Wednesday, 6 March 2013

Is Email Marketing Still Effective?

By Joseph Stan


It is essential to have a clear grasp of how to correctly do email marketing. Your emails must reach your intended target and actually be read to be effective. Keep reading if you want to get the most useful tips around. My first tip is to always try to use your own email template, use your colors and logo in your emails. Customers already know your designs, logo and colors and they associate you with these details. So when they see these colors and designs in their emails, they're more likely to not delete any mail you send to them.

The worst mistake email marketing newbies do is thinking you can generate results fast by buying an email lists. The reality is that most people don't realize that these lists are being resold all over the internet. Don't waste your money with untargeted prospects, instead focus on building your own list of email contacts that will most likely have better results than trying to buy a list from someone else.

When it comes to actually writing a promotional email is important that your subject lines are short and to the point. Don't try to create misleading subject lines because you might get better open rates but your click-through rate which is the percentage of people clicking on a link inside your email is going to be awful.

But perhaps one of the worst mistakes you need to avoid is adding people to your list without their permission. Make sure that the leads you get into your subscriber base are because they opted in. If there's something you don't want is having to reply to a bunch of angry subscribers who didn't ask to receive anything from you.

These tips you read can help your messages go from junk to excellent; however, nothing will happen if you don't apply them. Use them with any of your current projects, or apply them when you are drafting a new marketing campaign; you will soon achieve the success you have been wanting.




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