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The FWD: Thinking Show

The FWD: Thinking Show is a podcast dedicated to sharing innovative email marketing strategies from the most successful, forward thinking marketing minds in the world (see what we did there?).

From copywriting to email design, conversion optimization, and everything in between, we uncover the game changing tactics and strategies that enable small businesses and entrepreneurs to accomplish more with email marketing.

The FWD: Thinking Show is brought to you by the team at AWeber, the powerfully-simple email marketing solution that helps small businesses build their audiences and grow their businesses.

Further podcasts by Tom Tate | AWeber

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Ep.013 Featuring guest Brenda Ster from 2021-06-02T15:27:08

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Ep.012 Featuring guest Ben Cummings from 2021-04-28T18:33:24

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Ep.011 Featuring guest Monica Hoyer from 2021-03-31T14:11:52

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Ep.010 Featuring guest Jay Moore from 2021-02-26T19:16:07

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Ep.009 Featuring guest Amy Woods from 2021-02-01T18:16:59

Content repurposing isn’t copying and pasting content from one format to another. It’s a strategic process that when done correctly, can change the way you market for the better. Learn how Amy W...

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Ep.007 Featuring guest John Jantsch from 2020-12-01T19:47:21

In this episode of The FWD: Thinking Show, John Jantsch — CEO of Duct Tape Marketing — discusses how marketing has changed over the years, and how marketers can apply the new marketing funnel to...

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Ep.006 Featuring guest Matthew Smith from 2020-10-20T13:55:17

 In this episode of The FWD: Thinking Show, Matthew Smith — Founder of Really Good Emails and design agency Fathom & Draft — shares his thoughts on the most important elements of email design, h...

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Ep.005 Featuring guest Joanna Weibe from 2020-10-01T19:53:20

On the fifth episode of The FWD: Thinking Show, Joanna joins us to talk about which email writing ‘best practices’ are meant to be broken — and which ones shouldn’t be — and why standing out in ...

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Ep.004 Featuring guest Val Geisler from 2020-09-02T19:36:02

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Ep.003 Featuring guest Julia McCoy from 2020-08-05T20:49:29

Julia McCoy, CEO of Express Writers & Content Hacker, joins The FWD: Thinking Show to share her entrepreneurial journey — starting with dropping out of college at...

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Ep.002 Featuring guest Rieva Lesonsky from 2020-08-05T20:47:36

Rieva Lesonsky, CEO of GrowBizMedia, joins The FWD: Thinking Show to share simple ways to build trust, increase brand "likeability," and how to give your audience...

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Ep.001 Featuring guest Lee Odden from 2020-08-05T20:44:02

Lee Odden, CEO of TopRank Marketing, joins The FWD: Thinking Show to share how influencer marketing and search engine optimization (SEO) can be combined to create...

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Chris Vasquez on Beyond the Podcast from 2018-08-07T20:08

Chris Vasquez's interview on Beyond the Podcast.

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Jessica Kupferman on Beyond the Podcast from 2018-08-07T20:07

Jessica Kupferman's interview on Beyond the Podcast.

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John Lee Dumas on Beyond the Podcast from 2018-08-07T20:06

John Lee Dumas' interview on Beyond the Podcast.

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Introducing Beyond the Podcast Virtual Summit from 2018-08-07T20:05

We're excited to bring to the feed every interview from our 1-day virtual summit, Beyond the Podcast.

Check out interviews with podcast veterans like:

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How to Be More Productive While Growing Your Business with Paula Rizzo from 2018-07-31T19:06:08

Welcome back to the podcast!

We're excited to welcome Liz Willits and Mike Smith to the show...

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Podfest, Traffic and Conversion Summit, and the return of the show from 2018-02-06T00:13

Getting ready to relaunch the podcast!

What do you want to hear?

What's your preferred format, frequency, or length?

Let me know - tomt@aw...

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Season 3 Recap and Meet us at Podcast Movement! from 2017-08-22T20:39:40

Thanks for a great season!

