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The frugal writer’s guide to making content work twice as hard

Recycle content from your blog, presentations, newsletters, and emails to make it work twice as hard with little to no extra effort

How to write emails people actually want to read

Five strategies for writing great emails people will read

Getting more people to click on your newsletter

Bulletproof buttons, focusing content, clear calls to action, and AIDA all help you get more people to click on your email newsletters

How to hire freelance writers

Ruben Gamez from Bidsketch talks about working with freelancers writing for his company. If you want to get better writing, maybe outsourcing to a professional writer is the way to go.

Designing for Email

Justine Jordan discusses her role at Litmus.com and how to be effective with your designs in email

FDR’s fireside chats

How president Franklin Delano Roosevelt connected with people at scale

Do you start with the design or the copy?

When’s the last time you heard someone get excited about the design process?

Write Emails in Markdown

Wysiwyg editors are just a terrible way to write emails. A few practical tips on using markdown instead

The two most important lines in your email are…

A quick look at why your email subject line and first line of copy is so important to get right.