em> will resonate with the people who want to buy from you. Plus, you can also run research through surveys and polls, which is another way of communicating with people outside of email marketing. It’s a different channel that will help you collect information and in a much more valuable way than creating an abstract customer avatar! &nbsp;</p><p>Seeing what kind of people are attracted to (and stay in) your group is super powerful to you. And so is looking at what type of content they engage with and having the ability to survey them and ask them questions. In fact, this is infinitely more powerful than trying to artificially create an avatar and hoping for the best. <strong>You want to make sure your ideal client is<em> accessible</em> - and the people inside your Facebook group are! </strong>They came into your world, so you now have access to them and can find out more about them.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Use traffic loops to make more sales&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Having a Facebook group also helped us <em>test selling</em> in there. It became a way to find out how to get people to buy from us and amplify what we’re already doing by email. We were able to get people to raise their hands and express interest before putting together an offer, for example. So <strong>a Facebook group can be a low-pressure, non-salesy way to check whether people are interested in something you want to put together.</strong> If there’s no response or very little engagement, you'll know it's not a great idea. But if you see a sudden rush and people jumping onto the post to say they’re interested, it gives you a better indication that something’s worth pursuing.</p><p>This is exactly how we made our first six figures in this business. And the reason why it worked so well is that <strong>through our Facebook group,</strong> <strong>we were able to build much deeper relationships with every email subscriber.</strong> On top of being the people who'd show up in their inboxes, we were also people they'd see when scrolling on Facebook. And that helped us increase our level of <em>know, like, and trust</em> with our subscribers. That is exactly how we were able to make such a high amount of sales from every email subscriber on our list - by using this traffic loop system.</p><p><br></p><p>Running a Facebook group helped us make over $100,000 in our first year of this business. And that's because <strong>it gave us more engaged and higher-converting subscribers than we’d ever had from any traffic source</strong>, including Facebook ads. And our Facebook group wasn’t huge – we had under 2,000 people at that point! That proves you don't need a huge group or a huge email list (our list was smaller than that at the time!)</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Check out our new course - Group Loops</strong></h3><p>If you also want to build a Facebook group that is attractive to people and gets recommended by no other than Facebook to its own users, and if you want to know:&nbsp;</p><ul><li>How to set up your personal profile so it enhances your group.</li><li>All the different techniques to grow, engage or re-engage a dead group.</li><li>The 30+ types of posts that we used to grow the group and get people to take action, raise their hands, and buy from us.</li><li>How to monetise your group, grow your list, and help you make significant sales.</li><li>And a lot more...</li></ul><br/><p><strong>We have an awesome programme called </strong><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/loops/71f9fbe142bfda2d09acd907798be58b6766fc3a?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_campaign=group-loops" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Group Loops</strong></a><strong> that is based on the idea of creating an infinite traffic loop where your email list feeds your Facebook group, and your group feeds your email list.</strong></p><p>If you want to take a look, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/loops/71f9fbe142bfda2d09acd907798be58b6766fc3a?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_campaign=group-loops" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">the link is here</a>. And with the cost of advertising going up and gaining organic traffic getting harder, you do want to leverage the audience that's already on Facebook. That will help you create your own community where you can be seen as the thought leader.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject line is “Peekaboo (I see you)” and the emoji of the little eyes. Here we used a classic, familiar expression that people use.</p><p>But we could have also flipped the phrase on its head and done the opposite. For example, we could have combined the word “Peekaboo” with something completely different. And that would also work because it creates what we call a ‘pattern interrupt’. That's when the words used aren’t what you expected. But in this case, this subject line got engagement because it creates a feeling of familiarity and intrigue. Try it out!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/use-facebook-group-welcome-new-members/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How Facebook Groups and Webinars Make Matthew Harrington a Happy Man</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/build-a-facebook-group-to-build-your-email-list-with-arne-giske-from-group-funnels/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Build A Facebook Group To Build Your Email List With Arne Giske From Group Funnels</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/building-email-lists-traffic-loops/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stop Wasting So Much On List Building by Using Traffic Loops</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! Did you enjoy this episode about having a Facebook group and email list - can you use one to build the other? If you did and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/facebook-group-email-list-loop/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">1f7e381f-0302-46be-bcab-d141255f98d9</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/4592e184-097d-41cd-ab27-46fbaf729fae/LffduzvYxOWjvUQqvaH8TBKW.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/05a9ffea-cf4c-45bc-a5f9-65935cb68ff5/Facebook-Group-Email-List-How-We-Used-To-Build-The-Other-conver.mp3" length="25583303" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>26:39</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>170</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>170</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Stop Wasting So Much On List Building by Using Traffic Loops</title><itunes:title>Stop Wasting So Much On List Building by Using Traffic Loops</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What's the secret to building email lists in less time? Well, it's easy. If you want to save money and time with list building, you need to use Traffic Loops.&nbsp;</p><p>Want to know what that's all about?&nbsp;</p><p>Let's find out!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:11) Join <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">our FREE Facebook Group</a>.</p><p>(5:22) You need both social media AND an email list to grow an audience.</p><p>(7:48) Social media and email marketing amplify each other.</p><p>(10:44) Make sure people see your offers at different times and in different states.</p><p>(12:04) How traffic loops increase engagement.</p><p>(14:16) People buy when they're ready - let them go!</p><p>(16:43) When you use traffic loops you can sell more in your emails.</p><p>(19:21) Grab our new course - Group Loops.[INSERT LINK]</p><p>(20:04) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>You need both social media AND your email list to grow an audience</strong></h3><p>We used to think that social media is what you need in order to build an audience. Then somehow you move people to your email list and sell them things. The problem is that we used to see this relationship between social media and email marketing as a one-way road when in reality it's a <em>two-way</em> road.&nbsp;</p><p>What do we mean by that? That <strong>the best way to build a big social media following is to leverage your email list. It's a loop. Your email should be helping you grow your social following, and your social following can help you grow your email list.</strong></p><p>Think about it. Sending an email is the best way to send traffic to <em>anything</em> – not just your sales page, but your podcast, your social media, your webinar, or whatever you’re trying to enhance. <strong>The absolute best way to build a social media following is with an email list. And the best way to build an email list is from the traffic that <em>includes</em> social media</strong>. </p><p>So as you can see, this becomes a lovely circular relationship where one element supports the other and helps you deepen the relationship with your audience. That way, you get to become a three-dimensional influencer, personality, or business to follow.</p><h3><strong>Social media and email marketing amplify each other</strong></h3><p>When you do that, email amplifies social media and vice-versa. So if you’re launching a new programme, for example, you’ll post about it on social media and then also send emails to your list. That means you're minimising the chances of someone in your world missing the fact you’re launching something. And yet, how many times have you launched and promoted a product or service, and within a matter of days or weeks someone got in touch to say they missed it? It happens. Because the social media algorithms didn't show someone your posts on a particular day. Or maybe that person didn’t see your emails. So <strong>your job is to do both – social media <em>and</em> email. Because one amplifies the other.</strong></p><p>This is getting more and more important as we’re seeing the cost of getting people into our world skyrocketing through the price of advertising. Even organic growth is difficult – it’s now a lot harder to get your posts seen by a good number of people. Both the financial cost and the cost of your efforts are increasing.</p><p><br></p><p>Let’s say you’re running ads to get people to join your Facebook group. That money is now spent, and there’s nothing you can do to recoup it unless you keep that effort and impact going by creating a<em> loop</em>. In other words, you want to keep this process in momentum and give it motion. And the way to do that is by <strong>moving someone who joins your social media onto your email list.</strong></p><p>Also, when people come through a lead magnet, a freebie, or sign up to your email list to get your newsletter, you want to move them to your social media. That way, they end up in a loop. This helps you <strong>amplify the <em>size</em> of the audience but also their <em>engagement</em>.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Make sure people see your offers at different times and in different states</strong></h3><p>When you post about your products and services on social media and also send emails, people are seeing your offers in different ways through different media and modalities. This could easily mean different times, different places, and while in different mindsets. </p><p>A lot of the time, the places where people check their email are going to be different from when they’re casually scrolling on social media. Checking emails could be a more regimented activity and something you do less frequently and with a bit more intent. Or maybe for some people it’s the other way around – they might check their emails mindlessly and pay more attention to social media.</p><p>Whichever way, <strong>you want your subscribers to see your offers in different places and in different states</strong>. Because sometimes they’re in a passive state (just scrolling) and others in a more active one (with their credit card in hand and ready to buy).</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How traffic loops increase engagement</strong></h3><p>When it comes to engagement, if someone reads your email, you can send them to your Facebook group to check out a post. Once they're there, they might leave a comment. And your Facebook group suddenly becomes more active. That, in turn, makes your group stand out with the Facebook algorithm, which means Facebook will start suggesting your group to more people. As more people join, you also encourage them to jump onto your email list, and the cycle continues.<strong> It's an amplifying cycle - a <em>traffic loop</em>.</strong></p><p>The days of linear traffic and one-way streets are over because the cost (in effort and money) of getting traffic has increased exponentially. It’s so difficult to get people to take <em>one</em> action that you want to turn every action into a <em>loop action</em> - one which amplifies the results of the other. </p><p>That way, you can get a return on ad spend and effort and not feel like you’re shouting into a black hole on the Internet. <strong>You want people moving from one place to the other, engaging more on social media, giving you more exposure, growing your email list, and clicking on the links in your emails and buying your products. </strong>This is <em>the only way</em> any of us can successfully continue to grow our audiences.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>People buy when they're ready - let them go!</strong></h3><p>A few months ago, we had an email from someone who said that she’d finally joined our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> after being in our world for a while. She said it was finally the right time for her to start focusing on email and she thanked us for persevering with her while she joined and left our list a few times. And she did that until she was ready to buy.</p><p>This is an important example because we know it’s always a bit depressing to see people unsubscribe from your list. But sometimes it's not a permanent departure. People may get off your email list because they need a break or they’re not ready to buy at that point in time - they might have other priorities. </p><p>But they may come back when the time is right. In the meantime, <strong>your job is to continue to show up by email to your existing subscribers.</strong> Because unless you’ve done something awful and offended someone, <strong>most people who unsubscribe from your email list will stay in your world on social media.</strong> They might still see some posts from you about what’s going on, and at some point, they’ll feel reinvigorated to go back to your list or even to buy.&nbsp;</p><p>So, for example, if you spend $10-12 to acquire a new subscriber, and within a few days, weeks, or months they unsubscribe, you want them to stay on your social media. Because by staying in your world, at some point they might come back to your list.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>When you use traffic loops you can sell more in your emails</strong></h3><p>Another benefit of using traffic loops is that it allows you to be more direct in your emails. When someone is in your Facebook group, for example, they’re there for the community feel. But an email list is different, which is why social media and email work so nicely <em>together</em>. <strong>When your social media and your email list work in a loop, you can be more salesy in your emails and more social, fun, casual, and engaging in your Facebook group.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>If you don’t use social media in conjunction with your list, and your emails are always salesy, you may come across as more aggressive. But when you use both in a traffic loop, you have more leeway - you can be more direct and "talk business" in your emails because you still have your social media as the place where you focus more on things that are relevant and emotionally interesting to people.</p><p>So moving people from one place to another is hugely beneficial. Because if you’ve spent money getting someone onto your Facebook group, and they decide they want to take a break from social media (as we all do from time to time), you’ll never get a return for that person. You will only get that return if people are also on your email list and are still receiving your emails. In a nutshell, as long as they’re still in your world, you have a chance to re-engage them and reignite them, so they eventually buy from you. And you won't have lost your investment.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Check out our new course – Group Loops</strong></h3><p>Traffic loops are such a powerful technique! If you want to use this technique in your business, we have something special happening right now. We're excited to reveal]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What's the secret to building email lists in less time? Well, it's easy. If you want to save money and time with list building, you need to use Traffic Loops.&nbsp;</p><p>Want to know what that's all about?&nbsp;</p><p>Let's find out!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:11) Join <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">our FREE Facebook Group</a>.</p><p>(5:22) You need both social media AND an email list to grow an audience.</p><p>(7:48) Social media and email marketing amplify each other.</p><p>(10:44) Make sure people see your offers at different times and in different states.</p><p>(12:04) How traffic loops increase engagement.</p><p>(14:16) People buy when they're ready - let them go!</p><p>(16:43) When you use traffic loops you can sell more in your emails.</p><p>(19:21) Grab our new course - Group Loops.[INSERT LINK]</p><p>(20:04) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>You need both social media AND your email list to grow an audience</strong></h3><p>We used to think that social media is what you need in order to build an audience. Then somehow you move people to your email list and sell them things. The problem is that we used to see this relationship between social media and email marketing as a one-way road when in reality it's a <em>two-way</em> road.&nbsp;</p><p>What do we mean by that? That <strong>the best way to build a big social media following is to leverage your email list. It's a loop. Your email should be helping you grow your social following, and your social following can help you grow your email list.</strong></p><p>Think about it. Sending an email is the best way to send traffic to <em>anything</em> – not just your sales page, but your podcast, your social media, your webinar, or whatever you’re trying to enhance. <strong>The absolute best way to build a social media following is with an email list. And the best way to build an email list is from the traffic that <em>includes</em> social media</strong>. </p><p>So as you can see, this becomes a lovely circular relationship where one element supports the other and helps you deepen the relationship with your audience. That way, you get to become a three-dimensional influencer, personality, or business to follow.</p><h3><strong>Social media and email marketing amplify each other</strong></h3><p>When you do that, email amplifies social media and vice-versa. So if you’re launching a new programme, for example, you’ll post about it on social media and then also send emails to your list. That means you're minimising the chances of someone in your world missing the fact you’re launching something. And yet, how many times have you launched and promoted a product or service, and within a matter of days or weeks someone got in touch to say they missed it? It happens. Because the social media algorithms didn't show someone your posts on a particular day. Or maybe that person didn’t see your emails. So <strong>your job is to do both – social media <em>and</em> email. Because one amplifies the other.</strong></p><p>This is getting more and more important as we’re seeing the cost of getting people into our world skyrocketing through the price of advertising. Even organic growth is difficult – it’s now a lot harder to get your posts seen by a good number of people. Both the financial cost and the cost of your efforts are increasing.</p><p><br></p><p>Let’s say you’re running ads to get people to join your Facebook group. That money is now spent, and there’s nothing you can do to recoup it unless you keep that effort and impact going by creating a<em> loop</em>. In other words, you want to keep this process in momentum and give it motion. And the way to do that is by <strong>moving someone who joins your social media onto your email list.</strong></p><p>Also, when people come through a lead magnet, a freebie, or sign up to your email list to get your newsletter, you want to move them to your social media. That way, they end up in a loop. This helps you <strong>amplify the <em>size</em> of the audience but also their <em>engagement</em>.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Make sure people see your offers at different times and in different states</strong></h3><p>When you post about your products and services on social media and also send emails, people are seeing your offers in different ways through different media and modalities. This could easily mean different times, different places, and while in different mindsets. </p><p>A lot of the time, the places where people check their email are going to be different from when they’re casually scrolling on social media. Checking emails could be a more regimented activity and something you do less frequently and with a bit more intent. Or maybe for some people it’s the other way around – they might check their emails mindlessly and pay more attention to social media.</p><p>Whichever way, <strong>you want your subscribers to see your offers in different places and in different states</strong>. Because sometimes they’re in a passive state (just scrolling) and others in a more active one (with their credit card in hand and ready to buy).</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How traffic loops increase engagement</strong></h3><p>When it comes to engagement, if someone reads your email, you can send them to your Facebook group to check out a post. Once they're there, they might leave a comment. And your Facebook group suddenly becomes more active. That, in turn, makes your group stand out with the Facebook algorithm, which means Facebook will start suggesting your group to more people. As more people join, you also encourage them to jump onto your email list, and the cycle continues.<strong> It's an amplifying cycle - a <em>traffic loop</em>.</strong></p><p>The days of linear traffic and one-way streets are over because the cost (in effort and money) of getting traffic has increased exponentially. It’s so difficult to get people to take <em>one</em> action that you want to turn every action into a <em>loop action</em> - one which amplifies the results of the other. </p><p>That way, you can get a return on ad spend and effort and not feel like you’re shouting into a black hole on the Internet. <strong>You want people moving from one place to the other, engaging more on social media, giving you more exposure, growing your email list, and clicking on the links in your emails and buying your products. </strong>This is <em>the only way</em> any of us can successfully continue to grow our audiences.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>People buy when they're ready - let them go!</strong></h3><p>A few months ago, we had an email from someone who said that she’d finally joined our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> after being in our world for a while. She said it was finally the right time for her to start focusing on email and she thanked us for persevering with her while she joined and left our list a few times. And she did that until she was ready to buy.</p><p>This is an important example because we know it’s always a bit depressing to see people unsubscribe from your list. But sometimes it's not a permanent departure. People may get off your email list because they need a break or they’re not ready to buy at that point in time - they might have other priorities. </p><p>But they may come back when the time is right. In the meantime, <strong>your job is to continue to show up by email to your existing subscribers.</strong> Because unless you’ve done something awful and offended someone, <strong>most people who unsubscribe from your email list will stay in your world on social media.</strong> They might still see some posts from you about what’s going on, and at some point, they’ll feel reinvigorated to go back to your list or even to buy.&nbsp;</p><p>So, for example, if you spend $10-12 to acquire a new subscriber, and within a few days, weeks, or months they unsubscribe, you want them to stay on your social media. Because by staying in your world, at some point they might come back to your list.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>When you use traffic loops you can sell more in your emails</strong></h3><p>Another benefit of using traffic loops is that it allows you to be more direct in your emails. When someone is in your Facebook group, for example, they’re there for the community feel. But an email list is different, which is why social media and email work so nicely <em>together</em>. <strong>When your social media and your email list work in a loop, you can be more salesy in your emails and more social, fun, casual, and engaging in your Facebook group.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>If you don’t use social media in conjunction with your list, and your emails are always salesy, you may come across as more aggressive. But when you use both in a traffic loop, you have more leeway - you can be more direct and "talk business" in your emails because you still have your social media as the place where you focus more on things that are relevant and emotionally interesting to people.</p><p>So moving people from one place to another is hugely beneficial. Because if you’ve spent money getting someone onto your Facebook group, and they decide they want to take a break from social media (as we all do from time to time), you’ll never get a return for that person. You will only get that return if people are also on your email list and are still receiving your emails. In a nutshell, as long as they’re still in your world, you have a chance to re-engage them and reignite them, so they eventually buy from you. And you won't have lost your investment.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Check out our new course – Group Loops</strong></h3><p>Traffic loops are such a powerful technique! If you want to use this technique in your business, we have something special happening right now. We're excited to reveal this course we’ve been working on for a long time. It comes after <em>years</em> of frustrations in trying to build a Facebook group. Because we couldn't get it to work for us - not until we eventually cracked the code! And that’s what we’re sharing with you here. <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/loops?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_campaign=group-loops" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Check it out - it's called Group Loops</a>. </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject line is “Annoying the other passengers”. This subject line had a great open- and click-through rate. Why? Because it's full of curiosity. In fact, it has this <em>compound curiosity</em> we always talk about.</p><p>People want to know who the other passengers were, where we were travelling, and generally what this is all about. What’s the story here? Why were we annoying the other passengers? The subject line is intriguing. Plus, it uses a provocative word, which is powerful and emotional – the word <em>annoying</em>. We don’t even remember what the story was all about, but try the idea out!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/compound-curiosity-clever-subject-lines-for-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Advanced Psychology: Using Compound Curiosity</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/build-a-facebook-group-to-build-your-email-list-with-arne-giske-from-group-funnels/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Build A Facebook Group To Build Your Email List With Arne Giske From Group Funnels</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/unsubscribe-rate/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why You Shouldn’t Worry About Your Unsubscribe Rate</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about building email lists in less time using Traffic Loops) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/building-email-lists-traffic-loops/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">20686639-6fa3-40be-baf5-c60cfe7131a3</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/31bfa167-162e-457b-9d12-f12fb4242260/dvHHi8mPRbccAwdopcR7lPaI.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/641a1ea6-61f2-4c57-8147-7877d8249b57/Stop-Wasting-So-Much-On-List-Building-by-Using-Traffic-Loops-co.mp3" length="20675783" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>21:32</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>169</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>169</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How Facebook Groups and Webinars Make Matthew Harrington a Happy Man</title><itunes:title>How Facebook Groups and Webinars Make Matthew Harrington a Happy Man</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Is there a link between Facebook Groups, webinars, and email marketing? Can they all work together? We asked League member <a href="https://www.behavioristbookclub.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Matthew Huntington from the Behaviorist Book Club</a> how he used his Facebook group to welcome new members and convert them into paying customers following our advice. </p><p>Matthew's story is phenomenal. He went from hardly being able to afford a monthly membership to hiring his first member of staff. After joining <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, he made some simple changes to his business that created a <em>massive</em> wave in results. (And in case you're wondering, we're talking about money and sales here!)&nbsp;</p><p>You're going to want to take notes here!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:24) Check out our brand new course - <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/loops?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_campaign=group-loops" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Group Loops</a>.<strong> </strong></p><p>(4:03) Why did Matthew decide to join The League?</p><p>(7:50) Matthew's mind-blowing results with his Facebook group from using Group Loops.</p><p>(11:20) When did Matthew first get started with email marketing?</p><p>(12:24) How does Matthew feel about his Facebook group compared to how he felt before?</p><p>(14:44) The ONE action Matthew recommends you take in your business.</p><p>(16:31) What are the next steps for Matthew in his email marketing?</p><p>(20:10) Does Matthew feel like email marketing has taken over?</p><p>(22:11) Grab our new course - <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/loops?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_campaign=group-loops" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Group Loops</a>. </p><p>(23:23) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Check out our brand-new course Group Loops</strong></h3><p>Before we get into Matthew's story, we want to tell you about the course he used that was <em>directly responsible</em> for his success. It's called <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/loops?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_campaign=group-loops" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Group Loops</a>, and it's our brand new programme.&nbsp;</p><p>It’s a full <strong>multi-module course</strong> that gives you everything you need and allows you to <strong>build an incredible Facebook community</strong> <strong>to help you grow your email list and make more sales.</strong></p><p>In this course, you'll find everything we’ve learnt, honed, and refined over time to build <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">our own Facebook group</a> with thousands of members, make six figures in sales, and gain thousands of subscribers on our list. </p><p>The programme includes everything that works and cuts out everything that might be conventional wisdom but just <em>doesn’t</em> work. It’s available right now, so if you want to check out the details and build a Facebook group without having to pay for ads, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/loops?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_campaign=group-loops" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here's the link</a>. </p><h3><strong>Why did Matthew decide to join The League?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Matthew Harrington has been in our membership for about six months. After trying out a few other memberships, he decided to stick around with us, and he's now in for the long haul! Matthew educates behavioural analysts and therapy professionals to continue their education. His primary product is a membership (a research library with resources, in fact), but he also has courses that funnel into his membership.</p><p>We remember a post that Matthew shared in our private community to say that he'd only been a member of <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> for a couple of months (after initially thinking he couldn't afford it) and had already had some amazing results.&nbsp;</p><p>Before joining us, Matthew had a revenue of $400-$500 per month from his membership. Understandably, he didn’t feel like he had a lot to spare, so when he joined our membership (based on our credibility alone), he took a huge risk by practically erasing his monthly profit!</p><p>And did it pay off? For sure! Within three weeks, <strong>Matthew implemented our webinar campaign and made multiple times his initial investment</strong>, and fixed his cash flow issue. </p><h3><strong>Matthew's mind-blowing results with his Facebook group from using Group Loops</strong></h3><p>One of the things that Matthew did was switch things around in his Facebook group after being one of the beta testers for our new programme <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/loops?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_campaign=group-loops" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Group Loops</a>. Matthew remembers watching the entire course in one sitting in the middle of the night when we first released it. And the next morning he got up early and changed the whole direction of his Facebook group.</p><p>Before our course, Matthew was treating his Facebook group like you would a blog – people would come in, read something, and then leave. There was no community aspect to it, and Matthew was only sharing research articles but not encouraging any conversation.</p><p>Our course, however, gave Matthew permission to change things up and shift the focus from something that resembled a blog to something that looked like a community. And Matthew credits a lot of that to the 20+ post examples we shared in the course. The idea behind these is to make it fun and generate engagement and comments. As a result, Matthew's Facebook group started growing, and it's never stopped - he's now at 3,600 members!</p><p>Getting to his first 1,000 members before implementing our programme had felt like a slow, long grind for Matthew. There was no easy transition from Facebook group to sales for him. The fact he had a group of that size felt significant to him, but he wasn't able to tap into it. It was only when he adopted our tips that he started collecting more and more members.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Moving people from your Facebook group to your email list</strong></h4><p>And what's even better is that <strong>Matthew is now able to add people from his Facebook group to his email list and direct them to his sales pages.</strong> He not only uses different types of posts in the group, but he's also automated the system that allows him to add people to his list when they first join the Facebook group and opt-in to download his lead magnet.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>When did Matthew first get started with email marketing?</strong></h3><p>Before he joined <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, Matthew had come across another membership where daily email marketing was encouraged. So that's all that Matthew did – send regular emails with a sale in the PS. He had a nurture sequence, but he wasn't sure what he was doing with it.</p><p>When he heard about our campaigns, the concept appealed to Matthew. It felt like he could <strong>use email sequences to make move people along the customer journey and direct them from his email list to his sales page. </strong>Before working with us, Matthew had no method for doing that. But now email marketing is a significant part of his business.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How does Matthew feel about his Facebook group compared to how he felt before?</strong></h3><p>Since following the advice from <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/loops?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_campaign=group-loops" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Group Loops</a>, Matthew started to allow his personality to show up more and share stories about his personal life. His posts turned from copying and pasting a research article and sharing a quick summary of it to telling stories about his life that he would then link to relevant research articles. His posts became more enjoyable.</p><p>Plus, Matthew started seeing more and more people move from his Facebook group to his email list and then convert. And the fun never stops when people convert!&nbsp;<strong>Everything Matthew's done in his Facebook group has had a knock-on effect on his email and his business revenue, which has continued to increase.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>Since implementing our tips, Matthew's business has been growing significantly, and he feels his audience is growing at probably double the rate it would do if the different processes in his business weren't connected like they now are.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The ONE action Matthew recommends you take in your business</strong></h3><p>The one thing that had the most impact for Matthew was <strong>thinking through the connection between the different parts of the business.</strong> He was good at creating content, but he had no link between the Facebook group, the email list, and the blog, for example. There was no general flow.</p><p>As a result, he felt he would convert some people here and there, but there was no data, no measurement, or no real way of being able to say if one piece was working better than others. Now Matthew has found specific indicators that he can track to understand where he's converting. And this allows him to spot the strongest and weakest links in his business.&nbsp;</p><p>Because of this, Matthew has gone from a place where he could barely afford to join a membership to hiring a member of staff!<strong> His Facebook group has been growing exponentially, his]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is there a link between Facebook Groups, webinars, and email marketing? Can they all work together? We asked League member <a href="https://www.behavioristbookclub.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Matthew Huntington from the Behaviorist Book Club</a> how he used his Facebook group to welcome new members and convert them into paying customers following our advice. </p><p>Matthew's story is phenomenal. He went from hardly being able to afford a monthly membership to hiring his first member of staff. After joining <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, he made some simple changes to his business that created a <em>massive</em> wave in results. (And in case you're wondering, we're talking about money and sales here!)&nbsp;</p><p>You're going to want to take notes here!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:24) Check out our brand new course - <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/loops?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_campaign=group-loops" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Group Loops</a>.<strong> </strong></p><p>(4:03) Why did Matthew decide to join The League?</p><p>(7:50) Matthew's mind-blowing results with his Facebook group from using Group Loops.</p><p>(11:20) When did Matthew first get started with email marketing?</p><p>(12:24) How does Matthew feel about his Facebook group compared to how he felt before?</p><p>(14:44) The ONE action Matthew recommends you take in your business.</p><p>(16:31) What are the next steps for Matthew in his email marketing?</p><p>(20:10) Does Matthew feel like email marketing has taken over?</p><p>(22:11) Grab our new course - <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/loops?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_campaign=group-loops" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Group Loops</a>. </p><p>(23:23) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Check out our brand-new course Group Loops</strong></h3><p>Before we get into Matthew's story, we want to tell you about the course he used that was <em>directly responsible</em> for his success. It's called <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/loops?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_campaign=group-loops" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Group Loops</a>, and it's our brand new programme.&nbsp;</p><p>It’s a full <strong>multi-module course</strong> that gives you everything you need and allows you to <strong>build an incredible Facebook community</strong> <strong>to help you grow your email list and make more sales.</strong></p><p>In this course, you'll find everything we’ve learnt, honed, and refined over time to build <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">our own Facebook group</a> with thousands of members, make six figures in sales, and gain thousands of subscribers on our list. </p><p>The programme includes everything that works and cuts out everything that might be conventional wisdom but just <em>doesn’t</em> work. It’s available right now, so if you want to check out the details and build a Facebook group without having to pay for ads, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/loops?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_campaign=group-loops" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here's the link</a>. </p><h3><strong>Why did Matthew decide to join The League?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Matthew Harrington has been in our membership for about six months. After trying out a few other memberships, he decided to stick around with us, and he's now in for the long haul! Matthew educates behavioural analysts and therapy professionals to continue their education. His primary product is a membership (a research library with resources, in fact), but he also has courses that funnel into his membership.</p><p>We remember a post that Matthew shared in our private community to say that he'd only been a member of <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> for a couple of months (after initially thinking he couldn't afford it) and had already had some amazing results.&nbsp;</p><p>Before joining us, Matthew had a revenue of $400-$500 per month from his membership. Understandably, he didn’t feel like he had a lot to spare, so when he joined our membership (based on our credibility alone), he took a huge risk by practically erasing his monthly profit!</p><p>And did it pay off? For sure! Within three weeks, <strong>Matthew implemented our webinar campaign and made multiple times his initial investment</strong>, and fixed his cash flow issue. </p><h3><strong>Matthew's mind-blowing results with his Facebook group from using Group Loops</strong></h3><p>One of the things that Matthew did was switch things around in his Facebook group after being one of the beta testers for our new programme <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/loops?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_campaign=group-loops" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Group Loops</a>. Matthew remembers watching the entire course in one sitting in the middle of the night when we first released it. And the next morning he got up early and changed the whole direction of his Facebook group.</p><p>Before our course, Matthew was treating his Facebook group like you would a blog – people would come in, read something, and then leave. There was no community aspect to it, and Matthew was only sharing research articles but not encouraging any conversation.</p><p>Our course, however, gave Matthew permission to change things up and shift the focus from something that resembled a blog to something that looked like a community. And Matthew credits a lot of that to the 20+ post examples we shared in the course. The idea behind these is to make it fun and generate engagement and comments. As a result, Matthew's Facebook group started growing, and it's never stopped - he's now at 3,600 members!</p><p>Getting to his first 1,000 members before implementing our programme had felt like a slow, long grind for Matthew. There was no easy transition from Facebook group to sales for him. The fact he had a group of that size felt significant to him, but he wasn't able to tap into it. It was only when he adopted our tips that he started collecting more and more members.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Moving people from your Facebook group to your email list</strong></h4><p>And what's even better is that <strong>Matthew is now able to add people from his Facebook group to his email list and direct them to his sales pages.</strong> He not only uses different types of posts in the group, but he's also automated the system that allows him to add people to his list when they first join the Facebook group and opt-in to download his lead magnet.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>When did Matthew first get started with email marketing?</strong></h3><p>Before he joined <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, Matthew had come across another membership where daily email marketing was encouraged. So that's all that Matthew did – send regular emails with a sale in the PS. He had a nurture sequence, but he wasn't sure what he was doing with it.</p><p>When he heard about our campaigns, the concept appealed to Matthew. It felt like he could <strong>use email sequences to make move people along the customer journey and direct them from his email list to his sales page. </strong>Before working with us, Matthew had no method for doing that. But now email marketing is a significant part of his business.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How does Matthew feel about his Facebook group compared to how he felt before?</strong></h3><p>Since following the advice from <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/loops?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_campaign=group-loops" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Group Loops</a>, Matthew started to allow his personality to show up more and share stories about his personal life. His posts turned from copying and pasting a research article and sharing a quick summary of it to telling stories about his life that he would then link to relevant research articles. His posts became more enjoyable.</p><p>Plus, Matthew started seeing more and more people move from his Facebook group to his email list and then convert. And the fun never stops when people convert!&nbsp;<strong>Everything Matthew's done in his Facebook group has had a knock-on effect on his email and his business revenue, which has continued to increase.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>Since implementing our tips, Matthew's business has been growing significantly, and he feels his audience is growing at probably double the rate it would do if the different processes in his business weren't connected like they now are.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The ONE action Matthew recommends you take in your business</strong></h3><p>The one thing that had the most impact for Matthew was <strong>thinking through the connection between the different parts of the business.</strong> He was good at creating content, but he had no link between the Facebook group, the email list, and the blog, for example. There was no general flow.</p><p>As a result, he felt he would convert some people here and there, but there was no data, no measurement, or no real way of being able to say if one piece was working better than others. Now Matthew has found specific indicators that he can track to understand where he's converting. And this allows him to spot the strongest and weakest links in his business.&nbsp;</p><p>Because of this, Matthew has gone from a place where he could barely afford to join a membership to hiring a member of staff!<strong> His Facebook group has been growing exponentially, his sales are more consistent, and he’s growing the business.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What are the next steps for Matthew in his email marketing?</strong></h3><p>Matthew is now working on creating a higher-ticket price course that he can upsell to his members. He also wants to create a consistent downstream where he collects more people from his lead magnets.</p><p>While growing his audience is still a focus, Matthew no longer buys into the false belief that you need X amount of people to make X amount of money. It's no longer about the size of his email list because he understands that <strong>there are more than enough people who are looking to buy his products and support his business.</strong> </p><p>Now it's more about showing value and focusing on how he can help people and convert them. <strong>It’s about making the most of the list he has.</strong> And <strong>when you have good systems in place and turn every subscriber into the most valuable subscriber they can be, you’re in a great spot.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How does Matthew feel about the growth he experienced since joining The League?</strong></h3><p>Before he implemented the first webinar campaign from <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, Matthew had never experienced that much success with a webinar. He went into it expecting to make enough to have a celebratory pizza with his wife, but he unexpectedly made $200 instead! And since then, he's experienced consistent growth.</p><p>So now he's all about designing campaigns and systems and building his email engine to allow people to continue to convert.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Does Matthew feel like email marketing has taken over?</strong></h3><p>Matthew now feels that email marketing is <em>addicting</em>. Because you're always thinking about building your next campaign, putting people through it, and analysing the results. <strong>Email marketing for Matthew has gone from an afterthought to a habit.&nbsp;</strong>It's something he does regularly every day, just like Kennedy when he writes his emails while his kettle boils, but it's not taken over his life.&nbsp;</p><p>Having said that, Matthew admits that he’ll get itchy if a whole month has passed and he hasn’t implemented another campaign. And that's simply because he feels he’s leaving money on the table! In other words, <strong>seeing the results you can get from email marketing is what makes you prioritise it over something else because it's the<em> one</em> thing that gets you the<em> best </em>results!&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Grab our new course Group Loops</strong></h3><p>If you want to get your hands on the same resources that Matthew used to create incredible growth in his Facebook group (with more engagement and sales), <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/loops?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_campaign=group-loops" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">check out our new course Group Loops</a>. </p><p>The course breaks down our entire formula and all the different types of posts that Matthew talked about as well as the engagement strategy, when to post, how to grow the group, and a lot more. All this is included in massive detail inside this phenomenal course. </p><p>If you want to leverage your Facebook group without having to pay the increasing and constantly leaping prices of ads and grow an email list with people who already love you, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/loops?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_campaign=group-loops" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">this course</a> tells you how. </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject line is “Your marketing is undercooked.” Rob can’t even remember what the email was about, but the subject line worked because you’re taking an expression that people know and understand and applying it to something different.</p><p>The idea of undercooked food here has an undercurrent of something dangerous or unhealthy for you. So the fact that your marketing may be undercooked paints an interesting picture and generates curiosity. Try it out!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/facebook-groups-marketing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook Groups Marketing – Content That Makes Sales with Christina Jandali</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/grow-your-email-list-using-facebook-pages/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Grow Your Email List Using Facebook Pages (Without Ads) – Rachel Miller Moolah Style!</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/build-a-facebook-group-to-build-your-email-list-with-arne-giske-from-group-funnels/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Build A Facebook Group To Build Your Email List With Arne Giske From Group Funnels</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how League member Matthew Harrington uses his Facebook group to welcome new members and convert them into paying customers) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/use-facebook-group-welcome-new-members/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">c322a45f-681d-48ce-b865-765f97ff31b5</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/0f156206-ae5c-486c-8f9a-71ed8c44aca1/8ZzrgQCiUAwhQuOhzmCNXwnc.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/6687a976-53c3-48fb-8fa9-573eba135700/How-Facebook-Groups-and-Webinars-Make-Matthew-Harrington-a-Happ.mp3" length="20812751" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>24:47</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>168</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>168</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Predictions of Email Marketing For 2023</title><itunes:title>Predictions of Email Marketing For 2023</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What does the future hold for email marketing? What's going to happen in the next year and beyond? As we crack open this brand-new 2023, let's go and find out. Here are our predictions for email marketing in 2023. &nbsp;</p><p>Be warned - some of these things might change the way you view your marketing. Ready to get planning for an explosive 2023?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:13) Come and talk to us inside our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook group</a>.</p><p>(4:07) The importance of having a direct line with your customers.</p><p>(8:32) The tech in email is going to improve.</p><p>(10:07) AI writing tools will get smarter.</p><p>(14:17) Readership of email on mobile devices is going to continue to grow.</p><p>(15:10) More businesses will make email marketing their top priority.</p><p>(17:38) The introduction of algorithms for individual inboxes.</p><p>(19:38) People who don't take email marketing seriously will be left behind.</p><p>(21:04 ) Want to learn how to make email marketing work for you in 2023 and beyond?</p><p>(21:38) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>The importance of having a direct line with your customers</strong></h3><p>The first shift we see happening when it comes to email marketing in 2023 is the fact that having a direct line with your customers is going to become more important than ever. Why? Because <strong>the social media algorithms are going to continue to throttle organic reach in favour of ads</strong>, which are getting a lot more real estate on those platforms. Advertising costs continue to increase because social media platforms have limited space and inventory to display ads.&nbsp;</p><p>With more and more businesses advertising and usership going down as people switch to other platforms, we've definitely seen a huge shift over the past few years. Take Facebook, for example. We all used to see a lot more posts from our friends and only a few ads from big companies. But now the balance has tipped in favour of ads because that's how the platforms make their money. And the reach for&nbsp;organic social posting is pitifully low. &nbsp;</p><p>We knew it was tough before, but if you put great value out there, back then you could go viral. And if you decided to run ads, the return was a lot higher. Still, not as high as the return for email marketing, which is about $80-$90 for every $1 you spend. So <strong>having that direct line where you can talk to your customers through a channel that you own (email) and lands directly onto their phones is going to be super important. &nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h4><strong>There is no scalability issue with email marketing</strong></h4><p>In a nutshell, with demand for advertising being at an all-time high, social media has become an unpredictably unscalable business. But there's no scalability issue with email because <strong>every single person who is on your list can have a one-way conversation with you.</strong> You have as much space in their inbox as they’re willing to give you. At any point, they can choose to unsubscribe, but until then, you can have a back-and-forth conversation with your audience. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The tech in email is going to improve&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Another prediction for email marketing in 2023 is to do with tech. In the next few years, technology is going to allow us to put more and more interactive elements into emails, such as surveys and videos. And it's going to become more accessible too.</p><p>As a result, more people are going to be attracted to the world of email marketing because of the Shiny Object Syndrome phenomenon. In fairness, email hasn't evolved much from a tech perspective for a long time - not much has changed in terms of what's possible. So the changes <em>will </em>come in. </p><p>But we're not convinced that the advancement in tech is going to be a phenomenal idea. Because <strong>email has <em>one</em> job to do</strong>. And that's to <strong>deepen the relationship with your customers and get them to click on the links in your emails to take some sort of action </strong>(either to register for something or to buy from you).</p><p>And we're not sure that the ability to put<em> more</em> into your emails is going to help you make more sales. In fact, it might become a form of distraction for both marketers <em>and</em> their subscribers. In other words, just because we can do more, should we?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Artificial Intelligence (AI) writing tools will get smarter</strong></h3><p>One of the things that are going to improve in the tech space is Artificial Intelligence - AI writing tools are definitely going to become smarter. We did some testing of existing tools earlier this year, and the results weren't great. But as the software does get better, more people will start to use AI tools and automate more of their email marketing.&nbsp;</p><p>Introducing more automation is obviously an attractive proposition, but is it really going to serve you? Because, <strong>in a world where algorithms are writing emails, your personality is what's going to stand out</strong>. Things written by an algorithm are going pale in comparison to a human-written email that has your personality.&nbsp;</p><p>When people get our emails, they often tell us they can hear our voices in their heads as they read - it's a psychological thing called <em>subvocalization</em>. People read things and 'hear voices in their heads' (not in a bad way). But no one wants to hear the voice of a robot when they read your emails! </p><p>If you want to find out more about what we have to say about AI, go check out the episode <a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/intelligence/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Write Emails Using Artificial Intelligence (AI)</a>.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Nothing can beat your personality!</strong></h4><p>We can’t argue with the fact that AI software is going to get better. But the one thing we can’t see happening in the next 5 years or so is for it to be able to completely emulate your personality. Because we can't train an AI tool to know your personality! </p><p>One of the most effective techniques in our email marketing philosophy is to base your emails around stories of quirky things that have happened to you in the last 24 hours or around interesting facts about you. You can't train an AI tool to know these stories and anecdotes about you! Also, while these tools can write individual emails for you, they're struggling to connect them into sequences to build a campaign. </p><p>In a nutshell, if you want to stand out in someone's inbox and want people to resonate with you and buy from you, you want your personality to shine through your emails. And that means <em>not </em>having AI tools write emails for you.  </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Readership of email on mobile devices is going to continue to grow</strong></h3><p>Another thing we predict is going to happen is that readership of email on mobile devices is going to continue to grow. There used to be a time when people would read emails on desktop and use their phones more for social media, but that's no longer the case. People check their emails when they're connected to their mobile devices.&nbsp;</p><p>So what does that mean for us as email marketers? It means we need to be conscious of the fact that when people click on a link, they'll view the page on their device. That's also where the shopping cart will be. So we need to <strong>focus on&nbsp;the mobile consumption of email because people are on the move and  are busier than ever.</strong> Email must be treated like another social media channel.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>More businesses will make email marketing their top priority</strong></h3><p>We also predict that in 2023, people who had previously made email marketing a low priority (or no priority at all) will make it their highest priority.&nbsp;This is something we've already noticed over the last year or so.&nbsp;</p><p>Having started email marketing about 18 years ago, we probably have an unfair advantage. But back then, there was no other way of creating an audience - social media platforms didn't even exist! When they did appear on the market, they distracted people from email marketing, which, in comparison, seemed complicated and difficult. Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter certainly seemed a lot more user-friendly!</p><p>But now that organic reach has taken a nose dive in favour of advertising, we've started to see a shift in people realising that email is important. So they want a way to make it work. And rather than it being something they ignore, email marketing is going to be something to focus on.</p><p>And this is phenomenal for those who choose to prioritise email marketing and do it the right way. Because with email marketing (as opposed to social media) you own the data. And the insight you can get can have a hugely positive impact on your business.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The introduction of algorithms for individual inboxes</strong></h3><p>Another thing we see happening in 2023 and beyond is the introduction of algorithms for individual inboxes. At the moment, the way your emails are placed in someone’s inbox (in the Primary folder, the Promotion one, Spam, or the Socials tab) is done on a <em>reputational level</em>. This means that if you're doing things right and have a good reputation as a sender, you'll get better placement in people's inboxes.</p><p>But Gmail and other platforms will be looking at an <em>individual level</em> at the interaction and engagement that a user has with the emails you send. So how your emails are placed in someone's inbox is going to be based on a one-to-one relationship. This means you might be getting primary placement in someone's inbox but never in someone else's. And it all depends on their...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What does the future hold for email marketing? What's going to happen in the next year and beyond? As we crack open this brand-new 2023, let's go and find out. Here are our predictions for email marketing in 2023. &nbsp;</p><p>Be warned - some of these things might change the way you view your marketing. Ready to get planning for an explosive 2023?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:13) Come and talk to us inside our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook group</a>.</p><p>(4:07) The importance of having a direct line with your customers.</p><p>(8:32) The tech in email is going to improve.</p><p>(10:07) AI writing tools will get smarter.</p><p>(14:17) Readership of email on mobile devices is going to continue to grow.</p><p>(15:10) More businesses will make email marketing their top priority.</p><p>(17:38) The introduction of algorithms for individual inboxes.</p><p>(19:38) People who don't take email marketing seriously will be left behind.</p><p>(21:04 ) Want to learn how to make email marketing work for you in 2023 and beyond?</p><p>(21:38) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>The importance of having a direct line with your customers</strong></h3><p>The first shift we see happening when it comes to email marketing in 2023 is the fact that having a direct line with your customers is going to become more important than ever. Why? Because <strong>the social media algorithms are going to continue to throttle organic reach in favour of ads</strong>, which are getting a lot more real estate on those platforms. Advertising costs continue to increase because social media platforms have limited space and inventory to display ads.&nbsp;</p><p>With more and more businesses advertising and usership going down as people switch to other platforms, we've definitely seen a huge shift over the past few years. Take Facebook, for example. We all used to see a lot more posts from our friends and only a few ads from big companies. But now the balance has tipped in favour of ads because that's how the platforms make their money. And the reach for&nbsp;organic social posting is pitifully low. &nbsp;</p><p>We knew it was tough before, but if you put great value out there, back then you could go viral. And if you decided to run ads, the return was a lot higher. Still, not as high as the return for email marketing, which is about $80-$90 for every $1 you spend. So <strong>having that direct line where you can talk to your customers through a channel that you own (email) and lands directly onto their phones is going to be super important. &nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h4><strong>There is no scalability issue with email marketing</strong></h4><p>In a nutshell, with demand for advertising being at an all-time high, social media has become an unpredictably unscalable business. But there's no scalability issue with email because <strong>every single person who is on your list can have a one-way conversation with you.</strong> You have as much space in their inbox as they’re willing to give you. At any point, they can choose to unsubscribe, but until then, you can have a back-and-forth conversation with your audience. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The tech in email is going to improve&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Another prediction for email marketing in 2023 is to do with tech. In the next few years, technology is going to allow us to put more and more interactive elements into emails, such as surveys and videos. And it's going to become more accessible too.</p><p>As a result, more people are going to be attracted to the world of email marketing because of the Shiny Object Syndrome phenomenon. In fairness, email hasn't evolved much from a tech perspective for a long time - not much has changed in terms of what's possible. So the changes <em>will </em>come in. </p><p>But we're not convinced that the advancement in tech is going to be a phenomenal idea. Because <strong>email has <em>one</em> job to do</strong>. And that's to <strong>deepen the relationship with your customers and get them to click on the links in your emails to take some sort of action </strong>(either to register for something or to buy from you).</p><p>And we're not sure that the ability to put<em> more</em> into your emails is going to help you make more sales. In fact, it might become a form of distraction for both marketers <em>and</em> their subscribers. In other words, just because we can do more, should we?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Artificial Intelligence (AI) writing tools will get smarter</strong></h3><p>One of the things that are going to improve in the tech space is Artificial Intelligence - AI writing tools are definitely going to become smarter. We did some testing of existing tools earlier this year, and the results weren't great. But as the software does get better, more people will start to use AI tools and automate more of their email marketing.&nbsp;</p><p>Introducing more automation is obviously an attractive proposition, but is it really going to serve you? Because, <strong>in a world where algorithms are writing emails, your personality is what's going to stand out</strong>. Things written by an algorithm are going pale in comparison to a human-written email that has your personality.&nbsp;</p><p>When people get our emails, they often tell us they can hear our voices in their heads as they read - it's a psychological thing called <em>subvocalization</em>. People read things and 'hear voices in their heads' (not in a bad way). But no one wants to hear the voice of a robot when they read your emails! </p><p>If you want to find out more about what we have to say about AI, go check out the episode <a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/intelligence/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Write Emails Using Artificial Intelligence (AI)</a>.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Nothing can beat your personality!</strong></h4><p>We can’t argue with the fact that AI software is going to get better. But the one thing we can’t see happening in the next 5 years or so is for it to be able to completely emulate your personality. Because we can't train an AI tool to know your personality! </p><p>One of the most effective techniques in our email marketing philosophy is to base your emails around stories of quirky things that have happened to you in the last 24 hours or around interesting facts about you. You can't train an AI tool to know these stories and anecdotes about you! Also, while these tools can write individual emails for you, they're struggling to connect them into sequences to build a campaign. </p><p>In a nutshell, if you want to stand out in someone's inbox and want people to resonate with you and buy from you, you want your personality to shine through your emails. And that means <em>not </em>having AI tools write emails for you.  </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Readership of email on mobile devices is going to continue to grow</strong></h3><p>Another thing we predict is going to happen is that readership of email on mobile devices is going to continue to grow. There used to be a time when people would read emails on desktop and use their phones more for social media, but that's no longer the case. People check their emails when they're connected to their mobile devices.&nbsp;</p><p>So what does that mean for us as email marketers? It means we need to be conscious of the fact that when people click on a link, they'll view the page on their device. That's also where the shopping cart will be. So we need to <strong>focus on&nbsp;the mobile consumption of email because people are on the move and  are busier than ever.</strong> Email must be treated like another social media channel.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>More businesses will make email marketing their top priority</strong></h3><p>We also predict that in 2023, people who had previously made email marketing a low priority (or no priority at all) will make it their highest priority.&nbsp;This is something we've already noticed over the last year or so.&nbsp;</p><p>Having started email marketing about 18 years ago, we probably have an unfair advantage. But back then, there was no other way of creating an audience - social media platforms didn't even exist! When they did appear on the market, they distracted people from email marketing, which, in comparison, seemed complicated and difficult. Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter certainly seemed a lot more user-friendly!</p><p>But now that organic reach has taken a nose dive in favour of advertising, we've started to see a shift in people realising that email is important. So they want a way to make it work. And rather than it being something they ignore, email marketing is going to be something to focus on.</p><p>And this is phenomenal for those who choose to prioritise email marketing and do it the right way. Because with email marketing (as opposed to social media) you own the data. And the insight you can get can have a hugely positive impact on your business.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The introduction of algorithms for individual inboxes</strong></h3><p>Another thing we see happening in 2023 and beyond is the introduction of algorithms for individual inboxes. At the moment, the way your emails are placed in someone’s inbox (in the Primary folder, the Promotion one, Spam, or the Socials tab) is done on a <em>reputational level</em>. This means that if you're doing things right and have a good reputation as a sender, you'll get better placement in people's inboxes.</p><p>But Gmail and other platforms will be looking at an <em>individual level</em> at the interaction and engagement that a user has with the emails you send. So how your emails are placed in someone's inbox is going to be based on a one-to-one relationship. This means you might be getting primary placement in someone's inbox but never in someone else's. And it all depends on their engagement with you (based on the algorithm for that inbox).&nbsp;</p><p>This means<strong> we need to pay extra attention to deepening the relationship with our readers</strong>. And this becomes easier to do when you build a list of people who <em>want to</em> be there, so they <em>want to</em> hear from you and be part of your world. This also means you don't have to worry about unsubscribes or having the biggest list in the world anymore. You don’t even have to worry about whether you’re emailing your list too much. You're not bombarding them because those people <em>want to be there</em>. So within the confines of that relationship, you can send as many emails as you want.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>People who don't take email marketing seriously will be left behind</strong></h3><p>In a nutshell, people who don't take email marketing seriously in 2023 and beyond are going to be left behind. Because sales <em>rely</em> on email marketing. And while we've all come across a handful of people who managed to build a massive audience on social media, there aren't many of those!</p><p>Plus, while they <em>built</em> that audience on social media (and that's what they teach), they most probably also use email marketing to<em> sell</em> to them. Because <strong>email marketing and social media work together and amplify the effects of each. </strong>In other words, <strong>you want to get people to your social media from your list and from your list to your social media.</strong> Because as a business, being 3D and being <em>everywhere </em>really helps. So the harsh reality is that people will be left behind unless they jump onto the email marketing wagon.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Want to learn how to make email marketing work for you in 2023 and beyond?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>If you’re not already a member of <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> and want access to all the resources, campaigns, and training you need in order to turn your email marketing into an engine that produces sales for you day in and day out, go and check out the details and make email marketing work for you in 2023 and beyond.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject line is “The right way to make more money from every customer.” And it’s not a brilliant subject line, but it works.</p><p>At first, you might think it’s good, and that's because it has a benefit in it. It also has intrigue and curiosity because it uses the phrase “the right way”. So instantly people have questions about what the right or wrong way might be. It definitely makes people wonder.</p><p>But at the same time, it’s not a great subject line because (as we always say) we tend to avoid benefit-driven subject lines. And in a way, that's probably why this one worked well for us. Because it was just <em>one</em> benefit-driven subject line we use in a sea of other types of subject lines.</p><p>If anything, this proves that when you get into too much of a routine, your subscribers become used to it. So when you suddenly do something differently, it’s like a pattern interrupt that grabs their attention. Normally, our subject lines are more abstract and quirky – they’re different. So when you use something more traditional, it works. In other words, we did everything opposite to what we normally do for one or two emails, and that's what helped us get more attention from people.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/what-is-a-high-unsubscribe-rate-what-to-do/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">What to do if you have a high unsubscribe rate</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/unsubscribe-rate/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why You Shouldn’t Worry About Your Unsubscribe Rate</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/lies-stopping-you-from-business-with-profit/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lies You’ve Been Told That Are Stopping You From Making Money In Your Business</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about our predictions for email marketing in 2023) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/predictions-email-marketing-2023/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">89fe8432-87bd-40a5-a1e6-356bd895be24</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/8f38f2d2-b3d9-4208-aa35-1b5c5c7898df/6baNqe_9OmJUFLj-zD1TrYDO.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2023 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/45e5d1d8-b786-43cb-b2b6-08273fb7a4c9/Predictions-of-Email-Marketing-For-2023-converted.mp3" length="23036231" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>24:00</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>167</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>167</podcast:episode></item><item><title>The Email Marketing Show 2022 - Our Favourite Moments</title><itunes:title>The Email Marketing Show 2022 - Our Favourite Moments</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What a year 2022 has been! We have loved delivering the Email Marketing Show week after week, and for the last (Email Marketing) Wednesday of the year, we thought we'd share some of our favourite moments from this past year. </p><p>There were too many to choose from, but we're sure you'll enjoy the little snippets we've chosen for you.&nbsp;In fact, we absolutely <em>dare you</em> to listen to this without laughing along and experiencing FOMO (if you're not a League member just yet). </p><p>Enjoy!&nbsp;</p><p>(And if you have any favourite bits, come and tell us in our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook group</a> or on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/robandkennedy/?hl=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a>!)</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:09) Want to make your sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(1:23) 12 Things That We Use On Stage That Help Our Email Marketing.</p><p>(2:32) Grab people's attention and generate engagement to keep people's attention.</p><p>(4:59) Tell stories and paint pictures in people's brains.</p><p>(6:54) How To Get Back On The Email Wagon When You Fall Off (Back To School Edition)</p><p>(12:54) Why you need to get back to your email marketing (if you've fallen off the wagon).</p><p>(15:01) Comedian’s Secrets to Storytelling - With Kevin Rogers.</p><p>(17:50) The joke formula in comedy (and marketing).</p><p>(21:19) Tell Me You're A Member Of The League Without Telling Me You're A Member Of The League.</p><p>(22:52) They have fresh ideas, templates, and an automated email engine. </p><p>(23:52) They get excited about Email Marketing Wednesday. </p><p>(26:07) People are in a love square with Rob and Kennedy and get told off for saying they have a small list.</p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;free – we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p>That's why we're giving you&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>12 Things That We Use On Stage That Help Our Email Marketing</strong></h3><p>We opened up with some snippets from episode <a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-strategy-examples-from-the-stage/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">12 Things That We Use On Stage That Help Our Email Marketing</a>. This is a particular favourite of ours as we talk about some of the strategies that we use in our other careers as a Stage Hypnotist (Rob) and a Mind Reader (Kennedy) that also impact our email marketing. We teach (and do) psychology-driven email marketing, and there are things that we do on stage that we directly apply to our email marketing.&nbsp;</p><p>Here are some snippets from the episode.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Grab people's attention</strong></h4><p>With your email marketing, you want to ensure you have the attention of your audience, just like we do on stage. If you don't have people's attention at the beginning of the show or at the start of your relationship with your subscribers, they’re going to talk all the way through (at a show) or not pay attention. And you don't want that – you want their attention.</p><p>So how do you do it? First of all, you show up with something that’s attention-grabbing. In the world of email marketing, this is done by giving people a promise when they first opt-in and making sure you deliver on that promise. And the first thing you have to always deliver on is your name – it needs to be the same whose list people subscribed to.&nbsp;We see that mistake a lot with business owners using a different name in their emails compared to what they have on their website.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Generate engagement and keep people's attention</strong></h4><p>Another tip we have for you is to grab and keep attention through subject lines. They set an expectation, they grab someone's attention right from the start, and they help you keep it. When it comes to our shows, for example, we keep people’s attention by making sure our events are fast-paced and interesting. If we used a boring, corporate voice with no personality, people’s attention would immediately drop.</p><p>So keep it pacey, get to the point, stop waffling, and don’t give people too many things to think about at once. That’s why we suggest&nbsp; you don’t put too many points or offers in one email –&nbsp;<strong>one email is one offer</strong>, just like on stage you give one instruction at the time. Otherwise, it gets confusing and people can’t keep up or remember, so they don’t do anything. It's about being clear in your instructions to keep people engaged.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Tell stories and paint pictures in people's brains</strong></h4><p>We talk about this a lot. On stage, Rob, for example, will paint a picture and create a story to give people suggestions about what he's asking them to do. He talks them through the narrative of a story so they can paint that picture in their brain. And he does it that way because stories allow people to make connections that are emotional, real, and interesting.</p><p>So you could build stories around how your product or service was created, how it can be used, or how it should&nbsp;<em>never</em>&nbsp;be used (that would be interesting!). Or maybe you could create a story around why your business is more credible than others.</p><p><strong>As entertainers, we use stories to get people to emotionally buy into what we’re about to demonstrate on stage</strong>. So if you want to do the same, show them something or let them see something in your business.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How To Get Back On The Email Wagon When You Fall Off (Back To School Edition)</strong></h3><p>Another favourite episode is one we aired in September 2022 called <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-reactivation-get-back-email-wagon/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Get Back On The Email Wagon When You Fall Off (Back To School Edition)</a>. It's one full of laughter and failed analogies (we mention diets, pencil cases, "the Dreaded Dentist", tax returns - you name it). </p><p>But if you want to find out why Rob is not a psychopath (who still ends up pear-shaped) and why Kennedy is crying and his glasses are falling off his face, it's one to fully enjoy. </p><p>And yes, there was some actual value in that episode too. Here it goes...</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Why you need to get back to your email marketing</strong></h4><p>Have you fallen off the email marketing wagon lately? We all start with the best intentions – and not just with email marketing. But often life gets in the way, and it's easy to drop the ball. Now it's time to get back to it though – just like children are heading back to school!</p><p><br></p><p>You see, we call this “the Dreaded Dentist”. Because we've all been there – you go to the dentist, and you're told you haven't been in too long, you've left things too late, and now there's a lot that needs fixing.</p><p><br></p><p>And that's just how it is with most things – the longer you put something off, the more you dread re-starting it and the harder it's going to feel. Getting back to your email marketing feels hard today because you've already left it for too long. But keep leaving it, and it'll be even harder! And while you're&nbsp;<em>not</em>&nbsp;sending emails, your list is eroding.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So you need to get back into the game. And the good news is that the thought of doing it is probably scarier than the thing itself – this feeling you're sitting in right now is the worst you're going to experience. But you can escape this and feel in control again. Because if you don't, you're keeping yourself stuck. So don't wait until the job on the dentist chair becomes huge – get on top of this&nbsp;<em>now</em>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Comedian’s Secrets to Storytelling - With Kevin Rogers</strong></h3><p>Here's another favourite episode of ours - <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/marketing-is-storytelling-comedian-kevin-rogers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Comedian’s Secrets to Storytelling – With Kevin Rogers</a>. If you want to find out what happens when you add another showman to the equation - and someone who also uses his skills and experience to write compelling content, this episode is <em>the one</em>. And it's definitely one of those full of laughter AND amazing value.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Does your origin story matter?&nbsp;</strong></h4><p>Should you share your origin story? Do people even care? Kevin Rogers tells us that our audience cares about our origin story more than we think! Just because we've heard it or shared it a million times, and we now think it's irrelevant, it's far from it!&nbsp;<strong>As marketers, we need to share our origin stories, go deep into them, and find different angles and places to tell them</strong>&nbsp;(or different parts of them). Marketing is storytelling, so this is crucial!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Is your origin story really about YOU?&nbsp;</strong></h4><p>We've all heard that your marketing and copy always have to be about the customer and not about you. So how do you strike this balance between telling your story and making it interesting and relevant to your audience?</p><p><br></p><p>When you're writing copy, imagine almost having a two-way conversation with your audience. You hold one side...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What a year 2022 has been! We have loved delivering the Email Marketing Show week after week, and for the last (Email Marketing) Wednesday of the year, we thought we'd share some of our favourite moments from this past year. </p><p>There were too many to choose from, but we're sure you'll enjoy the little snippets we've chosen for you.&nbsp;In fact, we absolutely <em>dare you</em> to listen to this without laughing along and experiencing FOMO (if you're not a League member just yet). </p><p>Enjoy!&nbsp;</p><p>(And if you have any favourite bits, come and tell us in our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook group</a> or on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/robandkennedy/?hl=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a>!)</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:09) Want to make your sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(1:23) 12 Things That We Use On Stage That Help Our Email Marketing.</p><p>(2:32) Grab people's attention and generate engagement to keep people's attention.</p><p>(4:59) Tell stories and paint pictures in people's brains.</p><p>(6:54) How To Get Back On The Email Wagon When You Fall Off (Back To School Edition)</p><p>(12:54) Why you need to get back to your email marketing (if you've fallen off the wagon).</p><p>(15:01) Comedian’s Secrets to Storytelling - With Kevin Rogers.</p><p>(17:50) The joke formula in comedy (and marketing).</p><p>(21:19) Tell Me You're A Member Of The League Without Telling Me You're A Member Of The League.</p><p>(22:52) They have fresh ideas, templates, and an automated email engine. </p><p>(23:52) They get excited about Email Marketing Wednesday. </p><p>(26:07) People are in a love square with Rob and Kennedy and get told off for saying they have a small list.</p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;free – we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p>That's why we're giving you&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>12 Things That We Use On Stage That Help Our Email Marketing</strong></h3><p>We opened up with some snippets from episode <a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-strategy-examples-from-the-stage/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">12 Things That We Use On Stage That Help Our Email Marketing</a>. This is a particular favourite of ours as we talk about some of the strategies that we use in our other careers as a Stage Hypnotist (Rob) and a Mind Reader (Kennedy) that also impact our email marketing. We teach (and do) psychology-driven email marketing, and there are things that we do on stage that we directly apply to our email marketing.&nbsp;</p><p>Here are some snippets from the episode.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Grab people's attention</strong></h4><p>With your email marketing, you want to ensure you have the attention of your audience, just like we do on stage. If you don't have people's attention at the beginning of the show or at the start of your relationship with your subscribers, they’re going to talk all the way through (at a show) or not pay attention. And you don't want that – you want their attention.</p><p>So how do you do it? First of all, you show up with something that’s attention-grabbing. In the world of email marketing, this is done by giving people a promise when they first opt-in and making sure you deliver on that promise. And the first thing you have to always deliver on is your name – it needs to be the same whose list people subscribed to.&nbsp;We see that mistake a lot with business owners using a different name in their emails compared to what they have on their website.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Generate engagement and keep people's attention</strong></h4><p>Another tip we have for you is to grab and keep attention through subject lines. They set an expectation, they grab someone's attention right from the start, and they help you keep it. When it comes to our shows, for example, we keep people’s attention by making sure our events are fast-paced and interesting. If we used a boring, corporate voice with no personality, people’s attention would immediately drop.</p><p>So keep it pacey, get to the point, stop waffling, and don’t give people too many things to think about at once. That’s why we suggest&nbsp; you don’t put too many points or offers in one email –&nbsp;<strong>one email is one offer</strong>, just like on stage you give one instruction at the time. Otherwise, it gets confusing and people can’t keep up or remember, so they don’t do anything. It's about being clear in your instructions to keep people engaged.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Tell stories and paint pictures in people's brains</strong></h4><p>We talk about this a lot. On stage, Rob, for example, will paint a picture and create a story to give people suggestions about what he's asking them to do. He talks them through the narrative of a story so they can paint that picture in their brain. And he does it that way because stories allow people to make connections that are emotional, real, and interesting.</p><p>So you could build stories around how your product or service was created, how it can be used, or how it should&nbsp;<em>never</em>&nbsp;be used (that would be interesting!). Or maybe you could create a story around why your business is more credible than others.</p><p><strong>As entertainers, we use stories to get people to emotionally buy into what we’re about to demonstrate on stage</strong>. So if you want to do the same, show them something or let them see something in your business.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How To Get Back On The Email Wagon When You Fall Off (Back To School Edition)</strong></h3><p>Another favourite episode is one we aired in September 2022 called <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-reactivation-get-back-email-wagon/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Get Back On The Email Wagon When You Fall Off (Back To School Edition)</a>. It's one full of laughter and failed analogies (we mention diets, pencil cases, "the Dreaded Dentist", tax returns - you name it). </p><p>But if you want to find out why Rob is not a psychopath (who still ends up pear-shaped) and why Kennedy is crying and his glasses are falling off his face, it's one to fully enjoy. </p><p>And yes, there was some actual value in that episode too. Here it goes...</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Why you need to get back to your email marketing</strong></h4><p>Have you fallen off the email marketing wagon lately? We all start with the best intentions – and not just with email marketing. But often life gets in the way, and it's easy to drop the ball. Now it's time to get back to it though – just like children are heading back to school!</p><p><br></p><p>You see, we call this “the Dreaded Dentist”. Because we've all been there – you go to the dentist, and you're told you haven't been in too long, you've left things too late, and now there's a lot that needs fixing.</p><p><br></p><p>And that's just how it is with most things – the longer you put something off, the more you dread re-starting it and the harder it's going to feel. Getting back to your email marketing feels hard today because you've already left it for too long. But keep leaving it, and it'll be even harder! And while you're&nbsp;<em>not</em>&nbsp;sending emails, your list is eroding.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So you need to get back into the game. And the good news is that the thought of doing it is probably scarier than the thing itself – this feeling you're sitting in right now is the worst you're going to experience. But you can escape this and feel in control again. Because if you don't, you're keeping yourself stuck. So don't wait until the job on the dentist chair becomes huge – get on top of this&nbsp;<em>now</em>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Comedian’s Secrets to Storytelling - With Kevin Rogers</strong></h3><p>Here's another favourite episode of ours - <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/marketing-is-storytelling-comedian-kevin-rogers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Comedian’s Secrets to Storytelling – With Kevin Rogers</a>. If you want to find out what happens when you add another showman to the equation - and someone who also uses his skills and experience to write compelling content, this episode is <em>the one</em>. And it's definitely one of those full of laughter AND amazing value.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Does your origin story matter?&nbsp;</strong></h4><p>Should you share your origin story? Do people even care? Kevin Rogers tells us that our audience cares about our origin story more than we think! Just because we've heard it or shared it a million times, and we now think it's irrelevant, it's far from it!&nbsp;<strong>As marketers, we need to share our origin stories, go deep into them, and find different angles and places to tell them</strong>&nbsp;(or different parts of them). Marketing is storytelling, so this is crucial!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Is your origin story really about YOU?&nbsp;</strong></h4><p>We've all heard that your marketing and copy always have to be about the customer and not about you. So how do you strike this balance between telling your story and making it interesting and relevant to your audience?</p><p><br></p><p>When you're writing copy, imagine almost having a two-way conversation with your audience. You hold one side of it and can almost picture your readers nodding along on the other side. Focus on the thoughts they'll have about themselves as they’re reading. If you're sharing things that are relatable, people will inject themselves into the story.</p><p><br></p><p>Use a lot of “you” to make your copy about your readers, but there are plenty of ways you can involve your readers while telling your own story and not have people think you're some egocentric jerk who can’t think of anyone else. If the story is done right, no one will think that. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Take the famous sitcom Friends, for example. People laugh at the jokes because they imagine themselves in the situations the characters are experiencing. We laugh because we live vicariously through the characters. And that's what a good origin story is about –&nbsp;<strong>this shared feeling is what makes us want to create and tell our own stories. It's the heartbeat of every communication</strong>.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>The joke formula in comedy</strong></h4><p>So here's the joke formula Kevin identified and shared with us:</p><ul><li>Identity.</li><li>Struggle.</li><li>Discovery.&nbsp;</li><li>And surprise, which is what makes people laugh.&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><p><br></p><p>One of Kevin’s favourite opening jokes on a national TV spot is from a comedian named Karen Ronkowski. She opened with this joke where she said that her kids were so bad in Walmart that she pulled a flyswatter off the shelves and smacked them with it. And as soon as she did that, she realised she doesn’t have kids!</p><p>It’s a great joke, and in only a few seconds she tells so much about herself (that's the&nbsp;<em>identity</em>&nbsp;element of the joke). We know she's annoyed by children, and she's willing to beat them (that's the&nbsp;<em>struggle</em>). The&nbsp;<em>discovery&nbsp;</em>is the flyswatter, and at the end, you have the&nbsp;<em>surprise</em>, which is that she isn't beating her own kids!</p><p>Plus, when it comes to identity, she talks about going to Walmart, and just from that fact you're getting a lot of information about the type of person she is. In a few seconds, she also manages to identify with and relate to the mums or parents in the audience. Setting the joke in Walmart also adds&nbsp;<em>specificity</em>. We imagine what the store looks like, for example, and this drives the story and makes it three-dimensional. This works in comedy and in marketing copy too!</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>The 60-second Sales Hook formula in marketing</strong></h4><p>Obviously in marketing, we’re not trying to get people to laugh – that’s not the goal. The goal is to build trust. So&nbsp;<strong>to use the joke formula in our marketing, we change the last part from&nbsp;<em>surprise</em>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<em>result</em>.</strong>&nbsp;What is the result that you have helped other people achieve through your discovery?</p><p>The formula for marketing is:</p><ul><li>Identity.</li><li>Struggle.</li><li>Discovery.</li><li><em>Result</em>.</li></ul><br/><p>Once you know these four elements of your business, you can write a story on the spot. Kevin’s story, for example, is that he’s a former stand-up comedian who turned copywriter&nbsp;<em>(identity)</em>. For years, he struggled with sharing his story in a way that was relevant to people&nbsp;<em>(struggle)</em>. Then he discovered how he could take a joke formula and change the last element of it and turn it into a&nbsp;<em>hook&nbsp;</em>formula&nbsp;<em>(discovery)</em>. And he has since grown his business by 50%&nbsp;<em>(result)</em>.&nbsp;</p><p>All you have to do now is to add a call to action. So for Kevin, it's something along the lines of: “To see this joke formula that I turned into a marketing formula, click the link below, and I’ll give you my free book”. So that’s super quick. And it's pretty cool, right?</p><p><br></p><p>Kevin also pointed out that once you know about this formula, you'll start seeing it everywhere – from TV commercials to ad campaigns. It's a proven, go-to formula – try it out!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Tell Me You're A Member Of The League Without Telling Me You're A Member Of The League</strong></h3><p>And last but not least (but we could have chosen <em>so many</em> more episodes for this medley), is the episode <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/build-email-marketing-list-league-members/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tell Me You're A Member Of The League Without Telling Me You're A Member Of The League</a>, where we jump on a TikTok trend and tell you what most of our League members have in common. </p><p>If you're not a member of <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> yet, we bet you'll feel pure FOMO at the back of this episode!</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>You always have new and fresh ideas to talk about your products</strong></h4><p>The first thing we noticed that all our members have in common is that they always have fresh ways to talk to their subscribers about their products. </p><p>With the right templates, you can try out a new offer for your product super quickly. And members of&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>&nbsp;all have access to all those shortcuts – we have templates for more than 30 different ways of presenting the same product to keep things interesting for your audience.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>You have an automated email engine</strong></h4><p><strong>An automated email engine is something that turns new subscribers into paying customers every single day</strong>, even when you're taking time off. We are still turning people into paying customers quickly, efficiently, and completely hands-off. </p><p>And this is all happening from content that we set up in our email engine weeks, months, or even years ago, in some cases. And one of the reasons why it works so well is that we’ve taken our highest-performing campaigns and automated them inside the engine.</p><p>Because let’s face it – every email you send isn’t going to be your best-performing one. Can you imagine the pressure if that was the case? So we’ve taken our best campaigns – the ones that gave us the most customers when we first run them live – and automated them. </p><p><br></p><h4><strong>You get excited about Email Marketing Wednesday</strong></h4><p>When Kennedy first presented the idea of Email Marketing Wednesday, Rob thought nobody would&nbsp;<em>ever</em>&nbsp;jump on board. Because surely people don’t want to do their email marketing on a Wednesday, right? What if they already do Webinar Wednesday, for example?</p><p>But to Kennedy, none of it mattered. Just because we do our email marketing on Wednesdays, it doesn’t mean everyone else has to. The key is for people to buy into the idea of dedicating one day a week to their email marketing.</p><p>And now? People inside&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>&nbsp;will post about Email Marketing Wednesday even before Kennedy has opened his eyes at 5 am on a Wednesday morning! And that’s a bit hilarious.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>You use our internal terminology&nbsp;<em>outside</em>&nbsp;of The League</strong></h4><p>We have all sorts of phrases and language we use internally. We have Hotline Calls, Snowball Emails, an Interrogator campaign, and the list goes on and on. That’s because we’ve given names to our frameworks, campaigns, and the strategies we use and teach inside our business. In our businesses, we needed quick ways of doing different things, so we created frameworks, and for quick ease and reference, we gave them names.</p><p>But what’s happening now is that members of&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>&nbsp;get in touch with the various email marketing platforms asking for technical support and use our&nbsp;<em>internal</em>&nbsp;terminology&nbsp;<em>with them</em>. In other words, they assume that the phrases we use are globally known. But they’re not. And there are probably technical support operators out there scratching their heads around some of the questions they receive – certainly from some of our members. And that’s just funny.</p><p>So that's a thing we do – we've created our own language and shared it with our awesome tribe. It's super useful, especially because we named our campaigns by using metaphors for how they work, how they feel, and what they do. And it means we can just quickly identify them with a name without having to describe or explain them all the time.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>You’re probably in a love square with Rob and Kennedy</strong></h4><p>We hear this all the time. Our members are&nbsp;<em>always</em>&nbsp;mentioning us at the dinner table, much to the annoyance of their partners. And the reason why they do is that once people understand the value of email, and how it genuinely impacts your business and your life, they become obsessed with how they can do email better and up their game.</p><p>League members want to know how to increase their effectiveness and improve their skills at email marketing, so they start talking about email at home instead of making small talk about what shows they’re watching on Netflix. And can you blame them? They love doing their email marketing, and that’s just a fact! &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>You get told off if you say you have a small email list</strong></h4><p>Initially, we’d be the ones telling people off when anyone said they had a small email list. But now some members of&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>&nbsp;will tell people off on our behalf, which is hilarious!</p><p>Why do we do that? Because&nbsp;<strong>if you have more than one subscriber, then you...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-show-2022-favourite-moments/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">c5a8a88d-c3a9-4dc5-b69d-eb4cd927683b</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/2adbc495-c71f-47c0-8ae0-781962764e4a/Xztt_cUMmA9Yg0d2yzBZqGWr.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2022 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/d313b4f2-7f00-4398-8725-b531df082dec/Podcast-2022-Our-Favourite-Moments-converted.mp3" length="27426886" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>28:34</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>166</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>166</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How To Build An Impactful Email Marketing Strategy Plan</title><itunes:title>How To Build An Impactful Email Marketing Strategy Plan</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>How and why should you create an email marketing strategy plan? What are the pros and cons? What can planning help you achieve in your business?</p><p>We're Kennedy and Carrie, and you're about to find out how planning your email marketing activities can be super simple and effective.</p><p>Ready?</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</p><p>(0:32) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(3:23) How do you create an email marketing strategy?&nbsp;</p><p>(6:23) Why is having an email marketing strategy effective?&nbsp;</p><p>(9:55) What to look out for when building your email marketing strategy.&nbsp;</p><p>(14:07) Why plan your strategy quarterly.&nbsp;</p><p>(18:25) What if you only have ONE product?&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>(23:31) Think of your subscribers as 3 separate segments.&nbsp;</p><p>(26:23) Link your promotions to your financial goals.&nbsp;</p><p>(29:21) Join The Email Hero Blueprint.&nbsp;</p><p>(29:46) Subject line of the week.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/essential-email-campaigns-examples/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The 7 Proven And Essential Email Campaigns To Add To Your Marketing Strategy And Elevate Your Business</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/mistakes-email-marketing-atuomation-strategy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mistakes You’re Making With Your Email Marketing Automation Strategy</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/building-your-email-list/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">7 New Ideas To Build Your Email List In 2024 (With Extra Tips!)</a></p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to build an impactful email marketing strategy plan) and love the show, we'd appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How and why should you create an email marketing strategy plan? What are the pros and cons? What can planning help you achieve in your business?</p><p>We're Kennedy and Carrie, and you're about to find out how planning your email marketing activities can be super simple and effective.</p><p>Ready?</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</p><p>(0:32) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(3:23) How do you create an email marketing strategy?&nbsp;</p><p>(6:23) Why is having an email marketing strategy effective?&nbsp;</p><p>(9:55) What to look out for when building your email marketing strategy.&nbsp;</p><p>(14:07) Why plan your strategy quarterly.&nbsp;</p><p>(18:25) What if you only have ONE product?&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>(23:31) Think of your subscribers as 3 separate segments.&nbsp;</p><p>(26:23) Link your promotions to your financial goals.&nbsp;</p><p>(29:21) Join The Email Hero Blueprint.&nbsp;</p><p>(29:46) Subject line of the week.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/essential-email-campaigns-examples/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The 7 Proven And Essential Email Campaigns To Add To Your Marketing Strategy And Elevate Your Business</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/mistakes-email-marketing-atuomation-strategy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mistakes You’re Making With Your Email Marketing Automation Strategy</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/building-your-email-list/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">7 New Ideas To Build Your Email List In 2024 (With Extra Tips!)</a></p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to build an impactful email marketing strategy plan) and love the show, we'd appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/create-email-marketing-strategy-plan/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">4b9e499e-4e5c-47f0-8573-918e11a0a14b</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/9178f784-9e39-4235-8089-bbadad101bba/WSNHn5NAKcPQBlwxW8AzpbLx.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2022 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/add37f61-4fff-412e-a0b9-2dd14f141319/EP-236-165-Final.mp3" length="75842176" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>31:36</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>165</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>165</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Bonus: Stupid Festive Quiz</title><itunes:title>Bonus: Stupid Festive Quiz</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Bonus: Stupid Festive Quiz</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bonus: Stupid Festive Quiz</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">9018b192-f0c1-410b-a36e-f092ac73304b</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/fcea8073-5d1a-40b0-959a-fbf3d5f9c79d/IyOnqV_CRNqIxDwtveDJ7vUM.png"/><pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2022 05:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/5b5b7efd-a0af-4df1-819b-89ac66b83029/festive-quiz-converted.mp3" length="21964103" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>22:53</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>167</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>167</podcast:episode></item><item><title>The Only Email Marketing Campaign Types You&apos;ll Ever Need</title><itunes:title>The Only Email Marketing Campaign Types You&apos;ll Ever Need</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Did you know there are only THREE email marketing campaign types you'll ever need to know about and use in your business?</p><p>That's right. Inside our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> we have more than 30 email campaigns that our members can literally copy and deploy in their own businesses. But they all come down to these three main types.&nbsp;</p><p>And once you understand these, you'll see your emails in a completely new way.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to find out more?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:10) Want to make your sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(4:48) The only THREE types of email marketing campaigns.</p><p>(6:13) Examples of functional campaigns.</p><p>(7:30) Collect testimonials and get paid on time. </p><p>(9:33) Direct sales campaigns.</p><p>(10:44) How to sell in a valuable way.</p><p>(12:19) The advantage of running different direct sales campaigns.</p><p>(13:06) Content-led campaigns.</p><p>(15:31) Want access to all our email marketing campaigns? Join <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>.</p><p>(17:31) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;free – we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p><br></p><p>That's why we're giving you&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The only THREE types of email marketing campaigns</strong></h3><p>Running email marketing campaigns can seem overwhelming and complicated. But at a basic level, there are only THREE types of campaigns you'll ever need in your business.</p><p>And they are:&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Functional campaigns.</li><li>Direct sales campaigns.</li><li>Content-led campaigns.</li></ul><br/><h3><strong>Examples of functional campaigns</strong></h3><p>Functional email marketing campaigns are those that relate to the <em>core functions</em> that need to take place in your business.</p><p>For example, you'll need some sort of <em>funnel campaign</em> that delivers your lead magnet when someone opts in to download it. When you run a campaign of this type, you don't just want to deliver the product  - you want to do it <em>with purpose</em>. <strong>You want to remind your subscribers about the value they're going to get from your download. </strong>They were so excited to get your lead magnet that they gave your their email address. Now your job is to remind them of that excitement and that value - tell them how implementing your teachings will help them solve the problem they might have, for example. This email delivery sequence marks the start of building a relationship with people, and that's super important.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Collect testimonials and get paid on time</strong></h4><p>Another functional email marketing campaign you can have in your business is one that helps you <em>collect testimonials</em>. Why have a campaign for this? Because<strong> you want to systemise and automate the process of reaching out and getting testimonials</strong> that you can then use to sell your product to other people. Doing manually isn't very efficient - you might forget to ask, or too much time will have passed. So you need to have an automated process to reach out to your existing customers to ask for testimonials, and a campaign will help you do that.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>You also want to have systems in place to make sure you get paid on time. If you're invoicing your customers, you want to email them a bill. And if that bill is overdue or if someone's payment has failed, you need a system in place to remind them or let them know. And that doesn't mean these (functional) emails can't be valuable or interesting!</p><p><br></p><p>So these are examples of functional campaigns you might want to implement. They will vary from business to business, which is why we have a whole range of them available inside our membership.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Direct sales campaigns</strong></h3><p>The second type we want to cover are direct sales email marketing campaigns. As the name suggests, in these emails, you'll have a link that someone's going to click to get to a sales page. While reading the email, people know that when they click on the link they'll be taken to an offer.&nbsp;</p><p>And of course, you have different categories of subscribers, i.e. people who are at different stages of their journey with you and who need different offers. Some people are ready to buy (we call them 'high-interest') - they already know what they want and just need the link. So when you put an offer in front of these types of subscribers, you don't need to do a great deal of marketing. In fact, you want to make sure you don’t do anything that gets <em>in the way</em> of this person buying from you!</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>How to sell in a valuable way</strong></h4><p>A lot of marketing advice you'll find 'out there' will give you the idea that if someone joins your list today, you have to then nurture them for ages without selling them anything. At some point, 'reciprocity laws' will kick in, and they’ll buy. </p><p><br></p><p>But we don't think that's how it works at all! What you want to do instead is to<strong> sell in a valuable way</strong>. You want to run direct sales campaigns that are <em>valuable</em>. And once you do that, you can reach out directly to the people who aren’t ready to buy right now and get them over the line when the time comes.</p><p><br></p><p>Direct sales campaigns rely on ensuring that your offer is tightly dialled in. In other words, <strong>a direct sales campaign will never convert unless your offer is strong.</strong> So running a direct sales campaign is actually a great way of testing your offer. If it sells, then your offer is a winning one. Because <strong>no one has an inherent inability to make sales.</strong> </p><p><br></p><p>And that's why inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> we have a range of direct sales and flash sales campaigns (like Columbo, the Overture campaign, or The Escalator) that you can use for existing products but also to test brand-new offers.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>The advantage of running different direct sale campaigns</strong></h4><p><strong>What all direct sales campaigns have in common is the fact that your subscribers know they're being offered something.</strong> But the campaigns are framed in different ways because you can still have variety! That's why we have so many of them. And we see this as a big downfall for a lot of email marketers. They'll just show up with the same direct sales campaign every single time and never try and wrap their offer up in different ways. As a result, their audience switches off and gets bored. They become blind to those campaigns and stop engaging. Even if you've changed some of the nuances, they won't notice.</p><p><br></p><p>So here's why we have so many different campaigns. And of course, you could also have <em>hybrid campaigns </em>that are both functional and about direct sales. An example are campaigns that help you win back past customers.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Content-led campaigns</strong></h3><p>The third type of email marketing campaigns you need in your business are content-led ones. These are the<strong> email sequences you use when you're cloaking your offer behind a piece of content, such as a teaching video or a webinar.</strong> If your offer sits behind a video, for example, you only trigger it once people have watched that piece of content. Our Golden Cloak campaign works just like that. And if people don't watch the video, then you want to trigger a different email campaign entirely (and then another one after that), and the whole process is streamlined.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Another example is our Daisy Chain campaign, where you put someone into a different email sequence as long as they've watched up to a certain point of your video. You pick a particular point in your video because it's only after reaching that bit that you think the campaign that follows has a good chance of making the sale for you. And our Video Hero technology (available to all our members) helps you do just that.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Another content-led campaign we have is the Phantom campaign, which uses a survey. We ask people to fill in the survey, and on the back of that, we do different things. For example, we might send them to our webinar campaign to register for a webinar. Signing up for the webinar is the call to action - the whole campaign builds urgency around getting people to register. And then at the end of the webinar, there will be a pitch for the actual offer. In other words, the campaign does the job to sell the webinar, and the webinar (the piece of content) does the job of selling the product.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Want access to all our email marketing campaigns? Join The League</strong></h3><p>As you can tell, your emails can do a lot of different jobs depending on what type of campaign they fall under. It’s easy to think that all emails need to tell someone to go and buy something, but that’s not how it works! There are different stages to the process that you must take into account.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>The one thing that all...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Did you know there are only THREE email marketing campaign types you'll ever need to know about and use in your business?</p><p>That's right. Inside our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> we have more than 30 email campaigns that our members can literally copy and deploy in their own businesses. But they all come down to these three main types.&nbsp;</p><p>And once you understand these, you'll see your emails in a completely new way.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to find out more?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:10) Want to make your sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(4:48) The only THREE types of email marketing campaigns.</p><p>(6:13) Examples of functional campaigns.</p><p>(7:30) Collect testimonials and get paid on time. </p><p>(9:33) Direct sales campaigns.</p><p>(10:44) How to sell in a valuable way.</p><p>(12:19) The advantage of running different direct sales campaigns.</p><p>(13:06) Content-led campaigns.</p><p>(15:31) Want access to all our email marketing campaigns? Join <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>.</p><p>(17:31) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;free – we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p><br></p><p>That's why we're giving you&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The only THREE types of email marketing campaigns</strong></h3><p>Running email marketing campaigns can seem overwhelming and complicated. But at a basic level, there are only THREE types of campaigns you'll ever need in your business.</p><p>And they are:&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Functional campaigns.</li><li>Direct sales campaigns.</li><li>Content-led campaigns.</li></ul><br/><h3><strong>Examples of functional campaigns</strong></h3><p>Functional email marketing campaigns are those that relate to the <em>core functions</em> that need to take place in your business.</p><p>For example, you'll need some sort of <em>funnel campaign</em> that delivers your lead magnet when someone opts in to download it. When you run a campaign of this type, you don't just want to deliver the product  - you want to do it <em>with purpose</em>. <strong>You want to remind your subscribers about the value they're going to get from your download. </strong>They were so excited to get your lead magnet that they gave your their email address. Now your job is to remind them of that excitement and that value - tell them how implementing your teachings will help them solve the problem they might have, for example. This email delivery sequence marks the start of building a relationship with people, and that's super important.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Collect testimonials and get paid on time</strong></h4><p>Another functional email marketing campaign you can have in your business is one that helps you <em>collect testimonials</em>. Why have a campaign for this? Because<strong> you want to systemise and automate the process of reaching out and getting testimonials</strong> that you can then use to sell your product to other people. Doing manually isn't very efficient - you might forget to ask, or too much time will have passed. So you need to have an automated process to reach out to your existing customers to ask for testimonials, and a campaign will help you do that.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>You also want to have systems in place to make sure you get paid on time. If you're invoicing your customers, you want to email them a bill. And if that bill is overdue or if someone's payment has failed, you need a system in place to remind them or let them know. And that doesn't mean these (functional) emails can't be valuable or interesting!</p><p><br></p><p>So these are examples of functional campaigns you might want to implement. They will vary from business to business, which is why we have a whole range of them available inside our membership.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Direct sales campaigns</strong></h3><p>The second type we want to cover are direct sales email marketing campaigns. As the name suggests, in these emails, you'll have a link that someone's going to click to get to a sales page. While reading the email, people know that when they click on the link they'll be taken to an offer.&nbsp;</p><p>And of course, you have different categories of subscribers, i.e. people who are at different stages of their journey with you and who need different offers. Some people are ready to buy (we call them 'high-interest') - they already know what they want and just need the link. So when you put an offer in front of these types of subscribers, you don't need to do a great deal of marketing. In fact, you want to make sure you don’t do anything that gets <em>in the way</em> of this person buying from you!</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>How to sell in a valuable way</strong></h4><p>A lot of marketing advice you'll find 'out there' will give you the idea that if someone joins your list today, you have to then nurture them for ages without selling them anything. At some point, 'reciprocity laws' will kick in, and they’ll buy. </p><p><br></p><p>But we don't think that's how it works at all! What you want to do instead is to<strong> sell in a valuable way</strong>. You want to run direct sales campaigns that are <em>valuable</em>. And once you do that, you can reach out directly to the people who aren’t ready to buy right now and get them over the line when the time comes.</p><p><br></p><p>Direct sales campaigns rely on ensuring that your offer is tightly dialled in. In other words, <strong>a direct sales campaign will never convert unless your offer is strong.</strong> So running a direct sales campaign is actually a great way of testing your offer. If it sells, then your offer is a winning one. Because <strong>no one has an inherent inability to make sales.</strong> </p><p><br></p><p>And that's why inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> we have a range of direct sales and flash sales campaigns (like Columbo, the Overture campaign, or The Escalator) that you can use for existing products but also to test brand-new offers.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>The advantage of running different direct sale campaigns</strong></h4><p><strong>What all direct sales campaigns have in common is the fact that your subscribers know they're being offered something.</strong> But the campaigns are framed in different ways because you can still have variety! That's why we have so many of them. And we see this as a big downfall for a lot of email marketers. They'll just show up with the same direct sales campaign every single time and never try and wrap their offer up in different ways. As a result, their audience switches off and gets bored. They become blind to those campaigns and stop engaging. Even if you've changed some of the nuances, they won't notice.</p><p><br></p><p>So here's why we have so many different campaigns. And of course, you could also have <em>hybrid campaigns </em>that are both functional and about direct sales. An example are campaigns that help you win back past customers.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Content-led campaigns</strong></h3><p>The third type of email marketing campaigns you need in your business are content-led ones. These are the<strong> email sequences you use when you're cloaking your offer behind a piece of content, such as a teaching video or a webinar.</strong> If your offer sits behind a video, for example, you only trigger it once people have watched that piece of content. Our Golden Cloak campaign works just like that. And if people don't watch the video, then you want to trigger a different email campaign entirely (and then another one after that), and the whole process is streamlined.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Another example is our Daisy Chain campaign, where you put someone into a different email sequence as long as they've watched up to a certain point of your video. You pick a particular point in your video because it's only after reaching that bit that you think the campaign that follows has a good chance of making the sale for you. And our Video Hero technology (available to all our members) helps you do just that.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Another content-led campaign we have is the Phantom campaign, which uses a survey. We ask people to fill in the survey, and on the back of that, we do different things. For example, we might send them to our webinar campaign to register for a webinar. Signing up for the webinar is the call to action - the whole campaign builds urgency around getting people to register. And then at the end of the webinar, there will be a pitch for the actual offer. In other words, the campaign does the job to sell the webinar, and the webinar (the piece of content) does the job of selling the product.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Want access to all our email marketing campaigns? Join The League</strong></h3><p>As you can tell, your emails can do a lot of different jobs depending on what type of campaign they fall under. It’s easy to think that all emails need to tell someone to go and buy something, but that’s not how it works! There are different stages to the process that you must take into account.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>The one thing that all these emails have in common is that they all ask for a click – they ask someone to take an action. And sometimes it’s <em>functional</em> (i.e. you're asking them to do something that’s free), sometimes it’s about <em>direct sales</em>, and other times it's about<em> consuming a piece of content</em> that has an offer somewhere down the line.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>You need all these types of campaigns to keep your audience involved and engaged and make the maximum amount of sales.</strong> All members inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> know that the 30+ campaigns we teach fall under these three different categories. And by using them, you can build your own email automation engine, which runs day and night and fills up your email inbox with payment notifications - no matter where you are or what you’re doing.</p><p><br></p><p>If you're not already a member and want to check it out, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here's the link again</a>. Are you ready to literally grab and deploy these campaigns in your business in your own voice?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject line is “SKIP module 01.” The story here was about the fact that if there’s ever a course that teaches about customer avatars, we will skip that module because we think it’s mostly nonsense. And we talked about that in the podcast episode <a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/customer-avatar-vs-dynamic-customer-journeys/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">What We Really Think About Customer Avatars</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>The subject line links to the story we told in that episode, rather than simply saying what the episode was about (which would be the boring and dull option). In other words, this subject line works because it's interesting. People want to know which module we're telling them to skip. And it sounds counterintuitive - why would you skip module one when it's normally the one you start from? It almost sounds like an ‘anti-consumption’ email, which is why it generates curiosity. Try it out!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/essential-email-campaigns-examples/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">7 Essential Email Campaigns Examples For Your Business</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/psychology-of-marketing-email-campaigns/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">9 Psychological Things That We Use In All Of Our Campaigns</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/template-email-marketing-campaign/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Template For Email Marketing Campaigns</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the only email marketing campaign types you'll ever need in your business) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-campaign-types/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e522653-f2a6-4121-bd5a-93960bd8763b</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/88783008-ea01-447f-b706-d6380442c1e6/epUztkKC-HPI18oBljXpauOS.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2022 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/d78b3b48-bb16-479b-98f3-8b825d5a0db2/The-Three-Types-Of-Email-Campaigns-converted.mp3" length="18714311" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>19:30</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>164</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>164</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How To Increase Your Open Rates (They&apos;re Wrong But…)</title><itunes:title>How To Increase Your Open Rates (They&apos;re Wrong But…)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Want to know how to increase the open rate of your emails? We talked about open rates before. And you'll probably already know that we believe they're wrong.&nbsp;</p><p>But regardless of what the data says (and whether it's right or wrong), you <em>still </em>want people to open your emails.</p><p>So how do you do that?&nbsp;</p><p>Here you go.</p><p>You're welcome! </p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:11) Want to make your sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(5:23) Why your open rates are wrong.</p><p>(10:12) Your reputation is what gets people to open your emails.</p><p>(15:00) Create compound curiosity and use open loops.</p><p>(18:54) Write shorter emails.</p><p>(20:15) Be regular and become a habit in someone's life. </p><p>(25:48) Remove benefits from your subject lines.</p><p>(28:41) Build a list of people who want to read your emails.</p><p>(31:12) Vary the lenght of your subject lines and break patterns.</p><p>(35:36) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;free – we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p><br></p><p>That's why we're giving you&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why your open rates are wrong</strong>&nbsp;</h3><p>We’ve been talking <em>for years</em> about the fact that open rates are wrong, and now we're telling you how to improve them? Don't worry - we haven’t changed our minds. <strong>Generally speaking, open rates are wrong</strong> - they might be higher or lower than whatever number you see in your email marketing platform. It's probably lower, but it's hard to tell.</p><p><br></p><p>And you certainly should <em>never</em> make any decisions at the back of an individual subscriber opening (or not opening) an email. Because the technology used to track open rates is flawed. Some platforms (like Apple) tend to mark all emails as open and others (like Android) mark them all as unopened. So you can't trust that number.</p><p><br></p><p>But what you <em>can</em> do is look at the overarching number of emails sent over a certain period of time and work out whether the open rate was up or down relative to the previous day. Open rates are consistently inaccurate, but they're incorrect relative to one another. </p><p><br></p><p>Having said that, if you notice your open rates have gone up over the last few months, it may not mean you're doing something brilliantly. It could be because everyone's open rates have gone up in the reporting over the past few months. This is simply a change in the number displayed by your email platform - it doesn't mean more people are opening your emails.</p><p><br></p><p>But while we don't want to pay too much attention to that number, we do need people to open our emails. So let's talk about the strategies to your subscribers to do just that, <em>regardless of what your open rates say.</em> &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Your reputation is what gets people to open your emails</strong></h3><p>The first thing we want you to realise is that <strong>what gets your emails opened is not your subject line – it’s your reputation.</strong> And the evidence of that is in the fact that if you get an email from a friend or family, you’ll open it – regardless of what’s in the subject line (or even if that’s empty). But if the email comes from a source that doesn’t sound trustworthy or beneficial to you, you'll leave it (and might even hit the spam button) - no matter what the subject line is.</p><p><br></p><p>This proves that what counts is your reputation - that's what gets your emails opened. Seeing your name in their inbox triggers a deep, subconscious, reflex response to make someone open your email and read it. And they'll do that because they know you're not a spammy person and because they'll get value or entertainment out of your email. So don't trick people with your subject lines by saying it's going to be about something and then make it about something else! That will ruin your reputation, and people won't trust you again.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>How to improve your reputation</strong></h4><p>To improve your reputation, make sure you send good emails that aren't predictable. What is the emotion people experience when they read your emails? Do they feel let down? Or are they left feeling like what they read was good, interesting, and valuable? Did they learn something or get something out of it?</p><p><br></p><p>If you trick someone into opening your emails today, you<em> might </em>get a better open rate tomorrow. But your overall open rate will be hugely damaged. So think about your subject lines as a tool that gives people a reason to read today's email as opposed to yesterday's or tomorrow's. Always try to come up with more interesting ones, but also be aware that your subject lines aren't going to be the best every single day - you may have days when you send very factual ones and not see a spike in open rates, compared to the days when you send really witty ones. And that's okay. Because your reputation is what gets your emails opened - not your subject lines.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Create compound curiosity</strong></h3><p><strong>When you do write your subject lines, you want to give people a reason to open your emails. </strong>And we see a lot of people<em> trying</em> to do this but getting it a bit wrong.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>For example, if you use the subject line “How I made $20,000 last month using a free Facebook group”, it sounds like you’re triggering curiosity. But this subject line already answers all the questions someone might have. We now know that you can make a bunch of money using a free Facebook group, so we now have no reason to open that email. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Instead, you want to create <em>compound curiosity</em>, a technique where you include more than one curious element in your subject line. We covered this before, so <a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/compound-curiosity-clever-subject-lines-for-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">go and check out the episode here</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Use open loops</strong></h3><p>Another thing we do is to use open loops either within our emails or at the end of them to boost open rates for our following emails. We have two ways of doing this - one more overt and one more subtle.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>The overt way of doing it is to raise a thought or a question that doesn’t get answered, acknowledged or completed until the next email. It’s a bit like when you’re walking down the street and see someone whose face you recognise but you can’t think where you know them from. It nags at you all day until you remember. Because <strong>we can’t deal with the idea of an open, unfinished thought or loop. </strong>So to tap into this, tell your subscribers that you <em>were</em> going to say something in an email, but you'll tell them tomorrow instead.</p><p><br></p><p>The more subtle way of doing this is to tell a story. And at the end of it, you casually say you'll carry on another time. You wave that bit of information into the middle of a story and continue the story the next day - that's an open loop. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Write shorter emails</strong></h3><p>In our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, we get results for people because we teach you how to flip logic around and use psychology, which is not so logical. We <em>think</em> we're logical beings, but we're really not. So always think about non-logical ways to go about things.</p><p><br></p><p>And something you can do to go against the grain and be different is to make your emails shorter. This saves you time when writing but also allows you to share emails that are more to the point. So when someone sees your name in their inbox, they'll find time to read it. If they know your emails are very long, they might leave them for another day. And then before they know it, you've sent more, and they have a backlog they aren't likely to clear.</p><p><br></p><p>So don't do that. <strong>Keep your emails shorter, build a reputation for being someone who sends shorter emails, and you'll get more of your subscribers to consume your message.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Be regular</strong>&nbsp;</h3><p>The next thing you can do is to be regular with your emails, so you <strong>become a habit in someone’s life.</strong> If your emails are sporadic, that's very difficult to do.&nbsp; In fact, you’re more likely to be an interruption. Your emails don’t necessarily have to be daily (although we believe they should be), but the more regular you are, the better. When you send out emails regularly, people know when to expect them and when to go and read them.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Ideally, what you want to do is to<strong> link existing behaviours and habits that people already have with reading your emails. </strong>If you send your emails every day first thing in the morning, for example, people are likely to read them when they're having their cup of tea and coffee. You're helping them link an existing habit with reading your emails, which means your subscribers are more likely to proactively go to their inbox to look for your email.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So tell them what you're going to do. When will you send your emails out? What...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Want to know how to increase the open rate of your emails? We talked about open rates before. And you'll probably already know that we believe they're wrong.&nbsp;</p><p>But regardless of what the data says (and whether it's right or wrong), you <em>still </em>want people to open your emails.</p><p>So how do you do that?&nbsp;</p><p>Here you go.</p><p>You're welcome! </p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:11) Want to make your sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(5:23) Why your open rates are wrong.</p><p>(10:12) Your reputation is what gets people to open your emails.</p><p>(15:00) Create compound curiosity and use open loops.</p><p>(18:54) Write shorter emails.</p><p>(20:15) Be regular and become a habit in someone's life. </p><p>(25:48) Remove benefits from your subject lines.</p><p>(28:41) Build a list of people who want to read your emails.</p><p>(31:12) Vary the lenght of your subject lines and break patterns.</p><p>(35:36) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;free – we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p><br></p><p>That's why we're giving you&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why your open rates are wrong</strong>&nbsp;</h3><p>We’ve been talking <em>for years</em> about the fact that open rates are wrong, and now we're telling you how to improve them? Don't worry - we haven’t changed our minds. <strong>Generally speaking, open rates are wrong</strong> - they might be higher or lower than whatever number you see in your email marketing platform. It's probably lower, but it's hard to tell.</p><p><br></p><p>And you certainly should <em>never</em> make any decisions at the back of an individual subscriber opening (or not opening) an email. Because the technology used to track open rates is flawed. Some platforms (like Apple) tend to mark all emails as open and others (like Android) mark them all as unopened. So you can't trust that number.</p><p><br></p><p>But what you <em>can</em> do is look at the overarching number of emails sent over a certain period of time and work out whether the open rate was up or down relative to the previous day. Open rates are consistently inaccurate, but they're incorrect relative to one another. </p><p><br></p><p>Having said that, if you notice your open rates have gone up over the last few months, it may not mean you're doing something brilliantly. It could be because everyone's open rates have gone up in the reporting over the past few months. This is simply a change in the number displayed by your email platform - it doesn't mean more people are opening your emails.</p><p><br></p><p>But while we don't want to pay too much attention to that number, we do need people to open our emails. So let's talk about the strategies to your subscribers to do just that, <em>regardless of what your open rates say.</em> &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Your reputation is what gets people to open your emails</strong></h3><p>The first thing we want you to realise is that <strong>what gets your emails opened is not your subject line – it’s your reputation.</strong> And the evidence of that is in the fact that if you get an email from a friend or family, you’ll open it – regardless of what’s in the subject line (or even if that’s empty). But if the email comes from a source that doesn’t sound trustworthy or beneficial to you, you'll leave it (and might even hit the spam button) - no matter what the subject line is.</p><p><br></p><p>This proves that what counts is your reputation - that's what gets your emails opened. Seeing your name in their inbox triggers a deep, subconscious, reflex response to make someone open your email and read it. And they'll do that because they know you're not a spammy person and because they'll get value or entertainment out of your email. So don't trick people with your subject lines by saying it's going to be about something and then make it about something else! That will ruin your reputation, and people won't trust you again.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>How to improve your reputation</strong></h4><p>To improve your reputation, make sure you send good emails that aren't predictable. What is the emotion people experience when they read your emails? Do they feel let down? Or are they left feeling like what they read was good, interesting, and valuable? Did they learn something or get something out of it?</p><p><br></p><p>If you trick someone into opening your emails today, you<em> might </em>get a better open rate tomorrow. But your overall open rate will be hugely damaged. So think about your subject lines as a tool that gives people a reason to read today's email as opposed to yesterday's or tomorrow's. Always try to come up with more interesting ones, but also be aware that your subject lines aren't going to be the best every single day - you may have days when you send very factual ones and not see a spike in open rates, compared to the days when you send really witty ones. And that's okay. Because your reputation is what gets your emails opened - not your subject lines.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Create compound curiosity</strong></h3><p><strong>When you do write your subject lines, you want to give people a reason to open your emails. </strong>And we see a lot of people<em> trying</em> to do this but getting it a bit wrong.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>For example, if you use the subject line “How I made $20,000 last month using a free Facebook group”, it sounds like you’re triggering curiosity. But this subject line already answers all the questions someone might have. We now know that you can make a bunch of money using a free Facebook group, so we now have no reason to open that email. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Instead, you want to create <em>compound curiosity</em>, a technique where you include more than one curious element in your subject line. We covered this before, so <a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/compound-curiosity-clever-subject-lines-for-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">go and check out the episode here</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Use open loops</strong></h3><p>Another thing we do is to use open loops either within our emails or at the end of them to boost open rates for our following emails. We have two ways of doing this - one more overt and one more subtle.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>The overt way of doing it is to raise a thought or a question that doesn’t get answered, acknowledged or completed until the next email. It’s a bit like when you’re walking down the street and see someone whose face you recognise but you can’t think where you know them from. It nags at you all day until you remember. Because <strong>we can’t deal with the idea of an open, unfinished thought or loop. </strong>So to tap into this, tell your subscribers that you <em>were</em> going to say something in an email, but you'll tell them tomorrow instead.</p><p><br></p><p>The more subtle way of doing this is to tell a story. And at the end of it, you casually say you'll carry on another time. You wave that bit of information into the middle of a story and continue the story the next day - that's an open loop. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Write shorter emails</strong></h3><p>In our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, we get results for people because we teach you how to flip logic around and use psychology, which is not so logical. We <em>think</em> we're logical beings, but we're really not. So always think about non-logical ways to go about things.</p><p><br></p><p>And something you can do to go against the grain and be different is to make your emails shorter. This saves you time when writing but also allows you to share emails that are more to the point. So when someone sees your name in their inbox, they'll find time to read it. If they know your emails are very long, they might leave them for another day. And then before they know it, you've sent more, and they have a backlog they aren't likely to clear.</p><p><br></p><p>So don't do that. <strong>Keep your emails shorter, build a reputation for being someone who sends shorter emails, and you'll get more of your subscribers to consume your message.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Be regular</strong>&nbsp;</h3><p>The next thing you can do is to be regular with your emails, so you <strong>become a habit in someone’s life.</strong> If your emails are sporadic, that's very difficult to do.&nbsp; In fact, you’re more likely to be an interruption. Your emails don’t necessarily have to be daily (although we believe they should be), but the more regular you are, the better. When you send out emails regularly, people know when to expect them and when to go and read them.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Ideally, what you want to do is to<strong> link existing behaviours and habits that people already have with reading your emails. </strong>If you send your emails every day first thing in the morning, for example, people are likely to read them when they're having their cup of tea and coffee. You're helping them link an existing habit with reading your emails, which means your subscribers are more likely to proactively go to their inbox to look for your email.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So tell them what you're going to do. When will you send your emails out? What can they expect from you? What are you committing to do? Be open about that because it’s that <strong>repetition that ingrains the habit and then links habits together.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>By the way, you may have noticed that none of the strategies we mentioned are 'tricks' or 'hacks' – they’re not quick, and they’re not loopholes. <strong>They involve building a list of people who want to receive your emails and hear from you every day – that’s the real secret.</strong> Because those are the people who will open your emails. This is how a psychology-based approach to email marketing works. It’s not about shortcuts - it's about the beliefs you build and the behaviours you display that make you a more influential person.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Remove benefits from your subject lines</strong>&nbsp;</h3><p>Another tip we have for you is to remove benefits from your subject lines. Because there are only so many ways you can send a subject line about “How to increase your open rates”, for example. And this works for any topic. Sooner or later, your audience will get bored of that approach. <strong>Benefit-driven subject lines remove a lot of the mystery from an email, and they actually<em> reduce</em> the reasons to open it.</strong> &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Instead, you want your emails to include something interesting or valuable so that if people aren’t ready to buy from you yet, they can still get something out of your emails. And knowing that is what will make them decide to open your emails and read them. So <strong>don't talk about what the email is going to do for them. Instead, make it&nbsp;curiosity-driven and interesting - tell a story.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Most of our emails are story-driven, so the majority of our subject lines are plucked directly from the story and are riddled with curiosity - people can't glean anything from them. If they want to find out what the email is about, they have to open it and read it.</p><p><br></p><p>If you use the subject line, “How to grow your list with a Facebook group”, for example, people will assume what it's all about, and a lot of them won't even open it. You're also alienating people who don't have or want a Facebook group. That's because often, with benefit-driven subject lines, people make their minds up about what they're about and don't open them.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Build a list of people who want to read your emails&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Also, because you want to attract people to your list who want to receive your emails, you need to make sure<strong> there's a strong link between the reason they're joining your list and what you talk about in your emails on a day-to-day basis. </strong>So if we were to create a lead magnet to help people build an email list using a Facebook group, we might attract someone who is more interested in social media marketing than email marketing. And they wouldn't be right for our list.</p><p><br></p><p>So make your daily emails one of the reasons why people want to join your list. And once they do, be very brutal. Remove those who aren't engaging, and you'll see your open rate go up.&nbsp;It sounds like a false economy, but the <strong>people who aren’t opening your emails are damaging your ability to deliver</strong>. You tend to end up in a vicious circle with fewer people opening your emails because your emails aren’t even getting delivered!</p><p><br></p><p>So make sure you do some form of engagement monitoring. You also want to run re-engagement sequences regularly, just like our LOL Revival campaign. This is something we always encourage our members to make a priority. And that's because it positively impacts your ability to be effective in your email marketing.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Vary the length of your subject lines</strong></h3><p>Another tip we have on how to increase your open rates is to vary the length of your subject lines to keep them varied. For example, you could have a subject line that’s just one word. Or a short subject line where every word starts with a capital letter. Or you could use an emoji or a full stop at the end of your subject line.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>In other words, <strong>vary the look and feel, style, and length of your subject lines, so they’re all different. </strong>Think about scanning down your own email inbox and looking at subject lines. The ones that stand out to you are probably those that are a bit different. Most subject lines are quite long, so they tend to be cut and not fully displayed. But if you see one that's really short, you’re drawn to that. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Break patterns!</strong>&nbsp;</h3><p>And finally, based on everything we covered here, think about breaking patterns. Observe the behaviours and patterns that you and your competitors are building, and find ways to break them.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>We always advise you to subscribe to your competitors' emails, for example. And it's not because you want to copy them, but because you want to be different! If they email at a certain time of day, pick a different time. That means you aren't competing for people’s attention. </p><p><br></p><p>Break the patterns – even within your own routine if necessary. For example, if you send an email every morning and suddenly you email a second time in the afternoon or the evening, that will grab your audience's attention. Because that's not what you normally do. So notice your own patterns, and from time to time, break them. That's what we do.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject Lines That Make Sales</strong></h3><p>If you want to find out more and go deeper into this topic, we have a whole training inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> (called Subject Lines That Make Sales), so if you’re not already a member go and check it out. </p><p><br></p><p>You can also have a look at the campaigns we have in there. With more than 30 email sequences and frameworks available, you'll be able to build a reputation and an arc across all your campaigns. And, in turn, that will help you increase your open rates. Every strategy we mentioned here is already baked inside our campaigns so you can use these techniques to get people to open your emails and take the next action to click and buy from you. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject line is “Message from Orlando.” We’ve done variations of this quite a lot, like “Postcard from…” or "Letter from...” for example. Typically, we use these subject lines when one of us is away (or both of us are), and we’ve got something to say from that place.</p><p><br></p><p>It works because it’s full of compound curiosity. People will be wondering what the message is, who’s in Orlando, or, in this case, which Orlando is sending the message (is it Orlando Bloom??) So if you’re in an unusual place or somewhere different, this is a great one to try out.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/email-deliverability/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Surprising Thing That REALLY Impacts Your Email Deliverability</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/what-is-a-high-unsubscribe-rate-what-to-do/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">What to do if you have a high unsubscribe rate</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/unsubscribe-rate/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why You Shouldn’t Worry About Your Unsubscribe Rate</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/increase-open-rate/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">b7fff16d-07d4-4c39-b573-fcd7be916506</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/8b98cc8f-9446-42db-a4cb-23333f9b3197/q4oYU2nGcUBI9Rlyga-fUSUW.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2022 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/3f9e1b28-6758-4ffb-bddb-31cca227a2e2/How-20To-20Increase-20Your-20Open-20Rates-converted.mp3" length="35569223" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>37:03</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>163</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>163</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How A League Member Made Over $10k With Just ONE Email Campaign - Case Study With Aidan O&apos;Sullivan</title><itunes:title>How A League Member Made Over $10k With Just ONE Email Campaign - Case Study With Aidan O&apos;Sullivan</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Want to find out how League member Aiden O'Sullivan made over $10,000 using our price increase email template? That's right - Aidan, who is an <a href="https://aidanthewizard.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">entertainer magician by trade and also supports other entertainers</a>, implemented our Price Hike campaign and made £9,000 in just a few days.&nbsp;</p><p>Want to know how email marketing changed his business and his life?&nbsp;</p><p>If you're stuck in the hustle and the day-to-day grind and want a more predictable, automated way of getting leads and sales in your business, check this out!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:12) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook group</a>.</p><p>(4:07) When did Aidan start using email marketing in his business?</p><p>(7:28) The first change Aidan made when he joined The League.</p><p>(9:34) What gap was Aidan trying to fix with email marketing?</p><p>(12:00) The first thing Aidan implemented when he started email marketing.</p><p>(14:02) Implementing systems to support his email campaigns.</p><p>(16:14) The amazing impact of running the Price Hike campaign.</p><p>(20:20) The ONE action that had the most impact on Aidan's business.</p><p>(21:48) Aidan's future plans with email marketing.</p><p>(24:23) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>When did Aidan start using email marketing in his business?</strong></h3><p>Aidan started doing email marketing just over 18 months ago. Before that, he had an email list but had never done anything with it. In fact, at the time, Aidan thought that email marketing was spammy! Plus, being a magician and entertainer, it'd never occurred to him that he could use email as part of his marketing strategy as a tool to help him book more gigs.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>At that point, his biggest barrier to getting started with email marketing was working out what to say to his subscribers other than just asking people to book his gigs. He didn't know how to come up with interesting topics that wouldn't annoy people. He was far from thinking that people could actually <em>enjoy</em> receiving emails, so he was mainly using social media.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The first change Aidan made when he joined The League</strong></h3><p>When he first joined <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, Aidan started sending emails out to his list regularly. The switch for him was understanding how he can provide entertainment to his audience even when he doesn't have anything to sell. And that's something Aidan didn't even think was possible - being in 'entertainment mode', wasn't something he associated with email marketing. But he managed to overcome the mindset hurdle that made him believe that emails were spammy and annoyed people.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Once he joined our membership, Aidan realised that email marketing could be done in many different ways. And it's not about sending an email and hoping for the best! Now Aidan enjoys experimenting and playing with new ideas and seeing things work from different angles. </p><p><br></p><p>This is what got Aidan's attention and curiosity at first. He knew that email marketing was something he wanted to try and make work for his business - he appealed to Aidan as a project he could get involved with.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What gap was Aidan trying to fix with email marketing?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Before he started using email marketing, Aidan didn't have enough leads coming through in his business. He had people on his list who had opted in to hear from him, but no one was booking him. So at first, Aidan started exploring email marketing as a way to be more productive, rather than simply sitting back and hoping sales would come through.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>With a coaching side to his business, he wanted a way to make sales more consistently as he was relying heavily on social media and felt trapped in that rat race where he was plastering content on every platform and working over 100 hours every week just to make ends meet! </p><p><br></p><p>He was stuck in the hustle mentality and thought that was the only way to grow a new business. But that meant he nearly worked himself into the ground! And in retrospect, he now knows that mindset was ridiculous and a waste of&nbsp;his time and energy.</p><p><br></p><p>The emphasis was on working <em>harder</em> rather than <em>smarter</em> in a way that was sustainable. Instead of working so many hours, Aidan wished he'd just focused on what was working well in his business.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The first thing Aidan implemented when he started email marketing</strong></h3><p>When he started sending emails out regularly, Aidan decided to focus on building campaigns, rather than sending individual emails and hoping to make some money.</p><p><br></p><p>Campaigns allowed him to build an argument (email after email) that helped him sell the master classes and one-off products he was offering at the time. <strong>Email templates and automation have a beginning, middle, and end and all lead to the direction of selling a particular offer. </strong>So rather than focusing on individual emails, Aidan started putting his efforts into tweaking and improving his campaigns.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And the immediate effect of running more email sequences was that he started making more sales. Also, over time, his click- and open rates increased and stayed high. As an effect of implementing email campaigns, Aidan now has people paying attention to what's being offered and has been able to build a deeper relationship with his audience.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Implementing systems to support his email campaigns</strong></h3><p>The next thing Aidan did was to put the systems in place so that his email campaigns would run on autopilot. That way he wouldn't have to implement a new campaign every week, which is something Aidan did when he first joined <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. He'd launch a new campaign for a new product every week or a new campaign for the same product to try and sell it in a different way. It was exciting and fun, but it meant he kept changing things and moving away from what was working.&nbsp;So Aidan switched approaches. </p><p><br></p><p>Instead of creating more campaigns, he invested time in creating a system that would work like an asset for him - an investment that was reaping rewards. That meant he could do the things he enjoyed the most in his business without feeling guilty. As an entertainer, Aidan thrives on doing presentations and speaking to people in groups - it's about having a physical audience for him. And he can do that now because his sales are taken care of - they're automated and happen in the background.<strong> Thanks to email marketing automation, Aidan has more freedom and more revenue too!&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The amazing impact of running the Price Hike campaign&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>The Price Hike campaign, which is the email template we put together for those who want to inform their audience that prices are going up, is the most successful campaign Aidan has implemented to date. When he used the campaign to tell his subscribers that the price of his membership was going up, he made £9,000 (over $10,000). And that's just in the space of a few days! Of course, it didn't feel like hustling. Because Aidan was able to use a framework to create the emails, schedule them, and let the automation run.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>This goes to show there's value in telling your audience that you're about to increase your prices. We see a lot of business owners who put their prices up without telling anyone! But warning your audience in advance allows those who haven't yet bought to go and buy before the price increase kicks in. It gives them an incentive. And for you, it's an opportunity to make more sales.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How does Aidan feel about his email marketing now?</strong></h3><p>Now Aidan thinks that email marketing is fun and interesting – he loves it. Plus, he finds it reliable. Far from thinking that email marketing is only for people who have a huge list, now Aidan considers it the go-to activity to help him generate more leads and sales.&nbsp;He resorts to email first. And then, he'll look at what else will fit into that structure.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The ONE action that had the most impact on Aidan's business&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Aidan thinks that <strong>what’s key is to send more useful emails</strong>. You don't just want to send out an email once in a while with a long list of everything that’s happened. It’s about <strong>sending <em>more</em> emails with interesting stories and hooks. </strong>And this is what helped Aidan the most.</p><p><br></p><p>He also became more accountable – every day he sits and writes an email, and that builds up over time. In the space of 12-18 months, you’ll be able to write emails in a short amount of time. The emails are useful and practical, and people love them. And that’s been the biggest shift for Aidan.</p><p><br></p><p>Plus, this crosses over to social content too. Because being able to follow simple frameworks and structures to write good emails translates perfectly to what you post on social media. You follow the same approach, which makes posting on social media quicker and more useful to your audience.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Aidan’s future plans with email marketing</strong></h3><p>At the moment, Aidan is focusing on doing more of what works and putting the systems in place to take care of the rest, so he can focus on what he enjoys while leads and sales are happening without him being actively involved. His...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Want to find out how League member Aiden O'Sullivan made over $10,000 using our price increase email template? That's right - Aidan, who is an <a href="https://aidanthewizard.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">entertainer magician by trade and also supports other entertainers</a>, implemented our Price Hike campaign and made £9,000 in just a few days.&nbsp;</p><p>Want to know how email marketing changed his business and his life?&nbsp;</p><p>If you're stuck in the hustle and the day-to-day grind and want a more predictable, automated way of getting leads and sales in your business, check this out!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:12) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook group</a>.</p><p>(4:07) When did Aidan start using email marketing in his business?</p><p>(7:28) The first change Aidan made when he joined The League.</p><p>(9:34) What gap was Aidan trying to fix with email marketing?</p><p>(12:00) The first thing Aidan implemented when he started email marketing.</p><p>(14:02) Implementing systems to support his email campaigns.</p><p>(16:14) The amazing impact of running the Price Hike campaign.</p><p>(20:20) The ONE action that had the most impact on Aidan's business.</p><p>(21:48) Aidan's future plans with email marketing.</p><p>(24:23) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>When did Aidan start using email marketing in his business?</strong></h3><p>Aidan started doing email marketing just over 18 months ago. Before that, he had an email list but had never done anything with it. In fact, at the time, Aidan thought that email marketing was spammy! Plus, being a magician and entertainer, it'd never occurred to him that he could use email as part of his marketing strategy as a tool to help him book more gigs.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>At that point, his biggest barrier to getting started with email marketing was working out what to say to his subscribers other than just asking people to book his gigs. He didn't know how to come up with interesting topics that wouldn't annoy people. He was far from thinking that people could actually <em>enjoy</em> receiving emails, so he was mainly using social media.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The first change Aidan made when he joined The League</strong></h3><p>When he first joined <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, Aidan started sending emails out to his list regularly. The switch for him was understanding how he can provide entertainment to his audience even when he doesn't have anything to sell. And that's something Aidan didn't even think was possible - being in 'entertainment mode', wasn't something he associated with email marketing. But he managed to overcome the mindset hurdle that made him believe that emails were spammy and annoyed people.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Once he joined our membership, Aidan realised that email marketing could be done in many different ways. And it's not about sending an email and hoping for the best! Now Aidan enjoys experimenting and playing with new ideas and seeing things work from different angles. </p><p><br></p><p>This is what got Aidan's attention and curiosity at first. He knew that email marketing was something he wanted to try and make work for his business - he appealed to Aidan as a project he could get involved with.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What gap was Aidan trying to fix with email marketing?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Before he started using email marketing, Aidan didn't have enough leads coming through in his business. He had people on his list who had opted in to hear from him, but no one was booking him. So at first, Aidan started exploring email marketing as a way to be more productive, rather than simply sitting back and hoping sales would come through.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>With a coaching side to his business, he wanted a way to make sales more consistently as he was relying heavily on social media and felt trapped in that rat race where he was plastering content on every platform and working over 100 hours every week just to make ends meet! </p><p><br></p><p>He was stuck in the hustle mentality and thought that was the only way to grow a new business. But that meant he nearly worked himself into the ground! And in retrospect, he now knows that mindset was ridiculous and a waste of&nbsp;his time and energy.</p><p><br></p><p>The emphasis was on working <em>harder</em> rather than <em>smarter</em> in a way that was sustainable. Instead of working so many hours, Aidan wished he'd just focused on what was working well in his business.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The first thing Aidan implemented when he started email marketing</strong></h3><p>When he started sending emails out regularly, Aidan decided to focus on building campaigns, rather than sending individual emails and hoping to make some money.</p><p><br></p><p>Campaigns allowed him to build an argument (email after email) that helped him sell the master classes and one-off products he was offering at the time. <strong>Email templates and automation have a beginning, middle, and end and all lead to the direction of selling a particular offer. </strong>So rather than focusing on individual emails, Aidan started putting his efforts into tweaking and improving his campaigns.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And the immediate effect of running more email sequences was that he started making more sales. Also, over time, his click- and open rates increased and stayed high. As an effect of implementing email campaigns, Aidan now has people paying attention to what's being offered and has been able to build a deeper relationship with his audience.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Implementing systems to support his email campaigns</strong></h3><p>The next thing Aidan did was to put the systems in place so that his email campaigns would run on autopilot. That way he wouldn't have to implement a new campaign every week, which is something Aidan did when he first joined <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. He'd launch a new campaign for a new product every week or a new campaign for the same product to try and sell it in a different way. It was exciting and fun, but it meant he kept changing things and moving away from what was working.&nbsp;So Aidan switched approaches. </p><p><br></p><p>Instead of creating more campaigns, he invested time in creating a system that would work like an asset for him - an investment that was reaping rewards. That meant he could do the things he enjoyed the most in his business without feeling guilty. As an entertainer, Aidan thrives on doing presentations and speaking to people in groups - it's about having a physical audience for him. And he can do that now because his sales are taken care of - they're automated and happen in the background.<strong> Thanks to email marketing automation, Aidan has more freedom and more revenue too!&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The amazing impact of running the Price Hike campaign&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>The Price Hike campaign, which is the email template we put together for those who want to inform their audience that prices are going up, is the most successful campaign Aidan has implemented to date. When he used the campaign to tell his subscribers that the price of his membership was going up, he made £9,000 (over $10,000). And that's just in the space of a few days! Of course, it didn't feel like hustling. Because Aidan was able to use a framework to create the emails, schedule them, and let the automation run.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>This goes to show there's value in telling your audience that you're about to increase your prices. We see a lot of business owners who put their prices up without telling anyone! But warning your audience in advance allows those who haven't yet bought to go and buy before the price increase kicks in. It gives them an incentive. And for you, it's an opportunity to make more sales.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How does Aidan feel about his email marketing now?</strong></h3><p>Now Aidan thinks that email marketing is fun and interesting – he loves it. Plus, he finds it reliable. Far from thinking that email marketing is only for people who have a huge list, now Aidan considers it the go-to activity to help him generate more leads and sales.&nbsp;He resorts to email first. And then, he'll look at what else will fit into that structure.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The ONE action that had the most impact on Aidan's business&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Aidan thinks that <strong>what’s key is to send more useful emails</strong>. You don't just want to send out an email once in a while with a long list of everything that’s happened. It’s about <strong>sending <em>more</em> emails with interesting stories and hooks. </strong>And this is what helped Aidan the most.</p><p><br></p><p>He also became more accountable – every day he sits and writes an email, and that builds up over time. In the space of 12-18 months, you’ll be able to write emails in a short amount of time. The emails are useful and practical, and people love them. And that’s been the biggest shift for Aidan.</p><p><br></p><p>Plus, this crosses over to social content too. Because being able to follow simple frameworks and structures to write good emails translates perfectly to what you post on social media. You follow the same approach, which makes posting on social media quicker and more useful to your audience.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Aidan’s future plans with email marketing</strong></h3><p>At the moment, Aidan is focusing on doing more of what works and putting the systems in place to take care of the rest, so he can focus on what he enjoys while leads and sales are happening without him being actively involved. His main objective is to do as much as possible to avoid ever going anywhere near massive volumes of working hours.</p><p><br></p><p>While he’s not sure exactly where he’s headed with email marketing, for Aidan it’s definitely about building systems and being able to rely on the automated element to take care of what’s most time-consuming.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Want to join The League?</strong></h3><p>If you want to know more about the campaign Aidan used to make £9,000 (over $10,000) in a few days, check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. We have more than <strong>30 email sequences that are psychologically stacked to move people to understand, want, and buy your products and services.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject line is “What was she TALKING about?” followed by the mind-blown emoji. The email was telling an interesting story about Kennedy, who got into a conversation with a waitress on his way to London, and she was convinced something had happened, but it hadn't.</p><p><br></p><p>This subject line worked because it triggers lots of curiosity. People want to know who the person is and what she was talking about. So there are lots of questions being asked. Try it out!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/sheilfg-email-marketing-case-study/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How Sheila Went from the Starting Blocks to Total Clarity – an Email Marketing Case Study</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/increased-sales-with-email-marketing-cody-burch/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How Cody Burch Increased Sales by Exactly 1,000% in 1 Month with Just 10 Emails</a>.</p><p>And&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/dan-greef-sending-simple-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How Dan Greef Made £9k in just 1 Day, Sending Simple Emails</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how our member Aidan made over $10,000 by using our price increase email template) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/price-increase-email-template-case-study/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">6cfee56d-983e-49ce-a7bf-915e690aba7a</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/07b2700a-4526-4214-839f-7c3bdaed4647/ifVdodgJWpNfRk3wrKOr9NEk.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2022 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/6dbccbe2-f750-4986-bca7-f3c8dc525f49/Launched-20ONE-20campaign-20And-20Made-20-10-000-converted.mp3" length="21763295" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>25:54</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>162</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>162</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Lies You&apos;ve Been Told That Are Stopping You From Making Money In Your Business</title><itunes:title>Lies You&apos;ve Been Told That Are Stopping You From Making Money In Your Business</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>How do you run a business with profit? Because let's face it - a business is there to make you money. And yet, there's so much 'advice' out there that we think is probably holding you back from making a profit.&nbsp;</p><p>Basically, you've been lied to. </p><p>And we're here to expose these lies and tell you exactly what's stopping you from making money in your business.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to have your mind blown?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:14) Check out our <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blackfriday" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Black Friday sale here</a> (offer valid between Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2022).</p><p>(3:53) Lie 1: The job of your business is to make SALES.</p><p>(7:21) Lie 2: You need to stop being salesy.</p><p>(11:36) Why you should sell hard.</p><p>(14:25) Lie 3: Bro marketing is the way forward.</p><p>(16:47) Why deadlines, bonuses, and novelty work.</p><p>(18:33) Lie 4: It's too salesy!</p><p>(20:50) Measure your EPSPM.</p><p>(22:50) Lie 5: People leaving your list is a bad, bad thing!</p><p>(25:51) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Check out our Black Friday deal!</strong></h3><p>If you're reading this between Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2022, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blackfriday" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">go and check out our amazing Black Friday deal</a>! </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Lie 1: The job of your business is to make SALES</strong></h3><p>We know a lot of people who start their online businesses based on a hobby or passion they have. The intention is maybe to be able to work less and spend more time with family or retire early. But what a lot of people don't anticipate is that once you start the business, you actually have to <em>run</em> it.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>That means ensuring your business makes a profit, which is the<em> one and only</em> job your business has. And the only way you can make a profit is by offering products or services to your marketplace of higher value than what they’ll pay. In other words, you have to offer something <em>really</em> valuable.</p><p><br></p><p>Because your business needs to make a profit <em>sustainably</em>. And to do that, you need customers who love buying from you. They know that every time they spend money with you, they’re going to feel good and have a great outcome. And if at any point that stops happening, they’ll stop buying. So your job is to <strong>treat your customers well and give them value</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>But the key thing to remember here is that<strong> the job of a business is <em>not </em>to make sales – it’s to make a <em>profit</em></strong>, which means you have to sell things for more than they cost.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Lie 2: You need to stop being salesy</strong></h3><p>We see this piece of advice all the time – stop being salesy! But if you’re not selling, what are you doing? Because <strong>everything you share </strong>(your content, your emails, etc.) <strong>needs to always be moving people towards buying.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Of course, you don't want to send the same emails over and over asking people to buy your stuff. But what you do say in your emails needs to move your audience towards the product you're selling. Otherwise, it means your emails are just a distraction - a shiny object that’s distracting people from buying from you. And if you’re a business (and not a hobby) you need to sell.</p><p><br></p><p>Take us, for example. We truly believe that what we offer inside our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> works. If you stopped doing anything else and only used what we teach you, we're confident you’d make more sales more predictably and generate more income. That’s the reason we sell – because we believe that our product makes a difference.</p><p><br></p><p>And this is important. Because<strong> you definitely shouldn’t do any selling or marketing until you’re confident that what you’re selling is good. </strong>But once you know that your product or service solves a problem and is more valuable than the price you're asking people to pay, then sell and market as aggressively as possible.&nbsp;If you believe you have the answer to someone’s problem, then sell!</p><p><br></p><p>We know that people who buy from us value our products more than those who download our free lead magnets, for example. Because when people pay for a product, they hold it in higher regard and think it’s going to be better and of higher quality.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Why you should sell hard</strong></h4><p>We believe that often the unwillingness to sell comes from the fear that your product isn’t that good - it's a lack of confidence in what you’re doing. If implementing our campaigns can earn you as much as $50,000 in sales in three months (this happened to real people inside our membership!), and you only spend a few hundred dollars to have access to our resources, then it's a no-brainer.&nbsp;We know that you’re better off being a <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">League</a> member than not, and that’s why we sell as hard as we do. Because if didn’t, people wouldn’t take a chance on us.</p><p><br></p><p>And it's the same for you. If you put your heart and soul into something and know it's the best it can possibly be (that it'll help people in their journey) then you have to show up and use every ounce of&nbsp;enthusiasm to passionately tell people about it. Because if anyone's telling you to stop being salesy, they're stopping you from growing your business. <strong>Selling is the thing your audience is trusting you to do because a business without a profit won't be around to help people for long.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Lie 3: <em>Bro marketing</em> is the way forward</strong></h3><p>Have you ever seen business owners sharing photos of themselves in front of their Lamborghini or private jet? That's known as 'bro marketing', and you'll never see us do any of that.</p><p><br></p><p>But we do use screenshots of our students making thousands of dollars from implementing our campaigns. And we do that because we don’t think it’s grubby, filthy, or weird, but because it works! <strong>We use the genuine psychology of what excites people and causes them to make decisions</strong>. And as long as your product does what it says on the tin, and you’re selling to the right people, then you’re good.</p><p><br></p><p>We don’t want to use this hype marketing to sell to the wrong people - people who, for whatever reason, shouldn't buy from us. That would be a waste of their time and money, and wouldn't work in our favour. We just want to<strong> sell the right products to the right people</strong>. So instead of using these <em>bro marketing</em> tactics, you want to tap into the psychology of what genuinely helps people make decisions. Because if people don't buy, you end up with no business.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Why deadlines, bonuses, and novelty work</strong></h4><p>We know that telling people there’s a deadline on an offer (just like our <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blackfriday" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Black Friday offer</a>) works because it means you have to buy before that day. Adding bonuses also works because psychologically speaking, we all want to get a bit more for the same amount of money. </p><p><br></p><p>Plus, different people respond to different hooks - some more direct and others more subtle. <strong>What grabs people's attention and imagination can vary.</strong> So we always test different hooks to see what makes our prospective customers pay attention.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>People also respond well to novelty, so always think about unique angles and different strategies (such as bonuses, deadlines, or different hooks) to share your offers. Because these are the strategies that get people to your side, especially with email. We use subject lines that some people might be uncomfortable with, for example, but they do get attention and amuse the right people – they reel the right people in. And anyone who doesn’t like those subject lines is wrong for us.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Lie 4: It's too salesy!&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>We’ve had examples of people joining our membership and trying to run a particular campaign but telling us it feels too salesy for them. And yet, when we look at what made those people buy from us in the first place, it tends to be either that exact campaign or something very similar to it!</p><p><br></p><p>This is to say that we use the same campaign we teach our clients. And sometimes when our members look at them in the context of their own business, they can feel a bit uncomfortable implementing them at first. But they work!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Also, people love our products. We very quickly turn subscribers into not just customers but<em> fans</em> – people who love the way we do email marketing and want to learn it from us. And the reason for that is that if you do all of this in the way we teach, you'll soon realise that none of it is hyping, pushy, or over the top. There's no need for bro marketing here!</p><p><br></p><p>Yes, some people will always be offended by what you do, but that's going to happen regardless. So <strong>make the offer you’re going to make.</strong> If you run a discount that ends on a specific date, for example, people will buy because they’re excited about your product. And they will want to buy it <em>right now</em> before it disappears. So <strong>if you’re not embarrassed by what you sell and the price you sell it at, just sell it!&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Measure your EPSPM</strong></h4><p>Let's say as an example that it costs you $10 to get someone on your list, but they don’t spend...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How do you run a business with profit? Because let's face it - a business is there to make you money. And yet, there's so much 'advice' out there that we think is probably holding you back from making a profit.&nbsp;</p><p>Basically, you've been lied to. </p><p>And we're here to expose these lies and tell you exactly what's stopping you from making money in your business.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to have your mind blown?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:14) Check out our <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blackfriday" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Black Friday sale here</a> (offer valid between Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2022).</p><p>(3:53) Lie 1: The job of your business is to make SALES.</p><p>(7:21) Lie 2: You need to stop being salesy.</p><p>(11:36) Why you should sell hard.</p><p>(14:25) Lie 3: Bro marketing is the way forward.</p><p>(16:47) Why deadlines, bonuses, and novelty work.</p><p>(18:33) Lie 4: It's too salesy!</p><p>(20:50) Measure your EPSPM.</p><p>(22:50) Lie 5: People leaving your list is a bad, bad thing!</p><p>(25:51) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Check out our Black Friday deal!</strong></h3><p>If you're reading this between Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2022, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blackfriday" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">go and check out our amazing Black Friday deal</a>! </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Lie 1: The job of your business is to make SALES</strong></h3><p>We know a lot of people who start their online businesses based on a hobby or passion they have. The intention is maybe to be able to work less and spend more time with family or retire early. But what a lot of people don't anticipate is that once you start the business, you actually have to <em>run</em> it.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>That means ensuring your business makes a profit, which is the<em> one and only</em> job your business has. And the only way you can make a profit is by offering products or services to your marketplace of higher value than what they’ll pay. In other words, you have to offer something <em>really</em> valuable.</p><p><br></p><p>Because your business needs to make a profit <em>sustainably</em>. And to do that, you need customers who love buying from you. They know that every time they spend money with you, they’re going to feel good and have a great outcome. And if at any point that stops happening, they’ll stop buying. So your job is to <strong>treat your customers well and give them value</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>But the key thing to remember here is that<strong> the job of a business is <em>not </em>to make sales – it’s to make a <em>profit</em></strong>, which means you have to sell things for more than they cost.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Lie 2: You need to stop being salesy</strong></h3><p>We see this piece of advice all the time – stop being salesy! But if you’re not selling, what are you doing? Because <strong>everything you share </strong>(your content, your emails, etc.) <strong>needs to always be moving people towards buying.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Of course, you don't want to send the same emails over and over asking people to buy your stuff. But what you do say in your emails needs to move your audience towards the product you're selling. Otherwise, it means your emails are just a distraction - a shiny object that’s distracting people from buying from you. And if you’re a business (and not a hobby) you need to sell.</p><p><br></p><p>Take us, for example. We truly believe that what we offer inside our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> works. If you stopped doing anything else and only used what we teach you, we're confident you’d make more sales more predictably and generate more income. That’s the reason we sell – because we believe that our product makes a difference.</p><p><br></p><p>And this is important. Because<strong> you definitely shouldn’t do any selling or marketing until you’re confident that what you’re selling is good. </strong>But once you know that your product or service solves a problem and is more valuable than the price you're asking people to pay, then sell and market as aggressively as possible.&nbsp;If you believe you have the answer to someone’s problem, then sell!</p><p><br></p><p>We know that people who buy from us value our products more than those who download our free lead magnets, for example. Because when people pay for a product, they hold it in higher regard and think it’s going to be better and of higher quality.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Why you should sell hard</strong></h4><p>We believe that often the unwillingness to sell comes from the fear that your product isn’t that good - it's a lack of confidence in what you’re doing. If implementing our campaigns can earn you as much as $50,000 in sales in three months (this happened to real people inside our membership!), and you only spend a few hundred dollars to have access to our resources, then it's a no-brainer.&nbsp;We know that you’re better off being a <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">League</a> member than not, and that’s why we sell as hard as we do. Because if didn’t, people wouldn’t take a chance on us.</p><p><br></p><p>And it's the same for you. If you put your heart and soul into something and know it's the best it can possibly be (that it'll help people in their journey) then you have to show up and use every ounce of&nbsp;enthusiasm to passionately tell people about it. Because if anyone's telling you to stop being salesy, they're stopping you from growing your business. <strong>Selling is the thing your audience is trusting you to do because a business without a profit won't be around to help people for long.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Lie 3: <em>Bro marketing</em> is the way forward</strong></h3><p>Have you ever seen business owners sharing photos of themselves in front of their Lamborghini or private jet? That's known as 'bro marketing', and you'll never see us do any of that.</p><p><br></p><p>But we do use screenshots of our students making thousands of dollars from implementing our campaigns. And we do that because we don’t think it’s grubby, filthy, or weird, but because it works! <strong>We use the genuine psychology of what excites people and causes them to make decisions</strong>. And as long as your product does what it says on the tin, and you’re selling to the right people, then you’re good.</p><p><br></p><p>We don’t want to use this hype marketing to sell to the wrong people - people who, for whatever reason, shouldn't buy from us. That would be a waste of their time and money, and wouldn't work in our favour. We just want to<strong> sell the right products to the right people</strong>. So instead of using these <em>bro marketing</em> tactics, you want to tap into the psychology of what genuinely helps people make decisions. Because if people don't buy, you end up with no business.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Why deadlines, bonuses, and novelty work</strong></h4><p>We know that telling people there’s a deadline on an offer (just like our <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blackfriday" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Black Friday offer</a>) works because it means you have to buy before that day. Adding bonuses also works because psychologically speaking, we all want to get a bit more for the same amount of money. </p><p><br></p><p>Plus, different people respond to different hooks - some more direct and others more subtle. <strong>What grabs people's attention and imagination can vary.</strong> So we always test different hooks to see what makes our prospective customers pay attention.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>People also respond well to novelty, so always think about unique angles and different strategies (such as bonuses, deadlines, or different hooks) to share your offers. Because these are the strategies that get people to your side, especially with email. We use subject lines that some people might be uncomfortable with, for example, but they do get attention and amuse the right people – they reel the right people in. And anyone who doesn’t like those subject lines is wrong for us.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Lie 4: It's too salesy!&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>We’ve had examples of people joining our membership and trying to run a particular campaign but telling us it feels too salesy for them. And yet, when we look at what made those people buy from us in the first place, it tends to be either that exact campaign or something very similar to it!</p><p><br></p><p>This is to say that we use the same campaign we teach our clients. And sometimes when our members look at them in the context of their own business, they can feel a bit uncomfortable implementing them at first. But they work!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Also, people love our products. We very quickly turn subscribers into not just customers but<em> fans</em> – people who love the way we do email marketing and want to learn it from us. And the reason for that is that if you do all of this in the way we teach, you'll soon realise that none of it is hyping, pushy, or over the top. There's no need for bro marketing here!</p><p><br></p><p>Yes, some people will always be offended by what you do, but that's going to happen regardless. So <strong>make the offer you’re going to make.</strong> If you run a discount that ends on a specific date, for example, people will buy because they’re excited about your product. And they will want to buy it <em>right now</em> before it disappears. So <strong>if you’re not embarrassed by what you sell and the price you sell it at, just sell it!&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Measure your EPSPM</strong></h4><p>Let's say as an example that it costs you $10 to get someone on your list, but they don’t spend $10 in the first 30 days of being in your world. That means you're down $10. Multiply that by the number of subscribers that join your list every day or every week, and you’re not going to be around for long unless you sell! In order for your business to make a profit, <strong>you need to get your money back quickly by providing something of high value so you can continue serving more people.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>You can tell we’re proud and passionate about showing up every day and telling everyone about <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> and encouraging people to join because we know the types of results our members get when they use our teachings. That’s why we can proudly say this and know it’s true.</p><p><br></p><p>We also measure our business, our success, and our growth based on something we call <strong>Earning Per Subscriber Per Month (or EPSPM), </strong>which <strong>is a metric that measures how much money you make for every subscriber on your list.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>And when we use marketing strategies such as countdown timers, discounts, and bonuses (stuff that others might consider to be pushy or too salesy), we make more money per subscriber per month! That translates into more profit for us and means we can help more of our subscribers.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Lie 5: People leaving your email list is a bad, bad thing!</strong></h3><p><strong>If what we sell isn’t right for your subscribers, they shouldn’t be buying from you in the first place.</strong> In fact, we don't want to be selling to people who aren't right for us. If people are offended by what you do, that's fine - they can leave. That works for you because it cleans up your list, and the people who stay are the ones who are right for you. If they stay and don't buy, you're still losing!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Of course, you want to have a good relationship with your subscribers and do the best job you can. But let's remember you're sending emails at scale. You can’t be emailing your subscribers one by one, and when you send emails to everyone, the system is always going to be slightly imperfect. It might not be right for every single person, and some might leave. But the money you make from those who stay and become customers and fans should outweigh the problem of those leaving.</p><p><br></p><p>In other words, remember to <strong>measure your business by the metrics of a business. </strong>This isn't your friends and family! If you're enjoying the work you're doing and making a profit, don't listen to the advice that might be holding you back.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject line is “CRUSHED”. You will have probably heard people say that if you send a subject line all in upper case, the email will go directly to spam. And yet, this subject line got us an enormous spike in click-through rates. This goes to show that, as we always say, if you do everything else right, you can break some of the so-called ‘rules’ that are meant to wake up the spam triggers. And you won't have any problems!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>This email had to do with crushed ice by the way, but the word itself is quite emotive, and we think that's why it worked. So try it out!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/flagship-product-order-your-offers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Little-Known Right Order to Make Your Offers (For Maximum Sales)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/marketing-ethical-dilemmas-deadlines/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Do Deadlines Well and Ethically</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/unsubscribe-rate/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why You Shouldn’t Worry About Your Unsubscribe Rate</a></p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. 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If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! 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We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/lies-stopping-you-from-business-with-profit/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">62425cc0-0eb0-4e2e-b28e-255ad861625c</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/daaabbb2-c048-4923-bb52-8c31f998fd8f/rEeLlCZL-uYTxaotwGyHMG-Z.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2022 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/9aef1cb3-e0c7-4f1a-b327-5941cbfb22f0/Lies-20That-20Stop-20You-20From-20Making-20Money-converted.mp3" length="26074823" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>27:10</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>161</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>161</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Tricks To Grow Your Email List With Pinterest - With Meagan Williamson</title><itunes:title>Tricks To Grow Your Email List With Pinterest - With Meagan Williamson</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Can small business owners become awesome Pinterest marketers? Can you use Pinterest to bring more people into your world to increase the efficacy of your email marketing? And can you grow your email list through Pinterest? </p><p>Meagan Williamson spills the beans about how to leverage Pinterest as a marketing platform and shares some super simple and quick tricks on how to grow your email list through Pinterest.</p><p>Spoiler alert: Pinterest is probably not what you think and YOU can use it too!&nbsp;</p><p>Check this out!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:14) Join our FREE Facebook group.</p><p>(4:10) Is it Meagan Williamson or Megan Williams?</p><p>(6:58) What is Pinterest and what do people use it for?</p><p>(10:58) Growing an audience throught Pinterest.</p><p>(14:35) Understanding the different media types on Pinterest.</p><p>(18:05) How much content should you share on Pinterest?</p><p>(20:46) Providing value on Pinterest.</p><p>(24:48) Building your email list with Pinterest.</p><p>(28:49) Finding the right balance between different pieces of content.</p><p>(33:39) Subject line of the week with Meagan Williamson.</p><h3><strong>What is Pinterest and what do people use it for?</strong></h3><p>As Meagan explained, <strong>Pinterest is a visual search engine.</strong> It's a place for people to curate inspiration, and education, and store their ideas virtually. You can curate videos, images, links to projects, and even plan your next business move – anything you’re researching has a place on Pinterest.&nbsp;</p><p>Business owners often struggle to figure this platform out because they’re not sure how to use it. If you want to leverage it as a marketing platform, think of it as a search engine. </p><p><br></p><p>Just like when using other search engines, some people head to Pinterest with the intention to plan a purchase. They're not there to catch up with friends and see what they’re up to - they're looking for visual inspiration or to find How To tutorials. So it's perfect for any business - both B2B and B2C.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Growing an audience through Pinterest</strong></h3><p>While it's true that people head to Pinterest to buy, Pinterest is not a conversion tool. <strong>It's a platform that can help you grow an audience.</strong> And you can leverage the platform in many different ways - not just through your blog (in fact, it's perfectly okay if you don't have a blog!)</p><p><br></p><p>Meagan tells us that the secret is to <strong>layer Pinterest into the marketing you are already doing and to repurpose your existing content with Pinterest in mind.</strong> So if you're already podcasting or using Instagram for your marketing, for example, you can take any juicy bits and create something for your Pinterest audience to engage them and bring brand awareness to your business. In other words, it's about <strong>repurposing<em> with purpose</em> and specifically for the platform</strong>. That means taking the extra time to tweak existing content so it works for Pinterest. </p><p><br></p><p>This will play to your advantage because Pinterest has seen exponential growth over the last few years. It's different from the other social media platforms – it’s not as noisy, and it’s a much more inclusive and diverse place. They're intentional about growth, which is why so many creators and small business owners who feel frustrated with their growth on other platforms are heading to Pinterest. </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Understanding the different media types on Pinterest&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>People tend to view Pinterest as their planner. This means they might be browsing and saving content for months before they're ready to make a decision and buy. For you as a business owner and content creator, it means you have to remain mindful of that customer journey and take it into account when uploading your content assets to Pinterest.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Just like other social platforms, Pinterest has different content formats. The most common is the <em>standard pin</em>, which is an image you can add a destination link to, such as a landing page, your website, or a third-party link. A pin can also link to products or product collections.</p><p><br></p><p>Right now, you can also add links to&nbsp;<em>video pins</em>, even though this format will eventually be removed from Pinterest in favour of something called <em>idea pins</em>. Idea pins are a type of multi-page format content aimed at educating. They're Pinterest’s answer to the move towards engaging video. To create an idea pin, you can use a mixture of images, videos, or short clips to teach somebody something or give them high value.</p><p><br></p><p>The great difference between Pinterest and other platforms is that <strong>it <em>encourages</em> you to include destination links.</strong> Because it works more like a search engine. And those links will bring you traffic and help you grow your audience for months and years in the future, unlike an Instagram Story, for example, which is here today and gone tomorrow.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How much content should you share on Pinterest?</strong></h3><p>There's no perfect or magic number of pins you have to create on a daily basis. What pays off, Meagan shared, is consistency. The Pinterest algorithm figures out what’s consistent for you and your unique account over time. <strong>Pinterest grows exponentially when you show up consistently and add high-value content.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>So however much you decide to post, <strong>aim to be consistent and optimise content for the platform.</strong> In order to do that, Meagan suggests you do some research about the sizing of pins (it’s a little different from other platforms) and figure out what you can realistically and consistently put into your ecosystem.</p><p><br></p><p>In other words, look at the content assets you already have (video, podcast, blog, email marketing, etc) and work out whether you have any pieces of content that you can repurpose into a pin for Pinterest. The more you show up and add existing content you've repurposed (as well as brand new content),&nbsp;the more interest you’re going to get.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Providing value on Pinterest</strong></h3><p>The way Pinterest measures whether your content is of high value is through <em>saves</em> or <em>re-pins</em>. This metric shows that your content is resonating with your audience and is valuable enough for them to save to their own account. Impressions, reactions, and comments aren’t as valuable on Pinterest – <strong>what matters the most is that people are saving your content.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>So when you’re creating content, think about something that would be highly save-worthy – things that people might want to refer to later. Think of the kind of content (like infographics, for example) that you tend to save because you want to take action on it at a later point and when you're ready. Aim to create and post content that will be referred to again and again.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>The action of saving a pin to your own account, Meagan explained, also sends a signal to understand the quality of your website and to what you're sending traffic to. The technology visually scans your image to understand to who Pinterest should show your content. It also looks at the copy associated with that pin. So don't miss out on optimising your pin title and description.</p><p><br></p><p>Meagan also advises having boards on your Pinterest account. If you pin content to a board called “How to start email marketing”, for example, Pinterest will know to show that pin to people who are interested in email marketing or email newsletters.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Building your email list with Pinterest</strong></h3><p>Pinterest is ideal for moving people onto your email list. Meagan suggests you do this in a way that doesn’t annoy the user. So always aim to adjust your content in order for it to make sense for the platform you're posting on.</p><p><br></p><p>The first thing you want to do is to <strong>give enough information so you’re closing the loop on Pinterest. </strong>That means that if you create a pin that tells people you're teaching them 3 ways to do something, for example, you're giving them what you promised. Don't say you're going to teach 100 ways and then only teach 3!</p><p><br></p><p>What you <em>can</em> do after you share your 3 ways, for example, is to let your audience know they can get more information by accessing your blog, your podcast, or downloading your lead magnet. But always close the loop – give people enough information to stop them in their tracks.</p><p><br></p><p>If you want your Pinterest audience to join your email list by downloading your lead magnet, give them something of high value and explain why they should go and get it. <strong>Use strong calls to action</strong> and tell them that in order to get more value they need to take the next step. Make it a no-brainer – give people value and a clear reason as to why they want to download your lead magnet. Also, let's remember that Pinterest is a visual platform, so give people a taste of what they’re going to get, like a mock-up of what you're offering.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>The landing page for your lead magnet&nbsp;</strong></h4><p>When it comes to the landing page for your lead magnet, other platforms (such as Facebook or Instagram) have conditioned us into thinking that email opt-in pages need to be short and sweet. And that's true if your audience comes from a platform where they already know who you are. There's authority and familiarity there, so people are more willing to give you their email addresses.</p><p><br></p><p>But Pinterest is different. Chances are that users have never heard of you before, so you have to <strong>create a landing page that will convert your audience.</strong> Tell people what they’re going to learn...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Can small business owners become awesome Pinterest marketers? Can you use Pinterest to bring more people into your world to increase the efficacy of your email marketing? And can you grow your email list through Pinterest? </p><p>Meagan Williamson spills the beans about how to leverage Pinterest as a marketing platform and shares some super simple and quick tricks on how to grow your email list through Pinterest.</p><p>Spoiler alert: Pinterest is probably not what you think and YOU can use it too!&nbsp;</p><p>Check this out!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:14) Join our FREE Facebook group.</p><p>(4:10) Is it Meagan Williamson or Megan Williams?</p><p>(6:58) What is Pinterest and what do people use it for?</p><p>(10:58) Growing an audience throught Pinterest.</p><p>(14:35) Understanding the different media types on Pinterest.</p><p>(18:05) How much content should you share on Pinterest?</p><p>(20:46) Providing value on Pinterest.</p><p>(24:48) Building your email list with Pinterest.</p><p>(28:49) Finding the right balance between different pieces of content.</p><p>(33:39) Subject line of the week with Meagan Williamson.</p><h3><strong>What is Pinterest and what do people use it for?</strong></h3><p>As Meagan explained, <strong>Pinterest is a visual search engine.</strong> It's a place for people to curate inspiration, and education, and store their ideas virtually. You can curate videos, images, links to projects, and even plan your next business move – anything you’re researching has a place on Pinterest.&nbsp;</p><p>Business owners often struggle to figure this platform out because they’re not sure how to use it. If you want to leverage it as a marketing platform, think of it as a search engine. </p><p><br></p><p>Just like when using other search engines, some people head to Pinterest with the intention to plan a purchase. They're not there to catch up with friends and see what they’re up to - they're looking for visual inspiration or to find How To tutorials. So it's perfect for any business - both B2B and B2C.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Growing an audience through Pinterest</strong></h3><p>While it's true that people head to Pinterest to buy, Pinterest is not a conversion tool. <strong>It's a platform that can help you grow an audience.</strong> And you can leverage the platform in many different ways - not just through your blog (in fact, it's perfectly okay if you don't have a blog!)</p><p><br></p><p>Meagan tells us that the secret is to <strong>layer Pinterest into the marketing you are already doing and to repurpose your existing content with Pinterest in mind.</strong> So if you're already podcasting or using Instagram for your marketing, for example, you can take any juicy bits and create something for your Pinterest audience to engage them and bring brand awareness to your business. In other words, it's about <strong>repurposing<em> with purpose</em> and specifically for the platform</strong>. That means taking the extra time to tweak existing content so it works for Pinterest. </p><p><br></p><p>This will play to your advantage because Pinterest has seen exponential growth over the last few years. It's different from the other social media platforms – it’s not as noisy, and it’s a much more inclusive and diverse place. They're intentional about growth, which is why so many creators and small business owners who feel frustrated with their growth on other platforms are heading to Pinterest. </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Understanding the different media types on Pinterest&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>People tend to view Pinterest as their planner. This means they might be browsing and saving content for months before they're ready to make a decision and buy. For you as a business owner and content creator, it means you have to remain mindful of that customer journey and take it into account when uploading your content assets to Pinterest.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Just like other social platforms, Pinterest has different content formats. The most common is the <em>standard pin</em>, which is an image you can add a destination link to, such as a landing page, your website, or a third-party link. A pin can also link to products or product collections.</p><p><br></p><p>Right now, you can also add links to&nbsp;<em>video pins</em>, even though this format will eventually be removed from Pinterest in favour of something called <em>idea pins</em>. Idea pins are a type of multi-page format content aimed at educating. They're Pinterest’s answer to the move towards engaging video. To create an idea pin, you can use a mixture of images, videos, or short clips to teach somebody something or give them high value.</p><p><br></p><p>The great difference between Pinterest and other platforms is that <strong>it <em>encourages</em> you to include destination links.</strong> Because it works more like a search engine. And those links will bring you traffic and help you grow your audience for months and years in the future, unlike an Instagram Story, for example, which is here today and gone tomorrow.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How much content should you share on Pinterest?</strong></h3><p>There's no perfect or magic number of pins you have to create on a daily basis. What pays off, Meagan shared, is consistency. The Pinterest algorithm figures out what’s consistent for you and your unique account over time. <strong>Pinterest grows exponentially when you show up consistently and add high-value content.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>So however much you decide to post, <strong>aim to be consistent and optimise content for the platform.</strong> In order to do that, Meagan suggests you do some research about the sizing of pins (it’s a little different from other platforms) and figure out what you can realistically and consistently put into your ecosystem.</p><p><br></p><p>In other words, look at the content assets you already have (video, podcast, blog, email marketing, etc) and work out whether you have any pieces of content that you can repurpose into a pin for Pinterest. The more you show up and add existing content you've repurposed (as well as brand new content),&nbsp;the more interest you’re going to get.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Providing value on Pinterest</strong></h3><p>The way Pinterest measures whether your content is of high value is through <em>saves</em> or <em>re-pins</em>. This metric shows that your content is resonating with your audience and is valuable enough for them to save to their own account. Impressions, reactions, and comments aren’t as valuable on Pinterest – <strong>what matters the most is that people are saving your content.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>So when you’re creating content, think about something that would be highly save-worthy – things that people might want to refer to later. Think of the kind of content (like infographics, for example) that you tend to save because you want to take action on it at a later point and when you're ready. Aim to create and post content that will be referred to again and again.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>The action of saving a pin to your own account, Meagan explained, also sends a signal to understand the quality of your website and to what you're sending traffic to. The technology visually scans your image to understand to who Pinterest should show your content. It also looks at the copy associated with that pin. So don't miss out on optimising your pin title and description.</p><p><br></p><p>Meagan also advises having boards on your Pinterest account. If you pin content to a board called “How to start email marketing”, for example, Pinterest will know to show that pin to people who are interested in email marketing or email newsletters.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Building your email list with Pinterest</strong></h3><p>Pinterest is ideal for moving people onto your email list. Meagan suggests you do this in a way that doesn’t annoy the user. So always aim to adjust your content in order for it to make sense for the platform you're posting on.</p><p><br></p><p>The first thing you want to do is to <strong>give enough information so you’re closing the loop on Pinterest. </strong>That means that if you create a pin that tells people you're teaching them 3 ways to do something, for example, you're giving them what you promised. Don't say you're going to teach 100 ways and then only teach 3!</p><p><br></p><p>What you <em>can</em> do after you share your 3 ways, for example, is to let your audience know they can get more information by accessing your blog, your podcast, or downloading your lead magnet. But always close the loop – give people enough information to stop them in their tracks.</p><p><br></p><p>If you want your Pinterest audience to join your email list by downloading your lead magnet, give them something of high value and explain why they should go and get it. <strong>Use strong calls to action</strong> and tell them that in order to get more value they need to take the next step. Make it a no-brainer – give people value and a clear reason as to why they want to download your lead magnet. Also, let's remember that Pinterest is a visual platform, so give people a taste of what they’re going to get, like a mock-up of what you're offering.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>The landing page for your lead magnet&nbsp;</strong></h4><p>When it comes to the landing page for your lead magnet, other platforms (such as Facebook or Instagram) have conditioned us into thinking that email opt-in pages need to be short and sweet. And that's true if your audience comes from a platform where they already know who you are. There's authority and familiarity there, so people are more willing to give you their email addresses.</p><p><br></p><p>But Pinterest is different. Chances are that users have never heard of you before, so you have to <strong>create a landing page that will convert your audience.</strong> Tell people what they’re going to learn from your lead magnet, who you are, and why you are the person to teach them what you teach.</p><p><br></p><p>Give them multiple opportunities (above the fold, middle, and below - on the page) to sign up. In other words, Meagan shared, you want to create a landing page that has some meat on it. Give people more information before they make the decision to give you their email address - this helps them overcome objections and reassures them.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Finding the right balance between different pieces of content</strong></h3><p>Depending on how many vehicles for content marketing you have, you want to share a balance of content on Pinterest that helps you create visibility and grow your audience (i.e. offer free value) and mix it up with requests to download your lead magnet, for example.</p><p><br></p><p>Your first priority should be to repurpose existing content (such as Instagram reels or TikToks) into high-value content that's optimised for Pinterest. Think about being strategic and sharing content that links out. That way, you can encourage people who want to learn more or take the next step, to sign up for your lead magnet.</p><p><br></p><p>When creating videos or images that lead to a pre-existing destination URL (like your opt-in page), <strong>always focus on what the customer experience looks like.</strong> Are you taking an interesting angle with your pins and offering something new? Does your content look varied and different? If you're adding 10 pins a day, and one of them links to your lead magnet, you can easily get away with that. But if you’re posting a lot less, you want to take into account the visual representation from the user's point of view. Because the last thing you want to do is to use the same pin over and over again.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week with Meagan Williamson</strong></h3><p>Meagan’s subject line is from an email she sent recently, and it’s “My two secrets that I’ve learned working with Pinterest.” This works well because it positions Meagan’s authority – she works as a private contractor with Pinterest, so this subject line lets her list know that she has authority. Because if Pinterest trusts her to teach Pinterest marketing, then you should too!</p><p><br></p><p>Plus, everyone loves a secret, right? Meagan knows that a lot of people subscribe to her email list because she shares best practices that have been taught by Pinterest directly and have been tested on hundreds of accounts. So this subject line was based on the fact that Meagan can share these 'secrets' because she has a direct line at Pinterest and can ask them questions about any changes, trends, or specific situations. And her audience loves that!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Meagan</strong></h5><p>You can connect with Meagan on <a href="https://meaganwilliamson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">her website</a>, where you can also find her FREE lead magnet that teaches you how to optimise your images and your videos for Pinterest. You can also find Meagan on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/meaganawilliamson/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a> and <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@meaganawilliamson" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TikTok</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/viral-list-growth-derek-videll/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Viral List Growth Using Giveaways With Derek Videll</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/grow-your-email-list-using-facebook-pages/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Grow Your Email List Using Facebook Pages (Without Ads) – Rachel Miller Moolah Style!</a></p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/examples-of-advertorials-rachel-mazza/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Examples of Advertorials to Grow your Email List with Rachel Mazza</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how we can all become awesome Pinterest marketers and grow our audience and list in the process) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/pinterest-marketers-build-list-meagan-williamson/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">0ad03473-8124-4269-8026-349c9c470920</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/1e756e06-a98f-4570-b190-782cbee155d7/iWPDp5qakdXrX11Fvk6R7Qqq.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2022 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/87614311-7158-4bc3-b508-42a30e290567/Use-20Pinterest-20To-20Grow-20Your-20Email-20List-converted.mp3" length="30337343" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>36:07</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>160</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>160</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Template For Email Marketing Campaigns</title><itunes:title>Template For Email Marketing Campaigns</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Is there a template for an email marketing campaign that will guarantee you don't keep going around in circles but instead successfully move your readers towards the ultimate goal of buying from you?&nbsp;</p><p>Yep, there is.&nbsp;</p><p>And it's the one we use in all our email campaigns. Not just the ones we use ourselves, but the ones we teach all our members inside The League.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Ready to find out what it is so <em>you</em> can start using it in all your email campaigns?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:10) Want to make your sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(4:28) Introducing the SVVC formula.</p><p>(6:50) The Seed phase.</p><p>(7:36) Throw an idea and let people run with it.</p><p>(9:34) The Validate phase.</p><p>(11:20) The Verification phase.</p><p>(12:53) The Close phase.</p><p>(13:39) One email campaign = one action.</p><p>(14:39) Always find fresh ways of using the SVVC formula.</p><p>(17:04) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;free – we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p><br></p><p>That's why we're giving you&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Introducing the SVVC formula&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>All our email marketing campaigns are different. But they have<strong> the same four-part foundational formula at their core</strong>. What's worth pointing out is that we're talking about four<em> phases</em> here - not four emails. You could cover these four phases in one email if you wanted. Or write 10 emails out of it.</p><p><br></p><p>What's key is that you use all the phases and in this order. So if you ever feel like your email marketing (or even your social media) is not leading anyone in one specific direction, this formula will allow you to move people from one place to the next. Because the ultimate goal is for people to buy from you, right?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So here with go - introducing the SVVC formula.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The Seed (S) phase</strong></h3><p>The first part of the formula (the S in the acronym) is the Seed phase. This is where you’re going to <strong>plant a seed or, in other words, throw down your initial marketing hook.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>We usually do this with a short email where we'll just say we're doing something and invite people to go and check out the link. And typically, our hyper responders will be the ones who go and see what it's all about because generally speaking, people are wary of clicking on links 'blind' (i.e. with no information). </p><p><br></p><p>Then maybe in the following email, we'll share a little more information about what they'll find in that link. But in this phase,<strong> it's a blind invitation - we're not telling them why the offer is important or what is going to do for them.</strong></p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Throw an idea and let people run with it</strong></h4><p>So let's say we're running a 5-day flash sale campaign made up of 8 emails. In the first couple of emails, we'll share very little information. Effectively, we just throw something over and sit back to watch what happens - we share an idea and let people run with it. </p><p><br></p><p>Normally, the initial email has one of our highest click-through rates over the course of a campaign because lots of people are intrigued by blind curiosity and find it interesting.&nbsp;But while some people will click to look at the offer and find out more about it, a lot of people won’t. And those who don’t click now will go to the next phase, where we start to unpack things a bit more. </p><p><br></p><p>What’s great about any emails in the Seed phase is that they<strong> reduce the amount of cognitive load and the mental calories someone needs to read an email</strong>. Because a lot of emails are super long, but these initial emails have very little in there - just a few lines of text. They help your subscribers overcome the idea that they need to spend a lot of time seeing what your emails are all about. And this frees up their time a little.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The Validate (V) phase</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>In the next phase, we pick up the core bits of the offer and back up and unpack what we said at the start. So, for example, if we're talking about a two-day live event we're hosting, we'll share what the outcomes might be for people.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Remember that we didn’t do that in the Seed phase - we didn't say what the offer can do for people, why it's good, what people are getting, or why it's interesting to them. But now we are. Now <strong>we are <em>validating</em>&nbsp;someone’s interest.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>In the example of our two-day live event, we might say it's about list building. We're not particularly <em>proving</em> anything or saying why it's a good thing - not yet. We’re simply telling people what they’re going to get. <strong>We are validating the offer so that when people read the emails, they're getting more information and insight than they did before. </strong>Compared to the emails in the Seed phase, where people were going into the link 'blind', now they have a better idea of what it's all about.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So the Seed phase is curiosity-driven (we're not sharing any benefits in there), and here in the Validate phase, we're giving people the <em>outcome</em>. You'll notice this isn't your traditional marketing approach, which is based on showing the benefit and the story about how the offer came about. Instead, <strong>the idea here is to start engaging people and validating the fact that this offer is about something that’s important to them right now.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The Verification (V) phase</strong></h3><p>The second V in the acronym stands for verification. This is where you start to add some proof to your emails. You want to <strong>include provable facts behind the claims you’ve made up to this point.</strong> So this is where you start using testimonials, case studies, statistics, etc - pull out everything you have that <em>verifies</em> that what you said so far is true. Think about anything that has authority and use it to back up the fact that people should remain interested in this offer.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Also, <em>verify</em> that there is indeed a product.</strong> People worry about the great unknown, so remove that fear and tell them what happens after they pay. This is why we'll often include a screenshot, a GIF, a link to a video tour, or something that shows people what happens once they’ve purchased the product.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The Close (C) phase</strong></h3><p>The final stage is the Close phase. And the <strong>emails in this phase are designed to rack up urgency and close the deal.</strong> What you’re looking for here is to make sure people can see this is urgent either because there’s a deadline (and the offer is about to expire) or because of a specific reason.</p><p><br></p><p>In other words, you want to focus on the fact that the longer they go without your product, the more pain they're going to be in, the bigger the problem is going to be, or the harder it's going to be for them to fix it later. And that’s why they should buy <em>now</em>. So <strong>you either want a <em>concrete deadline</em> or a <em>personal deadline</em></strong>, which are the two primary types of urgency we tend to talk about.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>One email campaign = one action</strong></h4><p>During a multi-stage campaign, you will go through all four phases – Seed, Validate, Verify, and Close. If you’re running a summit, for example, you’re going through these phases to help people reach the ultimate goal of registering for it. Then you need a separate campaign to get people from registration to actually attending the event. And if you offer the recordings at a price, that’s another series of emails (again, using the SVVC formula) to encourage people to buy those.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>The key thing to remember is that <strong>one campaign should have <em>one</em> action you’re trying to encourage people to take.</strong> And for each one, you want the SVVC email marketing template sitting underneath to ensure you're progressively moving people towards the ultimate goal of buying from you. The last thing you want is for people to feel that your marketing message isn't leading anywhere, right?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Always find fresh ways of using the SVVC formula&nbsp;</strong></h4><p>Another important point to remember is that you always want to <strong>find fresh ways of following the SVVC formula without saying the same thing all the time.</strong> Because when you become predictable, people tend to switch off and not pay attention. And you really need their attention. If you don’t have that, it doesn’t matter what you’re sharing, because they’re not listening - they're not emoting, making decisions, or even considering buying from you. So ensure you’re using this formula in a way that’s fresh every single time.</p><p><br></p><p>Plus, using this amazing template helps you avoid falling into the trap of launching your offer and sending just the one email with everything you have to say in it. Because that means you've got nothing left to say. What will you share in your other emails? Repeat yourself and go around in circles? You definitely...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is there a template for an email marketing campaign that will guarantee you don't keep going around in circles but instead successfully move your readers towards the ultimate goal of buying from you?&nbsp;</p><p>Yep, there is.&nbsp;</p><p>And it's the one we use in all our email campaigns. Not just the ones we use ourselves, but the ones we teach all our members inside The League.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Ready to find out what it is so <em>you</em> can start using it in all your email campaigns?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:10) Want to make your sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(4:28) Introducing the SVVC formula.</p><p>(6:50) The Seed phase.</p><p>(7:36) Throw an idea and let people run with it.</p><p>(9:34) The Validate phase.</p><p>(11:20) The Verification phase.</p><p>(12:53) The Close phase.</p><p>(13:39) One email campaign = one action.</p><p>(14:39) Always find fresh ways of using the SVVC formula.</p><p>(17:04) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;free – we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p><br></p><p>That's why we're giving you&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Introducing the SVVC formula&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>All our email marketing campaigns are different. But they have<strong> the same four-part foundational formula at their core</strong>. What's worth pointing out is that we're talking about four<em> phases</em> here - not four emails. You could cover these four phases in one email if you wanted. Or write 10 emails out of it.</p><p><br></p><p>What's key is that you use all the phases and in this order. So if you ever feel like your email marketing (or even your social media) is not leading anyone in one specific direction, this formula will allow you to move people from one place to the next. Because the ultimate goal is for people to buy from you, right?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So here with go - introducing the SVVC formula.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The Seed (S) phase</strong></h3><p>The first part of the formula (the S in the acronym) is the Seed phase. This is where you’re going to <strong>plant a seed or, in other words, throw down your initial marketing hook.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>We usually do this with a short email where we'll just say we're doing something and invite people to go and check out the link. And typically, our hyper responders will be the ones who go and see what it's all about because generally speaking, people are wary of clicking on links 'blind' (i.e. with no information). </p><p><br></p><p>Then maybe in the following email, we'll share a little more information about what they'll find in that link. But in this phase,<strong> it's a blind invitation - we're not telling them why the offer is important or what is going to do for them.</strong></p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Throw an idea and let people run with it</strong></h4><p>So let's say we're running a 5-day flash sale campaign made up of 8 emails. In the first couple of emails, we'll share very little information. Effectively, we just throw something over and sit back to watch what happens - we share an idea and let people run with it. </p><p><br></p><p>Normally, the initial email has one of our highest click-through rates over the course of a campaign because lots of people are intrigued by blind curiosity and find it interesting.&nbsp;But while some people will click to look at the offer and find out more about it, a lot of people won’t. And those who don’t click now will go to the next phase, where we start to unpack things a bit more. </p><p><br></p><p>What’s great about any emails in the Seed phase is that they<strong> reduce the amount of cognitive load and the mental calories someone needs to read an email</strong>. Because a lot of emails are super long, but these initial emails have very little in there - just a few lines of text. They help your subscribers overcome the idea that they need to spend a lot of time seeing what your emails are all about. And this frees up their time a little.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The Validate (V) phase</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>In the next phase, we pick up the core bits of the offer and back up and unpack what we said at the start. So, for example, if we're talking about a two-day live event we're hosting, we'll share what the outcomes might be for people.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Remember that we didn’t do that in the Seed phase - we didn't say what the offer can do for people, why it's good, what people are getting, or why it's interesting to them. But now we are. Now <strong>we are <em>validating</em>&nbsp;someone’s interest.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>In the example of our two-day live event, we might say it's about list building. We're not particularly <em>proving</em> anything or saying why it's a good thing - not yet. We’re simply telling people what they’re going to get. <strong>We are validating the offer so that when people read the emails, they're getting more information and insight than they did before. </strong>Compared to the emails in the Seed phase, where people were going into the link 'blind', now they have a better idea of what it's all about.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So the Seed phase is curiosity-driven (we're not sharing any benefits in there), and here in the Validate phase, we're giving people the <em>outcome</em>. You'll notice this isn't your traditional marketing approach, which is based on showing the benefit and the story about how the offer came about. Instead, <strong>the idea here is to start engaging people and validating the fact that this offer is about something that’s important to them right now.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The Verification (V) phase</strong></h3><p>The second V in the acronym stands for verification. This is where you start to add some proof to your emails. You want to <strong>include provable facts behind the claims you’ve made up to this point.</strong> So this is where you start using testimonials, case studies, statistics, etc - pull out everything you have that <em>verifies</em> that what you said so far is true. Think about anything that has authority and use it to back up the fact that people should remain interested in this offer.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Also, <em>verify</em> that there is indeed a product.</strong> People worry about the great unknown, so remove that fear and tell them what happens after they pay. This is why we'll often include a screenshot, a GIF, a link to a video tour, or something that shows people what happens once they’ve purchased the product.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The Close (C) phase</strong></h3><p>The final stage is the Close phase. And the <strong>emails in this phase are designed to rack up urgency and close the deal.</strong> What you’re looking for here is to make sure people can see this is urgent either because there’s a deadline (and the offer is about to expire) or because of a specific reason.</p><p><br></p><p>In other words, you want to focus on the fact that the longer they go without your product, the more pain they're going to be in, the bigger the problem is going to be, or the harder it's going to be for them to fix it later. And that’s why they should buy <em>now</em>. So <strong>you either want a <em>concrete deadline</em> or a <em>personal deadline</em></strong>, which are the two primary types of urgency we tend to talk about.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>One email campaign = one action</strong></h4><p>During a multi-stage campaign, you will go through all four phases – Seed, Validate, Verify, and Close. If you’re running a summit, for example, you’re going through these phases to help people reach the ultimate goal of registering for it. Then you need a separate campaign to get people from registration to actually attending the event. And if you offer the recordings at a price, that’s another series of emails (again, using the SVVC formula) to encourage people to buy those.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>The key thing to remember is that <strong>one campaign should have <em>one</em> action you’re trying to encourage people to take.</strong> And for each one, you want the SVVC email marketing template sitting underneath to ensure you're progressively moving people towards the ultimate goal of buying from you. The last thing you want is for people to feel that your marketing message isn't leading anywhere, right?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Always find fresh ways of using the SVVC formula&nbsp;</strong></h4><p>Another important point to remember is that you always want to <strong>find fresh ways of following the SVVC formula without saying the same thing all the time.</strong> Because when you become predictable, people tend to switch off and not pay attention. And you really need their attention. If you don’t have that, it doesn’t matter what you’re sharing, because they’re not listening - they're not emoting, making decisions, or even considering buying from you. So ensure you’re using this formula in a way that’s fresh every single time.</p><p><br></p><p>Plus, using this amazing template helps you avoid falling into the trap of launching your offer and sending just the one email with everything you have to say in it. Because that means you've got nothing left to say. What will you share in your other emails? Repeat yourself and go around in circles? You definitely don't want that. Because that's when the sales argument doesn’t build or progress.</p><p><br></p><p>Instead, use the SVVC formula - all the email marketing campaigns we share inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> are based on this effective template. And this is only <em>some</em> of the science that explains how the campaigns are structured and why they go through multiple phases. <strong>If you want to go deeper and take things to the next level, check out our full training on SVVC inside </strong><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>The League</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject line is “I put THIS in my mouth.” And the funny thing about this is that when you’re sending day-to-day emails (as opposed to email campaigns) you tend to look at them in isolation. You’ll write the email not particularly focusing on what you said yesterday or what you’re going to say tomorrow – you’re just writing today’s email.</p><p><br></p><p>And by sheer coincidence, only a few days after Rob sent the email with this subject line, he shared another story in another email with the subject line: “Kennedy put THIS in his mouth?” And in case you’re wondering, people seem to care more about what Rob puts in his mouth because that original subject line had a higher open rate. Funny, ha?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/psychology-of-marketing-email-campaigns/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">9 Psychological Things That We Use In All Of Our Campaigns</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/flagship-product-order-your-offers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Little-Known Right Order to Make Your Offers (For Maximum Sales)</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/essential-email-campaigns-examples/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">7 Essential Email Campaigns Examples For Your Business</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the exact template for email marketing campaign that we use in all our awesome campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/template-email-marketing-campaign/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">8493c7c9-ed5c-43ae-87e2-cfb24c65ff15</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/f0245202-bf16-4576-9f00-f6e38466ca5d/zrHvlj2UWeIjAANODo2FNZIB.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2022 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/56ba8739-ca7b-4796-a165-a6b1276785a6/Email-20Marketing-20Campaigns-20Our-20Template-converted.mp3" length="18088391" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:50</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>159</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>159</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Email Mistakes That Almost Got Me Fired (Avoid These) - With Chris Davis</title><itunes:title>Email Mistakes That Almost Got Me Fired (Avoid These) - With Chris Davis</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Did you ever set up an email marketing campaign and forget to write the email? Or sent the wrong email to the wrong people? We've made loads of email marketing mistakes in our time, and today's guest Chris Davis from Automation Bridge shares his. Having trained internationally, Chris has a collective portfolio of $200 million raised for startups and currently runs the only marketing automation certification in the industry.&nbsp;</p><p>If Chris made a train wreck (or two) of his email automation here and there, then you'll know it happens to the best of us. But here's how to deal with any mistakes and what to do to avoid them.</p><p>You're going to enjoy this!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:33) Want to make your sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(4:04) Did Chris really meet his wife while skydiving in Canada?</p><p>(5:52) Sending two identical emails in the space of 10 minutes.</p><p>(8:14) Should you apologise to your subscribers for your mistakes?</p><p>(9:36) Sending the wrong email to the wrong segment.</p><p>(13:31) Owning your mistakes and putting proceses and systems in place.</p><p>(14:41) The creator isn't in charge of quality assurance.</p><p>(17:24) Put some space in between tasks.</p><p>(21:40) Subject line of the week with Chris Davis.</p><p>(23:29) Download Chris's 5-point automation checklist.</p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;free – we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p>That's why we're giving you&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Sending two identical emails in the space of 10 minutes</strong></h3><p>Chris has had some amazing positions at brilliant companies where he's always been involved in email automation, so he has a lot of experience. But has he ever messed it up? Oh, yes!</p><p>The reason why we wanted to talk to Chris about the mistakes he's made in email marketing (and the lessons he learnt along the way) is that when you reach his level of expertise you tend to take bigger risks. And that means the impact of making mistakes can be bigger.&nbsp;</p><p>A recent mistake Chris made is when he built an email automation but forgot to put the email in. When he realised he'd done that, he added the email and sent it again. But for some reason, he also created a separate campaign and added it to the automation. </p><p>The result? Subscribers got two identical emails in the space of 10-15 minutes. And we've definitely done that (as well as sending emails with a broken link or with no link at all!)</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Should you apologise to your subscribers for your mistakes?</strong></h3><p>That's the question, right? What do you do in that situation? Did Chris apologise? Something that Chris learnt while working in the startup space is that the preference, when something's broken or there's a flow in the system, is to deal with the support tickets as they come in. In other words, if your customers don't notice and don't complain, you don't go out and tell them what went wrong. Plus, in this case, the only thing that's worse than getting <em>two</em> emails within 10-15 minutes of each other is getting <em>three</em>!</p><p><br></p><p>But there's definitely a lesson to be learnt here - double-check your emails before you drop a whole segment of subscribers into an automation and press send!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Sending the wrong email to the wrong segment&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Chris shared another mistake that he made right at the start of his email career when he was working at LeadPages. At that point, he was sending emails to about 250,000 leads per email. To this date, he gets so nervous about making a mistake that he will double-check and triple-check that he's sending the right email to the right group of people.</p><p><br></p><p>But there was one time when Chris didn't do that. In fact, what he had done was send the wrong email to the wrong group of customers! In that email, he had effectively offered them a product that those people had already bought at a lower price. And he hadn't even realised!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>When he walked into the office the next day, he noticed the support team seemed super busy. And there Chris was, assuming the product was selling! But when he walked into the marketing meeting, the founder asked the (rhetorical) question of who sent the email. It was accusatory and filled with frustration because everyone knew that Chris sent all the emails! And that's when it dawned on him that he'd made a mistake.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Owning your mistakes and putting processes and systems in place</strong></h3><p>So did Chris own up and apologised to the team? He totally did. He didn't over-explain the issue, but he told everyone that he'd got mixed up with the tags and identified the wrong segment. Because when you make a mistake, Chris told us, you don't want your name to be tied up with ignorance. If you can explain what happened, then you can ensure it won't happen again and start to rebuild your reputation.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>What we do when we make mistakes is to put systems in place to try and stop these errors from ever happening again. Of course, that doesn't mean you'll never make another email marketing mistake in your life because there are loads you haven't thought of yet! But processes and systems help. </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The creator isn't in charge of quality assurance&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Something that Chris has now implemented (where possible) is to <strong>differentiate the role of the creator from the role of the person performing quality assurance</strong>. In other words, the person who writes the emails isn't the one who also checks them. Because when you create something, you’re very close to it, and you can't look at it with objectivity and perspective.</p><p><br></p><p>If you're both the person who creates the emails and also checks that everything is in place, chances are that you're going to miss something. Because you're too close to it. And when Chris realised that he was much better at the quality assurance aspect of things, he hired someone at LeadPages to write the emails. That way, he added a separate step in the process of creating an email automation.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So if you're a business owner doing email marketing, can you bring in a VA to do one of these jobs for you? You could write the emails and have someone else check them for you or vice-versa. Or you could outsource the tech. Whichever way you choose or works for you, the key is that <strong>one person fully focuses on one task</strong>. And that means that's all they have to think about.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Put some space in between tasks</strong></h3><p>If you're a one-person band and can't hire someone, then the tip is to<strong> break the tasks down and separate them</strong>. When you're writing your emails, you're using the creative part of the brain. But when you're doing the segmentation, you're using a different part of your brain. So <strong>put some time in between tasks</strong>. It could be an hour or an afternoon, but preferably a whole day, if you can.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>This is where Chris went wrong when he sent that email to the wrong segment. He was operating in a silo, not sharing anything with the team, and doing all the different tasks of creating the emails and working out the tags and segments himself. That's how he didn't even realise he'd made a mistake! Instead, he should have involved the team or waited until the next day to finish the project. So give yourself some time in between tasks and come back to it with fresh eyes.</p><p><br></p><p>What Chris shared with us definitely puts things into perspective. Because when he made that mistake at LeadPages, he was sending out emails that could generate around $20k per email. There was a lot of gravity attached to his error! But he owned it. And now that we know the rest of the story, Chris didn't get fired. It was just the start of a profitable and successful career in email marketing automation.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week with Chris Davis</strong></h3><p>Chris’s subject line is “strange question?” It's one he used in the early stages of his career when he'd reach out to people to help them figure out what was wrong with their email marketing. But instead of critiquing them and approaching them by saying they were doing something wrong, he’d use this subject line. Chris told us it had a 99% response rate because people couldn't resist – they would open the email because they wanted to know what the strange question is.</p><p><br></p><p>And inside the email, Chris would be asking if the recipient was the right person to talk to. That plays on another useful psychological trigger, which is that <em>everybody</em> wants to be the right person. So even when they're not, they’ll say it’s not them. But at least you've opened up the lines of communication, and now you have a response and a conversation going on with someone.&nbsp;</p><p>This subject line also uses our concept of compound curiosity, which is something we talked about in a previous episode. You can check it out <a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/compound" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Chris</strong></h5><p>Chris works]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Did you ever set up an email marketing campaign and forget to write the email? Or sent the wrong email to the wrong people? We've made loads of email marketing mistakes in our time, and today's guest Chris Davis from Automation Bridge shares his. Having trained internationally, Chris has a collective portfolio of $200 million raised for startups and currently runs the only marketing automation certification in the industry.&nbsp;</p><p>If Chris made a train wreck (or two) of his email automation here and there, then you'll know it happens to the best of us. But here's how to deal with any mistakes and what to do to avoid them.