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The Newton-Newell Wedding Newsletter
Hello Friends and Family!
The wedding is only 2 months away!!! Victor and I wanted to express to everyone our excitement about our upcoming wedding and how much we look forward to seeing everyone there. Be on the look out for your wedding invitations in the mail in the next couple of weeks.
We thought a newsletter would be a cool way to share with you updates and information as the day draws near.
Some people have been asking about accommodations, so the information for booking your rooms is included below. Feel free to start reserving your rooms now.
Also, if you are not sure if we have your physical mailing address, PLEASE email it to us at: babypraise77@yahoo.com
PLEASE MAIL ALL GIFTS TO:
13000 Broxton Bay Drive #824 Jacksonville, FL 32218
Thank you!
WEDDING INFORMATION:
Groom: Victor R Newell
Parents: Melvin and Georgia Mae Newell
Bride: Ellaysa V Newton
Parents: Elaine Smith & Ezekiel Wright & Charles Newton
Date: April 14, 2012
Time: 2:00pm
Location: Christian Love Fellowship Ypsilanti, MI
Host Hotel: Hampton Inn & Suites Romulus, MI
Closest Airport: Detroit Wayne County (DTW)
Registered at Target
(will acept gift cards and monetary gifts as well)
Colors: Royal Blue & Yellow
Theme: Butterflies
Theme Scripture:
Set me as a seal upon thine heart
Thou love more strong than death
That I may feel through every part
Thy burning fiery breath.
And then like wax held in the flame,
May take the imprint of thy Name.
Set me as a seal upon thine arm,
Thou love that bursts the grave.
Thy coals of fire can never harm,
But only purge and save.
Thou jealous Love, thou burning Flame,
Oh, burn out all unlike Thy Name.
The floods can never drown thy Love,
Nor weaken thy desire.
The rains may deluge from above
But never quench Thy fire.
Make soft my heart in Thy strong flame,
To take the imprint of thy Name. (Cant. 8:6)
Hotel Information
Hampton Inn & Suites
31700 Smith Road Romulus, MI 48174
Call Direct: 734-595-0033 or
Book Online by clicking here
Reserve Room by March 20, 2012 at the latest.
Block: Newton / Newell Wedding
Free airport shuttle
Free parking
Free hot breakfast
pools & whirpool
24 hour fitness center
Complimentary WiFi
Check in: 3:00pm
Check out: 12:00pm
NEED A ROOM MATEjQuery152035721421874757686_1329918071202??
LET ME KNOW ASAP SO I CAN GET YOU TEAMED UP WITH SOME ONE!!
(FYI- someone in the room needs a credit card)
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Special Room Rates
1 King Bed $69/night (sleeps up to 2)
2 Queen Beds $79/night (sleeps up to 4)
1 King Bed studio $79/night (sleeps up to 4)
2 Queen Beds Studio $89/night (sleeps up to 6) |
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The competition is heating up. On the 15th day of Love, we've got another competitor to add to the crop.
Vote for them now!
It’s the final Friday before the 14th and last minute Valentine’s Day email promotions are on full blast.
Will the results of your Valentine’s special offer leave you broken-hearted, or will your subscribers be pulling out their credit cards and showing you the love?
The busiest Valentine’s promotion time-frame is normally from the 10th to the 14th of February. Inboxes everywhere are getting crammed, which means that most of the offers in circulation are more than likely being ignored.
This is where the all-important subject line can make or break getting a recipient to open your email marketing message.
A Valentine’s promo newsletter is a good chance to capture subscribers’ attention, entice them to click through to your store to view your products. But, there is a fine line between being creative and influential, and getting it wrong.
We’ve selected a few of our favorite Valentine’s Day email subject lines that we’ve seen in past campaigns, to give you some insight and inspiration.
Here are our top 10 most successful Valentine’s Subject Lines:
#1 Order now to avoid heartbreak this Valentine's
#2 Save on our Best Selling Valentines Day Gifts
#3 Next Day Shipping - For those of you staying in for Valentine's Day
#4 Shipping + Valentine's Specials
#5 Need Valentine's inspiration? You’ll love these last-minute offers
#6 Get gifts as extraordinary as your Valentine
#7 Valentine Sweetness for Your Someone Special
#8 Get Valentine’s Gifts They’ll Adore, at Prices You’ll Love
#9 You’ll Fall in Love with These Valentine’s Ideas
#10 Valentine’s Day gifts shipped for FREE
Valentine’s Day is also a favorite time for spammers to get into full swing. To help real-deal email marketers make sure their campaigns don’t look like junk messages, researchers at Symantec have compiled a list of the top 10 most spammy Valentine’s Day subject lines in use today.
Holding the top 3 spam subject line spots are the "male enhancement" crowd who have really taken to this holiday. Right behind them is the "fake gift card" gang and lastly, the "replica watch" fraternity.
These are the top 10 Valentine’s subject lines to avoid:
#1 Increase your length, the best Valentine's gift
#2 Show off your length for Valentine's
#3 Get it before Valentine's day and watch her smile
#4 You have been invited to partake in a shopping spree with [Removed] This Month for Valentine's!
#5 Happy Early Valentine's Day, You have been selected to go on a $1000 Shopping spree to [Removed]
#6 The Best Valentine's Day Present Ever...
