Thursday, December 27, 2007

A Thing or Two on Email Marketing

Email marketing one way of making good sales online. When running an email marketing campaign, you'll have to have a way of capturing your prospect's contact details and then selling again in future emails. And for those of you, who haven't yet given a thought to email marketing, here's an eye-opener: according to DoubleClick's email consumer study, over 78% of online shoppers have purchased through of permission-based emails and 59% of email recipients have bought in a retail store as a result of a merchant email.

Pop-ups are one of the most common methods you can use to capture email addresses and build your email list quickly and with ease. But the only problem is that most web browsers have pop-up blockers that will now allow your pop-up. But it still works because not all of them have these blockers.

In order to get sales from your email list, they have to first trust you then they can start buying form you. So you keep it up for a few more months, building your opt in email list a bit more and sending out the weekly emails asking them to buy your better than sliced bread product.

So a simple fact is that the higher your traffic, the quicker your opt-in email list will grow. But there are lots of ways to build your very own opt-in email lists but any form of traffic generation can work to build your email list.

And if you were or are using pay per click traffic, giving enough stress to building a strong email list through which you can promote your products or affiliate products somehow minimizes your dependency on costly pay per click advertising to attract traffic to your site.

One way of capturing your visitors email address is to offer a free book that they can use or give out to their friends. But make sure that the ebook is worth there time because if you give them an ebook that doesn't offer much then they will not respond to your future offerings.

The newsletter

Since not every small marketer can allow for himself to use the "direct to desktop" technology and very few costumers want to be bothered with flashing graphics on their desktops the majority of delivered news will still remain the "good old email newsletter". As you know, opt-in email asks users to agree to become part of an email list, and they are not subscribed to the newsletter unless they take action.

So you should start now building you email list because everyday new people are jumping online and the earlier you start the larger your email list will grow. Supply newsletters so your visitors can give in their emails to start growing you list.

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