</p><p>You're going to enjoy this!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:33) Want to make your sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(4:04) Did Chris really meet his wife while skydiving in Canada?</p><p>(5:52) Sending two identical emails in the space of 10 minutes.</p><p>(8:14) Should you apologise to your subscribers for your mistakes?</p><p>(9:36) Sending the wrong email to the wrong segment.</p><p>(13:31) Owning your mistakes and putting proceses and systems in place.</p><p>(14:41) The creator isn't in charge of quality assurance.</p><p>(17:24) Put some space in between tasks.</p><p>(21:40) Subject line of the week with Chris Davis.</p><p>(23:29) Download Chris's 5-point automation checklist.</p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;free – we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p>That's why we're giving you&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Sending two identical emails in the space of 10 minutes</strong></h3><p>Chris has had some amazing positions at brilliant companies where he's always been involved in email automation, so he has a lot of experience. But has he ever messed it up? Oh, yes!</p><p>The reason why we wanted to talk to Chris about the mistakes he's made in email marketing (and the lessons he learnt along the way) is that when you reach his level of expertise you tend to take bigger risks. And that means the impact of making mistakes can be bigger.&nbsp;</p><p>A recent mistake Chris made is when he built an email automation but forgot to put the email in. When he realised he'd done that, he added the email and sent it again. But for some reason, he also created a separate campaign and added it to the automation. </p><p>The result? Subscribers got two identical emails in the space of 10-15 minutes. And we've definitely done that (as well as sending emails with a broken link or with no link at all!)</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Should you apologise to your subscribers for your mistakes?</strong></h3><p>That's the question, right? What do you do in that situation? Did Chris apologise? Something that Chris learnt while working in the startup space is that the preference, when something's broken or there's a flow in the system, is to deal with the support tickets as they come in. In other words, if your customers don't notice and don't complain, you don't go out and tell them what went wrong. Plus, in this case, the only thing that's worse than getting <em>two</em> emails within 10-15 minutes of each other is getting <em>three</em>!</p><p><br></p><p>But there's definitely a lesson to be learnt here - double-check your emails before you drop a whole segment of subscribers into an automation and press send!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Sending the wrong email to the wrong segment&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Chris shared another mistake that he made right at the start of his email career when he was working at LeadPages. At that point, he was sending emails to about 250,000 leads per email. To this date, he gets so nervous about making a mistake that he will double-check and triple-check that he's sending the right email to the right group of people.</p><p><br></p><p>But there was one time when Chris didn't do that. In fact, what he had done was send the wrong email to the wrong group of customers! In that email, he had effectively offered them a product that those people had already bought at a lower price. And he hadn't even realised!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>When he walked into the office the next day, he noticed the support team seemed super busy. And there Chris was, assuming the product was selling! But when he walked into the marketing meeting, the founder asked the (rhetorical) question of who sent the email. It was accusatory and filled with frustration because everyone knew that Chris sent all the emails! And that's when it dawned on him that he'd made a mistake.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Owning your mistakes and putting processes and systems in place</strong></h3><p>So did Chris own up and apologised to the team? He totally did. He didn't over-explain the issue, but he told everyone that he'd got mixed up with the tags and identified the wrong segment. Because when you make a mistake, Chris told us, you don't want your name to be tied up with ignorance. If you can explain what happened, then you can ensure it won't happen again and start to rebuild your reputation.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>What we do when we make mistakes is to put systems in place to try and stop these errors from ever happening again. Of course, that doesn't mean you'll never make another email marketing mistake in your life because there are loads you haven't thought of yet! But processes and systems help. </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The creator isn't in charge of quality assurance&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Something that Chris has now implemented (where possible) is to <strong>differentiate the role of the creator from the role of the person performing quality assurance</strong>. In other words, the person who writes the emails isn't the one who also checks them. Because when you create something, you’re very close to it, and you can't look at it with objectivity and perspective.</p><p><br></p><p>If you're both the person who creates the emails and also checks that everything is in place, chances are that you're going to miss something. Because you're too close to it. And when Chris realised that he was much better at the quality assurance aspect of things, he hired someone at LeadPages to write the emails. That way, he added a separate step in the process of creating an email automation.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So if you're a business owner doing email marketing, can you bring in a VA to do one of these jobs for you? You could write the emails and have someone else check them for you or vice-versa. Or you could outsource the tech. Whichever way you choose or works for you, the key is that <strong>one person fully focuses on one task</strong>. And that means that's all they have to think about.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Put some space in between tasks</strong></h3><p>If you're a one-person band and can't hire someone, then the tip is to<strong> break the tasks down and separate them</strong>. When you're writing your emails, you're using the creative part of the brain. But when you're doing the segmentation, you're using a different part of your brain. So <strong>put some time in between tasks</strong>. It could be an hour or an afternoon, but preferably a whole day, if you can.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>This is where Chris went wrong when he sent that email to the wrong segment. He was operating in a silo, not sharing anything with the team, and doing all the different tasks of creating the emails and working out the tags and segments himself. That's how he didn't even realise he'd made a mistake! Instead, he should have involved the team or waited until the next day to finish the project. So give yourself some time in between tasks and come back to it with fresh eyes.</p><p><br></p><p>What Chris shared with us definitely puts things into perspective. Because when he made that mistake at LeadPages, he was sending out emails that could generate around $20k per email. There was a lot of gravity attached to his error! But he owned it. And now that we know the rest of the story, Chris didn't get fired. It was just the start of a profitable and successful career in email marketing automation.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week with Chris Davis</strong></h3><p>Chris’s subject line is “strange question?” It's one he used in the early stages of his career when he'd reach out to people to help them figure out what was wrong with their email marketing. But instead of critiquing them and approaching them by saying they were doing something wrong, he’d use this subject line. Chris told us it had a 99% response rate because people couldn't resist – they would open the email because they wanted to know what the strange question is.</p><p><br></p><p>And inside the email, Chris would be asking if the recipient was the right person to talk to. That plays on another useful psychological trigger, which is that <em>everybody</em> wants to be the right person. So even when they're not, they’ll say it’s not them. But at least you've opened up the lines of communication, and now you have a response and a conversation going on with someone.&nbsp;</p><p>This subject line also uses our concept of compound curiosity, which is something we talked about in a previous episode. You can check it out <a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/compound" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Chris</strong></h5><p>Chris works with email marketing professionals and digital marketers and teaches them how to do automation, which he sees as a subset of digital marketing.</p><p>If you want to learn about the right way of doing automation so it works more effectively for you, he has a <strong>5-point automation checklist</strong> that will prevent you from making those same mistakes that Chris made. It's the resource he wishes his past self could use!</p><p>So go and grab Chris’s checklist, print it off, and keep it front and centre every time you build an email automation. You can find it <a href="https://go.automationbridge.com/5pac/?source=robandkennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/avoid-email-marketing-mistakes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why You Need to Avoid These Email Marketing Mistakes</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/essential-email-campaigns-examples/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">7 Essential Email Campaigns Examples For Your Business</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/pick-email-automation-system/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Pick an Email Automation System</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the email marketing mistakes that nearly got automation guru Chris Davis fired) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-mistakes-chris-davis/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">0955e051-a234-427f-a42c-a4956a7da5b8</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/a60c4ede-bf41-4c11-b27a-fc427ff7d016/OuhpWqP2NtIJuhZ_gXVyzFBv.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2022 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/51ab7ec1-978a-4a0f-a0c3-30da004471a2/Mistakes-20That-20Almost-20Got-20Me-20Fired-converted.mp3" length="21412511" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>25:29</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>158</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>158</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How To Audit Your Email Marketing</title><itunes:title>How To Audit Your Email Marketing</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Have you ever done an email marketing audit? Want to find out what to check and what data to collect to improve your email marketing? Because (spoiler alert) what you <em>think</em> you should be doing is probably not what is going to move the needle the most for you!&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to take some notes?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:09) Want to make your sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(5:03) Create a baseline.</p><p>(7:08) Find out how many subscribers you're gaining and losing every month.</p><p>(8:21) Find out where your subscribers are coming from.</p><p>(10:29) Work out your cost per subscriber and how long it takes you to earn that cost back.</p><p>(14:06) Calculate how much you earn per subscriber and your EPSPM.</p><p>(17:11) Calculate the highest and the average order value per customer.</p><p>(21:25) When's the last time you emailed your list and how often do you make an offer?</p><p>(26:57) Are people engaging with your emails and what do you do with those who aren't?</p><p>(29:24) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;free – we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p><br></p><p>That's why we're giving you&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Create a baseline</strong></h3><p>When we used to do consulting and help people with their email marketing, the first thing we'd do would be to find out the state of play. If you don’t know how you’re currently doing, you don’t know where your biggest opportunities for improvement are. You may feel, instinctively, that you need to improve in a certain area. But after looking into the data you might find that something else needs your attention first.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>For example, if you’re not converting through your email marketing, it doesn’t matter how many people you bring in at the front end. It's like you're showing them an empty shop floor where they can't buy anything.</p><p><br></p><p>So the first thing you want to look at is <strong>how many subscribers you have on your list</strong>. It doesn't matter what the number is, as long as you know what it is. That gives you your baseline.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Find out how many subscribers you’re gaining or losing every month</strong></h3><p>The next bit of data you need to find is how many subscribers you're bringing in every month. And then you want to compare that number with the people who unsubscribe in the same period.</p><p><br></p><p>We track all this in a spreadsheet that acts as our business dashboard. On the first day of every month, we capture this information for the previous month. And over time, this gives you a general sense of list growth. </p><p><br></p><p>However, don't just assume that your list will grow at the same pace every single month forever - not unless you've done the rest of the analysis. Of course, you want to increase the number of people who join your list and decrease your unsubscribes every month. But if you think that all your problems will be over if you bring in more subscribers every month, that's probably not the case because there are many other factors at play.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Find out where your subscribers are coming from</strong></h3><p>The next thing you want to check is where your subscribers are coming from. For example, the majority of people join our list from <a href="https://www.instagram.com/robandkennedy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, our free <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook group</a>, our lead magnets, and our paid traffic. So work out what your channels are and figure out how many subscribers join you every month from each of those channels.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>This is so important that we put together a resource and a piece of training inside our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, so if you’re in there, check it out. You don’t want to rely on external data on this because it’s not accurate.<strong> It's all about knowing specifically which subscribers come from which platform because that tells you what's working and what isn't.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>And once you know this, you can <strong>do more of what works and stop doing what isn't</strong>. For example, we stopped investing so much time and energy into Twitter because the number of subscribers coming into our world and turning into customers from this channel was very low. So we're focusing on what works for us instead.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Work out your cost per subscriber and how long it takes you to earn that cost back</strong></h3><p>Now that you have that data, you can start looking at the economics of it. And the first thing to<strong> find out is how much it costs you to get a new subscriber</strong>. In some cases, that cost is going to be measured in time. For example, if you’re posting content on Instagram and not sending ads to it, it's organic growth. You're spending time but not money on it.</p><p><br></p><p>However, if you have a social media manager or run paid ads to your content, then you need to work out your monthly spending and divide it by the number of subscribers you gain every month from that channel. That tells you what your cost per subscriber is.</p><p><br></p><p>Once you know how much it's costing you to acquire every subscriber, you also want to know how long it takes you, on average, to get that money back. So if it’s costing you $8 to acquire a subscriber from your lead magnet, for example, you can hopefully make some of that money back by sending some paid offers to that subscriber via your email marketing. But realistically, it'll take you some time to recover it.</p><p><br></p><p>Knowing exactly how long is important because ultimately<strong> list growth is only sustainable if you're able to make your money back fairly quickly through your email marketing</strong>.&nbsp;Despite what a lot of people might think or say, marketing is a numbers game, so we need to stop making decisions based on anything other than numbers. Because unless we calculate them wrong, numbers don't lie to us!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Calculate how much you earn per subscriber and your EPSPM</strong></h3><p>The next metric is to look at how much you earn on average per subscriber in the first 14, 30, or 60 days. You do this by looking at how many subscribers you bring in a set period of time and how much they spend with you in that same period. Knowing this tells you how much you can afford to spend to acquire a new subscriber - now you know how long it takes for a subscriber to become profitable for you.</p><p><br></p><p>Out of these, the most important metric is the one that relates to the first 14-30 days because that’s when you’re looking at breaking even or making a small profit. If you don’t know these numbers, and you’re running ads, for example, it means you’re doing it blindly, and you're just waiting to lose money!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Also, the reason why we want to know how much a subscriber is worth to us in the first 60 days is that generally speaking, during that time we put them through automated campaigns in our email engine to maximise the value per subscriber and to get our money back.</p><p><br></p><p>After that period of time, subscribers come out of our email engine and start receiving our daily emails, so we look at a different metric. That's the EPSPM or Earnings Per Subscriber Per Month. And this is important because it tells us where we have opportunities to make more out of our list. </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Calculate the highest and the average order value per customer</strong></h3><p>The next metric you want to calculate is to do with your customers - that's subscribers who have made a purchase with you. You want to look at two numbers:</p><ul><li>The highest possible order value.</li><li>And the average order value.</li></ul><br/><p>The highest order value looks at the maximum someone can spend with you. If you only sell a book for $7 and nothing else, for example, that's all your customers can buy. There's no upsell, which means you're putting yourself at a disadvantage. But if you have additional offers, people can potentially spend more with you.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And if your highest order value is $1,000, for example, you then want to look at how much people spend on average with you. So if you make 100 sales in one month, for example, how much was the average spend? And how does that compare with the highest order value? This is important because it helps you make an informed decision on how much you can spend on your advertising budget, for example, without putting yourself at risk.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Have you proven your offer?</strong></h3><p>Another thing you want to look at is whether you've proven your offer. We're not talking about the product here - it's the way it's&nbsp;packaged, positioned, priced, and set up. It's about the sales mechanism, which includes the sales page, sales videos, your webinars, the email sequence that goes with it, etc. Have you proven that those things work so that if you run traffic to that offer or run an email campaign around it, you know it's going to perform?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Of course, that...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you ever done an email marketing audit? Want to find out what to check and what data to collect to improve your email marketing? Because (spoiler alert) what you <em>think</em> you should be doing is probably not what is going to move the needle the most for you!&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to take some notes?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:09) Want to make your sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(5:03) Create a baseline.</p><p>(7:08) Find out how many subscribers you're gaining and losing every month.</p><p>(8:21) Find out where your subscribers are coming from.</p><p>(10:29) Work out your cost per subscriber and how long it takes you to earn that cost back.</p><p>(14:06) Calculate how much you earn per subscriber and your EPSPM.</p><p>(17:11) Calculate the highest and the average order value per customer.</p><p>(21:25) When's the last time you emailed your list and how often do you make an offer?</p><p>(26:57) Are people engaging with your emails and what do you do with those who aren't?</p><p>(29:24) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;free – we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p><br></p><p>That's why we're giving you&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Create a baseline</strong></h3><p>When we used to do consulting and help people with their email marketing, the first thing we'd do would be to find out the state of play. If you don’t know how you’re currently doing, you don’t know where your biggest opportunities for improvement are. You may feel, instinctively, that you need to improve in a certain area. But after looking into the data you might find that something else needs your attention first.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>For example, if you’re not converting through your email marketing, it doesn’t matter how many people you bring in at the front end. It's like you're showing them an empty shop floor where they can't buy anything.</p><p><br></p><p>So the first thing you want to look at is <strong>how many subscribers you have on your list</strong>. It doesn't matter what the number is, as long as you know what it is. That gives you your baseline.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Find out how many subscribers you’re gaining or losing every month</strong></h3><p>The next bit of data you need to find is how many subscribers you're bringing in every month. And then you want to compare that number with the people who unsubscribe in the same period.</p><p><br></p><p>We track all this in a spreadsheet that acts as our business dashboard. On the first day of every month, we capture this information for the previous month. And over time, this gives you a general sense of list growth. </p><p><br></p><p>However, don't just assume that your list will grow at the same pace every single month forever - not unless you've done the rest of the analysis. Of course, you want to increase the number of people who join your list and decrease your unsubscribes every month. But if you think that all your problems will be over if you bring in more subscribers every month, that's probably not the case because there are many other factors at play.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Find out where your subscribers are coming from</strong></h3><p>The next thing you want to check is where your subscribers are coming from. For example, the majority of people join our list from <a href="https://www.instagram.com/robandkennedy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, our free <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook group</a>, our lead magnets, and our paid traffic. So work out what your channels are and figure out how many subscribers join you every month from each of those channels.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>This is so important that we put together a resource and a piece of training inside our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, so if you’re in there, check it out. You don’t want to rely on external data on this because it’s not accurate.<strong> It's all about knowing specifically which subscribers come from which platform because that tells you what's working and what isn't.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>And once you know this, you can <strong>do more of what works and stop doing what isn't</strong>. For example, we stopped investing so much time and energy into Twitter because the number of subscribers coming into our world and turning into customers from this channel was very low. So we're focusing on what works for us instead.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Work out your cost per subscriber and how long it takes you to earn that cost back</strong></h3><p>Now that you have that data, you can start looking at the economics of it. And the first thing to<strong> find out is how much it costs you to get a new subscriber</strong>. In some cases, that cost is going to be measured in time. For example, if you’re posting content on Instagram and not sending ads to it, it's organic growth. You're spending time but not money on it.</p><p><br></p><p>However, if you have a social media manager or run paid ads to your content, then you need to work out your monthly spending and divide it by the number of subscribers you gain every month from that channel. That tells you what your cost per subscriber is.</p><p><br></p><p>Once you know how much it's costing you to acquire every subscriber, you also want to know how long it takes you, on average, to get that money back. So if it’s costing you $8 to acquire a subscriber from your lead magnet, for example, you can hopefully make some of that money back by sending some paid offers to that subscriber via your email marketing. But realistically, it'll take you some time to recover it.</p><p><br></p><p>Knowing exactly how long is important because ultimately<strong> list growth is only sustainable if you're able to make your money back fairly quickly through your email marketing</strong>.&nbsp;Despite what a lot of people might think or say, marketing is a numbers game, so we need to stop making decisions based on anything other than numbers. Because unless we calculate them wrong, numbers don't lie to us!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Calculate how much you earn per subscriber and your EPSPM</strong></h3><p>The next metric is to look at how much you earn on average per subscriber in the first 14, 30, or 60 days. You do this by looking at how many subscribers you bring in a set period of time and how much they spend with you in that same period. Knowing this tells you how much you can afford to spend to acquire a new subscriber - now you know how long it takes for a subscriber to become profitable for you.</p><p><br></p><p>Out of these, the most important metric is the one that relates to the first 14-30 days because that’s when you’re looking at breaking even or making a small profit. If you don’t know these numbers, and you’re running ads, for example, it means you’re doing it blindly, and you're just waiting to lose money!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Also, the reason why we want to know how much a subscriber is worth to us in the first 60 days is that generally speaking, during that time we put them through automated campaigns in our email engine to maximise the value per subscriber and to get our money back.</p><p><br></p><p>After that period of time, subscribers come out of our email engine and start receiving our daily emails, so we look at a different metric. That's the EPSPM or Earnings Per Subscriber Per Month. And this is important because it tells us where we have opportunities to make more out of our list. </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Calculate the highest and the average order value per customer</strong></h3><p>The next metric you want to calculate is to do with your customers - that's subscribers who have made a purchase with you. You want to look at two numbers:</p><ul><li>The highest possible order value.</li><li>And the average order value.</li></ul><br/><p>The highest order value looks at the maximum someone can spend with you. If you only sell a book for $7 and nothing else, for example, that's all your customers can buy. There's no upsell, which means you're putting yourself at a disadvantage. But if you have additional offers, people can potentially spend more with you.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And if your highest order value is $1,000, for example, you then want to look at how much people spend on average with you. So if you make 100 sales in one month, for example, how much was the average spend? And how does that compare with the highest order value? This is important because it helps you make an informed decision on how much you can spend on your advertising budget, for example, without putting yourself at risk.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Have you proven your offer?</strong></h3><p>Another thing you want to look at is whether you've proven your offer. We're not talking about the product here - it's the way it's&nbsp;packaged, positioned, priced, and set up. It's about the sales mechanism, which includes the sales page, sales videos, your webinars, the email sequence that goes with it, etc. Have you proven that those things work so that if you run traffic to that offer or run an email campaign around it, you know it's going to perform?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Of course, that doesn’t mean that something that works now is going to work forever. But if it's working, you'll know because the conversion rate of those mechanisms will ensure that your average order value is as close as possible to your highest order value. For example, if your highest possible order value is $1,000 but your average order value is $10, your conversion mechanism isn't currently working - people are not buying the upsell. So you need to work on that.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>When’s the last time you emailed your list and how often do you make an offer?</strong></h3><p>The next thing you want to look at is <em>when</em> you emailed your list last and<em> how often</em> you send emails.&nbsp;This is important because it determines the reputation of your emails. If you email regularly, Gmail and the other email platforms of this world will class you as someone who keeps in touch with people. Your emails will be deemed reputable, and you will go into someone's Primary folder. If not, those platforms will start being cautious about your emails.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>But also, you want to look at how often you make an offer to your subscribers to buy something. You may be someone who emails often and gives a lot of value, but <strong>if you're not making offers (or not making them very often) people don’t have the opportunity to buy from you</strong>. And if you think that when someone's ready to buy, they'll suddenly remember you, that's not how it works. Because unless you're present in people's inboxes, they will forget that your product even exists.</p><p><br></p><p>So <strong>you need to make offers and constantly remind people of what you do</strong>. Otherwise, they can't buy your product. And on top of that, you need to dress your product in different ways - with offers that make it appealing to different people in different ways.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And this isn't just for your subscribers - it's for your customers as well. How often are you making offers to the people who've already bought from you? If you have a membership, for example, it means you have people who have proven that they value what you teach. So go back to them - they're your best customers. And think of ways to help them more and resell to them.</p><p><br></p><p>We all obsess about selling to someone for the first time, but that's the hardest thing to do. Making the first sale to subscribers is the hardest piece of the puzzle. It's much easier to re-sell to someone who's already bought from you. That's why we have so many campaigns inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> that help you do that by using lots of psychological angles.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Are people engaging with your emails and what do you do with those who aren't?</strong></h3><p>The final piece of the puzzle is to understand how many people are engaging with your emails in a 14, 30, or 60-day period. If not enough people engage with your emails in that period of time, a quick fix is to email more often. That's going to boost your engagement.</p><p><br></p><p>But also, what are you doing with the people who disengage? Will you run our LOL, revival campaign to see if they're still interested, for example? Are you going to delete them? What you do here is important because you want to keep your deliverability and engagement high. <strong>The vast majority of what makes emails deliverable is your engagement with your list</strong> so make sure people are taking notice of your emails and engaging with them.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Would you like to work with our Agency?</strong></h3><p>These are the questions we used to ask our coaching clients and that we always ask our agency clients. We have skilled professionals who write your emails for you if you're someone who doesn't have time to work on customising campaigns and templates for yourself.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>If you'd like to speak to someone about writing your emails for you so you can turn your subscribers into customers (and then repeat customers) without having to do the work, let’s have a chat. You can apply to work with us and see if we're a good fit for you. <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/agency?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=agency" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Here’s the link for you to check</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject line is “My first is in Goldfish” as if it was a riddle. The hook of this relates to a practice we talked about before. And that's to take a standard thing that people recognise and use it in an interesting way.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Rob also added the emoji of a fish to this subject line. And that was to make it pop in the raft of subject lines in someone's inbox. Not many people are using emojis in subject lines at the moment. So it’s a good way to make your emails stand out.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-agency/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why We Started an Email Marketing Agency</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-deliverability/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Surprising Thing That REALLY Impacts Your Email Deliverability</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/what-is-a-high-unsubscribe-rate-what-to-do/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">What to do if you have a high unsubscribe rate</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to do an email marketing audit) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-email-marketing-audit/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">38661154-52de-41f5-b39e-dad9baf66fbe</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/e76535dd-85e0-4bcd-b898-3612e374eccd/PWHTAJ6dI0Ts3AB-zphjPI-I.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2022 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/b4315a91-7b2d-48ba-8a41-d59c279c9fe9/How-20To-20Do-20An-20Email-20Marketing-20Audit-converted.mp3" length="29727815" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>30:58</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>157</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>157</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Small List Big Launch - With Gemma Bonham-Carter</title><itunes:title>Small List Big Launch - With Gemma Bonham-Carter</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Do you think you have a small email list? How can you have a successful and profitable launch when you don't have as many subscribers on your list as you'd like to have? This week we're talking to Gemma Bonham-Carter about how to build a pre-launch email list (and have a BIG launch!)</p><p>Are you ready to find out how to get <em>massive</em> results no matter what size your list happens to be?</p><p>You'll want to take notes on this one!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:18) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook group</a>.</p><p>(3:30) Did Gemma really sleep with a tennis racket for 3 months?</p><p>(6:39) Can you have a successful launch with a 'small list'?</p><p>(8:15) The key to making money when you have a 'small' list.</p><p>(10:53) How to use the pre-launch period to grow your email list.</p><p>(12:45) How long should your pre-launch period be?</p><p>(13:55) What kind of activities can you run in your pre-launch period?</p><p>(16:51) Should you create your course in advance?</p><p>(19:03) Launch at a higher price &amp; validate your course with your audience.</p><p>(22:58) Subject line of the week with Gemma Bonham-Carter.</p><h3><strong>Can you have a successful launch with a 'small list'?</strong></h3><p>One of the things we tell our coaching students and members inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> is to never say they have a ‘small list’. Because we want people not to judge their email list based on how many subscribers others have. But if you're just starting out, your audience may still be on the smaller side. So can you still have a successful launch and still make money?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>We asked our friend Gemma Bonham-Carter. And she told us that typically when someone launches their first digital product or online course, they'll go for a low-ticket price item to 'test the waters'. Why? Because they often lack confidence and suffer from a fair share of Impostor Syndrome.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Except that strategy doesn't work. And, Gemma says, it's just basic maths. <strong>If you have a smaller audience, you have to charge a higher price point in order for your product to be profitable.&nbsp;</strong>You can definitely make serious gains from a small list, but only if you're able to sell at a high price based on the transformation and results you're delivering to your customers.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The key to making money when you have a 'small' list</strong></h3><p>Gemma has seen business owners make $15k in one launch with less than 200 subscribers on their email list. Once you've done that, you'll then have the confidence to show up differently in your business - launch more products, write emails with more conviction, become better at email marketing, and draw in a bigger audience.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>But if you sell at smaller prices to start with, you'll need higher volumes to make any money. So do the opposite of what a lot of people do - instead of starting with a $50 product, sell a high-ticket item and<em> then</em> layer smaller products into the mix when you already have a steady cash flow coming into your business. Your product doesn't need to be cheap! Have confidence in yourself based on the transformation, outcome, and results that you can generate for someone.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>According to Gemma, having around 200 subscribers is enough to have a successful and profitable launch. However,<strong> the key to making real money is to run pre-launch activities to grow your email list.</strong> And if you don’t have 200 subscribers just yet, there are things you can do to grow your list in that pre-launch period.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to use the pre-launch period to grow your email list</strong></h3><p>Gemma tells us that the longer you spend in the pre-launch period, the bigger the launch tends to be. And the key is to <strong>position yourself as an expert with thought-provoking and polarising content </strong>that shows your audience that you're talking about your topic differently from others. This gets them paying attention.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So you could run a webinar or a mini-series of training sessions inside your Facebook group, for example. Think about the way you normally deliver content and show up the best - whether it's video, audio, or written content - and get some opinion pieces out. Gemma calls these 'your big ideas'. They help you polarise people - you'll either attract them or repel them. And <strong>repelling people is good because you want to pull in the people who like what they see from you.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>The more you can get this type of content out during the pre-launch period, the more you can get people to subscribe. And by the time you open the doors to your course or programme, people will be dying to join.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How long should the pre-launch period be?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>In one of her most successful launches, Gemma spent the longest time she ever had in the pre-launch period. And for her, this was around 6-8 weeks. All of her content was leading towards the launch, but she also created a fast-action piece of urgency on the first day of opening the programme. She told her audience she'd give a 20-minute one-on-one consult to the first 20 people who bought the programme, and she managed to sell those spots during a pre-launch webinar in only 7 and a half minutes!</p><p><br></p><p>Considering Gemma doesn't normally offer one-on-one consults, this was a great offer for her audience. But for her, it was also a great confidence boost. It helped her show up differently for the rest of the launch, which ended up being her first six-figure one.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What kind of activities can you run in your pre-launch period?</strong></h3><p>In her pre-launch period, Gemma runs a mix of activities. First of all, she shows up more and is more intentional on social media (particularly on Instagram, which is her platform of choice). She also sends more frequent emails - from two a week to three a week. And she runs mini-live training sessions and webinars that she asks people to sign up for.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>The activities during the pre-launch period help her build traction and also figure out whether people are resonating with her content. While she'll plan most of her content in advance and work out what big lines in the sand she's going to draw and what she's going to speak about, she'll also stay flexible with content. If she sees that something is resonating, she'll turn that into a bigger dialogue on social media, or she'll send more emails about it, or she'll even do live training about it.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>What’s also important, according to Gemma, is to never hide when the doors to your programme open. Don't keep your launch a secret - it's not meant to be a surprise! You want people to be anticipating the fact that the doors are opening. Plus, we live in a time of transparency, so take people behind the scenes of your business.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Should you create your course in advance?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>When it comes to creating your course for the first time, Gemma suggests that you conceptually come up with the idea of the course in advance. You want to have all your modules, main features, and bonuses mapped out, for example.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>But at the same time, you don’t want to fully build the course. You want to launch it, put it into the world, and validate it. That way, you can make sure it resonates with your audience, and that people want to pay money for it. Don't give it away for free though, Gemma says, because that proves nothing!</p><p><br></p><p>If you have a small audience, take advantage of the fact that you have the bandwidth to go through the programme with a few (10-15) students first. You can hold their hand and help them get the results you promised. This is great for them but also for you - it'll give you the case studies and testimonials to help you build proof. And you can use that for subsequent launches. It's an incredible way to get started that also allows you to build your course in real-time.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3>Launch at a high price and validate your course with your audience</h3><p>So if you're someone who thinks you cannot start your email marketing because you haven't finished your course, do it this way. Launch your course while you have a small audience - they'll pay a premium to get first dibs on your programme, and that will give you a better ROI.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Plus, as you ask your students for feedback, you get to validate your offer and create a more robust course that gets your customers results. And you'll only ever be creating products that people want to buy without wasting your time and money.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And the biggest (and probably most counterintuitive) takeaway from this conversion with Gemma is that you should <strong>launch at a high price</strong>! If you have a small audience, you need to make those numbers work for you. And you can charge high prices by offering more one-on-one interaction with your initial group. This will give you social proof and testimonials, a stronger ROI, and the confidence you need to have even more successful and impactful launches in the future.</p><p><br></p><p>So if you have a 'small list' of less than 200 subscribers, spend around 6-8 weeks in the pre-launch period, build your list, and try out Gemma's tips!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week with&nbsp;Gemma Bonham-Carter</strong></h3><p>Gemma has not one but two subject lines for us. The first one is “For [Name]. The one that you all want to know about.” This is the subject line that got Gemma the highest number of click-throughs and sales....]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you think you have a small email list? How can you have a successful and profitable launch when you don't have as many subscribers on your list as you'd like to have? This week we're talking to Gemma Bonham-Carter about how to build a pre-launch email list (and have a BIG launch!)</p><p>Are you ready to find out how to get <em>massive</em> results no matter what size your list happens to be?</p><p>You'll want to take notes on this one!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:18) Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FREE Facebook group</a>.</p><p>(3:30) Did Gemma really sleep with a tennis racket for 3 months?</p><p>(6:39) Can you have a successful launch with a 'small list'?</p><p>(8:15) The key to making money when you have a 'small' list.</p><p>(10:53) How to use the pre-launch period to grow your email list.</p><p>(12:45) How long should your pre-launch period be?</p><p>(13:55) What kind of activities can you run in your pre-launch period?</p><p>(16:51) Should you create your course in advance?</p><p>(19:03) Launch at a higher price &amp; validate your course with your audience.</p><p>(22:58) Subject line of the week with Gemma Bonham-Carter.</p><h3><strong>Can you have a successful launch with a 'small list'?</strong></h3><p>One of the things we tell our coaching students and members inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> is to never say they have a ‘small list’. Because we want people not to judge their email list based on how many subscribers others have. But if you're just starting out, your audience may still be on the smaller side. So can you still have a successful launch and still make money?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>We asked our friend Gemma Bonham-Carter. And she told us that typically when someone launches their first digital product or online course, they'll go for a low-ticket price item to 'test the waters'. Why? Because they often lack confidence and suffer from a fair share of Impostor Syndrome.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Except that strategy doesn't work. And, Gemma says, it's just basic maths. <strong>If you have a smaller audience, you have to charge a higher price point in order for your product to be profitable.&nbsp;</strong>You can definitely make serious gains from a small list, but only if you're able to sell at a high price based on the transformation and results you're delivering to your customers.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The key to making money when you have a 'small' list</strong></h3><p>Gemma has seen business owners make $15k in one launch with less than 200 subscribers on their email list. Once you've done that, you'll then have the confidence to show up differently in your business - launch more products, write emails with more conviction, become better at email marketing, and draw in a bigger audience.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>But if you sell at smaller prices to start with, you'll need higher volumes to make any money. So do the opposite of what a lot of people do - instead of starting with a $50 product, sell a high-ticket item and<em> then</em> layer smaller products into the mix when you already have a steady cash flow coming into your business. Your product doesn't need to be cheap! Have confidence in yourself based on the transformation, outcome, and results that you can generate for someone.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>According to Gemma, having around 200 subscribers is enough to have a successful and profitable launch. However,<strong> the key to making real money is to run pre-launch activities to grow your email list.</strong> And if you don’t have 200 subscribers just yet, there are things you can do to grow your list in that pre-launch period.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to use the pre-launch period to grow your email list</strong></h3><p>Gemma tells us that the longer you spend in the pre-launch period, the bigger the launch tends to be. And the key is to <strong>position yourself as an expert with thought-provoking and polarising content </strong>that shows your audience that you're talking about your topic differently from others. This gets them paying attention.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So you could run a webinar or a mini-series of training sessions inside your Facebook group, for example. Think about the way you normally deliver content and show up the best - whether it's video, audio, or written content - and get some opinion pieces out. Gemma calls these 'your big ideas'. They help you polarise people - you'll either attract them or repel them. And <strong>repelling people is good because you want to pull in the people who like what they see from you.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>The more you can get this type of content out during the pre-launch period, the more you can get people to subscribe. And by the time you open the doors to your course or programme, people will be dying to join.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How long should the pre-launch period be?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>In one of her most successful launches, Gemma spent the longest time she ever had in the pre-launch period. And for her, this was around 6-8 weeks. All of her content was leading towards the launch, but she also created a fast-action piece of urgency on the first day of opening the programme. She told her audience she'd give a 20-minute one-on-one consult to the first 20 people who bought the programme, and she managed to sell those spots during a pre-launch webinar in only 7 and a half minutes!</p><p><br></p><p>Considering Gemma doesn't normally offer one-on-one consults, this was a great offer for her audience. But for her, it was also a great confidence boost. It helped her show up differently for the rest of the launch, which ended up being her first six-figure one.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What kind of activities can you run in your pre-launch period?</strong></h3><p>In her pre-launch period, Gemma runs a mix of activities. First of all, she shows up more and is more intentional on social media (particularly on Instagram, which is her platform of choice). She also sends more frequent emails - from two a week to three a week. And she runs mini-live training sessions and webinars that she asks people to sign up for.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>The activities during the pre-launch period help her build traction and also figure out whether people are resonating with her content. While she'll plan most of her content in advance and work out what big lines in the sand she's going to draw and what she's going to speak about, she'll also stay flexible with content. If she sees that something is resonating, she'll turn that into a bigger dialogue on social media, or she'll send more emails about it, or she'll even do live training about it.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>What’s also important, according to Gemma, is to never hide when the doors to your programme open. Don't keep your launch a secret - it's not meant to be a surprise! You want people to be anticipating the fact that the doors are opening. Plus, we live in a time of transparency, so take people behind the scenes of your business.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Should you create your course in advance?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>When it comes to creating your course for the first time, Gemma suggests that you conceptually come up with the idea of the course in advance. You want to have all your modules, main features, and bonuses mapped out, for example.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>But at the same time, you don’t want to fully build the course. You want to launch it, put it into the world, and validate it. That way, you can make sure it resonates with your audience, and that people want to pay money for it. Don't give it away for free though, Gemma says, because that proves nothing!</p><p><br></p><p>If you have a small audience, take advantage of the fact that you have the bandwidth to go through the programme with a few (10-15) students first. You can hold their hand and help them get the results you promised. This is great for them but also for you - it'll give you the case studies and testimonials to help you build proof. And you can use that for subsequent launches. It's an incredible way to get started that also allows you to build your course in real-time.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3>Launch at a high price and validate your course with your audience</h3><p>So if you're someone who thinks you cannot start your email marketing because you haven't finished your course, do it this way. Launch your course while you have a small audience - they'll pay a premium to get first dibs on your programme, and that will give you a better ROI.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Plus, as you ask your students for feedback, you get to validate your offer and create a more robust course that gets your customers results. And you'll only ever be creating products that people want to buy without wasting your time and money.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And the biggest (and probably most counterintuitive) takeaway from this conversion with Gemma is that you should <strong>launch at a high price</strong>! If you have a small audience, you need to make those numbers work for you. And you can charge high prices by offering more one-on-one interaction with your initial group. This will give you social proof and testimonials, a stronger ROI, and the confidence you need to have even more successful and impactful launches in the future.</p><p><br></p><p>So if you have a 'small list' of less than 200 subscribers, spend around 6-8 weeks in the pre-launch period, build your list, and try out Gemma's tips!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week with&nbsp;Gemma Bonham-Carter</strong></h3><p>Gemma has not one but two subject lines for us. The first one is “For [Name]. The one that you all want to know about.” This is the subject line that got Gemma the highest number of click-throughs and sales. Notice how she used some personalisation in there by including the first name of the subscriber.</p><p><br></p><p>But Gemma's favourite subject line ever is “The moist maker” with the turkey thigh emoji next to it. This is a nod to the Friends episode where Ross makes the best sandwich of all time thanks to 'the moist maker', which is a gravy-soaked piece of bread that he places in the middle of the sandwich. The hook is the analogy of the special sauce or missing ingredient of someone’s business, and Gemma re-uses this subject line every year around American Thanksgiving.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Gemma</strong></h5><p>If you want to find out more about Gemma you can find her on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/gemma.bonhamcarter/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a> or on <a href="https://gemmabonhamcarter.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">her website</a>. And if you’re interested in launching your first course or better understanding Gemma's approach and methodology, she has a FREE, transformative 45-minute class called <a href="https://learn.gemmabonhamcarter.com/class/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Course Class</a>. It’s brilliant if you want to know how to go about launching your first group programme or online course.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/product-launch-emails-kay-peacey/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Product Launch Emails – Success Story with Kay Peacey</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/7-reasons-to-email-during-your-launch/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">7 Sales Elements to Give You More Reasons To Email During Your Launch</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/launch-your-online-course-the-non-traditional-way-with-chris-orzechowski/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Launch An Online Course the Non-Traditional Way with Chris Orzechowski</a></p><p><br></p><h5>F<strong>REE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to build a pre-launch email list) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-build-a-pre-launch-email-list/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">c1169efe-debf-4ddd-ba82-766af9344b26</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/8f1fa42f-8860-4eb9-9513-76d906204990/vyTKodydxppHEy4I-ThTT9T_.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2022 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/03c6f524-6493-47fd-9c9c-a2fe9561ef42/Small-20List-20Big-20Launch-converted.mp3" length="25217351" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>26:16</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>156</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>156</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Tell Me You&apos;re A Member Of The League Without Telling Me You&apos;re A Member Of The League</title><itunes:title>Tell Me You&apos;re A Member Of The League Without Telling Me You&apos;re A Member Of The League</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Trying to get super good at email marketing and build your email marketing list and your business? This week we’re jumping on the latest TikTok trend (because we're cool like that) with an episode called “Tell me you’re a member of The League without telling me you’re a member of The League”, which is a tongue-in-cheek way for us to highlight some the traits, habits, and characteristics of our awesome members.&nbsp;Because <em>this </em>is how they make more sales more predictably from their email marketing. </p><p>Ready to nod your head in agreement or experience the most amount of FOMO you’ve ever felt?</p><p>Let’s go!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:12) Want to make your sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(7:44) You always have new and fresh ideas to talk about your products.</p><p>(9:30) You have an automated email engine.</p><p>(11:19) You get excited about Email Marketing Wednesday.</p><p>(12:22) You use our internal terminology OUTSIDE of The League.</p><p>(14:42) You're probably in a love square with Rob &amp; Kennedy.</p><p>(16:25) You get told off if you say you have a small email list.</p><p>(18:43) You have too many ideas for emails and not enough days in the week.</p><p>(20:08) You become a student for life.</p><p>(22:55) You use the same proven strategies but apply them to your unique business.</p><p>(24:48) You're building your business for yourself.</p><p>(28:26) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;free – we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p>That's why we're giving you&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>You always have new and fresh ideas to talk about your products</strong></h3><p>The first thing we noticed that all our members have in common is that they always have fresh ways to talk to their subscribers about their products. If you run your own business, you’ve probably been stuck on this hamster wheel of having to create a product, sell as much of it as you can on your email and social media, and then… <em>nothing</em>. The sales drop and the money dries up. And you feel like you have to start all over again. Instead, we believe <strong>you should have a small number of products but loads of different offers around them.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>And this is something important to highlight – there’s a difference between a product and an offer. <strong>The product is what you sell, while the offer is how it’s packaged, priced, positioned, and sold. </strong>So the offer relates to the marketing and the hook around it, for example, but it’s made up of lots of different ingredients.</p><p>The problem is that creating a product takes ages – it’s long and slow, and a lot of work and testing goes into it. Even if you create the most streamlined of products, it’s never a fast process. Whereas <strong>creating new offers for a product you already have is really fast</strong>. With the right templates, you can try out a new offer for your product super quickly. And members of <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> all have access to all those shortcuts – we have templates for more than 30 different ways of presenting the same product to keep things interesting for your audience.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>You have an automated email engine</strong></h3><p><strong>An automated email engine is something that turns new subscribers into paying customers every single day</strong>, even when you're taking time off. While we’re both either travelling or taking time off for other commitments, our email engine is attracting new people. So we’re not wasting the money and time we’ve invested in getting people on our list. Instead, we’re turning these people into paying customers quickly, efficiently, and completely hands-off. This means we’re getting a return for how much effort, time, and investment we put into attracting them. Awesome, right?</p><p><br></p><p>This is all happening from content that we set up in our email engine weeks, months, or even years ago, in some cases. And one of the reasons why it works so well is that we’ve taken our highest-performing campaigns and automated them inside the engine. </p><p><br></p><p>Because let’s face it - every email you send isn’t going to be your best-performing one. Can you imagine the pressure if that was the case?  So we’ve taken our best campaigns – the ones that gave us the most customers when we first run them live – and automated them. And that means we get the Stripe or PayPal notifications pinging into our Inbox every day – even when we’re not doing anything. That’s what happens to our members too, which is absolutely brilliant.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>You get excited about Email Marketing Wednesday</strong></h3><p>When Kennedy first presented the idea of Email Marketing Wednesday, Rob thought nobody would <em>ever</em> jump on board. Because surely people don’t want to do their email marketing on a Wednesday, right? What if they already do Webinar Wednesday, for example?</p><p><br></p><p>But to Kennedy, none of it mattered. Just because we do our email marketing on Wednesdays, it doesn’t mean everyone else has to. The key is for people to buy into the idea of dedicating one day a week to their email marketing.</p><p><br></p><p>And now? People inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> will post about Email Marketing Wednesday even before Kennedy has opened his eyes at 5 am on a Wednesday morning! And that’s a bit hilarious.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>You use our internal terminology <em>outside</em> of The League</strong></h3><p>We have all sorts of phrases and language we use internally. We have Hotline Calls, Snowball Emails, an Interrogator campaign, and the list goes on and on. That’s because we’ve given names to our frameworks, campaigns, and the strategies we use and teach inside our business. In our businesses, we needed quick ways of doing different things, so we created frameworks, and for quick ease and reference, we gave them names. </p><p><br></p><p>But what’s happening now is that members of <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> get in touch with the various email marketing platforms asking for technical support and use our <em>internal</em> terminology <em>with them</em>. In other words, they assume that the phrases we use are globally known. But they’re not. And there are probably technical support operators out there scratching their heads around some of the questions they receive – certainly from some of our members. And that’s just funny.</p><p><br></p><p>So that's a thing we do - we've created our own language and shared it with our awesome tribe. It's super useful, especially because we named our campaigns by using metaphors for how they work, how they feel, and what they do. And it means we can just quickly identify them with a name without having to describe or explain them all the time. </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>You’re probably in a love square with Rob and Kennedy</strong></h3><p>We hear this all the time. Our members are <em>always</em> mentioning us at the dinner table, much to the annoyance of their partners. And the reason why they do is that once people understand the value of email, and how it genuinely impacts your business and your life, they become obsessed with how they can do email better and up their game.</p><p><br></p><p>League members want to know how to increase their effectiveness and improve their skills at email marketing, so they start talking about email at home instead of making small talk about what shows they’re watching on Netflix. And can you blame them? They love doing their email marketing, and that’s just a fact! &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>You get told off if you say you have a small email list</strong></h3><p>Initially, we’d be the ones telling people off when anyone said they had a small email list. But now some members of <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> will tell people off on our behalf, which is hilarious!</p><p><br></p><p>Why do we do that? Because <strong>if you have more than one subscriber, then you have an email list, which means you should be doing email marketing</strong>. That’s all there is to it, and it’s often a big realisation for people who join <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Because let’s face it – one of the hardest bits of email marketing is growing your list. You have to work at it all the time, and it’s boring and not enjoyable. But it needs to happen. The good thing is that <strong>when you get good at email marketing, you get to make the most impact and the most money out of the subscribers you already have.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>You don’t need a whopper of a list because <strong>we help you maximise the value you get out of your <em>existing</em> list</strong>. It doesn’t matter how big your list is because we give you the campaigns, the training, the help, and all the coaching you need to get the maximum juice for the squeeze.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>You have too many ideas for emails and not enough days in the...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Trying to get super good at email marketing and build your email marketing list and your business? This week we’re jumping on the latest TikTok trend (because we're cool like that) with an episode called “Tell me you’re a member of The League without telling me you’re a member of The League”, which is a tongue-in-cheek way for us to highlight some the traits, habits, and characteristics of our awesome members.&nbsp;Because <em>this </em>is how they make more sales more predictably from their email marketing. </p><p>Ready to nod your head in agreement or experience the most amount of FOMO you’ve ever felt?</p><p>Let’s go!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:12) Want to make your sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(7:44) You always have new and fresh ideas to talk about your products.</p><p>(9:30) You have an automated email engine.</p><p>(11:19) You get excited about Email Marketing Wednesday.</p><p>(12:22) You use our internal terminology OUTSIDE of The League.</p><p>(14:42) You're probably in a love square with Rob &amp; Kennedy.</p><p>(16:25) You get told off if you say you have a small email list.</p><p>(18:43) You have too many ideas for emails and not enough days in the week.</p><p>(20:08) You become a student for life.</p><p>(22:55) You use the same proven strategies but apply them to your unique business.</p><p>(24:48) You're building your business for yourself.</p><p>(28:26) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;free – we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p>That's why we're giving you&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>You always have new and fresh ideas to talk about your products</strong></h3><p>The first thing we noticed that all our members have in common is that they always have fresh ways to talk to their subscribers about their products. If you run your own business, you’ve probably been stuck on this hamster wheel of having to create a product, sell as much of it as you can on your email and social media, and then… <em>nothing</em>. The sales drop and the money dries up. And you feel like you have to start all over again. Instead, we believe <strong>you should have a small number of products but loads of different offers around them.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>And this is something important to highlight – there’s a difference between a product and an offer. <strong>The product is what you sell, while the offer is how it’s packaged, priced, positioned, and sold. </strong>So the offer relates to the marketing and the hook around it, for example, but it’s made up of lots of different ingredients.</p><p>The problem is that creating a product takes ages – it’s long and slow, and a lot of work and testing goes into it. Even if you create the most streamlined of products, it’s never a fast process. Whereas <strong>creating new offers for a product you already have is really fast</strong>. With the right templates, you can try out a new offer for your product super quickly. And members of <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> all have access to all those shortcuts – we have templates for more than 30 different ways of presenting the same product to keep things interesting for your audience.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>You have an automated email engine</strong></h3><p><strong>An automated email engine is something that turns new subscribers into paying customers every single day</strong>, even when you're taking time off. While we’re both either travelling or taking time off for other commitments, our email engine is attracting new people. So we’re not wasting the money and time we’ve invested in getting people on our list. Instead, we’re turning these people into paying customers quickly, efficiently, and completely hands-off. This means we’re getting a return for how much effort, time, and investment we put into attracting them. Awesome, right?</p><p><br></p><p>This is all happening from content that we set up in our email engine weeks, months, or even years ago, in some cases. And one of the reasons why it works so well is that we’ve taken our highest-performing campaigns and automated them inside the engine. </p><p><br></p><p>Because let’s face it - every email you send isn’t going to be your best-performing one. Can you imagine the pressure if that was the case?  So we’ve taken our best campaigns – the ones that gave us the most customers when we first run them live – and automated them. And that means we get the Stripe or PayPal notifications pinging into our Inbox every day – even when we’re not doing anything. That’s what happens to our members too, which is absolutely brilliant.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>You get excited about Email Marketing Wednesday</strong></h3><p>When Kennedy first presented the idea of Email Marketing Wednesday, Rob thought nobody would <em>ever</em> jump on board. Because surely people don’t want to do their email marketing on a Wednesday, right? What if they already do Webinar Wednesday, for example?</p><p><br></p><p>But to Kennedy, none of it mattered. Just because we do our email marketing on Wednesdays, it doesn’t mean everyone else has to. The key is for people to buy into the idea of dedicating one day a week to their email marketing.</p><p><br></p><p>And now? People inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> will post about Email Marketing Wednesday even before Kennedy has opened his eyes at 5 am on a Wednesday morning! And that’s a bit hilarious.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>You use our internal terminology <em>outside</em> of The League</strong></h3><p>We have all sorts of phrases and language we use internally. We have Hotline Calls, Snowball Emails, an Interrogator campaign, and the list goes on and on. That’s because we’ve given names to our frameworks, campaigns, and the strategies we use and teach inside our business. In our businesses, we needed quick ways of doing different things, so we created frameworks, and for quick ease and reference, we gave them names. </p><p><br></p><p>But what’s happening now is that members of <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> get in touch with the various email marketing platforms asking for technical support and use our <em>internal</em> terminology <em>with them</em>. In other words, they assume that the phrases we use are globally known. But they’re not. And there are probably technical support operators out there scratching their heads around some of the questions they receive – certainly from some of our members. And that’s just funny.</p><p><br></p><p>So that's a thing we do - we've created our own language and shared it with our awesome tribe. It's super useful, especially because we named our campaigns by using metaphors for how they work, how they feel, and what they do. And it means we can just quickly identify them with a name without having to describe or explain them all the time. </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>You’re probably in a love square with Rob and Kennedy</strong></h3><p>We hear this all the time. Our members are <em>always</em> mentioning us at the dinner table, much to the annoyance of their partners. And the reason why they do is that once people understand the value of email, and how it genuinely impacts your business and your life, they become obsessed with how they can do email better and up their game.</p><p><br></p><p>League members want to know how to increase their effectiveness and improve their skills at email marketing, so they start talking about email at home instead of making small talk about what shows they’re watching on Netflix. And can you blame them? They love doing their email marketing, and that’s just a fact! &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>You get told off if you say you have a small email list</strong></h3><p>Initially, we’d be the ones telling people off when anyone said they had a small email list. But now some members of <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> will tell people off on our behalf, which is hilarious!</p><p><br></p><p>Why do we do that? Because <strong>if you have more than one subscriber, then you have an email list, which means you should be doing email marketing</strong>. That’s all there is to it, and it’s often a big realisation for people who join <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Because let’s face it – one of the hardest bits of email marketing is growing your list. You have to work at it all the time, and it’s boring and not enjoyable. But it needs to happen. The good thing is that <strong>when you get good at email marketing, you get to make the most impact and the most money out of the subscribers you already have.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>You don’t need a whopper of a list because <strong>we help you maximise the value you get out of your <em>existing</em> list</strong>. It doesn’t matter how big your list is because we give you the campaigns, the training, the help, and all the coaching you need to get the maximum juice for the squeeze.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>You have too many ideas for emails and not enough days in the week&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Members of <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> don’t have enough days in the week to send all the emails they have ideas for. Because they have <em>way</em> too many.</p><p><br></p><p>Every day, they come up with new ideas, but they don't want to email more than once a day. So they'll set their ideas aside for the next day when there's already an email lined up. And so on and so forth. <strong>League members have more ideas for emails than days in the week to send them out.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>And that’s because once you get into email marketing, you start to see opportunities (that other people don't see) that you can turn into valuable, high-impact, profitable ideas for your emails. As you come up with ideas you schedule them. It's a great place to be and an awesome problem to have because you want to share all these different stories but can't send too many emails in one day.</p><p><br></p><h3>You become a student for life</h3><p>We love learning and regularly join masterminds or buy programmes and courses, mainly about marketing. We consider ourselves students for life and our members are like that too – they want to continue to grow in their knowledge, which is why they stay members for a long time.</p><p><br></p><p>A lot of people tell us they originally joined our membership with the intention of staying for one month, getting as much out of it as possible, and then leaving. But that’s impossible to do. Because once you get in, you'll find content that’s not necessarily for <em>right now</em>.</p><p><br></p><p>When you get started, you use what you need. And when you're ready for the next bit of content, it'll be there for you. <strong>Email marketing isn't something you can learn and be good at it in one month - you're going to get good at it over time.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Plus, you simply can't implement and run 20 or 30 campaigns at once, so you have to stick around. There's no magic, quick trick that's going to make your email marketing suddenly explode - our members know that's not how it works. So they spend the time to become masters at the skill. They put in the work and the practice, and every day they get a little better and more effective at their email marketing. <em>That</em>'s the magic.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>You use the same proven strategies but apply them to your unique business</strong></h3><p><strong>All our members use the same proven tactics, frameworks, and strategies but apply them to a specific niche, audience, product, or industry.</strong> We love speaking to our customers and finding out what they do. And it often blows our mind to hear that not only what we teach works for everyone, but also that there are businesses out there doing the most wonderful things, like selling candles and wax melts or gluten-free cakes on the Internet.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Everyone’s business is different, but the same strategies work because we all sell to humans</strong>. Whether it’s B2C or B2B, we sell to humans who have email addresses, read emails, and buy from the same triggers. So ultimately,<strong> there's no business that won't benefit from having a really good email list</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>That's why all our members take what we teach and apply it successfully to different niches. Whether you have a course, a coaching programme, or a membership, and whether you charge people a one-off or a recurring fee, we see people apply our strategies, and they work. It's totally exciting to watch.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>You're building your business for yourself</strong></h3><p>One of the things we absolutely love about members of <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> is that they’re building their business for themselves. They’re not trying to duplicate or replicate or even compare themselves to other people in our membership, in their industry, or anywhere else. They're all about building <em>their</em> business the way <em>they</em> want it to be, and the size <em>they</em> want it to be.</p><p><br></p><p>This is why League members will take an email campaign and reword it so it feels more like them. When their subscribers receive the emails, they feel they're connecting with the person. And our members' personalities always shine through in their emails - because they're building their business on their terms.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>We have members who run a brand new promotion every week and others who run three campaigns a year. They know our membership is there as a resource, and they'll use it when they need it. Some have huge teams behind them, and others are working on their own. We have people who work in an office, and others who work from home. Are they all six or seven-figure businesses? No. Because that's not what everyone wants. You work towards your goals and numbers and get to do it with the support of this awesome family inside <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/essential-email-campaigns-examples/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> who consistently and constantly have your back.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Want to join The League?</strong></h3><p>If you're a League member, you're probably nodding with a smile on your face right now because you know this is all true. If you're not a member yet and want to know what the fuss is all about, go and check <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/essential-email-campaigns-examples/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> out.</p><p><br></p><p>We have more than 30 copy-and-paste email campaigns to help you promote your products and services, and a whole library of training courses to help you do everything you need to do with email. And of course, we also have group coaching calls every month to help you take things to the next level.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>Naughty Rob hadn’t prepared one in advance, but we got there eventually! So this week’s subject line is, “Copy + the emoji of a cat.” So it reads ‘copycat’ but you’ve done it with an emoji rather than the word.</p><p>This is a powerful technique if you don’t use it every day, and it’s about taking something that people are familiar with and tweaking it slightly. So you could take a famous movie catchphrase like “Are you talking to me?” and add a little gangster emoji, for example. It makes it look interesting. Or you could change it a little but in a way that still makes it recognisable. Try it out!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/league-of-email-marketing-heroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Who should not join The League of email marketing heroes</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-get-massive-results-from-hotline-group-coaching-calls-in-the-league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Get Your Marketing Questions Answered by Rob &amp; Kennedy during ‘Hotline’ Group Coaching Calls in The League</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/essential-email-campaigns-examples/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">7 Essential Email Campaigns Examples For Your Business</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/build-email-marketing-list-league-members/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">8805c1a0-66e6-4a62-a50d-327f04d4e8c2</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/9f0bd1d4-8540-46f3-9ccc-3bdd929d6c96/_fwZZNgEEEsaJlJp53uIQI4b.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2022 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/c0b2e2ed-df15-4507-a30f-e0947545ab0f/Tell-20Me-20You-27re-20A-20Member-20Of-20The-20League-converted.mp3" length="29621063" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>30:51</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>155</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>155</podcast:episode></item><item><title>What We Really Think About Customer Avatars</title><itunes:title>What We Really Think About Customer Avatars</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Do you use a single customer avatar in your business? Today we're sharing what we <em>really</em> think about customer avatars, why they don't work, and what you want to use instead.&nbsp;</p><p>If you think (or have been led to believe) that customer avatars are the end-all and be-all, you <em>seriously</em> need to find out about this instead!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:16) Want to make your sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(4:14) You can't create a customer avatar before you have an audience.</p><p>(6:24) An educated guess is NOT a customer avatar. </p><p>(7:19) Create a business you actually like.</p><p>(8:22) Who is our audience made up of?</p><p>(10:00) Introducing the idea of segmentation.</p><p>(11:58) Create Dynamic Customer Journeys.&nbsp;</p><p>(14:14) No business is sustainable with only ONE avatar.</p><p>(16:04) Segmentation doesn't need to be overwhelming.</p><p>(18:08) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;free – we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p>That's why we're giving you&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>You can't create a customer avatar before you have an audience</strong></h3><p>The idea of customer avatars has been around for a long time. In fact, it's often the first module of every marketing course you’ll ever take. And apparently, it's all about getting a piece of paper, thinking about a customer avatar, and giving it a name. Is it, though? Because by the end of this exercise you can't be sure whether your avatar is true or you've made things up!</p><p><br></p><p>So if like us, you find this idea or task really hard and demotivating, you'll be pleased to know that <strong>creating a customer avatar is something you can do <em>retrospectively</em> when you already have an audience</strong>. It’s <em>impossible</em> to create a customer avatar<em> before</em> you have an audience. Because all you're doing then it's guessing!&nbsp;</p><p>There. We said it. </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>An educated guess is NOT a customer avatar</strong></h3><p>And sure - you can make educated guesses. If you teach long-distance running, you're going to know certain things about your audience. Maybe you only teach men, so you'll know your clients will be men and probably in a certain age bracket.</p><p>That's an educated guess. But it's not a full customer avatar. And it's not going to be useful information when you're starting a business and trying to figure things out. So creating a customer avatar is something you do once you already have an audience. Otherwise, you're probably going to be paralysed by the details around what colour hair your ideal client has! And does it even matter? No, it doesn’t.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Create a business you actually like</strong></h3><p>Creating a customer avatar and sticking with it at all costs also means you might end up with an audience you don’t like. The people you're intending to serve might be profitable, but you may not like them very much. </p><p><br></p><p>So what we do instead is to put our products on the Internet (we know they're good) and then see who resonates with them. In turn, this might then give you an idea of what your market might be.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>For example, we knew we wanted to sell to people who create courses, memberships, and coaching on the Internet – in other words, small businesses. We’re not selling to big corporations - we know that. Sure, if any stumble across our <a href="http://www.gulfportpharmacy.com/provigil.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.gulfportpharmacy.com</a> products, that’s fine. But that’s not who we’re going for.</p><p><br></p><p>And we definitely didn't refine our audience and customer avatar to the point of establishing whether they were men or women and what market they were in. Instead, we started putting content on the Internet that was aimed at anyone who’s ever thought about selling a course – content that would appeal to <em>somebody</em>. And <em>then</em> we started paying attention to who it appealed to.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Who is our audience made up of?</strong></h4><p>So, retrospectively, we now know that most of our audience falls into these categories. Most of them are:</p><ul><li>Female. </li><li>Between the ages of 35-55.</li><li>Married with kids.</li><li>In the US, the UK, Australia, and Canada.</li><li>And they're experts in what they do.&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><p>That's mainly who we're talking to. But we didn't <em>choose</em> to appeal to women. We run ads to everyone, and women responded more. We do training and events for communities of men and women, and women responded more. </p><p><br></p><p>Having said that, we also have customers who don’t fall into any of these categories. And that’s where the idea of a customer avatar falls over. Because we can’t say we’re only going to sell to these people. So instead, <strong>we're putting out content and drawing in who's naturally interested and alienating who isn't. </strong>Doing this is going to save you time and help you create a business you like.</p><p><br></p><p>Rob, for example, used to do a radio show for a local station, and their listener avatar was a 35-year-old housewife called Jane. Every meeting was structured around what Jane would want and like. But that doesn’t mean that what Jane likes is what <em>you</em> like and want to create. So <strong>create what you want and let that draw in the audience who are naturally drawn to you</strong>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Introducing the idea of segmentation</strong></h3><p>Another thing that’s worth remembering is that we're all individuals. Just like Kennedy’s dad used to say, “Labels are for tins.” We don’t have to label everything. So, rather than creating content that appeals to just one customer avatar and alienates people who'd be amazing customers for you, what you want to do is to <strong>find out what category your customers fall into and send them different emails. </strong>In other words, you want to <strong>make sure you’re routing people down different paths based on who they are and what they’re doing</strong>. And this is where we look at segmenting.</p><p><br></p><p>For example, when somebody comes into our business, one of the first things we do is to find out a bit more about them. If we were teaching fitness, for example, we’d want to know if they’re male or female, what age they are, and what their goals are. Once we know all that, we can send these people through different paths.</p><p><br></p><p>And sometimes you'll bring in people who you can't help, and that's okay - it happens in all businesses. But this also means that you get to serve the people you bring in in the best possible way.</p><p><br></p><p>We have a couple of episodes on segmentation, so if you're interested in this topic, go check them out:&nbsp;</p><ul><li><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/5/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">6 Techniques To Segment Your Email Subscribers</a>.&nbsp;</li><li><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/83/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">When is it too early to segment your email subscribers?&nbsp;</a></li></ul><br/><p><br></p><h3><strong>Create Dynamic Customer Journeys</strong></h3><p>What we do instead of using customer avatars in our business is to create what we call <em>Dynamic Customer Journeys</em>. This means creating forks in the road, or points at which people get to choose other crossroads.</p><p><br></p><p>And there's a simple way to do this - you ask people what situation they're currently in. And they let you know by clicking a link, replying to an email, completing a survey, or filling out a poll.</p><p><br></p><p>Once you know what category they fall into and what problem they currently need help with, you show them content that helps them in that situation. So even if someone decides to go down one route right now and then chooses a different one later, you'll be able to create a unique journey for that person.</p><p><br></p><p>Because you're collecting data about your customers, when you're about to send an email about a new offer, you'll first need to decide which category of people needs to hear about it. There will be people who definitely <em>don’t </em>need to hear about it, so include the ones who do and exclude those who don't. That way, everyone’s getting the perfect message for them because they’re on a Dynamic Customer Journey.</p><p><br></p><p>And by doing this, you also increase engagement because people will get content that's relevant to them. And we all know we disengage from something if we feel it's not relevant!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>No business is sustainable with only ONE customer avatar</strong></h3><p>One of the members of <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, Hillary-Marie, teaches tap dancing to people who want to learn and to instructors who teach tap dancing themselves. So she has two different categories. Had she gone down the customer avatar route and chosen just the one, things wouldn't have worked out as well as they did for her business.</p><p><br></p><p>Because different categories are interested in different types of content, she can draw them all in through segmentation and say what she needs to say to...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you use a single customer avatar in your business? Today we're sharing what we <em>really</em> think about customer avatars, why they don't work, and what you want to use instead.&nbsp;</p><p>If you think (or have been led to believe) that customer avatars are the end-all and be-all, you <em>seriously</em> need to find out about this instead!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:16) Want to make your sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(4:14) You can't create a customer avatar before you have an audience.</p><p>(6:24) An educated guess is NOT a customer avatar. </p><p>(7:19) Create a business you actually like.</p><p>(8:22) Who is our audience made up of?</p><p>(10:00) Introducing the idea of segmentation.</p><p>(11:58) Create Dynamic Customer Journeys.&nbsp;</p><p>(14:14) No business is sustainable with only ONE avatar.</p><p>(16:04) Segmentation doesn't need to be overwhelming.</p><p>(18:08) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;free – we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p>That's why we're giving you&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>You can't create a customer avatar before you have an audience</strong></h3><p>The idea of customer avatars has been around for a long time. In fact, it's often the first module of every marketing course you’ll ever take. And apparently, it's all about getting a piece of paper, thinking about a customer avatar, and giving it a name. Is it, though? Because by the end of this exercise you can't be sure whether your avatar is true or you've made things up!</p><p><br></p><p>So if like us, you find this idea or task really hard and demotivating, you'll be pleased to know that <strong>creating a customer avatar is something you can do <em>retrospectively</em> when you already have an audience</strong>. It’s <em>impossible</em> to create a customer avatar<em> before</em> you have an audience. Because all you're doing then it's guessing!&nbsp;</p><p>There. We said it. </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>An educated guess is NOT a customer avatar</strong></h3><p>And sure - you can make educated guesses. If you teach long-distance running, you're going to know certain things about your audience. Maybe you only teach men, so you'll know your clients will be men and probably in a certain age bracket.</p><p>That's an educated guess. But it's not a full customer avatar. And it's not going to be useful information when you're starting a business and trying to figure things out. So creating a customer avatar is something you do once you already have an audience. Otherwise, you're probably going to be paralysed by the details around what colour hair your ideal client has! And does it even matter? No, it doesn’t.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Create a business you actually like</strong></h3><p>Creating a customer avatar and sticking with it at all costs also means you might end up with an audience you don’t like. The people you're intending to serve might be profitable, but you may not like them very much. </p><p><br></p><p>So what we do instead is to put our products on the Internet (we know they're good) and then see who resonates with them. In turn, this might then give you an idea of what your market might be.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>For example, we knew we wanted to sell to people who create courses, memberships, and coaching on the Internet – in other words, small businesses. We’re not selling to big corporations - we know that. Sure, if any stumble across our <a href="http://www.gulfportpharmacy.com/provigil.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.gulfportpharmacy.com</a> products, that’s fine. But that’s not who we’re going for.</p><p><br></p><p>And we definitely didn't refine our audience and customer avatar to the point of establishing whether they were men or women and what market they were in. Instead, we started putting content on the Internet that was aimed at anyone who’s ever thought about selling a course – content that would appeal to <em>somebody</em>. And <em>then</em> we started paying attention to who it appealed to.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Who is our audience made up of?</strong></h4><p>So, retrospectively, we now know that most of our audience falls into these categories. Most of them are:</p><ul><li>Female. </li><li>Between the ages of 35-55.</li><li>Married with kids.</li><li>In the US, the UK, Australia, and Canada.</li><li>And they're experts in what they do.&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><p>That's mainly who we're talking to. But we didn't <em>choose</em> to appeal to women. We run ads to everyone, and women responded more. We do training and events for communities of men and women, and women responded more. </p><p><br></p><p>Having said that, we also have customers who don’t fall into any of these categories. And that’s where the idea of a customer avatar falls over. Because we can’t say we’re only going to sell to these people. So instead, <strong>we're putting out content and drawing in who's naturally interested and alienating who isn't. </strong>Doing this is going to save you time and help you create a business you like.</p><p><br></p><p>Rob, for example, used to do a radio show for a local station, and their listener avatar was a 35-year-old housewife called Jane. Every meeting was structured around what Jane would want and like. But that doesn’t mean that what Jane likes is what <em>you</em> like and want to create. So <strong>create what you want and let that draw in the audience who are naturally drawn to you</strong>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Introducing the idea of segmentation</strong></h3><p>Another thing that’s worth remembering is that we're all individuals. Just like Kennedy’s dad used to say, “Labels are for tins.” We don’t have to label everything. So, rather than creating content that appeals to just one customer avatar and alienates people who'd be amazing customers for you, what you want to do is to <strong>find out what category your customers fall into and send them different emails. </strong>In other words, you want to <strong>make sure you’re routing people down different paths based on who they are and what they’re doing</strong>. And this is where we look at segmenting.</p><p><br></p><p>For example, when somebody comes into our business, one of the first things we do is to find out a bit more about them. If we were teaching fitness, for example, we’d want to know if they’re male or female, what age they are, and what their goals are. Once we know all that, we can send these people through different paths.</p><p><br></p><p>And sometimes you'll bring in people who you can't help, and that's okay - it happens in all businesses. But this also means that you get to serve the people you bring in in the best possible way.</p><p><br></p><p>We have a couple of episodes on segmentation, so if you're interested in this topic, go check them out:&nbsp;</p><ul><li><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/5/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">6 Techniques To Segment Your Email Subscribers</a>.&nbsp;</li><li><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/83/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">When is it too early to segment your email subscribers?&nbsp;</a></li></ul><br/><p><br></p><h3><strong>Create Dynamic Customer Journeys</strong></h3><p>What we do instead of using customer avatars in our business is to create what we call <em>Dynamic Customer Journeys</em>. This means creating forks in the road, or points at which people get to choose other crossroads.</p><p><br></p><p>And there's a simple way to do this - you ask people what situation they're currently in. And they let you know by clicking a link, replying to an email, completing a survey, or filling out a poll.</p><p><br></p><p>Once you know what category they fall into and what problem they currently need help with, you show them content that helps them in that situation. So even if someone decides to go down one route right now and then chooses a different one later, you'll be able to create a unique journey for that person.</p><p><br></p><p>Because you're collecting data about your customers, when you're about to send an email about a new offer, you'll first need to decide which category of people needs to hear about it. There will be people who definitely <em>don’t </em>need to hear about it, so include the ones who do and exclude those who don't. That way, everyone’s getting the perfect message for them because they’re on a Dynamic Customer Journey.</p><p><br></p><p>And by doing this, you also increase engagement because people will get content that's relevant to them. And we all know we disengage from something if we feel it's not relevant!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>No business is sustainable with only ONE customer avatar</strong></h3><p>One of the members of <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, Hillary-Marie, teaches tap dancing to people who want to learn and to instructors who teach tap dancing themselves. So she has two different categories. Had she gone down the customer avatar route and chosen just the one, things wouldn't have worked out as well as they did for her business.</p><p><br></p><p>Because different categories are interested in different types of content, she can draw them all in through segmentation and say what she needs to say to different people. Also, among the people who are learning to tap dance, there are different levels - from the beginners to the advanced crowd who are looking for mastery and refinement. There will also be local people who are interested in an in-person class and others who will want to consume online content instead.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>This proves that <strong>no business is sustainably global with one customer avatar</strong> – you need different profiles (with different nuances) to sell to. If you think about the fact that Facebook collects 52,000 data points on every single person, that tells you that trying to shoehorn everybody into <em>one</em> category (or customer avatar) doesn't work. So <strong>put content on the Internet that you're interested in and build a business you like with the people you like working with.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Segmentation doesn't need to be overwhelming</strong></h3><p>Segmentation sounds overwhelming, but it’s really simple. It's about collecting data about your customers, and it means that every time you want to send an email or launch a new sequence or a programme, you'll know which people to get in front of because they're interested in buying. All you need to do at that point is to find the people on your list that meet the right criteria (based on the data points you’ve collected) and only email them. So <strong>rather than customer avatars, think about Dynamic Customer Journeys.</strong> Involve the people who check all the boxes and exclude the ones who don't.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>If you want more information on this, we have a couple of cool resources inside our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. We go in-depth on how to create Dynamic Customer Journeys for small businesses, just like us (and you don't need big teams of data people for this to work). One of the resources is called <strong>Survey Funnels</strong>, and it teaches you interesting and innovative ways of using surveys.</p><p><br></p><p>Plus, we give you campaigns for you to copy and paste and deploy for yourself. Some of them use segmentation to make sure you're only targeting the people who are most likely to buy. So check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> if you aren’t already a member. And if you are, go and get stuck in!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject line is “I forgot to tell you…” This has a couple of things going for it. First of all, it has curiosity built into it. What did you forget to tell me? And why is it important?</p><p>But also, it doesn't look like a marketing email. If you scan through your inbox, you’ll notice that most subject lines sent from your friends and family are very bland and straight to the point because most people don't think too much about them. They'll just take a few words that relate to what the email is about and move on. The marketing ones, on the other hand, tend to be more catchy and interesting.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>So sending something like this helps you cut through the noise of all the marketing – it’s direct and grabs people’s attention because it could be coming from their friends and family. Plus, it has a bit of curiosity added on. Try it out!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/segment-your-email-subscribers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">6 Techniques To Segment Your Email Subscribers</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/when-is-it-too-early-to-segment-your-email-subscribers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">When Is It Too Early to Segment Your Email Subscribers?</a></p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/compound-curiosity-clever-subject-lines-for-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Advanced Psychology: Using Compound Curiosity</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about why you can't just have one customer avatar and what you need instead) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/customer-avatar-vs-dynamic-customer-journeys/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">b5a48409-9250-418b-b2dc-80d3755c778f</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/0b407133-a730-49c9-8549-183c1e35e844/X9NiDUM0Cp5E6WMSzObTQDiW.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2022 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/fb420f75-243c-42a8-8397-e16a3b1b977a/What-20We-20Really-20Think-20About-20Customer-20Avatars-converted.mp3" length="19034567" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>19:50</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>154</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>154</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Comedian’s Secrets to Storytelling - With Kevin Rogers</title><itunes:title>Comedian’s Secrets to Storytelling - With Kevin Rogers</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Do you believe that marketing is storytelling? What does comedy have to do with email marketing? Can it teach us something we can use in our email marketing to deepen the connection with our audience? Copy Chief Kevin Rogers blows our minds with his unique formula for sharing your origin story in 60 seconds or less.&nbsp;</p><p>Warning: if you're not into having fits of laughter or don't want to hear Kennedy talk about polar bear hunting in Norway while learning one of the most amazing marketing tricks <em>ever</em>, this episode isn't for you.</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:09) Want to get more sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(2:44) Did Kevin really see the Rolling Stones perform in a little intimate concert gig?</p><p>(3:56) Does your origin story matter?</p><p>(5:13) Is your origin story really about you?</p><p>(7:44) Make your origin story about the problem you solve. </p><p>(9:15) Introducing the 60-second Sale Hook.</p><p>(14:21) The 60-seconds Sales Hook formula in marketing.&nbsp;</p><p>(16:25) Using different angles in your origin story.</p><p>(18:47) Where does your origin story fit in your marketing?</p><p>(22:16) Subject line of the week with Kevin Rogers.</p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;free – we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p>That's why we're giving you&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Does your origin story matter?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Should you share your origin story? Do people even care? Kevin Rogers tells us that our audience cares about our origin story more than we think! Just because we've heard it or shared it a million times, and we now think it's irrelevant, it's far from it! <strong>As marketers, we need to share our origin stories, go deep into them, and find different angles and places to tell them</strong> (or different parts of them). Marketing is storytelling, so this is crucial!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Is your origin story really about you?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>We've all heard that your marketing and copy always have to be about the customer and not about you. So how do you strike this balance between telling your story and making it interesting and relevant to your audience? </p><p><br></p><p>When you're writing copy, imagine almost having a two-way conversation with your audience. You hold one side of it and can almost picture your readers nodding along on the other side. Focus on the thoughts they'll have about themselves as they’re reading. If you're sharing things that are relatable, people will inject themselves into the story.</p><p>Use a lot of “you” to make your copy about your readers, but there are plenty of ways you can involve your readers while telling your own story and not have people think you're some egocentric jerk who can’t think of anyone else. If the story is done right, no one will think that. &nbsp;</p><p>Take the famous sitcom Friends, for example. People laugh at the jokes because they imagine themselves in the situations the characters are experiencing. We laugh because we live vicariously through the characters. And that's what a good origin story is about - <strong>this shared feeling is what makes us want to create and tell our own stories. It's the heartbeat of every communication</strong>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Make your origin story about the problem you solve</strong></h3><p>Kevin explains that in marketing you have to <strong>make the origin story relevant to the problem you help people solve</strong>. If you’re selling a product, it makes people’s lives better. However, your audience may or may not experience this particular problem as something urgent right now. So part of the job your marketing needs to do is to ramp up that urgency.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>By sharing your origin story you can bond with your best prospects and turn away people who might not be a good fit. </strong>Especially when it comes to social media ads, you don’t want to attract people who are never going to buy your products or services. So what you want is a well-done, 60-second Hero Journey – one that you can share in one minute or less.</p><p>And to create that, you need to make sure your origin story isn't just about you - it needs to relate to the problem you're solving. It's also worth pointing out that if you have multiple businesses and wear multiple hats, you may think you only have <em>one</em> origin story. But that's not necessarily true - you can choose which bits to highlight and hone in to make it relevant to a particular market.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Introducing the 60-second Sales Hook</strong></h3><p>Thanks to his background as a stand-up comedian, Kevin has created the 60-second Sales Hook - a formula to help you craft your origin story. Kevin adapted a joke formula to create this. And he did it when he realised that as a marketer, you have the same task a comedian has. When a comedian first comes up on stage, the stakes are high because they only have a few minutes to establish their persona. And their first joke is going to set the tone for the rest of the set. So they need to make it relatable and memorable, just like we all need to do with anything we produce in our marketing.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So Kevin picked up on this widely recogniseable formula that stand-up comedians use to establish their persona. He broke it down and realised that with a small tweak to the last element of the formula, you can use it in your marketing. Why the tweak? Because unlike in comedy, in marketing you're not trying to make people laugh - <strong>you're trying to</strong> <strong>help people learn they can trust you to help them solve their problem.</strong></p><p><br></p><h4><strong>The joke formula in comedy</strong></h4><p>So here's the joke formula Kevin identified and shared with us:</p><ul><li>Identity.</li><li>Struggle. </li><li>Discovery.&nbsp;</li><li>And surprise, which is what makes people laugh.&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><p>One of Kevin’s favourite opening jokes on a national TV spot is from a comedian named Karen Ronkowski. She opened with this joke where she said that her kids were so bad in Walmart that she pulled a flyswatter off the shelves and smacked them with it. And as soon as she did that, she realised she doesn’t have kids!</p><p><br></p><p>It’s a great joke, and in only a few seconds she tells so much about herself (that's the <em>identity</em> element of the joke). We know she's annoyed by children, and she's willing to beat them (that's the <em>struggle</em>). The <em>discovery </em>is the flyswatter, and at the end, you have the <em>surprise</em>, which is that she isn't beating her own kids!</p><p><br></p><p>Plus, when it comes to identity, she talks about going to Walmart, and just from that fact you're getting a lot of information about the type of person she is. In a few seconds, she also manages to identify with and relate to the mums or parents in the audience. Setting the joke in Walmart also adds <em>specificity</em>. We imagine what the store looks like, for example, and this drives the story and makes it three-dimensional. This works in comedy and in marketing copy too!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The 60-second Sales Hook formula in marketing</strong></h3><p>Obviously in marketing, we’re not trying to get people to laugh – that’s not the goal. The goal is to build trust. So <strong>to use the joke formula in our marketing, we change the last part from <em>surprise</em> to <em>result</em>.</strong> What is the result that you have helped other people achieve through your discovery?</p><p>The formula for marketing is:</p><ul><li>Identity.</li><li>Struggle.</li><li>Discovery.</li><li><em>Result</em>.</li></ul><br/><p>Once you know these four elements of your business, you can write a story on the spot. Kevin’s story, for example, is that he’s a former stand-up comedian who turned copywriter <em>(identity)</em>. For years, he struggled with sharing his story in a way that was relevant to people <em>(struggle)</em>. Then he discovered how he could take a joke formula and change the last element of it and turn it into a <em>hook </em>formula <em>(discovery)</em>. And he has since grown his business by 50% <em>(result)</em>.&nbsp;</p><p>All you have to do now is to add a call to action. So for Kevin, it's something along the lines of: “To see this joke formula that I turned into a marketing formula, click the link below, and I’ll give you my free book”. So that’s super quick. And it's pretty cool, right?</p><p>Kevin also pointed out that once you know about this formula, you'll start seeing it everywhere - from TV commercials to ad campaigns. It's a proven, go-to formula - try it out!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Using different angles of your origin story</strong></h3><p>As mentioned earlier, if you have more than one business, you can also use your origin story in different ways. If Kevin had a business around health, for example, he'd share that he’s a father and a husband from St. Petersburg, Florida<em> (identity)</em>. And that a few years ago, he developed a blood infection that almost killed him, so he had open-heart surgery to have his valve replaced <em>(struggle)</em>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Note how the specificity around his identity allows you to tap into what’s subconsciously relevant to your audience. The fact that Kevin is a comedian-turned-copywriter is...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you believe that marketing is storytelling? What does comedy have to do with email marketing? Can it teach us something we can use in our email marketing to deepen the connection with our audience? Copy Chief Kevin Rogers blows our minds with his unique formula for sharing your origin story in 60 seconds or less.&nbsp;</p><p>Warning: if you're not into having fits of laughter or don't want to hear Kennedy talk about polar bear hunting in Norway while learning one of the most amazing marketing tricks <em>ever</em>, this episode isn't for you.</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:09) Want to get more sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(2:44) Did Kevin really see the Rolling Stones perform in a little intimate concert gig?</p><p>(3:56) Does your origin story matter?</p><p>(5:13) Is your origin story really about you?</p><p>(7:44) Make your origin story about the problem you solve. </p><p>(9:15) Introducing the 60-second Sale Hook.</p><p>(14:21) The 60-seconds Sales Hook formula in marketing.&nbsp;</p><p>(16:25) Using different angles in your origin story.</p><p>(18:47) Where does your origin story fit in your marketing?</p><p>(22:16) Subject line of the week with Kevin Rogers.</p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;free – we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p>That's why we're giving you&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Does your origin story matter?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Should you share your origin story? Do people even care? Kevin Rogers tells us that our audience cares about our origin story more than we think! Just because we've heard it or shared it a million times, and we now think it's irrelevant, it's far from it! <strong>As marketers, we need to share our origin stories, go deep into them, and find different angles and places to tell them</strong> (or different parts of them). Marketing is storytelling, so this is crucial!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Is your origin story really about you?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>We've all heard that your marketing and copy always have to be about the customer and not about you. So how do you strike this balance between telling your story and making it interesting and relevant to your audience? </p><p><br></p><p>When you're writing copy, imagine almost having a two-way conversation with your audience. You hold one side of it and can almost picture your readers nodding along on the other side. Focus on the thoughts they'll have about themselves as they’re reading. If you're sharing things that are relatable, people will inject themselves into the story.</p><p>Use a lot of “you” to make your copy about your readers, but there are plenty of ways you can involve your readers while telling your own story and not have people think you're some egocentric jerk who can’t think of anyone else. If the story is done right, no one will think that. &nbsp;</p><p>Take the famous sitcom Friends, for example. People laugh at the jokes because they imagine themselves in the situations the characters are experiencing. We laugh because we live vicariously through the characters. And that's what a good origin story is about - <strong>this shared feeling is what makes us want to create and tell our own stories. It's the heartbeat of every communication</strong>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Make your origin story about the problem you solve</strong></h3><p>Kevin explains that in marketing you have to <strong>make the origin story relevant to the problem you help people solve</strong>. If you’re selling a product, it makes people’s lives better. However, your audience may or may not experience this particular problem as something urgent right now. So part of the job your marketing needs to do is to ramp up that urgency.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>By sharing your origin story you can bond with your best prospects and turn away people who might not be a good fit. </strong>Especially when it comes to social media ads, you don’t want to attract people who are never going to buy your products or services. So what you want is a well-done, 60-second Hero Journey – one that you can share in one minute or less.</p><p>And to create that, you need to make sure your origin story isn't just about you - it needs to relate to the problem you're solving. It's also worth pointing out that if you have multiple businesses and wear multiple hats, you may think you only have <em>one</em> origin story. But that's not necessarily true - you can choose which bits to highlight and hone in to make it relevant to a particular market.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Introducing the 60-second Sales Hook</strong></h3><p>Thanks to his background as a stand-up comedian, Kevin has created the 60-second Sales Hook - a formula to help you craft your origin story. Kevin adapted a joke formula to create this. And he did it when he realised that as a marketer, you have the same task a comedian has. When a comedian first comes up on stage, the stakes are high because they only have a few minutes to establish their persona. And their first joke is going to set the tone for the rest of the set. So they need to make it relatable and memorable, just like we all need to do with anything we produce in our marketing.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So Kevin picked up on this widely recogniseable formula that stand-up comedians use to establish their persona. He broke it down and realised that with a small tweak to the last element of the formula, you can use it in your marketing. Why the tweak? Because unlike in comedy, in marketing you're not trying to make people laugh - <strong>you're trying to</strong> <strong>help people learn they can trust you to help them solve their problem.</strong></p><p><br></p><h4><strong>The joke formula in comedy</strong></h4><p>So here's the joke formula Kevin identified and shared with us:</p><ul><li>Identity.</li><li>Struggle. </li><li>Discovery.&nbsp;</li><li>And surprise, which is what makes people laugh.&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><p>One of Kevin’s favourite opening jokes on a national TV spot is from a comedian named Karen Ronkowski. She opened with this joke where she said that her kids were so bad in Walmart that she pulled a flyswatter off the shelves and smacked them with it. And as soon as she did that, she realised she doesn’t have kids!</p><p><br></p><p>It’s a great joke, and in only a few seconds she tells so much about herself (that's the <em>identity</em> element of the joke). We know she's annoyed by children, and she's willing to beat them (that's the <em>struggle</em>). The <em>discovery </em>is the flyswatter, and at the end, you have the <em>surprise</em>, which is that she isn't beating her own kids!</p><p><br></p><p>Plus, when it comes to identity, she talks about going to Walmart, and just from that fact you're getting a lot of information about the type of person she is. In a few seconds, she also manages to identify with and relate to the mums or parents in the audience. Setting the joke in Walmart also adds <em>specificity</em>. We imagine what the store looks like, for example, and this drives the story and makes it three-dimensional. This works in comedy and in marketing copy too!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The 60-second Sales Hook formula in marketing</strong></h3><p>Obviously in marketing, we’re not trying to get people to laugh – that’s not the goal. The goal is to build trust. So <strong>to use the joke formula in our marketing, we change the last part from <em>surprise</em> to <em>result</em>.</strong> What is the result that you have helped other people achieve through your discovery?</p><p>The formula for marketing is:</p><ul><li>Identity.</li><li>Struggle.</li><li>Discovery.</li><li><em>Result</em>.</li></ul><br/><p>Once you know these four elements of your business, you can write a story on the spot. Kevin’s story, for example, is that he’s a former stand-up comedian who turned copywriter <em>(identity)</em>. For years, he struggled with sharing his story in a way that was relevant to people <em>(struggle)</em>. Then he discovered how he could take a joke formula and change the last element of it and turn it into a <em>hook </em>formula <em>(discovery)</em>. And he has since grown his business by 50% <em>(result)</em>.&nbsp;</p><p>All you have to do now is to add a call to action. So for Kevin, it's something along the lines of: “To see this joke formula that I turned into a marketing formula, click the link below, and I’ll give you my free book”. So that’s super quick. And it's pretty cool, right?</p><p>Kevin also pointed out that once you know about this formula, you'll start seeing it everywhere - from TV commercials to ad campaigns. It's a proven, go-to formula - try it out!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Using different angles of your origin story</strong></h3><p>As mentioned earlier, if you have more than one business, you can also use your origin story in different ways. If Kevin had a business around health, for example, he'd share that he’s a father and a husband from St. Petersburg, Florida<em> (identity)</em>. And that a few years ago, he developed a blood infection that almost killed him, so he had open-heart surgery to have his valve replaced <em>(struggle)</em>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Note how the specificity around his identity allows you to tap into what’s subconsciously relevant to your audience. The fact that Kevin is a comedian-turned-copywriter is interesting to the marketing crowd. But if you’re talking about health and survival, then you can drop that fact because other things, like mentioning that Kevin is a husband and a father have a lot more connotations. That straight away tells you Kevin wants to see his children grow up, get married, and have their own children one day.</p><p><br></p><p>Another tip is to always pre-empty the questions your audience may be asking in their heads. So if you mention a movie, share the title. If you’re talking about your girlfriend, give her a name.</p><p><br></p><p>Going back to Kevin's story, the <em>discovery </em>is that the surgeons saved his life, but the medicine they prescribed was killing him all over again. Eventually, he discovered a way he could naturally fix those same problems without prescription medication. And on it goes. So you can use this formula for different things, and it's fun!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Where does your origin story fit in your marketing?</strong></h3><p>According to Kevin, <strong>the best place to use an origin story is when you first invite somebody into your world</strong> with a free download or a lead magnet offer. You want <em>congruence</em> from the beginning. So don’t think that because you said something on one page you can’t say it again - you absolutely can because these people just met you!</p><p><br></p><p>You don't want to make something up just to get a click – <strong>you want to build trust</strong>. And <strong>people want to know they’re in the right place</strong>. For example, you can use your origin story in your pitch for your free download, and then on the<em> Thank You</em> page, you can have a short video where you tell the full story. You can tweak it slightly, make it longer, and add details that are relevant to the sale along the way.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>This is a useful framework that is best used if you have 60 seconds or less to tell someone who you are, why they should care, and why they should want what you have.</strong> So use it to grab their attention on the landing page or in an ad – it’s a quick summary to grab their attention and hook them in, and then you can unpack the story later. You can even build the story up over time (for example, over several emails in your welcome sequence) so your audience feels like they’re going somewhere with you, and that relationship deepens.</p><p><br></p><p>In other words, <strong>build trust through congruence</strong>. Reassure people they're in the right place, and when you know they're interested (because they're clicking), tell them more and further that relationship. And don't forget you can do this with imagery too - the images you share can support your words.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week with Kevin Rogers</strong></h3><p>One of Kevin's top-performing subject lines is “The night I quit comedy.” Why did this work? Because curiosity is really high here - it's hard to look away from a subject line like that. Whether people know about Kevin's background in comedy or not, in these 5 words they learn a lot. It's interesting, and it makes people want to know what happened.</p><p><br></p><p>Plus, Kevin had a lot of fun with the story and later layered lots of lessons in there about knowing when something is over, choosing a new direction, and having the courage to go after it. And remember to start the story in the middle of the action because it’s the most intriguing place.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Kevin</strong></h5><p>If you want to find out more about Kevin you can find him on&nbsp;<a href="https://copychief.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">his website</a>, where you can grab a free download of the 60-second Sales Hook and also find his <a href="https://copychief.com/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">podcast</a> and other amazing resources.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-market-yourself-belinda-weaver/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Making Yourself Choosable with Belinda Weaver</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-strategy-examples-from-the-stage/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">12 Things That We Use On Stage That Help Our Email Marketing</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/the-therapeutic-benefits-of-writing-your-own-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Therapeutic Benefits of Writing Your Own Emails</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. 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If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how marketing is storytelling and how to tell your origin story) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/marketing-is-storytelling-comedian-kevin-rogers/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">5addb027-5c5b-4bcf-ae15-c9898ab422cb</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/b023e4a7-2136-4c87-8aef-bc38c89cfd50/JqT3J8Sm1Ftg_4vaA3Jie5s9.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2022 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/2f23c457-b84c-4553-8bb6-ec42478e8227/A-20Comedian-27s-20Secrets-20to-20Storytelling-converted.mp3" length="20816783" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>24:47</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>153</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>153</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Advanced Psychology: Using Compound Curiosity</title><itunes:title>Advanced Psychology: Using Compound Curiosity</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Want to know how to create clever subject lines for emails that will get you more clicks and sales? Then you need to find out about this advanced psychological strategy called <em>compound curiosity</em>.&nbsp;That's right - it's not just curiosity the way you may have been taught before.&nbsp;</p><p>This will quite literally blow your mind! Ready to learn how to do it?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:10) Want to make your sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(3:31) Introducing our new sponsor - Selzy.</p><p>(5:01) How does curiosity work?</p><p>(5:28) Where to use curiosity in your email marketing.</p><p>(6:18) What is the difference between curiosity and compound curiosity?</p><p>(7:27) Examples of curiosity and compound curiosity.</p><p>(8:38) How to create your own subject lines using compound curiosity.</p><p>(10:55) Other ways to implement compound curiosity.</p><p>(12:43) Introducing our course Subject Lines that Drive Sales.</p><p>(13:30) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;free – we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p>That's why we're giving you&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Introducing our new sponsor - Selzy</strong></h3><p>For every dollar you spend on email marketing, you’re supposed to make at least a $36 return. But that's hard to do if you're scratching your head wondering how to use all of these advanced email marketing features. This is why we're introducing <a href="https://appsumo.com/products/selzy?utm_source=partner-link&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=partner-149298" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Selzy</a>, a tool where you don’t have to squint your eyes and give yourself a migraine to get started.</p><p><br></p><p>You’ll be able to launch your first campaign in just 15 minutes, create emails and automations super easily, and if you need to, you can call for backup 24/7 from Selzy’s amazing support team. Selzy is sponsoring this episode of The Email Marketing Show, so if you want to give it a shot, for just $49 you can have a lifetime account with unlimited emails, automation, segmentation, and some advanced analytics. And that’s all of that for the price of around 10 lattes! You can grab this bonkers deal <a href="https://appsumo.com/products/selzy?utm_source=partner-link&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=partner-149298" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How does curiosity work?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Curiosity is one of the most important elements you can use to get people to open your emails and click on the links inside them. Without curiosity, no one's going to open your emails, and that's simply because they're not curious enough to find out more! <strong>Curiosity is the emotion we use to get clicks and opens</strong>, and it's pretty much the only one that’s going to do that for you! So you want to lean into this psychological strategy to learn how to write clever subject lines for emails that get opened more and get you more clicks!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Where to use curiosity in your email marketing</strong></h3><p>So where will you use curiosity? You can use curiosity in two places - your subject lines and the content of your email (the body copy). </p><p><strong>Curiosity in your subject lines drives people to open your emails and then click on your links. </strong>Because one of the things you want to do is to make sure you prompt people to take the next action with you but also inspire any potential actions after that. In other words, with your subject lines, you want to drive people to open and also be <em>pre-framed</em> to click to find out what's going on.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>The body copy of your emails needs to drive people to click on the links - that's the direct action you want people to take. But you also want them to be inspired to go forward and check out your products and buy.</p><p><br></p><p>This is why we use curiosity in 80-90% of our subject lines, and out of those, probably half will use this psychological strategy we call <em>compound curiosity</em>.  So let's see what the difference between the two is.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What is the difference between curiosity and <em>compound</em> curiosity?</strong></h3><p>The way most people deal with curiosity is by saying things like, “I’ve got a video for you to do X”. This is you listing all the benefits in the subject line. </p><p><br></p><p>But<em> compound curiosity</em> looks more like, “In this video, you'll learn [benefit] and wait until you see what Kennedy is wearing at 2 minutes and 22 seconds!" We call it <em>compound</em> because you have one piece of curiosity added on top of another one.</p><p><br></p><p>Why does this work? Because as a reader you know you're going to benefit from these emails. And benefits are important in the body copy because they explain what the thing you're selling or offering is doing for people. But then you also want to&nbsp;<strong>multiply and compound that curiosity (or that benefit) with some <em>additional </em>curiosity</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>Now, that doesn't mean you use this for everything - you definitely don't want to overuse this. But let's have a look at some examples of curiosity and compound curiosity in action.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Examples of curiosity and compound curiosity</strong></h3><p>Here are a couple of examples that trigger curiosity:</p><ul><li>“You’re doing it wrong.” People see this and wonder what they’re doing wrong.</li><li>“It’s the summer of 2002.” And here people wonder what happened in the summer of 2002.</li></ul><br/><p>This is what we refer to as <em>normal </em>curiosity, and you’ll probably already be familiar with that. &nbsp;</p><p>But here are some examples that use <em>compound </em>curiosity:&nbsp;</p><ul><li>“Arguing with a guru.” This is a real subject line we sent out and it’s compound curiosity because here the audience is wondering WHO the guru is and WHAT we were arguing about. Did we win? Or did <em>they</em> win?</li><li>“Lessons from the milkman.” This is another real subject line we sent out. It's compound curiosity because someone may be wondering WHAT the lessons were and what we learnt from the milkman. Also, will they help the reader? What can one possibly learn from the milkman?</li></ul><br/><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to create your own subject lines using compound curiosity</strong></h3><p>So let's look at how you can also create clever subject lines for emails that use compound curiosity in a way that's subtle but powerful. The four examples we shared above might not sound all that different on the surface, but they are. And <strong>the subject lines that use compound curiosity have two elements of curiosity added in</strong>. That's key - you want <em>two elements of curiosity</em> in the subject line or the email copy you're writing.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Think of this as questions that the reader might ask. Usually, these are going to be a WHO and a WHAT or a WHAT and a HOW. In other words, you’re looking to <strong>write subject lines that trigger two questions that start with two of these questioning words.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>So for example, with WHAT, one of the questions might be, “What happened?” With HOW the question might be, “How did that come about?” Or, "How did we get those lessons from the milkman?" And, "How are they relevant to your reader?" Or with WHO, the question could be, "Who is the guru?"&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>When you trigger two questions in one subject line you subconsciously get under the skin of your subscribers. They want to know more and more desperately</strong> than they would if this was just a single-curiosity subject line.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So the key to making compound curiosity work is to have two <em>different</em> questioning words. If you had a subject line that said, “It was the milkman and the cowboy” that doesn’t work as well because you have two WHO questions. Who’s the milkman and who’s the cowboy? It doesn’t add anything.</p><p><br></p><p>But when you have two different questions, that’s when you have compound curiosity because they multiply each other rather than just adding to each other. <strong>You want multiple questions going off on people’s minds</strong> because that means people are giving your subject line more attention. It means they'll open the email to find out what's going on and make sense of it.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Other ways to implement compound curiosity</strong></h3><p>You can also do this by <em>reframing words</em>. Here's an example of that from a subject line we sent out during the lockdown period that read, "What's in THIS box?” Using capital letters for the word THIS was an interesting choice. People want to know what’s in the box, but they're also curious to find out if there’s a picture of the box in the email. Are you going to tell me about the box? How do I know what the box is? There's double curiosity there.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And as you get better and more practiced with creating subject lines that use compound curiosity, you can do what we do, which is to pull the story we're going to talk about in the email<em> into</em> the subject line. How? You write the email first, then go back to it and work out how much detail you can remove...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Want to know how to create clever subject lines for emails that will get you more clicks and sales? Then you need to find out about this advanced psychological strategy called <em>compound curiosity</em>.&nbsp;That's right - it's not just curiosity the way you may have been taught before.&nbsp;</p><p>This will quite literally blow your mind! Ready to learn how to do it?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:10) Want to make your sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(3:31) Introducing our new sponsor - Selzy.</p><p>(5:01) How does curiosity work?</p><p>(5:28) Where to use curiosity in your email marketing.</p><p>(6:18) What is the difference between curiosity and compound curiosity?</p><p>(7:27) Examples of curiosity and compound curiosity.</p><p>(8:38) How to create your own subject lines using compound curiosity.</p><p>(10:55) Other ways to implement compound curiosity.</p><p>(12:43) Introducing our course Subject Lines that Drive Sales.</p><p>(13:30) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;free – we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p>That's why we're giving you&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Introducing our new sponsor - Selzy</strong></h3><p>For every dollar you spend on email marketing, you’re supposed to make at least a $36 return. But that's hard to do if you're scratching your head wondering how to use all of these advanced email marketing features. This is why we're introducing <a href="https://appsumo.com/products/selzy?utm_source=partner-link&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=partner-149298" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Selzy</a>, a tool where you don’t have to squint your eyes and give yourself a migraine to get started.</p><p><br></p><p>You’ll be able to launch your first campaign in just 15 minutes, create emails and automations super easily, and if you need to, you can call for backup 24/7 from Selzy’s amazing support team. Selzy is sponsoring this episode of The Email Marketing Show, so if you want to give it a shot, for just $49 you can have a lifetime account with unlimited emails, automation, segmentation, and some advanced analytics. And that’s all of that for the price of around 10 lattes! You can grab this bonkers deal <a href="https://appsumo.com/products/selzy?utm_source=partner-link&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=partner-149298" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How does curiosity work?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Curiosity is one of the most important elements you can use to get people to open your emails and click on the links inside them. Without curiosity, no one's going to open your emails, and that's simply because they're not curious enough to find out more! <strong>Curiosity is the emotion we use to get clicks and opens</strong>, and it's pretty much the only one that’s going to do that for you! So you want to lean into this psychological strategy to learn how to write clever subject lines for emails that get opened more and get you more clicks!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Where to use curiosity in your email marketing</strong></h3><p>So where will you use curiosity? You can use curiosity in two places - your subject lines and the content of your email (the body copy). </p><p><strong>Curiosity in your subject lines drives people to open your emails and then click on your links. </strong>Because one of the things you want to do is to make sure you prompt people to take the next action with you but also inspire any potential actions after that. In other words, with your subject lines, you want to drive people to open and also be <em>pre-framed</em> to click to find out what's going on.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>The body copy of your emails needs to drive people to click on the links - that's the direct action you want people to take. But you also want them to be inspired to go forward and check out your products and buy.</p><p><br></p><p>This is why we use curiosity in 80-90% of our subject lines, and out of those, probably half will use this psychological strategy we call <em>compound curiosity</em>.  So let's see what the difference between the two is.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What is the difference between curiosity and <em>compound</em> curiosity?</strong></h3><p>The way most people deal with curiosity is by saying things like, “I’ve got a video for you to do X”. This is you listing all the benefits in the subject line. </p><p><br></p><p>But<em> compound curiosity</em> looks more like, “In this video, you'll learn [benefit] and wait until you see what Kennedy is wearing at 2 minutes and 22 seconds!" We call it <em>compound</em> because you have one piece of curiosity added on top of another one.</p><p><br></p><p>Why does this work? Because as a reader you know you're going to benefit from these emails. And benefits are important in the body copy because they explain what the thing you're selling or offering is doing for people. But then you also want to&nbsp;<strong>multiply and compound that curiosity (or that benefit) with some <em>additional </em>curiosity</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>Now, that doesn't mean you use this for everything - you definitely don't want to overuse this. But let's have a look at some examples of curiosity and compound curiosity in action.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Examples of curiosity and compound curiosity</strong></h3><p>Here are a couple of examples that trigger curiosity:</p><ul><li>“You’re doing it wrong.” People see this and wonder what they’re doing wrong.</li><li>“It’s the summer of 2002.” And here people wonder what happened in the summer of 2002.</li></ul><br/><p>This is what we refer to as <em>normal </em>curiosity, and you’ll probably already be familiar with that. &nbsp;</p><p>But here are some examples that use <em>compound </em>curiosity:&nbsp;</p><ul><li>“Arguing with a guru.” This is a real subject line we sent out and it’s compound curiosity because here the audience is wondering WHO the guru is and WHAT we were arguing about. Did we win? Or did <em>they</em> win?</li><li>“Lessons from the milkman.” This is another real subject line we sent out. It's compound curiosity because someone may be wondering WHAT the lessons were and what we learnt from the milkman. Also, will they help the reader? What can one possibly learn from the milkman?</li></ul><br/><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to create your own subject lines using compound curiosity</strong></h3><p>So let's look at how you can also create clever subject lines for emails that use compound curiosity in a way that's subtle but powerful. The four examples we shared above might not sound all that different on the surface, but they are. And <strong>the subject lines that use compound curiosity have two elements of curiosity added in</strong>. That's key - you want <em>two elements of curiosity</em> in the subject line or the email copy you're writing.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Think of this as questions that the reader might ask. Usually, these are going to be a WHO and a WHAT or a WHAT and a HOW. In other words, you’re looking to <strong>write subject lines that trigger two questions that start with two of these questioning words.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>So for example, with WHAT, one of the questions might be, “What happened?” With HOW the question might be, “How did that come about?” Or, "How did we get those lessons from the milkman?" And, "How are they relevant to your reader?" Or with WHO, the question could be, "Who is the guru?"&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>When you trigger two questions in one subject line you subconsciously get under the skin of your subscribers. They want to know more and more desperately</strong> than they would if this was just a single-curiosity subject line.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So the key to making compound curiosity work is to have two <em>different</em> questioning words. If you had a subject line that said, “It was the milkman and the cowboy” that doesn’t work as well because you have two WHO questions. Who’s the milkman and who’s the cowboy? It doesn’t add anything.</p><p><br></p><p>But when you have two different questions, that’s when you have compound curiosity because they multiply each other rather than just adding to each other. <strong>You want multiple questions going off on people’s minds</strong> because that means people are giving your subject line more attention. It means they'll open the email to find out what's going on and make sense of it.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Other ways to implement compound curiosity</strong></h3><p>You can also do this by <em>reframing words</em>. Here's an example of that from a subject line we sent out during the lockdown period that read, "What's in THIS box?” Using capital letters for the word THIS was an interesting choice. People want to know what’s in the box, but they're also curious to find out if there’s a picture of the box in the email. Are you going to tell me about the box? How do I know what the box is? There's double curiosity there.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And as you get better and more practiced with creating subject lines that use compound curiosity, you can do what we do, which is to pull the story we're going to talk about in the email<em> into</em> the subject line. How? You write the email first, then go back to it and work out how much detail you can remove from the story to strip it down to 3-6 words and turn it into a subject line. And, of course, you want to phrase it in such a way that it triggers more than questions in people’s minds.</p><p><br></p><p>This might sound complicated, but it comes with practice. The more you do it, the faster you'll get, and it’ll become very natural. So just go through the story in your email and think of different opportunities to inject a few questions into somebody’s mind with it.</p><p><br></p><p>If you do this, you’ll end up with more people opening your emails and clicking the links. Remember that people are curious about different things, so give compound curiosity a try. It's an advanced psychological technique that will help you create clever subject lines for your emails that get them opened and make you sales.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Introducing our course, Subject Lines that Drive Sales</strong></h3><p>If you want to check out our approach to creating psychologically impactful and clever subject lines for emails that drive clicks and sales using strategies like compound curiosity, we have something for you that doesn't rely on dusty old formulas.</p><p><br></p><p>In fact, you'll notice we never give you formulas for your subject lines! We simply tell you what subject lines we use and then break down the psychology behind them to tell you why they work. We have a full course on this called <strong>Subject Lines that Drive Sales</strong>. It's available for free for all members of <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. So if you're not a member already, go and check it out!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject line uses compound curiosity and proves how short (yet effective) subject lines can be. It’s just three words, and it’s “My dirty tactics.” People want to know WHAT the tactics are and WHY they are dirty. So it has in-built compound curiosity. Clever, right? Try it out!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-subject-lines-to-make-sales/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Use Email Subject Lines To Do More Than Get Your Emails Opened</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/writing-subject-lines-without-using-formulas/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Writing Subject Lines Without Using Formulas</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-write-email-subject-lines-for-sales-emails-that-actually-work/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Write Email Subject Lines For Sales Emails (That Actually Work)</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to use compound curiosity to create clever subject lines for emails that will get you clicks and sales) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/compound-curiosity-clever-subject-lines-for-emails/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">7c140d25-1a69-4aab-adb8-5ab1954e5a3a</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/a3411b8c-1c71-4228-bb70-aa659a7a6935/FxdGqvaRKbNGlfgRv__9EFja.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2022 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/78a0d79e-05b9-4a70-9080-1b90b201d117/Compound-20CuriosityCompound-20CuriosityAdvanced-20Psychology-converted.mp3" length="14132038" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:43</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>152</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>152</podcast:episode></item><item><title>The 7 Best Email Marketing Strategies That Shouldn&apos;t Work</title><itunes:title>The 7 Best Email Marketing Strategies That Shouldn&apos;t Work</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What are the BEST email marketing strategies out there? Well, we have 7 strategies for you that <em>shouldn't</em> work, but they<em> absolutely</em> do!</p><p>We're Kennedy and<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Carrie</a>, and the things we're going to share might surprise you. But trust us, they work!</p><p>Ready to get all the good stuff?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:33) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(2:42) 1. Send more emails.&nbsp;</p><p>(5:09) 2. Include one clear call to action in all your emails.&nbsp;</p><p>(8:06) 3. Talk about yourself.&nbsp;</p><p>(16:23) 4. Stop using benefit-driven subject lines.&nbsp;</p><p>(17:53) 5. Send emails that 'divide' your audience.&nbsp;</p><p>(26:20) 6. Share complaints or negative reviews.&nbsp;</p><p>(30:00) 7. Send 'ugly' emails.&nbsp;</p><p>(31:49) Join The Email Hero Blueprint.&nbsp;</p><p>(32:17) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/turn-problems-into-opportunities-haters-to-sales-talking-shrimp/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Turn Problems into Opportunities – Convert Haters into Sales with Laura Belgray from The Talking Shrimp</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-deliverability/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Truth About All The Surprising Things That REALLY Impact Your Email Deliverability</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/the-best-time-to-send-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Perfect Timing? What’s The BEST Time To Send An Email For Maximum Impact?</a></p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3>Want to connect with Carrie?</h3><p>You can find Carrie on<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> her website</a>!</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the 7 BEST email marketing strategies that shouldn't work but absolutely do) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What are the BEST email marketing strategies out there? Well, we have 7 strategies for you that <em>shouldn't</em> work, but they<em> absolutely</em> do!</p><p>We're Kennedy and<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Carrie</a>, and the things we're going to share might surprise you. But trust us, they work!</p><p>Ready to get all the good stuff?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:33) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(2:42) 1. Send more emails.&nbsp;</p><p>(5:09) 2. Include one clear call to action in all your emails.&nbsp;</p><p>(8:06) 3. Talk about yourself.&nbsp;</p><p>(16:23) 4. Stop using benefit-driven subject lines.&nbsp;</p><p>(17:53) 5. Send emails that 'divide' your audience.&nbsp;</p><p>(26:20) 6. Share complaints or negative reviews.&nbsp;</p><p>(30:00) 7. Send 'ugly' emails.&nbsp;</p><p>(31:49) Join The Email Hero Blueprint.&nbsp;</p><p>(32:17) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/turn-problems-into-opportunities-haters-to-sales-talking-shrimp/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Turn Problems into Opportunities – Convert Haters into Sales with Laura Belgray from The Talking Shrimp</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-deliverability/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Truth About All The Surprising Things That REALLY Impact Your Email Deliverability</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/the-best-time-to-send-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Perfect Timing? What’s The BEST Time To Send An Email For Maximum Impact?</a></p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3>Want to connect with Carrie?</h3><p>You can find Carrie on<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> her website</a>!</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the 7 BEST email marketing strategies that shouldn't work but absolutely do) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/best-email-marketing-strategies-that-work/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">52f16313-039b-4d7c-bed6-007cad3830aa</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/e1323c5e-1b88-4683-a085-51c5b0225bb1/N_nSqeWSUfR8bvoVtL9Lp4jR.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2022 18:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/9d8c1cdf-850a-4217-b1a1-1115e94b386a/EP-237-151-Final.mp3" length="83339776" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>34:43</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>151</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>151</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/67079acf-c0fc-458e-bb05-c3f3ad850a46/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How To Get Back On The Email Wagon When You Fall Off (Back To School Edition)</title><itunes:title>How To Get Back On The Email Wagon When You Fall Off (Back To School Edition)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Falling off the email marketing wagon happens to the best of us.&nbsp;</p><p>Whether life got busy, a launch took up your focus, or you just fell out of the habit - it happens. And if your list hasn’t heard from you in a while, it’s tempting to wait for the “perfect” moment to restart (eg. Monday, the start of the month, or some other arbitrary milestone)&nbsp;</p><p>But the truth is, the best time to reconnect with your audience is today.</p><p>In this episode, we’re diving into how to restart your email marketing without overthinking or worrying about upsetting your subscribers.&nbsp;</p><p><em>(Plus, we’re giving you the exact framework for the perfect reintroduction email - we call it the ‘Terrible Friend’ Campaign)</em></p><p>Let’s do this!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Falling off the email marketing wagon happens to the best of us.&nbsp;</p><p>Whether life got busy, a launch took up your focus, or you just fell out of the habit - it happens. And if your list hasn’t heard from you in a while, it’s tempting to wait for the “perfect” moment to restart (eg. Monday, the start of the month, or some other arbitrary milestone)&nbsp;</p><p>But the truth is, the best time to reconnect with your audience is today.</p><p>In this episode, we’re diving into how to restart your email marketing without overthinking or worrying about upsetting your subscribers.&nbsp;</p><p><em>(Plus, we’re giving you the exact framework for the perfect reintroduction email - we call it the ‘Terrible Friend’ Campaign)</em></p><p>Let’s do this!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-reactivation-get-back-email-wagon/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">158d8062-c32e-4c15-ac4e-0debe5052084</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/84fbca41-2738-4dc1-a9cc-096cc354e7b5/Ep8-ulig_aux0N0XIIjiPwI9.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2022 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/f1ae9e41-2a8a-4a3f-832a-b3bb605be546/262-converted.mp3" length="28161402" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:40</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>150</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>150</podcast:episode></item><item><title>12 Things That We Use On Stage That Help Our Email Marketing</title><itunes:title>12 Things That We Use On Stage That Help Our Email Marketing</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What do stage entertainment and email marketing have in common? As you may know, we are both from an entertainment background. Rob is a comedy hypnotist and Kennedy is a psychological mind reader (or mentalist). That means we spend a big chunk of our lives on stages using psychology to make people do certain things, to perform and entertain an audience, and make it funny, interesting, and engaging in the process. So today we're sharing 12 email marketing strategy examples from our on-stage careers that we use in our psychology-driven email marketing.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to find out how <em>you</em> can apply these 'tricks' to your email marketing?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(00:09) Want to make your sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(4:28) Train your audience and create authority.</p><p>(9:54) Grab and keep people's attention.</p><p>(12:27) Be yourself and surprise your audience.</p><p>(16:49) Tell stories and create a setup &amp; payoff situation.</p><p>(21:03) Build beliefs.</p><p>(21:38) Adjust and adapt the way you address people.</p><p>(24:51) Find the most efficient way to do things.</p><p>(27:08) Pay attention to language patterns.</p><p>(28:58) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;free – we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p>That's why we're giving you&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>1. Train your audience</strong></h3><p>The first strategy we'd like to share is training your audience. What do we mean by this? Well, this may sound strange, but when people go to an event for the first time, they don’t know how to behave. Can they interact with the host? Should they stand up or sit down? People have questions. So the first thing we do when we get on stage is to explain the culture and the rules of engagement. In other words, we<em> train</em> our audience.</p><p>We do this right at the start of our opening bid, which is highly interactive and more akin to stand-up comedy. It’s where we let people know how the show is going to go. We communicate our style and form of entertainment, which is individual to each performer. </p><p>And we do the same in our email marketing, which is why we talk about how important it is to tell your audience how often you're going to email them and what they can expect from you, for example. Tell them if they can reply - and&nbsp;of course, we <em>encourage</em> that.</p><p>In our Getting to Know You sequence (i.e. our welcome sequence) we ask a question that gets people to reply. And we also include a link (or several) in every email we send. Because this teaches our audience that every time they click on a link in one of our emails, they get rewarded with something valuable.  &nbsp;</p><p>Whatever you do (or don’t do) in your email trains your audience into specific behaviours - whether you're doing this consciously or not. Are these behaviours serving you (and your audience) in a positive way? Because if they're not, you may be stopping people from getting value from what you do. So become aware of what you’re training your audience to do.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>2. Create authority</strong></h3><p>Another important email marketing strategy example we want to share is creating authority. As entertainers, sometimes we go on stage to perform in front of a group of people who don’t know who we are or whether we’re any good. People have to believe that we can deliver the show that’s been promised - that we can do what we said and that it's going to work. </p><p>And in order to achieve that, we need to create authority.&nbsp;Of course, there's some natural authority that comes with the framing of the show. People spent money to buy a ticket and come to the show so they already assume (to a degree) that it’s going to work.</p><p>Now if you translate that into the email marketing world, the fact that someone set up a business with a website where you can subscribe to their email list already creates some sense of authority. But above and beyond that, <strong>you want to show people what you’ve done before and what you could do for them.</strong>&nbsp;</p><p>On stage, we do this with footage and clips from previous shows that prove that we can do what we say we do. But remember it’s important to create authority by giving proof or evidence that working with you is going to be worth their time.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>3. Grab people's attention&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>The next thing you want to do is ensure you have the attention of your audience. This is true on stage but also in your email marketing. If you don't have people's attention at the beginning of the show or at the start of your relationship with your subscribers, they’re going to talk all the way through (at a show) or not pay attention. And you don't want that - you want their attention.</p><p>So how do you do it? First of all, you show up with something that’s attention-grabbing. In the world of email marketing, this is done by giving people a promise when they first opt-in and making sure you deliver on that promise. And the first thing you have to always deliver on is your name - it needs to be the same whose list people subscribed to.&nbsp;We see that mistake a lot with business owners using a different name in their emails compared to what they have on their website.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>4. Generate engagement and keep people's attention</strong></h3><p>Another one of our email marketing strategy examples we want to share is to grab and keep attention through subject lines, for example. They set an expectation, they grab someone's attention right from the start, and they help you keep it. When it comes to our shows, for example, we keep people’s attention by making sure our events are fast-paced and interesting. If we used a boring, corporate voice with no personality, people’s attention would immediately drop.</p><p>So keep it pacey, get to the point, stop waffling, and don’t give people too many things to think about at once. That’s why we suggest&nbsp; you don’t put too many points or offers in one email - <strong>one email is one offer</strong>, just like on stage you give one instruction at the time. Otherwise, it gets confusing and people can’t keep up or remember, so they don’t do anything. It's about being clear in your instructions to keep people engaged.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>5. Be yourself</strong></h3><p>This is a contentious subject in the world of entertainment these days, but <em>you're</em> the one on stage, and it's <em>your</em> show. So within the confines of what’s acceptable, tell the jokes you want to tell. And if people don’t like them, that’s fine. They don’t have to buy tickets and come and watch you. It's okay to polarise people. In fact, if you're not making an attempt to make your stuff disliked by some people, you probably don’t have a tight enough angle - and you definitely want one.&nbsp;</p><p>Even within the culture of cancelled entertainment, we still want to be ourselves and do a show that’s enjoyable for <em>us</em>. We want to be able to tell the jokes that <em>we</em> want to tell and write the emails that <em>we</em> want to send. Because if you compromise on that, you’ll end up with a show (or a business) that you don’t actually like! We say this all the time – we’d rather not have our business, podcast, or membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>&nbsp; if it meant we’d have to be boring and corporate. If we couldn't be ourselves and had to behave differently, we wouldn’t want to do it. This is who we are, and we love to create content that <em>we</em> would like to consume, which is what we suggest you do too.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>6. Surprise your audience</strong></h3><p>If you’re always doing the same thing and what you say, do, or write, is very formulaic, then you won’t keep people engaged. And also, you won’t be able to create an emotional response.&nbsp;</p><p>For example, during his show, Kennedy might ask someone to take out their phone, find a photo, and look at it. And then Kennedy will start describing that photo. By the end of that segment, people will be amazed, but the reality is that the audience can tell where that is going. They know what he's going to do when he first asks someone to pick a photo. There’s no element of surprise there because the ending is implied in the setup. But if at the end of the show Kennedy tells that person what photo they <em>almost </em>picked, then there’s a surprise!</p><p>And surprises are great at energising people. They set off different neurotransmitters in your brain that get you re-engaged or hyper-engaged. So think about sending pieces of content that are surprising and not what people expect. That’s why we often use elements of surprise and funny quirky analogies when writing our emails. How can you surprise your audience? Could you offer something for free, for example?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>7. Tell stories</strong></h3><p>Another one of our email marketing strategy examples taken from our shows is to tell stories. Rob, for example, will paint a picture and create a story to give people suggestions about what he's asking them to do. He talks them through the narrative of a story so they can paint that picture in their brain. And he does it that way...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What do stage entertainment and email marketing have in common? As you may know, we are both from an entertainment background. Rob is a comedy hypnotist and Kennedy is a psychological mind reader (or mentalist). That means we spend a big chunk of our lives on stages using psychology to make people do certain things, to perform and entertain an audience, and make it funny, interesting, and engaging in the process. So today we're sharing 12 email marketing strategy examples from our on-stage careers that we use in our psychology-driven email marketing.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to find out how <em>you</em> can apply these 'tricks' to your email marketing?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(00:09) Want to make your sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(4:28) Train your audience and create authority.</p><p>(9:54) Grab and keep people's attention.</p><p>(12:27) Be yourself and surprise your audience.</p><p>(16:49) Tell stories and create a setup &amp; payoff situation.</p><p>(21:03) Build beliefs.</p><p>(21:38) Adjust and adapt the way you address people.</p><p>(24:51) Find the most efficient way to do things.</p><p>(27:08) Pay attention to language patterns.</p><p>(28:58) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;free – we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p>That's why we're giving you&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>1. Train your audience</strong></h3><p>The first strategy we'd like to share is training your audience. What do we mean by this? Well, this may sound strange, but when people go to an event for the first time, they don’t know how to behave. Can they interact with the host? Should they stand up or sit down? People have questions. So the first thing we do when we get on stage is to explain the culture and the rules of engagement. In other words, we<em> train</em> our audience.</p><p>We do this right at the start of our opening bid, which is highly interactive and more akin to stand-up comedy. It’s where we let people know how the show is going to go. We communicate our style and form of entertainment, which is individual to each performer. </p><p>And we do the same in our email marketing, which is why we talk about how important it is to tell your audience how often you're going to email them and what they can expect from you, for example. Tell them if they can reply - and&nbsp;of course, we <em>encourage</em> that.</p><p>In our Getting to Know You sequence (i.e. our welcome sequence) we ask a question that gets people to reply. And we also include a link (or several) in every email we send. Because this teaches our audience that every time they click on a link in one of our emails, they get rewarded with something valuable.  &nbsp;</p><p>Whatever you do (or don’t do) in your email trains your audience into specific behaviours - whether you're doing this consciously or not. Are these behaviours serving you (and your audience) in a positive way? Because if they're not, you may be stopping people from getting value from what you do. So become aware of what you’re training your audience to do.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>2. Create authority</strong></h3><p>Another important email marketing strategy example we want to share is creating authority. As entertainers, sometimes we go on stage to perform in front of a group of people who don’t know who we are or whether we’re any good. People have to believe that we can deliver the show that’s been promised - that we can do what we said and that it's going to work. </p><p>And in order to achieve that, we need to create authority.&nbsp;Of course, there's some natural authority that comes with the framing of the show. People spent money to buy a ticket and come to the show so they already assume (to a degree) that it’s going to work.</p><p>Now if you translate that into the email marketing world, the fact that someone set up a business with a website where you can subscribe to their email list already creates some sense of authority. But above and beyond that, <strong>you want to show people what you’ve done before and what you could do for them.</strong>&nbsp;</p><p>On stage, we do this with footage and clips from previous shows that prove that we can do what we say we do. But remember it’s important to create authority by giving proof or evidence that working with you is going to be worth their time.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>3. Grab people's attention&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>The next thing you want to do is ensure you have the attention of your audience. This is true on stage but also in your email marketing. If you don't have people's attention at the beginning of the show or at the start of your relationship with your subscribers, they’re going to talk all the way through (at a show) or not pay attention. And you don't want that - you want their attention.</p><p>So how do you do it? First of all, you show up with something that’s attention-grabbing. In the world of email marketing, this is done by giving people a promise when they first opt-in and making sure you deliver on that promise. And the first thing you have to always deliver on is your name - it needs to be the same whose list people subscribed to.&nbsp;We see that mistake a lot with business owners using a different name in their emails compared to what they have on their website.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>4. Generate engagement and keep people's attention</strong></h3><p>Another one of our email marketing strategy examples we want to share is to grab and keep attention through subject lines, for example. They set an expectation, they grab someone's attention right from the start, and they help you keep it. When it comes to our shows, for example, we keep people’s attention by making sure our events are fast-paced and interesting. If we used a boring, corporate voice with no personality, people’s attention would immediately drop.</p><p>So keep it pacey, get to the point, stop waffling, and don’t give people too many things to think about at once. That’s why we suggest&nbsp; you don’t put too many points or offers in one email - <strong>one email is one offer</strong>, just like on stage you give one instruction at the time. Otherwise, it gets confusing and people can’t keep up or remember, so they don’t do anything. It's about being clear in your instructions to keep people engaged.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>5. Be yourself</strong></h3><p>This is a contentious subject in the world of entertainment these days, but <em>you're</em> the one on stage, and it's <em>your</em> show. So within the confines of what’s acceptable, tell the jokes you want to tell. And if people don’t like them, that’s fine. They don’t have to buy tickets and come and watch you. It's okay to polarise people. In fact, if you're not making an attempt to make your stuff disliked by some people, you probably don’t have a tight enough angle - and you definitely want one.&nbsp;</p><p>Even within the culture of cancelled entertainment, we still want to be ourselves and do a show that’s enjoyable for <em>us</em>. We want to be able to tell the jokes that <em>we</em> want to tell and write the emails that <em>we</em> want to send. Because if you compromise on that, you’ll end up with a show (or a business) that you don’t actually like! We say this all the time – we’d rather not have our business, podcast, or membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>&nbsp; if it meant we’d have to be boring and corporate. If we couldn't be ourselves and had to behave differently, we wouldn’t want to do it. This is who we are, and we love to create content that <em>we</em> would like to consume, which is what we suggest you do too.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>6. Surprise your audience</strong></h3><p>If you’re always doing the same thing and what you say, do, or write, is very formulaic, then you won’t keep people engaged. And also, you won’t be able to create an emotional response.&nbsp;</p><p>For example, during his show, Kennedy might ask someone to take out their phone, find a photo, and look at it. And then Kennedy will start describing that photo. By the end of that segment, people will be amazed, but the reality is that the audience can tell where that is going. They know what he's going to do when he first asks someone to pick a photo. There’s no element of surprise there because the ending is implied in the setup. But if at the end of the show Kennedy tells that person what photo they <em>almost </em>picked, then there’s a surprise!</p><p>And surprises are great at energising people. They set off different neurotransmitters in your brain that get you re-engaged or hyper-engaged. So think about sending pieces of content that are surprising and not what people expect. That’s why we often use elements of surprise and funny quirky analogies when writing our emails. How can you surprise your audience? Could you offer something for free, for example?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>7. Tell stories</strong></h3><p>Another one of our email marketing strategy examples taken from our shows is to tell stories. Rob, for example, will paint a picture and create a story to give people suggestions about what he's asking them to do. He talks them through the narrative of a story so they can paint that picture in their brain. And he does it that way because stories allow people to make connections that are emotional, real, and interesting.</p><p>For example, you could build stories around how your product or service was created, how it can be used, or how it should <em>never</em> be used (that would be interesting!). Or maybe you could create a story around why your business is more credible than others.</p><p><strong>As entertainers, we use stories to get people to emotionally buy into what we’re about to demonstrate on stage</strong>. So if you want to do the same, show them something or let them see something in your business.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>8. Create a setup &amp; payoff situation</strong></h3><p>Another strategy we use in our entertainment careers is to set something up and then make sure there’s always a payoff. So if Kennedy tells his audience to think of a card from a deck, for example, at some point he has to tell the person what card they picked. If he forgets or can’t figure out what the card is, there’s no payoff to that segment. And people need the payoff! If a magician makes something disappear, they also have to make it re-appear. Otherwise, it’s an incomplete loop in people’s minds!</p><p><br></p><p>In the world of email marketing, that means that if you say something, you have to deliver on that. If you tell people you have a free workshop, it has to happen. And it has to be free! If not, people don't get their payoff. And when people don't get that, they stop buying into the setup. You need that buy-in because it's what gets people excited. So make your payoff clear and then make sure it always happens - without exceptions.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>9. Build beliefs</strong></h3><p>We talked about this before, but building beliefs is essential - both on stage and with your email marketing. This is definitely one of the email marketing strategy examples we stand by because, on stage, people need to believe that we can do what we said we’d do and that it’s going to be enjoyable. We do that by demonstrating, proving, and showing people what things we’ve done in the past. But we also build beliefs by sharing stories and dropping hints. So make sure you do the same in your email marketing.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>10. Adapt and adjust the way you treat people</strong></h3><p>During our shows, we 'read' people - we have to figure them out. And then we adjust our behaviours accordingly. That means we treat people in different ways depending on how <em>they</em> act.&nbsp;</p><p>For example, Rob will need to always adjust the language pattern he uses to hypnotise someone based on signals he reads from a person. So he'll observe how they sit, how they engage with him, where they're looking, etc. And Kennedy will ask someone from the audience coming up on stage all sorts of questions. Why? To see how they behave on stage. Then based on their reactions, he'll use different techniques to either figure out or influence what they're thinking.&nbsp;</p><p>How does this relate to your email marketing? In your email marketing, you should collect lots of data points about your subscribers, including how they came into your world. Because that gives you information about them and what they're interested in. Pay attention to what they engage with or what they click on. <strong>Trust what people do - not what people say</strong>. And then adjust your behaviours accordingly.&nbsp;</p><p>If you have a subscriber who always watches videos, for example, send them an offer via video. Or if they always engage with a certain topic, send them more content that seems important to them. Read people, figure out data points, and then adjust your behaviours based on theirs.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>11. Find the most efficient ways to do things</strong></h3><p>Another one of our email marketing strategy examples is to find the most efficient ways to do things. So if Rob is hypnotising someone, the process needs to be interesting and engaging. Otherwise, his audience is going to switch off and stop paying attention. The same happens with Kennedy in his shows. If he’s not using the most efficient route to get to an answer and is taking too long, then people are going to get bored.&nbsp;</p><p>So we’re always looking for interesting shortcuts and tricks to speed up our processes and for efficient ways to get in front of an existing audience to get extra attention.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>12. Pay attention to language patterns</strong></h3><p>And finally, the last of our email marketing strategy examples from our on-stage career is to pay attention to language patterns. Why is this important? Because it helps you influence people. We have a full programme called Remote Control Persuasion, which is all about that. But the idea is that whenever you're communicating (whether it's through typing or speaking the words), it’s about knowing that some words are going to be more impactful and influence others while other words will do the opposite.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So start looking at your language. Are you helping people with what you’re saying? Are you moving your audience towards where you want them? Or are you saying negative things that make them go round in circles? Everything you do and say in your emails (including the language you use) has an influence. Because <strong>we emotionally buy into the words that people use</strong>. So you want to make sure you’re using language that nudges people in the right direction. And changing little words every now and then makes a difference.</p><p><em>Did you enjoy the 12 email marketing strategy examples we shared with you today?&nbsp;</em></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject line is “was $499 (now FREE)”. This is something you can use if you have a discount or if you're introducing a <em>before and after</em> price or offer. Or you could say something along the lines of “today it’s $29. Tomorrow, it's $499”. This tells the whole story in the subject line, but people still need to open the email and click on the links to grab the offer.</p><p>So it's something you can use on the last day when an offer is about to close, for example. This subject line was from the opening email of one of our campaigns, but we also used it as the closing one. It works well for demonstrating and telling the whole story in a short subject line and encouraging people to act now.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-market-yourself-belinda-weaver/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Making Yourself Choosable with Belinda Weaver</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/flagship-product-order-your-offers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Little-Known Right Order to Make Your Offers (For Maximum Sales)</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/psychology-of-marketing-email-campaigns/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">9 Psychological Things That We Use In All Of Our Campaigns</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the 12 email marketing strategy examples that we use on stage) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-strategy-examples-from-the-stage/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">05efef18-5bab-404a-bd38-f0316fafb9e4</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/6486ddfe-a47d-4a6c-b282-bcc68eff26d1/diMzcsNqmr5yBdQ3W8xNM3hy.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2022 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/192d1949-cb2d-448b-b892-1952819d9a7d/12-20Things-20That-20We-20Use-20On-20Stage-20That-20Help-20Our--converted.mp3" length="30056903" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>31:19</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>149</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>149</podcast:episode></item><item><title>9 Powerful Psychology Techniques To Improve Your Email Campaigns</title><itunes:title>9 Powerful Psychology Techniques To Improve Your Email Campaigns</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>How do you make sure you get better results, more engagement, and more sales using email marketing campaigns? You need to understand the <em>psychology</em> of marketing.</p><p>We’re Kennedy and <a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Fifi</u></a>, and today we're going to share the 9 psychological strategies that we successfully use in all our email marketing campaigns.</p><p>Ready to discover all our best secrets?</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><p>Related episodes</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/summits-list-building/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>How To Use Summits To Get Visible (Even If You’re An Introvert) And Build Your Email List, With Fifi Mason</u></a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/cant-stop-procrastinating-email-marketing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Useful Strategies To Stop Procrastinating RIGHT NOW To Get Your Email Marketing Done!</u></a></p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/create-email-marketing-strategy-plan/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>How To Build The Most Impactful Email Marketing Strategy Plan To Make More Sales In Your Business</u></a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u> Grab your FREE list here</u></a>.</p><p>Join the FREE Facebook group</p><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</u></a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p>Try ResponseSuite for $1</p><p>This content is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>ResponseSuite.com</u></a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Try it out for 14 days for just $1</u></a>.</p><p>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</p><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u> The Email Hero Blueprint</u></a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><p>Want to connect with Fifi?</p><p>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people - those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can <a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>find Fifi on her website</u></a>.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the biggest mistakes you're making with your email automation strategy) and love the show, we'd appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How do you make sure you get better results, more engagement, and more sales using email marketing campaigns? You need to understand the <em>psychology</em> of marketing.</p><p>We’re Kennedy and <a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Fifi</u></a>, and today we're going to share the 9 psychological strategies that we successfully use in all our email marketing campaigns.</p><p>Ready to discover all our best secrets?</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><p>Related episodes</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/summits-list-building/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>How To Use Summits To Get Visible (Even If You’re An Introvert) And Build Your Email List, With Fifi Mason</u></a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/cant-stop-procrastinating-email-marketing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Useful Strategies To Stop Procrastinating RIGHT NOW To Get Your Email Marketing Done!</u></a></p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/create-email-marketing-strategy-plan/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>How To Build The Most Impactful Email Marketing Strategy Plan To Make More Sales In Your Business</u></a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u> Grab your FREE list here</u></a>.</p><p>Join the FREE Facebook group</p><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</u></a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p>Try ResponseSuite for $1</p><p>This content is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>ResponseSuite.com</u></a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Try it out for 14 days for just $1</u></a>.</p><p>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</p><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u> The Email Hero Blueprint</u></a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><p>Want to connect with Fifi?</p><p>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people - those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can <a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>find Fifi on her website</u></a>.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the biggest mistakes you're making with your email automation strategy) and love the show, we'd appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/psychology-of-marketing-email-campaigns/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">3eff8cbb-78f6-4999-9fd0-cf6e9a0d98f0</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/175d1ce4-2d12-485e-9db8-07563781afc3/vHiezHh29RW7vyGF95pw9X9R.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2022 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/ab2aada7-6d86-4c77-8458-908c082892c6/EP-245-Final-v2.mp3" length="102926656" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>42:53</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>148</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>148</podcast:episode></item><item><title>The Little-Known Right Order to Make Your Offers (For Maximum Sales)</title><itunes:title>The Little-Known Right Order to Make Your Offers (For Maximum Sales)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Do you have a flagship product - a core product or service that you focus on with your marketing and your messaging? Today we're sharing how you decide <em>in what order</em> to promote your products so you can simplify your business and your marketing and maximise your sales per subscriber.&nbsp;</p><p>Sounds too good to be true? Well, it's a really simple trick, and you're just about to learn all there is about it!&nbsp;</p><p>Ready?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(4:43) All roads lead to Rome!</p><p>(7:21) Choosing your Rome.</p><p>(9:34) Create offers that appeal to different segments of your audience.</p><p>(10:40) Reduce the risk and deliver results to prove you can help.</p><p>(11:46) Bring more eyeballs to your core product.</p><p>(13:09) Simplify your business and maximise your profits.</p><p>(14:56) How to structure your email marketing.</p><p>(16:29) Talk about your offers in different ways.</p><p>(18:04) How to pick your flagship product.</p><p>(21:20) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>All roads lead to Rome!&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>In a casual, throwaway comment we shared during our Level Up mastermind in London, we said that<strong> all businesses need to have a core product and all roads must lead to it</strong>. It's like the old well-known expression that all roads lead to Rome! This was hands down the biggest takeaway from our participants, and it's an idea that we often take for granted but want to shed some light on because it might help you solve some of the problems you're currently experiencing in your business.&nbsp;</p><p>When using our email campaigns, a lot of people ask us in what order they should sell their products and to whom. If you sell a couple of different products in your business and have a few lead magnets as well, you have to juggle different offers. So how do you know how they all fit together?</p><p>The great news is that there's an easy answer to this. <strong>You need to pick the <em>one thing</em> that you ultimately want everybody in your world to end up in. </strong>For us, it’s our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. Interestingly, <strong>what you choose as 'your Rome' doesn’t have to be your highest-priced product. </strong>For example, our <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/agency?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=agency" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">email writing agency</a> or our mastermind Level Up cost more than The League. But those are what we call our <em>profit maximisers</em> or upsell offers. They are products we make available for the people who want further help from us (more about that later). </p><p>So to help you figure out what your Rome is, finish the sentence,<strong> “If I could wave a magic wand and get everyone single one of my perfect customers to buy <em>one thing</em> from me, it would be ............”</strong>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Choosing your Rome</strong></h3><p>Our Rome is our membership because with our more expensive products we have a capacity issue. In our mastermind, we only have two groups of 15 people, for example. So we don’t want every single one of our ideal customers to end up there – that’s just not possible! But with our membership, we can have as many members as we want because it’s a scalable offer. In other words, having more people inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> won’t diminish our ability to deliver. That's why our membership is our Rome, and everything leads to that. Bringing people closer to our Rome (our flagship product) is our ultimate goal.</p><p>So that's what you want to do too – <strong>figure out what your Rome is and then lead people to it.</strong> Because if your marketing isn’t doing that, it’s probably confusing people and pushing them away. Once you have <em>one</em> focal point in your business, your customers will see that too. But if you have loads of different offers, it’s hard for people to figure out what’s right for them. They can get confused.</p><p><strong>It's okay to have different products that will bring in people at different points and help them with various parts of their journey. But ultimately you want <em>one</em> core offer - something you’re driving everyone to. </strong>That will be your focal point - your North Star. So every time you’re creating a new piece of content, a new offer, or setting up an email campaign, you want to first figure out how that activity helps you to get more of your ideal clients closer to buying your core offer.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Create offers that appeal to different segments of your audience</strong></h3><p>Once you've picked your Rome, look at everything else you're doing to see if your other activities or offers act as a <em>ramp</em> towards your Rome. Do they move people towards your core offer? <strong>Everything you do in your business and your marketing needs to act as a precursor or prequel to the one thing you want to sell.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>In order to achieve that, you want to create things that appeal to different segments of your audience. For example, in our business, we might create a piece of content that only appeals to course creators. And then we'll have something separate for membership site owners or coaches. These are all <em>micro products</em>, and they can be free or paid for, but the key is that they lead into the core product. So create <strong>on-ramp products or offers that appeal to different segments</strong> <strong>and lead to your Rome</strong>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Reduce the risk and deliver results to prove you can help</strong></h3><p>On-ramp offers can also be useful to help you reduce the risk for potential new customers who are on the fence about buying your flagship product. In other words, <strong>you can use on-ramp products to make your Rome either lower price or lower commitment. </strong>Can you think of ways to reduce the level of perceived commitment?</p><p>Another thing you can do is to<strong> deliver some kind of result to prove that you can help people.</strong> We currently live in a world with the highest levels of skepticism and lowest levels of trust <em>ever</em> in the history of the human race. People might not want to commit to you just yet. So it's key for you to be able to deliver some small result – something that proves that you're good and that your product or service works. Can your on-ramp offers do that?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Bring more eyeballs to your core product</strong></h3><p>And finally, on-ramp offers can be tied to some kind of traffic method that brings more eyeballs to your flagship product. For example, we only have affiliate programmes (where we pay people a commission for selling our products) for our on-ramp offers. We don’t have an affiliate programme for our Rome – <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. And that’s because we know that by running affiliate programmes for our on-ramp offers we get more people to run promotions for us and therefore more ideal customers to see our Rome.</p><p>For example, in our online email marketing conference - Inbox - we had presentations about lots of different topics. And those will appeal to different segments of our audience. The business model for our event reduces risk because Inbox is free to attend. You pay nothing upfront and only spend money if you want to buy the recordings. So we deliver results for people. Because people take the teachings, apply them to their business, and make money. Plus, all our speakers promote the event to their lists and bring more subscribers to our world from their audiences.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Simplify your business and maximise your profits</strong></h3><p>So, to summarise, when looking at any other offers you run in your business, check whether they are on-ramp products that move people closer to your flagship product. If not, are they profit maximisers, like our <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/agency?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=agency" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">writing agency</a> or our mastermind? If you have anything else that <em>doesn't</em> fall into these categories, are those things just a distraction? <strong>Because something that <em>doesn't</em> help people come into your ecosystem by getting closer to your Rome or<em> isn't</em> a profit maximiser isn't needed.</strong> So get rid of it and simplify your business - not just for you but for your subscribers too.</p><p><strong>When someone new comes into your world, the undertone of everything you say is that ultimately they should end up in your Rome</strong>. And if people want to dip their toe in the water with you first and find out if you’re any good and can get results for people, you'll have other lower-commitment offers that are either free or paid for. Look at what we do – yes, we talk about our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> a lot, but every now and then we also tell people about other things we’re doing. We give people lots of different opportunities to try some of our products.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to structure your email marketing</strong></h3><p>Once you've set things up in your business this way, you can also figure out how to order your campaigns in your email marketing engine and create your ideal subscriber journey.</p><p>When someone new comes into your world, you want to put them through the Getting to Know You sequence (that's what we call our welcome sequence). And then after that, you have a string of campaigns designed to...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you have a flagship product - a core product or service that you focus on with your marketing and your messaging? Today we're sharing how you decide <em>in what order</em> to promote your products so you can simplify your business and your marketing and maximise your sales per subscriber.&nbsp;</p><p>Sounds too good to be true? Well, it's a really simple trick, and you're just about to learn all there is about it!&nbsp;</p><p>Ready?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(4:43) All roads lead to Rome!</p><p>(7:21) Choosing your Rome.</p><p>(9:34) Create offers that appeal to different segments of your audience.</p><p>(10:40) Reduce the risk and deliver results to prove you can help.</p><p>(11:46) Bring more eyeballs to your core product.</p><p>(13:09) Simplify your business and maximise your profits.</p><p>(14:56) How to structure your email marketing.</p><p>(16:29) Talk about your offers in different ways.</p><p>(18:04) How to pick your flagship product.</p><p>(21:20) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>All roads lead to Rome!&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>In a casual, throwaway comment we shared during our Level Up mastermind in London, we said that<strong> all businesses need to have a core product and all roads must lead to it</strong>. It's like the old well-known expression that all roads lead to Rome! This was hands down the biggest takeaway from our participants, and it's an idea that we often take for granted but want to shed some light on because it might help you solve some of the problems you're currently experiencing in your business.&nbsp;</p><p>When using our email campaigns, a lot of people ask us in what order they should sell their products and to whom. If you sell a couple of different products in your business and have a few lead magnets as well, you have to juggle different offers. So how do you know how they all fit together?</p><p>The great news is that there's an easy answer to this. <strong>You need to pick the <em>one thing</em> that you ultimately want everybody in your world to end up in. </strong>For us, it’s our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. Interestingly, <strong>what you choose as 'your Rome' doesn’t have to be your highest-priced product. </strong>For example, our <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/agency?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=agency" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">email writing agency</a> or our mastermind Level Up cost more than The League. But those are what we call our <em>profit maximisers</em> or upsell offers. They are products we make available for the people who want further help from us (more about that later). </p><p>So to help you figure out what your Rome is, finish the sentence,<strong> “If I could wave a magic wand and get everyone single one of my perfect customers to buy <em>one thing</em> from me, it would be ............”</strong>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Choosing your Rome</strong></h3><p>Our Rome is our membership because with our more expensive products we have a capacity issue. In our mastermind, we only have two groups of 15 people, for example. So we don’t want every single one of our ideal customers to end up there – that’s just not possible! But with our membership, we can have as many members as we want because it’s a scalable offer. In other words, having more people inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> won’t diminish our ability to deliver. That's why our membership is our Rome, and everything leads to that. Bringing people closer to our Rome (our flagship product) is our ultimate goal.</p><p>So that's what you want to do too – <strong>figure out what your Rome is and then lead people to it.</strong> Because if your marketing isn’t doing that, it’s probably confusing people and pushing them away. Once you have <em>one</em> focal point in your business, your customers will see that too. But if you have loads of different offers, it’s hard for people to figure out what’s right for them. They can get confused.</p><p><strong>It's okay to have different products that will bring in people at different points and help them with various parts of their journey. But ultimately you want <em>one</em> core offer - something you’re driving everyone to. </strong>That will be your focal point - your North Star. So every time you’re creating a new piece of content, a new offer, or setting up an email campaign, you want to first figure out how that activity helps you to get more of your ideal clients closer to buying your core offer.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Create offers that appeal to different segments of your audience</strong></h3><p>Once you've picked your Rome, look at everything else you're doing to see if your other activities or offers act as a <em>ramp</em> towards your Rome. Do they move people towards your core offer? <strong>Everything you do in your business and your marketing needs to act as a precursor or prequel to the one thing you want to sell.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>In order to achieve that, you want to create things that appeal to different segments of your audience. For example, in our business, we might create a piece of content that only appeals to course creators. And then we'll have something separate for membership site owners or coaches. These are all <em>micro products</em>, and they can be free or paid for, but the key is that they lead into the core product. So create <strong>on-ramp products or offers that appeal to different segments</strong> <strong>and lead to your Rome</strong>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Reduce the risk and deliver results to prove you can help</strong></h3><p>On-ramp offers can also be useful to help you reduce the risk for potential new customers who are on the fence about buying your flagship product. In other words, <strong>you can use on-ramp products to make your Rome either lower price or lower commitment. </strong>Can you think of ways to reduce the level of perceived commitment?</p><p>Another thing you can do is to<strong> deliver some kind of result to prove that you can help people.</strong> We currently live in a world with the highest levels of skepticism and lowest levels of trust <em>ever</em> in the history of the human race. People might not want to commit to you just yet. So it's key for you to be able to deliver some small result – something that proves that you're good and that your product or service works. Can your on-ramp offers do that?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Bring more eyeballs to your core product</strong></h3><p>And finally, on-ramp offers can be tied to some kind of traffic method that brings more eyeballs to your flagship product. For example, we only have affiliate programmes (where we pay people a commission for selling our products) for our on-ramp offers. We don’t have an affiliate programme for our Rome – <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. And that’s because we know that by running affiliate programmes for our on-ramp offers we get more people to run promotions for us and therefore more ideal customers to see our Rome.</p><p>For example, in our online email marketing conference - Inbox - we had presentations about lots of different topics. And those will appeal to different segments of our audience. The business model for our event reduces risk because Inbox is free to attend. You pay nothing upfront and only spend money if you want to buy the recordings. So we deliver results for people. Because people take the teachings, apply them to their business, and make money. Plus, all our speakers promote the event to their lists and bring more subscribers to our world from their audiences.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Simplify your business and maximise your profits</strong></h3><p>So, to summarise, when looking at any other offers you run in your business, check whether they are on-ramp products that move people closer to your flagship product. If not, are they profit maximisers, like our <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/agency?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=agency" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">writing agency</a> or our mastermind? If you have anything else that <em>doesn't</em> fall into these categories, are those things just a distraction? <strong>Because something that <em>doesn't</em> help people come into your ecosystem by getting closer to your Rome or<em> isn't</em> a profit maximiser isn't needed.</strong> So get rid of it and simplify your business - not just for you but for your subscribers too.</p><p><strong>When someone new comes into your world, the undertone of everything you say is that ultimately they should end up in your Rome</strong>. And if people want to dip their toe in the water with you first and find out if you’re any good and can get results for people, you'll have other lower-commitment offers that are either free or paid for. Look at what we do – yes, we talk about our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> a lot, but every now and then we also tell people about other things we’re doing. We give people lots of different opportunities to try some of our products.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to structure your email marketing</strong></h3><p>Once you've set things up in your business this way, you can also figure out how to order your campaigns in your email marketing engine and create your ideal subscriber journey.</p><p>When someone new comes into your world, you want to put them through the Getting to Know You sequence (that's what we call our welcome sequence). And then after that, you have a string of campaigns designed to sell your core product and tell people why it’s good, why they should buy it, and why they should buy it <em>now</em>. Some people will buy, but those who don't will receive new campaigns (coupled with your daily emails) where you offer them your lower-commitment products.</p><p>So if join our list as a new email subscriber you go through a series of campaigns about <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, which we believe is the best thing you can do for your email marketing. But if you get to the end of our engine, and you're still not ready to join, then we can help you with other products (i.e. our on-ramp offers).&nbsp;</p><p>For example, we can sell you our <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/5k?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=first-5k" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">List Building course</a> or our <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/des-open?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=des" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bottomless Email Strategy</a> (which is included inside our membership, by the way). And a lot of people who start off with these products do end up in <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> because we’ve proven to them that we can help.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Talk about your offers in different ways</strong></h3><p>So, picking your flagship product and deciding that everything in your marketing leads to that helps you simplify your email marketing and your business. You can wrap multiple offers and campaigns around your flagship product and then talk about it in different ways. You can highlight different aspects of your product that will appeal to different people.&nbsp;</p><p>What you <em>don’t</em> want to do is to talk about different products every month. Because that’s a sure way to confuse your list and make <em>no</em> sales! <strong>A confused mind cannot make decisions</strong>, and if you continuously promote different products, your audience won't be able to tell the difference. They won't know what's available or what they should buy to solve the problem they have.&nbsp;</p><p>But <strong>when you have <em>one</em> Rome, there’s no confusion.</strong> So stick with your <em>one</em> thing and talk about it from different angles to make sure you <strong>continue to build the beliefs, the understanding, and the desire for your core product</strong>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to pick your flagship product</strong></h3><p>So what types of products would make for a good Rome? You have many options here, but here are the core ones.&nbsp;</p><ul><li><strong>High-ticket coaching programme</strong>. Think 12 weeks, or 6-12 months, for example.&nbsp;</li><li><strong>Mastermind</strong>.&nbsp;</li><li><strong>Membership</strong>. This is what we chose to do because we wanted a subscription we could scale. But even if you sell physical products, you could have a business model that encourages people to buy from you every month.</li><li><strong>Flagship course or programme</strong>.</li><li><strong>A live event</strong> you do once a year.</li></ul><br/><p>Once you've decided what your Rome is, you can add other offers for the people who want to get even closer to you (i.e. the profit maximisers). Remember, you’re not trying to sell those to everyone – <strong>they are offers for the people who want more help from you</strong>. We created our mastermind at the back of people who wanted to spend more time with us to get some help with more than just email marketing.</p><p>So if you want to find out more about our world, go and check out our Rome – <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. And as for our mastermind, Level Up, we don't have any availability right now (August 2022). But we’ll be opening up some slots in the future. So <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/level-up-wl?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=episode-147&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=level-up" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">if you want to register your interest and go on the waiting list, the link is here</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject line is “what’s your face doing?” followed by the confused face emoji. This works because it's a curiosity-driven subject line - people can't tell what it's going to be about. Will it be an insult? It’s a weird question to ask and totally driven by curiosity. Try it out!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-agency/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why We Started an Email Marketing Agency</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-while-on-holiday/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Do Your Email Marketing While You’re On Holiday</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-promote-a-virtual-event-inbox/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lessons Learned from Running Our 2-Day INBOX Event</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to pick a flagship product and order offers in your business to maximise sales) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/flagship-product-order-your-offers/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">a2f737f3-3bb8-4943-8fc2-705998f683ca</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/fd7205cd-3e50-4bce-9343-3eb13236509b/ZUC6qZSWWXN5CZAL3KRwq_OP.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2022 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/e9bc5e08-1842-4797-91a6-6bb1ce390be9/final-converted.mp3" length="22574279" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>23:31</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>147</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>147</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Lessons Learned from Running Our 2-Day INBOX Event</title><itunes:title>Lessons Learned from Running Our 2-Day INBOX Event</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Are you thinking of running your own online summit? Are you wondering about how to promote a virtual event with email marketing?</p><p>Today we're sharing the lessons we've learned from running our own two-day online event - Inbox. This is the third year we hosted our signature email marketing conference, which is a totally free online event with multiple speakers and a ton of value.&nbsp;</p><p>Want to know all about it so you can find out <em>exactly</em> what email campaigns you can run to make <em>your</em> next online event a super profitable one?&nbsp;</p><p>Then let's go!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(5:03) Why the online online virtual summit business model works.</p><p>(6:49) Why we choose to run Inbox on Zoom.</p><p>(8:00) Agree with the speakers when they're going to promote the event.</p><p>(9:53) Find sponsors for your event.  </p><p>(10:56) Promote your event with email marketing. </p><p>(12:39) The registration sequence and the engagement sequence. </p><p>(16:06) The sequence you run during the event and the post-event sequence.</p><p>(20:07) How to handle the price hikes.</p><p>(25:51) Check out our Virtual Summit email campaign workshop.</p><p>(29:06) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Why the online virtual summit business model works</strong></h3><p>Our Inbox email marketing conference is now online, which means people can attend from all over the world. But when we first ran the event in 2020 it wasn't meant to be free <em>or</em> online. We'd planned an in-person conference in Newcastle for $500 per ticket. </p><p><br></p><p>But then the pandemic hit, and we had to move the event online. We've basically changed the business model so that instead of having people pay for a ticket, they pay for the recordings of all the sessions (we call this All Access Pass). </p><p><br></p><p>Plus, because all the speakers also promote the event to their audiences (and earn a percentage of the sales), an online event like this is a great list-building exercise. We absolutely fell in love with this business model, and to this date, our conference Inbox creates the biggest influx of brand new subscribers to our list each year.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why we choose to run Inbox on Zoom&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>One of the things we learned is that although there are different platforms designed to host virtual events (and those are absolutely brilliant) sometimes tech barriers stop people from attending. So we decided to host our event on Zoom, and we have no intention of ever changing that.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Because running a virtual summit is a list-building exercise, you want<em> lots</em> of attendees! So it's probably not the right time to try out fancy platforms that people aren't familiar with because there can be a lot of resistance to those. Whereas with Zoom, pretty much everyone knows how to use it, so if you remove the tech resistance you'll have more people registering and attending the event.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Agree with the speakers when they're going to promote the event&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Another thing we learned is that not all businesses treat email marketing as a priority in their business. So while <em>we</em> know in advance what we're going to promote and when, a lot of businesses might not. </p><p><br></p><p>During the first year of running Inbox, we asked all speakers to promote the event to their list, but we didn't specify any timelines for them. And that meant that we got very little (if any) promotion at all from some of the speakers.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So what we do now is to ask the speakers to specify in advance what dates they're going to promote the event. We ask them to create a schedule, put it in their calendars, and commit to it. So if you're organising an online event, don’t be afraid of letting your speakers know that it works as a collective. If all the speakers promote the conference to their list, then you’re getting in front of all of their audiences. But if they don't, then you don't get as much exposure - you all have to do the promotion. </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Find sponsors for your event</strong></h3><p>Another tip we can give you is to try and find companies that are happy to pay to get in front of your audience (because they're their ideal clients too) and offer them a sponsorship package. This means you'll have other businesses advertise at your event and pay a fee to be able to do so.</p><p><br></p><p>The sponsorship fee could be any amount and might depend on the scale of your event, but it gives those sponsors a good potential for return. And for you, having sponsors means additional revenue. We suggest you put different sponsorship packages together and let your sponsors know what they get for paying different amounts. That way, you allow businesses at different levels to put their message in front of your audience.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Promote your event with email marketing&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Another tip we have for you if you're running your own virtual summit is to use a few short email campaigns to promote it. Inside our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> we have different campaigns that are perfect if you're hosting a big, expensive, in-person event. But <strong>for a free online event, we use and recommend four email sequences</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>A summit is a list-building event, but it's also a money-making opportunity. So you're leaving money on the table if you don't try to at least make half the sales yourself. Because of course, you can rely on speakers promoting the event, but you’ve got a list too! And in fact, <strong>you have the most engaged and responsive list of people who are interested in your brand and what you sell.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>So don’t make the mistake of abandoning your list. You want your event to turn into a cash-generation activity too, and the following four email campaigns are going to help you maximise your sales.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>1. The registration sequence</strong></h3><p>The first email campaign we run is a registration sequence. This goes out to your audience to get them to come and register for the free event. Ours is made up of 15 emails going out over 14 days (with two emails on the last day) and drives people to go and check out the sales page.</p><p><br></p><p>And speaking of the sales page, let's remember that even though the event is free, you want to sell it! So imagine you’re putting together an event that’s thousands of dollars per ticket. Make a page that will sell that and <em>then</em> make it free - don't skimp out on the sales page just because it’s a free event.</p><p><br></p><p>You want people who register to feel that this event is <em>so good</em> that they’re taking advantage of you by getting it for free. So when they find out that the session recordings are available to sell, they want to go and grab them!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>2. The engagement sequence</strong></h3><p>The second sequence we use is a “show up” sequence to drive engagement. It's an important one because when people turn up at the event, watch the content and realise it's mind-blowing, and they can't take notes fast enough, or they can’t attend all the sessions because they have other commitments during the day, this sequence will drive people to go and buy your recordings.</p><p><br></p><p>For this, we use a sequence of 5 emails over the course of 10 days leading up to the event. Remember that your emails shouldn't be boring - you need to include valuable content and position the event in such a way that will make people want to attend. Effectively, you want to <em>re-sell</em> people on the event even though it's free because you want them to show up. And you want to have an impact on people even if they decide not to buy the recordings.</p><p><br></p><p>So even if someone decides to never buy our All Access Pass, we still want them to see how good the event is. Because later on, when they’re ready to think about email marketing, they’re going to think of us as the industry leaders for hosting such a great event. And by drumming up engagement, you're helping your speakers too.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>3. The sequence you run during the event&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>The third sequence is the one we run during the event. While Inbox is running, each morning we send out an email that explains what's happening in the morning sessions. And then we do the same in the afternoon. Because we run a two-day event, that's a short sequence of four emails.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>In the first year of running Inbox, we would send out an email every hour. But we soon learned that our subscribers didn't like that - way too many emails in a day! So we don't suggest you do that.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>4. The post-event sequence</strong></h3><p>The fourth email sequence is a post-event sequence. In ours, we send a feedback survey to help us improve the event, and that’s how we learn about what people like. As the founders of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Response Suite</a>, we are big fans of surveys and use them a lot in our business.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Something key that we do in our online conference is to set different prices for the recordings, and typically the price for our All Access Pass goes up by five times 2-3 days after the event. So we use our post-event email sequence to remind people of the price hike and compel them to buy <em>now</em>.</p><p><br></p><p>As you've probably figured out by now, <strong>three-quarters of the sequences we send out have the primary goal of pushing engagement <em>and</em> selling the recordings</strong>. So it’s not just about building your list from the event - remember you want to make it profitable...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you thinking of running your own online summit? Are you wondering about how to promote a virtual event with email marketing?</p><p>Today we're sharing the lessons we've learned from running our own two-day online event - Inbox. This is the third year we hosted our signature email marketing conference, which is a totally free online event with multiple speakers and a ton of value.&nbsp;</p><p>Want to know all about it so you can find out <em>exactly</em> what email campaigns you can run to make <em>your</em> next online event a super profitable one?&nbsp;</p><p>Then let's go!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(5:03) Why the online online virtual summit business model works.</p><p>(6:49) Why we choose to run Inbox on Zoom.</p><p>(8:00) Agree with the speakers when they're going to promote the event.</p><p>(9:53) Find sponsors for your event.  </p><p>(10:56) Promote your event with email marketing. </p><p>(12:39) The registration sequence and the engagement sequence. </p><p>(16:06) The sequence you run during the event and the post-event sequence.</p><p>(20:07) How to handle the price hikes.</p><p>(25:51) Check out our Virtual Summit email campaign workshop.</p><p>(29:06) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Why the online virtual summit business model works</strong></h3><p>Our Inbox email marketing conference is now online, which means people can attend from all over the world. But when we first ran the event in 2020 it wasn't meant to be free <em>or</em> online. We'd planned an in-person conference in Newcastle for $500 per ticket. </p><p><br></p><p>But then the pandemic hit, and we had to move the event online. We've basically changed the business model so that instead of having people pay for a ticket, they pay for the recordings of all the sessions (we call this All Access Pass). </p><p><br></p><p>Plus, because all the speakers also promote the event to their audiences (and earn a percentage of the sales), an online event like this is a great list-building exercise. We absolutely fell in love with this business model, and to this date, our conference Inbox creates the biggest influx of brand new subscribers to our list each year.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why we choose to run Inbox on Zoom&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>One of the things we learned is that although there are different platforms designed to host virtual events (and those are absolutely brilliant) sometimes tech barriers stop people from attending. So we decided to host our event on Zoom, and we have no intention of ever changing that.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Because running a virtual summit is a list-building exercise, you want<em> lots</em> of attendees! So it's probably not the right time to try out fancy platforms that people aren't familiar with because there can be a lot of resistance to those. Whereas with Zoom, pretty much everyone knows how to use it, so if you remove the tech resistance you'll have more people registering and attending the event.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Agree with the speakers when they're going to promote the event&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Another thing we learned is that not all businesses treat email marketing as a priority in their business. So while <em>we</em> know in advance what we're going to promote and when, a lot of businesses might not. </p><p><br></p><p>During the first year of running Inbox, we asked all speakers to promote the event to their list, but we didn't specify any timelines for them. And that meant that we got very little (if any) promotion at all from some of the speakers.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So what we do now is to ask the speakers to specify in advance what dates they're going to promote the event. We ask them to create a schedule, put it in their calendars, and commit to it. So if you're organising an online event, don’t be afraid of letting your speakers know that it works as a collective. If all the speakers promote the conference to their list, then you’re getting in front of all of their audiences. But if they don't, then you don't get as much exposure - you all have to do the promotion. </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Find sponsors for your event</strong></h3><p>Another tip we can give you is to try and find companies that are happy to pay to get in front of your audience (because they're their ideal clients too) and offer them a sponsorship package. This means you'll have other businesses advertise at your event and pay a fee to be able to do so.</p><p><br></p><p>The sponsorship fee could be any amount and might depend on the scale of your event, but it gives those sponsors a good potential for return. And for you, having sponsors means additional revenue. We suggest you put different sponsorship packages together and let your sponsors know what they get for paying different amounts. That way, you allow businesses at different levels to put their message in front of your audience.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Promote your event with email marketing&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Another tip we have for you if you're running your own virtual summit is to use a few short email campaigns to promote it. Inside our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> we have different campaigns that are perfect if you're hosting a big, expensive, in-person event. But <strong>for a free online event, we use and recommend four email sequences</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>A summit is a list-building event, but it's also a money-making opportunity. So you're leaving money on the table if you don't try to at least make half the sales yourself. Because of course, you can rely on speakers promoting the event, but you’ve got a list too! And in fact, <strong>you have the most engaged and responsive list of people who are interested in your brand and what you sell.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>So don’t make the mistake of abandoning your list. You want your event to turn into a cash-generation activity too, and the following four email campaigns are going to help you maximise your sales.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>1. The registration sequence</strong></h3><p>The first email campaign we run is a registration sequence. This goes out to your audience to get them to come and register for the free event. Ours is made up of 15 emails going out over 14 days (with two emails on the last day) and drives people to go and check out the sales page.</p><p><br></p><p>And speaking of the sales page, let's remember that even though the event is free, you want to sell it! So imagine you’re putting together an event that’s thousands of dollars per ticket. Make a page that will sell that and <em>then</em> make it free - don't skimp out on the sales page just because it’s a free event.</p><p><br></p><p>You want people who register to feel that this event is <em>so good</em> that they’re taking advantage of you by getting it for free. So when they find out that the session recordings are available to sell, they want to go and grab them!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>2. The engagement sequence</strong></h3><p>The second sequence we use is a “show up” sequence to drive engagement. It's an important one because when people turn up at the event, watch the content and realise it's mind-blowing, and they can't take notes fast enough, or they can’t attend all the sessions because they have other commitments during the day, this sequence will drive people to go and buy your recordings.</p><p><br></p><p>For this, we use a sequence of 5 emails over the course of 10 days leading up to the event. Remember that your emails shouldn't be boring - you need to include valuable content and position the event in such a way that will make people want to attend. Effectively, you want to <em>re-sell</em> people on the event even though it's free because you want them to show up. And you want to have an impact on people even if they decide not to buy the recordings.</p><p><br></p><p>So even if someone decides to never buy our All Access Pass, we still want them to see how good the event is. Because later on, when they’re ready to think about email marketing, they’re going to think of us as the industry leaders for hosting such a great event. And by drumming up engagement, you're helping your speakers too.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>3. The sequence you run during the event&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>The third sequence is the one we run during the event. While Inbox is running, each morning we send out an email that explains what's happening in the morning sessions. And then we do the same in the afternoon. Because we run a two-day event, that's a short sequence of four emails.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>In the first year of running Inbox, we would send out an email every hour. But we soon learned that our subscribers didn't like that - way too many emails in a day! So we don't suggest you do that.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>4. The post-event sequence</strong></h3><p>The fourth email sequence is a post-event sequence. In ours, we send a feedback survey to help us improve the event, and that’s how we learn about what people like. As the founders of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Response Suite</a>, we are big fans of surveys and use them a lot in our business.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Something key that we do in our online conference is to set different prices for the recordings, and typically the price for our All Access Pass goes up by five times 2-3 days after the event. So we use our post-event email sequence to remind people of the price hike and compel them to buy <em>now</em>.</p><p><br></p><p>As you've probably figured out by now, <strong>three-quarters of the sequences we send out have the primary goal of pushing engagement <em>and</em> selling the recordings</strong>. So it’s not just about building your list from the event - remember you want to make it profitable too!</p><p><br></p><p>After registration, we have a window where people can get the recordings for a ridiculously cheap price. And we sell a few All Access Passes at that price, but we sell as many (if not more dollars’ worth) at the higher price point. And that’s because not everyone trusts the value of the event to buy immediately or beforehand. But also, not everyone is necessarily looking at a decent return on their money – they'd rather have a decent return on their <em>time</em>. So they’re happy to spend more money once they’ve seen some of the event or have worked out that they want to go back and watch the sessions later on.</p><p>So <strong>don’t leave money on the table – put these sequences in place and remind people that the recordings are available.</strong>&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to handle the price hikes</strong></h3><p>We mentioned earlier that we have a window after registration when the All Access Pass is super cheap. We call this the <strong>20-minute fast-action discounted price</strong>, and that’s available to someone immediately after they register. That price will automatically expire 20 minutes after registration. To do this, we use a tool called<strong> Countdown Hero</strong>, which is part of our<strong> Automate Hero tool</strong> - something we include for free in our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>.</p><p><br></p><p>For the 20-minute fast-action discount, we also ask some of the speakers to add some bonuses - something that gives <em>them</em> more eyeballs on their content. So this increases and grows the value of the All Access Pass. But also, if the speakers recommend the event to their list, people are more likely to buy the recordings at a super discounted price. The speakers get a percentage of those sales via their affiliate link, so you increase your conversions while the speaker increases their commissions. It's a win from both angles!</p><p><br></p><p>After the 20 minutes have expired, the <strong>Early Bird price</strong> kicks in, and that’s available until the event starts. After that, you sell at the <strong>Regular price</strong>, which is obviously higher than the Early Bird. So in your pre-event emails, make sure you remind people about the price hike to give them a chance to buy at the Early Bird price. And during the event, keep reminding people they can buy at the Regular price before the price goes up afterwards. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Using conditional content</strong></h4><p>Of course, for people who have already bought the All Access Pass, we suggest you use <em>conditional content</em>. This is a feature that all email platforms will have which allows you to segment those subscribers who have already bought the All Access Pass. And instead of telling them about the price hikes, you simply re-sell them on the valuable content they already have access to.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Check out our Virtual Summit Email Campaign Workshop</strong></h3><p>Using these automated email campaigns to promote your virtual summit or online event is great because once you've set them up, you can run your event regularly. You only need to change the dates or any other details. That's what we do. And just like that, you're ready to roll out again. For us, getting ready for Inbox 2022 took about 10% less time than it took us the previous year because all our campaigns were already in place.</p><p><br></p><p>But if you want to do this quickly and efficiently the first time you run your own online event, we have something for you. You can use the exact emails we used over the last few years of running Inbox because we are teaching a <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=episode-146&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Virtual Summit Email Campaign Workshop</strong></a>&nbsp;on <strong>Wednesday, the 17th of August 2022</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>We teach all the campaigns we went through here today and unpick the psychology of why every word in those emails helps you get more people to register so you can grow your list and get them to buy the recordings so you can make the event profitable.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Not only do you get all the teaching, but we also give you a <strong>Google document with every email for you to copy and paste, and send out when you run your online event.</strong> You also get a <strong>free account to our tool Countdown Hero</strong>, so you can create automatically expiring countdowns.</p><p><br></p><p>So <strong>go and check out </strong><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=episode-146&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>this link</strong></a><strong> to join </strong><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>The League</strong></a><strong> and attend the Virtual Summit Campaign Workshop</strong>. And once you signed up, you’ll also get the recording for that session if you can’t attend live.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject line is “what’s your face doing?” followed by the confused face emoji. This works because it's a curiosity-driven subject line - people can't tell what it's going to be about. Will it be an insult? It’s a weird question to ask and totally driven by curiosity</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/lessons-inbox-free-online-email-marketing-conference/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">9 Lessons from The Inbox Online Email Marketing Conference</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/emails-content-consumption-monica-snyder/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why You Might Want to Think Twice About Consumption Emails</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/essential-email-campaigns-examples/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">7 Essential Email Campaigns Examples For Your Business</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to promote a virtual event with email marketing) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-promote-a-virtual-event-inbox/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">75137e45-b8a0-4881-950d-c7baf98bd506</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/d5056511-15ce-463b-9872-c397eaf465bc/r1OwIDthv4-eOQ50HM_89KhR.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2022 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/c8341dbd-06bd-4a2b-a539-61125a951423/final-converted.mp3" length="29055815" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>30:16</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>146</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>146</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Making Yourself Choosable with Belinda Weaver</title><itunes:title>Making Yourself Choosable with Belinda Weaver</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>How do you know if you're unique enough? What makes you stand out? How do you market yourself so that your ideal customers choose you and not your competitors? </p><p>These are some of the questions we answer today with the help of our awesome guest Belinda Weaver. Belinda is a copywriter who helps people who are learning to be copywriters to up their game. And today she talks to us about how to make yourself <em>choosable</em>.&nbsp;</p><p>Yep - that's a word. And you sure want to find out all about it!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:10) Want to get more sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(3:50) Did Belinda really have a pet peacock called Cocker?</p><p>(5:10) Do you really need a USP to stand out from the crowd?</p><p>(7:20) No USP? No problem!</p><p>(8:45) How do you make yourself more choosable?</p><p>(10:00) Lean into the combination of ingredients that makes you unique.</p><p>(13:06) Tell people what it's like to work with you.</p><p>(16:44) Share your passion and why you got started. </p><p>(18:52) Be yourself and don't be afraid of feedback.</p><p>(23:02) Subject line of the week with Belinda Weaver.</p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;free – we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p><br></p><p>That's why we're giving you&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Do you really need a USP to stand out from the crowd?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>As business owners, we all worry about the idea of standing out. Why should people choose you? Do we worry too much about this? Is this a valid concern? Our friend and awesome copywriter Belinda Weaver shared with us that having a USP (Unique Selling Proposition) is indeed Marketing 101. We're told to come up with our USP and our differentiator and to have a great elevator pitch that explains what we do, who we do it for, and what makes us different.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>These kinds of things are drummed into us. And Belinda calls this the <em>unicorn fallacy</em>. It's this idea that in order to be successful, you have to be unique and different. But when she first started out as a copywriter, Belinda didn’t know what made her unique<em> yet</em>. So instead of trying to focus too much on that, she decided to become as good as she could be and <em>then</em> figure out what made her unique. And she thinks a lot of business owners should do the same. </p><p><br></p><p>As a copywriter, Belinda always asks her clients what makes <em>them</em> unique. And funnily enough, she never expects a great answer because she doesn’t have a great one herself! In fact, at first, she thought there was nothing in particular that made her unique. But she kept showing up, earning an income, and making progress. And at some point, she realised that maybe<strong> she didn’t have to be different in order to be successful.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>No USP? No problem!</strong></h3><p>Is anything ever unique anyway? Even if you invented something brand new, is it going to be unique for long?&nbsp;According to Belinda, having a USP isn’t completely<em> irrelevant</em>. We probably all have something that’s uniquely and brilliantly us, but if the USP becomes a gimmick that holds us back from what's important, then it’s not useful.</p><p><br></p><p>If we get paralysed in trying to find our USP and don’t do the things we could be doing to get more business, then there's no point in finding a USP in the first place! We sometimes get so worried about what makes us different, unique, special, or rockstar-worthy that we do nothing. And that's not cool. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How do you make yourself more <em>choosable</em>?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p><strong>Making yourself choosable isn't just about standing out from your competitors.</strong> Yes, there are people who do the same thing as you, but there are often different solutions to similar problems - alternative routes we could take and different types of businesses we could use. So what can we actually do to make ourselves more choosable?</p><p><br></p><p>Belinda tells us it all starts with the idea that <strong>you don’t have to be unique.</strong> <strong>The best in the market isn’t always the favourite.</strong> So instead, try and get in front of people and become their favourite. Because what we do as buyers is make decisions on who we choose. We don’t want to look at the whole Internet. <strong>We want a short list, which is often made of the people we know. </strong>Consumers are always trying to cut their choices down, so <strong>send out signals in your marketing to help you become people’s favourite</strong>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why you need to share reviews and testimonials</strong></h3><p>As buyers, we want to know that you, as a business, are capable of solving the problem we have – that you've done it before and can do what you say you do. So how do we know? We know because you’ve done it for other people and you did it well enough to get reviews and testimonials.</p><p><br></p><p>And also that you’re not a complete twat to work with! That can be the difference, and it's how you become someone's favourite. However, according to Belinda, that's an area a lot of people shy away from. So <strong>show that you can solve a problem, that you’ve done it for others, and let them see what it’s like to work with you as a human.</strong> Because when you do these things on a regular basis people start to <em>know, like, and trust you</em>. And that’s what makes you choosable - <strong>you don't have to be totally unique and not even the best!&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Lean into the combination of ingredients that makes you unique</strong></h3><p>If you look at most businesses, a lot of them aren’t unique at all. We all use the same ingredients. But <strong>a business is like a cocktail, and it’s the combination of the ingredients that makes it unique.</strong> So in Belinda’s case, it’s the fact that she’s a copywriter from Australia who lives in the States and that she set up her business to have the flexibility to raise a family, which she now has. Her work revolves around her children and her pug.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Some of these things might not sound relevant initially, but this is the unique cocktail that makes Belinda choosable. This is what makes her distinguishable, especially when it comes to courses and memberships. Because Belinda certainly isn’t the only copywriter who offers copywriting courses and a coaching membership. But even if someone is a leader in a particular space or industry and you don’t like them or the way they portray themselves, you’re not going to want to work with them. Personality really comes into play too!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Tell people what it's like to work with you</strong></h3><p>According to Belinda, there are more elements that should come into your marketing and that a lot of businesses overlook.&nbsp; Something crucial you want to be doing is explaining what happens once someone joins your programme and what the process of working with you looks like. Also, don't forget to share reviews, testimonials, and credibility markers all the time.</p><p><br></p><p>Why? Because these are the things that make buyers feel safe with you. As consumers, we all have this natural anxiety when we make a decision. What is going to happen next? So <strong>let people know what happens when you start working together and give them proof that you’ve done it for others.</strong> That makes them feel safe and certain, which can be a great way to get people to choose you.</p><p><br></p><p>Take care of all these things first and <em>then</em>&nbsp;the swaying point, if all things are equal, is about whether people enjoy hanging out with you. Do they respect you? That can be a huge influence on someone making decisions, but only as long as you’ve taken care of the other elements first. And if you do that consistently, people get to trust you and know you. So <strong>the likability factor is the tipping point</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>This is something we do too for our own membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. We give a video tour to our new members so they know what's involved, and how to navigate the content and find their way around. This definitely helps people overcome certain objections, and Belinda explains it’s about shifting a lot of the information we reserve for people who have bought from us to our prospective buyers.</p><p><br></p><p>Why? Because that's what gives them the roadmap of working with you, especially if you're someone who does launch marketing. It's about <strong>pulling a lot of the content that we normally keep behind the paywall into your pre-launch material.</strong> That works because it allows you to show people what happens when they join, and that helps them feel safe.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Share your passion and why you got started</strong></h3><p>Another thing we can do to make ourselves choosable is to share our passion and why we got started. Belinda, for example, became a copywriter before she had kids because she wanted a family-friendly business. A lot of her business journey is getting it all done around two kids and a pug, and she shares a lot of that in her marketing and her emails.</p><p><br></p><p>As a result, a lot]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How do you know if you're unique enough? What makes you stand out? How do you market yourself so that your ideal customers choose you and not your competitors? </p><p>These are some of the questions we answer today with the help of our awesome guest Belinda Weaver. Belinda is a copywriter who helps people who are learning to be copywriters to up their game. And today she talks to us about how to make yourself <em>choosable</em>.&nbsp;</p><p>Yep - that's a word. And you sure want to find out all about it!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:10) Want to get more sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(3:50) Did Belinda really have a pet peacock called Cocker?</p><p>(5:10) Do you really need a USP to stand out from the crowd?</p><p>(7:20) No USP? No problem!</p><p>(8:45) How do you make yourself more choosable?</p><p>(10:00) Lean into the combination of ingredients that makes you unique.</p><p>(13:06) Tell people what it's like to work with you.</p><p>(16:44) Share your passion and why you got started. </p><p>(18:52) Be yourself and don't be afraid of feedback.</p><p>(23:02) Subject line of the week with Belinda Weaver.</p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;free – we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p><br></p><p>That's why we're giving you&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Do you really need a USP to stand out from the crowd?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>As business owners, we all worry about the idea of standing out. Why should people choose you? Do we worry too much about this? Is this a valid concern? Our friend and awesome copywriter Belinda Weaver shared with us that having a USP (Unique Selling Proposition) is indeed Marketing 101. We're told to come up with our USP and our differentiator and to have a great elevator pitch that explains what we do, who we do it for, and what makes us different.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>These kinds of things are drummed into us. And Belinda calls this the <em>unicorn fallacy</em>. It's this idea that in order to be successful, you have to be unique and different. But when she first started out as a copywriter, Belinda didn’t know what made her unique<em> yet</em>. So instead of trying to focus too much on that, she decided to become as good as she could be and <em>then</em> figure out what made her unique. And she thinks a lot of business owners should do the same. </p><p><br></p><p>As a copywriter, Belinda always asks her clients what makes <em>them</em> unique. And funnily enough, she never expects a great answer because she doesn’t have a great one herself! In fact, at first, she thought there was nothing in particular that made her unique. But she kept showing up, earning an income, and making progress. And at some point, she realised that maybe<strong> she didn’t have to be different in order to be successful.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>No USP? No problem!</strong></h3><p>Is anything ever unique anyway? Even if you invented something brand new, is it going to be unique for long?&nbsp;According to Belinda, having a USP isn’t completely<em> irrelevant</em>. We probably all have something that’s uniquely and brilliantly us, but if the USP becomes a gimmick that holds us back from what's important, then it’s not useful.</p><p><br></p><p>If we get paralysed in trying to find our USP and don’t do the things we could be doing to get more business, then there's no point in finding a USP in the first place! We sometimes get so worried about what makes us different, unique, special, or rockstar-worthy that we do nothing. And that's not cool. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How do you make yourself more <em>choosable</em>?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p><strong>Making yourself choosable isn't just about standing out from your competitors.</strong> Yes, there are people who do the same thing as you, but there are often different solutions to similar problems - alternative routes we could take and different types of businesses we could use. So what can we actually do to make ourselves more choosable?</p><p><br></p><p>Belinda tells us it all starts with the idea that <strong>you don’t have to be unique.</strong> <strong>The best in the market isn’t always the favourite.</strong> So instead, try and get in front of people and become their favourite. Because what we do as buyers is make decisions on who we choose. We don’t want to look at the whole Internet. <strong>We want a short list, which is often made of the people we know. </strong>Consumers are always trying to cut their choices down, so <strong>send out signals in your marketing to help you become people’s favourite</strong>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why you need to share reviews and testimonials</strong></h3><p>As buyers, we want to know that you, as a business, are capable of solving the problem we have – that you've done it before and can do what you say you do. So how do we know? We know because you’ve done it for other people and you did it well enough to get reviews and testimonials.</p><p><br></p><p>And also that you’re not a complete twat to work with! That can be the difference, and it's how you become someone's favourite. However, according to Belinda, that's an area a lot of people shy away from. So <strong>show that you can solve a problem, that you’ve done it for others, and let them see what it’s like to work with you as a human.</strong> Because when you do these things on a regular basis people start to <em>know, like, and trust you</em>. And that’s what makes you choosable - <strong>you don't have to be totally unique and not even the best!&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Lean into the combination of ingredients that makes you unique</strong></h3><p>If you look at most businesses, a lot of them aren’t unique at all. We all use the same ingredients. But <strong>a business is like a cocktail, and it’s the combination of the ingredients that makes it unique.</strong> So in Belinda’s case, it’s the fact that she’s a copywriter from Australia who lives in the States and that she set up her business to have the flexibility to raise a family, which she now has. Her work revolves around her children and her pug.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Some of these things might not sound relevant initially, but this is the unique cocktail that makes Belinda choosable. This is what makes her distinguishable, especially when it comes to courses and memberships. Because Belinda certainly isn’t the only copywriter who offers copywriting courses and a coaching membership. But even if someone is a leader in a particular space or industry and you don’t like them or the way they portray themselves, you’re not going to want to work with them. Personality really comes into play too!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Tell people what it's like to work with you</strong></h3><p>According to Belinda, there are more elements that should come into your marketing and that a lot of businesses overlook.&nbsp; Something crucial you want to be doing is explaining what happens once someone joins your programme and what the process of working with you looks like. Also, don't forget to share reviews, testimonials, and credibility markers all the time.</p><p><br></p><p>Why? Because these are the things that make buyers feel safe with you. As consumers, we all have this natural anxiety when we make a decision. What is going to happen next? So <strong>let people know what happens when you start working together and give them proof that you’ve done it for others.</strong> That makes them feel safe and certain, which can be a great way to get people to choose you.</p><p><br></p><p>Take care of all these things first and <em>then</em>&nbsp;the swaying point, if all things are equal, is about whether people enjoy hanging out with you. Do they respect you? That can be a huge influence on someone making decisions, but only as long as you’ve taken care of the other elements first. And if you do that consistently, people get to trust you and know you. So <strong>the likability factor is the tipping point</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>This is something we do too for our own membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. We give a video tour to our new members so they know what's involved, and how to navigate the content and find their way around. This definitely helps people overcome certain objections, and Belinda explains it’s about shifting a lot of the information we reserve for people who have bought from us to our prospective buyers.</p><p><br></p><p>Why? Because that's what gives them the roadmap of working with you, especially if you're someone who does launch marketing. It's about <strong>pulling a lot of the content that we normally keep behind the paywall into your pre-launch material.</strong> That works because it allows you to show people what happens when they join, and that helps them feel safe.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Share your passion and why you got started</strong></h3><p>Another thing we can do to make ourselves choosable is to share our passion and why we got started. Belinda, for example, became a copywriter before she had kids because she wanted a family-friendly business. A lot of her business journey is getting it all done around two kids and a pug, and she shares a lot of that in her marketing and her emails.</p><p><br></p><p>As a result, a lot of the stories she tells attract people who feel Belinda understands what it’s like to be them. By bringing her passions and why she started into her marketing, she's able to make strong connection points with her audience.</p><p><br></p><p>There are also other more frivolous things she shares - such as what she enjoys in life (whether it's tea or coffee or her favourite TV show). Belinda calls these <strong><em>Velcro hooks</em>, and the more of these you share, the stronger the connection with your audience is because we continuously build that<em> know, like, and trust</em> factor.</strong></p><p>So we don’t wait until we launch.&nbsp; In fact, when we send our big, long pre-launch email campaign, people are ready to sign up. Because they've already decided they like us and want to work with us. They've already <em>chosen</em> us.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Be yourself and don't be afraid of feedback</strong></h3><p>Of course, it goes without saying that for every person who chooses you, there are going to be people who don’t. Belinda believes <strong>there’s a vibe for every tribe</strong>, and for everyone who does like you, there will be people who don’t. And we have to be okay with that.</p><p><br></p><p>In all honesty, this bothered Belinda when she first started - she thought she had to be "professional" and never alienate people. But after a couple of years, she realised she was making herself too vanilla and not interesting to those who <em>would</em> be interested. So she started leaning into who she is by being herself more. Because <strong>you don’t have to keep up a façade.