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Email Marketing is all about quality, not quantity

noreply@blogger.com (Garry Edgell) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:08:00 +0000

In a recent analysis by Forrester Research, sixty percent of marketers are not utilising the power of email marketing because their efforts are mainly concentrated towards growing databases and sending out the information to the maximum number of users, thereby ignoring the fact that it is not the quantity, but the quality that matters, and we are not talking about the quality of the email addresses, but the strategy that is implemented while blasting out mails. The best strategy in this regard would be to segregate your mail addresses in accordance to the data being sent, and this is particularly important for those involved in the email marketing domain for external clients. For instance, depending on the age demographics, you might prefer sending sports goods' mailers to only young audiences, a step that would also reduce the bounce rate of the host site drastically, besides increasing the click-through percentage. Another example would be in case you know the geographic locations of your potential customers as well. According to this location, you can send them mailers specific to their location (Of course, you would not be selling sweaters to someone located in Africa!)

The most imperative precaution while gathering your email database is to capture as much (accurate) information about the user as possible. Based on these, you can start off by defining targets for a better analysis of both your strategy as well as your approach. Even a simple segregation like male/female can bring about a whale of a difference in terms of click-through. Further, in case you own a website offering the facility to the user to subscribe to promotional offers, discounts, etc., make sure you take as much information without being too taxing on the user or taking too much of his time (both are basically the same thing for an average user). A side-point here would be to keep updating your database in case a few users unsubscribe every now and then. This is also important in case you are running mailers for diverse verticals or products, since a user interested in sports goods might not be wanting to receive offers on sweaters (quoting the above example)!

In the end, all that matters is how you play with the number of mail addresses you have, and send out mailers at the appropriate timings to the right audience. There is no set formula for this, and everything is trial and error. However, the upside to this is that once you hit the right strategy, all you have to do is to blast the mails, and get revenues the click of a button.

No Money, No Brand-Presence? Try e-mail marketing!!

noreply@blogger.com (Garry Edgell) — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:04:00 +0000

What would you do if you had to market your product in a short span of time but had no Search Engine Optimisation professionals, budget for online or offline advertising and were a newbie with relatively no chance of word-of-mouth promotions?

Confused? What seems to be a near impossible task in the above circumstances can in fact be dealt with in a very effective manner by the means of e-mail marketing campaigns, thanks to the growing use of the internet and the fact that a clear majority of the 1.5 billion plus users who currently use the internet globally would be definitely having (and checking) their e-mail accounts. Coming in as a relatively unknown means of promotion of both online and offline products, e-mail marketing has come of age and is on a high since the past 5 years or so, with incremental ad spends year on year. However, there are some measures of caution that should always be taken to ensure proper effectiveness of any e-mail marketing campaign.

Following are some of the guidelines of the same:

· Confirmation Mails: A website must always send confirmation or welcome mails to customers after they have signed up. These might also contain recent updates, and other features that the user can benefit from. Accordingly, this can help start a chain of weekly, fortnightly or monthly mails to remind the consumer of his existence on the portal and ensuring brand recall value.

· Privacy Policy: Promotional e-mails must always carry and convey their privacy policy properly to the end user. Since internet crimes are on a rise, more and more users globally are increasingly becoming skeptical of revealing any kind of personal information on the internet. Hence, in order to ensure sales/leads/registrations, it is important to win the trust of the consumer.

· Relevance: An analysis of past e-mail opens, click-through, and sales or registrations generated through different promotional e-mails is extremely important in ensuring that you send the right mails to the right audience, otherwise there is a high chance of mails being sent in the spam folder, or even worse, unsubscriptions.

· Timing: E-mails must always be sent at a time when they are convenient to be opened by the audience they are intended for. Further, in case of international mail marketing campaigns, the time gap between countries must always be considered before sending mass mails to prospective clients, since there might be a high possibility that by the time the user opens his inbox, he already has many other promotional, or even work related and personal mails, and your mail gets ignored in the process.

