samedi 7 septembre 2013

Is Email Marketing Still Effective?

By Joseph Stan


It is essential to have a clear grasp of how to correctly do email marketing. Your emails must reach your intended target and actually be read to be effective. Keep reading if you want to get the most useful tips around. My first tip is to always try to use your own email template, use your colors and logo in your emails. Customers already know your designs, logo and colors and they associate you with these details. So when they see these colors and designs in their emails, they're more likely to not delete any mail you send to them.

One of the worst things you can do is trying to buy email lists, the best contacts are the ones you have gathered yourself. Reason is you know those contacts are targeted to your niche and what you are offering. Buying bulk email lists will only waste your time and your emails will most likely go straight into the spam folder of the recipient. Concentrate only on gathering your own list and build a relationship through emails with that list.

When the time comes to actually write a promotional email is important that you make your subject line short and sweet. Misleading subject lines will most likely get you a lot of unhappy subscribers, be honest and to the point with what you are offering. Remember even with email marketing honestly is still the best policy.

One of the things that can really destroy your reputation online is trying to add people to your list who didn't ask to be added. Never add anyone without their permission, which is why using capture pages is a good idea so your visitors can decide whether or not they want to give you their personal email.

These tips you read can help your messages go from junk to excellent; however, nothing will happen if you don't apply them. Use them with any of your current projects, or apply them when you are drafting a new marketing campaign; you will soon achieve the success you have been wanting.




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