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>And when she started being more herself, she got a much greater response. Yes, there are other courses and memberships out there, and some people are going to choose those instead of you. And that’s fine. But if you water down or lose the things that make you <em>you</em>, then you’re going to lose everyone. <strong>It’s best to have people who really dig you than to be bland as all hell.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>And sure, you'll get feedback. Some of it will be great and say that you're the best thing ever. When that happens, it means you've created what we call <em>the&nbsp;environment of zero competition</em>, where nobody else has that unique recipe. And that's because your personality, your offer, your history, your fee, your services, etc. are unique to you.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>But you’ll also get negative feedback and people who will say they'll never buy from you - for whatever reason. <strong>Don't be afraid of negative feedback.</strong> If you're going to put yourself out there, you have to get tougher skin. There are people who feel it’s okay to say rude things to you, and you have to learn to ignore them.</p><p><br></p><p>That doesn’t mean you’re not going to read some of those comments sometimes and end up questioning everything you’re doing. But you have to build your muscles to bless and release - catch that narrative and let it go. Because <strong>the more you concentrate on negative feedback, the less you focus on the people who are actively interested in what you do.</strong> So bless and release, and move on.</p><p><br></p><p>We hope you take this as permission to go out and be yourself, do the best work you can, and deliver more of yourself in everything you do so you can attract the tribe that is right for you.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week with Belinda Weaver</strong></h3><p>Belinda has not one but<em> two</em> subject lines for us! Her best-performing subject line is super straightforward: “The Copywriting Incubator. I have news”. The Copywriting Incubator is the name of Belinda’s programme, and this subject line works for her as it literally labels the content of her email - a practice Belinda swears by.&nbsp; Because she believes we don't open emails when the subject line is mysterious.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>But Belinda’s favourite subject line is “Quick question” which contains a 9-word question that usually re-engages people. Belinda likes this one because when you’re looking at your inbox you don’t want to see emails that need a 20-minute reply, do you? You want something you can quickly answer so you can then get out of your inbox. So this subject line lets people know that this is going to be super fast, and it works because Belinda is only asking for a few seconds of your time.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Belinda</strong></h5><p>If you want to find out more about Belinda you can find her on <a href="https://www.copywritematters.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">her website</a>.&nbsp;And if you’re a copywriter, she has a quiz that tells you the <em>one focus</em> you need to have to accelerate your copywriting business.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/the-therapeutic-benefits-of-writing-your-own-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Therapeutic Benefits of Writing Your Own Emails</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/write-better-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Little Tricks to Write Better Emails That Aren’t Boring</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/waited-3-years-to-create-a-brand/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why We Waited 3 Years Before Creating a Brand</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to market yourself to make yourself choosable) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-market-yourself-belinda-weaver/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">cf3a5a3d-03d7-4b41-93fa-2eaaa5574f5b</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/3cdd91f3-8cdb-4e1a-b5ce-7cc7c8996f9c/IplL5T3_tx0oMN3vBHpYfBmH.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2022 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/887460b9-1ca6-4324-9bd1-87e8a5b2d875/final-converted.mp3" length="21267359" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>25:19</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>145</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>145</podcast:episode></item><item><title>What to do if you have a high unsubscribe rate</title><itunes:title>What to do if you have a high unsubscribe rate</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What do you do if you have a high unsubscribe rate? What <em>is</em> a high unsubscribe rate, and does it even matter? Or should we simply focus on addressing any spikes in unsubscribers instead? </p><p>We&nbsp;hear so many people telling us they put in a lot of work to build their list just to see their subscribers leave pretty quickly. And we know it's easy to feel bad about it, but if you find yourself in this situation, fear not! There's quite a bit you can do about it.</p><p>Ready to find out?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(4:48) Unsubscribers aren't a bad thing!</p><p>(6:55) Why you can't just rely on your lead magnet.</p><p>(8:41) How to make sure people want to hear from you.</p><p>(12:48) Why use a Welcome sequence.</p><p>(14:39) Why monitor your unsubscribe rate.</p><p>(18:31) What to check when you have a high unsubscribe rate.</p><p>(21:41) Have you made any changes to your email marketing?</p><p>(22:51) Why always include offers in your emails.&nbsp;</p><p>(25:15) Build a list of subscribers, not hostages!</p><p>(26:53) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Unsubscribers aren't a bad thing!</strong></h3><p>Here are a few things to think about when it comes to unsubscribe rates - the impact they have on your technical email deliverability, your relationship with your list, and your business. Because broadly speaking, unsubscribers aren't a bad thing, especially when it comes to your emails getting delivered.&nbsp;</p><p>Just for a second, imagine you have a massive mansion. You decide to have a housewarming party, and instead of just inviting your friends, you tell everyone who lives within 100 miles of your new place. So they all come, but the thing is – you don’t <em>want</em> most of these people there. In fact, you probably want them to leave! Because ultimately, you only want to hang around the people you actually like. And the same goes for your business. <strong>You want to build a list of people you like and who like <em>you</em>.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why you can't just rely on your lead magnet</strong></h3><p>High unsubscribe rates are typical of the way we build our lists. And they're definitely part of the course when we use lead magnets. If you’re running ads or employing any other quick-win list-building strategies, <strong>you need to come to terms with the fact that a lot of people don’t want to be on your list - they just want your lead magnet.</strong></p><p>So they’ll opt in for the thing, get it, and then quickly unsubscribe because they don't care much about hearing from you. But one way of fixing this is to make sure you have a long-term&nbsp;nurture sequence.</p><p>For example, if you join our list because you’ve listened to a few podcast episodes or have been in our Facebook group for a while, you’ve been <em>nurtured</em> into our world. That means you are subconsciously and psychologically committed to remaining on our list because we've built a relationship with you over time. It’s a totally different experience from someone you've never heard of before who signs up to a lead magnet.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to make sure people want to hear from you</strong></h3><p>A good solution to help with this is asking people to join your email list because they want to hear from you however many times you email them every week. That way, your emails become the thing people are signing up for. And that should reduce your unsubscribe rate. Plus, it means that people are <em>expecting</em> emails from you. It's not just you suddenly sending them sales emails after they downloaded your lead magnet.&nbsp;</p><p>You see, we also lose a good number of subscribers quite early on in our email journey. But this isn’t something unique to email marketing - it happens everywhere. Think about networking events or work meetings, for example. There aren’t that many people that you meet that you find interesting enough to keep in touch with or want to see again. And even out of those people, only a smaller percentage become meaningful to you.</p><p>What this means is that <strong>you want to build a list of people who are good, responsive, and ideal subscribers.</strong> As we always say, you have to kiss a lot of frogs! You need to accept you'll have a lot of people come into your business who won't hang around for very long. And that's okay because <strong>the goal isn’t to build the biggest list that you can.</strong> <strong>Your subscribers aren’t Pokémon - you don't have to catch them all.</strong></p><p>What you need is something in place that makes people hang around long enough to turn into raving fans. And if you can't do that, then it's okay if they leave.&nbsp;Hopefully, the percentage of people who leave immediately is small, and more people will instantly become fans and feel they want to stay on your list because it's the right place to be for them.  </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why use a Welcome sequence</strong></h3><p>This is why we created out Getting To Know You sequence. It’s our version of a welcome campaign or <em>indoctrination sequence </em>(which is a phrase we don’t like). The way we look at it is that <strong>people come into your business, and you’re getting to know <em>them</em> as much as they’re getting to know <em>you</em>.</strong> The idea is that you gather data on your subscribers to find out how you can serve them better. And at the same time, they get to find out why you’re unique and why they should hang around.</p><p>When people unsubscribe from our list during the course of the four days of the Getting to Know You sequence, it’s because they realise they’re not that interested in email marketing right now – it’s not their priority. Maybe they just wanted to dip their toe in the water.</p><p>In our Getting To Know sequence we tell people we're going to email every day with a hint, tip, story, idea, or piece of inspiration to help with your email marketing. If you’re in that phase of your life, you’re going to hang around and love it - you'll feel instantly committed. But if you’re not, you’re going to unsubscribe. And that’s okay.</p><p>And people might still come back later. This happened to us recently when someone got in touch to say they had subscribed and unsubscribed a few times. But eventually, they joined our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. But they only did that when the time was ready. So don’t be needy and cling to people. <strong>Just serve who you want to serve – some people will hang around and others will come and go.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why monitor your unsubscribe rate</strong></h3><p>There are some times when you want to be observant of your unsubscribe rate – you don’t want to be ignorant or arrogant about it. And if you're someone who's taken our advice to increase the frequency of your emails, you might notice that when you did that, a bunch of people unsubscribed from your list. But that figure levels off eventually. So after that, you want to <strong>look out for sudden spikes of unsubscribers.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>When those happen, it’s time to investigate. Was it a particular email? Was it an email automation? Or was it what we call a <em>train carriage</em> (which is a particular sequence of emails) that is getting people to leave? Is there something you're doing that people hate? If you spot anything happening that's affecting your unsubscribe rate, you have a chance to go and fix it. And that's what's great about automation - it allows you to go and fix something for the future.&nbsp;</p><p>So we advise that you <strong>do an email audit</strong>. Because email marketing is such a priority for our business, we do an audit once a month. If you’re busy, you might just want to do one every 90 days or once a quarter.</p><p>And what you do is look at a few different things in your email engine. For example, we look at what campaigns we have running and check the stats inside our email marketing platform to see if any of our campaigns are getting a ridiculously high unsubscribe rate. Should you rely on those metrics? Yes, because they're all tracked within the email marketing platform and therefore are accurate (unlike open rates).</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What to check when you have a high unsubscribe rate</strong></h3><p>So what do you do if you find a particular email or a campaign that's causing you issues? Here's a quick checklist of things to check.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>The subject line</strong></h4><p>Sometimes people feel tricked by subject lines. Or maybe they feel offended. Is there a disconnect between the subject line and the content of the email? We know this is often <em>not</em> done maliciously. But we've seen it done on purpose too. In other words, does the subject line not fit the email? Have you caught people's attention with something to make them open the email but then taken a different direction in it? Because that could cause people to unsubscribe.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Your lead magnet</strong></h4><p>What's the lead magnet someone signed up for when they joined your list? Is there a big gap between what they downloaded and what you email them about? If so, it might be time to ditch that lead magnet. This is one of the things we talk a lot about inside our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, where we give you training to help you create lead magnets that will make sales for your business. You don't want your lead magnet to sound appealing as a standalone but then prevent your subscribers from turning into customers!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Your traffic source</strong></h4><p>If you see a high unsubscribe rate, where are the people who unsubscribe coming from? How did they join your list? You can see where they are coming from by checking...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What do you do if you have a high unsubscribe rate? What <em>is</em> a high unsubscribe rate, and does it even matter? Or should we simply focus on addressing any spikes in unsubscribers instead? </p><p>We&nbsp;hear so many people telling us they put in a lot of work to build their list just to see their subscribers leave pretty quickly. And we know it's easy to feel bad about it, but if you find yourself in this situation, fear not! There's quite a bit you can do about it.</p><p>Ready to find out?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(4:48) Unsubscribers aren't a bad thing!</p><p>(6:55) Why you can't just rely on your lead magnet.</p><p>(8:41) How to make sure people want to hear from you.</p><p>(12:48) Why use a Welcome sequence.</p><p>(14:39) Why monitor your unsubscribe rate.</p><p>(18:31) What to check when you have a high unsubscribe rate.</p><p>(21:41) Have you made any changes to your email marketing?</p><p>(22:51) Why always include offers in your emails.&nbsp;</p><p>(25:15) Build a list of subscribers, not hostages!</p><p>(26:53) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Unsubscribers aren't a bad thing!</strong></h3><p>Here are a few things to think about when it comes to unsubscribe rates - the impact they have on your technical email deliverability, your relationship with your list, and your business. Because broadly speaking, unsubscribers aren't a bad thing, especially when it comes to your emails getting delivered.&nbsp;</p><p>Just for a second, imagine you have a massive mansion. You decide to have a housewarming party, and instead of just inviting your friends, you tell everyone who lives within 100 miles of your new place. So they all come, but the thing is – you don’t <em>want</em> most of these people there. In fact, you probably want them to leave! Because ultimately, you only want to hang around the people you actually like. And the same goes for your business. <strong>You want to build a list of people you like and who like <em>you</em>.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why you can't just rely on your lead magnet</strong></h3><p>High unsubscribe rates are typical of the way we build our lists. And they're definitely part of the course when we use lead magnets. If you’re running ads or employing any other quick-win list-building strategies, <strong>you need to come to terms with the fact that a lot of people don’t want to be on your list - they just want your lead magnet.</strong></p><p>So they’ll opt in for the thing, get it, and then quickly unsubscribe because they don't care much about hearing from you. But one way of fixing this is to make sure you have a long-term&nbsp;nurture sequence.</p><p>For example, if you join our list because you’ve listened to a few podcast episodes or have been in our Facebook group for a while, you’ve been <em>nurtured</em> into our world. That means you are subconsciously and psychologically committed to remaining on our list because we've built a relationship with you over time. It’s a totally different experience from someone you've never heard of before who signs up to a lead magnet.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to make sure people want to hear from you</strong></h3><p>A good solution to help with this is asking people to join your email list because they want to hear from you however many times you email them every week. That way, your emails become the thing people are signing up for. And that should reduce your unsubscribe rate. Plus, it means that people are <em>expecting</em> emails from you. It's not just you suddenly sending them sales emails after they downloaded your lead magnet.&nbsp;</p><p>You see, we also lose a good number of subscribers quite early on in our email journey. But this isn’t something unique to email marketing - it happens everywhere. Think about networking events or work meetings, for example. There aren’t that many people that you meet that you find interesting enough to keep in touch with or want to see again. And even out of those people, only a smaller percentage become meaningful to you.</p><p>What this means is that <strong>you want to build a list of people who are good, responsive, and ideal subscribers.</strong> As we always say, you have to kiss a lot of frogs! You need to accept you'll have a lot of people come into your business who won't hang around for very long. And that's okay because <strong>the goal isn’t to build the biggest list that you can.</strong> <strong>Your subscribers aren’t Pokémon - you don't have to catch them all.</strong></p><p>What you need is something in place that makes people hang around long enough to turn into raving fans. And if you can't do that, then it's okay if they leave.&nbsp;Hopefully, the percentage of people who leave immediately is small, and more people will instantly become fans and feel they want to stay on your list because it's the right place to be for them.  </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why use a Welcome sequence</strong></h3><p>This is why we created out Getting To Know You sequence. It’s our version of a welcome campaign or <em>indoctrination sequence </em>(which is a phrase we don’t like). The way we look at it is that <strong>people come into your business, and you’re getting to know <em>them</em> as much as they’re getting to know <em>you</em>.</strong> The idea is that you gather data on your subscribers to find out how you can serve them better. And at the same time, they get to find out why you’re unique and why they should hang around.</p><p>When people unsubscribe from our list during the course of the four days of the Getting to Know You sequence, it’s because they realise they’re not that interested in email marketing right now – it’s not their priority. Maybe they just wanted to dip their toe in the water.</p><p>In our Getting To Know sequence we tell people we're going to email every day with a hint, tip, story, idea, or piece of inspiration to help with your email marketing. If you’re in that phase of your life, you’re going to hang around and love it - you'll feel instantly committed. But if you’re not, you’re going to unsubscribe. And that’s okay.</p><p>And people might still come back later. This happened to us recently when someone got in touch to say they had subscribed and unsubscribed a few times. But eventually, they joined our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. But they only did that when the time was ready. So don’t be needy and cling to people. <strong>Just serve who you want to serve – some people will hang around and others will come and go.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why monitor your unsubscribe rate</strong></h3><p>There are some times when you want to be observant of your unsubscribe rate – you don’t want to be ignorant or arrogant about it. And if you're someone who's taken our advice to increase the frequency of your emails, you might notice that when you did that, a bunch of people unsubscribed from your list. But that figure levels off eventually. So after that, you want to <strong>look out for sudden spikes of unsubscribers.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>When those happen, it’s time to investigate. Was it a particular email? Was it an email automation? Or was it what we call a <em>train carriage</em> (which is a particular sequence of emails) that is getting people to leave? Is there something you're doing that people hate? If you spot anything happening that's affecting your unsubscribe rate, you have a chance to go and fix it. And that's what's great about automation - it allows you to go and fix something for the future.&nbsp;</p><p>So we advise that you <strong>do an email audit</strong>. Because email marketing is such a priority for our business, we do an audit once a month. If you’re busy, you might just want to do one every 90 days or once a quarter.</p><p>And what you do is look at a few different things in your email engine. For example, we look at what campaigns we have running and check the stats inside our email marketing platform to see if any of our campaigns are getting a ridiculously high unsubscribe rate. Should you rely on those metrics? Yes, because they're all tracked within the email marketing platform and therefore are accurate (unlike open rates).</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What to check when you have a high unsubscribe rate</strong></h3><p>So what do you do if you find a particular email or a campaign that's causing you issues? Here's a quick checklist of things to check.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>The subject line</strong></h4><p>Sometimes people feel tricked by subject lines. Or maybe they feel offended. Is there a disconnect between the subject line and the content of the email? We know this is often <em>not</em> done maliciously. But we've seen it done on purpose too. In other words, does the subject line not fit the email? Have you caught people's attention with something to make them open the email but then taken a different direction in it? Because that could cause people to unsubscribe.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Your lead magnet</strong></h4><p>What's the lead magnet someone signed up for when they joined your list? Is there a big gap between what they downloaded and what you email them about? If so, it might be time to ditch that lead magnet. This is one of the things we talk a lot about inside our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, where we give you training to help you create lead magnets that will make sales for your business. You don't want your lead magnet to sound appealing as a standalone but then prevent your subscribers from turning into customers!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Your traffic source</strong></h4><p>If you see a high unsubscribe rate, where are the people who unsubscribe coming from? How did they join your list? You can see where they are coming from by checking the contact record in your email platform. Do they all come from the same place? Is there something you need to change in that particular acquisition channel or method?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Have you made any changes to your email marketing?</strong></h4><p>For example, has someone started writing your emails for you? Have you changed your email platform? Does the unsubscribe link at the bottom of your emails look any different? Have you changed your email signature? Have you created new offers? Changed your branding? Have you suddenly started talking about things people aren’t jamming with? Have you changed the layout of your emails? Added pictures? Taken stuff out? Have you changed<em> anything at all</em> that could have caused your subscribers to leave?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why always include offers in your emails</strong></h3><p>Let’s just remember that every single time we send an email, someone will leave. It's the nature of the beast. And that's because they’ve decided that for whatever reason, they don’t want to hear from us anymore. So every time someone leaves, that’s going to cost us. And that's fine.</p><p>But we might have paid to get those people into our world in the first place. That could be through running ads or doing content marketing, for example. So every time someone leaves our list, it costs us. And that's the reason why we rarely send an email that doesn’t have an offer in it or doesn’t sell something. Because when we send an email, people are going to leave, and you want to recoup that cost. You want to make some sales to cover the cost of losing some subscribers.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Build a list of subscribers, not hostages!</strong></h3><p>Generally speaking, unsubscribes are not a bad thing. If you notice a spike in your unsubscribe rate, by all means, check it out and do something about it. But at the end of the day, <strong>you want to build a list of subscribers, not hostages.</strong> Unsubscribes aren't the worst thing because <strong>you can make a shit tonne of money by sending emails to people who want to hear from you.</strong></p><p>And that's key. <strong>Build a small tribe of people who really want to hear from you and keep them highly engaged</strong>. A small but engaged list makes delivery and relationship-building easier. It also makes your list more profitable because it costs you less to host it.&nbsp;</p><p>So unsubscribers aren’t the worst thing in the world <em>unless they’re out of the blue and unusual</em>. If you notice a spike, do something about it. But otherwise, don't worry too much about them. And if you want to find out more about this (and how we do things) check out our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject line is “How to get FREE flowers”. So with this subject line, Rob did two things you’re not supposed to do, apparently. (But that's only if you believe the stories that are told out there in the email marketing world!). Rob used the word FREE in the subject line and also put it all in block capitals. In theory, these things will damage the delivery of your emails. And if you do everything else wrong, they actually might.</p><p>But why does this subject line work? Because it's a benefit-driven subject line but has nothing to do with what we teach. We rarely have benefit-driven subject lines that work. Things like “How to get more people on your email list” never tend to work well for us. So this is taking the “How to” benefit-driven structure that we know works in headlines and applying it to something that has nothing to do with email marketing and everything to do with the story that Rob shared in the email. Try it out!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/unsubscribe-rate/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why You Shouldn’t Worry About Your Unsubscribe Rate</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/essential-email-campaigns-examples/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">7 Essential Email Campaigns Examples For Your Business</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-subject-lines-to-make-sales/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Use Email Subject Lines To Do More Than Get Your Emails Opened</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about what is a high unsubscribe rate and what to do if you see a spike) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/what-is-a-high-unsubscribe-rate-what-to-do/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">39f24752-dbee-406f-8c46-9d0930c89d2a</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/3a0ee68f-3615-4c15-92f8-88de3700a6d9/zizUlgpzJ0y08xOi_kHVYd4b.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2022 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/218804c9-2bb7-4ce2-849c-cc227b5b096c/What-20To-20Do-20If-20You-20Have-20A-20High-20Unsubscribe-20Rate-converted.mp3" length="27270983" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>28:24</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>144</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>144</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Why We Waited 3 Years Before Creating a Brand</title><itunes:title>Why We Waited 3 Years Before Creating a Brand</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Why did we wait three years to create a brand? Shouldn't that be the first thing you do when you start a business? Probably not! It's not what we did, and there are valid reasons for that. Because for years, we proved again and again that we could sell our product - <em>even if it was ugly</em>.&nbsp;</p><p>Want to know what this is all about?&nbsp;</p><p>Let's find out!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(5:33) Why we finally decided to create a brand.</p><p>(9:29) Why you should NOT create a brand as soon as you start your business. </p><p>(11:10) How we started Email Marketing Heroes.</p><p>(14:58) Focus on your offer first.</p><p>(19:57) Fix what doesn't work before making it pretty.</p><p>(21:26) The four things you need to focus on to make your business work.</p><p>(23:40) Launching 'ugly' businesses.</p><p>(27:47) Creating our brand - why now?</p><p>(29:39) Why create a brand for our products and audience. </p><p>(33:25) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why we finally decided to create a brand</strong></h3><p>You may have noticed that a couple of months ago we finally decided to create a brand - we overhauled our entire branding. Our colours and fonts look different, and we've even had our first professional photo shoot together. Why? Because our previous branding looked significantly uglier than it does now. </p><p><br></p><p>Over the years of being in business, we've definitely seen people around us producing graphics that looked way better than ours did. But the problem is that neither of us has an eye for things like that. We’re good at communication, but we’re not designers. </p><p><br></p><p>When we first launched our business, branding wasn't our priority. We just wanted to get off the starting blocks - not to create a brand that looked nice. So when we launched <a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Heroes</a> all we had was a logo. </p><p><br></p><p>We ran a contest, and the person who submitted the best logo also came on board to work with us. She's an amazing designer, but she's not a branding expert. And as a result, over the last few years, we’ve been producing graphics that looked inconsistent. They were nice in isolation but didn’t fit with anything else. All the different elements of our business had a different vibe, and we felt our branding was disjointed and was getting worse with time. </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why you should NOT create a brand as soon as you start your business</strong></h3><p>Unfortunately, over the years we've also seen businesses with amazing branding go out of business. Why? Because they focused on the things that looked good or what they found naturally interesting, enjoyable, and easy for them - rather than what needed to be done to run a business and to keep it going. </p><p><br></p><p>Because <strong>we all have to make sales</strong>. We have to show up and give value to people. And <strong>we need to put out offers that are so interesting and valuable that people are willing to invest in them, so we can stay in business and help more people</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>And there’s one really uncomfortable piece of advice we find ourselves dishing out a lot to our clients, which is to<strong> stop doing the thing you’re doing because it’s the wrong activity for you to be doing in your business <em>right now</em></strong>. <strong>Your problem above and beyond anything else is to figure out how to make money</strong>. Once you have that nailed, then you can build around it.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How we started Email Marketing Heroes</strong></h3><p>When we started our business, we wanted to find out whether people would pay us to teach them email marketing and buy our campaigns. When we launched our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, we didn’t know if people wanted a new email campaign every month - and that's one of our core propositions.</p><p><br></p><p>But figuring all of this out was our first aim - our aim then was <em>not</em> to create a brand. Could we build a thriving business based on something people want? Are our offers good enough? It’s not just what we sell and how. If Rob and Kennedy (the hypnotist and mind reader who teach a psychological approach to email marketing) sell email campaigns that you can swipe and use in your business along with coaching, will you buy it (regardless of how we package it)? That's what we tried to figure out. </p><p><br></p><p>And doing this was completely independent of any sales pages or any branding. Because it’s about the concept. Is it interesting? Does it get your attention? Is it valuable enough for you to pay a reasonable amount that’s a good economic fit for how we need to grow our business?</p><p><br></p><p>So that's what we did back in 2019 when we first launched. We focused on making $20-30k in sales with nothing more than a logo. And truthfully, could we have done it without even having that logo? Because if we could, then we could prove that the fundamentals were all there. <strong>If you can sell it when it’s ugly, you can sell it when it’s pretty.</strong> </p><p><br></p><p>And in the end, we didn’t create a brand until we’d made $600k in the last couple of years. And this year alone (2022) we'll be making over $1m in sales. We waited so long to create a brand because we first focused on how to understand our customers better to make more sales and become more valuable.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Focus on your offer first&nbsp;</strong></h3><p><strong> If you can take the right offer, prove it, and sell it when it’s ugly, then you can sprinkle glitter on it later.</strong> For example, as we learnt from our friend Natalie (co-founder of BuzzFeed) having a pretty Instagram grid isn’t really that important. Sure, there’s an element to it. But if your content strategy is good, you can grow a massive audience regardless of how pretty it is. If you also have the ability to make it pretty, then it’s probably going to grow faster. But ultimately, if you have bad content or a bad offer that looks great, it'll never work. But<strong> if you have amazing offers, your business will still thrive even if it doesn’t look good</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>So for years we put the branding off and focused on what was helping us have a business. And this is something we see a lot of people struggle with – they’re trying to solve the wrong problem for the wrong stage of their business. The first thing to do is to figure out what problems you have to solve for the stage where your business is.</p><p><br></p><p>We could have decided to <em>never</em> fix the brand. And we would have still continued to grow. Because we solve a problem. <strong>If you have an interesting and compelling hook to your offer, it will work and it will sell.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Fix what doesn't work before making it pretty</strong></h3><p>Your number one goal should be how to put money in your pockets so you can keep the business going and continue to serve people. Having a nice website and cool social graphics is fun. But if you start focusing on that first, you might be putting off creating a system for selling your product.</p><p><br></p><p>So, for example, if you have a webinar that isn’t converting well, you need to keep tweaking it until you make it better - until it starts converting more. Putting more people in front of it won’t help if it doesn't work. So improve it first and <em>then</em> put more people into it.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The four things you need to focus on to make your business work</strong></h3><p>The first thing you need to focus on to make sure your business makes you money is the <strong>offer</strong>.</p><ul><li>Can you position your product in such a way that people understand it and want it?</li><li>Can you grab people’s attention enough that they’ll want to pay for it?</li><li>Is your offer compelling enough for someone to get their credit card out and buy from you?</li></ul><br/><p>Once you've sorted your offer, you want to focus on the <strong>audience</strong>.</p><ul><li>Are you speaking to the right people?</li></ul><br/><p>Then you want to look at the <strong>logistics</strong>.</p><ul><li>Can you support the business model? Does it work?</li><li>If you’re relying on having guest experts give a presentation every month inside your membership, will they do that for free? If you have to pay them, can you afford to?</li><li>Can you get your business to operate the way you want it to from a systems point of view?</li><li>Will it be worth the money or is it just impossible?</li><li>In a nutshell, can you logistically run the business and scale it?</li></ul><br/><p>The last thing you want to focus on is the <strong>economics</strong>, which combines all of the above.</p><ul><li>Can you get the right people to pay you the right amount for long enough to cover the cost of running your business?</li><li>Or is it going to cost you too much to manufacture your product?</li><li>Does it mean you'll never be able to sell it at a price people are willing to pay?</li><li>When you combine the audience and the logistics, will the economics work?</li><li>Can you acquire customers to go into your audience cheaply enough that the offer will cover the cost and make the business work?</li></ul><br/><h3><strong>Launching 'ugly' businesses&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>That's exactly what we did when we launched our Level Up mastermind in February 2022. We told people inside our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, that we were launching a mastermind without even having a name or a logo for it. We explained what it was, how many people we were going to take in, and how it would work. Does it surprise you that]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why did we wait three years to create a brand? Shouldn't that be the first thing you do when you start a business? Probably not! It's not what we did, and there are valid reasons for that. Because for years, we proved again and again that we could sell our product - <em>even if it was ugly</em>.&nbsp;</p><p>Want to know what this is all about?&nbsp;</p><p>Let's find out!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(5:33) Why we finally decided to create a brand.</p><p>(9:29) Why you should NOT create a brand as soon as you start your business. </p><p>(11:10) How we started Email Marketing Heroes.</p><p>(14:58) Focus on your offer first.</p><p>(19:57) Fix what doesn't work before making it pretty.</p><p>(21:26) The four things you need to focus on to make your business work.</p><p>(23:40) Launching 'ugly' businesses.</p><p>(27:47) Creating our brand - why now?</p><p>(29:39) Why create a brand for our products and audience. </p><p>(33:25) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why we finally decided to create a brand</strong></h3><p>You may have noticed that a couple of months ago we finally decided to create a brand - we overhauled our entire branding. Our colours and fonts look different, and we've even had our first professional photo shoot together. Why? Because our previous branding looked significantly uglier than it does now. </p><p><br></p><p>Over the years of being in business, we've definitely seen people around us producing graphics that looked way better than ours did. But the problem is that neither of us has an eye for things like that. We’re good at communication, but we’re not designers. </p><p><br></p><p>When we first launched our business, branding wasn't our priority. We just wanted to get off the starting blocks - not to create a brand that looked nice. So when we launched <a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Heroes</a> all we had was a logo. </p><p><br></p><p>We ran a contest, and the person who submitted the best logo also came on board to work with us. She's an amazing designer, but she's not a branding expert. And as a result, over the last few years, we’ve been producing graphics that looked inconsistent. They were nice in isolation but didn’t fit with anything else. All the different elements of our business had a different vibe, and we felt our branding was disjointed and was getting worse with time. </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why you should NOT create a brand as soon as you start your business</strong></h3><p>Unfortunately, over the years we've also seen businesses with amazing branding go out of business. Why? Because they focused on the things that looked good or what they found naturally interesting, enjoyable, and easy for them - rather than what needed to be done to run a business and to keep it going. </p><p><br></p><p>Because <strong>we all have to make sales</strong>. We have to show up and give value to people. And <strong>we need to put out offers that are so interesting and valuable that people are willing to invest in them, so we can stay in business and help more people</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>And there’s one really uncomfortable piece of advice we find ourselves dishing out a lot to our clients, which is to<strong> stop doing the thing you’re doing because it’s the wrong activity for you to be doing in your business <em>right now</em></strong>. <strong>Your problem above and beyond anything else is to figure out how to make money</strong>. Once you have that nailed, then you can build around it.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How we started Email Marketing Heroes</strong></h3><p>When we started our business, we wanted to find out whether people would pay us to teach them email marketing and buy our campaigns. When we launched our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, we didn’t know if people wanted a new email campaign every month - and that's one of our core propositions.</p><p><br></p><p>But figuring all of this out was our first aim - our aim then was <em>not</em> to create a brand. Could we build a thriving business based on something people want? Are our offers good enough? It’s not just what we sell and how. If Rob and Kennedy (the hypnotist and mind reader who teach a psychological approach to email marketing) sell email campaigns that you can swipe and use in your business along with coaching, will you buy it (regardless of how we package it)? That's what we tried to figure out. </p><p><br></p><p>And doing this was completely independent of any sales pages or any branding. Because it’s about the concept. Is it interesting? Does it get your attention? Is it valuable enough for you to pay a reasonable amount that’s a good economic fit for how we need to grow our business?</p><p><br></p><p>So that's what we did back in 2019 when we first launched. We focused on making $20-30k in sales with nothing more than a logo. And truthfully, could we have done it without even having that logo? Because if we could, then we could prove that the fundamentals were all there. <strong>If you can sell it when it’s ugly, you can sell it when it’s pretty.</strong> </p><p><br></p><p>And in the end, we didn’t create a brand until we’d made $600k in the last couple of years. And this year alone (2022) we'll be making over $1m in sales. We waited so long to create a brand because we first focused on how to understand our customers better to make more sales and become more valuable.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Focus on your offer first&nbsp;</strong></h3><p><strong> If you can take the right offer, prove it, and sell it when it’s ugly, then you can sprinkle glitter on it later.</strong> For example, as we learnt from our friend Natalie (co-founder of BuzzFeed) having a pretty Instagram grid isn’t really that important. Sure, there’s an element to it. But if your content strategy is good, you can grow a massive audience regardless of how pretty it is. If you also have the ability to make it pretty, then it’s probably going to grow faster. But ultimately, if you have bad content or a bad offer that looks great, it'll never work. But<strong> if you have amazing offers, your business will still thrive even if it doesn’t look good</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>So for years we put the branding off and focused on what was helping us have a business. And this is something we see a lot of people struggle with – they’re trying to solve the wrong problem for the wrong stage of their business. The first thing to do is to figure out what problems you have to solve for the stage where your business is.</p><p><br></p><p>We could have decided to <em>never</em> fix the brand. And we would have still continued to grow. Because we solve a problem. <strong>If you have an interesting and compelling hook to your offer, it will work and it will sell.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Fix what doesn't work before making it pretty</strong></h3><p>Your number one goal should be how to put money in your pockets so you can keep the business going and continue to serve people. Having a nice website and cool social graphics is fun. But if you start focusing on that first, you might be putting off creating a system for selling your product.</p><p><br></p><p>So, for example, if you have a webinar that isn’t converting well, you need to keep tweaking it until you make it better - until it starts converting more. Putting more people in front of it won’t help if it doesn't work. So improve it first and <em>then</em> put more people into it.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The four things you need to focus on to make your business work</strong></h3><p>The first thing you need to focus on to make sure your business makes you money is the <strong>offer</strong>.</p><ul><li>Can you position your product in such a way that people understand it and want it?</li><li>Can you grab people’s attention enough that they’ll want to pay for it?</li><li>Is your offer compelling enough for someone to get their credit card out and buy from you?</li></ul><br/><p>Once you've sorted your offer, you want to focus on the <strong>audience</strong>.</p><ul><li>Are you speaking to the right people?</li></ul><br/><p>Then you want to look at the <strong>logistics</strong>.</p><ul><li>Can you support the business model? Does it work?</li><li>If you’re relying on having guest experts give a presentation every month inside your membership, will they do that for free? If you have to pay them, can you afford to?</li><li>Can you get your business to operate the way you want it to from a systems point of view?</li><li>Will it be worth the money or is it just impossible?</li><li>In a nutshell, can you logistically run the business and scale it?</li></ul><br/><p>The last thing you want to focus on is the <strong>economics</strong>, which combines all of the above.</p><ul><li>Can you get the right people to pay you the right amount for long enough to cover the cost of running your business?</li><li>Or is it going to cost you too much to manufacture your product?</li><li>Does it mean you'll never be able to sell it at a price people are willing to pay?</li><li>When you combine the audience and the logistics, will the economics work?</li><li>Can you acquire customers to go into your audience cheaply enough that the offer will cover the cost and make the business work?</li></ul><br/><h3><strong>Launching 'ugly' businesses&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>That's exactly what we did when we launched our Level Up mastermind in February 2022. We told people inside our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, that we were launching a mastermind without even having a name or a logo for it. We explained what it was, how many people we were going to take in, and how it would work. Does it surprise you that we didn’t even have a sales page? All we had was a Google Document and a concept, and we still sold it.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And that's how we've always launched our businesses. And also why we tell our clients that if something isn't working, it’s not about changing the graphics or the colours. It’s about fixing the offer. <strong>Present the offer and sell the product profitably <em>without it being pretty</em>.</strong> If you can do that, the branding is secondary.</p><p><br></p><p>We believe that most products will eventually sell if you can persevere with dialling the offer, the audience, the logistics, and the economics. But not all of them will. We’ve had this happen to us too when we decided to launch a membership for magicians. A few months in, we realised that the logistics of making that product didn’t work. And that's because it relied on members (the magicians) to contribute their tricks and ideas to the audience. And we couldn’t make that happen. So we decided we weren’t willing to persevere and re-gig the offer again and again. We just scrapped the idea, and that's okay. Because if a business isn’t making sales consistently, you can’t scale it.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Creating our brand - why now?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>So we waited three years - until we got the stage where we're on track to make $1m sales - before creating our new brand. You now know why and what we were focusing on before this.</p><p><br></p><p>So why now? Because we wanted to. Because it's a bit of fun for us.&nbsp;There are plenty of things we could do with the $10k we invested in our rebranding. And a few years ago, putting that money in our pockets would have been our priority. But now we're at the stage where we get personal satisfaction out of watching our branding look better.&nbsp;We probably won't get a huge ROI for that money. In fact, had we continued to run our ‘ugly version of the brand’ it would still continue to sell, and we'd still be growing.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So if you’ve been guilty in the past of spending time, energy, and money on making things pretty and thinking it will help you convert better – that’s not going to happen.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why create a brand for our products and audience&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>We're at a point in our business where we want our new brand to represent and show in a visual sense how good our products are. Because people do judge a book by its cover. But it doesn’t matter how good your cover is if the book doesn’t do what it says on it.</p><p>We know that everyone who’s used our products received the most amazing customer experience and the best training. But looking from the outside, you couldn't tell how incredibly good our products are. We waited until we made a significant volume of sales before changing our branding, but <strong>we've now designed a brand for the products that we know people are willing to buy</strong>. We’re not doing this for products that people <em>may or may not</em> buy in the future. We're building a brand around <em>our audience</em> – the people who buy from us. We're building a brand that speaks to them and their problems - we're not taking a guess after creating a customer avatar on a piece of paper.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/blogging-for-email-list-building-jammy-digital/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Martin and Lyndsay from Jammy Digital</a>, who did our branding, happen to be our customers as well. They know our business, and we were able to tell them that these are the thousands of customers we already have and who buy from us. And that’s powerful.</p><p><br></p><p>So what are you doing to make sales? This is what we’re asking all our clients when they tell us their offer or their business isn’t working. <strong>What is the activity you’re doing that makes sales?</strong> Because that should always be your priority. And <em>then</em> you can have the luxury to create a brand.</p><p><br></p><p>We cover this and much more inside our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, where we help you sell stuff, <em>even if it looks ugly</em>. We show you exactly how to position your offer and how to sell it through emails.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week's subject line is “Crushed by a piano”. Why did it work? First of all, it spells catastrophe (carton-level catastrophe, in fact), and it's also exaggerated. Obviously, people will assume Rob hasn’t <em>really</em> been crushed by a piano. But they’ll open the email to read and find out.</p><p><br></p><p>This was a story about Rob’s friend Gary, who asked Rob to move a piano. Being crushed by it is definitely a terrible outcome. So what awful scenario can you come up with that has to do with your story? When you think of one, paint that picture in the subject line and describe what could have happened. The more catastrophic, the better. Try it out!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/business-strategy-session-manchester/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Behind The Scenes of our Business Strategy Session in Manchester</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/week-in-the-life-email-marketing-heroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">SPECIAL 100TH EPISODE: A Week in The Life at Email Marketing Heroes (Behind The Scenes with Rob &amp; Kennedy)</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-agency/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why We Started an Email Marketing Agency</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about why we waited three years to create a brand) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? 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What prize should you choose for your contest and how do you make it go viral? Who do giveaways work best for, and how do you even run them? Ready to find out why giveaways are important for your email list growth and your business? </p><p>Then let's hear it from the awesome Derek Videll! </p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:13) Want to get more sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(3:24) Does Derek really have uncontrollable sneezing fits when he chews mint gum? </p><p>(5:19) Why are giveaways a good strategy to use for new businesses?</p><p>(6:40) Should new businesses run paid ads to their offers?</p><p>(8:44) Why picking the right prize will help you find the right audience.</p><p>(13:00) Testing your audience and finding your target market.</p><p>(14:14) Do giveaways work for B2B?</p><p>(16:22) What are the key ingredients to running a viral giveaway?</p><p>(21:07) How do you make the giveaway go viral?</p><p>(23:40) Subject line of the week with Derek Videll.</p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;free – we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p><br></p><p>That's why we're giving you&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why are giveaways a good strategy to use for new businesses?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Our awesome guest Derek told us that giveaways work better for beginners and new businesses. Why? Because while viral contests can also work for intermediate and advanced businesses, they are a much simpler and more effective way of building your list when you're starting out than other strategies are, such as organic social media posting.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>For example, if you're a business owner who's been trying to grow organically on Instagram by posting reels, you might have experienced limited success. Reels can be difficult to do, and not everyone likes to create them. Plus, even if your reels go viral and you gain some followers from them, this strategy still doesn't give you much control over your business.&nbsp;Sure, you may end up with a few thousand followers, but you'll have no consistent sales revenue.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Should new businesses run paid ads for their offers?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Paid social media ads are a more ambitious route than organic content sharing, but a lot of new businesses aren't yet experienced at selling their offer. They might have not narrowed down their target market or fully established their branding and website. Or their email marketing might not be fully set up yet. But all these components are necessary if you want your paid ads to bring in sales.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>The truth is that running paid social media ads directly to your offers rarely works. You might make a few sales, gain some followers, or even collect some email addresses, but the cost per acquisition tends to be very high, and in that case, your rates are probably very unprofitable.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And that's fully understandable because a lot of new business owners who have started a passion project don't necessarily have the marketing background or copywriting skills they need to make the sales they want to make. So they end up burning money on paid ads, which isn't ideal.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>But there's a better way to do things! And (you guessed it) - it's giveaways!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What prize should you give away in your viral contest?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>When you run viral contests, your marketing or copywriting skills don't have to be excellent. You just need to pick a prize that people want to win.&nbsp;So the first thing to consider is <em>what</em> you'll be giving away. </p><p><br></p><p>It can't be something untargeted or generic like an Amazon gift card or a MacBook. Because that will only give you random followers who then unfollow you once they've realised they haven't won. If you pick a prize that has nothing to do with your business, people will only enter your contest to win the prize - they won't stay afterwards because they won't want to have anything to do with your content.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And even if you do end up gaining some followers from the process, they'll probably never reply to you, and that ruins your engagement. So<strong> the prize you choose needs to pre-qualify your audience's interest in what it is you do</strong>. </p><p><br></p><p>If you’re a course creator or membership site owner pick a prize or perhaps even create a product that's relevant to what you do so you can attract the right audience for your business. <strong>Running paid ads to a contest rather than to an offer means you get to attract your ideal clients while deterring those who aren't the right fit</strong>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why picking the right prize will help you find the right audience</strong></h3><p>The reason why giveaways work really well for small businesses is that if you don't have many followers on social media, it’s hard to attract an audience through organic content. But if you share a giveaway instead, people follow you to enter and win the prize – not because of your content. You’re giving them a reason to follow you. This is why giveaways are important - they help you grow that initial following.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And if you've picked the right prize, you'll also attract the right people. So <strong>make sure that what you're giving away solves the problem that your paid offer addresses</strong>. Why? Because this tells you that the people who are entering your giveaway to win the prize, have the problem you're trying to solve.&nbsp;Then to spice things up, you can also add more prizes (like consolation prizes) or pick multiple winners.&nbsp; </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Testing audiences and finding your target market</strong></h3><p>Once you've selected your prize and you start running your giveaway, test different types of audiences (for example different demographics). Who would want to buy your product?</p><p><br></p><p>At this point, your marketing doesn’t have to be so good that you're able to close sales straight from ads. It just needs to be good enough to get people's email addresses so you can test your target market. And then you run very simple ads to your contest. You don't even need lots of different angles with your ads - you just need the one. And that's to enter your giveaway.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Do giveaways work for B2B?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Derek told us that doing viral giveaways for B2B is a lot harder because selling coaching or consulting to a cold audience is difficult. When you’re giving away a product, people don’t look too much into where it comes from. But when it comes to coaching or similar services, people want to know who the person is. So giveaways can work for B2B but only if you already have a warm audience.</p><p><br></p><p>For example, Derek ran a giveaway for his coaching programme to celebrate his 200th podcast episode. He gave away some of his courses and personal mentoring to one lucky person. But everyone who entered also received a free guide, so they were all automatic winners. But when he ran the giveaway to a cold audience, while he admits he could have done more, he didn't have great success. He definitely found that viral contests only seem to work well for him if people already know him and want his products.&nbsp; &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What are the key ingredients to running a viral giveaway?</strong>&nbsp;</h3><p>The first component that needs to be in place is the <em>reason</em> why you're running the giveaway. You can't just say it's because you want people's email addresses! It's important you position your giveaway as something you’re doing to show your appreciation.</p><p><br></p><p>Then you need to present the prize as something simple and straightforward that people will want just by looking at it. If you have a more complicated product that needs explaining, don't spend more than a few bullet points on the extra details.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Once that's decided, you need an opt-in form where people can give you their email addresses to enter the giveaway. Don't ask people to share or tag friends, as these strategies don't work. And on the next page, simply state they have now entered the giveaway and let them know when they'll hear from you to find out if they won.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>This is also your chance to ask something from your audience. For example, you could tell people that to improve their chance to win they could follow you on Instagram or Facebook for an extra entry. Or they could review your podcast on Spotify or subscribe to your YouTube channel. Get creative with this and pick whatever your company needs. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Picking your giveaway winner</strong></h4><p>On the last day, Derek will send an email out with a subject line along the lines of “The results are in”, which has a great open rate (for Derek, that's around 60-80%) because everyone wants to know if they won. And in that same email, while he has people's attention, Derek will also let everyone know about a deal they can get or any consolation prizes they might have won.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>In terms of picking the winner, Derek used to do that manually. But there are plenty of giveaway software programmes designed to do this that will also take into account when people have...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Can giveaways help you grow your list? What prize should you choose for your contest and how do you make it go viral? Who do giveaways work best for, and how do you even run them? Ready to find out why giveaways are important for your email list growth and your business? </p><p>Then let's hear it from the awesome Derek Videll! </p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:13) Want to get more sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(3:24) Does Derek really have uncontrollable sneezing fits when he chews mint gum? </p><p>(5:19) Why are giveaways a good strategy to use for new businesses?</p><p>(6:40) Should new businesses run paid ads to their offers?</p><p>(8:44) Why picking the right prize will help you find the right audience.</p><p>(13:00) Testing your audience and finding your target market.</p><p>(14:14) Do giveaways work for B2B?</p><p>(16:22) What are the key ingredients to running a viral giveaway?</p><p>(21:07) How do you make the giveaway go viral?</p><p>(23:40) Subject line of the week with Derek Videll.</p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;free – we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p><br></p><p>That's why we're giving you&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why are giveaways a good strategy to use for new businesses?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Our awesome guest Derek told us that giveaways work better for beginners and new businesses. Why? Because while viral contests can also work for intermediate and advanced businesses, they are a much simpler and more effective way of building your list when you're starting out than other strategies are, such as organic social media posting.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>For example, if you're a business owner who's been trying to grow organically on Instagram by posting reels, you might have experienced limited success. Reels can be difficult to do, and not everyone likes to create them. Plus, even if your reels go viral and you gain some followers from them, this strategy still doesn't give you much control over your business.&nbsp;Sure, you may end up with a few thousand followers, but you'll have no consistent sales revenue.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Should new businesses run paid ads for their offers?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Paid social media ads are a more ambitious route than organic content sharing, but a lot of new businesses aren't yet experienced at selling their offer. They might have not narrowed down their target market or fully established their branding and website. Or their email marketing might not be fully set up yet. But all these components are necessary if you want your paid ads to bring in sales.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>The truth is that running paid social media ads directly to your offers rarely works. You might make a few sales, gain some followers, or even collect some email addresses, but the cost per acquisition tends to be very high, and in that case, your rates are probably very unprofitable.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And that's fully understandable because a lot of new business owners who have started a passion project don't necessarily have the marketing background or copywriting skills they need to make the sales they want to make. So they end up burning money on paid ads, which isn't ideal.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>But there's a better way to do things! And (you guessed it) - it's giveaways!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What prize should you give away in your viral contest?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>When you run viral contests, your marketing or copywriting skills don't have to be excellent. You just need to pick a prize that people want to win.&nbsp;So the first thing to consider is <em>what</em> you'll be giving away. </p><p><br></p><p>It can't be something untargeted or generic like an Amazon gift card or a MacBook. Because that will only give you random followers who then unfollow you once they've realised they haven't won. If you pick a prize that has nothing to do with your business, people will only enter your contest to win the prize - they won't stay afterwards because they won't want to have anything to do with your content.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And even if you do end up gaining some followers from the process, they'll probably never reply to you, and that ruins your engagement. So<strong> the prize you choose needs to pre-qualify your audience's interest in what it is you do</strong>. </p><p><br></p><p>If you’re a course creator or membership site owner pick a prize or perhaps even create a product that's relevant to what you do so you can attract the right audience for your business. <strong>Running paid ads to a contest rather than to an offer means you get to attract your ideal clients while deterring those who aren't the right fit</strong>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why picking the right prize will help you find the right audience</strong></h3><p>The reason why giveaways work really well for small businesses is that if you don't have many followers on social media, it’s hard to attract an audience through organic content. But if you share a giveaway instead, people follow you to enter and win the prize – not because of your content. You’re giving them a reason to follow you. This is why giveaways are important - they help you grow that initial following.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And if you've picked the right prize, you'll also attract the right people. So <strong>make sure that what you're giving away solves the problem that your paid offer addresses</strong>. Why? Because this tells you that the people who are entering your giveaway to win the prize, have the problem you're trying to solve.&nbsp;Then to spice things up, you can also add more prizes (like consolation prizes) or pick multiple winners.&nbsp; </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Testing audiences and finding your target market</strong></h3><p>Once you've selected your prize and you start running your giveaway, test different types of audiences (for example different demographics). Who would want to buy your product?</p><p><br></p><p>At this point, your marketing doesn’t have to be so good that you're able to close sales straight from ads. It just needs to be good enough to get people's email addresses so you can test your target market. And then you run very simple ads to your contest. You don't even need lots of different angles with your ads - you just need the one. And that's to enter your giveaway.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Do giveaways work for B2B?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Derek told us that doing viral giveaways for B2B is a lot harder because selling coaching or consulting to a cold audience is difficult. When you’re giving away a product, people don’t look too much into where it comes from. But when it comes to coaching or similar services, people want to know who the person is. So giveaways can work for B2B but only if you already have a warm audience.</p><p><br></p><p>For example, Derek ran a giveaway for his coaching programme to celebrate his 200th podcast episode. He gave away some of his courses and personal mentoring to one lucky person. But everyone who entered also received a free guide, so they were all automatic winners. But when he ran the giveaway to a cold audience, while he admits he could have done more, he didn't have great success. He definitely found that viral contests only seem to work well for him if people already know him and want his products.&nbsp; &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What are the key ingredients to running a viral giveaway?</strong>&nbsp;</h3><p>The first component that needs to be in place is the <em>reason</em> why you're running the giveaway. You can't just say it's because you want people's email addresses! It's important you position your giveaway as something you’re doing to show your appreciation.</p><p><br></p><p>Then you need to present the prize as something simple and straightforward that people will want just by looking at it. If you have a more complicated product that needs explaining, don't spend more than a few bullet points on the extra details.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Once that's decided, you need an opt-in form where people can give you their email addresses to enter the giveaway. Don't ask people to share or tag friends, as these strategies don't work. And on the next page, simply state they have now entered the giveaway and let them know when they'll hear from you to find out if they won.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>This is also your chance to ask something from your audience. For example, you could tell people that to improve their chance to win they could follow you on Instagram or Facebook for an extra entry. Or they could review your podcast on Spotify or subscribe to your YouTube channel. Get creative with this and pick whatever your company needs. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Picking your giveaway winner</strong></h4><p>On the last day, Derek will send an email out with a subject line along the lines of “The results are in”, which has a great open rate (for Derek, that's around 60-80%) because everyone wants to know if they won. And in that same email, while he has people's attention, Derek will also let everyone know about a deal they can get or any consolation prizes they might have won.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>In terms of picking the winner, Derek used to do that manually. But there are plenty of giveaway software programmes designed to do this that will also take into account when people have multiple entries. He now uses a piece of software called Kickoff Labs. And that also helps with making your screen look great as it's important your content looks trustworthy because people might have the preconceived notion that a giveaway is gimmicky.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How do you make the giveaway go viral?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>In order to make your giveaway go viral, ask people to share the contest with a friend (via a custom referral link you send them) to gain an additional entry. The more friends sign up, the more entries that person gains.</p><p><br></p><p>So while the initial entries come from running paid ads to the giveaway, you have additional ones that are gained via the share factor. And this reduces your cost per acquisition. Plus, even if they didn't win, most people will still follow you because (if you picked the right prize), they're interested in what you do.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So in a nutshell, this is why giveaways are important and work particularly well for new businesses. They allow you to test your audiences and find your ideal target market when your offering, pricing, or email marketing aren't refined yet. They also give you a faster and more efficient way to grow your list and make sales than posting organically on social media (potentially to the wrong audience) for years. Running giveaways gives you not only better results but also more conclusive data.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>You'll also find that because you have people's email addresses at the back of running a contest, you can adjust your offer and try and resell to them. Whereas if you simply run paid ads to your offer to a cold audience, you're left with nothing if it doesn't work. But with a viral giveaway, you still have people's attention and can market them later.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So... are you ready to try them out?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week with Derek Videll</strong></h3><p>Derek’s subject line is “As promised…” It's one that worked well for Derek because it triggers curiosity. People want to see what they received that they were promised. Try it out!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Derek</strong></h5><p>If you want to find out more about Derek you can find him on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/socialbamboo_/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a> or his <a href="https://www.socialbamboo.com/home-page1625860864401" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">website</a>. Derek is giving away a FREE mini-course (all detailed with illustrations too) where he shares the social media giveaway strategy he talked to us about today.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/the-therapeutic-benefits-of-writing-your-own-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Therapeutic Benefits of Writing Your Own Emails</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/the-best-time-to-send-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Absolute Best Time To Send Emails</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/essential-email-campaigns-examples/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">7 Essential Email Campaigns Examples For Your Business</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about why giveaways are important) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/viral-list-growth-derek-videll/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">f0f99364-0c6e-4e08-ab18-8d35fbcceedf</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/d59055a5-bca4-4ddd-8a8c-0ad167c3b04f/dOVlLgOwqdaKSwUzOwBNqGkE.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2022 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/e018be1d-d237-4eda-95ad-2b0b1ede4bed/Viral-List-Growth-With-Giveaways-converted.mp3" length="22164983" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>26:23</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>142</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>142</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How To Do Your Email Marketing While You&apos;re On Holiday</title><itunes:title>How To Do Your Email Marketing While You&apos;re On Holiday</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Are you going on holiday or taking some time off from your business? What will you do with your email marketing? Will you stop your emails? Or will you keep them going? What are your options? This is what we're sharing today - how to do your email marketing while you're on holiday, whether you’re physically leaving and going somewhere or simply switching off from your business for some well-deserved time off.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to find out what your options are to keep your email marketing going during the holidays?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(4:51) Option 1 - Stop sending emails (don't do this!)</p><p>(10:08) Option 2 - Schedule your emails in advance.</p><p>(12:59) Option 3 - Run a campaign.</p><p>(15:02) The importance of having customer support while you're away.</p><p>(17:27) Option 4 - Send your emails while you're on holiday.</p><p>(20:56) The importance of having an Email Engine.</p><p>(22:44) Let your holiday inspire your emails.</p><p>(24:51) Always capture new ideas for your email marketing.</p><p>(30:54) Take advantage of these helpful resources inside The League.</p><p>(32:04) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Option 1 – Stop sending emails (don’t do this!)</strong></h3><p>The first option you have (and - spoiler alert - this is something we don't advise you to do) is to stop sending emails. You simply disappear for however long you're away or taking time off.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>This is definitely an option you have, but just because you're taking some well-deserved time off, it doesn't mean you don't have to continue showing up. In fact, <strong>you don't want to stop sending emails</strong>. Because that means losing momentum and traction.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Why you need to keep showing up for your subscribers</strong></h4><p>Remember that one of the things you’re doing by sending regular emails to your subscribers is to build and reinforce a habit. If you know that someone sends you an email every day of the week, you expect that. Or if you publish a podcast episode every week and suddenly stop, chances are people will stop listening. </p><p><br></p><p>The same goes with your emails – you stop sending them, and your subscribers will stop reading them. When you drop your frequency, from a technical point of you, you mess with the algorithm. But people also stop paying attention to you.</p><p><br></p><p>And from a psychological perspective, the minute you stop doing something, you find it harder to get back to it. So stopping your emails is bad for everything! It's bad from a tech point of view in terms of your deliverability, it’s bad for engagement, and it's bad for your audience because it gives them a chance to disconnect and forget who you are. And last but not least it's bad for you! Because once you've stopped, it's harder to get back into it.</p><p><br></p><p>So, yes - you absolutely deserve time off. But you also <strong>have a responsibility towards your subscribers and customers to show up and deliver value</strong>. It’s part of the promise you made to your subscribers. So what other options you have to ensure you can keep showing up even when you're on holiday?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Option 2 – Schedule your emails in advance</strong></h3><p>Another option you have is to prepare in advance and write and schedule your emails. So let's say you're going to be away for 16 days - you'll want to have all your emails written and scheduled in advance a couple of days before that. And potentially, you'll also want emails scheduled for a few days <em>after</em> you return to give yourself a chance to get back into the swing of things.</p><p><br></p><p>This means you batch-create the emails in advance for the duration of your trip (plus a few days before and after). And this is great because it means that as long as you spend some time preparing and planning in advance, you can take as much time away from your business as you want.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>The only thing to bear in mind if you're going to batch-write your emails is that you don't want them to all sound the same. We have a resource called <strong>Batch It Crazy</strong>&nbsp;inside our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> that helps you do exactly that. <strong>You want your emails to have different flavours and vibes to them</strong>. But most importantly, you want to be talking about your products from different angles. And using our resources will help you do that (and also ensure you won't run out of ideas).&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Option 3 - Run a campaign&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Another option you have is to run a campaign. What’s the difference between batching your emails and scheduling a campaign? If you decide to send X amount of days' worth of emails while you're away, you'll simply write and schedule those emails separately as you would when you're not on holiday.</p><p><br></p><p>Running a campaign, on the other hand, takes your subscriber on a journey. You're telling a story with a beginning, a middle, and an end. <strong>The emails in the campaign work together to serve a common purpose.</strong> </p><p><br></p><p>We have about 30 campaigns inside our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> that you can take, fill in, and apply to your business. The shortest one we have is about 6 days, but most of them are longer. So there’s a good chance you can cover the duration of your holiday with just one campaign.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And you may think this is counterintuitive. A lot of people tell us they can’t run an email campaign <em>because</em> they’re away. But actually, it's the perfect time to do it! Because you can set it all up in advance before you go.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>The importance of having customer support while you're away</strong></h4><p>The only thing we'd add to that is that you'll want someone for you (maybe someone in your team if you have one) to monitor your emails and respond to any queries while you're away to make sure your customers are getting access to the right content and can buy your product.  You don't want broken links or pages or payments that can't go through. And if something goes wrong, you need someone to fix it.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>If you don't have anyone who can help, maybe you could set up your campaign a few days before you go away and test it all out to make sure everything works fine. You want to be sure that the fundamentals are solid. And if you don't have anyone who can provide customer support while you're on holiday perhaps you could check in once in a while.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And if you can't, at least set up an autoreply for your support email address and let people know that you're away and when they can expect a reply back from you. This isn't ideal, but it’s better than nothing.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Option 4 – Send your emails while you're on holiday&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Another option you have (and what Kennedy does) is to find 10 minutes a day when you’re away to write and send your emails. You might have heard us say this before, but Kennedy writes his emails first thing in the morning while he waits for the kettle to boil. Whereas Rob writes them during the day, when inspiration strikes. That’s harder to do if you’re not disciplined – because it’s easy to let it slide.</p><p><br></p><p>But the way Kennedy does it means that doing his email marketing doesn't interrupt his day. His morning cup of tea is still part of his routine, wherever he is. Just like you don’t stop brushing your teeth when you’re on holiday, there are still things you do every day. So you can incorporate writing your emails into your daily habits, even when you're away or taking time off.</p><p><br></p><p>Different time zones make things interesting, too. When Kennedy went on holiday to Las Vegas, for example, he kept sending his daily emails at the same time. But because of the time difference, his audience would receive them 8 hours later than usual. Did that affect engagement with his subscribers? Nope. Nothing happened because he was emailing later in the day.</p><p><br></p><p>And part of the reason why this is, is that your subscribers probably know that you're away (if you've included that in your daily emails), and they feel like they're travelling with you. And by the way, this also proves that <strong>there is no perfect time of day to send your emails</strong> - to this day, we have never statistically found one.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The importance of having an Email Engine&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>On top of these options, there's something else we'd like you to consider. In our business, we have something we call our <em>Email Engine</em>. This is our core philosophy, and something all our subscribers go through in our business. It's a series of campaigns that talk about our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> from different angles, and it takes our subscribers 60-70 days to go through it. We make most of our sales from our Email Engine.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>After that, our subscribers go into our day-to-day email marketing, but what having our Email Engine means to us is that no matter how many new subscribers we bring in each month, they're all going to be taken care of. They're all going through the sequence of campaigns and emails we have already set up. And when you do this in your business, it means you can constantly make sales regardless of what you're doing - and even when you're away.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Let your holiday inspire your emails&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Holidays are a great opportunity to give you ideas for your email marketing. Regardless of what strategy or option you...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you going on holiday or taking some time off from your business? What will you do with your email marketing? Will you stop your emails? Or will you keep them going? What are your options? This is what we're sharing today - how to do your email marketing while you're on holiday, whether you’re physically leaving and going somewhere or simply switching off from your business for some well-deserved time off.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to find out what your options are to keep your email marketing going during the holidays?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(4:51) Option 1 - Stop sending emails (don't do this!)</p><p>(10:08) Option 2 - Schedule your emails in advance.</p><p>(12:59) Option 3 - Run a campaign.</p><p>(15:02) The importance of having customer support while you're away.</p><p>(17:27) Option 4 - Send your emails while you're on holiday.</p><p>(20:56) The importance of having an Email Engine.</p><p>(22:44) Let your holiday inspire your emails.</p><p>(24:51) Always capture new ideas for your email marketing.</p><p>(30:54) Take advantage of these helpful resources inside The League.</p><p>(32:04) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Option 1 – Stop sending emails (don’t do this!)</strong></h3><p>The first option you have (and - spoiler alert - this is something we don't advise you to do) is to stop sending emails. You simply disappear for however long you're away or taking time off.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>This is definitely an option you have, but just because you're taking some well-deserved time off, it doesn't mean you don't have to continue showing up. In fact, <strong>you don't want to stop sending emails</strong>. Because that means losing momentum and traction.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Why you need to keep showing up for your subscribers</strong></h4><p>Remember that one of the things you’re doing by sending regular emails to your subscribers is to build and reinforce a habit. If you know that someone sends you an email every day of the week, you expect that. Or if you publish a podcast episode every week and suddenly stop, chances are people will stop listening. </p><p><br></p><p>The same goes with your emails – you stop sending them, and your subscribers will stop reading them. When you drop your frequency, from a technical point of you, you mess with the algorithm. But people also stop paying attention to you.</p><p><br></p><p>And from a psychological perspective, the minute you stop doing something, you find it harder to get back to it. So stopping your emails is bad for everything! It's bad from a tech point of view in terms of your deliverability, it’s bad for engagement, and it's bad for your audience because it gives them a chance to disconnect and forget who you are. And last but not least it's bad for you! Because once you've stopped, it's harder to get back into it.</p><p><br></p><p>So, yes - you absolutely deserve time off. But you also <strong>have a responsibility towards your subscribers and customers to show up and deliver value</strong>. It’s part of the promise you made to your subscribers. So what other options you have to ensure you can keep showing up even when you're on holiday?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Option 2 – Schedule your emails in advance</strong></h3><p>Another option you have is to prepare in advance and write and schedule your emails. So let's say you're going to be away for 16 days - you'll want to have all your emails written and scheduled in advance a couple of days before that. And potentially, you'll also want emails scheduled for a few days <em>after</em> you return to give yourself a chance to get back into the swing of things.</p><p><br></p><p>This means you batch-create the emails in advance for the duration of your trip (plus a few days before and after). And this is great because it means that as long as you spend some time preparing and planning in advance, you can take as much time away from your business as you want.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>The only thing to bear in mind if you're going to batch-write your emails is that you don't want them to all sound the same. We have a resource called <strong>Batch It Crazy</strong>&nbsp;inside our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> that helps you do exactly that. <strong>You want your emails to have different flavours and vibes to them</strong>. But most importantly, you want to be talking about your products from different angles. And using our resources will help you do that (and also ensure you won't run out of ideas).&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Option 3 - Run a campaign&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Another option you have is to run a campaign. What’s the difference between batching your emails and scheduling a campaign? If you decide to send X amount of days' worth of emails while you're away, you'll simply write and schedule those emails separately as you would when you're not on holiday.</p><p><br></p><p>Running a campaign, on the other hand, takes your subscriber on a journey. You're telling a story with a beginning, a middle, and an end. <strong>The emails in the campaign work together to serve a common purpose.</strong> </p><p><br></p><p>We have about 30 campaigns inside our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> that you can take, fill in, and apply to your business. The shortest one we have is about 6 days, but most of them are longer. So there’s a good chance you can cover the duration of your holiday with just one campaign.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And you may think this is counterintuitive. A lot of people tell us they can’t run an email campaign <em>because</em> they’re away. But actually, it's the perfect time to do it! Because you can set it all up in advance before you go.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>The importance of having customer support while you're away</strong></h4><p>The only thing we'd add to that is that you'll want someone for you (maybe someone in your team if you have one) to monitor your emails and respond to any queries while you're away to make sure your customers are getting access to the right content and can buy your product.  You don't want broken links or pages or payments that can't go through. And if something goes wrong, you need someone to fix it.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>If you don't have anyone who can help, maybe you could set up your campaign a few days before you go away and test it all out to make sure everything works fine. You want to be sure that the fundamentals are solid. And if you don't have anyone who can provide customer support while you're on holiday perhaps you could check in once in a while.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And if you can't, at least set up an autoreply for your support email address and let people know that you're away and when they can expect a reply back from you. This isn't ideal, but it’s better than nothing.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Option 4 – Send your emails while you're on holiday&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Another option you have (and what Kennedy does) is to find 10 minutes a day when you’re away to write and send your emails. You might have heard us say this before, but Kennedy writes his emails first thing in the morning while he waits for the kettle to boil. Whereas Rob writes them during the day, when inspiration strikes. That’s harder to do if you’re not disciplined – because it’s easy to let it slide.</p><p><br></p><p>But the way Kennedy does it means that doing his email marketing doesn't interrupt his day. His morning cup of tea is still part of his routine, wherever he is. Just like you don’t stop brushing your teeth when you’re on holiday, there are still things you do every day. So you can incorporate writing your emails into your daily habits, even when you're away or taking time off.</p><p><br></p><p>Different time zones make things interesting, too. When Kennedy went on holiday to Las Vegas, for example, he kept sending his daily emails at the same time. But because of the time difference, his audience would receive them 8 hours later than usual. Did that affect engagement with his subscribers? Nope. Nothing happened because he was emailing later in the day.</p><p><br></p><p>And part of the reason why this is, is that your subscribers probably know that you're away (if you've included that in your daily emails), and they feel like they're travelling with you. And by the way, this also proves that <strong>there is no perfect time of day to send your emails</strong> - to this day, we have never statistically found one.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The importance of having an Email Engine&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>On top of these options, there's something else we'd like you to consider. In our business, we have something we call our <em>Email Engine</em>. This is our core philosophy, and something all our subscribers go through in our business. It's a series of campaigns that talk about our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> from different angles, and it takes our subscribers 60-70 days to go through it. We make most of our sales from our Email Engine.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>After that, our subscribers go into our day-to-day email marketing, but what having our Email Engine means to us is that no matter how many new subscribers we bring in each month, they're all going to be taken care of. They're all going through the sequence of campaigns and emails we have already set up. And when you do this in your business, it means you can constantly make sales regardless of what you're doing - and even when you're away.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Let your holiday inspire your emails&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Holidays are a great opportunity to give you ideas for your email marketing. Regardless of what strategy or option you choose from the ones we mentioned, you can use your holidays as inspiration - whether you share the stories in real-time or once you're back.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Sending emails while you're on holiday allows your readers to feel like they're away with you. And that's great because it helps deepen the relationship with them. But regardless of when you send those emails, you'll find that a lot more happens around you than when you're not at home or following your daily life and routines.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>When you take time away from your business, opportunities for stories multiply</strong> - totally different things happen. You see people you wouldn't normally see and immerse yourself in different situations. And that’s amazing inspiration for stories, which you can tell as they happen or when you're back.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Always capture new ideas for your email marketing</strong></h3><p>One thing you must make sure you do as you're exposed to more stories is to write them all down. Inside our <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/des-open?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=des" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bottomless Email Strategy</a>, we talk about a tool called the <strong>Story Vault</strong>. It’s our methodology for recording the stories to share in your emails <em>as they happen to you</em>, and it's super handy for those days when you feel you don't have anything to write about. So while you're away, make sure you capture all your stories so you can use them later.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Ultimately, <strong>your email marketing has to continue even if you're taking a break from your business. You still need to show up and serve your audience.</strong> And by doing this, you're subconsciously telling your subscribers that you won't let them down. You're still there and will continue to be there for them, even when you're away. It teaches them that they can rely on you because you're not the business that suddenly disappears.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>If you decide to take time off from your business (either out of desire or necessity), email is one of the only things you can remain consistent with because you can have it running in the background. Plenty of other activities (like Facebook lives, networking, or sales calls) require you to be there and present. But not email marketing - not if you plan and schedule in advance.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Take advantage of these helpful resources inside The League</strong></h3><p>We mentioned quite a few resources today. So for&nbsp;any members of <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, take a look at our campaigns. Are there any you'd like to implement during your next holiday? Whether it's something new you're launching or an existing product you want to put a new spin on, you'll find a campaign or two to use.</p><p><br></p><p>Another resource to check out is the <strong>Batch It Crazy</strong> programme and course, which is all about how to batch emails quickly and succinctly. And finally, take a look at the <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/des-open?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=des" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Bottomless Email Strategy</strong></a> and the <strong>Story Vault</strong> element from that. And if you’re not a member yet, what are you waiting for?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject line is one of the longest we’ve ever sent, and it’s “It’s 30 mins for free email marketing coaching”. What this type of subject line does is to <em>stack curiosity</em>. We see a lot of people who give away the point of the email in the subject line. But that means there's no need for your subscribers to open your email!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>This subject line, on the other hand, raises lots of questions. Why 30 minutes? Why is it free? And what is email marketing coaching? Because it raises multiple questions, we call this <em>compound curiosity</em>. Try it out!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/the-therapeutic-benefits-of-writing-your-own-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Therapeutic Benefits of Writing Your Own Emails</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/the-best-time-to-send-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Absolute Best Time To Send Emails</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/essential-email-campaigns-examples/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">7 Essential Email Campaigns Examples For Your Business</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to do your email marketing while on holiday) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-while-on-holiday/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">191df1ed-5e2a-4dd0-86aa-a90feea1bc01</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/7141b48e-d95b-446c-921e-3bf65e7f4a0a/Wq9fCUESGsIbZ9xnZIZiKgn4.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2022 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/b8ad18d4-b847-40d9-b7e2-8459aa84bdb0/FINAL-converted.mp3" length="33318983" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>34:42</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>141</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>141</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How to Increase Your Prices</title><itunes:title>How to Increase Your Prices</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Have you ever raised your prices and found that no one was rushing to buy? We've been there and done that. And that's why this week we're sharing how to increase your prices the right way by telling your audience in advance and creating urgency that will boost your sales. No matter what you sell (a membership, a course, a coaching programme, or any other product) we also have something special for you - our price increase email campaign.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to find out how to increase your prices, build trust with your audience and customers, and make loads of sales in the process? Let's go!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(6:11) How NOT TO increase your prices.</p><p>(8:23) Why give your audience notice of your price increase.</p><p>(10:10) Never give people too much notice about your price increase.</p><p>(11:53) Why send price increase emails to your audience.</p><p>(14:50) Keep track of all the places where you mention your prices.</p><p>(17:44) Why tell your existing customers about a price increase. </p><p>(18:55) Why increasing your prices acts as a retention mechanism. </p><p>(20:06) Why you should never extend your price increase offer.</p><p>(21:43) Grab our price increase email campaign for FREE - live workshop.</p><p>(22:44) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>How NOT TO increase your prices</strong></h3><p>If you've ever put your prices up, you probably did what we used to do in the past (and what we see lots of people still do). You posted on social media and found there was absolutely no rush in sales. Sounds familiar? The problem with that strategy is that the reason people aren't buying isn't the price itself, so putting it up or down isn't going to make a difference. But you <em>can</em> use the price (and a price increase at that) as a way to compel people to jump off the fence and go ahead and buy.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>The way <em>not to</em> raise your prices is by doing it quietly and in the background.</strong> Because that's a wasted opportunity! Instead, you could use a price increase as a promotional opportunity to get people to buy. How? You <strong>tell them you’re going to put the price up in a few days and give them an opportunity to buy now.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Of course, you want people to buy at the new price, right? Sure. But remember that you’re constantly bringing in new people onto your email list - every single week. And the new people will buy at the new price. But don't miss the opportunity to expose your <em>existing subscribers</em> to the old price and create a sense of urgency that pushes people to make a decision and buy now.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why give your audience notice of your price increase</strong></h3><p>Why are you telling your audience and existing subscribers about the price increase in advance? Because it helps create a sense of loyalty and happiness - you're giving them notice so they don't miss out on grabbing your product at the current price. And that's a good thing because we all want customers to be with us for the long haul. You have the rest of time to make sales at the new price. So why not give your loyal subscribers who’ve been around for a while the chance to grab the existing price first?</p><p><br></p><p>This is how we handle each price increase for our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, and any other product we've ever launched. We start with a lower price, get ourselves a good base of members first (who become our solid audience and give us base income), and then gradually increase the price over time. </p><p><br></p><p>A benefit of doing things this way is that it gives you the time to refine your offer. When we first launched our membership, the content wasn't finished. It still isn't because it's constantly changing – we’re adding new, amazing features all the time. But we’ve also taken things out that didn’t need to be there. So by increasing your price gradually you get to create the right offer for your audience over a period of time.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Never give people too much notice of your price increase</strong></h3><p>How you put your prices up is important. But what’s also critical is <em>not</em> giving people too much notice. If you tell your audience about a price increase coming up next year, that's just information. There’s no urgency. And <strong>you want urgency – not information</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>That's why we tell our audience about any price increase 5 days in advance - no longer than that. And that creates <em>real urgency</em> - almost like an impending sense of doom. Because if we say there's going to be a price increase in 5 days, there's going to be a price increase in 5 days. That's urgency. And <strong>urgency only works if it’s actually urgent.</strong> That’s why we never use countdown timers of 30 days, for example - because there's no urgency in that. It's just information.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why send price increase emails to your audience&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Using a window of 5 days before your price increase also gives you enough to say in your emails over that period of time. The idea is to send 5 days' worth of emails to your subscribers to talk to them about the price increase <em>from different angles</em>. That doesn't mean 5 emails - you can and absolutely should email them more than once a day, especially on the last day before the offer closes. But make sure you always have a reason to send those emails - if you don't, then you're sending too many.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So what do you say in your emails? <strong>Tell your subscribers what the price increase means for them.</strong> For example, if you're increasing your price by $20 per month, tell them about their <em>cumulative annual saving</em>. So an increase of $20 per month means a saving of $240 over the course of 12 months if they buy within the next 5 days. Why does doing this make a difference? Because $240 is a bigger number than $20. But also because subconsciously, you’re encouraging people to commit to joining for one year. And that means bigger savings!</p><p><br></p><p>Another thing you want to point out in your price increase emails is that if they buy now they'll be getting the same content <em>for a cheaper price</em>. But if they wait and buy later? They'll pay more for the same thing - and nobody wants that! Therefore, buying now becomes a no-brainer.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Keep track of all the places where you mention your prices</strong></h3><p>Something you also want to do in preparation for a price increase is to keep a document of every single place where you mention your prices. Why? Because a price increase means updating that figure everywhere - on your sales pages, your special offer pages, your email campaigns, your promotional videos, etc.</p><p><br></p><p>If you think this doesn't apply to you because you only mention your price in one place (probably on your sales page) then you might be leaving money on the table! There’s a reason why we make sales for our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> every single day. And that's because we mention our price in lots of different places - not just on our sales page.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Out of all our email campaigns, only a couple send people to our sales page. All the other campaigns take different routes, which means we have lots of places where we mention our prices that need updating every time we raise them. Remember that <strong>your sales page is important</strong> (a bit like a brochure), <strong>but you'll make more sales by sending people to other bits of content. </strong>&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why tell your existing customers about a price increase</strong></h3><p>When putting your prices up, it's also important to specifically tell your existing customers or members. Just like you did for your audience, let them know what it means for them. Will their price also go up for them? Or will it stay the same? We always tell our members not to worry because the price they pay doesn't change - that's what we choose to do.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>But we also let them know in advance about the price hike because they might know someone who wants to join our membership, and if they sign up now, they'll be able to access the same content at a cheaper price.&nbsp; By telling people, you're doing them a favour, and as human beings, we all like to help others - it makes us feel good about ourselves.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why increasing your prices acts as a retention mechanism</strong></h3><p>Last but not least, increasing your prices&nbsp;acts as a retention mechanism. People stick around because they want to keep their current price, rather than paying the higher one in case they decide to leave or take a break for a few months and then re-join in the future. So informing your existing customers in advance helps with retention because your members don't want to lose that price. You may also have former customers or members on your list, and by telling them about the price increase in advance, you're doing them a favour too. Because if they're thinking of joining again, now's the time.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why you should never extend your price increase offer</strong></h3><p>We talked about this before, but whatever deadline you give to your offer, don't extend it. If you said the price is going up in X days, it needs to go up in X days. <strong>Once you have a deadline in place, stick to it and close your offer when you said you would.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Why? Because if you don't, people won't trust you again. You might have people in your audience who decide to buy from you right now to take advantage of this offer by using money they'd originally...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you ever raised your prices and found that no one was rushing to buy? We've been there and done that. And that's why this week we're sharing how to increase your prices the right way by telling your audience in advance and creating urgency that will boost your sales. No matter what you sell (a membership, a course, a coaching programme, or any other product) we also have something special for you - our price increase email campaign.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to find out how to increase your prices, build trust with your audience and customers, and make loads of sales in the process? Let's go!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(6:11) How NOT TO increase your prices.</p><p>(8:23) Why give your audience notice of your price increase.</p><p>(10:10) Never give people too much notice about your price increase.</p><p>(11:53) Why send price increase emails to your audience.</p><p>(14:50) Keep track of all the places where you mention your prices.</p><p>(17:44) Why tell your existing customers about a price increase. </p><p>(18:55) Why increasing your prices acts as a retention mechanism. </p><p>(20:06) Why you should never extend your price increase offer.</p><p>(21:43) Grab our price increase email campaign for FREE - live workshop.</p><p>(22:44) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>How NOT TO increase your prices</strong></h3><p>If you've ever put your prices up, you probably did what we used to do in the past (and what we see lots of people still do). You posted on social media and found there was absolutely no rush in sales. Sounds familiar? The problem with that strategy is that the reason people aren't buying isn't the price itself, so putting it up or down isn't going to make a difference. But you <em>can</em> use the price (and a price increase at that) as a way to compel people to jump off the fence and go ahead and buy.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>The way <em>not to</em> raise your prices is by doing it quietly and in the background.</strong> Because that's a wasted opportunity! Instead, you could use a price increase as a promotional opportunity to get people to buy. How? You <strong>tell them you’re going to put the price up in a few days and give them an opportunity to buy now.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Of course, you want people to buy at the new price, right? Sure. But remember that you’re constantly bringing in new people onto your email list - every single week. And the new people will buy at the new price. But don't miss the opportunity to expose your <em>existing subscribers</em> to the old price and create a sense of urgency that pushes people to make a decision and buy now.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why give your audience notice of your price increase</strong></h3><p>Why are you telling your audience and existing subscribers about the price increase in advance? Because it helps create a sense of loyalty and happiness - you're giving them notice so they don't miss out on grabbing your product at the current price. And that's a good thing because we all want customers to be with us for the long haul. You have the rest of time to make sales at the new price. So why not give your loyal subscribers who’ve been around for a while the chance to grab the existing price first?</p><p><br></p><p>This is how we handle each price increase for our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, and any other product we've ever launched. We start with a lower price, get ourselves a good base of members first (who become our solid audience and give us base income), and then gradually increase the price over time. </p><p><br></p><p>A benefit of doing things this way is that it gives you the time to refine your offer. When we first launched our membership, the content wasn't finished. It still isn't because it's constantly changing – we’re adding new, amazing features all the time. But we’ve also taken things out that didn’t need to be there. So by increasing your price gradually you get to create the right offer for your audience over a period of time.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Never give people too much notice of your price increase</strong></h3><p>How you put your prices up is important. But what’s also critical is <em>not</em> giving people too much notice. If you tell your audience about a price increase coming up next year, that's just information. There’s no urgency. And <strong>you want urgency – not information</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>That's why we tell our audience about any price increase 5 days in advance - no longer than that. And that creates <em>real urgency</em> - almost like an impending sense of doom. Because if we say there's going to be a price increase in 5 days, there's going to be a price increase in 5 days. That's urgency. And <strong>urgency only works if it’s actually urgent.</strong> That’s why we never use countdown timers of 30 days, for example - because there's no urgency in that. It's just information.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why send price increase emails to your audience&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Using a window of 5 days before your price increase also gives you enough to say in your emails over that period of time. The idea is to send 5 days' worth of emails to your subscribers to talk to them about the price increase <em>from different angles</em>. That doesn't mean 5 emails - you can and absolutely should email them more than once a day, especially on the last day before the offer closes. But make sure you always have a reason to send those emails - if you don't, then you're sending too many.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So what do you say in your emails? <strong>Tell your subscribers what the price increase means for them.</strong> For example, if you're increasing your price by $20 per month, tell them about their <em>cumulative annual saving</em>. So an increase of $20 per month means a saving of $240 over the course of 12 months if they buy within the next 5 days. Why does doing this make a difference? Because $240 is a bigger number than $20. But also because subconsciously, you’re encouraging people to commit to joining for one year. And that means bigger savings!</p><p><br></p><p>Another thing you want to point out in your price increase emails is that if they buy now they'll be getting the same content <em>for a cheaper price</em>. But if they wait and buy later? They'll pay more for the same thing - and nobody wants that! Therefore, buying now becomes a no-brainer.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Keep track of all the places where you mention your prices</strong></h3><p>Something you also want to do in preparation for a price increase is to keep a document of every single place where you mention your prices. Why? Because a price increase means updating that figure everywhere - on your sales pages, your special offer pages, your email campaigns, your promotional videos, etc.</p><p><br></p><p>If you think this doesn't apply to you because you only mention your price in one place (probably on your sales page) then you might be leaving money on the table! There’s a reason why we make sales for our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> every single day. And that's because we mention our price in lots of different places - not just on our sales page.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Out of all our email campaigns, only a couple send people to our sales page. All the other campaigns take different routes, which means we have lots of places where we mention our prices that need updating every time we raise them. Remember that <strong>your sales page is important</strong> (a bit like a brochure), <strong>but you'll make more sales by sending people to other bits of content. </strong>&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why tell your existing customers about a price increase</strong></h3><p>When putting your prices up, it's also important to specifically tell your existing customers or members. Just like you did for your audience, let them know what it means for them. Will their price also go up for them? Or will it stay the same? We always tell our members not to worry because the price they pay doesn't change - that's what we choose to do.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>But we also let them know in advance about the price hike because they might know someone who wants to join our membership, and if they sign up now, they'll be able to access the same content at a cheaper price.&nbsp; By telling people, you're doing them a favour, and as human beings, we all like to help others - it makes us feel good about ourselves.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why increasing your prices acts as a retention mechanism</strong></h3><p>Last but not least, increasing your prices&nbsp;acts as a retention mechanism. People stick around because they want to keep their current price, rather than paying the higher one in case they decide to leave or take a break for a few months and then re-join in the future. So informing your existing customers in advance helps with retention because your members don't want to lose that price. You may also have former customers or members on your list, and by telling them about the price increase in advance, you're doing them a favour too. Because if they're thinking of joining again, now's the time.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why you should never extend your price increase offer</strong></h3><p>We talked about this before, but whatever deadline you give to your offer, don't extend it. If you said the price is going up in X days, it needs to go up in X days. <strong>Once you have a deadline in place, stick to it and close your offer when you said you would.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Why? Because if you don't, people won't trust you again. You might have people in your audience who decide to buy from you right now to take advantage of this offer by using money they'd originally allocated to something else. Buying from you now means making a compromise or sacrifice, even.</p><p><br></p><p>So if you extend the deadline and tell people they can still buy at the old price, it's illegal, insulting, offensive, and misleading. And it’s bad for you because you lose people's trust. Whatever you do, don’t be the marketer who extends their discount for another 24 hours for days in a row. It’s terrible practice!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Grab our price increase email campaign for FREE - live workshop</strong></h3><p>Ready to put your prices up? We’re about to run an interesting workshop about the specific price increase email campaign we use to raise our prices. You’ll get every single email in a nice copy-and-paste document you can take, fill in, and start using in your own business to make sales straight away.</p><p><br></p><p>During the live workshop, we're going to walk you through every email and explain why every word is there, what it does, and the psychological nuances behind it. You’ll also get a recording of the workshop so you can watch it back whenever you like. If you want to grab our price increase email campaign and attend this workshop, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_campaign=league&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_source=Podcast&amp;utm_term=price-hike-campaign" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">head over to this link</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject line is “My favourite refund request (ever).” This came about because one of our customers got in touch to say that he bought our <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/des-open?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=des" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bottomless Email Strategy Package</a>&nbsp;and started to go through it but didn’t like it. So he was going to ask for a refund because he didn’t think our framework would work for his industry (he sells guitar tutorials).</p><p><br></p><p>But then, he decided to give it a go, and at the back of writing a few emails, he received lots of replies from his subscribers and even made $600 in sales in the first few hours! So he got in touch with us to let us know he'd changed his mind and did <em>not</em> want a refund anymore. That was mind-blowing! Because one thing is to say good stuff about your own products but to get testimonials like these from your customers is incredible!</p><p><br></p><p>So the idea behind this subject line (and why it worked so well) is to take something inherently bad (like a customer asking for a refund or “a death threat” or “food poisoning”, for example) and add the words “favourite” and “ever” to it. It works a treat – try it.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/marketing-ethical-dilemmas-deadlines/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Do Deadlines Well and Ethically</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/avoid-email-marketing-mistakes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why You Need to Avoid These Email Marketing Mistakes</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/create-urgency-without-product-launches/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Create Urgency For an Evergreen Membership or Course Without Product Launches</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to raise your prices the right way with our price increase email campaign) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/price-increase-email-campaign/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">e9f6a5d4-da1f-4246-8a48-d45c2d548796</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/3ca43330-e201-4de6-b9fe-dc2fd36d0b84/F7pUEW2nS0LzFhEpxVWCkXZ4.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2022 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/fd08f582-93bb-4e77-9bec-631729e2a589/final-converted.mp3" length="24394055" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>25:25</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>140</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>140</podcast:episode></item><item><title>9 Lessons from The Inbox Online Email Marketing Conference</title><itunes:title>9 Lessons from The Inbox Online Email Marketing Conference</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>This week we're sharing 9 amazing lessons we've learnt from two years of running Inbox - our awesome online email marketing conference. It's a <em>phenomenal</em> event, and we promise this year it's going to be <em>absolutely</em> <em>next level</em>! </p><p>To prove that it's true, we've pulled out 9 tips we learnt from some of our amazing speakers at past events of this FREE online email marketing conference.&nbsp;They're <em>so good</em> you're going to want to take notes! </p><p>Ready to have your mind blown?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:12) Come and join us at Inbox 2022 (for FREE!)</p><p>(5:40) Lesson 1: Use emails to 're-sell' your membership.</p><p>(8:31) Lesson 2: Turn your free content into your core product.</p><p>(12:51) Lesson 3: Tweak and test your lead magnet landing pages.</p><p>(16:35) Lesson 4: Use your emails to educate, entertain, and encourage.</p><p>(18:48) Lesson 5: Talk about your lead magnet from different angles.</p><p>(23:38) Lesson 6: Test the deliverability of your emails with all the major email platforms.</p><p>(26:21) Lesson 7: Identify the people who want your highest offer first.</p><p>(28:02) Lesson 8: Grow your list by getting in front of other people's audiences.</p><p>(29:23) Lesson 9: <em>Sell </em>the product. Don't <em>explain</em> the product.</p><p>(31:22) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Come and join us at Inbox 2022 - for FREE!</strong></h3><p>Our <strong>Inbox email marketing conference is on the 28th and 29th of June 2022</strong>. And we’d like to invite you to <strong>join us for FREE!</strong> Previously, tickets for registration were up to $500, but this year we’re going to grow this conference massively and make it into the <strong>biggest online email marketing conference</strong> you can imagine. It's packed with 12 amazing speakers and presentations and is fully online and fully live. We'd love for you to come and join us!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>If you want to learn what's going to impact your ability to make more sales with email, <em>this</em> is the place to be. Because it's not just about the words you write, who you send them to, or when you send your emails. It's about a lot more than that! And these two days are going to have a <em>solid </em>impact on your ability to make sales with email marketing. If you're already salivating and want to find out all the details, see the full line-up, and register at <em>zero cost</em>, <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/inbox/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here's the link</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>1. Use emails to 'resell' your membership – Neil Stafford</strong></h3><p>Neil Stafford is a genius when it comes to memberships, and in his presentation at one of our previous online email marketing conferences, he talked about how to use emails to keep selling your membership and make sure you build <em>belief</em> so your members become lifetime members. </p><p><br></p><p>Because your membership is something you need to 'resell' to people. You don’t just sell it once and then sit back and receive recurring revenue forever. Instead, you have to constantly and perpetually 'resell' it. And emails are a solid way to do that.</p><p><br></p><p>Of course, you need to get that balance right. You don't want to overwhelm people with all the emails you're already sending them to let them know where all the content is. For example, we have a number of emails that tell our members inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> how they should go on the Success Track. But people still tell us they don’t know where to go because <strong>nobody gets 100% readership of their emails</strong>, even when people are paying to be a member. Because everyone’s busy!</p><p><br></p><p>But on top of the emails where you explain where everything is, you also need to send emails that build the beliefs that your members need, in order to stay with you in the long run. Arguably, these types of emails are more important than any instructions or directions you could ever give. Because the beliefs are what will help people stick around.&nbsp;If they don’t believe what you do is something they should be studying for a number of months or even years of their life, people are going to jump in, grab what they need, and go. And that’s not what you want. So <strong>email is the most direct thing you can do to make sales and to positively impact the retention of your membership</strong>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>2. Turn your free content into your core product – Matt and Joe</strong></h3><p>Our friends Matt and Joe exposed their entire business model to us, which was incredible and unique. Their core content (their podcast - The Hustle and Flowchart) isn’t just their free content - it's their entire business. It's also their product and membership.</p><p><br></p><p>So they shared the idea that you don't have to produce free content and then have additional products on top. Your products don't need to be separate from your content. So you could monetise your podcast by having a sponsor, for example. Or what Matt and Joe do, is create full, in-depth notes of their podcast episodes. And that’s their monthly recurring revenue model - people can subscribe and get their notes as well as additional training.</p><p><br></p><p>The benefit of doing this is that it frees you up to create amazing content because <em>that</em> is also the product you sell. So you make it the best content it can be. Whatever your content is, make it phenomenal and give it the best chance to work and rise to the surface. In other words, <strong>make your content <em>so good </em>that it could be your monthly membership. </strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>3. Tweak and test your lead magnet landing pages - Monica Snyder</strong></h3><p>In one of our previous online email marketing conferences, our friend Monica Snyder taught us to tweak and test small elements of your landing page because that can make all the difference between making or losing money on ads. Monica is a genius when it comes to getting paid to build your list, and the way to do that is to <strong>have a paid lead magnet that acts as your low-priced offer</strong>. You then run ads to a sales page where people can buy your lead magnet, and that means they're immediately in your funnel. They're not joining your list for free and then being sold later - they're a customer the minute they come onto your list.</p><p><br></p><p>But because you're running ads to this page, this now becomes a careful balancing act. You need to have enough conversions to cover the cost of your ads. And the best way to guarantee you do that is by making sure your landing page works for you. That means you need to get some key core elements right and then change and split test different components to see what works best.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So to make your lead magnet profitable, focus on the things you can control. You can't control how Facebook runs ads or what other marketers in your industry are doing, but you can control the elements on your landing page to see what works best for you.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>4. Use your emails to entertain, educate, and encourage – Jacob&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Our friend Jacob is very much on the same wavelength as us when it comes to sending emails that<em> entertain, educate, and encourage</em>. We talk a lot about education and entertainment, but the word <em>encouragement</em> is really important as well. Because it captures the idea that you can inspire people and make them feel good with the content you share. And you can also give them permission to go ahead with whatever it is you help them with.</p><p><br></p><p>The word <em>encouragement</em> was a key takeaway for us because it’s an all-encompassing concept. You don’t just want people to learn lots of things. Because sometimes people leave paid memberships or coaching groups because they’re learning <em>too much</em> and don’t have the time to implement it all. And if all people are doing with you is learning, it can get overwhelming really quickly.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>But if you can give them <em>encouragement</em> and use your emails to support people to take what they learnt from you and implement it, suddenly what you send becomes more valuable to them. Because everyone loves to open an email that makes them feel better by the end of it! So how can you encourage your audience to get out of their rut and take some action to get the results they want? And how do you keep educating them in a way that’s also entertaining?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>5. Talk about your lead magnet from different angles – Teresa Heath-Wareing</strong></h3><p>Another important lesson we learnt from our friend Teresa Heath-Wareing is that you should talk about your lead magnet from different angles - not just in the same exact way all the time. For example, you could talk about the benefits of it, or the thing it’s going to save people from.</p><p><br></p><p>You want to think about 20-30 different angles and then rotate them whenever you talk about your lead magnet because that will ensure it appeals to different people at different times. Or even to the same person at different times. This gives you the freedom and ability to post more regularly on social media or write more in your emails about the same lead magnet. And that's because by using different angles you’re not constantly talking about the same thing.</p><p><br></p><p>It also means that you don't have to come up with new lead magnets all the time. In fact, rather than spending extra time trying to create a new lead magnet, sit down with a piece of paper and think of ways you can talk about the lead magnet you already have. It's quicker! And it allows you to then use&nbsp; different hooks for social media content, which you...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This week we're sharing 9 amazing lessons we've learnt from two years of running Inbox - our awesome online email marketing conference. It's a <em>phenomenal</em> event, and we promise this year it's going to be <em>absolutely</em> <em>next level</em>! </p><p>To prove that it's true, we've pulled out 9 tips we learnt from some of our amazing speakers at past events of this FREE online email marketing conference.&nbsp;They're <em>so good</em> you're going to want to take notes! </p><p>Ready to have your mind blown?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:12) Come and join us at Inbox 2022 (for FREE!)</p><p>(5:40) Lesson 1: Use emails to 're-sell' your membership.</p><p>(8:31) Lesson 2: Turn your free content into your core product.</p><p>(12:51) Lesson 3: Tweak and test your lead magnet landing pages.</p><p>(16:35) Lesson 4: Use your emails to educate, entertain, and encourage.</p><p>(18:48) Lesson 5: Talk about your lead magnet from different angles.</p><p>(23:38) Lesson 6: Test the deliverability of your emails with all the major email platforms.</p><p>(26:21) Lesson 7: Identify the people who want your highest offer first.</p><p>(28:02) Lesson 8: Grow your list by getting in front of other people's audiences.</p><p>(29:23) Lesson 9: <em>Sell </em>the product. Don't <em>explain</em> the product.</p><p>(31:22) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Come and join us at Inbox 2022 - for FREE!</strong></h3><p>Our <strong>Inbox email marketing conference is on the 28th and 29th of June 2022</strong>. And we’d like to invite you to <strong>join us for FREE!</strong> Previously, tickets for registration were up to $500, but this year we’re going to grow this conference massively and make it into the <strong>biggest online email marketing conference</strong> you can imagine. It's packed with 12 amazing speakers and presentations and is fully online and fully live. We'd love for you to come and join us!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>If you want to learn what's going to impact your ability to make more sales with email, <em>this</em> is the place to be. Because it's not just about the words you write, who you send them to, or when you send your emails. It's about a lot more than that! And these two days are going to have a <em>solid </em>impact on your ability to make sales with email marketing. If you're already salivating and want to find out all the details, see the full line-up, and register at <em>zero cost</em>, <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/inbox/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here's the link</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>1. Use emails to 'resell' your membership – Neil Stafford</strong></h3><p>Neil Stafford is a genius when it comes to memberships, and in his presentation at one of our previous online email marketing conferences, he talked about how to use emails to keep selling your membership and make sure you build <em>belief</em> so your members become lifetime members. </p><p><br></p><p>Because your membership is something you need to 'resell' to people. You don’t just sell it once and then sit back and receive recurring revenue forever. Instead, you have to constantly and perpetually 'resell' it. And emails are a solid way to do that.</p><p><br></p><p>Of course, you need to get that balance right. You don't want to overwhelm people with all the emails you're already sending them to let them know where all the content is. For example, we have a number of emails that tell our members inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> how they should go on the Success Track. But people still tell us they don’t know where to go because <strong>nobody gets 100% readership of their emails</strong>, even when people are paying to be a member. Because everyone’s busy!</p><p><br></p><p>But on top of the emails where you explain where everything is, you also need to send emails that build the beliefs that your members need, in order to stay with you in the long run. Arguably, these types of emails are more important than any instructions or directions you could ever give. Because the beliefs are what will help people stick around.&nbsp;If they don’t believe what you do is something they should be studying for a number of months or even years of their life, people are going to jump in, grab what they need, and go. And that’s not what you want. So <strong>email is the most direct thing you can do to make sales and to positively impact the retention of your membership</strong>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>2. Turn your free content into your core product – Matt and Joe</strong></h3><p>Our friends Matt and Joe exposed their entire business model to us, which was incredible and unique. Their core content (their podcast - The Hustle and Flowchart) isn’t just their free content - it's their entire business. It's also their product and membership.</p><p><br></p><p>So they shared the idea that you don't have to produce free content and then have additional products on top. Your products don't need to be separate from your content. So you could monetise your podcast by having a sponsor, for example. Or what Matt and Joe do, is create full, in-depth notes of their podcast episodes. And that’s their monthly recurring revenue model - people can subscribe and get their notes as well as additional training.</p><p><br></p><p>The benefit of doing this is that it frees you up to create amazing content because <em>that</em> is also the product you sell. So you make it the best content it can be. Whatever your content is, make it phenomenal and give it the best chance to work and rise to the surface. In other words, <strong>make your content <em>so good </em>that it could be your monthly membership. </strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>3. Tweak and test your lead magnet landing pages - Monica Snyder</strong></h3><p>In one of our previous online email marketing conferences, our friend Monica Snyder taught us to tweak and test small elements of your landing page because that can make all the difference between making or losing money on ads. Monica is a genius when it comes to getting paid to build your list, and the way to do that is to <strong>have a paid lead magnet that acts as your low-priced offer</strong>. You then run ads to a sales page where people can buy your lead magnet, and that means they're immediately in your funnel. They're not joining your list for free and then being sold later - they're a customer the minute they come onto your list.</p><p><br></p><p>But because you're running ads to this page, this now becomes a careful balancing act. You need to have enough conversions to cover the cost of your ads. And the best way to guarantee you do that is by making sure your landing page works for you. That means you need to get some key core elements right and then change and split test different components to see what works best.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So to make your lead magnet profitable, focus on the things you can control. You can't control how Facebook runs ads or what other marketers in your industry are doing, but you can control the elements on your landing page to see what works best for you.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>4. Use your emails to entertain, educate, and encourage – Jacob&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Our friend Jacob is very much on the same wavelength as us when it comes to sending emails that<em> entertain, educate, and encourage</em>. We talk a lot about education and entertainment, but the word <em>encouragement</em> is really important as well. Because it captures the idea that you can inspire people and make them feel good with the content you share. And you can also give them permission to go ahead with whatever it is you help them with.</p><p><br></p><p>The word <em>encouragement</em> was a key takeaway for us because it’s an all-encompassing concept. You don’t just want people to learn lots of things. Because sometimes people leave paid memberships or coaching groups because they’re learning <em>too much</em> and don’t have the time to implement it all. And if all people are doing with you is learning, it can get overwhelming really quickly.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>But if you can give them <em>encouragement</em> and use your emails to support people to take what they learnt from you and implement it, suddenly what you send becomes more valuable to them. Because everyone loves to open an email that makes them feel better by the end of it! So how can you encourage your audience to get out of their rut and take some action to get the results they want? And how do you keep educating them in a way that’s also entertaining?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>5. Talk about your lead magnet from different angles – Teresa Heath-Wareing</strong></h3><p>Another important lesson we learnt from our friend Teresa Heath-Wareing is that you should talk about your lead magnet from different angles - not just in the same exact way all the time. For example, you could talk about the benefits of it, or the thing it’s going to save people from.</p><p><br></p><p>You want to think about 20-30 different angles and then rotate them whenever you talk about your lead magnet because that will ensure it appeals to different people at different times. Or even to the same person at different times. This gives you the freedom and ability to post more regularly on social media or write more in your emails about the same lead magnet. And that's because by using different angles you’re not constantly talking about the same thing.</p><p><br></p><p>It also means that you don't have to come up with new lead magnets all the time. In fact, rather than spending extra time trying to create a new lead magnet, sit down with a piece of paper and think of ways you can talk about the lead magnet you already have. It's quicker! And it allows you to then use&nbsp; different hooks for social media content, which you can then share in various ways (Stories, reels, videos, posts on your grid, etc.)</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>6. Test the deliverability of your emails with all the major email platforms – Ed Forteau</strong></h3><p>Our friend Ed talked to us about testing the deliverability of your emails. Do your emails get to people's inboxes or are they just ending in spam? In order to find out, Ed told us to go and test our emails on all the different platforms. And you do this by creating different email accounts with each of the major providers, like Gmail, Outlook, AOL, Yahoo, etc.</p><p><br></p><p>You can create these test addresses for free and then subscribe to your list from each account. This gives you a good view of how your emails are performing. And you can even set up multiple accounts for each platform to see what happens when you never open the emails, when you open them but never click, when you open the email and reply and click, etc. Depending on your level of engagement and your sender's reputation, you can find out how exactly your emails are being delivered to all the main platforms.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>7. Identify the people who want your highest offer first – Steve Rosenbaum</strong></h3><p>A big revelation from our friend Steve Rosenbaum was that some of the people who join your email list want the most help you can possibly give them. They want to pay the highest price for your most advanced programme.</p><p><br></p><p>While some people join your email list and start escalating through the value ladder from the bottom to the top, others want your highest offer straight away. And if you offer them products that are below the level of support they want and need right now, they’ll disengage. They’ll never buy from you – they’ll just leave.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Plus, your highest-price offer is usually also your highest-profit offer. So if you offer that to the right people straight away, you get to make sales early in the process. The key is to <strong>get people to raise their hands early in the email relationship with you so they can let you know they want the highest price, highest-involvement, and highest-impact offer</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>This is what we've started doing recently when offering <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-agency/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">our agency&nbsp;service</a>, where we write people’s emails for them. So now we have a process in place to find people who are most interested in that, and we filter them out and put them through a separate sales process.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>8. Grow your list by getting in front of other people’s audiences – Melanie Benson</strong></h3><p>A tip we learnt from our friend Melanie Benson was to build your email list and authority by putting yourself in front of other people’s audiences. You want to effectively 'ethically hijack' that audience to get in front of it.</p><p><br></p><p>And one of the ways to do it is by getting on the platform they use. So if you've never used Clubhouse, for example, but know a potential business you could collaborate with who has an audience there, you could leverage that audience. It's about finding people, a platform, a place, or a community where people hang out online and try to get in front of them.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>9. <em>Sell</em> the product. Don't <em>explain</em> the product - Todd Brown</strong></h3><p>And last but not least, a tip we learnt from Todd Brown - the master of the offer - in a previous event of Inbox (our awesome online email marketing conference) is to <em>sell</em> the product - not to <em>explain</em> the product. And we'll leave this there because we could make a whole episode just about this!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Come and join us at Inbox - it's THE online email marketing conference of 2022!</strong></h3><p>So if this sounds as amazing as we think, remember that this year’s Inbox event is just around the corner. It’s absolutely FREE for you to register and to attend completely live. It's THE online email marketing conference of 2022, and it's on Zoom, so there’s no tech, financial, travel, or time barrier. There's nothing stopping you from growing your business, getting more sales, and serving more people by doing awesome email marketing. You <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/inbox-2022?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=inbox-2022" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">get your free ticket by signing up here</a>. So make sure you register now and join us over the two days. It’s going to be awesome!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject line is the back arrow emoji (the one pointing to the left) with the words “doing it backwards.” The story was about the fact that we often do stuff in reverse or the opposite way round to how most people do things. And that's because we see that others aren’t getting the results they want, so it makes very little sense to copy them. So what we tend to do instead is look at stuff that is conventional marketing wisdom and do it backwards.</p><p>And the subject line worked because it sort of implied that you could be doing something wrong. Did it work? Did it blow up? In this case, this was about something being backwards but correct, so quite interesting!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/why-attend-email-marketing-conference-2022-inbox/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why You Should Attend Inbox 2022</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/email-deliverability/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Surprising Thing That REALLY Impacts Your Email Deliverability</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-paying-members/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">What Emails Should You Send Your Paying Members? with Mike and Callie from Membership Geeks</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the key lessons we lernt from Inbox - our FREE online email marketing conference) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/lessons-inbox-free-online-email-marketing-conference/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">c3bdbbd4-4bd2-488b-ab08-e9d2eec1dd15</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/339f1ef6-fd1f-4c83-9ff2-95378bdaee82/A0Nf-HcbtomB4QZX35H7fypm.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2022 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/225000d3-8961-43b8-afc7-7e92a3710755/final-202-converted.mp3" length="31763399" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>33:05</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>139</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>139</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Why You Should Attend Inbox 2022</title><itunes:title>Why You Should Attend Inbox 2022</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Why should you attend Inbox? Because it's <em>the</em> email marketing conference of 2022 (even if we say so ourselves). Inbox is the online conference that helps you sell more of everything you're doing by using email marketing. It's on the <strong>28th and 29th of June 2022</strong>, and we're going to show you how to get totally FREE tickets and attend this fantastic event from the comfort of your very own pajamas.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to get all the juicy stuff?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:27) Come and join us at Inbox 2022 (for FREE!)</p><p>(4:52) What is Inbox 2022?</p><p>(6:39) Email is the most direct way you can make sales.</p><p>(7:44) Learn from different approaches (from our amazing speakers).</p><p>(8:38) The 5 areas covered in Inbox 2022.</p><p>(10:00) Inbox 2022 is FREE and the reviews are incredible!</p><p>(11:58) Inbox 2022 is online and live - on Zoom!</p><p>(14:16) Who attends our event, Inbox?</p><p>(16:18) Here's the link to register for Inbox 2022!</p><p>(17:19) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Come and join us at Inbox 2022 - for FREE!</strong></h3><p>Our <strong>Inbox email marketing conference is on the 28th and 29th of June 2022</strong>. And we’d like to invite you to <strong>join us for FREE!</strong> Previously tickets for registration were up to $500, but this year we’re going to grow this event massively and make it into the <strong>biggest online email marketing party</strong> you can imagine. It's packed with amazing speakers, fully online, and fully live.</p><p><br></p><p>If you want to learn what's going to impact your ability to make more sales with email, <em>this</em> is the place to be. Because it's not just about the words you write, who you send them to, or when you send your emails. It's more than that! So if you're already salivating and want to find out all the details, see the full line-up, and register, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/inbox?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=inbox-2022" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here's the link</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What is Inbox 2022?</strong></h3><p>Inbox 2022 is our completely FREE online email marketing conference. This is the third year we're running it, and we're inviting you to attend. Why? Because <strong>email is the most direct way that any of us can make sales</strong>&nbsp;- whether your emails are in real-time or automated.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So it’s definitely worth taking two days out of your schedule to study everything there is to know about email marketing. And that's exactly what Inbox 2022 allows you to do - to immerse yourself into this topic and up your email marketing game. You can dive deep into what you can do, find out what everyone else is doing, and why they always talk about how amazing email is.</p><p><br></p><p>Because it’s easy to think that the way you’re doing email marketing is the way it’s done, right? But we learn new things all the time - from every guest that we interview for this show and from all the speakers we’ve met in the last two years of running this event. We learn new things and we implement them. And that's what makes us better at what we do.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Email is the most direct way you can make sales</strong></h4><p>There’s nothing else you can do that <em>directly</em> impacts the top and bottom line of your business as swiftly as email marketing. And that's a fact.&nbsp;If you have a little cash flow blip in your business, the best thing you can possibly do is to find something to sell and send a few emails about it over the course of a few days. That will fix your cash flow problem - it's as simple as that!</p><p><br></p><p>Literally, nothing else will work as well. You can't just host a webinar, for example. Because how will you get people to sign up for it in the first place? With email, of course. You could try social media, but the reach isn’t very high, so you wouldn't get the same results.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Learn from different approaches (from our amazing speakers)</strong></h3><p>The great thing about conferences is that you get to learn new things. And at Inbox, you don't just get <em>our</em> ideas. Sure, we'll be giving a presentation or two. But over the two days, you’re going to learn from all kinds of different approaches – both from us and from our amazing speakers.</p><p><br></p><p>A lot of the time, the reason people get stuck with their email marketing (or anything) is that they don’t know what they should be doing. They don’t know what questions to ask or what they should be studying. If you buy a course, for example, you’ll learn whatever that teaches you and nothing else.</p><p><br></p><p>But at this event, we have a whole bunch of speakers talking about different topics, so you can learn way more than just one approach or one specific thing. We're confident that you'll leave this conference with whatever you were hoping to learn, but also with a lot more – with new ideas you didn't even know you wanted or approaches you wouldn't have thought about. We know for a fact that you’ll leave feeling more inspired than when we walked in.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The 5 areas covered in Inbox 2022</strong></h3><p>We split our email marketing event into 5 areas and asked our speakers to fit their talks into one of these categories:</p><p><br></p><ul><li><strong>List building.</strong> How do you get more people onto your email list?</li><li><strong>Specific email campaigns.</strong> We’ll talk about specific email campaigns, including one that allows you to leverage the objections your audience has and turn them into reasons to buy and sales.&nbsp;</li><li><strong>Conversion.</strong> There are different types of conversion, so this is all about what you can do to help your subscribers to convert.</li><li><strong>Copywriting and content.</strong> What goes into your emails?</li><li><strong>Technical stuff.</strong> This is all the tech around email marketing - the stuff that allows you to do the things you want to do.&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><p><br></p><h3><strong>Inbox 2022 is FREE and the reviews are incredible!</strong></h3><p>We've said this before, but you get to learn all of this for absolutely nothing! Because Inbox 2022 is free to attend.&nbsp;And we have rave reviews! We remember reading the chat (where attendees can interact live with other participants all day long) and seeing people have lots of fun. But also saying they were blown away by this event and thought it was genuinely excellent.</p><p><br></p><p>We host the whole two days <em>live</em> because we don’t want it to be a bunch of pre-recorded videos that you can download and watch anytime you want. We want it to be a live experience, which is why we host it all and aim to make it a lot of fun - we even have some surprises along the way.</p><p><br></p><p>We’re super excited to be doing this for free because <strong>we want to help more business owners realise the true potential of email marketing</strong>. If you’re <em>not</em> doing email at the moment because you’re focusing on other things, remember that <strong>email is the one thing that will allow you to put more gasoline on the fire</strong>. It’ll help you make whatever you’re already doing bigger and better - simply more impressive!</p><p><br></p><p>We want this event to have a real impact on businesses, which is why we made it free. So you can focus on absorbing the content, joining in and participating, making new friends, and asking questions to our speakers. Whether you’re looking for new ideas to add to what you’re already doing or for inspiration to get started because you’ve been putting email marketing off or left it on the back burner for a bit, this event will help you.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Inbox 2022 is online and live - on Zoom&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Inbox 2022 is fully online, which means you don't need to spend thousands on travel, hotels, or food. You don’t even have to take additional time out to get there and back like you'd normally do at either end of an in-person event. We're streaming this event on Zoom, which is something most of us are familiar with, so there are no technological barriers. The speakers will join us live and you can connect from wherever you are – and you don’t even have to have the camera on. We don't mind!</p><p><br></p><p>So for <em>no additional cost</em> (in time or money), <strong>you can completely transform your business (not just your email marketing) and increase the amount of money you get to take out from the thing you love doing</strong>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Of course, there's an option for you to buy the recordings if you want to support the event. This gives you access to the sessions so you can review them at your own pace and convenience. We find this is a great idea because nobody ever studies an entire 60-minute presentation and leaves remembering all of the amazing <em>a-ha!</em> moments they had. Sometimes you read back through your notes and realise you can't read your handwriting or maybe you don’t even take notes! And that's why we give you access to the recordings of all 12 presentations for your to review as many times as you want to.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Who attends our email marketing conference - Inbox?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>One thing we absolutely love about Inbox (remember it's <em>the</em> email marketing conference of 2022) is that we get to chat with the attendees throughout the sessions. And we get to meet people from all over the world – from Australia to across Asia, all around Europe, the US, and Canada. And it’s people who do such diverse things with their email marketing, too!</p><p><br></p><p>We have people who sell online courses and have packaged their knowledge into a programme. Some who offer coaching and help clients in all areas of their lives – from their businesses, to their...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why should you attend Inbox? Because it's <em>the</em> email marketing conference of 2022 (even if we say so ourselves). Inbox is the online conference that helps you sell more of everything you're doing by using email marketing. It's on the <strong>28th and 29th of June 2022</strong>, and we're going to show you how to get totally FREE tickets and attend this fantastic event from the comfort of your very own pajamas.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to get all the juicy stuff?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:27) Come and join us at Inbox 2022 (for FREE!)</p><p>(4:52) What is Inbox 2022?</p><p>(6:39) Email is the most direct way you can make sales.</p><p>(7:44) Learn from different approaches (from our amazing speakers).</p><p>(8:38) The 5 areas covered in Inbox 2022.</p><p>(10:00) Inbox 2022 is FREE and the reviews are incredible!</p><p>(11:58) Inbox 2022 is online and live - on Zoom!</p><p>(14:16) Who attends our event, Inbox?</p><p>(16:18) Here's the link to register for Inbox 2022!</p><p>(17:19) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Come and join us at Inbox 2022 - for FREE!</strong></h3><p>Our <strong>Inbox email marketing conference is on the 28th and 29th of June 2022</strong>. And we’d like to invite you to <strong>join us for FREE!</strong> Previously tickets for registration were up to $500, but this year we’re going to grow this event massively and make it into the <strong>biggest online email marketing party</strong> you can imagine. It's packed with amazing speakers, fully online, and fully live.</p><p><br></p><p>If you want to learn what's going to impact your ability to make more sales with email, <em>this</em> is the place to be. Because it's not just about the words you write, who you send them to, or when you send your emails. It's more than that! So if you're already salivating and want to find out all the details, see the full line-up, and register, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/inbox?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=inbox-2022" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here's the link</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What is Inbox 2022?</strong></h3><p>Inbox 2022 is our completely FREE online email marketing conference. This is the third year we're running it, and we're inviting you to attend. Why? Because <strong>email is the most direct way that any of us can make sales</strong>&nbsp;- whether your emails are in real-time or automated.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So it’s definitely worth taking two days out of your schedule to study everything there is to know about email marketing. And that's exactly what Inbox 2022 allows you to do - to immerse yourself into this topic and up your email marketing game. You can dive deep into what you can do, find out what everyone else is doing, and why they always talk about how amazing email is.</p><p><br></p><p>Because it’s easy to think that the way you’re doing email marketing is the way it’s done, right? But we learn new things all the time - from every guest that we interview for this show and from all the speakers we’ve met in the last two years of running this event. We learn new things and we implement them. And that's what makes us better at what we do.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Email is the most direct way you can make sales</strong></h4><p>There’s nothing else you can do that <em>directly</em> impacts the top and bottom line of your business as swiftly as email marketing. And that's a fact.&nbsp;If you have a little cash flow blip in your business, the best thing you can possibly do is to find something to sell and send a few emails about it over the course of a few days. That will fix your cash flow problem - it's as simple as that!</p><p><br></p><p>Literally, nothing else will work as well. You can't just host a webinar, for example. Because how will you get people to sign up for it in the first place? With email, of course. You could try social media, but the reach isn’t very high, so you wouldn't get the same results.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Learn from different approaches (from our amazing speakers)</strong></h3><p>The great thing about conferences is that you get to learn new things. And at Inbox, you don't just get <em>our</em> ideas. Sure, we'll be giving a presentation or two. But over the two days, you’re going to learn from all kinds of different approaches – both from us and from our amazing speakers.</p><p><br></p><p>A lot of the time, the reason people get stuck with their email marketing (or anything) is that they don’t know what they should be doing. They don’t know what questions to ask or what they should be studying. If you buy a course, for example, you’ll learn whatever that teaches you and nothing else.</p><p><br></p><p>But at this event, we have a whole bunch of speakers talking about different topics, so you can learn way more than just one approach or one specific thing. We're confident that you'll leave this conference with whatever you were hoping to learn, but also with a lot more – with new ideas you didn't even know you wanted or approaches you wouldn't have thought about. We know for a fact that you’ll leave feeling more inspired than when we walked in.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The 5 areas covered in Inbox 2022</strong></h3><p>We split our email marketing event into 5 areas and asked our speakers to fit their talks into one of these categories:</p><p><br></p><ul><li><strong>List building.</strong> How do you get more people onto your email list?</li><li><strong>Specific email campaigns.</strong> We’ll talk about specific email campaigns, including one that allows you to leverage the objections your audience has and turn them into reasons to buy and sales.&nbsp;</li><li><strong>Conversion.</strong> There are different types of conversion, so this is all about what you can do to help your subscribers to convert.</li><li><strong>Copywriting and content.</strong> What goes into your emails?</li><li><strong>Technical stuff.</strong> This is all the tech around email marketing - the stuff that allows you to do the things you want to do.&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><p><br></p><h3><strong>Inbox 2022 is FREE and the reviews are incredible!</strong></h3><p>We've said this before, but you get to learn all of this for absolutely nothing! Because Inbox 2022 is free to attend.&nbsp;And we have rave reviews! We remember reading the chat (where attendees can interact live with other participants all day long) and seeing people have lots of fun. But also saying they were blown away by this event and thought it was genuinely excellent.</p><p><br></p><p>We host the whole two days <em>live</em> because we don’t want it to be a bunch of pre-recorded videos that you can download and watch anytime you want. We want it to be a live experience, which is why we host it all and aim to make it a lot of fun - we even have some surprises along the way.</p><p><br></p><p>We’re super excited to be doing this for free because <strong>we want to help more business owners realise the true potential of email marketing</strong>. If you’re <em>not</em> doing email at the moment because you’re focusing on other things, remember that <strong>email is the one thing that will allow you to put more gasoline on the fire</strong>. It’ll help you make whatever you’re already doing bigger and better - simply more impressive!</p><p><br></p><p>We want this event to have a real impact on businesses, which is why we made it free. So you can focus on absorbing the content, joining in and participating, making new friends, and asking questions to our speakers. Whether you’re looking for new ideas to add to what you’re already doing or for inspiration to get started because you’ve been putting email marketing off or left it on the back burner for a bit, this event will help you.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Inbox 2022 is online and live - on Zoom&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Inbox 2022 is fully online, which means you don't need to spend thousands on travel, hotels, or food. You don’t even have to take additional time out to get there and back like you'd normally do at either end of an in-person event. We're streaming this event on Zoom, which is something most of us are familiar with, so there are no technological barriers. The speakers will join us live and you can connect from wherever you are – and you don’t even have to have the camera on. We don't mind!</p><p><br></p><p>So for <em>no additional cost</em> (in time or money), <strong>you can completely transform your business (not just your email marketing) and increase the amount of money you get to take out from the thing you love doing</strong>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Of course, there's an option for you to buy the recordings if you want to support the event. This gives you access to the sessions so you can review them at your own pace and convenience. We find this is a great idea because nobody ever studies an entire 60-minute presentation and leaves remembering all of the amazing <em>a-ha!</em> moments they had. Sometimes you read back through your notes and realise you can't read your handwriting or maybe you don’t even take notes! And that's why we give you access to the recordings of all 12 presentations for your to review as many times as you want to.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Who attends our email marketing conference - Inbox?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>One thing we absolutely love about Inbox (remember it's <em>the</em> email marketing conference of 2022) is that we get to chat with the attendees throughout the sessions. And we get to meet people from all over the world – from Australia to across Asia, all around Europe, the US, and Canada. And it’s people who do such diverse things with their email marketing, too!</p><p><br></p><p>We have people who sell online courses and have packaged their knowledge into a programme. Some who offer coaching and help clients in all areas of their lives – from their businesses, to their personal lives and relationships. We have people who sell memberships and have recurring revenue models. Others sell services or products – from candles and cakes to handmade bespoke jewellery.</p><p><br></p><p>We have participants selling directly to consumers (B2C) or to other businesses (B2B). And everyone is applying the same techniques because you have access to all these different angles, with lots of fresh ideas to take away from the event. And if you think no one's ever done what you do in your space, that’s even more exciting! Because you have the amazing opportunity to be the leader in your space.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Here's the link to register for Inbox 2022</strong></h3><p>So if this all sounds awesome to you, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/inbox?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=inbox-2022" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">go grab your free ticket here</a>. The event is just around the corner now, and all you have to do in order to be there is to register before it happens. So go do it right now because it's <em>the</em> email marketing conference of 2022, and you don't want to miss it! And of course, to make it easier for you, we’ll also send you email reminders closer to the time.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject line is “ick” with the vomit emoji. This came about when Rob was talking to a friend who was sharing the stuff in her life and business that gives her the <em>ick</em>. This was an expression Rob had never heard before, but the minute he heard it, he was suddenly noticing it everywhere. He just hadn’t realised it’d become a trendy expression people were using.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And one of the things you want to try and do in your marketing is to tap in and use the currently trending expressions. So for example, a while ago that was TLDR (for “too long, didn't read”) or PSA (for “public service announcement”). There are words and expressions that sometimes start trending online. And typically they’ll be popular for months - until they're not anymore. And if you then keep using them beyond that point, you'll sound like somebody's dad trying to be cool. So <strong>find that sweet spot where an expression, phrase, or word is trendy and cool and use it in your marketing</strong>. It really works. Just keep your ears to the ground and notice what people are saying - it's that simple!</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/emails-content-consumption-monica-snyder/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why You Might Want to Think Twice About Consumption Emails</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-build-your-list-by-speaking-at-events-online-and-offline/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Build Your List by Speaking At Events Online and Offline</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/digital-marketing-trends-for-2022/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why Email Marketing is at the Top of the Digital Marketing Trends for 2022</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about why you should attend Inbox - the best email marketing conference of 2022) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/why-attend-email-marketing-conference-2022-inbox/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">a7ea4896-27aa-4927-86c8-3f893c50c740</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/95641b8c-042a-4f33-bb5c-86826eb804af/0wpkdGlgV9T9PzZ6ED_N-kiy.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2022 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/2e08b7b3-6e12-4fb2-abba-e850684235b5/final-202-converted.mp3" length="18506951" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>19:17</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>138</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>138</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Why You Might Want to Think Twice About Consumption Emails</title><itunes:title>Why You Might Want to Think Twice About Consumption Emails</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>How do you encourage your audience to consume your content? Whether it's a free download or a paid course or a membership, how do you use your emails to inspire your subscribers or customers to use the amazing content they now have access to? Today we're covering content consumption by sharing an exclusive panel discussion with our friend Monica Snyder taken from our 2021 Inbox conference.&nbsp;</p><p>Monica is the CEO and Founder of Birdsong.co, and she's a true marketing genius! She’s great at funnels and ads, and she’s super analytical. In our conversation, we talk about <em>consumption emails</em> - the emails you send when someone opts in for your free lead magnet or buys something from you. Should you send these emails at all? Do they help? Or do they just get in the way?</p><p>Let's find out!&nbsp;</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(0:21) Come and join us at Inbox 2022 - for FREE!</p><p>(5:50) Should you send consumption emails?</p><p>(9:15) YES to sending consumption emails AND to offering upsells.</p><p>(10:40) Consuming your content encourages people to buy more from you.</p><p>(13:04) Do consumption emails work for both free and paid-for products?</p><p>(19:21) Are consumption emails nagging? </p><p>(22:32) How to upsell in your consumption emails.</p><p>(23:56) Make use of custom fields!</p><p>(27:45) Do free trials work?</p><p>(33:35) Subject line of the week.</p><h3>Come and join us at<em> Inbox 2022</em> - for FREE!</h3><p>Before we get into this conversation with Monica Snyder, we want to let you know that our Inbox conference is happening at the end of June 2022. And we’d like to invite you to join us for FREE! </p><p>Previously, tickets to this conference were $500, but this year we’re going to grow the event massively and make it into the biggest online email marketing party you can imagine. It's packed with amazing speakers, and it's fully online, and fully live. So check out the line-up and <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/inbox/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">register here for FREE</a>!</p><h3>Should you send consumption emails?</h3><p>There’s definitely a view that if someone takes the time to consume our content, uses it, and gets results, they’re more likely to buy something else in the future. However, in our business, when someone opts in or buys something, we put them into a campaign to sell them on the next thing as soon as the next day.&nbsp;</p><p>For Rob, for example, when people download a free lead magnet from you, follow-up emails are more about trying to get them to click a link, rather than looking at the free content. Why? Because we think it's important to get them to subconsciously engage with us as a brand, rather than blindly consuming the content. </p><p>It's probably a controversial viewpoint, but Rob thinks we cannot always trust our subscribers or customers to implement our solutions. The onus to consume the content and get results is on them, and it's a fact that most people never consume the content they download or pay for. So if you’re waiting for the point where the person has consumed your content, you may be waiting forever!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3>YES to sending consumption emails AND to offering upsells</h3><p>Monica, however, thinks we should definitely encourage people to consume our products. Part of our job as course creators, teachers, and information givers is to make sure we’re providing the information to ensure people do what they need to do with what we’ve given them. So for Monica, consumption emails are a big YES! But she also believes we should let people know about the next thing to buy. This is why Monica’s consumption emails lead straight into a sale.</p><p><br></p><p>For us, part of the problem is that in the past we found ourselves bashing our heads against a brick wall trying to get people to consume our content. That's how we reached the cynical viewpoint that you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. We're the kind of people who will unsubscribe from someone’s list after buying something if we feel we're being heavily forced to consume it. And that's because we don't like to consume content on someone else's timeframe.</p><p><br></p><h3>Consuming your content encourages people to buy more from you</h3><p>Having said that, there are definitely places where consumption is important. First of all, sending consumption emails is less aggressive than the older way of pushing people to buy something else straight away. Also, if you help people consume your content (which they were excited enough about to opt-in for free or buy) they will get to experience how good your stuff is. They’ll be more like to buy more in the future.</p><p><br></p><p>So the way we teach our clients to encourage content consumption is by sending emails that remind people of how good the content is - regardless of whether they'll go and look at it or not. Because the number of people who opt-in for free content and never access it is astronomically high! So what we'll do in our emails is point out there's value inside whatever our subscribers or customers have downloaded or bought. And we tell them <em>exactly</em> where they can find it. So when they get an offer from us, they're also aware that they're already sitting on some good value.</p><p><br></p><h3>Do consumption emails work for both free and paid-for products?&nbsp;</h3><p>Monica consistently runs traffic to both her free and paid offers, so her focus with consumption emails is both on lead generation and paid customer acquisition.</p><p><br></p><p>However, with free downloads, she encourages her subscribers to reply to her and explain what their biggest pain point is. That's so she can see if she can help them and also use that language in her marketing. She has a follow-up email that she sends after she's delivered the content to check whether people received her product. She also asks for their thoughts - assuming they looked at it. And it's that assumption that normally prompts some people to go look at the content and then reply.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>For her paid-for course (low-ticket offer), Monica sends a 5-day email consumption sequence before she starts pitching people the next product for 7 days. With this sequence, she tries to manage people's expectations rather than dropping the product and moving on to the next thing. She believes it's important to make sure people have good expectations around how long things are going to take or where there might be roadblocks. It’s more about managing her customers' mental states. So she will, for example, point out where people can find specific knowledge points. It's what we normally describe as 'training your audience'.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3>Consumption emails for your membership</h3><p>While we probably have a bit of a cynical viewpoint when it comes to content consumption around one-time offers, we find they work for our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. We typically use consumption emails to push people into our members’ area so they can view what's available and click on some of the resources. And because we can track the clicks, we see a lot of sales coming from that activity.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3>Are consumption emails nagging?&nbsp;</h3><p>Monica doesn’t think consumption emails are nagging as long as they’re well-written. But if emails are boring or bland, then people will unsubscribe - a clear sign your audience doesn't like them!</p><p><br></p><p>We think it’s important to think about the psychological stack in people's heads here. By the time someone goes back to their inbox after downloading or buying something from you, a lot has happened. So within the first email, you need to be reselling them on the benefit of why they wanted your product in the first place.</p><p><br></p><p>After that, if you keep asking your subscribers if they've consumed your things, you probably do come across as nagging! But if the emails are valuable (if you’re soft teaching some of the points in your course, for example), then they can’t be considered annoying.</p><p><br></p><p>So use your emails to share some teachings but also remind your audience of the reasons why they want to learn your solution, which is why they downloaded your content or bought it in the first place. When your audience realises they're sitting on good, valuable content, their goodwill goes up - they feel like they've made a good decision. The key, we believe, is that your consumption emails resell people what they already bought.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3>How to upsell in your consumption emails</h3><p>Monica also added that you should use your consumption emails to let people know about any products you have that could further help them. If they want to solve their problem faster or better or go deeper into the solution, then you have other products, and you can pitch them to your audience.&nbsp;So if all they have right now is a free download, then you pitch the paid offer to them. And you present that as the next or advanced level.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>As we always say, email should never be used as a notification. You should always weave your consumption emails in with the style of your everyday emails. So our emails typically have a story or lesson of some description and then an offer and a call to action. And it’s easy enough to make the call to action an invitation to go and consume the content they downloaded or bought.</p><p><br></p><h3>Make use of custom fields! </h3><p>Recently we had someone get in touch to say they received 4 emails from us on the same day. Initially, we thought that wasn’t possible. But then we investigated and realised they had. And we’d advise you to also look into this for your own list - it's really easy to make that mistake!</p><p><br></p><p>And it was happening to Monica too... until she found the...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How do you encourage your audience to consume your content? Whether it's a free download or a paid course or a membership, how do you use your emails to inspire your subscribers or customers to use the amazing content they now have access to? Today we're covering content consumption by sharing an exclusive panel discussion with our friend Monica Snyder taken from our 2021 Inbox conference.&nbsp;</p><p>Monica is the CEO and Founder of Birdsong.co, and she's a true marketing genius! She’s great at funnels and ads, and she’s super analytical. In our conversation, we talk about <em>consumption emails</em> - the emails you send when someone opts in for your free lead magnet or buys something from you. Should you send these emails at all? Do they help? Or do they just get in the way?</p><p>Let's find out!&nbsp;</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(0:21) Come and join us at Inbox 2022 - for FREE!</p><p>(5:50) Should you send consumption emails?</p><p>(9:15) YES to sending consumption emails AND to offering upsells.</p><p>(10:40) Consuming your content encourages people to buy more from you.</p><p>(13:04) Do consumption emails work for both free and paid-for products?</p><p>(19:21) Are consumption emails nagging? </p><p>(22:32) How to upsell in your consumption emails.</p><p>(23:56) Make use of custom fields!</p><p>(27:45) Do free trials work?</p><p>(33:35) Subject line of the week.</p><h3>Come and join us at<em> Inbox 2022</em> - for FREE!</h3><p>Before we get into this conversation with Monica Snyder, we want to let you know that our Inbox conference is happening at the end of June 2022. And we’d like to invite you to join us for FREE! </p><p>Previously, tickets to this conference were $500, but this year we’re going to grow the event massively and make it into the biggest online email marketing party you can imagine. It's packed with amazing speakers, and it's fully online, and fully live. So check out the line-up and <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/inbox/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">register here for FREE</a>!</p><h3>Should you send consumption emails?</h3><p>There’s definitely a view that if someone takes the time to consume our content, uses it, and gets results, they’re more likely to buy something else in the future. However, in our business, when someone opts in or buys something, we put them into a campaign to sell them on the next thing as soon as the next day.&nbsp;</p><p>For Rob, for example, when people download a free lead magnet from you, follow-up emails are more about trying to get them to click a link, rather than looking at the free content. Why? Because we think it's important to get them to subconsciously engage with us as a brand, rather than blindly consuming the content. </p><p>It's probably a controversial viewpoint, but Rob thinks we cannot always trust our subscribers or customers to implement our solutions. The onus to consume the content and get results is on them, and it's a fact that most people never consume the content they download or pay for. So if you’re waiting for the point where the person has consumed your content, you may be waiting forever!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3>YES to sending consumption emails AND to offering upsells</h3><p>Monica, however, thinks we should definitely encourage people to consume our products. Part of our job as course creators, teachers, and information givers is to make sure we’re providing the information to ensure people do what they need to do with what we’ve given them. So for Monica, consumption emails are a big YES! But she also believes we should let people know about the next thing to buy. This is why Monica’s consumption emails lead straight into a sale.</p><p><br></p><p>For us, part of the problem is that in the past we found ourselves bashing our heads against a brick wall trying to get people to consume our content. That's how we reached the cynical viewpoint that you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. We're the kind of people who will unsubscribe from someone’s list after buying something if we feel we're being heavily forced to consume it. And that's because we don't like to consume content on someone else's timeframe.</p><p><br></p><h3>Consuming your content encourages people to buy more from you</h3><p>Having said that, there are definitely places where consumption is important. First of all, sending consumption emails is less aggressive than the older way of pushing people to buy something else straight away. Also, if you help people consume your content (which they were excited enough about to opt-in for free or buy) they will get to experience how good your stuff is. They’ll be more like to buy more in the future.</p><p><br></p><p>So the way we teach our clients to encourage content consumption is by sending emails that remind people of how good the content is - regardless of whether they'll go and look at it or not. Because the number of people who opt-in for free content and never access it is astronomically high! So what we'll do in our emails is point out there's value inside whatever our subscribers or customers have downloaded or bought. And we tell them <em>exactly</em> where they can find it. So when they get an offer from us, they're also aware that they're already sitting on some good value.</p><p><br></p><h3>Do consumption emails work for both free and paid-for products?&nbsp;</h3><p>Monica consistently runs traffic to both her free and paid offers, so her focus with consumption emails is both on lead generation and paid customer acquisition.</p><p><br></p><p>However, with free downloads, she encourages her subscribers to reply to her and explain what their biggest pain point is. That's so she can see if she can help them and also use that language in her marketing. She has a follow-up email that she sends after she's delivered the content to check whether people received her product. She also asks for their thoughts - assuming they looked at it. And it's that assumption that normally prompts some people to go look at the content and then reply.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>For her paid-for course (low-ticket offer), Monica sends a 5-day email consumption sequence before she starts pitching people the next product for 7 days. With this sequence, she tries to manage people's expectations rather than dropping the product and moving on to the next thing. She believes it's important to make sure people have good expectations around how long things are going to take or where there might be roadblocks. It’s more about managing her customers' mental states. So she will, for example, point out where people can find specific knowledge points. It's what we normally describe as 'training your audience'.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3>Consumption emails for your membership</h3><p>While we probably have a bit of a cynical viewpoint when it comes to content consumption around one-time offers, we find they work for our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. We typically use consumption emails to push people into our members’ area so they can view what's available and click on some of the resources. And because we can track the clicks, we see a lot of sales coming from that activity.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3>Are consumption emails nagging?&nbsp;</h3><p>Monica doesn’t think consumption emails are nagging as long as they’re well-written. But if emails are boring or bland, then people will unsubscribe - a clear sign your audience doesn't like them!</p><p><br></p><p>We think it’s important to think about the psychological stack in people's heads here. By the time someone goes back to their inbox after downloading or buying something from you, a lot has happened. So within the first email, you need to be reselling them on the benefit of why they wanted your product in the first place.</p><p><br></p><p>After that, if you keep asking your subscribers if they've consumed your things, you probably do come across as nagging! But if the emails are valuable (if you’re soft teaching some of the points in your course, for example), then they can’t be considered annoying.</p><p><br></p><p>So use your emails to share some teachings but also remind your audience of the reasons why they want to learn your solution, which is why they downloaded your content or bought it in the first place. When your audience realises they're sitting on good, valuable content, their goodwill goes up - they feel like they've made a good decision. The key, we believe, is that your consumption emails resell people what they already bought.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3>How to upsell in your consumption emails</h3><p>Monica also added that you should use your consumption emails to let people know about any products you have that could further help them. If they want to solve their problem faster or better or go deeper into the solution, then you have other products, and you can pitch them to your audience.&nbsp;So if all they have right now is a free download, then you pitch the paid offer to them. And you present that as the next or advanced level.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>As we always say, email should never be used as a notification. You should always weave your consumption emails in with the style of your everyday emails. So our emails typically have a story or lesson of some description and then an offer and a call to action. And it’s easy enough to make the call to action an invitation to go and consume the content they downloaded or bought.</p><p><br></p><h3>Make use of custom fields! </h3><p>Recently we had someone get in touch to say they received 4 emails from us on the same day. Initially, we thought that wasn’t possible. But then we investigated and realised they had. And we’d advise you to also look into this for your own list - it's really easy to make that mistake!</p><p><br></p><p>And it was happening to Monica too... until she found the perfect technical solution to this - custom fields! Monica uses the custom fields in her autoresponder software to ensure she doesn't send too many emails to the same person in close succession. She does this by adding a date and time stamp for the last time people received a certain email. That way, she won't be sending another email to the same person for a&nbsp; certain timeframe.</p><p><br></p><p>Monica also uses custom fields to calculate lifetime value. So anytime someone buys from her, their purchase goes into the lifetime value custom field. And she uses this information to make decisions in other email sequences.</p><p><br></p><h3>Do free trials work?&nbsp;</h3><p>We found that when people pay money towards a product (rather than simply parting with their email address), content consumption is usually higher. But that’s no guarantee. Between us and Monica, we have plenty of examples of people who invested thousands in a product and didn’t consume it at all!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And this brings up an interesting point around free trials, which are a great conversion strategy <em>as long as you make the offer work</em>. When doing free trials, content consumption is everything. So you absolutely need a conversion sequence because if people aren’t getting into your free trial, then they won’t be upgrading to the paid-for offer either.</p><p><br></p><p>Free trials work, but you have to make them work in your style - they need to feel comfortable for you as a sender. Test things out and see what works for you, as it’s always going to depend on circumstances as well. The key is to do what works for you and your audience. Just remember though, as Monica says, that you use emails to sell and build relationships. And consumption emails fit perfectly with these objectives.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3>Subject line of the week</h3><p>This week’s subject line is “Woof, woof?” It was an email about dogs and barking. Rob isn’t even sure why that worked! But... it's not a sentence and there’s no context, so that's probably why it worked a treat for us. Because people wanted to know what the email was all about, and it triggered that curiosity.</p><p><br></p><h3>Useful Episode Resources</h3><h5>Related episodes</h5><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/onboarding-emails-examples/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Onboarding Emails Examples for your Online Course</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/testimonials-how-to-write-collect-automatically/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Testimonials – how to write and collect them automatically to bring in more sales with Monica Snyder</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-paying-members/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">What Emails Should You Send Your Paying Members? with Mike and Callie from Membership Geeks</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h5>Join The League Membership</h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h3>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about encouraging content consumption with your emails) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/emails-content-consumption-monica-snyder/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">cc42ba02-dc54-4c4f-8d9c-f7c8126bd15c</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/83a4aec1-b082-413b-9109-287caa5adabd/M_BKAuc3paWCBlE9i2__YdVQ.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2022 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/bada43e1-d1ae-4bf4-8fe5-402781227f8a/final-205-converted.mp3" length="29037526" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>34:34</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>137</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>137</podcast:episode></item><item><title>The 3 Subconscious Reasons For Not Buying - What Stops People?</title><itunes:title>The 3 Subconscious Reasons For Not Buying - What Stops People?</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Do people have reasons for <em>not</em> buying from you? Yes, they do.</p><p>We're Kennedy and<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Carrie</a>, and today we're sharing the three subconscious questions people have that <em>stop them</em> from buying from you. It's super important you answer these exact questions in your marketing and sales copy because people <em>can't and won't</em> buy unless you do!</p><p>Ready to find out what these questions are and make more sales in your business?</p><p>Let's go.</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:30) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(2:44) Check out our sponsor -<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/cleanup" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Zerobounce</a>!&nbsp;</p><p>(3:34) Question one - will it work for me?&nbsp;</p><p>(7:47) Question two - how long until I see results?&nbsp;</p><p>(11:17) Question three - how much work will I need to do (and how much will it cost?)&nbsp;</p><p>(18:18) Find ways to give people immediate gratification.&nbsp;</p><p>(22:15) Join<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(23:34) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/buyer-psychology-email/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Sell More By Tapping Into The Power Of Buyer Psychology In Your Email Marketing</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/new-years-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">What To Send In Your New Year’s Emails To Get Your Clients Excited About Your Business (And Buy From You)</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/prevent-buyer-remorse/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Prevent Buyer Remorse And Turn Customers Into Raving Fans!</a></p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3>Want to connect with Carrie?</h3><p>You can find Carrie on<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> her website</a> or at<a href="https://www.fullyleveragedbusiness.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Fully Leveraged Business</a>.&nbsp;</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the 3 reasons for not buying that people have and that you need to address in your marketing) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do people have reasons for <em>not</em> buying from you? Yes, they do.</p><p>We're Kennedy and<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Carrie</a>, and today we're sharing the three subconscious questions people have that <em>stop them</em> from buying from you. It's super important you answer these exact questions in your marketing and sales copy because people <em>can't and won't</em> buy unless you do!</p><p>Ready to find out what these questions are and make more sales in your business?</p><p>Let's go.</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:30) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(2:44) Check out our sponsor -<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/cleanup" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Zerobounce</a>!&nbsp;</p><p>(3:34) Question one - will it work for me?&nbsp;</p><p>(7:47) Question two - how long until I see results?&nbsp;</p><p>(11:17) Question three - how much work will I need to do (and how much will it cost?)&nbsp;</p><p>(18:18) Find ways to give people immediate gratification.&nbsp;</p><p>(22:15) Join<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(23:34) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/buyer-psychology-email/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Sell More By Tapping Into The Power Of Buyer Psychology In Your Email Marketing</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/new-years-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">What To Send In Your New Year’s Emails To Get Your Clients Excited About Your Business (And Buy From You)</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/prevent-buyer-remorse/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Prevent Buyer Remorse And Turn Customers Into Raving Fans!</a></p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3>Want to connect with Carrie?</h3><p>You can find Carrie on<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> her website</a> or at<a href="https://www.fullyleveragedbusiness.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Fully Leveraged Business</a>.&nbsp;</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the 3 reasons for not buying that people have and that you need to address in your marketing) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/3-subconscious-reasons-for-not-buying/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">1aaf4e00-7455-4e7e-b586-fa133093cc4d</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/dda88b5f-2d9c-4a23-884c-5d6505ade5d5/NLJv6JCtZAO8FoGQFa1AbbT1.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2022 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/28cd86a3-3f8b-4d38-b9fb-25686c8b8b65/136-converted.mp3" length="28437959" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>29:37</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>136</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>136</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/ca70c283-8490-41f7-b3bd-a4425b12776f/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How to Do Deadlines Well and Ethically</title><itunes:title>How to Do Deadlines Well and Ethically</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>So you want to use deadlines in your marketing. You want to close your offers on a particular date and time and, more than anything, make sure <em>they work</em>. In other words, you want to use deadlines effectively. But you also want to do it genuinely and honestly. This is no doubt one of those marketing ethical dilemmas we've all had at some point - and it's a valid one! So how can you do deadlines well but also <em>ethically</em> in your business?&nbsp;</p><p>Let's find out, shall we?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:09) Want to get more sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(5:02) Fancy a 14-day FREE trial with Keap? (We give you TWO of our campaigns for FREE with it!)</p><p>(6:48) How do deadlines even work?</p><p>(9:46) The power of urgency and scarcity.</p><p>(11:37) Why you should never extend an offer.</p><p>(14:32) Why you should be able to have a logical reason for your deadlines.</p><p>(16:22) Make sure the technology is watertight.</p><p>(18:26) Can you use deadlines ethically for evergreen products?</p><p>(21:22) How to implement ethical deadlines for your evergreen products (video link included!)</p><p>(22:47) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;free – we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p>That's why we're giving you&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>How do deadlines even work?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>First of all, let's take a look at why deadlines work in the broader sense. We find people often miss the point when it comes to running any kind of countdown special offer with a deadline at the end of it. And as a result, they don't get the results and sales they were expecting before their launch. Why?</p><p><br></p><p>Because the psychological, fundamental reason why deadlines work is that they appeal to the fact that <strong>we give people a reason to act <em>right now</em></strong> – to bring forward this decision they might have made in the future and make it <em>now</em>. This decision becomes the top of their list of priorities. Because if they don't act now, they risk missing out. And people hate that. </p><p><br></p><p>Let's think about the buying process for a second.&nbsp;<strong>Buying something<em> (anything at all)</em> requires you to decide that you <em>want</em> to buy it and <em>then</em> <em>convince yourself </em>that you want to buy it.</strong> Only then you go through the process of buying it. But unless you have a reason to buy <em>right now</em>, you might not grab that offer immediately.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The power of urgency and scarcity</strong></h3><p>There are only two reasons why you might grab it right now - urgency and scarcity. If you want to go to a concert and know it’s going to sell out, you’ll act straight away because you'll want to grab tickets before you miss out, right?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>But in order to sell a product based on urgency or scarcity, people have to <em>believe you</em>. Because if they don’t, the whole thing isn't going to work. </p><p><br></p><p>If you have a marketer who keeps telling you every day they're extending their offer for another 24 hours, you're not going to buy. You have no reason. Because you know they'll keep extending that offer. And so the deadline has the opposite effect of what it's there to do - it's causing you to put that decision further away!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why you should never extend an offer</strong></h3><p>Let's not forget we're talking about ethical marketing here. If you keep saying that the offer is closing but you constantly extend it, it’s unfair to the people who may have spent money to prioritise this purchase right now. In their head, maybe they’d assigned this money to something else, but they bought your offer now in order to get the deal that was on the table.&nbsp;And this is important. Because people have an emotional attachment to cash and how they spend it. </p><p><br></p><p>If you check out the episode&nbsp;<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/limited-time-offers-say-no/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Say ‘No’ to Extending An Expired Offer</a>, we talked about why you should never extend an offer. Even if someone gets in touch to ask you to extend the deadline or honour the offer once it's expired, you should politely but firmly say no. Why?</p><p><br></p><p>First of all, because if you keep extending the deadline, people won’t believe you. And that defeats the purpose of it, which is to help you make sales. So <strong>if you're using a deadline, don't move it.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>And the second reason why you shouldn't extend an offer is that you always need to be crystal clear on when the deadline is. Your audience needs to be aware at all times when the offer expires. If they’re not, then you haven’t created the deadline at all! Because you haven’t engaged that rush and urgency for people to go and grab it before it goes away. </p><p><br></p><p>So make sure you have a deadline on your sales page and maybe even use a countdown timer. Plus, send emails that lead up to that deadline – tell your audience that the offer is closing today, then again that it's closing this afternoon, and then again in an hour.<strong> Always be super clear about communicating your deadline.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why you should have a logical reason for your deadlines</strong></h3><p>Also, make sure you have a good, logical reason for all your deadlines. There’s no point in picking an arbitrary date and time for when the offer closes. It can’t be a date and time that just popped into your head! The reason could be that it's Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Or maybe there's a live class element attached to it. You have to be able to say “this offer is closing here <em>because</em>…”</p><p><br></p><p>There’s a lot of science around the fact that whatever follows your <em>because</em> can be almost anything. But <strong>for the purpose of good, ethical digital marketing, you want your reason to make sense - to be logical</strong>. Because that helps your audience instantly drop their guard and understand why that deadline is there and how it benefits <em>them</em>.</p><p><br></p><p>In his book <em>Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion</em>, Professor Robert Cialdini talks exactly about this - about the importance of the work <em>because</em> and how powerful it is. Your reason could be anything, but it needs to make sense and support your deadline.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Make sure your technology is watertight</strong></h4><p>Another point to consider when using deadlines in your marketing is that people are smart, and if they can find a way around your deadline, they probably will!</p><p><br></p><p>If someone doesn't trust the ethics of the person selling, they might wait before they buy because they think a better discount will come down the line. Or maybe they believe they can get a better deal if they get in touch with you directly. But also, does the big countdown timer on your website change when you refresh the page? Always make sure that if you use countdown software to support your offer, it's watertight and can’t be somehow circumnavigated.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Can you use deadlines ethically for evergreen products?</strong></h3><p>So now we know how to do deadlines ethically for offers that expire. But what if your product is evergreen and the doors never close? The great news is that you can do <em>evergreen deadlines</em> because every subscriber will go through them in their own time. How?</p><p><br></p><p>It's simple, really! You could have someone joining your list today and then in X amount of days they go through a flash sale or a special offer. How long that sale or promotion lasts determines those subscribers' unique deadline. They can't work around that date because it's triggered by the day they join your list.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So the way we create urgency with evergreen products like our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, is by having individual people on our list go through our automated campaigns (like our Golden Cloak campaign, for example, and many others). The key is that you <strong>include countdowns where people see the clock ticking</strong>. It creates a type of tension we all resonate with and shows people visually that the offer is closing. So make sure you have these timers on your web pages but also in the emails you send out.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to implement ethical deadlines for your evergreen products (video link included!)</strong></h3><p>You can use countdown timers for all sorts of things. But you'll always get a better result when using an <em>ethical countdown or deadline</em>, like a limited-time discount, bonus, sale, or automated webinar.</p><p><br></p><p>If you’re wondering how you do this, we’ve put together a <strong>FREE video </strong>where we walk you through <strong>how to use deadlines ethically</strong>, particularly <strong>when setting up automated evergreen countdown timers</strong> where every subscriber gets their own path. Go and check it out -<strong> you can find it </strong><a href="emailmarketingheroes.com/countdown/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>here</strong></a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So you want to use deadlines in your marketing. You want to close your offers on a particular date and time and, more than anything, make sure <em>they work</em>. In other words, you want to use deadlines effectively. But you also want to do it genuinely and honestly. This is no doubt one of those marketing ethical dilemmas we've all had at some point - and it's a valid one! So how can you do deadlines well but also <em>ethically</em> in your business?&nbsp;</p><p>Let's find out, shall we?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:09) Want to get more sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(5:02) Fancy a 14-day FREE trial with Keap? (We give you TWO of our campaigns for FREE with it!)</p><p>(6:48) How do deadlines even work?</p><p>(9:46) The power of urgency and scarcity.</p><p>(11:37) Why you should never extend an offer.</p><p>(14:32) Why you should be able to have a logical reason for your deadlines.</p><p>(16:22) Make sure the technology is watertight.</p><p>(18:26) Can you use deadlines ethically for evergreen products?</p><p>(21:22) How to implement ethical deadlines for your evergreen products (video link included!)</p><p>(22:47) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;free – we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p>That's why we're giving you&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>How do deadlines even work?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>First of all, let's take a look at why deadlines work in the broader sense. We find people often miss the point when it comes to running any kind of countdown special offer with a deadline at the end of it. And as a result, they don't get the results and sales they were expecting before their launch. Why?</p><p><br></p><p>Because the psychological, fundamental reason why deadlines work is that they appeal to the fact that <strong>we give people a reason to act <em>right now</em></strong> – to bring forward this decision they might have made in the future and make it <em>now</em>. This decision becomes the top of their list of priorities. Because if they don't act now, they risk missing out. And people hate that. </p><p><br></p><p>Let's think about the buying process for a second.&nbsp;<strong>Buying something<em> (anything at all)</em> requires you to decide that you <em>want</em> to buy it and <em>then</em> <em>convince yourself </em>that you want to buy it.</strong> Only then you go through the process of buying it. But unless you have a reason to buy <em>right now</em>, you might not grab that offer immediately.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The power of urgency and scarcity</strong></h3><p>There are only two reasons why you might grab it right now - urgency and scarcity. If you want to go to a concert and know it’s going to sell out, you’ll act straight away because you'll want to grab tickets before you miss out, right?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>But in order to sell a product based on urgency or scarcity, people have to <em>believe you</em>. Because if they don’t, the whole thing isn't going to work. </p><p><br></p><p>If you have a marketer who keeps telling you every day they're extending their offer for another 24 hours, you're not going to buy. You have no reason. Because you know they'll keep extending that offer. And so the deadline has the opposite effect of what it's there to do - it's causing you to put that decision further away!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why you should never extend an offer</strong></h3><p>Let's not forget we're talking about ethical marketing here. If you keep saying that the offer is closing but you constantly extend it, it’s unfair to the people who may have spent money to prioritise this purchase right now. In their head, maybe they’d assigned this money to something else, but they bought your offer now in order to get the deal that was on the table.&nbsp;And this is important. Because people have an emotional attachment to cash and how they spend it. </p><p><br></p><p>If you check out the episode&nbsp;<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/limited-time-offers-say-no/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Say ‘No’ to Extending An Expired Offer</a>, we talked about why you should never extend an offer. Even if someone gets in touch to ask you to extend the deadline or honour the offer once it's expired, you should politely but firmly say no. Why?</p><p><br></p><p>First of all, because if you keep extending the deadline, people won’t believe you. And that defeats the purpose of it, which is to help you make sales. So <strong>if you're using a deadline, don't move it.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>And the second reason why you shouldn't extend an offer is that you always need to be crystal clear on when the deadline is. Your audience needs to be aware at all times when the offer expires. If they’re not, then you haven’t created the deadline at all! Because you haven’t engaged that rush and urgency for people to go and grab it before it goes away. </p><p><br></p><p>So make sure you have a deadline on your sales page and maybe even use a countdown timer. Plus, send emails that lead up to that deadline – tell your audience that the offer is closing today, then again that it's closing this afternoon, and then again in an hour.<strong> Always be super clear about communicating your deadline.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why you should have a logical reason for your deadlines</strong></h3><p>Also, make sure you have a good, logical reason for all your deadlines. There’s no point in picking an arbitrary date and time for when the offer closes. It can’t be a date and time that just popped into your head! The reason could be that it's Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Or maybe there's a live class element attached to it. You have to be able to say “this offer is closing here <em>because</em>…”</p><p><br></p><p>There’s a lot of science around the fact that whatever follows your <em>because</em> can be almost anything. But <strong>for the purpose of good, ethical digital marketing, you want your reason to make sense - to be logical</strong>. Because that helps your audience instantly drop their guard and understand why that deadline is there and how it benefits <em>them</em>.</p><p><br></p><p>In his book <em>Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion</em>, Professor Robert Cialdini talks exactly about this - about the importance of the work <em>because</em> and how powerful it is. Your reason could be anything, but it needs to make sense and support your deadline.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Make sure your technology is watertight</strong></h4><p>Another point to consider when using deadlines in your marketing is that people are smart, and if they can find a way around your deadline, they probably will!</p><p><br></p><p>If someone doesn't trust the ethics of the person selling, they might wait before they buy because they think a better discount will come down the line. Or maybe they believe they can get a better deal if they get in touch with you directly. But also, does the big countdown timer on your website change when you refresh the page? Always make sure that if you use countdown software to support your offer, it's watertight and can’t be somehow circumnavigated.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Can you use deadlines ethically for evergreen products?</strong></h3><p>So now we know how to do deadlines ethically for offers that expire. But what if your product is evergreen and the doors never close? The great news is that you can do <em>evergreen deadlines</em> because every subscriber will go through them in their own time. How?</p><p><br></p><p>It's simple, really! You could have someone joining your list today and then in X amount of days they go through a flash sale or a special offer. How long that sale or promotion lasts determines those subscribers' unique deadline. They can't work around that date because it's triggered by the day they join your list.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So the way we create urgency with evergreen products like our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, is by having individual people on our list go through our automated campaigns (like our Golden Cloak campaign, for example, and many others). The key is that you <strong>include countdowns where people see the clock ticking</strong>. It creates a type of tension we all resonate with and shows people visually that the offer is closing. So make sure you have these timers on your web pages but also in the emails you send out.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to implement ethical deadlines for your evergreen products (video link included!)</strong></h3><p>You can use countdown timers for all sorts of things. But you'll always get a better result when using an <em>ethical countdown or deadline</em>, like a limited-time discount, bonus, sale, or automated webinar.</p><p><br></p><p>If you’re wondering how you do this, we’ve put together a <strong>FREE video </strong>where we walk you through <strong>how to use deadlines ethically</strong>, particularly <strong>when setting up automated evergreen countdown timers</strong> where every subscriber gets their own path. Go and check it out -<strong> you can find it </strong><a href="emailmarketingheroes.com/countdown/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>here</strong></a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject line is “I cheated. (Confession)”. Once again, this is all about negativity, which seems to ring true in terms of getting higher engagement. This particular email was about reminding people that we don’t write subject lines to get people to open our emails. Instead, we want to encourage them to click through.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>This one works particularly well because people want to know what the confession is. There’s a lot of curiosity associated with it, and it has an inherently negative connotation. People like the idea of a bit of dirty gossip or a confession of some description. This is why this subject line got us a high click-through rate (and it also contained a link to content people can use to ‘cheat’ with something in their marketing and get results a little faster).</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/limited-time-offers-say-no/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Say ‘No’ to Extending An Expired Offer</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/avoid-email-marketing-mistakes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why You Need to Avoid These Email Marketing Mistakes</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/create-urgency-without-product-launches/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Create Urgency For an Evergreen Membership or Course Without Product Launches</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about one of those marketing ethical dilemmas of how to do deadlines well and ethically) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/marketing-ethical-dilemmas-deadlines/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">b4e3945c-5642-4f24-9d6b-96efef527e07</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/3930bd6b-019f-4b7b-bc2a-9b0ac705abce/G2IhHl-vRxAGI_DYL0iyZ1jP.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2022 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/1247fceb-f8f1-442c-9eec-26d8ba20b5c1/final-converted.mp3" length="23135303" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>24:06</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>135</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>135</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Can&apos;t Stop Procrastinating? How to Stop Putting off Your Email Marketing</title><itunes:title>Can&apos;t Stop Procrastinating? How to Stop Putting off Your Email Marketing</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Are you someone who can't stop procrastinating when it comes to doing your email marketing? Well, you're not alone.</p><p>We're Kennedy and <a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Carrie</a>, and today we're sharing some useful strategies to help you stop putting your email marketing off so you can get it done. Right now!</p><p>Ready?</p><p>Let's go.</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:34) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our FREE Facebook group.&nbsp;</p><p>(2:01) Check out our sponsor - Zerobounce!&nbsp;</p><p>(3:06) Just get started (or jump back in).&nbsp;</p><p>(5:15) Stack habits together or schedule appointments in your diary.&nbsp;</p><p>(8:50) Make things easier for yourself and remove any friction.&nbsp;</p><p>(15:45) Alternate between longer and shorter emails.&nbsp;</p><p>(17:53) Follow the 'Rule of One'.&nbsp;</p><p>(21:14) Create campaigns one email at the time.</p><p>(25:20) Don't let the fear of 'being bad' hold you back.&nbsp;</p><p>(29:29) Create a system, process, or formula that works for you.&nbsp;</p><p>(32:19) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/time-saving-tips-for-email-marketing-no-distraction/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Time-saving tips for email marketing – how to eliminate distraction with Nir Eyal</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/rule-of-one/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Supercharge Your Email Marketing Copywriting By Mastering The Rule Of One For Maximum Impact</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/lies-stopping-you-from-business-with-profit/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lies You’ve Been Told That Are Stopping You From Making Money In Your Business</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3>Want to connect with Carrie?</h3><p>You can find Carrie on<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> her website</a> or at<a href="https://www.fullyleveragedbusiness.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Fully Leveraged Business</a>.&nbsp;</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about useful strategies to get your email marketing done if you're someone who can't stop procrastinating) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you someone who can't stop procrastinating when it comes to doing your email marketing? Well, you're not alone.</p><p>We're Kennedy and <a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Carrie</a>, and today we're sharing some useful strategies to help you stop putting your email marketing off so you can get it done. Right now!</p><p>Ready?</p><p>Let's go.</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:34) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our FREE Facebook group.&nbsp;</p><p>(2:01) Check out our sponsor - Zerobounce!&nbsp;</p><p>(3:06) Just get started (or jump back in).&nbsp;</p><p>(5:15) Stack habits together or schedule appointments in your diary.&nbsp;</p><p>(8:50) Make things easier for yourself and remove any friction.&nbsp;</p><p>(15:45) Alternate between longer and shorter emails.&nbsp;</p><p>(17:53) Follow the 'Rule of One'.&nbsp;</p><p>(21:14) Create campaigns one email at the time.</p><p>(25:20) Don't let the fear of 'being bad' hold you back.&nbsp;</p><p>(29:29) Create a system, process, or formula that works for you.&nbsp;</p><p>(32:19) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/time-saving-tips-for-email-marketing-no-distraction/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Time-saving tips for email marketing – how to eliminate distraction with Nir Eyal</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/rule-of-one/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Supercharge Your Email Marketing Copywriting By Mastering The Rule Of One For Maximum Impact</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/lies-stopping-you-from-business-with-profit/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lies You’ve Been Told That Are Stopping You From Making Money In Your Business</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3>Want to connect with Carrie?</h3><p>You can find Carrie on<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> her website</a> or at<a href="https://www.fullyleveragedbusiness.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Fully Leveraged Business</a>.&nbsp;</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about useful strategies to get your email marketing done if you're someone who can't stop procrastinating) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/cant-stop-procrastinating-email-marketing/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">3cc98e03-9269-43c4-89e9-586d202435be</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/3be5e833-2ebf-4d04-b7e6-cbeeacdcb67c/3tOW9sqjHwD8yYna66XVGWXa.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2022 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/f5431dc3-5942-4a6d-b97e-4b778b98646e/EP-241-134-Final.mp3" length="81846720" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>34:06</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>134</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>134</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/b5672b3c-5e76-453a-8120-a54a1fe52c1c/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Two Things to Start Collecting So You Know What&apos;s Working in Your Marketing</title><itunes:title>Two Things to Start Collecting So You Know What&apos;s Working in Your Marketing</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Do you ever find yourself making important business decisions based on a hunch? Would you like to know how you can improve the success rate of email marketing (and your marketing in general) by looking at data and not relying on a gut feeling? Are you curious to <em>finally</em> get a clear idea of what marketing works in your business so you can do more of it?</p><p>This week we're sharing a technique we created so you can 'read the minds' of your subscribers. You'll be able to work out how they found you, where they came from, and what made them buy from you. This method is quick and effective. And it only requires you to track <em>two simple things</em> about your subscribers.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to learn more about this and transform your business for the better?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:16) Want to get more sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(4:33) Fancy a 14-day FREE trial with Keap? (We give you TWO of our campaigns for FREE with it!)</p><p>(5:40) Marketing is a numbers business.</p><p>(7:52) The importance of understanding what works.</p><p>(10:26) Why do you need to understand your conversion mechanisms?</p><p>(12:35) The problem with tracking solutions.</p><p>(15:32) The two things you need to collect in your email marketing system.</p><p>(20:30) How do you capture the original source and conversion mechanism?</p><p>(22:48) Learn how to use this method to track the success of your marketing. </p><p>(25:26) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;free – we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p>That's why we're giving you&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Marketing is a numbers business</strong></h3><p>We come across a lot of business owners who think that marketing is a creative practice. And of course, there's creativity in marketing. But we think that creativity is around the way you decide to solve the numerical and data-driven problems you discover in your business. Because at its core, <strong>marketing is a numbers business</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>It's about looking at what you spend in terms of time, effort, money, and resources and what the return on your investments is. This is called <em>direct response</em> marketing. And for us small business owners it's fundamental that the return on investments is (as much as possible) <em>directly attributable</em> to your spending.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The importance of understanding what works</strong></h3><p>Last month we saw a sudden surge of people joining our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. We have new members every week, but we had more than usual. And we knew that was something worth investigating. Because one of the things we talk about a lot is to raise your peaks and do more of what’s working. </p><p><br></p><p>And if you see some changes in your business but don't have the data to understand <em>why</em> you're seeing these changes, then you can't course correct. You can't amplify what's working and you can't stop what's <em>not</em> working.</p><p><br></p><p>So we decided to start looking at what we might have done a few weeks or months prior that could have created this influx of people joining our membership. And we looked at activities we did <em>in the past</em> (not only last month) because it's rare that someone buys your product immediately, even if you're running ads directly to that product. </p><p><br></p><p>A lot of the time people will look at your offer and leave. And it might be a retargeting ad that encourages them to buy in the end. Or they may look at it a few times before they eventually purchase it. There's always a gap between somebody coming into your world and buying something.</p><p><br></p><p>And this is even more obvious with email marketing. Because somebody may join your list today but become a customer for the first time at some point in the future. There’s often a gap between when they join your list and when they buy. And if you're doing a lot of different things to build your list (say having a podcast or a YouTube channel, doing webinars, guest training, SEO, Facebook ads, etc.) you also have several <em>conversion mechanisms</em>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why do you need to understand your conversion mechanisms?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>So you'll need to know which<em> traffic methods</em> bring in the most people but also which ones help you turn them into customers. Because not all subscribers are created equal! You'll find that you have some conversion mechanisms that work better with some traffic methods than others.&nbsp;<strong>You need to know which traffic method and which conversion mechanism <em>in conjunction</em>, get you the most sales</strong>. And you also need to know which ones are costing you money. Because you might be getting conversions from a particular source but not a price you can afford to be paying.</p><p><br></p><p>With both conversion mechanisms and traffic sources at play, sometimes it's hard to understand what works. For example, you might have a lead magnet that converts well but only through Google ads and not Facebook ads. So what's key is for you to <strong>find out which conversion mechanisms and traffic sources <em>combined</em> you need to scale to get the best results</strong>. Because otherwise, you're going to spend money on strategies without getting a return on investments.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The problem with tracking solutions&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>So how do you find out what works? You could use analytics platforms such as Google Analytics, but they can only map out the person’s journey during a specific session, time, or device. So you might know that someone clicked on one of your blog posts and opted in for a lead magnet, but when did they join your email list? How did they get the blog post in the first place? And what got them into your world for the first time?</p><p><br></p><p>These are the questions you're trying to answer, and in technical terms, that's called <em>attribution</em>. <strong>It's about knowing how to<em> attribute</em> an activity you did with the result you want to get </strong>so you can do more of what's working and do less of (or stop doing) what’s not working.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And unfortunately, if you run ads, ad tracking is getting worse. We’ve recently seen an increase in retargeting ads for products that we already bought. And this is from big companies and smart marketers! That's because at the moment the technology and communication between web pages and the ad platforms aren’t good. This might change again in the future, but at the moment, it’s worse than it’s ever been.</p><p><br></p><p>In order to understand what's working in our own marketing, we'd been trying to find a solution for years. Like many others, we tried expensive tracking software solutions, but they didn't work for us the way we'd hoped they would. They probably work best for businesses that have more linear and simpler funnels.</p><p><br></p><p>So if you don't have lots of different products, emails, or campaigns happening at the same time, tracking software solutions might work well for you, too. But you need to be aware of the fact that with any of those tools the control lays elsewhere. So, for example, if Facebook makes changes to the way they work, these solutions might not help you anymore.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The two things you need to collect in your email marketing system</strong></h3><p>So after trying a few things and not getting very far with them, we've come up with our own solution, which we talk you through, step-by-step <a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/source/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">in this video here</a>. Unlike complicated tracking solutions that you need to learn how to use, this is super simple and gets the job done.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>This method helps you look at every subscriber that comes into your world and determine what traffic source they came from.</strong> And the great news is that you can apply this method no matter how many subscribers you already have - you can start at any point and stage of your business.</p><p><br></p><p>And here are the two pieces of information you want to track:</p><ol><li><strong>The <em>original source</em>.</strong> This is where the subscriber came from. Every time somebody new joins your email list (or if they buy something from you), you want to grab this piece of data. It’s probably just a word or two, like “Facebook ad” or “podcast”. It’s the <em>original source</em> of where that person came from.</li><li><strong>The <em>conversion mechanism</em> that got that person to buy.</strong> What made them purchase your product when they did? If we reverse engineer the process by which we acquire that customer, what was the conversion mechanism? A webinar, a particular Facebook ad, your LinkedIn or Instagram bio?</li></ol><br/><p>Now that you have these two bits of information, you know what works, what you need to do more of, and what you need to keep an eye out for and stop. If something hasn't given you any customers over the last couple of months, then it's time to stop that activity.&nbsp; &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How do you capture the original source and conversion...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you ever find yourself making important business decisions based on a hunch? Would you like to know how you can improve the success rate of email marketing (and your marketing in general) by looking at data and not relying on a gut feeling? Are you curious to <em>finally</em> get a clear idea of what marketing works in your business so you can do more of it?</p><p>This week we're sharing a technique we created so you can 'read the minds' of your subscribers. You'll be able to work out how they found you, where they came from, and what made them buy from you. This method is quick and effective. And it only requires you to track <em>two simple things</em> about your subscribers.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to learn more about this and transform your business for the better?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:16) Want to get more sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(4:33) Fancy a 14-day FREE trial with Keap? (We give you TWO of our campaigns for FREE with it!)</p><p>(5:40) Marketing is a numbers business.</p><p>(7:52) The importance of understanding what works.</p><p>(10:26) Why do you need to understand your conversion mechanisms?</p><p>(12:35) The problem with tracking solutions.</p><p>(15:32) The two things you need to collect in your email marketing system.</p><p>(20:30) How do you capture the original source and conversion mechanism?</p><p>(22:48) Learn how to use this method to track the success of your marketing. </p><p>(25:26) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;free – we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p>That's why we're giving you&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Marketing is a numbers business</strong></h3><p>We come across a lot of business owners who think that marketing is a creative practice. And of course, there's creativity in marketing. But we think that creativity is around the way you decide to solve the numerical and data-driven problems you discover in your business. Because at its core, <strong>marketing is a numbers business</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>It's about looking at what you spend in terms of time, effort, money, and resources and what the return on your investments is. This is called <em>direct response</em> marketing. And for us small business owners it's fundamental that the return on investments is (as much as possible) <em>directly attributable</em> to your spending.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The importance of understanding what works</strong></h3><p>Last month we saw a sudden surge of people joining our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. We have new members every week, but we had more than usual. And we knew that was something worth investigating. Because one of the things we talk about a lot is to raise your peaks and do more of what’s working. </p><p><br></p><p>And if you see some changes in your business but don't have the data to understand <em>why</em> you're seeing these changes, then you can't course correct. You can't amplify what's working and you can't stop what's <em>not</em> working.</p><p><br></p><p>So we decided to start looking at what we might have done a few weeks or months prior that could have created this influx of people joining our membership. And we looked at activities we did <em>in the past</em> (not only last month) because it's rare that someone buys your product immediately, even if you're running ads directly to that product. </p><p><br></p><p>A lot of the time people will look at your offer and leave. And it might be a retargeting ad that encourages them to buy in the end. Or they may look at it a few times before they eventually purchase it. There's always a gap between somebody coming into your world and buying something.</p><p><br></p><p>And this is even more obvious with email marketing. Because somebody may join your list today but become a customer for the first time at some point in the future. There’s often a gap between when they join your list and when they buy. And if you're doing a lot of different things to build your list (say having a podcast or a YouTube channel, doing webinars, guest training, SEO, Facebook ads, etc.) you also have several <em>conversion mechanisms</em>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why do you need to understand your conversion mechanisms?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>So you'll need to know which<em> traffic methods</em> bring in the most people but also which ones help you turn them into customers. Because not all subscribers are created equal! You'll find that you have some conversion mechanisms that work better with some traffic methods than others.&nbsp;<strong>You need to know which traffic method and which conversion mechanism <em>in conjunction</em>, get you the most sales</strong>. And you also need to know which ones are costing you money. Because you might be getting conversions from a particular source but not a price you can afford to be paying.</p><p><br></p><p>With both conversion mechanisms and traffic sources at play, sometimes it's hard to understand what works. For example, you might have a lead magnet that converts well but only through Google ads and not Facebook ads. So what's key is for you to <strong>find out which conversion mechanisms and traffic sources <em>combined</em> you need to scale to get the best results</strong>. Because otherwise, you're going to spend money on strategies without getting a return on investments.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The problem with tracking solutions&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>So how do you find out what works? You could use analytics platforms such as Google Analytics, but they can only map out the person’s journey during a specific session, time, or device. So you might know that someone clicked on one of your blog posts and opted in for a lead magnet, but when did they join your email list? How did they get the blog post in the first place? And what got them into your world for the first time?</p><p><br></p><p>These are the questions you're trying to answer, and in technical terms, that's called <em>attribution</em>. <strong>It's about knowing how to<em> attribute</em> an activity you did with the result you want to get </strong>so you can do more of what's working and do less of (or stop doing) what’s not working.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And unfortunately, if you run ads, ad tracking is getting worse. We’ve recently seen an increase in retargeting ads for products that we already bought. And this is from big companies and smart marketers! That's because at the moment the technology and communication between web pages and the ad platforms aren’t good. This might change again in the future, but at the moment, it’s worse than it’s ever been.</p><p><br></p><p>In order to understand what's working in our own marketing, we'd been trying to find a solution for years. Like many others, we tried expensive tracking software solutions, but they didn't work for us the way we'd hoped they would. They probably work best for businesses that have more linear and simpler funnels.</p><p><br></p><p>So if you don't have lots of different products, emails, or campaigns happening at the same time, tracking software solutions might work well for you, too. But you need to be aware of the fact that with any of those tools the control lays elsewhere. So, for example, if Facebook makes changes to the way they work, these solutions might not help you anymore.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The two things you need to collect in your email marketing system</strong></h3><p>So after trying a few things and not getting very far with them, we've come up with our own solution, which we talk you through, step-by-step <a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/source/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">in this video here</a>. Unlike complicated tracking solutions that you need to learn how to use, this is super simple and gets the job done.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>This method helps you look at every subscriber that comes into your world and determine what traffic source they came from.</strong> And the great news is that you can apply this method no matter how many subscribers you already have - you can start at any point and stage of your business.</p><p><br></p><p>And here are the two pieces of information you want to track:</p><ol><li><strong>The <em>original source</em>.</strong> This is where the subscriber came from. Every time somebody new joins your email list (or if they buy something from you), you want to grab this piece of data. It’s probably just a word or two, like “Facebook ad” or “podcast”. It’s the <em>original source</em> of where that person came from.</li><li><strong>The <em>conversion mechanism</em> that got that person to buy.</strong> What made them purchase your product when they did? If we reverse engineer the process by which we acquire that customer, what was the conversion mechanism? A webinar, a particular Facebook ad, your LinkedIn or Instagram bio?</li></ol><br/><p>Now that you have these two bits of information, you know what works, what you need to do more of, and what you need to keep an eye out for and stop. If something hasn't given you any customers over the last couple of months, then it's time to stop that activity.&nbsp; &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How do you capture the original source and conversion mechanism?</strong></h3><p>In order to capture the<em> original source</em> and <em>conversion mechanism</em> for each subscriber, we suggest you have a couple of custom fields that can't be overridden or changed inside your email marketing platform.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Once you've captured that data (and <a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/source/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">we show you how to do it in this video</a>) you can run a report that shows you how many people came in from each of the major traffic sources in your business and find out exactly which mechanisms were converting them. This allows you to see which traffic source turns into the highest conversions. You can obviously see what's not working and even figure out whether one conversion mechanism is working with one traffic source but not others.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Another thing we suggest you look at is the lead time and value of every new subscriber <em>from each of the sources.</em> How long does it take somebody from a source (say, a Facebook ad) to turn into a subscriber in comparison to another source (say, a webinar)?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Learn how to use this method for tracking the success of your marketing</strong></h3><p>Follow this method, and you'll have concrete proof attached to every single contact in your email marketing system. This means you'll be able to stop making business decisions by relying on your gut feeling - you'll know what's working and what isn't <em>unquestionably</em>. And you won't be relying on external platforms or tools. The information won't risk disappearing overnight because you own this data. It's attached to your record inside your email marketing provider on a subscriber-by-subscriber basis.</p><p><br></p><p>So before you do any more list building, please go and <a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/source/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">watch this video</a> and implement this method! The quicker you do this, the better your list-building methods will become.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week's subject line is “Final call for the [YOUR PRODUCT NAME]”. This is a very direct subject line, and we use it a lot. It's for the email that goes out 60 minutes before an offer closes. You can also use the wording “final call” or “last chance”.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Sending this email works well because when you send an email, you get the majority of opens and clicks <em>within the first hour</em>. So if you only send one email on the last day of your offer, you're missing an opportunity. Because will open the email when you first send it but won't take action or go back to it. So try this and see what it does to your sales!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-get-out-of-a-sales-slump/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Get Out of a Sales Slump</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/build-your-list-with-viral-ads-grip-advertising/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Build Your List using Viral Ads with Dave Rotheroe from Grip Advertising</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/blogging-for-email-list-building-jammy-digital/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Blogging for Email List Building with Martin and Lyndsay from Jammy Digita</a>l.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the two things to collect to improve the success rate of email marketing) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/whats-working-in-your-marketing/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">16f2283a-df43-4174-a2b3-3f227ea36ca4</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/0c913057-10f9-4442-9a52-0512fb2413d1/QVogKl2M826j0T28VLOHIzsf.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2022 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/84f8ab1a-0d3a-4f46-b48a-9c92ee4a80c1/ep-20133-converted.mp3" length="26674631" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>27:47</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>133</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>133</podcast:episode></item><item><title>5 Questions About Email Marketing From Our Group Coaching Calls</title><itunes:title>5 Questions About Email Marketing From Our Group Coaching Calls</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Want to find out what we get asked inside our exclusive, members-only group coaching calls? This week we're taking behind the scenes of the coaching calls we do inside our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. We're going to not only share the questions about email marketing that our members ask us, but also the exact answers we give them! </p><p><em>Aaaaaand</em>, we have an amazing opportunity for you. For one day only, you can join one of these exclusive calls too! Want to find out more? </p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(00:17) The League Open Day.</p><p>(6:00) Fancy a 14-day FREE trial with Keap? (We give you TWO of our campaigns for FREE with it!)</p><p>(7:16) How many campaigns do I need to get started with email marketing?</p><p>(10:50) What's the best frequency for email marketing?</p><p>(11:15) Planning your email content. </p><p>(12:52) How many emails should I send during a launch?</p><p>(16:53) How do I move to a higher email frequency?</p><p>(19:50) What about email marketing for the B2B industry?</p><p>(22:01 ) Join us for our first Open Day!</p><p>(24:58) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Join us for the first Open Day inside our membership The League</strong></h3><p>We’re doing an Open Day for our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> where you can come and hang out on one of the hotline coaching calls <em>as our guest</em>. It’s happening on the <strong>11th of May 2022 at 8 pm UK time (3 pm EST).</strong></p><p><br></p><p>You’ll get to ask questions just like our members do and get answers from us. And if you can't think of a question, just sit there and watch - like a fly on the wall. We <em>guarantee</em> you’ll learn from the questions that other people ask.</p><p><br></p><p>So if you want to get on this call, <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvd--orDwiH9EmWnEakqTgrZKm0siVC6_0" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">register here</a>. We’ve never done this before, and we’re excited to see many of you joining us for this experience. So let’s pack out the room for some great learning!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>1. How many campaigns do I need to implement to get started with email marketing?</strong></h3><p>The first question we pulled from one of our coaching calls is from Paul, and he asked, “As long as I have the Getting to Know You sequence and your Overture sales sequence set up, am I good to begin sending traffic through my funnels?”</p><p><br></p><p>The short answer is yes!</p><p><br></p><p>But let's break this down. For context, we should say that we give our members inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> new email marketing campaigns every single month. But obviously, people can’t implement them all at once! </p><p><br></p><p>Also, for clarity, the Getting to Know You sequence is our welcome sequence. It’s a 4-day sequence for every new person who comes onto your email list. This is where you introduce them to your core product or service.&nbsp; After setting up our welcome sequence Paul implemented our Overture campaign, which is a sales automation.</p><p><br></p><p>Of course, if after setting up these two campaigns you want to stop putting people through more sequences, you can. But you can also set up as many email campaigns as you want. You don't have to wait until you have all our email marketing campaigns set up - we don't do that either! We add a new campaign every 8 weeks or so.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And taking this approach is perfectly fine. Firstly because it takes some time to set the sequences up. But also because they'll serve you on an ongoing basis. You can view these two campaigns as your <em>minimum viable engine</em>. Just put people through them, and you'll immediately benefit from the work you've done setting them up. Think of it as a train with different carriages - more campaigns will make your email marketing train longer. But simply add a new carriage whenever you’re ready, at your own pace.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>2. What's the best email frequency for email marketing?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Here's another question we get asked by email marketers all the time. “How do I figure out what email frequency I want to do with my email newsletters?”</p><p><br></p><p>There’s no right or wrong answer here. We talk a lot about the fact that we send an email every single day, and we think you should too. Because we think you’ll get better results if you email at least a few times a week.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Planning your email content&nbsp;</strong></h4><p>In terms of planning your content and the frequency of your email newsletters, we do our planning quarterly. So in the middle month of any given quarter (February for Q1, April for Q2, etc.), we plan the content we’re going to share in our email newsletters. We look at what we’re going to sell, what our goals are, and what emails we’re going to send in order to take our subscribers on a journey. And then we figure out what content we need in order to make that happen.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Let's say we decide to do a webinar campaign. We go into <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> and grab our own template for that, just like any of our members would. And then we put it all together and run it.</p><p><br></p><p>In short, here's what we do. Once a quarter, we plan a rough big helicopter view of everything we’re going to do and map it all out. We break it down month by month, week by week, and day by day. We create the plan once and then fulfill it, and this means we don't have to spend time every day wondering what we’re going to send out next.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>3. How many emails should I send during a launch?</strong></h3><p>“If I'm launching my new course, coaching programme, or membership, how many emails should send?”</p><p><br></p><p>The answer is <strong>as many emails as you have a good reason to send!</strong> Because if you have nothing meaningful to send out, you’ll feel like you’re sharing fluff – there's nothing of substance to drive that email.</p><p><br></p><p>So first thing first, write down on your calendar when your product is going on sale - you want the dates of when the cart opens and closes. And then you reverse engineer from there.</p><p><br></p><p>On the last day, you’ll want to say that the cart is closing - you'll do that at least twice to give people the best opportunity to get your solution. That's why we send 3 emails on the last day. The first one tells our subscribers that today is the last day of the sale. Then later in the day, we send a reminder to say the deadline is getting closer. And then an hour before we close the offer, we send a short and simple email with the link to buy for one final time.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Don't send everything at once&nbsp;</strong></h4><p>These are great reasons to email on the last day. But there are other good reasons to email during a launch, and we talk about them in the episode called <a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/7-reasons-to-email-during-your-launch/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">7 Sales Elements to Give You More Reasons To Email During Your Launch</a>. Go check it out!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So our top tip is to hold things back - don't share everything in the first few emails! Use the first email to introduce your product and <em>then</em>, on a different day, tell them about your payment plan. Or your bonuses. Or share a video. Just don’t send everything at once because every new piece of information you share calls for a different email. It gives you a good reason to email again during your launch. Remember - you can send as many emails as you need to, <em>as long as you have a reason to</em>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>4. How do I move to a higher email frequency? </strong></h3><p>Another question we get asked is, “How can I start sending emails more often and do it in the right way?”</p><p><br></p><p>The short answer is that you don't suddenly go from emailing once a month, once a week, or once in a blue moon to every day. Because your audience will hate you for it. And so will your email platform and the Gmails of this world. This is only going to negatively impact your email deliverability.&nbsp;Instead, you want to <strong>slowly increase the frequency of your emails and pre-empty this action with some warning</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>The way we suggest you approach this is by emailing your list and telling them you feel like you haven't been delivering as much value as you could be. You'd like to help them move forward in their journey as quickly as possible. So you tell them what to expect going forward while you slowly step up your frequency. You could go from once a month to once a week and then after a month or two, you increase to twice or three times a week, for example. And then to every day. That way you step up your frequency in stages - this is less noticeable and less likely to break things.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Tell your audience how they'll benefit from your emails</strong></h4><p>While you do that, don't forget to tell your audience why getting more emails from you is a good thing! They’ll be feeling like they're learning more, moving forward, and being drawn closer to you. Just don't do this in a way that's apologetic or sorry, especially if you're British (because you know how we like to apologise for everything). <strong>Always sell the benefits of your emails to your list.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>An alternative approach would be to email your entire list a few times and give them the option to opt in to hear from you more often. To do this, you need to send them to a form...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Want to find out what we get asked inside our exclusive, members-only group coaching calls? This week we're taking behind the scenes of the coaching calls we do inside our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. We're going to not only share the questions about email marketing that our members ask us, but also the exact answers we give them! </p><p><em>Aaaaaand</em>, we have an amazing opportunity for you. For one day only, you can join one of these exclusive calls too! Want to find out more? </p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(00:17) The League Open Day.