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Seriously Is Your Email Marketing Working?

EmailAre You Marketing Effectively With Email?

Like any type of marketing, email marketing involves a great deal of time and effort to ensure the marketing campaign is effective.

I read and hear more and more marketers say, “My email messages just do not get opened anymore!”

This is important because an ineffective marketing campaign of any type is a waste of money and resources.

Spending a great deal of time, energy and money into an email marketing campaign which is not reaching the members of the target audience and is not convincing recipients of the email to make a purchase or visit your website is not worthwhile.

One of the most important aspects of marketing effectively with email is to ensure your marketing efforts are reaching the members of your target audience. This is important because you are much more likely to generate sales when you are marketing to this type of an audience than you would if you were marketing to a much larger audience without an interest in your products.

The quality of your content is a reflection on your business and poorly written content with no substance will reflect poorly on your business.

Effective email marketing should also be written in a manner which will appeal to the target audience.  Paying attention to details can make the email marketing campaign significantly more effective.

Finally, effective email marketing should not be viewed as spam.

This is a difficult situation.

This is important because many Internet service providers include spam filters which apply algorithms to each email account to determine which messages are spam and which ones are legitimate.

Emails which are deemed to be spam may never reach the intended recipients.

Emails which may it through the spam filters may also be automatically deleted if the Internet user believes it looks like spam.

For this reason care should be taken to ensure all marketing emails provide quality content, advertise only subtly and ideally are only sent to email recipients who have specifically requested information about your products or services.

This will give you the best opportunity possible to reach your target audience and have a positive impression on them and hopefully entice them to make a purchase or visit your website.

After all is said and done building relationships with your subscribers means “profit!”

Does Opting Out Really Work?

Receiving emails from internet marketers is one of my pleasures!

Does that sound kinky?

Email marketing is not dead and makes a lot of people a lot of money!

I receive or have received emails from hundreds of marketers over the past few years.

Some are culled for content, some for stupidity, some for laziness, some for arrogance, and some just because I just want to.

 

 

That is my call, my privilege, my initiative, isn’t that so?

 

So why then after opting out of a double opt-in email list , after several months usually, do I suddenly appear on that list again?

Is this not called spam?

Sometimes what happens is I’m added to other lists when signing up and then receive email through that list.

Does being on “the other list” make getting this “new” email spam?

What do you think?

I’ve noticed several marketers that send email from the original list you opted out from. They wait months sometimes before sending, hoping you or I forgot that we had opted out.

Is this spam?

What do you think?

What should I think of these marketers? Desperate? Smart? Or what?

Some of the big marketers are now actually being a little more transparent, letting us know that a product is “crap”, I appreciate their morals.

Nobody talks about their emails.

What do you think?

Should I list names?

Oh yeah, I use Imnica Mail for my autoresponder. Just in case you want to know. Best Price. Best Service.

 

 

Personalize Your Autoresponder

Have you ever walked into a store in your town, and  been addressed by name?

This has probably  happened to you at stores that you frequent often.

The shop owner knows your name, and uses it.

He  remembers you, and he wants you to know that he  cared enough about you and your business to  remember you.

In the offline world, this is just one  aspect of customer support.

Customer service like this is almost impossible to  achieve on the Internet, but some semblance of it  can exist when you personalize your autoresponder  messages.

Autoresponder messages can be set up to address people by their first or last name – or both.  In fact, there is quite a bit of personalized information that can be added, depending on the autoresponder  that you are using.

The information is included in the autoresponder  messages by using codes. Each autoresponder will use different codes to insert the information in your  messages.

You simply write your message, and put  the codes where you want the personalized  information to appear. For instance, your message  may start out with “Hello (code for first name)! In this  case, the person’s first name will be inserted where  that code is.

Personalizing your autoresponder messages will  most likely improve your response rate.

Research  has shown that emails that are personalized with the  person’s first name are opened more often, and  those people are generally more receptive to the  contents of the email message.

It is usually very  easy to do. You write one message, using the  codes where you want the personalization,  then, no matter who that one email is sent out to,  their personal information will appear where the  codes are.

Of course, the autoresponder must collect the  information first.

This is done with the use of forms  that activate the autoresponder. For instance, if you  are giving away a free ebook, and you have your  visitor fill out a form with their email address to receive  the download instructions for the ebook by email, that  form should collect any type of information that you  want for personalization – such as a first name, as  well as the email address.

If that information is not  collected, the autoresponder won’t have anything to  insert where that code appears in your messages!

Take a look around the control panel of your  autoresponder, and find out what type of  personalization you can add to your autoresponder  messages.

You may be very surprised at the  improved results!

I highly recommend Imnica Mail!

Rich Schefren – Entrepreneur and Extreme Bestower

There is no affiliate links in this post.

You see, I probably would not qualify to be an affiliate of Rich Schefren.

My list is very small and I am a nobody!

But, Mr. Schefren’s newsletter, One Step Ahead, gives me hope.

His sharing and caring for his readers really shine every time I get a new edition.

His mind-boggling words are always to the point and open avenues of thought-provoking action.

There are very few marketers on the internet that give back so much to their readers as Rich Schefren.

His ability to convey thoughts to my inner being  that develop so many different systems of striving for excellence!

Thanks, Mr. Schefren for giving.

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