| Your email
campaign consist of, among other things, presenting to your potential customer
or subscriber the same offer again and again. Research on visitor sales statistics
indicate that visitors buy after seeing the same offer about 5 or 7 times. Once
in a while will come the impulsive buyer. But these are few and far between. So
How do you get visistors to buy? How do you present your offer repeatedly to your
potential customers. How do you make them to keep coming back to see the same
offer over and over?. The
only way is through establishing a channel of communication. Start your own email
campaign. This can be done by building a mailing or opt in list. Through your
list of subscribers you can operate an effective email campaign. Care
must be taken to build a good and clean opt-in list. One way to do this is by
adopting the double opt-in method. When visitor to your site subscribe to your
newsletter, ask them to confirm their subscription. Provide a link for them to
click on to confirm their subscription. This ensures that the recipient of your
newsletter actually subscribed to it. Also an easy unsubscribe process should
be provided. This makes your newsletter look professional. To
prevent people unsubscribing, give them good and usefull content. For example
you could spice your newsletter with 1.
Websites where they can get free tools and software. 2.
Contests 3.
Usefull and timely information e.g news, latest Internet trend etc. 4.
Opportunity for subscribers to promote their websites in your newsletter. The
objective is to build trust and maintain the communication link. Building a good
email list is done graduuly and with pesistence. The reward of a good and large
list is immence. A large list present the opportunity to take in adverts. This
is another source of online revenue for you. You
could also sell directly to your subscribers by recommending products. you
could run surveys with your list. These surveys provide usefull data on your subscribers
and customers. Data obtained could be used to improve your website or selling
process. How
do you get your visitor to subscribe? One
way successfull internet marketers have been using is to offer some incentive
to site visitors. Just indicating that your newsletter is free is not enough.
There are thousands of free newsletters on virtually any subject on the internet.
So why should someone be inclined to your newletter. Offer them a free ebook,
or a free report or better still a contest with rewards for new subsribers. Some
subscribers are tricky though. They use a new free email address , not their usuall
one, just to get the free ebook. After that, they unsubscribe or never use the
address again. A free 3 or 5 part report is better. Because you have to send the
report over a period of days or weeks. However, statistics show that organizing
a contest is much better. How
do you run your email campaign? Organising
and mailing your email list is easy intially. But as your list grow into hundreds,
you should look to automating the whole process. You can use a software or an
email management service. Automation can help you in several ways. For personalization
of your emails. With hundreds of addresses, personalization becomes very tedious.
Imagine writing every email with your subscribers' first name. 1.
Automatic subscribe and unsubscribe functions. 2.
Schedule date and time to send emails. Just write your content, set the date and
time, and your emails go out as schedule automatically. 3.
Tracks total number of clicks sent out. This enables you know which promotional
efforts are paying off. 4.
You can send your email in text or html . In
order to be successfull online you have to automate your email campaign process.
How early you do this depends on you. Automating this at the early stage of your
list building is highly recommended. It gives you plenty of time to concentrate
on other important aspects of your business. |