The Best Ways To Use Email Marketing

By Jennings Ray


You've heard of spam, but do you really know what it is? Even more important is knowing how to avoid the perception that your email marketing campaign is spam. If you'd like to learn how to create emails which market your products without being thrown into a junk folder, read on.
An excellent tip for email marketing is to follow up with some type of update on your products or services that you are providing. For example, you could add a "buy now" feature onto your email. The ending of your email could inform your readers to keep in mind the up-sell as well.


Even though it should be obvious, it is important enough to state over and over: Never send unsolicited emails. You should have explicit permission from everyone you send marketing emails to. This is about more than trying not to upset them; a recipient who considers your email spam can cause trouble for you with your service provider.

Treat each reader like a relationship. Ask in the first email for permission to send more. In the second email, tell them what discounts, products and services they can expect in future emails. In the third email and after, follow through with the content you promised to provide them with.

Test your email layouts. Always try to place the most essential information and all new offerings at the top of email messages. Yet be sure that you always try out different formats so that you know which ones you get the most responses from. Then, when you figure out what works for you, you want to use it to your advantage. This familiarizes customers with your emails and makes it easy for busy customers to find the most important parts of your emails.

Use passive and active feedback to make your email marketing efforts stand out. Active feedback is exactly what you would expect: asking reader opinions in the form of surveys or questionnaires. However, passive feedback is much more subtle and can even be invisible to your readers. Use the tools at your disposal to analyse how many people read your emails and how often the links within are clicked.

Make all of your marketing emails personal. This can mean more than just putting a recipient's name in the body of the message. Use all of the information you've gathered about your subscribers. Break down your subscriber list into groups that share the same interests and tailor your messages to these groups as much as you can.

If you are going to incorporate graphics into your e-mails, you should make certain that the e-mails are still readable if the recipient chooses not to display those graphics. A great way to do this is to utilize ALT tags so that replacement text will be displayed when the images cannot be displayed. It might also be a good idea to place the bulk of your images near the bottom of the e-mail.

Mix up the format of your emails every once in awhile to keep things interesting. If your messages in email marketing are in HTML format, try sending messages written in text format on occasion. When well-written, this could give your consumers an emotional avenue when it comes to your services and products.




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