{"id":19103,"date":"2016-06-09T00:03:09","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T07:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/?p=19103"},"modified":"2016-06-09T00:03:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T07:03:09","slug":"radio-email-campaigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/radio-email-campaigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Sponsored Radio Station Email Campaign Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danoday.com\/blog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19122\" src=\"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/sponsored-radio-station-email-campaign-tips-1.jpg\" alt=\"sponsored-radio-station-email-campaign-tips\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/sponsored-radio-station-email-campaign-tips-1.jpg 320w, https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/sponsored-radio-station-email-campaign-tips-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a>A Loyal Reader Asks:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;We have been getting really good response from email blasts. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Obviously when we do a promotion there is a sponsor attached most times. What are your thoughts of the sponsor being mentioned in the Subject Line? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Opinion 1: The sponsor will get more bang for their buck if they are seen in the Subject <span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Line<\/span> right away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Opinion 2: Grab the listener with a short and sweet subject line so they will read the email and see the sponsor mentioned there. And putting a sponsor in the Subject <span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Line<\/span> makes it feel &#8216;spammy.'&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u2014 Todd Steinkamp<\/span> <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">There&#8217;s no guarantee that the sponsors will get more bang for their buck if their name is in the Subject Line.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In fact, most of the time it will have the opposite effect. As Opinion 2 states, &#8220;Putting a sponsor in the Subject <span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Line<\/span> makes it feel &#8216;spammy.'&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">If Opinion 2 is accurate, then ultimately your sponsors receive less bang for their buck, as recipients increasingly associate those sponsors&#8217; names with spam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Your station simultaneously is squandering its good will by sending emails that &#8220;feel spammy.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Naturally, sponsors think their names should be in the Subject Lines&#8230;just as they think their names should be in the first sentence of their radio commercials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">That&#8217;s why we hear so many terrible, money-losing spots that begin, &#8220;Sears proudly announces its annual once-in-a-lifetime sale&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800000;\">How to Get People to Open Your Radio Station&#8217;s Marketing Emails<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The first line of a radio advertisement has just one goal: to cause the targeted listener to listen to the next sentence in that spot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">An email&#8217;s Subject <span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Line<\/span> has just one goal: to cause the recipient <em>to open the email.<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In email marketing, including the sponsor&#8217;s name in the Subject <span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Line<\/span> rarely causes more recipients to open the email.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">If it&#8217;s not an email they&#8217;ve been waiting to receive (&#8220;XYZ tickets available NOW&#8221;), to generate the largest possible &#8220;open rate&#8221; (which I hope you&#8217;re measuring), your Subject <span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Line<\/span> needs to be either<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A) Irresistibly beneficial to the recipient<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">or<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">B) Irresistibly intriguing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Most email marketers are thrilled to achieve open rates (the percentage of people who actually open an email you send them) of 25% &#8211; 30%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">I, on the other hand, am disappointed in an open rate below 50% and downright unhappy with an open rate below 35%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Here are the Subject Lines of emails I sent during the past year that achieved greater than 40% open rates. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Let&#8217;s see how many of them are either Irresistibly Beneficial or Irresistibly Intriguing&#8230;or both.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em><br \/>\n(First Name) &#8211; Will you be with us?<\/em> (74.55%)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"> Will you be with us&#8230;for what?? The success of that Subject Line was almost entirely due to Intrigue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"> I say &#8220;almost entirely&#8221; because it also invokes a powerful psychological motivator called &#8220;Fear of Loss.&#8221; Although they don&#8217;t yet know what event is being referred to, part of them can&#8217;t bear the possibility of being left out of something that might be really good&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"> &#8230;so they read the email to find out what they might otherwise miss.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>* (as promised!) Your advance notice<\/em> (69.00%)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"> That Subject Line combines Benefit (here&#8217;s that thing I promised you, and you&#8217;re getting the information before the rest of the world&#8221;) with Intrigue (most likely they don&#8217;t remember or aren&#8217;t sure just what it is I promised them).