Thursday, February 9, 2012

Top Tips To Market Your Business Using Email

By Bryan Smith


Many people would love to take advantage of email marketing for their business, but they're not exactly sure how to go about it. Email marketing offers a variety of ways to help you build up your business and maintain open communication with your customers. The following article will give you the basic information you need to craft an email marketing campaign that works for your business.

Always include your companies colors and branding materials. Subscribers to this list are already quite familiar with your site, so they associate certain colors, logos and designs with you. Matching your emails to your website makes them seem more familiar and reduces the risk that a subscriber will accidentally delete them.

Be sure that all the links work in the messages you send out while email marketing. If the customers are provided with links that don't work, then the email is going to have a hard time doing its job. It can also cause your readers to lose faith in your credibility, because you cannot be bothered to check a link before sending it to them.

Stay consistent. Keep your company's logo and the colors and style you use the same in every email. The font you select should be easy to read. Eventually, people will begin to recognize your emails, and they'll pay closer attention to them. Cultivating familiarity (or branding) is an important part of marketing, especially through email.

Always ask permission before sending people marketing email. No one likes unwelcome messages taking up space in their inbox. Sending out spam will sink your business quickly. So, get a good start with potential customers by ensuring they are o.k. with receiving your mailings.

Make sure you have the client permission before emailing them. Most people disregard unwanted emails and often delete them unread. Sending mass emails may also break the rules set forth by your ISP, if you do not have customer permission first. Do not send more than 1 email a week to your subscriber base. Chances are, your customers receive a ton of email everyday, just like you. If you send out too many emails, they might not read them anymore and that's not good if you spent a lot of time working on the messages.

Try to promote your company through effective email marketing. Take advantage of the advice you've read here to come up with an email marketing campaign that's different from everything else out there. Never stop seeking out new ways of creating fresh, compelling emails for your subscribers to read.




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