In this episode, I recap Season 3 of our podcast. Our theme this season was Email Marketing for Podcasters! I also share that our team is repre...

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The Road to One Million Downloads with Austin Fabel from 2017-08-08T20:56:38

What does it take to top the podcast charts?

Our latest guest shares the tactics you need to grow your show, and your email list.

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Launch Your Minimum Viable Podcast with Mark Asquith from 2017-08-01T20:14:57

What's your minimum viable podcast?

In this episode, Mark Asquith of Listen

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How to Rock Podcasts as a Guest with Jessica Rhodes from 2017-07-25T18:30:52

Not interested in being a podcaster, but want to be on podcasts?

Get ready to rock the mic, no matter what side you're on!

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Creating your own Life (and Podcast) with Jeremy Ryan Slate from 2017-07-18T13:06:02

"You have to create success for yourself before you can create success for other people."

This is the mission statement that drives Jeremy Ryan Slate to produce three outrageously actiona...

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Finding Your Voice and Product with Addy Saucedo from 2017-07-11T18:59:49

Have an idea for a physical product? Find out how our next guest used podcasting and email marketing to turn her product idea into a successful reality.

In this episode, we learn...

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Always Choosing Adventure with Jay Wong from 2017-07-04T11:00

Want to be a changemaker?

Jay Wong, host of Listen

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Strategically designing your podcast with Natalie Eckdahl from 2017-06-27T12:00

Ready to launch and grow your podcast?

In this episode, you’ll learn how to strategically design and optimize your podcast with Natalie Eckda...

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Season 3: Email Marketing for Podcasters from 2017-06-20T19:04:03

Check out a preview of our next podcast season on Ask Me About Email Marketing!

Join Tom Tate as we kick off a series of in-depth interviews with podcasters to learn how they grow and eng...

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Season 3 Preview + Podcast Movement 2017 Giveaway! from 2017-06-15T21:40:59

Tune in to learn what the theme will be for our next season, and subscribe now to check out the first episode launching on Tuesday, June 20.

To enter our Podcast Movement giveaway, head o...

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Analyze and Improve Your Emails - The Ultimate Guide to Email Marketing (Week 8) from 2017-03-20T13:01:08

To check out the Ultimate Guide to Email Marketing, visit AWeber.com/theguide...

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Advanced Email Automation and Segmentation Topics - The Ultimate Guide to Email Marketing (Week 7) from 2017-03-13T14:57:04

To check out the Ultimate Guide to Email Marketing, visit AWeber.com/theguide...

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Scheduling and Sending the Perfect Broadcast Email - The Ultimate Guide to Email Marketing (Week 6) from 2017-03-06T15:17:20

To check out the Ultimate Guide to Email Marketing, visit AWeber.com/theguide...

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Designing Beautiful Email - The Ultimate Guide to Email Marketing (Week 5) from 2017-02-27T16:41:27

To check out the Ultimate Guide to Email Marketing, visit AWeber.com/theguide...

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What to Write in Your Emails - The Ultimate Guide to Email Marketing (Week 4) from 2017-02-20T15:54:01

To check out the Ultimate Guide to Email Marketing, visit AWeber.com/theguide...

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Growing Your Email Audience - The Ultimate Guide to Email Marketing (Week 3) from 2017-02-13T17:13:48

To check out the Ultimate Guide to Email Marketing, visit AWeber.com/theguide...

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Plan your Email Strategy - The Ultimate Guide to Email Marketing (Week 2) from 2017-02-06T14:12:10

To check out the Ultimate Guide to Email Marketing, visit AWeber.com/theguide...

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Season 2! The Ultimate Guide to Email Marketing (Week 1 - Introduction) from 2017-01-30T20:03:17

We're back with a brand new season of the Ask Me About Email Marketing Podcast!

To check out the Ultimate Guide to Email Marketing, visit AWeber...

