E-Mail Marketing Tips Straight From The Pros

By Sara Ezan


Would you like to reach a broad audience in a very direct way? You can do that with email marketing! But how can you use email marketing to its fullest potential? In this article, you'll find some great tips that will make the emails you send out a huge success.

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.

Be especially careful when crafting your first three emails to new customers. A new customer should get an introductory email inviting them to join your marketing list. Once they accept your invitation, the next email should tell them about discounts or special offers they can expect to get now that they've signed up. The third email should contain their first newsletter and their special offer.

Your email marketing efforts will give you the best results when you coordinate them with the rest of your marketing campaign. Do not work against yourself by unnecessarily duplicating your efforts in several different marketing channels. Make sure that your use of email, social media, and traditional venues are all designed to work well together.

You usually don't want to send emails around major holidays. Your emails may get overlooked since many people aren't around their computers at this time. Of course, as always there are exceptions to this rule. For example, if you're having a holiday sale, especially a Black Friday sale, you might want to send an email over the holiday.

Understand that the ultimate goal of an email marketing campaign is to generate more sales. That means that every single email should bring readers closer to buying. This can be accomplished by writing an email filled with information regarding new product offers, old product offers, or special deals that are available to them.

Email marketing should have the branding of your business. Because of this, you should design a template which lets you incorporate the company colors, logo, and other special fonts that are on your site. This will help users recognize you and your brand.

Try following up with a product review when sending a follow-up email to your clients. You could insert a link onto your email that informs them to enroll by clicking on this link. The ending P.S. on the message could urge them to take advantage of this opportunity that you are providing them.

Make the mail preview feature of many email clients work for you. Preheaders are essentially the initial line of characters from the email itself, rendered in highlighted text. A lot of email clients will put this after the subject line of your email; this will grab the attention of your customers.

Always make sure customers have a clear and concise way to opt out of emails at any time. They signed up with you because they wanted more information, and if at any time they wish to stop receiving that information, they should be able to opt out. It is only fair.

Diamonds may be forever, but permission is not. Even after you have subscriber permission, renew it somehow after around nine months, since that is the typical expiration date of permissions given. Not only will prospects feel respected by your polite behavior, you will rapidly identify who is really interested in your material.

It is significantly more effective to build your own e-mail list for e-mail marketing than to purchase a list, or acquire the services of a marketing company that has their own lists. The reason for this is that everyone who submits their e-mail address to be a part of your list is interested in the services or products that you have to offer. These people are far more likely to be receptive to your e-mail.

Now that you've read this article, you know how to make email marketing work for you. Apply these tips, and you're sure to see results. Feel free to experiment with what you've learned and develop new strategies of your own. A little emailing can go a very, very long way.



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