#7 Your Valentine's Day is about to get a lot better
#8 Enjoy your Valentine's Day with a Grand Cash from us =)
#9 [Removed] invites you to take a $1000 shopping spree for Valentine's Day
#10 Great watches for your Valentine
Researchers have also seen an increase in other Valentine’s Day-related spam with the words “Feb 14”, “February 14” and “Cupid” in their subject lines, which are a safe bet not to use.
To drive home those last-minute sales you need to write your subject lines from the heart and provide subscribers with product and service offers that they'll really want, but you should always test those subject lines before you hit send and study what other marketers have successfully used in the past.
Valentine’s Day is on the approach and whether you personally view the season of hearts as the most romantic time of the year, filled with love and affection, or an annual catastrophe of tacky décor and extravagant gifts; there’s no question that it can have a positive effect on any business.
Valentine's is the perfect opportunity to re-ignite relationships with customers and remind them that they are at the forefront of your mind and that you understand their needs and desires.
February has also become one of the most competitive in bulk email marketing, as recipients' inboxes are stuffed with look-alike offers from various retailers and spammers. This means that most of it will likely be ignored with all the red-hot overload.
Here are 3 things you could do to rise above romantic mediocrity and make sure that you get some extra love from your subscribers this Valentine’s:
1) Send ‘fe-mails’ to Venus and ‘mails’ to Mars
There are lots of people out there ready and willing to part with their cash to buy the ultimate Valentine’s gift, but even if you have the perfect product, one single offer may not be appropriate for all the members of your audience.
You want to present the right message to the right people. For example; you won’t want to send an email with masculine products to the men on your list, since that would defeat your efforts.
So to work around this issue, Valentine’s is a great time to try email list segmentation. You can do this by separating your subscriber list by gender and then sending female -oriented offers to the guys and male-oriented offers to the ladies. Having segments for new customers and those who’ve made purchases before can also play a big role in the type of messaging you have in your campaign.
You can send a special email to people who bought from you last year around Valentine’s Day with an even better offer for this year. If they had a good experience last time round, present them with an exclusive deal and they will most likely buy from you again.
Says Barbara Ulmi, GraphicMail Marketing Manager: “It’s important to take the time and effort to get the perfect emails written for each segment of your list, not just in terms of the products they contain, but also in terms of the tone. The playful, boyish approach that often puts men at ease fails with women - who may prefer something more sincere and heartfelt.”
Have you entered GraphicMail's Valentine's competition yet? Watch this video to find out how.
2) Give them romantic ideas
How many times have you wondered and worried over what you’re going to do for your Valentine’s Day?
Men are always spending more than women during Valentine’s, and often have a tough time coming up with ideas of what to buy and where to go; making them highly receptive to suggestion and easy to influence.
You can draw their attention by doing the homework for them and, for example, providing a list of the top 10 best Valentine’s Day gifts or dates. Tie this to your own offering by sending out a Valentine’s Day email newsletter filled with specials and information about which products you think will make for an unforgettable evening. These could be centered round your top selling items from last year or the ones you currently want to promote.
If all else fails suggest a gift card purchase option for customers who are stumped or can’t decide.
3) Get dressed for Love
The first order of business is, of course, getting your customers in the mood for Valentine’s Day, and this starts with your creatives.
A great Valentine’s themed email template will not only boost their enthusiasm about the celebration, but maybe even your sales. If you use a good balance of Valentine-specific copy and images, subscribers will begin to get thinking about the event and will want to look directly at what you have to offer for it.
This is a very simple, but important step. Changing appearances could even be all you need to do to in practical term to improve your sales.
If you don’t have time to come up with a new look, there are still other options. Think back to the Valentine’s emails you received 12 months ago; do you remember what any of them looked like in clear detail? Probably not, and the same should be true for your subscribers.
So if your schedule is too tight, you can even re-use stock images and certain texts from last year, as long as you are repeating the resources on your site and landing pages to keep the feel consistent.
On the 7th day of Love, another competitor has arrived and is ready to be voted for!
GraphicMail's clients are sharing the love already with more contestants entering our Valentine's competition.
Comment on this post about any of these newsletters to give them your vote for winning!
1)Center for the Arts of Bonita Springs
2)Coho Oceanfront Lodge
3)Habitot E-News
4) Teddy & Friends
The competition closes on the 29th of February, so there are still more contenders to follow. To qualify, send us your February newsletter today!
Share the love with GraphicMail this February and win your choice of a Kindle Fire, a $200 online gift voucher or a $19.95 GraphicMail monthly account for a year!
How can you win?
Share your February newsletter with us by including the marketing@graphicmail.com address in either your test sends or your actual newsletter send between 1-29 Feb 2012, and get your friends and fans to vote for it on our blog.
You can either use one of the beautiful Valentine's newsletter templates found in our 2011 Editor, create your own or just submit your regular newsletter.
How it works
- As soon as we receive your newsletter we will post it on our blog as a screenshot and send the blog URL back to you.
- Invite your friends and fans to visit our blog by emailing them or posting the link on your social networks to get as many comments about your newsletter as you can.
The newsletter with the most comments and likes wins, and the winning emailer can choose one of the prizes mentioned above.
Need some inspiration?
Keep watching our blog for guidelines on how to craft a love-worthy newsletter and increase your chances of getting more votes.
Please note, terms and conditions apply.