Email Archives - Bryan Eisenberg & Jeffrey Eisenberg

Conversion Optimization 101: Email Marketing – Webinar Invites

November 15, 2012

Conversion Rate Optimization 101, Email, Webinar

This week’s Conversion Optimization challenge is to take a look at the following email I received from WritersAccess.com with an offer to attend a webinar: The subject line was: Webinar Invite: Lessons Learned From 90,000 Content Orders What would you do to optimize this email so that more people register for the webinar? Feel free to comment on subject line, design, or copy. The landing page for the webinar is at: http://www.writeraccess.com/webinar/. Here is the text from the email from WritersAccess.com, if…

It’s Not My Job: Why Marketing is Broken

November 13, 2012

Bryan Eisenberg

Ad Continuity, Advertising, Customer Experience, Email, Landing Page, Scent

I was in Moscow last week with Jeffrey, waiting in the lobby for a taxi. I passed the time taking screenshots of “promotional” emails and ads with their corresponding landing pages. After clicking through some ads and emails I needed to vent. I posted the following message on my Facebook profile: Frustrated at the state of email marketing. Decided I would look at some of the “promotional” emails whisked away from my Inbox and decided to click through to some…

7 Ways to Increase and Retain Newsletter Subscribers

May 23, 2010

Bryan Eisenberg

Content, Email, Optimization

Newsletters continue to serve as an effective way for businesses, from retailers to B2B services, to stay in touch with their customers. In my last column, I shared the simple but powerful technique of using point-of-action assurances to convert more visitors into taking the actions you want them to take – such as using the words “we value your privacy” anywhere you want someone to provide you with their e-mail address. Here are some other tips you can use to…