A Profitable Email Marketing Strategy

Internet marketing covers a lot of different areas

. From website design to search engine optimization, online marketing is necessary to have a successful business on the internet. One of the most important aspects of it is having a solid email marketing strategy.

Perhaps you are already doing some email marketing. If so, then you are far ahead of all of the businesses who don't do it. Whether you do it now or not, and no matter to what degree you are doing it, having an effective email marketing strategy is absolutely vital to your business reaching its full profit potential.

Email is one of the most basic things computer users use on a regular basis. This means even if they don't do much else, they at least know how to check their email. To be sure, there are a lot of people that get connected just so they can send and receive email. Being able to tap into that is key to internet marketing.

So, the question then becomes what makes a successful email marketing strategy. In short, it's getting people to agree to receive messages from you on a regular basis. The reason that this is so important is that it gives you a captive audience to market to repeatedly. The people on your email list don't have to remember to visit your website to check if you are running a special offer. Nope. All they need to do is see your message waiting for them in their in-box.

At the very least, you should get the email address of everybody that buys from you online; just make it a part of the purchase process. Current customers tend to make up the most responsive lists for future mailings. They have already bought from you, so they are more likely to buy from you again, assuming you have met their expectations.

However, you know as well as anybody that not all visitors to your site are going to buy something. In fact, it's safe to say that the vast majority of them won't buy anything at all when they visit your page. That's just the way the math works out. But does that mean you should just let them go and hope they come back in a buying mood some other time? Of course not! And that's the other way an email marketing strategy can improve the bottom line of your business.

Give non-buyers a reason to sign up for your email list, too. (If at all possible, have a separate list for buyers and non-buyers.) Just because they weren't ready to buy this time, doesn't mean they won't be ready the next time you send out a mailing to them.

Finally, remember that every mailing you send out should provide value of some kind. You can send out informational pieces that relate to your product, or you can send out sales pieces. But offering value is absolutely necessary to having an effective email marketing strategy.

by: Clair Bennet

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