Make Posteingänge Sexy Again: 9 Ingredients for an Email Readers Want to Open
<p>A version of this story appeared in Total Annarchy, my fortnightly newsletter that helps you be a better writer, storyteller, marketer. Get it in your inbox; you’ll love it. *** Markus writes: Greetings from Germany. I subscribed to learn more about how to write an engaging and personal newsletter. I loved the tone in your book Everybody Writes and want to learn how to find and add my own voice to everything I write (newsletters, blog articles, YouTube scripts). I want to make Posteingänge sexy again. (Posteingang is German for inbox.)  I admit I chose to answer Markus’s question mostly because I want to use “posteingänge” in the subject line. Can you blame me though? WHAT. A. WORD. Before now my favorite German word had been staubsauger. It hot-glues two words together: staub (dust) and sauger (sucker) and translates, literally, as “dust sucker” or (you’re gonna love this)… vacuum cleaner. It’s unexpected poetry. It’s GLORIOUS. It turns out posteingang […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://annhandley.com/how-to-write-email-readers-want-to-open/">Make Posteingänge Sexy Again: 9 Ingredients for an Email Readers Want to Open</a> appeared first on <a href="https://annhandley.com">Ann Handley</a>.</p>