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  • Blend Email With Other Marketing Strategies!

    The concept

    Whether you choose to do your marketing online or offline one thing does not change: The concept that no single marketing strategy will be as effective as utilizing a blend of two or more marketing strategies. This does not mean that it is necessary to implement every known marketing strategy to promote your business; but rather, it implies that it’s worthwhile to market from a few different perspectives in order to help achieve business-related goals.

    In this article we will take a look at the viability, need and practicality of combining email marketing with other types of marketing to create a successful, multi-tiered marketing strategy and in addition, offer a few observations on managing more than one marketing strategy simultaneously in the hopes that they will prove useful to you in your Web marketing efforts.

    The adage

    There is an old adage which states that, “Two heads are better than one,” and this could certainly be applied to a multi-pronged approach to Web marketing; because although you may enjoy a great deal of success with your current email marketing efforts it does not mean you should refuse to try other types of Web marketing strategies such as, website creation, participation in industry-related message boards, placing banner ads on your website(s), orchestrating an affiliate marketing campaign and generating inbound links to .

    It is important to keep in mind that, while the possibility exists that not all of these strategies will be effective for your business, the liklihood that at least one other option which complements your email marketing will help you to achieve your business-related goals. But there is only one way to actually test the blend of marketing types, and that is to test each one in a methodical fashion simililar to the kind of “split testing” that proved to be so effective for many marketers a decade or so ago, and is still utilized by marketers to evaluate the effectiveness of their marketing strategies.

    The offline factor

    Alternately you even wish to combine your email marketing campaign with more traditional marketing strategies such as radio ads, television ads and the print media. Let’s face it, just because these types of advertising do not take place the Web does not mean they will be ineffective in helping you generate more business and profits.

    In fact advertising both online and offline can allow you to reach a larger audience to which you can target your advertising. This is especially true in view of the fact that you can reach Web users around the world, but reaching potential customers who do not utilize the Web for purchasing or researching products or services similar to the ones you offer can only be accomplished using offline marketing strategies.

    A powerful statement

    Popular marketing strategies to combine with email marketing include banner ads and message board participation, but these are all online activities and each one individually is fairly simple. However, in combination these simple activities can create a powerful statement, in the sense that when you send out emails offering useful information about your products or services, while simultaneously purchasing banner ad space on with content which may also be of interest to your potential customers, you can earn the respect and pique the interest of potential customers.

    Furthermore, let’s say you add a third marketing strategy like participation in industry-related message boards. When done right this could well be a powerful representation of your business, even if your potential customers are not currently in need of the products and services you offer; because seeing your business name so often will most likely have a branding effect that is credible and positive in their minds. And branding, which is essentially a process during which consumers see a company name so often that they are more likely to select a product from this company when they are in need of an item the company offers, will go a long way in boosting your reputation and customer base.

    The caveat emptor mindset

    Of course you must approach your experiment in blending marketing strategies with a “Caveat Emptor” mindset, because if you are planning to combine multiple forms of advertising, you should be aware that this might involve a degree of difficulty when evaluating the effectiveness of each marketing strategy.

    This difficulty is especially true when the marketing strategies are implemented simultaneously. When using only one type of marketing strategy, you can generally attribute increases in sales or traffic to changes in the marketing strategy. However, when more than one type of marketing strategy is in effect, determining which strategy is producing the most success can be quite difficult.

    Methodical work

    But remember, this experiment must be done in a careful and methodical manner. Meaning that the best way this situation can be handled is by not making changes to more than one marketing strategy at a time. By doing so you will be able to pinpoint which changes produce an increase in sales or traffic. The methodical approach can also help you to determine when changes to your marketing strategy have a detrimental effect on your sales and traffic. However, if you are having difficulty determining which marketing strategy is most effective you can consider asking customers to answer survey questions and provide information as to how they learned about the products or services your business offers.

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  • Subtlety in Email Marketing: Golden!

    Easily misconstrued

    Consistently, everyday users of the Web receive tons of emails telling them to buy certain products or visit particular websites; and while these emails arrive in the inboxes of unsuspecting Web users each and every day, most of them devote very little attention to such emails. The reason for such inattention is that emails which can be construed as, or simply are, blatant advertisements have often been viewed as spam and will continue to be viewed as spam until email marketers and the businesses that send them clean up their act.