</p><p>(6:00) Fancy a 14-day FREE trial with Keap? (We give you TWO of our campaigns for FREE with it!)</p><p>(7:16) How many campaigns do I need to get started with email marketing?</p><p>(10:50) What's the best frequency for email marketing?</p><p>(11:15) Planning your email content. </p><p>(12:52) How many emails should I send during a launch?</p><p>(16:53) How do I move to a higher email frequency?</p><p>(19:50) What about email marketing for the B2B industry?</p><p>(22:01 ) Join us for our first Open Day!</p><p>(24:58) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Join us for the first Open Day inside our membership The League</strong></h3><p>We’re doing an Open Day for our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> where you can come and hang out on one of the hotline coaching calls <em>as our guest</em>. It’s happening on the <strong>11th of May 2022 at 8 pm UK time (3 pm EST).</strong></p><p><br></p><p>You’ll get to ask questions just like our members do and get answers from us. And if you can't think of a question, just sit there and watch - like a fly on the wall. We <em>guarantee</em> you’ll learn from the questions that other people ask.</p><p><br></p><p>So if you want to get on this call, <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvd--orDwiH9EmWnEakqTgrZKm0siVC6_0" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">register here</a>. We’ve never done this before, and we’re excited to see many of you joining us for this experience. So let’s pack out the room for some great learning!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>1. How many campaigns do I need to implement to get started with email marketing?</strong></h3><p>The first question we pulled from one of our coaching calls is from Paul, and he asked, “As long as I have the Getting to Know You sequence and your Overture sales sequence set up, am I good to begin sending traffic through my funnels?”</p><p><br></p><p>The short answer is yes!</p><p><br></p><p>But let's break this down. For context, we should say that we give our members inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> new email marketing campaigns every single month. But obviously, people can’t implement them all at once! </p><p><br></p><p>Also, for clarity, the Getting to Know You sequence is our welcome sequence. It’s a 4-day sequence for every new person who comes onto your email list. This is where you introduce them to your core product or service.&nbsp; After setting up our welcome sequence Paul implemented our Overture campaign, which is a sales automation.</p><p><br></p><p>Of course, if after setting up these two campaigns you want to stop putting people through more sequences, you can. But you can also set up as many email campaigns as you want. You don't have to wait until you have all our email marketing campaigns set up - we don't do that either! We add a new campaign every 8 weeks or so.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And taking this approach is perfectly fine. Firstly because it takes some time to set the sequences up. But also because they'll serve you on an ongoing basis. You can view these two campaigns as your <em>minimum viable engine</em>. Just put people through them, and you'll immediately benefit from the work you've done setting them up. Think of it as a train with different carriages - more campaigns will make your email marketing train longer. But simply add a new carriage whenever you’re ready, at your own pace.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>2. What's the best email frequency for email marketing?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Here's another question we get asked by email marketers all the time. “How do I figure out what email frequency I want to do with my email newsletters?”</p><p><br></p><p>There’s no right or wrong answer here. We talk a lot about the fact that we send an email every single day, and we think you should too. Because we think you’ll get better results if you email at least a few times a week.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Planning your email content&nbsp;</strong></h4><p>In terms of planning your content and the frequency of your email newsletters, we do our planning quarterly. So in the middle month of any given quarter (February for Q1, April for Q2, etc.), we plan the content we’re going to share in our email newsletters. We look at what we’re going to sell, what our goals are, and what emails we’re going to send in order to take our subscribers on a journey. And then we figure out what content we need in order to make that happen.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Let's say we decide to do a webinar campaign. We go into <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> and grab our own template for that, just like any of our members would. And then we put it all together and run it.</p><p><br></p><p>In short, here's what we do. Once a quarter, we plan a rough big helicopter view of everything we’re going to do and map it all out. We break it down month by month, week by week, and day by day. We create the plan once and then fulfill it, and this means we don't have to spend time every day wondering what we’re going to send out next.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>3. How many emails should I send during a launch?</strong></h3><p>“If I'm launching my new course, coaching programme, or membership, how many emails should send?”</p><p><br></p><p>The answer is <strong>as many emails as you have a good reason to send!</strong> Because if you have nothing meaningful to send out, you’ll feel like you’re sharing fluff – there's nothing of substance to drive that email.</p><p><br></p><p>So first thing first, write down on your calendar when your product is going on sale - you want the dates of when the cart opens and closes. And then you reverse engineer from there.</p><p><br></p><p>On the last day, you’ll want to say that the cart is closing - you'll do that at least twice to give people the best opportunity to get your solution. That's why we send 3 emails on the last day. The first one tells our subscribers that today is the last day of the sale. Then later in the day, we send a reminder to say the deadline is getting closer. And then an hour before we close the offer, we send a short and simple email with the link to buy for one final time.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Don't send everything at once&nbsp;</strong></h4><p>These are great reasons to email on the last day. But there are other good reasons to email during a launch, and we talk about them in the episode called <a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/7-reasons-to-email-during-your-launch/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">7 Sales Elements to Give You More Reasons To Email During Your Launch</a>. Go check it out!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So our top tip is to hold things back - don't share everything in the first few emails! Use the first email to introduce your product and <em>then</em>, on a different day, tell them about your payment plan. Or your bonuses. Or share a video. Just don’t send everything at once because every new piece of information you share calls for a different email. It gives you a good reason to email again during your launch. Remember - you can send as many emails as you need to, <em>as long as you have a reason to</em>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>4. How do I move to a higher email frequency? </strong></h3><p>Another question we get asked is, “How can I start sending emails more often and do it in the right way?”</p><p><br></p><p>The short answer is that you don't suddenly go from emailing once a month, once a week, or once in a blue moon to every day. Because your audience will hate you for it. And so will your email platform and the Gmails of this world. This is only going to negatively impact your email deliverability.&nbsp;Instead, you want to <strong>slowly increase the frequency of your emails and pre-empty this action with some warning</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>The way we suggest you approach this is by emailing your list and telling them you feel like you haven't been delivering as much value as you could be. You'd like to help them move forward in their journey as quickly as possible. So you tell them what to expect going forward while you slowly step up your frequency. You could go from once a month to once a week and then after a month or two, you increase to twice or three times a week, for example. And then to every day. That way you step up your frequency in stages - this is less noticeable and less likely to break things.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Tell your audience how they'll benefit from your emails</strong></h4><p>While you do that, don't forget to tell your audience why getting more emails from you is a good thing! They’ll be feeling like they're learning more, moving forward, and being drawn closer to you. Just don't do this in a way that's apologetic or sorry, especially if you're British (because you know how we like to apologise for everything). <strong>Always sell the benefits of your emails to your list.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>An alternative approach would be to email your entire list a few times and give them the option to opt in to hear from you more often. To do this, you need to send them to a form where they can actively input their name and address and specifically agree to receive more of your emails. This is a gentler approach, although it’s not the one we take because you'll get fewer people opting in.</p><p><br></p><p>With the first approach we suggested, you'll still have access to your entire list minus the people who unsubscribe. This option typically pans out better. Whereas if you choose the gentler approach and ask your subscribers to opt in, only 10-30% of your list might do that. That means a lot of people won't be getting your emails. So we suggest you step things up gradually over time with some warning first.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>5. What about email marketing for the B2B industry?</strong></h3><p>Another question we often get asked is, “I'm in a much 'drier' industry, like B2B professional services. How do I go about adding emotion and personality into my emails?”</p><p><br></p><p>Great question! And what we encourage our members to do is to remember that <strong>we’re all speaking to real people</strong>. None of these subscribers are robots! They are people who have feelings, families, kids, pets, and parents - they can relate to all the things that go on in <em>your</em> life. That means they'll relate to any personal stories you share.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>But if that’s not your style, you can also tell stories about your customers. Let’s say you’re in the investment space. Don’t just talk about charts, stock values, and capital. Instead, tell the story of the client who’s been paying into their retirement fund. Show what their life looks like now as a result of working with you. Share the stories of how you serve people.</p><p><br></p><p>Where do you find these stories? You ask your clients, of course. Ask them how your business impacted their lives, make sure you have permission to share, and then tell those stories in your email marketing. This also helps you build rapport with people and deepen your relationship. They’ll see you as much more of a trusted advisor.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join our Open Day for a chance to have your own questions about email marketing answered!</strong></h3><p>A lot of the questions we get asked on our hotline coaching calls inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> are business-specific. And we love nothing more than to dig into people’s businesses to understand what they sell, who they sell to, what problems they solve, etc. That’s how we’re able to give specific answers.</p><p><br></p><p>But the power of these calls is twofold. It's great for the person who asks the question because we’re able to give specific answers based on someone’s business, product, personality, and individual circumstances. But it's great for everyone else too! Because other people learn from us giving out these answers. They'll pick up tips and ideas they can apply to their own businesses.</p><p><br></p><p>We host our hotline group calls every other week, and people tell us they're completely transformational. They change their business and give them better results with their email marketing. And that’s just from listening to other people’s questions and answers!</p><p>So if you want that same opportunity that members of <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> have, <strong>join our 90-minute Open Day call on the 11th May 2022 at 8 pm UK time (3 pm EST)</strong>. You can <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvd--orDwiH9EmWnEakqTgrZKm0siVC6_0" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">register for FREE here</a>&nbsp;and join us live on the day.</p><p>Come and ask any questions, and even if you don’t have any, just listen in and absorb the information. No doubt, you’ll get some cracking new ideas you can go and apply to your own business, whether you're selling products, services, high-priced items, lower-priced items, a recurring membership, or anything in between. We look forward to seeing you there!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject line is “The word of the day is H_A_____”. The word, in this case, was ‘headache', but it doesn't matter what the word is! This type of subject line creates curiosity. It’s like filling in the blanks. And people have to open the email to find out what it’s all about. It's a great one, and you can use it with whatever you’re working on.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/courageous-content-janet-murray/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Courageous Content with Janet Murray</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-get-massive-results-from-hotline-group-coaching-calls-in-the-league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Get Your Marketing Questions Answered by Rob &amp; Kennedy during ‘Hotline’ Group Coaching Calls in The League</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/essential-email-campaigns-examples/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">7 Essential Email Campaigns Examples For Your Business</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about some key questions about email marketing we answered in our group coaching calls) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/questions-about-email-marketing-coaching-calls/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">a7808ccd-4663-4059-ad8b-a9f2547411f2</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/f25ef21f-e5fa-464a-a308-f9fc97b521be/agbv-55DsitPiRQRhZrru5f_.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2022 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/d4609fe4-9485-4947-87a9-26af97bfae46/final-converted.mp3" length="25549127" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>26:37</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>132</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>132</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Write Emails Using Artificial Intelligence (AI)</title><itunes:title>Write Emails Using Artificial Intelligence (AI)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Does Artificial Intelligence have a place in email marketing? Can you use AI tools to outsource your email writing? These are some of the questions we're answering for you today after testing a few AI tools. </p><p>Curious to learn what we found? </p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:12) Want to get more sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(3:49) Fancy a 14-day FREE trial with Keap? (We give you TWO of our campaigns for FREE with it!)</p><p>(4:58) Should you use AI to write your emails? </p><p>(6:50) Where can AI be useful?</p><p>(7:47) AI tools can write about features and benefits.</p><p>(9:04) AI tools can't help you with ideas and stories.</p><p>(11:55) AI tools can't differentiate between products. </p><p>(14:32) AI can't target people with different levels of experience. </p><p>(17:42 ) AI tools can't create successful email campaigns. </p><p>(24:19) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool <em>and</em> free - we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p><br></p><p>That's why we're giving you <strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Should you use AI to write your emails?</strong></h3><p>We’ve been playing with a few AI platforms for a while now, and we have opinions about them. This isn’t about us bashing AI tools though. We believe they definitely have a place, but we’re going to get into some of the issues we found when using them.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So let's start by setting the tone with a quick example. This is what we typed into one of these AI tools to see what kind of marketing email they'd write for us:</p><p><br></p><p><em>“Welcome to the Email Marketing Show podcast for online course creators and membership site owners.”</em></p><p><br></p><p>Simple, right? Want to see what we got?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>“<em>So this is the first episode of the Z Z podcast. I am super excited about the new venture and hope you all enjoy it too.”</em></p><p><br></p><p>Not quite the introduction to our podcast we had in mind. In fact, this makes no sense whatsoever! Where does the "Z Z podcast" even come from??</p><p><br></p><p>So let's look at some of the issues we've found with these tools. And it's important to say that these findings apply to <em>all</em> the tools across the board. It doesn't matter how good the platform is. You might have the best one out there (and it's up to you to do your research and work out which one is the best for you), but they all have the same issues.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Where can AI be useful?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>AI tools can be useful in what we consider to be simple copywriting - and that's where the stakes aren't massively high. So for example, if you have a membership site or a course and want to send an email to promote a new video, you might want to write a little paragraph that describes what that video is for. You'd pop the information into one of these tools, press a button, and get a few options back.</p><p><br></p><p>Bear in mind though that once you’ve put this amount of copy into the tool, you’ve almost done the job yourself! With a bit of tweaking, you could use the best out of the options the tool gives you, and it'd probably be good enough.&nbsp;But this is only for a piece of copy where the stakes aren't that high. </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>AI tools can write about features and benefits&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>For us, it boils down to this - <strong>AI tools can only write about features and benefits. </strong>You're feeding information into these platforms, and the outcome is linear - it's features- and benefit-driven.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>The problem is that people don't buy just on features and benefits - they also buy on emotion.</strong> And these tools are completely devoid of personality – of your nuances and your <em>isms</em> (as we like to call them). They don't have any authenticity because a robot wrote them!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>There are no pieces of you showing in the turns of phrase and the way the emails are being worded. They're sterile - perfectly written, with no 'knack' about them. So if you want to write about basic features and benefits, by all means, you can try and use AI tools, see what they give you, and then manicure the content afterwards.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>AI tools can't help you with ideas and stories</strong></h3><p>The issue with writing about features and benefits is that it's all about why you should buy a certain thing. And surely you don’t want to show up on the Internet every single day with another email that asks people to buy your product. Right? That's what so much email marketing out there already is – just bashing people over the head with offers!</p><p><br></p><p>The problem is that's all these AI tools can do. You can't use them to craft good, compelling, interesting stories about something that happened to you. Or pull something out of the news that might be relevant to your email list.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And one of the biggest struggles people have when it comes to email marketing is finding the things to write their emails about. Well, guess what? If you use AI tools as part of your email marketing strategy to write your emails, you still need to fuel the tool with ideas. And if you run out of ideas, the tools won't give you anything at all!</p><p><br></p><p>So if you’re worried about doing email marketing because you don’t know what to write about, AI isn’t going to save the day for that. Yet. And, of course, this is true as of mid-2022. Things might change, but we think we’re <em>years</em> away from AI getting close to what <em>you</em> can do with your digital marketing with some simple techniques.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>AI tools require a lot of work</strong></h3><p>Another factor to take into account is that you have to learn how to use these tools. It’s a bit like learning how to play an instrument – you need to know what parameters to put in. It’s not just a case of clicking a button - it's not that simple! You need to learn how to feed information into the tools in the correct way.</p><p><br></p><p>And once you’ve done all that, the platform will then spit out a few variations. You still need to go through them, pick the best one, and tweak it. There’s a lot of work involved!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>AI tools can't differentiate between different products</strong></h3><p>Plus, let's not forget that AI tools can't use your personality, can’t express things as you would, and can't talk about what goes on in your life. They can’t share the metaphors or create stories, which are the most effective marketing tool in the world to help you create connections. And if AI tools <em>could</em> create stories, they wouldn’t be about you at all!</p><p><br></p><p>This means that AI tools currently can’t differentiate your product from someone else’s because they can’t communicate the unique elements of your framework. They don't know what makes it different and effective.</p><p><br></p><p>If we were to ask one of these AI tools to spit out an email to promote our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, we’d put in that it’s a membership that helps people write better emails through psychology-driven email marketing. But if someone else comes along and inputs similar information, the tool is likely to spit out similar emails.</p><p><br></p><p>The tool doesn't know about the five elements we teach our members. It can't know what happened during our coaching call last week. And it doesn't know about our Adaptive Offer framework that helps people put together compelling offers, which is something that sits in The Battle Plan section inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>.</p><p><br></p><p>We can’t teach the tool what’s different about our membership. So if you look at the email that’s generated for us and compare it to one that's written for someone who offers a similar product, there wouldn't be much difference. And that's no good.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>AI tools can't target people with different levels of experience</strong></h3><p>We also noticed that if you use AI tools to write your email content, you’ll struggle to target them to the right level of experience of your audience.</p><p><br></p><p>We tested this out by using a made-up gardening programme as an example. Initially, we tried the angle of people who might be starting gardening and would like to learn how to do it. But when we changed the parameters to address experienced gardeners, there was nothing different to target the advanced gardeners specifically. It still spoke about gardening at the most simplistic level.</p><p><br></p><p>So if you have sections of your audience with different levels of experience and expertise, you need more persuasive email copy to address them. And what an AI tool can generate for you is very bland. The copy has no personality and therefore nobody cares – it has nothing that makes it sound interesting. It's not copy that builds relationships. It's just fact-based copy that keeps asking people to buy. And this leaves all the heavy lifting to your sales page (assuming these emails are even good enough to get your subscribers there!)</p><p><br></p><p>In essence, <strong>what you can write with AI tools are bland emails that...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Does Artificial Intelligence have a place in email marketing? Can you use AI tools to outsource your email writing? These are some of the questions we're answering for you today after testing a few AI tools. </p><p>Curious to learn what we found? </p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:12) Want to get more sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(3:49) Fancy a 14-day FREE trial with Keap? (We give you TWO of our campaigns for FREE with it!)</p><p>(4:58) Should you use AI to write your emails? </p><p>(6:50) Where can AI be useful?</p><p>(7:47) AI tools can write about features and benefits.</p><p>(9:04) AI tools can't help you with ideas and stories.</p><p>(11:55) AI tools can't differentiate between products. </p><p>(14:32) AI can't target people with different levels of experience. </p><p>(17:42 ) AI tools can't create successful email campaigns. </p><p>(24:19) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool <em>and</em> free - we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p><br></p><p>That's why we're giving you <strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Should you use AI to write your emails?</strong></h3><p>We’ve been playing with a few AI platforms for a while now, and we have opinions about them. This isn’t about us bashing AI tools though. We believe they definitely have a place, but we’re going to get into some of the issues we found when using them.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So let's start by setting the tone with a quick example. This is what we typed into one of these AI tools to see what kind of marketing email they'd write for us:</p><p><br></p><p><em>“Welcome to the Email Marketing Show podcast for online course creators and membership site owners.”</em></p><p><br></p><p>Simple, right? Want to see what we got?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>“<em>So this is the first episode of the Z Z podcast. I am super excited about the new venture and hope you all enjoy it too.”</em></p><p><br></p><p>Not quite the introduction to our podcast we had in mind. In fact, this makes no sense whatsoever! Where does the "Z Z podcast" even come from??</p><p><br></p><p>So let's look at some of the issues we've found with these tools. And it's important to say that these findings apply to <em>all</em> the tools across the board. It doesn't matter how good the platform is. You might have the best one out there (and it's up to you to do your research and work out which one is the best for you), but they all have the same issues.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Where can AI be useful?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>AI tools can be useful in what we consider to be simple copywriting - and that's where the stakes aren't massively high. So for example, if you have a membership site or a course and want to send an email to promote a new video, you might want to write a little paragraph that describes what that video is for. You'd pop the information into one of these tools, press a button, and get a few options back.</p><p><br></p><p>Bear in mind though that once you’ve put this amount of copy into the tool, you’ve almost done the job yourself! With a bit of tweaking, you could use the best out of the options the tool gives you, and it'd probably be good enough.&nbsp;But this is only for a piece of copy where the stakes aren't that high. </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>AI tools can write about features and benefits&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>For us, it boils down to this - <strong>AI tools can only write about features and benefits. </strong>You're feeding information into these platforms, and the outcome is linear - it's features- and benefit-driven.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>The problem is that people don't buy just on features and benefits - they also buy on emotion.</strong> And these tools are completely devoid of personality – of your nuances and your <em>isms</em> (as we like to call them). They don't have any authenticity because a robot wrote them!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>There are no pieces of you showing in the turns of phrase and the way the emails are being worded. They're sterile - perfectly written, with no 'knack' about them. So if you want to write about basic features and benefits, by all means, you can try and use AI tools, see what they give you, and then manicure the content afterwards.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>AI tools can't help you with ideas and stories</strong></h3><p>The issue with writing about features and benefits is that it's all about why you should buy a certain thing. And surely you don’t want to show up on the Internet every single day with another email that asks people to buy your product. Right? That's what so much email marketing out there already is – just bashing people over the head with offers!</p><p><br></p><p>The problem is that's all these AI tools can do. You can't use them to craft good, compelling, interesting stories about something that happened to you. Or pull something out of the news that might be relevant to your email list.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And one of the biggest struggles people have when it comes to email marketing is finding the things to write their emails about. Well, guess what? If you use AI tools as part of your email marketing strategy to write your emails, you still need to fuel the tool with ideas. And if you run out of ideas, the tools won't give you anything at all!</p><p><br></p><p>So if you’re worried about doing email marketing because you don’t know what to write about, AI isn’t going to save the day for that. Yet. And, of course, this is true as of mid-2022. Things might change, but we think we’re <em>years</em> away from AI getting close to what <em>you</em> can do with your digital marketing with some simple techniques.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>AI tools require a lot of work</strong></h3><p>Another factor to take into account is that you have to learn how to use these tools. It’s a bit like learning how to play an instrument – you need to know what parameters to put in. It’s not just a case of clicking a button - it's not that simple! You need to learn how to feed information into the tools in the correct way.</p><p><br></p><p>And once you’ve done all that, the platform will then spit out a few variations. You still need to go through them, pick the best one, and tweak it. There’s a lot of work involved!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>AI tools can't differentiate between different products</strong></h3><p>Plus, let's not forget that AI tools can't use your personality, can’t express things as you would, and can't talk about what goes on in your life. They can’t share the metaphors or create stories, which are the most effective marketing tool in the world to help you create connections. And if AI tools <em>could</em> create stories, they wouldn’t be about you at all!</p><p><br></p><p>This means that AI tools currently can’t differentiate your product from someone else’s because they can’t communicate the unique elements of your framework. They don't know what makes it different and effective.</p><p><br></p><p>If we were to ask one of these AI tools to spit out an email to promote our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, we’d put in that it’s a membership that helps people write better emails through psychology-driven email marketing. But if someone else comes along and inputs similar information, the tool is likely to spit out similar emails.</p><p><br></p><p>The tool doesn't know about the five elements we teach our members. It can't know what happened during our coaching call last week. And it doesn't know about our Adaptive Offer framework that helps people put together compelling offers, which is something that sits in The Battle Plan section inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>.</p><p><br></p><p>We can’t teach the tool what’s different about our membership. So if you look at the email that’s generated for us and compare it to one that's written for someone who offers a similar product, there wouldn't be much difference. And that's no good.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>AI tools can't target people with different levels of experience</strong></h3><p>We also noticed that if you use AI tools to write your email content, you’ll struggle to target them to the right level of experience of your audience.</p><p><br></p><p>We tested this out by using a made-up gardening programme as an example. Initially, we tried the angle of people who might be starting gardening and would like to learn how to do it. But when we changed the parameters to address experienced gardeners, there was nothing different to target the advanced gardeners specifically. It still spoke about gardening at the most simplistic level.</p><p><br></p><p>So if you have sections of your audience with different levels of experience and expertise, you need more persuasive email copy to address them. And what an AI tool can generate for you is very bland. The copy has no personality and therefore nobody cares – it has nothing that makes it sound interesting. It's not copy that builds relationships. It's just fact-based copy that keeps asking people to buy. And this leaves all the heavy lifting to your sales page (assuming these emails are even good enough to get your subscribers there!)</p><p><br></p><p>In essence, <strong>what you can write with AI tools are bland emails that fit someone who hasn’t done any research into their product, their audience, their personality, or their brand values.</strong> And in this busy world, that’s not good enough anymore. You can't send emails like that expect to get results.</p><p><br></p><p>There’s nothing emotive in these emails – there are no good adjectives in there, and they’re not written following any copywriting principles to help persuade people. So <strong>it's still quicker for you to write your own emails</strong>. Never mind having to then sift through various versions generated by the tools and having to edit them!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>AI tools can't create successful email campaigns</strong></h3><p>The other issue we found when testing AI tools is that they can't build campaigns. Imagine you’re going to launch a new membership, and as part of your marketing strategy, you want to send 7 emails over 7 days. Every day, you'll feed information into the tool, sift through the versions you get back, pick the best one, edit it, and send it out. You'll do this every single day for the 7 days of your launch.</p><p><br></p><p>The problem is that<strong> your emails aren’t getting any better at handling objections or building a sales argument or conversation.</strong> They aren’t getting any more persuasive over the course of the 7 days. They're not stacking on top of each other to become more compelling - they're just going to be the same.</p><p><br></p><p>Because the tool doesn't know you're building a journey or a campaign of emails - not like the ones we teach inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. It's building one email at a time. And that means you won’t be able to take your subscribers on a journey. You’re just spitting similar emails at them day after day, and we know that singular emails do not work – they don't have the same impact, and that's why we don't use them!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Some examples of AI-generated emails</strong></h3><p>So to test out these tools, we did a little experiment. The input we used to feed into the tools was:</p><p><br></p><p><em>“The League is a membership which helps online course creators sell more of their online courses with psychology-based email marketing.”</em></p><p><br></p><p>And this was the best example of an email generated by one of the AI tools:</p><p><br></p><p><em>“Are you sick of spending hours a day working on your emails? If you're like me, you're always looking for new ways to improve your business. And one of the best ways to do that is by learning about psychology. In this course, we'll teach you the psychology of how people respond to emails. We'll show you how to use it to create the best emails you've ever sent. You can also use this information to build better relationships with your clients. It's never been easier to send emails. And it's never been more important to understand why people respond the way that they do.”</em></p><p><br></p><p>When you look at this email objectively, it doesn't go anywhere. It talks around in circles and doesn’t even make an offer! You could easily take half of the words out, and the email would be as impactful. It’s full of wasted words, and while it at least makes sense, it’s not great.</p><p><br></p><p>The worse example we got was one that made us howl with laughter. And it goes like this:</p><p><br></p><p><em>“I don't have any money to spend on marketing. That's where you come in.”</em></p><p><br></p><p>Now, we said at the beginning that it wasn’t our intention to bash AI tools, but this isn’t right, is it?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Our final thoughts about AI tools&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>We think AI has its place, but only when the writing is super simple. It’s more of a springboard for you to go and do something else with. You could give the output from an AI tool to your VA or someone in your team to work on, for example.</p><p><br></p><p>But<strong> it's not a solution to outsourcing email marketing</strong>, and in our opinion, AI tools are a long way away from being anything close to that. So let’s pay attention to AI – let’s watch it. It’ll definitely do incredible and amazing things in the world, but it’s not going to revolutionise email marketing anytime soon. So for now, your time is better off spent learning how to write your own emails and campaigns, just like we teach our members inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject line is “Be less ‘Marie’” and we put the word ‘Marie’ in quotes because you always have to be a little careful when you do this type of thing. If the person receiving the email is called Marie (and you're likely to have a Marie or any other name you pick in your audience), then it might be a bit weird for them.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>But this particular story was about a real person named Marie, who was Rob’s best friend at one of his old workplaces. Rob and Marie lost touch for years and years until one day they bumped into each other again. So the idea was to be less ‘Marie’ in the sense that you shouldn’t lose touch with your subscribers.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/is-writing-therapeutic-benefits-of-writing-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Therapeutic Benefits of Writing Your Own Emails</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/essential-email-campaigns-examples/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">7 Essential Email Campaigns Examples For Your Business</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/write-better-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Little Tricks to Write Better Emails That Aren’t Boring</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the place Artificial Intelligence has in email marketing) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/artificial-intelligence-in-email-marketing-ai/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">e684f583-1bdb-4d1f-be62-a8daa8c7e74a</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/3aacb6bb-7f71-4ee1-85e4-c4a78f9d28a3/meIpGoqwB_d4Ncx9pwDcXPC-.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2022 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/c8905243-9579-4367-803b-55e04f33a803/final-converted.mp3" length="25342919" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>26:24</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>131</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>131</podcast:episode></item><item><title>The Therapeutic Benefits of Writing Your Own Emails</title><itunes:title>The Therapeutic Benefits of Writing Your Own Emails</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>This week we're talking about the therapeutic benefits of writing your own emails. Is writing therapeutic? Absolutely! And writing emails can be just as much a therapy for you as it is a sales-making activity. So let's break down all these cool therapeutic benefits of writing your own emails. </p><p>Ready?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:16) Want to get more sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(4:38) Fancy a 14-day FREE trial with Keap? (We give you TWO of our campaigns for FREE with it!)</p><p>(5:52) Write the emails you enjoy writing.</p><p>(8:53) Allow yourself to savour the moment.</p><p>(11:33) Train your brain to become more mindful.</p><p>(13:28) Create the habit of writing every day.</p><p>(15:46) Stop worrying about the technology - focus on the psychology!</p><p>(17:24) The commercial benefits of writing your emails.</p><p>(18:25 ) Be you!</p><p>(21:05) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool <em>and</em> free - we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p><br></p><p>That's why we're giving you <strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Writing emails can be fun!&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Let’s talk about why email writing (and generally the act of writing) can be therapeutic for you. Because writing emails is not just a sales mechanism! The reason why loads of people put off doing email marketing is that it sounds hard. It comes across as difficult, complicated, laborious, and maybe even boring. The key word here is that it <em>sounds like</em> it might be all these things. And we all want to do things that are easy, don’t we?</p><p><br></p><p>But here's what we're saying. <strong>You can turn something you’re currently putting off and think you might not like</strong> <strong>into something you enjoy!</strong></p><p><br></p><p>That'd be cool, right? So how do we do that? </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Write the emails you enjoy writing</strong></h3><p>The first thing you need to do is to <strong>write emails you enjoy writing</strong> – emails you would actually want to read. And that sounds a bit crazy because a lot of the emails in your inbox might look boring, formulaic, or braggy. But you don't want to write emails like that. And the great news is that <em>you don't have to</em>!</p><p><br></p><p>You can write better emails that will also help you stand out. You do that by writing the emails you'd like to read - the ones you enjoy. Because that means you'll enjoy the process and the&nbsp;<em>therapy</em> of writing. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Kennedy, for example, started writing daily emails because he’s dyslexic. He looked at the process as a way of working a muscle. If you exercise that muscle every day, over time you’re going to get better at using it. So he told everyone on his website that he’s dyslexic, and if you join his daily emails, there will be typos. It might be all over the place when it comes to spelling, but he promised the emails would be good and valuable.</p><p><br></p><p>So if you feel you're not great right now, the expectation of turning up 3-7 times a week with an email to your list will give you the&nbsp;motivation to show up and improve that skill. It’s a bit like having a personal trainer – it’s what will make you show up at the gym and do the work so you can improve your skills. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Allow yourself to savour the moment</strong></h3><p>Another benefit of writing emails is that it allows you to be present. The idea of mindfulness has become increasingly popular over the last few years. It's about being more mindful of what's going on in the present - living in the present moment. And <strong>one of the activities you can do to become more mindful is writing</strong>, which is why journaling is so popular. It's all about sitting down and writing privately to yourself about how you feel, what you're grateful for, what you've achieved or want to achieve, your goals, etc.</p><p><br></p><p>Granted, you might not want to share your private thoughts in the emails to your list - although we’re all about <strong>being open, honest, and real with your subscribers</strong>. We always encourage you to <strong>show them what’s going on in your life and start your emails with a story. </strong>And one of the things that this enables you to do is to become more mindful of what's going on in the world around you – to savour the moment and enjoy each thing that happens to you. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Going for a walk in the woods and allowing yourself to become more aware of what’s going on around you is a satisfying thing to do. When you focus on what's going on around you (the sound and sensation of your feet on the ground or the feeling of the breeze through the trees, for example), your brain can't worry about the big stuff that’s going on in your life. </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Train your brain to become more mindful</strong></h3><p>Rob, for example, likes to either write his emails using Google Drive or use the full-screen, distraction-free mode on his Mac, so he can write without seeing anything else - there are no other tabs open, and all he has in front of him is a screen. So he'll sit down and allow himself to <strong>get lost in the moment of writing the emails</strong>. It's almost as if he was writing to himself.</p><p><br></p><p>And <strong>when you write the&nbsp;emails you want to write and read yourself, it makes you more confident in what you send.</strong> You worry less about the quality of your emails, and this forces you to become more mindful of what’s going on in your everyday life.</p><p><br></p><p>Even though there’s nothing too exciting going on in our average day, we probably each come up with 5-10 things we could turn into an email. And that only happens because we've trained our brains to become more mindful of the things that are happening and to live more in the moment. And that also makes you more relaxed and less stressed.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Create the habit of writing every day</strong></h3><p>Another benefit of writing your own emails is that it allows you to become more consistent. It creates the habit of writing every day. And when you commit to something, it trains your brain to do it. You'll make it happen. And that can only mean positive things about the way you feel and think about yourself. In fact, it allows you to achieve more in your life, in your business, in your relationships – in everything you’re trying to do. And it's a great way of improving your own consistency through forging habits.</p><p><br></p><p>One of the things we recommend you do if you decide to send emails more regularly is to<strong> build a daily email writing habit into your life so you can end up with more emails than you'll ever send</strong>. Just imagine you’re going to send an email every day and write them daily, even if you’ve only committed to sending 3-5 emails a week. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>That’s good for two reasons:</p><ol><li>It means it means that if you’ve committed to sending 3 emails a week but you write 7, you end up with 4 emails as a backup that you can fall back on if anything goes wrong. You could tell your VA or anyone in your business to go and retrieve these emails and send them for you, in case you can’t do it yourself, for some reason.</li><li>The other reason is that if you’ve written 7 emails but only send out 3 a week, for example, you could choose your 3 favourite ones and only send out those.</li></ol><br/><p>Either way, you'll always be ahead.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Stop worrying about the technology - focus on the psychology!&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>And if you’re worried about the technology of email marketing, then don’t be! There are ways around that. You could write your emails in a Google Doc, for example, (like Kennedy does), and then have someone else in your business (in our case, Rob) send them for you.</p><p><br></p><p>Remember that <strong>every time you log into your email platform you’re adding more cognitive load and mental calories to the activity of sending your emails.</strong> You'll get carried away and distracted by the technology, rather than focusing on the psychology of it all, as you should. So while it’s important you’re the person creating that content, it doesn’t mean you have to be the one uploading it onto your email marketing platform and physically sending those emails.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>So write every day.</strong> Because that allows you to accrue ‘accidental savings’, much like one of those banking apps that round up your transaction to the nearest pound so you can add the rest to your savings account. Without even knowing or noticing, you accrue savings. And it’s the same if you get into this habit of writing daily, even if you then decide not to send out all those emails.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The commercial benefits of writing your emails</strong></h3><p>There are also commercial benefits to writing your emails. You'll get to improve your copywriting skills (not just your <em>writing</em> skills). And that's about your ability to write emails that get people to <em>feel things</em> or take action. By doing this more often, you’re going to become a better writer of copy that persuades and sells and you'll build your creativity muscle.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Plus, you’re going to improve your marketing savviness and find better <em>hooks</em> for your emails.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This week we're talking about the therapeutic benefits of writing your own emails. Is writing therapeutic? Absolutely! And writing emails can be just as much a therapy for you as it is a sales-making activity. So let's break down all these cool therapeutic benefits of writing your own emails. </p><p>Ready?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:16) Want to get more sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(4:38) Fancy a 14-day FREE trial with Keap? (We give you TWO of our campaigns for FREE with it!)</p><p>(5:52) Write the emails you enjoy writing.</p><p>(8:53) Allow yourself to savour the moment.</p><p>(11:33) Train your brain to become more mindful.</p><p>(13:28) Create the habit of writing every day.</p><p>(15:46) Stop worrying about the technology - focus on the psychology!</p><p>(17:24) The commercial benefits of writing your emails.</p><p>(18:25 ) Be you!</p><p>(21:05) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool <em>and</em> free - we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p><br></p><p>That's why we're giving you <strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Writing emails can be fun!&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Let’s talk about why email writing (and generally the act of writing) can be therapeutic for you. Because writing emails is not just a sales mechanism! The reason why loads of people put off doing email marketing is that it sounds hard. It comes across as difficult, complicated, laborious, and maybe even boring. The key word here is that it <em>sounds like</em> it might be all these things. And we all want to do things that are easy, don’t we?</p><p><br></p><p>But here's what we're saying. <strong>You can turn something you’re currently putting off and think you might not like</strong> <strong>into something you enjoy!</strong></p><p><br></p><p>That'd be cool, right? So how do we do that? </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Write the emails you enjoy writing</strong></h3><p>The first thing you need to do is to <strong>write emails you enjoy writing</strong> – emails you would actually want to read. And that sounds a bit crazy because a lot of the emails in your inbox might look boring, formulaic, or braggy. But you don't want to write emails like that. And the great news is that <em>you don't have to</em>!</p><p><br></p><p>You can write better emails that will also help you stand out. You do that by writing the emails you'd like to read - the ones you enjoy. Because that means you'll enjoy the process and the&nbsp;<em>therapy</em> of writing. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Kennedy, for example, started writing daily emails because he’s dyslexic. He looked at the process as a way of working a muscle. If you exercise that muscle every day, over time you’re going to get better at using it. So he told everyone on his website that he’s dyslexic, and if you join his daily emails, there will be typos. It might be all over the place when it comes to spelling, but he promised the emails would be good and valuable.</p><p><br></p><p>So if you feel you're not great right now, the expectation of turning up 3-7 times a week with an email to your list will give you the&nbsp;motivation to show up and improve that skill. It’s a bit like having a personal trainer – it’s what will make you show up at the gym and do the work so you can improve your skills. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Allow yourself to savour the moment</strong></h3><p>Another benefit of writing emails is that it allows you to be present. The idea of mindfulness has become increasingly popular over the last few years. It's about being more mindful of what's going on in the present - living in the present moment. And <strong>one of the activities you can do to become more mindful is writing</strong>, which is why journaling is so popular. It's all about sitting down and writing privately to yourself about how you feel, what you're grateful for, what you've achieved or want to achieve, your goals, etc.</p><p><br></p><p>Granted, you might not want to share your private thoughts in the emails to your list - although we’re all about <strong>being open, honest, and real with your subscribers</strong>. We always encourage you to <strong>show them what’s going on in your life and start your emails with a story. </strong>And one of the things that this enables you to do is to become more mindful of what's going on in the world around you – to savour the moment and enjoy each thing that happens to you. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Going for a walk in the woods and allowing yourself to become more aware of what’s going on around you is a satisfying thing to do. When you focus on what's going on around you (the sound and sensation of your feet on the ground or the feeling of the breeze through the trees, for example), your brain can't worry about the big stuff that’s going on in your life. </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Train your brain to become more mindful</strong></h3><p>Rob, for example, likes to either write his emails using Google Drive or use the full-screen, distraction-free mode on his Mac, so he can write without seeing anything else - there are no other tabs open, and all he has in front of him is a screen. So he'll sit down and allow himself to <strong>get lost in the moment of writing the emails</strong>. It's almost as if he was writing to himself.</p><p><br></p><p>And <strong>when you write the&nbsp;emails you want to write and read yourself, it makes you more confident in what you send.</strong> You worry less about the quality of your emails, and this forces you to become more mindful of what’s going on in your everyday life.</p><p><br></p><p>Even though there’s nothing too exciting going on in our average day, we probably each come up with 5-10 things we could turn into an email. And that only happens because we've trained our brains to become more mindful of the things that are happening and to live more in the moment. And that also makes you more relaxed and less stressed.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Create the habit of writing every day</strong></h3><p>Another benefit of writing your own emails is that it allows you to become more consistent. It creates the habit of writing every day. And when you commit to something, it trains your brain to do it. You'll make it happen. And that can only mean positive things about the way you feel and think about yourself. In fact, it allows you to achieve more in your life, in your business, in your relationships – in everything you’re trying to do. And it's a great way of improving your own consistency through forging habits.</p><p><br></p><p>One of the things we recommend you do if you decide to send emails more regularly is to<strong> build a daily email writing habit into your life so you can end up with more emails than you'll ever send</strong>. Just imagine you’re going to send an email every day and write them daily, even if you’ve only committed to sending 3-5 emails a week. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>That’s good for two reasons:</p><ol><li>It means it means that if you’ve committed to sending 3 emails a week but you write 7, you end up with 4 emails as a backup that you can fall back on if anything goes wrong. You could tell your VA or anyone in your business to go and retrieve these emails and send them for you, in case you can’t do it yourself, for some reason.</li><li>The other reason is that if you’ve written 7 emails but only send out 3 a week, for example, you could choose your 3 favourite ones and only send out those.</li></ol><br/><p>Either way, you'll always be ahead.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Stop worrying about the technology - focus on the psychology!&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>And if you’re worried about the technology of email marketing, then don’t be! There are ways around that. You could write your emails in a Google Doc, for example, (like Kennedy does), and then have someone else in your business (in our case, Rob) send them for you.</p><p><br></p><p>Remember that <strong>every time you log into your email platform you’re adding more cognitive load and mental calories to the activity of sending your emails.</strong> You'll get carried away and distracted by the technology, rather than focusing on the psychology of it all, as you should. So while it’s important you’re the person creating that content, it doesn’t mean you have to be the one uploading it onto your email marketing platform and physically sending those emails.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>So write every day.</strong> Because that allows you to accrue ‘accidental savings’, much like one of those banking apps that round up your transaction to the nearest pound so you can add the rest to your savings account. Without even knowing or noticing, you accrue savings. And it’s the same if you get into this habit of writing daily, even if you then decide not to send out all those emails.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The commercial benefits of writing your emails</strong></h3><p>There are also commercial benefits to writing your emails. You'll get to improve your copywriting skills (not just your <em>writing</em> skills). And that's about your ability to write emails that get people to <em>feel things</em> or take action. By doing this more often, you’re going to become a better writer of copy that persuades and sells and you'll build your creativity muscle.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Plus, you’re going to improve your marketing savviness and find better <em>hooks</em> for your emails. When we have coaching calls with our members inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, we find marketing hooks for their emails easily and quickly because by doing this a lot, we’ve built this muscle and this savviness.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Be you!</strong></h3><p>All of this allows you to write emails from a much more 'selfish' perspective. Not everyone is going to love your emails. Some people are going to unsubscribe because they don't want to hear about the stories you have to share. And that’s okay. Because the majority of people in your audience <em>do</em> want to hear them. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be there.</p><p><br></p><p>So there’s no point in tailoring your entire email marketing to be dry, dull, and boring just to suit the small number of people who only want to hear from you when you have a special offer. If you go for the approach of writing emails for yourself, you get to be yourself a lot more naturally.</p><p><br></p><p>Imagine your email list is your house. You have your own decoration and wallpaper - your own things. And if someone’s invited into your house, they can’t complain about any of it. If they didn't like it, they could have said no at the door. That’s what the unsubscribe button at the end of each email is for. It allows you to put up a little barrier. Because when you first get started with email marketing you worry about people complaining or unsubscribing and not liking what you share. Or responding back with mean things.</p><p><br></p><p>But remember that<strong> you’re doing this for <em>you</em>, not for <em>them</em></strong>. Email marketing isn't like social media. You don’t need to create content to please an algorithm that's based on the deep psychology of what the platform <em>thinks</em> people want to consume at that moment in time. With email marketing, it's not about creating content you don't want to create just so you can please the algorithm. <strong>You can write the emails that <em>you</em> want to read. And that will help you build the audience who will want to read your emails.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject line is “We got RUMBLED.” This email was about the fact we were planning the launch of our mastermind “Level up”, which was going to be made available to 15 people inside of <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. The idea was to have a big launch and some clever marketing around it, ready to go live in April.</p><p><br></p><p>But in the middle of January, somebody in one of our coaching calls asked us if we’d consider doing an accelerator mastermind. So we had to tell them there and then and sold out that mastermind in one and a half weeks. In the end, there was no marketing – we just announced it, and that was that. Hence the subject line, “We got RUMBLED.”</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/creative-ways-batch-your-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Creative Ways to Batch Your Emails</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/writing-email-every-day-vs-batch-writing-in-one-go/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Writing email every day vs batch writing in one go</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/writing-subject-lines-without-using-formulas/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Writing Subject Lines Without Using Formulas</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the therapeutic benefits of writing your own emails) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/the-therapeutic-benefits-of-writing-your-own-emails/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">7db56aad-aef4-43eb-81ba-5e4340917cf6</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/8c5c5d03-39d3-4766-bab3-0583fdb7f98f/ETL-FGaq8Efc7KMQrxGdrVWo.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2022 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/4b239a9a-1239-4b3a-9639-34c950ab1e74/final-converted.mp3" length="22053191" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>22:58</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>130</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>130</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How Cody Burch Increased Sales by Exactly 1,000% in 1 Month with Just 10 Emails</title><itunes:title>How Cody Burch Increased Sales by Exactly 1,000% in 1 Month with Just 10 Emails</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Today on the podcast we chat with Cody Burch. Cody is a member of <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> and helps course creators and membership site owners launch their programs with funnels and Facebook ads through agency done-for-you work, a membership, live events, and courses.&nbsp;He's here to tell us how he increased sales with email marketing <em>by a whopping 1,000%</em> just by implementing two of our campaigns. </p><p>Ready to have your mind absolutely blown?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:10) Want to get more sales from your email marketing? Grab our FREE download, Click Tricks.</p><p>(3:34) Fancy a 14-day FREE trial with Keap? (We give you TWO of our campaigns for FREE with it!)</p><p>(4:42) Cody's email marketing before he joined The League.</p><p>(11:44) Implementing our campaigns (and increasing sales by 1,000%!)</p><p>(17:57) Cody's success with the Time Lord campaign.</p><p>(20:22) How does Cody feel about his email marketing now?</p><p>(22:45) The one action that had the most impact on Cody's email marketing. </p><p>(24:28) What's next for Cody's email marketing? </p><p>(25:52) Has email marketing taken over Cody's life?</p><p>(28:03) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;free – we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p><br></p><p>That's why we're giving you&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Cody's email marketing before joining The League&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>When Cody started his business over 5 years ago, he didn’t have a funnel, an email list, or any presence on the Internet. It was only about a year later, when he wrote the book <a href="https://www.onehourfunnel.com/home" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The One Hour Funnel</a> to help people create their online lead capture system quickly, that he started collecting email addresses. His book has been one of the biggest list builders for Cody - one he's been using for years. </p><p><br></p><p>But while Cody was growing his list, he wasn't nurturing it. He wanted his emails to be perfect and was putting himself under so much pressure that he'd only send emails to his list sporadically and when he had something to promote.&nbsp;Even though the front end was working (and Cody was collecting leads through funnels and ads) his approach wasn’t structured - with no system or strategy behind it. He might promote something similar to what people had downloaded from him, but when that worked, it was random and lucky.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Nothing horrible was happening - he wasn't getting haters or huge amounts of unsubscribed. But soon enough, Cody realised there was a gap in his marketing. His front end was working, but he had no real plan on how to nurture his list. And that was until about a year ago when Cody downloaded our Daily Email Strategy (now the <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/des-open?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=des" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bottomless Email Strategy</a>) and from there he eventually joined our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What did Cody's emails to his list look like?</strong></h3><p>Cody's emails weren't story-based or personal – they were completely promotional. Whether it was Cody selling his own products or sharing affiliate links, there was no backstory or consistency with his emails. He would go so long without emailing that his subscribers probably forgot who he was, what he did, or what they'd downloaded from him.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And that's why people weren't opening Cody's emails or clicking his links with consistency. When somebody downloaded a lead magnet, Cody would send them three days' worth of emails trying to sell them the next relevant low-ticket offer, but other than that, he had no automation set up. His promotions were sporadic, and this meant he was making money in his business asymmetrically – people would opt-in and may or may not buy something from him over the next 6-12 months.&nbsp;But when he was asked what a new lead was worth to him in the first 30 days, Cody had no idea how to even track that.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>It wasn't until October 2021 that Cody committed to one email a day. And when he started doing that, everything Cody <em>thought</em> might happen <em>didn’t</em> happen, while everything we said would happen <em>did</em> happen! Amazing, right? Open rates, click-through rates, and replies went up, and he started receiving more and more replies from people saying that his emails spoke to them.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Implementing our campaigns&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>So we now know that Cody had a sporadic email strategy for about 3 years before joining our membership. After that, he started sending out 3 or 4 emails a day and getting more comfortable with the practice. But he still hadn't fully committed. As Cody described it, it was like a new baby giraffe learning how to walk.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Then finally in February 2022, Cody implemented the <strong>Getting to Know</strong> sequence (our welcome sequence) and deleted his original three-email sequence. Following that, in just one night he wrote the <strong>Overture</strong> sequence (which is one of our direct sales campaigns). </p><p><br></p><p>Since then, people who join Cody's list receive their lead magnet and over the 4-day email sequence, Cody informs them that he'll send a helpful piece of marketing advice every single day. People are of course free to unsubscribe, but if they choose to stay, they now know what to expect.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How Cody increased his sales after implementing our campaigns</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>When Cody looked at the data, he noticed that <strong>in January 2022</strong> (before implementing our campaigns), <strong>he made 10 low-ticket sales</strong>. This meant that, on average, one person every 3 days would buy from Cody. Then <strong>in February 2022, after implementing our campaigns, he made 110 low-ticket item sales, and then another 97 in March - for a total of 207 sales over the course of two months</strong>. That's now an average of 3 and a half people buying from Cody <em>per day</em>! And that's after he generates an average of 35 new leads per day via his Facebook ads.</p><p><br></p><p>In short, <strong>Cody spend around $7,500 on Facebook ads over the course of two months, and, for the first time ever, he generated $10,669 in revenue. </strong>The days of Cody making money asymmetrically are officially over! With a structure and a plan to nurture his leads, Cody makes money more consistently. He's also confident in the knowledge that while he spends money growing his list, he can also make that money back in no time. <strong>Cody is now <em>cash flow positive</em> on building his list</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Cody's success with the Time Lord campaign</strong></h3><p>Cody also shared the story of when he decided to invest in a $10,000 one-day consulting with a mentor, and after looking at his finances, he realised he was $3,000 short on being able to pay this amount upfront. So he decided to look inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> to see what resources he could use to generate that money, and he pulled out our <strong>Time Lord campaign</strong>. This sequence has a countdown clock within it and an incentive to sign up to an offer by a certain time. Long story short,<strong> that campaign <em>alone</em> made Cody $3,258 <em>in a week</em> </strong>in late December 2021, which meant Cody could pay for the mentoring he wanted.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>As a result of this, Cody now makes more offers. More often than not, he’ll hear success stories from other members of <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, look into what campaign they used, study it, and then figure out what he could sell with it. So Cody is more <em>proactive</em> with his email marketing – he makes better offers, he’s more creative with how he’s offering resources to his community, and he's been able to increase his subscribers' upsell average order value.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How does Cody feel about his email marketing now?</strong></h3><p>Cody feels great about his email marketing! He’s been emailing every day since the beginning of the year and hasn’t missed a day. He writes his email daily and is proud of being in the discipline of <em>collecting the dots and connecting the dots</em>. He gathers stories and experiences daily and then connects them to something that might be relevant to his audience and that shows some of his personality.</p><p><br></p><p>For Cody, it's just like working out a muscle. He uses Asana to collect his content marketing ideas and document everything there. So if he gets stuck at any point, he goes to his list of ideas, finds one that speaks to him, and uses it as a prompt to write his daily email.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Cody is also...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today on the podcast we chat with Cody Burch. Cody is a member of <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> and helps course creators and membership site owners launch their programs with funnels and Facebook ads through agency done-for-you work, a membership, live events, and courses.&nbsp;He's here to tell us how he increased sales with email marketing <em>by a whopping 1,000%</em> just by implementing two of our campaigns. </p><p>Ready to have your mind absolutely blown?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:10) Want to get more sales from your email marketing? Grab our FREE download, Click Tricks.</p><p>(3:34) Fancy a 14-day FREE trial with Keap? (We give you TWO of our campaigns for FREE with it!)</p><p>(4:42) Cody's email marketing before he joined The League.</p><p>(11:44) Implementing our campaigns (and increasing sales by 1,000%!)</p><p>(17:57) Cody's success with the Time Lord campaign.</p><p>(20:22) How does Cody feel about his email marketing now?</p><p>(22:45) The one action that had the most impact on Cody's email marketing. </p><p>(24:28) What's next for Cody's email marketing? </p><p>(25:52) Has email marketing taken over Cody's life?</p><p>(28:03) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;free – we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p><br></p><p>That's why we're giving you&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Cody's email marketing before joining The League&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>When Cody started his business over 5 years ago, he didn’t have a funnel, an email list, or any presence on the Internet. It was only about a year later, when he wrote the book <a href="https://www.onehourfunnel.com/home" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The One Hour Funnel</a> to help people create their online lead capture system quickly, that he started collecting email addresses. His book has been one of the biggest list builders for Cody - one he's been using for years. </p><p><br></p><p>But while Cody was growing his list, he wasn't nurturing it. He wanted his emails to be perfect and was putting himself under so much pressure that he'd only send emails to his list sporadically and when he had something to promote.&nbsp;Even though the front end was working (and Cody was collecting leads through funnels and ads) his approach wasn’t structured - with no system or strategy behind it. He might promote something similar to what people had downloaded from him, but when that worked, it was random and lucky.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Nothing horrible was happening - he wasn't getting haters or huge amounts of unsubscribed. But soon enough, Cody realised there was a gap in his marketing. His front end was working, but he had no real plan on how to nurture his list. And that was until about a year ago when Cody downloaded our Daily Email Strategy (now the <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/des-open?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=des" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bottomless Email Strategy</a>) and from there he eventually joined our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What did Cody's emails to his list look like?</strong></h3><p>Cody's emails weren't story-based or personal – they were completely promotional. Whether it was Cody selling his own products or sharing affiliate links, there was no backstory or consistency with his emails. He would go so long without emailing that his subscribers probably forgot who he was, what he did, or what they'd downloaded from him.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And that's why people weren't opening Cody's emails or clicking his links with consistency. When somebody downloaded a lead magnet, Cody would send them three days' worth of emails trying to sell them the next relevant low-ticket offer, but other than that, he had no automation set up. His promotions were sporadic, and this meant he was making money in his business asymmetrically – people would opt-in and may or may not buy something from him over the next 6-12 months.&nbsp;But when he was asked what a new lead was worth to him in the first 30 days, Cody had no idea how to even track that.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>It wasn't until October 2021 that Cody committed to one email a day. And when he started doing that, everything Cody <em>thought</em> might happen <em>didn’t</em> happen, while everything we said would happen <em>did</em> happen! Amazing, right? Open rates, click-through rates, and replies went up, and he started receiving more and more replies from people saying that his emails spoke to them.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Implementing our campaigns&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>So we now know that Cody had a sporadic email strategy for about 3 years before joining our membership. After that, he started sending out 3 or 4 emails a day and getting more comfortable with the practice. But he still hadn't fully committed. As Cody described it, it was like a new baby giraffe learning how to walk.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Then finally in February 2022, Cody implemented the <strong>Getting to Know</strong> sequence (our welcome sequence) and deleted his original three-email sequence. Following that, in just one night he wrote the <strong>Overture</strong> sequence (which is one of our direct sales campaigns). </p><p><br></p><p>Since then, people who join Cody's list receive their lead magnet and over the 4-day email sequence, Cody informs them that he'll send a helpful piece of marketing advice every single day. People are of course free to unsubscribe, but if they choose to stay, they now know what to expect.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How Cody increased his sales after implementing our campaigns</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>When Cody looked at the data, he noticed that <strong>in January 2022</strong> (before implementing our campaigns), <strong>he made 10 low-ticket sales</strong>. This meant that, on average, one person every 3 days would buy from Cody. Then <strong>in February 2022, after implementing our campaigns, he made 110 low-ticket item sales, and then another 97 in March - for a total of 207 sales over the course of two months</strong>. That's now an average of 3 and a half people buying from Cody <em>per day</em>! And that's after he generates an average of 35 new leads per day via his Facebook ads.</p><p><br></p><p>In short, <strong>Cody spend around $7,500 on Facebook ads over the course of two months, and, for the first time ever, he generated $10,669 in revenue. </strong>The days of Cody making money asymmetrically are officially over! With a structure and a plan to nurture his leads, Cody makes money more consistently. He's also confident in the knowledge that while he spends money growing his list, he can also make that money back in no time. <strong>Cody is now <em>cash flow positive</em> on building his list</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Cody's success with the Time Lord campaign</strong></h3><p>Cody also shared the story of when he decided to invest in a $10,000 one-day consulting with a mentor, and after looking at his finances, he realised he was $3,000 short on being able to pay this amount upfront. So he decided to look inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> to see what resources he could use to generate that money, and he pulled out our <strong>Time Lord campaign</strong>. This sequence has a countdown clock within it and an incentive to sign up to an offer by a certain time. Long story short,<strong> that campaign <em>alone</em> made Cody $3,258 <em>in a week</em> </strong>in late December 2021, which meant Cody could pay for the mentoring he wanted.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>As a result of this, Cody now makes more offers. More often than not, he’ll hear success stories from other members of <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, look into what campaign they used, study it, and then figure out what he could sell with it. So Cody is more <em>proactive</em> with his email marketing – he makes better offers, he’s more creative with how he’s offering resources to his community, and he's been able to increase his subscribers' upsell average order value.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How does Cody feel about his email marketing now?</strong></h3><p>Cody feels great about his email marketing! He’s been emailing every day since the beginning of the year and hasn’t missed a day. He writes his email daily and is proud of being in the discipline of <em>collecting the dots and connecting the dots</em>. He gathers stories and experiences daily and then connects them to something that might be relevant to his audience and that shows some of his personality.</p><p><br></p><p>For Cody, it's just like working out a muscle. He uses Asana to collect his content marketing ideas and document everything there. So if he gets stuck at any point, he goes to his list of ideas, finds one that speaks to him, and uses it as a prompt to write his daily email.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Cody is also getting a lot of positive feedback about his emails. He might be dismissive of his little stories sometimes, but people feel like they know him and know about his life. And getting feedback is extremely fulfilling – it means the world to people like Cody (and us!) who send lots of emails.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The one action that had the most impact on Cody’s email marketing</strong></h3><p>For Cody, the one thing that had the most impact was letting go of his idea of perfection. He thought his emails had to be perfect – that he couldn’t send an email until every single detail was taken care of. But that was just a false belief.</p><p><br></p><p>And Cody still finds that embarrassing to admit, considering it's what his book and podcast are all about. <strong>Things don't need to be perfect. It's about getting into the discipline of sending emails.</strong> So his top tip is to start sending an email every day with no judgement. Just hit publish with confidence because it won't be as bad as your imagination tells you.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What’s next for Cody’s email marketing?</strong></h3><p>Cody is now looking at ways to promote his live events and perhaps even a virtual summit through email marketing. So he has ideas for high-ticket items in the pipeline, but at the same time, he's continuously looking at increasing the average sale value for each subscriber.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>He's definitely committed to daily emails&nbsp;– he went from <em>wanting </em>to send more emails to <em>deciding</em> to send a daily email. And that switch that flipped in his brain means he's always going to find a way to send an email to his list every single day.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Has email marketing taken over Cody’s life?</strong></h3><p>Cody says his email marketing takes around 10-20 minutes a day to write and send an email. And that's because his ideas are already written down - otherwise, it'd take a lot longer! But now that he does this so often, he knows how to do it. He doesn’t do a lot of editing either – he just makes sure there aren’t any crazy typos in his emails and hits send.</p><p><br></p><p>Cody also told us he chooses not to batch his emails. He writes them daily because he feels they’re more in the moment and closer to what happened on the day or the day before. And he also recommended the book <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Storyworthy-Engage-Persuade-through-Storytelling/dp/1608685489" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Storyworthy</a>, which talks about what stories are worth talking about and how you can build connections with people.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject line of the week is “Can’t stop watching these videos on loop.” One of the things Rob tries to do with subject lines sometimes is to make it sound like the thing he’s referring to is <em>in</em> the email. But not in a way that makes them feel scammed or ripped off when they get into the email!</p><p><br></p><p>This particular email had Rob talking about the TikTok addition and the fact you can’t help but just watch one video on a loop and then watch the next one and the next one and then the next one... The subject line worked because it hinted at the fact there might be something for people to look at <em>inside</em> the email. And when people click through and read it, he's describing the videos first and then going into the lesson and the offer as he normally would.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><p><br></p><h5><strong>About Cody</strong></h5><p>If you want to connect with Cody you can find him on his <a href="https://codyburch.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">website</a>. If you enjoy the one-hour funnel idea on how to quickly build high-converting funnels, you can get a FREE copy of Cody’s book <a href="https://www.onehourfunnel.com/home" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/dan-greef-sending-simple-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How Dan Greef Made £9k in just 1 Day, Sending Simple Emails</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/sheilfg-email-marketing-case-study/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How Sheila Went from the Starting Blocks to Total Clarity – an Email Marketing Case Study</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/essential-email-campaigns-examples/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">7 Essential Email Campaigns Examples For Your Business</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our&nbsp;<strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong>&nbsp;(including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).&nbsp;<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the&nbsp;<strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to&nbsp;<strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how our amazing member Cody Burch increased sales with email marketing by a whopping 1,000%) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>leaving us a review&nbsp;</strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/increased-sales-with-email-marketing-cody-burch/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">5b9ea08d-ce4f-4bf0-8087-c65d23106069</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/ba0ecab8-544c-4096-8491-1e656a2ad2a7/iQ14PB962SWsKpurkQncN-tY.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2022 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/42624980-45ab-4a45-80b1-c215108017a7/final-converted.mp3" length="21707639" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>30:09</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>129</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>129</podcast:episode></item><item><title>What Emails Should You Send Your Paying Members? with Mike and Callie from Membership Geeks</title><itunes:title>What Emails Should You Send Your Paying Members? with Mike and Callie from Membership Geeks</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Today on the podcast, we chat with our friends Mike and Callie from Membership Geeks about the emails you send once people have joined your membership. Mike and Callie know <em>everything</em> about memberships, and they're sharing their best practice around email marketing for paying members. </p><p>This conversation is all about the importance of communicating with the people who are already <em>inside</em> your membership.&nbsp;And you definitely don't want to miss it! </p><p>Ready to discover the secret to serving your members through emails?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:13) Want to get more sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(3:46) Fancy a 14-day FREE trial with Keap?&nbsp;</p><p>(4:45) Did Mike really once perform magic in Vegas?</p><p>(6:54) Why email marketing is crucial for your paying members. </p><p>(9:15) Introducing the Weekly Digest email. </p><p>(10:42) Why the Weekly Digest is an awesome idea. </p><p>(13:46) Building relationships with your members. </p><p>(15:26) The benefits of segmenting your members. </p><p>(17:42) The key ingredients to the Weekly Digest. </p><p>(24:13) Subject line of the week with Mike and Callie.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;free – we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p><br></p><p>That's why we're giving you&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why email marketing is crucial for your paying members</strong></h3><p>Contrary to what a lot of people think, selling your membership isn't the finish line – it’s the starting pistol! That's right - it's not enough to get people inside your membership. Once they're there, you need to keep them subscribed - month after month and year after year. <strong>You need to market <em>beyond the sale</em> and give your members a reason to stay and use what they’re paying for. </strong>And the emails you send are critical in doing that.</p><p><br></p><p>The challenge here is that typically you have <em>a lot</em> to tell them about. You have logistical emails (like reminders for live calls), payment receipt emails, emails to let people know about new content, etc. As the membership site owner, you're going to take up a lot of your members’ inboxes. And all the prompts and reminders to come and get engaged with your membership can get drowned out.&nbsp;So the simplest solution is to send what Mike and Callie call a <em>Weekly Members Digest email</em>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The Weekly Digest email</strong></h3><p>This email is in addition to your welcome or onboarding sequence – it’s all about <em>marketing after the sale</em>. It’s what’s going to remind your members that you exist. Because often, when people first join a membership, they're excited and have a good look around. But then life gets in the way, weeks go by, and they haven't had a chance to log in again. </p><p><br></p><p>So the Weekly Digest helps you remind members that you exist. It brings them back to the site and gets them to log in and feel excited again. It also enables you, as the membership owner, to <strong>keep members up to date with any content you’ve just added and signpost future value</strong> by letting them know what’s going to happen in the following week, for example.</p><p><br></p><p>Plus, it's a chance to highlight your community and share your members' wins and progress, which in turn allows you to inspire and motivate more members. It's just <em>one</em> email, but it allows you to do a range of really cool things!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why the Weekly Digest is an awesome idea</strong></h3><p>It's important you send this email every week <em>on the same day and at the same time</em> – for Mike and Callie, it’s on a Saturday. That creates a routine for your members – a ritual and a habit. They go into their day expecting it, and if they spend no other time on your membership over the week, this is the trigger for them to go and log in.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>In essence, <strong>the Weekly Digest allows your members to realise the value of your membership</strong>, even if they don’t access it too often. It enables them to keep up to date even if they’re not currently in a position to consume your content.</p><p><br></p><p>With most memberships, there’s a lot of content being shared. So the Weekly Digest allows you to curate what you think they need to see in any given week. It also allows you to hand-pick the conversations that are happening in the community because otherwise, they might get lost.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And if you’re segmenting your members based on their interests, you can also use <em>conditional content</em> to direct them to certain conversations based on what you know they're interested in and what their needs are.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>The Weekly Digest helps your members get to the most important content for them as quickly as possible. </strong>It's a service you're providing them - you're offering the convenience of a shortcut in their inbox with the key information they need.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Building relationships with your members</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>Mike and Callie shared that there have been times when they were travelling and their Weekly Digest got delayed, and they had members asking if they were okay! So the minute you, as the membership site owner, miss that routine, that causes a pattern interrupt for people.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>The Weekly Digest ritual is a way to stay connected with members.</strong> It's why Mike and Callie have a paragraph at the start of their email that lets people into their world. They share what they’re doing and what they’ve been working on. </p><p><br></p><p>Plus, they invite members to share what <em>they</em>’re working on, and they get a lot of replies to this email. So <strong>the Weekly Digest is a way to maintain the connection and relationship with your members</strong>, so they don’t feel like a number and faceless people in the community. It means people are getting value <em>outside</em> of their membership too.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The benefits of segmenting your members</strong></h3><p>Mike and Callie tag people based on where they are in their journey. This means their members go through a roadmap. If someone's at a beginner level, Mike and Callie aren’t going to distract them by telling them about their Growth Mastermind, for example. But this means that the Weekly Digest isn’t the only email their members will receive during the week – there are others that signpost people to content that's specifically relevant to them.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Using a tag-driven CRM allows Mike and Callie to not only target the emails their members will receive on any given day but also to tailor the content of some of the sections in the Weekly Digest. Having a more granular approach to the emails that members receive means that not <em>everything</em> needs to be piled into the Weekly Digest.</p><p><br></p><p>And we love the fact that Mike and Callie send this email on a Saturday. Because that allows them to straddle the two weeks – you can tell members what happened last week and also what’s happening next week. It's brilliant!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The key ingredients to the Weekly Digest</strong></h3><p>Mike and Callie tell us there are a few key sections in the Weekly Digest that should be applicable to every membership.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>1. An introduction to your world</strong></h4><p>The first section of the Weekly Digest is an introduction where you let people know what’s going on in your world. This is important because it helps people build a relationship with you. It's also the perfect place to signpost anything that’s in the works - in other words, the <em>future value</em> of the membership.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>2. The What's New section</strong></h4><p>The second section focuses on what’s new. It highlights what people might have missed in the last week. But if you don't have anything new, this could be something specific, like a useful resource from the archives.</p><p><br></p><p>Or it could be topical content. For example, if the summer holidays are approaching, you could highlight a piece of existing content about how to handle your membership if you’re thinking of taking a break. It’s now new, but it’s relevant to your members <em>right now</em>. Or you could pull some curated content from your community that you think your members might find interesting or want to get involved in.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>3. The Wins section</strong></h4><p>Mike and Callie tell us this is one of the most important sections of your Weekly Digest. It's where you highlight members’ progress and wins. This obviously means you should have a way to collect these in your membership so you can shout out those members in your Weekly Digest. Doing this gives people a warm, fuzzy feeling because you’re recognising them and highlighting them to other members.</p><p><br></p><p>Psychologically, it also shows other members that when people get stuck in, they have success from using the content from your membership. Seeing other people do well encourages those who are struggling or haven't used the resources yet to keep going. <strong>It shows that the system works.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>And it provides context as well. Because often in the online business space people think that]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today on the podcast, we chat with our friends Mike and Callie from Membership Geeks about the emails you send once people have joined your membership. Mike and Callie know <em>everything</em> about memberships, and they're sharing their best practice around email marketing for paying members. </p><p>This conversation is all about the importance of communicating with the people who are already <em>inside</em> your membership.&nbsp;And you definitely don't want to miss it! </p><p>Ready to discover the secret to serving your members through emails?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:13) Want to get more sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(3:46) Fancy a 14-day FREE trial with Keap?&nbsp;</p><p>(4:45) Did Mike really once perform magic in Vegas?</p><p>(6:54) Why email marketing is crucial for your paying members. </p><p>(9:15) Introducing the Weekly Digest email. </p><p>(10:42) Why the Weekly Digest is an awesome idea. </p><p>(13:46) Building relationships with your members. </p><p>(15:26) The benefits of segmenting your members. </p><p>(17:42) The key ingredients to the Weekly Digest. </p><p>(24:13) Subject line of the week with Mike and Callie.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;free – we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p><br></p><p>That's why we're giving you&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why email marketing is crucial for your paying members</strong></h3><p>Contrary to what a lot of people think, selling your membership isn't the finish line – it’s the starting pistol! That's right - it's not enough to get people inside your membership. Once they're there, you need to keep them subscribed - month after month and year after year. <strong>You need to market <em>beyond the sale</em> and give your members a reason to stay and use what they’re paying for. </strong>And the emails you send are critical in doing that.</p><p><br></p><p>The challenge here is that typically you have <em>a lot</em> to tell them about. You have logistical emails (like reminders for live calls), payment receipt emails, emails to let people know about new content, etc. As the membership site owner, you're going to take up a lot of your members’ inboxes. And all the prompts and reminders to come and get engaged with your membership can get drowned out.&nbsp;So the simplest solution is to send what Mike and Callie call a <em>Weekly Members Digest email</em>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The Weekly Digest email</strong></h3><p>This email is in addition to your welcome or onboarding sequence – it’s all about <em>marketing after the sale</em>. It’s what’s going to remind your members that you exist. Because often, when people first join a membership, they're excited and have a good look around. But then life gets in the way, weeks go by, and they haven't had a chance to log in again. </p><p><br></p><p>So the Weekly Digest helps you remind members that you exist. It brings them back to the site and gets them to log in and feel excited again. It also enables you, as the membership owner, to <strong>keep members up to date with any content you’ve just added and signpost future value</strong> by letting them know what’s going to happen in the following week, for example.</p><p><br></p><p>Plus, it's a chance to highlight your community and share your members' wins and progress, which in turn allows you to inspire and motivate more members. It's just <em>one</em> email, but it allows you to do a range of really cool things!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why the Weekly Digest is an awesome idea</strong></h3><p>It's important you send this email every week <em>on the same day and at the same time</em> – for Mike and Callie, it’s on a Saturday. That creates a routine for your members – a ritual and a habit. They go into their day expecting it, and if they spend no other time on your membership over the week, this is the trigger for them to go and log in.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>In essence, <strong>the Weekly Digest allows your members to realise the value of your membership</strong>, even if they don’t access it too often. It enables them to keep up to date even if they’re not currently in a position to consume your content.</p><p><br></p><p>With most memberships, there’s a lot of content being shared. So the Weekly Digest allows you to curate what you think they need to see in any given week. It also allows you to hand-pick the conversations that are happening in the community because otherwise, they might get lost.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And if you’re segmenting your members based on their interests, you can also use <em>conditional content</em> to direct them to certain conversations based on what you know they're interested in and what their needs are.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>The Weekly Digest helps your members get to the most important content for them as quickly as possible. </strong>It's a service you're providing them - you're offering the convenience of a shortcut in their inbox with the key information they need.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Building relationships with your members</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>Mike and Callie shared that there have been times when they were travelling and their Weekly Digest got delayed, and they had members asking if they were okay! So the minute you, as the membership site owner, miss that routine, that causes a pattern interrupt for people.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>The Weekly Digest ritual is a way to stay connected with members.</strong> It's why Mike and Callie have a paragraph at the start of their email that lets people into their world. They share what they’re doing and what they’ve been working on. </p><p><br></p><p>Plus, they invite members to share what <em>they</em>’re working on, and they get a lot of replies to this email. So <strong>the Weekly Digest is a way to maintain the connection and relationship with your members</strong>, so they don’t feel like a number and faceless people in the community. It means people are getting value <em>outside</em> of their membership too.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The benefits of segmenting your members</strong></h3><p>Mike and Callie tag people based on where they are in their journey. This means their members go through a roadmap. If someone's at a beginner level, Mike and Callie aren’t going to distract them by telling them about their Growth Mastermind, for example. But this means that the Weekly Digest isn’t the only email their members will receive during the week – there are others that signpost people to content that's specifically relevant to them.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Using a tag-driven CRM allows Mike and Callie to not only target the emails their members will receive on any given day but also to tailor the content of some of the sections in the Weekly Digest. Having a more granular approach to the emails that members receive means that not <em>everything</em> needs to be piled into the Weekly Digest.</p><p><br></p><p>And we love the fact that Mike and Callie send this email on a Saturday. Because that allows them to straddle the two weeks – you can tell members what happened last week and also what’s happening next week. It's brilliant!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The key ingredients to the Weekly Digest</strong></h3><p>Mike and Callie tell us there are a few key sections in the Weekly Digest that should be applicable to every membership.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>1. An introduction to your world</strong></h4><p>The first section of the Weekly Digest is an introduction where you let people know what’s going on in your world. This is important because it helps people build a relationship with you. It's also the perfect place to signpost anything that’s in the works - in other words, the <em>future value</em> of the membership.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>2. The What's New section</strong></h4><p>The second section focuses on what’s new. It highlights what people might have missed in the last week. But if you don't have anything new, this could be something specific, like a useful resource from the archives.</p><p><br></p><p>Or it could be topical content. For example, if the summer holidays are approaching, you could highlight a piece of existing content about how to handle your membership if you’re thinking of taking a break. It’s now new, but it’s relevant to your members <em>right now</em>. Or you could pull some curated content from your community that you think your members might find interesting or want to get involved in.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>3. The Wins section</strong></h4><p>Mike and Callie tell us this is one of the most important sections of your Weekly Digest. It's where you highlight members’ progress and wins. This obviously means you should have a way to collect these in your membership so you can shout out those members in your Weekly Digest. Doing this gives people a warm, fuzzy feeling because you’re recognising them and highlighting them to other members.</p><p><br></p><p>Psychologically, it also shows other members that when people get stuck in, they have success from using the content from your membership. Seeing other people do well encourages those who are struggling or haven't used the resources yet to keep going. <strong>It shows that the system works.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>And it provides context as well. Because often in the online business space people think that in order to do well you have to be doing 7 or 8 figures. But actually, <strong>it’s about celebrating the small wins as well as the big ones</strong>. When people get over a roadblock and experience success after being stuck for months, for example, that’s worth celebrating. So <strong>this section contextualises the notion of success for your members.</strong> And it gives permission (and a little nudge) to those members, who perhaps aren't quite as actively engaged, to share.</p><p><br></p><p>As for you, the membership site owner, it gives you the chance to talk about how great your members are and how well your membership is doing for them, rather than talking about yourself all the time. <strong>The wins section highlights the community element of your membership, and communities thrive on engagement</strong>. All communities have 'passive members' who might read other people's posts but don't share their own. And when they’re continuously signposted to existing discussions or wins from others, it encourages them to come out of the woodwork and get involved too.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week with Mike and Callie</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject line is one that gave Mike and Callie their first hater, who took the time to reply to them and explain over many paragraphs why they hate Mike and Callie. And the subject line was no other than, “Do you remember your first time?”</p><p><br></p><p>It was about the first time you joined a membership and had a great experience. But this person took great offense and called Mike and Callie ‘idiotic boomers’ who didn’t know a thing about marketing. Funny, huh?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Mike and Callie&nbsp;</strong></h5><p><br></p><p>If you want to connect with Mike and Callie, you can find them on their <a href="https://www.membershipgeeks.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">website</a>, where they have a lot of free content and resources, including their <a href="https://www.membershipgeeks.com/podcast/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">podcast</a>. And if you want to check out their membership, it's called <a href="https://www.membershipacademy.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Membership Academy</a>, and (guess what?) it's about all things memberships!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/turn-problems-into-opportunities-haters-to-sales-talking-shrimp/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Turn Problems into Opportunities – Convert Haters into Sales with Laura Belgray from The Talking Shrimp</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/onboarding-emails-examples/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Onboarding Emails Examples for your Online Course</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/create-urgency-without-product-launches/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Create Urgency For an Evergreen Membership or Course Without Product Launches</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our&nbsp;<strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong>&nbsp;(including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).&nbsp;<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the&nbsp;<strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to&nbsp;<strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about email marketing for paying members) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>leaving us a review&nbsp;</strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-paying-members/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">9df9f5d3-29d5-40c1-a0f8-251ae7aced84</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/b1c3b492-66a1-4889-ad92-1eedcb74745b/k49HB12evUNaMsaikYUu7RJE.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2022 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/f174c34f-5d96-4f79-b06a-2b98a253303f/final-202-converted.mp3" length="19845719" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>27:34</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>128</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>128</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Behind The Scenes of our Business Strategy Session in Manchester</title><itunes:title>Behind The Scenes of our Business Strategy Session in Manchester</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>This week we're giving you something a little different - something that has less to do with email marketing and a lot more to do with how to run a business strategy session for your business. And to help you do just that, we're taking you behind the scenes of our own business strategy weekend in Manchester.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to be inspired? Because this will no doubt help you come up with some <em>great</em> ideas for your own business. </p><p>&nbsp;<strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:24) Want to get more sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(4:00) Fancy a 14-day FREE trial with Keap? </p><p>(5:04) Booking our business strategy session 'weekend'.</p><p>(9:59) Creating the agenda for our business strategy session.</p><p>(11:36) Are you the bottleneck in your business? </p><p>(14:55) Creating an 'organisational chart' of our staff.</p><p>(18:19) The Love - Happy - Hate exercise.</p><p>(20:59) Create the business YOU want.</p><p>(29:27) Working less IN the business and more ON it. </p><p>(36:09) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool <em>and</em> free - we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p>That's why we're giving you <strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Our business strategy session 'weekend'</strong></h3><p>A few months ago, we booked an Airbnb in Manchester to run our very first business strategy session. We went for two days during the week, but we like to call it a 'weekend'. Because, why not?  </p><p><br></p><p>This trip obviously came to a cost, but we wanted to give ourselves a bit of a treat and also get value from the experience.  So we booked first-class train tickets and picked an apartment over a budget hotel. Why? Because we wanted somewhere comfortable and not cut any corners. We <em>invested</em> in this, and that put us in the mindset of working hard for it.</p><p><br></p><p>We chose a place where we could get our heads down and do a lot of work - rather than sitting with bits of paper on a bed. Our apartment had three different areas we could work in. And that meant we could keep ourselves refreshed and our brains active instead of being trapped in a tiny room. </p><p><br></p><p>Why Manchester? Because we purposely chose to be away from home. We wanted to get into a different mindset - think about the business in a different way. And why not make this a bit of a holiday, too? We made some time for fun, always went out to eat (rather than cooking in the apartment), and had a nice meal and some cocktails too.</p><p><br></p><p>Another thing we did was to ask our team not to contact us unless something was on fire. Our CTO could contact us in case of an emergency, of course. But otherwise, we signed off from Slack for two days. And this gave our team some independence but also ensured we weren’t going to deal with day-to-day business questions and issues.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Creating the agenda for our business strategy session</strong></h3><p>On the lead-up to our business strategy session, we both kept a Google Document where we listed things to discuss in Manchester. What did we put on there? We added anything that we felt was problematic in the business, like things that we were doing that we thought perhaps we shouldn't do. But we were also on the lookout for opportunities for growth - ways to maximise the profitability of the business.</p><p><br></p><p>So we started with a very disorganised agenda for this meeting. And on the way to Manchester, we condensed it down and categorised all the items into sections. </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Are you the bottleneck in your business?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>The main thing we wanted to discuss was the fact we both felt we'd been the bottleneck in our business. We wanted to understand whether that was true and then figure out how to change this. For example, we were approving every graphic for the podcast or social media, every sales page, every lead magnet, etc. There were lots of areas in our business where our staff always seemed to be waiting for us because of how we'd set things up.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Everything felt slower than it needed to be, and we felt bad for it. Plus, we worried that this could end up affecting our members and customers. It never did (because we’re both acutely aware of customer experience), but as we continue to grow our business and serve more customers, we knew these problems would only be amplified. So we started looking at the systems and people to ensure these issues wouldn’t escalate. And this is something worth remembering for anyone running a business – <strong>any issues you have now are only going to be amplified as your business grows.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Ultimately the whole responsibility for our business lies with us. But during our time away we started looking at ways to delegate some of the day-to-day responsibilities so that all the decisions and checking of various areas of our business wouldn’t be with us anymore. In other words, we started thinking about how we could empower the people in our team to make decisions, own elements of the business, and have more responsibility. And this was easy because our staff is made of people we have <em>chosen</em> - people who are excellent and who we trust fully.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Creating an 'organisational chart' of our staff</strong>&nbsp;</h3><p>In order to be able to make changes to our team so we didn't have everyone reporting to us, we mapped out all our staff members. Considering we're a small business, we have quite a large team. And there's a strategic reason for that. We used to have a very lean team, which meant the few people in our team had a lot of responsibilities. And when they let, they left a big hole in our business.</p><p><br></p><p>So now we take a different approach and have more people who focus on specific aspects of the business. The downside is that everyone would report to us, which put us in charge of all the micro-decisions in the business. And this was a mistake. A consequence of the fact that we were growing - and not just financially. We'd been adding more elements to our business (pushing Instagram more, growing our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, our Facebook community, etc.), and that meant our team had been growing too.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So we created drew a hierarchy of our staff, even though we don't like to think of our team this way. Because our staff is in charge - they manage us and keep us in check, so we don't see ourselves as being above them. But this exercise allowed us to figure out who needed to report to us and who didn't.</p><p><br></p><p>And our advice to you would be to <strong>reduce the number of people who directly work with you and put others in charge.</strong> We started that process a while back, but a few months in we're still working on implementing that plan. And that's because it takes time to unpack the thought processes in your head, give them to someone else, and have them feel confident and competent in being able to run things.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The Love - Happy - Hate exercise</strong></h3><p>The next thing we did was an exercise we call <em>Love - Happy - Hate</em>. This is something we'd never done together, even though we’ve been friends for about 20 years! We never had deep conversations about what makes us happy, what we want, or what our weaknesses are.</p><p><br></p><p>So for this exercise, we divided a piece of paper into three columns under the headings <em>Love, Happy, and Hate</em>.&nbsp;And then it's pretty simple.&nbsp;In the <em>Love</em> column, you list the things you love doing in the business. For us, this is things like hosting our online coaching calls inside our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, for example.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>In the <em>Happy</em> column, you list the things you’re happy to do. These are things you don’t love or hate, but if you have no one else in your business who can do them (or can't afford to outsource them), you're happy enough to do them yourself.</p><p><br></p><p>And in the <em>Hate</em> column, you list the things you hate doing. For us, it's bookkeeping and accountancy. And thankfully, we already have people who take care of that. These are almost non-negotiables – things you're <em>not</em> prepared to do yourself.</p><p><br></p><p>This exercise led us to some interesting revelations about ourselves, each other, and our individual strengths and weaknesses. And that cemented the fact that we are quite different in terms of the lifestyle we want and the things that make us fulfilled and happy.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Create the business YOU want&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>So even if there's no one else in your business, this is an exercise worth doing. And if you have business partners or members of staff, by all means, do this with them because it’s important to decide what <em>you</em> want. Often, our businesses are shaped around what we need at the time.</p><p><br></p><p>Let's say you have to make some cash and fast, for example. You might start selling Power Hours. And that works to an extent, but before you know it, you're having more Power Hours than you can handle, and you become the bottleneck in your...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This week we're giving you something a little different - something that has less to do with email marketing and a lot more to do with how to run a business strategy session for your business. And to help you do just that, we're taking you behind the scenes of our own business strategy weekend in Manchester.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to be inspired? Because this will no doubt help you come up with some <em>great</em> ideas for your own business. </p><p>&nbsp;<strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:24) Want to get more sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(4:00) Fancy a 14-day FREE trial with Keap? </p><p>(5:04) Booking our business strategy session 'weekend'.</p><p>(9:59) Creating the agenda for our business strategy session.</p><p>(11:36) Are you the bottleneck in your business? </p><p>(14:55) Creating an 'organisational chart' of our staff.</p><p>(18:19) The Love - Happy - Hate exercise.</p><p>(20:59) Create the business YOU want.</p><p>(29:27) Working less IN the business and more ON it. </p><p>(36:09) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool <em>and</em> free - we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p>That's why we're giving you <strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Our business strategy session 'weekend'</strong></h3><p>A few months ago, we booked an Airbnb in Manchester to run our very first business strategy session. We went for two days during the week, but we like to call it a 'weekend'. Because, why not?  </p><p><br></p><p>This trip obviously came to a cost, but we wanted to give ourselves a bit of a treat and also get value from the experience.  So we booked first-class train tickets and picked an apartment over a budget hotel. Why? Because we wanted somewhere comfortable and not cut any corners. We <em>invested</em> in this, and that put us in the mindset of working hard for it.</p><p><br></p><p>We chose a place where we could get our heads down and do a lot of work - rather than sitting with bits of paper on a bed. Our apartment had three different areas we could work in. And that meant we could keep ourselves refreshed and our brains active instead of being trapped in a tiny room. </p><p><br></p><p>Why Manchester? Because we purposely chose to be away from home. We wanted to get into a different mindset - think about the business in a different way. And why not make this a bit of a holiday, too? We made some time for fun, always went out to eat (rather than cooking in the apartment), and had a nice meal and some cocktails too.</p><p><br></p><p>Another thing we did was to ask our team not to contact us unless something was on fire. Our CTO could contact us in case of an emergency, of course. But otherwise, we signed off from Slack for two days. And this gave our team some independence but also ensured we weren’t going to deal with day-to-day business questions and issues.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Creating the agenda for our business strategy session</strong></h3><p>On the lead-up to our business strategy session, we both kept a Google Document where we listed things to discuss in Manchester. What did we put on there? We added anything that we felt was problematic in the business, like things that we were doing that we thought perhaps we shouldn't do. But we were also on the lookout for opportunities for growth - ways to maximise the profitability of the business.</p><p><br></p><p>So we started with a very disorganised agenda for this meeting. And on the way to Manchester, we condensed it down and categorised all the items into sections. </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Are you the bottleneck in your business?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>The main thing we wanted to discuss was the fact we both felt we'd been the bottleneck in our business. We wanted to understand whether that was true and then figure out how to change this. For example, we were approving every graphic for the podcast or social media, every sales page, every lead magnet, etc. There were lots of areas in our business where our staff always seemed to be waiting for us because of how we'd set things up.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Everything felt slower than it needed to be, and we felt bad for it. Plus, we worried that this could end up affecting our members and customers. It never did (because we’re both acutely aware of customer experience), but as we continue to grow our business and serve more customers, we knew these problems would only be amplified. So we started looking at the systems and people to ensure these issues wouldn’t escalate. And this is something worth remembering for anyone running a business – <strong>any issues you have now are only going to be amplified as your business grows.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Ultimately the whole responsibility for our business lies with us. But during our time away we started looking at ways to delegate some of the day-to-day responsibilities so that all the decisions and checking of various areas of our business wouldn’t be with us anymore. In other words, we started thinking about how we could empower the people in our team to make decisions, own elements of the business, and have more responsibility. And this was easy because our staff is made of people we have <em>chosen</em> - people who are excellent and who we trust fully.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Creating an 'organisational chart' of our staff</strong>&nbsp;</h3><p>In order to be able to make changes to our team so we didn't have everyone reporting to us, we mapped out all our staff members. Considering we're a small business, we have quite a large team. And there's a strategic reason for that. We used to have a very lean team, which meant the few people in our team had a lot of responsibilities. And when they let, they left a big hole in our business.</p><p><br></p><p>So now we take a different approach and have more people who focus on specific aspects of the business. The downside is that everyone would report to us, which put us in charge of all the micro-decisions in the business. And this was a mistake. A consequence of the fact that we were growing - and not just financially. We'd been adding more elements to our business (pushing Instagram more, growing our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, our Facebook community, etc.), and that meant our team had been growing too.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So we created drew a hierarchy of our staff, even though we don't like to think of our team this way. Because our staff is in charge - they manage us and keep us in check, so we don't see ourselves as being above them. But this exercise allowed us to figure out who needed to report to us and who didn't.</p><p><br></p><p>And our advice to you would be to <strong>reduce the number of people who directly work with you and put others in charge.</strong> We started that process a while back, but a few months in we're still working on implementing that plan. And that's because it takes time to unpack the thought processes in your head, give them to someone else, and have them feel confident and competent in being able to run things.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The Love - Happy - Hate exercise</strong></h3><p>The next thing we did was an exercise we call <em>Love - Happy - Hate</em>. This is something we'd never done together, even though we’ve been friends for about 20 years! We never had deep conversations about what makes us happy, what we want, or what our weaknesses are.</p><p><br></p><p>So for this exercise, we divided a piece of paper into three columns under the headings <em>Love, Happy, and Hate</em>.&nbsp;And then it's pretty simple.&nbsp;In the <em>Love</em> column, you list the things you love doing in the business. For us, this is things like hosting our online coaching calls inside our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, for example.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>In the <em>Happy</em> column, you list the things you’re happy to do. These are things you don’t love or hate, but if you have no one else in your business who can do them (or can't afford to outsource them), you're happy enough to do them yourself.</p><p><br></p><p>And in the <em>Hate</em> column, you list the things you hate doing. For us, it's bookkeeping and accountancy. And thankfully, we already have people who take care of that. These are almost non-negotiables – things you're <em>not</em> prepared to do yourself.</p><p><br></p><p>This exercise led us to some interesting revelations about ourselves, each other, and our individual strengths and weaknesses. And that cemented the fact that we are quite different in terms of the lifestyle we want and the things that make us fulfilled and happy.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Create the business YOU want&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>So even if there's no one else in your business, this is an exercise worth doing. And if you have business partners or members of staff, by all means, do this with them because it’s important to decide what <em>you</em> want. Often, our businesses are shaped around what we need at the time.</p><p><br></p><p>Let's say you have to make some cash and fast, for example. You might start selling Power Hours. And that works to an extent, but before you know it, you're having more Power Hours than you can handle, and you become the bottleneck in your business. Power Hours aren't scalable, and you realise you have a business on your hands that isn't what you wanted. This is an extreme example, but it happens.</p><p><br></p><p>So <strong>make sure you’re creating the business and life you want, rather than doing the things you have to do in order to pay the bills.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>For us, one of the things we both like to do is travelling. So during our business strategy session we agreed to shape the business in a way that allows us to travel. That’s how we decided to do a Mastermind in the States, for example. And we decided that at the back of paying attention to what we love doing and what we want out of our business.</p><p><br></p><p>Plus, we also decided we wanted to get paid better because we’re not the best-paid people in our business. We have team members and agencies who work with us who get paid a lot more. So another thing to consider is whether you're paying yourself enough. You are, after all, the business owner, the founder, and the thought leader.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Looking at the different parts of your business</strong></h3><p>The next thing we did was to look at the different parts of our business. So we have our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, our <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/agency" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">email writing agency</a>, a series of standalone products, and an idea for a mastermind. We looked at how things are working in each of these areas and how much effort is going into them.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Then we considered each area to check whether it was profitable, for example - and not just in cash terms. It’s important to take into account both money <em>and</em> time. So for the effort we put in, are we getting a good return? What's broken and what needs fixing? Is there anything that isn’t working or that we want to get rid of?</p><p><br></p><p>For example, in 2021 we spent a lot of money on Facebook ads and lost thousands of dollars. So we decided to stop doing ads and instead amplify the things that are already working for us. Do you have any products, services, or marketing channel activities that you'd like to make a conscious decision to step away from?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Mapping out the future</strong></h3><p>Then we mapped out on a huge sheet of flip chart paper where we're going as a business and where we want to be in three years from now. Because believe it or not, we'd never sat down to figure out what would be a good outcome, where we’d like to be, or where we think we need to be at the end of this year in order to be on track.</p><p><br></p><p>And then we looked at what needs to happen in the business. We considered all the moving parts we need to operate in order for everything to be effective. And by the end of the two days, we left with 5 or 6 bits of paper which we took photographs of and stuck into Google Drive.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Working less IN the business and more ON it&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>When we got home at the end of the two days we felt we'd had a break from working <em>in</em> the business. And this made us realise that we were indeed working <em>in</em> the business probably 80% more than what we wanted to. We haven't been able to step back that much - not yet. We're still very much under the hood in the business.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And the reason why we want to work less <em>in</em> the business is that we think we can have more of an impact <em>on</em> it if we do. We can focus on more creative aspects that will help us reach more people and improve <em>their</em> sales through the email marketing strategies we teach. Working less<em> in</em> the business will allow us to have the mental bandwidth to focus on those bigger-picture things, while our staff deals with the day-to-day operations.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Being less <em>in</em> the business doesn’t mean we don’t want to talk to customers anymore – quite the opposite, in fact! We want to understand our customers <em>more</em> and be fully immersed in thinking about how we can supply even more amazing campaigns for members of <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> and better serve our community.</p><p><br></p><p>But we can only do that if we’re not being pulled in the minutiae of the business. Otherwise, it's hard to maintain the bigger-picture clarity we need in order to make sure the business is sailing in the right direction.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Our staff doesn't need us!</strong></h4><p>At the end of the two days, we reflected on our business strategy session and checked in on Slack. We'd expected to have dozens and dozens of messages and notifications pouring in about things that weren’t working and needed our attention. But interestingly, that didn’t happen. In fact, there were fewer messages than we would have had on any other 2-day period.</p><p><br></p><p>And that made us realise our staff didn’t need us that much - not if we weren’t available. It was a big <em>ha-ha</em> moment for us - probably no surprise to our staff, who knew they could do this all along. They didn’t need us as much, but we'd made ourselves involved in a lot of things we shouldn't have.</p><p><br></p><p>So if you've never had a business strategy session (or haven’t had one for a while), book yourself into a two-day trip away from your business and the environment you’re normally in and try this. Go somewhere where you won't be pulled into any of the day-to-day work because the key is to stay focused on what you’re trying to achieve. And the more you immerse yourself in this exercise, the better the results are going to be.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject line is “Joy 1, Numbers 1”. So the concept of this email from Kennedy to his list of magicians was that there are things in your business that you enjoy - so that's one score for <em>Joy</em>. And sometimes there are things you don’t enjoy, like (for Kennedy) - 'numbers stuff'. But you still have to do these tasks in order to be able to do the things that bring you joy.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So the way you could use this concept in your own subject line would be to pick two things that you can give scores to - just like you'd do in sports. It could be any two things you want. And it’s an interesting way of grabbing people’s attention with some numbers in the subject line.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/week-in-the-life-email-marketing-heroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">SPECIAL 100TH EPISODE: A Week in The Life at Email Marketing Heroes (Behind The Scenes with Rob &amp; Kennedy)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-agency/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why We Started an Email Marketing Agency</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/who-should-do-your-email-marketing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Who Should Do Your Email Marketing?</a></p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p><br></p><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p><br></p><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p><br></p><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p><br></p><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/business-strategy-session-manchester/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">f112bf9a-9e42-4023-b5c3-ba0fb9434085</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/10015ae7-e07f-4d4e-a69f-e64ebeeaa072/bFpPyA6ARNNPUTEQqCmxGPnU.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2022 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/9c6c3258-e28d-4014-99b4-a1a9a698d022/final-mp3-converted.mp3" length="36515399" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>38:02</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>127</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>127</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How Martin and Lyndsay 10x&apos;d Their Website Visitors in Less Than A Year, The Jammy Digital Way</title><itunes:title>How Martin and Lyndsay 10x&apos;d Their Website Visitors in Less Than A Year, The Jammy Digital Way</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Today on the podcast, we chat with our friends Martin and Lyndsay from Jammy Digital who told us all about using your blog and leveraging Google to build a whopper of an email list.&nbsp;So if you think blogging is dead, have tried and failed to start and maintain a blog (much like us), but want to understand how to use blogging for email list building, you just HAVE TO check this interview out.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to learn some tricks that will completely change the way you look at blogging?&nbsp;</p><p>Let's do this!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(:) Want to get more sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(:) Fancy a 14-day FREE trial with Keap?&nbsp;</p><p>(:) Did Martin and Lyndsay really meet at the Peter Pan ride queue at Disneyland Paris?</p><p>(:) The benefits of turning podcast show notes into blog posts.</p><p>(:) How to make your business blog more effective.</p><p>(:) How to come up with effective blog post ideas.</p><p>(:) What if you don't like writing?</p><p>(:) How can your blog posts be found on Google?</p><p>(:) How often should you blog in order for your efforts to be effective?</p><p>(:) Subject line of the week with Martin and Lyndsday from Jammy Digital.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;free – we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p><br></p><p>That's why we're giving you&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The benefits of turning podcast show notes into blog posts</strong></h3><p>As you probably know, we’ve been podcasting for a while. In the past, we tried different types of show notes to see what would work well, but over the last year we've been providing a blog post for each podcast episode (yep - that's the one you're reading right now) that people can skim-read. This is perfect for anyone who doesn't like listening to podcasts or can't at a particular point in time. This in-depth article allows anyone to still access the information, even if they don't listen to the podcast. Pretty cool, right?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So this is great in terms of user experience, but also, from our point of view, we've definitely noticed a rise in traffic from the search engines. And as a result, we're getting more people opting into our email list (because we give our readers plenty of opportunities to do this while they read our content). And that's because when it comes to search engines, podcasts aren't massively discoverable when it comes to individual episodes. Google likes written content a lot more, so <strong>it's about leveraging what the search engines favour in order to make your content more accessible.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Repurpose your content to achieve your business goals</strong></h4><p>So it's not just a matter of content repurposing. It's about tapping into what's going to make the biggest difference in terms of what you're trying to accomplish. And that's different for every business. But for Martin and Lyndsay, as well as for us, it’s about getting more email subscribers and building an audience of people that you can pre-qualify. How? They’re consuming your content. So they know you’re right for them. And that's why they’re comfortable handing over their email address to get more content from you. And creating written content (over podcast or video) is the best way to do this.</p><p><br></p><p>So let's say you do create other types of content - a podcast, a YouTube channel, or do a lot of Facebook lives. Should you drop everything to start a blog? Absolutely not! You can do what we did - we didn't <em>add</em> blogging as an extra piece of work we do. Instead, we continued to produce our podcast and a member of our team takes that episode and turns it into a blog from the same piece of content. And then you can easily embed these different pieces of content into your blog, which is a piece of web real estate that you own.</p><p><br></p><h3>How to make your business blog more effective</h3><p>If you have a blog, there are ways to make it more effective and attract more visitors. And the main tip Martin and Lyndsay have to help you be found on Google is to <strong>answer the questions your customers and audience are asking you</strong>. Sometimes these questions can make us uncomfortable, especially when they're around price. But being upfront and answering them means you’re going to get found on Google.&nbsp; And that's because you know people are searching for this information, and your competitors might not be answering them and choose to shy away from those topics. So you're more likely to get rankings and traffic that way.</p><p><br></p><p>You can address the questions people have in the decision-making stage, for example. They're trying to decide which option to go with, and a lot of businesses don't focus on this. Instead, they create content that tends to fit into the awareness stage of the buyer’s journey. So answering these types of questions can help you stand out. By all means, try and find the balance between creating content that sits at the awareness stage of the buyer's journey <em>and</em> the decision-making stage too.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>What about keyword research tools?&nbsp;</strong></h4><p>Martin and Lyndsay told us that a lot of people rely on tools and try and mimic what big brands do in terms of creating long lists for their blogs. But when you try and compete with big companies, you’re going to find ranking more difficult. So instead, .<strong>focus on what your customers are asking. That gives you better chances of standing out</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>There might be scenarios where you get asked a question by several clients, but when you look it up on the keyword research tools, you might find it's not a popular keyword. And yet you know it's a question real people have! So remember that <strong>customers come before the data</strong>. They are the first point of call for communication and letting you know what people are struggling with.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to come up with effective blog post ideas</strong></h3><p>Martin and Lyndsay recommend keeping a clean notebook at your desk so every time you have any kind of communication with a client, you can record it in your content book. Content ideas are everywhere - in the emails you receive and the questions people have. <strong>Everything is a content opportunity.</strong> And when you start to train your brain to look for them, you'll find them everywhere. The more you’re aware of it you are (and the more you look for ideas), the more you'll find.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So look at any communication you've had with your clients in the past and instead of answering questions individually, answer them in a blog post. That's more efficient. It makes everything faster - even sales calls. Be conscious of them and keep a record of them, and your list of ideas will grow quickly.&nbsp;And in addition to that, there are tools you can use, such as Answer the Public or Quora, for example. Right now you might feel stuck for ideas, but once you start this simple process, you’ll end up with loads!</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What if you don’t like writing?</strong></h3><p>Martin isn't a keen writer himself, he told us. But when he started writing blog posts for their business, he chose the strategy to be as direct as possible. He didn’t try to be overly fluffy with the writing - he simply focused on explaining the exact steps to someone who doesn’t know anything about the process. He wasn’t trying to be clever with words. Instead, he wanted to give people direct information.</p><p><br></p><p>So he got his head down every week and produced a piece of content. And soon enough he realised the blog posts were longer than he initially expected them to be. Because when you go all-in on answering a particular question, you end up giving all the necessary information in your blog post.</p><p><br></p><p>Some people think they should only share <em>some</em> of their knowledge, in order to get people to hire them and pay for the rest. But Martin and Lyndsay think you should let go of this mindset completely. There's no shortage of information on the Internet. So if you can be that person – that hub of knowledge for your audience – then go all in and hold nothing back. People will still pay you for implementation and extra services <em>because</em> you created and shared something amazing for free.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Remember that people don't care about your writing per se - they're not expecting Shakespeare. They're looking for information. So they don't care if you’re not being overly clever with your writing – that’s not what they’re looking for. What matters is that you helped them. And they’ll remember that. That’s much more important than how beautiful your writing is.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How can your blog posts be found on Google?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Martin and Lyndsay told us that what's good for users is generally what's good for Google. They want the exact same thing. Because the people who create algorithms for Google want to provide the best result to their users – it's their job. So <strong>when you focus on delivering exceptional value to a reader, you'll give yourself the best chance of ranking on the search engine results too.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>When you create content that's clear, direct, and easy...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today on the podcast, we chat with our friends Martin and Lyndsay from Jammy Digital who told us all about using your blog and leveraging Google to build a whopper of an email list.&nbsp;So if you think blogging is dead, have tried and failed to start and maintain a blog (much like us), but want to understand how to use blogging for email list building, you just HAVE TO check this interview out.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to learn some tricks that will completely change the way you look at blogging?&nbsp;</p><p>Let's do this!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(:) Want to get more sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(:) Fancy a 14-day FREE trial with Keap?&nbsp;</p><p>(:) Did Martin and Lyndsay really meet at the Peter Pan ride queue at Disneyland Paris?</p><p>(:) The benefits of turning podcast show notes into blog posts.</p><p>(:) How to make your business blog more effective.</p><p>(:) How to come up with effective blog post ideas.</p><p>(:) What if you don't like writing?</p><p>(:) How can your blog posts be found on Google?</p><p>(:) How often should you blog in order for your efforts to be effective?</p><p>(:) Subject line of the week with Martin and Lyndsday from Jammy Digital.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you. It's really cool and it's FREE (yes, it's cool&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;free – we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need more clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p><br></p><p>That's why we're giving you&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The benefits of turning podcast show notes into blog posts</strong></h3><p>As you probably know, we’ve been podcasting for a while. In the past, we tried different types of show notes to see what would work well, but over the last year we've been providing a blog post for each podcast episode (yep - that's the one you're reading right now) that people can skim-read. This is perfect for anyone who doesn't like listening to podcasts or can't at a particular point in time. This in-depth article allows anyone to still access the information, even if they don't listen to the podcast. Pretty cool, right?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So this is great in terms of user experience, but also, from our point of view, we've definitely noticed a rise in traffic from the search engines. And as a result, we're getting more people opting into our email list (because we give our readers plenty of opportunities to do this while they read our content). And that's because when it comes to search engines, podcasts aren't massively discoverable when it comes to individual episodes. Google likes written content a lot more, so <strong>it's about leveraging what the search engines favour in order to make your content more accessible.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Repurpose your content to achieve your business goals</strong></h4><p>So it's not just a matter of content repurposing. It's about tapping into what's going to make the biggest difference in terms of what you're trying to accomplish. And that's different for every business. But for Martin and Lyndsay, as well as for us, it’s about getting more email subscribers and building an audience of people that you can pre-qualify. How? They’re consuming your content. So they know you’re right for them. And that's why they’re comfortable handing over their email address to get more content from you. And creating written content (over podcast or video) is the best way to do this.</p><p><br></p><p>So let's say you do create other types of content - a podcast, a YouTube channel, or do a lot of Facebook lives. Should you drop everything to start a blog? Absolutely not! You can do what we did - we didn't <em>add</em> blogging as an extra piece of work we do. Instead, we continued to produce our podcast and a member of our team takes that episode and turns it into a blog from the same piece of content. And then you can easily embed these different pieces of content into your blog, which is a piece of web real estate that you own.</p><p><br></p><h3>How to make your business blog more effective</h3><p>If you have a blog, there are ways to make it more effective and attract more visitors. And the main tip Martin and Lyndsay have to help you be found on Google is to <strong>answer the questions your customers and audience are asking you</strong>. Sometimes these questions can make us uncomfortable, especially when they're around price. But being upfront and answering them means you’re going to get found on Google.&nbsp; And that's because you know people are searching for this information, and your competitors might not be answering them and choose to shy away from those topics. So you're more likely to get rankings and traffic that way.</p><p><br></p><p>You can address the questions people have in the decision-making stage, for example. They're trying to decide which option to go with, and a lot of businesses don't focus on this. Instead, they create content that tends to fit into the awareness stage of the buyer’s journey. So answering these types of questions can help you stand out. By all means, try and find the balance between creating content that sits at the awareness stage of the buyer's journey <em>and</em> the decision-making stage too.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>What about keyword research tools?&nbsp;</strong></h4><p>Martin and Lyndsay told us that a lot of people rely on tools and try and mimic what big brands do in terms of creating long lists for their blogs. But when you try and compete with big companies, you’re going to find ranking more difficult. So instead, .<strong>focus on what your customers are asking. That gives you better chances of standing out</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>There might be scenarios where you get asked a question by several clients, but when you look it up on the keyword research tools, you might find it's not a popular keyword. And yet you know it's a question real people have! So remember that <strong>customers come before the data</strong>. They are the first point of call for communication and letting you know what people are struggling with.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to come up with effective blog post ideas</strong></h3><p>Martin and Lyndsay recommend keeping a clean notebook at your desk so every time you have any kind of communication with a client, you can record it in your content book. Content ideas are everywhere - in the emails you receive and the questions people have. <strong>Everything is a content opportunity.</strong> And when you start to train your brain to look for them, you'll find them everywhere. The more you’re aware of it you are (and the more you look for ideas), the more you'll find.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So look at any communication you've had with your clients in the past and instead of answering questions individually, answer them in a blog post. That's more efficient. It makes everything faster - even sales calls. Be conscious of them and keep a record of them, and your list of ideas will grow quickly.&nbsp;And in addition to that, there are tools you can use, such as Answer the Public or Quora, for example. Right now you might feel stuck for ideas, but once you start this simple process, you’ll end up with loads!</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What if you don’t like writing?</strong></h3><p>Martin isn't a keen writer himself, he told us. But when he started writing blog posts for their business, he chose the strategy to be as direct as possible. He didn’t try to be overly fluffy with the writing - he simply focused on explaining the exact steps to someone who doesn’t know anything about the process. He wasn’t trying to be clever with words. Instead, he wanted to give people direct information.</p><p><br></p><p>So he got his head down every week and produced a piece of content. And soon enough he realised the blog posts were longer than he initially expected them to be. Because when you go all-in on answering a particular question, you end up giving all the necessary information in your blog post.</p><p><br></p><p>Some people think they should only share <em>some</em> of their knowledge, in order to get people to hire them and pay for the rest. But Martin and Lyndsay think you should let go of this mindset completely. There's no shortage of information on the Internet. So if you can be that person – that hub of knowledge for your audience – then go all in and hold nothing back. People will still pay you for implementation and extra services <em>because</em> you created and shared something amazing for free.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Remember that people don't care about your writing per se - they're not expecting Shakespeare. They're looking for information. So they don't care if you’re not being overly clever with your writing – that’s not what they’re looking for. What matters is that you helped them. And they’ll remember that. That’s much more important than how beautiful your writing is.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How can your blog posts be found on Google?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Martin and Lyndsay told us that what's good for users is generally what's good for Google. They want the exact same thing. Because the people who create algorithms for Google want to provide the best result to their users – it's their job. So <strong>when you focus on delivering exceptional value to a reader, you'll give yourself the best chance of ranking on the search engine results too.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>When you create content that's clear, direct, and easy to read for your users, they'll spend more time on your blog. And when Google sees people reading your content and clicking on your links, they'll rank their content highly. Of course, this is an oversimplified way to look at this because there are more factors at play. But it's a great principle to live by. It works for Martin and Lyndsay, who are in the competitive niches of marketing and SEO. So if they’re able to rank on the first page of Google for lots of keywords, then you know that thinking about your users first is a strategy that works.</p><p><br></p><p>When it comes to making things easier for your readers, Martin and Lyndsay told us it helps to have plenty of white space on the page, as well as clear headings and bullet points. People don’t want to look at War and Peace when they’re on your blog. So remember to use these strategies and jargon-free, clear, and direct language.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How often should you blog in order for your efforts to be effective?</strong></h3><p>Martin and Lyndsay increased their website traffic by 10 times in the space of 12 months by blogging once every two weeks when they started in 2017. Their blog posts were generally quite long, as they wanted to deliver value. If you're specific about the actions you take and focus on delivering value, they said, you can get fantastic results. But definitely prioritise quality over quantity and don't believe that you <em>have to</em> blog twice a week in order to get results.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Also, think about making all of your blog posts work hard for you. At the back of each article they share, Martin and Lyndsay create five or six LinkedIn posts and another eight Instagram graphics. Hardly any of their social media content is original – it’s taken from their blog posts.</p><p><br></p><p>The advantage of starting from your blog content is that it's published on a platform your own. It's your home base – your website. So when you think about promoting your content, think about getting as many people over to your website and then onto your email list. Because once you have that, everything else becomes secondary. So promote your blog article on your website where people can sign up to your email list and you'll see blogging have the impact you want on your business.</p><p><br></p><h3>Subject line of the week with Martin and Lyndsay from Jammy Digital</h3><p>This week’s subject line (courtesy of Martin and Lyndsay) is “How Jammy is changing”. Lyndsay tells us this subject line did incredibly well and had a high click-through rate. Why? Because, Martin added, because people care about your business and the changes you make. In fact, Martin and Lyndsay found that whenever they made announcements in the past about changes in their business, they always had more views and interest.&nbsp;So why not try and use this format for your own business? Maybe for a product or service you sell or a promotion you’re running?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Martin and Lyndsay - Jammy Digital</strong></h5><p>If you want to connect with Martin and Lyndsay, you can find them on their awesome website <a href="https://jammydigital.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jammy Digital</a>. Definitely go and check out their blog!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/examples-of-advertorials-rachel-mazza/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Examples of Advertorials to Grow your Email List with Rachel Mazza</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/grow-your-email-list-helen-perry/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Grow your Email List When You Have Less Than 10k Instagram Followers, Helen Perry spills all</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/grow-your-email-list-using-facebook-pages/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Grow Your Email List Using Facebook Pages (Without Ads) – Rachel Miller Moolah Style!</a></p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our&nbsp;<strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong>&nbsp;(including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).&nbsp;<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the&nbsp;<strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to&nbsp;<strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about blogging for email list building - the Jammy Digital way) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>leaving us a review&nbsp;</strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/blogging-for-email-list-building-jammy-digital/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">bbbe0f23-583e-40fd-bf00-dcd25432c0a5</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/2e20705e-8f3b-46cf-b5c6-679da94f46ad/bkxWyUeKt3Cod5KdqN8lVNi4.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2022 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/873e09c1-be09-44cd-9a7f-12aaeb4c3058/final.mp3" length="27905579" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>31:23</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>126</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>126</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Warning: 6 Lies Your Email Marketing Platform Is Telling You</title><itunes:title>Warning: 6 Lies Your Email Marketing Platform Is Telling You</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to another episode of The Email Marketing Show!&nbsp;</p><p>We’re Kennedy and&nbsp;<a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fifi</a>, and this week, we’re exposing six lies your email marketing platform might be feeding you – and what to pay attention to instead.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>Recent episodes</h5><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-come-up-with-your-next-email-campaign-without-overthinking-it/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Come Up With Your Next Email Campaign (Without Overthinking It)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-deliverability/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Surprising Thing That REALLY Impacts Your Email Deliverability</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/avoid-email-marketing-mistakes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why You Need to Avoid These Email Marketing Mistakes</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h5><br></h5><h5>Want to connect with Fifi?</h5><p>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people – those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can&nbsp;<a href="https://fifimason.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">find Fifi on her website</a>.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to another episode of The Email Marketing Show!&nbsp;</p><p>We’re Kennedy and&nbsp;<a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fifi</a>, and this week, we’re exposing six lies your email marketing platform might be feeding you – and what to pay attention to instead.</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>Recent episodes</h5><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-come-up-with-your-next-email-campaign-without-overthinking-it/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Come Up With Your Next Email Campaign (Without Overthinking It)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-deliverability/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Surprising Thing That REALLY Impacts Your Email Deliverability</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/avoid-email-marketing-mistakes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why You Need to Avoid These Email Marketing Mistakes</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h5><br></h5><h5>Want to connect with Fifi?</h5><p>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people – those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can&nbsp;<a href="https://fifimason.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">find Fifi on her website</a>.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/lies-email-marketing-platform/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">b2593c1f-36a1-4ead-8e13-c0f391d10769</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/94bbe046-5f97-4804-a1d7-515f22e9287a/7aA0vuFqcpkOgb0aFDmxfzuu.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2022 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/fb694b6f-c41e-40fb-b9ec-dcefa738c9e5/EP-252-Mix.mp3" length="88310400" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>36:48</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>125</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>125</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/5d2893e9-27e8-45e1-b306-240d3569b70a/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How Dan Greef Made £9k in just 1 Day, Sending Simple Emails</title><itunes:title>How Dan Greef Made £9k in just 1 Day, Sending Simple Emails</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>We're joined today by one of our members, Dan Greef. Dan runs a gluten-free, keto, low carb, low sugar (or rather, <em>no</em> sugar) bakery. They make cakes and sweet treats that won’t spike your blood sugar levels. Today, Dan shares his experience with email marketing and tells the story of how he made a whopping £9k in just ONE day, sending simple emails and using the strategies we teach inside our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>We had a few mic-drop moments in this interview. Are you ready to find out how Dan made awesomeness happen from his email list?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:09) Want to get more sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(3:26) Fancy a 14-day FREE trial with Keap?&nbsp;</p><p>(4:37) How Dan got started with email marketing. </p><p>(7:18) What did Dan's email marketing look like before he joined The League?</p><p>(11:20) What happened when Dan joined The League?</p><p>(15:36) What impact did email marketing have on Dan's business?</p><p>(19:40) How does Dan feel about his email marketing now?</p><p>(24:04) Dan's future plans for his email marketing. </p><p>(26:14) Does Dan's email marketing take up too much of his time? </p><p>(31:33) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How Dan got started with email marketing</strong></h3><p>While Dan started his business from his kitchen table a few years ago, things drastically changed for him during the lockdown, when orders started coming in thick and fast. Dan now has dedicated premises and staff. Like Kennedy, Dan is dyslexic and finds public writing terrifying. So email marketing was the last thing Dan ever wanted to do!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Before he got started with email marketing, Dan used to do frequent Facebook lives and in January 2021 he'd started running paid ads. But with a fairly low-priced product (the average spending per order being around £27), Dan realised this model wasn't sustainable for him.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>With regards to his email marketing, Dan would do what most people do - send out broadcasting emails. They'd be full of pictures and offers and not have much in there other than a big flashy BUY button. But when he found our podcast and then started learning our techniques, everything changed. That's when Dan realised he <em>loves</em> email marketing!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What did Dan’s email marketing look like before he joined The League?</strong></h3><p>Every Friday Dan does a special restock sale, so he sends out an email to tell his list what’s in the restock. Like many others, Dan wasn't keen on emailing more than once a week - he was worried people might unsubscribe. He had a fairly big list, and he didn’t want to lose what he calls his 'email collection'.</p><p><br></p><p>And Dan admits that back then, he would have lost a lot of people if he'd started emailing more. Because all he was sending out were sales emails, where he'd say what new flavours were coming out. Dan had nothing else to say. But now he does - and not because his life has changed, but because he realised he <em>can</em> say things. <strong>Email marketing has given him a voice.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Before he joined <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>,&nbsp;Dan had a few automations set up, but (to his admission), they were salesy. Now his emails allow him to <strong>build rapport with subscribers and have conversations</strong>. And people are more likely to buy from him because they’re no longer just buying a product – they’re buying from a <em>person</em>.</p><p><br></p><p>Marketing, Dan tells us, shouldn't be about asking people to buy things. That's what Dan was doing, and that's why his email marketing wasn't working. But Dan later realised that in order to be successful, he needed to change his mindset. Because <strong>email isn’t a marketing technique – it’s a <em>communication</em> technique and a <em>community builder</em>.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Pretty awesome stuff, right?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What happened when Dan joined The League?</strong></h3><p>Dan joined The League in the summer of 2021 and spent the first few months watching our videos and learning. Soon enough, he started to experiment with sending out emails twice a week and adding some personality into them. His early emails didn’t do much, he says, but they helped him learn the way.</p><p><br></p><p>When Dan decided to put his prices up, he was terrified. He thought his list wouldn't react well. But after getting some advice in one of our coaching calls, he decided to use one of our campaigns to approach the price increase. Instead of apologising and being on the defensive, the campaign allowed Dan to bring his customers <em>with him</em>. </p><p><br></p><p>Dan explained why the prices were going up (to pay for the ingredients), and customers loved his honesty and the respect he showed them. That's why they went <em>with him</em>. Dan's sales increased because <strong>the campaigns allowed him to build trust, rapport, and honesty.</strong> And these are the basis of any relationship, which is why his campaigns were so successful.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>We have to remember that <strong>email marketing is not us vs them - it's about taking the subscribers on a journey with you.</strong> We don't need to <em>convince</em> people to buy what we sell. It’s not some sort of arm wrestle where the business needs to convince the customer to give them money. As business owners, we're on a journey. And we need to take our customers <em>with us</em>, just like Dan did. The sooner we realise that, the better.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>People are on Dan's list because they want to enjoy sweet treats but also continue with their lifestyle and healthier eating. Dan is providing the solution to their problem while being completely transparent. In our business, for example, we use the idea of <em>radical transparency</em>. It's about telling people the truth. It’s <em>selling by telling the truth</em>. And in a world where levels of trust are so low, it’s an idea that works.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><h3><strong>What impact did email marketing have on Dan’s business?</strong></h3><p>After joining The League, over time, Dan implemented our Getting To Know You sequence and then our Time Lord campaign and made <strong>a whopping £8,809 in 13 days</strong>! Also, in November 2021, when he increased his prices, <strong>Dan made £9k in one day!!! </strong></p><p><br></p><p>Of course, it wasn’t just the one email that made the money. It was the fact that for about a month and a half, Dan had been building to that point.&nbsp;By implementing a few key campaigns, Dan made almost £20k in one month.</p><p><br></p><p>And we love Dan’s success story because cakes (and food in general) are traditionally sold through smell – you attract your customers into your shop from the street with the amazing aromas of your food. This is one of the fundamentals of selling food, and you can't do that on the internet!</p><p><br></p><p>So if Dan can sell cakes that people can't smell by sending simple emails, we know that the same strategies will work for others. And on top of that, Dan sells low-priced products, which shows you don't need to be selling some super expensive product or service for email marketing to work for your business.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Whatever you're selling, you can do that through email marketing by building rapport, showing your personality, and emailing a little bit more often.</strong> We don't teach anything that's technically difficult. It's all about understanding the psychology of email and building on that.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How does Dan feel about his email marketing now?</strong></h3><p>At first, Dan used to think that what sold his products were the photos of his cakes, so that's what he put in his emails. But now, Dan is using his emails to talk about <em>personal urgency</em>. Can his customers wait any longer to make the changes they need to make in their lives?</p><p><br></p><p>Dan has now reframed what he does in his mind - he's not just selling cakes. <strong>He’s giving people the option to have a better future.</strong> So his emails are no longer full of pictures of cakes. Instead, they ask people where they want to be in life. And that subtle change has made all the difference.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So if you're selling a course and no one’s buying, Dan says, that’s your fault. Because <strong>what you need to be doing to sell is to tell people how you'll take them from where they are now to where they want to be.</strong> And email is the perfect medium to do that. It has allowed Dan to change the way he's communicating with people.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The action that had the most impact on Dan’s results and email marketing</strong></h3><p>Dan’s one piece of advice when it comes to email marketing is to think about the things that happened to you in the last 24 hours, break them down, and then share them with your list in your daily emails.</p><p><br></p><p>This simple process will be transformative, Dan says. It certainly was for him because email marketing now accounts for 55% of Dan's business. He recommends you talk about a story (something that happened to you) and be authentic and genuine.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Dan's future plans for his email marketing</strong></h3><p>At the moment, Dan only emails his list once a day and not as often as he'd like. So he's now working towards starting a campaign to integrate storytelling from his customers and share their success stories (just like we're doing with <em>his</em> story here!)</p><p><br></p><p>Also, Dan plans on segmenting his list in the future, in order...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We're joined today by one of our members, Dan Greef. Dan runs a gluten-free, keto, low carb, low sugar (or rather, <em>no</em> sugar) bakery. They make cakes and sweet treats that won’t spike your blood sugar levels. Today, Dan shares his experience with email marketing and tells the story of how he made a whopping £9k in just ONE day, sending simple emails and using the strategies we teach inside our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>We had a few mic-drop moments in this interview. Are you ready to find out how Dan made awesomeness happen from his email list?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(0:09) Want to get more sales from your email marketing? Grab our Click Tricks.</p><p>(3:26) Fancy a 14-day FREE trial with Keap?&nbsp;</p><p>(4:37) How Dan got started with email marketing. </p><p>(7:18) What did Dan's email marketing look like before he joined The League?</p><p>(11:20) What happened when Dan joined The League?</p><p>(15:36) What impact did email marketing have on Dan's business?</p><p>(19:40) How does Dan feel about his email marketing now?</p><p>(24:04) Dan's future plans for his email marketing. </p><p>(26:14) Does Dan's email marketing take up too much of his time? </p><p>(31:33) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How Dan got started with email marketing</strong></h3><p>While Dan started his business from his kitchen table a few years ago, things drastically changed for him during the lockdown, when orders started coming in thick and fast. Dan now has dedicated premises and staff. Like Kennedy, Dan is dyslexic and finds public writing terrifying. So email marketing was the last thing Dan ever wanted to do!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Before he got started with email marketing, Dan used to do frequent Facebook lives and in January 2021 he'd started running paid ads. But with a fairly low-priced product (the average spending per order being around £27), Dan realised this model wasn't sustainable for him.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>With regards to his email marketing, Dan would do what most people do - send out broadcasting emails. They'd be full of pictures and offers and not have much in there other than a big flashy BUY button. But when he found our podcast and then started learning our techniques, everything changed. That's when Dan realised he <em>loves</em> email marketing!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What did Dan’s email marketing look like before he joined The League?</strong></h3><p>Every Friday Dan does a special restock sale, so he sends out an email to tell his list what’s in the restock. Like many others, Dan wasn't keen on emailing more than once a week - he was worried people might unsubscribe. He had a fairly big list, and he didn’t want to lose what he calls his 'email collection'.</p><p><br></p><p>And Dan admits that back then, he would have lost a lot of people if he'd started emailing more. Because all he was sending out were sales emails, where he'd say what new flavours were coming out. Dan had nothing else to say. But now he does - and not because his life has changed, but because he realised he <em>can</em> say things. <strong>Email marketing has given him a voice.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Before he joined <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>,&nbsp;Dan had a few automations set up, but (to his admission), they were salesy. Now his emails allow him to <strong>build rapport with subscribers and have conversations</strong>. And people are more likely to buy from him because they’re no longer just buying a product – they’re buying from a <em>person</em>.</p><p><br></p><p>Marketing, Dan tells us, shouldn't be about asking people to buy things. That's what Dan was doing, and that's why his email marketing wasn't working. But Dan later realised that in order to be successful, he needed to change his mindset. Because <strong>email isn’t a marketing technique – it’s a <em>communication</em> technique and a <em>community builder</em>.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Pretty awesome stuff, right?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What happened when Dan joined The League?</strong></h3><p>Dan joined The League in the summer of 2021 and spent the first few months watching our videos and learning. Soon enough, he started to experiment with sending out emails twice a week and adding some personality into them. His early emails didn’t do much, he says, but they helped him learn the way.</p><p><br></p><p>When Dan decided to put his prices up, he was terrified. He thought his list wouldn't react well. But after getting some advice in one of our coaching calls, he decided to use one of our campaigns to approach the price increase. Instead of apologising and being on the defensive, the campaign allowed Dan to bring his customers <em>with him</em>. </p><p><br></p><p>Dan explained why the prices were going up (to pay for the ingredients), and customers loved his honesty and the respect he showed them. That's why they went <em>with him</em>. Dan's sales increased because <strong>the campaigns allowed him to build trust, rapport, and honesty.</strong> And these are the basis of any relationship, which is why his campaigns were so successful.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>We have to remember that <strong>email marketing is not us vs them - it's about taking the subscribers on a journey with you.</strong> We don't need to <em>convince</em> people to buy what we sell. It’s not some sort of arm wrestle where the business needs to convince the customer to give them money. As business owners, we're on a journey. And we need to take our customers <em>with us</em>, just like Dan did. The sooner we realise that, the better.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>People are on Dan's list because they want to enjoy sweet treats but also continue with their lifestyle and healthier eating. Dan is providing the solution to their problem while being completely transparent. In our business, for example, we use the idea of <em>radical transparency</em>. It's about telling people the truth. It’s <em>selling by telling the truth</em>. And in a world where levels of trust are so low, it’s an idea that works.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><h3><strong>What impact did email marketing have on Dan’s business?</strong></h3><p>After joining The League, over time, Dan implemented our Getting To Know You sequence and then our Time Lord campaign and made <strong>a whopping £8,809 in 13 days</strong>! Also, in November 2021, when he increased his prices, <strong>Dan made £9k in one day!!! </strong></p><p><br></p><p>Of course, it wasn’t just the one email that made the money. It was the fact that for about a month and a half, Dan had been building to that point.&nbsp;By implementing a few key campaigns, Dan made almost £20k in one month.</p><p><br></p><p>And we love Dan’s success story because cakes (and food in general) are traditionally sold through smell – you attract your customers into your shop from the street with the amazing aromas of your food. This is one of the fundamentals of selling food, and you can't do that on the internet!</p><p><br></p><p>So if Dan can sell cakes that people can't smell by sending simple emails, we know that the same strategies will work for others. And on top of that, Dan sells low-priced products, which shows you don't need to be selling some super expensive product or service for email marketing to work for your business.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Whatever you're selling, you can do that through email marketing by building rapport, showing your personality, and emailing a little bit more often.</strong> We don't teach anything that's technically difficult. It's all about understanding the psychology of email and building on that.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How does Dan feel about his email marketing now?</strong></h3><p>At first, Dan used to think that what sold his products were the photos of his cakes, so that's what he put in his emails. But now, Dan is using his emails to talk about <em>personal urgency</em>. Can his customers wait any longer to make the changes they need to make in their lives?</p><p><br></p><p>Dan has now reframed what he does in his mind - he's not just selling cakes. <strong>He’s giving people the option to have a better future.</strong> So his emails are no longer full of pictures of cakes. Instead, they ask people where they want to be in life. And that subtle change has made all the difference.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So if you're selling a course and no one’s buying, Dan says, that’s your fault. Because <strong>what you need to be doing to sell is to tell people how you'll take them from where they are now to where they want to be.</strong> And email is the perfect medium to do that. It has allowed Dan to change the way he's communicating with people.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The action that had the most impact on Dan’s results and email marketing</strong></h3><p>Dan’s one piece of advice when it comes to email marketing is to think about the things that happened to you in the last 24 hours, break them down, and then share them with your list in your daily emails.</p><p><br></p><p>This simple process will be transformative, Dan says. It certainly was for him because email marketing now accounts for 55% of Dan's business. He recommends you talk about a story (something that happened to you) and be authentic and genuine.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Dan's future plans for his email marketing</strong></h3><p>At the moment, Dan only emails his list once a day and not as often as he'd like. So he's now working towards starting a campaign to integrate storytelling from his customers and share their success stories (just like we're doing with <em>his</em> story here!)</p><p><br></p><p>Also, Dan plans on segmenting his list in the future, in order to be able to send a more varied message. In a room full of different people (from friends and family to complete strangers), you wouldn’t talk to them in the same way, Dan says. So segmenting his list will help Dan have more authentic conversations with his subscribers.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Does Dan's email marketing take up too much of his time?</strong></h3><p>Is email marketing a burden for Dan? Quite the opposite, in fact! At first, Dan says, the thought of doing anything is quite hard. But Dan’s timetable is based around his children, so quite often, instead of sitting down for an hour pondering about what he’s going to write, he’ll find himself utilising the small pockets of time in between other responsibilities.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So typically Dan will think about what happened to him in the last 24 hours to find inspiration for an email. If that doesn’t work, he’ll use our template for generating ideas, and that will often give him a story to tell. Dan has a Google Doc where he first writes the story down. He then puts it in his email sender, and only at the end of the process, he adds a first line to the email and a subject line.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Don't be scared of losing subscribers</strong></h4><p>Dan’s top tip is to <em>just do it</em>. When we first start emailing, he says, we have this idea that we’re somehow in front of a big panel of judges. But nobody really cares about your emails or if you’re doing them badly! <strong>So just try new things. </strong>You won't make a fool out of yourself.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Dan had quite a big list, and he was worried about changing tack and losing people. And he did – he lost about 200 subscribers in a week, but then he gained 600 in the following two weeks. <strong>You get the right people coming in, and the ones who don't like you much will leave.</strong> And that's okay.</p><p><br></p><p>Dan took the stance that this is <em>his</em> email list, so he’ll share whatever he wants to talk about – if people don’t like it, they can join someone else’s list. And this works. Because people who like you will stay, and they'll become loyal.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Will email marketing work for you?</strong></h3><p>If you're still wondering whether email marketing will work for you, this is the little gem Dan left us with. He told us that he's not actually selling cake at all.</p><p><br></p><p>(Wait for it).</p><p><br></p><p>Cake is what pays the bills, Dan says. What he's selling is a movement that changes our take on sugar. He’s trying to change the way we see the world by providing "diet cake". In essence, Dan helps people make a change in their lives.</p><p><br></p><p>And once he was able to switch his mindset to this, his marketing changed. Now Dan is focusing on what he’s trying to achieve for the individual, for society, and for the bigger picture. And once you change that perspective, the cake is actually way bigger than an actual piece of cake!</p><p><br></p><p><strong>The key is to see what you sell as the solution to the vision, the dream, and the idea.</strong> And suddenly you're changing things at a massive level. But if you only think about the product you sell, then you'll always limit your vision for what you’re trying to achieve.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject line is simply the merge field for the first name the subscriber registered with (whatever that might be). This is so simple, but it works. We always teach about something we call "the seed email". It’s a very short, sharp, to-the-point email that goes out first in a campaign to grab your hyper responders and send them in the direction you want to send them to. So it’s about saying something like, “We’re doing a training. Go check it out!”</p><p><br></p><p>And if you’ve come across us talking about the one essential email template that everybody needs to have in their business (which is the one that goes out by accident if you forget to fill it in), this is the subject line for that email too. And it’s good because it just sits there – it doesn’t mean anything. Interesting, right?</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Dan</strong></h5><p>If you want to connect with Dan, you can find him on his <a href="https://deliciouslyguiltfree.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">website</a>. Dan also hosts a <a href="https://deliciouslyguiltfree.com/pages/uk-low-carb-podcast/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">podcast</a> where he talks to people about cutting back on sugar and carbs.&nbsp;</p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-build-profitable-business/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Using Email Marketing to Build a Profitable Business – a Success Story from a Member of The League</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/sheilfg-email-marketing-case-study/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How Sheila Went from the Starting Blocks to Total Clarity – an Email Marketing Case Study</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/product-launch-emails-kay-peacey/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Product Launch Emails – Success Story with Kay Peacey</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how our member Dan Greef made a whopping £9k in one day from sending simple emails) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/dan-greef-sending-simple-emails/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">9a3551d1-9bbd-4111-b54e-a7f232346c9d</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/21eb5487-bc12-4dce-91bf-a8b8231cec5e/lIO11ZVKAAcDptQATfwen1dR.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2022 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/18cff7ba-6d1f-4a4b-94a5-08204ec6f0e5/124.mp3" length="26724491" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>33:20</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>124</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>124</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How To Decide Whether Your Messaging Should Change in a Crisis</title><itunes:title>How To Decide Whether Your Messaging Should Change in a Crisis</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>In today's special episode, we want to share some strategic-thinking processes to help you decide whether your messaging should change in a crisis. When something big happens in the world, and it affects everyone on a large scale, it can seem like everyone has a strong opinion on it. So how can we make the decision about <em>what </em>to change? And <em>should</em> we, at all? </p><p>There's no right or wrong here. This isn't about <em>us</em> telling <em>you</em> what you should or shouldn't do. It's not even about us telling you what <em>we think</em> you should do. It's simply <strong>to help you decide what's right for you, your personality, your business, and your customers</strong>. It’s about helping you have more information to make the decision. Because the choice is yours, and so it should be!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(x:xx) The two types of content you can share in a crisis. </p><p>(x:xx) Does what's going on affect you?</p><p>(x:xx) Does the crisis affect what you teach and what you sell? </p><p>(x:xx) Does it affect your audience?</p><p>(x:xx) Do you have anything to say?</p><h3><strong>The two types of content you can share in a crisis</strong></h3><p>We think there are two different types of content you can choose from when it comes to your email list or your social content. These are:</p><p><br></p><ul><li><strong>Supportive content.</strong> This could be something as small or simple as putting up the flag of the country, an image or a video, or sharing information. It’s content <em>in support</em> of the cause.</li><li><strong>Escape content.</strong> In a time of trauma, or when things can be difficult for people, we all need some sort of escapism to support our mental health or our family's health to allow us to carry on. That escape is something your brain needs, in order to have some recovery time. So escape content is any type of content that allows people to think about something different - to give their minds a rest.</li></ul><br/><p><br></p><p>And the great news is that you can change which type of content you share as time goes on or as things unfold, your learning progresses, and you gain more knowledge. You can switch things around or mix your content up based on what feels right at any given moment. So if you're wondering whether your messaging should change in a crisis, this is something to bear in mind.</p><p><br></p><p>Kennedy, for example, has a strong background in entertainment, so he’s much more inclined to provide content that helps people escape. When people go and see him live, he makes them laugh – he helps them relax and recharge so they’re more equipped to make the hard decisions that need making in their own life or business. Providing escape content taps into his natural ability. But this particular piece of content you're reading, for example, is one that allows us to <em>support </em>our audience.</p><p><br></p><p>So to help you decide what to do, how your messaging should change in a crisis (if at all), and what type of content to share,  we put together some questions for you to consider.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Questions to help you decide whether your messaging should change in a crisis</strong></h3><p><br></p><h3><strong>1. Does what’s going on affect you?</strong></h3><p>Of course, any type of crisis will affect us all - mentally and emotionally, if not physically. Are you and your audience lucky enough to be somewhere out of conflict? Or is this having a direct impact on your life?</p><p><br></p><p>This is where you have the opportunity to choose whether you want to shine a light onto the people who are being affected or whether you want to continue to provide that escape.&nbsp;Because as this situation unfolds, there are still people who will be going to the theatre to watch a comedian who'll make them belly laugh. There are still people who are going to the cinema and watching films. That's all still happening – the world doesn't pause.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Decide how to use your platform</strong></h4><p><br></p><p>It's easy for us to think that because we have an audience online and a platform (whether that’s your social media audience or your email list, for example) we have a moral right to use that platform in some way when something like this occurs. </p><p><br></p><p>But it's important to be careful. The fact you’ve built a platform only means you’re good at harvesting an audience – at running ads and getting people to opt-in for something of value, or posting content that encourages people to follow you on social media, for example. It doesn’t mean you suddenly have to turn into a politician!</p><p><br></p><p>We've all built an audience (large or small) around the thing we’re passionate about and are experts in. That doesn’t mean you need to be an expert in politics if that’s not what you do. We certainly aren’t, and no one should expect you to be one either. </p><p><br></p><p>People aren’t coming to your Instagram to get the latest breaking news about a crisis. So remember that <strong>the pressure is off – you don’t have to have the answers</strong>.&nbsp; You don't have to be the leader of the voice. You can decide to show support if you want to, or you can continue to be the escape.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Do you want to bring this crisis into your content?&nbsp;</strong></h4><p>Once you’ve worked out if the crisis affects you, you need to decide whether you want to bring it into your content or not. This will help you decide if and how your messaging should change in a crisis.</p><p><br></p><p>If it affects you directly, you might <em>not</em> want to bring it into your content. And that’s a choice you have. Just because something’s directly affecting you, it doesn’t mean you have to talk about it. Because you might not feel it’s appropriate when it’s a part of you. <strong>You have the choice of what you share.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>There are things about our lives that we don’t talk about – personal things that we decide to create a boundary around. And you get to make that choice about your own content.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>2. Does the crisis affect what you teach and what you sell?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>The second question that could help you decide whether your messaging should change in a crisis is whether the situation affects what you teach and sell. </p><p><br></p><p>It might impact the content you teach, the way you teach it, the frameworks you use, or the things you share. If the crisis affects any of these aspects of your business, think about whether you want to share content about it because of how it impacts you. And if not, that’s totally fine.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>3. Does it affect your audience?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>In order to understand whether the crisis is affecting your audience, you might need to take a deep dive into where they are based. One of the things we talk about a lot is gathering as much data as possible on your audience - in the nicest possible way, of course. If you know where your audience is based, and there’s a particular part of the world that’s affected, then you can identify these subscribers on your list, for example.</p><p><br></p><p>And then you have a choice. If you want, you can segment them out of your marketing completely. Truthfully, what you’re offering right now might not be as important to them as what's going on in their life. So by taking them out of your marketing, you are actually supporting them. </p><p><br></p><p>If your entire audience is in that part of the world, you might choose the support route, rather than the escape route.&nbsp;But if you only have a subsection of your audience in the affected areas, you might find that everyone else may not want to see content about what’s going on in the world. </p><p><br></p><p>Sure, they want to be kept abreast of the information. But there are dedicated channels (such as the news) where that happens. They’re not looking for that kind of information in the email list where they signed up to learn how to play the piano or how to do baby yoga, for example. So for these people, the escape mechanism might be more appropriate. They still need these other products or services, and someone has to provide them.</p><p><br></p><p>So when trying to decide whether your messaging should change in a crisis, think about how it affects your audience (if at all). And then decide if they need to continue on this path with you and what you’re going to do about it. </p><p><br></p><p>Something we're doing, for example (and we're not saying you <em>should</em>, too - unless you want to) is to stop charging our Ukraine-based clients for their membership. Remember, <strong>it's about making decisions based on what you know about your audience.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>4. Do you have anything to say?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>If you're offering your support, and you're doing this by showing that you stand with your audience, great. </p><p><br></p><p>But if you have something more to say, is it researched? We need to make sure anything we share is fact-checked because the last thing you want to do is add fuel to something when you haven’t done your full research. So it’s important to be careful. And fact-checking isn’t always easy, because there are many ways numbers and information can be skewed.</p><p><br></p><p>And if you don’t have anything in particular to say, then it’s completely okay to be the support or the escape for your audience. As we said, you can choose one route and stick with that, or switch between the two. You can sprinkle one over the other – be mainly support and every now and then, pop some escape content in there. Or be mostly escape and then do something supportive from time to time.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Be yourself while being sensitive to the situation</strong></h4><p>At the end of the day, <strong>what matters is that we are all sensitive to the situation</strong>....]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In today's special episode, we want to share some strategic-thinking processes to help you decide whether your messaging should change in a crisis. When something big happens in the world, and it affects everyone on a large scale, it can seem like everyone has a strong opinion on it. So how can we make the decision about <em>what </em>to change? And <em>should</em> we, at all? </p><p>There's no right or wrong here. This isn't about <em>us</em> telling <em>you</em> what you should or shouldn't do. It's not even about us telling you what <em>we think</em> you should do. It's simply <strong>to help you decide what's right for you, your personality, your business, and your customers</strong>. It’s about helping you have more information to make the decision. Because the choice is yours, and so it should be!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(x:xx) The two types of content you can share in a crisis. </p><p>(x:xx) Does what's going on affect you?</p><p>(x:xx) Does the crisis affect what you teach and what you sell? </p><p>(x:xx) Does it affect your audience?</p><p>(x:xx) Do you have anything to say?</p><h3><strong>The two types of content you can share in a crisis</strong></h3><p>We think there are two different types of content you can choose from when it comes to your email list or your social content. These are:</p><p><br></p><ul><li><strong>Supportive content.</strong> This could be something as small or simple as putting up the flag of the country, an image or a video, or sharing information. It’s content <em>in support</em> of the cause.</li><li><strong>Escape content.</strong> In a time of trauma, or when things can be difficult for people, we all need some sort of escapism to support our mental health or our family's health to allow us to carry on. That escape is something your brain needs, in order to have some recovery time. So escape content is any type of content that allows people to think about something different - to give their minds a rest.</li></ul><br/><p><br></p><p>And the great news is that you can change which type of content you share as time goes on or as things unfold, your learning progresses, and you gain more knowledge. You can switch things around or mix your content up based on what feels right at any given moment. So if you're wondering whether your messaging should change in a crisis, this is something to bear in mind.</p><p><br></p><p>Kennedy, for example, has a strong background in entertainment, so he’s much more inclined to provide content that helps people escape. When people go and see him live, he makes them laugh – he helps them relax and recharge so they’re more equipped to make the hard decisions that need making in their own life or business. Providing escape content taps into his natural ability. But this particular piece of content you're reading, for example, is one that allows us to <em>support </em>our audience.</p><p><br></p><p>So to help you decide what to do, how your messaging should change in a crisis (if at all), and what type of content to share,  we put together some questions for you to consider.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Questions to help you decide whether your messaging should change in a crisis</strong></h3><p><br></p><h3><strong>1. Does what’s going on affect you?</strong></h3><p>Of course, any type of crisis will affect us all - mentally and emotionally, if not physically. Are you and your audience lucky enough to be somewhere out of conflict? Or is this having a direct impact on your life?</p><p><br></p><p>This is where you have the opportunity to choose whether you want to shine a light onto the people who are being affected or whether you want to continue to provide that escape.&nbsp;Because as this situation unfolds, there are still people who will be going to the theatre to watch a comedian who'll make them belly laugh. There are still people who are going to the cinema and watching films. That's all still happening – the world doesn't pause.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Decide how to use your platform</strong></h4><p><br></p><p>It's easy for us to think that because we have an audience online and a platform (whether that’s your social media audience or your email list, for example) we have a moral right to use that platform in some way when something like this occurs. </p><p><br></p><p>But it's important to be careful. The fact you’ve built a platform only means you’re good at harvesting an audience – at running ads and getting people to opt-in for something of value, or posting content that encourages people to follow you on social media, for example. It doesn’t mean you suddenly have to turn into a politician!</p><p><br></p><p>We've all built an audience (large or small) around the thing we’re passionate about and are experts in. That doesn’t mean you need to be an expert in politics if that’s not what you do. We certainly aren’t, and no one should expect you to be one either. </p><p><br></p><p>People aren’t coming to your Instagram to get the latest breaking news about a crisis. So remember that <strong>the pressure is off – you don’t have to have the answers</strong>.&nbsp; You don't have to be the leader of the voice. You can decide to show support if you want to, or you can continue to be the escape.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Do you want to bring this crisis into your content?&nbsp;</strong></h4><p>Once you’ve worked out if the crisis affects you, you need to decide whether you want to bring it into your content or not. This will help you decide if and how your messaging should change in a crisis.</p><p><br></p><p>If it affects you directly, you might <em>not</em> want to bring it into your content. And that’s a choice you have. Just because something’s directly affecting you, it doesn’t mean you have to talk about it. Because you might not feel it’s appropriate when it’s a part of you. <strong>You have the choice of what you share.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>There are things about our lives that we don’t talk about – personal things that we decide to create a boundary around. And you get to make that choice about your own content.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>2. Does the crisis affect what you teach and what you sell?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>The second question that could help you decide whether your messaging should change in a crisis is whether the situation affects what you teach and sell. </p><p><br></p><p>It might impact the content you teach, the way you teach it, the frameworks you use, or the things you share. If the crisis affects any of these aspects of your business, think about whether you want to share content about it because of how it impacts you. And if not, that’s totally fine.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>3. Does it affect your audience?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>In order to understand whether the crisis is affecting your audience, you might need to take a deep dive into where they are based. One of the things we talk about a lot is gathering as much data as possible on your audience - in the nicest possible way, of course. If you know where your audience is based, and there’s a particular part of the world that’s affected, then you can identify these subscribers on your list, for example.</p><p><br></p><p>And then you have a choice. If you want, you can segment them out of your marketing completely. Truthfully, what you’re offering right now might not be as important to them as what's going on in their life. So by taking them out of your marketing, you are actually supporting them. </p><p><br></p><p>If your entire audience is in that part of the world, you might choose the support route, rather than the escape route.&nbsp;But if you only have a subsection of your audience in the affected areas, you might find that everyone else may not want to see content about what’s going on in the world. </p><p><br></p><p>Sure, they want to be kept abreast of the information. But there are dedicated channels (such as the news) where that happens. They’re not looking for that kind of information in the email list where they signed up to learn how to play the piano or how to do baby yoga, for example. So for these people, the escape mechanism might be more appropriate. They still need these other products or services, and someone has to provide them.</p><p><br></p><p>So when trying to decide whether your messaging should change in a crisis, think about how it affects your audience (if at all). And then decide if they need to continue on this path with you and what you’re going to do about it. </p><p><br></p><p>Something we're doing, for example (and we're not saying you <em>should</em>, too - unless you want to) is to stop charging our Ukraine-based clients for their membership. Remember, <strong>it's about making decisions based on what you know about your audience.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>4. Do you have anything to say?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>If you're offering your support, and you're doing this by showing that you stand with your audience, great. </p><p><br></p><p>But if you have something more to say, is it researched? We need to make sure anything we share is fact-checked because the last thing you want to do is add fuel to something when you haven’t done your full research. So it’s important to be careful. And fact-checking isn’t always easy, because there are many ways numbers and information can be skewed.</p><p><br></p><p>And if you don’t have anything in particular to say, then it’s completely okay to be the support or the escape for your audience. As we said, you can choose one route and stick with that, or switch between the two. You can sprinkle one over the other – be mainly support and every now and then, pop some escape content in there. Or be mostly escape and then do something supportive from time to time.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Be yourself while being sensitive to the situation</strong></h4><p>At the end of the day, <strong>what matters is that we are all sensitive to the situation</strong>. This doesn’t mean we have to tread on eggshells. You can still relax and be you, just like we’re doing right now. You can share how you feel (if that's your style) and equally, you <em>don't have to</em> share how you feel. Whatever your style is, you can show up in that. </p><p><br></p><p>The key thing to remember is that <strong>this is your business, your brand, and your voice, so never feel you have to share something you're not comfortable with it.</strong> If you don't understand it, if you don't think it's right, and if you don't see how it fits with what you're doing, then you don’t have to share anything.</p><p><br></p><p>And don’t listen too hard to anyone who says you should or shouldn’t talk about it either. <strong>With a great platform comes great responsibility.</strong> So <strong><em>you</em> have to decide what the right way to handle your audience is</strong>. What’s the right thing for you to support them or allow them to escape? Remember that everyone, for the most part, is doing their best.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Think about your audience</strong></h4><p>These situations are constantly developing and changing. So it's always difficult to even process your own understanding and feelings while you’re coming to terms with what's happening. And it’s the same for your audience – their feelings are going to change and their emotions might be heightened too.</p><p><br></p><p>Just be careful with how you step forward and perhaps consider the questions we suggested to help you make decisions in your business. Things like, do you have to pause your launch or will you continue with it? Do you have to check your automated email campaigns to make sure you’re not accidentally saying the wrong thing? Or that you’re not pushing your audience away?</p><p><br></p><p>Hopefully, what we shared today will help you look at what you’re doing and make the best decisions you can make based on the information you currently have. And that's all you can do. <strong>You get to decide whether you're going to provide support or escape content for now</strong>.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/decide-whether-messaging-should-change-in-a-crisis/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">f978c73f-f87d-4e24-89f7-cd51d9684f8c</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/7974c73b-ab53-45df-930d-cc1c77b60349/D48k9NEh_dOPx-N1R59oNyB4.png"/><pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2022 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/f3c424db-cab0-42ce-b2ec-6aec753ac666/final.mp3" length="13443682" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:46</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>bonus</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>7 Proven And Essential Email Campaigns For Your Business</title><itunes:title>7 Proven And Essential Email Campaigns For Your Business</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>How many email marketing sequences do we need for our business? What are the critical email campaign examples you should have in place?</p><p>We're Kennedy and Carrie, and here are the 7 email campaigns we think every business should have.</p><p>Ready to take notes? (And, most importantly, take<em> action</em>?)</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:38) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(3:04) Take action - build one campaign at a time.&nbsp;</p><p>(5:07) Why are campaigns with multiple emails more effective?&nbsp;</p><p>(12:40) 1. A delivery sequence.&nbsp;</p><p>(15:40) 2. A welcome sequence.&nbsp;</p><p>(19:23) 3. A direct sales sequence.&nbsp;</p><p>(22:37) 4. A content-led sequence.&nbsp;</p><p>(27:57) 5. An objection handling sequence.&nbsp;</p><p>(33:19) 6. A risk reversal sequence.&nbsp;</p><p>(34:20) 7. A subscriber engagement sequence.&nbsp;</p><p>(39:01) Subject lines of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><p><br></p><h2>Take action - build one campaign at a time</h2><p>The email campaign examples we're giving you here are the ones we think you must have in your business, but don’t get overwhelmed by this advice. Build one campaign at a time and <em>then</em> improve them later because you cannot optimise what doesn’t exist!</p><p>We cannot predict perfection, so we should stop waiting for it - we can only polish our progress. So don't wait to start your email marketing until you have all the sequences fully written, optimised, and reviewed. You'd be delaying action and creating a <em>noble obstacle</em>. Just get something out there because, with email marketing, you’re building <em>relationships</em> with people. We need to stop acting like every email is a <em>performance</em>!</p><h2>Why are campaigns with multiple emails more effective?&nbsp;</h2><p>Some campaigns could have as few as one email, but you can add as many emails as you want to a sequence. Some of our campaigns are made up of up to 30 emails - it depends on what they are and what they do. <strong>A sequence of multiple emails will always outperform one single email</strong>. That's because none of us is getting a 100% open rate on our emails (not even Google!) Even if you’re getting a healthy 40% open rate, 60% of your subscribers are still not seeing those emails.</p><p>Also, we are all inspired by and connect with different things. If you tell someone that a particular offer is expiring soon, they might buy because they're motivated by <em>loss</em>. But the same email might not work for someone who's motivated by different things. Instead, you might be able to get their attention by offering a bonus, for example. <strong>Having a sequence of emails in a chain with time delays between them always outperforms a singular email.</strong></p><h2>Why you should pre-write and automate your email campaigns</h2><p>We recommend you <strong>pre-write and automate your email sequences </strong>because, that way, they’ll perform for you no matter what's happening in your life or business. Having automated email sequences gives you flexibility. <strong>Your pre-written emails are an asset</strong> - not a liability!</p><p>If you spend time sending out broadcast emails, you can never use that email again, and you won’t get that time back. But if you write your emails into automated campaigns that every subscriber in your list will receive, <strong>you're building an asset that’s going to serve you time and time again. </strong>Automated campaigns are effective not only because they help you make sales, but also because they allow you to deepen the relationship with your subscribers (or help you re-engage them). It depends on the point of the campaign.</p><p>The key is to <strong>build your email campaigns as an asset that compounds and serves you for as long as you need it to</strong> – not just for the time it takes you to do the work. When you write and schedule emails, you have the systems and automations already in place. And they keep working for you even when you can't, for whatever reason. Write your emails when you feel your boldest and bravest self, and pre-programme that content to go out regardless. That way, your emails will do the heavy lifting for you. They can act as a staff member, i.e. a hugely powerful asset in your business that allows you to keep going when you can't.</p><p>So what are the 7 email sequences you should have in your business?</p><h2>1. A delivery sequence</h2><p>You need a simple, engaged sequence that delivers whatever people want to download from you. <strong>Even if you’re giving away that product for free (i.e. a lead magnet), treat it <em>with reverence</em> – don’t undervalue it because it’s free.</strong> People will decide on the value of something based on how you treat it. They might not be paying money for it, but they're giving you their email address. And data is currency. So show people that what they get in return is <em>valuable</em> to them.</p><p>Remember that <strong>you need a delivery sequence for every product (free or paid-for) that you give out. </strong>Send people what you said you'd send them, and keep hyping that. Don’t even refer to your lead magnet as a freebie, if you can avoid it. Because people<em> paid</em> for it with their data and attention. And once they download it, you want them to ask you what’s next.</p><p>If you're getting started, a delivery sequence is the easiest email campaign to put together. You don’t even have to write it all in advance either. A grandfather of this industry, Jimmy D. Brown, used to say that every Tuesday and Thursday he'd set his alarm and spend 30 minutes adding one email to every one of his sequences. Before long, he had <em>hundreds</em> of emails. So start with one because you can’t improve on what you don’t have.</p><h2>2 . A welcome sequence</h2><p>The delivery and the welcome sequence aren’t the same thing. You may have several ways for people to get into your world (i.e. different lead magnets, challenges, webinars, etc.) You want different delivery sequences for each lead magnet, but <strong>you only need <em>one</em> welcome sequence.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>Our Welcome Sequence (the one we teach inside<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a>) is called the Getting To Know You sequence. No matter how someone comes into our world, they go through the same welcome sequence. It’s highly optimised, everyone gets it, and you don’t have to create a new one every time you launch a new lead magnet.</p><p>The first email of your welcome sequence should bridge the gap between how people got on your email list and what’s going to happen next. This is an important step because for most people the transaction is completed once they've downloaded your lead magnet. They ‘paid’ through their email address, and any emails they get from you after that are a nuisance and a surprise! So in the first email of your welcome sequence, tell them what's going to happen next. <strong>Use that email to position the ongoing emails and resell them on something valuable</strong> – this isn’t an apology!</p><p>Also, give them a whole bunch of ways they can connect with you on different platforms (such as your social media or your podcast). While your delivery sequence is<em> transactional</em>, your welcome sequence leads people into the <em>relational</em> territory.</p><h2>3. A direct sales sequence</h2><p>The direct sales sequence is <em>conversional</em>, in that <strong>you're starting the process of <em>converting</em> subscribers into becoming paying customers.</strong> This is where you tell people what you sell and how you serve.</p><p>This campaign helps you<strong> address the people who come into your world with an urgent need for a solution to their problem.</strong> Your job is to help them, so don’t push this stage down the line. The last thing you want to do for these people is to disengage them by pushing some irrelevant content down their throats.</p><p>Even if people need more information before buying, you still want to introduce them to your core offer. So be clear on what you sell, on the solution you have, and the problem it solves. You'll find that rabid (urgent) buyers will buy at this stage - this campaign is for them.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>4. A content-led sales sequence</h2><p>Your content-led sales sequence is for the people who need more information. They’re more cautious buyers - perhaps because they've been burnt before. This isn’t a content <em>value-based</em> sequence by the way – we’re not just entertainment in someone’s inbox! It’s a content-led <em>sales</em> email campaign. Ultimately, your goal is to offer people your solution (just like in the direct sales campaign), but now you're doing it through a content sequence. It’s not content for content’s sake - <strong>it’s content that needs to set up the sale.</strong></p><p>Why? Because we want to make sales, of course, but also because we don't want to distract our audience and add more overwhelm to their lives. People are coming to you with a specific problem they believe you can solve. So don’t start talking about irrelevant topics! If they wanted more content or overwhelm, they'd still be browsing the Internet. They want clarity. So <strong>your job is to prove that what you have is unique and interesting and is going to help them.</strong> You're going to do that by teaching them something small but tangible that gives them a quick win and makes them more willing to join your programme. You could share a video to teach them something, for example. Whatever you share, <strong>start with content, and then move into making an offer.</strong> This is what a content-led...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How many email marketing sequences do we need for our business? What are the critical email campaign examples you should have in place?</p><p>We're Kennedy and Carrie, and here are the 7 email campaigns we think every business should have.</p><p>Ready to take notes? (And, most importantly, take<em> action</em>?)</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:38) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(3:04) Take action - build one campaign at a time.&nbsp;</p><p>(5:07) Why are campaigns with multiple emails more effective?&nbsp;</p><p>(12:40) 1. A delivery sequence.&nbsp;</p><p>(15:40) 2. A welcome sequence.&nbsp;</p><p>(19:23) 3. A direct sales sequence.&nbsp;</p><p>(22:37) 4. A content-led sequence.&nbsp;</p><p>(27:57) 5. An objection handling sequence.&nbsp;</p><p>(33:19) 6. A risk reversal sequence.&nbsp;</p><p>(34:20) 7. A subscriber engagement sequence.&nbsp;</p><p>(39:01) Subject lines of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><p><br></p><h2>Take action - build one campaign at a time</h2><p>The email campaign examples we're giving you here are the ones we think you must have in your business, but don’t get overwhelmed by this advice. Build one campaign at a time and <em>then</em> improve them later because you cannot optimise what doesn’t exist!</p><p>We cannot predict perfection, so we should stop waiting for it - we can only polish our progress. So don't wait to start your email marketing until you have all the sequences fully written, optimised, and reviewed. You'd be delaying action and creating a <em>noble obstacle</em>. Just get something out there because, with email marketing, you’re building <em>relationships</em> with people. We need to stop acting like every email is a <em>performance</em>!</p><h2>Why are campaigns with multiple emails more effective?&nbsp;</h2><p>Some campaigns could have as few as one email, but you can add as many emails as you want to a sequence. Some of our campaigns are made up of up to 30 emails - it depends on what they are and what they do. <strong>A sequence of multiple emails will always outperform one single email</strong>. That's because none of us is getting a 100% open rate on our emails (not even Google!) Even if you’re getting a healthy 40% open rate, 60% of your subscribers are still not seeing those emails.</p><p>Also, we are all inspired by and connect with different things. If you tell someone that a particular offer is expiring soon, they might buy because they're motivated by <em>loss</em>. But the same email might not work for someone who's motivated by different things. Instead, you might be able to get their attention by offering a bonus, for example. <strong>Having a sequence of emails in a chain with time delays between them always outperforms a singular email.</strong></p><h2>Why you should pre-write and automate your email campaigns</h2><p>We recommend you <strong>pre-write and automate your email sequences </strong>because, that way, they’ll perform for you no matter what's happening in your life or business. Having automated email sequences gives you flexibility. <strong>Your pre-written emails are an asset</strong> - not a liability!</p><p>If you spend time sending out broadcast emails, you can never use that email again, and you won’t get that time back. But if you write your emails into automated campaigns that every subscriber in your list will receive, <strong>you're building an asset that’s going to serve you time and time again. </strong>Automated campaigns are effective not only because they help you make sales, but also because they allow you to deepen the relationship with your subscribers (or help you re-engage them). It depends on the point of the campaign.</p><p>The key is to <strong>build your email campaigns as an asset that compounds and serves you for as long as you need it to</strong> – not just for the time it takes you to do the work. When you write and schedule emails, you have the systems and automations already in place. And they keep working for you even when you can't, for whatever reason. Write your emails when you feel your boldest and bravest self, and pre-programme that content to go out regardless. That way, your emails will do the heavy lifting for you. They can act as a staff member, i.e. a hugely powerful asset in your business that allows you to keep going when you can't.</p><p>So what are the 7 email sequences you should have in your business?</p><h2>1. A delivery sequence</h2><p>You need a simple, engaged sequence that delivers whatever people want to download from you. <strong>Even if you’re giving away that product for free (i.e. a lead magnet), treat it <em>with reverence</em> – don’t undervalue it because it’s free.</strong> People will decide on the value of something based on how you treat it. They might not be paying money for it, but they're giving you their email address. And data is currency. So show people that what they get in return is <em>valuable</em> to them.</p><p>Remember that <strong>you need a delivery sequence for every product (free or paid-for) that you give out. </strong>Send people what you said you'd send them, and keep hyping that. Don’t even refer to your lead magnet as a freebie, if you can avoid it. Because people<em> paid</em> for it with their data and attention. And once they download it, you want them to ask you what’s next.</p><p>If you're getting started, a delivery sequence is the easiest email campaign to put together. You don’t even have to write it all in advance either. A grandfather of this industry, Jimmy D. Brown, used to say that every Tuesday and Thursday he'd set his alarm and spend 30 minutes adding one email to every one of his sequences. Before long, he had <em>hundreds</em> of emails. So start with one because you can’t improve on what you don’t have.</p><h2>2 . A welcome sequence</h2><p>The delivery and the welcome sequence aren’t the same thing. You may have several ways for people to get into your world (i.e. different lead magnets, challenges, webinars, etc.) You want different delivery sequences for each lead magnet, but <strong>you only need <em>one</em> welcome sequence.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>Our Welcome Sequence (the one we teach inside<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a>) is called the Getting To Know You sequence. No matter how someone comes into our world, they go through the same welcome sequence. It’s highly optimised, everyone gets it, and you don’t have to create a new one every time you launch a new lead magnet.</p><p>The first email of your welcome sequence should bridge the gap between how people got on your email list and what’s going to happen next. This is an important step because for most people the transaction is completed once they've downloaded your lead magnet. They ‘paid’ through their email address, and any emails they get from you after that are a nuisance and a surprise! So in the first email of your welcome sequence, tell them what's going to happen next. <strong>Use that email to position the ongoing emails and resell them on something valuable</strong> – this isn’t an apology!</p><p>Also, give them a whole bunch of ways they can connect with you on different platforms (such as your social media or your podcast). While your delivery sequence is<em> transactional</em>, your welcome sequence leads people into the <em>relational</em> territory.</p><h2>3. A direct sales sequence</h2><p>The direct sales sequence is <em>conversional</em>, in that <strong>you're starting the process of <em>converting</em> subscribers into becoming paying customers.</strong> This is where you tell people what you sell and how you serve.</p><p>This campaign helps you<strong> address the people who come into your world with an urgent need for a solution to their problem.</strong> Your job is to help them, so don’t push this stage down the line. The last thing you want to do for these people is to disengage them by pushing some irrelevant content down their throats.</p><p>Even if people need more information before buying, you still want to introduce them to your core offer. So be clear on what you sell, on the solution you have, and the problem it solves. You'll find that rabid (urgent) buyers will buy at this stage - this campaign is for them.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>4. A content-led sales sequence</h2><p>Your content-led sales sequence is for the people who need more information. They’re more cautious buyers - perhaps because they've been burnt before. This isn’t a content <em>value-based</em> sequence by the way – we’re not just entertainment in someone’s inbox! It’s a content-led <em>sales</em> email campaign. Ultimately, your goal is to offer people your solution (just like in the direct sales campaign), but now you're doing it through a content sequence. It’s not content for content’s sake - <strong>it’s content that needs to set up the sale.</strong></p><p>Why? Because we want to make sales, of course, but also because we don't want to distract our audience and add more overwhelm to their lives. People are coming to you with a specific problem they believe you can solve. So don’t start talking about irrelevant topics! If they wanted more content or overwhelm, they'd still be browsing the Internet. They want clarity. So <strong>your job is to prove that what you have is unique and interesting and is going to help them.</strong> You're going to do that by teaching them something small but tangible that gives them a quick win and makes them more willing to join your programme. You could share a video to teach them something, for example. Whatever you share, <strong>start with content, and then move into making an offer.</strong> This is what a content-led sales sequence is.</p><p>Don't make people feel like they're being beaten over the head with the message to buy. If that's all you say, why would they want to stick around and pay attention to your emails? Give them <em>value</em>. Even if they don't buy from you now, they’ll still be in a better position than where they were before. They have more understanding and some ideas they can go and implement.</p><p>But <strong>if they do buy at this stage, they're a more educated and qualified buyer.</strong> Overall, this campaign helps you reduce return rates, refund rates, complaints, and customer service instances. Because your content helps them understand if you’re right for them.</p><p>The best thing yet? You don't have to create new content specifically for this campaign. Just grab something you already have and repurpose it to use it inside your content-led sequence.</p><h2>5. An objection-handling sequence</h2><p>Your objection-handling campaign is for people who, for whatever reason, haven't bought yet because they have an objection of some kind. They may be wondering if your solution works for them or if they can afford it. So your objection handling campaign has two jobs:</p><ol><li>Find out what the objection is. A way of doing this is to run a survey and ask.</li><li>Overcome the objection. You want to <strong>turn that objection into the reason why they should buy.</strong></li></ol><br/><p>One of the biggest objections we get from people before they join<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> our progamme</a> is that they’re not good writers. So we tell them that’s <em>exactly why</em> they should get all frameworks for the email campaigns they need. Also, we have this notion that a 'well-written' email is one that our high-school teacher would approve of. But those tend to be the worst-performing emails! They may be well-written, but they tend to come across as cold and inauthentic - like they weren't written by a human being. They feel disconnected from reality and don’t have emotions.</p><p>Instead, you want to <strong>write how you talk</strong> – with all the expected imperfections. Why? Because when people read your emails they do something called <em>subvocalisation</em>, which means they hear your voice in their head while reading. If you’re not a good writer, write exactly how you speak. And if it means you’re going to dictate your emails first and then tidy them up later, that’s what you'll do.</p><p>Remember - <strong>take people's objections and turn them into the reasons why they <em>must</em>.</strong> It’s a simple mindset shift and a different way of motivating people.</p><h2>6. A risk reversal sequence</h2><p>The next email sequence you need to have in place is a risk-reversal campaign. Lots of people get scammed or burnt by solutions that don't end up being what was promised. You want to give your audience the guarantee that what you're selling is great and will work for them. So your risk-reversal campaign has the job of <em>reversing, removing, or reducing the risk</em> that your programme might not work.</p><p>You do this by offering your product at a low cost or by giving a free trial, for example. Or maybe you could invite people to attend a coaching session or participate in a group call. You’re showing people that the perceived risk doesn’t exist.</p><h2>7. A subscriber engagement sequence</h2><p>The last email sequence you want to have in place is a subscriber engagement sequence or <em>re-engagement sequence</em>. This is important because you can't help the people who are disengaging from your emails! By not opening or interacting with your emails, they're also damaging your sender's reputation, which is your ability to get your emails delivered to all the people who want to receive them.</p><p>So look for people who are disengaging with your emails, put them through a re-engagement sequence, and try and bring them back from the brink. If they don't, let them go. Unsubscribe them and keep your email list clean.</p><p>It may seem scary but think about this example. If you were speaking at an arena to an audience of 20,000 people, but 18,000 of them were talking amongst themselves or going in and out of the venue, would this be good for you? What would happen to the 2,000 people who are present and engaged? You wouldn't be able to fully focus on them!</p><p><strong>A disengaged audience isn't good for your business or for the people who want to pay attention and buy from you!</strong> <strong>You can only serve the people who choose to be there.</strong> So release the ones who don't want to be there and focus on the room.<strong> </strong>Those other people can always come back later - you're not closing the doors for good. But right now you’re not serving them, so let them go.</p><h2>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h2><p>If you’d like to get your hands on the exact frameworks for these 7 email campaigns (plus many more email sequences that will get you results), go check out<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a>. You can use tried and tested frameworks and launch them must faster than you would if you had to create them from a blank page.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>This week’s subject line is “Slides for today’s masterclass”. This one came about as Kennedy was teaching a webinar and wanted to evoke people’s curiosity and remind those who hadn't registered yet to go and do so. The subject line works because it's intriguing and engaging – it gives a little peak behind the scenes. It's a fresh angle you can use to remind people you’re running a masterclass or a webinar. So check it out!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/template-email-marketing-campaign/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Template For Email Marketing Campaigns</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/best-email-marketing-campaigns/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Run A Smashing Flash Sale With One of The Best Email Marketing Campaigns In The World</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/the-best-time-to-send-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Perfect Timing? What’s The BEST Time To Send An Email For Maximum Impact?</a></p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the 7 email campaign examples you must have in your business) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p><p><br></p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/essential-email-campaigns-examples/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">0142d80d-14e3-4c51-b1a0-4c627a373ca1</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/0a0a36ec-eeeb-415a-b761-c3f8f56199f2/NWud5jzI4LtvUyevtAj2inwJ.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2022 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/2444c0e4-3f83-4254-95c1-52d4abe9f979/EP-233-123.mp3" length="97857600" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>40:46</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>123</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>123</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/3b47e5bf-98d5-4654-b99c-a626d191a2ed/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>Creative Email Batching Techniques That Will Save You Time &amp; Energy</title><itunes:title>Creative Email Batching Techniques That Will Save You Time &amp; Energy</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Do you batch your emails? Can batching improve your email marketing? Does it make the process any easier or quicker?</p><p>We’re Kennedy and <a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fifi</a>, and these are some of the questions we answer in this podcast episode because we’ve all been there - staring at a daunting list of emails to send, not knowing where to begin.</p><p>Let's go!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>Recent episodes</h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/lies-email-marketing-platform/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Warning: 6 Lies Your Email Marketing Platform Is Telling You</a></p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-come-up-with-your-next-email-campaign-without-overthinking-it/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Come Up With Your Next Email Campaign (Without Overthinking It)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-deliverability/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Surprising Thing That REALLY Impacts Your Email Deliverability</a>.</p><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h5><br></h5><h5>Want to connect with Fifi?</h5><p>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people – those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can&nbsp;<a href="https://fifimason.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">find Fifi on her website</a>.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you batch your emails? Can batching improve your email marketing? Does it make the process any easier or quicker?</p><p>We’re Kennedy and <a href="https://fifimason.com/?utm_source=emailmarketingheroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fifi</a>, and these are some of the questions we answer in this podcast episode because we’ve all been there - staring at a daunting list of emails to send, not knowing where to begin.</p><p>Let's go!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h5>Recent episodes</h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/lies-email-marketing-platform/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Warning: 6 Lies Your Email Marketing Platform Is Telling You</a></p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-come-up-with-your-next-email-campaign-without-overthinking-it/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Come Up With Your Next Email Campaign (Without Overthinking It)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-deliverability/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Surprising Thing That REALLY Impacts Your Email Deliverability</a>.</p><h5>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5>Join our FREE Facebook group</h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5>Join The Email Hero Blueprint</h5><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Hero Blueprint</a>&nbsp;is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h5><br></h5><h5>Want to connect with Fifi?</h5><p>Fifi is a personal brand and visibility coach who works primarily with introverted coaches and impact makers. She helps quieter people – those who have ideas they want to share with the world but struggle to put them out there. Fifi empowers them to find a way to share in a way that aligns with who they are. You can&nbsp;<a href="https://fifimason.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">find Fifi on her website</a>.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/creative-ways-batch-your-emails/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">4751c17f-e5e3-4e35-a83c-944ef3689548</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/1bdc0017-c707-4001-b459-667ca858b1a7/Cp5b8ntbhropV8pJ7_NSYY6M.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2022 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/8fc7dca1-da49-4e7a-9883-4915fc116d44/EP-253-Final.mp3" length="59956096" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>24:59</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>122</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>122</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Little Tricks to Write Better Emails That Aren&apos;t Boring</title><itunes:title>Little Tricks to Write Better Emails That Aren&apos;t Boring</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>How can you write better emails? Do you think your emails are boring? Do you need to be funny? Or should you try and be more interesting? And if so, <em>how</em>?</p><p>We're Kennedy and<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Carrie</a>, and we're sharing the little things you can do to make your email marketing less boring.</p><p>Ready? Then buckle up!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:30) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(3:05) Make everyday life sound interesting.&nbsp;</p><p>(4:35) Take people on a journey with you.&nbsp;</p><p>(10:27) Stay relevant to your audience.&nbsp;</p><p>(13:37) Deliver value (and selling is value!)&nbsp;</p><p>(17:37) Send emails using your name (not your company's).&nbsp;</p><p>(18:41) Show up regularly and don't shy away from expressing opinions.&nbsp;</p><p>(22:37) Tell stories (and start from the action).&nbsp;</p><p>(26:16) Join The Email Hero Blueprint.</p><p>(26:33) Subject line of the week.</p><h2><br></h2><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-storytelling/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">EVERYTHING You Need To Know About Email Marketing And Storytelling To Write Emails That Sell Like Crazy</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-success-isabelle-lesschaeve/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Success: How Isabelle Lesschaeve Made An Extra $10,000 With Our Paparazzi Flash Sale Campaign</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/familiarity-exposure/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tap Into The Mind-Blowing Power Of Familiarity Exposure Psychology In Your Emails To Boost Sales In Your Business</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3>Want to connect with Carrie?</h3><p>You can find Carrie on<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> her website</a> or at<a href="https://www.fullyleveragedbusiness.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Fully Leveraged Business</a>.&nbsp;</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to write better emails that aren't boring) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How can you write better emails? Do you think your emails are boring? Do you need to be funny? Or should you try and be more interesting? And if so, <em>how</em>?</p><p>We're Kennedy and<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Carrie</a>, and we're sharing the little things you can do to make your email marketing less boring.</p><p>Ready? Then buckle up!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:30) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(3:05) Make everyday life sound interesting.&nbsp;</p><p>(4:35) Take people on a journey with you.&nbsp;</p><p>(10:27) Stay relevant to your audience.&nbsp;</p><p>(13:37) Deliver value (and selling is value!)&nbsp;</p><p>(17:37) Send emails using your name (not your company's).&nbsp;</p><p>(18:41) Show up regularly and don't shy away from expressing opinions.&nbsp;</p><p>(22:37) Tell stories (and start from the action).&nbsp;</p><p>(26:16) Join The Email Hero Blueprint.</p><p>(26:33) Subject line of the week.</p><h2><br></h2><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-storytelling/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">EVERYTHING You Need To Know About Email Marketing And Storytelling To Write Emails That Sell Like Crazy</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-success-isabelle-lesschaeve/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Success: How Isabelle Lesschaeve Made An Extra $10,000 With Our Paparazzi Flash Sale Campaign</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/familiarity-exposure/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tap Into The Mind-Blowing Power Of Familiarity Exposure Psychology In Your Emails To Boost Sales In Your Business</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h3>Want to connect with Carrie?</h3><p>You can find Carrie on<a href="https://carriewilkerson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> her website</a> or at<a href="https://www.fullyleveragedbusiness.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Fully Leveraged Business</a>.&nbsp;</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to write better emails that aren't boring) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/write-better-emails/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">a1359d90-babc-4dd7-b470-2b0faa675dc2</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/815daf5b-549f-4e94-8a16-8f7b82a27904/jqDABpZhv-luIWYxmKNHkV9k.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2022 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/0835b4fd-fabf-44f3-933d-04ab7b2c986c/EP-238-121-Final.mp3" length="66816000" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>27:50</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>121</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>121</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/2a4f6d69-da3d-4811-880d-846662aea024/index.html" type="text/html"/></item><item><title>How Laura Belgray Turns Haters Into Sales - with The Talking Shrimp</title><itunes:title>How Laura Belgray Turns Haters Into Sales - with The Talking Shrimp</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>So you started sending more emails to your subscribers and now you're getting 'hate mail'. That's right - <em>some</em> people are replying with complaints and negative feedback. And how do we deal with those? Laura Belgray, the founder of Talking Shrimp® and co-creator of The Copy Cure with Marie Forleo, has been a professional writer for over two decades and has won <em>big</em> awards for her work. In this conversation, she tells us everything we need to know to turn problems into opportunities.</p><p>Because she is <em>The Queen</em> of turning haters into sales.&nbsp;</p><p>Want to know how it's done?&nbsp;</p><p>Let's hear it from Laura.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p><br></p><p>(0:25) Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</p><p>(3:33) Fancy a 14-day FREE trial with Keap?&nbsp;</p><p>(4:07) Can Laura hold her own on a skateboard or did she appear in the Sesame Street theme on TV?</p><p>(6:09) What kind of 'hate' emails does Laura get?</p><p>(8:25) What to do when you receive emails from 'haters'. </p><p>(11:29) Let go of the people who aren't interested in buying what you sell!</p><p>(15:22) How to turn 'hate email' into a piece of content to support your launch.</p><p>(20:37) How to turn 'hate emails' into evergreen content.</p><p>(23:35) 'Haters' are like hecklers - they just want significance.</p><p>(28:34) Subject line of the week with Laura Belgray.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you – it's really cool and it's FREE (yes, we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need those clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p><br></p><p>So we've got&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The kind of 'hate emails' Laura gets&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>One thing we have in common with Laura is using stories as a way of communicating with our audiences. Sure, that makes us a little vulnerable because when you share stories and experiences from your own life and people don't like them, their 'hate' can be directed towards you.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So what kind of 'hate' are we talking about here? Oh, let's see. Laura was told her emails were lame and totally sucked, for example. Or that she emails too much and she should 'slow her roll'. And even that people are <em>trying</em> to unsubscribe, but there's no link (an absolute lie!)</p><p><br></p><p>Sometimes these comments are so ridiculous that they're easy to brush off. But sometimes they sting. And Laura admits she's sometimes tempted to write back and be reactive about the situation. </p><p><br></p><p>But...</p><p><br></p><p>There's a better way to do things. </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What to do when you receive emails from haters</strong></h3><p>The right thing to do, Laura explains, is to avoid responding straight away. Don't defend yourself - don't waste your time telling people why they're wrong. It’s okay to lose these 'haters' from your list because they're not the people you want!</p><p><br></p><p>Instead, Laura does something constructive - she will showcase these comments. She’ll take a screenshot, copy the words, put them into an email and social media posts, and she’ll share with her audience. She might admit she was hurt by the negative comments sometimes, but she’ll also talk about why what people say is wrong and share value with her audience in the process.  </p><p><br></p><p>And do you know why her audience loves it when she does this? First of all, people like to see how we handle things we’re afraid of - things that might happen to them too. Because if you're someone who emails often and is good at this, you'll get these sort of emails too. Truth is - the better you are at something, the more people are going to 'hate' you!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How sharing 'hate' emails with your audience impacts you</strong></h3><p>It's also interesting for people in your audience, Laura says, to see how a person they respect handles the process to turn problems into opportunities. And when you admit that negative words have an effect on you, it's relatable and comforting to your audience. Equally, if you show why you're not bothered by these comments, there will be people on your list who can relate to that.</p><p><br></p><p>When people in your audience see you handle criticism well, they rally around you - they get on your side and defensive on your behalf. If the ‘hater’ is complaining you sell too much, you might have people react by buying! Because they're on your list to buy from you, and they'll prove it to you by buying your products or services.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Let go of the people who aren't interested in what you're selling</strong></h3><p>Laura knows that <strong>the more you email, the more you sell. The more you get your message out to people, the more people you'll help or delight.</strong> So by emailing more, you're creating such a <em>positive</em> effect that it’s worth the trade-off of losing some 'haters'.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Because the more emails you send, the more unsubscribes you're going to get. But, as we always say, <strong>unsubscribes are a good way of cleansing your list.</strong> The people who leave are people who don't want to hear from you - they aren't interested in what you have to say or sell. So you don't want them on your list!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Because if they're not going to buy or even open your emails, they're clogging up your list. Letting them go is a cleansing process for your list. Let's remember that<strong>&nbsp;people on your list who don't open your emails affect your deliverability.</strong> So let them go!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to turn a 'hate email' into a piece of content</strong></h3><p>We asked Laura how she frames the negative comments she receives from her subscribers and turns them into something of value. To answer our question, Laura shared an example of someone who got in touch with her to say she was sending too many emails (we called this guy Bob).</p><p><br></p><p>She took a screenshot of Bob's email, quoted it into one of her emails and told her audience what she said back to him. She told Bob (and her list) that when it comes to email marketing, more is more - <em>especially</em> if you're launching or selling something. Laura backed this up with a graph that showed that the more emails she sends, the more products she sells. And it’s that frequency of emailing that made her a $1 million yearly income! So she’s going to keep sending emails. And Bob is of course welcome to get off the ride.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>When the 'haters' reply back</strong></h4><p>Do you know what happened next? Bob actually replied back! He said he'd been schooled by Talking Shrimp and humbly accepted Laura’s rebuttal. Fantastic, right?</p><p><br></p><p>The best thing is that this happened in the middle of a launch of one of Laura's courses - one that teaches the art of emailing. And this whole thing with Bob was so apt that it helped her sell the course! Because when Laura pointed out that sending more emails generates more money, more people realised they needed the exact product she was selling. This was a perfect example of how Laura made more sales using hate email.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>But she uses these kind of emails all the time - even when she isn't doing a launch. She uses these emails to make her audience feel better about 'haters' and to educate them on how to handle and process criticism.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>You are not for everyone!</strong></h4><p>Because it's important we all remember we're not for everyone - no one is. There'll always be someone who wants you to do things differently.</p><p><br></p><p>But you don't need to change anything.</p><p>It's like the analogy we like to use of people on your email list being guests who come into your house. When they come to <em>you</em>, they need to abide by <em>your</em> rules. And if they don’t like the décor or the furniture, you’re not going to change it for them! Because this is <em>your </em>house. So you run your list the way <em>you</em> want to run it.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to turn your 'hate emails' into evergreen pieces of content&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Laura will always re-use 'hate emails', especially if they got a good response. If the emails are time-bound and include copy along the lines of “this happened to me today”, she’ll tweak them to say “last time I launched, this happened to me,” for example. This helps her make the emails more time-sensitive.</p><p><br></p><p>But emails from haters make for great content, whether they’re during a launch or not. For example, someone once criticised Laura for having a typo in an email. And Laura pointed out that copywriters aren’t copy editors – they make typos. But this doesn't mean they can't be trusted or aren't professional!&nbsp;So Laura created an email with the subject line “the typo that ruined my career”. And of course, the point was that a typo <em>didn't</em> ruin her career!</p><p><br></p><p>That was a great example of everyday content – not something she'd only share during a launch. Because<em> anything</em> can be turned into a piece of content.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>'Haters' just want significance</strong></h3><p>This conversation with Laura also reminded us of what happens in the stand-up comedy and entertainment worlds with hecklers. Hecklers are people who want a bit of significance.</p><p><br></p><p>It's the same with email marketing. When Bob got a reply from Laura, he probably had his heart filled. He felt...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So you started sending more emails to your subscribers and now you're getting 'hate mail'. That's right - <em>some</em> people are replying with complaints and negative feedback. And how do we deal with those? Laura Belgray, the founder of Talking Shrimp® and co-creator of The Copy Cure with Marie Forleo, has been a professional writer for over two decades and has won <em>big</em> awards for her work. In this conversation, she tells us everything we need to know to turn problems into opportunities.</p><p>Because she is <em>The Queen</em> of turning haters into sales.&nbsp;</p><p>Want to know how it's done?&nbsp;</p><p>Let's hear it from Laura.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p><br></p><p>(0:25) Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</p><p>(3:33) Fancy a 14-day FREE trial with Keap?&nbsp;</p><p>(4:07) Can Laura hold her own on a skateboard or did she appear in the Sesame Street theme on TV?</p><p>(6:09) What kind of 'hate' emails does Laura get?</p><p>(8:25) What to do when you receive emails from 'haters'. </p><p>(11:29) Let go of the people who aren't interested in buying what you sell!</p><p>(15:22) How to turn 'hate email' into a piece of content to support your launch.</p><p>(20:37) How to turn 'hate emails' into evergreen content.</p><p>(23:35) 'Haters' are like hecklers - they just want significance.</p><p>(28:34) Subject line of the week with Laura Belgray.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you – it's really cool and it's FREE (yes, we're nice like that). If you want to&nbsp;<strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need those clicks on the things that you're selling!</p><p><br></p><p>So we've got&nbsp;<strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a&nbsp;<strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it&nbsp;<a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The kind of 'hate emails' Laura gets&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>One thing we have in common with Laura is using stories as a way of communicating with our audiences. Sure, that makes us a little vulnerable because when you share stories and experiences from your own life and people don't like them, their 'hate' can be directed towards you.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So what kind of 'hate' are we talking about here? Oh, let's see. Laura was told her emails were lame and totally sucked, for example. Or that she emails too much and she should 'slow her roll'. And even that people are <em>trying</em> to unsubscribe, but there's no link (an absolute lie!)</p><p><br></p><p>Sometimes these comments are so ridiculous that they're easy to brush off. But sometimes they sting. And Laura admits she's sometimes tempted to write back and be reactive about the situation. </p><p><br></p><p>But...</p><p><br></p><p>There's a better way to do things. </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What to do when you receive emails from haters</strong></h3><p>The right thing to do, Laura explains, is to avoid responding straight away. Don't defend yourself - don't waste your time telling people why they're wrong. It’s okay to lose these 'haters' from your list because they're not the people you want!</p><p><br></p><p>Instead, Laura does something constructive - she will showcase these comments. She’ll take a screenshot, copy the words, put them into an email and social media posts, and she’ll share with her audience. She might admit she was hurt by the negative comments sometimes, but she’ll also talk about why what people say is wrong and share value with her audience in the process.  </p><p><br></p><p>And do you know why her audience loves it when she does this? First of all, people like to see how we handle things we’re afraid of - things that might happen to them too. Because if you're someone who emails often and is good at this, you'll get these sort of emails too. Truth is - the better you are at something, the more people are going to 'hate' you!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How sharing 'hate' emails with your audience impacts you</strong></h3><p>It's also interesting for people in your audience, Laura says, to see how a person they respect handles the process to turn problems into opportunities. And when you admit that negative words have an effect on you, it's relatable and comforting to your audience. Equally, if you show why you're not bothered by these comments, there will be people on your list who can relate to that.</p><p><br></p><p>When people in your audience see you handle criticism well, they rally around you - they get on your side and defensive on your behalf. If the ‘hater’ is complaining you sell too much, you might have people react by buying! Because they're on your list to buy from you, and they'll prove it to you by buying your products or services.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Let go of the people who aren't interested in what you're selling</strong></h3><p>Laura knows that <strong>the more you email, the more you sell. The more you get your message out to people, the more people you'll help or delight.</strong> So by emailing more, you're creating such a <em>positive</em> effect that it’s worth the trade-off of losing some 'haters'.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Because the more emails you send, the more unsubscribes you're going to get. But, as we always say, <strong>unsubscribes are a good way of cleansing your list.</strong> The people who leave are people who don't want to hear from you - they aren't interested in what you have to say or sell. So you don't want them on your list!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Because if they're not going to buy or even open your emails, they're clogging up your list. Letting them go is a cleansing process for your list. Let's remember that<strong>&nbsp;people on your list who don't open your emails affect your deliverability.</strong> So let them go!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to turn a 'hate email' into a piece of content</strong></h3><p>We asked Laura how she frames the negative comments she receives from her subscribers and turns them into something of value. To answer our question, Laura shared an example of someone who got in touch with her to say she was sending too many emails (we called this guy Bob).</p><p><br></p><p>She took a screenshot of Bob's email, quoted it into one of her emails and told her audience what she said back to him. She told Bob (and her list) that when it comes to email marketing, more is more - <em>especially</em> if you're launching or selling something. Laura backed this up with a graph that showed that the more emails she sends, the more products she sells. And it’s that frequency of emailing that made her a $1 million yearly income! So she’s going to keep sending emails. And Bob is of course welcome to get off the ride.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>When the 'haters' reply back</strong></h4><p>Do you know what happened next? Bob actually replied back! He said he'd been schooled by Talking Shrimp and humbly accepted Laura’s rebuttal. Fantastic, right?