The best CTAs that actually convert in Email Marketing

The most important parts of your Email is your offer + CTA

Have a bad offer and you’ll get no sales, have a poor CTA and you will never convert as many buyers as you could have

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What is a CTA?

I won’t go deep into this as many of you probably already know what CTA’s are

CTAs basically just tell people what to do next. They’re a button that people can press to send them where you want them to go after your email

If you want the customer to make a purchase your CTA will be something like “Order now”, “Yes, I want one!” or “Buy at 20% off”

How many CTAs should you have per Email?

Omnisend did a study last BFCM. They used over 229 million emails from brands to analyze how many CTAs is best to use in an email

Having 2-3 CTAs per email had the best results → but note that there were a lot more campaigns sent using 1 CTA. Meaning if an equal number of emails were sent for each number of CTAs the results may have been different

Also, having more buttons / CTAs in your email will usually mean customers have a higher chance of clicking through → but this doesn’t mean they clicked on the desired CTA. They may have clicked on a social media button when the aim of the email was to get a purchase

I recommend having 1 clear CTA in your emails. And if you want you can also add your social media buttons to the very end of the email

What CTA performed the best over BFCM?

The CTA ‘Shop Black Friday’ performed the best, but the CTA ‘shop now’ also performed very well even though it is used so often

This could tell us that your offer matters more than your CTA → as ‘shop now’ even though it is so commonly used, performed so well

Best CTAs to use:

Email CTAs to encourage product purchase

  • Shop now

  • Order now, get 50% off

  • Buy it now

  • Add to cart now

  • Yes! I want one

Email CTAs to encourage shopping

  • Shop our bestsellers

  • Get the style you want

  • Check the new collection

  • View personalized recommendations

  • Shop my style

Email CTAs for customer feedback

  • Take the survey

  • Leave a review

  • Complete a 2-minute survey

  • Let us know how we did

  • Yes, I’ll share my experience

Email CTAs for exclusive offers

  • Shop at 30% off

  • Get free shipping

  • Reveal my mystery coupon

  • Claim my birthday gift

Email CTAs for the holidays

  • Shop holiday deals

  • Save on Christmas gifts

  • Shop Santa’s best-sellers

  • Get your gifts in time

  • Gift now

Good CTA email examples:

Note: we don’t work with any of these brands