Email Marketing Tips
An email inbox is a very noisy environment, with calendars, notes and folders all competing with the actual emails for space. Given that a reader may only ever see your subject line before deciding whether to read your email, you can’t afford to waste time. Make sure that your emails show right away why they are worth reading. Consider starting with a succinct table of contents to help decide whether they should read on.
Benefits of Email Marketing
Email marketing is perhaps the most cost-effective direct marketing method, enabling marketers a degree of targeting along with the luxury of full tracking and analytics to measure and tweak results. By allowing direct delivery of targeted marketing message to voluntary recipients, an email marketing campaign can ensure business owners a solid ROI and deliver high-margin revenue. It also allows for the possibility to test new ideas and closely track metrics. As a result, email marketing remains an increasingly popular form of direct marketing among online business consultants and business owners alike, with growth far outstripping other marketing channels.
Withstanding the Recession Using Email Marketing
Small business owners need to find additional means of promotion during tough economic times. Relying on a single method, such as an ad in the phone book or a newspaper, isn’t enough anymore. Most other ad mediums, such as radio and television, are often too expensive for the average business owner to use on a frequent basis.
Downsizing or reducing prices offers a short term solution in a failing economy. However, building a lasting relationship with your target market and keeping the lines of communication open is a far more cost efficient and effective method.
Mobile Marketing is your direct link to customers
Mobile (SMS) marketing is the act of sending spam-free, personalized marketing messages to receptive consumers through their mobile phones or handheld devices. It has been widely used in Asia and Europe for several years now, and is only now beginning to take hold in the U.S.
Mobile marketing is the next stage of customer intimacy, delivering marketing messages to the right individuals at the right time. Marketing to your prospects through a SMS marketing campaign will build your profile and will, in much the same way as email marketing, prompt a direct response from prospects that might otherwise have been hard to reach.
New Media Marketing – Now Affordable to the Smallest of Businesses
Both email marketing and mobile marketing have risen in popularity amongst business owners due to its effectiveness as a means of building customer loyalty and increasing revenue. Until very recently, the costs of email marketing and mobile marketing were prohibitive to all but the largest corporate players, and as such the market (certainly for mobile marketing) remains largely untapped to this day. Direct marketing using these methods has undergone a revolution in recent years. It has finally come to the forefront as a successful and affordable way to market to targeted individuals.
