The Write Approach for Email Marketing Content

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Aspects of email marketing include sending advertisements via email to a large subscriber (or opt-in) list; publishing and distributing an e-newsletter; and sending informative emails with a soft-sell approach that encourages recipients to make a purchase or visit your website. Whether you opt to utilize one or all of these email marketing techniques, you will be faced with one specific dilemma; and that is writing the content which will appear in these emails. Writing content is critical because these emails may be the first impression a potential customer will get in order to make a determination about your products and services.

Superior content will provide potential customers with a good first impression which may make them more receptive to the idea of purchasing your products or services; and as such, this article will discuss some of the proven techniques which have been used to ensure that the content you include in your email marketing campaign will reap maximum benefits. Keep in mind that such benefits are not restricted to the purchase of products/services, but could consist of brand recognition, increased “like and trust” for you and your company from your subscribers and maximum credibility among those who like and trust you, as well as the broader market place.

Content sent to subscribers

As for content you send to subscribers, the importance of hiring a professional writer to assist you with your email marketing campaign cannot be stressed enough, if you are unable to create such content yourself due to time restraints, lack of confidence or lack of writing skills. As content is one of the most critical elements to the success of your campaign it is important that you approach the subject with the utmost care and seriousness; because although you may be a decent writer, or you may have a staff member who you think can do a good job creating the content for your email marketing, the quality of the work will likely not be of the same quality as a professional can produce.

On the other hand, if you or your staff member is a professional writer by trade, you can – by all means – proceed to create your own content. Approaching content creation in any less serious or careful manner can be very damaging, especially if your competitors are hiring writers to create their content. Writing content for email campaigns is not the same as writing posts for a personal blog; they are vastly different tasks in the sense that on a personal blog, readers prefer to communicate and subscribe to an individual using his/her own voice; whereas content for email campaigns content for email campaigns directly affect your brand and therefore must be seen by your prospective customers as professionally written, or at least be viewed as favorable and having been written by professionals.

Content considered effective

The content you decide to include in your email marketing efforts is largely a matter of personal preference but there are some methods which have traditionally been more successful than others. The type of content which may be effective often includes informative articles, short useful tips, links to relevant websites, advertising for complementary products and even some subtle forms of advertising which are meant to persuade recipients of the email to either make a purchase or visit your website.




Sending full length insightful articles which are likely to be of interest to the members of an email subscriber list is an excellent idea for your email marketing campaign, as providing such articles is considered a good idea since they will likely contain information which the recipients of your email will appreciate. Additionally, these articles give you the opportunity to include information about your products or services in the copy of the email. This can be a subtle form of advertising when it encourages the recipients to purchase a product or service or visit a website or product page without actually asking the recipient to do so.

Product reviews

Short product reviews can also be very helpful – if not of high value – when you include them in your email marketing campaign. These reviews can help to attract a great deal of attention, especially when the reviews focus on the products you offer, and provide favorable reviews for these products. This type of information can either be subjective in nature or can remain objective by having the writer to simply specify certain features of your products and offering other concrete pieces of information as opposed to opinions of those products.

Advertising is quite often an important part of an email marketing campaign; and such advertising may either be direct or indirect in nature. Direct advertising may include banner ads or other graphical advertisements which encourage website visitors to click through the link and reach either your website or a sponsor’s website. Indirect advertising may apply to content in the copy of featured articles which subtly encourage visitors to make a purchase or visit your website. The indirect marketing in an email marketing campaign is usually supportive of products or services you offer while direct marketing will likely promote products and services offered by sponsors who paid to receive advertising space in the email.

Please note

It is important to note here that recipients of marketing emails are usually well aware that these graphics and other inclusions of such emails are part of an advertisement and many of them will choose to click on these links when they have an interest in the products or services being offered. In fact, some recipients may even click on a link or banner to learn more about the quality of a product/service being advertised, or to learn more about the company behind such a product or service before expressingh an interest in making a purchase. So you never know exactly what might motivate (inspire?) a potential customer to take action; but you do know that if your content is deemed to be unprofessional by that potential customer, s/he won’t click on any link/banner for any reason.

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This is the final part of a two part article explaining how you can analyze your website traffic.

Additionally, web traffic stats can help you determine effective and ineffective areas of your website. If you have a page that you believe is important, but visitors are exiting it rapidly, that page needs attention. You could, for example, consider improving the link to this page by making the link more noticeable and enticing, or you could improve the look of the page or the ease that your visitors can access the necessary information on that page.

If, on the other hand, you notice that visitors are spending a lot of time on pages that you think are less important, you might consider moving some of your sales copy and marketing focus to that particular page.

As you can see, these statistics will reveal vital information about the effectiveness of individual pages, and visitor habits and motivation. This is essential information to any successful Web marketing campaign.

Your website undoubtedly has exit pages, such as a final order or contact form. This is a page you can expect your visitor to exit rapidly. However, not every visitor to your site is going to find exactly what he or she is looking for, so statistics may show you a number of different exit pages. This is normal unless you notice a exit trend on a particular page that is not intended as an exit page.

In the case that a significant percentage of visitors are exiting your website on a page not designed for that purpose, you must closely examine that particular page to discern what the problem is. Once you pinpoint potential weaknesses on that page, minor modifications in content or graphic may have a significant impact on keeping your visitors moving through your site instead of exiting at the wrong page.

After you have analyzed your visitor statistics, it’s time to turn to your keywords and phrases. Notice if particular keywords are directing a specific type of visitor to your site. The more targeted the visitor – meaning that they find what they are looking for on your site, and even better, fill out your contact form or make a purchase – the more valuable that keyword is.

However, if you find a large number of visitors are being directed – or should I say misdirected – to your site by a particular keyword or phrase, that keyword demands adjustment. Keywords are vital to bringing quality visitors to your site who are ready to do business with you. Close analysis of the keywords your visitors are using to find your site will give you a vital understanding of your visitor’s needs and motivations.

Finally, if you notice that users are finding your website by typing in your company name, break open the champagne! It means you have achieved a significant level of brand recognition, and this is a sure sign of burgeoning success.