My Aha Moment Today

aha3It’s interesting how you can by accident run across things that you want to hit yourself upside the head and go why didn’t I think about this sooner.  Those aha moments – well I just had one today and thought I’d share.

Today I have been working on my mailers and getting things set up with the new system at Viral Mail Profits  as I was determined to take the time to finish setting up all the mailers and safelists that I was in as in the long run I will thank myself at the time it will save me.

If you have been like me, I jumped on the bandwagon and tested them out and now I know for sure that they work and now with the new tool on Viral Mail Profits and now with Ulti Send added – well I’m excited as just from the few I have sent to – it’s so worth taking the time to set up.

Now I don’t know about you but when I sign up to a mailer, safelist, etc. , I always set up a filter for each site in my email account and then when I’m mailing out at a particular mailer – all I have to do is go to that site’s folder and click emails to get the credits that I need.

Well, today I was working on this and after clicking, clicking and clicking emails earning my credits – – don’t know about you but I then hit the select all and delete what I didn’t get to as by the time that I do get back they will be expired – right or wrong?  Let’s just say it works for me and keeps me from seeing +999 all the time in the files.

Now I was just working up a storm and doing this routine when ONE of the times that I was hit the delete button – I had my aha moment.  Now wouldn’t it be smart instead of just deleting all them – I go thru all those subject lines and make a file of test subject lines – you know when you go brain dead like I do and just can’t think of something that would maybe get someone to open.

So yes you guess it, I made a new file and just scrolled down all these subject lines and picked some that I thought I’d like to try – and the real aha moment was watching all the ones that I was just scrolling on by and again another aha moment – what was it in these that just made me scroll on by.

Well you need to go to one of those files and try this – scroll down thru all those +999 emails that you have and it will be an eye-opener for you – it sure was for me.  If you do this, I think you will get much better at your subject lines.

The other exercise that you should pay attention to is when you are clicking and reading the emails – which ones stopped you and you really read.  Which ones did you open and couldn’t wait to get to that credit link.

Hope this will make you pay attention to things more and also don’t be so quick on hitting that delete button – there may just be lessons for you in what you are deleting.  You may just have one of your aha moments – let me hear them if you do.

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