Email Marketing Services

noreply@blogger.com (Garry Edgell) — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:50:00 +0000

Email Marketing Services

Email Marketing Services–they cannot let you down when it comes to marketing

noreply@blogger.com (Garry Edgell) — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:31:00 +0000

A new business has always to confront the issue of how to market its products and services. Moreover, it becomes all the more confusing as there is no dearth of marketing techniques that are available in the market. Knowing which is the most viable option should not be difficult thanks to email marketing services that are being provided by various companies.

Email marketing services are forceful, affordable and very efficacious. Email marketing includes transferring messages in different forms such as newsletters, mail pamphlets, and invitations to hundreds and thousands of potential consumers. Email marketing services help you reach online customers.

The best part of email marketing services is that they are result-oriented. They give you the option of choosing between bulk email marketing or opt-in email marketing strategy. Email marketing services help you generate leads by assisting you at all stages, ranging from designing, executing, monitoring, and examining the email marketing campaign.

Email marketing services can help you in every which way possible. They help you keep a complete record of how and which way your marketing campaign is going. It may amaze you but the fact of the matter is that these services can help you know how many surfers read or unread your ads and how many of them clicked on your ads.

Email marketing services are being seen as the most preferred and lucrative marketing strategies to reach the targeted audience. If there is one thing that these services cannot do is that they cannot let you down.

A Report On B2C Lead Generation

noreply@blogger.com (Garry Edgell) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:29:00 +0000

A Report On B2C Lead Generation

B2B Lead Generation: This is the Right Channel

noreply@blogger.com (Garry Edgell) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:23:00 +0000

Internet marketing is a promotion based marketing. Websites are taking the help of different websites for the promotion through B2B lead generation.

Without promotion, a product with the best of features, is worthless and without a proper channel a good advertisement is useless. So, these days people are not only making excellent advertisements but they are also opting for the right channel. A right advertising channel is as important as the right advertisement. That is why online ventures find B2B lead generation as the best advertising option.

Here the advertisement is attractive and at the same time channel is also appropriate. And best part is that it is result-oriented and profitable. Now, suppose Steve is selling latest bestsellers online then what do you think he can do for promoting his online venture, other than SEO and PPC. He would like to sell more and more quantity of books. In this case he can take the help of Sam who is the owner of an online gift shop.

That shop of Sam can promote the books and this is how B2B lead generation can be helpful for Steve. In fact this is a very healthy practice that websites are taking help from other websites to do business. The main motive of B2B lead generation is brand awareness of a product. The sales follow ultimately. You would have heard about companies running an Email campaign. These campaigns are for the same purposes.

Many websites offer free business reports, profiles or survey forms to invite users. The initial service of these offers is free. These offers are linked to products that the company wants to promote. If an audience visits a gift shop and if he/she leads to the site selling a bestseller. Then he/she might think about it as a great gift.

This is B2B lead generation. Also, auto responders, registration form offerings, business to business referrals and Email campaign are some of the best techniques of online B2B lead generation. Use them and provide the right channel for your advertisement.

Email Marketing: Now A Mainstream Ad Technique

noreply@blogger.com (Garry Edgell) — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:46:00 +0000

There is no doubt that advertising is a must do for companies and it must be contemporary. Otherwise it bores. So in the Internet age Email is being used for advertising. In fact Email marketing has grown worldwide as a significant ad tool.

According to a survey of Epsilon International and Return Path, email-based marketing resonates strongly with consumers across the Asia Pacific region. Along with traditional advertising medium, it is becoming one of the key ways to reach consumers. In fact in one of the most significant findings, one in three respondents (32%) said that they would 'always' respond to targeted and promotional e-mails.

The survey was carried out in February 2008 throughout Asia-Pacific region. It surveyed 1,169 participants and sought to discover email habits of consumers and their attitudes to permission email marketing and Spam. The survey further supports that consumers respond to email marketing if it is directed to the right person, at the right time, and with the right message.

