Email Marketing Tips from DailyCandy Editor Dany Levy

Email marketing is among the most effective growth marketing and lead generation channels for digital marketing because email is the only channel with a higher adoption rate than search, which is the second most popular online communication channel.

As jazzed as we all are about Tik Tok, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, email and search engines still have greater reach. But you must pay attention to email marketing best practices.

So if you’re curious about what it takes to publish a successful email newsletter, I spoke with DailyCandy.com Editor-in-Chief Dany Levy about the difference between writing for print versus writing for email newsletters, and she had some great advice, which I’ve summarize in this post, or you can hear her yourself by clicking on the preceding link .

Email Marketing Tips

• Short and to the point – As a writer, you’re up against huge attention deficits on the web. Keep it terse. Don’t waste the user’s time. Brevity is the name of the game.
• Relevant and entertaining – It isn’t enough to be informative. Reward the reader’s attention with compelling information that matters to them instead of you. Give them just the essential facts and nothing more.
• Think before you link – If exclusivity is your edge, but you’re writing about and linking to websites, it will be tough to differentiate your email newsletter over time because people can get to those sites from other sources. This is an exciting counterpoint to Boing Boing blogger Cory Doctorow’s assertion that $125 million acquisition by Comcast by selling ads alongside ultra-hip, lifestyle email newsletters. And even today, while everyone else is focused on Twitter and Facebook, DailyCandy.com remains hugely profitable with a series of local and global email newsletter editions.

So if you’re under the impression that Twitter is wired and email is tired, think again. But mind exercise good netiquette.

DailyCandy is no more but brands like DryBar and Nasty Gal launched their businesses with the newsletter, which sold for $125M to Comcast 2008.

So we can all definitely learn a thing or two from Dany and DailyCandy.

Photo by Blaise Hayward.