This post was written by Mikita Mikado, the COO and Co-Founder of Quote Roller. As the result of one email, we have acquired 30% more paid users and increased our monthly revenue by 25%. How, you ask? Let’s Start With A Little Background… At the end of the last year, Quote Roller decided to switching [...]

“To lightbox or not to lightbox, that is the question.” – Shakespeare’s most over-adapted (because it’s perfect) quote You’re browsing a site and suddenly, a form pops up in your face, blocking the page with an offer you didn’t ask for. Obnoxious, right? But plenty of sites use lightboxes to request email subscriptions. The common [...]

Last fall, I talked to customer Tim Brennan, chess tactics master, about his marketing plan for the holidays. He’d written an ebook – his first – and had a fresh list-building tactic to try out. He just followed up with me to report, 3 months later, “This has been a HUGE success.” Here’s Tim explaining [...]

If you’re a blogger, it’s likely people are reading your posts through Google Reader. (Click if you don’t know Reader.) Google announced Wednesday that Reader’s closing. Which means your RSS followers won’t see your posts anymore. Email to the rescue! What’s Email Got To Do With It? Well, your soon-to-be-ex-Reader followers have 3 options: 1. [...]

If you haven’t bumped into SnapChat already, it’s the newest (and fast-growing) kid on the online marketing block. SnapChat’s an app for smartphones. You send a picture or short video clip to your contacts, and it self-destructs after a few seconds (you pick the time frame, of course.) (Similar to Facebook Poke, if you’re familiar.) [...]

If you run an Etsy shop – or several – marketing with an email newsletter might seem daunting. But there are two reasons to jump in and start emailing anyway: 1. It’s really super-simple with the right tools (think automatically inviting customers to your newsletter and adding your products to emails with 2 clicks). 2. [...]

You want to see your list of subscribers grow. But does your growth rate look like this? A flat line is better than a declining one, but every business owner wants to see their growth going UP. And maybe for 2013, you’ve vowed that you will do something to make sure that you will see [...]

There are 2 things every Etsy shop owner needs to keep growing their sales: 1. A way to follow up with your customers. As an Etsy seller, you leave money on the table if you aren’t following up with previous purchasers, already interested in your products. 2. Tools to do this quickly and easily. You [...]

You may have wondered how to require an email subscription for access to your high-quality content, the stuff you can’t find just anywhere on the Web. After all, you spend a lot of time and energy putting it together. You brainstorm, dig around the Internet doing research and polish your message like a well-loved shoe. [...]

Half the battle of managing a successful email marketing campaign is building a subscriber list. A lot of businesses do this online, but if you don’t have time to create a big online presence, you may not be able to get the same results. (And no, purchasing a list does not work.) And if you’re [...]