People generally open your email for one of two reasons: They recognize and trust you. Your subject line sounded interesting. The only way to build trust is to increase brand awareness and consistently create valuable experiences for your leads and customers. But there are lots of strategies for writing interesting [...]
It’s nice to imagine that if you present the right facts and statistics, the sheer weight of your logical arguments will convince people to buy your product or service. But that’s not really how most people make purchasing decisions. While facts, logic, and statistics are important, emotions play a critical [...]
When you’re trying to convince someone to click your ad, open your email, sign up for a demo, or read a blog post, it can be hard to settle on the right messaging. How do you boil down everything your company or product does into a handful of words? What’s [...]
Every industry has specialized vocabulary that describes its concepts, problems, products, services, tasks, and roles. Sometimes these are unique words that evolve from acronyms or concepts that other industries don’t deal with regularly. Other times, this specialized vocabulary might repurpose existing words in a new way. However it forms, this [...]
The average goldfish has a nine-second attention span. The average Internet user has an eight-second attention span. That’s what your marketing is up against every time someone hits your landing page or opens your email. Your readers are literally less attentive than a goldfish. That’s not a criticism of how [...]
Nobody would be surprised if a pastor kept a Bible dictionary open while reading a theological commentary. When you read highly academic texts, you need tools to help you understand complex terms that the author doesn’t take the time to explain. But marketing isn’t academic, and your audience shouldn’t have [...]
Imagine you’re at a friend’s house for lunch. After you spend a few minutes catching up, a stranger opens the front door, sits down at the table, and leans into the conversation. That’s what it feels like when your ads look out of place on someone’s website. To the reader, [...]
Every organization should be able to explain what they do in a single sentence. It’s tempting to think your company solves too many problems or has too many facets to be reduced to something so simple. But your audience needs you to make it simple. The more complicated your offer is, [...]
Your audience is already drowning in videos, images, ads, and posts. You can’t just throw content online and hope for the best. Every minute, YouTube users upload hundreds of hours of video. Twitter users generate more than 300,000 tweets. And in 2017, more than 4,000 apps were added to the [...]
Why do people sign up for your email lists? Before you ever start writing a lead nurture campaign, you need to answer to this question. Relevancy is one of the most important factors to consider when emailing your list. You need to consider why your subscribers signed up, and what [...]