“Email marketing is not dead. Email is still the most powerful channel when you are actually trying to sell things.”
–Brian Clark, Founder and CEO of Copyblogger Media, a multi-million dollar company that started from a blog.

Last week featured a tutorial that came with a dare — build an Etsy shop email newsletter in less than 10 minutes.

MailChimp’s Etsy integration makes it is possible and a lot of creative biz owners are anxious to get on board the email newsletter train.

But they have one, teeny, tiny problem.

No list.

Not a single email address.

Overcoming the hurdle

Getting an email list going is not hard but it does require laying some groundwork. Primarily – [Read more...]