</p><p><br></p><p>The best thing is that this happened in the middle of a launch of one of Laura's courses - one that teaches the art of emailing. And this whole thing with Bob was so apt that it helped her sell the course! Because when Laura pointed out that sending more emails generates more money, more people realised they needed the exact product she was selling. This was a perfect example of how Laura made more sales using hate email.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>But she uses these kind of emails all the time - even when she isn't doing a launch. She uses these emails to make her audience feel better about 'haters' and to educate them on how to handle and process criticism.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>You are not for everyone!</strong></h4><p>Because it's important we all remember we're not for everyone - no one is. There'll always be someone who wants you to do things differently.</p><p><br></p><p>But you don't need to change anything.</p><p>It's like the analogy we like to use of people on your email list being guests who come into your house. When they come to <em>you</em>, they need to abide by <em>your</em> rules. And if they don’t like the décor or the furniture, you’re not going to change it for them! Because this is <em>your </em>house. So you run your list the way <em>you</em> want to run it.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to turn your 'hate emails' into evergreen pieces of content&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Laura will always re-use 'hate emails', especially if they got a good response. If the emails are time-bound and include copy along the lines of “this happened to me today”, she’ll tweak them to say “last time I launched, this happened to me,” for example. This helps her make the emails more time-sensitive.</p><p><br></p><p>But emails from haters make for great content, whether they’re during a launch or not. For example, someone once criticised Laura for having a typo in an email. And Laura pointed out that copywriters aren’t copy editors – they make typos. But this doesn't mean they can't be trusted or aren't professional!&nbsp;So Laura created an email with the subject line “the typo that ruined my career”. And of course, the point was that a typo <em>didn't</em> ruin her career!</p><p><br></p><p>That was a great example of everyday content – not something she'd only share during a launch. Because<em> anything</em> can be turned into a piece of content.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>'Haters' just want significance</strong></h3><p>This conversation with Laura also reminded us of what happens in the stand-up comedy and entertainment worlds with hecklers. Hecklers are people who want a bit of significance.</p><p><br></p><p>It's the same with email marketing. When Bob got a reply from Laura, he probably had his heart filled. He felt important because he was spotlighted and pointed out in the audience. He got significance. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Of course, that doesn't mean you should reply to everyone. Laura, for example, has a customer service manager who will often take care of these types of emails and reply to people. Laura will sometimes reply to public comments though, like those on a Facebook ad for example, in order to show a public record of her responses. And she might screenshot those exchanges and use them as content.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>A subject line that Laura uses with every launch is “DUDE”. This was an email about getting a testimonial from a guy who's on Laura's list who is also an awesome email marketer - Chris Orzechowski. He emailed Laura a fabulous response to a course he’d bought, telling her how much he made from the first email he wrote after buying the course.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Laura showcased this testimonial but also the fact she got an email <em>from a guy</em>. You see, Laura has a lot of women on her list and proportionately fewer men. So getting a testimonial from a guy was exciting – she now calls these <em>testoster-monials</em>. And she thinks having testoster-monials on her sales page makes a huge difference. Because it's all about representation. It's about how as consumers we like to see faces that look like ours - whether it's our race, the colour of our hair, or our gender. So the email talked about the importance of showcasing different kinds of people on your sales pages. Brilliant, right?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Laura</strong></h5><p>If you want to connect with Laura, you can find her on her <a href="https://www.talkingshrimp.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">website</a> or on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/talkingshrimpnyc/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a>. You can also grab Laura’s free guide to subject lines <a href="https://www.talkingshrimp.com/subjectlines" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a> – it’ll give you 33 non-sucky subject lines for emails that&nbsp;always&nbsp;get opened, plus proven templates to write your own.</p><p><br></p><h5><br></h5><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/unsubscribe-rate/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why You Shouldn’t Worry About Your Unsubscribe Rate</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-deliverability/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Surprising Thing That REALLY Impacts Your Email Deliverability</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/avoid-email-marketing-mistakes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why You Need to Avoid These Email Marketing Mistakes</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><h5><br></h5><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to turn problems into opportunities and 'haters' into sales) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/turn-problems-into-opportunities-haters-to-sales-talking-shrimp/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">745d0272-ca77-4f98-a8ad-77e8f52e5c92</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/21faed83-b783-44ac-8448-ad5510f8f183/hbjpsQ-PUHPqm771ufBygEA9.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2022 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/df86578a-2bf1-4048-a24e-cce5aae33197/final.mp3" length="25639451" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>32:04</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>120</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>120</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Why We Started an Email Marketing Agency</title><itunes:title>Why We Started an Email Marketing Agency</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Did you know we started an email marketing agency? If you didn't, you're about to find out why we started one, who it's for, and how it could help you.</p><p>So if you're curious to find  out whether we could take care of your email marketing for you, read on (or click play to listen!)</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(0:10) Want to get more sales from your email marketing? Grab our FREE download Click Tricks.</p><p>(3:38) Fancy a 14-day FREE trial with Keap?</p><p>(4:37) Why we stopped our first email marketing writing agency.</p><p>(6:55) Do one thing at the time (but not forever).</p><p>(11:00) It's about delegation - not abdication!</p><p>(14:10) The minimum viable version of our email marketing agency.</p><p>(15:47) Why we only work with specific types of businesses.</p><p>(18:26) Who is our email marketing agency for?</p><p>(21:21) If you're interested in working with us, check out our application form!</p><p>(23:22) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you - it's really cool and it's FREE (yes, we're nice like that). If you want to <strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need those clicks on the things that you're selling! </p><p><br></p><p>So we've got <strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a <strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it <a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why we stopped our first email marketing agency</strong></h3><p>News flash! We've just started an email marketing agency. </p><p><br></p><p>But this isn't even the first time we've done this! In fact, we used to have an email marketing agency, but we closed it down. You see, when we first started this business, having an agency was the logical thing to do. So we did. We'd work with clients, plan an effective strategy and implement email marketing campaigns for them. </p><p><br></p><p>But there was a downside. </p><p><br></p><p>We wanted to help more people than we had time to.&nbsp;Plus the investment was prohibitive for small businesses and course creators. And those were the very people we wanted to help because we have a background in creating online courses. </p><p><br></p><p>So to help more people we created our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. This is where we help course creators, coaches, membership site owners, and other small businesses to do their own email marketing. So we went all-in on the membership and moved away from the email writing agency.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Do one thing at the time (but not forever)</strong></h3><p>We very much subscribe to this idea of doing one thing at the time. But that doesn't mean you do just that <em>one</em> thing forever! We <em>love</em><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>, but we also believe that in business you have to take the time to do one thing right and then move on. This is how we get so much done - separately and together - in our businesses.&nbsp;We do one thing, get it up and running quickly, get it refined (that means automated or systemised), and then move on and do the next thing.</p><p><br></p><p>We like to use the analogy of a circus performer spinning plates. It can look like mayhem at first. But the way they do it is very systemised. They get one plate spinning until it's perfect and then move on to the next one. Once they have all the plates spinning, they just need to give them a little wiggle to keep them going.</p><p><br></p><p>It's the same for some of the bits of our businesses. We have people in charge of parts of our businesses and will jump on a meeting once a month to check how things are. So here's a key lesson we learnt - <strong>get one thing going and do it quickly</strong>.<strong> If it doesn't work, you can close it down and move on and do something different.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>So now that we have our membership up and running, and we've systemised that process, we know when to turn up for our deliverables to serve our members, and we're ready to move on to the next thing in our business, which is how to help people who want an affordable way to have their email marketing taken care of for them.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Remember it's delegation - not abdication!</strong></h3><p>The fact we're happy with where our membership&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> is (at its core) doesn't mean we're leaving it behind! Quite the opposite! We’re constantly working to improve it and add to it. We never take our eyes off it - we'd never abandon it. <strong>Delegation or systemisation doesn't mean abdication</strong> – you can’t close your eyes and assume a plate is still spinning. Because if you do, sooner or later, you’ll hear the sound of that plate on the floor. And you don’t want that.</p><p><br></p><p>So when we first started planning out our email marketing writing agency we were super clear about the fact we wanted to deliver good results and a great quality product for our clients. But at the same time, we still wanted to run and serve <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, produce our podcast (<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/podcast/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Marketing Show</a>), and fulfil our other existing commitments. These were our conditions.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The minimum viable version of our email marketing agency</strong></h3><p>So the first thing we asked ourselves when we started putting our email marketing agency together was to work out what the minimum viable version of it looked like. In the past, we’d been guilty of building huge elaborate processes that took lots of work, time, energy, and efforts to then realise we didn't want to run that business.</p><p><br></p><p>And the first thing we wanted to make sure of was that we had&nbsp;writers who would create marketing emails and take care of email marketing campaigns for our clients. Thankfully, because we have paying members, students, and customers who are certified in our frameworks, techniques, strategies and processes, we have some incredible writers at our disposal. In other words, we have amazing people who do email marketing day in and day out and love it!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So we began building our team of writers to get our fulfillment piece in place in order for us to focus on growing the business rather than working<em> in</em> it. We'll do the discovery and sales calls with prospective and new clients to find out what you want. And then we'll tell you how we do it and sign you up if we seem like a good fit for each other.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>We only work with specific types of businesses</strong></h3><p>When we kicked things off with our email marketing agency, we created a <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/agency" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">sales page</a> where we ask people to apply for a call. We're selective about who we work with - we want <em>specific </em>clients who want what we deliver, in the <em>way</em> that we deliver it, and in <em>our</em> timeframe. So there's a specific application process people need to get through before they get on a phone call with us. And that's because we don’t want to waste your time if we can't help you.</p><p><br></p><p>If you head over to our <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/agency" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">sales page</a>, you'll find a video of us introducing ourselves. We tell you what we do and who the agency is for. We talk about the problems we solve and the way we do it. You'll see that we lay it all out very openly without any mysteries - we’re completely transparent about what we do. And if that sounds like something you want help with, you can go through an application form which asks a few key questions, including what products and services you offer. And we ask that because if someone operates in an area we have no experience in or aren’t sure whether we can’t get results (like real estate, for example), we won’t work with them.</p><p><br></p><p>What's also key for us in terms of the clients we work with is that <strong>they've already proven that their product sells</strong>. Because email marketing is going to amplify what they’ve already proven. And if someone doesn't have a proven product yet, 100 times nothing is still nothing! So we want to make sure we're not just taking people's money and not get a result. We want to give clients the best chance of getting the best results from what we do.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Who is our email marketing agency for?</strong></h3><p><strong>It’s for anyone who wants to use email marketing in their business but doesn’t have the time, inclination, or patience to learn it and do it themselves.</strong> And that's fine! We have things in our business that we don't do ourselves - like social media or paid ads, for example. We choose to outsource these areas and tasks to the experts so we can double down on the things we’re good at. And for us that’s email marketing.</p><p><br></p><p>So if you don't want to <em>learn</em> email marketing because you want to focus on delivering your product or service, you can still utilise email marketing in your business. And while you double down on the stuff you're good at, our email marketing agency can take care of email for you. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>We have a formula that works for certain types of businesses at certain stages. We teach...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Did you know we started an email marketing agency? If you didn't, you're about to find out why we started one, who it's for, and how it could help you.</p><p>So if you're curious to find  out whether we could take care of your email marketing for you, read on (or click play to listen!)</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(0:10) Want to get more sales from your email marketing? Grab our FREE download Click Tricks.</p><p>(3:38) Fancy a 14-day FREE trial with Keap?</p><p>(4:37) Why we stopped our first email marketing writing agency.</p><p>(6:55) Do one thing at the time (but not forever).</p><p>(11:00) It's about delegation - not abdication!</p><p>(14:10) The minimum viable version of our email marketing agency.</p><p>(15:47) Why we only work with specific types of businesses.</p><p>(18:26) Who is our email marketing agency for?</p><p>(21:21) If you're interested in working with us, check out our application form!</p><p>(23:22) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Want to get more sales from your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>We put a little something together for you - it's really cool and it's FREE (yes, we're nice like that). If you want to <strong>make more sales from your email marketing</strong>, you need those clicks on the things that you're selling! </p><p><br></p><p>So we've got <strong>12 creative ways to help you get more clicks in every email you send</strong>. It's a <strong>FREE download</strong>, and it's called Click Tricks. You can grab it <a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/tricks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why we stopped our first email marketing agency</strong></h3><p>News flash! We've just started an email marketing agency. </p><p><br></p><p>But this isn't even the first time we've done this! In fact, we used to have an email marketing agency, but we closed it down. You see, when we first started this business, having an agency was the logical thing to do. So we did. We'd work with clients, plan an effective strategy and implement email marketing campaigns for them. </p><p><br></p><p>But there was a downside. </p><p><br></p><p>We wanted to help more people than we had time to.&nbsp;Plus the investment was prohibitive for small businesses and course creators. And those were the very people we wanted to help because we have a background in creating online courses. </p><p><br></p><p>So to help more people we created our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. This is where we help course creators, coaches, membership site owners, and other small businesses to do their own email marketing. So we went all-in on the membership and moved away from the email writing agency.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Do one thing at the time (but not forever)</strong></h3><p>We very much subscribe to this idea of doing one thing at the time. But that doesn't mean you do just that <em>one</em> thing forever! We <em>love</em><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The League</a>, but we also believe that in business you have to take the time to do one thing right and then move on. This is how we get so much done - separately and together - in our businesses.&nbsp;We do one thing, get it up and running quickly, get it refined (that means automated or systemised), and then move on and do the next thing.</p><p><br></p><p>We like to use the analogy of a circus performer spinning plates. It can look like mayhem at first. But the way they do it is very systemised. They get one plate spinning until it's perfect and then move on to the next one. Once they have all the plates spinning, they just need to give them a little wiggle to keep them going.</p><p><br></p><p>It's the same for some of the bits of our businesses. We have people in charge of parts of our businesses and will jump on a meeting once a month to check how things are. So here's a key lesson we learnt - <strong>get one thing going and do it quickly</strong>.<strong> If it doesn't work, you can close it down and move on and do something different.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>So now that we have our membership up and running, and we've systemised that process, we know when to turn up for our deliverables to serve our members, and we're ready to move on to the next thing in our business, which is how to help people who want an affordable way to have their email marketing taken care of for them.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Remember it's delegation - not abdication!</strong></h3><p>The fact we're happy with where our membership&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> is (at its core) doesn't mean we're leaving it behind! Quite the opposite! We’re constantly working to improve it and add to it. We never take our eyes off it - we'd never abandon it. <strong>Delegation or systemisation doesn't mean abdication</strong> – you can’t close your eyes and assume a plate is still spinning. Because if you do, sooner or later, you’ll hear the sound of that plate on the floor. And you don’t want that.</p><p><br></p><p>So when we first started planning out our email marketing writing agency we were super clear about the fact we wanted to deliver good results and a great quality product for our clients. But at the same time, we still wanted to run and serve <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, produce our podcast (<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/podcast/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Marketing Show</a>), and fulfil our other existing commitments. These were our conditions.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The minimum viable version of our email marketing agency</strong></h3><p>So the first thing we asked ourselves when we started putting our email marketing agency together was to work out what the minimum viable version of it looked like. In the past, we’d been guilty of building huge elaborate processes that took lots of work, time, energy, and efforts to then realise we didn't want to run that business.</p><p><br></p><p>And the first thing we wanted to make sure of was that we had&nbsp;writers who would create marketing emails and take care of email marketing campaigns for our clients. Thankfully, because we have paying members, students, and customers who are certified in our frameworks, techniques, strategies and processes, we have some incredible writers at our disposal. In other words, we have amazing people who do email marketing day in and day out and love it!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So we began building our team of writers to get our fulfillment piece in place in order for us to focus on growing the business rather than working<em> in</em> it. We'll do the discovery and sales calls with prospective and new clients to find out what you want. And then we'll tell you how we do it and sign you up if we seem like a good fit for each other.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>We only work with specific types of businesses</strong></h3><p>When we kicked things off with our email marketing agency, we created a <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/agency" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">sales page</a> where we ask people to apply for a call. We're selective about who we work with - we want <em>specific </em>clients who want what we deliver, in the <em>way</em> that we deliver it, and in <em>our</em> timeframe. So there's a specific application process people need to get through before they get on a phone call with us. And that's because we don’t want to waste your time if we can't help you.</p><p><br></p><p>If you head over to our <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/agency" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">sales page</a>, you'll find a video of us introducing ourselves. We tell you what we do and who the agency is for. We talk about the problems we solve and the way we do it. You'll see that we lay it all out very openly without any mysteries - we’re completely transparent about what we do. And if that sounds like something you want help with, you can go through an application form which asks a few key questions, including what products and services you offer. And we ask that because if someone operates in an area we have no experience in or aren’t sure whether we can’t get results (like real estate, for example), we won’t work with them.</p><p><br></p><p>What's also key for us in terms of the clients we work with is that <strong>they've already proven that their product sells</strong>. Because email marketing is going to amplify what they’ve already proven. And if someone doesn't have a proven product yet, 100 times nothing is still nothing! So we want to make sure we're not just taking people's money and not get a result. We want to give clients the best chance of getting the best results from what we do.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Who is our email marketing agency for?</strong></h3><p><strong>It’s for anyone who wants to use email marketing in their business but doesn’t have the time, inclination, or patience to learn it and do it themselves.</strong> And that's fine! We have things in our business that we don't do ourselves - like social media or paid ads, for example. We choose to outsource these areas and tasks to the experts so we can double down on the things we’re good at. And for us that’s email marketing.</p><p><br></p><p>So if you don't want to <em>learn</em> email marketing because you want to focus on delivering your product or service, you can still utilise email marketing in your business. And while you double down on the stuff you're good at, our email marketing agency can take care of email for you. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>We have a formula that works for certain types of businesses at certain stages. We teach it over and over inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> and know it works. If you're happy to learn it and implement it yourself, then our membership is the place for you. If not (and you still want results and turn subscribers into paying customers quicker and faster than any other strategy), then our agency can do it for you. We have the formula and the experienced writers, which is why we know we can offer these amazing advantages to our clients.</p><p><br></p><p>So if you think you’re ready and would like us to take hold of your email marketing, build your email engine, and do your weekly emails, go ahead and fill in our application form. You can find it <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/agency" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject line of the week is “I am begging you [First Name]”. The hook of the email was around the fact that your subscribers are never going to beg you to start emailing them! So on their behalf, we are begging you to send emails to them. Because they <em>are</em> interested in hearing from you!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>But also, this particular email we're referring to was sent out to drive traffic to an episode of our podcast - <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/product-launch-emails-kay-peacey/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Product Launch Emails – Success Story with Kay Peacey</a>. In our chat, Kay talks about the resistance she had to emailing subscribers. So we used this story as the hook of our email. And this helped us fix a problem we had in our business. Because we used to send emails to get people to go and listen to episodes of the podcast, but those never performed well. Until we started writing them using the exact frameworks we use for all of our other emails. And this proves our frameworks work! So here’s an extra little lesson for you. Cool, right?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/product-launch-emails-kay-peacey/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Product Launch Emails – Success Story with Kay Peacey</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/building-your-email-list/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">7 Ideas for Building Your Email List in 2022</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/digital-marketing-trends-for-2022/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why Email Marketing is at the Top of the Digital Marketing Trends for 2022</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about why we started an email marketing agency) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-agency/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">958f2943-21b1-454b-851a-65116ca9c590</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/4d7fed47-6557-47f8-bccc-3bed3b8cf648/Y79DHaIpDh4IHbVFIvpeEtbu.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2022 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/fa3033f1-9518-45b7-8382-c64b694959f5/119-final.mp3" length="26169395" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>25:46</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>119</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>119</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How Sheila Went from the Starting Blocks to Total Clarity - an Email Marketing Case Study</title><itunes:title>How Sheila Went from the Starting Blocks to Total Clarity - an Email Marketing Case Study</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Today we have Sheila FG on the show, who is part of our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. Sheila helps podcasters and event owners find sponsors for their events. She's been in business for years, but it's only recently that she started creating products for her business and pivoting into coaching and consultancy. This is a fantastic email marketing case study of how Sheila got started and got results by emailing her list.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to find out how your business could transform, too?&nbsp;</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(3:16) Fancy a 14-day FREE trial with Keap?</p><p>(6:49) Sheila's email marketing before she joined The League.</p><p>(10:35) The changes Sheila implemented when she joined The League.</p><p>(13:04) How Sheila's business has changed since she started email marketing.</p><p>(14:29) How Sheila feels about her email marketing now.</p><p>(16:10) The things that made the biggest impact on Sheila's email marketing.</p><p>(17:51) What's next for Sheila's email marketing?&nbsp;</p><p>(18:30) Has email marketing become a full-time job for Sheila?</p><p>(19:58) Can email marketing work for YOU?</p><p>(21:30) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><br></h3><h3><strong>Sheila's email marketing before she joined The League</strong></h3><p>Like many people in business, Sheila only started thinking about her email list a bit more seriously when she started selling products. Before that, she wasn't sure what to email her audience about. She didn't have a framework, and, in her own words, she felt awkward. She didn't know what her subscribers would want to receive from her and felt uncomfortable with the idea of only sending promotional emails.&nbsp;</p><p>Plus, with some big-name digital marketers and speakers on her list, she suffered from Imposter Syndrome too. Why would they want to hear from her? After all, Sheila was only just starting out in the email marketing space while they were seasoned and established.</p><p><br></p><p>Before joining <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, Sheila would typically put together a sponsorship package and email the event out to her list of sponsors from her Gmail account. She didn't use marketing automation at all, and she found the back-and-forth communication time-consuming and not efficient at all. She'd lose track of conversations, and it felt a lot like 'busy work'.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The changes Sheila implemented when she joined The League</strong></h3><p>The first thing Sheila did when she joined <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> was to start sending regular emails. Although her emails don't go out daily yet, she emails frequently. She has a Google Doc where she saves any ideas for email newsletters and enjoys finding topics to talk about that have a business lesson behind them.</p><p><br></p><p>Another thing Sheila started doing was to include links in her emails - something she’d not done before. She now adds multiple places to her emails where people can interact with her, including in her signature. That way, all the areas of her 'marketing machine' now feed to each other. For example, her email list feeds into her Facebook group and vice-versa. She'll often share a post in her Facebook group encouraging people who aren't on her list to join, so they can receive her daily emails.</p><p><br></p><p>Sheila also implemented automated email campaigns, and she loves that. Once they're done, she doesn't have to worry about that side of things. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How Sheila’s business has changed since she started email marketing</strong></h3><p>Now, Sheila has people joining her list that she doesn’t recognise – she has no idea where or how they found her. Plus, she gets responses or questions from her subscribers. That's led to actual conversations with people, and it's great for Sheila to know that there's someone out there reading and taking notice.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How Sheila feels about her email marketing now</strong></h3><p>Sheila now wants to get more marketing campaigns in place in order for her email marketing to run on autopilot. She also wants to start tagging her subscribers to gain more clarity on who's on her list, what they do, and where they are in their journey with her.</p><p><br></p><p>Sheila's email marketing may still feel like a work-in-progress, and she admits she has a long way to go. But she feels a lot better about it. She says email marketing is now fun work because she can see results almost immediately - there's a progression there. Now that she's using email campaigns and automation, she can spend more time focusing on growing her business.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What had the biggest impact on Sheila's email marketing?</strong>&nbsp;</h3><p>Taking action and being consistent is what gave Sheila the biggest results. In particular, she noticed how well her email list and Facebook group work together by sending people from the group onto her list and vice-versa. But also, getting responses from people was a game-changer for Sheila.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Out of everything she's learnt and implemented since joining <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, Sheila would advise anyone who's getting started with email marketing to prioritise emailing consistently every day. "The more you do it, the easier it gets," Sheila says. Consistency also helps with generating regular conversations.</p><p><br></p><p>Adding links to your emails is also important to help you figure out where you get more clicks, Sheila says. That way, you can work out what works for you and build forward momentum, rather than just sending something out into the ether and not knowing whether it’s going to work or not.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What’s next for Sheila in her email marketing?</strong></h3><p>Now that she's happy with the work she's done on the product side of her business, Sheila wants to focus more on the sponsorship side. She knows now that she has topics to write about, so she's planning on adding her sponsors' database into her email marketing system. And that will help her become more consistent with her emails.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Has email marketing become a full-time job for Sheila?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>When Sheila first started out, she thought sending out regular emails would take forever. But she soon realised that like we always tend to do with something new, she was overcomplicating things. When she started doing it, it became clear that she could quickly write an email and move on to the next thing. Once you get into it, it's not as overwhelming as you may think!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>There are so many things we could do or ‘should’ do in business, but it’s important to tackle them one at the time. It’s a bit like watching a person on stage spinning plates. They start with one, and only when that plate is spinning do they add another, and then another, and so on.</p><p><br></p><p>Email marketing is very much the same. <strong>Get something going consistently and then you can add something else to it.</strong> All you need to do, from time to time, is to go back and check that the original plate is still spinning and doing what it’s supposed to do for you.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Can email marketing work for YOU?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>It's okay for us and for Sheila to do email marketing, right? But will it work for <em>you</em>? We asked Sheila, and she confessed she had the same fear. At first, she didn't think people would want to hear from her. She felt like she was spamming them.&nbsp;But then she told herself we’re all human.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>If you can figure out who the people on your list are and what they’re looking to learn, you can sprinkle that into your emails and make them interesting, engaging, and funny.</strong> Because regardless of what you’re selling, we’re all human, aren't we?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>Sheila’s subject line is “Clear enough for you?” It sounds a little angry and confrontational, but the email was all about the fact that Sheila bought some salad cream in the States, and it had a white sticker stamped on it that said “USA date” to let people know how they should read the 'best before date'.</p><p><br></p><p>Inspired by that story, Sheila sent an email to her list talking about how everything seems clear to us when we’re inside our business. But is it as clear for the people on the outside? It's always worth remembering that there are things in our business or marketing that aren't clear for our customers, guests, or clients. So how do we combat that?</p><p><br></p><p>Pretty neat subject line from our Sheila, don't you think?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Sheila</strong></h5><p>If you want to connect with Sheila, you can find her on her <a href="https://connectedsponsors.com/findingsponsors" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">website – Connected Sponsors</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/product-launch-emails-kay-peacey/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Product Launch Emails – Success Story with Kay Peacey</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-build-profitable-business/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Using Email Marketing to Build a Profitable Business – a Success Story from a Member of The League</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/league-of-email-marketing-heroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Who should not join The League of email marketing...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today we have Sheila FG on the show, who is part of our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. Sheila helps podcasters and event owners find sponsors for their events. She's been in business for years, but it's only recently that she started creating products for her business and pivoting into coaching and consultancy. This is a fantastic email marketing case study of how Sheila got started and got results by emailing her list.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to find out how your business could transform, too?&nbsp;</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(3:16) Fancy a 14-day FREE trial with Keap?</p><p>(6:49) Sheila's email marketing before she joined The League.</p><p>(10:35) The changes Sheila implemented when she joined The League.</p><p>(13:04) How Sheila's business has changed since she started email marketing.</p><p>(14:29) How Sheila feels about her email marketing now.</p><p>(16:10) The things that made the biggest impact on Sheila's email marketing.</p><p>(17:51) What's next for Sheila's email marketing?&nbsp;</p><p>(18:30) Has email marketing become a full-time job for Sheila?</p><p>(19:58) Can email marketing work for YOU?</p><p>(21:30) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><br></h3><h3><strong>Sheila's email marketing before she joined The League</strong></h3><p>Like many people in business, Sheila only started thinking about her email list a bit more seriously when she started selling products. Before that, she wasn't sure what to email her audience about. She didn't have a framework, and, in her own words, she felt awkward. She didn't know what her subscribers would want to receive from her and felt uncomfortable with the idea of only sending promotional emails.&nbsp;</p><p>Plus, with some big-name digital marketers and speakers on her list, she suffered from Imposter Syndrome too. Why would they want to hear from her? After all, Sheila was only just starting out in the email marketing space while they were seasoned and established.</p><p><br></p><p>Before joining <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, Sheila would typically put together a sponsorship package and email the event out to her list of sponsors from her Gmail account. She didn't use marketing automation at all, and she found the back-and-forth communication time-consuming and not efficient at all. She'd lose track of conversations, and it felt a lot like 'busy work'.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The changes Sheila implemented when she joined The League</strong></h3><p>The first thing Sheila did when she joined <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> was to start sending regular emails. Although her emails don't go out daily yet, she emails frequently. She has a Google Doc where she saves any ideas for email newsletters and enjoys finding topics to talk about that have a business lesson behind them.</p><p><br></p><p>Another thing Sheila started doing was to include links in her emails - something she’d not done before. She now adds multiple places to her emails where people can interact with her, including in her signature. That way, all the areas of her 'marketing machine' now feed to each other. For example, her email list feeds into her Facebook group and vice-versa. She'll often share a post in her Facebook group encouraging people who aren't on her list to join, so they can receive her daily emails.</p><p><br></p><p>Sheila also implemented automated email campaigns, and she loves that. Once they're done, she doesn't have to worry about that side of things. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How Sheila’s business has changed since she started email marketing</strong></h3><p>Now, Sheila has people joining her list that she doesn’t recognise – she has no idea where or how they found her. Plus, she gets responses or questions from her subscribers. That's led to actual conversations with people, and it's great for Sheila to know that there's someone out there reading and taking notice.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How Sheila feels about her email marketing now</strong></h3><p>Sheila now wants to get more marketing campaigns in place in order for her email marketing to run on autopilot. She also wants to start tagging her subscribers to gain more clarity on who's on her list, what they do, and where they are in their journey with her.</p><p><br></p><p>Sheila's email marketing may still feel like a work-in-progress, and she admits she has a long way to go. But she feels a lot better about it. She says email marketing is now fun work because she can see results almost immediately - there's a progression there. Now that she's using email campaigns and automation, she can spend more time focusing on growing her business.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What had the biggest impact on Sheila's email marketing?</strong>&nbsp;</h3><p>Taking action and being consistent is what gave Sheila the biggest results. In particular, she noticed how well her email list and Facebook group work together by sending people from the group onto her list and vice-versa. But also, getting responses from people was a game-changer for Sheila.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Out of everything she's learnt and implemented since joining <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, Sheila would advise anyone who's getting started with email marketing to prioritise emailing consistently every day. "The more you do it, the easier it gets," Sheila says. Consistency also helps with generating regular conversations.</p><p><br></p><p>Adding links to your emails is also important to help you figure out where you get more clicks, Sheila says. That way, you can work out what works for you and build forward momentum, rather than just sending something out into the ether and not knowing whether it’s going to work or not.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What’s next for Sheila in her email marketing?</strong></h3><p>Now that she's happy with the work she's done on the product side of her business, Sheila wants to focus more on the sponsorship side. She knows now that she has topics to write about, so she's planning on adding her sponsors' database into her email marketing system. And that will help her become more consistent with her emails.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Has email marketing become a full-time job for Sheila?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>When Sheila first started out, she thought sending out regular emails would take forever. But she soon realised that like we always tend to do with something new, she was overcomplicating things. When she started doing it, it became clear that she could quickly write an email and move on to the next thing. Once you get into it, it's not as overwhelming as you may think!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>There are so many things we could do or ‘should’ do in business, but it’s important to tackle them one at the time. It’s a bit like watching a person on stage spinning plates. They start with one, and only when that plate is spinning do they add another, and then another, and so on.</p><p><br></p><p>Email marketing is very much the same. <strong>Get something going consistently and then you can add something else to it.</strong> All you need to do, from time to time, is to go back and check that the original plate is still spinning and doing what it’s supposed to do for you.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Can email marketing work for YOU?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>It's okay for us and for Sheila to do email marketing, right? But will it work for <em>you</em>? We asked Sheila, and she confessed she had the same fear. At first, she didn't think people would want to hear from her. She felt like she was spamming them.&nbsp;But then she told herself we’re all human.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>If you can figure out who the people on your list are and what they’re looking to learn, you can sprinkle that into your emails and make them interesting, engaging, and funny.</strong> Because regardless of what you’re selling, we’re all human, aren't we?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>Sheila’s subject line is “Clear enough for you?” It sounds a little angry and confrontational, but the email was all about the fact that Sheila bought some salad cream in the States, and it had a white sticker stamped on it that said “USA date” to let people know how they should read the 'best before date'.</p><p><br></p><p>Inspired by that story, Sheila sent an email to her list talking about how everything seems clear to us when we’re inside our business. But is it as clear for the people on the outside? It's always worth remembering that there are things in our business or marketing that aren't clear for our customers, guests, or clients. So how do we combat that?</p><p><br></p><p>Pretty neat subject line from our Sheila, don't you think?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Sheila</strong></h5><p>If you want to connect with Sheila, you can find her on her <a href="https://connectedsponsors.com/findingsponsors" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">website – Connected Sponsors</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/product-launch-emails-kay-peacey/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Product Launch Emails – Success Story with Kay Peacey</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-build-profitable-business/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Using Email Marketing to Build a Profitable Business – a Success Story from a Member of The League</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/league-of-email-marketing-heroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Who should not join The League of email marketing heroes</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><h3><br></h3><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about Sheila FG's email marketing case study) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/sheilfg-email-marketing-case-study/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">78a4d80a-8062-4977-a07f-df65255f1bf4</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/761d5c2f-0c27-42b3-803b-d0902740e822/Jg4nGyWavcxFF6qG-712Ybqd.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2022 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/7213f1ce-78c8-4ae1-9008-6c498c3b5867/118-final.mp3" length="19556819" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>24:10</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>118</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>118</podcast:episode></item><item><title>The Surprising Things That Impact Your Email Deliverability</title><itunes:title>The Surprising Things That Impact Your Email Deliverability</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>How do you improve your email deliverability? What can damage your sender's reputation? How can you make sure your emails land in your subscribers' inboxes?</p><p>We're Kennedy and Carrie, and we're here to share the truth about all the surprising things that affect your email deliverability so you can have better results.</p><p>Ready?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:33) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(2:21) What is 'email deliverability'?&nbsp;</p><p>(5:06) The technical things that impact your email deliverability.&nbsp;</p><p>(7:40) Using too many images.&nbsp;</p><p>(9:49) More reasons for not using too many images in your emails.&nbsp;</p><p>(13:55) Having little or no engagement with your emails.&nbsp;</p><p>(16:26) Using 'spammy' words.&nbsp;</p><p>(21:00) What can you do to improve your email deliverability?&nbsp;</p><p>(23:03) Keep your list clean.</p><p>(24:57) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><p><br></p><h2>What is 'email deliverability'?</h2><p>Let’s say this first - nothing will affect your deliverability like <em>not </em>sending enough emails! You can only<em> improve</em> your email deliverability if you<em> send</em> emails! No one gets them if you don’t send them, right?</p><p>With that said, when we talk about <em>deliverability</em>, we refer to <strong>the ability to get your emails into people’s primary inboxes</strong> so they can see them, open them, and click the links inside them to go and buy your products and services.</p><p>You can put great effort into learning how to write great emails with effective subject lines. But if your emails end up in people’s spam folders or are blocked altogether, you won't get any results with your email marketing. You need to ensure that your emails are <em>delivered</em>. So we're sharing the email best practices for you to bake into your everyday processes to improve your deliverability.</p><p>For this, we assume the people on your email list have<em> chosen</em> to be there. This means you <em>haven't </em>gone onto the Internet and scraped email addresses or bought an email list illegally. The premise of this advice is that you do the same email marketing we do - i.e. <strong>opt-in, permission-based marketing.</strong> In other words, someone’s seen a good reason (such as a lead magnet) to join your email list, and they've<em> voluntarily </em>given you their email address and <em>permission</em> to send them emails. Because if not, when people start receiving emails from someone they don't know, they'll be quick to hit the spam button.</p><h2>The technical things that impact your email deliverability</h2><p>Before you start emailing people, there are a few technical parameters you need to set up regardless of how big your list is or what niche you’re in. These are:</p><ul><li>SPF (Sender Policy Framework).</li><li>DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail).</li><li>And DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance).</li></ul><br/><p>We’re not going into detail, but we suggest you research how to set them up or hire someone to do it for you. All you need to know is that setting these values up <strong>helps validate your reputation as a sender to ensure your emails are delivered securely and consistently. </strong>These parameters verify you can legitimately send emails from your website. They're measures that exist to protect people, so don't skip this step.</p><p>If you’re in our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Facebook group</a> and have any doubts, come and ask. And if you are inside our programme,<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a>, we have tech calls where we answer these types of questions.</p><p>So what else impacts your email deliverability?</p><h2>1. Using too many images</h2><p>Things such as using large images or GIFs in your emails <em>might</em> impact your deliverability. But that's if you use them all the time. Think of deliverability as a scoring system. Doing something 'wrong' occasionally doesn't mean your email marketing is doomed! Most of the time, you'll be fine. You won't be immediately blacklisted and put in Gmail jail. Using images or GIFs here and there isn't going to hurt your deliverability if you're otherwise getting good engagement.</p><p>However, regularly putting lots of massive images in your emails (especially if they’re not compressed and end up being sent as attachments) isn’t great for your deliverability. <strong>For the most part, you want your emails to be text and links.</strong> And this isn’t just for email deliverability. It’s also (and mainly) because <strong>emails that are sent <em>by people</em> don’t have lots of graphics or heavy layouts</strong> – that’s what <em>business</em> emails look like. We want to fall into the category of personal relationships here. We want our subscribers to focus on what we mean by the<em> words</em> we use in the emails – not the images.</p><h3>More reasons for not using too many images in your emails</h3><p>Another reason <em>not</em> to use too many images is that you don't want people to disconnect from your message <em>because</em> of the images you use. Say you’re telling a story about an awful chair, and you attach a photo of it. Someone who might have the same chair (or happen to like the image of the one you shared) might be offended and not connect with what you're sharing. Instead, <strong>you want people to use their imagination</strong> and decide for themselves what ‘an awful chair’ looks like. <strong>Let the words paint the pictures for you.</strong></p><p>Also, if you’re an e-commerce business that sells products, for example, you don’t want to put photos in your emails. The goal is for people to click on the links inside your emails, go to your website, see your products, and buy from there.<strong> Your emails have the job of getting people to click on your links.</strong> And people clicking on your links is a great indicator to Gmail that your emails generate engagement. So don’t give them everything in the email because if you do, they have no reason to click!</p><p>An exception to that rule (and one we sometimes use) is to put a preview image of a video in an email that tells people that by clicking on a link, they’ll be taken to a page where they can watch a video. In that preview image, we’ll often include something curious like a thumbnail or an animated GIF. But that doesn’t take away from driving the click.</p><p>Using images can also become a noble obstacle. If you’re waiting to publish an email because you first need to find the perfect image and then resize it etc., you may never send that email. And messy action is better than no action! So reduce friction wherever you can. <strong>Tell the story you want to share in the email, and let the sales page do the rest.</strong> Every additional thing you put in there can get in the way of people taking action.</p><h2>2. Having little or no engagement with your emails</h2><p>The next thing that affects email deliverability is the engagement of your emails. Are people paying attention? Are they opening your emails, clicking on the links, and replying?</p><p>Opening emails is a good sign to Google – it shows people are there and taking some form of action. But <strong>people clicking on the links in your emails is a stronger engagement signal.</strong> It tells Google that your subscribers are interested in what you do - your emails must be good!</p><p>The next best thing is people <em>replying</em> to your emails – that shows a greater level of human engagement. And while it's harder to get people to do this, <em>forwarding</em> your emails is an even better engagement signal. It tells Google that your content must be of great quality.</p><p>Something we do in our Super Signature at the bottom of our emails is to say something along the lines of “If someone forwarded this to you, make sure you also get the next email”. This plants the seed in the readers’ minds that they <em>can</em> forward your email to someone else if they find it valuable. It's also useful because you're telling people what the next step is - what do you want them to do now? If you want people to forward your emails, tell them. Because inherently people <em>want to</em> be helpful - they just don't know what's useful to you.</p><p><strong>You can't generate engagement if you’re not emailing consistently or frequently enough.</strong> If you only show up out of the blue when you have something to sell, people are going to see through that. So don't be that person! If you haven’t sent emails in a while, don’t overthink it – just jump back in.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>3. Using ‘spammy’ words</h2><p>Another factor that may negatively impact your deliverability is using words and phrases that are picked up by scam software. A lot of email platforms automatically do spam checks. For example, we use Keap, and certain words and phrases are highlighted as spam. It might surprise you, but “Netflix” is one of them! So it's not just your traditional 'naughty words'. If people mark emails as spam, and those emails have particular words or phrases in them, Gmail starts to pick them up as 'spammy'.</p><p>However, let’s not forget deliverability works like a scoring system. If you generally have great engagement and a clean list, the occasional 'spammy' word isn’t going to hurt your deliverability. If you have a low spam score, you could, for example, get away with using the word “free” in a subject line with no issues.&nbsp;</p><p>Think of your email marketing relationship with your audience as a friendship or even a...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How do you improve your email deliverability? What can damage your sender's reputation? How can you make sure your emails land in your subscribers' inboxes?</p><p>We're Kennedy and Carrie, and we're here to share the truth about all the surprising things that affect your email deliverability so you can have better results.</p><p>Ready?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(0:33) Want to carry on with the conversation? Join our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> FREE Facebook group</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>(2:21) What is 'email deliverability'?&nbsp;</p><p>(5:06) The technical things that impact your email deliverability.&nbsp;</p><p>(7:40) Using too many images.&nbsp;</p><p>(9:49) More reasons for not using too many images in your emails.&nbsp;</p><p>(13:55) Having little or no engagement with your emails.&nbsp;</p><p>(16:26) Using 'spammy' words.&nbsp;</p><p>(21:00) What can you do to improve your email deliverability?&nbsp;</p><p>(23:03) Keep your list clean.</p><p>(24:57) Subject line of the week.</p><p>[podcast_subscribe id="7224"]</p><p><br></p><h2>What is 'email deliverability'?</h2><p>Let’s say this first - nothing will affect your deliverability like <em>not </em>sending enough emails! You can only<em> improve</em> your email deliverability if you<em> send</em> emails! No one gets them if you don’t send them, right?</p><p>With that said, when we talk about <em>deliverability</em>, we refer to <strong>the ability to get your emails into people’s primary inboxes</strong> so they can see them, open them, and click the links inside them to go and buy your products and services.</p><p>You can put great effort into learning how to write great emails with effective subject lines. But if your emails end up in people’s spam folders or are blocked altogether, you won't get any results with your email marketing. You need to ensure that your emails are <em>delivered</em>. So we're sharing the email best practices for you to bake into your everyday processes to improve your deliverability.</p><p>For this, we assume the people on your email list have<em> chosen</em> to be there. This means you <em>haven't </em>gone onto the Internet and scraped email addresses or bought an email list illegally. The premise of this advice is that you do the same email marketing we do - i.e. <strong>opt-in, permission-based marketing.</strong> In other words, someone’s seen a good reason (such as a lead magnet) to join your email list, and they've<em> voluntarily </em>given you their email address and <em>permission</em> to send them emails. Because if not, when people start receiving emails from someone they don't know, they'll be quick to hit the spam button.</p><h2>The technical things that impact your email deliverability</h2><p>Before you start emailing people, there are a few technical parameters you need to set up regardless of how big your list is or what niche you’re in. These are:</p><ul><li>SPF (Sender Policy Framework).</li><li>DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail).</li><li>And DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance).</li></ul><br/><p>We’re not going into detail, but we suggest you research how to set them up or hire someone to do it for you. All you need to know is that setting these values up <strong>helps validate your reputation as a sender to ensure your emails are delivered securely and consistently. </strong>These parameters verify you can legitimately send emails from your website. They're measures that exist to protect people, so don't skip this step.</p><p>If you’re in our<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Facebook group</a> and have any doubts, come and ask. And if you are inside our programme,<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a>, we have tech calls where we answer these types of questions.</p><p>So what else impacts your email deliverability?</p><h2>1. Using too many images</h2><p>Things such as using large images or GIFs in your emails <em>might</em> impact your deliverability. But that's if you use them all the time. Think of deliverability as a scoring system. Doing something 'wrong' occasionally doesn't mean your email marketing is doomed! Most of the time, you'll be fine. You won't be immediately blacklisted and put in Gmail jail. Using images or GIFs here and there isn't going to hurt your deliverability if you're otherwise getting good engagement.</p><p>However, regularly putting lots of massive images in your emails (especially if they’re not compressed and end up being sent as attachments) isn’t great for your deliverability. <strong>For the most part, you want your emails to be text and links.</strong> And this isn’t just for email deliverability. It’s also (and mainly) because <strong>emails that are sent <em>by people</em> don’t have lots of graphics or heavy layouts</strong> – that’s what <em>business</em> emails look like. We want to fall into the category of personal relationships here. We want our subscribers to focus on what we mean by the<em> words</em> we use in the emails – not the images.</p><h3>More reasons for not using too many images in your emails</h3><p>Another reason <em>not</em> to use too many images is that you don't want people to disconnect from your message <em>because</em> of the images you use. Say you’re telling a story about an awful chair, and you attach a photo of it. Someone who might have the same chair (or happen to like the image of the one you shared) might be offended and not connect with what you're sharing. Instead, <strong>you want people to use their imagination</strong> and decide for themselves what ‘an awful chair’ looks like. <strong>Let the words paint the pictures for you.</strong></p><p>Also, if you’re an e-commerce business that sells products, for example, you don’t want to put photos in your emails. The goal is for people to click on the links inside your emails, go to your website, see your products, and buy from there.<strong> Your emails have the job of getting people to click on your links.</strong> And people clicking on your links is a great indicator to Gmail that your emails generate engagement. So don’t give them everything in the email because if you do, they have no reason to click!</p><p>An exception to that rule (and one we sometimes use) is to put a preview image of a video in an email that tells people that by clicking on a link, they’ll be taken to a page where they can watch a video. In that preview image, we’ll often include something curious like a thumbnail or an animated GIF. But that doesn’t take away from driving the click.</p><p>Using images can also become a noble obstacle. If you’re waiting to publish an email because you first need to find the perfect image and then resize it etc., you may never send that email. And messy action is better than no action! So reduce friction wherever you can. <strong>Tell the story you want to share in the email, and let the sales page do the rest.</strong> Every additional thing you put in there can get in the way of people taking action.</p><h2>2. Having little or no engagement with your emails</h2><p>The next thing that affects email deliverability is the engagement of your emails. Are people paying attention? Are they opening your emails, clicking on the links, and replying?</p><p>Opening emails is a good sign to Google – it shows people are there and taking some form of action. But <strong>people clicking on the links in your emails is a stronger engagement signal.</strong> It tells Google that your subscribers are interested in what you do - your emails must be good!</p><p>The next best thing is people <em>replying</em> to your emails – that shows a greater level of human engagement. And while it's harder to get people to do this, <em>forwarding</em> your emails is an even better engagement signal. It tells Google that your content must be of great quality.</p><p>Something we do in our Super Signature at the bottom of our emails is to say something along the lines of “If someone forwarded this to you, make sure you also get the next email”. This plants the seed in the readers’ minds that they <em>can</em> forward your email to someone else if they find it valuable. It's also useful because you're telling people what the next step is - what do you want them to do now? If you want people to forward your emails, tell them. Because inherently people <em>want to</em> be helpful - they just don't know what's useful to you.</p><p><strong>You can't generate engagement if you’re not emailing consistently or frequently enough.</strong> If you only show up out of the blue when you have something to sell, people are going to see through that. So don't be that person! If you haven’t sent emails in a while, don’t overthink it – just jump back in.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8822']</p><p><br></p><h2>3. Using ‘spammy’ words</h2><p>Another factor that may negatively impact your deliverability is using words and phrases that are picked up by scam software. A lot of email platforms automatically do spam checks. For example, we use Keap, and certain words and phrases are highlighted as spam. It might surprise you, but “Netflix” is one of them! So it's not just your traditional 'naughty words'. If people mark emails as spam, and those emails have particular words or phrases in them, Gmail starts to pick them up as 'spammy'.</p><p>However, let’s not forget deliverability works like a scoring system. If you generally have great engagement and a clean list, the occasional 'spammy' word isn’t going to hurt your deliverability. If you have a low spam score, you could, for example, get away with using the word “free” in a subject line with no issues.&nbsp;</p><p>Think of your email marketing relationship with your audience as a friendship or even a dating relationship. You’re not expected to be perfect all the time! If you make one negative blip here and there, you’ll be forgiven.</p><p>Also, don't look at email subscribers as data - they are <em>people</em>. <strong>You’re emailing <em>humans</em> who have raised their hands and said they wanted to hear from you.</strong> If you get marked as spam by the occasional person, don’t focus on that too much. Instead, <strong>keep serving the people who showed up and want to hear from you.</strong></p><h2>What can you do to improve your deliverability score?</h2><p>The first thing you can do to improve your deliverability score is to <strong>show up more often (i.e. increase the frequency of your emails).</strong> Think of your credit score. If you never had credit before, your score won't be good because the banks don't know if you'll pay the money back on time. The same goes for emails. You want Gmail and the other providers to have a<em> track record</em> for you so they can see your past reputation.</p><p>To do that, you need to build one. If you're not sending a great amount of emails, you’re not giving Gmail and the other platforms enough evidence about what type of sender you are. Gmail will want to know that when you send an email people open and click, reply, or forward, and generally don’t mark you as spam! So don’t be the person who only reaches out when you have a favour to ask (i.e. something to sell). People will be more likely to reach back when you’re showing up consistently.</p><h3>Keep your list clean</h3><p>Another thing you can do is to keep your list clean. <strong>Remove the people who are repeatedly <em>not</em> engaging with your email list. </strong>Before you do that, you can give them the chance to re-engage by putting them through a re-engagement campaign. But if they don't, take them off your list. If every time you send an email, lots of people on your list don’t look at your emails, Gmail interprets this as your emails not being good. And this negatively impacts your sender's reputation. So<strong> if someone hasn’t engaged with your emails in 60 days, give them a chance to re-engage. If they don't take it, unsubscribe them.</strong> This way, you'll be able to reach those who want to be reached.</p><p>If you want access to these (and more) strategies to keep your email deliverability high, check out the details of our programme,<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a>.</p><p>[thrive_leads id='8854']</p><p><br></p><h2>Subject line of the week</h2><p>This week’s subject line is “Low power kicks”. The email had a good click-through rate, and it was about the fact Kennedy has been training in Muay Thai for about 18 months. The story in the email used the metaphor that in business and life (just like when training), you don't want to be kicking hard the whole time. Sometimes you have to use low-power kicks instead. The metaphor makes the whole thing more interesting. And people get to learn more about you. This helps you build a more three-dimensional picture of a real human being who’s out there doing stuff. So check it out!</p><h2>Useful Episode Resources</h2><h3>Related episodes</h3><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-deliverability-2/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stop Landing In The Spam Folder &amp; Immediately Skyrocket Your Email Deliverability – With Brian Minick</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-analytics/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Master Your Metrics – Unleashing The Power Of Email Marketing Analytics</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/reengagement-email-campaign/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Create THE Most Successful Re-Engagement Email Campaign (And Smash Your Sales Targets)</a>.</p><h2>FREE list to improve your email marketing</h2><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. Here's a list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us).<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h3>Join the FREE Facebook group</h3><p>Do you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber? There's a way! Every business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. You'll find a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h3>Try ResponseSuite for $1</h3><p>This content is sponsored by<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h3>Join The Email Hero Blueprint&nbsp;</h3><p>Want more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/blueprint?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=vocal&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=blueprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Email Hero Blueprint</a> is for you.</p><p>This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.</p><h2>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</h2><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the things that impact your email deliverability) and love the show, we'd appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.</p><p>And please do tell us! What do you really fill your working days with if you don't spend time on email marketing? We'd love to know!</p><p><br></p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-deliverability/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">4a8bb903-0d36-4faa-a938-80ab50aae8ed</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c2ca94e8-7407-42b1-ab7b-12b673297976/kooAPUHAm-3TWhukAsRhsRbj.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2022 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/f2328c60-831c-440c-bc94-e43f4d19aca7/EP-235-117.mp3" length="65151616" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>27:09</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>117</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>117</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Why You Shouldn&apos;t Worry About Your Unsubscribe Rate</title><itunes:title>Why You Shouldn&apos;t Worry About Your Unsubscribe Rate</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Do you worry about your unsubscribe rate? Do you obsessively log into your email marketing software to check it and then panic over it? </p><p>If you do, you need to stop that. </p><p>Your unsubscribe rate is actually a good thing! Want to know why? </p><p>Let's find out! </p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(2:48) Fancy a 14-day FREE trial with Keap?</p><p>(4:10) Why you want to build a list of people who want to buy from you.</p><p>(6:50) Your email marketing should be on your terms.</p><p>(9:06) When people unsubscribe from your list, they improve your email deliverability.</p><p>(10:00) Why you should aim to make a profit from your email list as a whole (and not look at individual subscribers).</p><p>(12:30) Email marketing is about building relationships with people.</p><p>(13:16) Why you want to keep your email list lean.</p><p>(14:46) Look at people unsubscribing from your list as the ultimate way of niching down.</p><p>(16:54) Why you want to create an environment of zero competition.</p><p>(18:20) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Build a list of people who want to buy from you</strong></h3><p>We know getting notifications that say people have unsubscribed from your email list is scary. But it shouldn’t be. <strong>Subscribers are not Pokémon</strong> <strong>– you don't have to collect them all!</strong></p><p><br></p><p>The truth is when people unsubscribe from your list they're doing you a favour. Because list building isn't about having the biggest list in the world. <strong>It’s about having a list of people who want to hear from you and buy from you</strong>. </p><p><br></p><p>If they're not going to buy from you (<em>ever</em>), they might as well not be on your list! You don't need more friends. And you don’t need more people on your list that drag you down.</p><p><br></p><p>In fact, that unsubscribe link at the end of your emails is useful. It's like a self-cleaning feature. This is your email list cleaning itself and telling you who’s not interested. Your subscribers are telling you that your business isn’t for them. And that's a good thing!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Your email marketing should be on your terms</strong></h3><p>Because your emails are landing in people's email inboxes, it's easy to think <em>you</em> are interfering with <em>their </em>day - that you're being intrusive. But let's turn this around for a minute. Imagine your email marketing is <em>your</em> house, and you’ve invited people in for a cuppa.</p><p><br></p><p>Effectively, you've put a thing on the internet (a lead magnet) that told people you send an email out as often as you do about the things you want to sell. If people want to receive that email, they’re welcome to come on in and make themselves at home. You’ll even put the kettle on, won’t you?</p><p><br></p><p>And if at any point they don't like what they see in your house, they can leave. And that’s okay. In case they get so upset they email you to say you’re spamming them, you can always unsubscribe them. </p><p><br></p><p>So don’t get attached to the idea you have to make their inbox a better place. Because sure, your job is to do good email marketing. And that should make someone’s inbox better for them, but only if they<em> want to</em> be there and they’re interested in what your emails are all about.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>But remember - this is <em>your</em> house. <em>You</em> invited <em>them</em>. And if they don't like it, they can leave at any point or you can unsubscribe them. </p><p><br></p><p>So <strong>write your emails <em>for you</em>.</strong> <strong>Send the emails you'd like to receive and then build an audience of people who want those emails.</strong> This allows you to focus on serving the needs of the people who want what you have to offer.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>When people unsubscribe from your list, they improve your email deliverability</strong></h3><p>Did you know that email unsubscribes improve your deliverability? That's right. Because instead of doing things that tell Google and the other search engines that your emails aren't very good, the people who don't want your emails just leave.</p><p><br></p><p>It's when they stay and start doing things like not opening your emails, not clicking your links, or not engaging, for example, that you need to worry. Because that's when your open rates and your click-through rates go down.</p><p><br></p><p>It’s a bit like having a sad person in the corner of the room at your party - they're bringing the atmosphere down for everyone. But if they leave, the mood of the whole party lifts again.</p><p><br></p><p>And it's the same for your email deliverability. The minute the people who weren't engaging with your emails leave, your deliverability rate starts to increase. And that's a big win!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Aim to make a profit from your email list as a whole</strong></h3><p>Another reason why high unsubscribe rates shouldn't worry you is that we shouldn't look at subscribers on our list <em>individually</em>.&nbsp;So if you're running ads, for example, you can calculate your ad spend and the number of subscribers on your list and work out how much it's costing you to acquire one subscriber. And if that person unsubscribes, you now think you've<em> lost</em> that amount. Then you start focusing on the fact that if you emailed less or differently, then people wouldn’t have unsubscribed, and you wouldn't have lost money.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>But that's the wrong way to look at it!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Instead, you want to think about how email marketing works as a bigger picture. So if you're spending $1,000 in ads to get 200 subscribers, for example, you now want to make that $1,000 back with <em>all</em> your subscribers <em>collectively</em> – not looking at them one by one.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Don't aim to make every single subscriber on your list profitable. You make a profit from your list <em>as a whole</em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>For example, we make $12 per subscriber per month. So if we had 200 subscribers, with our business and our setup, we could make $2,400 per month. If you spend $1,000 to acquire 200 subscribers, your job is to make $1,000 (and more) from those 200 subscribers <em>as a whole</em>. Because that's a much better way to see where your profits or losses come from.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Email marketing is about building relationships with people&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Let's face it - <strong>people who unsubscribe from your list are not interested in what you have to say or sell right now</strong>. There’s no point in having a huge email list that you’re too scared of emailing in case they unsubscribe.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>The reason why you have email subscribers is so that you can communicate with them and build relationships to a point where they invest in you or buy something from you</strong>. So please get over the idea that emailing people is something to be afraid of! Because when you email people you build relationships. And that means that when they're ready to buy from you, they will.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Keep your email list lean</strong></h3><p>Another advantage of people unsubscribing is that it keeps your email list <em>lean</em>. And that allows you to reduce your email hosting costs. If you’re on a package with your email platform where you get 5,000 subscribers for a certain price, as soon as you go over that number, you’re going to have to upgrade.</p><p><br></p><p>Because email marketing is such a high return-on-investment activity, the cost of upgrading is not massively prohibitive, but you still want to avoid overspending. And if some people unsubscribe and that allows you to stay under that threshold, you get to keep your costs low.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Look at unsubscribing as the ultimate niching down</strong></h3><p><strong>People unsubscribing from your email list is the ultimate niching down.</strong> A lot of people think that if they send an email and 98% of people don't open it, it means their open rates are bad. Even if you could trust open rates as being true (which you can’t and shouldn’t), a 30% open rate, for example, is not bad at all!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>But what you need to realise (instead of focusing on open rates) is that <strong>not everybody's going to resonate with your style and message</strong>, which means that when people unsubscribe you get to niche right down. Every time you send an email, some people will leave. But as they get themselves off the list, you're left with the people who resonate with your style, with the kind of words you use, and with your message. The people who stay are interested in learning more about the thing you talk about, and they're specifically interested in learning about all that <em>from you</em>.</p><p><br></p><p>Just like us, you’re not for everybody. And <strong>by getting rid of the people who are not interested in you or your thing, you get to niche down to the ones who are. And those are the most profitable people to have in your world.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The environment of zero competition</strong></h3><p>Once you niche down to the people who are interested in what you sell, you get to create what we call an <em>environment of zero competition</em>. You're no longer competing with other people doing what you do, because your people have decided that it's you – your style, your frameworks, your personality, your way – they want to learn from. You’ve created an environment of zero competition where no one can come and sweep them away from you.</p><p><br></p><p>So if you want more of this – if you want to see more consistent sales from your email marketing, let us hand you our library of email automations and email marketing campaigns, training, and monthly group coaching inside of our amazing community - <a...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you worry about your unsubscribe rate? Do you obsessively log into your email marketing software to check it and then panic over it? </p><p>If you do, you need to stop that. </p><p>Your unsubscribe rate is actually a good thing! Want to know why? </p><p>Let's find out! </p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(2:48) Fancy a 14-day FREE trial with Keap?</p><p>(4:10) Why you want to build a list of people who want to buy from you.</p><p>(6:50) Your email marketing should be on your terms.</p><p>(9:06) When people unsubscribe from your list, they improve your email deliverability.</p><p>(10:00) Why you should aim to make a profit from your email list as a whole (and not look at individual subscribers).</p><p>(12:30) Email marketing is about building relationships with people.</p><p>(13:16) Why you want to keep your email list lean.</p><p>(14:46) Look at people unsubscribing from your list as the ultimate way of niching down.</p><p>(16:54) Why you want to create an environment of zero competition.</p><p>(18:20) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Build a list of people who want to buy from you</strong></h3><p>We know getting notifications that say people have unsubscribed from your email list is scary. But it shouldn’t be. <strong>Subscribers are not Pokémon</strong> <strong>– you don't have to collect them all!</strong></p><p><br></p><p>The truth is when people unsubscribe from your list they're doing you a favour. Because list building isn't about having the biggest list in the world. <strong>It’s about having a list of people who want to hear from you and buy from you</strong>. </p><p><br></p><p>If they're not going to buy from you (<em>ever</em>), they might as well not be on your list! You don't need more friends. And you don’t need more people on your list that drag you down.</p><p><br></p><p>In fact, that unsubscribe link at the end of your emails is useful. It's like a self-cleaning feature. This is your email list cleaning itself and telling you who’s not interested. Your subscribers are telling you that your business isn’t for them. And that's a good thing!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Your email marketing should be on your terms</strong></h3><p>Because your emails are landing in people's email inboxes, it's easy to think <em>you</em> are interfering with <em>their </em>day - that you're being intrusive. But let's turn this around for a minute. Imagine your email marketing is <em>your</em> house, and you’ve invited people in for a cuppa.</p><p><br></p><p>Effectively, you've put a thing on the internet (a lead magnet) that told people you send an email out as often as you do about the things you want to sell. If people want to receive that email, they’re welcome to come on in and make themselves at home. You’ll even put the kettle on, won’t you?</p><p><br></p><p>And if at any point they don't like what they see in your house, they can leave. And that’s okay. In case they get so upset they email you to say you’re spamming them, you can always unsubscribe them. </p><p><br></p><p>So don’t get attached to the idea you have to make their inbox a better place. Because sure, your job is to do good email marketing. And that should make someone’s inbox better for them, but only if they<em> want to</em> be there and they’re interested in what your emails are all about.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>But remember - this is <em>your</em> house. <em>You</em> invited <em>them</em>. And if they don't like it, they can leave at any point or you can unsubscribe them. </p><p><br></p><p>So <strong>write your emails <em>for you</em>.</strong> <strong>Send the emails you'd like to receive and then build an audience of people who want those emails.</strong> This allows you to focus on serving the needs of the people who want what you have to offer.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>When people unsubscribe from your list, they improve your email deliverability</strong></h3><p>Did you know that email unsubscribes improve your deliverability? That's right. Because instead of doing things that tell Google and the other search engines that your emails aren't very good, the people who don't want your emails just leave.</p><p><br></p><p>It's when they stay and start doing things like not opening your emails, not clicking your links, or not engaging, for example, that you need to worry. Because that's when your open rates and your click-through rates go down.</p><p><br></p><p>It’s a bit like having a sad person in the corner of the room at your party - they're bringing the atmosphere down for everyone. But if they leave, the mood of the whole party lifts again.</p><p><br></p><p>And it's the same for your email deliverability. The minute the people who weren't engaging with your emails leave, your deliverability rate starts to increase. And that's a big win!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Aim to make a profit from your email list as a whole</strong></h3><p>Another reason why high unsubscribe rates shouldn't worry you is that we shouldn't look at subscribers on our list <em>individually</em>.&nbsp;So if you're running ads, for example, you can calculate your ad spend and the number of subscribers on your list and work out how much it's costing you to acquire one subscriber. And if that person unsubscribes, you now think you've<em> lost</em> that amount. Then you start focusing on the fact that if you emailed less or differently, then people wouldn’t have unsubscribed, and you wouldn't have lost money.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>But that's the wrong way to look at it!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Instead, you want to think about how email marketing works as a bigger picture. So if you're spending $1,000 in ads to get 200 subscribers, for example, you now want to make that $1,000 back with <em>all</em> your subscribers <em>collectively</em> – not looking at them one by one.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Don't aim to make every single subscriber on your list profitable. You make a profit from your list <em>as a whole</em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>For example, we make $12 per subscriber per month. So if we had 200 subscribers, with our business and our setup, we could make $2,400 per month. If you spend $1,000 to acquire 200 subscribers, your job is to make $1,000 (and more) from those 200 subscribers <em>as a whole</em>. Because that's a much better way to see where your profits or losses come from.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Email marketing is about building relationships with people&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Let's face it - <strong>people who unsubscribe from your list are not interested in what you have to say or sell right now</strong>. There’s no point in having a huge email list that you’re too scared of emailing in case they unsubscribe.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>The reason why you have email subscribers is so that you can communicate with them and build relationships to a point where they invest in you or buy something from you</strong>. So please get over the idea that emailing people is something to be afraid of! Because when you email people you build relationships. And that means that when they're ready to buy from you, they will.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Keep your email list lean</strong></h3><p>Another advantage of people unsubscribing is that it keeps your email list <em>lean</em>. And that allows you to reduce your email hosting costs. If you’re on a package with your email platform where you get 5,000 subscribers for a certain price, as soon as you go over that number, you’re going to have to upgrade.</p><p><br></p><p>Because email marketing is such a high return-on-investment activity, the cost of upgrading is not massively prohibitive, but you still want to avoid overspending. And if some people unsubscribe and that allows you to stay under that threshold, you get to keep your costs low.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Look at unsubscribing as the ultimate niching down</strong></h3><p><strong>People unsubscribing from your email list is the ultimate niching down.</strong> A lot of people think that if they send an email and 98% of people don't open it, it means their open rates are bad. Even if you could trust open rates as being true (which you can’t and shouldn’t), a 30% open rate, for example, is not bad at all!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>But what you need to realise (instead of focusing on open rates) is that <strong>not everybody's going to resonate with your style and message</strong>, which means that when people unsubscribe you get to niche right down. Every time you send an email, some people will leave. But as they get themselves off the list, you're left with the people who resonate with your style, with the kind of words you use, and with your message. The people who stay are interested in learning more about the thing you talk about, and they're specifically interested in learning about all that <em>from you</em>.</p><p><br></p><p>Just like us, you’re not for everybody. And <strong>by getting rid of the people who are not interested in you or your thing, you get to niche down to the ones who are. And those are the most profitable people to have in your world.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The environment of zero competition</strong></h3><p>Once you niche down to the people who are interested in what you sell, you get to create what we call an <em>environment of zero competition</em>. You're no longer competing with other people doing what you do, because your people have decided that it's you – your style, your frameworks, your personality, your way – they want to learn from. You’ve created an environment of zero competition where no one can come and sweep them away from you.</p><p><br></p><p>So if you want more of this – if you want to see more consistent sales from your email marketing, let us hand you our library of email automations and email marketing campaigns, training, and monthly group coaching inside of our amazing community - <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League of Email Marketing Heroes</a>. That's our monthly membership, especially designed to help you sell more of your courses, bring in new members to your programmes, and win more coaching clients with psychology-based email marketing.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject line of the week is “Have you got a napkin?” and it worked because it’s a question. When someone asks you a question, your brain subconsciously switches into gear and either wants to answer or wants to know more – what is it all about and why do they want to know, for example?</p><p><br></p><p>The premise of the email was around the fact we’d heard someone say that your business model should be so simple you could draw it on a napkin. If not, it means your business is too complicated. But if you get into the weeds of your email campaigns and funnels, it can all get quite complex. And our email talked about why it's important to have a good system for building your email marketing automations so you don’t lose track of what they’re doing. And we had just the thing to help people do that. Brilliant, right?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><br></h5><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/avoid-email-marketing-mistakes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why You Need to Avoid These Email Marketing Mistakes</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-reactivate-an-email-list/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Email Your Abandoned Email List</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/increase-your-email-open-rates-13-email-marketing-tips-to-stand-out-in-an-overcrowded-inbox/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Increase Your Email Open-Rates: 13 Email Subject Line Tips to Stand Out in An Overcrowded Inbox</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about why you shouldn't worry about your unsubscribe rate) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/unsubscribe-rate/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">3d680e22-fa2a-4fbc-b903-9ff4b1d215c6</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/a23d75c6-9356-4bbb-acf2-c3d7b1479efd/a_E9A1_zfyNygz6uf-PokOXo.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2022 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/b69ac7da-f64a-4b8d-8b8f-51b96f987ef3/116-final.mp3" length="20353907" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>20:22</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>116</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>116</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Why Email Marketing is Your Top Priority in 2022</title><itunes:title>Why Email Marketing is Your Top Priority in 2022</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Do you want to know why email marketing is right at the top of the digital marketing trends for 2022? Let's face it - if it isn't already, email marketing needs to be <em>the </em>top priority for your business in 2022.</p><p>Ready to find out why and (most importantly) <em>what you can do </em>to make sure you boost your sales and make more money in 2022?&nbsp;</p><p>Let's do this!&nbsp;</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(3:46) Our incredible Keap offer!</p><p>(5:22) Email marketing is the highest ROI marketing activity you can do</p><p>(9:12) Email is the safest place to build your business.</p><p>(12:28) Email marketing helps you convert people into paying customers. </p><p>(16:01) Email marketing has the shortest lead time in turning people into customers.</p><p>(17:23) There's money in your existing email list.</p><p>(19:54) Email marketing technology is moving forward - you don't want to miss out!</p><p>(21:02) How to get results from your email marketing in 2022.</p><p>(21:50) The price to join The League is going up!</p><p>(24:02) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Email marketing is the highest ROI marketing activity you can do&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>That's right. It's as simple as that.<strong> Email marketing is the highest ROI (return-on-investment) marketing activity you can do. </strong></p><p>None of the other marketing strategies out there – social media marketing, video marketing, content marketing, events, speaking, podcasting, or anything in between - will give you a whopping $42 ROI for every $1 you spend. That’s an <em>insane</em> amount! And, according to the experts, that's just an average! </p><p>When it comes to our business, for every subscriber on our email list we earn $12 per month. To figure this out, we look at the number of people who are on our email list, calculate the amount of income and sales we make, and divide one number by the other. </p><p>That gives us how much each subscriber is worth to us. We call it <strong>Earnings per Subscriber per Month (or EPSPM)</strong>. And knowing how much we make per subscriber every month tells us how much we can afford to pay in order to get somebody on our email list. But also, it tells us how long we're going to be out of pocket before we break even and then make a profit.</p><p>So with these kinds of numbers, should you try and skimp on the marketing automation platform you choose for your small business, for example? No! Of course, we all want a great deal - no one wants to pay more than they should. But you also need to find the most effective way to do email marketing. If you're going to shoot for that $1 in, $42 out ROI, you want the best tools for the job. Because not all of the marketing platforms out there have the technology you need. </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Email is the safest place to build your business</strong></h3><p>So that's the financial side of things. But another reason you want to focus on email marketing for your business growth in 2022 is to<em> protect yourself</em>. That's right. Because you just can't rely on social media! There's a lot of turmoil around social media platforms. What if they all disappeared?&nbsp;What if you get kicked out of your social media account? </p><p><br></p><p>We definitely saw in 2021 how all the biggest social media channels had outages and went down (most of them at the same time). When that happens, that leaves you with no way to communicate with your audience. Of course, your email marketing platform could go down too. But it's likely to get back up quickly because the problems and teams tend to be smaller.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Another valid reason to prioritise email marketing is that you own the data - something that's not the case with social media. If you ever had a problem, you could download all your subscribers and send them an email from elsewhere. You can keep a backup of your data because it's yours! Plus, it's safe and it’s protected.</p><p><br></p><p>Are we saying you should come off all social media? Not at all! Far from it. Definitely <strong>use social media to build your audience</strong>. But then <strong>point your audience to your email list</strong>. That's the place where you nurture that audience and sell. </p><p><br></p><p>And also, don't forget to use your email list to send people back to your social media content. It helps you make it more effective. We post content both via social media (our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook group</a> in particular) and via email. And that helps us boost results. But by far, <strong>the safest place to build your business is by email</strong>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Email marketing helps you convert people into paying customers</strong></h3><p>Another reason why you should prioritise email marketing in 2022 is that it takes care of conversion for you. Let's explain this with a little analogy. Imagine you have a dinner plate in front of you - that represents your business. And to run it at the scale you want to run it at, you need three things on your plate:</p><p><br></p><ol><li><strong>Build an audience.</strong> You can do that using social media platforms and use those as your discovery channel. You get people who haven't heard of you before to find you. Great.</li><li><strong>Conversion.</strong> Then you want to convert that audience into actual paying customers.&nbsp;</li><li><strong>Delivery.</strong> For us, that means showing up to support our members inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League of Email Marketing Heroes</a> – our membership. It’s where we deliver our service to our customers.</li></ol><br/><p><br></p><p>With these three elements on your business plate to look after, there's no wonder you're so busy! But by <strong>focusing on email marketing you get to take conversion off your business plate</strong>. And the way to do that is by creating a series of email automations and showing up regularly with frequent emails.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Once you've taken care of conversion through your email marketing, you can focus more of your time on building an audience and serving your customers. Or you can use that gap on the plate (i.e. that time you've freed up) <em>for you</em> – to do the things you love with the people you love. How about that?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Email marketing has the shortest lead time in turning people into customers</strong></h3><p>Email marketing has the shortest lead time when turning strangers into customers than any other digital marketing strategy. You get a faster return, on average, than with anything else - especially when compared to social media or running ads.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Let’s think about ads for a moment. Whether it's Google ads or social media ads, a lot of people who click on your ad will bounce back without buying at first. You’ll have to re-target them for a while before they buy from you. There's definitely a period of time in between someone sees your ad and buys. And depending on what you sell, this can be weeks, months, or even longer!</p><p><br></p><p>Whereas with email, on average we turn a new subscriber into a paying customer within 9-15 days. It takes a bit longer for some people, but it’s not weeks or months. That means we get a much faster ROI. And that’s important because the longer you're out of pocket, the more trouble you could get into as a business. We all know you need good cash flow, right?&nbsp; &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>There is money in your existing email list</strong></h3><p>You must have heard us say this before, but there's money in your email list. No matter what you sell or how small your existing list is, there's money in there.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>We know this is true because we see it with people inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. We see them take some of the email campaigns we teach our members, run them to the list they already have, and make sales.</p><p><br></p><p>Yes, the people on your email list are already in your world - they know what you sell and at what price. By emailing them, you’re not telling them something they don’t already know. But if you don't, they’re not just going to suddenly buy. They won't take action just because they're on your list. Not unless you do something.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>They need to hear from you and from a <em>different</em> angle – one they haven’t heard before. Because at some point the penny will drop, and the desire to buy your product becomes higher than the pain of investing in it. <strong>If you have people on your list who haven’t bought from you yet, know that there's money in your list</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>And isn’t that amazing? That you can use what you already have without having to add more subscribers or do more work on social media? In the space of a few hours, you could boost your sales from your <em>existing </em>list!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Email marketing technology is moving forward</strong></h3><p>Another reason why email marketing sits at the very top of the digital marketing trends for 2022 is that technology is moving forward. While some people claim that email marketing is dead, others are developing amazing technology, like rich content and email AMP, for example. If you haven’t already, go and <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-amp-and-the-future-of-email-marketing-with-aweber-ceo-tom-kulzer/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">check out this interview with Tom Kulzer (CEO of Aweber)</a> to find out more about that.</p><p><br></p><p>There’s a lot of exciting and powerful stuff going on in the world of email marketing. And if you’re already so busy that you feel you have no time, email marketing is the strategy with the biggest impact on sales]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you want to know why email marketing is right at the top of the digital marketing trends for 2022? Let's face it - if it isn't already, email marketing needs to be <em>the </em>top priority for your business in 2022.</p><p>Ready to find out why and (most importantly) <em>what you can do </em>to make sure you boost your sales and make more money in 2022?&nbsp;</p><p>Let's do this!&nbsp;</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(3:46) Our incredible Keap offer!</p><p>(5:22) Email marketing is the highest ROI marketing activity you can do</p><p>(9:12) Email is the safest place to build your business.</p><p>(12:28) Email marketing helps you convert people into paying customers. </p><p>(16:01) Email marketing has the shortest lead time in turning people into customers.</p><p>(17:23) There's money in your existing email list.</p><p>(19:54) Email marketing technology is moving forward - you don't want to miss out!</p><p>(21:02) How to get results from your email marketing in 2022.</p><p>(21:50) The price to join The League is going up!</p><p>(24:02) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Email marketing is the highest ROI marketing activity you can do&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>That's right. It's as simple as that.<strong> Email marketing is the highest ROI (return-on-investment) marketing activity you can do. </strong></p><p>None of the other marketing strategies out there – social media marketing, video marketing, content marketing, events, speaking, podcasting, or anything in between - will give you a whopping $42 ROI for every $1 you spend. That’s an <em>insane</em> amount! And, according to the experts, that's just an average! </p><p>When it comes to our business, for every subscriber on our email list we earn $12 per month. To figure this out, we look at the number of people who are on our email list, calculate the amount of income and sales we make, and divide one number by the other. </p><p>That gives us how much each subscriber is worth to us. We call it <strong>Earnings per Subscriber per Month (or EPSPM)</strong>. And knowing how much we make per subscriber every month tells us how much we can afford to pay in order to get somebody on our email list. But also, it tells us how long we're going to be out of pocket before we break even and then make a profit.</p><p>So with these kinds of numbers, should you try and skimp on the marketing automation platform you choose for your small business, for example? No! Of course, we all want a great deal - no one wants to pay more than they should. But you also need to find the most effective way to do email marketing. If you're going to shoot for that $1 in, $42 out ROI, you want the best tools for the job. Because not all of the marketing platforms out there have the technology you need. </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Email is the safest place to build your business</strong></h3><p>So that's the financial side of things. But another reason you want to focus on email marketing for your business growth in 2022 is to<em> protect yourself</em>. That's right. Because you just can't rely on social media! There's a lot of turmoil around social media platforms. What if they all disappeared?&nbsp;What if you get kicked out of your social media account? </p><p><br></p><p>We definitely saw in 2021 how all the biggest social media channels had outages and went down (most of them at the same time). When that happens, that leaves you with no way to communicate with your audience. Of course, your email marketing platform could go down too. But it's likely to get back up quickly because the problems and teams tend to be smaller.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Another valid reason to prioritise email marketing is that you own the data - something that's not the case with social media. If you ever had a problem, you could download all your subscribers and send them an email from elsewhere. You can keep a backup of your data because it's yours! Plus, it's safe and it’s protected.</p><p><br></p><p>Are we saying you should come off all social media? Not at all! Far from it. Definitely <strong>use social media to build your audience</strong>. But then <strong>point your audience to your email list</strong>. That's the place where you nurture that audience and sell. </p><p><br></p><p>And also, don't forget to use your email list to send people back to your social media content. It helps you make it more effective. We post content both via social media (our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook group</a> in particular) and via email. And that helps us boost results. But by far, <strong>the safest place to build your business is by email</strong>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Email marketing helps you convert people into paying customers</strong></h3><p>Another reason why you should prioritise email marketing in 2022 is that it takes care of conversion for you. Let's explain this with a little analogy. Imagine you have a dinner plate in front of you - that represents your business. And to run it at the scale you want to run it at, you need three things on your plate:</p><p><br></p><ol><li><strong>Build an audience.</strong> You can do that using social media platforms and use those as your discovery channel. You get people who haven't heard of you before to find you. Great.</li><li><strong>Conversion.</strong> Then you want to convert that audience into actual paying customers.&nbsp;</li><li><strong>Delivery.</strong> For us, that means showing up to support our members inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League of Email Marketing Heroes</a> – our membership. It’s where we deliver our service to our customers.</li></ol><br/><p><br></p><p>With these three elements on your business plate to look after, there's no wonder you're so busy! But by <strong>focusing on email marketing you get to take conversion off your business plate</strong>. And the way to do that is by creating a series of email automations and showing up regularly with frequent emails.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Once you've taken care of conversion through your email marketing, you can focus more of your time on building an audience and serving your customers. Or you can use that gap on the plate (i.e. that time you've freed up) <em>for you</em> – to do the things you love with the people you love. How about that?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Email marketing has the shortest lead time in turning people into customers</strong></h3><p>Email marketing has the shortest lead time when turning strangers into customers than any other digital marketing strategy. You get a faster return, on average, than with anything else - especially when compared to social media or running ads.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Let’s think about ads for a moment. Whether it's Google ads or social media ads, a lot of people who click on your ad will bounce back without buying at first. You’ll have to re-target them for a while before they buy from you. There's definitely a period of time in between someone sees your ad and buys. And depending on what you sell, this can be weeks, months, or even longer!</p><p><br></p><p>Whereas with email, on average we turn a new subscriber into a paying customer within 9-15 days. It takes a bit longer for some people, but it’s not weeks or months. That means we get a much faster ROI. And that’s important because the longer you're out of pocket, the more trouble you could get into as a business. We all know you need good cash flow, right?&nbsp; &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>There is money in your existing email list</strong></h3><p>You must have heard us say this before, but there's money in your email list. No matter what you sell or how small your existing list is, there's money in there.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>We know this is true because we see it with people inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. We see them take some of the email campaigns we teach our members, run them to the list they already have, and make sales.</p><p><br></p><p>Yes, the people on your email list are already in your world - they know what you sell and at what price. By emailing them, you’re not telling them something they don’t already know. But if you don't, they’re not just going to suddenly buy. They won't take action just because they're on your list. Not unless you do something.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>They need to hear from you and from a <em>different</em> angle – one they haven’t heard before. Because at some point the penny will drop, and the desire to buy your product becomes higher than the pain of investing in it. <strong>If you have people on your list who haven’t bought from you yet, know that there's money in your list</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>And isn’t that amazing? That you can use what you already have without having to add more subscribers or do more work on social media? In the space of a few hours, you could boost your sales from your <em>existing </em>list!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Email marketing technology is moving forward</strong></h3><p>Another reason why email marketing sits at the very top of the digital marketing trends for 2022 is that technology is moving forward. While some people claim that email marketing is dead, others are developing amazing technology, like rich content and email AMP, for example. If you haven’t already, go and <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-amp-and-the-future-of-email-marketing-with-aweber-ceo-tom-kulzer/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">check out this interview with Tom Kulzer (CEO of Aweber)</a> to find out more about that.</p><p><br></p><p>There’s a lot of exciting and powerful stuff going on in the world of email marketing. And if you’re already so busy that you feel you have no time, email marketing is the strategy with the biggest impact on sales and profits without having a huge impact on your time. In fact, focusing on email marketing will eat up less of your time than other activities. <strong>Email marketing will make you more money from what you already have without investing additional time into it.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Get results from your email marketing in 2022</strong></h3><p>Think about what your business and life would look like right now if you made email a priority at the start of 2021. Would you have achieved everything you wanted by just investing a few hours a week into it? Would you be making more sales? And would you be better at email marketing? You’d probably find it a lot easier by now, too. If you're reading this, you know email marketing is important. And by making it a priority in 2022, you could be answering yes to all those questions in a year's time!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So how are you going to get results from your email marketing in 2022? If you want consistent sales from your email marketing, check out the library of trialled and tested email sequences inside our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. Our campaigns are specifically designed to help you to sell more courses, bring in new members to your programmes, or win you more coaching clients - all while using our psychology-driven marketing. On top of our training videos, we also do a couple of coaching calls every month to answer your questions and apply what we teach specifically to your business.</p><p><br></p><p>So make sure you check it out now because <strong>the price for new members is going up at the end of January 2022</strong>. But if you join before then, you'll take advantage of the existing price and keep that for as long as you remain a member.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>We always talk about subject lines that tread the line between being clickbait-y enough to make people pay attention and read but without making them feel tricked when they do. So this week's subject line is “Can we get on a call?” followed by the phone emoji.</p><p><br></p><p>The content was around the fact we added a bonus to a deal we were running where we were offering a free group coaching call if you bought the course then. The call would be a chance for us to answer any questions about the training. So that's what the email was about and “Can we get on a call?” was the subject line that went with it.&nbsp;</p><h3><br></h3><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-amp-and-the-future-of-email-marketing-with-aweber-ceo-tom-kulzer/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email AMP and the future of email marketing with Aweber CEO Tom Kulzer</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/pick-email-automation-system/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Pick an Email Automation System</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-build-profitable-business/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Using Email Marketing to Build a Profitable Business – a Success Story from a Member of The League</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about why email marketing is right at the top of the digital marketing trends for 2022) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/digital-marketing-trends-for-2022/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">03291a3d-57f5-4215-9e60-517ceb6679fb</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c52ddcf7-0c30-41c5-ae3e-1e32417a332c/u4GlXjeda-p3ND_qyOXOQ31x.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2022 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/4fb20437-6de2-4d55-8bf4-b28be51b76d1/115-final.mp3" length="27055187" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>26:50</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>115</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>115</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Examples of Advertorials to Grow your Email List with Rachel Mazza</title><itunes:title>Examples of Advertorials to Grow your Email List with Rachel Mazza</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Do you use advertorials in your business? Hang on. Do you even <em>know</em> what advertorials are? Because not many people do (or know what these types of pre-sale pages are called!) So let's hear it from Rachel Mazza, who gives us the ins and outs about advertorials and shares some <em>awesome</em> examples of advertorials you'll want to start using in your business straight away to grow your email list and boost your sales. </p><p>Shall we get going?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(3:18) Did Rachel 'accidentally' move in with lots of other people? (And did Rob REALLY mess this up?) </p><p>(5:22) What are advertorials and what are they used for?</p><p>(7:36) How to use advertorials to warm up your audience. </p><p>(9:29) How to use advertorials to reach a wider audience.</p><p>(11:08) Advertorials and content networks. </p><p>(12:23) What format do advertorials need to be in? </p><p>(14:25) Do advertorials come across as clickbait-y? </p><p>(20:29) How long do advertorials need to be? </p><p>(21:10) How do advertorials impact on your ad spend?</p><p>(27:53) Subject line of the week with Rachel Mazza.</p><h3><strong>What are advertorials and what are they used for?</strong></h3><p>Advertorials, also known as <em>pre-sale </em>or <em>interstitial</em> pages, are the pages that go between the initial touchpoint where you first interact with the customer and the place where you want them to convert. </p><p>Conversion here could mean buying your offer or joining your email list - whatever you need it to be. And <strong>the role of the advertorial is to warm people up before&nbsp;you ask them to take action</strong>.</p><p>So let's visualise this. </p><p><br></p><p>A prospective customer may have come across one of your blog posts or a Facebook ad for the first time, for example. Of course, you'll want to send them to your sales pages or your offer. But at this point, you're faced with a cold and skeptical audience (they don't know you yet!) so you need to get them into the right mindset by providing them with value and information <em>before</em> you ask them for something. </p><p><br></p><p>The advertorial page sits between the first piece of content where the prospect might have come across your business or your content for the first time and the opt-in page where you ask them to join your email list or the sales page where you ask them to buy.</p><p>All good so far?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How do you use advertorials to 'warm up' your audience?</strong></h3><p>In advertorials, you don't want to sell too hard. Because<strong> the goal of an advertorial is not to sell</strong> –<strong> it’s to give someone enough information to take the next step</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>There are a couple of ways to do this and move them to the next page.</p><ul><li>You can use <em>anchor text</em>. Let’s say you sell a weight loss product. You might have a line in your article that says, “Jenny lost 30 lbs before Christmas”. And that can become your anchor text, i.e. you add to that phrase the hyperlink to your opt-in page and lead magnet.</li><li>Or you can use subtle CTA (Call to Action) at the bottom of our hypothetical advertorial example where you say something like, “If you'd also like to get results like Jenny, click here to get our free Seven Day Course”, for example. </li></ul><br/><p><br></p><p>Just remember not to make it <em>too</em> promotional. When writing advertorial content, you're in a <em>giving</em> mindset - your audience wants to get something useful. And <strong>your job is to give them information, entertainment, or something they want to read</strong>. Because when it comes to advertorials, they're not interested in buying something - not yet.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to use advertorials to reach a wider audience</strong></h3><p>Whether you're buying ad space or trying to grow your audience organically, advertorials help you filter through the people who are interested in what you have to offer. Ultimately, these are the prospects who are more likely to convert.</p><p><br></p><p>But at the same time, using advertorials allows you to cast a wider net. Because now that you have people coming in and showing an interest in your content, you can re-target them. So even if you have someone who doesn't take the next step with you just yet, at least you know they're interested in what you have to say. Maybe it wasn't the right time for them to buy. Or maybe they needed more touchpoints or a different angle - for example, because they're part of a different demographic.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Advertorials allow you to test different ideas or angles fairly cheaply. </strong>And once you know what resonates with your audience, you can then carry those concepts through your sales pages or landing pages. You are testing ideas before you try and sell to someone. And by the time you do, you already know that these ideas resonate.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Advertorials and content networks</strong></h3><p>Advertorials work with all traffic sources. They're a really effective strategy for paid ads because they allow you to lower your traffic cost while still converting more cold traffic.</p><p><br></p><p>But you can also use <em>content networks</em>. This is still a type of ad, but you’re paying a company (like <a href="https://advertise.taboola.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Taboola</a>, <a href="https://lp.outbrain.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Outbrain</a>, or <a href="https://www.adblade.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Adblade</a>, for example) to place your content on a website where people will see it as sponsored content or featured content.</p><p><br></p><p>If you think of the majority of the content that you see on websites like Buzzfeed, these are advertorial examples. It's content that's trying to get you to go to someone's opt-in page or sales page.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What format do advertorials need to be in?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Advertorials can take many forms, including listicles, editorial content, or stories. <strong>Advertorials are a form of <em>native advertising</em>, i.e. copy or sales material disguised as content.</strong> You can think of them as <em>native ads</em>.</p><p><br></p><p>For example, the listicles we've all seen on Buzzfeed are advertorials. Each item featured in the article will then have a link to where you can buy the product, for example, or a CTA at the end that drives the readers towards an opt-in page. Listicles work particularly well for e-commerce.</p><p><br></p><p>But a lot of advertorials look like editorial and educational articles ("How to" content) or even journalistic articles, like a press release or an announcement.</p><p><br></p><p>Rachel's tip is to use personal stories though. You want to tell the story of someone who's just like your ideal prospect who is having a struggle but then finds a solution. And that solution happens to be <em>yours</em>. And if people want to find out more and take the next step with you, they can check out your offer.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Do advertorials come across as clickbait-y? </strong></h3><p>Advertorials are pre-sale pages. When thinking about the 5 stages of awareness (as per the work of Eugene Schwartz), which are: <em>unaware</em>, <em>problem aware</em>, <em>solution aware</em>, <em>product aware</em>, and <em>most aware</em>, <strong>advertorials work particularly well for the people at the unaware stage.</strong> These are the people who might not know you yet. In fact, they don't even know they have a problem yet -&nbsp; let alone the fact that there's a solution out there and that <em>you</em> are the person with that solution!</p><p><br></p><p>So if you write an article with a clickbait-y headline, it'll only come across that way if you're approaching someone at a different level of awareness than you intend. If someone's never heard from you and you expect them to buy, your content may come across as sales-y and off-putting because it's not pitched at the right stage. They'll feel disconnected from that content, especially if they're just browsing or looking for a potential solution to their problem.</p><p><br></p><p>On the other hand, if you have someone who’s ready to buy (i.e. at the most aware stage), they’re looking for a great deal, so they won’t be put off by sales-y content or headlines. Clickbait-type content is relative – it all depends on the level of awareness a prospect is at, at any given time.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Should you create advertorials for different stages of the awareness scale?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Most definitely! You can also have more than one advertorial in your funnel. For example, you could bring people from being totally <em>unaware</em> to being <em>problem aware</em> and then <em>solution aware</em>. You can sometimes do that in one article, but you may need multiple articles. The first step is to make your audience realise they have a problem. Then you want them to know there are solutions out there. And this is where you want to give them more information and touchpoints - because they're not ready to buy into your solution just yet.</p><p><br></p><p>Before-and-after case studies, listicles, and story-based articles are great examples of advertorials because they help you make a personal connection with your audience. But you can also get more creative and use different types of formats, like podcast episodes, videos, or infographics.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How long do advertorials need to be?</strong></h3><p><strong>Advertorials need to be consumable, bite-sized, and catchy.</strong> You want someone who’s mindlessly scrolling on Facebook, for example, to stop, click, and read. And if they’re the right audience, then something will click – they’ll want to read it in more detail to learn more.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>The goal of advertorials is to]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you use advertorials in your business? Hang on. Do you even <em>know</em> what advertorials are? Because not many people do (or know what these types of pre-sale pages are called!) So let's hear it from Rachel Mazza, who gives us the ins and outs about advertorials and shares some <em>awesome</em> examples of advertorials you'll want to start using in your business straight away to grow your email list and boost your sales. </p><p>Shall we get going?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(3:18) Did Rachel 'accidentally' move in with lots of other people? (And did Rob REALLY mess this up?) </p><p>(5:22) What are advertorials and what are they used for?</p><p>(7:36) How to use advertorials to warm up your audience. </p><p>(9:29) How to use advertorials to reach a wider audience.</p><p>(11:08) Advertorials and content networks. </p><p>(12:23) What format do advertorials need to be in? </p><p>(14:25) Do advertorials come across as clickbait-y? </p><p>(20:29) How long do advertorials need to be? </p><p>(21:10) How do advertorials impact on your ad spend?</p><p>(27:53) Subject line of the week with Rachel Mazza.</p><h3><strong>What are advertorials and what are they used for?</strong></h3><p>Advertorials, also known as <em>pre-sale </em>or <em>interstitial</em> pages, are the pages that go between the initial touchpoint where you first interact with the customer and the place where you want them to convert. </p><p>Conversion here could mean buying your offer or joining your email list - whatever you need it to be. And <strong>the role of the advertorial is to warm people up before&nbsp;you ask them to take action</strong>.</p><p>So let's visualise this. </p><p><br></p><p>A prospective customer may have come across one of your blog posts or a Facebook ad for the first time, for example. Of course, you'll want to send them to your sales pages or your offer. But at this point, you're faced with a cold and skeptical audience (they don't know you yet!) so you need to get them into the right mindset by providing them with value and information <em>before</em> you ask them for something. </p><p><br></p><p>The advertorial page sits between the first piece of content where the prospect might have come across your business or your content for the first time and the opt-in page where you ask them to join your email list or the sales page where you ask them to buy.</p><p>All good so far?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How do you use advertorials to 'warm up' your audience?</strong></h3><p>In advertorials, you don't want to sell too hard. Because<strong> the goal of an advertorial is not to sell</strong> –<strong> it’s to give someone enough information to take the next step</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>There are a couple of ways to do this and move them to the next page.</p><ul><li>You can use <em>anchor text</em>. Let’s say you sell a weight loss product. You might have a line in your article that says, “Jenny lost 30 lbs before Christmas”. And that can become your anchor text, i.e. you add to that phrase the hyperlink to your opt-in page and lead magnet.</li><li>Or you can use subtle CTA (Call to Action) at the bottom of our hypothetical advertorial example where you say something like, “If you'd also like to get results like Jenny, click here to get our free Seven Day Course”, for example. </li></ul><br/><p><br></p><p>Just remember not to make it <em>too</em> promotional. When writing advertorial content, you're in a <em>giving</em> mindset - your audience wants to get something useful. And <strong>your job is to give them information, entertainment, or something they want to read</strong>. Because when it comes to advertorials, they're not interested in buying something - not yet.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to use advertorials to reach a wider audience</strong></h3><p>Whether you're buying ad space or trying to grow your audience organically, advertorials help you filter through the people who are interested in what you have to offer. Ultimately, these are the prospects who are more likely to convert.</p><p><br></p><p>But at the same time, using advertorials allows you to cast a wider net. Because now that you have people coming in and showing an interest in your content, you can re-target them. So even if you have someone who doesn't take the next step with you just yet, at least you know they're interested in what you have to say. Maybe it wasn't the right time for them to buy. Or maybe they needed more touchpoints or a different angle - for example, because they're part of a different demographic.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Advertorials allow you to test different ideas or angles fairly cheaply. </strong>And once you know what resonates with your audience, you can then carry those concepts through your sales pages or landing pages. You are testing ideas before you try and sell to someone. And by the time you do, you already know that these ideas resonate.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Advertorials and content networks</strong></h3><p>Advertorials work with all traffic sources. They're a really effective strategy for paid ads because they allow you to lower your traffic cost while still converting more cold traffic.</p><p><br></p><p>But you can also use <em>content networks</em>. This is still a type of ad, but you’re paying a company (like <a href="https://advertise.taboola.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Taboola</a>, <a href="https://lp.outbrain.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Outbrain</a>, or <a href="https://www.adblade.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Adblade</a>, for example) to place your content on a website where people will see it as sponsored content or featured content.</p><p><br></p><p>If you think of the majority of the content that you see on websites like Buzzfeed, these are advertorial examples. It's content that's trying to get you to go to someone's opt-in page or sales page.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What format do advertorials need to be in?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Advertorials can take many forms, including listicles, editorial content, or stories. <strong>Advertorials are a form of <em>native advertising</em>, i.e. copy or sales material disguised as content.</strong> You can think of them as <em>native ads</em>.</p><p><br></p><p>For example, the listicles we've all seen on Buzzfeed are advertorials. Each item featured in the article will then have a link to where you can buy the product, for example, or a CTA at the end that drives the readers towards an opt-in page. Listicles work particularly well for e-commerce.</p><p><br></p><p>But a lot of advertorials look like editorial and educational articles ("How to" content) or even journalistic articles, like a press release or an announcement.</p><p><br></p><p>Rachel's tip is to use personal stories though. You want to tell the story of someone who's just like your ideal prospect who is having a struggle but then finds a solution. And that solution happens to be <em>yours</em>. And if people want to find out more and take the next step with you, they can check out your offer.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Do advertorials come across as clickbait-y? </strong></h3><p>Advertorials are pre-sale pages. When thinking about the 5 stages of awareness (as per the work of Eugene Schwartz), which are: <em>unaware</em>, <em>problem aware</em>, <em>solution aware</em>, <em>product aware</em>, and <em>most aware</em>, <strong>advertorials work particularly well for the people at the unaware stage.</strong> These are the people who might not know you yet. In fact, they don't even know they have a problem yet -&nbsp; let alone the fact that there's a solution out there and that <em>you</em> are the person with that solution!</p><p><br></p><p>So if you write an article with a clickbait-y headline, it'll only come across that way if you're approaching someone at a different level of awareness than you intend. If someone's never heard from you and you expect them to buy, your content may come across as sales-y and off-putting because it's not pitched at the right stage. They'll feel disconnected from that content, especially if they're just browsing or looking for a potential solution to their problem.</p><p><br></p><p>On the other hand, if you have someone who’s ready to buy (i.e. at the most aware stage), they’re looking for a great deal, so they won’t be put off by sales-y content or headlines. Clickbait-type content is relative – it all depends on the level of awareness a prospect is at, at any given time.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Should you create advertorials for different stages of the awareness scale?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Most definitely! You can also have more than one advertorial in your funnel. For example, you could bring people from being totally <em>unaware</em> to being <em>problem aware</em> and then <em>solution aware</em>. You can sometimes do that in one article, but you may need multiple articles. The first step is to make your audience realise they have a problem. Then you want them to know there are solutions out there. And this is where you want to give them more information and touchpoints - because they're not ready to buy into your solution just yet.</p><p><br></p><p>Before-and-after case studies, listicles, and story-based articles are great examples of advertorials because they help you make a personal connection with your audience. But you can also get more creative and use different types of formats, like podcast episodes, videos, or infographics.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How long do advertorials need to be?</strong></h3><p><strong>Advertorials need to be consumable, bite-sized, and catchy.</strong> You want someone who’s mindlessly scrolling on Facebook, for example, to stop, click, and read. And if they’re the right audience, then something will click – they’ll want to read it in more detail to learn more.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>The goal of advertorials is to get in front of as many people as you can.</strong> And those people are going to be extremely high-quality leads because they've already made several micro commitments before they even get to your opt-in page. They've clicked on your ad, for example, they've read it, and they're still interested. They've taken all these steps and are now ready to give you their email address. Awesome!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How do advertorials impact ad spend?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>With advertorials you get in front of a very wide audience, but the people that filter through are going to be high-quality leads. This is why more and more businesses (now that ad costs are going up) use advertorials as ads. These are often long-form ads or story-based advertorials that look like content. And they normally lead to the company's low-cost, tripwire product.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Compared to ads, advertorials allow you to test ideas quickly.</strong> With paid ads, conversion costs might be lower but testing is also slower. So if you want to expand your audience, you can create super-cheap awareness ads and test the ideas before you run a full-blown campaign to the advertorial.</p><p><br></p><p>Ideally, you'll want to write some advertorial-based ads, see which ones get the most engagement, and then take that theme and write a more involved advertorial that you can publish on your website or a third-party website.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What budget do you need to leverage advertorials in your business?</strong></h3><p>You can run advertorials without spending any money - you can do it organically, using platforms like medium.com, which has a built-in audience. People are already on the platform looking for content. <strong>The key is to make the advertorials interesting for the reader and get out of that selling mindset - a giving mindset is going to be more efficient and effective for you. </strong>Or you can guest blog or contribute content to podcasts, for example - these platforms can act as channels for your advertorial.</p><p><br></p><p>If you decide to spend money on ads, you're going to speed up the conversion process, but you don't have to. You could opt to use content networks to get in front of more people a lot faster. But if you don't have the budget to invest, you can do this organically by posting content on your website and using organic SEO to drive people to those articles or by publishing your content on third-party websites, which gives it a little more credibility.</p><p><br></p><p>If you decide to use content networks, your spend is linked to the number of impressions your content gets, so you can work with any budget. It's about figuring out what works for that market. If you have a high-converting, proven offer, you might want to invest a lower budget because you know you can break even or make a return on ad spend a lot faster. </p><p><br></p><p>In a nutshell, content networks allow you to test concepts a lot better because they're placing your advertorial where people are already consuming other content, so you might find this an even better strategy than paid ads.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>Rachel’s subject line of the week is “Just checking..."</p><p>Rachel uses this subject line when people first opt into her list. Eight hours after they've signed up, they receive an email with this subject line, where Rachel asks them to reply to let her know they got her guide.</p><p><br></p><p>But she also uses it for someone called Dean Jackson, creator of the email marketing strategy called The Nine-Word Email. And it’s just what it says on the tin - an email with 9 words in it. Like, “Hey, are you still interested in losing weight, Rachel?” Rachel tells us it's hard to just stick to 9 words, but it's super effective!</p><p>Don't you just love this?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Rachel</strong></h5><p>If you want to connect with Rachel, you can find her on her <a href="https://rachelmazza.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">website</a>, where you can grab her FREE guide with the exact 8 steps Rachel uses to write advertorials.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/build-your-list-with-viral-ads-grip-advertising/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Build Your List using Viral Ads with Dave Rotheroe from Grip Advertising</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/facebook-groups-marketing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook Groups Marketing – Content That Makes Sales with Christina Jandali</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/courageous-content-janet-murray/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Courageous Content with Janet Murray</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>Want to write better emails? 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We also get to be discovered by more awesome people like you!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/examples-of-advertorials-rachel-mazza/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">f2307657-7059-4a45-858b-982740c8c964</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/b00f340c-a1fc-41fe-a499-6a06110eb3c2/CLeMbVPgk91WkDEGhXl1Pk-s.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/197a3e5f-8858-414e-b617-b1052b4ea0f3/final-113.mp3" length="28036547" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>29:57</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>113</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>113</podcast:episode></item><item><title>7 Ideas to Build your Email List in 2022</title><itunes:title>7 Ideas to Build your Email List in 2022</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Is 2022 the year you're <em>finally</em> going to focus on building your email list? </p><p>You might have heard us say this before, but once you've worked out how to maximise the amount of money you're making from your existing list, you need to also grow your list.  &nbsp;</p><p>So... want some <em>awesome</em> strategies that will help you do that in the coming year?&nbsp;</p><p>Let's find out what you gotta do! &nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(3:40) Our incredible Keap offer!</p><p>(5:27) Add links to your Instagram Stories.</p><p>(7:37) Use the question feature in your Facebook group.</p><p>(9:04) Offer people products or services that best suit their needs.</p><p>(12:37) Leverage other people's audiences.</p><p>(15:42) Add a list-building element to your existing campaigns.</p><p>(18:28) Become a podcast guest or deliver guest training.&nbsp;</p><p>(20:55) Get endorsements from people.</p><p>(23:16) Buy another business.</p><p>(25:36) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>1. Link to your lead magnet in your Instagram Stories</strong></h3><p>This is a new development with Instagram, which historically hasn't been the best out of all the social media channels to help online businesses share links. As you know, you can add a link to your lead magnets or sign-up forms in your bio - perhaps by using a tool like Linktr.ee or by creating your own custom link. But otherwise, links weren't clickable, and that's not great for list building.&nbsp;</p><p>But now Instagram gives all their users the ability to include a clickable link in your Instagram Stories. And as a result of that, you can get a huge number of extra eyeballs directly to your landing page. </p><p><br></p><p>So use your Instagram Stories to teach great content, share an idea or lesson, or tell a story. And then send people to check out your lead magnet by just clicking on the link. That's definitely going to boost traffic to your website and help with your email list building.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>2. Use the question feature in your Facebook group</strong></h3><p>Another great strategy to capture email addresses on social media is to use the question feature in your Facebook group. We do this in our own Facebook group - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. </p><p><br></p><p>You see, when people ask us to join the group, we ask people to give us their email address if they want to get some <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">free resources</a> from us. And when they accept to download the resources, they magically end up on our email list! Amazing, right?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>When it comes to list-building strategies, this is a great way to start building or growing your list and collect email addresses - because you can pretty much mention your Facebook group everywhere! Plus, Facebook's algorithm gives you some help every now and again by suggesting it to more of their users, too.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Offer people products or services that best suit their needs</strong></h4><p>Because you can ask your target audience and potential customers up to three questions when they request to join your Facebook group, we recommend you use one of the questions to identify which of your products or services will be best suited for that person.</p><p><br></p><p>For example, in our case, we might want to find out whether someone wants to learn how to do email marketing for their small business or online business (in which case we’ll tell them about our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, or our course, the <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/des-open/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Complete Daily Email Strategy</a>), or whether they might want to have our email marketing writing agency write their emails for them. And if that's the case, we tell them about our agency, rather than our membership or courses.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Remembe that <strong>people are at different stages in their journey, so offer them the products or services that best suit their needs.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Once we have people's answers, we then use different custom fields in our email marketing software (<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/keap" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Keap</a>) and put our email list subscribers into different series of automations that take them down different routes. This way, people coming into our Facebook group and email list, will get the solution they need as soon as possible.</p><p><br></p><p>And this is super useful because if we send our email subscribers a series of emails for products that don’t meet their needs, they disengage and unsubscribe. And no one wins. But <strong>by identifying someone’s needs as quickly as possible, we make the sale faster and also get to help people with what they truly need.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>3. Leverage other people's audiences</strong></h3><p>The next tip is to build your audience. It's a hard and slow step for everyone, but it’s essential. And one of our favourite ways to do it is to leverage other people's audiences. Do you know of any other business owners who are <em>not</em> your competitors but work in a similar space to you? For us, it’s anyone who sells to course creators, membership site owners, and online businesses. We can team up with them, even if they don’t offer something that we teach.</p><p><br></p><p>So <strong>figure out how to integrate your products and services into other businesses' funnels and get a piece of space on their land</strong> - it's a great strategy for lead generation. You could set up an affiliate programme or put up a banner on their thank you pages that points to your lead magnet so you can start growing your list.</p><p><br></p><p>Of course, you'd have a deal with that business, where they either get a percentage commission of your sales or you pay them a flat amount. And this means you also get to benefit from whatever strategy that business is using to drive traffic to <em>their</em> business. By working to build <em>their</em> audience, you build yours as well.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Similarly, you could approach membership site owners who sell to an audience who can benefit from what you do and ask if they would offer special deals on your products. <strong>By integrating your products into other people's businesses, you're able to ‘ethically steal’ their audience and direct them across to your stuff.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>4. Add a list-building element to your existing campaigns</strong></h3><p>Another strategy we like to use is to add a list-building element to our existing campaigns. Not all our promotions have a list-building element – a quick flash sale of your programmes wouldn’t, for example. But if you’re hosting a webinar or running a challenge, a quiz, or an online summit with lots of different speakers, you might want to add a list building element into your email campaign.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>For example, if you're hosting a webinar, you could ask your email subscribers to invite friends. This allows you to build trust and authority while giving people a solid outcome, but at the end of it, you’re also making an offer. Quizzes and contests are perfect for list building. And so are summits. You might have 20 different speakers there, and if everyone emails their lists about the summit, you get to increase your email signups. Their audiences get to enter your world too!</p><p><br></p><p>So <strong>think of ways of including a list-building element in campaigns, promotions, and activities that you’re already doing</strong>, rather than thinking about these as separate entities. And in case you're interested, we have lots of campaigns (with a list-building element) ready for you to customise and use, inside our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>5. Become a podcast guest or deliver guest training</strong></h3><p>The next strategy is to become a podcast guest or deliver guest training in order to leverage other people's audiences and build yours really quickly.</p><p><br></p><p>As you know, we have guests on this show but also appear as guests on other people’s podcasts. But we also do guest training - we get invited to jump into other people’s communities and deliver some training on email marketing. If the audience isn't an exact fit for us, we'll get paid a fee. But if it is (and the room is full of our ideal customers), then we do it for free because we also benefit from the opportunity.</p><p>Imagine having the chance to give a 30-40 minute presentation to a group of perfectly qualified potential customers! You put that training together once and teach it over and over for different audiences.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>This is a great type of list-building mechanism because it builds raving fans out of people. They get to see first-hand how you can help them before they’ve given you any money. And of course, because you're invited by the owner of the membership these people are already part of (someone they trust and pay money to), you almost come recommended - and those people will trust you as a result. So <strong>find paid communities, memberships, and coaching programmes that are a good fit for you where you could deliver guest training and then pitch your products at the beginning, middle and end of that training.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>6. Get endorsements from people</strong></h3><p>Ever heard of <em>endorsed mailings</em>? This was popular years ago, and it's a powerful strategy that has made a...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is 2022 the year you're <em>finally</em> going to focus on building your email list? </p><p>You might have heard us say this before, but once you've worked out how to maximise the amount of money you're making from your existing list, you need to also grow your list.  &nbsp;</p><p>So... want some <em>awesome</em> strategies that will help you do that in the coming year?&nbsp;</p><p>Let's find out what you gotta do! &nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(3:40) Our incredible Keap offer!</p><p>(5:27) Add links to your Instagram Stories.</p><p>(7:37) Use the question feature in your Facebook group.</p><p>(9:04) Offer people products or services that best suit their needs.</p><p>(12:37) Leverage other people's audiences.</p><p>(15:42) Add a list-building element to your existing campaigns.</p><p>(18:28) Become a podcast guest or deliver guest training.&nbsp;</p><p>(20:55) Get endorsements from people.</p><p>(23:16) Buy another business.</p><p>(25:36) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>1. Link to your lead magnet in your Instagram Stories</strong></h3><p>This is a new development with Instagram, which historically hasn't been the best out of all the social media channels to help online businesses share links. As you know, you can add a link to your lead magnets or sign-up forms in your bio - perhaps by using a tool like Linktr.ee or by creating your own custom link. But otherwise, links weren't clickable, and that's not great for list building.&nbsp;</p><p>But now Instagram gives all their users the ability to include a clickable link in your Instagram Stories. And as a result of that, you can get a huge number of extra eyeballs directly to your landing page. </p><p><br></p><p>So use your Instagram Stories to teach great content, share an idea or lesson, or tell a story. And then send people to check out your lead magnet by just clicking on the link. That's definitely going to boost traffic to your website and help with your email list building.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>2. Use the question feature in your Facebook group</strong></h3><p>Another great strategy to capture email addresses on social media is to use the question feature in your Facebook group. We do this in our own Facebook group - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. </p><p><br></p><p>You see, when people ask us to join the group, we ask people to give us their email address if they want to get some <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">free resources</a> from us. And when they accept to download the resources, they magically end up on our email list! Amazing, right?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>When it comes to list-building strategies, this is a great way to start building or growing your list and collect email addresses - because you can pretty much mention your Facebook group everywhere! Plus, Facebook's algorithm gives you some help every now and again by suggesting it to more of their users, too.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Offer people products or services that best suit their needs</strong></h4><p>Because you can ask your target audience and potential customers up to three questions when they request to join your Facebook group, we recommend you use one of the questions to identify which of your products or services will be best suited for that person.</p><p><br></p><p>For example, in our case, we might want to find out whether someone wants to learn how to do email marketing for their small business or online business (in which case we’ll tell them about our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, or our course, the <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/des-open/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Complete Daily Email Strategy</a>), or whether they might want to have our email marketing writing agency write their emails for them. And if that's the case, we tell them about our agency, rather than our membership or courses.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Remembe that <strong>people are at different stages in their journey, so offer them the products or services that best suit their needs.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Once we have people's answers, we then use different custom fields in our email marketing software (<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/keap" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Keap</a>) and put our email list subscribers into different series of automations that take them down different routes. This way, people coming into our Facebook group and email list, will get the solution they need as soon as possible.</p><p><br></p><p>And this is super useful because if we send our email subscribers a series of emails for products that don’t meet their needs, they disengage and unsubscribe. And no one wins. But <strong>by identifying someone’s needs as quickly as possible, we make the sale faster and also get to help people with what they truly need.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>3. Leverage other people's audiences</strong></h3><p>The next tip is to build your audience. It's a hard and slow step for everyone, but it’s essential. And one of our favourite ways to do it is to leverage other people's audiences. Do you know of any other business owners who are <em>not</em> your competitors but work in a similar space to you? For us, it’s anyone who sells to course creators, membership site owners, and online businesses. We can team up with them, even if they don’t offer something that we teach.</p><p><br></p><p>So <strong>figure out how to integrate your products and services into other businesses' funnels and get a piece of space on their land</strong> - it's a great strategy for lead generation. You could set up an affiliate programme or put up a banner on their thank you pages that points to your lead magnet so you can start growing your list.</p><p><br></p><p>Of course, you'd have a deal with that business, where they either get a percentage commission of your sales or you pay them a flat amount. And this means you also get to benefit from whatever strategy that business is using to drive traffic to <em>their</em> business. By working to build <em>their</em> audience, you build yours as well.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Similarly, you could approach membership site owners who sell to an audience who can benefit from what you do and ask if they would offer special deals on your products. <strong>By integrating your products into other people's businesses, you're able to ‘ethically steal’ their audience and direct them across to your stuff.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>4. Add a list-building element to your existing campaigns</strong></h3><p>Another strategy we like to use is to add a list-building element to our existing campaigns. Not all our promotions have a list-building element – a quick flash sale of your programmes wouldn’t, for example. But if you’re hosting a webinar or running a challenge, a quiz, or an online summit with lots of different speakers, you might want to add a list building element into your email campaign.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>For example, if you're hosting a webinar, you could ask your email subscribers to invite friends. This allows you to build trust and authority while giving people a solid outcome, but at the end of it, you’re also making an offer. Quizzes and contests are perfect for list building. And so are summits. You might have 20 different speakers there, and if everyone emails their lists about the summit, you get to increase your email signups. Their audiences get to enter your world too!</p><p><br></p><p>So <strong>think of ways of including a list-building element in campaigns, promotions, and activities that you’re already doing</strong>, rather than thinking about these as separate entities. And in case you're interested, we have lots of campaigns (with a list-building element) ready for you to customise and use, inside our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>5. Become a podcast guest or deliver guest training</strong></h3><p>The next strategy is to become a podcast guest or deliver guest training in order to leverage other people's audiences and build yours really quickly.</p><p><br></p><p>As you know, we have guests on this show but also appear as guests on other people’s podcasts. But we also do guest training - we get invited to jump into other people’s communities and deliver some training on email marketing. If the audience isn't an exact fit for us, we'll get paid a fee. But if it is (and the room is full of our ideal customers), then we do it for free because we also benefit from the opportunity.</p><p>Imagine having the chance to give a 30-40 minute presentation to a group of perfectly qualified potential customers! You put that training together once and teach it over and over for different audiences.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>This is a great type of list-building mechanism because it builds raving fans out of people. They get to see first-hand how you can help them before they’ve given you any money. And of course, because you're invited by the owner of the membership these people are already part of (someone they trust and pay money to), you almost come recommended - and those people will trust you as a result. So <strong>find paid communities, memberships, and coaching programmes that are a good fit for you where you could deliver guest training and then pitch your products at the beginning, middle and end of that training.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>6. Get endorsements from people</strong></h3><p>Ever heard of <em>endorsed mailings</em>? This was popular years ago, and it's a powerful strategy that has made a comeback. This is where you reach out to someone who has an email list of your perfect customers and suggest they could get even better results if they used the thing you teach.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So in our case, we'll approach a specific business, tell them about a great resource we have (free or paid for) and ask them to tell their audience about it. Of course, they'll either get a flat fee depending on how many clicks or subscribers they send our way. You could set up a trackable affiliate link (a business partnership, if you like), and offer them a commission when someone buys from you as a direct result of that endorsement.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>7. Buy another business</strong></h3><p>The last strategy we want to share for building your email list is to acquire a business that already has an email list. We’re not talking about sharing data illegally or doing dodgy practices like swapping lists to get subscribers on your list. <em>None of that!</em></p><p><br></p><p>This is about legally and legitimally buying a business that comes with its own email list of subscribers. Where would you find this? You might know someone in your industry who wants to close down their business or is looking to hand it over to someone else to manage while they still retain a percentage of the profits, for whatever reason. If you negotiate a deal to buy that business, there’s no reason why you can’t acquire their email list and start promoting your products to that audience.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject line of the week is “Ever made one of THESE?” This is something we’ve talked about before, and it’s about taking an obscure word that references to something specific and writing that one word in capital letters.</p><p><br></p><p>This specific email we sent out was talking about customer avatars, which is something we stand firmly against for a few different reasons (very controversially), and it had a good open rate because people were curious about what the email was all about. And that's all because the word 'THESE' was in capital letters.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/build-your-list-with-viral-ads-grip-advertising/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Build Your List using Viral Ads with Dave Rotheroe from Grip Advertising</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/grow-your-email-list-using-facebook-pages/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Grow Your Email List Using Facebook Pages (Without Ads) – Rachel Miller Moolah Style!</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/grow-your-email-list-helen-perry/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Grow your Email List When You Have Less Than 10k Instagram Followers, Helen Perry spills all</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about building your email list) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/building-your-email-list/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">62ed6232-0a2e-4f3e-97fc-20700926d872</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/e7fe107c-11d4-41e1-b95e-d73875a934ee/_cHqD-aVXTihuI_ciwZnHdH9.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/7c144d7d-467b-4dfe-9dd9-dc6551e82870/final-112.mp3" length="27252227" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>27:16</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>112</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>112</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Membership Retention to Multiply Your Income, with Liz Beadon</title><itunes:title>Membership Retention to Multiply Your Income, with Liz Beadon</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Ever wondered why retention is important in your membership? If you're focusing all your energy on acquiring new members, you want to know what our friend&nbsp;Liz Beadon has to say. Having worked with big brands like Virgin and Samsung, Liz is a retention and loyalty strategist. She works with membership and subscription site owners to help them improve their customer experience and retention rate and to grow their business.</p><p>If you don't have a retention strategy just yet, you&nbsp;<em>definitely</em> want to know about Liz's framework (it's full of R's!)</p><p>Ready?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(3:20) Did Liz meet her husband the day she spilled a drink on him at the theatre? </p><p>(4:53) Why is retention important for your membership?</p><p>(6:45) How do you know if you have a retention problem? </p><p>(8:20) Does retention play a part in your onboarding experience?</p><p>(10:42) Step 1 - Receive. </p><p>(13:36) Step 2 - Reveal. </p><p>(16:32) Step 3 - Refer. </p><p>(20:12) Step 4 - Report. </p><p>(22:14) Step 5 - Review.</p><p>(25:30) Subject line of the week with Liz Beadon.</p><h3><strong>Why is retention important for your membership?</strong></h3><p>Running a membership is a great business model - you have lovely members who pay you every month and a regular income.</p><p>But none of it is possible if you don't nurture your customer relationships. Because <strong>when you have a</strong> <strong>membership site (or any kind of subscription service) retention is key for profitability and revenue.</strong></p><h3><strong>When do you start nurturing loyalty in your membership?</strong></h3><p>If you want to get technical, the process of nurturing loyalty starts with your acquisition methods. You need to make sure you're acquiring the<em> right</em> kind of members.</p><p>But in terms of nurturing the relationship, this includes everything from the sales process to that first impression when they hit your membership site and see the welcome area. Liz calls it "a bit of an orchestra of experience to deliver that great first touch". We love that.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How do you know if you have a retention problem?</strong></h3><p>A lot of membership site owner will mostly focus on the acquisition of new members. But not many know whether they have a high turnover of members. Do you know how many people, month-on-month, leave your membership and cancel their subscription?</p><p><br></p><p>There are two different ways that you can look at this.</p><ol><li>Your monthly churn, i.e. what percentage of your members leaves every month.</li><li>Or (and Liz thinks this is more valuable) your cancellation rate, which is calculated by working out the percentage of people who are still there on month 1, month 2, etc. This gives you a great idea of when you might be seeing an increase in churn and tells you whether you have a retention issue at a specific part of the lifecycle.</li></ol><br/><p><br></p><p>Of course, if you find you're losing more members than you are acquiring, you probably need to shift gears and focus on your retention strategies.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Does retention play a part in your onboarding experience?</strong></h3><p>When people first join it’s important to create a really good experience so they feel they're being guided through a process. However, you want to be careful not to overwhelm your brand new members by sending <em>way</em> too much stuff by email.</p><p><br></p><p>You want to properly onboard your members to make sure you're delivering a great experience and at the same time flag anyone who might be at risk of churn. And the best time to do this is right at the start. Because <strong>one of the most exciting times of someone joining your membership is the day that they subscribe</strong>. But that excitement naturally fatigues over time.</p><p><br></p><p>So when onboarding your members, <strong>put the most important content at the start of the lifecycle and ensure you deliver a tangible win for your members within the first 2-3 weeks</strong>. Because that's the amount of time you have before someone considers cancelling.</p><p><br></p><p>Typically, the first month sees a massive cancellation spike, so your first 2-3 weeks are an imperative point of the lifecycle to show the value of your membership. If they don't see value immediately (and either don't use the content or don't understand the membership), they will cancel. This is why thinking about retention in your onboarding process is crucial!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Step 1 - Receive</strong></h3><p>Liz uses a simple 5-step framework that highlights the checkpoints every membership owner should consider when delivering a best-in-class, memorable onboarding experience.</p><p><br></p><p>The first step is <em>Receive</em>. This is all about making sure you're&nbsp;warmly welcoming your members through that initial email, where you include all the key information.</p><p><br></p><p>How much information is too much? Keep it as short as it can be but as long as it needs to be. Call out the key elements of the membership, like login details, weekly calls, learning sections, etc.</p><p><br></p><p>This is an important step because by reminding your members of the value of your membership, you counteract that buyer's remorse and cognitive dissonance that happens when people realise they’ve just spent money and start worrying they might not get the results they want. By delivering a great first email, you're 'reselling them' the membership, so they don't regret their purchase.</p><p><br></p><p>And on this note, be super clear on what your membership helps people with. <strong>People don’t want a programme that does a million different things. They want to be taken on a linear journey and achieve a tangible result.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Step 2 - Reveal</strong></h3><p>Get clear on what<em> one thing</em> you want to help your members achieve in the first 2-3 weeks of their membership. That first month is key to ensuring you're not haemorrhaging members so stop people from leaving because they're not getting what they need out of the membership.</p><p><br></p><p>This is where you identify a quick win - something tangible and measurable - that you can help people get in a short period of time and then hold their hand through that process. You can do this via two or three emails where you point them to right resources and encourage them to get involved in the membership and take action.</p><p><br></p><p>If you sell a membership that helps people achieve something that's not entirely measurable (like relationships or emotions) think of something your members can do in the first few weeks. It could be helping them ask one person on a date, for example. The aim here is to<strong> get your members to acknowledge, from a logical perspective, that they have achieved something tangible as a result of joining your membership</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>They haven’t reached the ultimate goal just yet. But in a short span of time they’ve got some value. And that's better than thinking three weeks have passed and they’ve done nothing with the membership.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So do some customer research and ask your members what they wanted to achieve when they joined the membership. And with that, think about the first step on that journey you can help them take in the first few weeks. Make it super easy and bite-sized because analysis paralysis is a real thing - if you give people too much, they will do nothing.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Step 3 - Refer</strong></h3><p>This is something a lot of memberships don't do. And it's asking new members to refer people who might benefit from the membership. The reason why Liz includes this in the onboarding programmes she helps clients with is because from a revenue perspective, having a referral scheme can be quite lucrative. It's an activity you can set up to run in the background, and it can gain you new members without any additional work.</p><p><br></p><p>Liz talks about two kinds of referral programmes:</p><ul><li>You can give people a percentage of the initial sale when they drive a new member into the membership.</li><li>Or, you can give a number of free months to both your existing member and the new person who joins.</li></ul><br/><p><br></p><p>By creating a mutual benefit (and specifically through giving the new person something for free), you're making it easier for your existing members to refer people to your membership. Because by offering a freebie to someone they don't feel like they’re selling to their friends!</p><p><br></p><p>Liz suggests you do this around week 3 and during the onboarding process because at this point members are still quite engaged and excited, and you want to retain them for as long as you can. But of course, you can also pepper in your referral programme throughout the lifecycle. You could even schedule a campaign every few months to send them a nudge. But that first month is a really great opportunity to drive people in.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Step 4 - Report</strong></h3><p>This is a touchpoint where you email your members at a specific point in the lifecycle - at day 25, for example. You send them an email and ask them how they're finding the membership. And you give them a couple of options (links) to choose from:</p><ol><li>"Loving it so far".</li><li>And, "Still getting up to speed”.</li></ol><br/><p><br></p><p>Depending on what they click, you then tag them and have a follow up email that corresponds to their answer. If they say they're loving it so far, brilliant! If it's a monthly member, that's a great opportunity to upsell to an annual membership. But if they say that they're still getting up to speed, this is an early indicator that someone isn't getting value from the membership yet, and it's a great opportunity for you to take that conversation off of automated and start manually...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ever wondered why retention is important in your membership? If you're focusing all your energy on acquiring new members, you want to know what our friend&nbsp;Liz Beadon has to say. Having worked with big brands like Virgin and Samsung, Liz is a retention and loyalty strategist. She works with membership and subscription site owners to help them improve their customer experience and retention rate and to grow their business.</p><p>If you don't have a retention strategy just yet, you&nbsp;<em>definitely</em> want to know about Liz's framework (it's full of R's!)</p><p>Ready?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(3:20) Did Liz meet her husband the day she spilled a drink on him at the theatre? </p><p>(4:53) Why is retention important for your membership?</p><p>(6:45) How do you know if you have a retention problem? </p><p>(8:20) Does retention play a part in your onboarding experience?</p><p>(10:42) Step 1 - Receive. </p><p>(13:36) Step 2 - Reveal. </p><p>(16:32) Step 3 - Refer. </p><p>(20:12) Step 4 - Report. </p><p>(22:14) Step 5 - Review.</p><p>(25:30) Subject line of the week with Liz Beadon.</p><h3><strong>Why is retention important for your membership?</strong></h3><p>Running a membership is a great business model - you have lovely members who pay you every month and a regular income.</p><p>But none of it is possible if you don't nurture your customer relationships. Because <strong>when you have a</strong> <strong>membership site (or any kind of subscription service) retention is key for profitability and revenue.</strong></p><h3><strong>When do you start nurturing loyalty in your membership?</strong></h3><p>If you want to get technical, the process of nurturing loyalty starts with your acquisition methods. You need to make sure you're acquiring the<em> right</em> kind of members.</p><p>But in terms of nurturing the relationship, this includes everything from the sales process to that first impression when they hit your membership site and see the welcome area. Liz calls it "a bit of an orchestra of experience to deliver that great first touch". We love that.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How do you know if you have a retention problem?</strong></h3><p>A lot of membership site owner will mostly focus on the acquisition of new members. But not many know whether they have a high turnover of members. Do you know how many people, month-on-month, leave your membership and cancel their subscription?</p><p><br></p><p>There are two different ways that you can look at this.</p><ol><li>Your monthly churn, i.e. what percentage of your members leaves every month.</li><li>Or (and Liz thinks this is more valuable) your cancellation rate, which is calculated by working out the percentage of people who are still there on month 1, month 2, etc. This gives you a great idea of when you might be seeing an increase in churn and tells you whether you have a retention issue at a specific part of the lifecycle.</li></ol><br/><p><br></p><p>Of course, if you find you're losing more members than you are acquiring, you probably need to shift gears and focus on your retention strategies.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Does retention play a part in your onboarding experience?</strong></h3><p>When people first join it’s important to create a really good experience so they feel they're being guided through a process. However, you want to be careful not to overwhelm your brand new members by sending <em>way</em> too much stuff by email.</p><p><br></p><p>You want to properly onboard your members to make sure you're delivering a great experience and at the same time flag anyone who might be at risk of churn. And the best time to do this is right at the start. Because <strong>one of the most exciting times of someone joining your membership is the day that they subscribe</strong>. But that excitement naturally fatigues over time.</p><p><br></p><p>So when onboarding your members, <strong>put the most important content at the start of the lifecycle and ensure you deliver a tangible win for your members within the first 2-3 weeks</strong>. Because that's the amount of time you have before someone considers cancelling.</p><p><br></p><p>Typically, the first month sees a massive cancellation spike, so your first 2-3 weeks are an imperative point of the lifecycle to show the value of your membership. If they don't see value immediately (and either don't use the content or don't understand the membership), they will cancel. This is why thinking about retention in your onboarding process is crucial!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Step 1 - Receive</strong></h3><p>Liz uses a simple 5-step framework that highlights the checkpoints every membership owner should consider when delivering a best-in-class, memorable onboarding experience.</p><p><br></p><p>The first step is <em>Receive</em>. This is all about making sure you're&nbsp;warmly welcoming your members through that initial email, where you include all the key information.</p><p><br></p><p>How much information is too much? Keep it as short as it can be but as long as it needs to be. Call out the key elements of the membership, like login details, weekly calls, learning sections, etc.</p><p><br></p><p>This is an important step because by reminding your members of the value of your membership, you counteract that buyer's remorse and cognitive dissonance that happens when people realise they’ve just spent money and start worrying they might not get the results they want. By delivering a great first email, you're 'reselling them' the membership, so they don't regret their purchase.</p><p><br></p><p>And on this note, be super clear on what your membership helps people with. <strong>People don’t want a programme that does a million different things. They want to be taken on a linear journey and achieve a tangible result.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Step 2 - Reveal</strong></h3><p>Get clear on what<em> one thing</em> you want to help your members achieve in the first 2-3 weeks of their membership. That first month is key to ensuring you're not haemorrhaging members so stop people from leaving because they're not getting what they need out of the membership.</p><p><br></p><p>This is where you identify a quick win - something tangible and measurable - that you can help people get in a short period of time and then hold their hand through that process. You can do this via two or three emails where you point them to right resources and encourage them to get involved in the membership and take action.</p><p><br></p><p>If you sell a membership that helps people achieve something that's not entirely measurable (like relationships or emotions) think of something your members can do in the first few weeks. It could be helping them ask one person on a date, for example. The aim here is to<strong> get your members to acknowledge, from a logical perspective, that they have achieved something tangible as a result of joining your membership</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>They haven’t reached the ultimate goal just yet. But in a short span of time they’ve got some value. And that's better than thinking three weeks have passed and they’ve done nothing with the membership.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So do some customer research and ask your members what they wanted to achieve when they joined the membership. And with that, think about the first step on that journey you can help them take in the first few weeks. Make it super easy and bite-sized because analysis paralysis is a real thing - if you give people too much, they will do nothing.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Step 3 - Refer</strong></h3><p>This is something a lot of memberships don't do. And it's asking new members to refer people who might benefit from the membership. The reason why Liz includes this in the onboarding programmes she helps clients with is because from a revenue perspective, having a referral scheme can be quite lucrative. It's an activity you can set up to run in the background, and it can gain you new members without any additional work.</p><p><br></p><p>Liz talks about two kinds of referral programmes:</p><ul><li>You can give people a percentage of the initial sale when they drive a new member into the membership.</li><li>Or, you can give a number of free months to both your existing member and the new person who joins.</li></ul><br/><p><br></p><p>By creating a mutual benefit (and specifically through giving the new person something for free), you're making it easier for your existing members to refer people to your membership. Because by offering a freebie to someone they don't feel like they’re selling to their friends!</p><p><br></p><p>Liz suggests you do this around week 3 and during the onboarding process because at this point members are still quite engaged and excited, and you want to retain them for as long as you can. But of course, you can also pepper in your referral programme throughout the lifecycle. You could even schedule a campaign every few months to send them a nudge. But that first month is a really great opportunity to drive people in.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Step 4 - Report</strong></h3><p>This is a touchpoint where you email your members at a specific point in the lifecycle - at day 25, for example. You send them an email and ask them how they're finding the membership. And you give them a couple of options (links) to choose from:</p><ol><li>"Loving it so far".</li><li>And, "Still getting up to speed”.</li></ol><br/><p><br></p><p>Depending on what they click, you then tag them and have a follow up email that corresponds to their answer. If they say they're loving it so far, brilliant! If it's a monthly member, that's a great opportunity to upsell to an annual membership. But if they say that they're still getting up to speed, this is an early indicator that someone isn't getting value from the membership yet, and it's a great opportunity for you to take that conversation off of automated and start manually engaging them to ask if there’s anything you can do to help them.</p><p><br></p><p>What this also helps with is seeing patterns. If you get the same sort of feedback a few times, you start building that in to help people automatically in the future so you can improve the customer experience for everyone.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Step 5 - Review</strong></h3><p>This happens around the day 31-32 mark, after they've been charged for their second month. At this point, you want to reach out and ask your members to leave a testimonial of their experience with the membership. You can even ask some additional questions to find out what's going well vs what you need to improve.</p><p><br></p><p>Keep this super short and simple. The real objective is to get testimonials you can use on your sales pages to drive new members into the membership.</p><p><br></p><p>Also, what's interesting from a psychology perspective here is that by giving you a testimonial, they’re technically selling your membership to somebody else. But by thinking through the process of what to say and then saying the words out loud, they resell themselves on the membership. Bonus!</p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>Liz’s favourite subject line comes from an email that was sent when she worked at Virgin. It was part of a cross-Virgin campaign going over 12 different Virgin companies, and the subject line read: “This message has been recalled by Richard Branson”. Liz said that <em>so many</em> people opened that email! And she's looking forward to using something similar in her business one day.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Liz</strong></h5><p>If you want to connect with Liz, you can find her on <a href="https://www.theretentionclub.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">her website</a> or on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lizbeadon/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a>.</p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/onboarding-emails-examples/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Onboarding Emails Examples for your Online Course</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/best-cart-abandonment-emails/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Best Cart Abandonment Emails with Chelsea Martinus from Black Girl Boss Collective</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/6-lessons-we-learned-from-launching-and-growing-our-membership-site/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">6 Lessons We Learned From Launching And Growing Our Membership Site</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>Want to write better emails? 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If you enjoyed this episode (all about why retention is important in your membership) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>leaving us a review </strong>on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes. And, you know what? We also get to be discovered by more awesome people like you!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/why-retention-is-important-for-memberships/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">e8e3d807-46af-4651-8ba4-19b275fca97a</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/0f8ec3c6-d897-41d3-bb4d-1ffac00cd845/Aq42mdeU4c9EqPaMQ3rm4N8b.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/19cd4847-16f8-4b6f-b0ce-c30932ac031a/final-111.mp3" length="23096267" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>27:26</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>111</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>111</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Stop Doing THIS In Your Email Marketing</title><itunes:title>Stop Doing THIS In Your Email Marketing</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>We see people follow bad email practices all the time. And you know what? Doing the stuff we're going to talk about here holds you back from doing better and more effective email marketing and getting the results you want in your business. So are you ready to find out what the top email marketing mistakes you're making (and stop doing these things... <em>yesterday</em>?!)</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(3:10) Our incredible Keap offer!</p><p>(6:16) Stop worrying about open rates.</p><p>(7:07) Why open rates are wrong.</p><p>(8:37) Stop using RE: or FW: in your subject lines.</p><p>(12:42) Stop making it difficult for people to unsubscribe from your list.</p><p>(14:16) Stop letting your subscribers down.</p><p>(16:00) Stop using misleading subject lines.</p><p>(17:13) Stop adding so many images to your emails.</p><p>(19:33) Why emails with lots of images have worse delivery.</p><p>(21:21) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Stop worrying about open rates</strong></h3><p>The first of the email marketing mistakes that a lot of people make is paying too much attention to open rates. Sure, this is a metric that all email marketing platforms share with you, and it's an obvious one to check.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>But that number is wrong.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>First of all, you probably assume that your open rate should be higher than it is. You see 34% and think it's rubbish, but actually, that's a really respectable open rate. So it's important to be realistic here.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>But most importantly, <strong>open rates cannot be tracked properly</strong>, so they're just plain wrong! Some Android devices are already blocking the ability to track open rates, which means your emails are showing us unopened when they probably aren't. And on Apple, they’re being shown as open even if they aren't.</p><p><br></p><p>As more and more platforms like Apple iPhone release privacy updates that block that tracking even more strictly, the open rate metric you're looking at gets less reliable by the day. And you can't be improving a wrong number!</p><p><br></p><p>So let's go with this - open rates don't matter. Because you can't track them and you can't measure them, you can't work on growing them! It's like trying to follow a map with a blindfold on - you can't see the map or your feet! So <em>pleeeeease</em> stop obsessing over open rates.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>(Oh, and by the way, yes you do want people to open your emails, read them, click on the link, and buy. So stick to the best practices that can help you improve your open rates. But forget about the number!)</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Stop using RE: or FW: in your subject lines</strong></h3><p>Okay, everyone needs to stop adding a fake RE: or FW: in subject lines to make it look like the email was a reply or it was forwarded when it clearly wasn't. These things are dodgy, scummy, and dishonest. And by far this is one of the biggest and more damaging email marketing mistakes we see people make.</p><p><br></p><p>You see, stuff like this might trick people into opening your emails, but please can we all stick to doing things that are effective and ethical?</p><p><br></p><p>Let's remember that you want people to open your emails because they see your name popping into their inbox, they know who you are and are excited to read what you have to say. When our subscribers see emails coming from <em>Rob//Email Marketing Heroes</em> they know it’s going to be a funny, interesting story with a valuable lesson (and an offer) in it.</p><p><br></p><p>So let's stop trying to build relationships with people based on bullshit. We want to get people excited, show value, and make sales. But we don't want to lie to them and make them feel ripped off. Because trying to trick your audience into thinking they're already in a conversation with you by mimicking a real, transactional email is the kind of stuff that creates resistance around buying stuff online - and specifically from emails. It's because of email marketing mistakes like these that, as marketers, we all have to work harder to make the sale. And if you're doing this because you see everyone else is, please, just STOP.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Of course, when it's a genuine response and you've started a real conversation with your subscribers, by all means, carry on. But don't place that RE: or FW: there intentionally to trick people into thinking something that isn't true. Not cool.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Stop making it difficult for people to unsubscribe</strong></h3><p>Years ago, you'd see people adding a huge amount of lines between the end of their email and the unsubscribe link that's automatically generated at the bottom of all your emails. And we see that some people are still doing that. Please stop. If you're doing this, it's one of those BIG email marketing mistakes you want to stop making.</p><p><br></p><p>If people want to unsubscribe from your emails, just make it easy for them. Because if you don't let them go, they're not going to suddenly start liking your emails! They'll only get annoyed. And then they'll hit the spam button. Or reply to you and shout down in the email. So <strong>you aren't winning anything by making it difficult for people to unsubscribe from your list</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>You want to make it hard for somebody to want to leave but make it easy for them to cancel once they're ready to. So <strong>put every bit of effort into making your email list an amazing place to be where people never want to unsubscribe</strong>. <strong>But when they do, just let them go.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Stop letting your subscribers down</strong></h3><p><strong>When somebody subscribes to your email list, you need to show up with the value you promised</strong>. A lot of people tell us that if they sent an email to their list every day their subscribers wouldn’t like it. But if someone has given you their email address to receive your emails and you don’t send them any, you’re letting them down!</p><p><br></p><p>If someone bought a product from you and you never sent it, that would be a scam! And it's the same thing with emails. Because <strong>emails are currency</strong>. They don't cost anything financially, but they cost our subscribers' attention, time, focus, and trust. This is what they give away when they give you their email address.</p><p><br></p><p>So in return, you need to <strong>treat their email address with respect and show up and do the thing you said you were going to do</strong>. Because if you don't - if you promised a weekly newsletter and keep missing your deadlines - every time you don't do what you said you would - you're losing trust. And subconsciously, that doesn't work well at all when you're trying to sell something! So, can you see this is one of those email marketing mistakes you don't want to be making?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Stop using misleading subject lines</strong></h3><p>We once got an email from someone that said, “My friend died of Covid”. But then the email went on to say the person wasn’t really their friend and they didn’t die. So at that point, as a reader, I feel like I've been hoodwinked. My emotional response is to feel let down by this person.</p><p><br></p><p>And you don't want that to be your reputation. You want quite the opposite, in fact! <strong>You want to surpass people’s expectations</strong> and make them think that their experience with us is even better than what they thought it was going to be.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Don't trick people and don't let them down. Instead, do amazing offer creation and come up with brilliant ways that are effective and convert. Come up with brilliant products and overdeliver. But never hoodwink people!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Stop adding so many images to your emails</strong></h3><p>Another thing we’d like people to stop doing is putting <em>so many</em> images in emails. When you add images, a few things happen both from a psychological perspective and from a technical perspective.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>From a psychological perspective, imagine you've got a new place, and your mum gave you this second-hand ‘awful’, ‘disgusting’ sofa, and you include a photo of it because it's somehow part of the story you're sharing in the email. Now, the problem with that is that once you've used those denigrative words to describe the sofa and then added a picture, anyone with a sofa like that or who likes that sofa feels automatically alienated by your email and by you as a person. You don't want that.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So a much better strategy is to<strong> paint a picture with your words</strong>. That way, the reader gets to <em>imagine</em> what the sofa looks like. You don’t see best-selling fiction authors add photos in their books, do you? Because when we paint the pictures with words, our readers allow themselves to grow that picture in their head. And that's powerful and less alienating.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Emails with lots of images have worse delivery</strong></h4><p>The other reason why you don't want to use too many images in an email is that you'll get a lower delivery rate. If you do everything else right, and you generally have good delivery and good list hygiene, an image won't hurt. But an email with lots of images will get lower delivery because it’s more difficult to deliver than a cleaner email without images. So with fewer images in your emails, you get better delivery and a better reputation. </p><p><br></p><p>Occasionally, we do put an image in our emails though. When we're sharing a video, for example, we'll add a screenshot or moving GIF to get more people to click and watch. What we're<em> not</em> doing (and we suggest you don't do either) is to litter the email with photos make it look like the new IKEA catalogue! <strong>The goal is to create streamlined emails that people can read quickly and that get good...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We see people follow bad email practices all the time. And you know what? Doing the stuff we're going to talk about here holds you back from doing better and more effective email marketing and getting the results you want in your business. So are you ready to find out what the top email marketing mistakes you're making (and stop doing these things... <em>yesterday</em>?!)</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(3:10) Our incredible Keap offer!</p><p>(6:16) Stop worrying about open rates.</p><p>(7:07) Why open rates are wrong.</p><p>(8:37) Stop using RE: or FW: in your subject lines.</p><p>(12:42) Stop making it difficult for people to unsubscribe from your list.</p><p>(14:16) Stop letting your subscribers down.</p><p>(16:00) Stop using misleading subject lines.</p><p>(17:13) Stop adding so many images to your emails.</p><p>(19:33) Why emails with lots of images have worse delivery.</p><p>(21:21) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Stop worrying about open rates</strong></h3><p>The first of the email marketing mistakes that a lot of people make is paying too much attention to open rates. Sure, this is a metric that all email marketing platforms share with you, and it's an obvious one to check.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>But that number is wrong.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>First of all, you probably assume that your open rate should be higher than it is. You see 34% and think it's rubbish, but actually, that's a really respectable open rate. So it's important to be realistic here.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>But most importantly, <strong>open rates cannot be tracked properly</strong>, so they're just plain wrong! Some Android devices are already blocking the ability to track open rates, which means your emails are showing us unopened when they probably aren't. And on Apple, they’re being shown as open even if they aren't.</p><p><br></p><p>As more and more platforms like Apple iPhone release privacy updates that block that tracking even more strictly, the open rate metric you're looking at gets less reliable by the day. And you can't be improving a wrong number!</p><p><br></p><p>So let's go with this - open rates don't matter. Because you can't track them and you can't measure them, you can't work on growing them! It's like trying to follow a map with a blindfold on - you can't see the map or your feet! So <em>pleeeeease</em> stop obsessing over open rates.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>(Oh, and by the way, yes you do want people to open your emails, read them, click on the link, and buy. So stick to the best practices that can help you improve your open rates. But forget about the number!)</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Stop using RE: or FW: in your subject lines</strong></h3><p>Okay, everyone needs to stop adding a fake RE: or FW: in subject lines to make it look like the email was a reply or it was forwarded when it clearly wasn't. These things are dodgy, scummy, and dishonest. And by far this is one of the biggest and more damaging email marketing mistakes we see people make.</p><p><br></p><p>You see, stuff like this might trick people into opening your emails, but please can we all stick to doing things that are effective and ethical?</p><p><br></p><p>Let's remember that you want people to open your emails because they see your name popping into their inbox, they know who you are and are excited to read what you have to say. When our subscribers see emails coming from <em>Rob//Email Marketing Heroes</em> they know it’s going to be a funny, interesting story with a valuable lesson (and an offer) in it.</p><p><br></p><p>So let's stop trying to build relationships with people based on bullshit. We want to get people excited, show value, and make sales. But we don't want to lie to them and make them feel ripped off. Because trying to trick your audience into thinking they're already in a conversation with you by mimicking a real, transactional email is the kind of stuff that creates resistance around buying stuff online - and specifically from emails. It's because of email marketing mistakes like these that, as marketers, we all have to work harder to make the sale. And if you're doing this because you see everyone else is, please, just STOP.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Of course, when it's a genuine response and you've started a real conversation with your subscribers, by all means, carry on. But don't place that RE: or FW: there intentionally to trick people into thinking something that isn't true. Not cool.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Stop making it difficult for people to unsubscribe</strong></h3><p>Years ago, you'd see people adding a huge amount of lines between the end of their email and the unsubscribe link that's automatically generated at the bottom of all your emails. And we see that some people are still doing that. Please stop. If you're doing this, it's one of those BIG email marketing mistakes you want to stop making.</p><p><br></p><p>If people want to unsubscribe from your emails, just make it easy for them. Because if you don't let them go, they're not going to suddenly start liking your emails! They'll only get annoyed. And then they'll hit the spam button. Or reply to you and shout down in the email. So <strong>you aren't winning anything by making it difficult for people to unsubscribe from your list</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>You want to make it hard for somebody to want to leave but make it easy for them to cancel once they're ready to. So <strong>put every bit of effort into making your email list an amazing place to be where people never want to unsubscribe</strong>. <strong>But when they do, just let them go.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Stop letting your subscribers down</strong></h3><p><strong>When somebody subscribes to your email list, you need to show up with the value you promised</strong>. A lot of people tell us that if they sent an email to their list every day their subscribers wouldn’t like it. But if someone has given you their email address to receive your emails and you don’t send them any, you’re letting them down!</p><p><br></p><p>If someone bought a product from you and you never sent it, that would be a scam! And it's the same thing with emails. Because <strong>emails are currency</strong>. They don't cost anything financially, but they cost our subscribers' attention, time, focus, and trust. This is what they give away when they give you their email address.</p><p><br></p><p>So in return, you need to <strong>treat their email address with respect and show up and do the thing you said you were going to do</strong>. Because if you don't - if you promised a weekly newsletter and keep missing your deadlines - every time you don't do what you said you would - you're losing trust. And subconsciously, that doesn't work well at all when you're trying to sell something! So, can you see this is one of those email marketing mistakes you don't want to be making?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Stop using misleading subject lines</strong></h3><p>We once got an email from someone that said, “My friend died of Covid”. But then the email went on to say the person wasn’t really their friend and they didn’t die. So at that point, as a reader, I feel like I've been hoodwinked. My emotional response is to feel let down by this person.</p><p><br></p><p>And you don't want that to be your reputation. You want quite the opposite, in fact! <strong>You want to surpass people’s expectations</strong> and make them think that their experience with us is even better than what they thought it was going to be.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Don't trick people and don't let them down. Instead, do amazing offer creation and come up with brilliant ways that are effective and convert. Come up with brilliant products and overdeliver. But never hoodwink people!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Stop adding so many images to your emails</strong></h3><p>Another thing we’d like people to stop doing is putting <em>so many</em> images in emails. When you add images, a few things happen both from a psychological perspective and from a technical perspective.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>From a psychological perspective, imagine you've got a new place, and your mum gave you this second-hand ‘awful’, ‘disgusting’ sofa, and you include a photo of it because it's somehow part of the story you're sharing in the email. Now, the problem with that is that once you've used those denigrative words to describe the sofa and then added a picture, anyone with a sofa like that or who likes that sofa feels automatically alienated by your email and by you as a person. You don't want that.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So a much better strategy is to<strong> paint a picture with your words</strong>. That way, the reader gets to <em>imagine</em> what the sofa looks like. You don’t see best-selling fiction authors add photos in their books, do you? Because when we paint the pictures with words, our readers allow themselves to grow that picture in their head. And that's powerful and less alienating.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Emails with lots of images have worse delivery</strong></h4><p>The other reason why you don't want to use too many images in an email is that you'll get a lower delivery rate. If you do everything else right, and you generally have good delivery and good list hygiene, an image won't hurt. But an email with lots of images will get lower delivery because it’s more difficult to deliver than a cleaner email without images. So with fewer images in your emails, you get better delivery and a better reputation. </p><p><br></p><p>Occasionally, we do put an image in our emails though. When we're sharing a video, for example, we'll add a screenshot or moving GIF to get more people to click and watch. What we're<em> not</em> doing (and we suggest you don't do either) is to litter the email with photos make it look like the new IKEA catalogue! <strong>The goal is to create streamlined emails that people can read quickly and that get good delivery.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject line is “A really sad phone call.” For us, this subject line treads the line of what's acceptable. Because what we're always looking to do with subject lines is to create something that has enough hype, intrigue, and curiosity. You want it to trigger a knee-jerk reaction that will make people want to open your email and read it. But at the same time, they don’t want to feel let down when they read it.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Now the first line in this email was, “Greg was a really lovely guy.” So that's a little preview line that helps get the email opened. Greg was a potential client we spoke to on the phone, and it turned out we couldn't help him with what he was looking for. And we ended up, sadly, turning him down as a client. That’s what the email was about. So aim to grab people’s attention but without making them feel hoodwinked. Got it?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/ios-change-email-marketing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How Will iOS 15 Change Email Marketing?</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/increase-your-email-open-rates-13-email-marketing-tips-to-stand-out-in-an-overcrowded-inbox/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Increase Your Email Open-Rates: 13 Email Subject Line Tips to Stand Out in An Overcrowded Inbox #2018.</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-get-a-60-email-open-rate-above-average-with-amy-perkins/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Get A 60% Email Open Rate – Above Average With Amy Perkins.</a></p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Grab our Keap offer</strong></h5><p>Want to take advantage of a fantastic deal for one of the best email marketing platforms on the planet? As sponsors of this show, <a href="https://keap.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Keap</a> are offering all our listeners a smashing deal for 3 months. Get Keap at half price, with no setup fee, and an extra 2,000 contacts <a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/keap/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">by clicking on this link</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about email marketing mistakes you need to stop making) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/avoid-email-marketing-mistakes/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">d5ab0cad-6000-41b6-abaf-42074b21191f</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/1a834d83-91bb-492c-8f34-ef8293855a53/VdWNIoyxlOheQJh-xQp89luv.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/1773e2c7-5a59-4a07-8f4f-f9c28bf2fc58/stop-doing-this-in-your-email-marketing-110.mp3" length="23708291" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>23:50</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>110</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>110</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How to Create Urgency For an Evergreen Membership or Course Without Product Launches</title><itunes:title>How to Create Urgency For an Evergreen Membership or Course Without Product Launches</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>We know that human beings buy based on urgency. That’s why sales like Black Friday do so well – because the sale is ending soon, and the opportunity is going away. But does urgency only work if you take a product off the market? What happens if you want to keep your membership or course open all the time and avoid the stress (and all the work) that comes with product launches?</p><p>We do that. Our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, is always open. And today we want to share some strategies to help you create urgency (and make those sales!) without closing the doors. </p><p>Ready to find out our best-kept secrets?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(3:55) Why we keep our membership open all the time.</p><p>(8:16) Use event-based marketing.</p><p>(10:42) Add a limited-time bonus.</p><p>(11:25) Increase the price.</p><p>(13:30) Include topical bonuses.</p><p>(15:06) Create personal urgency.</p><p>(18:00) Automate your email campaigns.</p><p>(20:10) Use the Complete Email Marketing strategy.</p><p>(22:30) How to fix the timing issue in your marketing. </p><p>(24:22) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Why do we keep our membership open all the time?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>In our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, we don’t do product launches. We don't open the cart for a few times a year and then close the doors again. We keep it open - it's an evergreen product.</p><p>Why do we do that?&nbsp;</p><p>Because, first of all, it helps take the pressure off doing proiduct launches a few times a year. But also, we strongly believe the reason we’re in business is to help people. Our customers have a problem, and we have the solution. And what would happen if people needed our help when we're closed? That's not very good, is it? Is it okay to tell people you can’t really help them right now because you only do so on your own agenda? In our book, it’s not okay. We don't like doing that because we’re genuinely here to help people <em>when they need help</em>.</p><p>But we know that people respond well to urgency. And if you don't do product launches at all and never close the doors to your course, programme, or membership, then what can you do?</p><p><strong>You need to make your marketing urgent.</strong></p><p>And here's how you can do that.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Use event-based marketing</strong></h3><p>The first thing you can do is something called <em>event-based marketing</em>. This means creating ‘events’ around your marketing. So you can run campaigns that take the customer on a journey for different types of events. Examples of this could be a 5-day free challenge or a virtual summit where you sell your product as part of it, or a <em>splinter offer</em>, where you take something out of your membership, for example, and sell it as a one-off thing.</p><p><br></p><p>Your job is to <strong>find interesting and different ways to wrap up your offer to create an event</strong>. So for example, if you're running a 5-day challenge, that has urgency built into it because it only runs for those 5 days. And if people miss it, they can’t join until you run it again. Does it mean that after the challenge is over, they won't be able to get into your membership or join your programme? Not at all. That stays open. But the challenge helps you create <em>momentum</em>. When people participate to the challenge, they follow your teachings and advice for 5 days and now feel like joining your programme is the next logical step.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Of course, there are many different ways to create urgency for your evergreen product through event-based marketing. We have over 20 campaigns that help us do this, and they're all available inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Add a limited-time bonus</strong></h3><p>Another strategy you can use is to add a limited-time bonus that you give to people who join before a certain date, for example. This could be a coaching session, an extra course, or some cheat sheets – your pick. The key is that these bonuses are only available for a limited time. This allows you to tap into the emotional response that human beings have to urgency. Because if your audience wants to grab this thing you're offering, they have to join by a certain deadline.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Increase the price over time&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Something we do in our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, is to increase the price once we hit certain milestones. We did that when we reached 100 members, for example. When we're about to hit a new milestone we email our list and let them know we're increasing our prices.</p><p>We then give them three days to join our membership at the existing price. And it works! It helps us create this momentum of urgency but <em>through our marketing</em>, rather than with product launches that mean periodically shutting the doors.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Include topical bonuses</strong></h3><p>The next thing you can do if you want to create urgency around your product without doing product launches is to include some topical extras (or bonuses) for people who join by a particular date.</p><p>We know someone who does this very successfully – they sell Canva templates for Instagram, and if you join before the end of any given month, you get some extra templates that are relevant for that month. Like a Halloween one in October, a Christmas one for December, or a Valentine’s Day for February. You get the gist.</p><p>So what could you offer your audience that's linked with a particular month or season or date?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Create personal urgency</strong></h3><p>There’s a specific type of urgency called <em>personal urgency</em>, which is a copywriting approach that asks your audience how long they’re prepared to keep struggling with something. You describe the problem and the situation your customers are struggling with right now and ask them how long can they wait to find a solution.</p><p><br></p><p>This allows you to show your audience that your offer is urgent <em>for them</em>&nbsp;(hence why it's called <em>personal</em> urgency). In this case, the urgency isn't time-bound. The key is that whatever you mention in your marketing is <em>emotional</em> for that person - it pulls at their heart strings. When you tap into their feelings of frustration at the problem they're experiencing, they will want to make a change. So people join your membership or course not because you're closing the doors with quarterly product launches, but because, with your marketing, you've made them aware of how something is urgent <em>for them</em>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Automate your email campaigns</strong></h3><p>Another strategy we use to create urgency is to automate email campaigns that run on a specific timeframe for each individual subscriber. So let’s say that someone who joins this month gets a cool bonus for free. We have a couple of campaigns inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> that do that – the Bribe Campaign and the Golden Cloak Campaign.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So if Derek joins our list today, he’ll go through the campaign, and the deadline will be dynamically generated for him with a countdown timer. This means that in the future Derek won’t get those emails. Then if Jessica joins next week, she'll go through the same campaign on her own timeframe but a week later than Derek did. And the deadline embedded in these campaigns becomes a powerful tool to create urgency for your evergreen product without the need for any stressful product launches.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3>The Complete Email Marketing Strategy&nbsp;</h3><p>This picture wouldn’t be full if we didn’t talk about the Complete Daily Email Strategy, which we also teach inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. It's about sending an email <em>of value</em> (that also makes an offer) to your list every day. But on top of all that, every 4-6 weeks we create some kind of event-based campaign – a bribe, a challenge, a webinar, or an online conference, for example. And what does that do? It mimics the experience of doing product launches without you having to actually do any.&nbsp;</p><p>The other thing it does is that it helps us get new waves of members. Because in any membership or online programme you're going to lose members and participants. Churn is inevitable. And that's fine. But you need to be topping people up faster than they're dropping off in order to grow your business. This is why we create these surge-type events every 4-6 weeks to get people excited and engaged.&nbsp;</p><p>And by having a combination of these two things (the daily emails and the 4-6 event-based campaigns), you also get to fix the one thing that marketing alone cannot fix. And that's timing.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>What do we mean by that? Sometimes an offer can be perfect for someone. But if the <em>timing</em> isn't right - if it's not right for them to join your programme <em>right now</em>, for whatever reason - then they won't buy. But by having the daily emails you're fixing that timing issue. How? Well, the moment someone is ready to buy, they will have received an email from you within the last 24 hours. And that means they'll have the link to buy your programme.</p><p><br></p><h3>Subject line of the week</h3><p>This week’s subject line of the week is “A Jack-in-the-Box from Amazon”, and the reason why Rob picked this for us is that it had a]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We know that human beings buy based on urgency. That’s why sales like Black Friday do so well – because the sale is ending soon, and the opportunity is going away. But does urgency only work if you take a product off the market? What happens if you want to keep your membership or course open all the time and avoid the stress (and all the work) that comes with product launches?</p><p>We do that. Our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, is always open. And today we want to share some strategies to help you create urgency (and make those sales!) without closing the doors. </p><p>Ready to find out our best-kept secrets?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(3:55) Why we keep our membership open all the time.</p><p>(8:16) Use event-based marketing.</p><p>(10:42) Add a limited-time bonus.</p><p>(11:25) Increase the price.</p><p>(13:30) Include topical bonuses.</p><p>(15:06) Create personal urgency.</p><p>(18:00) Automate your email campaigns.</p><p>(20:10) Use the Complete Email Marketing strategy.</p><p>(22:30) How to fix the timing issue in your marketing. </p><p>(24:22) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Why do we keep our membership open all the time?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>In our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, we don’t do product launches. We don't open the cart for a few times a year and then close the doors again. We keep it open - it's an evergreen product.</p><p>Why do we do that?&nbsp;</p><p>Because, first of all, it helps take the pressure off doing proiduct launches a few times a year. But also, we strongly believe the reason we’re in business is to help people. Our customers have a problem, and we have the solution. And what would happen if people needed our help when we're closed? That's not very good, is it? Is it okay to tell people you can’t really help them right now because you only do so on your own agenda? In our book, it’s not okay. We don't like doing that because we’re genuinely here to help people <em>when they need help</em>.</p><p>But we know that people respond well to urgency. And if you don't do product launches at all and never close the doors to your course, programme, or membership, then what can you do?</p><p><strong>You need to make your marketing urgent.</strong></p><p>And here's how you can do that.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Use event-based marketing</strong></h3><p>The first thing you can do is something called <em>event-based marketing</em>. This means creating ‘events’ around your marketing. So you can run campaigns that take the customer on a journey for different types of events. Examples of this could be a 5-day free challenge or a virtual summit where you sell your product as part of it, or a <em>splinter offer</em>, where you take something out of your membership, for example, and sell it as a one-off thing.</p><p><br></p><p>Your job is to <strong>find interesting and different ways to wrap up your offer to create an event</strong>. So for example, if you're running a 5-day challenge, that has urgency built into it because it only runs for those 5 days. And if people miss it, they can’t join until you run it again. Does it mean that after the challenge is over, they won't be able to get into your membership or join your programme? Not at all. That stays open. But the challenge helps you create <em>momentum</em>. When people participate to the challenge, they follow your teachings and advice for 5 days and now feel like joining your programme is the next logical step.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Of course, there are many different ways to create urgency for your evergreen product through event-based marketing. We have over 20 campaigns that help us do this, and they're all available inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Add a limited-time bonus</strong></h3><p>Another strategy you can use is to add a limited-time bonus that you give to people who join before a certain date, for example. This could be a coaching session, an extra course, or some cheat sheets – your pick. The key is that these bonuses are only available for a limited time. This allows you to tap into the emotional response that human beings have to urgency. Because if your audience wants to grab this thing you're offering, they have to join by a certain deadline.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Increase the price over time&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Something we do in our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, is to increase the price once we hit certain milestones. We did that when we reached 100 members, for example. When we're about to hit a new milestone we email our list and let them know we're increasing our prices.</p><p>We then give them three days to join our membership at the existing price. And it works! It helps us create this momentum of urgency but <em>through our marketing</em>, rather than with product launches that mean periodically shutting the doors.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Include topical bonuses</strong></h3><p>The next thing you can do if you want to create urgency around your product without doing product launches is to include some topical extras (or bonuses) for people who join by a particular date.</p><p>We know someone who does this very successfully – they sell Canva templates for Instagram, and if you join before the end of any given month, you get some extra templates that are relevant for that month. Like a Halloween one in October, a Christmas one for December, or a Valentine’s Day for February. You get the gist.</p><p>So what could you offer your audience that's linked with a particular month or season or date?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Create personal urgency</strong></h3><p>There’s a specific type of urgency called <em>personal urgency</em>, which is a copywriting approach that asks your audience how long they’re prepared to keep struggling with something. You describe the problem and the situation your customers are struggling with right now and ask them how long can they wait to find a solution.</p><p><br></p><p>This allows you to show your audience that your offer is urgent <em>for them</em>&nbsp;(hence why it's called <em>personal</em> urgency). In this case, the urgency isn't time-bound. The key is that whatever you mention in your marketing is <em>emotional</em> for that person - it pulls at their heart strings. When you tap into their feelings of frustration at the problem they're experiencing, they will want to make a change. So people join your membership or course not because you're closing the doors with quarterly product launches, but because, with your marketing, you've made them aware of how something is urgent <em>for them</em>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Automate your email campaigns</strong></h3><p>Another strategy we use to create urgency is to automate email campaigns that run on a specific timeframe for each individual subscriber. So let’s say that someone who joins this month gets a cool bonus for free. We have a couple of campaigns inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> that do that – the Bribe Campaign and the Golden Cloak Campaign.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So if Derek joins our list today, he’ll go through the campaign, and the deadline will be dynamically generated for him with a countdown timer. This means that in the future Derek won’t get those emails. Then if Jessica joins next week, she'll go through the same campaign on her own timeframe but a week later than Derek did. And the deadline embedded in these campaigns becomes a powerful tool to create urgency for your evergreen product without the need for any stressful product launches.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3>The Complete Email Marketing Strategy&nbsp;</h3><p>This picture wouldn’t be full if we didn’t talk about the Complete Daily Email Strategy, which we also teach inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. It's about sending an email <em>of value</em> (that also makes an offer) to your list every day. But on top of all that, every 4-6 weeks we create some kind of event-based campaign – a bribe, a challenge, a webinar, or an online conference, for example. And what does that do? It mimics the experience of doing product launches without you having to actually do any.&nbsp;</p><p>The other thing it does is that it helps us get new waves of members. Because in any membership or online programme you're going to lose members and participants. Churn is inevitable. And that's fine. But you need to be topping people up faster than they're dropping off in order to grow your business. This is why we create these surge-type events every 4-6 weeks to get people excited and engaged.&nbsp;</p><p>And by having a combination of these two things (the daily emails and the 4-6 event-based campaigns), you also get to fix the one thing that marketing alone cannot fix. And that's timing.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>What do we mean by that? Sometimes an offer can be perfect for someone. But if the <em>timing</em> isn't right - if it's not right for them to join your programme <em>right now</em>, for whatever reason - then they won't buy. But by having the daily emails you're fixing that timing issue. How? Well, the moment someone is ready to buy, they will have received an email from you within the last 24 hours. And that means they'll have the link to buy your programme.</p><p><br></p><h3>Subject line of the week</h3><p>This week’s subject line of the week is “A Jack-in-the-Box from Amazon”, and the reason why Rob picked this for us is that it had a distinctly higher open and click-through rate than we typically get. But we don’t think it was an amazing subject line. Nope. Not at all.</p><p><br></p><p>And yet, we’re calling it out because while it’s not a brilliant subject line, we firmly believe there’s a place where art meets science and science meets art. Meaning? That you can follow all the formulas and advice, but sometimes stuff won’t work. And some other times you can unexpectedly hit a home run with absolutely no explanation whatsoever. </p><p><br></p><p>This also shows how important it is to split test your subject lines (something that in this case we hadn't done). Always come up with two subject lines for the same email and run them against each other to see which one works best. You never know - the one you would have never picked as the best might actually give you the best open and click-through rates!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/creating-urgency/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Get People To Buy Your Product Now – 2 Ways To Create Urgency</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/7-reasons-to-email-during-your-launch/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">7 Sales Elements to Give You More Reasons To Email During Your Launch</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/limited-time-offers-say-no/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Say ‘No’ to Extending An Expired Offer</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/create-urgency-without-product-launches/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">2850a5da-367a-446d-90dd-ff8c040ea613</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/8ebc65be-0eaa-4768-b82c-ec1daa8ce780/bOJZDa5zOu-NpLZhPvV6_rGy.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/1136bfc7-a3b3-407e-9701-d0155379e5fc/109-final.mp3" length="26484803" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>26:55</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>109</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>109</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Time-saving tips for email marketing - how to eliminate distraction with Nir Eyal</title><itunes:title>Time-saving tips for email marketing - how to eliminate distraction with Nir Eyal</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>This week on the podcast we interviewed former Stanford marketing lecturer and best-selling author Nir Eyal. We invited Nir to share his extensive knowledge and some of the research he conducted to write his book, <em>Indistractable</em>, and our conversation led to some incredible time-saving tips for email marketing that you can also apply to your life and business.</p><p>So if you're struggling to find the time for email marketing (or anything that matters to you) and want to know how to eliminate distraction and finally get it done, THIS. IS.IT.</p><p>Ready for the penny to finally drop? Because honestly, this is <em>a-mazing </em>stuff! </p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(3:12) Did a member of the British Royal Family really hold a door open for Nir? </p><p>(6:41) What even is 'distraction'?</p><p>(11:38) What are the triggers that drive us to distraction? </p><p>(13:09) The 4 strategies to becoming indistractable.</p><p>(13:36) Why recognising and mastering internal triggers is important. </p><p>(15:42) Taking responsibility of your emotional states.</p><p>(19:00) Does accountability work?</p><p>(23:36) Do consequences and incentives matter? </p><p>(25:49) Why time-boxing is better than running your life on a to-do list. </p><p>(31:20) Subject line of the week with Nir Eyal.</p><h3><strong>What even is 'distraction'?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>When it comes to email marketing, one of the biggest things that stop course creators, membership owners, and coaches and consultant from getting it done is <em>time</em>. We say we'll get something done, but then we don't. Why don't we follow through? We claim we get distracted, but what even is 'distraction'?</p><p>Nir started us off by looking at the word <em>distraction</em> and its opposite, which is the word <em>traction</em>. Traction is any action that pulls you towards the things you do with intent and moves you closer to your values to help you become the kind of person you want to become.</p><p><br></p><p>So <em>dis</em>-traction is any action that pulls you further away from your values. <strong>Anything can be a distraction if it's not what you plan to do with your time</strong>. And yes, that includes those work-related things that make us feel we're being productive!</p><p><br></p><p>And according to Nir, this is <strong>the most dangerous form of distraction - the one that tricks you into prioritising the easy and the urgent at the expense of the important work you have to do to move your business, your career, and your life forward</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>This means that all the things that we typically call 'distracting' (like checking social media or playing a video game) can be <em>traction</em>, as long as we do them according to our values and schedules.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What are the triggers that drive us to distraction?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Nir explains there are two kinds of triggers:</p><ul><li><strong>External triggers.</strong> These at the 'calls to action' that come from our outside environment - the things that others ask us to do.</li><li><strong>Internal triggers.</strong> These are <em>uncomfortable emotional states</em> that we seek to escape from, like fearfulness, uncertainty, boredom, loneliness, stress, anxiety, etc.</li></ul><br/><p><br></p><p>People tend to blame external triggers for distraction. But did you know they only account for 10% of the time we get distracted? The other 90% of the time we get distracted because of something that happens inside of us - it's because of our internal triggers. <strong>When we experience uncomfortable emotional states we look for distractions to take our minds off them.</strong></p><p>Mind-blowing, right?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The 4 strategies to becoming indistractable</strong></h3><p>Nir explained there are 4 steps to becoming indistractable, and all of them need to be in place if you want them to work!</p><p><br></p><p>The 4 steps are:</p><ol><li>Mastering internal triggers.</li><li>Making time for traction.</li><li>Hacking back the external triggers in our environment.</li><li>Preventing distraction with pacts. This is where we use a pre-commitment device to stop us from getting distracted.</li></ol><br/><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why recognising and mastering internal triggers is important</strong></h3><p>So the first step to becoming indistractable is to master your internal triggers. That's because unless you know what to do when you experience emotional discomfort, you're always going to run away from those emotions and look for some form of distraction!</p><p><br></p><p>The truth is that social media (or whatever else we blame for getting distracted) isn't the root cause of distraction. <strong>The root cause of distraction has and will always be emotional discomfort</strong>. Why? Because <strong>discomfort is the source of all human motivation.</strong> Anything we do is because of our desire to escape discomfort, which is the core driver of every action.</p><p><br></p><p>And the mind-blowing truth is that there's nothing wrong with you! Getting distracted isn't a character flaw. It just means <strong>we haven't learnt to deal with discomfort in a way that moves us towards <em>traction</em> rather than <em>distraction</em>.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Taking responsibility of our emotional states</strong></h3><p>When it comes to distraction, people tend to categorise themselves in two different ways - you have the "Blamers" and the "Shamers". The "Blamers" tend to blame stuff outside themselves, like technology or the news. But these things can't really be blamed because distraction existed before them!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>The "Shamers", on the other hand, think there must be something wrong with them. They'll think they have a short attention span or aren't good at time management, for example. But these are just myths we make up about ourselves. And the more we do this, the more we actually conform to the perception we have of ourselves. The more we think there's something wrong with us, the more shame we feel (which is an uncomfortable emotional state) and the more distraction we go and seek! Frustrating, right?</p><p><br></p><p>So blaming and shaming don't work. Instead, <strong>we need to start taking responsibility for how we feel</strong>. We can't control our feelings and urges. They're as natural as sneezing! But what we <em>can</em> control is our we respond to them. It's all about learning what to do when we feel these uncomfortable emotional states, which are perfectly normal and healthy. It's about taking that emotional discomfort and using it as rocket fuel to propel us towards traction, rather than distraction.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Does accountability work?</strong></h3><p>We asked Nir about an accountability exercise we started inside our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, where we share all sorts of time-saving tips for email marketing. And we created a tool to help people stay accountable, but we noticed that not everyone was using it.</p><p><br></p><p>Nir explained that we used a very effective technique called a "pre-commitment device" to give people social accountability. This basically allows people to declare they’re going to do something so the other people in the group can hold them accountable. It’s a pact (a pre-commitment) - the one we used was a social one, but Nir explained that monetary ones are also very effective. (You might want to tune in and listen to the inspiring story of how Nir has been using a monetary pact to get himself into shape).</p><p><br></p><p>However, the reason our accountability exercise didn't work for each and every one of our members is that using pacts to stop us from getting distracted is only the last step in becoming indistractable. Essentially, <strong>we can't stop ourselves from getting distracted unless we know what it distracted us from</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>In other words, if something isn't in the calendar, we can't blame distraction if it doesn't get done! The right way to do this is to put a task in your diary (make time for traction) and <em>then</em> remove the external triggers in your environment. Only then, the social pact will work.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Do consequences and incentives matter?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Following on from Nir's explanation about pacts and how they work to keep people accountable, we asked about the correlation between the consequences of not doing something and the likelihood someone has of actually following through with the action. And Nir explained that the consequences you put in place have to be something that 'hurts you' (not in a physical way, of course!). And for him, that's burning money!</p><p><br></p><p>So the incentive has to be big enough. And to find an incentive that's big enough, you need to ask yourself if you really want this thing you said you're going to do? Do you really want to do email marketing? Do you really want to grow your email list and make money out of email marketing? Because if you do (if the stakes are high enough) then you will. And you'll be open to implementing any time-saving tips for email marketing we throw your way too!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why time-boxing is better than following to-do lists</strong></h3><p>Should you do the things with the biggest impact first, like a lot of people recommend? Nir said it's a technique that works for a lot of people, and if it works for you, then great. But if it doesn't, Nir recommends a technique called time-boxing, which works by setting a schedule in advance to make sure you have dedicated time for a specific activity (like your email marketing!).</p><p><br></p><p>To-do lists are great if you use them to write down stuff that's in your head. But, Nir says, <strong>you can't run your life on a to-do list.</strong> That's one of the worst things...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This week on the podcast we interviewed former Stanford marketing lecturer and best-selling author Nir Eyal. We invited Nir to share his extensive knowledge and some of the research he conducted to write his book, <em>Indistractable</em>, and our conversation led to some incredible time-saving tips for email marketing that you can also apply to your life and business.</p><p>So if you're struggling to find the time for email marketing (or anything that matters to you) and want to know how to eliminate distraction and finally get it done, THIS. IS.IT.</p><p>Ready for the penny to finally drop? Because honestly, this is <em>a-mazing </em>stuff! </p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(3:12) Did a member of the British Royal Family really hold a door open for Nir? </p><p>(6:41) What even is 'distraction'?</p><p>(11:38) What are the triggers that drive us to distraction? </p><p>(13:09) The 4 strategies to becoming indistractable.</p><p>(13:36) Why recognising and mastering internal triggers is important. </p><p>(15:42) Taking responsibility of your emotional states.</p><p>(19:00) Does accountability work?</p><p>(23:36) Do consequences and incentives matter? </p><p>(25:49) Why time-boxing is better than running your life on a to-do list. </p><p>(31:20) Subject line of the week with Nir Eyal.</p><h3><strong>What even is 'distraction'?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>When it comes to email marketing, one of the biggest things that stop course creators, membership owners, and coaches and consultant from getting it done is <em>time</em>. We say we'll get something done, but then we don't. Why don't we follow through? We claim we get distracted, but what even is 'distraction'?</p><p>Nir started us off by looking at the word <em>distraction</em> and its opposite, which is the word <em>traction</em>. Traction is any action that pulls you towards the things you do with intent and moves you closer to your values to help you become the kind of person you want to become.</p><p><br></p><p>So <em>dis</em>-traction is any action that pulls you further away from your values. <strong>Anything can be a distraction if it's not what you plan to do with your time</strong>. And yes, that includes those work-related things that make us feel we're being productive!</p><p><br></p><p>And according to Nir, this is <strong>the most dangerous form of distraction - the one that tricks you into prioritising the easy and the urgent at the expense of the important work you have to do to move your business, your career, and your life forward</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>This means that all the things that we typically call 'distracting' (like checking social media or playing a video game) can be <em>traction</em>, as long as we do them according to our values and schedules.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What are the triggers that drive us to distraction?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Nir explains there are two kinds of triggers:</p><ul><li><strong>External triggers.</strong> These at the 'calls to action' that come from our outside environment - the things that others ask us to do.</li><li><strong>Internal triggers.</strong> These are <em>uncomfortable emotional states</em> that we seek to escape from, like fearfulness, uncertainty, boredom, loneliness, stress, anxiety, etc.</li></ul><br/><p><br></p><p>People tend to blame external triggers for distraction. But did you know they only account for 10% of the time we get distracted? The other 90% of the time we get distracted because of something that happens inside of us - it's because of our internal triggers. <strong>When we experience uncomfortable emotional states we look for distractions to take our minds off them.</strong></p><p>Mind-blowing, right?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The 4 strategies to becoming indistractable</strong></h3><p>Nir explained there are 4 steps to becoming indistractable, and all of them need to be in place if you want them to work!</p><p><br></p><p>The 4 steps are:</p><ol><li>Mastering internal triggers.</li><li>Making time for traction.</li><li>Hacking back the external triggers in our environment.</li><li>Preventing distraction with pacts. This is where we use a pre-commitment device to stop us from getting distracted.</li></ol><br/><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why recognising and mastering internal triggers is important</strong></h3><p>So the first step to becoming indistractable is to master your internal triggers. That's because unless you know what to do when you experience emotional discomfort, you're always going to run away from those emotions and look for some form of distraction!</p><p><br></p><p>The truth is that social media (or whatever else we blame for getting distracted) isn't the root cause of distraction. <strong>The root cause of distraction has and will always be emotional discomfort</strong>. Why? Because <strong>discomfort is the source of all human motivation.</strong> Anything we do is because of our desire to escape discomfort, which is the core driver of every action.</p><p><br></p><p>And the mind-blowing truth is that there's nothing wrong with you! Getting distracted isn't a character flaw. It just means <strong>we haven't learnt to deal with discomfort in a way that moves us towards <em>traction</em> rather than <em>distraction</em>.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Taking responsibility of our emotional states</strong></h3><p>When it comes to distraction, people tend to categorise themselves in two different ways - you have the "Blamers" and the "Shamers". The "Blamers" tend to blame stuff outside themselves, like technology or the news. But these things can't really be blamed because distraction existed before them!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>The "Shamers", on the other hand, think there must be something wrong with them. They'll think they have a short attention span or aren't good at time management, for example. But these are just myths we make up about ourselves. And the more we do this, the more we actually conform to the perception we have of ourselves. The more we think there's something wrong with us, the more shame we feel (which is an uncomfortable emotional state) and the more distraction we go and seek! Frustrating, right?</p><p><br></p><p>So blaming and shaming don't work. Instead, <strong>we need to start taking responsibility for how we feel</strong>. We can't control our feelings and urges. They're as natural as sneezing! But what we <em>can</em> control is our we respond to them. It's all about learning what to do when we feel these uncomfortable emotional states, which are perfectly normal and healthy. It's about taking that emotional discomfort and using it as rocket fuel to propel us towards traction, rather than distraction.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Does accountability work?</strong></h3><p>We asked Nir about an accountability exercise we started inside our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, where we share all sorts of time-saving tips for email marketing. And we created a tool to help people stay accountable, but we noticed that not everyone was using it.</p><p><br></p><p>Nir explained that we used a very effective technique called a "pre-commitment device" to give people social accountability. This basically allows people to declare they’re going to do something so the other people in the group can hold them accountable. It’s a pact (a pre-commitment) - the one we used was a social one, but Nir explained that monetary ones are also very effective. (You might want to tune in and listen to the inspiring story of how Nir has been using a monetary pact to get himself into shape).</p><p><br></p><p>However, the reason our accountability exercise didn't work for each and every one of our members is that using pacts to stop us from getting distracted is only the last step in becoming indistractable. Essentially, <strong>we can't stop ourselves from getting distracted unless we know what it distracted us from</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>In other words, if something isn't in the calendar, we can't blame distraction if it doesn't get done! The right way to do this is to put a task in your diary (make time for traction) and <em>then</em> remove the external triggers in your environment. Only then, the social pact will work.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Do consequences and incentives matter?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Following on from Nir's explanation about pacts and how they work to keep people accountable, we asked about the correlation between the consequences of not doing something and the likelihood someone has of actually following through with the action. And Nir explained that the consequences you put in place have to be something that 'hurts you' (not in a physical way, of course!). And for him, that's burning money!</p><p><br></p><p>So the incentive has to be big enough. And to find an incentive that's big enough, you need to ask yourself if you really want this thing you said you're going to do? Do you really want to do email marketing? Do you really want to grow your email list and make money out of email marketing? Because if you do (if the stakes are high enough) then you will. And you'll be open to implementing any time-saving tips for email marketing we throw your way too!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why time-boxing is better than following to-do lists</strong></h3><p>Should you do the things with the biggest impact first, like a lot of people recommend? Nir said it's a technique that works for a lot of people, and if it works for you, then great. But if it doesn't, Nir recommends a technique called time-boxing, which works by setting a schedule in advance to make sure you have dedicated time for a specific activity (like your email marketing!).</p><p><br></p><p>To-do lists are great if you use them to write down stuff that's in your head. But, Nir says, <strong>you can't run your life on a to-do list.</strong> That's one of the worst things you can do for your personal productivity. Why? Because when you follow a to-do list you can feel busy and productive, but at the end of the day you'll always have stuff you haven't done. And that's because lists have no constraints - you can add more and more to them. And if you feel like a loser at the end of your day because you haven't done everything on your list, you'll just start blaming yourself! That makes you feel bad and seek distraction!</p><p><br></p><p>So what do you do instead? Make time for traction (and that's step 2 for becoming indistractable). The key is to <strong>decide when you're going to do something and then allocate a window in your calendar to do it</strong>. If you don't, you’re not forced to make any trade-offs.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Nir believes you shouldn't measure your productivity by how many boxes you tick off your to-do list. Instead, ask yourself if you stuck to a task for as long as you said you were going to, without any distractions. As it turns out, people who use time-boxing tend to be more productive than people who use the to-do list. And that’s because they consistently work without distraction.</p><p>So, who's going to set themselves a task to work on their email marketing for 30 minutes tomorrow?</p><p><br></p><h3>Subject line of the week with Nir Eyal</h3><p>This week we want to share a little bit of wisdom from Nir about subject lines, rather than a specific subject line he used. And that's because Nir believes that your relationship with your subscribers matters more than the words you use in your subject lines.</p><p><br></p><p>Are your subscribers receiving an email from someone they trust? Someone they're glad to hear from? Do you have credibility with your readers? If you've built a relationship based on trust and created the habit of interacting with them, then wordsmithing becomes less important because your subscribers will open your emails anyway.</p><p><br></p><p>Clever, right? And something to think about...</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Nir&nbsp;</strong></h5><p>If you want to connect with Nir, you can find him on <a href="https://www.nirandfar.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">his website</a> where you can also download a totally FREE 80-page workbook. And the book is called <a href="https://www.nirandfar.com/indistractable/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Indistractible: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/making-sales-with-email-marketing-faster/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Making Sales With Email Marketing, Faster</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/writing-subject-lines-without-using-formulas/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Writing Subject Lines Without Using Formulas</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-write-email-subject-lines-for-sales-emails-that-actually-work/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Write Email Subject Lines For Sales Emails (That Actually Work)</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>Want to write better emails? Come up with better content? Influence and move your readers to click and buy? Well, you can do that with this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books! They will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the&nbsp;survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We get to share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing by applying everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to eliminate distraction so you can implement amazing time-saving tips for email marketing) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>leaving us a review </strong>on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes. And, you know what? We also get to be discovered by more awesome people like you!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/time-saving-tips-for-email-marketing-no-distraction/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">87cd1415-4984-45d9-83c3-68e9942136f9</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/8d0c0de4-aee8-480d-91ae-47ef49ef80fb/Mca67fTH5VJRu0FNPfm9mT4U.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/8d8f5f35-42d9-4362-8135-4da5162cc771/108-final.mp3" length="32047619" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>33:50</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>108</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>108</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How to Pick an Email Automation System</title><itunes:title>How to Pick an Email Automation System</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>We get asked this question all the time. What's the best email automation system? How do you pick one? And you might be surprised, but there's not one single universal answer to this question!&nbsp;</p><p>So... want to know exactly what you need to do when you're looking for the best email marketing platform for your business?</p><p>Then check this out!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(4:02) What's an email automation system?</p><p>(5:45) Always get the best-in-class product for your budget.</p><p>(8:36) Pay now for the business you want to have in the future.</p><p>(11:40) Cost vs ROI.</p><p>(13:40) How to pick your email automation platform.</p><p>(13:59) Why you should try out a few email automation platforms.</p><p>(14:59) Check that the email automation system you want meets your needs.</p><p>(15:52) Pick the email platform you prefer.</p><p>(17:40) Our email automation system recommendations. </p><p>(19:00) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What is an email automation system?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>So first of all, what is an email automation system? Back in the day, they were called <em>autoresponders</em> - and some people still use the term. But in short, an email automation system is a platform that allows you to do clever stuff with your email list, like making decisions based on their behaviours or creating automated sequences of emails. Very handy!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Always get the best-in-class product for your budget</strong></h3><p>When it comes to any software platforms, you have to bear in mind that none of them will do <em>everything </em>you want them to do. We once almost switched to one of these all-in-one platforms that will host your membership site, allow you to deliver your programmes, do your appointment scheduling, your email marketing, etc. But in the end, we found the platform was mediocre at everything and made email marketing too difficult. So our policy is to <strong>get the best-in-class product that your budget will allow.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>For email marketing, we use what we think is the best-in-class for the budget we have. It has to meet certain requirements around list size and email automation, for example, but it also needs to meet our budget.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And we follow the same approach with all the other software products we use. So we always advise you <strong>choose the best you can afford</strong>. Because there are always going to be bigger and better things out there. But it doesn't mean they're right for you and your business.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Pay now for the business you want to have in the future</strong></h3><p>Here's something we swear by. <strong>Pay now for the business you intend to have in the future and remember that email marketing will get you the highest ROI.</strong> If you’re going to do email marketing&nbsp; seriously and put effort into it,&nbsp; it will make you money.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>The problem with <em>some</em> of the marketing platforms out there though is that they might lure you in with a free or super-cheap account. But once you get to 10k subscribers, hosting a list with them becomes more expensive. And moving platforms then is a real pain in the neck.</p><p><br></p><p>So the best thing you can possibly do is to commit to taking email marketing seriously <em>right now</em> and invest in it accordingly. Our top tip? <strong>Invest for the list you’re going to build </strong>and get an email platform that will be affordable then.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Cost vs ROI</strong></h3><p>This might surprise you, but we only have a list of 4,500 subscribers. It may be sound small, but we make about $500,000 from our list. So if our email automation platform costs us around $1,800 a year ($150 per month), we're still making a large ROI. In fact, we make on average&nbsp; $12 per subscriber per month (and that’s our EPSPM – or Earning per Subscriber per Month). And even if we made the industry standard average of $1 per subscriber per month, we’d still be making $54,000 a year from an annual investment of $1,800. And that's still huge!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So <strong>even if you have a small list, it’s not going to cost you the earth and sky to put them on a really good email automation platform</strong>. And that’s why we think you should never be worried about your email marketing bill. If you are, it’s only because you know you're not putting your all into your email marketing.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to pick your email automation system</strong></h3><p>Here's what you<em> don't</em> do. Don't go to a Facebook group and ask. Because any crowdsourced answer you get is going to be useless for you. Everyone will be talking about what their favourite platform is – what’s working for <em>them</em>. And that’s not necessarily what’s going to work for you and your particular situation.