In this concise instructional video, the speaker contrasts ineffective (bad) and effective (good) email‑marketing tactics across nine key dimensions. Bad marketers make unsubscribing difficult, cram multiple topics into a single email, assume long messages are inherently bad, chase surface‑level metrics like open rates and click‑through rates, experiment on their entire audience, rely on flashy templates, send messages at random times, trust gut feelings, and optimize only for desktop. Good marketers, by contrast, provide an easy unsubscribe path, center each email on one core value with multiple supporting reasons, focus on engagement rather than length, prioritize the long‑term metric of customer lifetime value to acquisition cost (LTV:CAC), allocate 80 % of effort to proven tactics and 20 % to experiments, favor clear design over cleverness, schedule sends when recipients are active, continuously split‑test on a small subset (10‑20 %) before rolling out to the broader list, and ensure emails work well on both desktop and mobile devices. The overall message is that a customer‑centric, data‑driven approach yields higher quality leads and better returns.
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Bad marketers make unsubscribing really hard. Good marketers make unsubscribing really easy. Bad marketers have the meat or value of each email about multiple things. A good marketer has the value or meat about one thing with multiple reasons. Bad email marketers think that long emails are bad and short emails are good. Good marketers realize that there is no such thing as too long, only too boring. Bad marketers only track surface-level metrics like open rates or CTRs. Good marketers focus on the largest metric, which is LTV to CAC. So even if the leads cost more, they might bring you better customers. Bad marketers are trying new things all the time on their entire audience. Good marketers spend 20% of their effort on new stuff and 80% on doing more of what works. Bad marketers use lots of flash and crazy templates. Good marketers go for clear over clever. Bad marketers contact customers when they are not available and don't even look at when their customers are available or reading their emails. Good marketers look at when people are available and reading and send it at those times. Bad marketers go with their guts. Good marketers split test on 10 to 20% at all times and send the rest to their control. Bad marketers optimize just for desktop. Good marketers optimize for desktop and mobile.
