Data is marketer's best friend

Undoubtedly, data is an email marketer’s best friend. It gives you the highest returns on the lowest investment. But bad experiences with email marketing can make you wary of it. However, let not failures bow you down. Take total advantage of the benefits of email marketing. As the year 2014 approaches, have a relook at your email marketing strategy to do the same.

Understand what works for you. Do not imitate the strategy of another company. What worked for that company may not work for you. You need to know your audience well and strategize accordingly.

Evaluate your successes and failures of last year. Examine every aspect, from the “from” line to subject lines. Were all the elements in your email like the images, copy, calls to action, offers, etc. effective and did they bring you the desired results? If not, what went wrong? How can you rectify your weak areas?

Keep in touch with the industry trends and make sure that you have access to all vital information and statistics like what types of devices your subscribers use to open your emails, which links got the maximum clicks, which emails had highest conversion, time of day with best open rates, etc.

Before you revamp your email marketing strategy for the coming year, here is a quick look at some tips and statistics regarding data:

• Get accurate and detailed data from people who want to hear from you, then automate the numerous steps involved in sending them relevant messages. (eMarketer)
• One of the top benefits of e-mail marketing is that it yields reams of data about who a company’s best customers are. Marketers can target those people in the social realm and offer incentives or discounts to encourage them to share with their friends and advocate on behalf of the brand. (eMarketer)
• There’s a Big Data disconnect. In a recent study from Econsultancy, 77% of marketers said purchase history had a very high impact on return on investment (ROI), meaning they are leveraging that data for lead nurture and to aid the buyer’s decision-making process. (Joel Book)
• 7 in 10 people say they made use of a coupon or discount from a marketing email in the prior week. (2012 Blue Kangaroo Study)

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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.

Prepackaged Marketing Data specializes in database marketing. Along with making your emails relevant and 
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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