Email marketing tips

Email marketing is everywhere! It is a great way to connect with your audience nation-wide and also your local audience here in Albuquerque. You can send a blast about a new update or product, or a local event happening in town. It can also be a general update about your business like a newsletter.

Before using email marketing, create a test email and send it to a friend or family member. Your loved one can see how the email looks and give you feedback. This way, if any changes need to be made, you can do it before sending the emails out to customers.

To keep your email recipients engaged, use various sequences for different types of readers. For example, if you get an email address from a sale, that customer should receive a very distinctive welcoming email than a reader whose email you received from a lead. If readers aren't getting what they want from emails, then they simply won't read them. You can also ask in a survey what they are most likely interested in. 

When researching email marketing, use as many resources as possible. Check the web and the YouTube for tutorials on the topic. Classes and workshops may be available locally as well, and it would be beneficial for you to attend some of these.

You should always have permission before emailing any individual. If you fire off unsolicited emails, the recipients are not likely to take you seriously. Some may dislike unwanted emails so much, they decide to no longer buy from you or work with you.

Make sure that your email subscribers know exactly what to expect from you. An excellent way to do this is to make your first email to every new subscriber a default informational message. You should lay out what sort of content you intend to send them, and also indicate the frequency of messages they can expect from you.

Consider using text emails instead of graphically intense HTML emails for your campaign. You may be thinking that the graphics will engage your reader more, but it's usually not the case. Many people today have trained themselves to delete emails with lots of imagery, assuming they are spam. As well, those images often trigger spam filters, meaning your message is never received by some people on your email list!

After countless times of encountering email marketing, you finally know how to best utilize it yourself. Put simply, it's using the medium of emails to send messages either current customers or future customers for the sole purpose of marketing to them. Now that you know, make use of it in your own business emails!