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Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

What Are Seinfeld Emails (And How to Leverage Them)? | Ep. #397

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2017

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In Episode #397, Eric and Neil discuss what Seinfeld emails are and how you can leverage them to enhance your business. Tune in to learn how can writing about nothing (literally) can lead to increases in both your network and your sales. Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:27 – Today’s topic: What Are Seinfeld Emails (And How to Leverage Them)? 00:53 – Eric thinks Seinfeld is just a show about nothing 00:59 – The Seinfeld email is like writing an email about nothing 01:07 – Eric shared a bad experience with American Airlines and wrote about the experience 01:24 – He got some great responses from the post 01:34 – “The good thing about writing about nothing is relating it to people” 01:45 – People are more likely to convert because they can connect with it and don’t feel like they’re being sold to 01:51 – You don’t want to write about nothing when you can’t connect it with your product and services 02:40 – For Neil, when someone writes for him, he still checks the end product to see if it matches his vision 03:11 – To be good with Seinfeld emails, you have to do it constantly 03:51 – “People love to hear about stories and Seinfeld emails are just one way to do it” 03:55 – Marketing School is giving away a free 1 year subscription of Crazy Egg which is a visual analytics tool 04:41 – Go to SingleGrain.com/giveaway for multiple entries 04:50 – That’s it for today’s episode! 3 Key Points: Seinfeld emails are basically emails about nothing—oddly enough, they’re effective. When writing a Seinfeld email, connect with people in your writing while subtly leading them to your products and services too. You have to write consistently to be good at Seinfeld’s email writing. Leave some feedback: What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect with us: NeilPatel.com Quick Sprout Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel Twitter @ericosiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Get ready for your daily dose of marketing strategies and tactics from

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entrepreneurs with the guile and experience to help you find success in any

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marketing capacity. You're listening to marketing school

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with your instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.

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Welcome to another episode of marketing school.

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I'm Eric Sue.

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And I'm Neil Patel.

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And today we're going to talk about what Seinfeld emails are

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and what you can do with them.

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So when I was studying copywriting a couple years ago,

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I think I was turned to, it might be Ben Settle

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or might be Gary Halpert, might be Russell Brunson.

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It's one of them. I do know Russell Brunson uses the tactic of Seinfeld email.

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So I was just telling Neil when it comes to Seinfeld emails, actually have never seen the show before, but from my understanding and Neil correct me if I'm wrong

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Seinfeld they don't really talk about anything it's a show about nothing right yeah but it's a good

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