Another survey found out the increasing acceptance of electronic marketing when used in a controlled and targeted manner. When asked if they use Email marketing, half of the respondents in Japan (47%) said that they would use e-mail coupons to buy products online or offline.

This shows the acceptance of Email marketing as a mainstream advertising tool and the fact is that it is growing day by day.

HTML mails – The future of E-Mail marketing

noreply@blogger.com (Garry Edgell) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:47:00 +0000

Gone are the days when experts used to debate against the use of HTML format in E-Mail marketing. With boom in the IT industry, competition has rocketed and companies have to stay updated in order to stay in the corporate battlefield.

In order to stay ahead, new methods have to be accepted and the old ones have to perish, it is anachronistic to stick with reasons which supported the drive against HTML mails in the 90's.
HTML got a bad reputation for falsely alerting Spam filters. Today, however, Spam filters are much more sophisticated, taking the sender's reputation into account and looking beyond the content.

Businesses using HTML mails practically certify better responses and raised sales. And the boring colourless mails are again and again left unread.
Having said this,it's important to keep basic things in mind while writing an HTML based mail-

1.The width of the mail should be kept low, so that the reader is not forced to scroll horizontally.

2.A good balance of images and content should be maintained, either one should not overlap each other.

3.Use multi-part alternatives to let the email client choose between text and HTML versions of your message. This is especially important for customers who receive your messages on mobile devices.

With the emergence of new E-Mail marketing companies, HTML mails will run the show, and business houses should jump on the bandwagon as its better to change today rather than being forced to change tomorrow.

Email Marketing Campaign: Rock Solid Promotions

noreply@blogger.com (Garry Edgell) — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:46:00 +0000

An email marketing campaign can be well utilized in advertising and CRM.

A personalized email is always efficient in drawing attention of the receiver. With Internet becoming popular among the users, the league of smart advertisers have come across ingenious ways to target their audience. This time it is an email marketing campaign that is more specifically, concerned with bulk emailing to the potential or existing customers.

The email marketing campaign might comprise of information related to products and services. In addition, the email can be a method to enhance the experience of existing customer base. This can be well understood as a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) technique or tool. Nevertheless, its effect is efficient in gaining positive response from the receivers.

The specific type of emails are developed according to the motive of the email marketing campaign. These emails can also be in the form of newsletters, which update the receivers about new events. These campaigns are based on the leads generated through different methods. The mantra behind them is the personalization and appearance. Hit the target markets hard with precise promotions.

Email marketing: Can a Newsletter Generate Money?

noreply@blogger.com (Garry Edgell) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:40:00 +0000

The world of online advertising has changed a lot and the credit goes in a big way to Email marketing. And newsletters are playing an important role in this kind of marketing campaign. These are a cost effective way to communicate and build strong relationships with prospective customers.

In fact, Email newsletters offer a nice technique to engage your audience in a conversation, generate curiosity and also educate them about your product or services. This kind of interactivity, develop desire and turn a general audience into buyers or prospects.

An Email marketing company can take care of all the issues related with newsletters. Be it content creation, template design, distribution, newsletter list management or process management, every issue is taken care of and scrutinized precisely. Due to its effectiveness more and more email marketing specialists recommend e-newsletters for customer creation.

Sending newsletters can also reduce the dependency on search engines. In fact there are more reasons behind the popularity of email marketing newsletters. By using it customers can be notified on seasonal opportunities on the right time and a huge number of customers and prospects can be easily kept informed about any organization. Also, Email newsletters are affordable and require little technology.

Hence, newsletters should be tried for promoting any brand. So choose one Email marketing company and know more about it. They can generate money, really!

Email Marketing Companies: Requirement & Benefits

noreply@blogger.com (Garry Edgell) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:31:00 +0000

Many believe that Email Marketing is an obsolete online marketing technique which is now much less in use than the other more popular ones. The truth is that, email marketing is still quite an active online marketing technique and is used widely across the web. As a matter of fact, it is considered to be the best means of conducting direct marketing for websites.

