Tuesday 25 February 2014

Boost Your Success Today With E-Mail Marketing

By Mammie Deschene


When you are marketing your business on the internet, you have to make sure that you interact with your customers and clients. One excellent way to do this is to have an email marketing plan that keeps you in touch with your target market; here are some smart ways to make your plan a great one.

The easier it is to subscribe to your email newsletter, the more subscribers you will have. If you have a physical store, ask your customers for their email address when they make a purchase. If you sell on a website, ask them for their address when they are ready to check out.

To make sure your emails don't turn people off, always seek permission before sending them out. Include a subscription button on your site, and encourage regular customers to have their friends sign up as well. If you'd like to give people some extra encouragement to subscribe, you could feature subscriber only deals.

Go for professional over slick with your emails. Don't send emails that look like flashy webpages. This comes across as impersonal to the recipient. Also, keep in mind that many email programs will not display HTML images. So, do not focus on images in your emails. Go for concise, professional, and inviting so that everyone can read it.

Even though it should be obvious, it is important enough to state over and over: Never send unsolicited emails. You should have explicit permission from everyone you send marketing emails to. This is about more than trying not to upset them; a recipient who considers your email spam can cause trouble for you with your service provider.

The easier it is to subscribe to your email newsletter, the more subscribers you will have. If you have a physical store, ask your customers for their email address when they make a purchase. If you sell on a website, ask them for their address when they are ready to check out.

Give different options to your customers for an effective campaign. Customers should be able to select the frequency with which they receive messages and what personal information they want to disclose to the business. The more choices customers have, the more they will see the business relationship as equal and mutually beneficial. Having a visible link where the person can unsubscribe is a bright idea. Don't fail to include one or bury it so that it is not readily apparent. You want your clients to feel as though they are in power and not being coerced.

Consider using text emails instead of graphically intense HTML emails for your campaign. You may be thinking that the graphics will engage your reader more, but it's usually not the case. Many people today have trained themselves to delete emails with lots of imagery, assuming they are spam. As well, those images often trigger spam filters, meaning your message is never received by some people on your email list!

Now you can plainly see that email marketing is a great tool for a business of any size to build its customer base. At just a fraction of the cost of a traditional marketing campaign, it is a great deal with great results. Use these suggestions in your email marketing campaign.




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