    Let’s face it, most users of the Web have very little tolerance for spam; and for good reason, given that spam has been outlawed (See CAN-SPAM Act), and spammers have therefore developed the most sinister of reputations when compared to any other Web-based entities, except scammers (those who actually set out to engage in outright theft). Reactions to spam tend to range from simply ignoring the emails and having spammy email addresses blocked to reporting those emails to their Internet service providers for further investigation.

    We realize that many Web marketers have difficulty keeping their email marketing subtle, and therefore run the risk of being mistaken for spam; so in this article we will provide what we hope will be some useful information on how email marketing can be kept subtle so as to avoid it being viewed as spam. But more importantly, we want to provide enough thought-provoking points, aspects and norms associated with email marketing to help you formulate some of your own ideas that will ultimately keep you clear of suspicion in your own email marketing efforts.

    High quality content

    One of the most important criteria for ensuring that your email marketing is subtle and therefore not be viewed as spam, is to provide content which can be viewed as valuable or of high quality to subscribers and recipients of your emails. This may include insightful articles, interesting quizzes or other useful facts which members of your target audience are likely to find useful. When email recipients realize an email they received is offering them something worthwhile, such as knowledge or information about a particular niche subject, they are much more likely to spend some time reviewing the email since they will not likely consider it spam.

    In addition to using the creation of this copy to convince recipients that the email is not spam, the marketers and business owners can also take advantage of the copy by providing subtle advertising which may include product references in the articles or links to your website throughout the email.

    Keep ad & link density low

    While providing such links and product references it is important to avoid packing each paragraph with such instances of product references and links, which obviously defeats the purpose. Think in terms of keyword density and the avoidance of packing a website article with keywords to attract search engines, but end up having the reverse effect. Same applies to link density and readers.

    Avoiding language which makes outrageous claims can also help to keep advertising quite subtle, as using superlatives and describing the greatness of specific products will likely be viewed as blatant advertising. When this happens, it is unlikely that website owners, readers and subscribers will believe there is validity in anything contained within the emails because they will deem the entire email to be simply one big advertisement for your products or services.

    Using the third-party technique

    Another way to keep advertising subtle when running an email marketing campaign is to only send your email to those who are likely to be extremely interested in your products and services. This is important because when email recipients receive an email which does not reflect their interests at all, they are not likely to take the email serious and may view the email as a blatant and unwanted advertisement.

    However, when the email is only sent to those who share a common interest, the message seems more personalized, in which case the email recipients are not likely to view every product reference as a blatant advertisement and understand there is sometimes a need to mention products or services.

    Keep in mind that email marketing remains subtle when the content of a message is written as though it is not coming directly from the business owner. In other words, the copy may speak about products and services as though they are being offered by a third party. This technique makes the advertising seem more subtle because it does not appear to be coming directly from the Web marketer or business owner.

    This approach is one of the most effective in the sense that the sender does not give his/her recipients the impression that s/he is selling them something; and you know how people hate to be sold… anything. So it may be a good idea to learn the third-person technique, practice it, and use it in your email marketing campaigns.

    In conclusion…

    Finally I will leave you with the idea that you, the business owner, can help to ensure your email marketing effortsensure your email marketing efforts are not viewed as blatant advertisements (or spam) by keeping references to your own website to an absolute minimum. Most Web users often view links from one website to another strictly as an advertisement, and it is for this reason that most business owners who are marketing via an email campaign may find it worthwhile to keep links to a minimum and carefully weave these links into the most quite benign copy.

    The links should be provided as though they were only included to provide readers and subscribers with an opportunity to learn more about the products and not being included as a way to encourage them to purchase any products. It might also be worthwhile to consider hiring a writer with this type of experience and expertise to ensure that your copy conveys the desired message and has the desired effect on your email subscribers and other such recipients.

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  • Email Marketing Evaluation: A Must!

    A promotional method

    Email marketing can be a very effective promotional method to reach target audiences around the world, despite the fact that in many cases, the marketing efforts of a business owner or promoter may not reach full potential unless s/he invests the necessary time, energy and money into evaluating the email marketing strategy which s/he has put into action.

