Episode 98

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12th Apr 2022

3 Lessons From Sending 1 Million Emails

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Is email marketing part of your business strategy? Do you send regular emails to your community? If not, you're wasting a huge opportunity. In this episode, Sharran shares his strategy for making email marketing your single most profitable channel. Forget about sleazy and costly marketing tactics. Just get this one thing right. Once you try Sharran's process, it gets fun when you see it work. As someone who has sent a million emails, Sharran knows that an email community is an asset that gets more profitable when you work on it every day. 

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“Who cares how pretty your email is if nobody sees it?”

- Sharran Srivatsaa

Timestamps:

00:00 How can you make email marketing your single most profitable asset?

01:49 The three things we will discuss today: Deliverability, Engagement, and Conversion.

02:48 Sharran discovered an idea that became the foundation of his email marketing strategy.

06:19 Lesson #1: Deliverability - Make sure your email lands in the primary inbox.

09:57 Should you include pictures in your email?

13:28 Lesson #2: Engagement - The importance of cadence and consistency in driving engagement.

16:54 Here's how an email makes its way to the inbox and what happens after.

19:06 Lesson #3: Conversion - What is your CTA? Do they click, reply, or share? 

21:18 A simple tip for structuring your email (No, it's not about making it pretty).

22:58 Two things that drive more action - Be specific or more personal.

25:45 Join Sharran's email community today - https://sharran.com/vip.

26:55 A quick recap of today's topic

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About the Podcast

Business School with Sharran Srivatsaa
Business School is hosted by Sharran Srivatsaa, President of Real (TSX: REAX) (NASDAQ: REAX), the fastest-growing, publicly-traded, real estate brokerage in the world. Sharran grew Teles Properties by 10x in 5 years to $3.4 Billion in sales and eventually sold the business to Douglas Elliman. Sharran is also an accomplished “deal guy” and private equity investor. He is the Chairman of private equity firm Highland Prime which focuses on investing in service-businesses and also the Chairman of ARC Multifamily Group which focuses on value-add multifamily investment projects.

Sharran is a former Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse banker and a sought after keynote speaker and is the creator of the wildly-popular 5am Club call for Entrepreneurs.

On this podcast, Sharran shares his best secrets on how to grow your business strategically, how to build your brand elegantly, most importantly integrate the profits in your business with an overall joyful life.

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Sharran Srivatsaa

Sharran is a serial entrepreneur, sought after keynote speaker, and a respected thought-leadership resource for publications such as the Wall Street Journal, SUCCESS magazine, Huffington Post and Forbes.

While Sharran has had 5 exits in the last 19 years, and also a several humbling failed investments and business initiatives. He talks all about them on his top rated Spotify podcast, Business School.

Most recently, Sharran led Teles Properties’ unprecedented 10x growth over 5 years and a 4-year consecutive streak on the Inc. 500 fastest growing companies list resulting in its acquisition by national real estate powerhouse Douglas Elliman.

Prior to Teles, Sharran worked at both Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse, where he collaborated with management teams of fast-growing businesses around the country on investment advisory and corporate strategy. Sharran also spent several years building recreational programs in the Caribbean, Middle East, and Hawaii for some of the finest international resorts such as the Four Seasons and Ritz-Carlton, also has deep experience working with technology companies such as Lightera (acquired by CIENA) and Obopay, a fast-growth mobile payments company.

Sharran is a Principal at Srilo Ventures, a multi-factor private investment fund that focuses investing in and advising technology companies and operating businesses in the consumer space. Having successfully completed many acquisitions, joint-ventures, management buyouts, mergers, and capital raises, Sharran serves as a director and advisor on numerous company boards.

He is also a member of the Genius Network, the highest-level marketing mastermind in the world led by whizkid Joe Polish, and also a member of Young President’s Organization (YPO).

After competing on the professional tennis tour, Sharran received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Luther College and his MBA with Honors from Vanderbilt University.