Email Campaign Management
When it comes to finding a good email campaign manager you can either hire an outside firm to oversee your email marketing efforts, or get someone from your company. The option you choose will depend on your budget, your needs, and the desired results…. but mostly your budget.
Which ever method you choose when it comes to having someone manage your campaign, the steps needed to establish an effective campaign will be the same.
Here is a list of some of the things you need to consider when putting together your email marketing campaign:
1. First things first, what do you hope to accomplish with this campaign?
What outcomes do you need to achieve in order to consider the campaign a success? This may sound like a dumb question but if you don’t have a clear idea of your ultimate goal than you don’t know the best way to structure your campaign.
For example, is your goal to get more customers into your store or to your website? Or is your goal to provide your existing customers with some sort of customer appreciation perk? Identify the goal of your campaign so that you can structure your email messages accordingly.
2. Carefully consider what you are going to put in the ‘subject’ line.
This is a very important element and a good subject line can be the difference between your email being read or being sent to the spam folder. Your subject should be short and to the point but also intriguing and pique your readers curiosity.
When you create your email make sure that the opening is personal. Use the name of the individual you are sending the email to, this can easily be done with certain automated methods.
3. Remember that most people receive dozens of emails a day and don’t have time to read them all.
If they open your email that is a big step. In order to get them to read the whole message make sure to keep your email short and sweet. Focus your message on your customer and their needs and wants not on you or your company. In most cases people will only skim the email message so only put in the important points. Don’t make your message too long or your customer will lose interest and stop reading.
4. Don’t get too fancy with font styles and graphics.
Remember, there are a lot of different types of computers and all ages of monitors out there and if you get too high tech some of your customers may not be able to read it. Different font styles can also be difficult to read sometimes. Just keep your message short, professional yet friendly, and to the point.
5. Subcontract work and delegate.
And of course, if you have the budget and / or you just don’t have time to do it yourself, you could always hire a professional to organize your email campaigns for you. In many cases this will be the best option since they are experienced and can make sure your messages are written in an effective way to maximize not only your open rate but your desired results as well.
When it comes to setting up an effective email marketing campaign, just remember that there are a few simple things to keep in mind. If you are able to hire a professional email campaign manager than by all means, so do. If not, don’t let that keep you from setting up your own campaign so you can benefit from the enormous potential of email marketing.
Building A Profitable Online Business
When it comes to building a profitable online business you actually have many inexpensive, yet effective, methods available to you. One of the best methods to use is email promotion internet marketing. Using an opt-in email list to build trust and rapport with your website visitors can pay you dividends for years to come.
Building an opt-in email list is simply a way to get your visitors to grant you permission to send them emails thus eliminating the danger of being accused of spamming. When a visitor gets to your website they will have the chance to sign up, or opt in, to your email list. In order to encourage them to sign up you can offer them useful information that will provide them with a lot of value.
For example, lets say your website is on bird watching, if you want to get your visitors to sign up to your email list you could offer them an ebook on the basics of birdwatching. It doesn’t have to be something expensive to have a high perceived value.
The reason building an email list is so important to your long term internet marketing success is because it can be very difficult to build long lasting relationships online. The internet offers amazing opportunities but it can also be tough to set yourself apart from all the other internet marketers. By building a list you can communicate with, and provide helpful information to, the people on your list for as long as you want.
In order for this technique to be effective there are a few things you have to keep in mind:
1. Do not make all of your emails one sales pitch after another, if you do your subscribers will opt out of your list and you will lose that potential customer forever. Instead offer them useful information in every email and either send out one sales pitch for every 5 or so informational emails, or you can add a P.S. at the end of your email message suggesting a product or service that can help them accomplish some goal.
2. When offering them an ebook or a newsletter as encouragement to sign up to your list, make sure that it is something that has a lot of truly beneficial information in it. People are overwhelmed with free offers these days and more often than not the free things really don’t offer that much value. This is a great way to set yourself apart from the others, if you offer some unique and valuable information for free instead of the same old recycled junk that everyone else gives away, you will show your visitors that they can trust you which will make them much more likely to buy from you in the future.
Email promotion internet marketing is the only real way to establish a long term relationship with your website visitors. It’s much easier for you to make another sale to an existing customer than it is to constantly find new customers to sell to, use email to leverage all of your website visitors.
The Importance of Inbound Links
Most would agree that getting incoming links to your website is one of the most effective ways to get ranked highly with the search engines to bring you more traffic and sales. There are many ways to go about doing this and I will discuss some of them in this article.
First of all, start out with the premise that you must have a high-quality website that provides outstanding content and value to your target audience. You will get much better results with any of your link-building efforts if you have a reputable site that is worth linking to. Good content must be geared towards your site visitors as well as the search engines. For your visitors, make the site clean, clear, easy to read and pleasing to the eye. For the search engines, use your keywords and images appropriately.
One of the most common way of getting incoming links to your website is to submit your site to the thousands of website directories. Some of these are free and some charge per submission. You can post your site (or hire someone to post your site) to as many directories as you can handle but you should chose those that are ranked higher by the search engines so the links these directories generate will be higher quality as well.
You can also write articles and submit them to article directories to get links back to your site. Your article need to be anywhere from 400 to 500 words long and, of course, relevant to what your website is about. Then, it should be focused around a main keyword and a couple of sub-keywords. You will put a link at the end of your article back to your website and tell readers to click on it for more information. One nice thing about publishing articles is that others can publish your articles on their sites so you will be getting links from both the article directories and other websites.
The final effective link-building method that I will discuss is participating in online forums that are relevant to your niche. Participating means offering answers to people’s questions and problems and inlcluding a link back to your website for more information. Again, you want to go to reputable forums so that when people link back to you by clicking on your website, it will be considered a quality link.
Remember that getting incoming links to your website does take consistency and time but you will see the difference if you can dedicate yourself to this task. You can also hire services that can do the grunt work for you or those that actually just sell you links. If you go that route, make sure you do the appropriate research and choose your service wisely. There are many types of link-building tools and tracking that can help you in your endeavor.