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(Update) Get your holiday GIFs and check out one of our most anticipated podcast launches from 2016-12-06T20:28:48

Here are a few notes shared in the episode:

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Email Marketing 041: (Ask Me About) Email Marketing Is Dead! Sort of. from 2016-09-27T20:39:06

The Ask Me About Email Marketing podcast is going on an indefinite hiatus.

Listen to find out why!

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(BONUS) Today is your day to get unstuck... Week 4 of 4 from 2016-09-22T13:08:06

In this bonus series of the show, Tom talks with Ernest Barbaric about getting unstuck and moving towards creating meaningful work.

Today is your day to take action!

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Email Marketing 040: The Ask Me About Email Marketing Clip Show from 2016-09-20T20:42:05

In this podcast episode, take a look at the top ten most popular episodes to date (as ranked by your downloads) in a curated Ask Me About Email Marketing Listen

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(BONUS) Today is your day to get unstuck... Week 3 of 4 from 2016-09-15T19:46:27

In this bonus series of the show, Tom talks with Ernest Barbaric about facing the fear that often keeps us from realizing our most meaningful work.

Today is your day to take action!

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Email Marketing 039: The Non-Marketer's Guide to Getting 100 Subscribers with Andy Obusek from 2016-09-13T20:44:01

Ah, yes! The first 100 subscriber mark. It is quite possibly the most rewarding benchmark in your email marketing adventures.

If you haven't gotten there yet, that's not a proble...

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(BONUS) Today is your day to get unstuck... Week 2 of 4 from 2016-09-08T20:15:40

In this bonus series of the show, Tom talks with Ernest Barbaric about finding your purpose and tapping in to your most meaningful work.

Today is your day to take action!

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Email Marketing 038: Three Tips To Boost Your Email Engagement with Tom Tate from 2016-09-07T02:25:39

Last week, our Director of Deliverability Mohammed Ahmed posted a fantastic post on Listen

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(BONUS) Today is your day to get unstuck... Week 1 of 4 from 2016-09-01T20:57:25

In this bonus series of the show, Tom talks with guest expert Ernest Barbaric about getting unstuck and facing the fear of the unknown.

Today is your day to take action!

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Email Marketing 037: Live From Podcast Movement Pt. 2 from 2016-08-30T20:36:55

In early July, I had the pleasure of joining a few AWeber team members in Chicago for Podcast Movement 2016.

I wanted to know how...

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Email Marketing 036: Live From Podcast Movement Pt. 1 from 2016-08-23T15:26:17

In early July, I had the pleasure of joining a few AWeber team members in Chicago for Podcast Movement 2016.

I wanted to know how...

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Email Marketing 035: Successful Marketing Systems for Owners with Jon Butt from 2016-08-16T09:00

Do you run the show?

Being a business owner is not easy. Marketing trends keep changing, your audience's attention is getting harder to capture, and you need to keep on selling t...

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Email Marketing 034: Mastering Video in Email with Margot Mazur from 2016-08-09T19:37:08

What if you had the power to create affordable and incredible game-changing content for your business and email marketing campaigns? Would you use it?

As email marketers, we reve...

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Email Marketing 033: Epic email marketing tactics for independent authors with J. Thorn from 2016-08-02T20:46:57

What are your deepest and darkest fears?

For years, independent author J. Thorn has been exploring the question through his fear and fantasy fiction writing. He's sold over 1...

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Email Marketing 032: Redefining the line between sales and spam with John Bonini from 2016-07-26T14:44:55

Are you sending spam without even realizing it?

In this episode of the Ask Me About Email Marketing podcast, we talk with John Bonini, Growth Direc...

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Email Marketing 031: Email copywriting tactics from a daily sender with Ben Settle from 2016-07-19T20:38:13

Are you using email marketing to generate an income? If not, do you want to?

Writing to sell without feeling "salesy" or "sleazy" is a challenge. When it comes to selling via ema...

