| Email Marketing Makeover - How Not To Look Like Spam And Be Successful |
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Let's have a look at the fundamental requirements for Email Marketing Makeover - how not to look like spam, and thereby getting your emails delivered to a targeted audience.
Let's have a look at the fundamental requirements for Email Marketing Makeover - how not to look like spam, and thereby getting your emails delivered to a targeted audience. The first thing you have to keep in mind when resorting to email marketing is one word: content. If anyone receives an email filled with spelling mistakes and grammatical errors he would not get the impression this is from a professional company. If anyone receives an email that repeats the same words over and over, e. G. "you absolutely have to buy this", the word SPAM will immediately enter his mind. And if anyone receives an email filled with content he is not even remotely interested in, he is going to delete that very quickly. That brings us to targeting. Never buy a mailing list off the Internet with millions of "targeted" email addresses. They sell the same list to thousands of people, and the poor guy whose email addresses ended up on that list will receive hundreds of emails a day which can only be described as SPAM. Since the emails will most likely be of no interest to the recipients, they will simply be deleted without being read. Your mailing list should therefore preferably be opt-in and definitely be targeted to an audience that is at least slightly interested in what you have to say. Let's take an offline example. If you are selling beach towels, would you try to sell them to nomadic Bedouins in the Sinai desert? Now why would you even think doing the same thing on the Internet is going to work? If you have a website about beach towels, filled with good content, you can easily ask visitors to the website to join your mailing list about the latest trends in beach towels. You want to send your audience good solid information about your industry, something like trends and patterns emerging, or the newest product launched or better still, get them to interact with you on some level. This could be in the form of a poll. To avoid your emails to be seen as SPAM, here are a few rules you should adhere to at all cost. Firstly, never ride on someone else's wave. What we mean by that is don't use a big companies name to sell your product. There is nothing worse than receiving an email from let's say, Microsoft trying to sell. Here's some good advice: If you're selling Viagra or condoms, rather set up your own website. Fill it with good quality content about the history of your products or something similar. Convince your visitors to sign up for your mailing list and use that list to target them with relevant good quality stuff. Once you have fostered a trustworthy relationship, and they can see that you know our industry well, they will be more relaxed and eager to purchase from you. Secondly, do not distribute your emails anonymously. Do not use the recipient's email address in the email's "from" field. They will suspect you immediately and will not want to read what you have to say. It is also imperative that you have a visible "unsubscribe" link or button in your email. Avoid having your unsubscribe link go to another page where you also try to sell them something, your visitor will feel trapped and angry. This translates into you loosing your visitor forever. You are now ready for an email marketing makeover - how not to look like spam should be your main concern. More information: Dhruv Patel is a customer of DreamHost. He has created site to help new DreamHost customers and to promote DreamHost by giving DreamHost coupon.
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