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SPOILER: it’s not good. Sure—you know you’re writing an email to 5,000 people. But your task is to make your reader feel like
Imagine you’re seeing a 25% open rate on your emails. That means whenever you send a broadcast, 3 in every 4 recipients will
Inboxes aren’t often exciting places. Neither are the majority of web pages, if we’re honest. This can work to your advantage. Your
Whatever you do—don’t just imagine your headline on your page itself. Consider how your headline performs without the rest of your page to
You might know definitively that your call-to-action (CTA) is the single-most strategic thing your supporters can do today to help your cause.
There’s more than one way to build an email list. The various types of digital assets you can use to attract people to
When you hear of organizations that have amassed millions of online supporters, the first question that often comes to mind is: where
It doesn’t matter if you’re writing an email, a blog post, or a tweet—the full gamut of attention-seeking and attention-keeping tactics apply. Social
Think of a radio tower. Broadcast signals beaming far and wide. Most people think about email broadcasts this way. Please don’t think
Great action pages will attract people via social media, search, traditional media, and even word of mouth. This means they’re ideal for list-building.
Trying something risky and new? These methodologies can save you from diving in head first when it might have been wiser to test
Don’t undercut a great email by hiding it behind a poor subject line. These few words have the power to make or
Of all the ‘rules’ out there for writing page headlines, this is the most transformative. If your headline sits on a petition
I know what you’re thinking. “Subject lines”. And you’d be right. Subject lines are hailed as the ‘be all and
To steal a mantra from our friends in journalism: don’t bury the lede. The idea might have started in newspaper offices
A token is a little snippet of encoded data that identifies a supporter and can be attached to links in your email broadcasts. When someone clicks on a tokenized link from an email to your website, your website can re-discover who that supporter is and continue to deliver a seamless, personalized experience. Your email broadcast system, website, and CRM will need the ability to ‘talk’ to each other to pull this off.
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