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After my recent post listing 19 terrible email subject lines, readers asked for a list of examples of good email subject lines.
Considering that readers decide whether to read or trash your email in about three seconds, well-written subject lines are essential. If you can throw in a little mystery or humor, that works, too.
Here are some great examples:
- Don’t let your spam box come between us
- Need an app for that?
- Show me the writing . . .
- 8 reasons not to read this email
- A blatant pitch (that you should open NOW)
- Made you look
- Athletes use steroids . . . entrepreneurs use this
- Did you mean to do that?
- Life would be easy if it weren’t for other people
- The real reason we go to conferences
- How to really irritate your competitors
- The one mistake people make in their careers
- Wasn’t there a Dickens novel about this?
- Drop everything
- Hair gel, deodorant and your heart
- An email about a fundraiser or petition or something
- This time it’s war
- The plot thins
- Capital letters
- About that article you wrote
- Why your 5-year-old is more tech savvy than your CEO
- Did you mean to “Reply all”?
- Before you open this, promise not to get mad
- Most of the car is fine
- Please, please send more pie
Do you have any clever email subject lines to share, PR Daily readers?
This article was first published on Ragan Communications PR Daily.