</p><p><br></p><p>So here’s what you do instead.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Try out a few email automation systems</strong></h3><p>The best thing to do is to take a one-month trial for the 3-5 platforms you think you might be interested in. Some of them offer a free trial, but even if they don’t, take the risk of paying for one month. Because trying a few upfront is going to make the process of choosing one faster. And it'll be less frustrating than having to move platforms later.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Also, look at how many subscribers you're expecting to have in 4-5 years’ time – because that’s the number of subscribers you need to price the monthly cost at. Remember that if you do email marketing properly (and listen to the show and apply the strategies we discuss, or, even better, if you join our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>) you’ll have no problems getting great results from your list.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Does the email automation system meet your needs?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>The next thing you want to check once you have your trial account is that it meets your requirements. Does it do what you want it to do?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Choose an activity and see how it works on each of the platforms. Can you easily put people into automations? Can you tag them and move them around in multiple automations at the same time? And if one of the platforms falls down at the first hurdle, then close the account because that platform is not for you.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Pick the email automation system you prefer</strong></h3><p>Then you want to see which ones you enjoy using. If any platform makes you want to throw your laptop out of the window, then it’s not right. Which one do you like best?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>The biggest difference between Active Campaign and Keap (formerly Infusionsoft), for example, is that the automation builder in Keap goes horizontally - you build things in a chain from left to right. Whereas Active Campaign goes vertically – from top to bottom - and you connect things going one underneath the other. And it’s only through using the platforms that you’ll realise what you prefer - what fits better with the way your brain naturally works. What you’re trying to do here is to <strong>reduce the amount of frictional resistance to doing email marketing by having tools that align with the way you naturally think.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>What might also help is to see if you have people around you who do something similar to you. Do they sell courses or a membership? Do they use this particular platform you're looking at? We see that most of our members in <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> use a handful of email systems. And any of those are great. So, in general, you want to <strong>make sure it’s a platform that others around you are using, rather than one that no one has ever heard about.</strong> That way when you have a question, you'll be able to get answers from real people, rather than digging around the forums.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Our email automation system recommendation</strong></h3><p>And if you really want our personal recommendation, if you’re a course creator, a membership site owner, or a coach or consultant, in our opinion, you should take a look at <strong>Keap</strong> (formerly known as Infusionsoft), <strong>Active Campaign</strong>, and <strong>ConvertKit</strong>. We’d recommend you take a trial on those, and if you know someone who uses them, maybe ask them if they can show you how you use them.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>And if you want to try out </strong><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/likes/keap-pro" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Keap, check out this amazing promotion</strong></a><strong>!</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject’s line of the week is “The 25-second advert”. And it was actually a really short email of only 10-15 lines. It was about the fact that Rob went on someone’s website and 25 seconds later, he’d left and gone to Facebook and saw the company's advert appear in his newsfeed.</p><p>The point of the email was that good marketing shouldn't take very long (25 seconds). And we think the subject line worked well because of its specificity and the curiosity it triggered. Interesting stuff, right?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-build-profitable-business/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Using Email Marketing to Build a Profitable Business – a Success Story from a Member of The League</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-automation-6-automations-you-should-have-in-your-business/" rel="noopener noreferrer"...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We get asked this question all the time. What's the best email automation system? How do you pick one? And you might be surprised, but there's not one single universal answer to this question!&nbsp;</p><p>So... want to know exactly what you need to do when you're looking for the best email marketing platform for your business?</p><p>Then check this out!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(4:02) What's an email automation system?</p><p>(5:45) Always get the best-in-class product for your budget.</p><p>(8:36) Pay now for the business you want to have in the future.</p><p>(11:40) Cost vs ROI.</p><p>(13:40) How to pick your email automation platform.</p><p>(13:59) Why you should try out a few email automation platforms.</p><p>(14:59) Check that the email automation system you want meets your needs.</p><p>(15:52) Pick the email platform you prefer.</p><p>(17:40) Our email automation system recommendations. </p><p>(19:00) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What is an email automation system?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>So first of all, what is an email automation system? Back in the day, they were called <em>autoresponders</em> - and some people still use the term. But in short, an email automation system is a platform that allows you to do clever stuff with your email list, like making decisions based on their behaviours or creating automated sequences of emails. Very handy!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Always get the best-in-class product for your budget</strong></h3><p>When it comes to any software platforms, you have to bear in mind that none of them will do <em>everything </em>you want them to do. We once almost switched to one of these all-in-one platforms that will host your membership site, allow you to deliver your programmes, do your appointment scheduling, your email marketing, etc. But in the end, we found the platform was mediocre at everything and made email marketing too difficult. So our policy is to <strong>get the best-in-class product that your budget will allow.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>For email marketing, we use what we think is the best-in-class for the budget we have. It has to meet certain requirements around list size and email automation, for example, but it also needs to meet our budget.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And we follow the same approach with all the other software products we use. So we always advise you <strong>choose the best you can afford</strong>. Because there are always going to be bigger and better things out there. But it doesn't mean they're right for you and your business.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Pay now for the business you want to have in the future</strong></h3><p>Here's something we swear by. <strong>Pay now for the business you intend to have in the future and remember that email marketing will get you the highest ROI.</strong> If you’re going to do email marketing&nbsp; seriously and put effort into it,&nbsp; it will make you money.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>The problem with <em>some</em> of the marketing platforms out there though is that they might lure you in with a free or super-cheap account. But once you get to 10k subscribers, hosting a list with them becomes more expensive. And moving platforms then is a real pain in the neck.</p><p><br></p><p>So the best thing you can possibly do is to commit to taking email marketing seriously <em>right now</em> and invest in it accordingly. Our top tip? <strong>Invest for the list you’re going to build </strong>and get an email platform that will be affordable then.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Cost vs ROI</strong></h3><p>This might surprise you, but we only have a list of 4,500 subscribers. It may be sound small, but we make about $500,000 from our list. So if our email automation platform costs us around $1,800 a year ($150 per month), we're still making a large ROI. In fact, we make on average&nbsp; $12 per subscriber per month (and that’s our EPSPM – or Earning per Subscriber per Month). And even if we made the industry standard average of $1 per subscriber per month, we’d still be making $54,000 a year from an annual investment of $1,800. And that's still huge!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So <strong>even if you have a small list, it’s not going to cost you the earth and sky to put them on a really good email automation platform</strong>. And that’s why we think you should never be worried about your email marketing bill. If you are, it’s only because you know you're not putting your all into your email marketing.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to pick your email automation system</strong></h3><p>Here's what you<em> don't</em> do. Don't go to a Facebook group and ask. Because any crowdsourced answer you get is going to be useless for you. Everyone will be talking about what their favourite platform is – what’s working for <em>them</em>. And that’s not necessarily what’s going to work for you and your particular situation.</p><p><br></p><p>So here’s what you do instead.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Try out a few email automation systems</strong></h3><p>The best thing to do is to take a one-month trial for the 3-5 platforms you think you might be interested in. Some of them offer a free trial, but even if they don’t, take the risk of paying for one month. Because trying a few upfront is going to make the process of choosing one faster. And it'll be less frustrating than having to move platforms later.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Also, look at how many subscribers you're expecting to have in 4-5 years’ time – because that’s the number of subscribers you need to price the monthly cost at. Remember that if you do email marketing properly (and listen to the show and apply the strategies we discuss, or, even better, if you join our membership <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>) you’ll have no problems getting great results from your list.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Does the email automation system meet your needs?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>The next thing you want to check once you have your trial account is that it meets your requirements. Does it do what you want it to do?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Choose an activity and see how it works on each of the platforms. Can you easily put people into automations? Can you tag them and move them around in multiple automations at the same time? And if one of the platforms falls down at the first hurdle, then close the account because that platform is not for you.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Pick the email automation system you prefer</strong></h3><p>Then you want to see which ones you enjoy using. If any platform makes you want to throw your laptop out of the window, then it’s not right. Which one do you like best?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>The biggest difference between Active Campaign and Keap (formerly Infusionsoft), for example, is that the automation builder in Keap goes horizontally - you build things in a chain from left to right. Whereas Active Campaign goes vertically – from top to bottom - and you connect things going one underneath the other. And it’s only through using the platforms that you’ll realise what you prefer - what fits better with the way your brain naturally works. What you’re trying to do here is to <strong>reduce the amount of frictional resistance to doing email marketing by having tools that align with the way you naturally think.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>What might also help is to see if you have people around you who do something similar to you. Do they sell courses or a membership? Do they use this particular platform you're looking at? We see that most of our members in <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> use a handful of email systems. And any of those are great. So, in general, you want to <strong>make sure it’s a platform that others around you are using, rather than one that no one has ever heard about.</strong> That way when you have a question, you'll be able to get answers from real people, rather than digging around the forums.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Our email automation system recommendation</strong></h3><p>And if you really want our personal recommendation, if you’re a course creator, a membership site owner, or a coach or consultant, in our opinion, you should take a look at <strong>Keap</strong> (formerly known as Infusionsoft), <strong>Active Campaign</strong>, and <strong>ConvertKit</strong>. We’d recommend you take a trial on those, and if you know someone who uses them, maybe ask them if they can show you how you use them.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>And if you want to try out </strong><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/likes/keap-pro" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Keap, check out this amazing promotion</strong></a><strong>!</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject’s line of the week is “The 25-second advert”. And it was actually a really short email of only 10-15 lines. It was about the fact that Rob went on someone’s website and 25 seconds later, he’d left and gone to Facebook and saw the company's advert appear in his newsfeed.</p><p>The point of the email was that good marketing shouldn't take very long (25 seconds). And we think the subject line worked well because of its specificity and the curiosity it triggered. Interesting stuff, right?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-build-profitable-business/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Using Email Marketing to Build a Profitable Business – a Success Story from a Member of The League</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-automation-6-automations-you-should-have-in-your-business/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Automation – 6 Automations You Should Have In Your Business</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/amplify-email-campaigns-clate-mask/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to amplify email campaigns, Clate Mask from Keap spills the beans</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5><br></h5><h5><br></h5><p><br></p><p><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></p><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to pick an email automation system) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/pick-email-automation-system/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">5239f2e2-dca6-42a0-814f-2598e6cd3366</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/31f61d46-5d95-4e91-874b-c6bf425c7c57/jFop_I-wdTYC4WiTz0uoUlQj.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/0590fab0-eb2e-45d0-9861-5c67eda173aa/how-to-pick-an-email-automation-system.mp3" length="21340979" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>21:13</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>107</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>107</podcast:episode></item><item><title>The Best Cart Abandonment Emails with Chelsea Martinus from Black Girl Boss Collective</title><itunes:title>The Best Cart Abandonment Emails with Chelsea Martinus from Black Girl Boss Collective</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Do you find the idea of email automation daunting? Well, you shouldn't! Because the right email campaigns can help you get awesome results in your business. This week on the podcast we chatted to Chelsea Martinus from Black Girl Boss Collective, who shared the best cart abandonment emails and tips to help you retarget your audience and increase your sales.</p><p>Ready to find out Chelsea's best-kept secrets?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(3:46) Does Chelsea really watch the same three movies every New Year's Eve? </p><p>(7:45) What is email automation?</p><p>(9:46) Email marketing isn't something you do TO your subscribers. </p><p>(11:35) What is a retargeting sequence?</p><p>(13:20) What can an abandoned cart email sequence do for your and your subscribers? </p><p>(16:18) Why timeliness is important in abandoned cart emails. </p><p>(17:22) Why you need to personalise your email campaigns.</p><p>(18:35) Why you want to 'nudge' your subscribers. </p><p>(19:50) How to create the best cart abandonment emails for each of your products.</p><p>(23:05) Subject line of the week with Chelsea Martinus. </p><h3><strong>What is email automation?</strong></h3><p>For Chelsea, <strong>automation is the key to a seamless client journey</strong>. When you're looking to connect with people who are a great fit for your community, you're not just sending them emails to convince them to buy, right? (<em>Right?</em>)</p><p><strong>Email marketing is a way of creating a connection with your audience.</strong> And the easiest way to do that is through automation.</p><p>Why?</p><p>Because email automation helps you foster a relationship with your subscribers and connect with them in a way that's authentic. It also helps you produce high-quality content that will get them to reach their goals.</p><p>In other words, <strong>email automation allows you to build relationships that surpass a transaction and the exchange of money for services and goods</strong>. You can use email automation to let your community know they're not alone. This is you showing them they have someone in their corner they can turn to when they don’t know what to do in a particular area of their business or life.</p><p>Have we convinced you about the benefits yet?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Email marketing isn't something you do TO your subscribers</strong></h3><p>Unfortunately, a lot of people think of email marketing as a thing they do <em>TO</em> their subscribers. But it's not like that at all! It's about the subscribers’ journey and their path through your email system - that's the big difference. Creating automated campaigns allows you to take<em> all</em> your customers on the same journey. Isn't that amazing?</p><p><br></p><p>And the key to achieve this is to <strong>make your emails <em>so good</em> that your subscribers will want to be on our list because they're genuinely looking forward to our emails</strong>, rather than being there because they downloaded a cool lead magnet once.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What is a retargeting sequence?</strong></h3><p>A retargeting sequence is a campaign that gets sent when a subscriber has clicked on a product but hasn't bought it yet. We have a specific email sequence about this that we teach inside our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. We call it the Tell Me More sequence, and as Chelsea put it, it's probably one of the most underrated email automation campaigns for service providers. Because a lot of people think the automation stops when the subscriber buys. Or when they don’t. And that's not quite the case.</p><p><br></p><p>Chelsea explains that if you're running a campaign and presenting an offer you believe in – one that’s going to help people solve problems - then you need to take a moment to <em>re-engage</em> and<em> retarget</em> those people. Chelsea refers to these campaigns as <em>retargeting sequences</em> or <em>click sequences</em>. If you work in e-commerce, you've probably heard the phrase <em>abandoned cart sequence</em>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What can an abandoned cart email sequence do for your business?</strong></h3><p>Your retargeting&nbsp; (or abandoned cart) campaign allows you to check in with any subscribers who clicked on your link but didn't buy. Do they have any questions? Why didn't they go ahead and purchase? Asking these types of questions gives you the chance to receive immediate feedback as to why your subscribers didn't buy. And it might be a very simple reason you can go and fix straight away - like the fact the link didn't work!</p><p><br></p><p>But you asking questions works for your prospective customers too because it gives them a sense of security. It lets them know that for you this purchase is not all about the money. <strong>You're showing your subscribers that you care about what they think and what's important to them.</strong> And you're giving them an opportunity to get all their burning questions answered.</p><p><br></p><p>We need to remember that email marketing is about people! And everyone's different - they're in different situations, in different stages of their journey, and have different questions. In an effort to re-engage your audience and answer some of those quesetions you can offer a free call, for example.&nbsp; This adds another important layer of relationship building. And it gives a little extra touch to let your subscribers know there's a real person behind those emails who cares about them and their success. You getting in touch might give them the reassurance they need to go ahead and make the investment.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What are some of the essential elements of an abandoned cart email campaign?</strong></h3><h4><strong>Timeliness</strong></h4><p>When it comes to retargeting campaigns, the first to think about (Chelsea says) is <em>timeliness</em>. When will you be sending these emails? Chelsea recommends leaving at least one day from the moment a subscriber has opened her email and clicked on a link (but didn’t buy).</p><p>Why?</p><p>Because you want to give people some time to think about the offer. But at the same time, you don't want to leave it too long - you definitely want to send them a reminder before they've forgotten all about it. Or before the offer expires!</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Personalisation</strong></h4><p>The second element to consider is personalisation – for the subscriber and for yourself. When creating email campaigns, make sure you use the subscriber’s name if available. You also want to call out those specific issues they have expressed or that you know your offer will be solving.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Add a personal touch to your emails by using the language and phrases you normally use.</strong> If you were trying to reassure someone and make them feel better in real life, what would you say? What type of language would you use? You want to infuse all that in your emails. Make it personable. Let your personality fly.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>'Nudging'</strong></h4><p>And finally, retargeting campaigns give your subscribers a ‘nudge’. After all, if someone’s looking to make an investment, they might not buy the first time they go on the site. They might consider it for a while or ask for recommendations from others they trust before making a decision. And sometimes people need a little nudge.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Your retargeting sequence is a way to let your prospective customers know that your offer is the right investment for them to make.</strong> It's going to solve their problem. So it's about providing the reassurance to go ahead.</p><p><br></p><p>Proof of the fact that retargeting sequences are hugely effective is that Amazon does it. If you’ve added something to your cart but haven’t purchased yet, they nudge you with an email to remind you the product is still in your cart. And if Amazon does it, why shouldn't we all?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to create best cart abandonment emails for each of your products</strong></h3><p>If you’re selling more than one product, a great way to handle retargeting sequences for each of your products is to add filters. This allows you to make sure you're not sending multiple retargeting campaigns to the same subscriber for different products at the same time.</p><p><br></p><p>Chelsea's strategy is to offer one product at any given time though. This way she know she's always sending the right information to the right people. Would this work for you? Could you cut down on the number of offers you have at any given time?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>If not (and if you're going to run multiple offers at the same time to create different revenue streams), it’s important to <strong>create a separate re-targeting sequence for each offer</strong>. And if that means your subscribers might get multiple emails, then Chelsea suggests you focus on the most important offer at the time and filter your subscribers in such a way they don’t receive emails about each of your products. </p><p><br></p><p>This helps you keep things easier and more streamlined and creates a better experience for your prospective customers. <strong>You don’t want your offers to compete with each other for your customers’ attention!</strong> In fact, you'd be sending out a series of potentially competing messages which would just confuse your audience.</p><p><br></p><h3>Subject line of the week with Chelsea Martinus</h3><p>Chelsea’s choice of subject line of the week is “RE: your delivery”. It's one she received as a subscriber that stayed with her because it worked. She often thinks about how effective it was in prompting her to open the email, even though she hadn’t ordered anything! So whenever she writes subject lines, that’s the one she keeps top of mind as an example because to her it was just genius.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you find the idea of email automation daunting? Well, you shouldn't! Because the right email campaigns can help you get awesome results in your business. This week on the podcast we chatted to Chelsea Martinus from Black Girl Boss Collective, who shared the best cart abandonment emails and tips to help you retarget your audience and increase your sales.</p><p>Ready to find out Chelsea's best-kept secrets?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(3:46) Does Chelsea really watch the same three movies every New Year's Eve? </p><p>(7:45) What is email automation?</p><p>(9:46) Email marketing isn't something you do TO your subscribers. </p><p>(11:35) What is a retargeting sequence?</p><p>(13:20) What can an abandoned cart email sequence do for your and your subscribers? </p><p>(16:18) Why timeliness is important in abandoned cart emails. </p><p>(17:22) Why you need to personalise your email campaigns.</p><p>(18:35) Why you want to 'nudge' your subscribers. </p><p>(19:50) How to create the best cart abandonment emails for each of your products.</p><p>(23:05) Subject line of the week with Chelsea Martinus. </p><h3><strong>What is email automation?</strong></h3><p>For Chelsea, <strong>automation is the key to a seamless client journey</strong>. When you're looking to connect with people who are a great fit for your community, you're not just sending them emails to convince them to buy, right? (<em>Right?</em>)</p><p><strong>Email marketing is a way of creating a connection with your audience.</strong> And the easiest way to do that is through automation.</p><p>Why?</p><p>Because email automation helps you foster a relationship with your subscribers and connect with them in a way that's authentic. It also helps you produce high-quality content that will get them to reach their goals.</p><p>In other words, <strong>email automation allows you to build relationships that surpass a transaction and the exchange of money for services and goods</strong>. You can use email automation to let your community know they're not alone. This is you showing them they have someone in their corner they can turn to when they don’t know what to do in a particular area of their business or life.</p><p>Have we convinced you about the benefits yet?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Email marketing isn't something you do TO your subscribers</strong></h3><p>Unfortunately, a lot of people think of email marketing as a thing they do <em>TO</em> their subscribers. But it's not like that at all! It's about the subscribers’ journey and their path through your email system - that's the big difference. Creating automated campaigns allows you to take<em> all</em> your customers on the same journey. Isn't that amazing?</p><p><br></p><p>And the key to achieve this is to <strong>make your emails <em>so good</em> that your subscribers will want to be on our list because they're genuinely looking forward to our emails</strong>, rather than being there because they downloaded a cool lead magnet once.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What is a retargeting sequence?</strong></h3><p>A retargeting sequence is a campaign that gets sent when a subscriber has clicked on a product but hasn't bought it yet. We have a specific email sequence about this that we teach inside our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. We call it the Tell Me More sequence, and as Chelsea put it, it's probably one of the most underrated email automation campaigns for service providers. Because a lot of people think the automation stops when the subscriber buys. Or when they don’t. And that's not quite the case.</p><p><br></p><p>Chelsea explains that if you're running a campaign and presenting an offer you believe in – one that’s going to help people solve problems - then you need to take a moment to <em>re-engage</em> and<em> retarget</em> those people. Chelsea refers to these campaigns as <em>retargeting sequences</em> or <em>click sequences</em>. If you work in e-commerce, you've probably heard the phrase <em>abandoned cart sequence</em>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What can an abandoned cart email sequence do for your business?</strong></h3><p>Your retargeting&nbsp; (or abandoned cart) campaign allows you to check in with any subscribers who clicked on your link but didn't buy. Do they have any questions? Why didn't they go ahead and purchase? Asking these types of questions gives you the chance to receive immediate feedback as to why your subscribers didn't buy. And it might be a very simple reason you can go and fix straight away - like the fact the link didn't work!</p><p><br></p><p>But you asking questions works for your prospective customers too because it gives them a sense of security. It lets them know that for you this purchase is not all about the money. <strong>You're showing your subscribers that you care about what they think and what's important to them.</strong> And you're giving them an opportunity to get all their burning questions answered.</p><p><br></p><p>We need to remember that email marketing is about people! And everyone's different - they're in different situations, in different stages of their journey, and have different questions. In an effort to re-engage your audience and answer some of those quesetions you can offer a free call, for example.&nbsp; This adds another important layer of relationship building. And it gives a little extra touch to let your subscribers know there's a real person behind those emails who cares about them and their success. You getting in touch might give them the reassurance they need to go ahead and make the investment.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What are some of the essential elements of an abandoned cart email campaign?</strong></h3><h4><strong>Timeliness</strong></h4><p>When it comes to retargeting campaigns, the first to think about (Chelsea says) is <em>timeliness</em>. When will you be sending these emails? Chelsea recommends leaving at least one day from the moment a subscriber has opened her email and clicked on a link (but didn’t buy).</p><p>Why?</p><p>Because you want to give people some time to think about the offer. But at the same time, you don't want to leave it too long - you definitely want to send them a reminder before they've forgotten all about it. Or before the offer expires!</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Personalisation</strong></h4><p>The second element to consider is personalisation – for the subscriber and for yourself. When creating email campaigns, make sure you use the subscriber’s name if available. You also want to call out those specific issues they have expressed or that you know your offer will be solving.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Add a personal touch to your emails by using the language and phrases you normally use.</strong> If you were trying to reassure someone and make them feel better in real life, what would you say? What type of language would you use? You want to infuse all that in your emails. Make it personable. Let your personality fly.</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>'Nudging'</strong></h4><p>And finally, retargeting campaigns give your subscribers a ‘nudge’. After all, if someone’s looking to make an investment, they might not buy the first time they go on the site. They might consider it for a while or ask for recommendations from others they trust before making a decision. And sometimes people need a little nudge.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Your retargeting sequence is a way to let your prospective customers know that your offer is the right investment for them to make.</strong> It's going to solve their problem. So it's about providing the reassurance to go ahead.</p><p><br></p><p>Proof of the fact that retargeting sequences are hugely effective is that Amazon does it. If you’ve added something to your cart but haven’t purchased yet, they nudge you with an email to remind you the product is still in your cart. And if Amazon does it, why shouldn't we all?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to create best cart abandonment emails for each of your products</strong></h3><p>If you’re selling more than one product, a great way to handle retargeting sequences for each of your products is to add filters. This allows you to make sure you're not sending multiple retargeting campaigns to the same subscriber for different products at the same time.</p><p><br></p><p>Chelsea's strategy is to offer one product at any given time though. This way she know she's always sending the right information to the right people. Would this work for you? Could you cut down on the number of offers you have at any given time?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>If not (and if you're going to run multiple offers at the same time to create different revenue streams), it’s important to <strong>create a separate re-targeting sequence for each offer</strong>. And if that means your subscribers might get multiple emails, then Chelsea suggests you focus on the most important offer at the time and filter your subscribers in such a way they don’t receive emails about each of your products. </p><p><br></p><p>This helps you keep things easier and more streamlined and creates a better experience for your prospective customers. <strong>You don’t want your offers to compete with each other for your customers’ attention!</strong> In fact, you'd be sending out a series of potentially competing messages which would just confuse your audience.</p><p><br></p><h3>Subject line of the week with Chelsea Martinus</h3><p>Chelsea’s choice of subject line of the week is “RE: your delivery”. It's one she received as a subscriber that stayed with her because it worked. She often thinks about how effective it was in prompting her to open the email, even though she hadn’t ordered anything! So whenever she writes subject lines, that’s the one she keeps top of mind as an example because to her it was just genius.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Chelsea</strong></h5><p>Chelsea helps Black women business owners to automate their email marketing so they can build communities and make more sales online. You can find Chelsea on her <a href="https://www.blackgirlbosscollective.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">website</a>, on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/blackgirlbossco/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/blackgirlbossco" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0FGIDLgUfZl_Yj8uB8BmVw" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">YouTube</a>. And <a href="https://blackgirlbossco.com/links" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here’s the link to join Chelsea’s email list</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-automation-6-automations-you-should-have-in-your-business/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Automation – 6 Automations You Should Have In Your Business</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-build-profitable-business/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Using Email Marketing to Build a Profitable Business – a Success Story from a Member of The League</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/amplify-email-campaigns-clate-mask/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to amplify email campaigns, Clate Mask from Keap spills the beans</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>Want to write better emails? Come up with better content? Influence and move your readers to click and buy? Well, you can do that with this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books! They will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the&nbsp;<strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We get to share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing by applying everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about best cart abandonment emails) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>leaving us a review </strong>on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes. And, you know what? We also get to be discovered by more awesome people like you!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/best-cart-abandonment-emails/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">892bc55d-8076-4365-87f4-e1706cc81eed</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/5eb52446-ce19-4353-b530-8a522e86f60f/kP4LdTfEySThqpBKbsugRr-p.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/094e80b2-53e8-4d7b-aa44-d5b121784a43/final.mp3" length="24542915" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>26:22</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>106</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>106</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Onboarding Emails Examples for your Online Course</title><itunes:title>Onboarding Emails Examples for your Online Course</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>This week on the podcast we're talking about onboarding emails examples. Are you a course creator? Do you have an onboarding sequence? Or is it just one of those things that get pushed to the side at the end of a busy launch? </p><p>Well, if you want to find out exactly how to use your onboarding emails to wow your customers, turn them into fans, and make more sales, we've got your back!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(3:23) What are onboarding emails?</p><p>(4:30) Use onboarding emails to show the value of your product.</p><p>(5:52) How to counteract buyer's remorse.</p><p>(8:52) How onboarding emails help you build trust with your customers.</p><p>(10:16) A sneak peak into our own onboarding emails.</p><p>(13:00) How to use onboarding emails to hightlight the most foundational pieces of your course.</p><p>(16:45) How to use the onboarding sequence to set the expectation there's more to learn from you.</p><p>(18:43) How to make sure your onboarding sequence reflects the style and framework of your other emails.</p><p>(20:44) Don't confuse your onboarding sequence with your welcome sequence. </p><p>(23:12) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>What are onboarding emails?</strong></h3><p>Onboarding emails are those emails you send to someone who's bought your online course or product. Why are we talking about onboarding email examples today? Because we know what it's like to launch something new. There's so much work that goes into it that often the part that follows the sale gets overlooked and forgotten.&nbsp;</p><p>But onboarding emails are important. And you want to be doing a little more than just thanking your customer for buying the product and giving them the username and password to access it.&nbsp;</p><p>So here are a few things that your onboarding emails can help you do.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>Show the value of your product</strong></h3><p>The very first thing onboarding emails allow you to do is to <strong>encourage your customers to look at the value of the product they bought from you</strong>. With these emails, you want to prompt people to take action and consume the content you've painstakingly put together. Because of course, you want them to get the results you promised them, right?&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>Counteract buyer's remorse</strong></h3><p>Another reason why onboarding emails matter is because they help you counteract buyer's remorse. I'm sure this has happened to you - you bought a product or downloaded a lead magnet, and when you did you felt excited.</p><p><br></p><p>But then at some point remorse kicks in. You worry that for some reason you've made a bad decision and wasted your time or your money. Maybe you shouldn't have bought the thing in the first place. You've been there and felt like that, right?</p><p><br></p><p>So this is where your onboardg email sequence comes in. You've got to <strong>use your onboarding emails to get your customers excited about their purchase</strong>. Why? Because this is your chance to reassure them they made a good decision, and <em>sell</em> them your product once again.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>You can do this by talking about the transformation they'll experience and the results they'll finally achieve. You can show them testimonials and case studies of people just like them. Because this helps you reinforce your subconscious reputation with that buyer and helps them see how they’re now closer to the outcome they want. Your job is to show them they made a great decision!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Build trust with your customers</strong></h3><p>Another reason why we swear by onboarding emails (and we want to share some onboarding emails examples with you) is that they help your customers <strong>build trust with you and your business</strong>. By sending out emails after they bought from you, you show your customers you want them to succeed. A lot of business owners will sell something and then move on to the next thing. And there’s nothing wrong with that inherently, but it’s also important to make your customers looked after.</p><p><br></p><p>Show them that you're not just about getting their money and leaving them to themselves. You put together the best content in this course and now you want them to use it and get the results. Because let’s face it – when people buy online courses, a lot of the accountability is on them. If they don't consume the content and implement the strategies you teach them, they won't get results. But you can (and should) definitely still play a part in this process by encouraging them to use your product.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Some onboarding emails examples</strong></h3><p>For example, when people join our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, we send them a detailed email showing them how to access it. We don’t just give them the URL, username, and password - we also include an animated GIF of where they go and click into the Members area. Because even if people haven’t accessed the content yet, we still want them to feel like they've already received value from it.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Similarly, if you opt-in for one of our <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">free lead magnets</a>, we send you an email with the username and password with an animated GIF that shows the screen recording of a user accessing the resource. We do this because we want people to be able to access the content we promised them and do it easily. This is a critical piece of your relationship with your customer. They’ve given you their email address or their money, so don't make it difficult for them!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Highlight the most foundational pieces of content&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Your onboarding emails will also help you highlight what you think is important for your customers to know right now and explain what it will do for them. When you sold them the course, you sold them the benefits and the transformation, so now you want to give them clarity on what to do. Now they have the course, you can be more granular and detailed in your explanations. You can pull out the particular lessons you think are important. <strong>Now you get to sell to them from the inside.</strong> Before you could only say what the course looked like and what it would do for them without giving away too much. But now you can be more specific.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And it's important you do this because you can't leave your students to decide what parts of the course are the most foundational - they're not qualified to do that. They might go for the shiny parts that seem the most interesting and resonate with them the most right now, but that might be different for everyone. So it's up to you, as the course creator, to point to what's important. And don't forget to explain why. Because psychologically, anytime you communicate something, you have to give them the reasons why, or what you say will never resonate with them.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Set the expectation that there’s more to learn from you</strong></h3><p>Your onboarding sequence should also help you set the expectation with your customers that you can teach them more - there's more to learn here! Because let's face it - <strong>you want your onboarding sequence to serve the customer. But it needs to serve your business as well.</strong> So start sowing the seeds and talk about other courses you have. Because while you're telling them that what they have is really good, you also want them to know they don't have the full picture just yet.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Make sure your onboarding emails reflect your style</strong></h3><p>Another thing to bear in mind when it comes to looking at onboarding emails examples is that you want to maintain the same energy and style from the emails you sent to your list before they bought your product. You don't want to suddenly turn into this person who just emails them robotically about going to page 12 of your workbook, do you?&nbsp;In fact, you want the opposite. You want to make your subscribers feel excited about what they just bought. Your emails should be <em>so good </em>that if you were selling something new, they would go and buy it straight away!</p><p><br></p><p>If you use our Daily Email Strategy from the <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/des-open?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=des" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Complete Daily Email Strategy course</a>, you'll be familiar with our framework of Story, Lesson, and Offer. You tell a story, you make a lesson out of it, and then you make an offer. You can follow this same framework in your onboarding emails. Except that now they bought your course, you tell the story, make a lesson out of it, and then the call to action is not to buy, but to go and access your course. So <strong>make sure that people who buy from you receive the same style of emails as part of their onboarding experience</strong>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Don’t confuse your onboarding sequence with your welcome sequence</strong></h3><p>Now, there's one last point worth making. And that's that <strong>each of your products and lead magnets needs its own onboarding sequence</strong> – we’ll call it a <em>consumption sequence</em>. And it's<em> not</em> a welcome sequence! Different onboarding emails examples have something in common - they invite your customers to go and consume your content.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Your onboarding or consumption sequence is a separate automated campaign. You might be familiar with our Getting to Know You Sequence, which is the welcome campaign we teach inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. Your new subscribers only...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This week on the podcast we're talking about onboarding emails examples. Are you a course creator? Do you have an onboarding sequence? Or is it just one of those things that get pushed to the side at the end of a busy launch? </p><p>Well, if you want to find out exactly how to use your onboarding emails to wow your customers, turn them into fans, and make more sales, we've got your back!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(3:23) What are onboarding emails?</p><p>(4:30) Use onboarding emails to show the value of your product.</p><p>(5:52) How to counteract buyer's remorse.</p><p>(8:52) How onboarding emails help you build trust with your customers.</p><p>(10:16) A sneak peak into our own onboarding emails.</p><p>(13:00) How to use onboarding emails to hightlight the most foundational pieces of your course.</p><p>(16:45) How to use the onboarding sequence to set the expectation there's more to learn from you.</p><p>(18:43) How to make sure your onboarding sequence reflects the style and framework of your other emails.</p><p>(20:44) Don't confuse your onboarding sequence with your welcome sequence. </p><p>(23:12) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>What are onboarding emails?</strong></h3><p>Onboarding emails are those emails you send to someone who's bought your online course or product. Why are we talking about onboarding email examples today? Because we know what it's like to launch something new. There's so much work that goes into it that often the part that follows the sale gets overlooked and forgotten.&nbsp;</p><p>But onboarding emails are important. And you want to be doing a little more than just thanking your customer for buying the product and giving them the username and password to access it.&nbsp;</p><p>So here are a few things that your onboarding emails can help you do.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>Show the value of your product</strong></h3><p>The very first thing onboarding emails allow you to do is to <strong>encourage your customers to look at the value of the product they bought from you</strong>. With these emails, you want to prompt people to take action and consume the content you've painstakingly put together. Because of course, you want them to get the results you promised them, right?&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>Counteract buyer's remorse</strong></h3><p>Another reason why onboarding emails matter is because they help you counteract buyer's remorse. I'm sure this has happened to you - you bought a product or downloaded a lead magnet, and when you did you felt excited.</p><p><br></p><p>But then at some point remorse kicks in. You worry that for some reason you've made a bad decision and wasted your time or your money. Maybe you shouldn't have bought the thing in the first place. You've been there and felt like that, right?</p><p><br></p><p>So this is where your onboardg email sequence comes in. You've got to <strong>use your onboarding emails to get your customers excited about their purchase</strong>. Why? Because this is your chance to reassure them they made a good decision, and <em>sell</em> them your product once again.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>You can do this by talking about the transformation they'll experience and the results they'll finally achieve. You can show them testimonials and case studies of people just like them. Because this helps you reinforce your subconscious reputation with that buyer and helps them see how they’re now closer to the outcome they want. Your job is to show them they made a great decision!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Build trust with your customers</strong></h3><p>Another reason why we swear by onboarding emails (and we want to share some onboarding emails examples with you) is that they help your customers <strong>build trust with you and your business</strong>. By sending out emails after they bought from you, you show your customers you want them to succeed. A lot of business owners will sell something and then move on to the next thing. And there’s nothing wrong with that inherently, but it’s also important to make your customers looked after.</p><p><br></p><p>Show them that you're not just about getting their money and leaving them to themselves. You put together the best content in this course and now you want them to use it and get the results. Because let’s face it – when people buy online courses, a lot of the accountability is on them. If they don't consume the content and implement the strategies you teach them, they won't get results. But you can (and should) definitely still play a part in this process by encouraging them to use your product.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Some onboarding emails examples</strong></h3><p>For example, when people join our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, we send them a detailed email showing them how to access it. We don’t just give them the URL, username, and password - we also include an animated GIF of where they go and click into the Members area. Because even if people haven’t accessed the content yet, we still want them to feel like they've already received value from it.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Similarly, if you opt-in for one of our <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">free lead magnets</a>, we send you an email with the username and password with an animated GIF that shows the screen recording of a user accessing the resource. We do this because we want people to be able to access the content we promised them and do it easily. This is a critical piece of your relationship with your customer. They’ve given you their email address or their money, so don't make it difficult for them!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Highlight the most foundational pieces of content&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Your onboarding emails will also help you highlight what you think is important for your customers to know right now and explain what it will do for them. When you sold them the course, you sold them the benefits and the transformation, so now you want to give them clarity on what to do. Now they have the course, you can be more granular and detailed in your explanations. You can pull out the particular lessons you think are important. <strong>Now you get to sell to them from the inside.</strong> Before you could only say what the course looked like and what it would do for them without giving away too much. But now you can be more specific.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And it's important you do this because you can't leave your students to decide what parts of the course are the most foundational - they're not qualified to do that. They might go for the shiny parts that seem the most interesting and resonate with them the most right now, but that might be different for everyone. So it's up to you, as the course creator, to point to what's important. And don't forget to explain why. Because psychologically, anytime you communicate something, you have to give them the reasons why, or what you say will never resonate with them.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Set the expectation that there’s more to learn from you</strong></h3><p>Your onboarding sequence should also help you set the expectation with your customers that you can teach them more - there's more to learn here! Because let's face it - <strong>you want your onboarding sequence to serve the customer. But it needs to serve your business as well.</strong> So start sowing the seeds and talk about other courses you have. Because while you're telling them that what they have is really good, you also want them to know they don't have the full picture just yet.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Make sure your onboarding emails reflect your style</strong></h3><p>Another thing to bear in mind when it comes to looking at onboarding emails examples is that you want to maintain the same energy and style from the emails you sent to your list before they bought your product. You don't want to suddenly turn into this person who just emails them robotically about going to page 12 of your workbook, do you?&nbsp;In fact, you want the opposite. You want to make your subscribers feel excited about what they just bought. Your emails should be <em>so good </em>that if you were selling something new, they would go and buy it straight away!</p><p><br></p><p>If you use our Daily Email Strategy from the <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/des-open?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=des" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Complete Daily Email Strategy course</a>, you'll be familiar with our framework of Story, Lesson, and Offer. You tell a story, you make a lesson out of it, and then you make an offer. You can follow this same framework in your onboarding emails. Except that now they bought your course, you tell the story, make a lesson out of it, and then the call to action is not to buy, but to go and access your course. So <strong>make sure that people who buy from you receive the same style of emails as part of their onboarding experience</strong>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Don’t confuse your onboarding sequence with your welcome sequence</strong></h3><p>Now, there's one last point worth making. And that's that <strong>each of your products and lead magnets needs its own onboarding sequence</strong> – we’ll call it a <em>consumption sequence</em>. And it's<em> not</em> a welcome sequence! Different onboarding emails examples have something in common - they invite your customers to go and consume your content.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Your onboarding or consumption sequence is a separate automated campaign. You might be familiar with our Getting to Know You Sequence, which is the welcome campaign we teach inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. Your new subscribers only go through it once when they first come into your email marketing platform. The onboarding sequence, on the other hand, is something a customer goes through for each one of your products. So that's how it's different from your welcome sequence.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject line of the week is “Boring for two hours?” Now, regardless of what the content was, the reason this worked so well is that no one wants to be boring. Or anything that’s negative, for that matter. The subject line would have worked with any other word that has a negative connotation - simply because people don't want to be associated with anything negative.</p><p><br></p><p>But also, adding a number in the subject line helps. That’s because numbers give specificity. And the fact it was asked as a question makes it even more engaging. Remember this - <strong>any time you turn a statement into a question it triggers ambiguity and curiosity in people</strong>. And often that drives open rates up. So there you go!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/amplify-email-campaigns-clate-mask/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to amplify email campaigns, Clate Mask from Keap spills the beans</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/testimonials-how-to-write-collect-automatically/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Testimonials – how to write and collect them automatically to bring in more sales with Monica Snyder</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/writing-the-perfect-welcome-email/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Writing The Perfect Welcome Email – Saying Hello With Gavin Bell</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about giving you onboarding emails examples for your online course) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/onboarding-emails-examples/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">6b87534a-8835-47cf-81ee-05b089922487</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/01c937a2-ee9d-4944-a3bb-18ff9c2299e8/jIjYdvVaVqid8BzkpFykL6xz.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/b2501b3c-75f6-4d8b-8765-903a40bb14bb/final.mp3" length="25738307" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>25:31</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>105</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>105</podcast:episode></item><item><title>7 Sales Elements to Give You More Reasons To Email During Your Launch</title><itunes:title>7 Sales Elements to Give You More Reasons To Email During Your Launch</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>You've got an offer ready and have emailed your subscribers. Once. Maybe twice. Sure, you'd like to email them a bit more. That would help with your sales, right? But you just don't know what to email about! So here are 7 sales elements that will give you more reasons to email during your launch and help you create spikes in your sales.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to have your mind absolutely blown by these strategies?</p><p>Let's go!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(2:31) Why you should email your audience more than once or twice during a launch.</p><p>(4:04) Give your audience a guided tour of your sales page through your emails (and learn about the pretend electoral campaign between Paddington Bear and Rupert The Bear).</p><p>(11:48) Introduce a countdown timer to create urgency (but not right at the start).</p><p>(14:08) Add a bonus (or more).</p><p>(16:34) Combine the bonus and the countdown timer. &nbsp;</p><p>(17:47) Use your testimonials in your emails.</p><p>(20:20) Don't introduce payment plans or down sell options at the start of your launch.&nbsp;</p><p>(22:38) Help your customers remove overwhelm and make informed decisions.</p><p>(25:03) Handle objections. </p><p>(28:05) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Why you should email your audience more than once or twice during a launch</strong></h3><p>First thing first, how many times do your normally email your list when you launch a new product or service? The day you open the cart and then the day you close it? What happens in between? Can we just agree that two emails aren't really gonna cut it?</p><p><br></p><p><strong>When you’re promoting a new offer, you need to email your list more than once or twice. </strong>But how exactly can you keep talking about this thing you’re launching?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Use your emails to give your audience a guided tour of your sales page</strong></h3><p>You see, the key is to have a plan. And your plan should be all about NOT putting <em>everything</em> you have to say about your launch on your sales page. <strong>Hold some things back from your sales page so you have a list of valid reasons to email your list</strong>. Because during your launch, you want to use your emails to drip out pieces of your offer – email by email.</p><p><br></p><p>This doesn't mean you're going to strip down your offer and turn it into something weak and mediocre that no one wants. Your offer needs to be amazing from day one! You're just holding off on announcing some of the stuff that most people announce at the start and breaking down the information that lives on your sales page&nbsp; and giving your subscribers a guided tour of it. Your emails are the place where you pick one element of your sales page and talk about it. Why? So that you can walk people through stuff they might have missed and make them pay attention to it.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>By announcing new things throughout your launch, you create extra surges and spikes in your sales. </strong>Because we all know how it goes - launches are made of peaks and troughs. The peaks are the beginning and at the end. You make sales on your first day and then again on the last day before the cart closes. But in between? That's when you have your troughs. So you want to create some momentum - have an excuse to email your subscribers, give them more reasons to buy, and generate more peaks during your launch.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Here are 7 things (in no particular order) that will help you do just that.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Hold off introducing a countdown timer</strong></h3><p>A lot of people add a countdown timer to their sales page right at the start of their promotion. We suggest you don’t do that. Why?</p><p>First of all, because if you don’t put the timer on the sales page right away, it gives you a great reason to email your list later on and let them know when your cart closes.</p><p>But also, <strong>a countdown timer is a mechanism to create urgency</strong> - and a very effective one at that. So don't waste it! Because you won't create any urgency if you set your timer waaaay in the future. If you tell everyone that your offer expires in 2 weeks, they have no reason to take notice now. It’s only when the hours, minutes and seconds are literally ticking that they’ll pay attention and buy. So use it wisely because this is one of the reasons to email your list during your launch.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Add a bonus (or more)</strong></h3><p>Another strategy you can use is to take something you'd ordinarily include in your offer (like an additional piece of training or a worksheet, etc.) and add it as a bonus rather than including it from the start. As the days go by, you offer all these additional features as bonuses via email with a really effective subject line. Why does this work? Because it helps you draw attention to this bonus you just added and encourage someone to buy.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Effectively, you're selling your bonuses in your emails. And if you position them well, <strong>some people will buy the product <em>because</em> of that bonus.</strong> Just make sure it's clear that everyone who has already bought gets your bonuses too - the last thing you want is loads of emails and admin from people asking you if they're included in the offer.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Combine the bonus and the countdown timer</strong></h3><p>When it comes to bonuses, you might introduce some at the start of your launch and others as you carry on with your promotion. So a strategy you can use is to add a countdown timer that will remove one of your bonuses.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Pick your sexiest bonus – a mastermind or a live call, for example - and add a countdown to it. Give it a clear deadline and create some urgency around it. You want to position this as a <em>fast action bonus</em> – something that’s available to anyone who buys today or in the next two hours, for example. Why? It helps you create an additional surge. And, of course, make sure you then make this bonus go away when you say you will.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Use your testimonials in your emails</strong></h3><p>Another thing you want to do during your launch is to turn your testimonials into case studies. What’s the difference between the two?&nbsp;A testimonial is one of your customers saying they bought one of your products, and it was great. A case study goes further than that – it says that your customer was struggling with a particular problem, then they bought your fabulous course, and now their life is completely transformed. Think of the case study as the movie documentary of your customer’s life, whereas a testimonial is your customer telling you about their adventure with you.</p><p><br></p><p>Now, it’s great to have testimonials. And a lot of people add loads to their sales pages. But your customers won't read them all, which means testimonials don't have the impact they’re meant to have. So how do you get your subscribers to pay attention?</p><p>You email them.</p><p>You <strong>pull out a few really good testimonials and turn them into case studies - expand on them in your emails</strong> and show people how others like them had the same problem, worked with you, and got great results.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Don’t introduce payment plans or down-sell offers from the start</strong></h3><p>Another thing you might want to do at some point during your launch is to introduce payment plans or down-sell offers. Just don't do it at the start - because this will be one of the reasons to email your list during your launch. So do this after a few days and once you've had a good number of sales and are in a good cash flow position.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>A few days in, you can then email your subscribers and tell them about how they can pay in installments or buy a cheaper version of your product that has less live support, for example. The key is to introduce these later so you have a good reason to email your subscribers.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Help your customers remove overwhelm and make an informed decision</strong></h3><p>One of the reasons why you want to be able to email your subscribers more than once during your launch is that you want to mop up all the people who are on the fence about buying. And one of the things that get in the way and stops people from buying is <em>confusion</em>, especially if you sell different packages or levels of your product. Because sometimes your prospective customers look at all the options and aren’t sure about which one to go for, and they'll buy neither!</p><p><br></p><p>So use your emails to talk about the features and advantages of your higher-end offer, explain the different packages and what they do, who they're for, and what the advantages of buying each of them are. This is about making sure people have the information they need to make a decision. Because <strong>when we sell or market anything, our job is to help people make informed decisions. </strong>Be the person that helps your subscribers get rid of overwhelm.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Handle objections</strong></h3><p>The last thing we want to point out to help you find more reasons to email your list during your launch is something we're really passionate about. We talk about this a lot because it really works - and it's handling objections.</p><p><br></p><p>Whenever we come up with an offer, we write down a whole bunch of objections and address them in our emails.&nbsp; Just bear in mind you don’t want to handle objections by <em>raising</em> them. Don’t put thoughts in people’s minds – if someone is already on the fence about buying and you raise an objection in their mind, you’re only going to move them further away from that fence - and not in the right direction! <strong>When handling objections, you want to be compelling people and propelling them forward.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>So how do you...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You've got an offer ready and have emailed your subscribers. Once. Maybe twice. Sure, you'd like to email them a bit more. That would help with your sales, right? But you just don't know what to email about! So here are 7 sales elements that will give you more reasons to email during your launch and help you create spikes in your sales.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to have your mind absolutely blown by these strategies?</p><p>Let's go!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(2:31) Why you should email your audience more than once or twice during a launch.</p><p>(4:04) Give your audience a guided tour of your sales page through your emails (and learn about the pretend electoral campaign between Paddington Bear and Rupert The Bear).</p><p>(11:48) Introduce a countdown timer to create urgency (but not right at the start).</p><p>(14:08) Add a bonus (or more).</p><p>(16:34) Combine the bonus and the countdown timer. &nbsp;</p><p>(17:47) Use your testimonials in your emails.</p><p>(20:20) Don't introduce payment plans or down sell options at the start of your launch.&nbsp;</p><p>(22:38) Help your customers remove overwhelm and make informed decisions.</p><p>(25:03) Handle objections. </p><p>(28:05) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Why you should email your audience more than once or twice during a launch</strong></h3><p>First thing first, how many times do your normally email your list when you launch a new product or service? The day you open the cart and then the day you close it? What happens in between? Can we just agree that two emails aren't really gonna cut it?</p><p><br></p><p><strong>When you’re promoting a new offer, you need to email your list more than once or twice. </strong>But how exactly can you keep talking about this thing you’re launching?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Use your emails to give your audience a guided tour of your sales page</strong></h3><p>You see, the key is to have a plan. And your plan should be all about NOT putting <em>everything</em> you have to say about your launch on your sales page. <strong>Hold some things back from your sales page so you have a list of valid reasons to email your list</strong>. Because during your launch, you want to use your emails to drip out pieces of your offer – email by email.</p><p><br></p><p>This doesn't mean you're going to strip down your offer and turn it into something weak and mediocre that no one wants. Your offer needs to be amazing from day one! You're just holding off on announcing some of the stuff that most people announce at the start and breaking down the information that lives on your sales page&nbsp; and giving your subscribers a guided tour of it. Your emails are the place where you pick one element of your sales page and talk about it. Why? So that you can walk people through stuff they might have missed and make them pay attention to it.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>By announcing new things throughout your launch, you create extra surges and spikes in your sales. </strong>Because we all know how it goes - launches are made of peaks and troughs. The peaks are the beginning and at the end. You make sales on your first day and then again on the last day before the cart closes. But in between? That's when you have your troughs. So you want to create some momentum - have an excuse to email your subscribers, give them more reasons to buy, and generate more peaks during your launch.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Here are 7 things (in no particular order) that will help you do just that.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Hold off introducing a countdown timer</strong></h3><p>A lot of people add a countdown timer to their sales page right at the start of their promotion. We suggest you don’t do that. Why?</p><p>First of all, because if you don’t put the timer on the sales page right away, it gives you a great reason to email your list later on and let them know when your cart closes.</p><p>But also, <strong>a countdown timer is a mechanism to create urgency</strong> - and a very effective one at that. So don't waste it! Because you won't create any urgency if you set your timer waaaay in the future. If you tell everyone that your offer expires in 2 weeks, they have no reason to take notice now. It’s only when the hours, minutes and seconds are literally ticking that they’ll pay attention and buy. So use it wisely because this is one of the reasons to email your list during your launch.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Add a bonus (or more)</strong></h3><p>Another strategy you can use is to take something you'd ordinarily include in your offer (like an additional piece of training or a worksheet, etc.) and add it as a bonus rather than including it from the start. As the days go by, you offer all these additional features as bonuses via email with a really effective subject line. Why does this work? Because it helps you draw attention to this bonus you just added and encourage someone to buy.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Effectively, you're selling your bonuses in your emails. And if you position them well, <strong>some people will buy the product <em>because</em> of that bonus.</strong> Just make sure it's clear that everyone who has already bought gets your bonuses too - the last thing you want is loads of emails and admin from people asking you if they're included in the offer.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Combine the bonus and the countdown timer</strong></h3><p>When it comes to bonuses, you might introduce some at the start of your launch and others as you carry on with your promotion. So a strategy you can use is to add a countdown timer that will remove one of your bonuses.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Pick your sexiest bonus – a mastermind or a live call, for example - and add a countdown to it. Give it a clear deadline and create some urgency around it. You want to position this as a <em>fast action bonus</em> – something that’s available to anyone who buys today or in the next two hours, for example. Why? It helps you create an additional surge. And, of course, make sure you then make this bonus go away when you say you will.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Use your testimonials in your emails</strong></h3><p>Another thing you want to do during your launch is to turn your testimonials into case studies. What’s the difference between the two?&nbsp;A testimonial is one of your customers saying they bought one of your products, and it was great. A case study goes further than that – it says that your customer was struggling with a particular problem, then they bought your fabulous course, and now their life is completely transformed. Think of the case study as the movie documentary of your customer’s life, whereas a testimonial is your customer telling you about their adventure with you.</p><p><br></p><p>Now, it’s great to have testimonials. And a lot of people add loads to their sales pages. But your customers won't read them all, which means testimonials don't have the impact they’re meant to have. So how do you get your subscribers to pay attention?</p><p>You email them.</p><p>You <strong>pull out a few really good testimonials and turn them into case studies - expand on them in your emails</strong> and show people how others like them had the same problem, worked with you, and got great results.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Don’t introduce payment plans or down-sell offers from the start</strong></h3><p>Another thing you might want to do at some point during your launch is to introduce payment plans or down-sell offers. Just don't do it at the start - because this will be one of the reasons to email your list during your launch. So do this after a few days and once you've had a good number of sales and are in a good cash flow position.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>A few days in, you can then email your subscribers and tell them about how they can pay in installments or buy a cheaper version of your product that has less live support, for example. The key is to introduce these later so you have a good reason to email your subscribers.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Help your customers remove overwhelm and make an informed decision</strong></h3><p>One of the reasons why you want to be able to email your subscribers more than once during your launch is that you want to mop up all the people who are on the fence about buying. And one of the things that get in the way and stops people from buying is <em>confusion</em>, especially if you sell different packages or levels of your product. Because sometimes your prospective customers look at all the options and aren’t sure about which one to go for, and they'll buy neither!</p><p><br></p><p>So use your emails to talk about the features and advantages of your higher-end offer, explain the different packages and what they do, who they're for, and what the advantages of buying each of them are. This is about making sure people have the information they need to make a decision. Because <strong>when we sell or market anything, our job is to help people make informed decisions. </strong>Be the person that helps your subscribers get rid of overwhelm.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Handle objections</strong></h3><p>The last thing we want to point out to help you find more reasons to email your list during your launch is something we're really passionate about. We talk about this a lot because it really works - and it's handling objections.</p><p><br></p><p>Whenever we come up with an offer, we write down a whole bunch of objections and address them in our emails.&nbsp; Just bear in mind you don’t want to handle objections by <em>raising</em> them. Don’t put thoughts in people’s minds – if someone is already on the fence about buying and you raise an objection in their mind, you’re only going to move them further away from that fence - and not in the right direction! <strong>When handling objections, you want to be compelling people and propelling them forward.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>So how do you do this exactly? We do it through Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), where we position every single thing really positively. So rather than asking the question, “What if you can’t make the live calls?” the FAQ will be worded as, “Will there be a recording of the calls?” and we'll explain how this is a really good thing because it allows people all over the world and from different time zones to access the calls. It’s a subtle difference, but it matters. So use your emails to handle objections.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week’s subject line is “how the sausage gets made”. Of course, this is funny to us because it's got the word sausage in it, and we think the word is hilarious because we're 12-year-olds.</p><p>But jokes aside, it’s an expression, right? It’s a saying people are familiar with, and we like nothing more than to use common expressions and give them a bit of a twist. This was all about the idea of seeing behind the scenes of things, but you could the words to it to make it work for your individual business. Why does it work so well? Because it draws people in and triggers their curiosity. Awesome, right?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/checklist-for-product-launch/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Add This Unusual Step to Your Checklist for Product Launch to Make More Sales After The Cart Closes with Marley Jaxx</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/the-psychology-of-a-successful-email-launch-being-desirable-with-abraham-kallon/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Psychology Of A Successful Email Launch – Being Desirable With Abraham Kallon</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/limited-time-offers-say-no/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Say ‘No’ to Extending An Expired Offer</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the 7 elements that will give you more reasons to email during your launch) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/7-reasons-to-email-during-your-launch/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">16410dd6-7a16-49e6-bcff-6574e686c933</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/f6e24b9f-e1b5-44db-8e1d-6e9428bc5010/Uh6HpF5NYFvug2UD5Xd0trxL.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/639ec0d7-67bb-4d14-9fa0-22d5b16d433a/104-final.mp3" length="30573539" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>30:36</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>104</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>104</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How to Get Out of a Sales Slump</title><itunes:title>How to Get Out of a Sales Slump</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Have you ever experienced a slump in sales? We know we have. But we've also learnt to read the signs so we know when one's about to happen. And we've come up with a few strategies to get ourselves out of it. So here's what we're talking about today - exactly what to look out for to spot when sales are about to slow down and how to get out of a sales slump.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to find out what you've gotta do?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(2:26) Why you need to keep an eye on the sales data in your business.</p><p>(4:36) What is your EPSPM and why does it matters? (Warning: there's singing!)</p><p>(7:16) Focus on making more money from your existing list.</p><p>(7:57) What to do when you have a seasonal slump in sales.</p><p>(10:05) All big businesses change their shop window - why shouldn't you?</p><p>(12:07) How to prevent 'banner blindness'.</p><p>(12:50) What to do to avoid a slump in sales. </p><p>(15:24) What indicators to watch to predict a slump in sales.</p><p>(18:23) How to use challenges to get out of a slump in sales.</p><p>(21:14) Subject line of the week. </p><h3><strong>Why do you need to keep an eye on the sales data in your business?</strong></h3><p>It happens to the best of us. You put out a product, and it's not just selling as much as you feel it should. Or maybe it did sell for a while, but now... not so much. So what do you do?&nbsp;</p><p>The first thing to do is to<strong> check the data and see what it's telling you</strong>. Is there actually a problem? You might find that yes, things are a bit quiet. But maybe you know that's because you have a very seasonal business and things are always a little quiet for you at this time of year - it's a known trend in your business. And if you find that you're making more money this month than you were last month or the one before, then great. You're winning! And definitely doing something right, so now it's a matter of working out what that is so you can make more of it.&nbsp;</p><p>But what exactly are the metrics you should keep an eye on?&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>What's your EPSPM and why does it matter?</strong></h3><p>We go on and on about this one. But it's important. Your EPSPM (bit of a mouthful, yes) is your Earnings Per Subscriber Per Month. And it's quite self-explanatory, really. It tells you how much money you're currently making for each of the subscribers on your list.</p><p>How to work it out? Look at how much you made in the last month, for example, and <strong>divide your sales by the number of subscribers you had on your list</strong>. If you made $1,000 and you have 1,000 subscribers on your list, each subscriber is earning you $1. That's the figure you want to look at - once you know that, you can easily see whether that goes up or down month on month.&nbsp;</p><p>And you know why this is a fundamental metric in your business? Because while a lot of people are focused on growing their list, if you double your list but your EPSPM doesn't go up or, worse, goes down, then having more people on your list isn't a good thing! Because you're earning less, not more.</p><p>So if this month you're making $1 per subscriber and next month you double your list from 1,000 to 2,000 people, but you're still making $1,000, you've <strong>reduced the effectiveness of your email marketing</strong> because your EPSPM is now $0.50 and not $1.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Focus on making more money from your list</strong></h3><p>So here's a quick tip. <strong>Focus on making more money from the list you have rather than growing your list further.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>As we've said many times before, this is the exact reason why we got good at email marketing. Because we couldn't afford to build our email list by investing in ads. And we couldn't afford to upset people to the point they'd unsubscribe from our list either! So we had to really focus on how to earn more for each subscriber.</p><p>So our tip to you is to track this metric (the EPSPM) and make sure it's not going down as your list grows. Worst case scenario, you want it to stay the same. But ideally, you want that number to grow as your list grows.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What do you do when you have a slump in sales?</strong></h3><p>So let's say you are tracking your EPSPM, and it is indeed going down. It's time to change things up. Because most of the time <strong>the reason why there are slumps in sales is that your audience has stopped listening to what you're saying.</strong> They feel they heard your message and know what it is. And if you have people like that in your audience who haven't bought from you yet, then it's time for you to start thinking about a different way of saying what you need to say. In other words, <strong>you need a new shop window.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Think about physical shops on the high street. They do this - they change their windows regularly and multiple times a year. Big companies with an online presence do the same by refreshing the look and feel of their website or changing their logos. Even Google does this, often displaying different graphics or animations to celebrate and commemorate historic events, occasions, or anniversaries. As a user and a consumer, things like that help you pay attention and build a deeper relationship with the brand. And if the big names do it, why shouldn't small business owners like us do the same?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to prevent 'banner blindness'</strong></h3><p>We often talk about this idea of<em> banner blindness</em>&nbsp;or <em>ad blindness</em> which has to do with the fact that if you have the same stuff on your website or the same copy in your ads <em>all the time</em>, people just become blind to it. <strong>If you don't change your 'shop window', people become blind to your general messaging.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>For example, we love the Complete Daily Email strategy - our approach to sending an email every day and having it make sales all the time. But our main product is our membership - <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. Most of the time we just send emails about The League, and that just works a treat. But every now and then, when we feel there's a slump in open rates, click-through rates, or sales rates, the only way to fix that is to do something different - to veer off. To zag instead of zigging.</p><p>Sometimes you have to stop talking about the thing you've been talking about and talk about something different instead. For example, instead of sending people to your sales page every day, you could start sending them to a free video first. And then you could re-target the people who watched that video with email. <strong>It's all about changing the shop window and the way to do that is by thinking about the different ways you can put an offer together</strong>. How else can you present the thing that you want to sell? Could you, for example, put together a bundle, run a webinar, do a live event, run a challenge, or a week of live streams? Whatever you do, <strong>think about a different window dressing for the same shop.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3>How to predict a slump in sales</h3><p>Why get caught unprepared though? What if you could see the sales slump coming and could do something about it <em>before</em> you get in that situation? You could start watching out for the indicators that might suggest a slump is coming. If you're selling stuff by email, you might be able to see a slow decline in the number of people opening your emails and then clicking on your links. So <strong>your click-through rate is something to keep an eye on.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>Because if you see that going down it means that, for whatever reason, your messaging isn't convincing your audience. So this is where you need to act and think about what to do differently. Change things up - <strong>talk about something different so that what you're saying becomes different and interesting again.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3>How to use challenges to get out of a slump in sales</h3><p>One of our favourite ways to drive people to something unique and different is to use a 5-day challenge. They work really well, but you need to get people to participate and convert. We spent a couple of years coming up with a way to run challenges that work. We perfected it and refined it until we got it completely nailed. And we created something called the <strong>Dual Reality Challenge</strong>.</p><p>It's a really cool automated way to have these challenges run for you via email. You can build them and run them as often as you want. You just drop your subscribers in and get people to register, participate, and then buy from your business. So <strong>if you want to grab that, </strong><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/campaign/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>here's the link</strong></a><strong>.</strong> It will give you<strong> an instant way to change up the shop window in your business and start selling more of your stuff with challenges.</strong></p><p>Oh, there's some small print stuff. You can grab this and have every single email and every bit of influence in the psychology that we build into our email campaigns. But<strong> this is only available for 5 of 6 days from the date this episode goes live on the 13th October 2021</strong>. So if you're listening or reading in the future, this offer will have expired, and the only way to get this campaign will be to join our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>This week's subject line of the week is "Leave me alone." This was done as part of a split test against another subject line, and "Leave me alone" was the winner. Why? Because it's an interesting...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you ever experienced a slump in sales? We know we have. But we've also learnt to read the signs so we know when one's about to happen. And we've come up with a few strategies to get ourselves out of it. So here's what we're talking about today - exactly what to look out for to spot when sales are about to slow down and how to get out of a sales slump.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to find out what you've gotta do?</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(2:26) Why you need to keep an eye on the sales data in your business.</p><p>(4:36) What is your EPSPM and why does it matters? (Warning: there's singing!)</p><p>(7:16) Focus on making more money from your existing list.</p><p>(7:57) What to do when you have a seasonal slump in sales.</p><p>(10:05) All big businesses change their shop window - why shouldn't you?</p><p>(12:07) How to prevent 'banner blindness'.</p><p>(12:50) What to do to avoid a slump in sales. </p><p>(15:24) What indicators to watch to predict a slump in sales.</p><p>(18:23) How to use challenges to get out of a slump in sales.</p><p>(21:14) Subject line of the week. </p><h3><strong>Why do you need to keep an eye on the sales data in your business?</strong></h3><p>It happens to the best of us. You put out a product, and it's not just selling as much as you feel it should. Or maybe it did sell for a while, but now... not so much. So what do you do?&nbsp;</p><p>The first thing to do is to<strong> check the data and see what it's telling you</strong>. Is there actually a problem? You might find that yes, things are a bit quiet. But maybe you know that's because you have a very seasonal business and things are always a little quiet for you at this time of year - it's a known trend in your business. And if you find that you're making more money this month than you were last month or the one before, then great. You're winning! And definitely doing something right, so now it's a matter of working out what that is so you can make more of it.&nbsp;</p><p>But what exactly are the metrics you should keep an eye on?&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>What's your EPSPM and why does it matter?</strong></h3><p>We go on and on about this one. But it's important. Your EPSPM (bit of a mouthful, yes) is your Earnings Per Subscriber Per Month. And it's quite self-explanatory, really. It tells you how much money you're currently making for each of the subscribers on your list.</p><p>How to work it out? Look at how much you made in the last month, for example, and <strong>divide your sales by the number of subscribers you had on your list</strong>. If you made $1,000 and you have 1,000 subscribers on your list, each subscriber is earning you $1. That's the figure you want to look at - once you know that, you can easily see whether that goes up or down month on month.&nbsp;</p><p>And you know why this is a fundamental metric in your business? Because while a lot of people are focused on growing their list, if you double your list but your EPSPM doesn't go up or, worse, goes down, then having more people on your list isn't a good thing! Because you're earning less, not more.</p><p>So if this month you're making $1 per subscriber and next month you double your list from 1,000 to 2,000 people, but you're still making $1,000, you've <strong>reduced the effectiveness of your email marketing</strong> because your EPSPM is now $0.50 and not $1.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Focus on making more money from your list</strong></h3><p>So here's a quick tip. <strong>Focus on making more money from the list you have rather than growing your list further.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>As we've said many times before, this is the exact reason why we got good at email marketing. Because we couldn't afford to build our email list by investing in ads. And we couldn't afford to upset people to the point they'd unsubscribe from our list either! So we had to really focus on how to earn more for each subscriber.</p><p>So our tip to you is to track this metric (the EPSPM) and make sure it's not going down as your list grows. Worst case scenario, you want it to stay the same. But ideally, you want that number to grow as your list grows.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What do you do when you have a slump in sales?</strong></h3><p>So let's say you are tracking your EPSPM, and it is indeed going down. It's time to change things up. Because most of the time <strong>the reason why there are slumps in sales is that your audience has stopped listening to what you're saying.</strong> They feel they heard your message and know what it is. And if you have people like that in your audience who haven't bought from you yet, then it's time for you to start thinking about a different way of saying what you need to say. In other words, <strong>you need a new shop window.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Think about physical shops on the high street. They do this - they change their windows regularly and multiple times a year. Big companies with an online presence do the same by refreshing the look and feel of their website or changing their logos. Even Google does this, often displaying different graphics or animations to celebrate and commemorate historic events, occasions, or anniversaries. As a user and a consumer, things like that help you pay attention and build a deeper relationship with the brand. And if the big names do it, why shouldn't small business owners like us do the same?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to prevent 'banner blindness'</strong></h3><p>We often talk about this idea of<em> banner blindness</em>&nbsp;or <em>ad blindness</em> which has to do with the fact that if you have the same stuff on your website or the same copy in your ads <em>all the time</em>, people just become blind to it. <strong>If you don't change your 'shop window', people become blind to your general messaging.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>For example, we love the Complete Daily Email strategy - our approach to sending an email every day and having it make sales all the time. But our main product is our membership - <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. Most of the time we just send emails about The League, and that just works a treat. But every now and then, when we feel there's a slump in open rates, click-through rates, or sales rates, the only way to fix that is to do something different - to veer off. To zag instead of zigging.</p><p>Sometimes you have to stop talking about the thing you've been talking about and talk about something different instead. For example, instead of sending people to your sales page every day, you could start sending them to a free video first. And then you could re-target the people who watched that video with email. <strong>It's all about changing the shop window and the way to do that is by thinking about the different ways you can put an offer together</strong>. How else can you present the thing that you want to sell? Could you, for example, put together a bundle, run a webinar, do a live event, run a challenge, or a week of live streams? Whatever you do, <strong>think about a different window dressing for the same shop.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3>How to predict a slump in sales</h3><p>Why get caught unprepared though? What if you could see the sales slump coming and could do something about it <em>before</em> you get in that situation? You could start watching out for the indicators that might suggest a slump is coming. If you're selling stuff by email, you might be able to see a slow decline in the number of people opening your emails and then clicking on your links. So <strong>your click-through rate is something to keep an eye on.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>Because if you see that going down it means that, for whatever reason, your messaging isn't convincing your audience. So this is where you need to act and think about what to do differently. Change things up - <strong>talk about something different so that what you're saying becomes different and interesting again.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3>How to use challenges to get out of a slump in sales</h3><p>One of our favourite ways to drive people to something unique and different is to use a 5-day challenge. They work really well, but you need to get people to participate and convert. We spent a couple of years coming up with a way to run challenges that work. We perfected it and refined it until we got it completely nailed. And we created something called the <strong>Dual Reality Challenge</strong>.</p><p>It's a really cool automated way to have these challenges run for you via email. You can build them and run them as often as you want. You just drop your subscribers in and get people to register, participate, and then buy from your business. So <strong>if you want to grab that, </strong><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/campaign/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>here's the link</strong></a><strong>.</strong> It will give you<strong> an instant way to change up the shop window in your business and start selling more of your stuff with challenges.</strong></p><p>Oh, there's some small print stuff. You can grab this and have every single email and every bit of influence in the psychology that we build into our email campaigns. But<strong> this is only available for 5 of 6 days from the date this episode goes live on the 13th October 2021</strong>. So if you're listening or reading in the future, this offer will have expired, and the only way to get this campaign will be to join our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>This week's subject line of the week is "Leave me alone." This was done as part of a split test against another subject line, and "Leave me alone" was the winner. Why? Because it's an interesting contradiction, bearing in mind we are the email marketers bombarding with emails - not the other way round!</p><p>The whole premise of this email was about the fact most people get really annoyed by SMS text message marketing. This email was prompted by a particular situation when Rob got fed up with a marketing text message, and he went on to talk about the right way to use SMS marketing along with your email marketing. Quite interesting, right?</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/measuring-marketing-with-chris-mercer/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to turn data into amazing outcomes – learn about Measuring Marketing with Chris Mercer</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/amplify-email-campaigns-clate-mask/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to amplify email marketing campaigns with SMS messages, Clate Mask from keap</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/17-no-cost-ways-to-build-your-email-list/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">17 No Cost Ways To Build Your Email List</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to get out of a sales slump) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-get-out-of-a-sales-slump/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">2abe8fb9-80b0-418b-8cc1-fc35c56c8c20</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/5e610890-b0d2-4b24-ab0d-512a1afc5fd7/Uxj1QFGqHlb8aTVoVnKObCQs.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/3cdc764c-d0e4-4f96-aa93-1a3818c134ee/103-sales-slump-edited.mp3" length="43899007" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>22:52</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>103</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>103</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Courageous Content with Janet Murray</title><itunes:title>Courageous Content with Janet Murray</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Janet Murray is the Queen of Courageous Content. This week she's back on the show as our first returning guest - talking about how to come up with content ideas to promote your products and services. So, are you ready to find out how to create courageous content, with the amazing Janet Murray?</p><p>Grab pen and paper (or whatever you make notes on) and get ready for this. There's some <em>awesome</em> stuff in this episode that you just don't want to miss!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:</strong> </p><p> (2:13) How Rob REALLY feels about Email Marketing Wednesday! </p><p> (3:00) Did Janet think her car had been stolen (but something else really happened)?</p><p> (5:18) How does Janet create so much epic content so easily? </p><p> (7:38) Always start with what you're selling - your products or services.</p><p> (9:00) How to look at the bigger picture first and then break it down. </p><p> (11:56) Why you should always start with the end in mind. </p><p> (13:10) Janet's framework for courageous content creation.</p><p> (20:36) How to use awareness days to come up with courageous content ideas. </p><p> (27:12) What percentage of our content should be sales content?</p><p> (30:10) Subject line of the week with Janet Murray.</p><h3><strong>How does Janet create so much content so easily?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>Creating tonnes of amazing content is what Janet does best. It's what she's known for. But how does she do it so well and so easily?</p><p><br></p><p>Well, first of all, Janet says she <em>enjoys</em> it - she loves creating content. And that's got to make a difference, right? But she's also <em>so good</em> at this because she has a background in journalism. And when you're a journalist, she says, you can't just say you have no good ideas for a piece. It just doesn't work like that! So in her previous career, Janet came up with processes and systems to ensure that she'd always have content ideas to pick from. Isn't that clever?</p><p><br></p><p>So what are some of these amazing strategies that Janet uses to come up with courageous content?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Always start with what you're selling</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>The first thing that Janet recommends (and something a lot of business owners don't do) is to<strong> start with what you're selling</strong>. So every year Janet works out what she's going to be selling over the upcoming year. She calls this 'overhead planning', and she teaches her clients this exact method too. Except that some of them struggle with this. And when they do, Janet says, it's because they have a <em>business problem</em>, rather than a <em>content problem</em>. Why? Because, quite simply, <strong>if you're a business owner and don't know what you're selling in the next 3-6 months or over the next year, do you really have a business?</strong> (Something to ponder here!)</p><p><br></p><p>Thinking about what you're going to be selling in the short to medium term allows you to look at the bigger picture - at the 'wide shot view' of your business. And once you have that, you can then break that down into quarters, then months, then weeks. This is where planning your content becomes a lot easier to do. It's also less overwhelming than doing what Janet calls 'linear planning', where you look at the month ahead to work out what you're going to share on a daily basis. Overhead planning also gives you plenty of time to get organised to ensure you're able to create the right type of content.</p><p><br></p><p>Isn't that super cool? For us, it's a bit like when we try and teach our members to write email subject lines. A lot of people focus on trying to come up with interesting and engaging subject lines before they've even worked out what the point of the email is going to be. Starting with the end in mind is a lot easier. Once you know what the email is all about, writing the subject line is a walk in the park!</p><p><br></p><h3>A 4-step framework for courageous content, with Janet Murray</h3><p><br></p><p>According to Janet, a lot of entrepreneurs create too much content, which is part of what makes the process so overwhelming. This is why Janet thinks it helps to have a structure, and on this note, she's created a framework based on 4 different types of content:</p><p><br></p><ol><li><strong>Educational content.</strong> This is content that helps your clients solve a problem and answers their questions.</li><li><strong>Inspiring content.</strong> As the name suggests, this is all about sharing stories or anecdotes that will encourage your audience to take some sort of action.</li><li><strong>Community content.</strong> Something that people do really well on their own personal social media accounts is building relationships with others. But sometimes people forget to do that on their business pages! You can't just jump in and ask for the sale all the time - it's about creating content that helps you build relationships with people first.</li><li><strong>News and trends.</strong> The final type of content is all about news and trends that relate to your industry, niche, or product and service. Janet recommends you regularly check the media for interesting pieces that relate to your industry that you may be able to share or interpret for your audience.</li></ol><br/><p><br></p><p>So if you were to create just 4 pieces of content a week (one for each type), Janet says, that would be more than enough content over the course of a month and then a year. You'd find it less overwhelming and much easier to do because you'd be following a structure. Using a framework like Janet's might also help you become more consistent with your content, rather than yo yo all year round by posting frequently for a few weeks and then disappearing for months, for example.</p><p><br></p><p>Of course, in order to do this, you also need to know your audience, what they're interested in, and what they need help with. You'll also find different people on different platforms, so it helps to do a bit of experimentation and testing. But once you have a structure to work with, you can then bend the rules to suit your audience and your business.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to use awareness days to come up with courageous content ideas</strong></h3><p>Janet is amazing at using awareness days to create awesome content ideas, but a lot of people don't do it the right way, Janet says. If every other business decides to ask their audience about their favourite type of sausage on Sausage Day, it can get boring very quickly, especially if the topic isn't even relevant to your business, right? So how can you stand out from the crowd and use awareness days to create courageous content?</p><p><br></p><p>The key, Janet says, is to <strong>use awareness days as jumping-off points to produce content that relates to your business. Always add a business angle to it</strong>. If the awareness day has to do with sleep, for example, we could talk about how to 'wake up' your email list. Or it could be about asking what skills people can do in their sleep. It doesn't have to be<em> exactly</em> about sleep. Consider awareness days as prompts that you need to think about creatively, and it'll make things more fun for you as a content creator and for your audience too.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What percentage of your content should be sales content?</strong></h3><p>We asked Janet what her take is on sales content, and she told us content should be 100% related to your products or services. <strong>Every piece of content you create should be leading towards the products you want to sell.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>A lot of Janet's content, for example, is about educating people on why they might need a content planner (because she sells one!). She won't just constantly ask people to buy her planner, obviously, but months in advance she'll share educational content about why people might need it. Or she'll ask her audience for feedback about her artwork, for example.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Every piece of content needs to have a call to action to help you move that relationship with your audience further.</strong> That doesn't mean creating 'salesy' content every time. It's about <strong>producing deliberate content that moves your audience towards taking a specific action.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week with Janet Murray</strong></h3><p>In Janet's experience, any subject line that has a poo emoji tends to get better open rates. But also more unsubscribers! (Would you be offended by the poo emoji? We're definitely not!)</p><p><br></p><p>But one of Janet's better subject lines is "you might regret this". And it's something she uses fairly regularly when she's about to close the cart for a launch, for example. Can you believe she's had people accusing her of bullying with that subject line? But that's the key to why it works. And no, not because it's bullying, but it because it triggers strong emotions in people, and it's one that always tends to do well for Janet. Interesting stuff, right?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Janet</strong></h5><p>If you enjoyed this episode aboput courageous content with Janet Murray and would like to connect with Janet, head over to <a href="https://janetmurray.co.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">her website</a> (where you can buy her <a href="https://janetmurray.co.uk/podcast/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Courageous Content Planner</a>), <a href="https://janetmurray.co.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, or tune into her new <a href="https://janetmurray.co.uk/podcast/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">podcas</a>t.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-content-that-hits-a-nerve-journalism-hacks-from-janet-murray/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Janet Murray is the Queen of Courageous Content. This week she's back on the show as our first returning guest - talking about how to come up with content ideas to promote your products and services. So, are you ready to find out how to create courageous content, with the amazing Janet Murray?</p><p>Grab pen and paper (or whatever you make notes on) and get ready for this. There's some <em>awesome</em> stuff in this episode that you just don't want to miss!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:</strong> </p><p> (2:13) How Rob REALLY feels about Email Marketing Wednesday! </p><p> (3:00) Did Janet think her car had been stolen (but something else really happened)?</p><p> (5:18) How does Janet create so much epic content so easily? </p><p> (7:38) Always start with what you're selling - your products or services.</p><p> (9:00) How to look at the bigger picture first and then break it down. </p><p> (11:56) Why you should always start with the end in mind. </p><p> (13:10) Janet's framework for courageous content creation.</p><p> (20:36) How to use awareness days to come up with courageous content ideas. </p><p> (27:12) What percentage of our content should be sales content?</p><p> (30:10) Subject line of the week with Janet Murray.</p><h3><strong>How does Janet create so much content so easily?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>Creating tonnes of amazing content is what Janet does best. It's what she's known for. But how does she do it so well and so easily?</p><p><br></p><p>Well, first of all, Janet says she <em>enjoys</em> it - she loves creating content. And that's got to make a difference, right? But she's also <em>so good</em> at this because she has a background in journalism. And when you're a journalist, she says, you can't just say you have no good ideas for a piece. It just doesn't work like that! So in her previous career, Janet came up with processes and systems to ensure that she'd always have content ideas to pick from. Isn't that clever?</p><p><br></p><p>So what are some of these amazing strategies that Janet uses to come up with courageous content?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Always start with what you're selling</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>The first thing that Janet recommends (and something a lot of business owners don't do) is to<strong> start with what you're selling</strong>. So every year Janet works out what she's going to be selling over the upcoming year. She calls this 'overhead planning', and she teaches her clients this exact method too. Except that some of them struggle with this. And when they do, Janet says, it's because they have a <em>business problem</em>, rather than a <em>content problem</em>. Why? Because, quite simply, <strong>if you're a business owner and don't know what you're selling in the next 3-6 months or over the next year, do you really have a business?</strong> (Something to ponder here!)</p><p><br></p><p>Thinking about what you're going to be selling in the short to medium term allows you to look at the bigger picture - at the 'wide shot view' of your business. And once you have that, you can then break that down into quarters, then months, then weeks. This is where planning your content becomes a lot easier to do. It's also less overwhelming than doing what Janet calls 'linear planning', where you look at the month ahead to work out what you're going to share on a daily basis. Overhead planning also gives you plenty of time to get organised to ensure you're able to create the right type of content.</p><p><br></p><p>Isn't that super cool? For us, it's a bit like when we try and teach our members to write email subject lines. A lot of people focus on trying to come up with interesting and engaging subject lines before they've even worked out what the point of the email is going to be. Starting with the end in mind is a lot easier. Once you know what the email is all about, writing the subject line is a walk in the park!</p><p><br></p><h3>A 4-step framework for courageous content, with Janet Murray</h3><p><br></p><p>According to Janet, a lot of entrepreneurs create too much content, which is part of what makes the process so overwhelming. This is why Janet thinks it helps to have a structure, and on this note, she's created a framework based on 4 different types of content:</p><p><br></p><ol><li><strong>Educational content.</strong> This is content that helps your clients solve a problem and answers their questions.</li><li><strong>Inspiring content.</strong> As the name suggests, this is all about sharing stories or anecdotes that will encourage your audience to take some sort of action.</li><li><strong>Community content.</strong> Something that people do really well on their own personal social media accounts is building relationships with others. But sometimes people forget to do that on their business pages! You can't just jump in and ask for the sale all the time - it's about creating content that helps you build relationships with people first.</li><li><strong>News and trends.</strong> The final type of content is all about news and trends that relate to your industry, niche, or product and service. Janet recommends you regularly check the media for interesting pieces that relate to your industry that you may be able to share or interpret for your audience.</li></ol><br/><p><br></p><p>So if you were to create just 4 pieces of content a week (one for each type), Janet says, that would be more than enough content over the course of a month and then a year. You'd find it less overwhelming and much easier to do because you'd be following a structure. Using a framework like Janet's might also help you become more consistent with your content, rather than yo yo all year round by posting frequently for a few weeks and then disappearing for months, for example.</p><p><br></p><p>Of course, in order to do this, you also need to know your audience, what they're interested in, and what they need help with. You'll also find different people on different platforms, so it helps to do a bit of experimentation and testing. But once you have a structure to work with, you can then bend the rules to suit your audience and your business.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to use awareness days to come up with courageous content ideas</strong></h3><p>Janet is amazing at using awareness days to create awesome content ideas, but a lot of people don't do it the right way, Janet says. If every other business decides to ask their audience about their favourite type of sausage on Sausage Day, it can get boring very quickly, especially if the topic isn't even relevant to your business, right? So how can you stand out from the crowd and use awareness days to create courageous content?</p><p><br></p><p>The key, Janet says, is to <strong>use awareness days as jumping-off points to produce content that relates to your business. Always add a business angle to it</strong>. If the awareness day has to do with sleep, for example, we could talk about how to 'wake up' your email list. Or it could be about asking what skills people can do in their sleep. It doesn't have to be<em> exactly</em> about sleep. Consider awareness days as prompts that you need to think about creatively, and it'll make things more fun for you as a content creator and for your audience too.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What percentage of your content should be sales content?</strong></h3><p>We asked Janet what her take is on sales content, and she told us content should be 100% related to your products or services. <strong>Every piece of content you create should be leading towards the products you want to sell.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>A lot of Janet's content, for example, is about educating people on why they might need a content planner (because she sells one!). She won't just constantly ask people to buy her planner, obviously, but months in advance she'll share educational content about why people might need it. Or she'll ask her audience for feedback about her artwork, for example.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Every piece of content needs to have a call to action to help you move that relationship with your audience further.</strong> That doesn't mean creating 'salesy' content every time. It's about <strong>producing deliberate content that moves your audience towards taking a specific action.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week with Janet Murray</strong></h3><p>In Janet's experience, any subject line that has a poo emoji tends to get better open rates. But also more unsubscribers! (Would you be offended by the poo emoji? We're definitely not!)</p><p><br></p><p>But one of Janet's better subject lines is "you might regret this". And it's something she uses fairly regularly when she's about to close the cart for a launch, for example. Can you believe she's had people accusing her of bullying with that subject line? But that's the key to why it works. And no, not because it's bullying, but it because it triggers strong emotions in people, and it's one that always tends to do well for Janet. Interesting stuff, right?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Janet</strong></h5><p>If you enjoyed this episode aboput courageous content with Janet Murray and would like to connect with Janet, head over to <a href="https://janetmurray.co.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">her website</a> (where you can buy her <a href="https://janetmurray.co.uk/podcast/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Courageous Content Planner</a>), <a href="https://janetmurray.co.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, or tune into her new <a href="https://janetmurray.co.uk/podcast/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">podcas</a>t.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-content-that-hits-a-nerve-journalism-hacks-from-janet-murray/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Content That Hits A Nerve – Journalism Hacks From Janet Murray</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-content-ideas/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">What should I talk about in my emails? Email marketing content ideas you’ll use</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-plan-3-months-of-email-content-in-an-afternoon/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Plan 3 Months Of Email Content In An Afternoon</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>Want to write better emails? Come up with better content? Influence and move your readers to click and buy? Well, you can do that with this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books! They will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the&nbsp;<strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We get to share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing by applying everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about creating courageous content, with Janet Murray) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>leaving us a review </strong>on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes. And, you know what? We also get to be discovered by more awesome people like you!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/courageous-content-janet-murray/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">3a68d4b4-9645-4632-8517-e2fa5cead17a</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/37af2dde-90db-49db-bb09-63b885ed379d/RnvcUscZqbHHuB5r3h-Mm_31.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/c8f8d493-d862-4b91-b849-4eca30f43a13/janet-murray-final.mp3" length="30499907" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>32:30</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>102</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>102</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Using Email Marketing to Build a Profitable Business - with Gisele St Hilaire a Member of The League</title><itunes:title>Using Email Marketing to Build a Profitable Business - with Gisele St Hilaire a Member of The League</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>In today's episode, we do something a little bit different and share a success story from one of the members of <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> - Gisele St. Hilaire. Gisele is a certified FeldenkraisⓇ practitioner and Assistant Trainer and the founder of Sunyata Movement Studio Inc. In other words, she helps people overcome pain and injury! Isn't that awesome? But what's even more awesome is that Gisele has been using email marketing to build a profitable business. And in today's chat, she tells us exactly how!</p><p>We talk about how Gisele was using email marketing before joining our membership, what amazing results she's been getting since, how much she spends weekly on her email marketing, and more of this kind of incredible stuff.</p><p>Ready to see what you could do, too?</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(2:59) How Gisele used email marketing before joining The League.</p><p>(5:35) Gisele's biggest barrier to email marketing. </p><p>(8:10) A look into Gisele's systems and automations.</p><p>(9:09) How Gisele cleaned up her list.</p><p>(12:48) How Gisele increased Earnings Per Subscriber Per Month (EPSPM). </p><p>(14:45) How email marketing has changed for Gisele's business since she joined The League.</p><p>(18:20) The activity that had the most impact on Gisele's email marketing.</p><p>(19:37) What's next when it comes to Gisele's email marketing?</p><p>(20:42) How much time does email marketing really take? </p><p>(23:46) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How Gisele used email marketing before joining The League</strong></h3><p>Gisele explained that most of her work used to be hands-on with clients. She offers a service called Functional Integration, which happens face-to-face. But she teaches Awareness Through Movement classes, where she verbally guides people through lessons. When her clients started asking her for the chance to re-watch her sessions again and again through a recording, she saw an opportunity to package her workshops into online products.</p><p><br></p><p>So how does email marketing fit in?&nbsp;Gisele had given it a go a few years ago. But, to her own admission, she wasn't leveraging her list as much as she could have been. Her biggest barrier was the fact she'd email her list only when she had something to sell. So she wasn't emailing very often, and when she was, she was asking for a sale.</p><p><br></p><p>Before joining our membership, Gisele had a trickle of new people regularly joining her list. She had a freebie in the shape of a lead magnet, and that had helped her build a list of about 1,000 subscribers. She'd email them 3-5 times in the lead up to a sale and then go quiet for about 3 months. In other words, <strong>her email marketing was driven by the things she wanted to sell at the time, rather than on where her subscribers were in their journey with her or what problem they were trying to fix</strong>. But Gisele wasn't sure how to meet them where they were. And, like many other business owners who are new to email marketing, she was afraid to email her list more often.</p><p>Sound familiar?</p><p><br></p><h3>A look into Gisele's systems and automation</h3><p>We asked Gisele a bit more about her systems, and she told us she's using ConvertKit as her email marketing platform. At the start, she was just broadcasting. But over time she got more sophisticated and started embracing automation to create an onboarding sequence and then a welcome sequence. And because she sells a handful of small products as well as providing free content, those sequences consist of 2-4 emails.</p><p>And that's when things start to get interesting...</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How Gisele cleaned up her list</strong></h3><p>You see, one of the first things we encourage our members to do is to give their list a bit of a clean-up. We help our members do that through a specific campaign, which Gisele eventually used, but she also did something pretty amazing to clean up her list.</p><p><br></p><p>And here it goes...</p><p>Gisele decided to email her subscribers to let them know she'd be emailing them 3 times a week going forward. Why 3 times a week? Because she was scared of completely obliterating her list had she started sending out emails more frequently. But also, 3 times a week felt like something she could be consistent with in the long run.</p><p><br></p><p>So in those initial emails, Gisele gave people the option to opt-out. But she also explained, very transparently, what people could do with her emails. They could read and delete or they could store and get back to them whenever they wanted. In the space of about 3-4 months, about 300 people unsubscribed.</p><p><br></p><p>But something else also happened. A lot of people actually started to reply back to her, i.e. engage with her emails! So after she gave the option for people to leave if they wanted to, she ran our Cold Subscriber Campaign, and that's where she found the cold subscribers who hadn't engaged for three months and actively removed those people from her list. By that point, that only cut her list by a further 30-40 subscribers.</p><p><br></p><p>So over time and by emailing more often, Gisele gave the opportunity to those less-interested subscribers to leave quietly through the back door. Her list shrunk by about 300 people, but it also became more engaged.</p><p>And that's a good thing because...</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How Gisele's increased her Earning Per Subscriber Per Month (EPSPM)&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>One of the metrics we encourage our members to look at is the <strong>Earnings per Subscriber per Month (or EPSPM)</strong>. And that's pretty much what it says on the tin. It's how much money you earn every month for every subscriber that's on your list.</p><p><br></p><p>Before joining <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, Gisele was making a mega respectable $1.30 per subscriber. But after cleaning up her list and implementing some of the strategies we teach, Gisele is now making an amazing $4.10 per subscriber! Isn't she awesome?!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How email marketing has changed for Gisele's business since she joined The League</strong></h3><p>Gisele tells us she feels <em>way</em> better about her email marketing now. Her customers aren't leaving her list (despite her emailing more regularly and often), and they're more engaged. But also, Gisele can tell she's getting better at the whole thing. Admitting she struggles with the writing side of things, she can see how she's improving and getting quicker at composing her emails as time goes on.</p><p><br></p><p>Gisele also talked about running another one of our campaigns - the Time Lord campaign - to promote one of her standalone online products. The campaign runs over 5 days, and Gisele was hoping to get 10 sales at $79 per product. Do you know what happened? She sold 6 on day one and by day 5 she'd sold a total of 40! Plus, she also received lots of lovely comments and even some great testimonials without even having to ask for them!</p><p><br></p><p>So let's re-cap what Gisele did right. She took her list and tidied it up first - making it smaller and narrowing it down to those people who were super engaged. She then started running campaigns and getting email marketing right by setting up processes to build a profitable business. Now Gisele is in a position to start focusing on building her list because she knows that if she was to drive hundreds or even thousands more subscribers through that her list, it's proven to work. She's tested the system, made it work, and now she's ready to add to that list.</p><p>Just. Brilliant.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The activity that had the most impact on Gisele's email marketing</strong></h3><p>Hands down, the one thing Gisele started doing that had the most impact on her email marketing, she says, is producing video. It's not always Gisele speaking on camera though - she also produces slideshows. But embracing video has been key for her - a huge step up that proved really beneficial.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What's next when it comes to Gisele's email marketing?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Gisele told us two things are on her to-do list when it comes to her email marketing. The first thing she wants to do is to grow her list. In the past, Gisele hadn't been comfortable with social media or putting money behind ads. But that's all about to change because she's now super confident that growing her list is going to work for her business.</p><p><br></p><p>The second thing Gisele wants to do is to set up the right campaigns to feed into what we call The Master Controller, or her main product. And in Gisele's case, that's the membership she's launching. So she has a few email campaigns she's excited to set up and write. Cool beans!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How much time does email marketing really take?&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>To reassure anyone who thinks they don't have time to do email marketing because they have a business to run, we asked Gisele whether embracing email marketing has taken over her life. And her answer is that it's becoming a more and more natural part of running her business. It's the one thing she now knows she's not going to give up because she can see <strong>how foundational and essential email is. Nothing is going to beat it</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>Gisele admits that creating and setting up campaigns took a bit of time, initially. But it's an asset that she now has in her business and can go back and improve on at any time. Writing emails can take Gisele anything between 15 minutes and half an hour, and for her, that happens 3 times a week. She then spends another couple of hours a week learning and creating campaigns and envisages needing to spend 3-4 hours a month on getting to where she wants to be, over the...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In today's episode, we do something a little bit different and share a success story from one of the members of <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> - Gisele St. Hilaire. Gisele is a certified FeldenkraisⓇ practitioner and Assistant Trainer and the founder of Sunyata Movement Studio Inc. In other words, she helps people overcome pain and injury! Isn't that awesome? But what's even more awesome is that Gisele has been using email marketing to build a profitable business. And in today's chat, she tells us exactly how!</p><p>We talk about how Gisele was using email marketing before joining our membership, what amazing results she's been getting since, how much she spends weekly on her email marketing, and more of this kind of incredible stuff.</p><p>Ready to see what you could do, too?</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(2:59) How Gisele used email marketing before joining The League.</p><p>(5:35) Gisele's biggest barrier to email marketing. </p><p>(8:10) A look into Gisele's systems and automations.</p><p>(9:09) How Gisele cleaned up her list.</p><p>(12:48) How Gisele increased Earnings Per Subscriber Per Month (EPSPM). </p><p>(14:45) How email marketing has changed for Gisele's business since she joined The League.</p><p>(18:20) The activity that had the most impact on Gisele's email marketing.</p><p>(19:37) What's next when it comes to Gisele's email marketing?</p><p>(20:42) How much time does email marketing really take? </p><p>(23:46) Subject line of the week.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How Gisele used email marketing before joining The League</strong></h3><p>Gisele explained that most of her work used to be hands-on with clients. She offers a service called Functional Integration, which happens face-to-face. But she teaches Awareness Through Movement classes, where she verbally guides people through lessons. When her clients started asking her for the chance to re-watch her sessions again and again through a recording, she saw an opportunity to package her workshops into online products.</p><p><br></p><p>So how does email marketing fit in?&nbsp;Gisele had given it a go a few years ago. But, to her own admission, she wasn't leveraging her list as much as she could have been. Her biggest barrier was the fact she'd email her list only when she had something to sell. So she wasn't emailing very often, and when she was, she was asking for a sale.</p><p><br></p><p>Before joining our membership, Gisele had a trickle of new people regularly joining her list. She had a freebie in the shape of a lead magnet, and that had helped her build a list of about 1,000 subscribers. She'd email them 3-5 times in the lead up to a sale and then go quiet for about 3 months. In other words, <strong>her email marketing was driven by the things she wanted to sell at the time, rather than on where her subscribers were in their journey with her or what problem they were trying to fix</strong>. But Gisele wasn't sure how to meet them where they were. And, like many other business owners who are new to email marketing, she was afraid to email her list more often.</p><p>Sound familiar?</p><p><br></p><h3>A look into Gisele's systems and automation</h3><p>We asked Gisele a bit more about her systems, and she told us she's using ConvertKit as her email marketing platform. At the start, she was just broadcasting. But over time she got more sophisticated and started embracing automation to create an onboarding sequence and then a welcome sequence. And because she sells a handful of small products as well as providing free content, those sequences consist of 2-4 emails.</p><p>And that's when things start to get interesting...</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How Gisele cleaned up her list</strong></h3><p>You see, one of the first things we encourage our members to do is to give their list a bit of a clean-up. We help our members do that through a specific campaign, which Gisele eventually used, but she also did something pretty amazing to clean up her list.</p><p><br></p><p>And here it goes...</p><p>Gisele decided to email her subscribers to let them know she'd be emailing them 3 times a week going forward. Why 3 times a week? Because she was scared of completely obliterating her list had she started sending out emails more frequently. But also, 3 times a week felt like something she could be consistent with in the long run.</p><p><br></p><p>So in those initial emails, Gisele gave people the option to opt-out. But she also explained, very transparently, what people could do with her emails. They could read and delete or they could store and get back to them whenever they wanted. In the space of about 3-4 months, about 300 people unsubscribed.</p><p><br></p><p>But something else also happened. A lot of people actually started to reply back to her, i.e. engage with her emails! So after she gave the option for people to leave if they wanted to, she ran our Cold Subscriber Campaign, and that's where she found the cold subscribers who hadn't engaged for three months and actively removed those people from her list. By that point, that only cut her list by a further 30-40 subscribers.</p><p><br></p><p>So over time and by emailing more often, Gisele gave the opportunity to those less-interested subscribers to leave quietly through the back door. Her list shrunk by about 300 people, but it also became more engaged.</p><p>And that's a good thing because...</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How Gisele's increased her Earning Per Subscriber Per Month (EPSPM)&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>One of the metrics we encourage our members to look at is the <strong>Earnings per Subscriber per Month (or EPSPM)</strong>. And that's pretty much what it says on the tin. It's how much money you earn every month for every subscriber that's on your list.</p><p><br></p><p>Before joining <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, Gisele was making a mega respectable $1.30 per subscriber. But after cleaning up her list and implementing some of the strategies we teach, Gisele is now making an amazing $4.10 per subscriber! Isn't she awesome?!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How email marketing has changed for Gisele's business since she joined The League</strong></h3><p>Gisele tells us she feels <em>way</em> better about her email marketing now. Her customers aren't leaving her list (despite her emailing more regularly and often), and they're more engaged. But also, Gisele can tell she's getting better at the whole thing. Admitting she struggles with the writing side of things, she can see how she's improving and getting quicker at composing her emails as time goes on.</p><p><br></p><p>Gisele also talked about running another one of our campaigns - the Time Lord campaign - to promote one of her standalone online products. The campaign runs over 5 days, and Gisele was hoping to get 10 sales at $79 per product. Do you know what happened? She sold 6 on day one and by day 5 she'd sold a total of 40! Plus, she also received lots of lovely comments and even some great testimonials without even having to ask for them!</p><p><br></p><p>So let's re-cap what Gisele did right. She took her list and tidied it up first - making it smaller and narrowing it down to those people who were super engaged. She then started running campaigns and getting email marketing right by setting up processes to build a profitable business. Now Gisele is in a position to start focusing on building her list because she knows that if she was to drive hundreds or even thousands more subscribers through that her list, it's proven to work. She's tested the system, made it work, and now she's ready to add to that list.</p><p>Just. Brilliant.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The activity that had the most impact on Gisele's email marketing</strong></h3><p>Hands down, the one thing Gisele started doing that had the most impact on her email marketing, she says, is producing video. It's not always Gisele speaking on camera though - she also produces slideshows. But embracing video has been key for her - a huge step up that proved really beneficial.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What's next when it comes to Gisele's email marketing?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Gisele told us two things are on her to-do list when it comes to her email marketing. The first thing she wants to do is to grow her list. In the past, Gisele hadn't been comfortable with social media or putting money behind ads. But that's all about to change because she's now super confident that growing her list is going to work for her business.</p><p><br></p><p>The second thing Gisele wants to do is to set up the right campaigns to feed into what we call The Master Controller, or her main product. And in Gisele's case, that's the membership she's launching. So she has a few email campaigns she's excited to set up and write. Cool beans!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How much time does email marketing really take?&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>To reassure anyone who thinks they don't have time to do email marketing because they have a business to run, we asked Gisele whether embracing email marketing has taken over her life. And her answer is that it's becoming a more and more natural part of running her business. It's the one thing she now knows she's not going to give up because she can see <strong>how foundational and essential email is. Nothing is going to beat it</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>Gisele admits that creating and setting up campaigns took a bit of time, initially. But it's an asset that she now has in her business and can go back and improve on at any time. Writing emails can take Gisele anything between 15 minutes and half an hour, and for her, that happens 3 times a week. She then spends another couple of hours a week learning and creating campaigns and envisages needing to spend 3-4 hours a month on getting to where she wants to be, over the next couple of months. But after that, she reckons one hour a week will be plenty. And isn't that music to your ears?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>We hope you enjoyed Gisele's story and how she is using email marketing to build a profitable business. But let's now move on to this week's subject line of the week, which is is "Kennedy's fired". And it's one we sent out recently during one of our events. It has to do with the fact that Kennedy dropped the ball and forgot to upgrade our Zoom account, so we had people kicked out of the event because we didn't have enough space for all our participants. Oh, dear.</p><p><br></p><p>Why did the subject line work though? Because it implies there's been some sort of dispute between us. The truth is that we've been friends for over 18 years, so something like this is unlikely to really affect us. But creating comedic tension with your subject lines <em>definitely</em> works. Try it out!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Gisele</strong></h5><p>If you enjoyed Gisele's story on how she's using email marketing to build a profitable business and would like to connect with her, you can find her on her website <a href="https://sunyatamovementstudio.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sunyata Movement Studio</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/create-and-sell-courses-online/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to create and sell courses online that people actually want</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/write-emails-like-a-boss-even-if-you-think-youre-a-crap-writer/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Write Emails Like A Boss – Even If You Think You’re A Crap Writer</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/league-of-email-marketing-heroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Who should not join The League of email marketing heroes</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>Want to write better emails? Come up with better content? Influence and move your readers to click and buy? Well, you can do that with this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the&nbsp;<strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes, where we get to share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to&nbsp;<strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing by applying everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about using email marketing to build a profitable business with the lovely Gisele St. Hilaire) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>leaving us a review </strong>on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes and get discovered by more awesome people like you.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-build-profitable-business/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">32c8d597-7a9e-4e7a-a6a7-806c39cd0528</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/9ead14b0-b12c-4172-8efb-a78d9bbff71b/PyENvxg5pXbgNgbQmw2Sxr6B.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/41c79d8f-8371-4cc4-ac05-5b12e4dcc72d/101-gisele-chat.mp3" length="48749006" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>25:23</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>101</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>101</podcast:episode></item><item><title>*SPECIAL 100TH EPISODE: A Week in The Life at Email Marketing Heroes (Behind The Scenes with Rob &amp; Kennedy)</title><itunes:title>*SPECIAL 100TH EPISODE: A Week in The Life at Email Marketing Heroes (Behind The Scenes with Rob &amp; Kennedy)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>We have reached 100 episodes of The Email Marketing Show! Whoop! To celebrate we (Rob and Kennedy) have recorded a very special behind-the-scenes episode - a week in the life here at Email Marketing Heroes.&nbsp;</p><p>We talk about what we do on Sundays (Kennedy), Mondays, and Wednesdays, how we build our campaigns, how we write our daily emails... and how Kennedy puts his underpants on in the morning. You <em>really</em> don't want to miss this one...&nbsp;</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(3:15) The team at Email Marketing Heroes. </p><p>(7:06) Should you make time for email marketing?</p><p>(9:20) A Sunday in the life of Email Marketing Heroes. </p><p>(11:08) A Monday in the life of Email Marketing Heroes.</p><p>(18:15) Email Marketing Wednesday!!!</p><p>(20:54) What about our daily emails?</p><p>(25:58) Batching, batching, batching.</p><p>(31:42) Email marketing is the one activity that will grow your business!</p><p>(35:15) Did Rob and Kennedy really record this whole episode naked? </p><p>(36:40) Subject line of the week. </p><h3><strong>The team at Email Marketing Heroes</strong></h3><p>If you're new to the show, welcome. We are Rob and Kennedy, we run The Email Marketing Show and an awesome membership called <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League of Email Marketing Heroes</a>. Rob and Kennedy (and some of our staff) are based in the North East of England and have a remote team with members from all over the world, including India and Columbia.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>We are currently making mid-6 figures a year and <em>might</em> even be able to hit a million soon. But we don't say this to brag (honestly!) For us, how much we make is a measurement of how many people we can spread the word to about this really good email marketing stuff!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Should you make time for email marketing?&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>As we take you behind the scenes of our working week, you'll see just how much time we spend on email marketing. And you might think: "<em>Of course</em> you guys spend time on email marketing. You teach the stuff!" And you'd be right in thinking that.</p><p><br></p><p>But the real reason why we spend a lot of time on email marketing is because our business would dry up if we didn't. You see, <strong>90% of our sales come from email marketing, so we couldn't afford <em>not</em> to do it.</strong> It's not a question of having time for us - in fact, we don't have time <em>not</em> to do it.</p><p><br></p><p>And in our opinion, neither do you! As Rob always says, <strong>if you're not spending time on email marketing, what else are you spending it on? </strong>Are we all inventing stuff that we could be doing in order to feel like we're being productive and getting loads done? Does what you do every day really move the needle in your business? Our tip is to <strong>focus on the activities that make you sales - and that's always going to be email.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>With email, you can make sales now but also setting up sales for the future. And that's how your business is going to grow.&nbsp;So <strong>focus on building systems in your business that will make you sales both now and in the future.</strong></p><p>And with that out of the way, let's look into our week...</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>A Sunday in the life of Email Marketing Heroes</strong></h3><p>Believe it or not, our working week starts on a Sunday, which is when Kennedy will spend a couple of hours looking at our social media channels, including our <a href="http://www.instagram.com/robandkennedy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, the <a href="https://en-gb.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators Facebook Group</a>, and our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook page</a> and, in one sitting, plan the content we are going to be sharing. Kennedy will typically record around 6 videos and create a whole bunch of graphics or brief them to our awesome designer Parul.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And the reason why he chooses to do it on a Sunday is that during the week we are focused on supporting our staff on Slack. On a Sunday, the team is off, so Kennedy can get in his creative zone. Plus, he finds that weekends are the best times to come up with new ideas!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>A Monday in the life of Email Marketing Heroes</strong></h3><p>Monday marks the official start of the week here at Email Marketing Heroes. Our staff check in every morning and check out every single evening, depending on what time zone they are in the world and how many hours they work.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>If we have something specific or an idea we want to discuss, we (Rob and Kennedy) typically get together for a call on a Monday to talk strategy. The cool thing is - we're completely flexible with this. We value flexibility and freedom to be able to do the things we want when we want and wherever we want. But if we need a call, we'll make that happen. Otherwise, we'll just keep an eye on whatever is coming around the corner to avoid anything ever becoming urgent or critical.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>A Wednesday in the life of Email Marketing Heroes</strong></h3><p>Hang on a sec. What about Tuesday? Well, we actually don't do much work in this business on a Tuesday - or a Thursday or Friday for that matter! We can make exceptions, of course, so if there's a meeting we've been trying to make happen that can only take place on one of those days, we'll go ahead with it. But we have our own take on meetings - we'll only book one if there's a specific purpose to it.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><em>Wednesday</em> on the other hand is a <em>very</em> important day... because it's <strong>Email Marketing Wednesday!!!&nbsp;</strong>And that's when - on the first Wednesday of every month - we record this podcast. We are able to attract some really big-name people in the world of online digital marketing, and when we let our guests know we only record one day a month, we've hardly ever had any pushbacks.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>But we definitely intensify our work on a Wednesday. We also do content creation, live events inside our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, and record training. We dedicate Wednesdays to email marketing because this allows us to think about it all day - about all the different email marketing strategies we can share with other people and how to best reach out and teach them. It's definitely an intense experience. But once all the podcast episodes are recorded, for example, we can pass on the activities to other members of our team to carry with their own separate tasks and make things happen simultaneously without us getting involved.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What about our daily emails?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>This is where we truly live in the moment every single day, for the most part. As most of you know, we send an email every single day to our list - 365 days a year. There are obviously some other emails that get sent to people to our members or our customers, but in terms of our general list, the email we send daily are written live, in the moment. Or sometimes, they were written into our email marketing platform up to a maximum of 4 hours before, if we're doing a split test.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Rob writes most of the emails, and on a Friday, he might want to write the Saturday and Sunday emails too, if he wants to take the days off. But not always. Because it typically only takes a whole of 10 minutes to get the email written and queued up and sent, so not long at all!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Our email campaigns</strong></h3><p>The only exception to that is that every 4-6 weeks we run a new campaign that replaces our daily emails. And those emails are usually pre-written. There's no chance we'd do an email campaign live - those have a lot of moving parts, and you might risk sending the wrong emails to the wrong segments and confusing people. So running an automation and then testing it is a lot more secure.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Every 6-8 weeks we come up with a new way of promoting our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, which is our main product. We try and promote it from different angles because not everyone buys it for the same reasons. And we teach our members to do the same exact thing with their email marketing and products. <strong>You'll get better results from running different campaigns every 4-6 weeks to stimulate people in new and interesting ways.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>When we're coming up with a new campaign, the process normally starts on a Monday when we might have a strategy call and plan the campaign out. We go through the idea and talk about ways of making it more interesting and appealing to people who haven't engaged in the past. Sometimes we get to the end of that call and realise it wasn't a good idea at all, so we throw it out. Sometimes we'll have a great idea, but it doesn't quite work as we expected. But sometimes we have great ideas that actually work. And those are the campaigns that end up making it into <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> to be shared with our members.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Writing our email campaigns and testing</strong></h3><p>Whenever we start a new campaign, we first write all the emails in a Google Doc. At that point, we don't worry about the technology. We can both work on the document and share comments and suggestions in real-time, which works super well if you're collaborating with others. When we're happy with our...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We have reached 100 episodes of The Email Marketing Show! Whoop! To celebrate we (Rob and Kennedy) have recorded a very special behind-the-scenes episode - a week in the life here at Email Marketing Heroes.&nbsp;</p><p>We talk about what we do on Sundays (Kennedy), Mondays, and Wednesdays, how we build our campaigns, how we write our daily emails... and how Kennedy puts his underpants on in the morning. You <em>really</em> don't want to miss this one...&nbsp;</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(3:15) The team at Email Marketing Heroes. </p><p>(7:06) Should you make time for email marketing?</p><p>(9:20) A Sunday in the life of Email Marketing Heroes. </p><p>(11:08) A Monday in the life of Email Marketing Heroes.</p><p>(18:15) Email Marketing Wednesday!!!</p><p>(20:54) What about our daily emails?</p><p>(25:58) Batching, batching, batching.</p><p>(31:42) Email marketing is the one activity that will grow your business!</p><p>(35:15) Did Rob and Kennedy really record this whole episode naked? </p><p>(36:40) Subject line of the week. </p><h3><strong>The team at Email Marketing Heroes</strong></h3><p>If you're new to the show, welcome. We are Rob and Kennedy, we run The Email Marketing Show and an awesome membership called <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League of Email Marketing Heroes</a>. Rob and Kennedy (and some of our staff) are based in the North East of England and have a remote team with members from all over the world, including India and Columbia.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>We are currently making mid-6 figures a year and <em>might</em> even be able to hit a million soon. But we don't say this to brag (honestly!) For us, how much we make is a measurement of how many people we can spread the word to about this really good email marketing stuff!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Should you make time for email marketing?&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>As we take you behind the scenes of our working week, you'll see just how much time we spend on email marketing. And you might think: "<em>Of course</em> you guys spend time on email marketing. You teach the stuff!" And you'd be right in thinking that.</p><p><br></p><p>But the real reason why we spend a lot of time on email marketing is because our business would dry up if we didn't. You see, <strong>90% of our sales come from email marketing, so we couldn't afford <em>not</em> to do it.</strong> It's not a question of having time for us - in fact, we don't have time <em>not</em> to do it.</p><p><br></p><p>And in our opinion, neither do you! As Rob always says, <strong>if you're not spending time on email marketing, what else are you spending it on? </strong>Are we all inventing stuff that we could be doing in order to feel like we're being productive and getting loads done? Does what you do every day really move the needle in your business? Our tip is to <strong>focus on the activities that make you sales - and that's always going to be email.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>With email, you can make sales now but also setting up sales for the future. And that's how your business is going to grow.&nbsp;So <strong>focus on building systems in your business that will make you sales both now and in the future.</strong></p><p>And with that out of the way, let's look into our week...</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>A Sunday in the life of Email Marketing Heroes</strong></h3><p>Believe it or not, our working week starts on a Sunday, which is when Kennedy will spend a couple of hours looking at our social media channels, including our <a href="http://www.instagram.com/robandkennedy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, the <a href="https://en-gb.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators Facebook Group</a>, and our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emailmarketingheroes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook page</a> and, in one sitting, plan the content we are going to be sharing. Kennedy will typically record around 6 videos and create a whole bunch of graphics or brief them to our awesome designer Parul.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And the reason why he chooses to do it on a Sunday is that during the week we are focused on supporting our staff on Slack. On a Sunday, the team is off, so Kennedy can get in his creative zone. Plus, he finds that weekends are the best times to come up with new ideas!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>A Monday in the life of Email Marketing Heroes</strong></h3><p>Monday marks the official start of the week here at Email Marketing Heroes. Our staff check in every morning and check out every single evening, depending on what time zone they are in the world and how many hours they work.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>If we have something specific or an idea we want to discuss, we (Rob and Kennedy) typically get together for a call on a Monday to talk strategy. The cool thing is - we're completely flexible with this. We value flexibility and freedom to be able to do the things we want when we want and wherever we want. But if we need a call, we'll make that happen. Otherwise, we'll just keep an eye on whatever is coming around the corner to avoid anything ever becoming urgent or critical.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>A Wednesday in the life of Email Marketing Heroes</strong></h3><p>Hang on a sec. What about Tuesday? Well, we actually don't do much work in this business on a Tuesday - or a Thursday or Friday for that matter! We can make exceptions, of course, so if there's a meeting we've been trying to make happen that can only take place on one of those days, we'll go ahead with it. But we have our own take on meetings - we'll only book one if there's a specific purpose to it.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><em>Wednesday</em> on the other hand is a <em>very</em> important day... because it's <strong>Email Marketing Wednesday!!!&nbsp;</strong>And that's when - on the first Wednesday of every month - we record this podcast. We are able to attract some really big-name people in the world of online digital marketing, and when we let our guests know we only record one day a month, we've hardly ever had any pushbacks.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>But we definitely intensify our work on a Wednesday. We also do content creation, live events inside our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, and record training. We dedicate Wednesdays to email marketing because this allows us to think about it all day - about all the different email marketing strategies we can share with other people and how to best reach out and teach them. It's definitely an intense experience. But once all the podcast episodes are recorded, for example, we can pass on the activities to other members of our team to carry with their own separate tasks and make things happen simultaneously without us getting involved.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What about our daily emails?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>This is where we truly live in the moment every single day, for the most part. As most of you know, we send an email every single day to our list - 365 days a year. There are obviously some other emails that get sent to people to our members or our customers, but in terms of our general list, the email we send daily are written live, in the moment. Or sometimes, they were written into our email marketing platform up to a maximum of 4 hours before, if we're doing a split test.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Rob writes most of the emails, and on a Friday, he might want to write the Saturday and Sunday emails too, if he wants to take the days off. But not always. Because it typically only takes a whole of 10 minutes to get the email written and queued up and sent, so not long at all!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Our email campaigns</strong></h3><p>The only exception to that is that every 4-6 weeks we run a new campaign that replaces our daily emails. And those emails are usually pre-written. There's no chance we'd do an email campaign live - those have a lot of moving parts, and you might risk sending the wrong emails to the wrong segments and confusing people. So running an automation and then testing it is a lot more secure.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Every 6-8 weeks we come up with a new way of promoting our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, which is our main product. We try and promote it from different angles because not everyone buys it for the same reasons. And we teach our members to do the same exact thing with their email marketing and products. <strong>You'll get better results from running different campaigns every 4-6 weeks to stimulate people in new and interesting ways.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>When we're coming up with a new campaign, the process normally starts on a Monday when we might have a strategy call and plan the campaign out. We go through the idea and talk about ways of making it more interesting and appealing to people who haven't engaged in the past. Sometimes we get to the end of that call and realise it wasn't a good idea at all, so we throw it out. Sometimes we'll have a great idea, but it doesn't quite work as we expected. But sometimes we have great ideas that actually work. And those are the campaigns that end up making it into <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> to be shared with our members.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Writing our email campaigns and testing</strong></h3><p>Whenever we start a new campaign, we first write all the emails in a Google Doc. At that point, we don't worry about the technology. We can both work on the document and share comments and suggestions in real-time, which works super well if you're collaborating with others. When we're happy with our final copy, we upload the emails onto our email marketing platform and then ask our designer Parul to create the graphics for that particular promotion. We like to get things done simultaneously where we can, so we can just get the work done faster.</p><p><br></p><p>And then there's a really important step you don't want to miss here - testing. You want to go through and click on every link to make sure it's going where it's supposed to. Drop the price of your product to 50p/50 cents or £1/$1 and buy it - go through the process and see what it's like for your customers. (Just don't forget to put the price back up before you go live!) Create various email addresses and see what the experience is like for someone who goes through a certain path vs a subscriber who chooses a different route.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Bathing, batching, batching!</strong></h3><p>You probably noticed that batching tasks is a big part of what we do. Even when we're running a new email campaign, for example, we'll split the tasks up. We never work on things in sequence. Take our Time Lord campaign, for example. It runs over the course of 5 days and includes several videos. The last thing you want to do is to record these videos separately and having to set up your equipment 5 different times on 5 different days! That's just not efficient and forces your brain to switch gears. What you want to do instead is to stay in the same creative zone. The same goes with writing your emails - you want to do all that in one sitting.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Email marketing is the one activity that will grow your business!</strong></h3><p><strong>We spend 70% of our time doing email marketing because that's the way to turn more subscribers into customers and more customers into repeat customers than doing anything else.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>There's only so much you can post on social media before you start diluting the reach of your own message. So you're better off focusing on how to make your one post a day better, for example - make it more engaging so you can serve your business better. But looking at your email marketing and spending time figuring out new angles to turn people into customers will help you grow your business. <strong>Email is the one activity that will drive growth in your business</strong>, so if you're not going to make the time to do it (or have someone else do it for you), you won't be able to grow your business in the way you want.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>This week's subject line of the week is "Sideways underpants". This was written by Kennedy, and it was all about the fact he got himself some fancy Ted Baker underpants, only to find out that they put the tag on the side, rather than the back. And that got Kennedy all flustered and confused when getting dressed in the morning.</p><p><br></p><p>The lesson in that? Why make things complicated for your customers? When you create products and services, don't make life difficult for them. Build on their beliefs, what they already know, and what they're already doing. And if this isn't proof that you can find email ideas absolutely everywhere, we don't know what is!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/writing-email-every-day-vs-batch-writing-in-one-go/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Writing email every day vs batch writing in one go</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-plan-3-months-of-email-content-in-an-afternoon/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Plan 3 Months Of Email Content In An Afternoon</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-often-should-you-email-emailing-more-often/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How Often Should You Email – Emailing More Often</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (and an insight into our week, here at The Email Marketing Heroes) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p><br></p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p><p>And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/week-in-the-life-email-marketing-heroes/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">36f97395-e07f-4299-8bb0-259fd122970c</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/50b931fa-6bae-4ff6-ab52-9c09976271d8/Np2pX-6znkhGeuniJt43Yr0Q.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/9db25742-f070-4691-a2ba-a974f8fabf0f/100-a-week-in-the-life.mp3" length="74048076" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>38:34</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>100</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>100</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Is Email Marketing Dead?</title><itunes:title>Is Email Marketing Dead?</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Is email marketing dead?&nbsp;</p><p>We hear this quite a bit. And it's understandable. People might be thinking email marketing dead, dying, or at least limping. We've got all these social media platforms, Messenger marketing, SMS, push notifications in apps all fighting for attention. </p><p>So where does email fit it?&nbsp;</p><p>Well, let's find out - shall we?</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(2:55) People don't open emails because most emails are shit. </p><p>(4:26) It's not about the words you use in your emails - it's about the intention behind them.</p><p>(6:02) Why you should switch the focus of your emails. </p><p>(11:15) Email marketing and algorithms.</p><p>(13:13) Social media cannot replace email! </p><p>(16:53) Value-led email marketing isn't dead! </p><p>(17:43) Email is just another content channel. </p><p>(20:04) Nothing can replace the emotional impact and relationship building you can achieve via email. </p><p>(21:42) The faster you can master email marketing, the faster you can supercharge your business. </p><p>(23:10) Subject line of the week. </p><h3><strong>People don't open emails because most emails are shit</strong></h3><p>That's right. Let's not beat around the bush. It's the truth, and you know it. Most emails are shit.</p><p>As a consumer, you may have signed up to someone's list only to receive their emails once in a while. And then when you do get them, they're all about selling you something. So there's no reason for you to actually open those emails - not if you're not interested in buying that product or service anyway. And not if you're not interested <em>right now</em>.&nbsp;</p><p>And while we're on the topic, let's be clear about something. You don't have to be an amazing writer to be able to create emails that aren't shit. It's not about how your emails are written. <strong>It's about the purpose, the use, and the intent behind the emails you send</strong>. If you send an email every day that is a variation of, "Here's why you should buy this thing," you can't expect great results. Because there's no intent behind your emails other than asking people to buy from you.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>It's not about the words - it's about the intention behind them</strong></h3><p>You see, we strongly believe that <strong>your emails should never be transactional - not even your transaction emails!</strong> But the words don't matter - it's the intention behind your emails that matters.&nbsp;</p><p>Let's bring this to life with an example from a brick-and-mortar shop. You know when you walk into a shop and find yourself looking around, browsing the shelves, and someone comes up to you and asks, "Can I help you?" They're not using the actual words, but they're trying to sell you something. More often than not, you'll say, "No, thanks" just for someone else in a different part of the store to approach you again!&nbsp;</p><p>Now, let's look at someone who <em>doesn't</em> do that. Apple. Whether you're an Apple fan or not, you can't deny that the shopping experience is different there. What Apple figured out (and that's something most brands haven't!) is that creating an enjoyable environment where customers can spend some time engaging with their gadgets without anyone bothering them makes people want to do just that - go in, check out their cool stuff, and buy it! And that happens without anyone hovering by your side asking if they can help!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>This is a great way to think about your email marketing too. People don't open your emails to read a variation of, "Hey, can I sell you something?" <strong>They open your emails to check out the cool stuff that's inside.</strong> And that's the <em>value</em> that's packed in your emails. <strong>If there's no value in your emails, there's no reason for your subscribers to open them!&nbsp;</strong></p><p><strong>The old way of doing email marketing has been dead for years. But value-led email marketing is your biggest opportunity to stand out in people's inboxes.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Switch the focus of your emails</strong></h3><p>Wait. Does this mean you can't sell stuff in your emails?</p><p>Of course not!</p><p>You can sell stuff in 100% of your emails! But that can't be the only purpose of them. There has to be an offer in there for people who want to take what you said and do something more with it. <strong>Your email has to have value.</strong></p><p>And we're lucky that our customers and subscribers tell us this all the time! We have people who take the time out of their day to tell us how happy they are that our emails land in their (and we quote) 'crowded inbox'!</p><p>How cool would that be for your business if you were to send out emails that your customers and subscribers want to talk about publicly? Compliment on social media?</p><p>Awesome, right?&nbsp;</p><p>Well, it happens to us. And not because we're not selling in our emails. But simply because <strong>we switched the focus and the highlight of our content.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Let's talk about email marketing and algorithms</strong></h3><p>We all know that social media platforms use algorithms. We don't need to understand how they work, technically. But in a nutshell, all social media platforms use algorithms to decide what content and features they want to promote and prioritise. So when Facebook wanted to promote Facebook lives, we'd all get notifications as soon as someone we vaguely followed started a Facebook live. And that means that if you're not out there on social media producing the type of content their algorithms like, you're potentially not going to reach a lot of people.&nbsp;</p><p>But email marketing is different. And what you really need to focus on is to <strong>make sure you have a clean list</strong> and aren't doing things that are considered spam. Sure, algorithms play a part in email marketing too, but as long as you're not doing crappy emails, then you <em>are</em> going to land under people's noses!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Social media cannot replace email!</strong></h3><p>If email marketing is dead, are we all going to forget about emails and only use social media then?&nbsp;</p><p>Well, hang on.&nbsp;</p><p>Let's not forget that social media <em>rely</em> on you having an email address. Because in order for you to create an account on any social media platform, you need an email address. And that social media platform is going to use that email address to keep in touch with you and invite you to check out more of their content. Because that's exactly what happens when a friend tags you in a photo on Facebook, and you get an email to say exactly that!&nbsp;</p><p>So actually, even the big players - the huge social media platforms - rely on email. And you should do the same - <strong>be everywhere you're going to be online but use every opportunity you get to grow your email list.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Do you speak on stage? Great. Invite people to join your email list.</p><p>Do you do the most awesome Facebook lives? Fantastic. Invite people to join your email list.</p><p>Do you host the best podcast show? Brilliant. Invite people to join your email list.</p><p><strong>Take your audience - your followers, your customers, your listeners, your subscribers - and move them around your infrastructure.</strong> Move your people from social media to email and vice versa. <strong>Become 3D - surround your audience in the marketplace by being everywhere.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Value-lead email marketing isn't dead</strong></h3><p>If you're taking one thing away from this episode let it be this - value-led email marketing isn't dead. If you do email marketing in the content-driven way we teach, you'll stand out from everyone else. So many more people are going to love your emails that you <em>will</em> make more sales!&nbsp;</p><p>The key thing is to<strong> move away from emailing when you want to sell to emailing<em> so that</em> when your subscribers are ready to buy, you're right there in front of them</strong>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Email is just another content channel</strong></h3><p>We've said this before, but you've got to think about things from your customers' perspectives. Most people check their emails on their phones. The mobile usage of email is increasing, so just see this as another channel of content, snuggled in there between TikTok and Instagram.&nbsp;</p><p>Think about it. If you can share some words on Facebook, why can't you share them in an email? It's just content on the internet. Whether it pops up in an email or a tweet, what's the difference? If anything, you've got so much more space and freedom to articulate your thoughts in an email because you don't have that annoying character limitation. <strong>Email isn't inherently annoying - it can be incredibly useful sometimes. </strong>So <strong>focus on making your emails good - <em>so</em> good that people want to get them in their inbox.&nbsp;</strong></p><h3><strong>Nothing can replace the emotional impact and relationship building you can achieve via email</strong></h3><p>You know, the truth is, there are so many other content channels you can use. Just listen to any of the marketing experts out there - they'll have a method to teach you to help you become great at Facebook lives, Facebook groups, TikTok, Pinterest - you name it! You can build your audience and your business on any of those platforms and in any of those ways.</p><p><br></p><p>But email is unique. There's nothing like it. Because SMS is irritating if you receive too many of them. Plus they have a character limit too, and it's not practical or easy to read and digest stuff on an SMS - you just can't build much of a relationship with an SMS. Then there's Messenger, but with people trying to spend less and less time on social media, that's also not a good place to be.&nbsp;</p><p>The truth is that]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is email marketing dead?&nbsp;</p><p>We hear this quite a bit. And it's understandable. People might be thinking email marketing dead, dying, or at least limping. We've got all these social media platforms, Messenger marketing, SMS, push notifications in apps all fighting for attention. </p><p>So where does email fit it?&nbsp;</p><p>Well, let's find out - shall we?</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(2:55) People don't open emails because most emails are shit. </p><p>(4:26) It's not about the words you use in your emails - it's about the intention behind them.</p><p>(6:02) Why you should switch the focus of your emails. </p><p>(11:15) Email marketing and algorithms.</p><p>(13:13) Social media cannot replace email! </p><p>(16:53) Value-led email marketing isn't dead! </p><p>(17:43) Email is just another content channel. </p><p>(20:04) Nothing can replace the emotional impact and relationship building you can achieve via email. </p><p>(21:42) The faster you can master email marketing, the faster you can supercharge your business. </p><p>(23:10) Subject line of the week. </p><h3><strong>People don't open emails because most emails are shit</strong></h3><p>That's right. Let's not beat around the bush. It's the truth, and you know it. Most emails are shit.</p><p>As a consumer, you may have signed up to someone's list only to receive their emails once in a while. And then when you do get them, they're all about selling you something. So there's no reason for you to actually open those emails - not if you're not interested in buying that product or service anyway. And not if you're not interested <em>right now</em>.&nbsp;</p><p>And while we're on the topic, let's be clear about something. You don't have to be an amazing writer to be able to create emails that aren't shit. It's not about how your emails are written. <strong>It's about the purpose, the use, and the intent behind the emails you send</strong>. If you send an email every day that is a variation of, "Here's why you should buy this thing," you can't expect great results. Because there's no intent behind your emails other than asking people to buy from you.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>It's not about the words - it's about the intention behind them</strong></h3><p>You see, we strongly believe that <strong>your emails should never be transactional - not even your transaction emails!</strong> But the words don't matter - it's the intention behind your emails that matters.&nbsp;</p><p>Let's bring this to life with an example from a brick-and-mortar shop. You know when you walk into a shop and find yourself looking around, browsing the shelves, and someone comes up to you and asks, "Can I help you?" They're not using the actual words, but they're trying to sell you something. More often than not, you'll say, "No, thanks" just for someone else in a different part of the store to approach you again!&nbsp;</p><p>Now, let's look at someone who <em>doesn't</em> do that. Apple. Whether you're an Apple fan or not, you can't deny that the shopping experience is different there. What Apple figured out (and that's something most brands haven't!) is that creating an enjoyable environment where customers can spend some time engaging with their gadgets without anyone bothering them makes people want to do just that - go in, check out their cool stuff, and buy it! And that happens without anyone hovering by your side asking if they can help!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>This is a great way to think about your email marketing too. People don't open your emails to read a variation of, "Hey, can I sell you something?" <strong>They open your emails to check out the cool stuff that's inside.</strong> And that's the <em>value</em> that's packed in your emails. <strong>If there's no value in your emails, there's no reason for your subscribers to open them!&nbsp;</strong></p><p><strong>The old way of doing email marketing has been dead for years. But value-led email marketing is your biggest opportunity to stand out in people's inboxes.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Switch the focus of your emails</strong></h3><p>Wait. Does this mean you can't sell stuff in your emails?</p><p>Of course not!</p><p>You can sell stuff in 100% of your emails! But that can't be the only purpose of them. There has to be an offer in there for people who want to take what you said and do something more with it. <strong>Your email has to have value.</strong></p><p>And we're lucky that our customers and subscribers tell us this all the time! We have people who take the time out of their day to tell us how happy they are that our emails land in their (and we quote) 'crowded inbox'!</p><p>How cool would that be for your business if you were to send out emails that your customers and subscribers want to talk about publicly? Compliment on social media?</p><p>Awesome, right?&nbsp;</p><p>Well, it happens to us. And not because we're not selling in our emails. But simply because <strong>we switched the focus and the highlight of our content.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Let's talk about email marketing and algorithms</strong></h3><p>We all know that social media platforms use algorithms. We don't need to understand how they work, technically. But in a nutshell, all social media platforms use algorithms to decide what content and features they want to promote and prioritise. So when Facebook wanted to promote Facebook lives, we'd all get notifications as soon as someone we vaguely followed started a Facebook live. And that means that if you're not out there on social media producing the type of content their algorithms like, you're potentially not going to reach a lot of people.&nbsp;</p><p>But email marketing is different. And what you really need to focus on is to <strong>make sure you have a clean list</strong> and aren't doing things that are considered spam. Sure, algorithms play a part in email marketing too, but as long as you're not doing crappy emails, then you <em>are</em> going to land under people's noses!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Social media cannot replace email!</strong></h3><p>If email marketing is dead, are we all going to forget about emails and only use social media then?&nbsp;</p><p>Well, hang on.&nbsp;</p><p>Let's not forget that social media <em>rely</em> on you having an email address. Because in order for you to create an account on any social media platform, you need an email address. And that social media platform is going to use that email address to keep in touch with you and invite you to check out more of their content. Because that's exactly what happens when a friend tags you in a photo on Facebook, and you get an email to say exactly that!&nbsp;</p><p>So actually, even the big players - the huge social media platforms - rely on email. And you should do the same - <strong>be everywhere you're going to be online but use every opportunity you get to grow your email list.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Do you speak on stage? Great. Invite people to join your email list.</p><p>Do you do the most awesome Facebook lives? Fantastic. Invite people to join your email list.</p><p>Do you host the best podcast show? Brilliant. Invite people to join your email list.</p><p><strong>Take your audience - your followers, your customers, your listeners, your subscribers - and move them around your infrastructure.</strong> Move your people from social media to email and vice versa. <strong>Become 3D - surround your audience in the marketplace by being everywhere.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Value-lead email marketing isn't dead</strong></h3><p>If you're taking one thing away from this episode let it be this - value-led email marketing isn't dead. If you do email marketing in the content-driven way we teach, you'll stand out from everyone else. So many more people are going to love your emails that you <em>will</em> make more sales!&nbsp;</p><p>The key thing is to<strong> move away from emailing when you want to sell to emailing<em> so that</em> when your subscribers are ready to buy, you're right there in front of them</strong>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Email is just another content channel</strong></h3><p>We've said this before, but you've got to think about things from your customers' perspectives. Most people check their emails on their phones. The mobile usage of email is increasing, so just see this as another channel of content, snuggled in there between TikTok and Instagram.&nbsp;</p><p>Think about it. If you can share some words on Facebook, why can't you share them in an email? It's just content on the internet. Whether it pops up in an email or a tweet, what's the difference? If anything, you've got so much more space and freedom to articulate your thoughts in an email because you don't have that annoying character limitation. <strong>Email isn't inherently annoying - it can be incredibly useful sometimes. </strong>So <strong>focus on making your emails good - <em>so</em> good that people want to get them in their inbox.&nbsp;</strong></p><h3><strong>Nothing can replace the emotional impact and relationship building you can achieve via email</strong></h3><p>You know, the truth is, there are so many other content channels you can use. Just listen to any of the marketing experts out there - they'll have a method to teach you to help you become great at Facebook lives, Facebook groups, TikTok, Pinterest - you name it! You can build your audience and your business on any of those platforms and in any of those ways.</p><p><br></p><p>But email is unique. There's nothing like it. Because SMS is irritating if you receive too many of them. Plus they have a character limit too, and it's not practical or easy to read and digest stuff on an SMS - you just can't build much of a relationship with an SMS. Then there's Messenger, but with people trying to spend less and less time on social media, that's also not a good place to be.&nbsp;</p><p>The truth is that <strong>there's nothing that replaces the emotional impact and relationship building you can achieve by delivering content through email. </strong>If you want to make sales, it's still an essential bit for your business.</p><p>So <strong>the faster you start mastering and enjoying email marketing, the faster you're going to be able to supercharge the other elements of your business.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>This week's subject line of the week is "Why we stopped being sexy". First of all, it's a lie, isn't it? We were never sexy to start with! Haha. (Feel free to contradict us, here, by the way).</p><p><br></p><p>But it worked because it has a bit of a provocative word in it. You're not going to get anything from your bank that has the word 'sexy' in it, are you? That gets your attention. And if you follow our work at all, you know we don't take ourselves too seriously - we like to mess about and have self-deprecating humour.&nbsp;</p><p>But the interesting thing about this email is that we split tested two different email opt-ins - one was about receiving a shiny lead magnet, and the other one was about receiving our emails daily. And guess what? The one that was just about getting our emails every day got us a 59% increase in subscribers! How cool is that? If anything, that just proves (once again) that email marketing isn't dead!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/marketing-emails-value/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">7 Ways To Give Subscriber Value In Your Marketing Emails (So People Love Receiving Them)</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/grow-your-email-list-using-facebook-pages/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Grow Your Email List Using Facebook Pages (Without Ads) – Rachel Miller Moolah Style!</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-content-ideas/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">What should I talk about in my emails? Email marketing content ideas you’ll use</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes, where we get to share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing by applying everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (and finally have the answer to the question, "Is email marketing dead?") and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes and get discovered by more awesome people like you.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/is-email-marketing-dead/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">e3b9817f-c73e-48fa-9ce3-70170288d4f4</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/83348adf-cffc-4aaf-aac7-ccac7fc0bf3b/6dtw5xAkOuKBeJUiltCVvCJt.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/3924dfc7-3891-4ed9-9fce-0b6ac5053b0e/099-is-email-marketing-dead.mp3" length="48463958" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>25:14</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>99</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>99</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How to turn data into amazing outcomes - learn about Measuring Marketing with Chris Mercer</title><itunes:title>How to turn data into amazing outcomes - learn about Measuring Marketing with Chris Mercer</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Do you want to learn how to turn some super simple data into amazing insights and even better outcomes? Today's episode teaches you everything you need to know about measuring marketing with Chris Mercer. </p><p>If just hearing the mention of Google Analytics makes you break up in hives, this episode is for you. Because you might not see yourself as a number person, but you can still absolutely gather data that will help you make better decisions in your business.</p><p>Ready for all the juicy stuff?</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(2:44) Does Chris Mercer really want to open a guitar shop when he retires?</p><p>(4:51) Measuring marketing - why every business should start doing it.</p><p>(5:50) What you should be tracking when it comes to email marketing.</p><p>(6:41) Why digital marketers should start using Google Analytics.</p><p>(7:21) How you can start using Google Analytics (even if you're not a number person!)</p><p>(13:00) Why you should start using UTM parameters right now.</p><p>(16:29) Recommended tools to build UTMs. </p><p>(18:10) How time-consuming is measuring marketing?</p><p>(22:21) How big does your email list need to be for you to start measuring marketing? </p><p>(25:53) Subject line of the week with Chris Mercer.</p><h3><strong>Measuring marketing - why every business should start doing it</strong></h3><p>Are you one of those people who run their business on a wing and a prayer, hoping it will all work out? Are you trying (and struggling) to figure it all out as you go?</p><p>We know that a lot of people use email marketing because it's a fantastic channel. But do you tap into the functionality offered by your email provider and measure the results of your email marketing campaigns? A lot of people don't.</p><p>And that's not just in terms of sales but also in terms of the customer journey and how you're moving people through a conversation that eventually leads your subscribers to buy your products. If you don't do this - like many others - it's probably because you don't know you <em>should</em> and you don't know you <em>can</em>.</p><p>And that's about to change.&nbsp;Because <strong>if you're a business owner, you absolutely <em>can</em> and<em> should</em> measure your customer journey.</strong></p><h3><strong>What should you be tracking when it comes to email marketing?</strong></h3><p>The top two pieces of information every business should be measuring, Mercer says, are <strong>open rates</strong> and <strong>click-through rates</strong>. Open rates matter because they tell you how interesting your email might be for your marketplace. While click-through rates tell you how efficient your emails are at getting people to take the next step you want them to take.</p><p>But once you've got your subscribers off their email app and onto your web page, the data from your email provider isn't enough anymore. You need tools like Google Analytics to help you tell another part of the story. What happens now that your subscriber is on your website?</p><p>So let's say you had 100 people who opened your email. Ten of them clicked through the link, but only one bought from you. What happened to the other nine? Google Analytics can provide the information you need to close that gap.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Should digital marketers start using Google Analytics?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>A lot of people think of Google Analytics as something confusing and overwhelming they can't make any sense of. So the first thing that needs to happen is a mindset change - you need to shift the way you look at it.</p><p>Mercer explained this with an easy example. Let's imagine you've walked into a shoe shop. The sales assistant will walk up to you, ask you questions, direct you to the right product for your needs, and possibly even try and upsell you. That's a completely natural conversation that would be happening in this scenario and interaction.</p><p>Let's now move back to the online world. <strong>The way that your customers interact with your web pages is the equivalent of the conversation that would take place in a physical store with an actual person</strong>. But unless you intentionally try and check what happens in that interaction (with a tool like Google Analytics) you have no idea of what would take place in that conversation.</p><p>The greatest mindset shift is to realise that that you may be selling online, but that conversation is still there. <strong>Measuring marketing is how digital marketers listen to the interaction between their customers and their website</strong>. And you should absolutely do this because you'd never ignore a customer in the brick-and-mortar world, would you?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to make sense of Google Analytics</strong></h3><p>Once you set up Google Analytics, you get access to a lot of data. But this information is not stitched together - it's not in any organised shape or form. It's the equivalent of you picking up a storybook where a bunch of pages has been ripped up. You can totally still read the book because the fact it's missing pages doesn't mean you've suddenly lost the ability to read! But it won't make much sense as a story.</p><p>The same happens with Google Analytics. Setting it up gives you access to lots of data, but that information isn't joined together and utilised properly. Investing the time to do it (i.e. embracing measuring marketing) allows you to respond to that information. So you can, for example, adjust email subject lines or change body copy to try and move the conversation the way we want it to go. And once you decide to start working with Google Analytics, you will see impressive results quite quickly.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why you should start using UTMs</strong></h3><p>A tactic Mercer recommends you use is UTM parameters. So when you have UTM parameters set up and someone clicks on one of your emails, you can identify where that traffic came from, what type of traffic it was, and what the purpose of it was. So, as an example, you can use UTM code through your email provider and start looking at your customer journey. Because UTMs help you understand which path the person who clicked on a particular link came from and the route they took.</p><p>You can look at information such as what the purpose of the email was. Was it to make someone aware of the product? Was it to engage them? Or to help them close and buy? <strong>Once you can pinpoint what emails are generating the type of actions you're interested in, you'll also know what works and what doesn't and be able to change things as a result.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3>Recommended tools to build UTMs</h3><p>Google has its own UTM builder, which is a nice and neat browser extension. But Mercer also recommended two different tools to build UTMs. One is <a href="https://web.utm.io/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">utm.io</a>. The other one is the free UTM Builder that Mercer offers as part of his Traffic Tracking Toolkit on his website <a href="https://measurementmarketing.io/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">measuringmarketing.io</a>, together with an eBook and a video to help you set it all up.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How time-consuming is it to set your business up for measuring marketing?</strong></h3><p>Setting Google Analytics up and getting started with UTMs and measuring marketing doesn't need to take long. Sure, Google Analytics can be complicated in terms of the data you can access through the tool. But, Mercer says, you can start things up and always improve at a later date.</p><p>Setting up UTMs with your email provider will take minutes, and the payoff in terms of visibility into your customer journey is incredible, so there's no real excuse not to do it!</p><p>After all,<strong> you can only read data at a later date if you've been collecting it in the first place.</strong> And once you get started and have measuring marketing set up, you can then focus on doing more of what works. In other words, stop trying to pull up the troughs and focus on the peaks instead!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How big does your list need to be for you to be able to start with measuring marketing?</strong></h3><p>Mercer says that <strong>the truth is in the trend and the power is in the pattern</strong>. If you're looking for a pattern or a trend, then 100 people on your list is a good number to get started because you can judge pretty quickly if an email is working or not.</p><p>Of course, the more that number grows, the more you can rely on trends becoming more stable - the bigger the sample, the better. But that doesn't mean you can't embrace measuring marketing when your list is still on the small side. <strong>As long as you can see a consistent pattern over time, you're doing measuring marketing.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week with Chris Mercer&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Mercer recently changed a measurement marketing certification they were offering to partners. So he sent out an email with the subject line: "Your certification..."</p><p>This worked well for Mercer's business for a particular campaign in the context of changing the messaging around the certification. The subject line was successful because it made the recipients wonder what the content was all about - it used curiosity as a hook. It got a huge open rate and the format worked really well. Pretty cool stuff!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Mercer</strong></h5><p>Did you enjoy this episode about measuring markeing with Chris Mercer? If you want to connect with the amazing Mercer, head over to his website <a href="https://measurementmarketing.io/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">measuringmarketing.io</a>. Chris has a free membership called Toolbox membership that offers a lot of free tools to help you improve your marketing. Head over to <a...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you want to learn how to turn some super simple data into amazing insights and even better outcomes? Today's episode teaches you everything you need to know about measuring marketing with Chris Mercer. </p><p>If just hearing the mention of Google Analytics makes you break up in hives, this episode is for you. Because you might not see yourself as a number person, but you can still absolutely gather data that will help you make better decisions in your business.</p><p>Ready for all the juicy stuff?</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(2:44) Does Chris Mercer really want to open a guitar shop when he retires?</p><p>(4:51) Measuring marketing - why every business should start doing it.</p><p>(5:50) What you should be tracking when it comes to email marketing.</p><p>(6:41) Why digital marketers should start using Google Analytics.</p><p>(7:21) How you can start using Google Analytics (even if you're not a number person!)</p><p>(13:00) Why you should start using UTM parameters right now.</p><p>(16:29) Recommended tools to build UTMs. </p><p>(18:10) How time-consuming is measuring marketing?</p><p>(22:21) How big does your email list need to be for you to start measuring marketing? </p><p>(25:53) Subject line of the week with Chris Mercer.</p><h3><strong>Measuring marketing - why every business should start doing it</strong></h3><p>Are you one of those people who run their business on a wing and a prayer, hoping it will all work out? Are you trying (and struggling) to figure it all out as you go?</p><p>We know that a lot of people use email marketing because it's a fantastic channel. But do you tap into the functionality offered by your email provider and measure the results of your email marketing campaigns? A lot of people don't.</p><p>And that's not just in terms of sales but also in terms of the customer journey and how you're moving people through a conversation that eventually leads your subscribers to buy your products. If you don't do this - like many others - it's probably because you don't know you <em>should</em> and you don't know you <em>can</em>.</p><p>And that's about to change.&nbsp;Because <strong>if you're a business owner, you absolutely <em>can</em> and<em> should</em> measure your customer journey.</strong></p><h3><strong>What should you be tracking when it comes to email marketing?</strong></h3><p>The top two pieces of information every business should be measuring, Mercer says, are <strong>open rates</strong> and <strong>click-through rates</strong>. Open rates matter because they tell you how interesting your email might be for your marketplace. While click-through rates tell you how efficient your emails are at getting people to take the next step you want them to take.</p><p>But once you've got your subscribers off their email app and onto your web page, the data from your email provider isn't enough anymore. You need tools like Google Analytics to help you tell another part of the story. What happens now that your subscriber is on your website?</p><p>So let's say you had 100 people who opened your email. Ten of them clicked through the link, but only one bought from you. What happened to the other nine? Google Analytics can provide the information you need to close that gap.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Should digital marketers start using Google Analytics?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>A lot of people think of Google Analytics as something confusing and overwhelming they can't make any sense of. So the first thing that needs to happen is a mindset change - you need to shift the way you look at it.</p><p>Mercer explained this with an easy example. Let's imagine you've walked into a shoe shop. The sales assistant will walk up to you, ask you questions, direct you to the right product for your needs, and possibly even try and upsell you. That's a completely natural conversation that would be happening in this scenario and interaction.</p><p>Let's now move back to the online world. <strong>The way that your customers interact with your web pages is the equivalent of the conversation that would take place in a physical store with an actual person</strong>. But unless you intentionally try and check what happens in that interaction (with a tool like Google Analytics) you have no idea of what would take place in that conversation.</p><p>The greatest mindset shift is to realise that that you may be selling online, but that conversation is still there. <strong>Measuring marketing is how digital marketers listen to the interaction between their customers and their website</strong>. And you should absolutely do this because you'd never ignore a customer in the brick-and-mortar world, would you?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to make sense of Google Analytics</strong></h3><p>Once you set up Google Analytics, you get access to a lot of data. But this information is not stitched together - it's not in any organised shape or form. It's the equivalent of you picking up a storybook where a bunch of pages has been ripped up. You can totally still read the book because the fact it's missing pages doesn't mean you've suddenly lost the ability to read! But it won't make much sense as a story.</p><p>The same happens with Google Analytics. Setting it up gives you access to lots of data, but that information isn't joined together and utilised properly. Investing the time to do it (i.e. embracing measuring marketing) allows you to respond to that information. So you can, for example, adjust email subject lines or change body copy to try and move the conversation the way we want it to go. And once you decide to start working with Google Analytics, you will see impressive results quite quickly.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why you should start using UTMs</strong></h3><p>A tactic Mercer recommends you use is UTM parameters. So when you have UTM parameters set up and someone clicks on one of your emails, you can identify where that traffic came from, what type of traffic it was, and what the purpose of it was. So, as an example, you can use UTM code through your email provider and start looking at your customer journey. Because UTMs help you understand which path the person who clicked on a particular link came from and the route they took.</p><p>You can look at information such as what the purpose of the email was. Was it to make someone aware of the product? Was it to engage them? Or to help them close and buy? <strong>Once you can pinpoint what emails are generating the type of actions you're interested in, you'll also know what works and what doesn't and be able to change things as a result.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3>Recommended tools to build UTMs</h3><p>Google has its own UTM builder, which is a nice and neat browser extension. But Mercer also recommended two different tools to build UTMs. One is <a href="https://web.utm.io/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">utm.io</a>. The other one is the free UTM Builder that Mercer offers as part of his Traffic Tracking Toolkit on his website <a href="https://measurementmarketing.io/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">measuringmarketing.io</a>, together with an eBook and a video to help you set it all up.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How time-consuming is it to set your business up for measuring marketing?</strong></h3><p>Setting Google Analytics up and getting started with UTMs and measuring marketing doesn't need to take long. Sure, Google Analytics can be complicated in terms of the data you can access through the tool. But, Mercer says, you can start things up and always improve at a later date.</p><p>Setting up UTMs with your email provider will take minutes, and the payoff in terms of visibility into your customer journey is incredible, so there's no real excuse not to do it!</p><p>After all,<strong> you can only read data at a later date if you've been collecting it in the first place.</strong> And once you get started and have measuring marketing set up, you can then focus on doing more of what works. In other words, stop trying to pull up the troughs and focus on the peaks instead!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How big does your list need to be for you to be able to start with measuring marketing?</strong></h3><p>Mercer says that <strong>the truth is in the trend and the power is in the pattern</strong>. If you're looking for a pattern or a trend, then 100 people on your list is a good number to get started because you can judge pretty quickly if an email is working or not.</p><p>Of course, the more that number grows, the more you can rely on trends becoming more stable - the bigger the sample, the better. But that doesn't mean you can't embrace measuring marketing when your list is still on the small side. <strong>As long as you can see a consistent pattern over time, you're doing measuring marketing.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week with Chris Mercer&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Mercer recently changed a measurement marketing certification they were offering to partners. So he sent out an email with the subject line: "Your certification..."</p><p>This worked well for Mercer's business for a particular campaign in the context of changing the messaging around the certification. The subject line was successful because it made the recipients wonder what the content was all about - it used curiosity as a hook. It got a huge open rate and the format worked really well. Pretty cool stuff!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Mercer</strong></h5><p>Did you enjoy this episode about measuring markeing with Chris Mercer? If you want to connect with the amazing Mercer, head over to his website <a href="https://measurementmarketing.io/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">measuringmarketing.io</a>. Chris has a free membership called Toolbox membership that offers a lot of free tools to help you improve your marketing. Head over to <a href="http://measuringmarketing.io/emailmarketingshow/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">measuringmarketing.io/emailmarketingshow/</a> to gain access to a range of tools to measure your traffic throughout the customer journey, guides and frameworks to improve your measurement system, and a free library of templates, scripts, resources, and awesome toolkits.</p><p>And if you're a member of <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> don't forget to go and check out the battle plan that Mercer did for us called <strong>Using Google Analytics to Measure your Email Tracking</strong>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-track-your-email-sales-utm-tracking-with-tatiana-belim/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Track Your Email Sales – UTM Tracking With Tatiana Belim</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/increase-your-email-open-rates-13-email-marketing-tips-to-stand-out-in-an-overcrowded-inbox/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Increase Your Email Open-Rates: 13 Email Subject Line Tips to Stand Out in An Overcrowded Inbox #2018</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-amp-and-the-future-of-email-marketing-with-aweber-ceo-tom-kulzer/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email AMP and the future of email marketing with Aweber CEO Tom Kulzer</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>Want to write better emails? Come up with better content? Influence and move your readers to click and buy? Well, you can do that with this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the&nbsp;<strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes, where we get to share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to&nbsp;<strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing by applying everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about measuring marketing with Chris Mercer) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>leaving us a review </strong>on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes and get discovered by more awesome people like you.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/measuring-marketing-with-chris-mercer/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">d1f54fd0-f2ed-4360-90ca-3d6469f970ab</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/5dee3d6a-7b80-45a7-914e-974c83410450/F0wCd9GPXOYrgqDY9dgstVA3.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/4df1a0da-8980-43e4-87c2-18d2dac8e8d3/098-chris-mercer.mp3" length="56595772" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>29:28</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>98</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>98</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How to create and sell courses online that people actually want</title><itunes:title>How to create and sell courses online that people actually want</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>There's nothing worse than spending time and energy into creating an online course and then finding out that <em>nobody</em> actually wants to buy it, right? We've been there and done that. So here are our best tips to help you create and sell courses online. The trick? You want to be sure that people in your audience will actually go out of their way to pay you money for the course you put together.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to find out how to do this thing?&nbsp;</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(5:06) Why you need to create a course about something you're passionate about. </p><p>(7:44) Why you need to have an audience before you start selling a course. </p><p>(9:55) Why you need to pay attention to the questions your audience asks you.</p><p>(11:48) The difference between "problem aware" courses and "solution aware" courses. </p><p>(15:15) Why you should always tell your audience about the price of your online course.</p><p>(18:02) Why you need to get people involved into the creation of your course. </p><p>(19:48) Why you need to ask questions and run surveys.</p><p>(23:57) Why you're NOT your target market. </p><p>(26:12) Why the value isn't in the quantity. </p><p>(28:36) Subject line of the week. </p><h3><strong>Why you need to create a course about something you're passionate about (but also think about profitability!)</strong></h3><p>So you've created this online course and put it on the internet. You think everyone in your audience has seen it because <em>of course</em> people see 100% of our content online, don't they? (Or do they?!)</p><p>But no one bought it.&nbsp;</p><p>Why? Well, maybe you've created a course that nobody wants. Or maybe you just don't know how to get people interested in buying it. And you know what? We don't want this for you. We want you to be able to create and sell courses online like a pro.&nbsp;</p><p>So how exactly are you going to do that?&nbsp;</p><p>We all love sharing stuff we're passionate about, don't we? That's why we get excited about the stuff we teach. But just because we're passionate about the topic of a course we created, it doesn't mean we're going to easily sell that thing. The process of creating the course takes a lot of time and effort. But <strong>the key is to construct an offer and a sales process that will make people buy your course.</strong></p><p>Your passion will help you through all the hard work you need to do to bring your course into the world. But make sure you also <strong>strike the right balance between what you're passionate about and what's profitable</strong>.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>Why you need to have an audience before you create and sell courses online</strong></h3><p>It's really hard to create a course and sell it at scale if you don't already have some people who might be interested in buying it. Ideally, you want some kind of audience already in place that will pay attention to what you sell. So <strong>build an audience first</strong>. You can start on social media, but make sure you then move them onto your email list.</p><p>And if you're worried about not having a product to sell to your list just yet, you can be an affiliate for someone else. Or you can simply point your subscribers to your flagship content. This could be your podcast, your blog posts, your YouTube channel, or the content in your Facebook group - whatever it might be. But first things first, <strong>build a list of people who are your perfect customers</strong>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why you need to pay attention to the questions your audience asks you</strong></h3><p>Once you've got an audience, you need to pay attention to the questions they ask you. Because those will give you <strong>insight into the minds of your customers and fuel the content of your online course</strong>.&nbsp;</p><p>And that's much better (in our opinion) than focusing on customer avatars! Because it's less about the car your people drive, the newspaper they read, or the cereal they eat in the morning, than it is about their mindset. <strong>What matters is where your customers are at</strong>. Are they ready to buy this thing you're selling?</p><p>So pay attention to the trends amongst the people who become your best customers. Those are the ones who buy your products and give you the least hassle. <strong>Focus on their mindset and the belief they hold.</strong> And then start crafting your courses to serve those particular kinds of markets.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Create and sell courses online for people who are "problem aware" vs "solution aware"&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Another decision you need to make when you want to create and sell courses online is whether your course will address the <em>problem</em> that your ideal clients have or the <em>solution</em> that you offer. Some of your customers will be more "problem aware" while others will be "solution aware".&nbsp;</p><p>Here's the difference with an example. Some of the members in our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, want to sell more courses online, for example. That's a <em>problem</em> they have - they have a thing they want to sell and want to find a way to sell more of it. These people are "problem aware".&nbsp;</p><p>But we also help people who have figured out that the best way to sell more of their stuff is through email marketing. These members are "solution aware".</p><p>In the same way, you'll have people in your audience who are "problem aware" and others who are "solution aware". And you'll want to create different types of courses for them, which you'll also market differently.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>This is why we don't believe in customer avatars. Because knowing how to address the people in your audience who are "problem aware" vs the ones who are "solution aware" is much more important than what age bracket or demographic they're in. So <strong>instead of focusing on customer avatars, focus on the mindset of your ideal clients</strong>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why you should tell your audience about the price of our course</strong></h3><p>Another thing we suggest you do when you start to create and sell courses online is to reach out to your audience - either via social media or email - and tell them you're putting together a course. You also want to tell them the price of the course and ask if they want the link to it.&nbsp;Here's your formula:&nbsp;"I'm putting together a course about this thing. It's going to be this price. Who would like the link?"</p><p>Telling your audience about the price is important because you want anyone who responds to your post or email to know there's a price for whatever you're offering - it's not free! And you don't want to attract people who are mildly or passively interested in your course. <strong>You want to attract people who will go out of their way to pay for the information you're offering.</strong></p><p>At this point, you haven't created the course yet. And if you don't get any replies (or not enough to make it worth your while), then guess what? You've just discovered there isn't enough interest in that course. But at least you haven't wasted any time, effort, and energy in creating something that wouldn't have sold well for you.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why you need to get people excited about your course</strong></h3><p>So you told your audience about your course, you told them how much it's going to be, and you sent out the link to it. Now it's time to create some involvement and excitement by getting people to express their choices and "vote" on things like the name, the cover, the graphic, etc. Why? Because you want to <strong>make people emotionally involved in the process</strong>. This gives them a buy-in into the creation and the genesis of the whole course, and it's going to work wonders for you.&nbsp;</p><p>We did the same to come up with a name for our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. We opened it up to our audience and asked for ideas. And yes, it meant we handed over some creative control, but we also got some fantastic suggestions and made our audience feel involved in the process from the very beginning.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why you need to ask questions and run surveys</strong></h3><p>We are big believers in running surveys. Because they help you find out what your audience's biggest and most frustrating problems are, what their objections are, and what they're trying to overcome. Asking people about <em>them</em> and their experiences is another thing that makes them emotionally buy into the process of discovery and creation of the course.</p><p>Plus, <strong>when you pay attention to the things your audience says and the language they use, you'll know what content to create for your course.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>You know when you're walking down the street, and you hear someone shout your name? It might not be you they're after, but you automatically pay attention. This is the same thing. <strong>When your ideal clients hear you using the exact words and phrases they use to talk about their problems, their subconscious brain sits up and pays attention.</strong> And when you speak your customers' language, you're able to create a course with a name, a hook, and an offer that will make your audience sit up and pay attention.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why you need to check what ads people are running</strong></h3><p>Another strategy that might come in handy before you go ahead and create your course is to check what adverts other people are already running on Facebook. You can see the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook Ads Library here</a> as part of Facebook's transparency policy.</p><p>Doing this bit of research gives you an idea of who's running...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There's nothing worse than spending time and energy into creating an online course and then finding out that <em>nobody</em> actually wants to buy it, right? We've been there and done that. So here are our best tips to help you create and sell courses online. The trick? You want to be sure that people in your audience will actually go out of their way to pay you money for the course you put together.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to find out how to do this thing?&nbsp;</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(5:06) Why you need to create a course about something you're passionate about. </p><p>(7:44) Why you need to have an audience before you start selling a course. </p><p>(9:55) Why you need to pay attention to the questions your audience asks you.</p><p>(11:48) The difference between "problem aware" courses and "solution aware" courses. </p><p>(15:15) Why you should always tell your audience about the price of your online course.</p><p>(18:02) Why you need to get people involved into the creation of your course. </p><p>(19:48) Why you need to ask questions and run surveys.</p><p>(23:57) Why you're NOT your target market. </p><p>(26:12) Why the value isn't in the quantity. </p><p>(28:36) Subject line of the week. </p><h3><strong>Why you need to create a course about something you're passionate about (but also think about profitability!)</strong></h3><p>So you've created this online course and put it on the internet. You think everyone in your audience has seen it because <em>of course</em> people see 100% of our content online, don't they? (Or do they?!)</p><p>But no one bought it.&nbsp;</p><p>Why? Well, maybe you've created a course that nobody wants. Or maybe you just don't know how to get people interested in buying it. And you know what? We don't want this for you. We want you to be able to create and sell courses online like a pro.&nbsp;</p><p>So how exactly are you going to do that?&nbsp;</p><p>We all love sharing stuff we're passionate about, don't we? That's why we get excited about the stuff we teach. But just because we're passionate about the topic of a course we created, it doesn't mean we're going to easily sell that thing. The process of creating the course takes a lot of time and effort. But <strong>the key is to construct an offer and a sales process that will make people buy your course.</strong></p><p>Your passion will help you through all the hard work you need to do to bring your course into the world. But make sure you also <strong>strike the right balance between what you're passionate about and what's profitable</strong>.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>Why you need to have an audience before you create and sell courses online</strong></h3><p>It's really hard to create a course and sell it at scale if you don't already have some people who might be interested in buying it. Ideally, you want some kind of audience already in place that will pay attention to what you sell. So <strong>build an audience first</strong>. You can start on social media, but make sure you then move them onto your email list.</p><p>And if you're worried about not having a product to sell to your list just yet, you can be an affiliate for someone else. Or you can simply point your subscribers to your flagship content. This could be your podcast, your blog posts, your YouTube channel, or the content in your Facebook group - whatever it might be. But first things first, <strong>build a list of people who are your perfect customers</strong>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why you need to pay attention to the questions your audience asks you</strong></h3><p>Once you've got an audience, you need to pay attention to the questions they ask you. Because those will give you <strong>insight into the minds of your customers and fuel the content of your online course</strong>.&nbsp;</p><p>And that's much better (in our opinion) than focusing on customer avatars! Because it's less about the car your people drive, the newspaper they read, or the cereal they eat in the morning, than it is about their mindset. <strong>What matters is where your customers are at</strong>. Are they ready to buy this thing you're selling?</p><p>So pay attention to the trends amongst the people who become your best customers. Those are the ones who buy your products and give you the least hassle. <strong>Focus on their mindset and the belief they hold.</strong> And then start crafting your courses to serve those particular kinds of markets.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Create and sell courses online for people who are "problem aware" vs "solution aware"&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Another decision you need to make when you want to create and sell courses online is whether your course will address the <em>problem</em> that your ideal clients have or the <em>solution</em> that you offer. Some of your customers will be more "problem aware" while others will be "solution aware".&nbsp;</p><p>Here's the difference with an example. Some of the members in our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, want to sell more courses online, for example. That's a <em>problem</em> they have - they have a thing they want to sell and want to find a way to sell more of it. These people are "problem aware".&nbsp;</p><p>But we also help people who have figured out that the best way to sell more of their stuff is through email marketing. These members are "solution aware".</p><p>In the same way, you'll have people in your audience who are "problem aware" and others who are "solution aware". And you'll want to create different types of courses for them, which you'll also market differently.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>This is why we don't believe in customer avatars. Because knowing how to address the people in your audience who are "problem aware" vs the ones who are "solution aware" is much more important than what age bracket or demographic they're in. So <strong>instead of focusing on customer avatars, focus on the mindset of your ideal clients</strong>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why you should tell your audience about the price of our course</strong></h3><p>Another thing we suggest you do when you start to create and sell courses online is to reach out to your audience - either via social media or email - and tell them you're putting together a course. You also want to tell them the price of the course and ask if they want the link to it.&nbsp;Here's your formula:&nbsp;"I'm putting together a course about this thing. It's going to be this price. Who would like the link?"</p><p>Telling your audience about the price is important because you want anyone who responds to your post or email to know there's a price for whatever you're offering - it's not free! And you don't want to attract people who are mildly or passively interested in your course. <strong>You want to attract people who will go out of their way to pay for the information you're offering.</strong></p><p>At this point, you haven't created the course yet. And if you don't get any replies (or not enough to make it worth your while), then guess what? You've just discovered there isn't enough interest in that course. But at least you haven't wasted any time, effort, and energy in creating something that wouldn't have sold well for you.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why you need to get people excited about your course</strong></h3><p>So you told your audience about your course, you told them how much it's going to be, and you sent out the link to it. Now it's time to create some involvement and excitement by getting people to express their choices and "vote" on things like the name, the cover, the graphic, etc. Why? Because you want to <strong>make people emotionally involved in the process</strong>. This gives them a buy-in into the creation and the genesis of the whole course, and it's going to work wonders for you.&nbsp;</p><p>We did the same to come up with a name for our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. We opened it up to our audience and asked for ideas. And yes, it meant we handed over some creative control, but we also got some fantastic suggestions and made our audience feel involved in the process from the very beginning.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why you need to ask questions and run surveys</strong></h3><p>We are big believers in running surveys. Because they help you find out what your audience's biggest and most frustrating problems are, what their objections are, and what they're trying to overcome. Asking people about <em>them</em> and their experiences is another thing that makes them emotionally buy into the process of discovery and creation of the course.</p><p>Plus, <strong>when you pay attention to the things your audience says and the language they use, you'll know what content to create for your course.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>You know when you're walking down the street, and you hear someone shout your name? It might not be you they're after, but you automatically pay attention. This is the same thing. <strong>When your ideal clients hear you using the exact words and phrases they use to talk about their problems, their subconscious brain sits up and pays attention.</strong> And when you speak your customers' language, you're able to create a course with a name, a hook, and an offer that will make your audience sit up and pay attention.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why you need to check what ads people are running</strong></h3><p>Another strategy that might come in handy before you go ahead and create your course is to check what adverts other people are already running on Facebook. You can see the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook Ads Library here</a> as part of Facebook's transparency policy.</p><p>Doing this bit of research gives you an idea of who's running which ads and what kind of things are popular. So think of competitors or someone who's in your space and look at what ads they're running. Pay particular attention to what wording they're using to make sure there's an opportunity and an audience out there for the course you're about to create.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why you're not your target market</strong></h3><p>One of the things we've been guilty of in the past is to fall into the trap of thinking that we are our own target market. But we're not. Even if you used to be in the position of the people you're now selling to, you are not anymore. <strong>You are not your target market.</strong></p><p>The minute you become the course creator, you're no longer in the same place you were before. We say this a lot - <em>you are not typical</em>. So when thinking about the topic or content of your course don't pay too much attention to what <em>you</em> want or what you <em>used to</em> want because the world changes fast, and you're just not you're target market&nbsp; anymore.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why the value isn't in the quantity</strong></h3><p>And last but not least, another thing to bear in mind when you create and sell courses online is that <strong>the value of your course isn't in the length or quantity of your content</strong>. Because people want to get rid of their 'pain' - of their problem - as quickly as possible and with the least amount of effort. And they'll actually pay more for that privilege because we're all busy and happy to pay a premium to solve our problems in less time. Here's something worth remembering - <strong>the quantity of something isn't the value. The <em>transformation</em> is the value.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>This week's subject line of the week is, "Invite! (Short notice)" and it's something we sent out to tell our subscribers about a last-minute webinar we were running. You see, normally, we'd start promoting a webinar 3 to 5 days in advance. But in this case, it was super short notice. So we wanted to get as many people as possible onto it.&nbsp;</p><p>So with this subject line, we used the word "invite". We do a variation of this every time we run an event and might use words like "invitation" or "RSVP" in the subject line. But what this subject line also did very well was creating some sort of urgency. A lot of good subject lines are about generating curiosity, but the words "short notice" triggered urgency too. And while the amount of people who signed up for this webinar isn't the most we've ever had, the rate of registrants to attendees was the highest. This means that the majority of people who registered actually attended. And that's great!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/bottomless-email-content-to-promote-your-courses-and-programs/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bottomless Email Content To Promote Your Courses And Programs</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-sell-without-price-cutting-or-pushing-with-mike-montague-from-sandler-training/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Sell Without Price Cutting or Pushing with Mike Montague from Sandler Training</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/checklist-for-product-launch/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Add This Unusual Step to Your Checklist for Product Launch to Make More Sales After The Cart Closes with Marley Jaxx</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to create and sell courses online) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/create-and-sell-courses-online/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">8813007a-f667-45cf-a236-d25d41a7e953</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/e91c4b66-02bb-4b7e-a6f3-47d474d8c08d/RxvTJKhfFW37UGCvOHBl3CFB.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/d364a92a-8435-4e3a-8762-d4d18da7b2da/097-courses-people-want.mp3" length="61398959" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>31:59</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>97</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>97</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How to amplify email campaigns, Clate Mask from Keap spills the beans</title><itunes:title>How to amplify email campaigns, Clate Mask from Keap spills the beans</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>We all want to increase the open rates in our email campaigns. But how do we do it? How do you make your subscribers drop what they're doing to go and read your email and yours only? If only, right? Well, it's possible. And today we find out how to amplify email campaigns - Clate Mask style. </p><p>So, are you ready to have your mind completely blown by what Clate, CEO and co-founder of the amazing software company <a href="https://keap.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Keap</a> has to share with us? </p><p>Then listen on or read on (whatever takes your fancy)!</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(2:45) Is there really another Clate Mask at Keap?</p><p>(4:57) Why omnichannel marketing works.</p><p>(7:26) Can solopreneurs embrace omnichannel marketing?</p><p>(8:50) How to use a specific channel to amplify your email campaigns.</p><p>(11:19) How a simple text message can prompt your subscribers to check your emails.</p><p>(12:03) How creating an 'environment of zero competition' increases your open rates.</p><p>(15:30) The powerful pshychology behind sending a text message to your subscribers. </p><p>(17:45) How to get your subscribers' mobile number. </p><p>(20:57) Subject line of the week with Clate Mask. </p><p>(23:36) Bonus! Why Infusionsoft is now called Keap.</p><h3><strong>Why omnichannel marketing works</strong></h3><p>It's been called 'integrated marketing' or 'multi-channel marketing'. Today we're referring to it as 'omnichannel marketing', and it's something that Clate Mask's company Keap has been a pioneer of. But whatever you want to call it, it's this idea of <strong>having multiple touchpoints with your audience</strong> - to surround people with your messages.</p><p>Back when Clate Mask started Keap (then called Infusionsoft), the mediums were email, phone call, direct mail, and even fax - would you believe it?! Keap is what enables businesses across the world to communicate with customers in multiple ways.</p><p>And you know what happens to businesses that choose this omnichannel approach to get in touch with their customers? Their open rates increase. <strong>Multi-channel marketing is simply more effective</strong>, but as a business owner, you have to be disciplined. In Clate's words, "you can't be lazy". You've got to be serious about it and keen to orchestrate your messages and your campaigns. </p><p>As we always say, <strong>just because someone is on your email list, it doesn't mean they see everything you send out - </strong>people are busy, and inboxes are cluttered. But the good news is that (as long as you're active there) they also see your business on social media, they might listen to your podcast if you have one, or interact with you in your Facebook group. If you embrace the approach of surrounding your customers in the market and then apply it to structured email campaigns with specific goals of moving prospects to customers and existing customers to repeat customers, this method becomes really powerful.</p><h3><strong>Does omnichannel marketing work for solopreneurs?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>The short answer is YES!</p><p>It's easy to think that if you want to message your customers in many different ways, you need a big machine. And only big businesses have big operations, right? Well, not quite. Because Clate has seen a lot of marketers use omnichannel marketing to their advantage as one-person companies or solopreneurs. So the good news is that you can, too!</p><p>But what you do need to have, Clate says, is an understanding of how effective this approach can be. Otherwise, you'll fall into the trap of thinking the work is repetitive and just a duplication of what you've already been doing.</p><p> <strong>The most common mistake we make as business owners is to think that we've told our subscribers something once, and everybody got the message.</strong> It just doesn't work that way. And savvy marketers know otherwise. Of course, bigger companies have bigger resources and are more likely to adopt a multi-channel approach for their marketing, but nothing stops you from embracing this if you're a solopreneur.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to use a particular channel to amplify email campaigns (Clate Mask style)</strong></h3><p>So let's say you have a new offer. Or you're launching a course or a membership. You've got something to promote, and you've decided to put some real effort behind your next email marketing campaign. How do you go about it?</p><p>Here's the simple answer. Combine text and emails.  </p><p>Keap has recently introduced text messaging (both in broadcast form or by one-to-one), and they've seen how effective it is to use text messages as a separate step in email marketing campaigns. Know how? By following up one of your emails with a quick text message that says, "Hey, just wanted to let you know that I dropped an email in your inbox with some really important stuff. You want to make sure you get that, so check it out right away."<strong> The key is to keep it short and use a personal, conversational tone</strong> because that's what people are used to and expect when we receive text messages, right?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How a simple text message can prompt your subscribers to check your emails</strong></h3><p><strong>The simple step of following your email with a text message amplifies and heightens the importance of the email you just sent.</strong> Because, Clate explains, it's not about using the text message as a repetition of the content that's in your email. That's actually a common mistake that marketers make.</p><p>It's not even about the idea of sending two messages instead of one. When it comes to multi-channel marketing, there's no such thing as one plus one equals two, Clate says. It's one plus one equals three if ever there was that! (Powerful, right??!) Because<strong> by adding another medium, you amplify the message of your primary communication</strong>.</p><p>And of course, your subscribers know you didn't personally send the message - they know it's probably part of an automation. But their conditioned response as human beings after receiving your text is to go and check their inbox. And not for <em>any</em> email. They're going to check their inbox and look for<em> your</em> email.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How creating an 'environment of zero competition' increases your open rates</strong></h3><p>And as if by magic, you have successfully created what we loviongly call the 'environment of zero competition'. Your email is not competing for attention in someone's inbox anymore. You're asking your subscriber to look for <em>your</em> name in their inbox. And the effect of that is huge! It dramatically increase open rates.</p><p><strong>Smart communicators and marketers realise that being able to send a text message isn't about repeating the content of the email you just sent.</strong> It's about either prompting them to go and open that email. Clever, right?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The powerful psychology behind sending a text message to your subscribers</strong></h3><p>If you've been following us at all, you know we're all about the psychology of email. And getting a text from someone to say, "Hey, check out my email" triggers an unconscious response to go and do just that. But there's also something else at play here. <strong>You're asking your subscriber to take action</strong>, and you're getting an extra level of commitment when they do.</p><p>This is clever because you're not bombarding your audience. You're asking your subscribers to do something for you. They're now in what we call 'an active state' - they're no longer just scrolling through emails to decide what to delete. They're looking for one in particular - <em>yours</em>. And that's a really important psychological factor.</p><p>So the thing to remember here is that text message isn't about selling.&nbsp;&nbsp;In fact, you <em>shouldn't</em> sell in that text message <em>at all</em>! Because people are used to a very personal, very short piece of content that's asking them to take some sort of action. Most people don't want to receive long text messages. And that's what you should be aiming for too.</p><p>So you put all your meaty content into your email and make the text message reminder just that - personal, short, and direct. Get out of their lives quickly because that's what they expect from that medium. And it will still beautifully serve the purpose to elevate the importance of your message and amplify email campaigns (Clate Mask promises!)</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to get your subscribers' mobile numbers&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>So how do we get our subscribers' mobile numbers? How easy is it to do?</p><p>Clate's tip is to <strong>create a two-step opt-in</strong>. Design your email capture forms by asking for the email address on the first screen and then get additional information in the second one, including first name, last name, and their mobile number. The proven psychology behind it is that it's much easier to input the phone number once they've already shared their email address, rather than having to do it all at once. It's a bit like saying, "Ok, we need your email address. But <em>if you want</em>, you can also give us this..."</p><p>Hope you all wrote that down. We certainly did!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week with Clate Mask&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Clate's subject line is just genius, and it's this: "Help my kids see Shamu".</p><p>The idea behind this is that Clate's company had big quarterly sales goals they wanted to hit, and Clate had promised his family that if the company hit their goal, he'd take his kids to SeaWorld in San Diego. Of course, the children were rooting and cheering for Dad's company. But with a few days to go, they were still a bit short.&nbsp;</p><p>So Clate sent this email out. He wrote a very open and transparent email about his kids, their ages, and what he'd hope to accomplish in...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We all want to increase the open rates in our email campaigns. But how do we do it? How do you make your subscribers drop what they're doing to go and read your email and yours only? If only, right? Well, it's possible. And today we find out how to amplify email campaigns - Clate Mask style. </p><p>So, are you ready to have your mind completely blown by what Clate, CEO and co-founder of the amazing software company <a href="https://keap.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Keap</a> has to share with us? </p><p>Then listen on or read on (whatever takes your fancy)!</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(2:45) Is there really another Clate Mask at Keap?</p><p>(4:57) Why omnichannel marketing works.</p><p>(7:26) Can solopreneurs embrace omnichannel marketing?</p><p>(8:50) How to use a specific channel to amplify your email campaigns.</p><p>(11:19) How a simple text message can prompt your subscribers to check your emails.</p><p>(12:03) How creating an 'environment of zero competition' increases your open rates.</p><p>(15:30) The powerful pshychology behind sending a text message to your subscribers. </p><p>(17:45) How to get your subscribers' mobile number. </p><p>(20:57) Subject line of the week with Clate Mask. </p><p>(23:36) Bonus! Why Infusionsoft is now called Keap.</p><h3><strong>Why omnichannel marketing works</strong></h3><p>It's been called 'integrated marketing' or 'multi-channel marketing'. Today we're referring to it as 'omnichannel marketing', and it's something that Clate Mask's company Keap has been a pioneer of. But whatever you want to call it, it's this idea of <strong>having multiple touchpoints with your audience</strong> - to surround people with your messages.</p><p>Back when Clate Mask started Keap (then called Infusionsoft), the mediums were email, phone call, direct mail, and even fax - would you believe it?! Keap is what enables businesses across the world to communicate with customers in multiple ways.</p><p>And you know what happens to businesses that choose this omnichannel approach to get in touch with their customers? Their open rates increase. <strong>Multi-channel marketing is simply more effective</strong>, but as a business owner, you have to be disciplined. In Clate's words, "you can't be lazy". You've got to be serious about it and keen to orchestrate your messages and your campaigns. </p><p>As we always say, <strong>just because someone is on your email list, it doesn't mean they see everything you send out - </strong>people are busy, and inboxes are cluttered. But the good news is that (as long as you're active there) they also see your business on social media, they might listen to your podcast if you have one, or interact with you in your Facebook group. If you embrace the approach of surrounding your customers in the market and then apply it to structured email campaigns with specific goals of moving prospects to customers and existing customers to repeat customers, this method becomes really powerful.</p><h3><strong>Does omnichannel marketing work for solopreneurs?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>The short answer is YES!</p><p>It's easy to think that if you want to message your customers in many different ways, you need a big machine. And only big businesses have big operations, right? Well, not quite. Because Clate has seen a lot of marketers use omnichannel marketing to their advantage as one-person companies or solopreneurs. So the good news is that you can, too!</p><p>But what you do need to have, Clate says, is an understanding of how effective this approach can be. Otherwise, you'll fall into the trap of thinking the work is repetitive and just a duplication of what you've already been doing.</p><p> <strong>The most common mistake we make as business owners is to think that we've told our subscribers something once, and everybody got the message.</strong> It just doesn't work that way. And savvy marketers know otherwise. Of course, bigger companies have bigger resources and are more likely to adopt a multi-channel approach for their marketing, but nothing stops you from embracing this if you're a solopreneur.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to use a particular channel to amplify email campaigns (Clate Mask style)</strong></h3><p>So let's say you have a new offer. Or you're launching a course or a membership. You've got something to promote, and you've decided to put some real effort behind your next email marketing campaign. How do you go about it?</p><p>Here's the simple answer. Combine text and emails.  </p><p>Keap has recently introduced text messaging (both in broadcast form or by one-to-one), and they've seen how effective it is to use text messages as a separate step in email marketing campaigns. Know how? By following up one of your emails with a quick text message that says, "Hey, just wanted to let you know that I dropped an email in your inbox with some really important stuff. You want to make sure you get that, so check it out right away."<strong> The key is to keep it short and use a personal, conversational tone</strong> because that's what people are used to and expect when we receive text messages, right?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How a simple text message can prompt your subscribers to check your emails</strong></h3><p><strong>The simple step of following your email with a text message amplifies and heightens the importance of the email you just sent.</strong> Because, Clate explains, it's not about using the text message as a repetition of the content that's in your email. That's actually a common mistake that marketers make.</p><p>It's not even about the idea of sending two messages instead of one. When it comes to multi-channel marketing, there's no such thing as one plus one equals two, Clate says. It's one plus one equals three if ever there was that! (Powerful, right??!) Because<strong> by adding another medium, you amplify the message of your primary communication</strong>.</p><p>And of course, your subscribers know you didn't personally send the message - they know it's probably part of an automation. But their conditioned response as human beings after receiving your text is to go and check their inbox. And not for <em>any</em> email. They're going to check their inbox and look for<em> your</em> email.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How creating an 'environment of zero competition' increases your open rates</strong></h3><p>And as if by magic, you have successfully created what we loviongly call the 'environment of zero competition'. Your email is not competing for attention in someone's inbox anymore. You're asking your subscriber to look for <em>your</em> name in their inbox. And the effect of that is huge! It dramatically increase open rates.</p><p><strong>Smart communicators and marketers realise that being able to send a text message isn't about repeating the content of the email you just sent.</strong> It's about either prompting them to go and open that email. Clever, right?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The powerful psychology behind sending a text message to your subscribers</strong></h3><p>If you've been following us at all, you know we're all about the psychology of email. And getting a text from someone to say, "Hey, check out my email" triggers an unconscious response to go and do just that. But there's also something else at play here. <strong>You're asking your subscriber to take action</strong>, and you're getting an extra level of commitment when they do.</p><p>This is clever because you're not bombarding your audience. You're asking your subscribers to do something for you. They're now in what we call 'an active state' - they're no longer just scrolling through emails to decide what to delete. They're looking for one in particular - <em>yours</em>. And that's a really important psychological factor.</p><p>So the thing to remember here is that text message isn't about selling.&nbsp;&nbsp;In fact, you <em>shouldn't</em> sell in that text message <em>at all</em>! Because people are used to a very personal, very short piece of content that's asking them to take some sort of action. Most people don't want to receive long text messages. And that's what you should be aiming for too.</p><p>So you put all your meaty content into your email and make the text message reminder just that - personal, short, and direct. Get out of their lives quickly because that's what they expect from that medium. And it will still beautifully serve the purpose to elevate the importance of your message and amplify email campaigns (Clate Mask promises!)</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to get your subscribers' mobile numbers&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>So how do we get our subscribers' mobile numbers? How easy is it to do?</p><p>Clate's tip is to <strong>create a two-step opt-in</strong>. Design your email capture forms by asking for the email address on the first screen and then get additional information in the second one, including first name, last name, and their mobile number. The proven psychology behind it is that it's much easier to input the phone number once they've already shared their email address, rather than having to do it all at once. It's a bit like saying, "Ok, we need your email address. But <em>if you want</em>, you can also give us this..."</p><p>Hope you all wrote that down. We certainly did!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week with Clate Mask&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Clate's subject line is just genius, and it's this: "Help my kids see Shamu".</p><p>The idea behind this is that Clate's company had big quarterly sales goals they wanted to hit, and Clate had promised his family that if the company hit their goal, he'd take his kids to SeaWorld in San Diego. Of course, the children were rooting and cheering for Dad's company. But with a few days to go, they were still a bit short.&nbsp;</p><p>So Clate sent this email out. He wrote a very open and transparent email about his kids, their ages, and what he'd hope to accomplish in his family vacation. He explained the trip would only happen if the company hit its sales targets. And then he flipped things around to explain why this was important to his audience, too - because he was now making this crazy sepcial offer at the end of the quarter in order to hit their sales goals.&nbsp;And it was a smash hit! Not only they blew away their goals in the last few days, but they also had lots of people reply and ask about their vacation and taking a personal interest in his family.</p><p>Why did it work so well? Because it was a personal and transparent email. It was about something that mattered to Clate and his family. And when you connect to people on a personal level you get to establish real connections with your audience.</p><p>Super cool, right??</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Clate</strong></h5><p>If you want to connect with Clate Mask, check out <a href="https://keap.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Keap.com</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/holistic-email-marketing-kath-pay/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Subscriber-Centric Email Marketing with Kath Pay, author of Holistic Email Marketing</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/the-big-question-should-you-sell-in-every-email/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Big Question – Should You Sell In Every Email?</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-use-email-in-your-content-marketing-strategy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Use Email In Your Content Marketing Strategy</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>Today we told you all about how to amplify email campaigns (Clate Mask style). Now, do you want to find out how to write better emails? Come up with better content? Influence and move your readers to click and buy? Well, you can do that with this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the&nbsp;<strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes, where we get to share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to&nbsp;<strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing by applying everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to amplify email campaigns - Clate Mask style) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>leaving us a review </strong>on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes and get discovered by more awesome people like you.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/amplify-email-campaigns-clate-mask/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b7b098-c8cd-48a3-b682-4d5315be2648</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/1827e3e4-c9f3-4231-bfc8-ec7a7cce1a26/DlQxGnVn3pITwM-20oVRK4D0.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/99b8fcc4-5f33-42be-9879-7e67cf38d550/096-clate-mask.mp3" length="47179987" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>24:34</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>96</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>96</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Who should not join The League of email marketing heroes</title><itunes:title>Who should not join The League of email marketing heroes</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Who should NOT join our community - The League of email marketing heroes? Because (news flash) <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> isn't for everyone.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to find out who The League is perfect for and who isn't a good fit for our membership? &nbsp;</p><p>Let's go!</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(4:26) What types of businesses can join The League? </p><p>(5:22) The League isn't for you if you're not ready to work on your email marketing.