How Do I Write An Email So That My Readers Know That I'm Actually Writing Directly To Them?

AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2014

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Today's question comes from Timothy, who wants to know the best practices around sending personal emails to his audience members. Timothy's site is http://masterofmemory.com/. Do you have a question about building community engagement? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Today's sponsor is AWeber. Go to http://www.aweber.com/askpat to try it out for $1. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	AskPath.
0:01.0	AskPath.com.
0:10.6	Hey, what's up everybody?
0:11.9	Pat Flynn here and welcome to episode 68 of Ask Pat.
0:15.2	I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.
0:18.6	And today our sponsor is Aweber, w e b e r this is a service
0:23.2	that i love using i've used for the last five years and i only wish i use it sooner this is a service
0:28.9	that will help you collect email addresses and yes you could do that on your own but it helps you
0:34.4	create web forms and allows you to collect all these emails so you could send broadcasts out later as well as use an auto responder sequence which means when people sign up
0:43.2	to your list you can have a pre written set of emails that get sent out sequentially over time
0:48.6	which is really important and something I love to do to keep in constant contact with my audience
0:53.0	so that when I do send a time sensitive emailensitive email, they are more likely to open it.
0:57.6	That's why my open rates are nearly 50% because of the auto-responder that I use, which we're going to be talking about a little bit in today's question from Timothy.
1:06.0	So again, Aweber.
1:06.9	If you go to Aweber.com slash ask pat, you'll get to try it out for one month for $1.00.
1:12.8	So check it out.
1:13.4	Aweber.com slash ask Pat.
1:15.0	Now let's get to Timothy's question about email.
1:19.7	Hey, Pat.
1:20.4	This is Timothy Moser of Master of Memory.com, and I'm loving your new show.
1:24.5	Obviously, as a blogger and podcaster, there's almost nothing I like better than hearing
1:28.3	from my audience. So I'm looking for creative ways to connect with them in person. I really like
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