If you really want to adopt email marketing as an effective online marketing technique for your website, it is advised that you take assistance of a good and experienced email marketing company. There are a number of online web solutions company that offer email marketing solutions as well, but you must take care to opt for only those companies, that will help you excel in the process. The following are the features that you should keep in mind while you select an email marketing company for your website direct promotion.

A good email marketing consultant is one who is seriously concerned about the progress and success of your website. Takes interest in its changes, realizes the actual requirement of your website and takes necessary steps to make it profitable. A good email marketing company is one, who understands the threat your email marketing campaign might have to face from SPAM. It is the duty of your email marketing company to protect your site from coming under the heat of Spam mails, this is a threat to email marketing campaigns.

Make sure that your email marketing co-ordinator is following effective and useful marketing techniques that will help your email marketing campaign.

What is Your Online Newsletter Lacking?

noreply@blogger.com (Garry Edgell) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:00:00 +0000

Summary: Believe it or not, the success of an email campaign depends on the way it is being designed. Lets have a look at some of the features of web designing for a newsletter.

Your newsletter campaign will be called successful, only when readers will click on it, read it and perform the action that you wish them to execute. Most people think that having a strong opt in list is the only requirement of an email campaign. As a matter of fact you can always build your opt in list, but if you do not have the skill to develop a good newsletter design the whole effort is of no use at all. I have tried to scale down a few points on newsletter web designing for your email campaign. Hope they are of some use to you.

Web designing for a newsletter has a lot of similarity to website designing for a good campaign. Just like in a site the focus is always targeted at the point of lead generation, similarly, the focus in this field is targeted on action that your newsletter is aiming at. If you wish your list to click on the link that you have placed in your newsletter then your focus should be targeted on the same, and if it is just to highlight a particular new feature then your focus should be more on that.

Well this is a very obvious point, but a more serious concern in the web designing of newsletters is the usage of appropriate text and images. A very placid newsletter will have no impact on the readers, they will probably not even go through the long text that you have put in there. The trick is to use a little bit of humanness to your mail. Make use of realistic images of people or children, or anything that might fit well with the theme of your mail. You can also try experimenting with humor and wit, as it has much higher click in ratio.

Web designing does not end here. There is much to it than just this. A good email newsletter must also pay a lot of attention to the content that is being added to the website, so that it is well understood by your readers.

Mobile Phones a Threat to Email Marketing

noreply@blogger.com (Garry Edgell) — Thu, 15 May 2008 12:25:00 +0000

The emergence of web supporting mobile phones have rendered a red signal to email marketing. Online Marketers who used HTML emails to conduct their direct marketing process are now having a hard time removing the addresses of mobile email users and traditional computer email receivers.

This division and separation of email addresses is important in order to make sure that the emails that are being sent are read by the users. These promotional emails are generally created in the HTML formats, which is not supported by most mobile phones generally. The mobile emails generally show text messages only, whereby, the HTML mails fired by the email marketers go unnoticed.

In order to make sure that the mails these marketers are sending, are being read by their receivers, the marketers need to design their mails in text also, so that the receivers can atleast read their mails. This technique will definitely have a drawback. The email marketing trend will go back to its traditional form, but the positive part of the game is that, the mails will be read immediately by the readers as they will have easy access to the web, which might also increase the number of hits on the concerned website.

The marketers will now have to concentrate more on the content of the website, ensuring that the content is short. Crisp, interesting and to the point, Headlines become more essential in such cases. Marketers will now have to pay more attention towards headlines so that the receivers find it interesting and relevant and generate clicks on them.

