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Email List Rental Example from Simple Shoes

June 25th, 2008 | by Ben

Ever wanted to advertise to someone else’s email subscriber list?

Ever thought you could monetize your subscriber list by selling ads in your email newsletters?

There’s a right way to do that, and ooooh-so-many wrong ways to do it. In a nutshell, you can’t just give your subscriber list to an advertiser to “blast” whatever they want to your list. The email has to come from you, and it has to be written by you (your subscribers opted-in to hear from you, not them).

Here’s a GOOD example from Simple Shoes on how to advertise someone else’s stuff (Horny Toad) to your own newsletter subscribers. In fact, I’m not even sure I can call it a “list rental.” That’s how good it is.

It’s well-written, simple, and even a little fun to read. Kudos to whoever their agency is.
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3 Comments

    • man says:

      what a great campaign! who could *not* fall in love with a cute juggling tecate woman over the message? kudos definitely in order. thanks mc for showcasing this!

    • Daniel says:

      I really like the idea to join effort between two products that goes together. Especially when one brand give a discount to the customer of the other.

      One thing that could even be better is they do a mix-match between the products of each brands. Like they have those nice shirt that goes well with our new shoe collection.

      Well done. It save time, money, bandwidth for everyone.

    • Ben says:

      @Daniel – I always thought that was just a crazy dream, and people would never shop online that way. But this year I was so busy, I bought all of my clothes for the summer in one sitting, through BananaRepublic/Gap/OldNavy. They combined to one website, and even had a discount if you “cross-shopped.” For busy people (who hate wasting time in dressing rooms) it’s a nice idea.

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