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Mailchimp Shuts Down Cryptocurrency Accounts – Why You Always Need a Backup Plan

Mailchimp Shuts Down Cryptocurrency Accounts – Why You Always Need a Backup Plan

Popular autoresponder company Mailchimp have started shutting down accounts that are related to Cryptocurrencies and ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings) in an apparent effort to protect their service from potential scams.

You may not be in Cryptocurrency, but this could still affect you. Watch my video to find out why.Continue reading

Who the Hell ARE YOU? [Email Marketing Tip]

I don’t know about you, but when I get to know someone, I prefer that they use the same name whenever I see them or they call me.

Call me crazy…

…but my communications with someone in this scenario pretty-much-usually-more-often-than-not-actually-FREAKING-NEVER go like the following:Continue reading

“I have a very particular set of email skills…”

“I know who you are…and I know what you want. If you are looking for the freebie push-button way to riches, I can tell you I don’t have that, because no one does. But what I do have are a very particular set of email skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that can make you a ton of money. If you don’t listen to me, that’ll be the end of it (and you making any money). But if you do, I will look for you, I will find you and I will help beat your competition’s ass.”

In yesterday’s post, I brought you up to speed on the ‘must’s’ of Social Media. That’s how you pull people in. Now you must use the dagger of online marketing to put money in your pocket…

Email.Continue reading

90% of success is just showing up

Did you go to work today?

Did you go to work yesterday?

Let me ask you this:

Did you NOT go to your job for the last two weeks because ‘you didn’t feel like it?’

I’m better dollars to donuts that you DID go to work.

I think we all know what would happen if you didn’t.Continue reading

Build it and they will ask ‘who the hell are you again?’

‘Ray, people will come Ray. They’ll come to Iowa for reasons they can’t even fathom. They’ll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they’re doing it.’

For the movies…sure pal.

But in your business…eh no.

A great line by the James Earl Jones character in ‘Field of Dreams’ to be sure…

but…

people know why they’re coming to your website…

…and they ain’t just gonna stumble on to your blog willy-nilly.

I don’t care how many baseball bats or how much cotton candy you have.Continue reading

Breaking: Email Between Hillary and Donald Released!

Big news in the political world…

An email exchange between Trump and Clinton has been found and released.

Here is the exchange:Continue reading

Will You Marry Me?

It’s amazing what true love can do…

…even in mere days, or sooner.

So last month I had a friend who met someone and in no time were engaged to be married…

– They met at a bar…they started chatting, which led to dancing and numbers exchanged.

And get this…

…they got engaged when they were walking to their car!

Unbelievable.

Yes it is.Continue reading

Aweber Segmentation Tip: ‘Double’ Your List Size Immediately

Aweber Segmentation the Kenneth Way

One of the main priorities of an email marketer is to always be increasing the size of their list. But just as important is to be able to get more of your existing subscribers to open your messages.

With this in mind, I want to show you an Aweber segmentation technique you can use to send the same message to your list more than once and potentially get double your subscribers to open that message.Continue reading

The New York Times’ Successful Email Newsletter Strategy

With most brands centering their online marketing around Social Media , an old publishing stalwart is utilizing a savvy email newsletter strategy and finding success.

The New York Times, one of the oldest newspapers around, has launched 33 niche-based email newsletters (12 of them on the last year) and is enjoying a high open rate and an extremely engaged audience due to an aggressive email newsletter strategy:Continue reading