Email Marketing Campaign-Effective Advertising
Learning how to run an effective email marketing campaign is one of the keys to online business success. In fact, it’s fair to say that any business who doesn’t make use of email marketing is leaving money on the table, and that could eventually lead to their failure. Unfortunately, there is a lot of misinformation surrounding marketing via email, and that makes it more confusing than it should be. With that in mind, here are a few tips for running a successful email marketing campaign.
1. Know your market. Before you do anything else, you need to know who it is you are marketing to. If you have already done market research, then you are ahead of the game, but you also need to consider that your email recipients are a subset of your main market, and you may have to make adjustments to your marketing message to compensate.
2. Build a list. You need a list of email addresses that you can send your marketing message to. There are several ways that you can get such a list, and you can use a combination of ways to increase the size of your list. You should put up an email capture form on all of your websites, and ask people for their email address. Offering an incentive of some kind is usually a good idea. This incentive should be relevant to your business, and should be just enough of a reward to get people to fill in the form.
3. Don’t be afraid to sell. One of the best things about the internet is that just about anybody can use it to make money. The problem with this is that a lot of people without experience are shy about selling. If you have an email list, then don’t be afraid to sell things to them. Do you want to know what the real secret to selling is? It’s believing in whatever you’re selling. As long as you are selling high-quality things that people can use, then you have nothing to be worried about.
4. Stay in touch. You should send out email messages on a regular basis so people will remember who you are. There is no magic frequency for how often you send out messages, but somewhere between once per day and once per month works for the vast majority of email marketers. The messages themselves can help to guide you.
5. Test and track. Split test various parts of your email marketing campaign whenever possible. For example, you can try two different subject lines for the same message (with half of the people on your list getting the first subject line, and the other half getting the second). Then see which variation gets the best response. Test and track as much as possible, and then keep the best option as the benchmark for your next message. Over time, these small improvements will really start to add up.
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