</p><p>(10:18) The League isn't for you if you don't have a good product. </p><p>(11:36) The difference between a product and an offer (and why you need both).</p><p>(14:16) The League isn't for you unless you're prepared to be a student of email marketing for life. </p><p>(16:14) The League isn't for you unless you're ready to work hard and make stuff work. </p><p>(19:02) The League isn't for you if you're not making any sales yet.</p><p>(20:07) The League isn't for you if you don't think email marketing is a key strategy in your business.</p><p>(21:58) The League isn't for you if you're still obsessing about growing your email list. </p><p>(26:44) Subject line of the week. </p><h3><strong>What types of businesses can join The League of email marketing heroes?</strong></h3><p>First thing first, you might be pleased to find out that the type of business you run has nothing to do with whether you're right for The League or not. It doesn't matter whether you're a B2C or a B2B business. It doesn't matter what you sell or who you sell it to. We've got members in all sorts of areas - some who sell courses online or run coaching businesses, all the way through photographers, and people who sell bonsai tree goodies.</p><p>What you sell doesn't matter. Nothing that you sell can rule you out from being the perfect fit for The League.</p><p>But other things can...&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>The League isn't for you if you're not ready to work on your email marketing</strong></h3><p>If you're not ready to invest time and effort to focus on making email marketing work for your business, then The League isn't for you. Because <strong>email marketing isn't a quick fix</strong>.</p><p>That's why we make The League a monthly commitment. So we can give you strategies you can start using as soon as you join to make email marketing into something of value for your business.</p><p>To get the best results out of email marketing, we recommend you look at your business and ask yourself where you want to be in 12, 18, 24 months from now and understand how to use email to get you there. If you come in with the mindset that email marketing is going to solve everything really quickly, then The League isn't going to work for you. Truth is - <strong>there aren't many things in business that you can do once and will work forever. You need to master a skill and do it continuously and consistently.</strong>&nbsp;</p><p>The other reason why we make The League a regular commitment is because when that monthly amount leaves your account, it acts as a little nudge - a reminder to re-focus on your email marketing. Because it's way too easy to get off track. We're all busy, right? But that monthly bill reminds you to focus and pay attention to your email marketing.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The League isn't for you if you don't have a good product&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>We can help you make more sales, but we can't do that unless you already have a good product and a good offer. If you don't yet, then focus on that first, and <em>then</em> come and join The League, so we can help you sell more of the thing. We work our magic on the promotion - the marketing and the psychology of selling products that already exist. And this could be your own product or something you're selling for a commission or as an affiliate or partner.</p><h4><strong>The difference between a product and an offer</strong></h4><p>So we talked about a product and an offer as two separate things. Want to know a bit about the difference?</p><p>The product is the thing you're selling - your deliverable. The offer is everything that wraps around your product. It's how it's presented, how much it is, how people pay for it, the positioning of it, the unboxing experience, the bonuses you get with it, etc. It's all the stuff that sits around your product. Your offer is the premise and context with which you take your product and offer it to the market.&nbsp;</p><p>There are really good products that aren't selling because businesses don't have a good offer for them. And <strong>if your product or your offer isn't right, then no amount of using email to lead qualified prospects to your sales pages will help you sell. </strong>Email marketing alone cannot fix that. If the thing you sell (the product) or the circumstances people get (the offer) aren't good, then you're going to struggle with any method of driving traffic.&nbsp;So if you have a great product but it's not selling, play around with your offer. Think of different ways of prsenting the product.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The League isn't for you unless you're prepared to be a student of email marketing for life</strong></h3><p>You've got to be in for the long haul. Because email marketing is the way you directly communicate with your subscribers. They open your email on their laptops or their phones and read your mind through your words. They understand how you think, why you're making them think something, and how you're making them feel. That changes how human beings respond.</p><p>Think about it. Everything around us changes - the competition, the types of products available, the technology. etc. So one of the things we can do is to make sure we're always on the cutting edge of understanding how humans are thinking <em>right now</em> - what their positive and negative biases are to make sure that our email marketing responds to all that.&nbsp;</p><p>This is why you need to be studying marketing - and specifically email marketing - trends, and human behaviours. This is why you need to be a student for life.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The League isn't for you unless you're willing to work hard and make stuff work</strong></h3><p>In email marketing, just like many other areas in our lives, not everything is going to work all of the time.</p><p>Whenever we introduce new email marketing campaigns into The League, for example, we test them rigorously. It's only when we're sure they work that we share them with our members. We give you <em>proven</em> campaigns and then we help you apply them.</p><p>And sometimes our members need to be willing to push through and try and try something again and again until it works.&nbsp;Sometimes stuff gets difficult - you might have technical or delivery problems, for example. And when that happens, you have to be willing to work hard and push through. You can jump on our weekly call, ask us questions, and we help you figure it out and come out the other end.&nbsp;</p><p>After all, statistically, <strong>email marketing is the highest ROI activity that businesses of all stages and all sizes</strong>. The channel works. So you have to be persistent in trying to make it work for you - for your personality, you style, your products, and your offers.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The League isn't for you if you're not making any sales yet</strong></h3><p>If you have a great product but you're not making any sales yet, then you might want to wait until you're making <em>some</em> sales before you join The League. You see - <strong>we help you amplify what works</strong>. We help you put your offer in front of more people, but you first need to be sure that your offer works.</p><p>You want to be at the stage where you've proven that this thing you're selling is something people want. You want your tech to be set up, be sure that all the buttons work, that people can pay by credit card, etc. So first start making <em>some</em> sales, and then come over and join The League, and we'll welcome you with open arms.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The League isn't for you if you don't think email marketing is a key strategy in your business</strong></h3><p>Email marketing isn't a tactic - it's a key, irreplaceable strategy in your business. <strong>You've got to keep in touch with your existing customers, and the only good way to do that at scale is by email.</strong> There is nothing else that will allow you to communicate with your customers at the same scale and with the same results.</p><p>All successful businesses are using email somewhere in their mix. And it's definitely not a tactic that you can pick up and drop whenever you feel like it. <strong>It's a critical strategy in your business</strong>, so you need to have a good email marketing strategy in place.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The League isn't for you if you're still obsessing about growing your email list</strong></h3><p>If you think that all your problems will be solved the minute you have a bigger email list, then we're sorry to burst your bubble. The people who will get the best results from being part of our membership and really fit into our community are those who understand that <strong>your focus should be about maximising the sales in your business from the subscribers you already have</strong>.&nbsp;</p><p>We say this all the time, but the reason we got good at email marketing is that we didn't have the resources to grow our email list. We had to learn to make the most out of the subscribers we already had. And sure, you'll find resources inside The League that help you grow your email list, but there's more to it than that. It's about maximising the relationship and the sales you make from your list. And once that's in place, there's a lot more you can do to also grow your email list.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Want to join The League of email marketing heroes?</strong></h3><p>If you]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Who should NOT join our community - The League of email marketing heroes? Because (news flash) <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a> isn't for everyone.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready to find out who The League is perfect for and who isn't a good fit for our membership? &nbsp;</p><p>Let's go!</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(4:26) What types of businesses can join The League? </p><p>(5:22) The League isn't for you if you're not ready to work on your email marketing.</p><p>(10:18) The League isn't for you if you don't have a good product. </p><p>(11:36) The difference between a product and an offer (and why you need both).</p><p>(14:16) The League isn't for you unless you're prepared to be a student of email marketing for life. </p><p>(16:14) The League isn't for you unless you're ready to work hard and make stuff work. </p><p>(19:02) The League isn't for you if you're not making any sales yet.</p><p>(20:07) The League isn't for you if you don't think email marketing is a key strategy in your business.</p><p>(21:58) The League isn't for you if you're still obsessing about growing your email list. </p><p>(26:44) Subject line of the week. </p><h3><strong>What types of businesses can join The League of email marketing heroes?</strong></h3><p>First thing first, you might be pleased to find out that the type of business you run has nothing to do with whether you're right for The League or not. It doesn't matter whether you're a B2C or a B2B business. It doesn't matter what you sell or who you sell it to. We've got members in all sorts of areas - some who sell courses online or run coaching businesses, all the way through photographers, and people who sell bonsai tree goodies.</p><p>What you sell doesn't matter. Nothing that you sell can rule you out from being the perfect fit for The League.</p><p>But other things can...&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>The League isn't for you if you're not ready to work on your email marketing</strong></h3><p>If you're not ready to invest time and effort to focus on making email marketing work for your business, then The League isn't for you. Because <strong>email marketing isn't a quick fix</strong>.</p><p>That's why we make The League a monthly commitment. So we can give you strategies you can start using as soon as you join to make email marketing into something of value for your business.</p><p>To get the best results out of email marketing, we recommend you look at your business and ask yourself where you want to be in 12, 18, 24 months from now and understand how to use email to get you there. If you come in with the mindset that email marketing is going to solve everything really quickly, then The League isn't going to work for you. Truth is - <strong>there aren't many things in business that you can do once and will work forever. You need to master a skill and do it continuously and consistently.</strong>&nbsp;</p><p>The other reason why we make The League a regular commitment is because when that monthly amount leaves your account, it acts as a little nudge - a reminder to re-focus on your email marketing. Because it's way too easy to get off track. We're all busy, right? But that monthly bill reminds you to focus and pay attention to your email marketing.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The League isn't for you if you don't have a good product&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>We can help you make more sales, but we can't do that unless you already have a good product and a good offer. If you don't yet, then focus on that first, and <em>then</em> come and join The League, so we can help you sell more of the thing. We work our magic on the promotion - the marketing and the psychology of selling products that already exist. And this could be your own product or something you're selling for a commission or as an affiliate or partner.</p><h4><strong>The difference between a product and an offer</strong></h4><p>So we talked about a product and an offer as two separate things. Want to know a bit about the difference?</p><p>The product is the thing you're selling - your deliverable. The offer is everything that wraps around your product. It's how it's presented, how much it is, how people pay for it, the positioning of it, the unboxing experience, the bonuses you get with it, etc. It's all the stuff that sits around your product. Your offer is the premise and context with which you take your product and offer it to the market.&nbsp;</p><p>There are really good products that aren't selling because businesses don't have a good offer for them. And <strong>if your product or your offer isn't right, then no amount of using email to lead qualified prospects to your sales pages will help you sell. </strong>Email marketing alone cannot fix that. If the thing you sell (the product) or the circumstances people get (the offer) aren't good, then you're going to struggle with any method of driving traffic.&nbsp;So if you have a great product but it's not selling, play around with your offer. Think of different ways of prsenting the product.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The League isn't for you unless you're prepared to be a student of email marketing for life</strong></h3><p>You've got to be in for the long haul. Because email marketing is the way you directly communicate with your subscribers. They open your email on their laptops or their phones and read your mind through your words. They understand how you think, why you're making them think something, and how you're making them feel. That changes how human beings respond.</p><p>Think about it. Everything around us changes - the competition, the types of products available, the technology. etc. So one of the things we can do is to make sure we're always on the cutting edge of understanding how humans are thinking <em>right now</em> - what their positive and negative biases are to make sure that our email marketing responds to all that.&nbsp;</p><p>This is why you need to be studying marketing - and specifically email marketing - trends, and human behaviours. This is why you need to be a student for life.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The League isn't for you unless you're willing to work hard and make stuff work</strong></h3><p>In email marketing, just like many other areas in our lives, not everything is going to work all of the time.</p><p>Whenever we introduce new email marketing campaigns into The League, for example, we test them rigorously. It's only when we're sure they work that we share them with our members. We give you <em>proven</em> campaigns and then we help you apply them.</p><p>And sometimes our members need to be willing to push through and try and try something again and again until it works.&nbsp;Sometimes stuff gets difficult - you might have technical or delivery problems, for example. And when that happens, you have to be willing to work hard and push through. You can jump on our weekly call, ask us questions, and we help you figure it out and come out the other end.&nbsp;</p><p>After all, statistically, <strong>email marketing is the highest ROI activity that businesses of all stages and all sizes</strong>. The channel works. So you have to be persistent in trying to make it work for you - for your personality, you style, your products, and your offers.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The League isn't for you if you're not making any sales yet</strong></h3><p>If you have a great product but you're not making any sales yet, then you might want to wait until you're making <em>some</em> sales before you join The League. You see - <strong>we help you amplify what works</strong>. We help you put your offer in front of more people, but you first need to be sure that your offer works.</p><p>You want to be at the stage where you've proven that this thing you're selling is something people want. You want your tech to be set up, be sure that all the buttons work, that people can pay by credit card, etc. So first start making <em>some</em> sales, and then come over and join The League, and we'll welcome you with open arms.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The League isn't for you if you don't think email marketing is a key strategy in your business</strong></h3><p>Email marketing isn't a tactic - it's a key, irreplaceable strategy in your business. <strong>You've got to keep in touch with your existing customers, and the only good way to do that at scale is by email.</strong> There is nothing else that will allow you to communicate with your customers at the same scale and with the same results.</p><p>All successful businesses are using email somewhere in their mix. And it's definitely not a tactic that you can pick up and drop whenever you feel like it. <strong>It's a critical strategy in your business</strong>, so you need to have a good email marketing strategy in place.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The League isn't for you if you're still obsessing about growing your email list</strong></h3><p>If you think that all your problems will be solved the minute you have a bigger email list, then we're sorry to burst your bubble. The people who will get the best results from being part of our membership and really fit into our community are those who understand that <strong>your focus should be about maximising the sales in your business from the subscribers you already have</strong>.&nbsp;</p><p>We say this all the time, but the reason we got good at email marketing is that we didn't have the resources to grow our email list. We had to learn to make the most out of the subscribers we already had. And sure, you'll find resources inside The League that help you grow your email list, but there's more to it than that. It's about maximising the relationship and the sales you make from your list. And once that's in place, there's a lot more you can do to also grow your email list.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Want to join The League of email marketing heroes?</strong></h3><p>If you tick all the right boxes, then check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. We are passionate about getting the right type of people inside our membership because it saves everyone involved a lot of heartache and trouble down the line. If someone's not the right fit for it, then we don't benefit from that customer much like they don't benefit from being part of our community. And we don't want that. We want to help people we're in the best position to help.&nbsp;</p><p>When you do join, you are surrounded by a community of people who are all on the same path. Email marketing clicks for different people and different businesses at different points. But when it does, <strong>it's about amplifying, refining, and mastering that skill to keep it present and relevant</strong>. We don't have a minimum&nbsp; commitment, but we really do want people to join The League thinking of it as a long-term investment because that's when you get to see the best results.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week&nbsp;</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>This week's subject line of the week (courtesy of Kennedy) is "Important milkshake-related question". In this email, Kennedy shared a story about the fact that his other half always orders different milkshakes when they go out. But Kennedy always orders a strawberry milkshake. No matter what and wherever he goes. (Just likes he always wears a white shirt because there are no mental calories burnt in doing that!) So there's your choice - you can have different things all the time or keep things simple and always go for the same thing. That's what the email was about.&nbsp;</p><p>But why did the subject line work? Because Kennedy took a trivial thing (milkshakes) and put the word 'important' in front of it. What on earth can be so important about milkshakes, right? Those words make the sentence unusual. He mentioned he was asking a 'milkshake-related' question. What could that be? There's no way you would know what the email is about just by reading those 4 words. It's bizarre, and that's what made people open and read. Brilliant, right?&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/6-lessons-we-learned-from-launching-and-growing-our-membership-site/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">6 Lessons We Learned From Launching And Growing Our Membership Site</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/skills-to-improve-your-email-marketing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Improve Your Email Marketing – The 8 Unexpected Skills You Need</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-grow-your-email-list-6-unusual-lead-magnet-ideas/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Grow Your Email List – 6 Unusual Lead Magnet Ideas</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our membership - The League of email marketing heroes</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community - The League of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about The League of email marketing heroes) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/league-of-email-marketing-heroes/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">b0a319e2-74d4-4c92-97d6-7d2aa64b9c9b</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/a075b23d-290d-42c3-ae6e-2a1c6e631083/ebmFgf9hGJJpNvhLUWriRzf2.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/2994ba58-71fa-4956-bdc0-533e9d96b85b/095-who-should-not-join-the-league.mp3" length="57261999" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>29:49</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>95</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>95</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Add This Unusual Step to Your Checklist for Product Launch to Make More Sales After The Cart Closes with Marley Jaxx</title><itunes:title>Add This Unusual Step to Your Checklist for Product Launch to Make More Sales After The Cart Closes with Marley Jaxx</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>You're doing a launch. The pressure is on. You've got it all planned out. You know what you're doing. Your subscribers are getting email reminders daily - hourly even. But then the launch is over. And... <em>silence</em>. What now? What do you send your subscribers now? Today, our awesome guest Marley Jaxx helps us add an unusual (but extremely clever) step to our checklist for product launch.</p><p>It's one you haven't thought about...</p><p>It's one you don't want to miss out on...</p><p>So are you ready to find out what to do <em>after</em> the cart closes?</p><p>Let's go and find out with Marley.</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(2:48) Did Marley once really load money to a Shark from TV shows Shark Tank?</p><p>(4:20) What happens when you launch a new product?</p><p>(6:01) The first reason why people don't buy from you.</p><p>(6:38) The second reason why people don't buy from you.</p><p>(7:22) A look into Marley's post-launch email sequence.</p><p>(10:55) How to add a high-ticket item to your funnel.</p><p>(12:06) How to price your high-ticket items. </p><p>(14:01) Handling follow-up conversations with your subscribers.</p><p>(16:27) Time-bound urgency vs scarcity. </p><p>(17:44) Subject line of the week with Marley Jaxx.</p><h3><strong>What happens when you launch a new product</strong></h3><p>Marley Jaxx is really prolific at creating and launching new programmes, so we were quite chuffed when we managed to twist her arm and get her to talk to us about what to do in those eerie, terrifying moments and hours after you close the cart after a big launch - be it a membership, a coaching programme, a new product... anything you sell.</p><p>So you've closed the cart. What's next on your checklist for product launch? What exactly are you supposed to say to your subscribers now?</p><p><strong>Marley likes to think of the value ladder in her business like a "Choose Your Own Adventure" course</strong>. So let's say you're doing a launch, and it closes on Friday night at midnight. Leading up to it, you're sending out all these countdown emails, encouraging people to buy, adding bonuses and scarcity and urgency. The worst thing you can do after the cart closes is to ghost them, right?</p><p>So the next day Marley sends an email out to anyone who <em>didn't</em> buy...</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The first reason why people don't buy from you</strong></h3><p>Now, in this email, Marley covers the two reasons why people didn't buy the product she just launched.</p><p>The first reason is that they weren't ready. Financially or emotionally, they just weren't ready to take the leap and buy. Maybe they need a bit more time with your business. Maybe they want a little bit more support before they make a decision. And that's fair. So what Marley does is to offer another programme or point them to a different low-ticket item she's selling. And if that's not right, then she invites them to take one of her challenges again to help them get some quick results and fix the problem they're experiencing. Clever, right?</p><p>But the best part is this...</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The second reason why people don't buy from you (and that's unexpected!)</strong></h3><p><br></p><p><strong>The second reason why people might not buy from you is that they want <em>more</em> help!</strong> Maybe they want a done-for-you solution or one-to-one coaching. So this is where Marley tells people about her high-ticket items - like spots on a specific programme, for example. And if people want more information, they're sent over to an application page where they can pop their details in to book a call.</p><p>Isn't that mind-blowing?! And just <em>so much better</em> than sending them a hint or a handy tip a few days later and then ghosting that subscriber until you're ready to promote your next launch?</p><p>You've got to admit - pointing them to something that's less commitment is one thing. But would you have thought about offering your subscribers something more expensive?</p><p>Probably not, right?</p><p>It's genius.</p><p>And it makes perfect sense. Because <strong>people are either going to spend more money than time or more time than money on something - depending on where they are in their journey.</strong> Sometimes, when people want results faster, they're prepared to invest in done-for-you solutions and spend more to get it done.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The post-launch email sequence</strong></h3><p>We asked Marley how she spaces out her emails and how she structures her post-launch sequence, and she explained emails are sent out over a period of 3 days. These are <em>upsell emails</em> that invite people to check out her higher-ticket item. After 3 days of promoting the high-ticket offer, people are re-directed to the original challenge or a different low-ticket product.</p><p><br></p><h3>How to add a high-ticket item to your funnel</h3><p>So what happens if you don't have a higher-ticket item in your funnel already? How difficult is it to create one?</p><p>According to Marley, most business owners already have a high-ticket item available they can sell. Perhaps you made a course - now you can add a weekly coaching call or a Q&amp;A session. Or maybe some templates. And you could even double or treble the price. Because if you're selling something that will teach people how to make $100k, for example, it's reasonable they will be prepared to pay a good amount for that.</p><p>But let's delve into price a bit more...</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to price your high-ticket items</strong></h3><p>A lot of the time, Marley says, business owners don't have a high-ticket item in their funnel because they're lacking the courage to add one on. But <strong>people pay attention when you price yourself as expensively affordable</strong>.</p><p>Often, as business owners, we make the mistake of setting a price too low because of fear. The common misconception is that keeping prices low will make our products more enticing. But <strong>if you think that pricing yourself cheap or even free can reach more people, the opposite is actually true - you'll reach more people by putting a $ sign in front of what you offer because when people pay more, they pay more attention.</strong> Plus, it's better to have a small handful of $10,000 clients who are invested and getting results than hundreds of $10 clients who aren't, right?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Handling follow up conversations with your subscribers</strong></h3><p>So you've done your launch, and you closed the cart. You've emailed the people who didn't buy to point them to other low-ticket items or to your high-ticket product. What happens when people have questions?</p><p>Marley confirmed that in her experience, low-ticket items don't lead to a lot of follow-up conversations - the purchase decision involved isn't huge, so if the offer is right, people tend to just go for it. But when people access the landing page for the high-ticket product then they have a chance to fill in an application and ask some questions over a phone call.</p><p>Of course, all this can be part of an automated sequence that you put together when you first go through your checklist for product launch, so after you've sent a few emails promoting one thing, then you can kick off other campaigns that could, for example, talk about your evergreen products. Marley uses a tool called <a href="https://www.deadlinefunnel.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Deadline Funnel</a> to have multiple automation sequences running side by side with offers expiring on certain dates. This allows her to put into place what she calls the "Choose Your Own Adventure" course, where her clients choose the product that fits their needs while she continues to successfully grow her business.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Time-bound urgency vs scarcity</strong></h3><p>When we asked Marley whether she adds time-bound urgency to her offers, she confirmed low-ticket item products are left fairly open as some of them are evergreen. But when it comes to high-ticket products, that's when urgency comes in in the shape of "we only have so many spots open". And that works a treat.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week with Marley Jaxx</strong></h3><p>Marley's subject line of the week is "time is running out" but written with the help of emojis, like this: "🕒👏is <strong>🏃👏</strong>out". And why did it work? Because it's different and sassy, and it shows personality and flavour. Another genius move by the awesome Marley.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Marley</strong></h5><p>If you want to connect with Marley and find out more about her work, you can find her on her <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC062X1VdOLH7wHTEZZ6Q74w" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">YouTube channel</a>, on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/marleyjaxx/?hl=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, and on her <a href="https://www.marleyjaxx.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">website</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/launch-your-online-course-the-non-traditional-way-with-chris-orzechowski/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Launch An Online Course the Non-Traditional Way with Chris Orzechowski</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/the-psychology-of-a-successful-email-launch-being-desirable-with-abraham-kallon/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Psychology Of A Successful Email Launch – Being Desirable With Abraham Kallon</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/6-lessons-we-learned-from-launching-and-growing-our-membership-site/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">6 Lessons We Learned From Launching And Growing Our Membership Site</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You're doing a launch. The pressure is on. You've got it all planned out. You know what you're doing. Your subscribers are getting email reminders daily - hourly even. But then the launch is over. And... <em>silence</em>. What now? What do you send your subscribers now? Today, our awesome guest Marley Jaxx helps us add an unusual (but extremely clever) step to our checklist for product launch.</p><p>It's one you haven't thought about...</p><p>It's one you don't want to miss out on...</p><p>So are you ready to find out what to do <em>after</em> the cart closes?</p><p>Let's go and find out with Marley.</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(2:48) Did Marley once really load money to a Shark from TV shows Shark Tank?</p><p>(4:20) What happens when you launch a new product?</p><p>(6:01) The first reason why people don't buy from you.</p><p>(6:38) The second reason why people don't buy from you.</p><p>(7:22) A look into Marley's post-launch email sequence.</p><p>(10:55) How to add a high-ticket item to your funnel.</p><p>(12:06) How to price your high-ticket items. </p><p>(14:01) Handling follow-up conversations with your subscribers.</p><p>(16:27) Time-bound urgency vs scarcity. </p><p>(17:44) Subject line of the week with Marley Jaxx.</p><h3><strong>What happens when you launch a new product</strong></h3><p>Marley Jaxx is really prolific at creating and launching new programmes, so we were quite chuffed when we managed to twist her arm and get her to talk to us about what to do in those eerie, terrifying moments and hours after you close the cart after a big launch - be it a membership, a coaching programme, a new product... anything you sell.</p><p>So you've closed the cart. What's next on your checklist for product launch? What exactly are you supposed to say to your subscribers now?</p><p><strong>Marley likes to think of the value ladder in her business like a "Choose Your Own Adventure" course</strong>. So let's say you're doing a launch, and it closes on Friday night at midnight. Leading up to it, you're sending out all these countdown emails, encouraging people to buy, adding bonuses and scarcity and urgency. The worst thing you can do after the cart closes is to ghost them, right?</p><p>So the next day Marley sends an email out to anyone who <em>didn't</em> buy...</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The first reason why people don't buy from you</strong></h3><p>Now, in this email, Marley covers the two reasons why people didn't buy the product she just launched.</p><p>The first reason is that they weren't ready. Financially or emotionally, they just weren't ready to take the leap and buy. Maybe they need a bit more time with your business. Maybe they want a little bit more support before they make a decision. And that's fair. So what Marley does is to offer another programme or point them to a different low-ticket item she's selling. And if that's not right, then she invites them to take one of her challenges again to help them get some quick results and fix the problem they're experiencing. Clever, right?</p><p>But the best part is this...</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The second reason why people don't buy from you (and that's unexpected!)</strong></h3><p><br></p><p><strong>The second reason why people might not buy from you is that they want <em>more</em> help!</strong> Maybe they want a done-for-you solution or one-to-one coaching. So this is where Marley tells people about her high-ticket items - like spots on a specific programme, for example. And if people want more information, they're sent over to an application page where they can pop their details in to book a call.</p><p>Isn't that mind-blowing?! And just <em>so much better</em> than sending them a hint or a handy tip a few days later and then ghosting that subscriber until you're ready to promote your next launch?</p><p>You've got to admit - pointing them to something that's less commitment is one thing. But would you have thought about offering your subscribers something more expensive?</p><p>Probably not, right?</p><p>It's genius.</p><p>And it makes perfect sense. Because <strong>people are either going to spend more money than time or more time than money on something - depending on where they are in their journey.</strong> Sometimes, when people want results faster, they're prepared to invest in done-for-you solutions and spend more to get it done.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The post-launch email sequence</strong></h3><p>We asked Marley how she spaces out her emails and how she structures her post-launch sequence, and she explained emails are sent out over a period of 3 days. These are <em>upsell emails</em> that invite people to check out her higher-ticket item. After 3 days of promoting the high-ticket offer, people are re-directed to the original challenge or a different low-ticket product.</p><p><br></p><h3>How to add a high-ticket item to your funnel</h3><p>So what happens if you don't have a higher-ticket item in your funnel already? How difficult is it to create one?</p><p>According to Marley, most business owners already have a high-ticket item available they can sell. Perhaps you made a course - now you can add a weekly coaching call or a Q&amp;A session. Or maybe some templates. And you could even double or treble the price. Because if you're selling something that will teach people how to make $100k, for example, it's reasonable they will be prepared to pay a good amount for that.</p><p>But let's delve into price a bit more...</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to price your high-ticket items</strong></h3><p>A lot of the time, Marley says, business owners don't have a high-ticket item in their funnel because they're lacking the courage to add one on. But <strong>people pay attention when you price yourself as expensively affordable</strong>.</p><p>Often, as business owners, we make the mistake of setting a price too low because of fear. The common misconception is that keeping prices low will make our products more enticing. But <strong>if you think that pricing yourself cheap or even free can reach more people, the opposite is actually true - you'll reach more people by putting a $ sign in front of what you offer because when people pay more, they pay more attention.</strong> Plus, it's better to have a small handful of $10,000 clients who are invested and getting results than hundreds of $10 clients who aren't, right?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Handling follow up conversations with your subscribers</strong></h3><p>So you've done your launch, and you closed the cart. You've emailed the people who didn't buy to point them to other low-ticket items or to your high-ticket product. What happens when people have questions?</p><p>Marley confirmed that in her experience, low-ticket items don't lead to a lot of follow-up conversations - the purchase decision involved isn't huge, so if the offer is right, people tend to just go for it. But when people access the landing page for the high-ticket product then they have a chance to fill in an application and ask some questions over a phone call.</p><p>Of course, all this can be part of an automated sequence that you put together when you first go through your checklist for product launch, so after you've sent a few emails promoting one thing, then you can kick off other campaigns that could, for example, talk about your evergreen products. Marley uses a tool called <a href="https://www.deadlinefunnel.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Deadline Funnel</a> to have multiple automation sequences running side by side with offers expiring on certain dates. This allows her to put into place what she calls the "Choose Your Own Adventure" course, where her clients choose the product that fits their needs while she continues to successfully grow her business.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Time-bound urgency vs scarcity</strong></h3><p>When we asked Marley whether she adds time-bound urgency to her offers, she confirmed low-ticket item products are left fairly open as some of them are evergreen. But when it comes to high-ticket products, that's when urgency comes in in the shape of "we only have so many spots open". And that works a treat.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week with Marley Jaxx</strong></h3><p>Marley's subject line of the week is "time is running out" but written with the help of emojis, like this: "🕒👏is <strong>🏃👏</strong>out". And why did it work? Because it's different and sassy, and it shows personality and flavour. Another genius move by the awesome Marley.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Marley</strong></h5><p>If you want to connect with Marley and find out more about her work, you can find her on her <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC062X1VdOLH7wHTEZZ6Q74w" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">YouTube channel</a>, on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/marleyjaxx/?hl=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, and on her <a href="https://www.marleyjaxx.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">website</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/launch-your-online-course-the-non-traditional-way-with-chris-orzechowski/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Launch An Online Course the Non-Traditional Way with Chris Orzechowski</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/the-psychology-of-a-successful-email-launch-being-desirable-with-abraham-kallon/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Psychology Of A Successful Email Launch – Being Desirable With Abraham Kallon</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/6-lessons-we-learned-from-launching-and-growing-our-membership-site/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">6 Lessons We Learned From Launching And Growing Our Membership Site</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>Today we talked about your checklist for product launch, but do you want help to write better emails? Come up with better content? Influence and move your readers to click and buy? Well, you can do that with this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the&nbsp;<strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes, where we get to share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to&nbsp;<strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing by applying everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about adding an extra step to your checklist for product launch) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>leaving us a review </strong>on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes and get discovered by more awesome people like you.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/checklist-for-product-launch/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">9af7a738-fcae-4ff4-84c5-9d36dbce7920</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/47d852ec-7ee6-4b6e-9cdf-7ea981aa9427/J4GtqQwJspQBHvjQn_frDrFO.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/b01e8567-897a-4fe3-8e84-dfb6319abad5/094-marley-jaxx.mp3" length="38858419" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>20:14</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>94</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>94</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How Will iOS 15 Change Email Marketing?</title><itunes:title>How Will iOS 15 Change Email Marketing?</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Will iOS 15 change email marketing? Is it all doom and gloom for people like us who rely on making sales from sending emails to our subscribers?&nbsp;</p><p>In today's episode, we talk about the latest Apple update - iOS 15 - and a new product called iCloud Plus that comes with that release. We walk you through the changes, what they mean for you as an email marketer, and share <em>exactly</em> what you need to do to protect yourself. The good news is... as long as you follow our tips, it's <em>not</em> doom and gloom at all!&nbsp;</p><p>Want to find out how to get ready for these changes?&nbsp; &nbsp;</p><p>Let's go!</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(2:48) Why Apple iOS 15 is tackling users' privacy. </p><p>(5:04) iOS 14 and its impact on Facebook advertising (and Kennedy's feed).</p><p>(6:42) What is Apple iOS 15 and how does it affect you? </p><p>(8:30) Why you shouldn't rely on open rate reporting.</p><p>(10:50) Why your click-through rate matters more than your open rate.</p><p>(12:55) Why you should look at your Earning Per Subscriber Per Month (EPSPM)</p><p>(14:23) What is iCloud Plus? </p><p>(17:12) How does iCloud Plus impact email marketers?</p><p>(18:26) Why you need to start paying attention to your engagement rate. </p><p>(19:32) Subject line of the week. </p><h3><strong>What is Apple iOS 15 and how does it affect you?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>iOS 15 is the latest Apple update, and it's big on privacy. It follows iOS 14, which changed how businesses run Facebook ads. And probably not in the best way, considering Kennedy receives all sorts of ads that aren't at all targeted. (Thoroughly recommend you listen to the episode to find out more about boyfriends and eye patches).</p><p>So when the much-anticipated iOS 15 comes into play, <strong>open rate tracking is going to be proactively blocked</strong>. Now, open rate tracking works through a tiny 1x1 pixel (an invisible transparent picture) that sits in our emails. And when that pixel loads on someone's device, the email is considered open. This is how email service providers track open rates.&nbsp;</p><p>However, with iOS 15, it's no longer going to be possible to track open rates. Either emails are going to be shown as being automatically opened or not opened at all. So it's going to be impossible for us to know whether people using Apple Mail app have opened our emails.</p><p>Not great.&nbsp;</p><p>But there's good news about this - <strong>open rate reporting was never reliable in the first place</strong>!&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>Why you shouldn't rely on open rate reporting</strong></h3><p>The thing is, most Android mail apps already block the ability for email marketing platforms to track open rates, and some people automatically open emails without reading them. So <strong>your open rate has always been under-reported</strong>. Truth is - your open rates are probably slightly higher than what your email marketing platform is telling you. So please <strong>stop making decisions based on your open rate</strong>!</p><p>There's something else you should be paying attention to instead.&nbsp;And that's your click-through rate.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>Why your click-through rate matters more than your open rate</strong></h3><p>Click-through rates are going to be a lot harder for most platforms to block, and the reality is that it's much easier and more accurate for any email marketing platform to measure click rates. And it always has been.&nbsp;</p><p>But the other reason why we, as email marketers, should be looking at click-through rates is that it's linked to something else - <em>engagement</em>. Think about it. When someone opens one of your emails, scrolls through it, and then deletes it, that email is marked as read. Right now, your email marketing platform classes that email as open. But is that subscriber really engaged? Probably not.&nbsp;</p><p>But when it comes to click-through rates, things are very different. If whatever you said in your email was so compelling, so interesting, and so on-point that it made that subscriber want to click on a link you included in your email, then you know they're engaged. So instead of looking at open rates, <strong>train your subscribers to click. Because if you're not, then you're training them out of clicking. Your job as an email marketer is to build the behaviours that get people to click.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why you should look at your Earning Per Subscriber Per Month (EPSPM)</strong></h3><p>Another metric we suggest you look at is what we call EPSPM - Earning Per Subscriber Per Month. To calculate this, you simply look at how much money you've made from your email marketing in a month and divide it by the number of subscribers on your list in that month (it could be the number at the beginning, in the middle, or the end - whatever you choose, just make it consistent). So for example, if you made $1,000 this month and you have 1,000 subscribers on your list, each subscriber is currently earning you $1 per month.&nbsp;</p><p>Why is that good? Because it's trackable and comparable over time. It works when you have 100 subscribers and when you have 1 million people on your list. But if you look at open rates (or even click-through rates), as your list increases, these metrics will inevitably go down. <strong>Looking at how much money you're making per subscriber tells you how efficient and effective your email marketing is.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What is iCloud Plus?&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>So will iOS 15 change email marketing? The short answer is yes, but there's something else we need to talk about, and that's a product called iCloud Plus. This is going to have a brand new feature called 'Hide My Email', and the way it works is by allowing Apple users to 'hide their email' when signing up to someone's email list, for example.&nbsp;</p><p>So when someone signs up to your list, they'll do so with what we call a 'burner email address' (one full of random letters and numbers). Your emails are then forwarded from that burner email address to the subscriber's real email address, but your email marketing platform does not hold that subscriber's real address - only the burner one.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How does iCloud Plus impact email marketers?</strong></h3><p>iCloud Plus aims to stop businesses from sharing our data with third parties, so it's a good thing. But what it means for us as email marketers is that when a user decides to unsubscribe, their burner email address will disappear - become inactive. While the user unsubscribed, what we're going to see is a bounce. And that's problematic.</p><p>So this is where you need to start to <strong>pay close attention to how engaged your subscribers are</strong>. We are quite strict on this in our business. If someone reaches 30 days without opening an email or clicking on a link from us, we count that person as disengaged and put them through our subscriber revival sequence. That gives them a chance to 'wake up' over the following 14 days. If that happens, they continue receiving our emails. If it doesn't, we remove them from our list.</p><p>After the launch of iCloud Plus, doing this with your list becomes even more important. Because you're going to have all these 'burner email addresses' that could disappear and negatively impact the deliverability of your emails. So the solution is simple - <strong>keep an eye on your engagement rate, which you can monitor through clicks</strong>. This is how you'll be able to easily identify and remove people who have disabled their burner email addresses.&nbsp;</p><p>So that's it. If you were asking yourself, "Will iOS 15 change email marketing?" now you know the answer. But you also know exactly what you can do to protect yourself.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>This week's subject line of the week is, "Bringing home (too much) bacon". Rob used this line after opening a packet of bacon that should have had 10 rashes in there but actually had 13. He turned that into a lesson about what we think value means and the fact that having too much of something doesn't necessarily equate to value.</p><p>The reason why the subject line worked so well? Because "bringing home the bacon" is a saying we all know. But Rob put a spin on it - he talked about having <em>too much</em> bacon (and added an emoji for good measure). By moving away from the saying a little, he triggered curiosity. And the email got opened!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/increase-your-email-open-rates-13-email-marketing-tips-to-stand-out-in-an-overcrowded-inbox/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Increase Your Email Open-Rates: 13 Email Subject Line Tips to Stand Out in An Overcrowded Inbox #2018</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/email-ctr-how-to-boss-your-email-click-through-rate/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email CTR: How to Boss Your Click Through Rate</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-reactivate-an-email-list/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Email Your Abandoned Email List</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer"...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Will iOS 15 change email marketing? Is it all doom and gloom for people like us who rely on making sales from sending emails to our subscribers?&nbsp;</p><p>In today's episode, we talk about the latest Apple update - iOS 15 - and a new product called iCloud Plus that comes with that release. We walk you through the changes, what they mean for you as an email marketer, and share <em>exactly</em> what you need to do to protect yourself. The good news is... as long as you follow our tips, it's <em>not</em> doom and gloom at all!&nbsp;</p><p>Want to find out how to get ready for these changes?&nbsp; &nbsp;</p><p>Let's go!</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(2:48) Why Apple iOS 15 is tackling users' privacy. </p><p>(5:04) iOS 14 and its impact on Facebook advertising (and Kennedy's feed).</p><p>(6:42) What is Apple iOS 15 and how does it affect you? </p><p>(8:30) Why you shouldn't rely on open rate reporting.</p><p>(10:50) Why your click-through rate matters more than your open rate.</p><p>(12:55) Why you should look at your Earning Per Subscriber Per Month (EPSPM)</p><p>(14:23) What is iCloud Plus? </p><p>(17:12) How does iCloud Plus impact email marketers?</p><p>(18:26) Why you need to start paying attention to your engagement rate. </p><p>(19:32) Subject line of the week. </p><h3><strong>What is Apple iOS 15 and how does it affect you?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>iOS 15 is the latest Apple update, and it's big on privacy. It follows iOS 14, which changed how businesses run Facebook ads. And probably not in the best way, considering Kennedy receives all sorts of ads that aren't at all targeted. (Thoroughly recommend you listen to the episode to find out more about boyfriends and eye patches).</p><p>So when the much-anticipated iOS 15 comes into play, <strong>open rate tracking is going to be proactively blocked</strong>. Now, open rate tracking works through a tiny 1x1 pixel (an invisible transparent picture) that sits in our emails. And when that pixel loads on someone's device, the email is considered open. This is how email service providers track open rates.&nbsp;</p><p>However, with iOS 15, it's no longer going to be possible to track open rates. Either emails are going to be shown as being automatically opened or not opened at all. So it's going to be impossible for us to know whether people using Apple Mail app have opened our emails.</p><p>Not great.&nbsp;</p><p>But there's good news about this - <strong>open rate reporting was never reliable in the first place</strong>!&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>Why you shouldn't rely on open rate reporting</strong></h3><p>The thing is, most Android mail apps already block the ability for email marketing platforms to track open rates, and some people automatically open emails without reading them. So <strong>your open rate has always been under-reported</strong>. Truth is - your open rates are probably slightly higher than what your email marketing platform is telling you. So please <strong>stop making decisions based on your open rate</strong>!</p><p>There's something else you should be paying attention to instead.&nbsp;And that's your click-through rate.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>Why your click-through rate matters more than your open rate</strong></h3><p>Click-through rates are going to be a lot harder for most platforms to block, and the reality is that it's much easier and more accurate for any email marketing platform to measure click rates. And it always has been.&nbsp;</p><p>But the other reason why we, as email marketers, should be looking at click-through rates is that it's linked to something else - <em>engagement</em>. Think about it. When someone opens one of your emails, scrolls through it, and then deletes it, that email is marked as read. Right now, your email marketing platform classes that email as open. But is that subscriber really engaged? Probably not.&nbsp;</p><p>But when it comes to click-through rates, things are very different. If whatever you said in your email was so compelling, so interesting, and so on-point that it made that subscriber want to click on a link you included in your email, then you know they're engaged. So instead of looking at open rates, <strong>train your subscribers to click. Because if you're not, then you're training them out of clicking. Your job as an email marketer is to build the behaviours that get people to click.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Why you should look at your Earning Per Subscriber Per Month (EPSPM)</strong></h3><p>Another metric we suggest you look at is what we call EPSPM - Earning Per Subscriber Per Month. To calculate this, you simply look at how much money you've made from your email marketing in a month and divide it by the number of subscribers on your list in that month (it could be the number at the beginning, in the middle, or the end - whatever you choose, just make it consistent). So for example, if you made $1,000 this month and you have 1,000 subscribers on your list, each subscriber is currently earning you $1 per month.&nbsp;</p><p>Why is that good? Because it's trackable and comparable over time. It works when you have 100 subscribers and when you have 1 million people on your list. But if you look at open rates (or even click-through rates), as your list increases, these metrics will inevitably go down. <strong>Looking at how much money you're making per subscriber tells you how efficient and effective your email marketing is.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What is iCloud Plus?&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>So will iOS 15 change email marketing? The short answer is yes, but there's something else we need to talk about, and that's a product called iCloud Plus. This is going to have a brand new feature called 'Hide My Email', and the way it works is by allowing Apple users to 'hide their email' when signing up to someone's email list, for example.&nbsp;</p><p>So when someone signs up to your list, they'll do so with what we call a 'burner email address' (one full of random letters and numbers). Your emails are then forwarded from that burner email address to the subscriber's real email address, but your email marketing platform does not hold that subscriber's real address - only the burner one.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How does iCloud Plus impact email marketers?</strong></h3><p>iCloud Plus aims to stop businesses from sharing our data with third parties, so it's a good thing. But what it means for us as email marketers is that when a user decides to unsubscribe, their burner email address will disappear - become inactive. While the user unsubscribed, what we're going to see is a bounce. And that's problematic.</p><p>So this is where you need to start to <strong>pay close attention to how engaged your subscribers are</strong>. We are quite strict on this in our business. If someone reaches 30 days without opening an email or clicking on a link from us, we count that person as disengaged and put them through our subscriber revival sequence. That gives them a chance to 'wake up' over the following 14 days. If that happens, they continue receiving our emails. If it doesn't, we remove them from our list.</p><p>After the launch of iCloud Plus, doing this with your list becomes even more important. Because you're going to have all these 'burner email addresses' that could disappear and negatively impact the deliverability of your emails. So the solution is simple - <strong>keep an eye on your engagement rate, which you can monitor through clicks</strong>. This is how you'll be able to easily identify and remove people who have disabled their burner email addresses.&nbsp;</p><p>So that's it. If you were asking yourself, "Will iOS 15 change email marketing?" now you know the answer. But you also know exactly what you can do to protect yourself.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>This week's subject line of the week is, "Bringing home (too much) bacon". Rob used this line after opening a packet of bacon that should have had 10 rashes in there but actually had 13. He turned that into a lesson about what we think value means and the fact that having too much of something doesn't necessarily equate to value.</p><p>The reason why the subject line worked so well? Because "bringing home the bacon" is a saying we all know. But Rob put a spin on it - he talked about having <em>too much</em> bacon (and added an emoji for good measure). By moving away from the saying a little, he triggered curiosity. And the email got opened!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/increase-your-email-open-rates-13-email-marketing-tips-to-stand-out-in-an-overcrowded-inbox/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Increase Your Email Open-Rates: 13 Email Subject Line Tips to Stand Out in An Overcrowded Inbox #2018</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/email-ctr-how-to-boss-your-email-click-through-rate/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email CTR: How to Boss Your Click Through Rate</a>.</p><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-reactivate-an-email-list/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Email Your Abandoned Email List</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes. We share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing. Best news yet? You can apply everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (will iOS 15 change email marketing?) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/ios-change-email-marketing/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">2fe19fab-f9fa-4018-b181-7ef1925deb94</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c34eec88-34b6-4eae-a7dd-a03fb7078c7d/9jPC82Xn1l8NRYYL7SWkBHFL.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/2b421a9a-053f-4c08-bf5b-c118a78d7b34/093-how-will-ios-15-change-email-marketing.mp3" length="40855428" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>21:17</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>93</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>93</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Testimonials - how to write and collect them automatically to bring in more sales with Monica Snyder</title><itunes:title>Testimonials - how to write and collect them automatically to bring in more sales with Monica Snyder</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Testimonials. How to write them? How to ask for them in the first place? Do testimonials and email marketing go together? Is there even a way to automate the whole thing?!</p><p>You see - we're rubbish at asking for testimonials. It makes us feel grubby. So we don't do it enough. But we should, and we've finally convinced the awesome <a href="https://monicasnyder.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Monica Snyder</a>, CEO and Founder of Birdsong.co to come and share her secrets with us.</p><p>You're going to want to take some notes here because Monica gives us the <em>exact</em> questions you need to ask your customers to collect testimonials on autopilot so you can make more sales in your business.</p><p>Ready?</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(2:59) Did Monica throw up in a helicopter or did Kennedy make that up?</p><p>(5:09) Why do testimonials even matter?</p><p>(5:54) When should we ask for testimonials?</p><p>(8:10) What are the triggers for requesting testimonials?</p><p>(9:49) How to ask for a testimonial as part of an automated email sequence.</p><p>(11:39) How to ask your customers for permission to share their story.</p><p>(13:37) How to deal with negative feedback and turn your customers into raving fans. </p><p>(15:48) The 7 questions you should ask to get awesome testimonials.</p><p>(17:57) So they gave you a testimonial. What's next? </p><p>(20:08) Subject line of the week with Monica Snyder.</p><h3><strong>Why do testimonials even matter?</strong></h3><p>We all know testimonials are important. They are <em>social proof</em>. </p><p>Most of us think we can rock up, create a product, put it on sale, have a bunch of people buying it, and then come back and rave about how awesome you are. But by now you probably know it just doesn't work like that. Truth is, people are more likely to say something about your product if they're unhappy and want to complain. They rarely come forward with the good, juicy stuff. Unless you ask them.</p><p>But, as Monica says, <strong><em>it's our job</em> as course creators to collect social proof. And testimonials are the strongest proof.&nbsp;</strong>So we've got to find ways to engineer a process that will give us awesome testimonials from our raving customers.</p><h3><strong>When should we ask for testimonials?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>So let's say you've created a course. When's a good time to ask for a testimonial? At the end, right?</p><p>Wrong.</p><p>Because let's face it - sadly, a lot of people don't even make it to the end of the course!</p><p>But Monica has another way. A <em>much better</em> way!</p><p>And it's this. <strong>You've got to engineer some sort of win early on in the course. </strong>It doesn't have to be the final big hurray - it could just be a moment of clarity or a small win. As soon as people get that dopamine hit when they get their first result from your course, that's when they're happy to leave you a great testimonial. So make sure you build some sort of accomplishment early on in your course, celebrate it, and then ask for the testimonial.</p><p>But how do we do it?</p><h3><strong>Ask your customers to give you <em>feedback</em></strong></h3><p>Interesting thing is, Monica doesn't actually call them testimonials. She asks her customers for <em>feedback</em>. </p><p>Once her customers experience their first win, she sends an email out as part of her welcoming sequence to explain how to use the course to ask them to leave feedback.</p><p>People get then taken to a landing page with a smiley face and a sad face, just like at the airport! If they click on the happy face, they're invited to share their story. If they click on the sad face, there's where they have a chance to leave their feedback. And Monica has a chance to take that on board and fix it. </p><p>Simple, right? </p><h3><strong>How to ask your customers if you can share their story</strong></h3><p>But what happens when it's time for Monica to re-write and craft those answers into a testimonial that she can share? How does she ask for permission to share it? Does that take long? Can that be automated?</p><p>Hell, yeah!</p><p>So the clever way Monica does this is by asking her customers - in the same email where she asks for the feedback - to provide a link to their business or a headshot and logo to go out with the testimonial. So they don't just give her their permission - they actually get a bit of self-promotion out of it!</p><p><em>Isn't this just pure gold?!</em></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to deal with negative feedback</strong></h3><p>Okay, smiley faces and happy stories are what we're after here. But what about negative feedback? What if someone clicks on that sad face? Is everything lost?</p><p>No way José.</p><p>In fact, Monica says, <strong>bad feedback can also turn into a testimonial if you handle it well. </strong>Negative feedback is where you have the opportunity to turn an unsatisfied customer into a raving fan. And you can do that by simply taking the feedback on board and dealing with it.</p><p>Sometimes it's just a matter of putting your hands up and admitting you missed the mark. Sometimes it's a matter of going ahead with a small fix. And sometimes it's a matter of working out how you can solve the problem that your customer had before they joined your course. Because if they're unhappy with it, then they still have that original problem that made them buy from you, right?</p><p>So<strong> when you focus on fixing your customers' problems, you can turn negative feedback into raving, lifelong fans.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The 7 questions to ask your customers to get awesome testimonials</strong></h3><p>Now, what kind of questions should we ask to get awesome testimonials that work? Because you know what? "The course is awesome" isn't really what you're after. It doesn't do much in convincing someone who's on the fence about buying your course to finally make that leap of faith and go for it. It sounds positive, but it doesn't work.</p><p>So here are the 7 questions Monica asks. It starts easy, with:</p><ul><li>"What your name?"</li><li>And "What's the name of your business?" Or, if it's a B2C course, "Where do you live?"</li></ul><br/><p>Then you go into the juicy stuff, and you ask:</p><ul><li>"What was your biggest problem before buying my product?" This is where you're trying to get an idea of what life looked like <em>before</em>. You want to build the <em>hero journey</em> or the <em>epiphany bridge</em>.</li><li>Then "What changed after you used the product?"</li><li>"What's one specific result you were able to achieve after using the product?" This is where you get those numbers and metrics that are so powerful in a testimonial.</li><li>Then you ask, "What would you say to someone who is thinking about buying the product but is on the fence right now?"</li><li>And finally the wide-open question, "Is there anything else you think is worth sharing or that you want to share but haven't been able to yet?" This question, Monica says, is always full of golden nuggets, so don't shy away from asking it!</li></ul><br/><p>And that's it. These are the exact 7 questions Monica asks to get feedback from her customers. She then creates a handy headline and has a nice<em> before and after</em> story of how her product rocked someone's world.</p><p>And isn't this great? Because we started off talking about asking for testimonials as something that feels grabby. But this is all about your customers. It's about <em>them</em>. It's about <em>their</em> journey. <em>Their</em> wins. And it's a lot more than just you bragging about your wins on your web pages!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>So they gave you a testimonial. What next?</strong></h3><p>Because Monica does all this as part of her email sequences, it's all automated! She gets testimonials coming in without having to go out of her way and ask for them. And isn't this a great testament to the usefulness of email marketing as something that stops you from doing what Monica calls 'busy work'?</p><p>Once the testimonial is in, Monica waits a couple of days, and then, if relevant and appropriate, she sends out the start of her new product launch series. Just. Like. That.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week with Monica Snyder</strong></h3><p>Monica's subject line of the week is "An $11,000 walk to the playground". And guess what? The email was exactly about that. About the fact that Monica took an hour out of her day to walk her kids to the playground, and in that hour, she made two phone calls and closed $11,000 worth of sales. Wow!</p><p>And why did the subject line work? For a few reasons, actually. Because it had a number, and a number in subject lines is always good. Because it had an emoji. And because it triggered curiosity. Because making money and walking to the playground aren't usually things that go together. But in Monica's world, they do. Because that's exactly what she teaches - that making money and relationship building go hand-in-hand.</p><p>Isn't this all levels of awesome guys?!</p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Monica</strong></h5><p>Want to connect with Monica? You can find her on her <a href="https://monicasnyder.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">website</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-turn-customer-feedback-questions-into-more-sales-with-email/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Turn Customer Feedback Questions Into More Sales With Email</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/turn-customer-feedback-emails-into-sales-part-1/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Turn Customer Feedback Emails Into Sales [Part 1]</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/turn-customer-feedback-emails-into-sales-part-2/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Turn Customer...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Testimonials. How to write them? How to ask for them in the first place? Do testimonials and email marketing go together? Is there even a way to automate the whole thing?!</p><p>You see - we're rubbish at asking for testimonials. It makes us feel grubby. So we don't do it enough. But we should, and we've finally convinced the awesome <a href="https://monicasnyder.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Monica Snyder</a>, CEO and Founder of Birdsong.co to come and share her secrets with us.</p><p>You're going to want to take some notes here because Monica gives us the <em>exact</em> questions you need to ask your customers to collect testimonials on autopilot so you can make more sales in your business.</p><p>Ready?</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(2:59) Did Monica throw up in a helicopter or did Kennedy make that up?</p><p>(5:09) Why do testimonials even matter?</p><p>(5:54) When should we ask for testimonials?</p><p>(8:10) What are the triggers for requesting testimonials?</p><p>(9:49) How to ask for a testimonial as part of an automated email sequence.</p><p>(11:39) How to ask your customers for permission to share their story.</p><p>(13:37) How to deal with negative feedback and turn your customers into raving fans. </p><p>(15:48) The 7 questions you should ask to get awesome testimonials.</p><p>(17:57) So they gave you a testimonial. What's next? </p><p>(20:08) Subject line of the week with Monica Snyder.</p><h3><strong>Why do testimonials even matter?</strong></h3><p>We all know testimonials are important. They are <em>social proof</em>. </p><p>Most of us think we can rock up, create a product, put it on sale, have a bunch of people buying it, and then come back and rave about how awesome you are. But by now you probably know it just doesn't work like that. Truth is, people are more likely to say something about your product if they're unhappy and want to complain. They rarely come forward with the good, juicy stuff. Unless you ask them.</p><p>But, as Monica says, <strong><em>it's our job</em> as course creators to collect social proof. And testimonials are the strongest proof.&nbsp;</strong>So we've got to find ways to engineer a process that will give us awesome testimonials from our raving customers.</p><h3><strong>When should we ask for testimonials?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>So let's say you've created a course. When's a good time to ask for a testimonial? At the end, right?</p><p>Wrong.</p><p>Because let's face it - sadly, a lot of people don't even make it to the end of the course!</p><p>But Monica has another way. A <em>much better</em> way!</p><p>And it's this. <strong>You've got to engineer some sort of win early on in the course. </strong>It doesn't have to be the final big hurray - it could just be a moment of clarity or a small win. As soon as people get that dopamine hit when they get their first result from your course, that's when they're happy to leave you a great testimonial. So make sure you build some sort of accomplishment early on in your course, celebrate it, and then ask for the testimonial.</p><p>But how do we do it?</p><h3><strong>Ask your customers to give you <em>feedback</em></strong></h3><p>Interesting thing is, Monica doesn't actually call them testimonials. She asks her customers for <em>feedback</em>. </p><p>Once her customers experience their first win, she sends an email out as part of her welcoming sequence to explain how to use the course to ask them to leave feedback.</p><p>People get then taken to a landing page with a smiley face and a sad face, just like at the airport! If they click on the happy face, they're invited to share their story. If they click on the sad face, there's where they have a chance to leave their feedback. And Monica has a chance to take that on board and fix it. </p><p>Simple, right? </p><h3><strong>How to ask your customers if you can share their story</strong></h3><p>But what happens when it's time for Monica to re-write and craft those answers into a testimonial that she can share? How does she ask for permission to share it? Does that take long? Can that be automated?</p><p>Hell, yeah!</p><p>So the clever way Monica does this is by asking her customers - in the same email where she asks for the feedback - to provide a link to their business or a headshot and logo to go out with the testimonial. So they don't just give her their permission - they actually get a bit of self-promotion out of it!</p><p><em>Isn't this just pure gold?!</em></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to deal with negative feedback</strong></h3><p>Okay, smiley faces and happy stories are what we're after here. But what about negative feedback? What if someone clicks on that sad face? Is everything lost?</p><p>No way José.</p><p>In fact, Monica says, <strong>bad feedback can also turn into a testimonial if you handle it well. </strong>Negative feedback is where you have the opportunity to turn an unsatisfied customer into a raving fan. And you can do that by simply taking the feedback on board and dealing with it.</p><p>Sometimes it's just a matter of putting your hands up and admitting you missed the mark. Sometimes it's a matter of going ahead with a small fix. And sometimes it's a matter of working out how you can solve the problem that your customer had before they joined your course. Because if they're unhappy with it, then they still have that original problem that made them buy from you, right?</p><p>So<strong> when you focus on fixing your customers' problems, you can turn negative feedback into raving, lifelong fans.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The 7 questions to ask your customers to get awesome testimonials</strong></h3><p>Now, what kind of questions should we ask to get awesome testimonials that work? Because you know what? "The course is awesome" isn't really what you're after. It doesn't do much in convincing someone who's on the fence about buying your course to finally make that leap of faith and go for it. It sounds positive, but it doesn't work.</p><p>So here are the 7 questions Monica asks. It starts easy, with:</p><ul><li>"What your name?"</li><li>And "What's the name of your business?" Or, if it's a B2C course, "Where do you live?"</li></ul><br/><p>Then you go into the juicy stuff, and you ask:</p><ul><li>"What was your biggest problem before buying my product?" This is where you're trying to get an idea of what life looked like <em>before</em>. You want to build the <em>hero journey</em> or the <em>epiphany bridge</em>.</li><li>Then "What changed after you used the product?"</li><li>"What's one specific result you were able to achieve after using the product?" This is where you get those numbers and metrics that are so powerful in a testimonial.</li><li>Then you ask, "What would you say to someone who is thinking about buying the product but is on the fence right now?"</li><li>And finally the wide-open question, "Is there anything else you think is worth sharing or that you want to share but haven't been able to yet?" This question, Monica says, is always full of golden nuggets, so don't shy away from asking it!</li></ul><br/><p>And that's it. These are the exact 7 questions Monica asks to get feedback from her customers. She then creates a handy headline and has a nice<em> before and after</em> story of how her product rocked someone's world.</p><p>And isn't this great? Because we started off talking about asking for testimonials as something that feels grabby. But this is all about your customers. It's about <em>them</em>. It's about <em>their</em> journey. <em>Their</em> wins. And it's a lot more than just you bragging about your wins on your web pages!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>So they gave you a testimonial. What next?</strong></h3><p>Because Monica does all this as part of her email sequences, it's all automated! She gets testimonials coming in without having to go out of her way and ask for them. And isn't this a great testament to the usefulness of email marketing as something that stops you from doing what Monica calls 'busy work'?</p><p>Once the testimonial is in, Monica waits a couple of days, and then, if relevant and appropriate, she sends out the start of her new product launch series. Just. Like. That.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week with Monica Snyder</strong></h3><p>Monica's subject line of the week is "An $11,000 walk to the playground". And guess what? The email was exactly about that. About the fact that Monica took an hour out of her day to walk her kids to the playground, and in that hour, she made two phone calls and closed $11,000 worth of sales. Wow!</p><p>And why did the subject line work? For a few reasons, actually. Because it had a number, and a number in subject lines is always good. Because it had an emoji. And because it triggered curiosity. Because making money and walking to the playground aren't usually things that go together. But in Monica's world, they do. Because that's exactly what she teaches - that making money and relationship building go hand-in-hand.</p><p>Isn't this all levels of awesome guys?!</p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Monica</strong></h5><p>Want to connect with Monica? You can find her on her <a href="https://monicasnyder.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">website</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-turn-customer-feedback-questions-into-more-sales-with-email/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Turn Customer Feedback Questions Into More Sales With Email</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/turn-customer-feedback-emails-into-sales-part-1/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Turn Customer Feedback Emails Into Sales [Part 1]</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/turn-customer-feedback-emails-into-sales-part-2/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Turn Customer Feedback Emails Into Sales [Part 2]</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>Want to write better emails? Come up with better content? 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We all know what they are. A flash sale, a bundle, an offer with a discount, something that expires at a particular time... Deals like these are all around us - they come in all shapes and sizes. But what do you do when someone gets in touch to say they've missed the deal and asks you to honour it?&nbsp;</p><p>The only right answer here is NO!</p><p>Want to know why? And want to know how to say no without damaging your relationship with your customers?&nbsp;</p><p>Let's get stuck in then!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(3:33) Extending an offer that's expired is illegal!</p><p>(7:28) How hounouring an expired offer can lead your customers to start doubting you. </p><p>(8:10) If you lose your customers' trust, they won't buy from you again. </p><p>(10:00) What happened when we asked a company to honour an expired deal.</p><p>(12:00) When you should still honour an expired deal. </p><p>(13:59) When it's okay to offer your customers something different. </p><p>(15:51) How honouring your expired offers impacts your relationship with your affiliates.</p><p>(18:40) How to say no to expired offers while maintaining and strenghtening relationships.</p><p>(20:10) How saying no helps you 'train' your customers for future sales. </p><p>(22:15) Subject line of the week. </p><h3><strong>Extending expired limited-time offers is illegal</strong></h3><p>If a deal ended on Friday night at 10 pm, then it ended on Friday night at 10 pm. You can't and shouldn't extend it.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Why?</p><p>Well, first of all, <strong>it's not legal to state the terms of limited-time offers and then extend&nbsp; your deal beyond those terms</strong>. Similarly, if you say a certain deal is going to be available for the first 100 people who buy it (that's a scarcity-bound deal), then you can't sell it to more than 100 people.</p><p>It's as simple as that.&nbsp;</p><p>Because the minute you start to change the terms, it becomes false and misleading advertising. Not. Legal.</p><h3><strong>If you lose your customers' trust, they won't buy from you again!</strong></h3><p><strong>When you're using time-bound or scarcity-bound urgency to promote and sell your limited-time offers, it comes at the cost of saying no to anyone who asks for that deal once it's over.</strong> We talked about the fact that honouring an expired offer isn't legal. But it's not ethical either.&nbsp;</p><p>Plus, saying no helps you 'train' your customers when it comes to future sales. Because the minute you change your mind and honour an offer that's expired, they're going to start wondering (subconsciously if not consciously) whether they should believe you or not. And next time you say that a limited-time offer or a deal will expire on a certain date, they might not believe you! They won't trust that what you say is true.&nbsp;</p><p>And what happens when the trust is gone? None of us can make any sales.</p><p><strong>As business owners, we all have to build trust with our prospective customers. If people don't trust us - and don't believe they can get the results we're promising - they won't buy from us!</strong> We become dishonourable to the sale.</p><p>So the minute we say yes to a limited-time offer that's already expired, we damage our future sales. Because people will stop trusting us.</p><p>Think about it. They won't even bother rushing to get the deal before it expires. Because they know they can just drop you an email at any time and get it anyway. And when that happens, you have completely slaughtered your ability to ever use urgency with that customer. <strong>And you don't want to lose the ability to use urgency with your customers.&nbsp;</strong></p><h3><strong>That time when we asked a company to honour an expired deal...</strong></h3><p>We have an example of this as customers. A while ago, we found out about this piece of software. They were running a great offer where they were selling their product at a discounted price. We didn't find out until after the deal had expired, but we still got in touch and asked to get the offer anyway. If you don't ask you don't get, right?</p><p>And as consumers, <em>of course</em> you'd want to ask. That goes without saying!&nbsp;</p><p>Know what? The company said yes. Hurray for us! So we got their product at a discounted rate, and the company got an extra sale they wouldn't have otherwise got. They were probably patting themselves on the back, but we, as their customers, have so little trust for them as a brand now that the next time they run a deal, we're not going to be in any hurry to go and grab it. Can you see how that doesn't work out in your interest in the end?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>When you should honour an expired deal</strong></h3><p>So, you don't honour an expired deal. That's the rule.&nbsp;</p><p>But every rule has an exception, right?&nbsp;</p><p>There are cases when you should honour an expired deal. And that's when you can see that your customer genuinely tried to get your offer but couldn't, because of circumstances outside their control. Obviously you don't just take their word for it. You go and check. You might be able to see that they tried to pay, but their card failed twice. Or that there was a problem with their bank. Or your website was down. Whatever.</p><p><strong>If they couldn't get the deal because of circumstances beyond their control, you should honour it. </strong>If it was genuinely not their fault and the purchase failed, then it's fair enough. Technology isn't perfect. And by saying yes to giving them the offer, you're not breaking their trust.&nbsp;</p><p>But you still <em>don't</em> honour the deal if they dilly-dallied and stayed on the fence until the last minute. Or if your customer blatantly tells you they only found out about the deal <em>after</em> it had expired. That's when you say no and stay firm!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>When it's okay to offer your customers something else instead</strong></h3><p>Sometimes you can still offer your customer the product you were selling at the discounted price, but that's only if you're selling that product already elsewhere, as part of another evergreen bundle or offer.&nbsp;</p><p>For example, you may have had a limited-time offer that sold Product A at a certain price, as long as you bought Product A within a certain time frame. This means that once the time frame has expired, you can't sell Product A at that price anymore. The offer's gone.</p><p>However, let's say you have another deal on your website. Let's say Product A is for sale on your website at that same price, but only if bought in conjunction with Product B. And that's an evergreen offer. In which case, <strong>it's perfectly acceptable and totally ethical to point your customer to that particular offer, which is an upsell at a discount.</strong> Because they could have found it on your website anyway. And this isn't the same as saying yes to a limited-time offer that's already expired. Can you see the difference?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How honouring expired limited-time offers impacts your relationship with your affiliates</strong></h3><p>Another good reason for saying no to honouring expired limited-time offers (as if we haven't given you enough already), is that it impacts your relationship with your affiliates (if you have any).&nbsp;</p><p>So let's say you have affiliates who helped you promote your deal. If you say that your offer ends on a certain day at a certain time and then you honour the deal once the deadline has passed, most affiliates who are worth their salt won't promote your products ever again. Put yourself in their shoes. If you found out that someone you promoted did some shenanigans with false urgency or false scarcity, how would you feel? Would you promote them again? Becaus <em>you</em>, as the affiliate, could get into hot waters too, you know?&nbsp;</p><p>But it goes both ways. If you have affiliates, then you need to be clear on what <em>they</em> are doing. You want to make sure they're not honouring expired offers either. Or equally, if you're selling an evergreen offer, and an affiliate makes it sound like it's a one-time-only or time-bound deal, well that's not right! You might end up having to give refunds and suffer from reputational damage, which isn't cool. So <strong>keep a close eye on what other people are doing with your offers!</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to say no while maintaining and strenghtening your relationship with your customers</strong></h3><p>So hopefully by now we've convinced you you've got to say no to expired offers. But how do you do that wihtout damaging the relationship with your customer?</p><p>Well, first of all you want to say you're sorry that they missed out on the discount. But while you'd love to be able to offer them the deal at the same price, you hope they understand that in order to be fair to everyone who bought on time, you can't do that. Otherwise, you'd be misleading all those people who grabbed your offer while it was valid. Plus, you want to mention that you'd be at risk of false advertising.&nbsp;</p><p>This works for a few reasons. First of all, you've given them an <em>emotional reason</em> as to why you're saying no. You've asked them to put themselves in the shoes of the people who did buy the deal within the dealine. If that was them, wouldn't they be annoyed? And then you give them the <em>legal reason</em> too.&nbsp;</p><p>Delivering the message in this way allows you to say no (in a nice way), but also lets you 'train' your customer and helps them understand that next time you have a limited-time offer that will expire on a certain day and time, you mean it. And next time they'll make sure they don't miss out on that discount! The urgency has just become more real for that person because they've now experienced the consequences of missing out]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Limited-time offers, also known as urgency-bound or scarcity-bound offers. We all know what they are. A flash sale, a bundle, an offer with a discount, something that expires at a particular time... Deals like these are all around us - they come in all shapes and sizes. But what do you do when someone gets in touch to say they've missed the deal and asks you to honour it?&nbsp;</p><p>The only right answer here is NO!</p><p>Want to know why? And want to know how to say no without damaging your relationship with your customers?&nbsp;</p><p>Let's get stuck in then!&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(3:33) Extending an offer that's expired is illegal!</p><p>(7:28) How hounouring an expired offer can lead your customers to start doubting you. </p><p>(8:10) If you lose your customers' trust, they won't buy from you again. </p><p>(10:00) What happened when we asked a company to honour an expired deal.</p><p>(12:00) When you should still honour an expired deal. </p><p>(13:59) When it's okay to offer your customers something different. </p><p>(15:51) How honouring your expired offers impacts your relationship with your affiliates.</p><p>(18:40) How to say no to expired offers while maintaining and strenghtening relationships.</p><p>(20:10) How saying no helps you 'train' your customers for future sales. </p><p>(22:15) Subject line of the week. </p><h3><strong>Extending expired limited-time offers is illegal</strong></h3><p>If a deal ended on Friday night at 10 pm, then it ended on Friday night at 10 pm. You can't and shouldn't extend it.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Why?</p><p>Well, first of all, <strong>it's not legal to state the terms of limited-time offers and then extend&nbsp; your deal beyond those terms</strong>. Similarly, if you say a certain deal is going to be available for the first 100 people who buy it (that's a scarcity-bound deal), then you can't sell it to more than 100 people.</p><p>It's as simple as that.&nbsp;</p><p>Because the minute you start to change the terms, it becomes false and misleading advertising. Not. Legal.</p><h3><strong>If you lose your customers' trust, they won't buy from you again!</strong></h3><p><strong>When you're using time-bound or scarcity-bound urgency to promote and sell your limited-time offers, it comes at the cost of saying no to anyone who asks for that deal once it's over.</strong> We talked about the fact that honouring an expired offer isn't legal. But it's not ethical either.&nbsp;</p><p>Plus, saying no helps you 'train' your customers when it comes to future sales. Because the minute you change your mind and honour an offer that's expired, they're going to start wondering (subconsciously if not consciously) whether they should believe you or not. And next time you say that a limited-time offer or a deal will expire on a certain date, they might not believe you! They won't trust that what you say is true.&nbsp;</p><p>And what happens when the trust is gone? None of us can make any sales.</p><p><strong>As business owners, we all have to build trust with our prospective customers. If people don't trust us - and don't believe they can get the results we're promising - they won't buy from us!</strong> We become dishonourable to the sale.</p><p>So the minute we say yes to a limited-time offer that's already expired, we damage our future sales. Because people will stop trusting us.</p><p>Think about it. They won't even bother rushing to get the deal before it expires. Because they know they can just drop you an email at any time and get it anyway. And when that happens, you have completely slaughtered your ability to ever use urgency with that customer. <strong>And you don't want to lose the ability to use urgency with your customers.&nbsp;</strong></p><h3><strong>That time when we asked a company to honour an expired deal...</strong></h3><p>We have an example of this as customers. A while ago, we found out about this piece of software. They were running a great offer where they were selling their product at a discounted price. We didn't find out until after the deal had expired, but we still got in touch and asked to get the offer anyway. If you don't ask you don't get, right?</p><p>And as consumers, <em>of course</em> you'd want to ask. That goes without saying!&nbsp;</p><p>Know what? The company said yes. Hurray for us! So we got their product at a discounted rate, and the company got an extra sale they wouldn't have otherwise got. They were probably patting themselves on the back, but we, as their customers, have so little trust for them as a brand now that the next time they run a deal, we're not going to be in any hurry to go and grab it. Can you see how that doesn't work out in your interest in the end?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>When you should honour an expired deal</strong></h3><p>So, you don't honour an expired deal. That's the rule.&nbsp;</p><p>But every rule has an exception, right?&nbsp;</p><p>There are cases when you should honour an expired deal. And that's when you can see that your customer genuinely tried to get your offer but couldn't, because of circumstances outside their control. Obviously you don't just take their word for it. You go and check. You might be able to see that they tried to pay, but their card failed twice. Or that there was a problem with their bank. Or your website was down. Whatever.</p><p><strong>If they couldn't get the deal because of circumstances beyond their control, you should honour it. </strong>If it was genuinely not their fault and the purchase failed, then it's fair enough. Technology isn't perfect. And by saying yes to giving them the offer, you're not breaking their trust.&nbsp;</p><p>But you still <em>don't</em> honour the deal if they dilly-dallied and stayed on the fence until the last minute. Or if your customer blatantly tells you they only found out about the deal <em>after</em> it had expired. That's when you say no and stay firm!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>When it's okay to offer your customers something else instead</strong></h3><p>Sometimes you can still offer your customer the product you were selling at the discounted price, but that's only if you're selling that product already elsewhere, as part of another evergreen bundle or offer.&nbsp;</p><p>For example, you may have had a limited-time offer that sold Product A at a certain price, as long as you bought Product A within a certain time frame. This means that once the time frame has expired, you can't sell Product A at that price anymore. The offer's gone.</p><p>However, let's say you have another deal on your website. Let's say Product A is for sale on your website at that same price, but only if bought in conjunction with Product B. And that's an evergreen offer. In which case, <strong>it's perfectly acceptable and totally ethical to point your customer to that particular offer, which is an upsell at a discount.</strong> Because they could have found it on your website anyway. And this isn't the same as saying yes to a limited-time offer that's already expired. Can you see the difference?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How honouring expired limited-time offers impacts your relationship with your affiliates</strong></h3><p>Another good reason for saying no to honouring expired limited-time offers (as if we haven't given you enough already), is that it impacts your relationship with your affiliates (if you have any).&nbsp;</p><p>So let's say you have affiliates who helped you promote your deal. If you say that your offer ends on a certain day at a certain time and then you honour the deal once the deadline has passed, most affiliates who are worth their salt won't promote your products ever again. Put yourself in their shoes. If you found out that someone you promoted did some shenanigans with false urgency or false scarcity, how would you feel? Would you promote them again? Becaus <em>you</em>, as the affiliate, could get into hot waters too, you know?&nbsp;</p><p>But it goes both ways. If you have affiliates, then you need to be clear on what <em>they</em> are doing. You want to make sure they're not honouring expired offers either. Or equally, if you're selling an evergreen offer, and an affiliate makes it sound like it's a one-time-only or time-bound deal, well that's not right! You might end up having to give refunds and suffer from reputational damage, which isn't cool. So <strong>keep a close eye on what other people are doing with your offers!</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to say no while maintaining and strenghtening your relationship with your customers</strong></h3><p>So hopefully by now we've convinced you you've got to say no to expired offers. But how do you do that wihtout damaging the relationship with your customer?</p><p>Well, first of all you want to say you're sorry that they missed out on the discount. But while you'd love to be able to offer them the deal at the same price, you hope they understand that in order to be fair to everyone who bought on time, you can't do that. Otherwise, you'd be misleading all those people who grabbed your offer while it was valid. Plus, you want to mention that you'd be at risk of false advertising.&nbsp;</p><p>This works for a few reasons. First of all, you've given them an <em>emotional reason</em> as to why you're saying no. You've asked them to put themselves in the shoes of the people who did buy the deal within the dealine. If that was them, wouldn't they be annoyed? And then you give them the <em>legal reason</em> too.&nbsp;</p><p>Delivering the message in this way allows you to say no (in a nice way), but also lets you 'train' your customer and helps them understand that next time you have a limited-time offer that will expire on a certain day and time, you mean it. And next time they'll make sure they don't miss out on that discount! The urgency has just become more real for that person because they've now experienced the consequences of missing out on the deal within the deadline.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>When you stand by your limited-time offers (urgency-bound or scarcity-bound deals), your customers will become more responsive and more profitable as a result.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>This week's subject line of the week (courtesy of Rob) is, "We can't be friends". Rob here was talking about the fact that when Facebook first became a thing, you'd become friends with just anyone. But now we're all a bit more protective of who we connect with on social media, and we're trying to strip down. So in this email, Rob was talking about his method of removing people he doesn't actually know on Facebook. Intriguing, right?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/dress-up-your-discount-make-more-sales-john-hutchison/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dress up your discount like this to make more sales with John Hutchison</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-sell-without-price-cutting-or-pushing-with-mike-montague-from-sandler-training/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Sell Without Price Cutting or Pushing with Mike Montague from Sandler Training</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-sell-to-the-right-people-at-the-right-time-with-steve-rosenbaum/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Sell To The Right People At The Right Time – With Steve Rosenbaum</a>.</p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>Did you know that the 8 skills to improve your email marketing we talked about today come from books we've read and studied? If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? 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If you enjoyed this episode (all about limited-time offers and how to say NO) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes and get discovered by more awesome people like you.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/limited-time-offers-say-no/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">36d0c124-9892-4251-b9f5-fc248b386be9</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/ad6a1f35-3278-44e6-b2bb-7bf54e872e75/QAf_0V8lYWeb1E5yIOlVZ4cJ.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/d2d3ef28-04f1-4956-8cc5-8d076c8bf3c0/093-how-to-say-no-to-honoring-expired-offers.mp3" length="46371654" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>24:09</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>91</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>91</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Facebook Groups Marketing, Content That Make Sales with Christina Jandali</title><itunes:title>Facebook Groups Marketing, Content That Make Sales with Christina Jandali</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Christina Jandali is a confidence-boosting, cash-creating Business Growth Strategist who helps coaches and course creators build a raving fan base and producing scalable profits through Facebook groups marketing.</p><p>And today she shares her best tips on using a Facebook group to build your email list, so you can turn leads into buyers and make more sales in your business. We were scribbling down notes like mad, and you'll want to do that too - guaranteed!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(2:27) Did Christina end up staying in the Caribbean for a month?</p><p>(4:42) Do Facebook groups and email marketing work together?</p><p>(5:50) What comes first - your Facebook group or your email list?</p><p>(7:10) How do you sell in a Facebook group?</p><p>(8:55) How do you generate 'purposeful engagement' in your Facebook group?</p><p>(12:33) How long does it take to plan and create content for your Facebook group?</p><p>(14:05) The type of content you can share in your Facebook group between launches. </p><p>(16:11) What selling techniques work inside Facebook groups?</p><p>(18:04) How do you sell evergreen products like memberships? </p><p>(22:17) Subject line of the week with Christina Jandali.</p><h3><strong>Do Facebook groups and email marketing work together?</strong></h3><p>According to Christina, absolutely YES!</p><p>As we all know, while we can leverage social media, we don't own those platforms. But email marketing is different. It's an asset we own, which is why it's important to market people in more than one location and use your Facebook group in conjunction with your email marketing.</p><p>Facebook groups are awesome for creating deeper connections with your audience, so how do we use them as a tool for business growth?</p><h3><strong>What comes first - your Facebook group or your email list?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Should we populate our Facebook groups at the back of our email lists or start a Facebook group first to grow our email list? Chicken and egg situation, right?</p><p>Well, they both work together, Christina says. And it all depends on where your primary source of traffic is. If you're using paid advertising, then you definitely want people to join your email list first. But if your traffic comes from somewhere else - like your podcast, for example - it's much easier for your audience to join your Facebook group. Because it doesn't take much effort for people at all.</p><p>Plus, the more people join your Facebook group, the more Facebook introduces your group to more people, which can help you grow that audience even further. And once they're in there, you have plenty of opportunities to turn followers into email subscribers.</p><p>But you always need to think about the two working together as two different entry points into your business. <strong>Your Facebook group should grow your email list, and your email list should grow your Facebook group</strong>.</p><p>You can also create FOMO by telling people in your Facebook group what's happening in your email list and vice versa. It creates curiosity, so if you do this in your email list, you can get your subscribers to join your Facebook group. Generate FOMO in your Facebook group about your email list, and you'll get more people to subscribe. Genius!</p><h3><strong>How do you sell in your Facebook group?</strong></h3><p>Christina likes to think about using a Facebook group as a way to run campaigns. (Oh, and don't we love the sound of that?!)</p><p>So when thinking about bringing people into your Facebook group, you need to <strong>come up with content that will lead to your offers</strong>. Use your content to attract, engage, and convert. Because the <strong>content in your Facebook group must evoke desire and demand for your paid offer</strong>.</p><p>You don't want freebie seekers - <strong>you want leads that you can convert into buyers</strong>. So everything you do in your group needs to move people down that line of evoking desire and demand for your paid product or service.</p><p>Makes sense, right?</p><h3><strong>How do you generate the right type of engagement in your Facebook group?&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>So now that we've established that you don't just want<em> anyone</em> in your group - you want people who are interested in your paid offering - what can you do to nurture and deepen relationships with them?</p><p>The key, Christina explains, is to stop focusing on 'mindless engagement'. You know, the type that comes from posts that ask people whether they're a tea or a coffee drinker. Or whether they prefer cats or dogs.&nbsp;If the answer to that question doesn't lead anywhere, don't ask it!</p><p>What you want instead is <strong>'purposeful engagement'</strong>. You want to <strong>ask questions that help you get in the minds of your ideal clients and move people towards your paid offers</strong>.</p><p>So let's say you're planning a training session. You could start posting in your group and asking how people feel about that particular topic. What are people getting stuck with? What are their challenges? Allow people to share their frustrations and experiences - <strong>create the conversation around the topic, so you can use it later on.</strong></p><p>Because when you invite your audience to share their experience, you then have all this language (this copy) that you can use in your live streams, your emails, and whatever other type of content you're creating.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How long does it take to plan and create content for your Facebook group?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>The majority of Christina's posts are one liners, so they don't take very long to plan and write at all!</p><p>As business owners and marketers, we constantly feel under pressure to create lots of long content, but actually, that sometimes can kill engagement. So instead, Christina says, <strong>ask yourself what <em>one question</em> you can ask your audience that will start that conversation around what it is you're selling</strong>.</p><p>She also suggests that you run at least one deep-dive core training a week inside your Facebook group. This can be around 10-20 minutes, but it needs to be value-packed. This is where you demonstrate your knowledge and evoke that need and desire for your paid product or service. So if you're planning for that content, you can jot down 3 bullet points for what you want to cover in that training, which is super quick.</p><p>But the biggest mindset reframe that needs to happen, in Christina's opinion, is that you should aim to <strong>create community and connection with your Facebook members</strong>. To do that, <strong>let <em>them</em> speak to <em>you</em>, rather than <em>you</em> speaking to <em>them</em></strong> all the time. And therefore your content should be 'fill-in-the-blanks' type of content, where you ask simple questions, break the ice, and invite your audience to speak about themselves.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What content can you share in between launches?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>So this idea of creating campaigns and structuring your content around something you want to sell works really well when you're launching something new. But how do you keep your audience warm in between launches?</p><p>Christina suggests you can still stick to just one value-based, deep dive post piece of content per week. And everything else should be conversational and connection-based - centered around the topic of your deep dive value post.</p><p>So if you're not launching something new right now, what it is you want your audience to do? Listen to your podcast? Join your email list? Follow you on another social platform? What action do you want them to take next? It's important you give them one because you <strong>always want to invite your audience to take the next best action with you</strong> that moves people forward and closer to buying from you.&nbsp;<strong>You constantly need to train your subscribers to take some form of action, or they won't buy when you ask them to.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What selling techniques work inside Facebook groups?</strong></h3><p>When it comes to selling techniques, Facebook group owners take all sorts of approaches. Some use more direct pitches, while others employ more subtle techniques.</p><p>Some business owners invite people to DM them. And that's powerful, because it allows you to have a one-to-one conversation with your leads, and if you're selling high-ticket items where a deeper enrollment conversation is necessary, then this strategy might work for you. But if you sell a lower-ticket item, can you really afford to spend your time answering DMs?</p><p>What's important to take into account is how you want to present your offer. Then you can work backwards and figure out what sales technique is going to be most effective for your product. Should you sell through a webinar or a masterclass? A workshop? Look at the bigger picture and decide what sales sequence or strategy is going to work best for your offer.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How do you sell evergreen products like memberships?</strong></h3><p>We asked Christina for some tips on how to sell our membership - <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. It's always open, so how do we talk about it in our Facebook group without becoming boring?</p><p>Christina suggests to always plant seeds. For example, you could say that a question came up inside the membership and you want to discuss it in the group. Or that you realised something as you were putting a piece of content together for your paying members. Plant seeds. <strong>Let people know about the thing you sell</strong>.</p><p>But more than anything, <strong>use the content in your Facebook group to pitch the entry point to your sales sequence</strong>. Do...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Christina Jandali is a confidence-boosting, cash-creating Business Growth Strategist who helps coaches and course creators build a raving fan base and producing scalable profits through Facebook groups marketing.</p><p>And today she shares her best tips on using a Facebook group to build your email list, so you can turn leads into buyers and make more sales in your business. We were scribbling down notes like mad, and you'll want to do that too - guaranteed!</p><p><strong>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </strong></p><p>(2:27) Did Christina end up staying in the Caribbean for a month?</p><p>(4:42) Do Facebook groups and email marketing work together?</p><p>(5:50) What comes first - your Facebook group or your email list?</p><p>(7:10) How do you sell in a Facebook group?</p><p>(8:55) How do you generate 'purposeful engagement' in your Facebook group?</p><p>(12:33) How long does it take to plan and create content for your Facebook group?</p><p>(14:05) The type of content you can share in your Facebook group between launches. </p><p>(16:11) What selling techniques work inside Facebook groups?</p><p>(18:04) How do you sell evergreen products like memberships? </p><p>(22:17) Subject line of the week with Christina Jandali.</p><h3><strong>Do Facebook groups and email marketing work together?</strong></h3><p>According to Christina, absolutely YES!</p><p>As we all know, while we can leverage social media, we don't own those platforms. But email marketing is different. It's an asset we own, which is why it's important to market people in more than one location and use your Facebook group in conjunction with your email marketing.</p><p>Facebook groups are awesome for creating deeper connections with your audience, so how do we use them as a tool for business growth?</p><h3><strong>What comes first - your Facebook group or your email list?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Should we populate our Facebook groups at the back of our email lists or start a Facebook group first to grow our email list? Chicken and egg situation, right?</p><p>Well, they both work together, Christina says. And it all depends on where your primary source of traffic is. If you're using paid advertising, then you definitely want people to join your email list first. But if your traffic comes from somewhere else - like your podcast, for example - it's much easier for your audience to join your Facebook group. Because it doesn't take much effort for people at all.</p><p>Plus, the more people join your Facebook group, the more Facebook introduces your group to more people, which can help you grow that audience even further. And once they're in there, you have plenty of opportunities to turn followers into email subscribers.</p><p>But you always need to think about the two working together as two different entry points into your business. <strong>Your Facebook group should grow your email list, and your email list should grow your Facebook group</strong>.</p><p>You can also create FOMO by telling people in your Facebook group what's happening in your email list and vice versa. It creates curiosity, so if you do this in your email list, you can get your subscribers to join your Facebook group. Generate FOMO in your Facebook group about your email list, and you'll get more people to subscribe. Genius!</p><h3><strong>How do you sell in your Facebook group?</strong></h3><p>Christina likes to think about using a Facebook group as a way to run campaigns. (Oh, and don't we love the sound of that?!)</p><p>So when thinking about bringing people into your Facebook group, you need to <strong>come up with content that will lead to your offers</strong>. Use your content to attract, engage, and convert. Because the <strong>content in your Facebook group must evoke desire and demand for your paid offer</strong>.</p><p>You don't want freebie seekers - <strong>you want leads that you can convert into buyers</strong>. So everything you do in your group needs to move people down that line of evoking desire and demand for your paid product or service.</p><p>Makes sense, right?</p><h3><strong>How do you generate the right type of engagement in your Facebook group?&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>So now that we've established that you don't just want<em> anyone</em> in your group - you want people who are interested in your paid offering - what can you do to nurture and deepen relationships with them?</p><p>The key, Christina explains, is to stop focusing on 'mindless engagement'. You know, the type that comes from posts that ask people whether they're a tea or a coffee drinker. Or whether they prefer cats or dogs.&nbsp;If the answer to that question doesn't lead anywhere, don't ask it!</p><p>What you want instead is <strong>'purposeful engagement'</strong>. You want to <strong>ask questions that help you get in the minds of your ideal clients and move people towards your paid offers</strong>.</p><p>So let's say you're planning a training session. You could start posting in your group and asking how people feel about that particular topic. What are people getting stuck with? What are their challenges? Allow people to share their frustrations and experiences - <strong>create the conversation around the topic, so you can use it later on.</strong></p><p>Because when you invite your audience to share their experience, you then have all this language (this copy) that you can use in your live streams, your emails, and whatever other type of content you're creating.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How long does it take to plan and create content for your Facebook group?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>The majority of Christina's posts are one liners, so they don't take very long to plan and write at all!</p><p>As business owners and marketers, we constantly feel under pressure to create lots of long content, but actually, that sometimes can kill engagement. So instead, Christina says, <strong>ask yourself what <em>one question</em> you can ask your audience that will start that conversation around what it is you're selling</strong>.</p><p>She also suggests that you run at least one deep-dive core training a week inside your Facebook group. This can be around 10-20 minutes, but it needs to be value-packed. This is where you demonstrate your knowledge and evoke that need and desire for your paid product or service. So if you're planning for that content, you can jot down 3 bullet points for what you want to cover in that training, which is super quick.</p><p>But the biggest mindset reframe that needs to happen, in Christina's opinion, is that you should aim to <strong>create community and connection with your Facebook members</strong>. To do that, <strong>let <em>them</em> speak to <em>you</em>, rather than <em>you</em> speaking to <em>them</em></strong> all the time. And therefore your content should be 'fill-in-the-blanks' type of content, where you ask simple questions, break the ice, and invite your audience to speak about themselves.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What content can you share in between launches?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>So this idea of creating campaigns and structuring your content around something you want to sell works really well when you're launching something new. But how do you keep your audience warm in between launches?</p><p>Christina suggests you can still stick to just one value-based, deep dive post piece of content per week. And everything else should be conversational and connection-based - centered around the topic of your deep dive value post.</p><p>So if you're not launching something new right now, what it is you want your audience to do? Listen to your podcast? Join your email list? Follow you on another social platform? What action do you want them to take next? It's important you give them one because you <strong>always want to invite your audience to take the next best action with you</strong> that moves people forward and closer to buying from you.&nbsp;<strong>You constantly need to train your subscribers to take some form of action, or they won't buy when you ask them to.</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What selling techniques work inside Facebook groups?</strong></h3><p>When it comes to selling techniques, Facebook group owners take all sorts of approaches. Some use more direct pitches, while others employ more subtle techniques.</p><p>Some business owners invite people to DM them. And that's powerful, because it allows you to have a one-to-one conversation with your leads, and if you're selling high-ticket items where a deeper enrollment conversation is necessary, then this strategy might work for you. But if you sell a lower-ticket item, can you really afford to spend your time answering DMs?</p><p>What's important to take into account is how you want to present your offer. Then you can work backwards and figure out what sales technique is going to be most effective for your product. Should you sell through a webinar or a masterclass? A workshop? Look at the bigger picture and decide what sales sequence or strategy is going to work best for your offer.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How do you sell evergreen products like memberships?</strong></h3><p>We asked Christina for some tips on how to sell our membership - <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>. It's always open, so how do we talk about it in our Facebook group without becoming boring?</p><p>Christina suggests to always plant seeds. For example, you could say that a question came up inside the membership and you want to discuss it in the group. Or that you realised something as you were putting a piece of content together for your paying members. Plant seeds. <strong>Let people know about the thing you sell</strong>.</p><p>But more than anything, <strong>use the content in your Facebook group to pitch the entry point to your sales sequence</strong>. Do you sell your membership via your email list? Then invite people to join your email list. Do you do a couple of larger, bigger-scale launches a year where you offer additional bonuses and bundles? Then point people to that.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week with Christina Jandali</strong></h3><p>Christina's subject line of the week is, "Hey!". It's one word, and it's soooo simple. Know why it works? Because that's exactly how you'd speak to a friend, and people can't help but want to open that email.</p><p>It also works because it's super short, and it stands out compared to much longer subject lines that are perhaps sitting in people's inbox. So try it out for those conversational emails you send to your list.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Christina&nbsp;</strong></h5><p>Want to connect with Christina? You can find her on <a href="https://deliveryourgenius.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">her website - Deliver your Genius</a>.</p><p>Christina also put together a wonderful bundle for our amazing podcast listeners. The resources Christina shared will help you find the perfect name for your Facebook group, write the best intro post, and then grow your Facebook group in 5 easy steps. You can get your paws on Christina's awesome bundle here.</p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/build-a-facebook-group-to-build-your-email-list-with-arne-giske-from-group-funnels/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Build A Facebook Group To Build Your Email List With Arne Giske From Group Funnels</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/grow-your-email-list-using-facebook-pages/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Grow Your Email List Using Facebook Pages (Without Ads) – Rachel Miller Moolah Style!</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-subject-lines-to-make-sales/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Use Email Subject Lines To Do More Than Get Your Emails Opened</a>.</p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>Want to write better emails? Come up with better content? Influence and move your readers to click and buy? Well, you can do that with this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the&nbsp;<strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes, where we get to share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to&nbsp;<strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing by applying everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about Facebook groups marketing) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>leaving us a review </strong>on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes and get discovered by more awesome people like you.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/facebook-groups-marketing/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">c2b5e4e1-d1b4-4a7b-8824-a9ad05f3a261</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/2c5b8df5-ced2-4b93-a38c-baca43462783/_HnK818sNNKQQs4uN4NP8CD1.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/d4f6d5c5-c6ea-4dea-8427-5c882e59884b/christina-jandali.mp3" length="48844301" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>25:26</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>90</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>90</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How to Email Your Abandoned Email List</title><itunes:title>How to Email Your Abandoned Email List</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>You've abandoned your subscribers. You sent them the freebie they signed up for or the product they bought, but you haven't emailed them in ages. They've forgotten about you. So how do you reactivate an email list? How do you go back to emailing your poor abandoned subscribers and keep them engaged and happy?&nbsp;</p><p><em>Well, wouldn't we all love the know?!</em></p><p>So let's get into it.&nbsp;</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(2:45) Why you can't just email your subscribers when you need something from them.</p><p>(4:33) Why you should look at your email marketing from your subscribers' perspective.</p><p>(5:30) Why you don't want to start bombarding your subscribers out of the blue.</p><p>(8:48) Why you need to hold your hands up and come clean with your subscribers.</p><p>(9:32) How to remind your subscribers of who you are and what you sell.</p><p>(10:12) How to build expectations for what's to come.</p><p>(13:00) Why you should give your subscribers permission to opt out.</p><p>(14:30) How to decide on a frequency and stick with it.</p><p>(16:05) Why the best time to reactivate your email list is now. </p><p>(17:32) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Is it time to reactivate your email list? </strong></h3><p>So you've done what a lot of people do.</p><p>You've neglected your list.</p><p>The question is... how do you go back in their good books now? And what are some of the dangers of just emailing them out of the blue?&nbsp;</p><p>Thing is, you can't just email your subscribers when you need something from them - when you have something to sell. It doesn't work like that. <strong>If you don't give your subscribers value on a regular basis, they won't be there when you need them</strong>.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>The dangers of emailing your list after a long time</strong></h3><p>If you've abandoned your subscribers, fear not! There are ways to reactivate your list. You just need to do it carefully and with a bit of thought. And the first thing we suggest you do, like our friend <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/holistic-email-marketing-kath-pay/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kath Pay</a> suggests, is to <strong>look at your list from your subscribers' perspective</strong>.</p><p>The first thing you <em>don't</em> want to do, in fact, is to suddenly start bombarding your subscribers. Because <strong>when you leave your email list for too long, your subscribers forget who you are</strong>. And if they can't remember you, you're the random guy or gal who's emailing them out of the blue because you want something.&nbsp;</p><p><em>Not. Cool.&nbsp;</em></p><p>So put yourself in the shoes of your subscribers (who, by this point, don't remember you or your business) and think about how <em>you</em> randomly emailing <em>them</em> will look like. They might be upset and frustrated and unsubscribe, right? Clearly, your relationship with that person isn't positive by this point, and <strong>you can't sell to someone you don't have a positive relationship with</strong>. This definitely affects your reputation as an email marketer.</p><p>But there's more. It also impacts your deliverability rate. Because if you have a bunch of people who suddenly unsubscribe and report your email as spam<em> on the same day </em>and within hours of each other, then you might have a bit of a problem.&nbsp;</p><p>So what's the solution?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to reactivate an email list&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Hold your hands up. Come clean and be honest with your list. Tell them you haven't emailed them for a long time, and that you know that's not very good of you. What you want to do now is to <strong><em>slowly</em> start to re-engage them and bring them back in</strong>.&nbsp;</p><h4><strong>Remind them of who you are and what you sell&nbsp;</strong></h4><p>So get in touch and remind them of who you are and of what brought them onto your list in the first place. Did they sign up for a lead magnet? Did they buy something from you? Make sure you mention the <em>product</em> - people are more likely to remember the name of the product or what it did than <em>your</em> name. So remind them of who you are and what you sell.&nbsp;</p><h4><strong>Manage expectations</strong></h4><p>The other thing you need to do is to build expectations for what's to come next. Tell people what they can expect from now on and why this is going to benefit them. What will you include in your emails? What value do they offer to your subscribers? <strong>People don't care about your emails - they care about what they're going to get out of them.</strong> So tell them how often you're going to be emailing them and remind them of the benefits that your emails deliver to them.&nbsp;</p><p>Inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, we share the Terrible Friend Campaign with our members. That teaches you how to seed a piece of content that's to come inside your email, so you can start to build an email campaign that isn't just about re-engagement and re-building and nurturing a relationship. You can weave in your product as well if you do it in the right way and embrace value-driven email marketing.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><h4><strong>Give them permission to unsubscribe</strong></h4><p>That's right. You read that right.&nbsp;</p><p>Because it's important is to give them a way out. Tell them what's coming next and, in the same breath, give them a chance to opt out. Spammy, bad people don't do that. So that sets you apart as a good guy. A good guy who made a mistake. Because let's face it - it's your fault. You're the one who didn't show up and maintain that relationship with your subscribers.</p><p>And of course, by telling them exactly where the unsubscribe button is, you'll have fewer people <em>actually</em> taking that option because you've been honest and upfront. And because, hopefully, you've sold them the benefit of sticking around.&nbsp;</p><h4><strong>Don't do it again</strong></h4><p>And now you're on your way to fixing things, just don't do it again. If you said you're going to show up, show up!</p><p>Make email marketing a habit. Because<strong> email marketing is the highest ROI activity of businesses of all sizes and stages around the world</strong>. And if you create an email habit, you'll find it easier to stick to it.</p><p>We find it easier to email every day than to email once a week, for example. Because it's just a thing we do every day now - not something we need to remember to do once a week or whenever. So <strong>decide when you're going to email your subscribers, tell them, and then show up when you said you would!&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The best time to reactivate an email list is now</strong></h3><p>We call it Dreaded Dentist. The longer you put off going to the dentist, the worse the issue gets. Reactivating your email list is the same.</p><p>The best time you could possibly start re-engaging your list was yesterday. Or the day before. Or last month. Whenever it went cold. <strong>The second best time to start re-engaging your email list is right now</strong>. And the longer you put it off, the worse off you'll be. So start now!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>This week's subject line of the week is, "Dodo versus toenail". This is a subject line that Kennedy used at the back of a conversation with his partner Emma, where he used the expression "dead as a toenail". To which Emma said, "Don't you mean dead as a dodo?". So which one is it? Toenail or dodo?</p><p>Anyway, that's the story behind the subject line.</p><p>But why did the subject line work? Because Kennedy put together two totally unrelated things. Sure, the back story here linked them together. But you had to read the email to find out what it was all about because, at face value, the two concepts were unrelated. And that triggers curiosity. Clever, huh?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/holistic-email-marketing-kath-pay/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Subscriber-Centric Email Marketing with Kath Pay, author of Holistic Email Marketing</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-often-should-you-email-emailing-more-often/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How Often Should You Email – Emailing More Often</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-content-ideas/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">What should I talk about in my emails? Email marketing content ideas you’ll use</a>.</p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You've abandoned your subscribers. You sent them the freebie they signed up for or the product they bought, but you haven't emailed them in ages. They've forgotten about you. So how do you reactivate an email list? How do you go back to emailing your poor abandoned subscribers and keep them engaged and happy?&nbsp;</p><p><em>Well, wouldn't we all love the know?!</em></p><p>So let's get into it.&nbsp;</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(2:45) Why you can't just email your subscribers when you need something from them.</p><p>(4:33) Why you should look at your email marketing from your subscribers' perspective.</p><p>(5:30) Why you don't want to start bombarding your subscribers out of the blue.</p><p>(8:48) Why you need to hold your hands up and come clean with your subscribers.</p><p>(9:32) How to remind your subscribers of who you are and what you sell.</p><p>(10:12) How to build expectations for what's to come.</p><p>(13:00) Why you should give your subscribers permission to opt out.</p><p>(14:30) How to decide on a frequency and stick with it.</p><p>(16:05) Why the best time to reactivate your email list is now. </p><p>(17:32) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Is it time to reactivate your email list? </strong></h3><p>So you've done what a lot of people do.</p><p>You've neglected your list.</p><p>The question is... how do you go back in their good books now? And what are some of the dangers of just emailing them out of the blue?&nbsp;</p><p>Thing is, you can't just email your subscribers when you need something from them - when you have something to sell. It doesn't work like that. <strong>If you don't give your subscribers value on a regular basis, they won't be there when you need them</strong>.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>The dangers of emailing your list after a long time</strong></h3><p>If you've abandoned your subscribers, fear not! There are ways to reactivate your list. You just need to do it carefully and with a bit of thought. And the first thing we suggest you do, like our friend <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/holistic-email-marketing-kath-pay/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kath Pay</a> suggests, is to <strong>look at your list from your subscribers' perspective</strong>.</p><p>The first thing you <em>don't</em> want to do, in fact, is to suddenly start bombarding your subscribers. Because <strong>when you leave your email list for too long, your subscribers forget who you are</strong>. And if they can't remember you, you're the random guy or gal who's emailing them out of the blue because you want something.&nbsp;</p><p><em>Not. Cool.&nbsp;</em></p><p>So put yourself in the shoes of your subscribers (who, by this point, don't remember you or your business) and think about how <em>you</em> randomly emailing <em>them</em> will look like. They might be upset and frustrated and unsubscribe, right? Clearly, your relationship with that person isn't positive by this point, and <strong>you can't sell to someone you don't have a positive relationship with</strong>. This definitely affects your reputation as an email marketer.</p><p>But there's more. It also impacts your deliverability rate. Because if you have a bunch of people who suddenly unsubscribe and report your email as spam<em> on the same day </em>and within hours of each other, then you might have a bit of a problem.&nbsp;</p><p>So what's the solution?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to reactivate an email list&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Hold your hands up. Come clean and be honest with your list. Tell them you haven't emailed them for a long time, and that you know that's not very good of you. What you want to do now is to <strong><em>slowly</em> start to re-engage them and bring them back in</strong>.&nbsp;</p><h4><strong>Remind them of who you are and what you sell&nbsp;</strong></h4><p>So get in touch and remind them of who you are and of what brought them onto your list in the first place. Did they sign up for a lead magnet? Did they buy something from you? Make sure you mention the <em>product</em> - people are more likely to remember the name of the product or what it did than <em>your</em> name. So remind them of who you are and what you sell.&nbsp;</p><h4><strong>Manage expectations</strong></h4><p>The other thing you need to do is to build expectations for what's to come next. Tell people what they can expect from now on and why this is going to benefit them. What will you include in your emails? What value do they offer to your subscribers? <strong>People don't care about your emails - they care about what they're going to get out of them.</strong> So tell them how often you're going to be emailing them and remind them of the benefits that your emails deliver to them.&nbsp;</p><p>Inside <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, we share the Terrible Friend Campaign with our members. That teaches you how to seed a piece of content that's to come inside your email, so you can start to build an email campaign that isn't just about re-engagement and re-building and nurturing a relationship. You can weave in your product as well if you do it in the right way and embrace value-driven email marketing.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><h4><strong>Give them permission to unsubscribe</strong></h4><p>That's right. You read that right.&nbsp;</p><p>Because it's important is to give them a way out. Tell them what's coming next and, in the same breath, give them a chance to opt out. Spammy, bad people don't do that. So that sets you apart as a good guy. A good guy who made a mistake. Because let's face it - it's your fault. You're the one who didn't show up and maintain that relationship with your subscribers.</p><p>And of course, by telling them exactly where the unsubscribe button is, you'll have fewer people <em>actually</em> taking that option because you've been honest and upfront. And because, hopefully, you've sold them the benefit of sticking around.&nbsp;</p><h4><strong>Don't do it again</strong></h4><p>And now you're on your way to fixing things, just don't do it again. If you said you're going to show up, show up!</p><p>Make email marketing a habit. Because<strong> email marketing is the highest ROI activity of businesses of all sizes and stages around the world</strong>. And if you create an email habit, you'll find it easier to stick to it.</p><p>We find it easier to email every day than to email once a week, for example. Because it's just a thing we do every day now - not something we need to remember to do once a week or whenever. So <strong>decide when you're going to email your subscribers, tell them, and then show up when you said you would!&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The best time to reactivate an email list is now</strong></h3><p>We call it Dreaded Dentist. The longer you put off going to the dentist, the worse the issue gets. Reactivating your email list is the same.</p><p>The best time you could possibly start re-engaging your list was yesterday. Or the day before. Or last month. Whenever it went cold. <strong>The second best time to start re-engaging your email list is right now</strong>. And the longer you put it off, the worse off you'll be. So start now!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>This week's subject line of the week is, "Dodo versus toenail". This is a subject line that Kennedy used at the back of a conversation with his partner Emma, where he used the expression "dead as a toenail". To which Emma said, "Don't you mean dead as a dodo?". So which one is it? Toenail or dodo?</p><p>Anyway, that's the story behind the subject line.</p><p>But why did the subject line work? Because Kennedy put together two totally unrelated things. Sure, the back story here linked them together. But you had to read the email to find out what it was all about because, at face value, the two concepts were unrelated. And that triggers curiosity. Clever, huh?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/holistic-email-marketing-kath-pay/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Subscriber-Centric Email Marketing with Kath Pay, author of Holistic Email Marketing</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-often-should-you-email-emailing-more-often/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How Often Should You Email – Emailing More Often</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-content-ideas/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">What should I talk about in my emails? Email marketing content ideas you’ll use</a>.</p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes, where we get to share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing by applying everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode - all about how to reactivate your email list - and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes and get discovered by more awesome people like you.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-reactivate-an-email-list/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">15518030-5515-4f7a-b6a2-b0057354baa3</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/62e0857e-8e66-4bb7-96c9-8532ab59c80c/4tHxCjA9AuZCvPO9g76ELajB.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/0e20426a-34c5-45bb-81a8-d907092d832a/089-emailing-abandoned-subscribers.mp3" length="38239840" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>19:55</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>89</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>89</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Build Your List using Viral Ads with Dave Rotheroe from Grip Advertising</title><itunes:title>Build Your List using Viral Ads with Dave Rotheroe from Grip Advertising</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Dave Rotheroe generated half a million dollars by mailing people grilled cheese sandwiches in the post. He's now the founder and CEO of Grip Advertising, and today he talks to us about how to build your list with viral ads.</p><p>We talk about how to be creative, how to split test, and how to make ads that will go viral. You <em>really</em> want to find out what Dave has to say... honestly!</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(3:00) Did Dave really tour the world as a punk rock violinist? (And how awesome is that?!)</p><p>(4:40) Dave's secret sauce to advertising (yes, he cracked by mailing cheese sandwiches!)</p><p>(6:46) Ads and creativity (and where people get it a bit wrong).</p><p>(8:52) How to go about being more creative in your ads.</p><p>(11:34) The imprtance of split testing in your ads (and how to do it).</p><p>(13:45) How to go about starting a list building ads campaign.</p><p>(15:48) The 3 different angles you need when creating your ads. </p><p>(17:34) How to sell free lead magnets through ads.</p><p>(19:13) How to sell paid lead magnets through ads. </p><p>(21:36) Subject line of the week with Dave Rotheroe.</p><h3><strong>What's the secret sauce to viral ads?</strong></h3><p>When Dave started a grilled sandwich subscription box, it went globally viral within a week. But Dave knew that virality moves on, just like trends. So he figured the only way to make his business sustainable was to start running ads behind it.</p><p>But the key thing is... <strong>Dave used ads to amplify what was already working</strong> - something that had already gone viral on its own accord. And, in his own words, he became <em>obsessed </em>with trying to figure out how stuff goes viral and what makes people share and then applying it to various fields and industries through the awesome work he does.</p><h3><strong>Is creativity important in ads?</strong></h3><p>Creativity is one of those things that's really hard to teach, Dave says. Talking about strategies and best practices is much easier. But at the core of it all, <strong>you want to create ads that people want to watch and engage with</strong>. Having ads that are built around a funnel - that are targeted specifically to a cold audience and take them through to the consideration phase - is awesome. But if you can <strong>come up with a piece of creative ad that strikes a chord with your ideal customer base</strong>, then you can see improvements of 10-20x - much more than you could ever achieve with strategies and best practices. </p><p>So here are some principles that Dave uses when coming up with ads. And we've seen this in action when we started working with Dave - his work massively elevated our campaigns!</p><p>The principle Dave swears by is to <strong>use metaphors to describe what you do and to use characters that people know</strong>. This helps you create a bridge between what you do (and something that your audience isn't potentially familiar with) and what they know. </p><p>So the idea is to <strong>create a Trojan Horse where your product is woven throughout a storyline that people can watch</strong>. This way it doesn't feel like an ad. It's something people watch, and they feel entertained and endeared by you. And while you're presenting them with a really entertaining ad, you're actually teaching them about who you are and what you do.</p><p>How cool is that?! Dave's an actual genius!</p><h3><strong>Split testing your ads</strong></h3><p>So now that you know how to create ads that people want to see in their social media feed, let's talk about split testing. An interesting fact Dave shared is that according to Facebook, 1% of the most successful 1% advertisers on the platform split test their creatives 11 times more than the average advertiser. That's <em>a lot</em>!</p><p>For example, Dave did some split testing on one of our ads. He used the same video with exactly the same copy, but with different thumbnails. And he found that one outperformed the others by 3x! In other words, the ads were identical (except for the thumbnail), but one was 3 times more profitable and got a higher click-through rate than the others!</p><p>This shows that <strong>you have to find the traction point first</strong>. Find an ad that works first and <em>then</em> split test on that. There's no point in split testing an ad that doesn't work!</p><p>Another thing that's always worth split testing, Dave says, is the hook of your video, i.e. the first 3-5 seconds of it, as that can make a really big difference in how your ads perform.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to use ads for list building</strong></h3><p>So you've decided to use ads to build your list. How do you go about that? Dave suggests you start with a small budget of approximately $20-30 a day. Then you want to create one core ad to encourage people to opt-in for your lead magnet. Then you split test 2 or 3 different hooks and 2 or 3 different graphic headlines. You want your headline to be around 3 to 5 words but no more than 8-10 words - it's just to capture people's attention. And then you test and see what works best! (Nice little bit of rhyming there!)</p><p>Dave also talked about the different angles he uses with his headlines, the key ones covering the "away from pain" and "towards pleasure" angles. This matters because when it comes to social media advertising, you've got to think about the purpose. Your job in creating an ad is not simply to 'sell a thing'. It's about creating every single element of an ad in a way that fulfills its purpose.</p><p>So the purpose of the graphic headline is to get people to stop scrolling. Once they stop scrolling, you want them to read the actual text headline on Facebook. And the purpose of the text headline is to get them to read the main copy of the ad. And the purpose of the ad copy is to sell the click-through. <strong>The power of the artist is to sell the click-through</strong> - it's not to do the heavy lifting and get the person to buy the product. It's about selling the click-through to get them to the next stage in the process. <strong>It's all about <em>micro-commitments</em> and giving people breadcrumbs to move them to the next stage, slowly but surely</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>And <em>that</em>'s how we should be thinking about ads!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to sell lead magnets through ads</strong></h3><p>So we can create ads to ask people to opt-in and download our lead magnets. But do we need to do things differently depending on whether we are giving away a free lead magnet or a paid product?</p><p>According to Dave, <strong>people don't give a lot of value to free products anymore</strong>. Because let's face it, a lot of them are rubbish quality, and we all know that's true!</p><p>But there's hope.</p><p>You can still promote a free lead magnet through ads, as long as you <strong>focus on the problem you solve in the actual words your ideal customers use</strong>. When people see that, they automatically think you've got the solution for them. But if you focus on the fact that your lead magnet is free, then you're wasting your time. You're better off going after what's more valuable, which is the problem you solve.</p><p>When it comes to selling paid products (or <em>self-liquidating offers</em>), Dave believes (and we agree) that you acquire a different and 'better' customer base by asking for some money in return for your lead magnet. <strong>People who opt-in for a paid-for product are better-quality customers who are invested in what you sell</strong>. They will actually use it and get results, and probably buy more of your products.</p><p>The key to that is to come up with a product that solves a problem that's big enough for your audience to pay money for. And when you do that, then you build yourself a list of <em>buyers</em>, rather than subscribers who won't engage with your products.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week with Dave Rotheroe</strong></h3><p>Dave's subject line of the week is, "Keep your eyes peeled (graphic content)". Dave sent this at the back of his corrective laser eye surgery. He sent a story-based email to his subscribers, which led to a specific call to action. This email had a 7% open rate, and Dave puts this down to the power of intrigue and negativity.</p><p>Because yes, the bit 'graphic content' he put in bracket suggested gore content. That, or an actual graphic contained in the email! How you interpret it is completely down to your own personality and preferences. But it worked a treat!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Dave</strong></h5><p>Want to connect with Dave? You can find him over at <a href="https://www.gripadvertising.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grip</a>. And if you want to get your hands on the eBook that Dave mentioned in the podcast interview, you can find it <a href="https://www.readthisifyouwanttogoviral.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/youve-got-a-lead-magnet-now-what/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">You’ve Got a Lead Magnet, Now What?</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-grow-your-email-list-6-unusual-lead-magnet-ideas/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Grow Your Email List – 6 Unusual Lead Magnet Ideas</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/17-no-cost-ways-to-build-your-email-list/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">17 No Cost Ways To Build Your Email List</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>Want to write better emails? Come up with better content? Influence and move your readers to click and buy? Well, you can do that with this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dave Rotheroe generated half a million dollars by mailing people grilled cheese sandwiches in the post. He's now the founder and CEO of Grip Advertising, and today he talks to us about how to build your list with viral ads.</p><p>We talk about how to be creative, how to split test, and how to make ads that will go viral. You <em>really</em> want to find out what Dave has to say... honestly!</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(3:00) Did Dave really tour the world as a punk rock violinist? (And how awesome is that?!)</p><p>(4:40) Dave's secret sauce to advertising (yes, he cracked by mailing cheese sandwiches!)</p><p>(6:46) Ads and creativity (and where people get it a bit wrong).</p><p>(8:52) How to go about being more creative in your ads.</p><p>(11:34) The imprtance of split testing in your ads (and how to do it).</p><p>(13:45) How to go about starting a list building ads campaign.</p><p>(15:48) The 3 different angles you need when creating your ads. </p><p>(17:34) How to sell free lead magnets through ads.</p><p>(19:13) How to sell paid lead magnets through ads. </p><p>(21:36) Subject line of the week with Dave Rotheroe.</p><h3><strong>What's the secret sauce to viral ads?</strong></h3><p>When Dave started a grilled sandwich subscription box, it went globally viral within a week. But Dave knew that virality moves on, just like trends. So he figured the only way to make his business sustainable was to start running ads behind it.</p><p>But the key thing is... <strong>Dave used ads to amplify what was already working</strong> - something that had already gone viral on its own accord. And, in his own words, he became <em>obsessed </em>with trying to figure out how stuff goes viral and what makes people share and then applying it to various fields and industries through the awesome work he does.</p><h3><strong>Is creativity important in ads?</strong></h3><p>Creativity is one of those things that's really hard to teach, Dave says. Talking about strategies and best practices is much easier. But at the core of it all, <strong>you want to create ads that people want to watch and engage with</strong>. Having ads that are built around a funnel - that are targeted specifically to a cold audience and take them through to the consideration phase - is awesome. But if you can <strong>come up with a piece of creative ad that strikes a chord with your ideal customer base</strong>, then you can see improvements of 10-20x - much more than you could ever achieve with strategies and best practices. </p><p>So here are some principles that Dave uses when coming up with ads. And we've seen this in action when we started working with Dave - his work massively elevated our campaigns!</p><p>The principle Dave swears by is to <strong>use metaphors to describe what you do and to use characters that people know</strong>. This helps you create a bridge between what you do (and something that your audience isn't potentially familiar with) and what they know. </p><p>So the idea is to <strong>create a Trojan Horse where your product is woven throughout a storyline that people can watch</strong>. This way it doesn't feel like an ad. It's something people watch, and they feel entertained and endeared by you. And while you're presenting them with a really entertaining ad, you're actually teaching them about who you are and what you do.</p><p>How cool is that?! Dave's an actual genius!</p><h3><strong>Split testing your ads</strong></h3><p>So now that you know how to create ads that people want to see in their social media feed, let's talk about split testing. An interesting fact Dave shared is that according to Facebook, 1% of the most successful 1% advertisers on the platform split test their creatives 11 times more than the average advertiser. That's <em>a lot</em>!</p><p>For example, Dave did some split testing on one of our ads. He used the same video with exactly the same copy, but with different thumbnails. And he found that one outperformed the others by 3x! In other words, the ads were identical (except for the thumbnail), but one was 3 times more profitable and got a higher click-through rate than the others!</p><p>This shows that <strong>you have to find the traction point first</strong>. Find an ad that works first and <em>then</em> split test on that. There's no point in split testing an ad that doesn't work!</p><p>Another thing that's always worth split testing, Dave says, is the hook of your video, i.e. the first 3-5 seconds of it, as that can make a really big difference in how your ads perform.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to use ads for list building</strong></h3><p>So you've decided to use ads to build your list. How do you go about that? Dave suggests you start with a small budget of approximately $20-30 a day. Then you want to create one core ad to encourage people to opt-in for your lead magnet. Then you split test 2 or 3 different hooks and 2 or 3 different graphic headlines. You want your headline to be around 3 to 5 words but no more than 8-10 words - it's just to capture people's attention. And then you test and see what works best! (Nice little bit of rhyming there!)</p><p>Dave also talked about the different angles he uses with his headlines, the key ones covering the "away from pain" and "towards pleasure" angles. This matters because when it comes to social media advertising, you've got to think about the purpose. Your job in creating an ad is not simply to 'sell a thing'. It's about creating every single element of an ad in a way that fulfills its purpose.</p><p>So the purpose of the graphic headline is to get people to stop scrolling. Once they stop scrolling, you want them to read the actual text headline on Facebook. And the purpose of the text headline is to get them to read the main copy of the ad. And the purpose of the ad copy is to sell the click-through. <strong>The power of the artist is to sell the click-through</strong> - it's not to do the heavy lifting and get the person to buy the product. It's about selling the click-through to get them to the next stage in the process. <strong>It's all about <em>micro-commitments</em> and giving people breadcrumbs to move them to the next stage, slowly but surely</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>And <em>that</em>'s how we should be thinking about ads!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to sell lead magnets through ads</strong></h3><p>So we can create ads to ask people to opt-in and download our lead magnets. But do we need to do things differently depending on whether we are giving away a free lead magnet or a paid product?</p><p>According to Dave, <strong>people don't give a lot of value to free products anymore</strong>. Because let's face it, a lot of them are rubbish quality, and we all know that's true!</p><p>But there's hope.</p><p>You can still promote a free lead magnet through ads, as long as you <strong>focus on the problem you solve in the actual words your ideal customers use</strong>. When people see that, they automatically think you've got the solution for them. But if you focus on the fact that your lead magnet is free, then you're wasting your time. You're better off going after what's more valuable, which is the problem you solve.</p><p>When it comes to selling paid products (or <em>self-liquidating offers</em>), Dave believes (and we agree) that you acquire a different and 'better' customer base by asking for some money in return for your lead magnet. <strong>People who opt-in for a paid-for product are better-quality customers who are invested in what you sell</strong>. They will actually use it and get results, and probably buy more of your products.</p><p>The key to that is to come up with a product that solves a problem that's big enough for your audience to pay money for. And when you do that, then you build yourself a list of <em>buyers</em>, rather than subscribers who won't engage with your products.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week with Dave Rotheroe</strong></h3><p>Dave's subject line of the week is, "Keep your eyes peeled (graphic content)". Dave sent this at the back of his corrective laser eye surgery. He sent a story-based email to his subscribers, which led to a specific call to action. This email had a 7% open rate, and Dave puts this down to the power of intrigue and negativity.</p><p>Because yes, the bit 'graphic content' he put in bracket suggested gore content. That, or an actual graphic contained in the email! How you interpret it is completely down to your own personality and preferences. But it worked a treat!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Dave</strong></h5><p>Want to connect with Dave? You can find him over at <a href="https://www.gripadvertising.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grip</a>. And if you want to get your hands on the eBook that Dave mentioned in the podcast interview, you can find it <a href="https://www.readthisifyouwanttogoviral.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/youve-got-a-lead-magnet-now-what/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">You’ve Got a Lead Magnet, Now What?</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-grow-your-email-list-6-unusual-lead-magnet-ideas/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Grow Your Email List – 6 Unusual Lead Magnet Ideas</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/17-no-cost-ways-to-build-your-email-list/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">17 No Cost Ways To Build Your Email List</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>Want to write better emails? Come up with better content? Influence and move your readers to click and buy? Well, you can do that with this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the&nbsp;<strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes, where we get to share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to&nbsp;<strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing by applying everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about how to build your list using viral ads with the awesome Dave Rotheroe from Grip Advertising) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>leaving us a review </strong>on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes and get discovered by more awesome people like you.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/build-your-list-with-viral-ads-grip-advertising/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">d4e4966c-58cf-4999-ac3e-d5c2356941e6</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/fd1ffe4e-92f3-45c5-b55e-f6a775ae0e8e/7c0C-QkwLJaAJB4J4_xYB6Nq.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/19b89b3e-ad07-4c00-9417-95e1f8641c82/dave-rotheroe.mp3" length="46799644" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>24:22</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>88</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>88</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How to improve your email marketing - the 8 unexpected skills you need.</title><itunes:title>How to improve your email marketing - the 8 unexpected skills you need.</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>We all want to do better at email marketing, don't we? But <em>how</em>? Well, the good news is that we all learn skills along the way - in previous jobs and careers, through courses, or even hobbies. And some of these skills can come in very handy when it comes to helping your email marketing efforts. So today we look at the 8 unexpected skills to improve your email marketing.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready for it?&nbsp;</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(2:07) Honestly, will #EmailMarketingWednesday ever catch on?!</p><p>(3:20) Why you need to study awesome storytelling.</p><p>(6:27) How to master offer creation.</p><p>(9:18) Why you need to structure your emails in campaigns.</p><p>(12:19) The reason why you need to learn how to write really compelling subject lines.</p><p>(14:11) Do you know what your audience's hot buttons are?</p><p>(16:42) Why you need to write as you talk (just like we do).</p><p>(18:32) The reason why you need to edit your emails.</p><p>(19:12) How to understand what strategies work in email marketing (and how to model them in your business). </p><p>(22:36) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>So what are the 8 unexpected skills you need to improve your email marketing?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>When it comes to awesome email marketing, we think these are the 8 skills you're going to need to master:&nbsp;</p><ol><li>Storytelling.</li><li>Offer creation.</li><li>Creating email campaigns.</li><li>Writing compelling subject lines.</li><li>Understanding your audience's 'hot buttons'.&nbsp;</li><li>Writing as you talk.&nbsp;</li><li>Editing your emails.&nbsp;</li><li>Understanding and modeling what others do consistently well.&nbsp;</li></ol><br/><p>So let's break these down and dig a little deeper into each of these awesome skills.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>1. Storytelling in email marketing</strong></h3><p>Storytelling captures and keeps people's attention. It gets people to emotionally engage and has the power to transform people - it gets them to feel, think, and act differently. When all is said at done, at the end of a story, you've taken someone on a journey. A transformative journey.&nbsp;</p><p>We think that, unfortunately, a lot of email marketing suffers from not going anywhere. But<strong> email marketing, just like storytelling, should move people from one place to another</strong>.</p><p>Instinctively, we all like stories. We like telling them and we like hearing them, so how can we weave them into our email marketing? Our tip is to <strong>spend time studying good storytelling</strong> (from movies, books, TV series, video games etc.). Start to notice what hooks us in, what keeps us engaged, and what makes us binge-watch/read/play. And once you cracked all that, you can use that in your own email marketing and make your subscribers want more and more. Sounds like fun, right?</p><h3><strong>2. Mastering offer creation</strong></h3><p>The second skill you're going to need to elevate your email marketing is offer creation. At the end of the day, the reason for emailing your subscribers is that you want to sell <em>something</em> - whatever that might be. But what if the thing you sell isn't particularly attractive or appealing to your audience?&nbsp;</p><p>We think it's really important to <strong>study the psychology behind a good offer</strong>. What makes something an offer that your audience is going to want to snap your hand off for?</p><p>You see, your offer is a combination of what you're selling, what it does for your customers, the way it's packaged and delivered, the price, and the angle you use to offer it. All these things make your offer. So it needs to be captivating. It needs to stand out, it needs to be unique, and it needs to tell your customers how it's different from anything they might have tried in the past.</p><p>So spend some time and attention into figuring out how to create and frame an offer that people really want to buy from you.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>3. Creating email campaigns</strong></h3><p>The third skill you need for your email marketing is the ability to create email campaigns. You want to have a reason to email your subscribers more than once. There's no point in emailing your list every day or every week if you're going to repeat the same thing over and over! It's boring, and it gives people no reason to open your emails.</p><p>The thing is, those who buy from you on day one won't see your other emails. But <strong>the majority of your customers won't buy on day one</strong> - that's just how things are. So what are you going to give them on days two, three, four, etc. to help them make a decision to buy from you? You need to <strong>build your<em> sale's argument</em>, help them overcome objections, and give them more and more reasons to buy</strong>.&nbsp;</p><p>That's why you need a <em>structure</em>. You need to put your emails into sequences (or campaigns) and say something fresh and interesting every time you send out a new email. We are <em>obsessed</em> with creating innovative email campaign structures that keep people interested. So have a think - what are the different ways you can grab your audience's attention? What content will you create for your email sequence that, email on email, goes above and beyond what you delivered in your previous email?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>4. Writing compelling subject lines</strong></h3><p>Subject lines help you get your emails opened, so it's really important to <strong>write stuff that grabs people's attention and invokes curiosity</strong>. You want people to be curious enough to open your emails to find out what you have to say. <strong>Invoking curiosity means raising a question in someone's mind, even if this happens on such a subconscious level that they don't even know it's happening</strong>.&nbsp;</p><p>So take a look at the subject lines you receive in your inbox. Keep a swipe file or folder of subject lines for emails you opened, and then start studying subject lines and the language they use.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>5. Understanding your audience's 'hot buttons'</strong></h3><p>What do your subscribers really care about? Do they want to make money? Save money? Save time? What is it that they're trying to do? Again, ask yourself the questions and start keeping a record of these things. Because <strong>once you understand your audience's hot buttons you can start putting a little bit of pressure in your emails by prodding these buttons</strong>.</p><p>Let your audience know that your product or service is the thing that will help them overcome their problems or achieve their dreams. And don't forget - hot buttons aren't just pain points. It could be anything that your audience wants to achieve or do, so they can be really positive too.&nbsp;</p><p>You may even notice that certain activities are hot buttons for your subscribers. For example, every time you do a webinar or promote an affiliate course, you notice that your subscribers engage. If that's the case, you've identified a hot button that's specific to your subscribers. Now use it in your emails!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>6. Writing as you talk</strong></h3><p>Something else we think you need to master when it comes to skills to improve your email marketing, is writing as you talk. We do that a lot. And by all standards, you could say that our emails are poorly written. But people read our emails and 'hear our voices' in their heads. <strong>You want to build an audience of people who want to hear from <em>you</em>, so write as you talk</strong>.&nbsp;</p><p>If you struggle with this, you can record yourself speaking and then use a transcription service to get the written version of what you said. Whatever you do, don't suddenly turn into someone else when you start typing your emails. Because no one wants that from you!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>7. Editing your emails</strong></h3><p>Email marketing doesn't happen in real-time. We all know that. So why don't people edit their emails more?!&nbsp; The beauty of email marketing is that you can type something out and then delete it or edit it later. And we really recommend that you learn how to master this skill.</p><p>In particular, <strong>edit the beginning of your emails</strong>. Sometimes people take too long to get to the point, and in doing that, they lose the readers' attention. So type it all out but then edit it down - get into the action as soon as you can.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>8. Understanding and modeling strategies that work in email marketing</strong></h3><p>The last skill we think is mega important when it comes to email marketing is noticing what works and modeling that in your business. Start to look at the approaches and strategies that you see other successful business owners apply in their business.&nbsp; Because if you always try and invent the wheel yourself, you're going to end up making a lot of mistakes and try stuff that won't work.</p><p>So instead, <strong>pay attention to what others are doing well and<em> consistently</em> </strong>- you don't want to start doing something just because someone else you follow was testing something out. They might do it once, work out it doesn't work, and never do it again. So pay attention to what you see them do day in and day out and try and implement similar strategies in your own email marketing.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>This week's subject line of the week is, "You've GOT to stop learning." This was sent out by Kennedy, and the key message of the email is that it's time to stop learning and start doing.&nbsp;</p><p>But why did it work so well?&nbsp;</p><p>Because it was an unexpected thing to write in an email, especially coming from someone who sells programmes, memberships, and courses where people <em>do</em> learn. All the time! That subject line was the opposite of what people expected Kennedy to say, and it made people open the]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We all want to do better at email marketing, don't we? But <em>how</em>? Well, the good news is that we all learn skills along the way - in previous jobs and careers, through courses, or even hobbies. And some of these skills can come in very handy when it comes to helping your email marketing efforts. So today we look at the 8 unexpected skills to improve your email marketing.&nbsp;</p><p>Ready for it?&nbsp;</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(2:07) Honestly, will #EmailMarketingWednesday ever catch on?!</p><p>(3:20) Why you need to study awesome storytelling.</p><p>(6:27) How to master offer creation.</p><p>(9:18) Why you need to structure your emails in campaigns.</p><p>(12:19) The reason why you need to learn how to write really compelling subject lines.</p><p>(14:11) Do you know what your audience's hot buttons are?</p><p>(16:42) Why you need to write as you talk (just like we do).</p><p>(18:32) The reason why you need to edit your emails.</p><p>(19:12) How to understand what strategies work in email marketing (and how to model them in your business). </p><p>(22:36) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>So what are the 8 unexpected skills you need to improve your email marketing?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>When it comes to awesome email marketing, we think these are the 8 skills you're going to need to master:&nbsp;</p><ol><li>Storytelling.</li><li>Offer creation.</li><li>Creating email campaigns.</li><li>Writing compelling subject lines.</li><li>Understanding your audience's 'hot buttons'.&nbsp;</li><li>Writing as you talk.&nbsp;</li><li>Editing your emails.&nbsp;</li><li>Understanding and modeling what others do consistently well.&nbsp;</li></ol><br/><p>So let's break these down and dig a little deeper into each of these awesome skills.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>1. Storytelling in email marketing</strong></h3><p>Storytelling captures and keeps people's attention. It gets people to emotionally engage and has the power to transform people - it gets them to feel, think, and act differently. When all is said at done, at the end of a story, you've taken someone on a journey. A transformative journey.&nbsp;</p><p>We think that, unfortunately, a lot of email marketing suffers from not going anywhere. But<strong> email marketing, just like storytelling, should move people from one place to another</strong>.</p><p>Instinctively, we all like stories. We like telling them and we like hearing them, so how can we weave them into our email marketing? Our tip is to <strong>spend time studying good storytelling</strong> (from movies, books, TV series, video games etc.). Start to notice what hooks us in, what keeps us engaged, and what makes us binge-watch/read/play. And once you cracked all that, you can use that in your own email marketing and make your subscribers want more and more. Sounds like fun, right?</p><h3><strong>2. Mastering offer creation</strong></h3><p>The second skill you're going to need to elevate your email marketing is offer creation. At the end of the day, the reason for emailing your subscribers is that you want to sell <em>something</em> - whatever that might be. But what if the thing you sell isn't particularly attractive or appealing to your audience?&nbsp;</p><p>We think it's really important to <strong>study the psychology behind a good offer</strong>. What makes something an offer that your audience is going to want to snap your hand off for?</p><p>You see, your offer is a combination of what you're selling, what it does for your customers, the way it's packaged and delivered, the price, and the angle you use to offer it. All these things make your offer. So it needs to be captivating. It needs to stand out, it needs to be unique, and it needs to tell your customers how it's different from anything they might have tried in the past.</p><p>So spend some time and attention into figuring out how to create and frame an offer that people really want to buy from you.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>3. Creating email campaigns</strong></h3><p>The third skill you need for your email marketing is the ability to create email campaigns. You want to have a reason to email your subscribers more than once. There's no point in emailing your list every day or every week if you're going to repeat the same thing over and over! It's boring, and it gives people no reason to open your emails.</p><p>The thing is, those who buy from you on day one won't see your other emails. But <strong>the majority of your customers won't buy on day one</strong> - that's just how things are. So what are you going to give them on days two, three, four, etc. to help them make a decision to buy from you? You need to <strong>build your<em> sale's argument</em>, help them overcome objections, and give them more and more reasons to buy</strong>.&nbsp;</p><p>That's why you need a <em>structure</em>. You need to put your emails into sequences (or campaigns) and say something fresh and interesting every time you send out a new email. We are <em>obsessed</em> with creating innovative email campaign structures that keep people interested. So have a think - what are the different ways you can grab your audience's attention? What content will you create for your email sequence that, email on email, goes above and beyond what you delivered in your previous email?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>4. Writing compelling subject lines</strong></h3><p>Subject lines help you get your emails opened, so it's really important to <strong>write stuff that grabs people's attention and invokes curiosity</strong>. You want people to be curious enough to open your emails to find out what you have to say. <strong>Invoking curiosity means raising a question in someone's mind, even if this happens on such a subconscious level that they don't even know it's happening</strong>.&nbsp;</p><p>So take a look at the subject lines you receive in your inbox. Keep a swipe file or folder of subject lines for emails you opened, and then start studying subject lines and the language they use.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>5. Understanding your audience's 'hot buttons'</strong></h3><p>What do your subscribers really care about? Do they want to make money? Save money? Save time? What is it that they're trying to do? Again, ask yourself the questions and start keeping a record of these things. Because <strong>once you understand your audience's hot buttons you can start putting a little bit of pressure in your emails by prodding these buttons</strong>.</p><p>Let your audience know that your product or service is the thing that will help them overcome their problems or achieve their dreams. And don't forget - hot buttons aren't just pain points. It could be anything that your audience wants to achieve or do, so they can be really positive too.&nbsp;</p><p>You may even notice that certain activities are hot buttons for your subscribers. For example, every time you do a webinar or promote an affiliate course, you notice that your subscribers engage. If that's the case, you've identified a hot button that's specific to your subscribers. Now use it in your emails!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>6. Writing as you talk</strong></h3><p>Something else we think you need to master when it comes to skills to improve your email marketing, is writing as you talk. We do that a lot. And by all standards, you could say that our emails are poorly written. But people read our emails and 'hear our voices' in their heads. <strong>You want to build an audience of people who want to hear from <em>you</em>, so write as you talk</strong>.&nbsp;</p><p>If you struggle with this, you can record yourself speaking and then use a transcription service to get the written version of what you said. Whatever you do, don't suddenly turn into someone else when you start typing your emails. Because no one wants that from you!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>7. Editing your emails</strong></h3><p>Email marketing doesn't happen in real-time. We all know that. So why don't people edit their emails more?!&nbsp; The beauty of email marketing is that you can type something out and then delete it or edit it later. And we really recommend that you learn how to master this skill.</p><p>In particular, <strong>edit the beginning of your emails</strong>. Sometimes people take too long to get to the point, and in doing that, they lose the readers' attention. So type it all out but then edit it down - get into the action as soon as you can.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>8. Understanding and modeling strategies that work in email marketing</strong></h3><p>The last skill we think is mega important when it comes to email marketing is noticing what works and modeling that in your business. Start to look at the approaches and strategies that you see other successful business owners apply in their business.&nbsp; Because if you always try and invent the wheel yourself, you're going to end up making a lot of mistakes and try stuff that won't work.</p><p>So instead, <strong>pay attention to what others are doing well and<em> consistently</em> </strong>- you don't want to start doing something just because someone else you follow was testing something out. They might do it once, work out it doesn't work, and never do it again. So pay attention to what you see them do day in and day out and try and implement similar strategies in your own email marketing.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>This week's subject line of the week is, "You've GOT to stop learning." This was sent out by Kennedy, and the key message of the email is that it's time to stop learning and start doing.&nbsp;</p><p>But why did it work so well?&nbsp;</p><p>Because it was an unexpected thing to write in an email, especially coming from someone who sells programmes, memberships, and courses where people <em>do</em> learn. All the time! That subject line was the opposite of what people expected Kennedy to say, and it made people open the email to see what it was all about.</p><p>You can try something similar by asking your subscribers to stop doing something that's key to your business or something that everybody does. If you sell gardening products, maybe you can say, "You've GOT to stop gardening." Or something like that - you get the idea. Why don't you try it out?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-subject-lines-to-make-sales/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Use Email Subject Lines To Do More Than Get Your Emails Opened</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/writing-subject-lines-without-using-formulas/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Writing Subject Lines Without Using Formulas</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-write-email-subject-lines-for-sales-emails-that-actually-work/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Write Email Subject Lines For Sales Emails (That Actually Work)</a>.</p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>Did you know that the 8 skills to improve your email marketing we talked about today come from books we've read and studied? If you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how.</p><p>We put together this list of our <strong>Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing</strong> (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes, where we get to share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing by applying everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode - all about the skills to improve your email marketing - and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes and get discovered by more awesome people like you.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/skills-to-improve-your-email-marketing/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">140a75e6-cb67-467a-b451-6b2cec298958</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/2021f542-f8e4-4bfd-a5c4-c79b27c64033/rFsA3_nxkx1_0_JpLFIO20op.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/088b3295-8858-4785-9288-795cb05b98f7/087-the-8-unexpected-skills-you-need-to-improve-your-email-ma.mp3" length="47655625" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>24:49</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>87</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>87</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How To Use Comedy, Humour, and Jokes in Your Marketing (Even if you&apos;re not funny) with Adam Hunt from White Label Comedy</title><itunes:title>How To Use Comedy, Humour, and Jokes in Your Marketing (Even if you&apos;re not funny) with Adam Hunt from White Label Comedy</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Should you use comedy and jokes in your marketing? Should all brands be funny? Is that the right thing to do? We asked Adam Hunt, who helps brands and businesses do exactly that - be funny. So let's hear it from the man himself - how do you use humour in your marketing?</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(2:15) Does Kennedy really know what a Vespa is?</p><p>(3:50) Should all brands try and be funny?</p><p>(4:50) How to find the humour that's right for your brand.</p><p>(7:00) Why you need to start from the truths that matter to your audience in the context of what you do.</p><p>(10:06) How to sprinkle humour on top of your message.</p><p>(12:15) Adam's easy process to find humour in things (and write jokes from them).</p><p>(15:40) How to be a bigger and bolder version of you. </p><p>(18:08) Why you shouldn't let the jokes get in the way of the message.</p><p>(20:40) How to use humour for all the right reasons. </p><p>(22:34) Subject line of the week with Adam Hunt.</p><h3><strong>How can you find humour that's right for your brand?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Should all brands try and be funny? Well, according to Adam, they should be funny <em>in the right way</em>. And what that means is that<strong> the right kind of humour for your business comes from brand essence and everything you stand for</strong>. Comedy done the right way is relatable content that happens to be funny.</p><p>But how do we find the type of humour that's right for us?</p><p>Adam explained that <strong>a joke is made of two things that shouldn't fit together but do, thanks to a cleverly placed twist</strong>. And the key to the twist is that it needs to be a <em>truth</em> that you're using to bridge the gap between those two things.</p><p>When you're trying to make jokes that appeal to a specific audience, you need to go after their <em>truth</em>. In other words, what could you say to your audience that will make them go, "That is <em>so</em> true!"</p><h3><strong>Use humour in your marketing by starting from your audience's truths</strong></h3><p>Jokes are clever comparisons. And if you make the right comparison, you'll get the right reaction.</p><p>So your first job here is to <strong>work out what matters to your audience in the context of what you do</strong> and how and why that helps them and<em> their</em> world.</p><p>Adam and his team use a tool call <em>Relatability Matrix</em>, which is a grid that contains a brand's USP and values to start with. But it also looks at key ideas from sales pages and other types of content and at <em>relatable truths</em> for that brand's audience that can be combined with other elements on the grid.</p><p>We can do this too! Adam's tip is to <strong>start by working out what you need to say to your audience in order to achieve your objectives</strong>. <em>Then</em>, you can come up with ways to express that in such a way that will move people to the right kind of action.</p><p>If you tell jokes for the sake of it - if you use humour in your marketing in a way that doesn't serve your brand's purpose - then you're just being funny for the sake of vanity or engagement. And you could actually get the opposite effect of putting people off.</p><h3><strong>How to find humour in things (and write your own jokes)</strong></h3><p>The first step is to<strong> find a clever comparison</strong>. So start by making a list of <em>relatable truths</em> that you know your audience is going to agree with.</p><p>Then make another list. It could be things that are going on in the world, or things that are relevant to your business - it doesn't matter what this is.</p><p>The third step is to go through both lists together and try and connect two of the things you've got on them.</p><p>You're not trying to be funny here - you're just trying to come up with some basic parallels, similarities, or differences. Once you've done this freewriting exercise, you'll end up with ideas that you can then develop and polish. Add your clever twist in the right place, and you've got your joke.</p><p>Simple, right?</p><h3><strong>Using humour in your marketing means being a bigger and bolder version of you</strong></h3><p>Jokes can be used to reinforce someone's awareness of the pain points they're dealing with. You can use jokes to help your audience focus on their struggles and make them bigger. You want to use jokes sparingly though - to encourage your subscribers to open your emails, for example. But don't overdo it.</p><p><strong>You don't need to put Michael McIntyre in someone's inbox because that's not <em>you</em>. Just put a bigger and bolder <em>you</em> in their inbox.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>You do that by <strong>starting with the messaging that matters</strong> and then layer additional thoughts on top. Come up with a way to explain why something is <em>bigger and bolder</em> with a comparison that can feel like a joke.</p><p>But <strong>don't let the jokes get in the way of your copy.</strong> You want people to read, then read some more, and read some more until they're ready to buy. That's your goal. There is such a thing as a joke too many. And you don't want to trivialise your message. <strong>Never let a joke get in the way of your message. Instead, let the jokes <em>support</em> the message.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>The key is to use humour in your marketing for the right reasons. Make the <em>right jokes</em> with the <em>right angle</em>, using the brand's ingredients that speak to your audience, and you'll get something that works for you.</p><p><strong>Make jokes about the things that unite your audience</strong>.</p><p>Find the truths they all agree on.</p><p>And remember that comedy in itself isn't offensive - only offensive comedy is offensive! Use humour to bring people together, to show them you share their views, and to make them feel seen.</p><p>Pretty awesome stuff, don't you think?</p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week with Adam Hunt</strong></h3><p>Adam's subject line of the week is "Video for [First Name]".</p><p>Adam had to reluctantly admit that this works every time - reliably and flawlessly. If you need someone to watch a video, this is the right subject line to use. It drives that curiosity that makes you want to watch this video, just in case the person sending it created this video <em>just for you</em>, and not for everyone else too.</p><p>Genius, right?</p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Adam</strong></h5><p>Want to connect with Adam? You can find him over at <a href="https://whitelabelcomedy.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">White Label Comedy</a>.</p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/customer-architypes-marketing-nate-wright/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Customer Archetypes To Inject Personality Into Your Marketing – Nate Wright</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-content-ideas/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">What should I talk about in my emails? Email marketing content ideas you’ll use</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/write-emails-like-a-boss-even-if-you-think-youre-a-crap-writer/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Write Emails Like A Boss – Even If You Think You’re A Crap Writer</a>.</p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>Want to write better emails? Come up with better content? Influence and move your readers to click and buy? Well, you can do that with this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the&nbsp;<strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes, where we get to share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to&nbsp;<strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing by applying everything we talk about in this show.</p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode about how to use humour in your marketing with Adam Hunt and love the show, we'd really appreciate you...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Should you use comedy and jokes in your marketing? Should all brands be funny? Is that the right thing to do? We asked Adam Hunt, who helps brands and businesses do exactly that - be funny. So let's hear it from the man himself - how do you use humour in your marketing?</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(2:15) Does Kennedy really know what a Vespa is?</p><p>(3:50) Should all brands try and be funny?</p><p>(4:50) How to find the humour that's right for your brand.</p><p>(7:00) Why you need to start from the truths that matter to your audience in the context of what you do.</p><p>(10:06) How to sprinkle humour on top of your message.</p><p>(12:15) Adam's easy process to find humour in things (and write jokes from them).</p><p>(15:40) How to be a bigger and bolder version of you. </p><p>(18:08) Why you shouldn't let the jokes get in the way of the message.</p><p>(20:40) How to use humour for all the right reasons. </p><p>(22:34) Subject line of the week with Adam Hunt.</p><h3><strong>How can you find humour that's right for your brand?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Should all brands try and be funny? Well, according to Adam, they should be funny <em>in the right way</em>. And what that means is that<strong> the right kind of humour for your business comes from brand essence and everything you stand for</strong>. Comedy done the right way is relatable content that happens to be funny.</p><p>But how do we find the type of humour that's right for us?</p><p>Adam explained that <strong>a joke is made of two things that shouldn't fit together but do, thanks to a cleverly placed twist</strong>. And the key to the twist is that it needs to be a <em>truth</em> that you're using to bridge the gap between those two things.</p><p>When you're trying to make jokes that appeal to a specific audience, you need to go after their <em>truth</em>. In other words, what could you say to your audience that will make them go, "That is <em>so</em> true!"</p><h3><strong>Use humour in your marketing by starting from your audience's truths</strong></h3><p>Jokes are clever comparisons. And if you make the right comparison, you'll get the right reaction.</p><p>So your first job here is to <strong>work out what matters to your audience in the context of what you do</strong> and how and why that helps them and<em> their</em> world.</p><p>Adam and his team use a tool call <em>Relatability Matrix</em>, which is a grid that contains a brand's USP and values to start with. But it also looks at key ideas from sales pages and other types of content and at <em>relatable truths</em> for that brand's audience that can be combined with other elements on the grid.</p><p>We can do this too! Adam's tip is to <strong>start by working out what you need to say to your audience in order to achieve your objectives</strong>. <em>Then</em>, you can come up with ways to express that in such a way that will move people to the right kind of action.</p><p>If you tell jokes for the sake of it - if you use humour in your marketing in a way that doesn't serve your brand's purpose - then you're just being funny for the sake of vanity or engagement. And you could actually get the opposite effect of putting people off.</p><h3><strong>How to find humour in things (and write your own jokes)</strong></h3><p>The first step is to<strong> find a clever comparison</strong>. So start by making a list of <em>relatable truths</em> that you know your audience is going to agree with.</p><p>Then make another list. It could be things that are going on in the world, or things that are relevant to your business - it doesn't matter what this is.</p><p>The third step is to go through both lists together and try and connect two of the things you've got on them.</p><p>You're not trying to be funny here - you're just trying to come up with some basic parallels, similarities, or differences. Once you've done this freewriting exercise, you'll end up with ideas that you can then develop and polish. Add your clever twist in the right place, and you've got your joke.</p><p>Simple, right?</p><h3><strong>Using humour in your marketing means being a bigger and bolder version of you</strong></h3><p>Jokes can be used to reinforce someone's awareness of the pain points they're dealing with. You can use jokes to help your audience focus on their struggles and make them bigger. You want to use jokes sparingly though - to encourage your subscribers to open your emails, for example. But don't overdo it.</p><p><strong>You don't need to put Michael McIntyre in someone's inbox because that's not <em>you</em>. Just put a bigger and bolder <em>you</em> in their inbox.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>You do that by <strong>starting with the messaging that matters</strong> and then layer additional thoughts on top. Come up with a way to explain why something is <em>bigger and bolder</em> with a comparison that can feel like a joke.</p><p>But <strong>don't let the jokes get in the way of your copy.</strong> You want people to read, then read some more, and read some more until they're ready to buy. That's your goal. There is such a thing as a joke too many. And you don't want to trivialise your message. <strong>Never let a joke get in the way of your message. Instead, let the jokes <em>support</em> the message.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>The key is to use humour in your marketing for the right reasons. Make the <em>right jokes</em> with the <em>right angle</em>, using the brand's ingredients that speak to your audience, and you'll get something that works for you.</p><p><strong>Make jokes about the things that unite your audience</strong>.</p><p>Find the truths they all agree on.</p><p>And remember that comedy in itself isn't offensive - only offensive comedy is offensive! Use humour to bring people together, to show them you share their views, and to make them feel seen.</p><p>Pretty awesome stuff, don't you think?</p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week with Adam Hunt</strong></h3><p>Adam's subject line of the week is "Video for [First Name]".</p><p>Adam had to reluctantly admit that this works every time - reliably and flawlessly. If you need someone to watch a video, this is the right subject line to use. It drives that curiosity that makes you want to watch this video, just in case the person sending it created this video <em>just for you</em>, and not for everyone else too.</p><p>Genius, right?</p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Adam</strong></h5><p>Want to connect with Adam? You can find him over at <a href="https://whitelabelcomedy.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">White Label Comedy</a>.</p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/customer-architypes-marketing-nate-wright/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Customer Archetypes To Inject Personality Into Your Marketing – Nate Wright</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-content-ideas/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">What should I talk about in my emails? Email marketing content ideas you’ll use</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/write-emails-like-a-boss-even-if-you-think-youre-a-crap-writer/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Write Emails Like A Boss – Even If You Think You’re A Crap Writer</a>.</p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>Want to write better emails? Come up with better content? Influence and move your readers to click and buy? Well, you can do that with this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the&nbsp;<strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes, where we get to share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to&nbsp;<strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing by applying everything we talk about in this show.</p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode about how to use humour in your marketing with Adam Hunt and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>leaving us a review </strong>on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes and get discovered by more awesome people like you.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/use-humour-in-your-marketing-adam-hunt/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">e29168bf-5e5c-41df-8300-2360d11bc6e6</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/42299fc6-7f3e-4823-b3c1-84938dd6b812/9yeHEW29VT-28HSZljdekx2t.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/fea5feee-19a0-4d02-9721-0dce61b96590/adam-hunt.mp3" length="49795576" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>25:56</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>86</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>86</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How we made our first 6-figures from a list of less than 2,000 subscribers</title><itunes:title>How we made our first 6-figures from a list of less than 2,000 subscribers</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>This week we're telling you all about how to make money from your email list. So if you have a small list (or you <em>think</em> you have a small list), don't despair! We're going to tell you<em> exactly</em> what you can do to make money from that.&nbsp;</p><p>Because guess what?</p><p>We were <em>rubbish</em> at growing our list. Most things that email marketing gurus out there teach didn't work for us.&nbsp;</p><p>But we figured it out, and we continue to make 6 figures from our lists, so buckle up and read (or listen) on.&nbsp;</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(2:30) So how about this #EmailMarketingWednesday that Kennedy loves so much?</p><p>(3:33) Is your list really small?</p><p>(4:29) The things that really matter with your email list (and it's not size!)</p><p>(5:57) Why there's no point in building a ginormous list with the wrong people on it.</p><p>(6:55) Why a small list isn't actually such a bad thing after all.</p><p>(7:58) How we did a rubbish job of growing our own email list (and how we got really good at making money from it).</p><p>(10:14) Why you should email your subscribers more often.</p><p>(12:28) Why you should create email campaigns that are designed to sell.</p><p>(14:59) Why you should regularly clean your list. </p><p>(17:25) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Is there such thing as a 'small email list'?</strong></h3><p>We see this all the time.&nbsp;</p><p>People with lists of 20,000 subscribers who think they've got a small list. And equally, people who only have a few hundred or a few thousand subscribers and worry that their lists are too small to make any money from them.&nbsp;</p><p>Want the honest truth?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>It's not the size of your list that matters. It's what you do with it.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>So the great news is that if you have a small list with only a few hundred people on it, you can still get a really great income from that.</p><p>Because <strong>it's all about the relationship you have with your subscribers</strong>.</p><p>See, we genuinely have <em>no idea</em> how many people are on our list. We don't check that number. And that's because it doesn't do anything for us. <strong>You can't pay the bills with email subscribers!</strong></p><p>The numbers we care about are the ones in our bank balance. We look at how our campaigns perform - how much we make from every subscriber. Because <em>that</em>'s what matters!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Should you spend time and money growing your list?</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>We come across lots of people who don't have a list or who panic about the size of their email list. And typically these people think they'll need to spend a lot of time, money, and energy building and growing their list.</p><p>But what they should be doing instead is to first <strong>test that they have the right type of people on their email list</strong>. You want subscribers you can sell to - people who <em>want</em> the offers you have. People who will buy from you.</p><p>The truth is that <strong>you can build a profitable business with a few hundred or a few thousand subscribers on your email list</strong>. But if you waste time building a massive list without first checking that the people you have on your list are the right people for your business, then growing that list might not be profitable at all!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The advantages of having a small list</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>We get that people are nervous when starting out. But then again, isn't it easier to test the waters and try out ideas when you have a smaller list? If you get it a little wrong, you're doing it in front of a smaller audience at least!</p><p>Having a small list allows you to <strong>dial it in and<em> then</em> grow</strong>. But focusing on growth without doing any testing isn't the answer!</p><p>So one thing you can do while your list is really small is to<strong> figure out how much each&nbsp;subscriber is worth to you</strong>. Because a lot of people don't know that. And that's a key piece of information to help you decide how much to invest in ads or lots of other things in your business.&nbsp;</p><p>See, when we started out, we didn't have a lot of money to invest in advertising, and we were a bit rubbish at growing our list. We paid for courses and tried to learn from all the email marketing gurus out there, but their methods didn't work for us. So we had to learn from the trenches. And the thing we quickly figured out was how to make the most from what we had.&nbsp;</p><p>And here's how we did it (and how you can do it too).</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Email your subscribers more often</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>The first thing you have to do to make the maximum amount of money from your list is to email people more often.&nbsp;</p><p>That's right. Because that's what allows you to help as many people as possible and deliver as much value as possible.&nbsp;</p><p>Now, a lot of people tell us they can't possibly email more often because their subscribers are going to hate them and unsubscribe. But...</p><p>Say you've got a list of 1,000 people and 25% of them see your emails. That's 250 people who've seen <em>one</em> email you sent. If you stop there, that's potentially 250 people who've seen your email this week or this month. But what if you email again tomorrow? Because if you hit a 25% open rate again, that's another 250 people seeing your stuff. And, granted, some of them (shall we say 10%?) will the same people - your super loyal fans. But a lot of people (15%?) will be new. So potentially, that's another 150 people who see your emails.</p><p>If you carry on like that every day, can you see how things start to really build up? Over the course of a week, if you email 5 or even 7 days, you'll be able to reach a lot more people on your list than if you'd only sent<em> one email</em> that week. And when you have a small list, that really starts to help fast.&nbsp;<strong>If you want to put your message in front of more people, emailing more often is the way to do it.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Create email campaigns</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>The second thing we recommend you do if you want to make money from your email list is to build email campaigns, rather than sending individual emails.</p><p>Single emails don't work.</p><p>You have to have a series of different emails <em>structured together</em> and <em>designed to make sales</em>. <strong>Please stop trying to impress people with your emails - structure them for sales instead!&nbsp;</strong></p><p>To do that, remember to stay focused on the outcome you want. What's the reason people are on your email list? <em>You</em> want to make sales, for but for them, it's about the value you offer.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Regularly clean up your email list and keep it small</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>The third thing we recommend you do is to clean your email list regularly. We intentionally keep our list small. As small as we possibly can.</p><p>We do that through our <em>LOL revival campaign</em>, which helps us segment out the people who are not engaging anymore. We run our subscribers through regular re-engagement campaigns and bring the ones who re-engage back into the fold. But then we send the rest of them their way and delete them.&nbsp;</p><p>It may sound harsh, but if you pay your email marketing platform per subscriber, by cleaning your list regularly you can pay them less. But also, the delivery of your emails is easier. The people who remain on your list are more engaged, and you feel like you're closer to them. It's a lot easier to maintain a relationship with fewer people and stay connected to them. So <strong>keep your list small and clean it out of all the people who aren't going to buy from you</strong>.&nbsp;</p><p>You can definitely make a good living from a small list. The key is to<strong>&nbsp;focus on giving people things that are genuinely going to help them solve their problems and give them value they're going to enjoy.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week&nbsp;</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>This week's subject line of the week is, "Are you cabbage, peas, or carrots?" This is an actual subject line that Kennedy used in one of his emails.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>And there's a bit of a story behind that (isn't there always?!).&nbsp;</p><p>One day Kennedy was on the phone with his sister, and he got so distracted he managed to allow the cabbage, peas, and carrots he was cooking to steam dry and burn. From there, he went into a lesson around how you can be distracted by things.</p><p>But the subject line worked because it used a few curiosity principles. Kennedy put some <strong>unusual stuff</strong> in there (cabbages, peas, and carrot), <strong>made the email very personal by sharing a story</strong>, and then <strong>turned it into a question</strong> to the audience. And the subject line did very well!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-clean-your-email-list-list-hygiene-with-steve-wagner/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Clean Your Email List – List Hygiene With Steve Wagner</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-list-cleaning-why-you-should-delete-your-subscribers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email List Cleaning: When You Should Delete Your Subscribers</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/get-your-emails-delivered-and-avoid-the-spam-folder-with-adrian-savage/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Get Your Emails Delivered (And Avoid The Spam Folder) With Adrian Savage</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>Want to write better emails? Come up with better content? Influence and move your readers...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This week we're telling you all about how to make money from your email list. So if you have a small list (or you <em>think</em> you have a small list), don't despair! We're going to tell you<em> exactly</em> what you can do to make money from that.&nbsp;</p><p>Because guess what?</p><p>We were <em>rubbish</em> at growing our list. Most things that email marketing gurus out there teach didn't work for us.&nbsp;</p><p>But we figured it out, and we continue to make 6 figures from our lists, so buckle up and read (or listen) on.&nbsp;</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(2:30) So how about this #EmailMarketingWednesday that Kennedy loves so much?</p><p>(3:33) Is your list really small?</p><p>(4:29) The things that really matter with your email list (and it's not size!)</p><p>(5:57) Why there's no point in building a ginormous list with the wrong people on it.</p><p>(6:55) Why a small list isn't actually such a bad thing after all.</p><p>(7:58) How we did a rubbish job of growing our own email list (and how we got really good at making money from it).</p><p>(10:14) Why you should email your subscribers more often.</p><p>(12:28) Why you should create email campaigns that are designed to sell.</p><p>(14:59) Why you should regularly clean your list. </p><p>(17:25) Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>Is there such thing as a 'small email list'?</strong></h3><p>We see this all the time.&nbsp;</p><p>People with lists of 20,000 subscribers who think they've got a small list. And equally, people who only have a few hundred or a few thousand subscribers and worry that their lists are too small to make any money from them.&nbsp;</p><p>Want the honest truth?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>It's not the size of your list that matters. It's what you do with it.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>So the great news is that if you have a small list with only a few hundred people on it, you can still get a really great income from that.</p><p>Because <strong>it's all about the relationship you have with your subscribers</strong>.</p><p>See, we genuinely have <em>no idea</em> how many people are on our list. We don't check that number. And that's because it doesn't do anything for us. <strong>You can't pay the bills with email subscribers!</strong></p><p>The numbers we care about are the ones in our bank balance. We look at how our campaigns perform - how much we make from every subscriber. Because <em>that</em>'s what matters!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Should you spend time and money growing your list?</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>We come across lots of people who don't have a list or who panic about the size of their email list. And typically these people think they'll need to spend a lot of time, money, and energy building and growing their list.</p><p>But what they should be doing instead is to first <strong>test that they have the right type of people on their email list</strong>. You want subscribers you can sell to - people who <em>want</em> the offers you have. People who will buy from you.</p><p>The truth is that <strong>you can build a profitable business with a few hundred or a few thousand subscribers on your email list</strong>. But if you waste time building a massive list without first checking that the people you have on your list are the right people for your business, then growing that list might not be profitable at all!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>The advantages of having a small list</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>We get that people are nervous when starting out. But then again, isn't it easier to test the waters and try out ideas when you have a smaller list? If you get it a little wrong, you're doing it in front of a smaller audience at least!</p><p>Having a small list allows you to <strong>dial it in and<em> then</em> grow</strong>. But focusing on growth without doing any testing isn't the answer!</p><p>So one thing you can do while your list is really small is to<strong> figure out how much each&nbsp;subscriber is worth to you</strong>. Because a lot of people don't know that. And that's a key piece of information to help you decide how much to invest in ads or lots of other things in your business.&nbsp;</p><p>See, when we started out, we didn't have a lot of money to invest in advertising, and we were a bit rubbish at growing our list. We paid for courses and tried to learn from all the email marketing gurus out there, but their methods didn't work for us. So we had to learn from the trenches. And the thing we quickly figured out was how to make the most from what we had.&nbsp;</p><p>And here's how we did it (and how you can do it too).</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Email your subscribers more often</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>The first thing you have to do to make the maximum amount of money from your list is to email people more often.&nbsp;</p><p>That's right. Because that's what allows you to help as many people as possible and deliver as much value as possible.&nbsp;</p><p>Now, a lot of people tell us they can't possibly email more often because their subscribers are going to hate them and unsubscribe. But...</p><p>Say you've got a list of 1,000 people and 25% of them see your emails. That's 250 people who've seen <em>one</em> email you sent. If you stop there, that's potentially 250 people who've seen your email this week or this month. But what if you email again tomorrow? Because if you hit a 25% open rate again, that's another 250 people seeing your stuff. And, granted, some of them (shall we say 10%?) will the same people - your super loyal fans. But a lot of people (15%?) will be new. So potentially, that's another 150 people who see your emails.</p><p>If you carry on like that every day, can you see how things start to really build up? Over the course of a week, if you email 5 or even 7 days, you'll be able to reach a lot more people on your list than if you'd only sent<em> one email</em> that week. And when you have a small list, that really starts to help fast.&nbsp;<strong>If you want to put your message in front of more people, emailing more often is the way to do it.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Create email campaigns</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>The second thing we recommend you do if you want to make money from your email list is to build email campaigns, rather than sending individual emails.</p><p>Single emails don't work.</p><p>You have to have a series of different emails <em>structured together</em> and <em>designed to make sales</em>. <strong>Please stop trying to impress people with your emails - structure them for sales instead!&nbsp;</strong></p><p>To do that, remember to stay focused on the outcome you want. What's the reason people are on your email list? <em>You</em> want to make sales, for but for them, it's about the value you offer.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Regularly clean up your email list and keep it small</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>The third thing we recommend you do is to clean your email list regularly. We intentionally keep our list small. As small as we possibly can.</p><p>We do that through our <em>LOL revival campaign</em>, which helps us segment out the people who are not engaging anymore. We run our subscribers through regular re-engagement campaigns and bring the ones who re-engage back into the fold. But then we send the rest of them their way and delete them.&nbsp;</p><p>It may sound harsh, but if you pay your email marketing platform per subscriber, by cleaning your list regularly you can pay them less. But also, the delivery of your emails is easier. The people who remain on your list are more engaged, and you feel like you're closer to them. It's a lot easier to maintain a relationship with fewer people and stay connected to them. So <strong>keep your list small and clean it out of all the people who aren't going to buy from you</strong>.&nbsp;</p><p>You can definitely make a good living from a small list. The key is to<strong>&nbsp;focus on giving people things that are genuinely going to help them solve their problems and give them value they're going to enjoy.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week&nbsp;</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>This week's subject line of the week is, "Are you cabbage, peas, or carrots?" This is an actual subject line that Kennedy used in one of his emails.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>And there's a bit of a story behind that (isn't there always?!).&nbsp;</p><p>One day Kennedy was on the phone with his sister, and he got so distracted he managed to allow the cabbage, peas, and carrots he was cooking to steam dry and burn. From there, he went into a lesson around how you can be distracted by things.</p><p>But the subject line worked because it used a few curiosity principles. Kennedy put some <strong>unusual stuff</strong> in there (cabbages, peas, and carrot), <strong>made the email very personal by sharing a story</strong>, and then <strong>turned it into a question</strong> to the audience. And the subject line did very well!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-clean-your-email-list-list-hygiene-with-steve-wagner/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Clean Your Email List – List Hygiene With Steve Wagner</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-list-cleaning-why-you-should-delete-your-subscribers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email List Cleaning: When You Should Delete Your Subscribers</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/get-your-emails-delivered-and-avoid-the-spam-folder-with-adrian-savage/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Get Your Emails Delivered (And Avoid The Spam Folder) With Adrian Savage</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>Want to write better emails? Come up with better content? Influence and move your readers to click and buy? Well, you can do that with this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>If you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes, where we get to share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing by applying everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode - all about how to make money from your email list - and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes and get discovered by more awesome people like you.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/make-money-from-your-email-list/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">83e61af5-0535-49e6-9e8d-23ba6845ab14</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/bf969226-9c34-4270-92b2-996c3b8b9948/nXtbTE6pgNztbHEwHAMAXOg0.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/8d408842-93d8-4faa-8c00-9625fe00c3e5/how-we-made-our-first-6-figures-from-a-list-of-less-than-2-000.mp3" length="38239840" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>19:55</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>85</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>85</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Subscriber-Centric Email Marketing with Kath Pay, author of Holistic Email Marketing</title><itunes:title>Subscriber-Centric Email Marketing with Kath Pay, author of Holistic Email Marketing</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Struggling to get results with your email marketing? Tried all the tactics but not getting the sales you want? Then let's hear about holistic email marketing - Kath Pay is here to share all her best-kept secrets...</p><p>And you'll want to hear them all!</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(2:30) Two lies a truth. Did Kath really get sunburnt from falling asleep in the garden?</p><p>(4:05) What is customer centricity?</p><p>(7:14) Why focus on the customer journey?</p><p>(9:00) How email impacts sales on other channels.</p><p>(13:04) Why you should name things for what they are!</p><p>(14:40) How being customer-centric changes how you write your content.</p><p>(15:40) Why you always need to convert facts into benefits.</p><p>(17:30) The reason behind the names of our email campaigns.</p><p>(19:00) How to create an email marketing strategy for your business. </p><p>(22:25) Subject line of the week with Kath Pay.</p><h3><strong>What is customer-centricity?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Kath Pay has 23 years of experience in email marketing and is the author of the fantastic book, "Holistic Email Marketing: A practical philosophy to revolutionise your business and delight your customers." In this mega interesting interview, Kath told us all about customer-centric email marketing.&nbsp;</p><p>The phrase might sound scary, but all it means is <strong>having the customer at the heart of your email programme</strong>. Your customer has to be top of mind at all times!</p><p>When doing email marketing, however, a lot of businesses tend to become very brand-centric - we focus on what <em>we</em> want to say to our customers and on what <em>we</em> want them to do. But according to Kath, we should be flipping things around.</p><p>Start from the customer. Why are they on your list? What did we promise them when they signed up? What is going to be meaningful to them?</p><p>As a brand, we have an objective, and that's generally to sell. But our subscribers have one too - they have a reason for being on your list. So how can you deliver on your promise and help them achieve that objective?</p><p>This thing about goals is like a double-sided coin. On the one side, you have your business goal. On the other side, you have your subscribers' goals. So instead of approaching email marketing with your own agenda and focusing on selling and pushing, walk to the other side of the coin. Grab your customers by the figurative hands and work out how you're going to help them achieve <em>their</em> objective. And by default, you'll achieve yours too.</p><p>Awesome, right?</p><h3><strong>Why do you need a holistic approach to email marketing?</strong></h3><p>When we run our businesses we tend to focus on the various channels (organic search, PPC, social media, etc.). Then we try and get the channels to talk to each other and connect. But really, the angle we should be considering instead is <strong>how to help our customers throughout their journey</strong>.</p><p>Ask yourself - what channels are going to be best at what particular points? <strong>Having a holistic approach to email marketing means focusing on the customer journey, not the channels.</strong></p><p>Kath shared a story about a client who noticed an unexplained dip in sales in one of their channels on a particular day. After further investigation, it turned out the dip was due to an email not being sent out on that day. And that impacted sales in other channels! This proves that email marketing doesn't act in isolation - <strong>email pushes conversion in other channels</strong>.</p><h3><strong>Customer-centric email marketing in action</strong></h3><p>Ready to switch to customer-centric email marketing? Then the first thing you want to do is to start calling things for what they are. For example, your welcome sequence does a lot more than just welcoming your subscribers. It's also about onboarding and nurturing. So why not refer to your welcome sequence as your 'First Purchase Programme' instead? Because that's your aim, right?</p><p>Once you're super clear on your aims and your customers' goals, coming up with copy for your emails is a lot easier. Because <strong>you are definitely welcoming your customers, but you are also educating them on the solutions that your product and services offer.</strong></p><p>And when you focus on this, you give your emails a different feel and focus. And ultimately, a better success rate too. <strong>Being customer-centric changes how we write things.</strong> According to Kath, we should never just talk about facts. Instead, we should be explicit in talking about the <em>benefits</em>&nbsp;we're offering our customers.</p><p>If you've won an award, for example, (like Kath has) how is that of interest to your customers? How is it going to help them? Your job is to expand on it. You're the director of the customer journey, so spell it all out for them. If you're talking to a client or a prospective client, the fact you've won an award tells them they're in good hands.</p><p>So <strong>share the facts but always convert them into benefits. </strong>Have the consumer in your mind at all times. It's a subtle psychological shift, but it puts you in the right frame of mind to write the right type of content for your emails.</p><p>It's why we have a 'Tell Me More' campaign, which we send out to anyone who clicks three times on the same sales page. And our welcome sequence is called 'Getting to Know You' because it's about us getting to know our subscribers and our subscribers getting to know us. We agonise over the names of our campaigns, but it puts us into the right mindset to nail what the campaign is all about and what is there to do.</p><h3><strong>How to create an email marketing strategy for your business</strong></h3><p>A lot of people jump straight to tactics - programmes, forms, landing pages, etc. We tend to latch on to them because it's easier to learn how to implement tactics - it sounds less overwhelming than having a strategy. But <strong>unless they map back to an overarching, solid, thought-out email marketing strategy, they're not going to be as effective. They just don't work well in isolation!</strong></p><p>So, to create your email marketing strategy, start with your business goals. What is it that you want to achieve? What is important to you? Then map your marketing objectives to the business goal. From there, define your email marketing objectives - for acquisition, conversion, retention, and win back. Then break down each of these objectives and come up with multiple tactics for each.</p><p>This way, you're working from the top down, rather than upwards, which is a lot harder and less effective. If you start in the right place (with your objectives) and then work downwards, you'll find that everything leads naturally to the next step. Put it all together and <em>boom</em>! You have a blueprint for success!</p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week with Kath Pay</strong></h3><p>Kath's subject line of the week comes from a company called <a href="https://colonbroom.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Colon Broom</a>, whose strapline is 'Poop Like a Winner, Lose Weight the Easy Way'. We love them already. Don't you?</p><p>So they sent an email out with the subject line "We have a shit-uation here". It was sent to subscribers who had abandoned carts to let them know that their special offer was going to expire soon.</p><p>Genius, isn't it?</p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Kath</strong></h5><p>Want to connect with the awesome Kath Pay? You can find her on her <a href="https://www.holisticemailmarketing.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">website</a>, where you can also watch her "Email &amp; More: A Q&amp;A with…" series of online Q&amp;A panels. And if you're interested in reading Kath's book, it's called "<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Holistic-Email-Marketing-philosophy-revolutionise/dp/1781334919" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Holist</a>ic Email Marketing: A practical philosophy to revolutionise your business and delight your customers."</p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-strategy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Marketing Strategy Every Business Should Steal</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-use-email-in-your-content-marketing-strategy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Use Email In Your Content Marketing Strategy</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-do-better-email-marketing-in-2020-your-questions-answered/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Do Better Email Marketing In 2020: Your Questions Answered</a>.</p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>Want to write better emails? Come up with better content? Influence and move your readers to click and buy? Well, you can do that with this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to. Will you embrace holistic email marketing - Kath Pay style?</p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Struggling to get results with your email marketing? Tried all the tactics but not getting the sales you want? Then let's hear about holistic email marketing - Kath Pay is here to share all her best-kept secrets...</p><p>And you'll want to hear them all!</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(2:30) Two lies a truth. Did Kath really get sunburnt from falling asleep in the garden?</p><p>(4:05) What is customer centricity?</p><p>(7:14) Why focus on the customer journey?</p><p>(9:00) How email impacts sales on other channels.</p><p>(13:04) Why you should name things for what they are!</p><p>(14:40) How being customer-centric changes how you write your content.</p><p>(15:40) Why you always need to convert facts into benefits.</p><p>(17:30) The reason behind the names of our email campaigns.</p><p>(19:00) How to create an email marketing strategy for your business. </p><p>(22:25) Subject line of the week with Kath Pay.</p><h3><strong>What is customer-centricity?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Kath Pay has 23 years of experience in email marketing and is the author of the fantastic book, "Holistic Email Marketing: A practical philosophy to revolutionise your business and delight your customers." In this mega interesting interview, Kath told us all about customer-centric email marketing.&nbsp;</p><p>The phrase might sound scary, but all it means is <strong>having the customer at the heart of your email programme</strong>. Your customer has to be top of mind at all times!</p><p>When doing email marketing, however, a lot of businesses tend to become very brand-centric - we focus on what <em>we</em> want to say to our customers and on what <em>we</em> want them to do. But according to Kath, we should be flipping things around.</p><p>Start from the customer. Why are they on your list? What did we promise them when they signed up? What is going to be meaningful to them?</p><p>As a brand, we have an objective, and that's generally to sell. But our subscribers have one too - they have a reason for being on your list. So how can you deliver on your promise and help them achieve that objective?</p><p>This thing about goals is like a double-sided coin. On the one side, you have your business goal. On the other side, you have your subscribers' goals. So instead of approaching email marketing with your own agenda and focusing on selling and pushing, walk to the other side of the coin. Grab your customers by the figurative hands and work out how you're going to help them achieve <em>their</em> objective. And by default, you'll achieve yours too.</p><p>Awesome, right?</p><h3><strong>Why do you need a holistic approach to email marketing?</strong></h3><p>When we run our businesses we tend to focus on the various channels (organic search, PPC, social media, etc.). Then we try and get the channels to talk to each other and connect. But really, the angle we should be considering instead is <strong>how to help our customers throughout their journey</strong>.</p><p>Ask yourself - what channels are going to be best at what particular points? <strong>Having a holistic approach to email marketing means focusing on the customer journey, not the channels.</strong></p><p>Kath shared a story about a client who noticed an unexplained dip in sales in one of their channels on a particular day. After further investigation, it turned out the dip was due to an email not being sent out on that day. And that impacted sales in other channels! This proves that email marketing doesn't act in isolation - <strong>email pushes conversion in other channels</strong>.</p><h3><strong>Customer-centric email marketing in action</strong></h3><p>Ready to switch to customer-centric email marketing? Then the first thing you want to do is to start calling things for what they are. For example, your welcome sequence does a lot more than just welcoming your subscribers. It's also about onboarding and nurturing. So why not refer to your welcome sequence as your 'First Purchase Programme' instead? Because that's your aim, right?</p><p>Once you're super clear on your aims and your customers' goals, coming up with copy for your emails is a lot easier. Because <strong>you are definitely welcoming your customers, but you are also educating them on the solutions that your product and services offer.</strong></p><p>And when you focus on this, you give your emails a different feel and focus. And ultimately, a better success rate too. <strong>Being customer-centric changes how we write things.</strong> According to Kath, we should never just talk about facts. Instead, we should be explicit in talking about the <em>benefits</em>&nbsp;we're offering our customers.</p><p>If you've won an award, for example, (like Kath has) how is that of interest to your customers? How is it going to help them? Your job is to expand on it. You're the director of the customer journey, so spell it all out for them. If you're talking to a client or a prospective client, the fact you've won an award tells them they're in good hands.</p><p>So <strong>share the facts but always convert them into benefits. </strong>Have the consumer in your mind at all times. It's a subtle psychological shift, but it puts you in the right frame of mind to write the right type of content for your emails.</p><p>It's why we have a 'Tell Me More' campaign, which we send out to anyone who clicks three times on the same sales page. And our welcome sequence is called 'Getting to Know You' because it's about us getting to know our subscribers and our subscribers getting to know us. We agonise over the names of our campaigns, but it puts us into the right mindset to nail what the campaign is all about and what is there to do.</p><h3><strong>How to create an email marketing strategy for your business</strong></h3><p>A lot of people jump straight to tactics - programmes, forms, landing pages, etc. We tend to latch on to them because it's easier to learn how to implement tactics - it sounds less overwhelming than having a strategy. But <strong>unless they map back to an overarching, solid, thought-out email marketing strategy, they're not going to be as effective. They just don't work well in isolation!</strong></p><p>So, to create your email marketing strategy, start with your business goals. What is it that you want to achieve? What is important to you? Then map your marketing objectives to the business goal. From there, define your email marketing objectives - for acquisition, conversion, retention, and win back. Then break down each of these objectives and come up with multiple tactics for each.</p><p>This way, you're working from the top down, rather than upwards, which is a lot harder and less effective. If you start in the right place (with your objectives) and then work downwards, you'll find that everything leads naturally to the next step. Put it all together and <em>boom</em>! You have a blueprint for success!</p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week with Kath Pay</strong></h3><p>Kath's subject line of the week comes from a company called <a href="https://colonbroom.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Colon Broom</a>, whose strapline is 'Poop Like a Winner, Lose Weight the Easy Way'. We love them already. Don't you?</p><p>So they sent an email out with the subject line "We have a shit-uation here". It was sent to subscribers who had abandoned carts to let them know that their special offer was going to expire soon.</p><p>Genius, isn't it?</p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Kath</strong></h5><p>Want to connect with the awesome Kath Pay? You can find her on her <a href="https://www.holisticemailmarketing.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">website</a>, where you can also watch her "Email &amp; More: A Q&amp;A with…" series of online Q&amp;A panels. And if you're interested in reading Kath's book, it's called "<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Holistic-Email-Marketing-philosophy-revolutionise/dp/1781334919" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Holist</a>ic Email Marketing: A practical philosophy to revolutionise your business and delight your customers."</p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-strategy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Marketing Strategy Every Business Should Steal</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-use-email-in-your-content-marketing-strategy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Use Email In Your Content Marketing Strategy</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-do-better-email-marketing-in-2020-your-questions-answered/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Do Better Email Marketing In 2020: Your Questions Answered</a>.</p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>Want to write better emails? Come up with better content? Influence and move your readers to click and buy? Well, you can do that with this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to. Will you embrace holistic email marketing - Kath Pay style?</p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the&nbsp;<strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes, where we get to share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to&nbsp;<strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing by applying everything we talk about in this show.</p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode about holistic email marketing with Kath Pay and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>leaving us a review </strong>on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes and get discovered by more awesome people like you.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/holistic-email-marketing-kath-pay/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">d0787929-98f2-41c5-805c-7594aee0f0ef</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/9d394b9a-aaf0-41ab-957b-73a73e57e274/zoMPTGzMyLrHREBbOP5_025S.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/b028bd2d-e9b6-4513-9157-e811281ade99/kath-pay.mp3" length="48844301" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>25:26</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>84</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>84</podcast:episode></item><item><title>When Is It Too Early to Segment Your Email Subscribers?</title><itunes:title>When Is It Too Early to Segment Your Email Subscribers?</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>When do you segment email subscribers? When <em>exactly</em> is the right time to start? On day one? When you reach your first 2,000 subscribers? Or maybe 20,000?&nbsp;</p><p>Well, it depends...&nbsp;</p><p>If you're wondering whether segmenting your list is something you should have on day one or something you should do now or maybe never, tune into this episode to help you make a decision.&nbsp;</p><p>(2:25) Are you as excited about Email Marketing Wednesday as Kennedy is?</p><p>(3:40) What does segmenting your list even mean? </p><p>(5:50) When and how you segment your list depends on what you sell (with examples!) </p><p>(7:52) List segmentation when you sell products with a broad range.</p><p>(8:24) What does 'segmenting by interest' mean? </p><p>(10:12) Three types of segments you need - Segment Number One. </p><p>(10:49) Three types of segments you need - Segment Number Two. </p><p>(11:25) Three types of segments you need - Segment Number Three. </p><p>(12:20) How to segment your subscribers. </p><p>(14:10) Subject line of the week. </p><h3><strong>What is email segmentation?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>What even is email segmentation?&nbsp;</p><p>All it means, effectively, is taking your list and dividing it into parts - or <em>segments</em> - a bit like an orange.</p><p>So <strong>if you have different people on your list with different needs, hopes, desires, and interests, splitting them into segments allows you to give each of these groups the best possible service.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>Because if they have different needs and interests when it comes to your business, saying the same things in the same order and using the same angle and approach isn't really going to work, is it? If they're the same type of people, by all means, treat them in the same way. But if they're not, then you need to communicate to these people in different ways.&nbsp;</p><p>And that's where segmentation comes in.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>When should you start to segment email subscribers?</strong></h3><p>Want to know the truth? Email segmentation freaks a lot of people out. And it's understandable.</p><p>You're probably wondering whether it's too early or too late for you to get started. Is your&nbsp;list too small? Too big? When is it <em>just right</em>?</p><p>You see, <strong>email segmentation is a very powerful tactic to make sure you're constantly putting the right messaging in front of the right people.</strong></p><p>If you've ever heard anyone say that you don't need any type of email segmentation until you reach 20,000 subscribers, well, that's a really broad and arbitrary statement to make. Because potentially, you could be in a situation where you have just a handful of subscribers, but they are different types of people with different needs.</p><p>And if that's the case, then you need segmentation from day one. So <strong>the right time to segment your list depends on the type of people you serve and the products or services you offer. </strong>&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>Why you need to segment email subscribers based on their interests</strong></h3><p>If you sell a product with a broad range, you might want to segment people based on their interests. Let's say you sell baby gifts and keepsakes. You can segment your subscribers depending on whether they have a boy or a girl or how old their baby is, for example.</p><p>In this context,<em> interest</em> means more than hobbies. It <strong>means knowing who your subscribers are and what they're going to be interested in when it comes to what you sell</strong>.</p><p>So if you offer salsa dancing, you might have products or services tailored to beginners, intermediate, or advanced dancers. There is zero point in telling the beginners about stuff that's really complicated because they're not going to be interested!</p><p>If that's you - if your business works a bit like that - then you can start segmenting your list on day one. And if you don't, you're potentially doing your audience a disservice. When you think about it, if you try and sell them something that isn't at their level or doesn't match their needs, they won't be interested.</p><p>In other words, <strong>if you tell people about the wrong stuff, you're going to alienate them.</strong> But on the other hand, <strong>segmenting your list will help you identify people and serve them the best.&nbsp;</strong></p><h3><strong>Three email segments you should have in&nbsp;your list</strong></h3><p>So here are three segments we think you should have:&nbsp;</p><ol><li><strong>People who have already bought what you're selling</strong>. For example, if someone buys our <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/des-open?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=des" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Complete Daily Email Strategy Course</a>, we don't want them to continue receiving promotional emails about it, so we have a specific segment for people who have already bought that product.</li><li><strong>Anyone who told you they're <em>not</em> interested in a specific product or service</strong>. We add a link to our emails where we ask people to click if they're <em>not</em> interested in a particular product. If they click on the link and choose to proactively tell us they no longer want to hear about something, we don't email them about that anymore! Simple as that.&nbsp;</li><li>And finally, <strong>people who have shown an interest</strong>. Inside our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, we teach and share about a campaign called the Tell Me More campaign. It's an email sequence that kicks off automatically when someone shows <em>significant interest</em> in one of our products. These people are in what's called the 'consideration phase' of the buyer's journey. They've checked your product out but haven't made a decision yet. So it's always worth following up by answering questions, sharing testimonials, and overcoming objections.&nbsp;</li></ol><br/><p>If you want to find out how you can start segmenting your subscribers today, check out our episode,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/segment-your-email-subscribers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">6 Techniques To Segment Your Email Subscribers</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>This week's subject line of the week is "Your free account". We used this subject line for an email we sent out to our existing subscribers to let them know we've created a private area on our website where they can access <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">our free resources</a>, including our Top 10 Books to Power Up Your Email Marketing.</p><p>Whenever a new subscriber wants to download our free resources, we create a free account for them to access that private area - hence the subject line! And even though we weren't selling anything, the email had a great open rate and click-through rate.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/segment-your-email-subscribers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">6 Techniques To Segment Your Email Subscribers</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-list-cleaning-why-you-should-delete-your-subscribers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email List Cleaning: When You Should Delete Your Subscribers</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/why-is-my-email-marketing-not-working/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why Is My Email Marketing Not Working?</a></p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>Want to write better emails? Come up with better content? Influence and move your readers to click and buy? Well, you can do that with this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes, where we get to share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When do you segment email subscribers? When <em>exactly</em> is the right time to start? On day one? When you reach your first 2,000 subscribers? Or maybe 20,000?&nbsp;</p><p>Well, it depends...&nbsp;</p><p>If you're wondering whether segmenting your list is something you should have on day one or something you should do now or maybe never, tune into this episode to help you make a decision.&nbsp;</p><p>(2:25) Are you as excited about Email Marketing Wednesday as Kennedy is?</p><p>(3:40) What does segmenting your list even mean? </p><p>(5:50) When and how you segment your list depends on what you sell (with examples!) </p><p>(7:52) List segmentation when you sell products with a broad range.</p><p>(8:24) What does 'segmenting by interest' mean? </p><p>(10:12) Three types of segments you need - Segment Number One. </p><p>(10:49) Three types of segments you need - Segment Number Two. </p><p>(11:25) Three types of segments you need - Segment Number Three. </p><p>(12:20) How to segment your subscribers. </p><p>(14:10) Subject line of the week. </p><h3><strong>What is email segmentation?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>What even is email segmentation?&nbsp;</p><p>All it means, effectively, is taking your list and dividing it into parts - or <em>segments</em> - a bit like an orange.</p><p>So <strong>if you have different people on your list with different needs, hopes, desires, and interests, splitting them into segments allows you to give each of these groups the best possible service.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>Because if they have different needs and interests when it comes to your business, saying the same things in the same order and using the same angle and approach isn't really going to work, is it? If they're the same type of people, by all means, treat them in the same way. But if they're not, then you need to communicate to these people in different ways.&nbsp;</p><p>And that's where segmentation comes in.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>When should you start to segment email subscribers?</strong></h3><p>Want to know the truth? Email segmentation freaks a lot of people out. And it's understandable.</p><p>You're probably wondering whether it's too early or too late for you to get started. Is your&nbsp;list too small? Too big? When is it <em>just right</em>?</p><p>You see, <strong>email segmentation is a very powerful tactic to make sure you're constantly putting the right messaging in front of the right people.</strong></p><p>If you've ever heard anyone say that you don't need any type of email segmentation until you reach 20,000 subscribers, well, that's a really broad and arbitrary statement to make. Because potentially, you could be in a situation where you have just a handful of subscribers, but they are different types of people with different needs.</p><p>And if that's the case, then you need segmentation from day one. So <strong>the right time to segment your list depends on the type of people you serve and the products or services you offer. </strong>&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>Why you need to segment email subscribers based on their interests</strong></h3><p>If you sell a product with a broad range, you might want to segment people based on their interests. Let's say you sell baby gifts and keepsakes. You can segment your subscribers depending on whether they have a boy or a girl or how old their baby is, for example.</p><p>In this context,<em> interest</em> means more than hobbies. It <strong>means knowing who your subscribers are and what they're going to be interested in when it comes to what you sell</strong>.</p><p>So if you offer salsa dancing, you might have products or services tailored to beginners, intermediate, or advanced dancers. There is zero point in telling the beginners about stuff that's really complicated because they're not going to be interested!</p><p>If that's you - if your business works a bit like that - then you can start segmenting your list on day one. And if you don't, you're potentially doing your audience a disservice. When you think about it, if you try and sell them something that isn't at their level or doesn't match their needs, they won't be interested.</p><p>In other words, <strong>if you tell people about the wrong stuff, you're going to alienate them.</strong> But on the other hand, <strong>segmenting your list will help you identify people and serve them the best.&nbsp;</strong></p><h3><strong>Three email segments you should have in&nbsp;your list</strong></h3><p>So here are three segments we think you should have:&nbsp;</p><ol><li><strong>People who have already bought what you're selling</strong>. For example, if someone buys our <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/des-open?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=des" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Complete Daily Email Strategy Course</a>, we don't want them to continue receiving promotional emails about it, so we have a specific segment for people who have already bought that product.</li><li><strong>Anyone who told you they're <em>not</em> interested in a specific product or service</strong>. We add a link to our emails where we ask people to click if they're <em>not</em> interested in a particular product. If they click on the link and choose to proactively tell us they no longer want to hear about something, we don't email them about that anymore! Simple as that.&nbsp;</li><li>And finally, <strong>people who have shown an interest</strong>. Inside our membership, <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League</a>, we teach and share about a campaign called the Tell Me More campaign. It's an email sequence that kicks off automatically when someone shows <em>significant interest</em> in one of our products. These people are in what's called the 'consideration phase' of the buyer's journey. They've checked your product out but haven't made a decision yet. So it's always worth following up by answering questions, sharing testimonials, and overcoming objections.&nbsp;</li></ol><br/><p>If you want to find out how you can start segmenting your subscribers today, check out our episode,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/segment-your-email-subscribers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">6 Techniques To Segment Your Email Subscribers</a>.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>This week's subject line of the week is "Your free account". We used this subject line for an email we sent out to our existing subscribers to let them know we've created a private area on our website where they can access <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">our free resources</a>, including our Top 10 Books to Power Up Your Email Marketing.</p><p>Whenever a new subscriber wants to download our free resources, we create a free account for them to access that private area - hence the subject line! And even though we weren't selling anything, the email had a great open rate and click-through rate.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/segment-your-email-subscribers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">6 Techniques To Segment Your Email Subscribers</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-list-cleaning-why-you-should-delete-your-subscribers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email List Cleaning: When You Should Delete Your Subscribers</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/why-is-my-email-marketing-not-working/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why Is My Email Marketing Not Working?</a></p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>Want to write better emails? Come up with better content? Influence and move your readers to click and buy? Well, you can do that with this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes, where we get to share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing by applying everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode - all about how to segment email subscribers - and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes and get discovered by more awesome people like you.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/when-is-it-too-early-to-segment-your-email-subscribers/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">561bf273-c32b-4d15-9784-e3d2bb254c9e</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/6ac93c25-8bb2-471d-9cbc-14ae3bae3ed5/efNB0SC62pT2xihXYgrSadh2.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/f74e9e3f-7c2f-4196-af2b-65b6e8a8095b/083-segmenting-your-email-list.mp3" length="30345426" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:48</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>83</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>83</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How to grow your email list when you have less than 10k Instagram Followers, Helen Perry spills all.</title><itunes:title>How to grow your email list when you have less than 10k Instagram Followers, Helen Perry spills all.</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Instagram. We all faff around with it. But can you actually leverage your Instagram following to make sales? You certainly can. But only if you're clever about driving people to your email list. So if you want to find out how to use Instagram to successfully grow your email list, Helen Perry spills all the secrets for us today.</p><p>You just don't want to miss this episode (and Kennedy's mind explosion!).</p><p>Ready to become Insta famous?</p><p>Well, we are!</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(2:45) Two lies a truth. Did someone say something about STIs?</p><p> (4:50) Is Instagram still a place where you can grow an engaged audience?</p><p> (6:32) Why you can't afford to 'abdicate' on your audience.</p><p> (9:50) Where and how you should tell your audience on about your email list.</p><p> (10:48) The type of Instagram content that gets people's attention.</p><p> (12:28) The mindblowing truth about the Question Sticker.</p><p> (14:17) How to properly use your link in bio to grow your email list.</p><p> (15:30) How to create urgency for people to join your email list (and Kennedy's mind explosion!)</p><p> (17:28) How often you should ask for people's email address on Instagram. (19:22) Subject line of the week - Helen style!</p><h3><strong>Are Instagram and email marketing a match made in sales heaven?</strong></h3><p>With close to 14k Instagram followers, former BBC Radio One <a href="https://www.instagram.com/_helen_perry_/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Helen Perry</a> helps people build an Instagram following and make money from social media. Because guys, it's really not just about looking lovely and having your ego stroked. It's about selling, right?</p><p>The great news is that if you have an Instagram audience it's absolutely possible to leverage it to support your business. But, Helen says, you've got to be intentional about what you do and have realistic expectations. Because the platform has its limitations when it comes to how well people are going to get to know, like, and trust you, and how much of your content they're going to see.</p><p>But the place where you can <em>really</em> get your audience's attention is their inbox. Once people give you their email address, they're more committed to you than someone who just follows you on Instagram.<strong> These are the people who will spend money in your business</strong>.</p><p>So <strong>drive your Instagram audience to your email list</strong>. And keep plugging on and working on this because the minute you start neglecting your Instagram community, your engagement will drop. And you don't want to undo all your hard work, do you? We love that Helen even has a name for this - 'social media abdication'.</p><h3><strong>How to use your Instagram profile to grow your email list, Helen Perry style</strong></h3><p>First thing first, <strong>create a great offer for your audience</strong>.</p><p>Simple, right?</p><p>What does your audience love about what you do? What are they interested in? And what do they want more of?</p><p>For Helen, it's her weekly newsletter, which she sends out every Friday, packed with tips and inspiration for people who want to build an online profile to promote their business. And because the newsletter goes out every week without a fail, Helen gets the chance to talk about it all the time - to create that <strong>sense of urgency</strong> that prompts people to join before Friday so they can get all the good stuff in their inbox.</p><p>Isn't that pretty great?</p><p>So <strong>create a lead magnet or some sort of incentive to encourage people to give you their email address</strong>. But remember - it has to be<em> valuable</em> to them!</p><h3><strong>How to drive your Instagram audience to your email list</strong></h3><p>So how and where do you ask your Instagram audience to give your their email address?</p><p>The best place to do this, according to Helen, is <strong>Instagram Stories</strong>. Here's where you can share a few slides about it is that you're offering and talk people through it, rather than making them read lots of text. Be fully transparent about what people are signing up for and invite them to DM you and give you their email address with their permission to add them to your email list.