Effective E-mail MarketingDirect E-mail marketing can be used to add another layer of profit to your business. E-mail marketing very likely will be come your #1 most profitable marketing technique. The most profitable e-mail marketing will be to a targeted list that you create. You can buy a list for your e-mail marketing campaigns but this will cost you money and will not allow you to target your e-mail marketing as well. E-mail marketing is common these days and will continue to expand as more people learn the value. With the expansion of e-mail marketing came the increase in spam with is universally despised. This has resulted in many systems that will keep your e-mail marketing campaigns from reaching your customers. Why does direct e-mail marketing work? The Internet is a scary place for many people so when these people find a business they trust, they are more comfortable buying again. When you supply a quality product your customers come to trust you and then you can use e-mail marketing to let customers know about new products. With e-mail marketing you can target people that trust you and have expressed an interest in your products. What do you need for effective e-mail marketing? The first thing you need is a way to collect names and e-mail addresses. Please take a moment and sign up for our e-mail list. You will see how easy it is and receive periodic updates on e-mail marketing chances, tips and products. You will find the sign-up on the right side of the page. You want to be able to focus your e-mail marketing campaigns so you want people that are actually interested in what you have to offer to sign up. If you are doing e-mail marketing on dog products it will not do you any good to have a bunch of people looking for cars on your e-mail marketing list. By building you own list you can best focus your e-mail marketing. You will have people that trust you, are interested in what you have to offer, and signed up to your e-mail marketing list. This will also avoid you being accused of spamming, or to defend yourself if someone accuses you of using spamming for your e-mail marketing. Starting E-mail Marketing: You need to send out regular e-mail marketing messages to your list. Your customers will start to recognize your name and be more willing to read you e-mails. If they only receive an e-mail marketing message every six months you will not build a relationship with customers and they will not recognize your e-mails. The messages you create for your e-mail marketing need to be short, informative, interesting and the titles of your e-mail marketing messages need to catch the reader's attention. To make e-mail marketing simpler you can use an auto-responder. An auto-responder allows you to pre-program messages to be sent to your e-mail marketing list. The big advantage to this is that you can send these pre-programed e-mail marketing messages to the customers that sign up to your e-mail marketing list, on a regularly basis. Advice on how often to send messages range from every couple of days, to every three weeks, to once a month. The big key is to be consistent so the customer learns to expect and look for your e-mail marketing message. This reliability also helps establish your credibility as a legitimate professional company. Customers feel more comfortable doing business with someone they believe is legitimate, professional and trustworthy. This in turn leads to more sales for you. |