Wednesday 12 February 2014

How To Be A Leader With Email Marketing

By Stephany Bihm


Marketing your business takes determination, inspiration and knowledge. Step one to creating an effective email marketing campaign will be gathering information, and this article is a great place to start. Read on for the best tips and tricks which industry leaders are currently using effectively in their own campaigns, leading to great success.

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.

Offer a coupon to customers who sign up for your marketing email list. Put a form on your website where customers can sign up and set the form to email automatically new customers a coupon when they submit the form. This encourages customers to agree to allow you to send them marketing materials so that you won't be accused of sending out spam.

The more options you give your customers, the more effective your email marketing will be. Let your subscribers decide on the the number of messages they receive, how often they get them and what information they want to disclose. The more control they have over the process, the more comfortable they will be.

Give customers the choice of getting a plain text version of your email marketing materials or a rich text version. Customers can choose the option they prefer when they sign up for your newsletter. Plain text versions don't include graphics, so customers with slower connections or overactive spam filters might appreciate this option.

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.

Put real consideration into where you place links in your marketing newsletters. For example, you don't want to send readers away from your email before you give them their call to action. You also don't want to put your priority links at the end of an email where they may be overlooked.

Remember that your subscribers are more and more likely to use smartphones or other mobile devices to view your emails. You'll have much less screen area to work with on these types of devices. Figure out what your restrictions are and then work within them. 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.

If you are sending out good emails, your customers will read them out of interest and not realize you are selling something. If you provide valuable information or deals on your service to them, they actually look forward to reading your messages. This can benefit your brand in many different ways. Your customers are more likely to purchase products from someone who has provided them with valuable information for free. Utilize the tips given in the above article in order to achieve success in your email marketing campaign.




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