Tuesday, 30 March 2010 11:32

Is email marketing still an effective strategy?

Written by Chris Jacoby
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Email marketing has been around for a while and is still one of the cheapest ways to communicate. Email marketing will definitely increase your business’ target for online audiences when used correctly. When marketing through email, you need to comply with federal regulations that affect all commercial enterprises. If this is done incorrectly it can get you company listed as a spam abuser and will affect your marketing strategy and your business negatively.

When done correctly and the message to your target audience is crafted aptly, email marketing can help you deliver the right content to the right prospect at the right time in the selling cycle and continuously achieve high response rates from quality prospects.

10 Advantages of email marketing:email-marketing
  1. Global communication – Borders are not an obstacle, email anyone anywhere in the world.
  2. Cost Effective – Spending less time, making more money is the result you get from email marketing!
  3. Interactive – With pictures, captions, text, video links and much more you can definitely capture you target audience.
  4. Faster response – Other forms of marketing are much slower in terms of receiving response from your prospects. With email marketing you can receive responses from as quickly as 10 minutes after it’s been received.
  5. Subscribe / Unsubscribe Options – Marketed Emails contain subscribe and unsubscribe options which help you to shortlist your prospects and reach only the ones genuinely interested in your offerings.
  6. Targeted marketing – Target those directly who might require your services, solutions or products without bothering those who do not.
  7. Reports and Results – Specialized tools are available that accurately measure click-through rate, conversion rate, how a person one arrived at your website, and more, to enable you to assess the success of different email campaigns.
  8. 24/7 Marketing – Emails can get sent anytime and be received by a prospect anytime.
  9. Personalized – Structure your content to greet a prospect individually with a friendly message.
  10. Simple – Depending on your requirement, you can easily start a email marketing campaign from your own personal computer.
Online marketing is a high response and opportunistic medium for communicating with customers, and if executed right, has the power to bring huge benefits to your business. Go ahead, initiate extremely targeted email marketing and see your profits grow. Many of your competitors are doing it already!
Last modified on Wednesday, 31 March 2010 13:14
Chris Jacoby

Chris Jacoby

Chris is an Information Systems Engineer who has great experience with the online web world. His strengths lie in website application development, user friendly website design and development, graphics design and website optimization. 

Nothing is impossible! ~Chris


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