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>VO Mktg Class Registration is NOW Open<\/em> (68.47%)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">That&#8217;s 100% Benefit&#8230;when mailed to a list of everyone who expressed some degree of interest in the <a href=\"http:\/\/voiceovermarketingclass.com\/\">Voiceover Marketing<\/a> Class.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Here&#8217;s the VO class info I promised<\/em> (65.96%)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">That&#8217;s strictly Benefit&#8230;to the list of people who asked to be put on my <a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoverclass.com\/\">Starting Your Voiceover Business<\/a> class Alert list.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Audiobook Q&amp;A 1 hr from now<\/em> (65.48%)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Once again, strictly benefit. This email doesn&#8217;t attempt to &#8220;sell&#8221; the Q&amp;A seminar. Its sole purpose is to ensure that interested recipients don&#8217;t inadvertently miss the event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>(First Name) &#8211; Please don&#8217;t share this<\/em> (54.19%)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">While on a subtle level that Subject Line uses another powerful psychological trigger, Scarcity, on a conscious level 54.19% of recipients opened the email to find out what I&#8217;m sharing with them while urging them not to share it with others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Advance warning!<\/em> (51.68%)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Intrigue (warning about what?) followed by Benefit (I&#8217;ll learn about something before other people do).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Interested in joining us in October?<\/em> (44.61%)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Subject Line doesn&#8217;t say what we&#8217;ll be doing in October.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It doesn&#8217;t even reveal who comprises the &#8220;us.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Motivation to read the email: Intrigue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Final free voiceover Q&amp;A tomorrow<\/em> (43.91%)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Benefit<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Audio replay enclosed (audiobook Q&amp;A)<\/em> (42.06%)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Benefit, with a little bit of sly Intrigue thrown in: How the heck do you &#8220;enclose&#8221; an audio replay in an email?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Here are 48 audiobook videos<\/em> (40.29%)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">100% Benefit (to a list of people who&#8217;ve expressed an interest in narrating audiobooks.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Here&#8217;s How to Achieve a Strong Open Rate While Guaranteeing a Poor Result.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">If your Subject Line succeeds in involving recipients but the actual message doesn&#8217;t deliver on the implied intrigue or benefit, you&#8217;ll fail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Example:<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Your Subject Line is, <em>&#8220;5 strokes off your golf game \u2014 guaranteed!&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Your body copy, however, continues: <em>&#8220;We can&#8217;t guarantee our Miracle Golf Club will take 5 strokes off your golf game, but we do guarantee you&#8217;ll be amazed at how much farther you can drive the ball&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">That&#8217;s not clever. That&#8217;s dumb.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It&#8217;s the equivalent of rookies whose Subject Lines consist of &#8220;Sex!&#8221; and whose email body copy continues, &#8220;Now that we&#8217;ve got your attention&#8230;.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sorry, that&#8217;s not clever. It&#8217;s not original. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Worse, it&#8217;s not effective. It actually annoys and alienates your prospects. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Understand this:<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">You&#8217;re Trying to <em>Entice<\/em> People into Opening Your Email&#8230;Not to Trick Them into Opening It.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">With that all of that as background, let&#8217;s look at a few of the emails Todd sent me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">I&#8217;ve replaced the names of the actual sponsors with &#8220;XYZ Co.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Where you see &#8220;Todd&#8221; in the Subject Line, that represents the individual recipient&#8217;s first name.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/store.danoday.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19108\" src=\"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/radio-email-marketing-1.png\" alt=\"radio-email-marketing-1\" width=\"1011\" height=\"1015\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/radio-email-marketing-1.png 1011w, https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/radio-email-marketing-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/radio-email-marketing-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/radio-email-marketing-1-768x771.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1011px) 100vw, 1011px\" \/><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Subject Line is good <em>if<\/em> the mailing list is comprised largely of racing enthusiasts. For a radio station&#8217;s entire database, it&#8217;s weak. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A word about punctuation and Subject Lines: Punctuation isn&#8217;t important, but communication is. In this example, the missing comma slows down the reader&#8217;s eye. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Let&#8217;s look at the first line of the Body Copy: <em>&#8220;Iowa&#8217;s Best Country, KIX 101.1 and XYZ Co. want to send you to&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Comment #1:<\/strong> The majority of the recipients of this email can see the first line or two in &#8220;Preview&#8221; mode before deciding whether to open the email. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">How enticing is that preview? It virtually shouts, &#8220;Here&#8217;s a commercial announcement!!!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Comment #2:<\/strong> The entire email is presented in the style of a bad 30-second spot written by a station account executive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Think about the emails you&#8217;re most likely to open and to read. At the top of your list undoubtedly are emails from people you know, written to you in a naturally conversational style&#8230;hopefully about a topic you&#8217;re interested in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Just as a successful radio commercial is a conversation between the advertiser and the targeted consumer, to succeed your marketing emails need to be conversational.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">That&#8217;s conversational, not informational.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This email is filled with information: Name of radio station; name of sponsor; names of the two events; dates, prize; how to enter&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Recipients who might actually care about the information aren&#8217;t going to wade through the clunky verbiage that surrounds it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">If you&#8217;re sending an informational email to people who want that information, make it easy for them to find and digest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Hint:<\/em> Nobody wants to read your radio station&#8217;s emails. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Recipients who are interested in the contents want to <em>scan<\/em> the message. They want the info to jump from their computer screen into their brains without their having to do any work at all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/store.danoday.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19109\" src=\"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/radio-email-marketing-2.png\" alt=\"radio-email-marketing-2\" width=\"1010\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/radio-email-marketing-2.png 1010w, https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/radio-email-marketing-2-300x41.png 300w, https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/radio-email-marketing-2-768x104.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1010px) 100vw, 1010px\" \/><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Subject Line clearly identifies and sells the benefit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Recipients who love the Iowa State Fair are likely to open that email.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Is the Subject Line creative? Witty?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">No, but it should result in a decent open rate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19110\" src=\"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/radio-email-marketing-3.png\" alt=\"radio-email-marketing-3\" width=\"1021\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/radio-email-marketing-3.png 1021w, https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/radio-email-marketing-3-300x47.png 300w, https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/radio-email-marketing-3-768x121.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1021px) 100vw, 1021px\" \/><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">That Subject Line won&#8217;t generate a lot of opens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Although it asks a question, it doesn&#8217;t intrigue the recipient&#8230;because it asks a question about the recipient that the recipient isn&#8217;t already asking himself\/herself and that doesn&#8217;t create curiosity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The open rate could be improved a bit by involving the recipient more or by injecting a modest amount of intrigue:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Here&#8217;s how you can win a Patio Party&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;How did SHE win that patio party??&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Magic Formula for FREE patio parties!&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">KXIA&#8217;s marketing emails end with:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danoday.com\/store\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19111\" src=\"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/radio-email-marketing.png\" alt=\"radio-email-marketing\" width=\"999\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/radio-email-marketing.png 999w, https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/radio-email-marketing-300x58.png 300w, https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/radio-email-marketing-768x149.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 999px) 100vw, 999px\" \/><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Although they include an &#8220;unsubscribe&#8221; mechanism, the emails are not compliant with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/tips-advice\/business-center\/guidance\/can-spam-act-compliance-guide-business\">CAN-SPAM<\/a> (a U.S. law that regulates commercial email).<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">CAN-SPAM requires commercial emails to include the sender&#8217;s &#8220;physical postal address.&#8221; Usually that&#8217;s a street address (along with city, state and Zip Code), but it can be a post office box you&#8217;ve registered with the U.S. Postal Service or a private mailbox that&#8217;s registered in your name with a commercial mail receiving agency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">I realize it&#8217;s not a very large town, but &#8220;Marshalltown, IA&#8221; doesn&#8217;t contain enough information to qualify as the sender&#8217;s physical postal address.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Loyal Reader Asks: &#8220;We have been getting really good response from email blasts. &#8220;Obviously when we do a promotion there is a sponsor attached most times. 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