Val Geisler - Email Onboarding Tear Down: DeepDyve

My family will tell you that I love a good dad joke. I tell the truth (even when I probably shouldn't). I'm majorly goofy in the most awkward ways. And sarcasm is an actual language I speak.

If there was a love child between Michael Scott and 1990s Meg Ryan, it would be me.

So it might come as no surprise to you that when I decided to do an email onboarding tear down of DeepDyve I went heavy on the puns.

Some might say it's deep.

And if you think there's nothing to learn from the onboarding emails of a scholarly research journal database, you're wrong.

There's that truth telling again.

So dive in with me:

Email Onboarding Tear Down: DeepDyve

-Val







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Tuesday, August 25, 2020

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Tuesday, August 18, 2020

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Tuesday, August 11, 2020

The one where I download a free resource and join the Shopify email list... or do I??? Good email marketing is 100% about copy. If your subject line sucks the email isn't opened. If the content of

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