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Offline clients will open your email when you use this...

by Frank Murphy
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Here is just a quick share.

It's something you can use to attract clients from scraped or purchased lists.

I'm not a fan of random email blasts, but I just tried one for the heck of it.

Wasn't really trying to sell, it was more of a test for a future campaign.

The subject line is used was:
"[name], other [insert profession] in [insert city] don't want you to see this..."

so for example

"Jake, other dentists in Houston don't want you to see this..."

You can expect quite a good open rate with this.

Of course, the sample list I had came with first names.

You may wanna try this out. Let me know how it goes!
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  • Profile picture of the author casperd
    Originally Posted by Frank Murphy View Post

    Here is just a quick share.

    It's something you can use to attract clients from scraped or purchased lists.

    I'm not a fan of random email blasts, but I just tried one for the heck of it.

    Wasn't really trying to sell, it was more of a test for a future campaign.

    The subject line is used was:
    "[name], other [insert profession] in [insert city] don't want you to see this..."

    so for example

    "Jake, other dentists in Houston don't want you to see this..."

    You can expect quite a good open rate with this.

    Of course, the sample list I had came with first names.

    You may wanna try this out. Let me know how it goes!

    I want to try it..Is this thing really help?
    If so,I want to try ...
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  • Profile picture of the author kershawm
    This sounds interesting. I have also had some results with:

    "I'm looking for a (name the profession) in (city)."

    but yours sounds like it might be more intriguing to clients because I can always get more of a rise out of them when I talk about their competition.
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  • Profile picture of the author HumDog~USMC
    Those both are great email subject lines! Thanks, I will start using them now!
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  • Profile picture of the author IMguy123
    Originally Posted by Frank Murphy View Post

    Here is just a quick share.

    It's something you can use to attract clients from scraped or purchased lists.

    I'm not a fan of random email blasts, but I just tried one for the heck of it.

    Wasn't really trying to sell, it was more of a test for a future campaign.

    The subject line is used was:
    "[name], other [insert profession] in [insert city] don't want you to see this..."

    so for example

    "Jake, other dentists in Houston don't want you to see this..."

    You can expect quite a good open rate with this.

    Of course, the sample list I had came with first names.

    You may wanna try this out. Let me know how it goes!
    Thanks, this is great!
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  • Profile picture of the author Mel White
    This tactic might not work for long and may not work for people who are on Gmail or Yahoo.

    In the past month or so, spammers for sex sites and Nigerian scams and phishers are using similar headlines and similar messages in spam blasts. Their spam filters are starting to "train" for unsolicited mail like that, because I'm seeing almost all of that kind of marketing end up in my spam folders.

    ...just sayin'.
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    • Profile picture of the author jideofor
      Originally Posted by Mel White View Post

      This tactic might not work for long and may not work for people who are on Gmail or Yahoo.

      In the past month or so, spammers for sex sites and Nigerian scams and phishers are using similar headlines and similar messages in spam blasts. Their spam filters are starting to "train" for unsolicited mail like that, because I'm seeing almost all of that kind of marketing end up in my spam folders.

      ...just sayin'.
      Mel White, try to be logical and practical before you conclude who the scammers are.

      Everytime scam is mentioned or imagined, people hurrily link it with Nigerians. How did you know that those mails were from Nigerians?Please, I want to see proves of your claim.

      Are Nigerians the inventors of this scheme? When you talk of BIG time scammers, they are found in world's great nation who are citizens by birth. My prove maddoff was one and there are many more like him but nobody is talking about this.

      This is not to say Nigerians don't scam, but saying they are all scammers is hasty generalisation and a wrong stand of perception.

      I am a proud Nigerian, and there is no place like MY NIGERIA

      PEACE!
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      • Profile picture of the author hommi_16
        Originally Posted by jideofor View Post

        Mel White, try to be logical and practical before you conclude who the scammers are.

        Everytime scam is mentioned or imagined, people hurrily link it with Nigerians. How did you know that those mails were from Nigerians?Please, I want to see proves of your claim.

        Are Nigerians the inventors of this scheme? When you talk of BIG time scammers, they are found in world's great nation who are citizens by birth. My prove maddoff was one and there are many more like him but nobody is talking about this.

        This is not to say Nigerians don't scam, but saying they are all scammers is hasty generalisation and a wrong stand of perception.

        I am a proud Nigerian, and there is no place like MY NIGERIA

        PEACE!

        I don't think he meant that all Nigerians are scammers. He said Nigerian Scams as they are commonly referred to (at least in North America). Either way I see how you can be offended but your interpretation of what he said is a bit extreme.
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  • Profile picture of the author jideofor
    That may be,but I want to see prove of his claim. It is not good to conclude without prove of claims made.

    Actually, my attitude to something like this did not start today. Knowing how people view us from the outside changed me. I made a decision to make a difference anywhere I have the opportunity. The change start NOW!

    We are Africans, We are Nigerians!

    I am PROUD of my country and I don't care to say it anywhere, irrespective of what people think about us.

    After all, we are all entitled to our own opinion.
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  • Profile picture of the author RAGolko
    I read one recently where an email is sent to an offline prospect but a different prospect is saluted. In other words, you want contact Bill Peterson at Jim's Motor Sales but so you construct an emial to John Aldrige at Maryland Auto Sales, yet the email is still to the guy at Jim's motor sales. The email contains copy such as "Maryland Auto Sales has finally hit the top ten in Google, I hope you are happy with my SEO services..."

    The guy claims it works because the person you actually mail it to is a competitor of one of the companies in the top 10 and now he things 'here's the guy' who can do it for him.

    I won't use this because it's not honest and it could backfire if the two people actually know each other; probably rare in a large city but still it's not honest.

    So why did I share it here? Who knows... What to watch out for I guess. It's in a very recent WSO I purchased by the way.
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    • Profile picture of the author want2knowhow
      I think you are over reacting at what was written. It's no big secret that big time scammers come from Nigeria. It's a well known fact, just like many come from Eastern Europe and right here in the U.S. It's just harder to prosecute thievery outside of democratic countries where it is allowed to flourish. Heck, I was always getting those so called *official* letters from someone telling me they needed my help because they couldn't access some crazy, outrageous sum located in some weird bank in Nigeria.

      Somehow that phrase, "One bad apple" or rather "A few bad apples" come to mind... A few years back there was a 48 Hours segment where they went to Nigeria to track down a scammer. That was very interesting because it is quite a difficult thing (to do) because there was many boiler room operations manned shoulder to shoulder with men doing nothing but sending out millions of b.s emails world wide looking for that *one dummy* they can take to the cleaners! Also, tracking this dude down was like a nightmare because , it was in some Shanty looking town with numerous, unmarked, unnamed tin walled alley ways--but I have to hand it to those dogeared journalists..lol...cause they found him (as well as finding out his real name)...and alas, in the end..he slipped away.

      As they also say..."It IS what it is...and it do what it do" So why take offense, as long as you know it ain't you.
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  • Profile picture of the author Anthony seoserviceagents
    Any solid stats about opening rates? or conversions? that would be interesting to see i know the subject "I'm looking for a (name the profession) in (city)." converts about 12 to 20% tested it myself .
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  • Profile picture of the author sloanjim
    ok so you trick them into opening the email now what?
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