    It is during such an evaluation that a business owner can determine whether or not email marketing is a method that can enable him/her to reach stated marketing objectives. The same evaluation can be used to determine if email marketing as a strategy is having an adverse affect the business productivity.

    Useful information

    That having been said, there are a few ideas pertaining to the importance of evaluating email marketing that we’d like to discuss in this article, and will also offer what we consider useful information on how to initiate and complete the email marketing evaluation process. To say such a process, done on a regular basis, is important would be an obvious understatement since frequent evaluation of any email marketing strategy is not only important, it is crucial to the success of the business or individual that puts it into effect.

    So it follows that one’s failure to evaluate his/her email marketing strategies can have adverse effects on finances and overall business objectives, including failure to produce results and loss of customers to his/her competitors.

    Avoid shortcuts

    Consider for a moment that an existing email marketing campaign is not effective because it does not reach members of the particular target audience. An evaluation will certainly reveal the reasons for this failure, one of which may very well be that the distribution list to which this campaign is being sent consists of recipients who have little or no interest in the being offered via the emails.

    Business owners who take shortcuts by purchasing large email lists, often find their shortcut did not pay off because the recipients of their marketing emails are simply not interested in any product(s) or service(s) they offer. In this scenario the email marketing is likely to generate very few sales or website visits. However, reevaluating the email distribution list to include recipients who are interested in the products or services being offered will likely result in significantly more sales and website visits.

    Remove ALL semblances of spam!

    Now consider a situation in which your email marketing is being construed as spam by recipients. If you have taken precautions to ensure your emails are reaching members of your target audience, but your emails seem like over the top sales pitches, the members of your email distribution list may view your emails as spam and not take your advertisements seriously. When this happens members of your email distribution list may be more likely to seek out a competitor when they are in need of products or services rather than making a purchase from you.

    In fact, one of the subtle ways you could use to remind yourself that any likeness to spam must be avoided at all costs, is getting in the habit of refer to your list as an “opt-in subscriber” list and not a distribution list. Think of this excercise in these terms:

    You can buy distribution lists. But you must create, build, and nurture subscriber listscreate, build, and nurture subscriber lists by offering interesting (compelling?), useful (valuable?) and free content on your website to attract and encourage visitors who become repeat readers and, ultimately valued subscribers. get the difference?

    Evaluating your email marketing efforts may be formal or informal in nature. If you have specific business goals in mind you might want to consider the path to meet this goal as an indication of whether or not the email marketing is working. If you’re interested in reading more about email marketing take a look at this recently published post – Alternatively, you can evaluate your email marketing efforts by soliciting customer feedback.

    Ask for customer feedback

    Asking customers for their opinions about your email marketing campaign and whether or not they were compelled to make a purchase because of the content, the advertising or some other element is a simple and straightforward way of getting direct and unvarnished answers from your target audience.

    Based on this information you should have a good indication of whether or not the email marketing strategy is effective. If it is not effective you should consider making changes to create more interest in your products or services. The changes you make should reflect any feedback you receive, and ensure you are not making changes that will cause even less interest from the members of your subscriber list.

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  • The Role of Articles in Building Your List

    Comparative excellence

    What are you waiting for?

    Getting visitors to your site should always be ranked as high in importance as the quality of the products and services you provide. This objective should go hand in hand with providing your customers the satisfaction they get in exchange for the money they have paid for them. Customer service should be as superb as well so that customers are provided with the same satisfaction.

    One of the ways you can combine marketing and customer service is through opt-in marketing, and with an opt-in list you get the opportunity to introduce your site and products in an agreed-upon time frame. An opt-in marketing strategy is a marketing strategy that is actually low-cost and not time consuming, simply because you get the consent of your website visitors to subscribe to your emails, newsletters and other promotional materials such as catalogs and free promotions.

    Opt-in marketing is a process

    Since opt-in marketing is the process by which you send emails to your list of subscribers, these emails can include almost any content you wish to send to your subscribers as long as such content is in good taste, legal and useful to the subscribers. For this reason, it is therefore essential that you present your promotional items in a manner that will attract the interest of your subscribers to keep them wanting (craving?) for more; and the best way to do this is to provide fun, entertainment and informational – if not interesting – articles.