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Email Marketing 030: Generate more leads using quizzes with Josh Haynam from 2016-07-12T13:14

Pop quiz: What's the best way to generate a ton of qualified leads, while also providing a fun an engaging interactive experience?

It's a pop quiz, of course!

In this podcast episo...

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Email Marketing 029: Listener Q&A – LeadPages, lead magnets, and length from 2016-07-05T14:48:32

In this episode of the Ask Me About Email Marketing podcast, I tackle three big listener questions.

  • Do I need to use LeadPages to use AWeber?
  • How do I create a compelling l...

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Email Marketing 028: Smart marketing book recommendations from Douglas Burdett from 2016-06-28T17:36:27

Ready to be a smarter marketer?

With blogs, podcasts, videos, snaps, chats, and tweets coming at us from all directions, it's getting harder and harder to find the content that will truly...

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Email Marketing 027: Remarkable Email Marketing for Podcasters with Jerod Morris from 2016-06-21T19:32:47

Thinking about starting a podcast? Today is your day! Starting a podcast is an exciting venture, and can lead to all sorts of fruitful happenings for you and your business. My fellow podcasters ...

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Email Marketing 026: Take Twitter and Email to the Next Level with Madalyn Sklar from 2016-06-14T16:52:37

It might seem odd to hear an email marketing podcast focus on Twitter, but rest assured there's tremendous opportunity to reach a wide audience with the little blue bird that could. Not only can...

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Email Marketing 025: How to Grow a Vibrant and Engaged Online Community with Olivia Dello Buono from 2016-06-07T20:36:10

Forming personal connections is one of the welcome benefits of email marketing. But so frequently, we end up sending emails to subscribers with little to no interaction back. We revert to pushin...

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Email Marketing 024: The most downloaded episode of ALL-TIME with Noah Kagan from 2016-05-31T13:00

On this episode of Ask Me About Email Marketing, we discuss starting, failing, monetization, driving traffic, staying accountable, growing businesses, connecting with people, and much more with ...

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[BONUS] Three lessons from our most popular episodes to date from 2016-05-20T01:31:10

In this bonus content, I share three key lessons from our most popular episodes to date. To get access to all the bonus audio content for this show, be sure to sign up to the feed through iTunes...

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Email Marketing 022: How to repurpose your best content for email and beyond from 2016-05-18T01:38:53

Like many marketers, I can get overwhelmed when it comes to producing high-quality content on a consistent basis. That's why I find the idea of repurposing content so appealing.

If you've...

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Email Marketing 021: Optimize and accelerate your email list growth with Ben Jabbawy from 2016-05-10T20:37:38

Looking for ways to optimize and accelerate your email list growth? Look no further!

In this episode, I discuss a recent study from the team at Privy.com, which evaluates the most effecti...

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Email Marketing 020: All about content curation with the Curate team from 2016-05-03T16:13:43

Over the past few months, we’ve been working feverishly to develop and release our third mobile app, Curate. (Curious about it? Li...

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Email Marketing 019: Engaging your audience with Chris Vasquez and Meghan Nesta from 2016-04-26T17:41:29

In this episode of the Ask Me About Email Marketing podcast, we're sharing our experience at AWeber in engaging subscribers and soliciting feedback.

In a comment on the show notes for Listen

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Email Marketing 018: Breaking down the Promotions tab with Chris Lang (Part 2) from 2016-04-19T21:15:32

We're back with another great episode of the Ask Me About Email Marketing podcast.

In this episode, part two of our series with email consultant Chris Lang, we continue to discuss Gmail d...

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Email Marketing 017: Breaking down the Promotions tab with Chris Lang from 2016-04-12T21:34:54

Email marketers spend a lot of time optimizing their open rates. Getting subscribers to open emails is almost a form of mad science – one that is predicated on first getting your emails ...

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Email Marketing 016: Growing your local service business with Matthew Rodela from 2016-04-05T20:38:26

Email marketing is an effective way to automate and scale your service-based or local business.

