5 Copywriting Tips to Reduce Email Unsubscribes

Email strategy and copywriting could use improvement, according to a recent survey where consumers revealed reasons why they unsubscribe from emails. Consumers used words like “boring, repetitive,” “same ads in print,” “too focused on company’s needs” and “I don’t trust their email” as reasons why they unsubscribe. Today, I share five tips to reduce email unsubscribes.

Internet users were surveyed by MarketingSherpa asking why they unsubscribe from emails. The top results aren’t terribly surprising:

  • 26 percent say “I get too many emails in general”
  • 21 percent say “The emails aren’t relevant to me”
  • 19 percent say “I receive too many emails from this company specifically”

But several other answers (summarized in this article by eMarketer)

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