Kell Inkston replied to a topic in the group Marketing Discussion:
It's a tough sell, for sure. You're basically asking permission for the reader's ear in their email inbox indefinitely, or at least until they unsubscribe.
The three bigs I've seen is by using reader magnets, "selling" the magnet so that it sounds like...
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