The basic principles of acquiring and nurturing leads, developing top-of-mind awarenes...

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Email Marketing 015: How to use video in email with Jay Moore from 2016-03-29T20:47:23

Video in email. It's a thing. You can't ignore it.

Well, you can ignore it, but I wouldn't recommend that. :)

Successfully implementing video in your email campaigns can yield high...

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Email Marketing 014: How many emails should I send with Monica Montesa from 2016-03-22T21:00:20

Nurturing a relationship through email marketing is a lot like forming relationships in real life. Am I saying too much, or too little? Am I saying the right things? It’s been two days, should I...

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Email Marketing 013: Building an audience in a disruptive industry with Jason Brubaker from 2016-03-15T20:42:08

We frequently talk about the impact of email marketing on our lives. Email saves us time, helps us grow our businesses, and empowers us to form relationships with people we value. But what about...

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Email Marketing 012: Publishing, promoting, and personalizing with Honorée Corder from 2016-03-08T17:47:12

In December of 2015, we kicked off our podcast with our CMO, our Creative Director, and a single question: Listen

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Email Marketing 011: Engaging social subscribers with Amy Schmittauer from 2016-03-01T16:38:14

Growing your list is crucial to scaling your business or brand. On this episode of Ask Me About Email Marketing, I interview Amy Schmittauer from SavvySexySocial.com to learn how she managed to ...

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Email Marketing 010: What is influencer marketing? from 2016-02-23T20:28:16

Today, on the Ask Me About Email Marketing podcast, we're covering a hot topic in Digital Marketing – influencers. It seems like 2016 is the year of Listen

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Email Marketing 009: Live from Traffic and Conversion Summit 2016 from 2016-02-16T18:15:48

What's the future of digital marketing?

Over 3000 like-minded marketers convened in San Diego last week at the Traffic...

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Email Marketing 008: How do I convert subscribers into paying customers? from 2016-02-02T18:36:11

Back again with another fresh episode of the Ask Me About Email Marketing podcast, the show where we're talking about all things email marketing and no questions are off limits.

For today...

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Email Marketing 007: What do I write in my emails? from 2016-01-26T22:02:23

Today's episode answers a question we receive quite frequently: "What do I write in my emails?"

Our answer to this question comes in the form of a new 7-day email course: Listen

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Email Marketing 006: How do I best use email templates? from 2016-01-20T00:45:24

And we're back with another episode of the Ask Me About Email Marketing podcast!

This week’s question comes from a blog reader's comment on our Listen

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Email Marketing 005: What types of pop ups have the highest conversion rates? from 2016-01-12T21:07:15

This week’s question comes from Nick Jervis, from Your Website Genie who is curious what pop up styles are most effective, according to our data....

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Email Marketing 004: How can I send file attachments with my email newsletters? from 2016-01-05T20:48:59

Everyone here at AWeber and the Ask Me About Email Marketing podcast wish you a very happy new year. We hope to answer many valuable questions about email marketing in the weeks and months to co...

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Email Marketing 003: How do I get more email subscribers when starting from scratch? from 2015-12-29T17:01:31

We are quickly approaching the new year, and with each new year comes new beginnings. If you are planning to start a new business venture in 2016, then you have to check out this packed-to-the-b...

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Email Marketing 002: How do I convert my social traffic into loyal email subscribers? from 2015-12-22T17:01:44

We're back with another great episode of our official podcast, Ask Me About Email Marketing.

Our next question comes from Deonne Kahler, a photographer who sees a large amount of shar...

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Email Marketing 001: How could I use email marketing to support my book launch? from 2015-12-15T14:08:15

Welcome to the first official episode of the Ask Me About Email Marketing podcast. Our first question comes from Simon Kadwill, a book marketer who is preparing for his upcoming book launch.
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Email Marketing 000: What is this show all about? from 2015-12-09T02:23:43

In this episode, I introduce myself and the show before we dig into our user-submitted questions about email marketing. Put simply, our team at AW...

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