With the new changes to ListNerds to the up and downvotes, now is a good time to focus on your reputation and look to gather those upvotes on your emails.
The main changes to the voting mechanism mean that the larger your staked ListNerds, the larger your voting power. You will also earn from downvoting emails.
Therefore, it is very important to focus on your reputation to ensure that you keep a good standing in the community. This will mean that you will continue to get your emails verified and avoid some powerful downvotes that will reduce your ListNerds earnings.
When someone is looking at your emails if they see that you are green or blue. They will more likely to click your email and verify it. Here are some tips I have gathered from chatting with others in the community that may be helpful to get more upvotes and avoid those nasty downvotes.
Try to do:
Hive Posts
Many ListNerds users come from the Hive community and like to see Hive posts. Therefore, some content on Hive could help to achieve upvotes.
Of course, if it's just a link to your Actifit report card with no text, that may not be interesting enough to get an upvote. Try to be social with your audience, add some photos and write some text.
Catchy Title
It is worth putting a nice catchy title on the subject to get the person's attention. Try to make it interesting and exciting to encourage them to read your email. It is also important to make sure you change your titles and not use the same one over and over.
Add Some Colour
Reading lots of plain text will be harder to catch the readers' attention than adding some formatting including some nice colours to tell them where to click or highlight important or interesting information. You can also play with the size of the text to make things stand out.
Try to avoid:
Direct Selling
There are many types of readers on ListNerds and if you put a random sign up link in, this probably won't go down well with the person unless they are interested in that type of thing.
A better tactic would be to link for example to a Hive article about the product you are promoting with a link there for interested people to click on could save you from an unnecessary downvote. You would also get a better chance of a conversion by connecting interested people to a good hive article.
Spelling Mistakes and Broken Links
Mistakes happen, but you could be at risk of a downvote if you have spelling mistakes or have forgotten to insert the link correctly. This tells the reader that you haven't taken the time to create a correct marketing email and do not respect their time.
A good habit is to always preview your email before you send it and check the link works. Your Sent Emails are valuable and we should ensure to make sure that there are no errors before sending them.
Long-Winded Emails
Some emails require lots of scrolling to reach and find the link to click. This may frustrate the reader and will be hard to keep their attention. Make it easy to find the link they need to click.
Summary
A good reputation will be vital to your ListNerds earning potential going forward. Be sure to do your best to protect it. I hope this is helpful.
If you have any tips I haven't included, let me know in the comments.
Previous ListNerds articles are here:
Getting Nerdy with ListNerds - My Experience After 1 Month
ListNerds - Starting My Mailing Campaign
Signing up to Listnerds - First Impressions
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