    Well written article content that consists of helpful tips and useful information will be crucial in building your list as increased numbers of your website visitors will be enticed to subscribe to your list. When they read the samples of your website content, they will be intrigued as to what will come next and subscribing to your newsletter is one way for them to get a glimpse of what you have to offer next.

    Placing importance

    It is a known fact that many sites and companies have come to accept and, indeed, place a high value on the importance of articles as they also help in improved search engine optimization; and as more people head to the internet for their information needs, serving the right information to them via articles via your website will increase the flow of your website traffic. And with more traffic, the percentage of your sales will grow, which in many cases can be converted into more profit.

    The rise in importance of well written, information-rich, keyword-packed articles for website content has certainly been noticed and encouraged by major search engines for over two decades, and this has led to a craving for quality content by all sectors of the Internet marketplace. Today, any content that can be described as interesting and/or compelling is placed very high on a website’s must-have list. This includes newsletters, ebooks, blog posts and any other article inclusive product; because these articles provide the information which are sought by many Internet users, and if your site has them, more people will visiting that site for information and research.

    Reputation & credibility

    It is also true that well-written articles would boost your sites reputation, and if they are filled with a lot of useful information you will be regarded as well-informed and an expert on the subjects you write about. Of course, your articles must be well researched so that Internet users who visit your website will trust you, and when you have gained their trust, they will always come to you for the information they need about the topic on which they view you as the expert.

    As a matter of course you must write articles or commission them to be written on subjects that are closely connected with your type of business. So if you have a site dealing with matters of medicine or offering remedies for a certain disease, your articles must be about that disease and its potential cures. On the other hand, if you sell materials for home improvement you must write and publish articles with those themes. Most articles searched for are tips, guidelines, methods, manuals and such, but if you provide relevant articles to your customers and you gain their trust, they will always go to your site for help and advice, as well as for your products.

    Loyalty

    With the loyalty of these customers, they may subscribe to your opt-in list to receive all the information you have; and if you provide them with the answers for their needs, they will be happy to be receiving your emails, newsletters and other promotional materials to keep them well informed. Others may even forward your emails to other people when they find a certain article interesting.

    You should provide links in your newsletter so that when other people read it and wish to read more, they can click on the link and go to your site. With the articles you’ve published to your site that are good, they may decide to sign up as well to your opt-in list. This will build your list and make it bigger, but make sure to keep your subscribers happy and interested in your newsletters and promotional materials.

    Keep on posting and writing good articles for your site and newsletter, and if you have no interest in writing them, or if you just don’t have the time, there are many available, well experienced and knowledgeable writers available to help you compose interesting and compelling articles on the topic of your choice. This is an investment that will pay for itself in time.

     

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  • Subtlety in Email Marketing

    Know the distinctions!

    Typical Web users receive tons of emails encouraging them to purchase certain products or visit specific websites owned or managed by the email senders or merchants with whom they are affiliated; and while these emails arrive in inboxes of unsuspecting web users each day, most of them pay very little attention to such emails. This is because emails which are blatant advertisements are often viewed as spam, and most Web users have very little tolerance for spam; but it is very important to understand the distinction between these two types of communication.

    One distinction is the reaction of recipients, which is to say that reactions to spam tend to range from simply ignoring such emails and having the email addresses blocked from sending future communications, to reporting such emails to their Internet service providers (ISPs) for further investigation. We realize many Web marketers have difficulty keeping their email marketing subtle and, as such, this article will provide some information which we hope will be useful in determining how email marketing can be kept subtle so it is not viewed as spam.

    Criteria for subtlety

    Among the most important criteria for ensuring your email marketing is done in as subtle a manner as possible and not be viewed as spam is to provide something of quality to your recipients. This thing of quality may consist of insightful articles, interesting quizzes or other useful facts which members of the target audience are likely to find useful, if not valuable.

    The simple fact is when email recipients realize that an email they received is offering them something worthwhile such as knowledge or information about a particular niche subject they are much more likely to spend some time reviewing the email and therefore will not likely consider the email to be spam. In addition to using the creation of something qualitative to convince recipients that the email is not spam, business owners can also take advantage of qualitative content to provide subtle advertising which may include product references in the articles or links to his/her website throughout the email.

