Monday 21 October 2013

5 Email Marketing Tips

Email marketing delivers personalized and relevant information to subscribers that respond with increased purchases and recommendations. At its worst, it can turn off or offend once-loyal customers.
The three most important factors for email marketing success: 1) Trust 2) Relevancy and 3) Value
Here are some tips to make your emails more effective: 

Stand Out
}  Avoid the early morning inbox clutter by sending during the day
}  Personalize your messages
}  Take efforts to make your mail stand out amongst the clutter using all means like awesome design, compelling subject line, relevant content,  among others
}  Gain the trust of your contacts by emphasizing quality of communication over quantity.

Keep it Simple and Clear
}  Avoid underlining text if it’s not a link. It’s easy to confuse the reader
}  Avoid ambiguous messages
}  Do not be ‘salesy’; prioritize the subscriber

Permissive Marketing
}  Use an online signup form on your website to collect new opt in contacts
}  Opt for a reliable list-provider

Test, Test, Test
}  The key to finding the right design styles and campaign delivery techniques is to test everything. Test one thing at a time to aid monitoring; some recipients cannot receive HTML.
}  Test all your links in the top, middle and bottom of your message to make sure they all work.
}  Find what day and time your recipients are most responsive
}  What sort of subject line gains the highest response?
}  Always have a proof group. Never send an email without sending a proof first. You’ll be surprised what you can miss. Ask your proof group to check links, spellings and email rendering

Nurture your Customer
}  Use email marketing to communicate with existing customers. They’re a great source of repeat business use a forward to a friend feature to encourage recipients to share with friends and colleagues
}  Offer exclusive content and deals to your subscribers
}  Provide an incentive to share
}  Quality content ensures that your subscribers read your emails and forward them to friends.

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readable it is vital to start off with the right database. Without the relevant database all your marketing efforts will go 
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