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With the holiday season coming up, it's time to get your email marketing efforts into top gear. To help you get ready, we've teamed up with our friends at Shopify to take your online store to the next level. Together, we're offering an amazing e-commerce prize pack that includes:

• 6 months use of a Shopify Business account (value $600)
• 20,000 Campaign Monitor email credits
• A 16Gb iPod Nano

It's super-easy to enter this competition - simply tell us your hot email marketing tip for promoting an online store in the lead up to the holiday season (in 50 words or less). You don't have to be a Shopify or Campaign Monitor customer to enter.

Some (obvious) tips include:

• Using A/B testing to pump up your email campaign response
• Getting creative with autoresponders by sending timed messages in the days before the major shopping holidays
• Mixing it up with holiday-themed email templates

Now it's over to you. Apart from offering the chance to win the amazing prize pack above, the best tips and online stores collected during this competition will be featured on the Campaign Monitor & Shopify blogs!

So what are you waiting for? Entries close at midnight on Wed, 20 October (CDT).

More tips and tales for online store-builders

In collaboration with the Shopify crew, we'll also be featuring case studies from a range of successful online stores to inspire you over the coming week. Get started with our Minui Handysitt case study on how a small business uses Campaign Monitor + Shopify to promote their store, or quickly build your own store with Shopify.

We recommend using the Campaign Monitor Shopify App by Lucid Design for adding new customers to a Campaign Monitor subscriber list.