How to Write an Attention-Grabbing Subject Line for Your Profitable Email Marketing Campaign

The single most critical thing of generating sales through email marketing campaign is getting the recipients of your sale emails to actually open and read your email. So, the subject line or title of your marketing email is the vital part of the whole process of email marketing.

Is there any proven method for writing a subject line that is so attention-grabbing that it will make all your recipients open your marketing email every time? Unfortunately, the answer is no. However, there are some techniques that can help you write subject lines that will draw the attention of many of your recipients and entice them to open your marketing email.

Technique 1 – Prepare to Compete
The first thing you need to remember about email marketing is you aren’t sending email to email addresses. You are actually sending email to real, live human beings. These humans are probably like you. They are busy and receive a lot of emails every day. So, if you want them to open your marketing email, your subject line has to be able to compete with dozens of other emails and catch the attention of your recipients.

Technique 2 – Give a Strong reason to Your Recipients to Open Your Email
Your subject line must give a good reason to the recipients for taking their time to open and read the content of your marketing email. The types of emails that get the attention are those that concern to the interest of your recipients or promise to help the recipients in some ways.

Technique 3 – Learn from Newspaper’s Headlines
Newspapers often have good headlines. Pick up a local newspaper and see how headlines are written. Study more on those headlines that grab your attention.

You may notice that most newspaper headlines state the most important point of the topic in few words. These headlines are working well. You can follow their styles when writing your email subject line. Put the most important part of your email content with fewest words possible in your subject line.

Technique 4 – Never Use Good Subject Lines Twice
A subject line that has been used and achieved great open rate can only be used once. It wouldn’t work twice if you pick a last month hot subject line and change one or two words, then send it to your opt-in list.

Technique 5 – Keep Testing
You would never know exactly what types of email subject lines that will attract your recipients until you really put in effort to test your subject lines. You can send two or more marketing emails with different subject lines to your opt-in list subscribers. Then after some time, sign in to your auto responder account and check which one has the highest open rate. This way, you will get a clear idea on what types of email subject lines are effective.

Conclusion
The one subject line that can attract most of the recipients to open the marketing email is the subject line that makes the recipients feel that if they don’t open and read the marketing email, they will be missing something really important. The ingredients of a good subject lines are brief, direct (state the important point directly) and has a tease quality that will make the recipients click on the email subject line.