Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Perfectly Practical Email Marketing Tips And Tricks

By Pattie Hallick


Email marketing has so many attractive features that make it a great way to reach customers and to bring them to your business. Email marketing can be inexpensive, lucrative and can even help the environment by saving paper. Whatever your reason for choosing email marketing, you will find useful information about it in the article below.

Steer clear of renting or purchasing lists to pad your email marketing database. Not only do you not know if the emails you have purchased are truly your target market, but the lists can actually hurt your deliver-ability rates and ultimately your reputation. As much as possible, build your list organically.

Insert a link to your subscription form into your marketing newsletters. That way, if your customers forward marketing emails to their friends, their friends can easily subscribe to your list too. Using this strategy makes it easy for you to build a large list of potential customers who have agreed to receive your marketing emails.

Continue offering incentives to customers after they sign up for your email list. For example, give customers a 10 percent discount if they remain on your email list for a month. This keeps customers from losing interest in your marketing materials and unsubscribing or deleting your emails after just a couple of newsletters.

Be persistent in your attempts to reach customers. You don't have to send emails daily, but keep in mind that you may not capture a customer's attention, or business, until he or she has been exposed to your brand or products several times. Touch base often, but not so frequently that it seems too annoying.

Stay consistent. For every email, use the same colors and logos. See to it that the font you're using is readable. By doing this, you begin to create brand recognition, and customers will look forward to your next message. It's important for any business to have familiarity. The same holds true for email marketing.

Let customers know how to add your email address to their "safe sender list". Many people do not know how to prevent certain emails from being sent to their spam folder. Inform them of how to prevent this from happening and encourage them to add you to their address book. Perhaps an obvious, but nevertheless critical, email marketing tip is to verify the accuracy of all email addresses. A result of not having valid addresses is that valuable time is wasted by having to track down correct addresses and resend emails. It's a total waste of time!

For your email marketing campaigns to be truly effective, every message needs a clear call to action. For example, if you are promoting a new product then you should encourage customers to go directly to that product's page. On the other hand, if you are promoting a new sale then you should clearly explain how customers can take advantage of that sale.

To be successful, marketing emails must contain interesting information. If your messages are no different than the fake Rolex and mortgage spam they receive every day, your customers will leave your list and tell their friends about that spamming email list they mistakenly signed up for. Use the tips of this article to increase the quality of your email content and generate more customer enthusiasm.




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