Email Marketing Strategy
A lot of people think that email marketing is dead or dying because of all
the problems with spam filters, delivery
issues and other problems. While email
marketing may not be as problem free as it was
10 years ago, it is certainly still a viable form of making a living online.
All you need is a game plan and some decent tools to work with. Hopefully, this
article will give you some strategies that you can use for your email marketing
campaigns.
The first thing you need to do is decide
what kind of email marketing campaign you want to use. The
one thing that I strongly suggest against is buying leads, loading them into an
autoresponder and sending ads out to them. Most of these leads, unless you
really know where they are coming from, are harvested from people who will have
no idea what you're emailing them about. You will find out what spam complaints
really are and most likely end up getting your ISP to shut you down
permanently.
One strategy you can use is what I call the one shot strategy. There
are many sites on the Internet, called FFA sites, which provide a service to ad
posters where they allow them to post their ads for free. In return, they agree
to get one email from each FFA owner. To own
your own FFA page is a cheap solution. Some are a little as $10 a month. In
return, you'll get to email hundreds, and sometimes thousands of people a day.
It's one shot for each person, but if you have a good enough email ad, offering
them something like a free report to get them into your autoresponder, you can
actually build quite a nice list in this manner.
Another strategy is to simply go straight for the autoresponder series. To
effectively utilize this strategy, you're going to have to use other forms of
promotion in order to get people into your autoresponder series. This
can be done by using the method described above, which is another form of email
advertising, or you can do something like writing articles and submitting them
to directories. In the bio boxes of these articles, you can direct people to a
free report or ebook that they can get by subscribing to your autoresponder
series. Once they're in, you would then send them a number of follow up
messages in an attempt to sell them on your product or service. It's best
though to give them a lot of good content in the process so that they don't
feel like you're just selling to them.
Whatever email marketing strategy you use, you need to decide if you're
going to try to sell to them directly or send them free information first in an
effort to win them over. There is no right or
wrong here. With solid products that really fill a burning need, you can probably
sell people right off. But with most things, prospective buyers need to see
your site about 7 times before they commit to buying. So it's probably
best to get them into an autoresponder series. With a one shot "buy or
die" email, you risk losing a lot of sales that you might have gotten down
the road.
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