The list, as important as it is, is completely useless if your email doesnt get opened. If people arent taking the time to check out their stats and ratio they could be wasting a lot of time and money.

Like you said, identify what value you can provide and become recognized in the audiences inbox.

My friend has an campaign set up where people email her back and ask if that was a personal email she sent they are so good! This is something to model after.

Thanks for sharing. Have a great day!
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That’s true, there are emails from people that automatically get read first because I go – gee, I like so-and-so, wonder what he has to say. And emails that get tossed or put into a low priority folder to get read later because such-and-such other person isn’t such a favorite. You have some great tips in there for connecting with people and branding yourself so that you connect with the person. I’ve started asking the person to send me a problem or a question or their blog or Twitter or Digg so that I can follow them back as well too so that they feel that it is less of a one way push from me to them and more of a conversation. In that way, too I get to hear about issues and concerns they have that help me to better target messages for the future as well. Plus, it’s more fun and feels nice to get to see what my visitors blogs and Twitter pages are like too! – Rob
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Too often website owners are in a rush in building their list. This causes them to fail to reflect the warm, friendly feeling you have mentioned in your post.

There is no point in building a list if you don’t have that relationship there, because it is the relationship and trust that is going to get you the sales you want in your future emails.
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