Lists, headlines & blurbs, single stories most valuable
The most valued email newsletters in the Nielsen Norman Group’s latest round of usability studies used these formats:
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Why write relevant email messages?
Irrelevant content No. 1 reason readers unsubscribe
Talk about competition in the inbox: Today, organizations and individuals send and receive 269 billion emails a day (PDF), according to The Radicati Group.… Read the full article
How long should email newsletters be? [Data!]
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People average 51 seconds on e-zines
The No. 1 advice email newsletter subscribers have for e-zine senders? Keep it short.
This according to the Nielsen Norman Group’s 6 rounds of email newsletter usability studies conducted over 16 years.… Read the full article
Focus your email newsletter
Expand on, but don’t exceed, the subject line
When a Toyota dealership wrapped up its car-maintenance-and-new-models e-zine with information about getting more protein into your diet, subscribers were surprised.… Read the full article
How readable should emails be?
Aim for the 3rd-grade reading level
How easy should email newsletters and e-blasts be to read? Very easy, according to a study of more than 40 million emails by Boomerang.… Read the full article
Make e-zines short, but not too short
Provide adequate content in email newsletters
From the Can’t-Win-For-Losing Department: Although subscribers’ No. 1 piece of advice to email newsletter creators is to keep e-zines short, those same subscribers generally get frustrated when newsletters are too brief.… Read the full article
Compression of details makes writing vivid
Try a triad
You could lead your corporate profile with all the blah-de-blah about your mission, vision, values and inception.
Or you could start with a compression of details that gives readers a taste of your company, like this lead for a story about a division of Seaboard Corp.:… Read the full article