Email Marketing Might be Right for Your Business
April 30th, 2009
Using Internet technologies to market to new and potential customers can be a highly productive tactic with great ROI. Businesses of all sizes have successfully developed emarketing campaigns that help them drive sales and improve customer retention. If your company is thinking about using email marketing, here are some important considerations to discuss before you get started.
Develop a Strong List Before You Begin
Your audience can be made up of everyone with whom you have an existing relationship. That means clients and customers, people that you know on a business level, personal friends. Do not violate the CAN-Spam Act by buying or stealing email addresses from any source. That’s spamming and it’s illegal.
Eletter or Ecommerce?
Consider your audience and develop email campaigns that are appropriate for them. If ecommerce is the driving force behind your emarketing, develop campaigns that offer value and pull customers to your site to order. If your business offers professional services, develop an eletter that will educate, inform and even entertain. Content is a critical component of successful emarketing.
Plan for the Long Run
Do not start any email marketing strategy unless you are willing to invest in it for at least 6 months, preferably a year. While traffic and metric reports give nearly real time information and you can monitor results quickly, you need time and exposure to evaluate the data, craft the best message and develop your subscriber base.
Measure for Success
You will want to have an idea of how to define success for your campaign before you begin. It may be immediate sales, open rates, click thru’s or, most probably, a combination of factors. When you have established goals it is much easier to develop an emarketing strategy that will reach and exceed your expectations.
With a sound strategy you can use emarketing to connect with customers and build your business. And after all, that’s what all marketing is about.
Claudia Trusty and eletternews.com
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