Friday, May 9, 2008

Useful Email Marketing Tips To help Your Business Grow

An email marketing campaign begins right from the opt-in list that you are creating for your campaign. The form that you get filled from your clients should not be too lengthy. It should rather be to the point and should focus on only gathering required knowledge about your client. Many websites create unnecessarily long forms which ask hundreds of unwanted questions. Cut the crap guys! Get to the point.

The same applies to your email subject line too. Do not go round and round the mulberry bush!be sensitive, be smart and approach in a more focused and honest manner. Short and crisp subject lines are more likely to be clicked than lines that are as long as a mail itself. Honestly. Who on earth has so much time and patience to read an email subject line a SUBJECT LINE! Gimme a break guys.

I sometimes really wonder, how many of the designers keep the reader in mind while they are creating an email newsletter. Gawd! Some of the newsletters I receive are so shabby. No story, no expression, no synchronization, just a chunk of words and a bunch of images that too dead. What you need to understand is that you are using the newsletters as your tool to attract visitors into your site. They are a window to your site. Keep it open, lively and airy.

The information that you provide through your email marketing campaign should be such that it lures your readers into your site. Keep your sentences short and meaningful. Do not forget to add a bit of life to your email with synchronized pictures. Pictures add a lot of meaning to your mails, but remember to add in alt text to your images as many email subscribers do not show pictures. Let your effort not go in vain.

To avoid your newsletter from being spammed, make sure that you do not use words like Free, Order Now, Today, Hurry etc. cliched right! And thats why they are SPAMMED.

Email Marketing has a lot of potential, they can increase your website traffic and leads to a great extent, just that you need to be a little selective and choosy about your campaign.

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1 Comments:

At June 9, 2008 at 9:54 PM , Blogger Unknown said...

So true! Nobody likes receiving long drawn out and boring e-mails.

 

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