You Want Successful Email Marketing? Understand These 2 Things
Dancho Dimkov, MSc, ExMBA, CMgr, CMC
Consultant, Coach, Fractional CRO, Founder at BizzBee Solutions
Today, getting into someone’s inbox is the same thing as entering into their house. But there’s one catch. The same thing as a dinner invitation, you need an invitation for email inboxes too. And you might need to take your shoes off too while you’re at it. In the case of email marketing, a positive reply means that the right message was sent and successful marketing.
A lot of businesses, particularly the new ones are facing the challenges of a successful email marketing campaign. As a start-up founder, you should understand your business the best. You have the passion that’s behind your business model and you understand your product perfectly.
So when you step into your first marketing efforts, you want to make sure that you know exactly what is the key message that you want to send to your consumers. What is the message that you want to send to your clients?
Have a strategy for successful email marketing
A clear strategy is what you need to aim for. Because only correct and precise moves can help to nurture relationships that you’re building with your clients.
Firstly, you need to understand how you’re getting those email addresses from the consumers. It doesn’t matter whether that is via landing pages on your website, trade shows, research or just conversations with people. What matters is your ability to collect information about the exact people. These are people that are interested in your products and you should be able to form a relationship with them.
Secondly, on your website, you will want to have a place where people can easily go in and sign up with their email address. And you need to set the expectations for what they’re going to receive from you. Once you have the email list, then you can put the strategy into action.
A great email marketing strategy consists of various components. A lot of different things.
First of all, you need to determine the content that you want to deliver to your clients. What about the message? Is your message compelling with your end-users? And how frequently you want to send that message to your end-users.
If you define your strategy and understand each part of it, the better decisions you will make with your email marketing campaign.
Figure out what is your brand if you want to have a successful email marketing campaign
What is your brand? You need to get familiar with your brand. You need to know how to articulate your brand before pushing the send button. Once that button is clicked, the reputation for your brand is starting to form. Once you have clicked that button, the email will be delivered to every inbox on your email list.
Sending spammy content or sending emails that have nothing to do with your business, can lead to bad things happening to your brand. One of those bad things is your email letters ending up in the SPAM box. That’s why it’s really important to have a reliable partner that will make sure your emails are delivered directly to the ones that signed up for your newsletter.
What is also important for the image of your brand is what does your list look like? How old is your list? If you have some contacts in your email list for 5 years and you haven’t had a lot of interaction, that might mean that you’ve hurt your reputation and lost that person as a possible client for whatever reason. Engaged users should be your focus, that’s where you need to nurture the relationship.
In the end, how good your brand is will directly result in engagement from the end-users on your email list.
Conclusion
To sum up, you need to know your audience, know how to curate a list of emails and know how to craft the right message. You need to understand whom your business is talking to and focus your message to the people that you’re talking to. Make the message about your customer. Your emails need to be sent to the right person and at the right time. That’s how you develop a successful email marketing campaign.
We decided that email marketing needs to be more efficient, more effective and several aspects need to be considered. when using it.
BizzBee Solutions is here for you to help you make connections with your present and future customers through a super-personalized and tailored email marketing service. We have got the resources and the team to make your business different and more successful than your competition.
This article was originally published on BizzBee Blog.