</p><p>You can also do this with a feature called <strong>Question Sticker</strong>. And of course, once you reach 10k followers, you unlock the <strong>Swipe Up</strong> feature, which allows you to send people directly to your email sign-up form. Brilliant!</p><p>But another obvious and easily accessible place to promote your email list is the <strong>link in bio</strong>. So use it wisely! Don't just dump your website address in there. Don't make people do the hard work of navigating around your website to find out where they sign up! Instead, <strong>change your link in bio often and have your email sign-up form link in there</strong>.</p><h3><strong>How often should you ask for people's email addresses on Instagram?</strong></h3><p>Helen says we could probably ask more than we do because at the end of the day only a small proportion of our audience sees the content we share. So <strong>ask people to join your email list at least 2 or 3 times a week</strong>, and if you're selling things all the time, then every day.</p><p>But don't forget to alternate that with behind-the-scenes content, storytelling-type content, and news update on what's going on with your business and what you're offering, for example.</p><p>Oh, and if you want to check out how we'll be implementing Helen's advice, come and follow us on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/robandkennedy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a>!</p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week with Helen Perry</strong></h3><p>Helen's subject line of the week is about being the opposite of a perfectionist.</p><p>That's right. Helen shared the story of when she sent out a really rubbish email telling her audience she was launching a course but didn't give them any of the information they needed to make a decision.</p><p>In Helen's words, it was a truly useless email. But lots of people replied asking for details and expressing an interest. The next day, Helen sent out a message apologising for her rubbish email and gave people what they needed. She sold more courses at the back of that email than she did with any others.</p><p>So there you go - honesty for the win. <em>Again!&nbsp;</em></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Helen</strong></h5><p>Want to find out more about the awesome Helen Perry? Go and connect with her on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/_helen_perry_/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a> (obvs!)</p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/twitter-for-list-building-with-madalyn-sklar/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter for List Building with Madalyn Sklar</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/17-no-cost-ways-to-build-your-email-list/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">17 No Cost Ways To Build Your Email List</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/grow-your-email-list-using-facebook-pages/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Grow Your Email List Using Facebook Pages (Without Ads) – Rachel Miller Moolah Style!</a></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>Want to write better emails? Come up with better content? Influence and move your readers to click and buy? Well, you can do that with this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the&nbsp;<strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes, where we get to share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to&nbsp;<strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing by applying everything we talk about in this show.</p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode, which was all about how to grow your email list with Helen Perry, and...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Instagram. We all faff around with it. But can you actually leverage your Instagram following to make sales? You certainly can. But only if you're clever about driving people to your email list. So if you want to find out how to use Instagram to successfully grow your email list, Helen Perry spills all the secrets for us today.</p><p>You just don't want to miss this episode (and Kennedy's mind explosion!).</p><p>Ready to become Insta famous?</p><p>Well, we are!</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(2:45) Two lies a truth. Did someone say something about STIs?</p><p> (4:50) Is Instagram still a place where you can grow an engaged audience?</p><p> (6:32) Why you can't afford to 'abdicate' on your audience.</p><p> (9:50) Where and how you should tell your audience on about your email list.</p><p> (10:48) The type of Instagram content that gets people's attention.</p><p> (12:28) The mindblowing truth about the Question Sticker.</p><p> (14:17) How to properly use your link in bio to grow your email list.</p><p> (15:30) How to create urgency for people to join your email list (and Kennedy's mind explosion!)</p><p> (17:28) How often you should ask for people's email address on Instagram. (19:22) Subject line of the week - Helen style!</p><h3><strong>Are Instagram and email marketing a match made in sales heaven?</strong></h3><p>With close to 14k Instagram followers, former BBC Radio One <a href="https://www.instagram.com/_helen_perry_/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Helen Perry</a> helps people build an Instagram following and make money from social media. Because guys, it's really not just about looking lovely and having your ego stroked. It's about selling, right?</p><p>The great news is that if you have an Instagram audience it's absolutely possible to leverage it to support your business. But, Helen says, you've got to be intentional about what you do and have realistic expectations. Because the platform has its limitations when it comes to how well people are going to get to know, like, and trust you, and how much of your content they're going to see.</p><p>But the place where you can <em>really</em> get your audience's attention is their inbox. Once people give you their email address, they're more committed to you than someone who just follows you on Instagram.<strong> These are the people who will spend money in your business</strong>.</p><p>So <strong>drive your Instagram audience to your email list</strong>. And keep plugging on and working on this because the minute you start neglecting your Instagram community, your engagement will drop. And you don't want to undo all your hard work, do you? We love that Helen even has a name for this - 'social media abdication'.</p><h3><strong>How to use your Instagram profile to grow your email list, Helen Perry style</strong></h3><p>First thing first, <strong>create a great offer for your audience</strong>.</p><p>Simple, right?</p><p>What does your audience love about what you do? What are they interested in? And what do they want more of?</p><p>For Helen, it's her weekly newsletter, which she sends out every Friday, packed with tips and inspiration for people who want to build an online profile to promote their business. And because the newsletter goes out every week without a fail, Helen gets the chance to talk about it all the time - to create that <strong>sense of urgency</strong> that prompts people to join before Friday so they can get all the good stuff in their inbox.</p><p>Isn't that pretty great?</p><p>So <strong>create a lead magnet or some sort of incentive to encourage people to give you their email address</strong>. But remember - it has to be<em> valuable</em> to them!</p><h3><strong>How to drive your Instagram audience to your email list</strong></h3><p>So how and where do you ask your Instagram audience to give your their email address?</p><p>The best place to do this, according to Helen, is <strong>Instagram Stories</strong>. Here's where you can share a few slides about it is that you're offering and talk people through it, rather than making them read lots of text. Be fully transparent about what people are signing up for and invite them to DM you and give you their email address with their permission to add them to your email list.</p><p>You can also do this with a feature called <strong>Question Sticker</strong>. And of course, once you reach 10k followers, you unlock the <strong>Swipe Up</strong> feature, which allows you to send people directly to your email sign-up form. Brilliant!</p><p>But another obvious and easily accessible place to promote your email list is the <strong>link in bio</strong>. So use it wisely! Don't just dump your website address in there. Don't make people do the hard work of navigating around your website to find out where they sign up! Instead, <strong>change your link in bio often and have your email sign-up form link in there</strong>.</p><h3><strong>How often should you ask for people's email addresses on Instagram?</strong></h3><p>Helen says we could probably ask more than we do because at the end of the day only a small proportion of our audience sees the content we share. So <strong>ask people to join your email list at least 2 or 3 times a week</strong>, and if you're selling things all the time, then every day.</p><p>But don't forget to alternate that with behind-the-scenes content, storytelling-type content, and news update on what's going on with your business and what you're offering, for example.</p><p>Oh, and if you want to check out how we'll be implementing Helen's advice, come and follow us on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/robandkennedy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a>!</p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week with Helen Perry</strong></h3><p>Helen's subject line of the week is about being the opposite of a perfectionist.</p><p>That's right. Helen shared the story of when she sent out a really rubbish email telling her audience she was launching a course but didn't give them any of the information they needed to make a decision.</p><p>In Helen's words, it was a truly useless email. But lots of people replied asking for details and expressing an interest. The next day, Helen sent out a message apologising for her rubbish email and gave people what they needed. She sold more courses at the back of that email than she did with any others.</p><p>So there you go - honesty for the win. <em>Again!&nbsp;</em></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About Helen</strong></h5><p>Want to find out more about the awesome Helen Perry? Go and connect with her on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/_helen_perry_/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a> (obvs!)</p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/twitter-for-list-building-with-madalyn-sklar/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter for List Building with Madalyn Sklar</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/17-no-cost-ways-to-build-your-email-list/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">17 No Cost Ways To Build Your Email List</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/grow-your-email-list-using-facebook-pages/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Grow Your Email List Using Facebook Pages (Without Ads) – Rachel Miller Moolah Style!</a></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>Want to write better emails? Come up with better content? Influence and move your readers to click and buy? Well, you can do that with this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.</p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the&nbsp;<strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes, where we get to share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to&nbsp;<strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out&nbsp;<a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing by applying everything we talk about in this show.</p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode, which was all about how to grow your email list with Helen Perry, and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>leaving us a review </strong>on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes and get discovered by more awesome people like you.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/grow-your-email-list-helen-perry/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">c821e088-d36c-4ba3-a898-b9e79a083515</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/057fc91c-19bc-4ccd-ac84-5f00deb7438f/2BBaRJt1jOsXhXP6eRi48PxN.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/95d578e6-7449-49dc-9673-20a56e5e9586/helen-perry-final.mp3" length="42757143" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>22:16</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>82</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>82</podcast:episode></item><item><title>5 Elements to Grow an Online Business</title><itunes:title>5 Elements to Grow an Online Business</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>How on Earth do you grow an online business? And where does email marketing fit in?</p><p>This week on the show we talk about the 5 different things you need to do to grow your business. </p><p>So if you've got this awesome product or service, you put together an offer, you've been telling people about it, but you don't quite manage to sell as many as you thought you were going to sell, this will help you work out which piece of the puzzle you're missing.&nbsp;</p><p>But there's a bit of a twist at the end...&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(1:03) What's the deal with Kennedy and tomatoes?</p><p>(3:12) Where does email fit it in your online business and why are things not working?</p><p>(5:21) Why you need a platform to grow your business. </p><p>(8:21) How do you even pick your platform?</p><p>(8:50) Why you need to start email marketing. Yesterday. </p><p>(12:30) Why a conversion mechanism is the third piece of the puzzle. </p><p>(14:17) Have you thought about how you're going to deliver 'the thing'?</p><p>(16:45) The last piece of the puzzle - the resell phase.</p><p>(17:44) Why launch a referral affiliate scheme. (20:49) Subject line of the week. </p><h3><strong>1. Choose a platform to grow your small business online</strong></h3><p>The first thing you're going to need to grow your online business is a <em>platform</em>. This is the place where you find people who could potentially buy from you, engage in your services, or hire you.&nbsp;</p><p>Your platform is where people are gathering - where they find out about you. It could be your podcast, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, your Facebook group, an event, you being a guest speaker somewhere - you name it.&nbsp;</p><p>But <strong>if you haven't got a platform yet</strong> (and you're not leveraging someone else's), then <strong>you don't have an audience who will buy your products or services</strong>.&nbsp;</p><p>Take us, for example. We started things off with the podcast and then created a <a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook group</a> that we linked back to the podcast. Now we're also on <a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and various other channels. But like everyone, we had to start somewhere.</p><p>So where should <em>you</em> be?&nbsp;</p><p>Whichever platform you pick for your business is up to you. None of them are better than any others. Just <strong>pick the platform that you work best with, get good at it, do it consistently, and build your audience there</strong>. Nothing works or doesn't work in and of itself - it's about what people do to make stuff work for them.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>2. Start doing email marketing</strong></h3><p>Email marketing is the next piece of the puzzle. Once you've grabbed your audience's attention, you want them to give your their email address and give you permission to get in touch more often.&nbsp;</p><p>It's through email that you build a deeper connection with people. Plus, <strong>email is the highest return on investment marketing activity you can do as a business</strong>. You can sell more stuff with email than anything else you do. And there's no equivalent - unless you count the very expensive messenger bots or SMS marketing.&nbsp;Email marketing is simply more efficient, more effective, deeper, and more personal than any of the other business growth strategies you could ever think of employing. Fact.&nbsp;</p><p>And let's not forget that email works in a two-way direction. Because you can move people from your original platform onto your email list, but you can also use your email list to send people to more platforms. We do that. People go from our podcast to our email list, and from there we send them to our Facebook group, for example.&nbsp;</p><p>Another benefit of building an email list is that, unlike with other platforms, <strong>you own the data</strong>. If you want to switch email providers, you can just download your list and upload it elsewhere. You can also do clever stuff like segmentation, which pretty handy when you want to sell more of your stuff.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>3. Build a conversion mechanism to grow your business online presence</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>The third piece of the puzzle is your <em>conversion mechanism</em>. How do you actually make the sale? Do you get people on the phone or a Zoom call? Do you convert them from a webinar? Or maybe you send out a proposal? There are lots of different ways to convert. Often, we send people to a sales page with a cool video on it.&nbsp;</p><p>But you've got to build this three-dimensional relationship with your audience where your email subscribers see you popping up on your Facebook, get to visit your sales page, or join a webinar you're hosting - whatever it might be, it's about having a strong conversion mechanism in place.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>4. Deliver your product or service and do it well</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>So now you've sold 'the thing', you've got to deliver it, right? And no matter what you sell, you're probably going to deliver your product or service by email. You're going to email someone their login, or the details to book a call with you or send the email that says you've received their order, and their lovely product is now on its way.&nbsp;</p><p>People want and need delivery to be done right. To be done well. Because <em>we</em> know it, and <em>you</em> know it - there's nothing more frustrating than submitting an order for anything and never getting a confirmation, or even worse, getting an error page and wondering whether you've just thrown your money down the drain. That's not cool. So think about how you deliver your thing.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>5. Focus on the re-sell to increase your online sales</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>And finally, the last piece of the puzzle is the <em>re-sell phase</em>. We all have to look at how we make more offers, supply more value, and ultimately make more sales from every single customer. If you sell a membership, how do you make your members stick around for years? If you sell an online course or one-off product, can you upsell or cross-sell something else?&nbsp;</p><p>Another way to do this is by offering referrals. That's right - you can tell your customers how great they are and how you'd love to work with someone just like them. It's as easy as, "Hey, do you know somebody else who could do with my help?" You can even turn your customers into referral affiliate partners and pay them to send you more clients just like them.&nbsp;</p><p>And guess what? You can do this by email too. In fact, you <em>should</em>! You can use email to grow your audience on more platforms, push them to your conversion mechanism, deliver your product or service, and even encourage them to buy more from you.&nbsp;</p><p>We may have just given you 5 different elements, but they all have email marketing in common. <strong>Email marketing is the one thing that will help you grow your business</strong>!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week&nbsp;</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>"Kennedy's to-do list.&nbsp;🖊️"</p><p>That's it.&nbsp;</p><p>It's *First Name*, followed by "to-do list", followed by the pen emoji. And we used it for an email that had a list of things you should do to make your email marketing better. It got a massively high open rate and worked really well.&nbsp;</p><h3><br></h3><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><br></h5><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/the-one-page-funnel-simplify-to-monetise-with-michael-greenberg/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The One Page Digital Marketing Funnel – Simplify To Monetise with Michael Greenberg</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-for-small-businesses-with-steffen-schebesta-from-send-in-blue/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing for Small Businesses with Steffen Schebesta from SendInBlue</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/use-live-streaming-to-build-your-email-list-with-streamyards-head-of-marketing-daniel-glickman/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Use Live Streaming to Build Your Email List with StreamYard’s Head of Marketing, Daniel Glickman</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>Want to write better emails? Come up with better content? Influence and move your readers to click and buy? Well, you can do that with this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How on Earth do you grow an online business? And where does email marketing fit in?</p><p>This week on the show we talk about the 5 different things you need to do to grow your business. </p><p>So if you've got this awesome product or service, you put together an offer, you've been telling people about it, but you don't quite manage to sell as many as you thought you were going to sell, this will help you work out which piece of the puzzle you're missing.&nbsp;</p><p>But there's a bit of a twist at the end...&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(1:03) What's the deal with Kennedy and tomatoes?</p><p>(3:12) Where does email fit it in your online business and why are things not working?</p><p>(5:21) Why you need a platform to grow your business. </p><p>(8:21) How do you even pick your platform?</p><p>(8:50) Why you need to start email marketing. Yesterday. </p><p>(12:30) Why a conversion mechanism is the third piece of the puzzle. </p><p>(14:17) Have you thought about how you're going to deliver 'the thing'?</p><p>(16:45) The last piece of the puzzle - the resell phase.</p><p>(17:44) Why launch a referral affiliate scheme. (20:49) Subject line of the week. </p><h3><strong>1. Choose a platform to grow your small business online</strong></h3><p>The first thing you're going to need to grow your online business is a <em>platform</em>. This is the place where you find people who could potentially buy from you, engage in your services, or hire you.&nbsp;</p><p>Your platform is where people are gathering - where they find out about you. It could be your podcast, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, your Facebook group, an event, you being a guest speaker somewhere - you name it.&nbsp;</p><p>But <strong>if you haven't got a platform yet</strong> (and you're not leveraging someone else's), then <strong>you don't have an audience who will buy your products or services</strong>.&nbsp;</p><p>Take us, for example. We started things off with the podcast and then created a <a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook group</a> that we linked back to the podcast. Now we're also on <a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and various other channels. But like everyone, we had to start somewhere.</p><p>So where should <em>you</em> be?&nbsp;</p><p>Whichever platform you pick for your business is up to you. None of them are better than any others. Just <strong>pick the platform that you work best with, get good at it, do it consistently, and build your audience there</strong>. Nothing works or doesn't work in and of itself - it's about what people do to make stuff work for them.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>2. Start doing email marketing</strong></h3><p>Email marketing is the next piece of the puzzle. Once you've grabbed your audience's attention, you want them to give your their email address and give you permission to get in touch more often.&nbsp;</p><p>It's through email that you build a deeper connection with people. Plus, <strong>email is the highest return on investment marketing activity you can do as a business</strong>. You can sell more stuff with email than anything else you do. And there's no equivalent - unless you count the very expensive messenger bots or SMS marketing.&nbsp;Email marketing is simply more efficient, more effective, deeper, and more personal than any of the other business growth strategies you could ever think of employing. Fact.&nbsp;</p><p>And let's not forget that email works in a two-way direction. Because you can move people from your original platform onto your email list, but you can also use your email list to send people to more platforms. We do that. People go from our podcast to our email list, and from there we send them to our Facebook group, for example.&nbsp;</p><p>Another benefit of building an email list is that, unlike with other platforms, <strong>you own the data</strong>. If you want to switch email providers, you can just download your list and upload it elsewhere. You can also do clever stuff like segmentation, which pretty handy when you want to sell more of your stuff.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>3. Build a conversion mechanism to grow your business online presence</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>The third piece of the puzzle is your <em>conversion mechanism</em>. How do you actually make the sale? Do you get people on the phone or a Zoom call? Do you convert them from a webinar? Or maybe you send out a proposal? There are lots of different ways to convert. Often, we send people to a sales page with a cool video on it.&nbsp;</p><p>But you've got to build this three-dimensional relationship with your audience where your email subscribers see you popping up on your Facebook, get to visit your sales page, or join a webinar you're hosting - whatever it might be, it's about having a strong conversion mechanism in place.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>4. Deliver your product or service and do it well</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>So now you've sold 'the thing', you've got to deliver it, right? And no matter what you sell, you're probably going to deliver your product or service by email. You're going to email someone their login, or the details to book a call with you or send the email that says you've received their order, and their lovely product is now on its way.&nbsp;</p><p>People want and need delivery to be done right. To be done well. Because <em>we</em> know it, and <em>you</em> know it - there's nothing more frustrating than submitting an order for anything and never getting a confirmation, or even worse, getting an error page and wondering whether you've just thrown your money down the drain. That's not cool. So think about how you deliver your thing.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>5. Focus on the re-sell to increase your online sales</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>And finally, the last piece of the puzzle is the <em>re-sell phase</em>. We all have to look at how we make more offers, supply more value, and ultimately make more sales from every single customer. If you sell a membership, how do you make your members stick around for years? If you sell an online course or one-off product, can you upsell or cross-sell something else?&nbsp;</p><p>Another way to do this is by offering referrals. That's right - you can tell your customers how great they are and how you'd love to work with someone just like them. It's as easy as, "Hey, do you know somebody else who could do with my help?" You can even turn your customers into referral affiliate partners and pay them to send you more clients just like them.&nbsp;</p><p>And guess what? You can do this by email too. In fact, you <em>should</em>! You can use email to grow your audience on more platforms, push them to your conversion mechanism, deliver your product or service, and even encourage them to buy more from you.&nbsp;</p><p>We may have just given you 5 different elements, but they all have email marketing in common. <strong>Email marketing is the one thing that will help you grow your business</strong>!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week&nbsp;</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>"Kennedy's to-do list.&nbsp;🖊️"</p><p>That's it.&nbsp;</p><p>It's *First Name*, followed by "to-do list", followed by the pen emoji. And we used it for an email that had a list of things you should do to make your email marketing better. It got a massively high open rate and worked really well.&nbsp;</p><h3><br></h3><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><br></h5><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/the-one-page-funnel-simplify-to-monetise-with-michael-greenberg/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The One Page Digital Marketing Funnel – Simplify To Monetise with Michael Greenberg</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-for-small-businesses-with-steffen-schebesta-from-send-in-blue/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing for Small Businesses with Steffen Schebesta from SendInBlue</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/use-live-streaming-to-build-your-email-list-with-streamyards-head-of-marketing-daniel-glickman/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Use Live Streaming to Build Your Email List with StreamYard’s Head of Marketing, Daniel Glickman</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>FREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketing</strong></h5><p>Want to write better emails? Come up with better content? Influence and move your readers to click and buy? Well, you can do that with this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). <a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/free-resources/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=verbal-mention&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grab your FREE list here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes, where we get to share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing by applying everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode about how to grow your online business and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes and get discovered by more awesome people like you.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/5-elements-to-grow-an-online-business/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">2b36c183-f770-4835-8ac2-b51956fa161c</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/20f80a4d-e918-48f6-ba40-2efc7180a1bd/7N8F_-pMtEDyiiQGT4vEbnZZ.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/7c743d50-d1cc-4bb5-a321-ae3174b805a1/5-elements-to-grow-an-online-business.mp3" length="43994302" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>22:55</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>81</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>81</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Dress up your discount like this to make more sales with John Hutchison</title><itunes:title>Dress up your discount like this to make more sales with John Hutchison</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Have you ever fallen into the trap of offering your products or services at a discounted price? Hands up - we've done. Guilty. As. Charged. But that stops now. Because the awesome John Hutchison taught us a jaw-dropping way to frame discounts in a <em>completely</em> different way.&nbsp;</p><p>That's right. Bet you wouldn't even know it's a discount if it smacked you in the face.&nbsp;</p><p>It's simple.&nbsp;</p><p>It's mind-boggling.&nbsp;</p><p>And it works.&nbsp;</p><p>Care to find out what the magic trick is?&nbsp;</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(2:44) Two lies and a truth. Does John's wife Gail really drink blue cocktails and touch her nose with her tongue?</p><p> (4:37) The mind-boggling way John uses to frame his discounts.</p><p> (7:28) The reason why people spend more this way.</p><p> (11:26) How to ask your subscribers for their physical address.</p><p> (13:30) How to create gorgeous digital gift cards that will wow your subscribers.</p><p> (15:54) How to kick off your 3-7 day email campaign.</p><p> (18:15) How to encourage your subscribers to buy.</p><p> (19:03) How to give your subscribers social proof.</p><p> (22:15) The two emails you need to send your subscribers on the last day. (23:30) Subject line of the week - John style!</p><h3><strong>Ditch the discounts and give your subscribers a gift card instead</strong></h3><p>John Hutchison's trialed and tested method is simple. Just don't give your subscribers a discount. Nope. Not at all.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Give them a gift card instead.</strong></p><p>Now, this can be either a physical card, which you can get designed and printed and can send over to your subscribers' physical address. Much like a store card, it's something tangible they can use and keep. It makes you feel connected to the brand, and that's quite powerful. Awesome.&nbsp;</p><p>Your other option is to create a digital gift card. If you go down this route, make sure your gift card looks sexy and gorgeous! Add your branding to it, put the value on it, and personalise it with the recipient's name. Have a nice image made (you can use a tool called <a href="https://niftyimages.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nifty Images</a>) and send it to your subscribers with a dynamic voucher code and a great subject line. Something like, "Hey, we've got a $20 store card. Open up!"</p><h3><strong>Who should you offer your gift card to?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Well, your subscribers, obvs. But is it all of them? Some of them? People who bought from you before? People who haven't made their first purchase yet? Which one is it?&nbsp;</p><p>John Hutchison advises to <strong>segment your subscribers based on value and identify your most recent high-value purchasers</strong>.</p><p>Why? Because these are the people on your list who love to spend. And the more people spend, the more giving them money on a gift card will encourage them to spend.&nbsp;</p><p>Magic, right?&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>The psychology behind offering a gift card</strong></h3><p>So what the trick to get your subscribers to spend money with you? <strong>Put money in their hands</strong>.</p><p>And the reason why is simple. Because if they don't spend it, they'll lose it. And who in their right mind wants to flush free money down the toilet?!</p><p>The other reason why this works so well is that <strong>it makes people go and take a look at your website</strong>. When you offer a discount, if they didn't intend on buying anything, they still won't! They won't even go to your website.</p><p>But now that they have free money to spend... well that's a different ball game, isn't it? Now their buyer intent is different - they're heading to your website to see what their money can get them!&nbsp;</p><p>The loss factor of missing out on a discount versus giving up the chance to spend free money is completely different!</p><h3><strong>The practicalities of sending out physical gift cards</strong></h3><p> [thrive_leads id='8854'] So let's say you've decided to send out physical gift cards. What happens when you don't hold the postal addresses of your subscribers? Most online or service-based businesses don't. John explains you can run a 'requester letter campaign'.&nbsp;</p><p>You basically tell your subscribers you have this cool thing you want to send them via snail mail and ask them to give you their physical address. And do you know what's super awesome about that? That those people are coming in with an even<strong> higher intent</strong> because they've literally raised their hand and <em>asked</em> for whatever you're sending them!&nbsp;</p><h3>How to build an email campaign sequence around your gift cards</h3><p>So once you've worked out who you're going to send your gift cards to, it's time to build an email campaign around it. John recommends a <strong>3-7 day campaign to create urgency and scarcity</strong>.</p><p>The first thing you need to do is to tell your subscribers why they're getting this reward. Is it because they bought something over the last 7 days? Because they spend a certain amount of money with you over time? Because they made their first purchase with your company? Whatever it is, tell me what they did to earn this reward. In your first email, send them the gift card (if it's digital) and tell them how to redeem it.&nbsp;</p><p>The next piece of the sequence is to let them know <strong>what they can buy with their gift card</strong>. If you use segmentation software and know what your customers have been buying or whether they've been looking at a particular product, you can target the email specifically to them.&nbsp;</p><p>And once you've done that, you move on to giving them <strong>social proof</strong>. This is where you show them what people just like them bought with their gift cards. Tell them a story! Show them how someone else turned their money into a product or an experience and make sure they can see the benefit they'll get if they use their card.&nbsp;</p><p>Make sure you build on that scarcity too! Let them know that they'll lose out if they don't use their money by a certain date and time and that they should take advantage before the offer slips away.&nbsp;</p><p>And last but not least, on the last day of the offer, send two more emails a few hours apart. Let them know how many hours they've got left to spend their money before their chances go up in smoke.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week with John Hutchison</strong></h3><p>Can you believe this subject line is getting John an incredible 84% open rate and an 11% reply rate?</p><p>And the line is (<em>drumroll please!</em>)... "Coming in ice-cold and hoping to help." So why does this work? Quite simply, because it's honest.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About John&nbsp;</strong></h5><p>Want to connect with the amazing John Hutchison? You can find him over at <a href="https://whyemailworks.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">whyemailworks.com</a>.</p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-sell-without-price-cutting-or-pushing-with-mike-montague-from-sandler-training/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Sell Without Price Cutting or Pushing with Mike Montague from Sandler Training</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-nail-your-affiliate-email-promotions-getting-hyped-with-ryan-phillips/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Nail Your Affiliate Email Promotions – Getting Hyped With Ryan Phillips</a></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes, where we get to share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing by applying everything we talk about in this show.</p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode with John Hutchison and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes and get discovered by more awesome people like you.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you ever fallen into the trap of offering your products or services at a discounted price? Hands up - we've done. Guilty. As. Charged. But that stops now. Because the awesome John Hutchison taught us a jaw-dropping way to frame discounts in a <em>completely</em> different way.&nbsp;</p><p>That's right. Bet you wouldn't even know it's a discount if it smacked you in the face.&nbsp;</p><p>It's simple.&nbsp;</p><p>It's mind-boggling.&nbsp;</p><p>And it works.&nbsp;</p><p>Care to find out what the magic trick is?&nbsp;</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(2:44) Two lies and a truth. Does John's wife Gail really drink blue cocktails and touch her nose with her tongue?</p><p> (4:37) The mind-boggling way John uses to frame his discounts.</p><p> (7:28) The reason why people spend more this way.</p><p> (11:26) How to ask your subscribers for their physical address.</p><p> (13:30) How to create gorgeous digital gift cards that will wow your subscribers.</p><p> (15:54) How to kick off your 3-7 day email campaign.</p><p> (18:15) How to encourage your subscribers to buy.</p><p> (19:03) How to give your subscribers social proof.</p><p> (22:15) The two emails you need to send your subscribers on the last day. (23:30) Subject line of the week - John style!</p><h3><strong>Ditch the discounts and give your subscribers a gift card instead</strong></h3><p>John Hutchison's trialed and tested method is simple. Just don't give your subscribers a discount. Nope. Not at all.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Give them a gift card instead.</strong></p><p>Now, this can be either a physical card, which you can get designed and printed and can send over to your subscribers' physical address. Much like a store card, it's something tangible they can use and keep. It makes you feel connected to the brand, and that's quite powerful. Awesome.&nbsp;</p><p>Your other option is to create a digital gift card. If you go down this route, make sure your gift card looks sexy and gorgeous! Add your branding to it, put the value on it, and personalise it with the recipient's name. Have a nice image made (you can use a tool called <a href="https://niftyimages.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nifty Images</a>) and send it to your subscribers with a dynamic voucher code and a great subject line. Something like, "Hey, we've got a $20 store card. Open up!"</p><h3><strong>Who should you offer your gift card to?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p>Well, your subscribers, obvs. But is it all of them? Some of them? People who bought from you before? People who haven't made their first purchase yet? Which one is it?&nbsp;</p><p>John Hutchison advises to <strong>segment your subscribers based on value and identify your most recent high-value purchasers</strong>.</p><p>Why? Because these are the people on your list who love to spend. And the more people spend, the more giving them money on a gift card will encourage them to spend.&nbsp;</p><p>Magic, right?&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>The psychology behind offering a gift card</strong></h3><p>So what the trick to get your subscribers to spend money with you? <strong>Put money in their hands</strong>.</p><p>And the reason why is simple. Because if they don't spend it, they'll lose it. And who in their right mind wants to flush free money down the toilet?!</p><p>The other reason why this works so well is that <strong>it makes people go and take a look at your website</strong>. When you offer a discount, if they didn't intend on buying anything, they still won't! They won't even go to your website.</p><p>But now that they have free money to spend... well that's a different ball game, isn't it? Now their buyer intent is different - they're heading to your website to see what their money can get them!&nbsp;</p><p>The loss factor of missing out on a discount versus giving up the chance to spend free money is completely different!</p><h3><strong>The practicalities of sending out physical gift cards</strong></h3><p> [thrive_leads id='8854'] So let's say you've decided to send out physical gift cards. What happens when you don't hold the postal addresses of your subscribers? Most online or service-based businesses don't. John explains you can run a 'requester letter campaign'.&nbsp;</p><p>You basically tell your subscribers you have this cool thing you want to send them via snail mail and ask them to give you their physical address. And do you know what's super awesome about that? That those people are coming in with an even<strong> higher intent</strong> because they've literally raised their hand and <em>asked</em> for whatever you're sending them!&nbsp;</p><h3>How to build an email campaign sequence around your gift cards</h3><p>So once you've worked out who you're going to send your gift cards to, it's time to build an email campaign around it. John recommends a <strong>3-7 day campaign to create urgency and scarcity</strong>.</p><p>The first thing you need to do is to tell your subscribers why they're getting this reward. Is it because they bought something over the last 7 days? Because they spend a certain amount of money with you over time? Because they made their first purchase with your company? Whatever it is, tell me what they did to earn this reward. In your first email, send them the gift card (if it's digital) and tell them how to redeem it.&nbsp;</p><p>The next piece of the sequence is to let them know <strong>what they can buy with their gift card</strong>. If you use segmentation software and know what your customers have been buying or whether they've been looking at a particular product, you can target the email specifically to them.&nbsp;</p><p>And once you've done that, you move on to giving them <strong>social proof</strong>. This is where you show them what people just like them bought with their gift cards. Tell them a story! Show them how someone else turned their money into a product or an experience and make sure they can see the benefit they'll get if they use their card.&nbsp;</p><p>Make sure you build on that scarcity too! Let them know that they'll lose out if they don't use their money by a certain date and time and that they should take advantage before the offer slips away.&nbsp;</p><p>And last but not least, on the last day of the offer, send two more emails a few hours apart. Let them know how many hours they've got left to spend their money before their chances go up in smoke.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week with John Hutchison</strong></h3><p>Can you believe this subject line is getting John an incredible 84% open rate and an 11% reply rate?</p><p>And the line is (<em>drumroll please!</em>)... "Coming in ice-cold and hoping to help." So why does this work? Quite simply, because it's honest.&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><h5><strong>About John&nbsp;</strong></h5><p>Want to connect with the amazing John Hutchison? You can find him over at <a href="https://whyemailworks.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">whyemailworks.com</a>.</p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-sell-without-price-cutting-or-pushing-with-mike-montague-from-sandler-training/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Sell Without Price Cutting or Pushing with Mike Montague from Sandler Training</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-nail-your-affiliate-email-promotions-getting-hyped-with-ryan-phillips/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Nail Your Affiliate Email Promotions – Getting Hyped With Ryan Phillips</a></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p>We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes, where we get to share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to learn how to <strong>use psychology-driven marketing to level up your email campaigns</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing by applying everything we talk about in this show.</p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode with John Hutchison and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes and get discovered by more awesome people like you.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/dress-up-your-discount-make-more-sales-john-hutchison/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">5f2d6555-75b2-4988-a1f6-4f2791467b9d</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/0db9010f-29b4-44ce-92a0-b118bcdee062/QY9llp18jzG86nL-iUDXtrxf.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/83631d76-eaef-4811-be6a-1d94d79e73c2/john-hutchison-final.mp3" length="48226557" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>25:07</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>80</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>80</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How to use email subject lines to do more than get your emails opened</title><itunes:title>How to use email subject lines to do more than get your emails opened</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Email subject lines.</p><p>What do they <em>really</em> do?</p><p>Well, unfortunately, they don't make you a nice cuppa or a slice of toast in the morning. But they can do a lot more than just get your emails open. In fact, in this episode, we show you how we've gone out of our way to prove to you that the job of email subject lines is <em>not</em> to get your emails opened.</p><p>Ready to have your mind blown by our little experiment?</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(3:37) The job of email subject lines is not to get the email opened!</p><p>(4:32) The email subject line is the first bit of sales propaganda.</p><p>(6:56) How your email subject lines set up the sale.</p><p>(7:58) Can email subject lines really impact sales? Our split test experiment.</p><p>(9:43) Email subject lines don't just get emails opened - they help you get clicks.</p><p>(11:31) Email subject lines can help influence someone's mindset so they become customers.</p><p>(12:32) Come and share your best email subject lines in our FREE Facebook group.</p><p>(13:10)&nbsp;Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>What is the job of email subject lines?</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>Why do people obsess over subject lines?</p><p>Because it's the thing that's going to get our email opened, right? Well, that's what we've been told since the days of Email Marketing 101 - that you have to write something that's going to get your email opened, and that's its only job.</p><p><em>Bullshit</em>.</p><p>Email subject lines do a lot of other things too.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Email subject lines are first impressions</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>Your email subject line is the first impression someone's going to get about your email.</p><p>You know when you get some post through the letterbox, and you look at the thing, and you think it's going to be a bill? Chances are, you'll open that last. Because you don't want to deal with it right now. Of course, if you do open the thing, and it's not a bill, you're going to be pleasantly surprised.</p><p>But the opposite is also true (and really not cool). If something <em>doesn't</em> look like a bill and then turns out to be one, you're not going to like it. Not one bit. So remember this. Because <strong>your email subject line helps with first impressions, and it needs to set up your email correctly</strong>.</p><p>If the email is disconnected from the subject line, that's going to damage your chances at making sales in that email (<em>= bad</em>), but it's also going to harm your entire reputation for every email going forward (<em>= even worse!</em>).</p><p>So we're not going to do that, are we?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Your email subject lines should set up your sale</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>If you want someone to buy from you in an email (which you do) the subject line has to start that process. It has to <strong>make sure that your subscribers come into that email in the right mindset</strong>. Call it the first bit of sales propaganda.</p><p>You don't want people to just click on the link to open your attachment or visit your website or your Facebook page. You want them to hit the order button, find their credit or debit card, put in their details, and ultimately become a customer.</p><p>Selling is the ultimate objective, and you want your email subject lines to help you make those sales.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Email subject lines don't affect open rates - they make sales</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>Do you believe email subject lines impact sales?</p><p>We do.</p><p>But we don't want you to just take our word for it. So we've gone and tested this theory for you, and here's what we found. (<em>Drumroll, please!</em>).</p><p>We did a split test of our emails, and for a whole month, we sent out the same exact email but with two different subject lines. We then tracked them to see which subject line was generating the most sales.</p><p>Sometimes we used completely different email subject lines; other times, we just swapped a word out for an emoji. We made sure that the two emails (let's call them Email A and Email B) sent people to different sales pages so we could see which email the sale came from.</p><p>In a couple of cases, we found that both our Email A and our Email B got the same open rate - the same number of people opened that email. But actually, when we dug a little deeper, we noticed that one had a <em>significantly higher click-through rate</em>, even though the email itself looked exactly the same.</p><p>So this started to confirm our hypothesis that <strong>your email subject lines don't just do the job of getting the email opened, but they do the job of getting it clicked</strong>.</p><p>What we also started to see is that a higher number of people would click on the link in the email that had a lower open rate. Madness! But if you believe that email subject lines can do a lot more than help your subscribers open your emails, that makes sense. Because <strong>subject lines can frame people in such a way that they are more likely to actually become your customers</strong>. Pretty awesome, right?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p><br></p><p><em>screenshot.</em></p><p>That is it.</p><p>One word - all in lowercase with a full stop at the end.</p><p>Why does it work? Because it's so much closer to a lot of the email subject lines that people send in real life.</p><p>Think about it. When you're sending a quick email to a friend, you'll just use one or two words. Short, snappy, and to the point. You've got to put something in the subject line, so you just use the least amount of words to let them know what's in the email.&nbsp;It's as simple as that!</p><p>But do you know why it also works? Because you imply there's something in that email. In this case, a screenshot! (Elementary, Watson!) People are curious. They want to know what kind of screenshot is included - a screenshot of <em>what</em>? The minute you imply there's something inside the email, people will want to know what that thing is and click through.</p><p>And remember what we said about first impressions - if you promise a screenshot, make sure you deliver one!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-write-email-subject-lines-for-sales-emails-that-actually-work/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Write Email Subject Lines For Sales Emails (That Actually Work)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/writing-subject-lines-without-using-formulas/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Writing Subject Lines Without Using Formulas</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-content-ideas/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">What should I talk about in my emails? Email marketing content ideas you’ll use</a></p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p><br></p><p>We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p><br></p><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p><br></p><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes, where (aside from planting images of us in spandex in your mind), we help you become the email marketing hero of <em>your</em> business. We also get to share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to <strong>level up your email marketing</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing by applying everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed it, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes and get discovered by more awesome people like you. So if you enjoyed this episode - and we know you have - make sure you smash that subscribe button!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Email subject lines.</p><p>What do they <em>really</em> do?</p><p>Well, unfortunately, they don't make you a nice cuppa or a slice of toast in the morning. But they can do a lot more than just get your emails open. In fact, in this episode, we show you how we've gone out of our way to prove to you that the job of email subject lines is <em>not</em> to get your emails opened.</p><p>Ready to have your mind blown by our little experiment?</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(3:37) The job of email subject lines is not to get the email opened!</p><p>(4:32) The email subject line is the first bit of sales propaganda.</p><p>(6:56) How your email subject lines set up the sale.</p><p>(7:58) Can email subject lines really impact sales? Our split test experiment.</p><p>(9:43) Email subject lines don't just get emails opened - they help you get clicks.</p><p>(11:31) Email subject lines can help influence someone's mindset so they become customers.</p><p>(12:32) Come and share your best email subject lines in our FREE Facebook group.</p><p>(13:10)&nbsp;Subject line of the week.</p><h3><strong>What is the job of email subject lines?</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>Why do people obsess over subject lines?</p><p>Because it's the thing that's going to get our email opened, right? Well, that's what we've been told since the days of Email Marketing 101 - that you have to write something that's going to get your email opened, and that's its only job.</p><p><em>Bullshit</em>.</p><p>Email subject lines do a lot of other things too.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Email subject lines are first impressions</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>Your email subject line is the first impression someone's going to get about your email.</p><p>You know when you get some post through the letterbox, and you look at the thing, and you think it's going to be a bill? Chances are, you'll open that last. Because you don't want to deal with it right now. Of course, if you do open the thing, and it's not a bill, you're going to be pleasantly surprised.</p><p>But the opposite is also true (and really not cool). If something <em>doesn't</em> look like a bill and then turns out to be one, you're not going to like it. Not one bit. So remember this. Because <strong>your email subject line helps with first impressions, and it needs to set up your email correctly</strong>.</p><p>If the email is disconnected from the subject line, that's going to damage your chances at making sales in that email (<em>= bad</em>), but it's also going to harm your entire reputation for every email going forward (<em>= even worse!</em>).</p><p>So we're not going to do that, are we?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Your email subject lines should set up your sale</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>If you want someone to buy from you in an email (which you do) the subject line has to start that process. It has to <strong>make sure that your subscribers come into that email in the right mindset</strong>. Call it the first bit of sales propaganda.</p><p>You don't want people to just click on the link to open your attachment or visit your website or your Facebook page. You want them to hit the order button, find their credit or debit card, put in their details, and ultimately become a customer.</p><p>Selling is the ultimate objective, and you want your email subject lines to help you make those sales.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Email subject lines don't affect open rates - they make sales</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>Do you believe email subject lines impact sales?</p><p>We do.</p><p>But we don't want you to just take our word for it. So we've gone and tested this theory for you, and here's what we found. (<em>Drumroll, please!</em>).</p><p>We did a split test of our emails, and for a whole month, we sent out the same exact email but with two different subject lines. We then tracked them to see which subject line was generating the most sales.</p><p>Sometimes we used completely different email subject lines; other times, we just swapped a word out for an emoji. We made sure that the two emails (let's call them Email A and Email B) sent people to different sales pages so we could see which email the sale came from.</p><p>In a couple of cases, we found that both our Email A and our Email B got the same open rate - the same number of people opened that email. But actually, when we dug a little deeper, we noticed that one had a <em>significantly higher click-through rate</em>, even though the email itself looked exactly the same.</p><p>So this started to confirm our hypothesis that <strong>your email subject lines don't just do the job of getting the email opened, but they do the job of getting it clicked</strong>.</p><p>What we also started to see is that a higher number of people would click on the link in the email that had a lower open rate. Madness! But if you believe that email subject lines can do a lot more than help your subscribers open your emails, that makes sense. Because <strong>subject lines can frame people in such a way that they are more likely to actually become your customers</strong>. Pretty awesome, right?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p><br></p><p><em>screenshot.</em></p><p>That is it.</p><p>One word - all in lowercase with a full stop at the end.</p><p>Why does it work? Because it's so much closer to a lot of the email subject lines that people send in real life.</p><p>Think about it. When you're sending a quick email to a friend, you'll just use one or two words. Short, snappy, and to the point. You've got to put something in the subject line, so you just use the least amount of words to let them know what's in the email.&nbsp;It's as simple as that!</p><p>But do you know why it also works? Because you imply there's something in that email. In this case, a screenshot! (Elementary, Watson!) People are curious. They want to know what kind of screenshot is included - a screenshot of <em>what</em>? The minute you imply there's something inside the email, people will want to know what that thing is and click through.</p><p>And remember what we said about first impressions - if you promise a screenshot, make sure you deliver one!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-write-email-subject-lines-for-sales-emails-that-actually-work/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Write Email Subject Lines For Sales Emails (That Actually Work)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/writing-subject-lines-without-using-formulas/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Writing Subject Lines Without Using Formulas</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-content-ideas/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">What should I talk about in my emails? Email marketing content ideas you’ll use</a></p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p><br></p><p>We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p><br></p><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p><br></p><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes, where (aside from planting images of us in spandex in your mind), we help you become the email marketing hero of <em>your</em> business. We also get to share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to <strong>level up your email marketing</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing by applying everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed it, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes and get discovered by more awesome people like you. So if you enjoyed this episode - and we know you have - make sure you smash that subscribe button!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-subject-lines-to-make-sales/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">ed3ac6ec-da6f-459d-8219-236ae4c5fa98</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/5577a739-2172-429a-89b8-f0f9a636602a/kE_0hzAaAJUTAluHk2gz0HnN.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/52de4efc-582e-4ed2-a81e-b41c8dcdb1e2/subject-lines.mp3" length="31059301" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:10</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>79</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>79</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How to grow your email list using Facebook Pages (without ads) - Rachel Miller Moolah Style!</title><itunes:title>How to grow your email list using Facebook Pages (without ads) - Rachel Miller Moolah Style!</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Are Facebook pages dead? Is trying to grow your email list using Facebook the ultimate waste of your time? </p><p>We asked Rachel Miller, a social media, organic growth strategist who has spoken at some of the industry's largest events and is famous for her awesome Moolah programme. With over 90 million views to her website, she's also a best-selling author who's helped over 50,000 small businesses grow their Facebook pages.</p><p>Bet you can't wait to hear what Rachel has to say about using Facebook to grow your email list, huh?</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(3:05) Two lies and a truth. Did Rachel really record two albums?</p><p>(4:13) Are Facebook pages still a thing?</p><p>(5:12) Why driving traffic organically to your list from your Facebook page is as easy as pie.</p><p>(6:27) If your Facebook page isn't growing, it's really not Facebook's fault...</p><p>(8:52) How to build an email list from your Facebook page.</p><p>(12:18) How to keep people on Facebook and build trust first.</p><p>(14:46) The 4 types of posts you should regularly share on your Facebook page to grow your audience.</p><p>(16:15) Where on Facebook should you include a link to your email list?</p><p>(17:18) How often should you post on your Facebook page?</p><p>(18:54) Subject line of the week (and an epic template) - Rachel style!</p><h3><strong>Is it still possible to build an email list on Facebook?</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>According to Rachel (and she's the expert here!) Facebook pages aren't dead. Far from it. We tried telling her that, and we cracked her up, so there!</p><p>We learnt from Rachel that Facebook pages are very much still a thing. People are still using Facebook, and the platform is most definitely driving traffic through pages. And in fact, with changes coming to iOS and Google Privacy, <strong>organic Facebook pages are going to be even more important than before</strong>. And that's because getting leads from ads is going to cost more while re-targeting capabilities are going to be reduced.</p><p>If you've optimised your Facebook page correctly, you can still drive organic traffic to your email list. That's <em>awesome</em> news, right?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>But my Facebook page is not converting!</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>If you've tried to grow your email list using Facebook and got crickets, you're not alone.</p><p>But that's the problem.</p><p>According to our friend Rachel, <strong>if your Facebook page isn't converting, it's not the algorithm's fault</strong>. It's probably because you're not looking at solutions to fix it. Rachel regularly helps her clients create vibrant Facebook pages that grow, so if they can do it, can't we all?</p><p>Turns out we can! All it takes is to switch our mindset around and find a solution to make our content work.</p><p>So what are the easy peasy steps that Rachel suggests we take?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to collect email addresses from a Facebook page</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>Rachel shared that one of the main traps people seem to fall into is to be too keen and ask for that email address too soon. We've all been there, haven't we?</p><p><strong>People want to join our email lists when they're ready to find out more about who we are.</strong> But why would they want to know who we are if they don't know us from Adam in the first place?</p><p>The secret, according to Rachel, is to hold off that pitch. Make the time to build a relationship with your audience, help them relate to you, chat back and forth. It's about making them feel connected to you, part of the community, and building trust with them. Makes sense, right?</p><p>So by the time they decide to join your list, it's because they want to hear from you - because they feel like they know you. Not because you've bribed them with a freebie that promises to solve all their problems before even giving them the time of day.</p><p>Want to know how Rachel does it?</p><p>She connects with people personally on her Facebook page, then invites them to join her Facebook group, and at that point, she asks them if they want her to follow up on email. And 75%-50% of her Facebook group members give her their email addresses. Just. Like. That! Crazy, right?</p><p>What's even better is that she has an engaged list with high open rates and great interaction because she delivers the freebies and all that amazing value to her email list. They sign up for a follow-up from Rachel, and they stay for the value. Pretty sweet.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What type of content with help you to grow your email list using Facebook?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>So what kind of content should you put out there, on your Facebook page, to get the sort of crazy results that Rachel and her clients get? Well, Rachel has this neat little formula that she calls 'engagement stacking'.</p><p>And it goes like this. You post:</p><ul><li>A photo.</li><li>A video.</li><li>Then a conversation starter (i.e. a question that gets your audience talking).</li><li>And then you post your offer.</li></ul><br/><p>Repeat the cycle and in this order, and you've got yourself the perfect formula for growth.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Where should you include links to collect email addresses from Facebook?</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>The first thing Rachel told us is where you <em>don't</em> put your link. And that's in your cover. Because that's a bit too fast, too soon, and too heavy. No one likes that, right? We don't want to be sold to too soon - when we like a page, we want the chance to participate and engage first.</p><p>So <strong>include your email list sign-up link in your profile About section, your Page Description, and your Page About</strong>. And when it comes to Facebook groups, you can add it to your Group Description, the pinned post in your Facebook group, and, of course, on every fourth post.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week - Rachel style!</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>Rachel shared an epic template she uses to create all her subject lines. And it goes like this:</p><ul><li>Open with a promise or proof (and stick a number to it).</li><li>Use an emotional word or two.</li><li>And then deliver the actual promise.</li></ul><br/><p>So here are some examples:</p><ul><li>3 super simple video hacks.</li><li>5 freaking brilliant Facebook post ideas.</li><li>Or 10 totally amazing podcast shows.</li></ul><br/><p>Super easy, right?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Rachel's extra tip for growing your email list with Facebook</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>And just like that, at the end of this awesome interview, Rachel dropped this value bomb on us.</p><p>Turns out Rachel uses Facebook to test out her audience's reaction to her content. Once she knows something is performing well on Facebook, she uses that content in her emails. Every year she also <strong>removes or updates the worst-performing emails</strong> on her list, which leaves her with an amazing email sequence that lands every single time.</p><p>And isn't that just the best thing?!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><p><br></p><h5><strong>About Rachel</strong></h5><p><br></p><p>Want to connect with the awesome Rachel? You can find her on her <a href="https://rachelmiller.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">website</a>, and, of course, rocking it on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/moolahMarketer/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook</a>. And here's the link to Rachel's <a href="https://app.postdeck.io/get-app-now?utm_source=rachelmillercom&amp;utm_medium=organic&amp;utm_campaign=rmorganic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Post Deck App</a>&nbsp;we mentioned in the episode.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/build-a-facebook-group-to-build-your-email-list-with-arne-giske-from-group-funnels/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Build a Facebook Group To Build Your Email List With Arne Giske From Group Funnels</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-write-email-subject-lines-for-sales-emails-that-actually-work/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Write Email Subject Lines For Sales Emails (That Actually Work)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-grow-your-email-list-6-unusual-lead-magnet-ideas/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Grow Your Email List – 6 Unusual Lead Magnet Ideas</a></p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p><br></p><p>We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p><br></p><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p><br></p><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes, where we get to share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to <strong>level up your email marketing</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are Facebook pages dead? Is trying to grow your email list using Facebook the ultimate waste of your time? </p><p>We asked Rachel Miller, a social media, organic growth strategist who has spoken at some of the industry's largest events and is famous for her awesome Moolah programme. With over 90 million views to her website, she's also a best-selling author who's helped over 50,000 small businesses grow their Facebook pages.</p><p>Bet you can't wait to hear what Rachel has to say about using Facebook to grow your email list, huh?</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>(3:05) Two lies and a truth. Did Rachel really record two albums?</p><p>(4:13) Are Facebook pages still a thing?</p><p>(5:12) Why driving traffic organically to your list from your Facebook page is as easy as pie.</p><p>(6:27) If your Facebook page isn't growing, it's really not Facebook's fault...</p><p>(8:52) How to build an email list from your Facebook page.</p><p>(12:18) How to keep people on Facebook and build trust first.</p><p>(14:46) The 4 types of posts you should regularly share on your Facebook page to grow your audience.</p><p>(16:15) Where on Facebook should you include a link to your email list?</p><p>(17:18) How often should you post on your Facebook page?</p><p>(18:54) Subject line of the week (and an epic template) - Rachel style!</p><h3><strong>Is it still possible to build an email list on Facebook?</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>According to Rachel (and she's the expert here!) Facebook pages aren't dead. Far from it. We tried telling her that, and we cracked her up, so there!</p><p>We learnt from Rachel that Facebook pages are very much still a thing. People are still using Facebook, and the platform is most definitely driving traffic through pages. And in fact, with changes coming to iOS and Google Privacy, <strong>organic Facebook pages are going to be even more important than before</strong>. And that's because getting leads from ads is going to cost more while re-targeting capabilities are going to be reduced.</p><p>If you've optimised your Facebook page correctly, you can still drive organic traffic to your email list. That's <em>awesome</em> news, right?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>But my Facebook page is not converting!</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>If you've tried to grow your email list using Facebook and got crickets, you're not alone.</p><p>But that's the problem.</p><p>According to our friend Rachel, <strong>if your Facebook page isn't converting, it's not the algorithm's fault</strong>. It's probably because you're not looking at solutions to fix it. Rachel regularly helps her clients create vibrant Facebook pages that grow, so if they can do it, can't we all?</p><p>Turns out we can! All it takes is to switch our mindset around and find a solution to make our content work.</p><p>So what are the easy peasy steps that Rachel suggests we take?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to collect email addresses from a Facebook page</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>Rachel shared that one of the main traps people seem to fall into is to be too keen and ask for that email address too soon. We've all been there, haven't we?</p><p><strong>People want to join our email lists when they're ready to find out more about who we are.</strong> But why would they want to know who we are if they don't know us from Adam in the first place?</p><p>The secret, according to Rachel, is to hold off that pitch. Make the time to build a relationship with your audience, help them relate to you, chat back and forth. It's about making them feel connected to you, part of the community, and building trust with them. Makes sense, right?</p><p>So by the time they decide to join your list, it's because they want to hear from you - because they feel like they know you. Not because you've bribed them with a freebie that promises to solve all their problems before even giving them the time of day.</p><p>Want to know how Rachel does it?</p><p>She connects with people personally on her Facebook page, then invites them to join her Facebook group, and at that point, she asks them if they want her to follow up on email. And 75%-50% of her Facebook group members give her their email addresses. Just. Like. That! Crazy, right?</p><p>What's even better is that she has an engaged list with high open rates and great interaction because she delivers the freebies and all that amazing value to her email list. They sign up for a follow-up from Rachel, and they stay for the value. Pretty sweet.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>What type of content with help you to grow your email list using Facebook?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>So what kind of content should you put out there, on your Facebook page, to get the sort of crazy results that Rachel and her clients get? Well, Rachel has this neat little formula that she calls 'engagement stacking'.</p><p>And it goes like this. You post:</p><ul><li>A photo.</li><li>A video.</li><li>Then a conversation starter (i.e. a question that gets your audience talking).</li><li>And then you post your offer.</li></ul><br/><p>Repeat the cycle and in this order, and you've got yourself the perfect formula for growth.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Where should you include links to collect email addresses from Facebook?</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>The first thing Rachel told us is where you <em>don't</em> put your link. And that's in your cover. Because that's a bit too fast, too soon, and too heavy. No one likes that, right? We don't want to be sold to too soon - when we like a page, we want the chance to participate and engage first.</p><p>So <strong>include your email list sign-up link in your profile About section, your Page Description, and your Page About</strong>. And when it comes to Facebook groups, you can add it to your Group Description, the pinned post in your Facebook group, and, of course, on every fourth post.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week - Rachel style!</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>Rachel shared an epic template she uses to create all her subject lines. And it goes like this:</p><ul><li>Open with a promise or proof (and stick a number to it).</li><li>Use an emotional word or two.</li><li>And then deliver the actual promise.</li></ul><br/><p>So here are some examples:</p><ul><li>3 super simple video hacks.</li><li>5 freaking brilliant Facebook post ideas.</li><li>Or 10 totally amazing podcast shows.</li></ul><br/><p>Super easy, right?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Rachel's extra tip for growing your email list with Facebook</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>And just like that, at the end of this awesome interview, Rachel dropped this value bomb on us.</p><p>Turns out Rachel uses Facebook to test out her audience's reaction to her content. Once she knows something is performing well on Facebook, she uses that content in her emails. Every year she also <strong>removes or updates the worst-performing emails</strong> on her list, which leaves her with an amazing email sequence that lands every single time.</p><p>And isn't that just the best thing?!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Useful Episode Resources</strong></h3><p><br></p><h5><strong>About Rachel</strong></h5><p><br></p><p>Want to connect with the awesome Rachel? You can find her on her <a href="https://rachelmiller.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">website</a>, and, of course, rocking it on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/moolahMarketer/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook</a>. And here's the link to Rachel's <a href="https://app.postdeck.io/get-app-now?utm_source=rachelmillercom&amp;utm_medium=organic&amp;utm_campaign=rmorganic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Post Deck App</a>&nbsp;we mentioned in the episode.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Related episodes</strong></h5><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/build-a-facebook-group-to-build-your-email-list-with-arne-giske-from-group-funnels/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Build a Facebook Group To Build Your Email List With Arne Giske From Group Funnels</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-write-email-subject-lines-for-sales-emails-that-actually-work/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Write Email Subject Lines For Sales Emails (That Actually Work)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-grow-your-email-list-6-unusual-lead-magnet-ideas/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Grow Your Email List – 6 Unusual Lead Magnet Ideas</a></p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h5><p><br></p><p>We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h5><p><br></p><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h5><p><br></p><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes, where we get to share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to <strong>level up your email marketing</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing by applying everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed it, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes and get discovered by more awesome people like you.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/grow-your-email-list-using-facebook-pages/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">fe09ab8f-7bb4-40a5-a6a7-908d4e0b9de1</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/d71765b3-b904-4c48-889f-5f315423a88a/VbbdPF6FB1trrCmgtYjJ4n9S.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/92b20bdd-3fd4-4c87-9652-46c196de79df/rachel-miller-final.mp3" length="41711409" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>21:43</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>78</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>78</podcast:episode></item><item><title>What should I talk about in my emails? Email marketing content ideas you&apos;ll use.</title><itunes:title>What should I talk about in my emails? Email marketing content ideas you&apos;ll use.</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>So you're an undertaker. An accountant. A photographer. You sell something people don't need to buy every day. <em>So what the hell can you share in your emails?</em>  Are you ready to have your mind blown with some cool email marketing content ideas that will make your subscribers absolutely love you? </p><p>In this episode, we share the best creative email ideas to help you work out exactly what you should email about. </p><p>Ready to find out?</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>3:00 Why don't we email more often? I"m a hairdresser, undertaker, an accountant </p><p>4:33 Changing the way we think about email </p><p>4:45 Busting the biggest lie You're emails aren't about you </p><p>5:45 The 2 reasons why people  subscribe to your list </p><p>6:15 Email as just another content marketing channel </p><p>7:20 How to write what your audience actually cares about  </p><p>9:07 Your products/Services are mechanism for deeper human experiences </p><p>13:09 How to stay top of mind WITHOUT selling everyday </p><p>14:30 The key to get your audience deeply connected to you  </p><p>16:05 Subject line of the week... WHO's an asshole?! </p><h3><strong>Your business is different</strong> <strong>so what should you send in your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>Sure, your business is different. Every business is different. And you might think it's easy for us to email our subscribers every single day of the year (yes, 365 days a year, if not more!) <em>because we teach email marketing</em>.</p><p>Maybe you teach something different, or maybe you don't teach anything at all.</p><p>And that's fine. But that doesn't mean you can't email every single day too.</p><p>You just need to start thinking about your content a little differently. And that's fine too because, as we always say, 99% of email marketing out there is done wrong! And we're here to fix it - to change the way we all do email marketing.</p><p>So the first myth we need to bust is this...</p><h3><strong>Want to write effective email marketing content? </strong></h3><p>Your emails shouldn't be about what you do.</p><p>Come again?</p><p>Yes, you read that right.</p><p>Guess what? We don't email every single day about email marketing. And <strong>you shouldn't email every single day about what it is that you do</strong> either. That isn't the point.</p><p>Sure, you're going to weave that in. You're going to let your audience know about your product or service and about how they can buy from you. But <strong>people are on your email list because they want to find out more about the things they care about</strong>.</p><p>So your emails need to serve two purposes:</p><ol><li>They need to sell your stuff.</li><li>They need to deliver value.</li></ol><br/><p>And you do this by showing up and providing content to your audience.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Email marketing is just another platform to reach your audience so use it!</strong></h3><p>When you think about it, if you share any content at all - on social media, via a blog, a podcast, etc. - you're using different channels. You're taking advantage of different ways to reach your audience.</p><p>Email is just another way. It's just another channel.</p><p>So why not use it as often as you use the other channels?</p><p>People check their emails through apps on their phones, just like they check Instagram or Facebook. They might even have push notifications on.</p><p>So <strong>all you're doing by sending out emails is delivering content to them in a different way</strong>. Nothing wrong with that, right?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Email marketing content ideas that work!</strong></h3><p>If you're not emailing about what you sell, then what on Earth are we asking you to email about?</p><p>Well, that's up to you to figure out. <strong>You need to work out what your audience cares about</strong>. What do you and your audience have in common?</p><p>For example, if you're a photographer specialising in family portraits, your service is a tool to deliver connection, strengthen family bonds, and create memories.</p><p>So there are lots of ways you can deliver value to your subscribers, even when they're not ready to hire you just yet. You can talk about days out with the kids or activities to do at home with the family. What your audience cares about is stuff to do with the family, so think about delivering value around that. Because these are the email marketing ideas that will make ALL the difference! </p><p>Now, let's say you're a corporate headshot photographer or a product photographer. What you're delivering is branding, marketing, positioning. Your expertise is around making someone or something look as good as they possibly can. So show up every day talking about the importance of aesthetics, share cool tips or studies - whatever works.</p><p>Best thing is? These are the things your audience cares about, but they're probably the things you love too. So this should be a total doddle for you!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to be front of mind when someone's ready to buy</strong></h3><p>So we've established you don't email people every day talking about what you're selling. You're emailing people about stuff <em>they</em> care about. Now, this doesn't mean they will buy from you every day. Far from it. What if you sell products or services people only need once? Should you not email every day?</p><p>Oh, you definitely should.</p><p>Because your job is to stay front of mind. So <strong>when someone is ready to buy from you, either for themselves or for someone else, you're there</strong>. Top. Of. Mind.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Turn your email marketing content ideas into stories</strong></h3><p>Once you've figured out what you can share with your audience, turn that stuff into stories. Because <strong>the minute you start telling stories, people put themselves into it</strong> - they see that story in the first person. They start to emote with it. They start to feel emotions, rather than just seeing a list of instructions or a bunch of facts that, frankly, no one is going to remember.</p><p>So, no matter what you sell, how often people need to buy it from you, or how much it costs, figure out what your audience cares about, show up in their inboxes as often as possible, deliver value, and people will love you for it.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week's subject line of the week is "This guy is an asshole".</p><p>The reason why this works?</p><p>Well, obviously because we want to know who's been bad. We want to know who it is, what they've done, and whether we agree with you. You can see that a lot of questions are being evoked through these simple 5 words.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Related episodes</strong></h3><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/writing-subject-lines-without-using-formulas/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Writing Subject Lines Without Using Formulas</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/5-types-of-content-that-creates-buyers-and-assignment-selling-with-marcus-sherridan-from-they-ask-you-answer/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">5 Types of Content That Creates Buyers and 'Assignment Selling' with Marcus Sheridan</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/write-emails-like-a-boss-even-if-you-think-youre-a-crap-writer/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Write Emails Like A Boss - Even If You Think You're A Crap Writer</a></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h3><p>We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes, where we get to share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to <strong>level up your email marketing</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing by applying everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode with cool email marketing content ideas and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes and get discovered by more awesome people like you.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So you're an undertaker. An accountant. A photographer. You sell something people don't need to buy every day. <em>So what the hell can you share in your emails?</em>  Are you ready to have your mind blown with some cool email marketing content ideas that will make your subscribers absolutely love you? </p><p>In this episode, we share the best creative email ideas to help you work out exactly what you should email about. </p><p>Ready to find out?</p><p>SOME EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: </p><p>3:00 Why don't we email more often? I"m a hairdresser, undertaker, an accountant </p><p>4:33 Changing the way we think about email </p><p>4:45 Busting the biggest lie You're emails aren't about you </p><p>5:45 The 2 reasons why people  subscribe to your list </p><p>6:15 Email as just another content marketing channel </p><p>7:20 How to write what your audience actually cares about  </p><p>9:07 Your products/Services are mechanism for deeper human experiences </p><p>13:09 How to stay top of mind WITHOUT selling everyday </p><p>14:30 The key to get your audience deeply connected to you  </p><p>16:05 Subject line of the week... WHO's an asshole?! </p><h3><strong>Your business is different</strong> <strong>so what should you send in your email marketing?</strong></h3><p>Sure, your business is different. Every business is different. And you might think it's easy for us to email our subscribers every single day of the year (yes, 365 days a year, if not more!) <em>because we teach email marketing</em>.</p><p>Maybe you teach something different, or maybe you don't teach anything at all.</p><p>And that's fine. But that doesn't mean you can't email every single day too.</p><p>You just need to start thinking about your content a little differently. And that's fine too because, as we always say, 99% of email marketing out there is done wrong! And we're here to fix it - to change the way we all do email marketing.</p><p>So the first myth we need to bust is this...</p><h3><strong>Want to write effective email marketing content? </strong></h3><p>Your emails shouldn't be about what you do.</p><p>Come again?</p><p>Yes, you read that right.</p><p>Guess what? We don't email every single day about email marketing. And <strong>you shouldn't email every single day about what it is that you do</strong> either. That isn't the point.</p><p>Sure, you're going to weave that in. You're going to let your audience know about your product or service and about how they can buy from you. But <strong>people are on your email list because they want to find out more about the things they care about</strong>.</p><p>So your emails need to serve two purposes:</p><ol><li>They need to sell your stuff.</li><li>They need to deliver value.</li></ol><br/><p>And you do this by showing up and providing content to your audience.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Email marketing is just another platform to reach your audience so use it!</strong></h3><p>When you think about it, if you share any content at all - on social media, via a blog, a podcast, etc. - you're using different channels. You're taking advantage of different ways to reach your audience.</p><p>Email is just another way. It's just another channel.</p><p>So why not use it as often as you use the other channels?</p><p>People check their emails through apps on their phones, just like they check Instagram or Facebook. They might even have push notifications on.</p><p>So <strong>all you're doing by sending out emails is delivering content to them in a different way</strong>. Nothing wrong with that, right?</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Email marketing content ideas that work!</strong></h3><p>If you're not emailing about what you sell, then what on Earth are we asking you to email about?</p><p>Well, that's up to you to figure out. <strong>You need to work out what your audience cares about</strong>. What do you and your audience have in common?</p><p>For example, if you're a photographer specialising in family portraits, your service is a tool to deliver connection, strengthen family bonds, and create memories.</p><p>So there are lots of ways you can deliver value to your subscribers, even when they're not ready to hire you just yet. You can talk about days out with the kids or activities to do at home with the family. What your audience cares about is stuff to do with the family, so think about delivering value around that. Because these are the email marketing ideas that will make ALL the difference! </p><p>Now, let's say you're a corporate headshot photographer or a product photographer. What you're delivering is branding, marketing, positioning. Your expertise is around making someone or something look as good as they possibly can. So show up every day talking about the importance of aesthetics, share cool tips or studies - whatever works.</p><p>Best thing is? These are the things your audience cares about, but they're probably the things you love too. So this should be a total doddle for you!</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>How to be front of mind when someone's ready to buy</strong></h3><p>So we've established you don't email people every day talking about what you're selling. You're emailing people about stuff <em>they</em> care about. Now, this doesn't mean they will buy from you every day. Far from it. What if you sell products or services people only need once? Should you not email every day?</p><p>Oh, you definitely should.</p><p>Because your job is to stay front of mind. So <strong>when someone is ready to buy from you, either for themselves or for someone else, you're there</strong>. Top. Of. Mind.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Turn your email marketing content ideas into stories</strong></h3><p>Once you've figured out what you can share with your audience, turn that stuff into stories. Because <strong>the minute you start telling stories, people put themselves into it</strong> - they see that story in the first person. They start to emote with it. They start to feel emotions, rather than just seeing a list of instructions or a bunch of facts that, frankly, no one is going to remember.</p><p>So, no matter what you sell, how often people need to buy it from you, or how much it costs, figure out what your audience cares about, show up in their inboxes as often as possible, deliver value, and people will love you for it.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subject line of the week</strong></h3><p>This week's subject line of the week is "This guy is an asshole".</p><p>The reason why this works?</p><p>Well, obviously because we want to know who's been bad. We want to know who it is, what they've done, and whether we agree with you. You can see that a lot of questions are being evoked through these simple 5 words.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Related episodes</strong></h3><p><a href="https://emailmarketingheroes.com/writing-subject-lines-without-using-formulas/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Writing Subject Lines Without Using Formulas</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/5-types-of-content-that-creates-buyers-and-assignment-selling-with-marcus-sherridan-from-they-ask-you-answer/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">5 Types of Content That Creates Buyers and 'Assignment Selling' with Marcus Sheridan</a></p><p><a href="https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/write-emails-like-a-boss-even-if-you-think-youre-a-crap-writer/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Write Emails Like A Boss - Even If You Think You're A Crap Writer</a></p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join our FREE Facebook group</strong></h3><p>We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/emailmarketingshow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches</a>. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Try ResponseSuite for $1</strong></h3><p>This week's episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ResponseSuite.com</a>, the <strong>survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales</strong>. <a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Try it out for 14 days for just $1</a>.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Join The League Membership</strong></h3><p>Not sick of us yet? Every day we hang out in our amazing community of Email Marketing Heroes, where we get to share all of our training and campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you're looking to <strong>level up your email marketing</strong>, come and check out <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=Menu&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The League Membership</a>. It's the number one place to hang out and grow your email marketing by applying everything we talk about in this show.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcast</strong></h3><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode with cool email marketing content ideas and love the show, we'd really appreciate you <strong>subscribing</strong> and <strong>leaving us a review </strong>of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes and get discovered by more awesome people like you.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-content-ideas/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">3ff6f51e-7021-454f-9183-41cf3aa6757b</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/06f3c70c-5c44-41ef-94ce-871788b6ec6d/PXlksPKVYxtfJec6GxODxnqb.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/f450eba5-21a2-445d-95b6-50fcdfc39e14/what-should-we-talk-about-in-our-emails.mp3" length="36908222" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>19:13</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>77</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>77</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Email Marketing for Small Businesses with Steffen Schebesta from Sendinblue</title><itunes:title>Email Marketing for Small Businesses with Steffen Schebesta from Sendinblue</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Is it possible for your small business to compete with huge companies in terms of email marketing?</p><p>Hell yeah it is.</p><p>In fact, you can have even <strong><em>more</em></strong> of an advantage over the big players.</p><p>And our latest guest Steffen Schebesta, CEO of <a href="https://www.sendinblue.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">sendinblue</a> North America (which has seen a huge 50% growth year on year) is here to explain how.</p><h2><strong>Twitter for List Building with Madalyn Sklar</strong></h2><h4>Episode Content</h4><ul><li>(02:44) Two lies and a truth. Kennedy aims for a record winning streak.</li><li>(04:16) So what advantages do we have as small businesses over the big players?</li><li>(05:40) There has been an interesting shift in the world….</li><li>(07:41) What techniques should we be tapping into?</li><li>(09:29) The power of using the tools already at your fingertips….</li><li>(11:15) How to create the best automations.</li><li>(12:38) Are there any automations Steffen thinks small businesses miss out on?</li><li>(14:19) What are the other tools you can use to create the best email marketing experience?&nbsp;</li><li>(16:25) Integrating live chat?&nbsp;What’s all that about?!</li><li>(19:04) Its subject line of the week time – intentional mistakes? Who would do such a thing!</li></ul><br/><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is it possible for your small business to compete with huge companies in terms of email marketing?</p><p>Hell yeah it is.</p><p>In fact, you can have even <strong><em>more</em></strong> of an advantage over the big players.</p><p>And our latest guest Steffen Schebesta, CEO of <a href="https://www.sendinblue.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">sendinblue</a> North America (which has seen a huge 50% growth year on year) is here to explain how.</p><h2><strong>Twitter for List Building with Madalyn Sklar</strong></h2><h4>Episode Content</h4><ul><li>(02:44) Two lies and a truth. Kennedy aims for a record winning streak.</li><li>(04:16) So what advantages do we have as small businesses over the big players?</li><li>(05:40) There has been an interesting shift in the world….</li><li>(07:41) What techniques should we be tapping into?</li><li>(09:29) The power of using the tools already at your fingertips….</li><li>(11:15) How to create the best automations.</li><li>(12:38) Are there any automations Steffen thinks small businesses miss out on?</li><li>(14:19) What are the other tools you can use to create the best email marketing experience?&nbsp;</li><li>(16:25) Integrating live chat?&nbsp;What’s all that about?!</li><li>(19:04) Its subject line of the week time – intentional mistakes? Who would do such a thing!</li></ul><br/><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-for-small-businesses-with-steffen-schebesta-from-send-in-blue/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">8ebcf62f-bcf6-49e8-8c05-ba7d386362c4</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/723ce218-5b6c-48c7-b222-60d1f4d656a3/XFKR65vom2DhyL3jRe6tHnJE.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/f4357d7c-7638-4ae4-b30e-b189ef5048a0/076-steffen-schebesta.mp3" length="43756065" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>22:47</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>76</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>76</podcast:episode></item><item><title>You&apos;ve Got a Lead Magnet, Now What?</title><itunes:title>You&apos;ve Got a Lead Magnet, Now What?</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>So, you’ve just created the best lead magnet ever known to mankind.</p><p>Awesome! But now what?</p><p>Lead magnets (good ones) are a great way of getting people to join your email list.</p><p>But getting people to <strong><em>join</em></strong> your list is only a teeny tiny part of the email marketing puzzle.</p><p>When the aim of the game is to turn your subscribers into buyers, you need to make sure that your email marketing is on point, and that you’re not just emailing for the sake of emailing. Or even worse….you’re not emailing at <strong><em>all</em></strong>.</p><p>In this episode, we’re going to tell you how you can ensure that people not only want to join your list, but that they actually want to buy your stuff and even better…..become <strong><em>repeat</em></strong> customers.</p><h2><strong>You've Got a Lead Magnet, Now What?</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(03:19) This is only the beginning…</li><li>(04:50) We all had <strong><em>that</em></strong> day</li><li>(05:59) You need to remember this&nbsp;</li><li>(07:06) The difference between emails and social media</li><li>(07:58) How you need to treat your list…no matter what size it is&nbsp;</li><li>(10:41) Jay Leno’s private comedy club and how this will work for your emails too</li><li>(12:22) The critical elements you need to take care of</li><li>(13:05) You want to build this…no, you <strong><em>need</em></strong> to build this</li><li>(15:52) Is your only audience your email?&nbsp;</li><li>(17:14) How to turn your audience into customers</li><li>(19:59) This doesn’t have to be difficult, but it can make all the difference</li><li>(20:41) How <strong><em>we</em></strong> get our audience to trust us</li><li>(21:47) What is the life-time value of a customer?</li><li>(23:33) A mistake we see a lot of people make</li><li>(25:31) Quick re-cap!</li><li>(26:00) It’s subject line of the week time, and we have TWO for you</li></ul><br/><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, you’ve just created the best lead magnet ever known to mankind.</p><p>Awesome! But now what?</p><p>Lead magnets (good ones) are a great way of getting people to join your email list.</p><p>But getting people to <strong><em>join</em></strong> your list is only a teeny tiny part of the email marketing puzzle.</p><p>When the aim of the game is to turn your subscribers into buyers, you need to make sure that your email marketing is on point, and that you’re not just emailing for the sake of emailing. Or even worse….you’re not emailing at <strong><em>all</em></strong>.</p><p>In this episode, we’re going to tell you how you can ensure that people not only want to join your list, but that they actually want to buy your stuff and even better…..become <strong><em>repeat</em></strong> customers.</p><h2><strong>You've Got a Lead Magnet, Now What?</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(03:19) This is only the beginning…</li><li>(04:50) We all had <strong><em>that</em></strong> day</li><li>(05:59) You need to remember this&nbsp;</li><li>(07:06) The difference between emails and social media</li><li>(07:58) How you need to treat your list…no matter what size it is&nbsp;</li><li>(10:41) Jay Leno’s private comedy club and how this will work for your emails too</li><li>(12:22) The critical elements you need to take care of</li><li>(13:05) You want to build this…no, you <strong><em>need</em></strong> to build this</li><li>(15:52) Is your only audience your email?&nbsp;</li><li>(17:14) How to turn your audience into customers</li><li>(19:59) This doesn’t have to be difficult, but it can make all the difference</li><li>(20:41) How <strong><em>we</em></strong> get our audience to trust us</li><li>(21:47) What is the life-time value of a customer?</li><li>(23:33) A mistake we see a lot of people make</li><li>(25:31) Quick re-cap!</li><li>(26:00) It’s subject line of the week time, and we have TWO for you</li></ul><br/><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/youve-got-a-lead-magnet-now-what/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">b8516e70-6732-4449-bf46-14667ccc1cc8</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/458c8749-5abd-4262-b232-0ebe008b7469/544a1tEZkzzDCEE0ciMMF-7d.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/c355b21b-83fa-40e9-8af9-d46dd839bdfd/075-you-ve-got-a-lead-magnet-now-what.mp3" length="57879742" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>30:09</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>75</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>75</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Twitter For List Building With Madalyn Sklar</title><itunes:title>Twitter For List Building With Madalyn Sklar</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Forget Instagram, Facebook and Clubhouse for the next 20 minutes…..</p><p>Today, we’re talking all things Twitter and how you can use this fast-moving platform to build your email list.</p><p>Twitter boasts around boasts 192 million daily active&nbsp;users and we’ve got leading Twitter marketing expert, <a href="https://madalynsklar.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Madalyn Sklar</a> on the show to tell us exactly how we can utilise the platform in the most effective ways possible.</p><p>From annoying drunks guys, to famous people and weekly “meet ups”, find out why Twitter is still the place to be in 2021.</p><h2><strong>Twitter for List Building with Madalyn Sklar</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:49) Two truths and a lie. Could this be the third time ever that Rob gets it right?</li><li>(04:37) So, why does Madalyn love Twitter so damn much?</li><li>(06:41) Is Twitter the place to build a personal brand or a business brand?</li><li>(07:24) Nothing moves at a snail’s pace where this platform is concerned</li><li>(08:09) How to we even begin to shift people from Twitter to our list?</li><li>(09:37) How not to be like that annoying drunk guy at a party</li><li>(10:43) More than one link in your bio? Surely not?!</li><li>(12:29) What’s the deal with Twitter chats and why does Madalyn think they’re so powerful?</li><li>(14:33) The best way to leverage chats to build your email list</li><li>(16:22) How do you find the best chats that are in your niche and relevant to you?</li><li>(18:43) Want to start your own Twitter chat? Here’s how….</li><li>(20:09) The instant results epidemic</li><li>(23:04) The power of deepening your relationship&nbsp;</li><li>(24:04) The right way to promote your products via your content&nbsp;</li><li>(25:15) This re-launch’s subject line worked very well for Madalyn</li></ul><br/><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Forget Instagram, Facebook and Clubhouse for the next 20 minutes…..</p><p>Today, we’re talking all things Twitter and how you can use this fast-moving platform to build your email list.</p><p>Twitter boasts around boasts 192 million daily active&nbsp;users and we’ve got leading Twitter marketing expert, <a href="https://madalynsklar.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Madalyn Sklar</a> on the show to tell us exactly how we can utilise the platform in the most effective ways possible.</p><p>From annoying drunks guys, to famous people and weekly “meet ups”, find out why Twitter is still the place to be in 2021.</p><h2><strong>Twitter for List Building with Madalyn Sklar</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:49) Two truths and a lie. Could this be the third time ever that Rob gets it right?</li><li>(04:37) So, why does Madalyn love Twitter so damn much?</li><li>(06:41) Is Twitter the place to build a personal brand or a business brand?</li><li>(07:24) Nothing moves at a snail’s pace where this platform is concerned</li><li>(08:09) How to we even begin to shift people from Twitter to our list?</li><li>(09:37) How not to be like that annoying drunk guy at a party</li><li>(10:43) More than one link in your bio? Surely not?!</li><li>(12:29) What’s the deal with Twitter chats and why does Madalyn think they’re so powerful?</li><li>(14:33) The best way to leverage chats to build your email list</li><li>(16:22) How do you find the best chats that are in your niche and relevant to you?</li><li>(18:43) Want to start your own Twitter chat? Here’s how….</li><li>(20:09) The instant results epidemic</li><li>(23:04) The power of deepening your relationship&nbsp;</li><li>(24:04) The right way to promote your products via your content&nbsp;</li><li>(25:15) This re-launch’s subject line worked very well for Madalyn</li></ul><br/><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/twitter-for-list-building-with-madalyn-sklar/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">7a11f373-b8de-486e-8437-c1c805e7509a</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/b73892db-baa4-450e-8361-b7fdbf3266f3/lwtBMCwQqAVAoKiQx5nIaSU5.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/b290b1d5-2e9b-44ae-ae83-8c3efed612f7/074-madalyn-sklar.mp3" length="54694057" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>28:29</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>74</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>74</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Writing Subject Lines Without Using Formulas</title><itunes:title>Writing Subject Lines Without Using Formulas</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Want to know how to write incredible subject lines <strong><em>without</em></strong> using formulas?</p><p>Apart from your name, the subject line is the first thing your audience will see and if you screw that up, chances are, your audience isn’t going to open your email at all.</p><p>So, how can you ensure your subject lines are as awesome as possible so that your emails are actually opened and read?</p><p>We’ve sent thousands of emails over the years and we’ve learnt exactly what works and what doesn’t…and we’re going to share this with you right now.</p><h2><strong>Writing Subject Lines Without Using Formulas</strong></h2><h4>Episode Content</h4><ul><li>(03:37) The problem with formulas&nbsp;</li><li>(06:05) There is a chance this might happen…so be careful</li><li>(07:16) How to get inspired!</li><li>(08:08) So, how do you actually come up with the subject line?</li><li>(10:21) You can also do this…but it might be harder</li><li>(12:01) Make sure you focus on <strong><em>this</em></strong> element</li><li>(12:58) We see people doing this poorly, a lot. Don’t be that guy.</li><li>(14:08) Imagine that you’re doing this…it’s a game changer</li><li>(15:09) How “click-baity” are you allowed to go?</li><li>(17:58) Open rates or click rates….which one should you be looking at?</li><li>(18:38) This is what’s <strong><em>really</em></strong> going to drive people to open your emails.</li><li>(20:59) This subject line may make you squeal, especially if you’re a dude</li></ul><br/><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Want to know how to write incredible subject lines <strong><em>without</em></strong> using formulas?</p><p>Apart from your name, the subject line is the first thing your audience will see and if you screw that up, chances are, your audience isn’t going to open your email at all.</p><p>So, how can you ensure your subject lines are as awesome as possible so that your emails are actually opened and read?</p><p>We’ve sent thousands of emails over the years and we’ve learnt exactly what works and what doesn’t…and we’re going to share this with you right now.</p><h2><strong>Writing Subject Lines Without Using Formulas</strong></h2><h4>Episode Content</h4><ul><li>(03:37) The problem with formulas&nbsp;</li><li>(06:05) There is a chance this might happen…so be careful</li><li>(07:16) How to get inspired!</li><li>(08:08) So, how do you actually come up with the subject line?</li><li>(10:21) You can also do this…but it might be harder</li><li>(12:01) Make sure you focus on <strong><em>this</em></strong> element</li><li>(12:58) We see people doing this poorly, a lot. Don’t be that guy.</li><li>(14:08) Imagine that you’re doing this…it’s a game changer</li><li>(15:09) How “click-baity” are you allowed to go?</li><li>(17:58) Open rates or click rates….which one should you be looking at?</li><li>(18:38) This is what’s <strong><em>really</em></strong> going to drive people to open your emails.</li><li>(20:59) This subject line may make you squeal, especially if you’re a dude</li></ul><br/><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/writing-subject-lines-without-using-formulas/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">2bfc0fed-bd83-437a-b642-6eb20abd6eec</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/a80c38de-f9b6-4028-9436-99cf1133faf0/Y8d_ZNqQcTOpPuphOGj9HMIc.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/90117006-d8b7-4cc6-905b-fd1c57ff3436/073-writing-subject-lines-without-using-formulas.mp3" length="44136408" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>22:59</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>73</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>73</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Use Live Streaming to Build Your Email List with StreamYard&apos;s Head of Marketing, Daniel Glickman</title><itunes:title>Use Live Streaming to Build Your Email List with StreamYard&apos;s Head of Marketing, Daniel Glickman</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Live video is where it’s at right now, guys.</p><p>But how can you use it to gain tonnes of new fans and build your email list?</p><p>Today, we’re talking to none other than Daniel Glickman, the Head of Marketing over at <a href="https://streamyard.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Streamyard</a>.</p><p>If you haven’t yet heard of <a href="https://streamyard.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Streamyard</a> (i.e you’ve been living under a rock), this is the fastest growing and largest browser-based live streaming solution for businesses. In 2020, they did over 9 MILLION broadcasts…which is <strong><em>almost</em></strong> as many as we did.</p><p>Daniel is here to share some of his best tips for creating brilliant live streams that get more fans onto your email list.</p><p>So, if you’ve been wondering whether or not live streams are something worth bothering with for <strong><em>your</em></strong> business, this episode is just what you’ve been waiting for.</p><h2><strong>Use Live Streaming to Build Your Email List with StreamYard's Head of Marketing, Daniel Glickman</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:40) Two truths and a lie about our latest guest. Can Rob guess what it is?</li><li>(05:27) The first reason why live streams could be great for your business.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(06:53) If it works for the Kardashians……</li><li>(07:19) The third reason lives are great and this one is <strong><em>super</em></strong> important</li><li>(07:59) When Kennedy first started going live, it didn’t go as great as he’d hoped. Why?</li><li>(08:29) How to help the good ole’ algorithm and get shown to more people</li><li>(09:59) What are the best types of engagement for live streams?</li><li>(11:55) How and when can you send people to your list using the live streams?</li><li>(13:19) This tip is genius, yet <strong><em>super</em></strong> simple</li><li>(14:08) Wait…there’s a way to automate this next tip? We’re all ears!</li><li>(14:53) How Kennedy likes gets people to sign up to our lead magnets…and it works well</li><li>(15:20) Do longer lives perform better than shorter lives?</li><li>&nbsp;(17:21) Do NOT try to do this</li><li>(17:45) Adding outbound links…good or bad?&nbsp;</li><li>(19:15) Why anyone can now do awesome live streams&nbsp;</li><li>(20:00) How a horrific typo in a subject line created an incredible open rate</li></ul><br/><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Live video is where it’s at right now, guys.</p><p>But how can you use it to gain tonnes of new fans and build your email list?</p><p>Today, we’re talking to none other than Daniel Glickman, the Head of Marketing over at <a href="https://streamyard.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Streamyard</a>.</p><p>If you haven’t yet heard of <a href="https://streamyard.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Streamyard</a> (i.e you’ve been living under a rock), this is the fastest growing and largest browser-based live streaming solution for businesses. In 2020, they did over 9 MILLION broadcasts…which is <strong><em>almost</em></strong> as many as we did.</p><p>Daniel is here to share some of his best tips for creating brilliant live streams that get more fans onto your email list.</p><p>So, if you’ve been wondering whether or not live streams are something worth bothering with for <strong><em>your</em></strong> business, this episode is just what you’ve been waiting for.</p><h2><strong>Use Live Streaming to Build Your Email List with StreamYard's Head of Marketing, Daniel Glickman</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:40) Two truths and a lie about our latest guest. Can Rob guess what it is?</li><li>(05:27) The first reason why live streams could be great for your business.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(06:53) If it works for the Kardashians……</li><li>(07:19) The third reason lives are great and this one is <strong><em>super</em></strong> important</li><li>(07:59) When Kennedy first started going live, it didn’t go as great as he’d hoped. Why?</li><li>(08:29) How to help the good ole’ algorithm and get shown to more people</li><li>(09:59) What are the best types of engagement for live streams?</li><li>(11:55) How and when can you send people to your list using the live streams?</li><li>(13:19) This tip is genius, yet <strong><em>super</em></strong> simple</li><li>(14:08) Wait…there’s a way to automate this next tip? We’re all ears!</li><li>(14:53) How Kennedy likes gets people to sign up to our lead magnets…and it works well</li><li>(15:20) Do longer lives perform better than shorter lives?</li><li>&nbsp;(17:21) Do NOT try to do this</li><li>(17:45) Adding outbound links…good or bad?&nbsp;</li><li>(19:15) Why anyone can now do awesome live streams&nbsp;</li><li>(20:00) How a horrific typo in a subject line created an incredible open rate</li></ul><br/><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/use-live-streaming-to-build-your-email-list-with-streamyards-head-of-marketing-daniel-glickman/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">a4384ada-7327-454d-8c2a-4cf018e43d52</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/88496b93-86a4-4760-976d-3dd601294d8b/Nd4CV2jQqDunDOU_F7uTIrbO.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2021 08:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/4204614a-8c69-41ac-916b-9074781594b0/daniel-glickman.mp3" length="46942586" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>24:27</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>72</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>72</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How To Get People To Forward Your Emails And Grow Your List</title><itunes:title>How To Get People To Forward Your Emails And Grow Your List</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Imagine being able to get viral growth of your email list?</p><p>That would be pretty kick-ass, wouldn’t it?</p><p>The best thing about this, is that you don’t even have to have a huge list to begin with.</p><p>All you need is a few key ingredients and you can begin to watch your email list grow faster than mould on that thing you’ve had in your fridge for way too long (seriously…throw it out!)</p><p>We’re going to talk about how an entrepreneur has absolutely SMASHED this strategy…and then we’re going to tell you how <strong><em>you</em></strong> can do this too, because we’re lovely.</p><h2><strong>How To Get People To Forward Your Emails And Grow Your List</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:17) First of all…..thank you!</li><li>(03:24) Rob’s random fleeting comment was pretty spot on.</li><li>(04:15) This guy did it SO. DAMN. WELL.</li><li>(06:48) The simplicity of this is incredible.&nbsp;</li><li>(07:53) What <strong><em>most</em></strong> people would do if they created this, and why it wouldn’t work.</li><li>(08:58) Why did this do so well?</li><li>(09:37) Where people go wrong with lead magnets.</li><li>(10:19) The <strong><em>first</em></strong> thing you need to do to get people to join your list.</li><li>(11:22) The only reason Rob heard about this guy in the first place.</li><li>(12:03) Why the reason to join your list should not just be your lead magnet.</li><li>(13:31) OK, but how do you get people to actually forward your emails?</li><li>(14:19) We’re going to assume that your emails aren’t sh** for a moment.</li><li>(15:20) There is no secret handshake or big secret about this.</li><li>(16:33) You need to do this in every single email.&nbsp;</li><li>(16:53) DO NOT DO WHAT WE’RE ABOUT TO SAY</li><li>(17:32) This is how we actually do this with our own emails.</li><li>(19:13) This is subtle…and it works.&nbsp;</li><li>(20:53) What are you thinking ?</li><li>(21:37) This week’s subject line is on the edge of scammy, so why the hell did we send it?</li></ul><br/><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Imagine being able to get viral growth of your email list?</p><p>That would be pretty kick-ass, wouldn’t it?</p><p>The best thing about this, is that you don’t even have to have a huge list to begin with.</p><p>All you need is a few key ingredients and you can begin to watch your email list grow faster than mould on that thing you’ve had in your fridge for way too long (seriously…throw it out!)</p><p>We’re going to talk about how an entrepreneur has absolutely SMASHED this strategy…and then we’re going to tell you how <strong><em>you</em></strong> can do this too, because we’re lovely.</p><h2><strong>How To Get People To Forward Your Emails And Grow Your List</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:17) First of all…..thank you!</li><li>(03:24) Rob’s random fleeting comment was pretty spot on.</li><li>(04:15) This guy did it SO. DAMN. WELL.</li><li>(06:48) The simplicity of this is incredible.&nbsp;</li><li>(07:53) What <strong><em>most</em></strong> people would do if they created this, and why it wouldn’t work.</li><li>(08:58) Why did this do so well?</li><li>(09:37) Where people go wrong with lead magnets.</li><li>(10:19) The <strong><em>first</em></strong> thing you need to do to get people to join your list.</li><li>(11:22) The only reason Rob heard about this guy in the first place.</li><li>(12:03) Why the reason to join your list should not just be your lead magnet.</li><li>(13:31) OK, but how do you get people to actually forward your emails?</li><li>(14:19) We’re going to assume that your emails aren’t sh** for a moment.</li><li>(15:20) There is no secret handshake or big secret about this.</li><li>(16:33) You need to do this in every single email.&nbsp;</li><li>(16:53) DO NOT DO WHAT WE’RE ABOUT TO SAY</li><li>(17:32) This is how we actually do this with our own emails.</li><li>(19:13) This is subtle…and it works.&nbsp;</li><li>(20:53) What are you thinking ?</li><li>(21:37) This week’s subject line is on the edge of scammy, so why the hell did we send it?</li></ul><br/><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.EmailMarketingHeroes.com]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">5d91194d-bf4c-4c3f-8aa0-5e2a50f2381c</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/0db3ca7c-d1be-47e7-9af6-d322f89677a1/OnUikcOKQJsAILVYmrmKr0VM.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/e3e0a3e1-46e6-4929-bfea-46ed98caff9d/how-to-get-people-to-forward-your-emails-and-grow-your-list.mp3" length="46371654" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>24:09</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>71</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>71</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Get Your Emails Delivered (And Avoid The Spam Folder) With Adrian Savage</title><itunes:title>Get Your Emails Delivered (And Avoid The Spam Folder) With Adrian Savage</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Having your emails end up in the dreaded spam folder is the main thing we ALL want to avoid, right?</p><p>After all, if they go into your subscribers spam, it’s likely they won’t get opened…and that sucks.</p><p>So, is there a sure-fire way in which we can avoid this happening, or do we just have to hope and pray for the best?</p><p>Adrian Savage, Founder and creator of <a href="https://deliverabilitydashboard.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Deliverability Dashboard</a> and email deliverability <strong><em>wizard</em></strong> (it’s true) is here to tell us about all of the things we need to be doing, in order to stay clear of the spam folder as much as possible.</p><h2><strong>The Right Way To Run Viral Contests to Build Your Email List with Travis Ketchum</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:09) Two lies and a truth – these are awesome!</li><li>(03:45) No one wants to end up in the bin. How do we avoid it?</li><li>(05:16) Like most things in life, it’s not always that straight-forward, but why?</li><li>(06:39) If someone tells you this one thing….run away from them.</li><li>(07:20) What has changed in the last few years with deliverability?</li><li>(08:24) The “good old days” of email marketing.</li><li>(09:13) What should we be doing to increase engagement?</li><li>(10:49) Adrian can <strong><em>double</em></strong> your open rate in 3 seconds.</li><li>(12:28) You really need to keep on top of this if you want your engagement to stay tip-top.</li><li>(13:00) Replies and forwards are nice…but how much do they <strong><em>really</em></strong> help?</li><li>(15:07) Do you email everyone in your list? If so, you need to listen to this.&nbsp;</li><li>(16:52) Let’s get “techy” for a moment. This is going to help you almost immediately.</li><li>(18:17) The power of segmenting, but not in the way you may be doing it already.</li><li>(19:42) One of the things <strong><em>we</em></strong> do in our first email to help with engagement.</li><li>(20:19) The very best subject line Adrian has ever used. It’s insanely simple…and it works.</li></ul><br/><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Having your emails end up in the dreaded spam folder is the main thing we ALL want to avoid, right?</p><p>After all, if they go into your subscribers spam, it’s likely they won’t get opened…and that sucks.</p><p>So, is there a sure-fire way in which we can avoid this happening, or do we just have to hope and pray for the best?</p><p>Adrian Savage, Founder and creator of <a href="https://deliverabilitydashboard.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Deliverability Dashboard</a> and email deliverability <strong><em>wizard</em></strong> (it’s true) is here to tell us about all of the things we need to be doing, in order to stay clear of the spam folder as much as possible.</p><h2><strong>The Right Way To Run Viral Contests to Build Your Email List with Travis Ketchum</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:09) Two lies and a truth – these are awesome!</li><li>(03:45) No one wants to end up in the bin. How do we avoid it?</li><li>(05:16) Like most things in life, it’s not always that straight-forward, but why?</li><li>(06:39) If someone tells you this one thing….run away from them.</li><li>(07:20) What has changed in the last few years with deliverability?</li><li>(08:24) The “good old days” of email marketing.</li><li>(09:13) What should we be doing to increase engagement?</li><li>(10:49) Adrian can <strong><em>double</em></strong> your open rate in 3 seconds.</li><li>(12:28) You really need to keep on top of this if you want your engagement to stay tip-top.</li><li>(13:00) Replies and forwards are nice…but how much do they <strong><em>really</em></strong> help?</li><li>(15:07) Do you email everyone in your list? If so, you need to listen to this.&nbsp;</li><li>(16:52) Let’s get “techy” for a moment. This is going to help you almost immediately.</li><li>(18:17) The power of segmenting, but not in the way you may be doing it already.</li><li>(19:42) One of the things <strong><em>we</em></strong> do in our first email to help with engagement.</li><li>(20:19) The very best subject line Adrian has ever used. It’s insanely simple…and it works.</li></ul><br/><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-get-people-to-forward-your-emails-and-grow-your-list/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">79c98962-3929-4671-8d1a-ccfcd6bce020</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/b5749e3e-0f60-4c78-a2df-adc5b1fcb892/4oFF-D5jR4KMH5TucxoK6YmE.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/ddad797d-2054-4c41-8b95-d583406ac846/adrien-savage.mp3" length="47607977" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>24:48</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>70</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>70</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Why Sending An Email Will NOT Make You Sales</title><itunes:title>Why Sending An Email Will NOT Make You Sales</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Feeling disheartened because you’ve been sending emails and you’re not making any sales?</p><p>Fear not, we’re going to help you to fix this from today, and it’s probably a lot more simple than you think.</p><p>Email marketing is still (and probably will be for a long time to come), one of the very best ways to make sales in your business.</p><p>The only problem is, many businesses get this wrong and then give up.</p><p>But what if we could tell you how to get it <strong><em>right?</em></strong></p><p>If you’re ready to make your email marketing work for you and get you more of those beautiful $$$$, fasten your seat belts and tune in.</p><h2><strong>Why Sending An Email Will NOT Make You Sales</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(03:18) So, you’ve emailed your list and no one has bought anything…what’s gone wrong?</li><li>(04:15) One of our clients experienced this problem with his own customers (and they weren’t even free subscribers).</li><li>(05:00) What was the <strong><em>one</em></strong> thing Rob told this guy to do, to turn this around?</li><li>(07:03) Remember that movies CATS? Yes, it was awful. But there’s a great point to this story, we promise.</li><li>(08:04) Yeah but, what the hell has this got to do with emails?</li><li>(08:57) What is reeeeeally beautiful about email marketing.</li><li>(10:12) You <strong><em>must</em></strong> remember this when you send your emails.</li><li>(11:27) Evidence that this strategy really WORKS.</li><li>(12:39) Another thing you have to contend with when sending out your emails.&nbsp;</li><li>(13:22) How do you avoid annoying your audience?&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(14:46) What about the good old “snow ball” emails”</li><li>(16:33) Where people go wrong with this and how to fix it.</li><li>(17:19) Why do we even call them “snow ball” emails in the first place?</li><li>(18:13) Writing your emails in less than 5 minutes? YES PLEASE.</li><li>(19:33) The day Kennedy forgot to send an email. It was a dark day for him….but it made an awesome subject line.</li></ul><br/><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/des-open?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=post&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=shownotes&amp;utm_campaign=podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>The Complete Daily Email Strategy</strong></a></p><p>Send high-converting emails that people will LOVE to receive and make sales, without battling writer's block, spending hours writing emails or annoying your subscribers. <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/des-open?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=post&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=shownotes&amp;utm_campaign=podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pick up your copy here</a>.</p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=post&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=shownotes&amp;utm_campaign=podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p>The League is packed with everything you need to get your email marketing taken care of. Full campaigns every month, live trainings, Q&amp;A sessions and more. <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=post&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=shownotes&amp;utm_campaign=podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Check it out here</a>.</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Feeling disheartened because you’ve been sending emails and you’re not making any sales?</p><p>Fear not, we’re going to help you to fix this from today, and it’s probably a lot more simple than you think.</p><p>Email marketing is still (and probably will be for a long time to come), one of the very best ways to make sales in your business.</p><p>The only problem is, many businesses get this wrong and then give up.</p><p>But what if we could tell you how to get it <strong><em>right?</em></strong></p><p>If you’re ready to make your email marketing work for you and get you more of those beautiful $$$$, fasten your seat belts and tune in.</p><h2><strong>Why Sending An Email Will NOT Make You Sales</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(03:18) So, you’ve emailed your list and no one has bought anything…what’s gone wrong?</li><li>(04:15) One of our clients experienced this problem with his own customers (and they weren’t even free subscribers).</li><li>(05:00) What was the <strong><em>one</em></strong> thing Rob told this guy to do, to turn this around?</li><li>(07:03) Remember that movies CATS? Yes, it was awful. But there’s a great point to this story, we promise.</li><li>(08:04) Yeah but, what the hell has this got to do with emails?</li><li>(08:57) What is reeeeeally beautiful about email marketing.</li><li>(10:12) You <strong><em>must</em></strong> remember this when you send your emails.</li><li>(11:27) Evidence that this strategy really WORKS.</li><li>(12:39) Another thing you have to contend with when sending out your emails.&nbsp;</li><li>(13:22) How do you avoid annoying your audience?&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(14:46) What about the good old “snow ball” emails”</li><li>(16:33) Where people go wrong with this and how to fix it.</li><li>(17:19) Why do we even call them “snow ball” emails in the first place?</li><li>(18:13) Writing your emails in less than 5 minutes? YES PLEASE.</li><li>(19:33) The day Kennedy forgot to send an email. It was a dark day for him….but it made an awesome subject line.</li></ul><br/><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/des-open?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=post&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=shownotes&amp;utm_campaign=podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>The Complete Daily Email Strategy</strong></a></p><p>Send high-converting emails that people will LOVE to receive and make sales, without battling writer's block, spending hours writing emails or annoying your subscribers. <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/des-open?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=post&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=shownotes&amp;utm_campaign=podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pick up your copy here</a>.</p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=post&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=shownotes&amp;utm_campaign=podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p>The League is packed with everything you need to get your email marketing taken care of. Full campaigns every month, live trainings, Q&amp;A sessions and more. <a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league?utm_source=EMH-Blog&amp;utm_medium=post&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=shownotes&amp;utm_campaign=podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Check it out here</a>.</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/why-sending-an-email-will-not-make-you-sales/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">7569c5f8-0bb5-4e35-bb36-7943c62855cf</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/8d43e758-13b8-4432-b89e-12540d96b1cc/dKfxtH2XWwS38QAcJPDupXQC.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/80e4de7b-72f7-44f8-9843-4bf16bd0b1a9/why-sending-an-email-will-not-make-you-sales.mp3" length="43708418" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>22:46</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>69</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>69</podcast:episode></item><item><title>The Right Way To Run Viral Contests To Build Your Email List With Travis Ketchum</title><itunes:title>The Right Way To Run Viral Contests To Build Your Email List With Travis Ketchum</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>We all love winning free stuff, I am right?!</p><p>Winning a contest is great, but <strong><em>running</em></strong> a contest can be an incredible way of spreading the word about your brand and getting tonnes of new sales.&nbsp;</p><p>That said, there are definitely right ways and (very) wrong ways to go about this.</p><p>Travis Ketchum is the Founder of <a href="https://contestdomination.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Contest Domination</a> with over 20k customers, and <a href="https://campaignrefinery.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Campaign Refinery</a> which processes over 300 million emails a MONTH. He knows <strong><em>exactly</em></strong> how to run contests like a BOSS, leading to heaps of new leads and sales and he’s here to teach you how to do it, in this episode.</p><h2><strong>The Right Way To Run Viral Contests to Build Your Email List with Travis Ketchum</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:22) It’s two truths and a lie…and it’s Rob turn to guess. You can do it Rob!</li><li>(04:20) The great thing about running a contest…when run it properly.</li><li>(05:40) This is how you make the contest <strong><em>super</em></strong> effective.</li><li>(07:24) Which prize should you giveaway? You need to get this right.</li><li>(08:45) One of Travis’ old clients got this very wrong.</li><li>(10:28) OK, but what about all the people who <strong><em>didn’t</em></strong> win? Won't they hate you now?</li><li>(12:50) Kennedy’s mind is BLOWN by this.</li><li>(14:08) The power of the consolation prize.</li><li>(14:42) What if you only sell one thing…should that be your prize?</li><li>(18:10) Making the shift to selling a new product? Keep listening.&nbsp;</li><li>(19:18) One of the biggest mistake coaches and gurus make when running a contest.</li><li>(21:30) This is an easy mistake to make, but you don’t need to make it.</li><li>(23:26) This subject line of the week is ridiculously simple…. it’s genius.</li></ul><br/><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We all love winning free stuff, I am right?!</p><p>Winning a contest is great, but <strong><em>running</em></strong> a contest can be an incredible way of spreading the word about your brand and getting tonnes of new sales.&nbsp;</p><p>That said, there are definitely right ways and (very) wrong ways to go about this.</p><p>Travis Ketchum is the Founder of <a href="https://contestdomination.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Contest Domination</a> with over 20k customers, and <a href="https://campaignrefinery.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Campaign Refinery</a> which processes over 300 million emails a MONTH. He knows <strong><em>exactly</em></strong> how to run contests like a BOSS, leading to heaps of new leads and sales and he’s here to teach you how to do it, in this episode.</p><h2><strong>The Right Way To Run Viral Contests to Build Your Email List with Travis Ketchum</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:22) It’s two truths and a lie…and it’s Rob turn to guess. You can do it Rob!</li><li>(04:20) The great thing about running a contest…when run it properly.</li><li>(05:40) This is how you make the contest <strong><em>super</em></strong> effective.</li><li>(07:24) Which prize should you giveaway? You need to get this right.</li><li>(08:45) One of Travis’ old clients got this very wrong.</li><li>(10:28) OK, but what about all the people who <strong><em>didn’t</em></strong> win? Won't they hate you now?</li><li>(12:50) Kennedy’s mind is BLOWN by this.</li><li>(14:08) The power of the consolation prize.</li><li>(14:42) What if you only sell one thing…should that be your prize?</li><li>(18:10) Making the shift to selling a new product? Keep listening.&nbsp;</li><li>(19:18) One of the biggest mistake coaches and gurus make when running a contest.</li><li>(21:30) This is an easy mistake to make, but you don’t need to make it.</li><li>(23:26) This subject line of the week is ridiculously simple…. it’s genius.</li></ul><br/><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/the-right-way-to-run-viral-contests-to-build-your-email-list-with-travis-ketchum/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">dac7f9ee-08bf-4a05-8301-5b81ab762e30</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/6df1ef72-9a71-4b15-992f-ed222244f208/u7fjh-t6oiptfnbngfznzvc4.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/d1284d14-2ded-4c6c-9862-16c38a4891ea/travis-ketchum.mp3" length="50414155" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>26:15</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>68</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>68</podcast:episode></item><item><title>6 Lessons We Learned From Launching And Growing Our Membership Site</title><itunes:title>6 Lessons We Learned From Launching And Growing Our Membership Site</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Memberships sites are HUGE right now and new ones continue to pop up every day.</p><p>Some aren’t great…and some are insanely successful raking in millions.</p><p>Last year, we created our very own first ever membership site called The League, aimed at people people who want to maximise their sales using email marketing.</p><p>We’ve built up a great community of members and we’ve <strong><em>loved</em></strong> watching it grow over the last year.</p><p>However, it certainly hasn’t all been plain sailing and there were definitely some lessons learnt along the way which would cause us to do some things differently, if we were ever to create another membership site.</p><p>So, if you’re thinking about starting <strong><em>your</em></strong> own membership site, we want to share with you six of the major lessons we’ve learnt while creating and growing The League.</p><h2><strong>6 Lessons We Learned From Launching and Growing Our Membership Site</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:32) We launched our own membership site last year...and have learnt a LOT.</li><li>(03:11) One of the biggest challenges we all have in our own businesses.</li><li>(04:47) How we started our site…it probably wasn’t how you’d imagine, but it worked a treat.</li><li>(05:13) And this right here is one of the biggest reasons why we love email so much.</li><li>(06:27) Don’t make the same mistake so many other membership site creators make.</li><li>(08:06) This tip is so simple to execute, and you new members will love you for it.</li><li>(10:15) Because sometimes, less is more.</li><li>(11:16) We were guilty of this third lesson and know plenty others who have done this too.&nbsp;</li><li>(13:34) This next lesson will help you sell to non-members <strong><em>without</em></strong> having to reinvent the wheel each week.&nbsp;</li><li>(15:04) Ever heard the phrase “don’t tar everyone with the same brush”?</li><li>(16:42) Emailing on Christmas day? Say whaaaaat?!</li><li>(18:47) Let’s do a quick recap for those of you with terrible memories.</li><li>(19:36) Want to discuss this further? Here’s how to do it!</li><li>(20:08) This subject line of the week is from one of our very own member’s and it’s purrrfect.</li></ul><br/><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Memberships sites are HUGE right now and new ones continue to pop up every day.</p><p>Some aren’t great…and some are insanely successful raking in millions.</p><p>Last year, we created our very own first ever membership site called The League, aimed at people people who want to maximise their sales using email marketing.</p><p>We’ve built up a great community of members and we’ve <strong><em>loved</em></strong> watching it grow over the last year.</p><p>However, it certainly hasn’t all been plain sailing and there were definitely some lessons learnt along the way which would cause us to do some things differently, if we were ever to create another membership site.</p><p>So, if you’re thinking about starting <strong><em>your</em></strong> own membership site, we want to share with you six of the major lessons we’ve learnt while creating and growing The League.</p><h2><strong>6 Lessons We Learned From Launching and Growing Our Membership Site</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:32) We launched our own membership site last year...and have learnt a LOT.</li><li>(03:11) One of the biggest challenges we all have in our own businesses.</li><li>(04:47) How we started our site…it probably wasn’t how you’d imagine, but it worked a treat.</li><li>(05:13) And this right here is one of the biggest reasons why we love email so much.</li><li>(06:27) Don’t make the same mistake so many other membership site creators make.</li><li>(08:06) This tip is so simple to execute, and you new members will love you for it.</li><li>(10:15) Because sometimes, less is more.</li><li>(11:16) We were guilty of this third lesson and know plenty others who have done this too.&nbsp;</li><li>(13:34) This next lesson will help you sell to non-members <strong><em>without</em></strong> having to reinvent the wheel each week.&nbsp;</li><li>(15:04) Ever heard the phrase “don’t tar everyone with the same brush”?</li><li>(16:42) Emailing on Christmas day? Say whaaaaat?!</li><li>(18:47) Let’s do a quick recap for those of you with terrible memories.</li><li>(19:36) Want to discuss this further? Here’s how to do it!</li><li>(20:08) This subject line of the week is from one of our very own member’s and it’s purrrfect.</li></ul><br/><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/6-lessons-we-learned-from-launching-and-growing-our-membership-site/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">6699f79f-9da2-47c5-881e-a07b66e5e916</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c0447a2a-8ef4-4b08-ba7a-e70ab03760c3/ws-8h5g2gsjfsmetdowfyjn2.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/2c9236f7-ee5e-4042-9e0a-15f70aa3b2fe/6-lessons-from-launch-our-membership-site.mp3" length="43138322" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>22:28</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>67</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>67</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How To Sell Without Price Cutting or Pushing with Mike Montague from Sandler Training</title><itunes:title>How To Sell Without Price Cutting or Pushing with Mike Montague from Sandler Training</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Offer a discount and the sales will always come flooding in, right?</p><p>But what happens when you put your course back up to its full price?</p><p>In many cases….tumble weed.</p><p>Discounting is used by so many of us because it’s seen as the easiest and quickest way to sell something.</p><p>But the problem with this is that it can actually make it a lot more<strong><em> difficult </em></strong>to sell, especially when you want to put your courses or products back up to their full price…the price you <strong><em>deserve</em></strong> to sell it at.</p><p><a href="https://www.sandler.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sandler Training’s</a> Global Head of Content and co-writer of <a href="The Sandler Way," rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">LinkedIn: The Sandler Way,</a> Mike Montague joins us in this episode to tell us how to sell effectively, <strong><em>without</em></strong> using discounts.</p><p>So if you’re sick of only selling your stuff when you offer it for peanuts….tune in.</p><h2><strong>How To Sell Without Price Cutting or Pushing with Mike Montague from Sandler Training</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:26) This week’s two lies and a truth has some big names in it.&nbsp;</li><li>(03:49) One of the things many of us really struggle with when it comes to selling.</li><li>(06:19) The problem with discounted offers…have you done this?</li><li>(06:55) The four magic words that can transform the way you sell…without discounts.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(08:24) How can you get people to stop comparing your price to others?</li><li>(10:21) The lazy way might be easier, but it isn’t always the best way.</li><li>(10:54) How to get people to buy without having the scary count-down timer.&nbsp;</li><li>(11:57) Is there <strong><em>ever</em></strong> a time and place for discounting your stuff?</li><li>(13:49) Having the right “qualification”.</li><li>(14:54) The power of the invitation. And no, we don’t mean to your birthday party.</li><li>(15:54) The power of gifts, because who doesn’t love gifts?!</li><li>(18:27) Even more great options instead of offering a discount. Do you do any of these?</li><li>(19:25) This option sounds a tad scary, but we’ve seen it work amazingly for some people.&nbsp;</li><li>(22:49) It’s subject line of the week time and Mike has chosen THREE...because he can.</li></ul><br/><p><br></p><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><br></p><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Offer a discount and the sales will always come flooding in, right?</p><p>But what happens when you put your course back up to its full price?</p><p>In many cases….tumble weed.</p><p>Discounting is used by so many of us because it’s seen as the easiest and quickest way to sell something.</p><p>But the problem with this is that it can actually make it a lot more<strong><em> difficult </em></strong>to sell, especially when you want to put your courses or products back up to their full price…the price you <strong><em>deserve</em></strong> to sell it at.</p><p><a href="https://www.sandler.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sandler Training’s</a> Global Head of Content and co-writer of <a href="The Sandler Way," rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">LinkedIn: The Sandler Way,</a> Mike Montague joins us in this episode to tell us how to sell effectively, <strong><em>without</em></strong> using discounts.</p><p>So if you’re sick of only selling your stuff when you offer it for peanuts….tune in.</p><h2><strong>How To Sell Without Price Cutting or Pushing with Mike Montague from Sandler Training</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:26) This week’s two lies and a truth has some big names in it.&nbsp;</li><li>(03:49) One of the things many of us really struggle with when it comes to selling.</li><li>(06:19) The problem with discounted offers…have you done this?</li><li>(06:55) The four magic words that can transform the way you sell…without discounts.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(08:24) How can you get people to stop comparing your price to others?</li><li>(10:21) The lazy way might be easier, but it isn’t always the best way.</li><li>(10:54) How to get people to buy without having the scary count-down timer.&nbsp;</li><li>(11:57) Is there <strong><em>ever</em></strong> a time and place for discounting your stuff?</li><li>(13:49) Having the right “qualification”.</li><li>(14:54) The power of the invitation. And no, we don’t mean to your birthday party.</li><li>(15:54) The power of gifts, because who doesn’t love gifts?!</li><li>(18:27) Even more great options instead of offering a discount. Do you do any of these?</li><li>(19:25) This option sounds a tad scary, but we’ve seen it work amazingly for some people.&nbsp;</li><li>(22:49) It’s subject line of the week time and Mike has chosen THREE...because he can.</li></ul><br/><p><br></p><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><br></p><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-sell-without-price-cutting-or-pushing-with-mike-montague-from-sandler-training/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">e0052eac-1eb8-4936-b61c-24bea0fe7785</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/8c94413e-2521-41d8-9202-f2e96d2d77cb/wfjujdfuop7n-ryhjz5wdfyg.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/abdf2a31-8d6d-4d14-b170-e48cde9826dc/mike-20montague.mp3" length="48654547" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>25:20</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>66</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>66</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Predictions of Email Marketing 2021</title><itunes:title>Predictions of Email Marketing 2021</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>It’s 2021 and emailing marketing is still one of the best ways to grow your business and get more sales.</p><p>But are there going to be any changes to how email marketing works and performs this year?</p><p>More importantly, how can you ensure that your own email marketing is as effective as possible?</p><p>In a world of never-ending changes and updates, we want to help you get the very best out of your emails, so in this episode, we’re going to give you our predictions of where we think email marketing is heading, in 2021.</p><h2><strong>Predictions of Email Marketing 2021</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:25) It’s a brand-new year…what’s going to change?</li><li>(02:48) One of the biggest things we talk about and are continuing to talk about.</li><li>(04:33) Is your big list actually paying your bills?</li><li>(05:22) The people who actually LOVE receiving your emails.</li><li>(06:38) Why should people open your emails in the first place?</li><li>(08:07) “Yay! another catalogue has been posted through my letterbox. Let's throw it away.”&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(09:33) Marks and Spencer do this very well (and we’re not just talking about their food).</li><li>(10:15) If you’re not already doing this, you need to start this year…or right now.&nbsp;</li><li>(12:27) The reason people stop opening your awesome emails.</li><li>(13:01) One of the very best things you can do with this strategy.&nbsp;</li><li>(14:29) We think this next thing is going to increase, so make sure you jump onboard.&nbsp;</li><li>(15:59) If you do the above thing, it’s going to solve something BIG.</li><li>(17:43) We think this acronym is going to really catch on!</li><li>(18:08) OK, but how can you actually apply all of this?</li><li>(18:39) This week’s subject line of the week is bit of a naughty one.</li></ul><br/><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><br></p><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It’s 2021 and emailing marketing is still one of the best ways to grow your business and get more sales.</p><p>But are there going to be any changes to how email marketing works and performs this year?</p><p>More importantly, how can you ensure that your own email marketing is as effective as possible?</p><p>In a world of never-ending changes and updates, we want to help you get the very best out of your emails, so in this episode, we’re going to give you our predictions of where we think email marketing is heading, in 2021.</p><h2><strong>Predictions of Email Marketing 2021</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:25) It’s a brand-new year…what’s going to change?</li><li>(02:48) One of the biggest things we talk about and are continuing to talk about.</li><li>(04:33) Is your big list actually paying your bills?</li><li>(05:22) The people who actually LOVE receiving your emails.</li><li>(06:38) Why should people open your emails in the first place?</li><li>(08:07) “Yay! another catalogue has been posted through my letterbox. Let's throw it away.”&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(09:33) Marks and Spencer do this very well (and we’re not just talking about their food).</li><li>(10:15) If you’re not already doing this, you need to start this year…or right now.&nbsp;</li><li>(12:27) The reason people stop opening your awesome emails.</li><li>(13:01) One of the very best things you can do with this strategy.&nbsp;</li><li>(14:29) We think this next thing is going to increase, so make sure you jump onboard.&nbsp;</li><li>(15:59) If you do the above thing, it’s going to solve something BIG.</li><li>(17:43) We think this acronym is going to really catch on!</li><li>(18:08) OK, but how can you actually apply all of this?</li><li>(18:39) This week’s subject line of the week is bit of a naughty one.</li></ul><br/><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><br></p><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/predictions-of-email-marketing-2021/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c41429d-12be-4453-b889-94fb1e693374</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/0b943e71-6172-482c-912f-25724ca61419/8dplm76ax-1ondxtply69rrj.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/ae755e63-93a4-4da4-8eb5-982055e710f8/predictions-of-email-marketing-2021.mp3" length="40475086" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>21:05</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>65</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>65</podcast:episode></item><item><title>5 Types of Content That Creates Buyers and &apos;Assignment Selling&apos; with Marcus Sheridan from They Ask You Answer</title><itunes:title>5 Types of Content That Creates Buyers and &apos;Assignment Selling&apos; with Marcus Sheridan from They Ask You Answer</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>You know you should be emailing more often, but how the hell are you supposed to come up with all of the content?</p><p>More importantly, how can you make sure each and every one of your emails is getting your audience closer to buying from you?</p><p>Author of the incredible game-changing content marketing book ‘They Ask You Answer’, Marcus Sherridan is here to absolutely revolutionize the way you think about your emails by going through the 5 subjects that in his words, “move the needle in every single industry”. &nbsp;</p><p>He also discusses the incredibly effective approach, ‘assignment selling’ and how you can use this to quicken your sales process and massively increase your close rate…..because who doesn’t want <strong><em>that</em></strong>?</p><h2><strong>5 Types of Content That Creates Buyers and 'Assignment Selling' with Marcus Sheridan from They Ask You Answer</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:13) It’s two lies and a truth and Rob’s turn again - will he <strong><em>ever</em></strong> catch up with Kennedy?</li><li>(04:38) So, how do you come up with things to say in your emails?</li><li>(05:50) The main reason why the 5 subjects work so well in every industry.</li><li>(06:15) Subject number 1 - most companies don’t know how to talk about this in the right way.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(07:36) Subject number 2 is something we don’t usually search for until we’re serious about buying it... which is why it’s perfect.</li><li>(08:25) Subject number 3 - have you done your due diligence?</li><li>(09:22) Subject number 4 is something we are <strong><em>all</em></strong> obsessed with. Yes, even you!</li><li>(09:59) Subject number 5 and it’s "simply the best."</li><li>(10:47) OK, but where and when should you use these 5 subjects within your emails?&nbsp;</li><li>(11:23) The hostage situation and honest reviews about yourself. It’ll make sense, we promise.</li><li>(15:14) Very few business do this, which is exactly why you <strong><em>should</em></strong>.</li><li>(15:54) Assignment selling and what Marcus does differently.</li><li>(17:48) How to stop wasting your valuable time by using assignment selling.</li><li>(20:31) What sort of questions should you be asking?</li><li>(21:53) How you can incorporate assignment selling in your emails….because that’s probably why you’re listening to this, right?</li><li>(22:55) Being more demanding <strong><em>and</em></strong> closing more sales? We’re in.</li><li>(24:49) Have you ever been ghosted before? This subject line leads to an answer in 90% of the time on the very same day.</li></ul><br/><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know you should be emailing more often, but how the hell are you supposed to come up with all of the content?</p><p>More importantly, how can you make sure each and every one of your emails is getting your audience closer to buying from you?</p><p>Author of the incredible game-changing content marketing book ‘They Ask You Answer’, Marcus Sherridan is here to absolutely revolutionize the way you think about your emails by going through the 5 subjects that in his words, “move the needle in every single industry”. &nbsp;</p><p>He also discusses the incredibly effective approach, ‘assignment selling’ and how you can use this to quicken your sales process and massively increase your close rate…..because who doesn’t want <strong><em>that</em></strong>?</p><h2><strong>5 Types of Content That Creates Buyers and 'Assignment Selling' with Marcus Sheridan from They Ask You Answer</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:13) It’s two lies and a truth and Rob’s turn again - will he <strong><em>ever</em></strong> catch up with Kennedy?</li><li>(04:38) So, how do you come up with things to say in your emails?</li><li>(05:50) The main reason why the 5 subjects work so well in every industry.</li><li>(06:15) Subject number 1 - most companies don’t know how to talk about this in the right way.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(07:36) Subject number 2 is something we don’t usually search for until we’re serious about buying it... which is why it’s perfect.</li><li>(08:25) Subject number 3 - have you done your due diligence?</li><li>(09:22) Subject number 4 is something we are <strong><em>all</em></strong> obsessed with. Yes, even you!</li><li>(09:59) Subject number 5 and it’s "simply the best."</li><li>(10:47) OK, but where and when should you use these 5 subjects within your emails?&nbsp;</li><li>(11:23) The hostage situation and honest reviews about yourself. It’ll make sense, we promise.</li><li>(15:14) Very few business do this, which is exactly why you <strong><em>should</em></strong>.</li><li>(15:54) Assignment selling and what Marcus does differently.</li><li>(17:48) How to stop wasting your valuable time by using assignment selling.</li><li>(20:31) What sort of questions should you be asking?</li><li>(21:53) How you can incorporate assignment selling in your emails….because that’s probably why you’re listening to this, right?</li><li>(22:55) Being more demanding <strong><em>and</em></strong> closing more sales? We’re in.</li><li>(24:49) Have you ever been ghosted before? This subject line leads to an answer in 90% of the time on the very same day.</li></ul><br/><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/5-types-of-content-that-creates-buyers-and-assignment-selling-with-marcus-sherridan-from-they-ask-you-answer/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">30ec9e7e-bbf5-42da-a42f-ac7fae96ede5</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/2b0f57af-8ed8-4ded-84fa-1a82c65f05b3/t2g6ifn0sjenophfw1xprag2.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/0bdc59af-32ff-4e03-9da7-f884e4e69a85/marcus-sherridan.mp3" length="58355380" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>30:23</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>64</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>64</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Making Sales With Email Marketing, Faster</title><itunes:title>Making Sales With Email Marketing, Faster</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Let’s get real for a minute. The main reason we all do email marketing is to make sales, right?</p><p>Maybe you’ve been doing your email marketing for a while and sales are trickling in every now and then, after people have been on your list for a few months.</p><p>Maybe you’re struggling to make any sales at all.</p><p>If either of these are the case and you want to figure out how you can not only make more sales, but make sales <strong><em>faster</em></strong>, we’ve got you covered.</p><h2><strong>Making Sales With Email Marketing, Faster</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:52) Are your new subscribers that friend who has shown up late to the party?</li><li>(04:00) What you don’t want to do with your email marketing.&nbsp;</li><li>(06:12) The main goal with lead magnets and why you might be doing it wrong.&nbsp;</li><li>(06:57) The reason why you might be getting spam reports and unsubscribes.</li><li>(07:35) OK, but how can we fix this?</li><li>(08:55) What you need to do and <strong><em>how</em></strong> you can do it.</li><li>(10:16) How <strong><em>we</em></strong> like to teach this.</li><li>(12:55) Seeing this in action with one of our members. It was so powerful!&nbsp;</li><li>(13:59) This is the fastest way to make sure you get sales.</li><li>(14:44) When the day to day emails work well.</li><li>(15:54) Fear not. We’re not leaving you high and dry on this.</li><li>(15:50) Rob’s David and Goliath subject line of the week.</li></ul><br/><p><br></p><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><br></p><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let’s get real for a minute. The main reason we all do email marketing is to make sales, right?</p><p>Maybe you’ve been doing your email marketing for a while and sales are trickling in every now and then, after people have been on your list for a few months.</p><p>Maybe you’re struggling to make any sales at all.</p><p>If either of these are the case and you want to figure out how you can not only make more sales, but make sales <strong><em>faster</em></strong>, we’ve got you covered.</p><h2><strong>Making Sales With Email Marketing, Faster</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:52) Are your new subscribers that friend who has shown up late to the party?</li><li>(04:00) What you don’t want to do with your email marketing.&nbsp;</li><li>(06:12) The main goal with lead magnets and why you might be doing it wrong.&nbsp;</li><li>(06:57) The reason why you might be getting spam reports and unsubscribes.</li><li>(07:35) OK, but how can we fix this?</li><li>(08:55) What you need to do and <strong><em>how</em></strong> you can do it.</li><li>(10:16) How <strong><em>we</em></strong> like to teach this.</li><li>(12:55) Seeing this in action with one of our members. It was so powerful!&nbsp;</li><li>(13:59) This is the fastest way to make sure you get sales.</li><li>(14:44) When the day to day emails work well.</li><li>(15:54) Fear not. We’re not leaving you high and dry on this.</li><li>(15:50) Rob’s David and Goliath subject line of the week.</li></ul><br/><p><br></p><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><br></p><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/making-sales-with-email-marketing-faster/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">57da4b71-8a09-4277-990c-5e95cdc505af</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/468e16f9-15d7-44e4-a68a-a154b212e0ea/85mmtqvxhppbza-rbznozrwx.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2021 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/ca8e23db-1af2-44b0-b55e-b07f3dcca6b0/making-sales-with-email-marketing-faster.mp3" length="37146459" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>19:21</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>63</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>63</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Beautiful Email Design That Make Sales - Matthew Smith from Really Good Emails</title><itunes:title>Beautiful Email Design That Make Sales - Matthew Smith from Really Good Emails</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>We’ve always told you that emails don’t need necessarily need to be visually stunning to work well for you and your core objective of making sales.</p><p>Why bother spending hours of your time adding graphics left, right and center when you could simply get your point across in less than 20 mins?</p><p>But, what if changing your emails from the current layout you’re currently using could help to bring you more click through and more sales?</p><p>Even better, what if you could make your emails much more visually appealing and effective <strong><em>without </em></strong> having killer design skills?&nbsp;</p><p>Working with the likes of MIT, Seth Godin and Gates Foundation (to name a few), our latest guest, Matthew Smith of <a href="https://reallygoodemails.com/about" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Really Good Emails</a> is here to tell us how putting a little more thought into our email design could help us yield even better results.</p><p>We’re all ears!...</p><h2><strong>Beautiful Email Design That Make Sales - Matthew Smith from Really Good Emails</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:16) It’s two lies and a truth about Matthew and Rob really didn’t want it to be this one.</li><li>(03:32) Just how important are visuals in an email?&nbsp;</li><li>(05:08) Graphic-design-heavy - do we have to?</li><li>(07:05) Matthew’s face-palm moments with terrible emails.</li><li>(09:02) What should a game of golf and your emails have in common?&nbsp;</li><li>(10:10) Should we be fearful of emails not loading properly?</li><li>(12:26) But Kennedy’s not a designer, god dammit!</li><li>(14:05) Why you don’t have to be a Picasso of emails to have awesome emails.&nbsp;</li><li>(16:01) Does this all apply to coaches and course creators?</li><li>(17:32) Cheap dirty pizzas don’t need fancy flyers. But what about your emails?&nbsp;</li><li>(20:22) Find out how graphics can further your conversion rate.</li><li>(22:26) Some people just need a little push.&nbsp;</li><li>(24:43) This week’s subject line of the week and the hidden treasure within your junk folder.&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><br></p><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We’ve always told you that emails don’t need necessarily need to be visually stunning to work well for you and your core objective of making sales.</p><p>Why bother spending hours of your time adding graphics left, right and center when you could simply get your point across in less than 20 mins?</p><p>But, what if changing your emails from the current layout you’re currently using could help to bring you more click through and more sales?</p><p>Even better, what if you could make your emails much more visually appealing and effective <strong><em>without </em></strong> having killer design skills?&nbsp;</p><p>Working with the likes of MIT, Seth Godin and Gates Foundation (to name a few), our latest guest, Matthew Smith of <a href="https://reallygoodemails.com/about" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Really Good Emails</a> is here to tell us how putting a little more thought into our email design could help us yield even better results.</p><p>We’re all ears!...</p><h2><strong>Beautiful Email Design That Make Sales - Matthew Smith from Really Good Emails</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:16) It’s two lies and a truth about Matthew and Rob really didn’t want it to be this one.</li><li>(03:32) Just how important are visuals in an email?&nbsp;</li><li>(05:08) Graphic-design-heavy - do we have to?</li><li>(07:05) Matthew’s face-palm moments with terrible emails.</li><li>(09:02) What should a game of golf and your emails have in common?&nbsp;</li><li>(10:10) Should we be fearful of emails not loading properly?</li><li>(12:26) But Kennedy’s not a designer, god dammit!</li><li>(14:05) Why you don’t have to be a Picasso of emails to have awesome emails.&nbsp;</li><li>(16:01) Does this all apply to coaches and course creators?</li><li>(17:32) Cheap dirty pizzas don’t need fancy flyers. But what about your emails?&nbsp;</li><li>(20:22) Find out how graphics can further your conversion rate.</li><li>(22:26) Some people just need a little push.&nbsp;</li><li>(24:43) This week’s subject line of the week and the hidden treasure within your junk folder.&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><br></p><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/beautiful-email-design-that-make-sales-matthew-smith-from-really-good-emails/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">8c44f23d-0d1b-410c-b66f-6c84d06efb72</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/1e8361f4-43b1-44f1-a769-f08e020a077c/htodxp-adpmq1w6g-2ssiqx2.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2020 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/6f8aa82c-e157-46d7-b957-eb93b2969bf6/matthew-smith.mp3" length="56024840" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>29:11</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>62</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>62</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Why Is My Email Marketing Not Working?</title><itunes:title>Why Is My Email Marketing Not Working?</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>So, you’ve been emailing your subscribers every week (or more) but all of your hard work just doesn’t seem to be paying off…</p><p>Your open rates or click-through rates might be lower than you’d like and you may not be making many or even <strong>any</strong> sales at all.</p><p>You might be starting to wonder if there is even any <strong><em>point</em></strong> to email marketing.</p><p>Should you give up? Is your business just not made for email? Would you be better off using homing pigeons to send your mail?</p><p>Well, don't go throwing in the towel just yet...</p><p>What you <strong><em>should</em></strong> be focusing on is how you can fix your email marketing issues and lucky for you, we’re going to help you to do just that…</p><h2><strong>Why Is My Email Marketing Not Working?</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:29) First things first, what does “it’s not working” actually mean?</li><li>(03:10) The biggest problem with open rates.</li><li>(04:36) What is working for YOU?</li><li>(05:30) Why your results might actually be a lot <strong><em>better</em></strong> than you think.&nbsp;</li><li>(06:38) The main metric we really look for to measure success.</li><li>(08:07) The other factor you really need to consider when measuring your email success.</li><li>(09:09) The flip side of this super important factor. Feeling a little better?</li><li>(11:33) OK, so your email definitely isn’t working. How can you improve it?</li><li>(12:32) Do you have your own dickhead@dickhead.com? Kennedy loves him.</li><li>(14:17) What are you training your subscribers to do?</li><li>(16:29) The ‘getting to know you’ sequence and why you absolutely should have this.</li><li>(17:24) How often are you emailing your subscribers?</li><li>(19:10) The one insanely-incredible-undeniable fact about email marketing.</li><li>(20:24) The little dude stroking his goatee and this week’s subject line of the week.</li></ul><br/><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><br></p><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, you’ve been emailing your subscribers every week (or more) but all of your hard work just doesn’t seem to be paying off…</p><p>Your open rates or click-through rates might be lower than you’d like and you may not be making many or even <strong>any</strong> sales at all.</p><p>You might be starting to wonder if there is even any <strong><em>point</em></strong> to email marketing.</p><p>Should you give up? Is your business just not made for email? Would you be better off using homing pigeons to send your mail?</p><p>Well, don't go throwing in the towel just yet...</p><p>What you <strong><em>should</em></strong> be focusing on is how you can fix your email marketing issues and lucky for you, we’re going to help you to do just that…</p><h2><strong>Why Is My Email Marketing Not Working?</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:29) First things first, what does “it’s not working” actually mean?</li><li>(03:10) The biggest problem with open rates.</li><li>(04:36) What is working for YOU?</li><li>(05:30) Why your results might actually be a lot <strong><em>better</em></strong> than you think.&nbsp;</li><li>(06:38) The main metric we really look for to measure success.</li><li>(08:07) The other factor you really need to consider when measuring your email success.</li><li>(09:09) The flip side of this super important factor. Feeling a little better?</li><li>(11:33) OK, so your email definitely isn’t working. How can you improve it?</li><li>(12:32) Do you have your own dickhead@dickhead.com? Kennedy loves him.</li><li>(14:17) What are you training your subscribers to do?</li><li>(16:29) The ‘getting to know you’ sequence and why you absolutely should have this.</li><li>(17:24) How often are you emailing your subscribers?</li><li>(19:10) The one insanely-incredible-undeniable fact about email marketing.</li><li>(20:24) The little dude stroking his goatee and this week’s subject line of the week.</li></ul><br/><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><br></p><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/why-is-my-email-marketing-not-working/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">324d4a07-0b8f-4396-bca6-c80823a10d99</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/029b6dc3-1a3f-4b99-9bd6-74ee5d945f83/gxaega5zmstz7m3l6npcj7oy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2020 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/2dc784aa-ce39-4003-ba59-68d12802709f/why-is-my-email-marketing-not-working-.mp3" length="42234694" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>22:00</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>61</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>61</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Apryl Beverly&apos;s &apos;I Want All The Sales Campaign&apos;</title><itunes:title>Apryl Beverly&apos;s &apos;I Want All The Sales Campaign&apos;</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Known as the <a href="https://baab.biz/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">‘Million-dollar Word Stylist’, Apryl Beverly</a> is QUEEN when it comes to sales and marketing content.</p><p>A twice Amazon best seller and having helped generate over $22 million for her clients, Apryl knows exactly how to hit the sweet spot when it comes to selling through email marketing and that’s exactly what she is going to be sharing with us today…her incredible (and incredibly effective!) “I want all of the sales” campaign.</p><p>So, if you’re looking for a quick cash injection in your business at any time of the year and you want to nail it through your email campaigns, you do <strong>not</strong> want to miss this episode…</p><h2><strong>Apryl Beverly</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:45) Kennedy has really set the bar with this week’s two lies and a truth. Rob is totally stumped!</li><li>(05:27) So what exactly is the “I want all of the sales campaign” and how could it be perfect for you?</li><li>(06:40) When is the best time to use this campaign?</li><li>(08:29) The general set up. This is quite different to our own campaign….but we like it.</li><li>(09:45) What should you be looking to achieve with the very first email?</li><li>(11:19) It’s email number two or as Apryl likes to call it… ‘Club Day’</li><li>(13:26) It’s email three and you can do one of three things…</li><li>(16:17) Email number four is straight up no fluff, and this approach is sometimes exactly what is needed to get results.&nbsp;</li><li>(17:29) The last two nudge emails can have people pouring in if you do these correctly.&nbsp;</li><li>(19:07) What is the angle of the magical last email?&nbsp;</li><li>(19:53) Countdown timers – yay or nay? Apryl gives her view.</li><li>(21:04) The most effective subject line for Apryl.&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/webinar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>FREE Email Marketing Webinar</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Email Marke</strong>ting Heroes</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Known as the <a href="https://baab.biz/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">‘Million-dollar Word Stylist’, Apryl Beverly</a> is QUEEN when it comes to sales and marketing content.</p><p>A twice Amazon best seller and having helped generate over $22 million for her clients, Apryl knows exactly how to hit the sweet spot when it comes to selling through email marketing and that’s exactly what she is going to be sharing with us today…her incredible (and incredibly effective!) “I want all of the sales” campaign.</p><p>So, if you’re looking for a quick cash injection in your business at any time of the year and you want to nail it through your email campaigns, you do <strong>not</strong> want to miss this episode…</p><h2><strong>Apryl Beverly</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:45) Kennedy has really set the bar with this week’s two lies and a truth. Rob is totally stumped!</li><li>(05:27) So what exactly is the “I want all of the sales campaign” and how could it be perfect for you?</li><li>(06:40) When is the best time to use this campaign?</li><li>(08:29) The general set up. This is quite different to our own campaign….but we like it.</li><li>(09:45) What should you be looking to achieve with the very first email?</li><li>(11:19) It’s email number two or as Apryl likes to call it… ‘Club Day’</li><li>(13:26) It’s email three and you can do one of three things…</li><li>(16:17) Email number four is straight up no fluff, and this approach is sometimes exactly what is needed to get results.&nbsp;</li><li>(17:29) The last two nudge emails can have people pouring in if you do these correctly.&nbsp;</li><li>(19:07) What is the angle of the magical last email?&nbsp;</li><li>(19:53) Countdown timers – yay or nay? Apryl gives her view.</li><li>(21:04) The most effective subject line for Apryl.&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/webinar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>FREE Email Marketing Webinar</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Email Marke</strong>ting Heroes</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/apryl-beverlys-i-want-all-the-sales-campaign/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">2b5f0e98-4c62-42e7-bd55-d55b7e76e21e</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/defb49cf-89a7-4997-a1a7-1c4ad4cce869/gx0bddbqehs0rcpurcr0sbg5.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2020 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/7411dfc6-5e36-4653-8e28-45a2d0b2a148/apryl-beverly.mp3" length="45182978" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>23:32</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>60</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>60</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Is Email Marketing Right For Me?</title><itunes:title>Is Email Marketing Right For Me?</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Will email marketing work for you or does it only work for certain businesses?</p><p>If you sell a coaching service, what can you include in your emails that your audience will love and eventually make them want to buy from you?</p><p>If you sell a physical product, surely you can’t just keep trying to sell to your email list every day?…they’ll hate you!</p><p>The thing about email marketing is that there is no “one size fits all” and the chances are, if a business tells you they tried it and it didn’t work for them, they probably just weren’t doing it right.</p><p>So, from dog walking to magicians to selling potatoes, diamonds and everything else in between, we want to show you how to make email marketing work for you, no matter what you do.</p><h2><strong>Is email marketing right for me?</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(01:56) Is email marketing really worth the effort?</li><li>(03:46) “OMG, I’m your first subscriber!”</li><li>(04:23) Are you talking to me, or the whole world?</li><li>(06:14) The one platform where almost ALL audiences in the world gather.</li><li>(09:02) How the most polar-opposite businesses make email work for them.</li><li>(10:30) How to send killer emails when you sell <strong>knowledge</strong>.</li><li>(12:46) How to send killer emails when you sell <strong>products</strong>.</li><li>(14:20) “Yah but, isn’t this going to take up waaaaay too much time?”</li><li>(16:26) One of the main reasons we LOVE to do our emails each day.</li><li>(17:28) A bit of advice if you’re worried about being a crap writer.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(19:32) This week’s subject line of the week will take two sugar lumps and a chocolate digestive, please.&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><br></p><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Will email marketing work for you or does it only work for certain businesses?</p><p>If you sell a coaching service, what can you include in your emails that your audience will love and eventually make them want to buy from you?</p><p>If you sell a physical product, surely you can’t just keep trying to sell to your email list every day?…they’ll hate you!</p><p>The thing about email marketing is that there is no “one size fits all” and the chances are, if a business tells you they tried it and it didn’t work for them, they probably just weren’t doing it right.</p><p>So, from dog walking to magicians to selling potatoes, diamonds and everything else in between, we want to show you how to make email marketing work for you, no matter what you do.</p><h2><strong>Is email marketing right for me?</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(01:56) Is email marketing really worth the effort?</li><li>(03:46) “OMG, I’m your first subscriber!”</li><li>(04:23) Are you talking to me, or the whole world?</li><li>(06:14) The one platform where almost ALL audiences in the world gather.</li><li>(09:02) How the most polar-opposite businesses make email work for them.</li><li>(10:30) How to send killer emails when you sell <strong>knowledge</strong>.</li><li>(12:46) How to send killer emails when you sell <strong>products</strong>.</li><li>(14:20) “Yah but, isn’t this going to take up waaaaay too much time?”</li><li>(16:26) One of the main reasons we LOVE to do our emails each day.</li><li>(17:28) A bit of advice if you’re worried about being a crap writer.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(19:32) This week’s subject line of the week will take two sugar lumps and a chocolate digestive, please.&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><br></p><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/is-email-marketing-right-for-me/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">d561e54e-598f-415e-aa06-633d5a855bfc</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/00bcd3cd-0310-458c-b581-d3bae91b3af0/egj-svsfod8upf3cfofxj8rr.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2020 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/cd71a89a-14c4-452f-b7ce-dcd24f9501e1/is-email-marketing-right-for-me-.mp3" length="41283419" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>21:30</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>59</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>59</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Build A Facebook Group To Build Your Email List With Arne Giske From Group Funnels</title><itunes:title>Build A Facebook Group To Build Your Email List With Arne Giske From Group Funnels</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Our latest guest, Arne Giske is an absolute master of community and conversion, growing a Facebook group of his to over 80k people and making 7-figures along the way.</p><p>We’ve always believed that building a community and email marketing go hand in hand, so we just had to get Arne on the show to help show <strong>you</strong> how to use your own Facebook groups to grow your email list and turn them into those all-important $$$$ we’re all aiming for.</p><p>FYI, if you already have a Facebook group and you realise half-way through that you haven’t been following any of Arne’s advice, don’t panic…it’s not the end of the world and we’ll explain why during the episode.</p><h2><strong>Build a Facebook Group to Build Your Email List with Arne Giske from Group Funnels</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:41) It’s two lies and a truth time and these ones are bloody tough<strong>.</strong></li><li>(04:11) The importance of building communities….is it really <strong><em>that</em></strong> important?</li><li>(05:30) So…why Facebook groups? What’s so special about this platform?</li><li>(06:20) The main advantages of using Facebook groups….we couldn’t agree with Arne more.</li><li>(08:18) This by <strong>far</strong> is our favourite benefit to having your own group.&nbsp;</li><li>(9:29) OK, so this is all great, but…how do you actually get your audience from your group to your email list?</li><li>(11:22) You may have noticed other groups doing this, and if you’re not doing it yet, go and change it right now!</li><li>(12:44) Find out what we recently tested that <strong>significantly</strong> increased our conversion rate on how many people gave us their email.</li><li>(13:51) What are active and passive types of opt ins and more importantly, which ones should you choose?</li><li>(15:54) Arne’s 20% rule will keep you right.</li><li>(17:15) Should you post your offers in your group or is that too much ?&nbsp;</li><li>(20:01) OK, but what if you already have a group and you’ve done <strong>none</strong> of the above?</li><li>(22:33) Arne discusses another amazing benefit to Facebook groups. We’re going to use this more!</li><li>(23:20) This week’s subject line pissed a lot of people off…we love it.</li></ul><br/><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/webinar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>FREE Email Marketing Webinar</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Our latest guest, Arne Giske is an absolute master of community and conversion, growing a Facebook group of his to over 80k people and making 7-figures along the way.</p><p>We’ve always believed that building a community and email marketing go hand in hand, so we just had to get Arne on the show to help show <strong>you</strong> how to use your own Facebook groups to grow your email list and turn them into those all-important $$$$ we’re all aiming for.</p><p>FYI, if you already have a Facebook group and you realise half-way through that you haven’t been following any of Arne’s advice, don’t panic…it’s not the end of the world and we’ll explain why during the episode.</p><h2><strong>Build a Facebook Group to Build Your Email List with Arne Giske from Group Funnels</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:41) It’s two lies and a truth time and these ones are bloody tough<strong>.</strong></li><li>(04:11) The importance of building communities….is it really <strong><em>that</em></strong> important?</li><li>(05:30) So…why Facebook groups? What’s so special about this platform?</li><li>(06:20) The main advantages of using Facebook groups….we couldn’t agree with Arne more.</li><li>(08:18) This by <strong>far</strong> is our favourite benefit to having your own group.&nbsp;</li><li>(9:29) OK, so this is all great, but…how do you actually get your audience from your group to your email list?</li><li>(11:22) You may have noticed other groups doing this, and if you’re not doing it yet, go and change it right now!</li><li>(12:44) Find out what we recently tested that <strong>significantly</strong> increased our conversion rate on how many people gave us their email.</li><li>(13:51) What are active and passive types of opt ins and more importantly, which ones should you choose?</li><li>(15:54) Arne’s 20% rule will keep you right.</li><li>(17:15) Should you post your offers in your group or is that too much ?&nbsp;</li><li>(20:01) OK, but what if you already have a group and you’ve done <strong>none</strong> of the above?</li><li>(22:33) Arne discusses another amazing benefit to Facebook groups. We’re going to use this more!</li><li>(23:20) This week’s subject line pissed a lot of people off…we love it.</li></ul><br/><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/webinar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>FREE Email Marketing Webinar</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/build-a-facebook-group-to-build-your-email-list-with-arne-giske-from-group-funnels/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">8eeb7849-9804-4916-969a-b4e9ecc6e346</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/3eb9f066-2f66-454d-8535-91a1b1d33cb8/5umlzgguyvqmjpahtf49myge.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2020 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/6d33b6e0-a26f-4a9d-aeb8-0ea7221a0de6/arne-giske-fb-groups.mp3" length="52363517" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>27:16</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>58</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>58</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Writing email every day vs batch writing in one go</title><itunes:title>Writing email every day vs batch writing in one go</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Do you like to write your emails as you go, or are you a die-hard batcher?&nbsp;</p><p>Many of us like to live on the edge, writing each and every day, whilst some of us simply couldn't fathom such a thing.</p><p>Whichever approach you prefer…that’s totally cool and you should always choose what works best for YOU and your business.&nbsp;</p><p>However, we wanted to use this episode go through the pros and cons of each approach because there may be some points in here that you haven’t thought about, which&nbsp;<strong><em>could</em></strong> make you think about changing things up…..</p><h2>The Email Marketing Automation <strong>You Should Have In Your Business</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:25) Our goal as the Email Marketing Heroes.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(03:12) What’s the deal with all the copy-cats?&nbsp;</li><li>(05:35) Candles, romantic music and slippers…..the perfect setting for batching, right?</li><li>(07:56) Another big benefit to batching and it’s all in the structure.</li><li>(09:28) The biggest downside to batching….which WILL happen to you at some point.&nbsp;</li><li>(10:36) Are you feeling sad today? Maybe a little p****d off? Or are you ecstatically happy?&nbsp;</li><li>(13:13) This downside to batching is one of the reasons why we tend not to do it.</li><li>(14:27) The main reason we like to write as we go.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(16:42) Something HUGE has just happened in the world. What do you do?</li><li>(19:26) Happy Birthday to us!&nbsp;</li><li>(21:11) Are you a lover of routines?&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(25:08) Kennedy and the joys of crap Airport wi-fi….seriously…why is it always so bad?</li><li>(28:44) A hybrid approach…how could that work well?</li><li>(31:50) How we like to use the hybrid approach.&nbsp;</li><li>(34:44) What are YOU going to do?&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you like to write your emails as you go, or are you a die-hard batcher?&nbsp;</p><p>Many of us like to live on the edge, writing each and every day, whilst some of us simply couldn't fathom such a thing.</p><p>Whichever approach you prefer…that’s totally cool and you should always choose what works best for YOU and your business.&nbsp;</p><p>However, we wanted to use this episode go through the pros and cons of each approach because there may be some points in here that you haven’t thought about, which&nbsp;<strong><em>could</em></strong> make you think about changing things up…..</p><h2>The Email Marketing Automation <strong>You Should Have In Your Business</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:25) Our goal as the Email Marketing Heroes.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(03:12) What’s the deal with all the copy-cats?&nbsp;</li><li>(05:35) Candles, romantic music and slippers…..the perfect setting for batching, right?</li><li>(07:56) Another big benefit to batching and it’s all in the structure.</li><li>(09:28) The biggest downside to batching….which WILL happen to you at some point.&nbsp;</li><li>(10:36) Are you feeling sad today? Maybe a little p****d off? Or are you ecstatically happy?&nbsp;</li><li>(13:13) This downside to batching is one of the reasons why we tend not to do it.</li><li>(14:27) The main reason we like to write as we go.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(16:42) Something HUGE has just happened in the world. What do you do?</li><li>(19:26) Happy Birthday to us!&nbsp;</li><li>(21:11) Are you a lover of routines?&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(25:08) Kennedy and the joys of crap Airport wi-fi….seriously…why is it always so bad?</li><li>(28:44) A hybrid approach…how could that work well?</li><li>(31:50) How we like to use the hybrid approach.&nbsp;</li><li>(34:44) What are YOU going to do?&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/writing-email-every-day-vs-batch-writing-in-one-go/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">3e3f63b0-5c9d-4e96-aa50-9d5258200ee3</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/8392cc1f-ff5d-4e96-9b36-33f46e868a1c/2j4y5j1zbu0rtpbvrlfhtlmc.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2020 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/1144d9cc-ba6b-4713-8f62-314fcf36c46a/writng-email-every-day-vs-batch-writing-in-one-go.mp3" length="71860478" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>37:26</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>57</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>57</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Audience Hacking for Free List Growth with Codie Sanchez and Ilona and Olman from AppSumo</title><itunes:title>Audience Hacking for Free List Growth with Codie Sanchez and Ilona and Olman from AppSumo</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Free email list growth from scratch seems like such a long, hard slog, doesn’t it?&nbsp;</p><p>And unless you’ve got a spare hundred grand to spend on the likes of Facebook Ads, growing your list by 1000 subscribers a WEEK is surely an impossible task…right?&nbsp;</p><p>Well, not necessarily…</p><p>Our latest epic guests, Codie Sanchez and Ilona and Olman from AppSumo are here to tell us all about their incredible new project&nbsp;<a href="https://growgetters.co/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">GrowGetters</a> which documents everything they’re doing to grow their email list&nbsp;<strong>organically</strong> by 1000 subscribers a week.&nbsp;</p><p>The greatest thing about this?&nbsp;</p><p>Anyone can do it....yes even you over there with 2 subscribers.</p><h2><strong>Audience Hacking for Free List Growth with Codie Sanchez and Ilona and Olman from AppSumo</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:42) It’s two lies and a truth time with Codie.</li><li>(03:50) The main behind&nbsp;<strong>why</strong> they started documenting the whole process of growing their email list. Can you relate?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(05:10) What realistically is possible for someone who is just starting out with their list?</li><li>(06:22) This Google Gmail contacts hack is AWESOME.&nbsp;</li><li>(09:10) OK, but what would you do next, after this hack?</li><li>(11:08) The power of giving testimonials and how you can use them to amplify your OWN project.</li><li>(11:56) How do you know which communities to get involved in to grow your list further?&nbsp;</li><li>(14:03) How to get involved in Facebook groups without pissing the group owner off.&nbsp;</li><li>(17:09) Reddit and Quora or as Codie like to call it….the 7th circle of hell.</li><li>(18:30) Contacting BIG names - surely you’re just gonna get ignored?&nbsp;</li><li>(21:23) What’s next in this epic project?&nbsp;</li><li>(24:31) This week’s subject line was an email for&nbsp;<strong>proposal</strong> software that got some great&nbsp;<strong>engagement</strong>……</li></ul><br/><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/webinar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>FREE Email Marketing Webinar</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Free email list growth from scratch seems like such a long, hard slog, doesn’t it?&nbsp;</p><p>And unless you’ve got a spare hundred grand to spend on the likes of Facebook Ads, growing your list by 1000 subscribers a WEEK is surely an impossible task…right?&nbsp;</p><p>Well, not necessarily…</p><p>Our latest epic guests, Codie Sanchez and Ilona and Olman from AppSumo are here to tell us all about their incredible new project&nbsp;<a href="https://growgetters.co/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">GrowGetters</a> which documents everything they’re doing to grow their email list&nbsp;<strong>organically</strong> by 1000 subscribers a week.&nbsp;</p><p>The greatest thing about this?&nbsp;</p><p>Anyone can do it....yes even you over there with 2 subscribers.</p><h2><strong>Audience Hacking for Free List Growth with Codie Sanchez and Ilona and Olman from AppSumo</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:42) It’s two lies and a truth time with Codie.</li><li>(03:50) The main behind&nbsp;<strong>why</strong> they started documenting the whole process of growing their email list. Can you relate?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(05:10) What realistically is possible for someone who is just starting out with their list?</li><li>(06:22) This Google Gmail contacts hack is AWESOME.&nbsp;</li><li>(09:10) OK, but what would you do next, after this hack?</li><li>(11:08) The power of giving testimonials and how you can use them to amplify your OWN project.</li><li>(11:56) How do you know which communities to get involved in to grow your list further?&nbsp;</li><li>(14:03) How to get involved in Facebook groups without pissing the group owner off.&nbsp;</li><li>(17:09) Reddit and Quora or as Codie like to call it….the 7th circle of hell.</li><li>(18:30) Contacting BIG names - surely you’re just gonna get ignored?&nbsp;</li><li>(21:23) What’s next in this epic project?&nbsp;</li><li>(24:31) This week’s subject line was an email for&nbsp;<strong>proposal</strong> software that got some great&nbsp;<strong>engagement</strong>……</li></ul><br/><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/webinar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>FREE Email Marketing Webinar</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/audience-hacking-for-free-list-growth-with-codie-sanchez-and-ilona-and-olman-from-appsumo/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">a5aa2bcc-c517-4189-8800-a2de9c76758e</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/3142da15-0e9a-41b8-b5d0-fc6e4e13efff/uptyszxm5k555nlyn-0hqvkd.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2020 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/bdebae95-039d-4383-9461-6a9267677670/codie-olman-ilona-hacking-list-growth.mp3" length="51887879" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>27:01</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>56</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>56</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Email Marketing Automation - 6 Automations You Should Have In Your Business</title><itunes:title>Email Marketing Automation - 6 Automations You Should Have In Your Business</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Sending your standard weekly or daily email is fine…</p><p>BUT it’s certainly not the&nbsp;<strong><em>best</em></strong> or easiest way to get sales more sales in your business.&nbsp;</p><p>That’s what email marketing automation is for.&nbsp;</p><p>With automations, you are really allowing your new audience members to get to know you, and in a world where we are bombarded with ads and sales pitches on a daily basis, it’s more important now than ever that we allow our audience to see the real people behind our business.&nbsp;</p><p>Trouble is, there are a billion automations you&nbsp;<strong><em>could</em></strong> have in your email marketing, but the thought of that makes many people feel so overwhelmed that they end up with none at all.&nbsp;</p><p>Can you relate?&nbsp;</p><p>If so, what if we could help you cut through all of the noise and share with you just SIX automations that could make a&nbsp;<strong><em>huge</em></strong> difference to your business?&nbsp;</p><p>Best bit, you only have to create these once and then you just let them work their magic…</p><h2><strong>6 Automations You Should Have In Your Business</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:20) Sure, email marketing can be very overwhelming… but it doesn’t have to be.&nbsp;</li><li>(03:43) Even when you’re feeling like sh**, you can make a good impression.&nbsp;</li><li>(05:23) What is the minimum viable system you need for your email marketing?</li><li>(06:20) The first automation you need….and a LOT of people drop the ball on this.&nbsp;</li><li>(08:54) This automation doesn’t just work for free stuff either.</li><li>(09:32) The important of the second sequence should never be underestimated.&nbsp;</li><li>(12:51) We are showing our age with this next one!&nbsp;</li><li>(15:42) This next campaign has another music theme to it, but it just works so well so we’re gonna stick with it.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(17:30) The 5thautomation has a bit of a stalker-vibe….but in a non-creepy way (we promise!).</li><li>(20:18) But what happens when people stop replying to or clicking on your emails?&nbsp;</li><li>(22:55) “Help! I don’t have any of this set up yet” - is your email marketing doomed?</li><li>(24:21) This awesome performing subject line is a trick question…</li></ul><br/><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><br></p><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/webinar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>FREE Email Marketing Webinar</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sending your standard weekly or daily email is fine…</p><p>BUT it’s certainly not the&nbsp;<strong><em>best</em></strong> or easiest way to get sales more sales in your business.&nbsp;</p><p>That’s what email marketing automation is for.&nbsp;</p><p>With automations, you are really allowing your new audience members to get to know you, and in a world where we are bombarded with ads and sales pitches on a daily basis, it’s more important now than ever that we allow our audience to see the real people behind our business.&nbsp;</p><p>Trouble is, there are a billion automations you&nbsp;<strong><em>could</em></strong> have in your email marketing, but the thought of that makes many people feel so overwhelmed that they end up with none at all.&nbsp;</p><p>Can you relate?&nbsp;</p><p>If so, what if we could help you cut through all of the noise and share with you just SIX automations that could make a&nbsp;<strong><em>huge</em></strong> difference to your business?&nbsp;</p><p>Best bit, you only have to create these once and then you just let them work their magic…</p><h2><strong>6 Automations You Should Have In Your Business</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:20) Sure, email marketing can be very overwhelming… but it doesn’t have to be.&nbsp;</li><li>(03:43) Even when you’re feeling like sh**, you can make a good impression.&nbsp;</li><li>(05:23) What is the minimum viable system you need for your email marketing?</li><li>(06:20) The first automation you need….and a LOT of people drop the ball on this.&nbsp;</li><li>(08:54) This automation doesn’t just work for free stuff either.</li><li>(09:32) The important of the second sequence should never be underestimated.&nbsp;</li><li>(12:51) We are showing our age with this next one!&nbsp;</li><li>(15:42) This next campaign has another music theme to it, but it just works so well so we’re gonna stick with it.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(17:30) The 5thautomation has a bit of a stalker-vibe….but in a non-creepy way (we promise!).</li><li>(20:18) But what happens when people stop replying to or clicking on your emails?&nbsp;</li><li>(22:55) “Help! I don’t have any of this set up yet” - is your email marketing doomed?</li><li>(24:21) This awesome performing subject line is a trick question…</li></ul><br/><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><br></p><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/webinar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>FREE Email Marketing Webinar</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-automation-6-automations-you-should-have-in-your-business/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">3b4d6822-37bb-4186-b462-b3bb17747608</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/739eb470-cac7-4eb0-babe-947380bfda14/avjtfgfrsukvchwzg7truxnv.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2020 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/8d031a08-57bc-4196-a82a-ebe7302f618d/6-email-marketing-automations-you-need.mp3" length="50651556" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>26:23</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>55</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>55</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Using a quiz to build your list from scratch with Lisa Johnson</title><itunes:title>Using a quiz to build your list from scratch with Lisa Johnson</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Straight talking business coach <a href="https://lisajohnsoncoaching.co.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lisa Johnson</a> was able to grow her mailing list at a SUPER FAST rate with the use of a single lead magnet.</p><p>With it getting harder and harder to convince people to sign up to mailing lists, the standard PDF usually won’t cut it nowadays if you’re serious about building your list and building it&nbsp;<strong>fast</strong>.&nbsp;</p><p>So, what makes Lisa’s lead magnet so exceptional and why are people falling over themselves to give her their email address?</p><p>More to the point, is this something&nbsp;<strong>you</strong> could do?&nbsp;</p><h2><strong>Lisa Johnson</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:39) It’s two lies and a truth time and Rob isn’t messing around!&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(03:38) OK, so how did Lisa grow her list so god damn fast?&nbsp;</li><li>(04:24) How did Lisa go about making sure this was the perfect lead magnet for her ideal clients?&nbsp;</li><li>(07:00) Why we LOVE these types of lead magnets.</li><li>(09:28) Not getting the person’s email right away is actually pretty genius. How and why does Lisa do it?&nbsp;</li><li>(12:02) The magic behind segmenting. Do&nbsp;<strong>you</strong> do this?&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(14:39) How to make sure you use Facebook Ads like a BOSS.&nbsp;</li><li>(16:18) Getting in front of audiences when you’re still new to the game - how the heck do you do it? Lisa shares exactly how she did it.</li><li>(19:03) Oops, we did it again - It’s subject line of the week time.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><p><br></p><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><br></p><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/webinar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>FREE Email Marketing Webinar</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Straight talking business coach <a href="https://lisajohnsoncoaching.co.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lisa Johnson</a> was able to grow her mailing list at a SUPER FAST rate with the use of a single lead magnet.</p><p>With it getting harder and harder to convince people to sign up to mailing lists, the standard PDF usually won’t cut it nowadays if you’re serious about building your list and building it&nbsp;<strong>fast</strong>.&nbsp;</p><p>So, what makes Lisa’s lead magnet so exceptional and why are people falling over themselves to give her their email address?</p><p>More to the point, is this something&nbsp;<strong>you</strong> could do?&nbsp;</p><h2><strong>Lisa Johnson</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:39) It’s two lies and a truth time and Rob isn’t messing around!&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(03:38) OK, so how did Lisa grow her list so god damn fast?&nbsp;</li><li>(04:24) How did Lisa go about making sure this was the perfect lead magnet for her ideal clients?&nbsp;</li><li>(07:00) Why we LOVE these types of lead magnets.</li><li>(09:28) Not getting the person’s email right away is actually pretty genius. How and why does Lisa do it?&nbsp;</li><li>(12:02) The magic behind segmenting. Do&nbsp;<strong>you</strong> do this?&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(14:39) How to make sure you use Facebook Ads like a BOSS.&nbsp;</li><li>(16:18) Getting in front of audiences when you’re still new to the game - how the heck do you do it? Lisa shares exactly how she did it.</li><li>(19:03) Oops, we did it again - It’s subject line of the week time.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><p><br></p><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><br></p><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/webinar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>FREE Email Marketing Webinar</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/using-a-quiz-to-build-your-list-from-scratch-with-lisa-johnson/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">8073c1aa-87e4-4953-bb23-5886f5d51687</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/a5546aa3-3115-4af9-b1bd-57843a3735c3/s0fyov2uvopchnowt0q-vnc4.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2020 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/fa5eb749-612f-4d2a-9e07-5716e4e75b3b/in-and-out-23-09-2020-20.mp3" length="41759056" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>21:45</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>54</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>54</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Email Marketing Best Practices</title><itunes:title>Email Marketing Best Practices</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>By now, you know what you&nbsp;<strong><em>should</em></strong> be doing when it comes to email marketing, but&nbsp;<strong><em>are</em></strong> you doing it?&nbsp;</p><p>There are a few key things you can do within your email marketing to make it as effective as possible and if you’re in need of a little refresher as to what they are, we’ve got you covered in today's episode.</p><p>Now, these are things that you should ALL be doing all of the time.&nbsp;</p><p>However, we keep seeing this stuff being overlooked time and time again, so we wanted to use today to try and really drill in these best practices to help you ensure your email marketing is killing it and bringing in the best possible results.&nbsp;</p><p>Just remember - information without implementation is well…pretty damn pointless.&nbsp;</p><h2><strong>How Often Should You Email - Emailing More Often</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:18) Why unsubscribing doesn’t have to mean the end of your relationship.&nbsp;</li><li>(04:28) Why might your audience disengage all of a sudden?&nbsp;</li><li>(05:37) The wonderful world of segmenting. We LOVE it.</li><li>(07:03) Because monitoring your engagement isn’t just about checking your open rates.&nbsp;</li><li>(09:43) Making a smaller list? Why on EARTH would anyone do that?!</li><li>(10:44) This is something we&nbsp;<strong>always</strong> bang on about but we want to make sure this really hits home with you…so here we go again.</li><li>(12:44) Why making sure your audience remembers you, isn’t enough these days.</li><li>(13:50) Making best of friends with email platforms such as Gmail? What’s that all about and how can it help you?</li><li>(15:14) This next one is something you know you ALL should be doing, but we still see many people failing to do it.&nbsp;</li><li>(17:25) Rob’s latest subject line of the week is a bit of a cheeky one!&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><p><br></p><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><br></p><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/webinar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>FREE Email Marketing Webinar</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By now, you know what you&nbsp;<strong><em>should</em></strong> be doing when it comes to email marketing, but&nbsp;<strong><em>are</em></strong> you doing it?&nbsp;</p><p>There are a few key things you can do within your email marketing to make it as effective as possible and if you’re in need of a little refresher as to what they are, we’ve got you covered in today's episode.</p><p>Now, these are things that you should ALL be doing all of the time.&nbsp;</p><p>However, we keep seeing this stuff being overlooked time and time again, so we wanted to use today to try and really drill in these best practices to help you ensure your email marketing is killing it and bringing in the best possible results.&nbsp;</p><p>Just remember - information without implementation is well…pretty damn pointless.&nbsp;</p><h2><strong>How Often Should You Email - Emailing More Often</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:18) Why unsubscribing doesn’t have to mean the end of your relationship.&nbsp;</li><li>(04:28) Why might your audience disengage all of a sudden?&nbsp;</li><li>(05:37) The wonderful world of segmenting. We LOVE it.</li><li>(07:03) Because monitoring your engagement isn’t just about checking your open rates.&nbsp;</li><li>(09:43) Making a smaller list? Why on EARTH would anyone do that?!</li><li>(10:44) This is something we&nbsp;<strong>always</strong> bang on about but we want to make sure this really hits home with you…so here we go again.</li><li>(12:44) Why making sure your audience remembers you, isn’t enough these days.</li><li>(13:50) Making best of friends with email platforms such as Gmail? What’s that all about and how can it help you?</li><li>(15:14) This next one is something you know you ALL should be doing, but we still see many people failing to do it.&nbsp;</li><li>(17:25) Rob’s latest subject line of the week is a bit of a cheeky one!&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><p><br></p><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><br></p><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/webinar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>FREE Email Marketing Webinar</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/email-marketing-best-practices/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">c813242c-747c-4bd2-85e7-f1e4230cce3a</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/645e8ad6-55d9-45e7-ab0c-9f09a70431cb/utxgl9g6pp0etat6dfty7tre.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2020 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/a3018fc2-c6d2-4e8a-8058-92afcd75cf72/email-marketing-best-practices.mp3" length="37574449" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>19:34</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>53</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>53</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Make People Realise How Awesome Your Products Are - Use Email To Boost Consumption with Erik Stafford</title><itunes:title>Make People Realise How Awesome Your Products Are - Use Email To Boost Consumption with Erik Stafford</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Someone’s just bought your online course…yay! But now what?&nbsp;</p><p>Do you just leave them to it and never speak to them again, after your generic “thank you” email?&nbsp;</p><p>Well, that’s what most people do…</p><p>But, if your current customers could become your biggest advocates, spreading the word about you to the world and repeatedly bought from you, wouldn’t you want that?&nbsp;</p><p>Well DUH…of course you would. BUT, you need to be looking after them more.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Working with some of the biggest brands in the world including ebay, Uber and Airbnb, Erik Stafford of <a href="https://www.aimclear.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Aim Clear</a> has absolutely mastered the art of using email to get people to consume your programmes, actually&nbsp;<strong><em>use</em></strong> your membership content and keep coming back for more.&nbsp;</p><p>And lucky for us lot, he’s been kind enough to join us and what share what are frankly some utterly mind blowing tips and tricks.&nbsp;</p><h2>Use Email To Boost Consumption with Erik Stafford</h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:02) Two lies and a truth about Erick - it’s Rob’s turn and this one’s not easy!</li><li>(03:45) Selling to people who have already bought from you - why do so many people neglect to do this?&nbsp;</li><li>(05:47) Looking after your customers…because it’s not just a “nice” thing to do.</li><li>(06:18) What do most of us tend to do once someone has bought from us?</li><li>(08:34) Let’s get personal…</li><li>(10:08) How many emails should we be sending people after they subscribe?&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(11:46) Data…like Erik, you may hate it but unfortunately, you can’t ignore it.</li><li>(14:10) The 3 types of email Erik suggests you should use for both cold and warm lists.</li><li>(17:05) Hold up! Rob has just had a lightbulb moment.</li><li>(19:03) Which subject line of the week is rarely used but has always worked very well for Erik? This one is classic!</li></ul><br/><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/webinar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>FREE Email Marketing Webinar</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Someone’s just bought your online course…yay! But now what?&nbsp;</p><p>Do you just leave them to it and never speak to them again, after your generic “thank you” email?&nbsp;</p><p>Well, that’s what most people do…</p><p>But, if your current customers could become your biggest advocates, spreading the word about you to the world and repeatedly bought from you, wouldn’t you want that?&nbsp;</p><p>Well DUH…of course you would. BUT, you need to be looking after them more.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Working with some of the biggest brands in the world including ebay, Uber and Airbnb, Erik Stafford of <a href="https://www.aimclear.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Aim Clear</a> has absolutely mastered the art of using email to get people to consume your programmes, actually&nbsp;<strong><em>use</em></strong> your membership content and keep coming back for more.&nbsp;</p><p>And lucky for us lot, he’s been kind enough to join us and what share what are frankly some utterly mind blowing tips and tricks.&nbsp;</p><h2>Use Email To Boost Consumption with Erik Stafford</h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:02) Two lies and a truth about Erick - it’s Rob’s turn and this one’s not easy!</li><li>(03:45) Selling to people who have already bought from you - why do so many people neglect to do this?&nbsp;</li><li>(05:47) Looking after your customers…because it’s not just a “nice” thing to do.</li><li>(06:18) What do most of us tend to do once someone has bought from us?</li><li>(08:34) Let’s get personal…</li><li>(10:08) How many emails should we be sending people after they subscribe?&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(11:46) Data…like Erik, you may hate it but unfortunately, you can’t ignore it.</li><li>(14:10) The 3 types of email Erik suggests you should use for both cold and warm lists.</li><li>(17:05) Hold up! Rob has just had a lightbulb moment.</li><li>(19:03) Which subject line of the week is rarely used but has always worked very well for Erik? This one is classic!</li></ul><br/><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/webinar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>FREE Email Marketing Webinar</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/make-people-realise-how-awesome-your-products-are-use-email-to-boost-consumption-with-erik-stafford/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">e2f0dce9-9257-4e75-a8dc-cb684ccf06cb</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/24416ff1-dea8-4a9f-9dd0-75d66b74406c/o0oxi-wtehfocwkwfawx1tpj.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2020 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/99b4e373-e8ba-47cf-a737-7b1e5af83913/erik-stafford.mp3" length="42044104" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>21:54</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>52</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>52</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How Often Should You Email - Emailing More Often</title><itunes:title>How Often Should You Email - Emailing More Often</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>This is the question we get asked more than&nbsp;<strong><em>anything</em></strong> - “How often should I send my emails?”</p><p>Chances are, you’re probably still wondering this yourself and if you are, you’re definitely not alone!&nbsp;With all of the conflicting advice out there, it can be really difficult to know the "perfect" frequency for your email marketing audience.</p><p>After all, if you get it wrong, you could risk losing all of your subscribers, right?</p><p>So, should you be sending your emails weekly, monthly...how about daily?</p><p>Whatever you’re currently wondering, fear not because we’re going to clear this right up for you in today’s episode.</p><p>Just be aware, our answer is a tad controversial….</p><h2><strong>How Often Should You Email - Emailing More Often</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:05) How often do&nbsp;<strong><em>we</em></strong> email our audience?&nbsp;</li><li>(02:59) Go and listen to this episode from a few weeks ago, if you haven't already.</li><li>(03:22) The difference between emails and social media.</li><li>(05:05) Remember the days of printed newsletters? Well…email is&nbsp;<strong><em>not</em></strong> that.&nbsp;</li><li>(07:01) How many people even see all of your content anyways?&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(08:44) Aaaaah, dating a new person is exciting, isn’t it? But, what the hell does this have to do with email marketing?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(09:45) Here’s an awesome tip to help you get more bang for your buck….and it’s super simple to do!</li><li>(12:23) The best way to avoid annoying your audience.&nbsp;</li><li>(13:25) Are you worried about losing lots of subscribers? Here’s a simple solution.</li><li>(15:51) This week’s subject line of the week is on a hot topic which we made even hotter!&nbsp;&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><p><br></p><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><br></p><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/webinar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>FREE Email Marketing Webinar</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is the question we get asked more than&nbsp;<strong><em>anything</em></strong> - “How often should I send my emails?”</p><p>Chances are, you’re probably still wondering this yourself and if you are, you’re definitely not alone!&nbsp;With all of the conflicting advice out there, it can be really difficult to know the "perfect" frequency for your email marketing audience.</p><p>After all, if you get it wrong, you could risk losing all of your subscribers, right?</p><p>So, should you be sending your emails weekly, monthly...how about daily?</p><p>Whatever you’re currently wondering, fear not because we’re going to clear this right up for you in today’s episode.</p><p>Just be aware, our answer is a tad controversial….</p><h2><strong>How Often Should You Email - Emailing More Often</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:05) How often do&nbsp;<strong><em>we</em></strong> email our audience?&nbsp;</li><li>(02:59) Go and listen to this episode from a few weeks ago, if you haven't already.</li><li>(03:22) The difference between emails and social media.</li><li>(05:05) Remember the days of printed newsletters? Well…email is&nbsp;<strong><em>not</em></strong> that.&nbsp;</li><li>(07:01) How many people even see all of your content anyways?&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(08:44) Aaaaah, dating a new person is exciting, isn’t it? But, what the hell does this have to do with email marketing?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(09:45) Here’s an awesome tip to help you get more bang for your buck….and it’s super simple to do!</li><li>(12:23) The best way to avoid annoying your audience.&nbsp;</li><li>(13:25) Are you worried about losing lots of subscribers? Here’s a simple solution.</li><li>(15:51) This week’s subject line of the week is on a hot topic which we made even hotter!&nbsp;&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><p><br></p><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><br></p><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/webinar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>FREE Email Marketing Webinar</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-often-should-you-email-emailing-more-often/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">ad1dbe09-c75d-4ce7-be5a-0045095b1b36</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/ccbfe33b-15c7-4580-85b9-cc09ae16a38f/zzxlkvpqlhx6wl2o3phlrczr.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2020 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/44c88f1d-b563-443c-bae7-9695a4e8698e/how-often-should-you-email.mp3" length="35291556" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:23</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>51</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>51</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Customer Archetypes To Inject Personality Into Your Marketing - Nate Wright</title><itunes:title>Customer Archetypes To Inject Personality Into Your Marketing - Nate Wright</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What are customer archetypes and how can we use them to deeply connect and motivate our email subscribers?</p><p>I wonder if you might be wearing the wrong hat in your campaigns?</p><p>Most emails you’ll receive are from people playing a certain archetype (you’ll know the one we mean in a few minutes), but we want to discuss why this isn’t always the best approach.</p><p>In fact, you could actually be pissing a lot of people off….which we’re guessing probably&nbsp;<strong><em>isn’t</em></strong> what you’re aiming to do?&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>In this episode, we’re super excited to be joined by the Nate Wright of <a href="https://inboxattack.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Inbox Attack.&nbsp;</a></p><p>Having written more than 10k campaigns as well as being the highest rated company for email marketing on the whole of Upwork, Nate knows a thing or two about email marketing and the different kinds of archetypes you could be adopting to ensure your campaigns hit all of the right spots.</p><p>Cue many awesome movie references that are going to have you feeling all nostalgic….</p><h2>Nate Wright</h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:26) We put Kennedy’s mind reading skills to the test again with two lies and a truth. He's definitely got to be due to get one wrong soon.....hasn't he?</li><li>(04:30) Many email marketers tend to stick to a certain archetype, but it doesn’t always mean it’s the best one. Nate knows this it's why he’s had so much success. Let’s dig deeper...</li><li>(06:31) The main archetype email marketers use can actually really rub people up the wrong way. Could&nbsp;<strong><em>you</em></strong> be guilty of this?&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(08:18) What happened when we tested the same campaign under two different angles?&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(9:07) How do you know where your audience are at in their journey?</li><li>(12:00) The alternative to the usual archetype.</li><li>(15:05) See how a certain scene in the movie ‘Never Ending Story’ relates to this next super interesting archetype.</li><li>(17:02) Should you pick one archetype and stick to it across all of your campaigns?&nbsp;</li><li>(18:43) Are you amazing at&nbsp;<strong><em>everything</em></strong>?&nbsp;&nbsp;We call Bulls***!</li><li>(21:41) Blending of the archetypes…so how does that work?&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(24:10) It’s subject line of the week time - Everyone hates a namedropper….or do they?&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/webinar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>FREE Email Marketing Webinar</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What are customer archetypes and how can we use them to deeply connect and motivate our email subscribers?</p><p>I wonder if you might be wearing the wrong hat in your campaigns?</p><p>Most emails you’ll receive are from people playing a certain archetype (you’ll know the one we mean in a few minutes), but we want to discuss why this isn’t always the best approach.</p><p>In fact, you could actually be pissing a lot of people off….which we’re guessing probably&nbsp;<strong><em>isn’t</em></strong> what you’re aiming to do?&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>In this episode, we’re super excited to be joined by the Nate Wright of <a href="https://inboxattack.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Inbox Attack.&nbsp;</a></p><p>Having written more than 10k campaigns as well as being the highest rated company for email marketing on the whole of Upwork, Nate knows a thing or two about email marketing and the different kinds of archetypes you could be adopting to ensure your campaigns hit all of the right spots.</p><p>Cue many awesome movie references that are going to have you feeling all nostalgic….</p><h2>Nate Wright</h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:26) We put Kennedy’s mind reading skills to the test again with two lies and a truth. He's definitely got to be due to get one wrong soon.....hasn't he?</li><li>(04:30) Many email marketers tend to stick to a certain archetype, but it doesn’t always mean it’s the best one. Nate knows this it's why he’s had so much success. Let’s dig deeper...</li><li>(06:31) The main archetype email marketers use can actually really rub people up the wrong way. Could&nbsp;<strong><em>you</em></strong> be guilty of this?&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(08:18) What happened when we tested the same campaign under two different angles?&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(9:07) How do you know where your audience are at in their journey?</li><li>(12:00) The alternative to the usual archetype.</li><li>(15:05) See how a certain scene in the movie ‘Never Ending Story’ relates to this next super interesting archetype.</li><li>(17:02) Should you pick one archetype and stick to it across all of your campaigns?&nbsp;</li><li>(18:43) Are you amazing at&nbsp;<strong><em>everything</em></strong>?&nbsp;&nbsp;We call Bulls***!</li><li>(21:41) Blending of the archetypes…so how does that work?&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(24:10) It’s subject line of the week time - Everyone hates a namedropper….or do they?&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/webinar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>FREE Email Marketing Webinar</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/customer-architypes-marketing-nate-wright/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">a3acf46a-7efe-4537-8069-808d352df162</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/8cb3ee41-b0d0-4a14-abad-72d0beb151f4/d5p8kdshhws7homi2gmf-gvu.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2020 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/70a9cf0f-772f-4350-8e37-f1a504ff7bee/nate-wright.mp3" length="51744937" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>26:57</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>50</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>50</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Write Emails Like A Boss - Even If You Think You&apos;re A Crap Writer</title><itunes:title>Write Emails Like A Boss - Even If You Think You&apos;re A Crap Writer</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Wish you could write emails like a boss but you're worried you're not the world's best or most interesting writer?</p><p>Did your grumpy English teacher used to give you a hard time because you just couldn’t get the hang of ‘they’re, their and there’?&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>So many people put off email marketing because they think their writing isn’t good enough.&nbsp;</p><p>But do you wanna know a secret?</p><p>Being a poor writer doesn’t mean you can't totally boss your email marketing.</p><p>In fact, it could actually help make it&nbsp;<strong><em>more</em></strong> successful.&nbsp;</p><p>How?&nbsp;</p><p>We’re glad you asked….we're on the case in this week's episode of the show.</p><p>Give your ears a good time with this ep of the show!</p><h2><strong>Write Emails Like A Boss - Even If You Think You're A Crap Writer</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:15) Not good at something? You can do one of two things...</li><li>(03:45) Why being bad can actually be good.</li><li>(04:37) AVOID doing this…&nbsp;</li><li>(05:21) The best types of emails we send probably aren’t what you’d expect.</li><li>(06:32) A new bit of AI is almost upon us. It’s a bit freaky to be honest!&nbsp;</li><li>(07:59) Two AWESOME tips to remember when writing your emails.&nbsp;</li><li>(09:27) GrAmMaR &amp; SpeLlInG - What to do when yours sucks.</li><li>(11:00) “We are very much looking forward to seeing you”….says the one-man band.</li><li>(12:44) This next tip may sound like a p*** take…but we can assure you, it’s not.</li><li>(12:20) Rules were made to be broken….but how can you use this to your advantage?&nbsp;</li><li>(14:44) it’s actually more powerful to write in your own tone&nbsp;</li><li>(16:09) What are you gonna&nbsp;<strong><em>learn</em></strong> with this week’s SLOTW?&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/webinar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>FREE Email Marketing Webinar</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wish you could write emails like a boss but you're worried you're not the world's best or most interesting writer?</p><p>Did your grumpy English teacher used to give you a hard time because you just couldn’t get the hang of ‘they’re, their and there’?&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>So many people put off email marketing because they think their writing isn’t good enough.&nbsp;</p><p>But do you wanna know a secret?</p><p>Being a poor writer doesn’t mean you can't totally boss your email marketing.</p><p>In fact, it could actually help make it&nbsp;<strong><em>more</em></strong> successful.&nbsp;</p><p>How?&nbsp;</p><p>We’re glad you asked….we're on the case in this week's episode of the show.</p><p>Give your ears a good time with this ep of the show!</p><h2><strong>Write Emails Like A Boss - Even If You Think You're A Crap Writer</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:15) Not good at something? You can do one of two things...</li><li>(03:45) Why being bad can actually be good.</li><li>(04:37) AVOID doing this…&nbsp;</li><li>(05:21) The best types of emails we send probably aren’t what you’d expect.</li><li>(06:32) A new bit of AI is almost upon us. It’s a bit freaky to be honest!&nbsp;</li><li>(07:59) Two AWESOME tips to remember when writing your emails.&nbsp;</li><li>(09:27) GrAmMaR &amp; SpeLlInG - What to do when yours sucks.</li><li>(11:00) “We are very much looking forward to seeing you”….says the one-man band.</li><li>(12:44) This next tip may sound like a p*** take…but we can assure you, it’s not.</li><li>(12:20) Rules were made to be broken….but how can you use this to your advantage?&nbsp;</li><li>(14:44) it’s actually more powerful to write in your own tone&nbsp;</li><li>(16:09) What are you gonna&nbsp;<strong><em>learn</em></strong> with this week’s SLOTW?&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/webinar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>FREE Email Marketing Webinar</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/write-emails-like-a-boss-even-if-you-think-youre-a-crap-writer/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">fbc51fb8-cc26-4508-a86c-0bd37bcfd26c</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/7c1d2b42-e726-4d3c-b3b4-fc4a2489cf32/i3pb1xoyqi-1py1sb2xbwja5.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2020 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/2d375b07-1cd0-4880-bbfa-01c1221853fc/writing-emails-if-you-are-a-crap-writer.mp3" length="35528956" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:30</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>49</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>49</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Podcast Email List Growth Strategy with Charley Valher from Valher Media</title><itunes:title>Podcast Email List Growth Strategy with Charley Valher from Valher Media</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>So you’ve got a podcast. Great!&nbsp;</p><p>But how the hell do you go about getting your listeners onto your podcast email list?&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>When much of your audience might be listening to your podcast when at the gym or on the way to work, it can be tricky getting them to go to all the effort to join your list, or even <strong>remember</strong> to do so.</p><p>But you’ll be pleased to know that there&nbsp;<strong>are</strong> ways to make this so much easier for yourself.</p><p>And this is exactly why we’ve brought the fantastic Charley Valher from Valher media on the show. Charley discusses some incredible tips and insights when it comes to podcast marketing and growing your email list, so much so that we're looking forward to stealing lots of them for The Email Marketing Heroes show..</p><h2>Charley Valher</h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(2:29) It’s two lies and a truth time. This one really has Kennedy scratching his head.</li><li>(4:17) Getting listeners onto your email list. Mission impossible?</li><li>(6:32) When should you mention your all-important links in the shows?</li><li>(7:47) The drop off rates of podcasts may surprise you.</li><li>(10:24) Charley structure his podcasts in a very unique yet effective way. Get your pens and paper ready!</li><li>(11:43) Is there a rule for how many CTAs you should have in a single episode?&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(13:04) We want to know the best opt in bribes.</li><li>(15:26) I there a way to promote case study opt-ins without sounding like a total show off?&nbsp;</li><li>(16:35) How to promote your resources without boring your audience.</li><li>(19:02) The interview with your guest is over, it’s now time to promote the sh** out of your opt in again….or is it?&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(21:44) Separate segments in an episode. Yay or nay?&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(23:22) Charley’s most successful subject line&nbsp;<strong>ever</strong>- luckily, none of his audience members had an actual heart attack….but it probably came very close.&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><br></p><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/webinar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>FREE Email Marketing Webinar</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So you’ve got a podcast. Great!&nbsp;</p><p>But how the hell do you go about getting your listeners onto your podcast email list?&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>When much of your audience might be listening to your podcast when at the gym or on the way to work, it can be tricky getting them to go to all the effort to join your list, or even <strong>remember</strong> to do so.</p><p>But you’ll be pleased to know that there&nbsp;<strong>are</strong> ways to make this so much easier for yourself.</p><p>And this is exactly why we’ve brought the fantastic Charley Valher from Valher media on the show. Charley discusses some incredible tips and insights when it comes to podcast marketing and growing your email list, so much so that we're looking forward to stealing lots of them for The Email Marketing Heroes show..</p><h2>Charley Valher</h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(2:29) It’s two lies and a truth time. This one really has Kennedy scratching his head.</li><li>(4:17) Getting listeners onto your email list. Mission impossible?</li><li>(6:32) When should you mention your all-important links in the shows?</li><li>(7:47) The drop off rates of podcasts may surprise you.</li><li>(10:24) Charley structure his podcasts in a very unique yet effective way. Get your pens and paper ready!</li><li>(11:43) Is there a rule for how many CTAs you should have in a single episode?&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(13:04) We want to know the best opt in bribes.</li><li>(15:26) I there a way to promote case study opt-ins without sounding like a total show off?&nbsp;</li><li>(16:35) How to promote your resources without boring your audience.</li><li>(19:02) The interview with your guest is over, it’s now time to promote the sh** out of your opt in again….or is it?&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(21:44) Separate segments in an episode. Yay or nay?&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(23:22) Charley’s most successful subject line&nbsp;<strong>ever</strong>- luckily, none of his audience members had an actual heart attack….but it probably came very close.&nbsp;</li></ul><br/><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><br></p><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/webinar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>FREE Email Marketing Webinar</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/podcast-email-list-growth-strategy-with-charley-valher-from-valher-media/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">4a23f6b4-5341-4b32-95cb-1c9246ce9bbb</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/87bd8e51-51c9-40dd-bc05-349759b64b74/qxnkbcif4qsm-rba7cobacez.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2020 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/ffc395c4-ad7e-44b4-8f9b-21435a30c692/charley-valher.mp3" length="22156468" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>26:23</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>48</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>48</podcast:episode></item><item><title>7 Ways To Give Subscriber Value In Your Marketing Emails (So People Love Receiving Them)</title><itunes:title>7 Ways To Give Subscriber Value In Your Marketing Emails (So People Love Receiving Them)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Marketing emails can actually contain value that your subscribers enjoy. What what kinds of things do we mean by 'value'?</p><p>These seven different 'types' we use are a great source of inspiration when you're sitting down to write a new email to your subscribers.</p><p>Like most of the world, you’re probably bombarded with emails every single day.</p><p>But out of all the crap you receive, are there any emails that you actually look&nbsp;<strong><em>forward</em></strong> to getting?&nbsp;</p><p>Chances are, you can probably only think of one or two people that&nbsp;really stand out in your inbox.</p><p>But what makes them so special?</p><p>Even better, how can YOU be that person who stands out in your subscribers’ inboxes.&nbsp;</p><p>In this episode, we’re going to give you 7 easy ways to deliver massive value in your emails, which people will actually love and look forward to receiving.&nbsp;</p><h2><strong>7 Ways To Deliver Value In Your Marketing Emails (So People Love Receiving Them)</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(01:59) Why do people join your list in the first place?&nbsp;</li><li>(05:15) So many people do this way of marketing, but it just DOES NOT work.</li><li>(06:14) What would happen if you took out your call to actions?</li><li>(07:20) When it’s ok NOT to add value in your marketing emails.</li><li>(09:02) Listen up, because Kennedy gives you one of our absolute core mantras.</li><li>(10:41) What we are&nbsp;<strong>not </strong>going to be suggesting you do.</li><li>(11:15) The first type of value you can give - it’s a really obvious one but it’s incredibly effective.</li><li>(12:42) Once upon a time, the second type of value came galloping along.</li><li>(13:52) The third type is related to the first, only a little stealthier.</li><li>(14:59 This one will really increase your status.</li><li>(17:56) In times of doom and gloom, can&nbsp;<strong><em>you</em></strong> be the light?</li><li>(18:26) How to make your audience feel like they’re not alone.</li><li>(19:35) OK, so we admit - we rely on this one a bit too much.&nbsp;</li><li>(20:56) Find out why we just had to give you this bonus tip!</li><li>(22.42) When Kennedy received this subject line of the week from Rob, he was a tad nervous, to say the least.</li></ul><br/><p><br></p><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><br></p><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/webinar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>FREE Email Marketing Webinar</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Marketing emails can actually contain value that your subscribers enjoy. What what kinds of things do we mean by 'value'?</p><p>These seven different 'types' we use are a great source of inspiration when you're sitting down to write a new email to your subscribers.</p><p>Like most of the world, you’re probably bombarded with emails every single day.</p><p>But out of all the crap you receive, are there any emails that you actually look&nbsp;<strong><em>forward</em></strong> to getting?&nbsp;</p><p>Chances are, you can probably only think of one or two people that&nbsp;really stand out in your inbox.</p><p>But what makes them so special?</p><p>Even better, how can YOU be that person who stands out in your subscribers’ inboxes.&nbsp;</p><p>In this episode, we’re going to give you 7 easy ways to deliver massive value in your emails, which people will actually love and look forward to receiving.&nbsp;</p><h2><strong>7 Ways To Deliver Value In Your Marketing Emails (So People Love Receiving Them)</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(01:59) Why do people join your list in the first place?&nbsp;</li><li>(05:15) So many people do this way of marketing, but it just DOES NOT work.</li><li>(06:14) What would happen if you took out your call to actions?</li><li>(07:20) When it’s ok NOT to add value in your marketing emails.</li><li>(09:02) Listen up, because Kennedy gives you one of our absolute core mantras.</li><li>(10:41) What we are&nbsp;<strong>not </strong>going to be suggesting you do.</li><li>(11:15) The first type of value you can give - it’s a really obvious one but it’s incredibly effective.</li><li>(12:42) Once upon a time, the second type of value came galloping along.</li><li>(13:52) The third type is related to the first, only a little stealthier.</li><li>(14:59 This one will really increase your status.</li><li>(17:56) In times of doom and gloom, can&nbsp;<strong><em>you</em></strong> be the light?</li><li>(18:26) How to make your audience feel like they’re not alone.</li><li>(19:35) OK, so we admit - we rely on this one a bit too much.&nbsp;</li><li>(20:56) Find out why we just had to give you this bonus tip!</li><li>(22.42) When Kennedy received this subject line of the week from Rob, he was a tad nervous, to say the least.</li></ul><br/><p><br></p><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><br></p><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/webinar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>FREE Email Marketing Webinar</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/marketing-emails-value/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">d51f9f82-a2e9-4182-89ba-f66524f27284</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c6533eaa-103c-4eec-989c-4fc10eca4a09/czc13otrxx4pfc-nlr-aovrh.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2020 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/365230d0-b749-4335-a79e-a07290073ed2/7-types-of-value-you-can-give-in-your-emails.mp3" length="48749006" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>25:23</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>47</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>47</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Launch your Online Course the Non-Traditional Way with Chris Orzechowski</title><itunes:title>Launch your Online Course the Non-Traditional Way with Chris Orzechowski</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>There is SO much work that goes into a new product launch it can be a right bloody nightmare!</p><p>There’s all the promo videos, the sales pages, the social media content…..it’s just never ending.&nbsp;</p><p>BUT, what if there was a way to bypass ALL of that stuff and<em> still</em> successfully sell your new product?</p><p>In this episode we’re joined by Chris Orzechowski of <a href="https://theemailcopywriter.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Copywriter </a>who has been able to find a way of selling his products without all of the faff that usually goes into a launch.</p><p>His flagship course generated £16k in just 2.5 weeks and he didn’t create a&nbsp;<em>single</em> sales page or promo video. In fact, he hadn’t even created the actual course before launching!</p><p>We wanted to know the secrets to his success so we decide to kidnap him for the afternoon and get him on this latest episode:</p><h2>Chris Orzechowski</h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:03) Before we get started, we have a SUPER awesome gift for you.&nbsp;</li><li>(02:53) It’s two lies and a truth time - Can Kennedy start up his winning streak again?</li><li>(04:32) Are all of the bells and whistles to a launch always necessary?</li><li>(06:02) Chris flagship course was a great success, but how the heck did he do it?&nbsp;</li><li>(08:40) The difference between emails and sales pages.</li><li>(10:05) So how did Chris actually “launch” his course? It certainly wasn’t done the traditional way, that’s for sure.&nbsp;</li><li>(12:30) OK, we need to know the stages of emails in this type of promo that make this method work.</li><li>(15:14) Could this quite possibly be one of the best strategies we’ve ever heard of?</li><li>(16:10) An incredible tip you can use to minimize the process even further but still create a huge buzz.</li><li>(18:09) OK, OK…but how many emails did Chris send over the 2.5 weeks of his “launch”?</li><li>(18:53) Found out why Chris’ email frequency has changed over the years.&nbsp;</li><li>(20:21) This week’s subject LINE of the week will have you <strong><em>hooked</em></strong>.</li></ul><br/><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><br></p><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/webinar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>FREE Email Marketing Webinar</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is SO much work that goes into a new product launch it can be a right bloody nightmare!</p><p>There’s all the promo videos, the sales pages, the social media content…..it’s just never ending.&nbsp;</p><p>BUT, what if there was a way to bypass ALL of that stuff and<em> still</em> successfully sell your new product?</p><p>In this episode we’re joined by Chris Orzechowski of <a href="https://theemailcopywriter.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Email Copywriter </a>who has been able to find a way of selling his products without all of the faff that usually goes into a launch.</p><p>His flagship course generated £16k in just 2.5 weeks and he didn’t create a&nbsp;<em>single</em> sales page or promo video. In fact, he hadn’t even created the actual course before launching!</p><p>We wanted to know the secrets to his success so we decide to kidnap him for the afternoon and get him on this latest episode:</p><h2>Chris Orzechowski</h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(02:03) Before we get started, we have a SUPER awesome gift for you.&nbsp;</li><li>(02:53) It’s two lies and a truth time - Can Kennedy start up his winning streak again?</li><li>(04:32) Are all of the bells and whistles to a launch always necessary?</li><li>(06:02) Chris flagship course was a great success, but how the heck did he do it?&nbsp;</li><li>(08:40) The difference between emails and sales pages.</li><li>(10:05) So how did Chris actually “launch” his course? It certainly wasn’t done the traditional way, that’s for sure.&nbsp;</li><li>(12:30) OK, we need to know the stages of emails in this type of promo that make this method work.</li><li>(15:14) Could this quite possibly be one of the best strategies we’ve ever heard of?</li><li>(16:10) An incredible tip you can use to minimize the process even further but still create a huge buzz.</li><li>(18:09) OK, OK…but how many emails did Chris send over the 2.5 weeks of his “launch”?</li><li>(18:53) Found out why Chris’ email frequency has changed over the years.&nbsp;</li><li>(20:21) This week’s subject LINE of the week will have you <strong><em>hooked</em></strong>.</li></ul><br/><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><br></p><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/webinar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>FREE Email Marketing Webinar</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/launch-your-online-course-the-non-traditional-way-with-chris-orzechowski/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">bccd36a6-3103-4346-b339-49ced457ff12</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c56050d8-aa7e-4a40-90b8-76c66bd58e6e/dts177znumd4h0q1ap31hnmt.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2020 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/31890039-f59d-4411-8f97-22f14ef8667a/chris-orzechowski.mp3" length="21876982" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>22:44</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>46</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>46</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How To Build Your List by Speaking At Events Online and Offline</title><itunes:title>How To Build Your List by Speaking At Events Online and Offline</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Events can be an&nbsp;<strong>amazing</strong> way of building your email list, but are you taking full advantage of them?</p><p>If you’re taking part in any sort of event from a virtual summit to someone else’s Facebook Live, to speaking on stage, you should be using these as opportunities to build your own audience.</p><p>But how can you do this successfully and more importantly, authentically?&nbsp;</p><p>In today’s episode, we’re going to go through many of the effective ways you could be using these events to build those all-important email lists of yours.</p><h2><strong>How To Use Speaking To Build Your Email List</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(01:59) Find out why this is <strong><em>absolutely</em></strong> one of our all-time favourite ways of getting new subscribers - and no, it’s not just because we love being the center of attention (well….that’s not the&nbsp;<strong>main</strong> reason.)</li><li>(03:07) Using events to build your list can be so powerful…but only if you make sure to not do the following annoying thing that we’ve seen so many people do.&nbsp;</li><li>(04:38) A very basic but utterly crucial point that you <strong><em>need</em></strong> to remember if you’re serious about building your list at events.</li><li>(06:17) How do you make these people actually WANT to sign up to your list? People don’t like to give their emails away to just anyone these days.</li><li>(08:44) Who doesn’t love a shortcut? This one is a winner.&nbsp;</li><li>(09:43) A super simple way of letting people access your information.</li><li>(12:08) Another great tip to keep things as simple as possible that Rob hilariously tried doing before it even existed. He’s well ahead of his time, this one!</li><li>(13:09) In our opinion, this is one of the very best usages of Facebook messenger that’s out there.&nbsp;</li><li>(14:15) Kennedy goes old school but this one is still a very popular method.</li><li>(14:49) How to make very clever use of email auto responders.</li><li>(16:02) Make sure you always do this at EVERY. SINGLE. EVENT.</li><li>(17:20) What’s one of Kennedy’s favourite things to do at live in-person events?</li><li>(18:44) Kill two birds with one stone with this one.&nbsp;</li><li>(19:35) Our final tip that audiences always love. And this one doesn’t have to be saved for in-person events only.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(20:06) Our biggest take away of this episode.</li><li>(22:10) This week’s subject line of the week is a brilliant way of creating curiosity.</li></ul><br/><p><br></p><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><br></p><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/webinar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>FREE Email Marketing Webinar</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Events can be an&nbsp;<strong>amazing</strong> way of building your email list, but are you taking full advantage of them?</p><p>If you’re taking part in any sort of event from a virtual summit to someone else’s Facebook Live, to speaking on stage, you should be using these as opportunities to build your own audience.</p><p>But how can you do this successfully and more importantly, authentically?&nbsp;</p><p>In today’s episode, we’re going to go through many of the effective ways you could be using these events to build those all-important email lists of yours.</p><h2><strong>How To Use Speaking To Build Your Email List</strong></h2><h4><strong>Episode Content</strong></h4><ul><li>(01:59) Find out why this is <strong><em>absolutely</em></strong> one of our all-time favourite ways of getting new subscribers - and no, it’s not just because we love being the center of attention (well….that’s not the&nbsp;<strong>main</strong> reason.)</li><li>(03:07) Using events to build your list can be so powerful…but only if you make sure to not do the following annoying thing that we’ve seen so many people do.&nbsp;</li><li>(04:38) A very basic but utterly crucial point that you <strong><em>need</em></strong> to remember if you’re serious about building your list at events.</li><li>(06:17) How do you make these people actually WANT to sign up to your list? People don’t like to give their emails away to just anyone these days.</li><li>(08:44) Who doesn’t love a shortcut? This one is a winner.&nbsp;</li><li>(09:43) A super simple way of letting people access your information.</li><li>(12:08) Another great tip to keep things as simple as possible that Rob hilariously tried doing before it even existed. He’s well ahead of his time, this one!</li><li>(13:09) In our opinion, this is one of the very best usages of Facebook messenger that’s out there.&nbsp;</li><li>(14:15) Kennedy goes old school but this one is still a very popular method.</li><li>(14:49) How to make very clever use of email auto responders.</li><li>(16:02) Make sure you always do this at EVERY. SINGLE. EVENT.</li><li>(17:20) What’s one of Kennedy’s favourite things to do at live in-person events?</li><li>(18:44) Kill two birds with one stone with this one.&nbsp;</li><li>(19:35) Our final tip that audiences always love. And this one doesn’t have to be saved for in-person events only.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>(20:06) Our biggest take away of this episode.</li><li>(22:10) This week’s subject line of the week is a brilliant way of creating curiosity.</li></ul><br/><p><br></p><h4><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h4><p><br></p><p><a href="https://launch.emailmarketingheroes.com/warrior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Download The Email Marketers' GamePlan</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://www.responsesuite.com/webinar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>FREE Email Marketing Webinar</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://get.emailmarketingheroes.com/league" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>JOIN The League Of Extraordinary Email Marketers</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Connect with us on Twitter</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>for podcast updates and email marketing content</p><h4>Subscribe and Review The Email Marketing Show Podcast</h4><p>Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast, if you enjoyed it we'd really appreciate you Subscribing to and leaving us a Review of the show on your favourite podcast player.</p><p>Not only does it let us know you're out there, listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes - not to mention to helps us get discovered by more people.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/how-to-build-your-list-by-speaking-at-events-online-and-offline/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">a2347bb8-3222-454d-80ef-3a3b9b75eba7</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/456fd1d3-4302-4b5f-bb80-fb12ff9c4719/mbavjqzwlw7izq4dal0-ongg.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2020 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/beb19e71-4d2d-4fa1-81e7-6c0421fa9584/speaking-to-build-your-list.mp3" length="46894939" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>24:25</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>45</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>45</podcast:episode></item></channel></rss>