Target Oriented- The First Mantra of Email Marketing

noreply@blogger.com (Garry Edgell) — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:06:00 +0000

Every morning when you open your inbox, how many mails do you generally receive? Five, ten, fifteen or fifty? Whatever be the number of emails you receive everyday, that is not my concern. I want to figure out, how many of those mails are your personal I mean really Personal coming from friends, family or official. And approximately how many of them are personal yet not personal? Strange question, right? Well, lets not play with words too long, I am sure, if not me you definitely have better things to do.

What I intend to ask is how many emails marketing campaigns on an average do your receive everyday. I am sure the counts must be running higher than the so called 'personal' mails that you receive. Why do you think you receive these emails. Well obviously because you asked for them. Email campaigns run on opt- in lists, where you provide the marketer with your email address and approve them to send to emails.

That is all fine, but wondering how these people know that you are a fashion freak, or are interested in car races and affiliate marketing in business. Well guys they are definitely no genie. Remember the form which you had filled while you had visited their site. It was that that you had mentioned aout your liking for cars, fashion and affiliate marketing. This is what they call targeted email marketing.

Targeted email marketing is a technique wherein the website owner is aware of your likes and dislikes and sends you stuffs that you are most likely to use or buy. This is called target oriented direct email marketing technique.

Useful Email Marketing Tips To help Your Business Grow

noreply@blogger.com (Garry Edgell) — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:04:00 +0000

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.

The Progress of Email Marketing Today

noreply@blogger.com (Garry Edgell) — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:53:00 +0000

Email Marketing is on the ladders, but its rise is not as speedy as it was expected. A recent report by ROI confirmed that the opt-in email marketing methods are use by almost 31% of email marketers. This indeed is a great sign as it marks the growth of the industry, but the fact is that the growth is not as remarkable as it should have been.

The report suggests that that the number has grown but it is not as big as it was predicted to grow a few years ago. The reason for this lack in the growth of email marketing can be pointed towards the less usage of Opt-in email listing. If website owners would have been making use of the confirmed or permission based email lists, this number would probably have been double than what it is today.

The lack of communication between the marketers and the subscribers is another reason why this fall is being prompted. And this is also the reason why most of the subscribers unsubscribe from the mailing option after some time.

Suggestion to the marketers is to diversify their channels. Meaning, look for different channels as well, through which you can keep your subscriber in loop along with mailing them. The first thing is to make sure that you are sending them the first confirmation email which they wish to see from you once they have subscribed to ayour account. This will put across the message to them, that they are important and you are at their service always. Next, check your auto responder and see if all the queries are working fine, so that you do not miss a chance to reply back to them.

Once you are through with all of these, get set with your email marketing and corresponding programs and take your Online business to new heights.

Email Marketing Solution: The most inexpensive means of being instantly heard & responded

noreply@blogger.com (Garry Edgell) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:08:00 +0000

Sending and receiving emails has given rise to a new trick of promoting business – that is email marketing solution. After all, emails are faster, easier and a lot cheaper in reaching out to targeted audience than through any other modes and media. Compact size, one-to-one communication mode, cheaper rate of investments, easiness of executions etc., features of email marketing have shown smaller businesses bigger hopes to stand neck to neck with their bigger counterparts in the industry.

Being a website owner, when you feel your website is eluding that scope of expansion beyond your kith and kin, you know you are in need for a solution to generate quick responses. Now if you are yet to accumulate the funds for bigger investment, simply try out email marketing. It is the least expensive and fastest in pulling traffic of your site. Well, want to know how?

This email marketing solution is highly effectual for any business ranging from educational, industrial, consumer, non-profit entities, trading groups, service firms etc. Reach out to precisely that segment of visitors as per preferences using email marketing strategies. Moreover, with this marketing solution, tracking and assessing responses become easier which is also vital for predicting leads and sales. Through this personalized mailing techniques, increase your brand image to each and every visitor separately within minimum investment of time and money. So is your inbox ready to allocate sudden and huge responses from your recipients and your site to get ‘clicked’ frequently? Well, you better be if you are adopting email marketing solution.