Frank Kern sent 'Hey.' in 2009. Obama used it 5 times in 2010. It's been stolen thousands of times since. But almost nobody knows WHY it works and that's the only thing that matters.
February 12th, 2009. Frank Kern sent an email with one-word subject line: Hey. It was immediately one of the highest-performing emails in online marketing history. Over a year later, the Obama campaign used a variation five times during the 2010 presidential election.
You've received it. You've probably used some variation of it. But do you actually know why it works? Most people copying it don't. They see the result and copy the surface missing the mechanism entirely.
Jonathan spent time reverse-engineering the psychological triggers behind "Hey." what makes it feel personal, urgent, and irresistible regardless of the list or vertical. From that analysis, he built a replicable formula and used it to generate 50+ proven subject line variations. That formula and that list are what's inside this training.
A 12-minute breakdown of why 'Hey' works at a psychological and structural level and how to extract a repeatable formula from it.
A complete list of subject lines built directly from the same DNA as 'Hey' tested, proven, and ready to use.
"When it comes to optimizing marketing campaigns for maximum profits, there are few people who know more about the science of conversions than Jonathan Drake."
"Jonathan is one of few strategists I know that has the unique ability of drawing wisdom, knowledge, and application from such a diverse, eclectic body of work."
"Over the years Jonathan has put new technology and key innovations on my radar months or even a year before the rest of the world caught on."
Join the email list and Needle Mover #4 The "Hey" Deep Dive arrives in your inbox automatically as Email #4 in the sequence.
Join 5,000+ marketers. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.