Are your words falling a little flat?

Looking for ways to add a little punch and pizzazz to your email marketing strategy? Then look no further, because I’ve got exactly what you need: The definitive email marketing checklist. The checklist is also variously referred to as email checklist form, email review checklist, professional email checklist, mass email checklist, email writing checklist, email service provider checklist, business email checklist or even email content checklist!

But first, do you have an email marketing strategy? Or are you like most people? Generally, when people think about sending an email to their email list, they think it’s a matter of simply writing the email, proofing it, and then hitting the send button. They then go off to play golf or sit down to watch their favorite TV program, while the money rolls in. 

Sadly, there’s a problem with that approach…

Quick warning: there’s a new four-letter word or acronym in town.

Until recently, no-one had heard of it, but now it seems to be everywhere.

And it’s getting people really, really upset.

GDPR.

It’s a new privacy law from Europe that potentially affects everyone from beginning bloggers to big businesses and promises heavy fines for those who don’t comply.

Here is what I mean.

If you’re a blogger or other on-line business person. If you have an email list. If you collect, process or hold any other personal data for people on your list or members of your tribe. And if anybody on your list is a citizen of the European Union (EU), then the GDPR (EU GDPR) applies to you. And a breach of the EU GDPR can close your business and bankrupt you. More about that in a moment. But first, some more information about the EU GDPR.

You can say MailChimp is the Toyota of email marketing and email automation.

Let me explain.

MailChimp is synonymous with email marketing. In the same way that the “Hoover” brand name is synonymous with vacuum cleaners and vacuuming in different countries! So its kind of weird to think there could be any MailChimp alternatives. But there are! As iconic as MailChimp is, there are some fantastic MailChimp alternatives out there.

And in this article, I am going to show you the 8 best MailChimp alternatives on the market today!

But first, let’s explore email marketing, email automation and email service providers, so we are singing from the same hymn sheet!

Here’s the brutal truth about email list building: Although there is no perfect email marketing software, there are a few that are close to perfection.

Let’s break this down. Shall we?

As a content marketer (author, blogger, coach, copywriter, internet marketer, social media expert or other online business person), you need a large email list. Secondly, you need a strategy for building your email list. Thirdly, you need to find a way to provide insane value to the people on the list, and develop a relationship with them. And then, you should market solutions to the people on the list, giving them not only what they want, but also what they need. For this to work, you need an email marketing software to provide a ‘home’ for your email list.