Legend says there is no secret recipe to a successful marketing campaign. I'm not here to say the opposite... Of course. There is no way to know if a campaign will be successful or go viral before publishing it. Sometimes everything is perfect but the message or the product sucks. For the past year, I spent time reading 2 master articles per week on how to improve e-mail marketing and tried literally everything on community campaigns. Decktopus What I saw was you have optimistically had a %2 conversion chance from an e-mail campaign. We built a newsletter template with a catchy headline, cool image, a big CTA, and 3 -just in case we couldn't impress- buttons to bring traffic to the website. Results were not so bad. People were staying on the page and most of the time, even click on social share buttons. But still, we weren't impressed. Then we decided to switch things up and started to look for different templates to try. Because sometimes you need to pull up the "surprise" card to bring attention and we just felt like we needed a fresh look. Then, sent a newsletter... and I clicked on every single link. this guy His mail was literally the alive version of all the marketing case studies I read. - No fancy look, just a plain text mail Simple - No jargon, instead of "improve your SEO" he used "rank higher on Google" Straight forward - Even though it's a newsletter he crafted it to make it feel like if you reply, you reply to Neil itself Personal There were some missing pieces, of course, we needed to somehow break the pattern and have a strong content strategy. To break the pattern we decided to follow his footsteps at Decktopus and pull up every resource we created until that day to repurpose. We created 3 different resources on 1 parent topic and created share links. The strategy was to bring traffic to content and let the platform do its magic. These were the three pieces of click magnets: - Content marketing examples and lead capture methods we tried at Decktopus. Content marketing examples - A list where you can find the best lead generation tools to grow your business. Best lead generation tools - Do you have a resource to share? Join our community to share and grow your network. Get an invite for our network When you click on resource links, you were redirected to the content inside the Decktopus application. To download the content you need to signup/log in and copy the content to your dashboard. And that's my friend, is a great way to call users back to the application and welcome them with new and shiny features. Long story short surprising people is a great way to take the attention. Don't forget to break the patterns; , but always be original. Copying content is a sin of marketing. Never be ashamed to follow in the footsteps of others
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