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Sunday, September 7, 2014

Is Email Marketing Still Effective?

By Joseph Stan


One of the things we often hear from people is that internet marketing is dead. That is not the case at all, in fact we think email marketing is growing daily and more small businesses are starting to use email marketing as part of their daily activities. If you learn how to apply email marketing in your business correctly you will experience higher sale conversions. This article is all about showing you how to do that.

One of the biggest mistakes anyone can do is sending unsolicited emails, it can be risky considering you can get fined heavily since it's against the law. The best thing to do is use an autoresponder to make sure all the emails you collect are double opt-in emails. Don't ever buy email lists or try to promote your product via emails to people who did not request information, it's a big mistake.

Try not to send out important emails on or around any major holidays. People are often out of their office or on vacation during these times, and so they won't read your emails. Certainly there are exceptions to this rule. Black Friday, for example, is one occasion where a date relevant campaign is warranted. Minimize your use of graphics in your emails to customers. Some email servers block graphics, so avoid graphics to get your message across more effectively. Also, many spam filters use quantity of images as a variable in determining if a message is likely to be spam.

The most important aspect of building an email list to promote your products and services is via the follow up process. Autoresponders are a great platform to automatically follow up with leads or potential clients for your business because you can schedule multiple emails to be sent for you on specific dates. This is perhaps one of the biggest benefits of having your own list.

Hopefully by now you have a much better idea on what to do and what not to do when it comes to email promotions. Using these simple tips you can easily leverage the use of email to power your business online and build a targeted list of email contacts. Take action and put this information to work for you.




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