This document provides tips for effective email marketing. It advises obtaining permission before emailing subscribers, keeping emails concise with a clear message, using buttons to grow the subscriber list exponentially, and testing subject lines to see which perform best. Marketers are also told to provide exclusive content in emails and collect both passive and active feedback to improve future marketing emails. When done properly, the document concludes, email marketing can be a shockingly effective technique.
2. One of the primary concerns that business owners have
is how to obtain more customers cost effectively. A
practice that fits with such a concern is what is known as
marketing via email. Keep reading to find out how
marketing with email works. The piece that follows will
explain it all to you.
3. Never send out unsolicited marketing emails. If your
readers are receiving messages that are unsolicited, they
might mark your emails as spam. This practice is terrible
for the reputation of your business, and you may even
get your IP address blocked by ISPs if they receive
complaints about your unsolicited messages.
4. Each email should have one clear message. Keep your
content concise and focused, so your customers do not
become disinterested. Create a message, keep it short
and make your point. Your customers will appreciate not
being weighed down with extraneous information.
5. Target your audience. When you have some readers, try
getting them to get their friends to sign up. At the end of
every email, provide a "subscribe" button and a "share"
button so readers can pass along your information to
friends. This method will have your list of email
subscribers growing exponentially.
6. Use A/B testing to see which emails are successful and
which ones aren't. To do this, simply select an email and
then send it to one half of your mailing list with one
subject line, and the other half with a different subject
line. This gives you the information you need to figure
out which subjects work and which don't.
7. Make sure that you get permission from any subscriber
before you decide to send them an email. If you start
sending unsolicited messages, you will be unlikely to be
taken seriously. Most people will not only delete the
email, but also resolve to never do business with you in
the future.
8. Avoid using a lot of graphics in your e-mails. Graphics
can take a long time to load which may discourage some
users from viewing the e-mail. Additionally, several
email programs tend to send graphic-laden emails to a
recipient's junk folder.
9. Make sure your emails contain unique and informative
content rather than simply promotional material. Your
subscribers should have access to exclusive content
before everyone else. Make offers for your products that
are exclusive to each reader. Sending holiday messages
or birthday greetings will demonstrate your interest
aside from business purchases.
10. Use passive and active feedback to make your marketing
with email better. Active feedback is exactly what you
would expect: asking reader opinions in the form of
surveys or questionnaires. Passive feedback is much
more subtle and not noticeable to the reader. You can
utilize any tools and other software that you have in
order to figure out which links are receiving the most
clicks.
11. Email marketing is such a commonplace technique that
most people have been exposed to it. E-mail marketing
is used by companies to advertise themselves through
email. When applied properly, marketing with email is
shockingly effective, and you can accomplish this
yourself if you are mindful of the advice presented here.