A Email Marketing Strategy Its Rock Solid And Simple
December 18, 2009 by Kevin
Filed under Tips & Tricks
It’s impressive that you even have an email marketing strategy. Most people don’t even look at email as a part of their marketing arsenal; much less have an email marketing strategy. But the truth is, email can be a vital component of keeping your business healthy and wealthy.
What’s amazing about email is how quickly it became the norm for most communication. It was just fifteen years ago that most people had never heard of email and only a few people had ever used it. Now, virtually everyone has an email address, and for many, it’s their primary mode of communication.
Email is wonderful because it’s free and it’s fast, giving us instant gratification and something to do while we’re online at work. But this is also email’s big downfall, and the reason you need an email marketing strategy.
Because it’s free and quick, email rapidly became overrun with spam. Most of us were already tired of all the junk mail we got, and junk snail required manpower and money. Junk email just needed someone to press a button. This means that you can’t just email people at random to try to drum up business. Which is just as well, because you shouldn’t be doing that anyway.
Fortunately, I’m going to make this easy for you. There are thousands of possible strategies you could use, but I’m going to lay out a rock solid, simple, useable email marketing strategy for you right now.
The very first thing you need to do is make sure you’re using your won email correctly. Do you have a link to your website in your signature? If you don’t, you’re losing free exposure to all the people who email you already, and who are eager to hear from you. These same people may also forward your email, so you maybe missing out on the most basic form of viral marketing there is.
The next thing you need to do is get an autoresponder service. This is a cheap and easy way to collect and manage a list of people who are ready to here from you. What it does is create a mailing list that allows you to send personalized emails to people who want to hear from you.
You get these people on your mailing list by having an email capture form on your website. You send people to your website, offer them something in exchange for their email address, like a coupon or a free report, and then get their email address. The autoresponder service will give you the code necessary to put the capture box on your webpage, just have your webmaster slip in. It takes less than five minutes.
Once you have the service set up and customers and potential customers coming in, what you need to do is talk to them Don’t just sell, sell, sell, give them special bonuses and advice, and give them a reason to keep doing business with you.
There you have it, the best and simplest email marketing strategy around. You can have it up and running in less than an hour and your business and customer will thank you for it.