    Avoid outrageous claims

    Avoiding language which makes outrageous claims can also help to keep advertising quite subtle since the opposite – using certain superlatives and adjectives of greatness with which to describe specific products – is likely to be viewed as blatant advertising. When such language is used, it is highly unlikely that email recipients will believe there is validity in anything contained within the email because they will believe the entire email is simply one big advertisement for the senders’ products or services.

    One method proven to be most effective in keeping advertisements subtle when running email marketing campaigns is to only send your email(s) to those who are likely to be extremely interested in your products and services. This is important because when email recipients receive an email that does not reflect their interests in any manner or form, they are not likely to take the email seriously and may very well view such email(s) as a blatant advertisement or spam.

    Blatant advertisement is taboo

    However, when emails are sent only to those who share a common interest the email seems more personalized and therefore, those email recipients are not likely to view every product reference as a blatant advertisement since they understand there is sometimes a need to mention products or services in emails of high quality content which are sent legitimately.

    Finally email marketing is considered subtle – and remains so – when the content of campaign emails is written as though it is not coming directly from the business owner. In other words, the copy might discuss products and services as though they are being offered by a third party. This method makes the advertising seem more subtle because it does not appear to come directly from the business owner.

    Be minful of perceptions

    Of course, business owners can help to ensure their email marketing efforts are not viewed as blatant advertisements by keeping reference to their own website to an absolute minimum, while being mindful of the fact that most Web users often view links from one website to another strictly as advertisements. For this reason it might be advisable for business owners who are promoting products/services via an email campaign to keep links to a minimum and to carefully weave these links into even the most quite benign copy.

    The links should be provided as though they were only included to provide readers with an opportunity to learn more about certain products/services and not as a way to encourage them to purchase these products/services. It might be worthwhile for business owners to consider hiring a writer with this type of skill and experience to ensure the copy conveys desired message, message formats and message intent which should therefore convey the desired effect to the email recipients.

     

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  • Email Marketing to Reach a Target Audience

    Marketing basics applied

    In theory email marketing is not any different to other types of marketing, simply because basic principles of marketing which are applied to most other types of marketing apply to your email marketing efforts as well. One of these most important principles is the importance of reaching a designated or “target” audience; because the ability to reach an audience you have designated as your target audience and convince them to make a purchase cannot be underestimated. In this post we will discuss a few approaches that Web marketers can use to effectively reach their target audience(s).

    The simplest way to reach your target audience is to allow existing customers as well as potential customers to register on your website and decide whether or not they want to receive emails with additional information and advertisements. When the users register they should be required to enter a name and email address and, as a result of this registration process, you will be able to compile a list of names and email addresses from each potential customer who expressed an interest in receiving additional information.

    Sending your email marketing materials to members of this subscriber list is much more effective than sending out a mass email to recipients whose email addresses you purchased simply because the group of email addresses you compiled all have an interest in the products/services you offer while there is no information on the other set of email addresses to indicate whether or not those list members will even have the slightest interest in the products or services you offer.

    Capturing their interest

    There are a number of tips published on the Web for reaching a target audience, and one of the most important of those is to do adequate research to determine how you should communicate with members of your target audience. Such communication may include changing the language of your emails to suit the preferences of target audience members, designing the layout and colors of the email so that it can be appealing to them and tailoring the emails to include content which is of interest to members of the target audience. This type of research can really pay off because it will make your emails significantly more effective.

    Still another tip for reaching your target audience via email marketing is to keep your message simple in the sense that being subtle is important so your email does not seem like a blatant sales pitch, but it is also important to present your message in a clear and concise manner which can be easily understood by the members of your target audience.

    If you have any doubts your target audience will be able to understand your message, you can certainly leave information for the email recipients to contact you with your questions. This interaction can prove to be extremely useful because it is only through communication that you can learn about the needs of your target audience and how you can better tailor your email marketing strategy to meet these needs.

    In conclusion

    Finally, it is important to solicit feedback from the members of your target audience to ensure you are meeting their needs with your email marketing campaign. This should be done on a continual basis as the needs of your target audience may change over time. However, when you solicit feedback from your target audience you must be sure to ask specific questions which require answers that can easily be interpreted, especially because the ease with which these answers are interpreted will greatly impact your ability to further refine your email marketing efforts to conform with the expectations of your target audience members.