Wednesday, April 8, 2009

EMail Marketing Strategy for Every Business

By Fred Raley

For every business, email marketing is a "must". Two things have happened since we began using email marketing: our subscriber list grows every day and profits have jumped significantly. Every business needs email marketing because it will give your business an additional source of income. Email marketing is powerful, easy and fully legal and is a great addition to every business.

There is no better way to advertise you services, products and business than through email marketing. This is the "shot in the arm" that your business needs. The basic idea behind email marketing is to have people give you their email address and any other pertinent information that you may need so that you will be able to send them information about your business. Perhaps you want to make the public aware of your business by way of a report concerning your product or service or a coupon that will entice the client to come into your store to use and to spend more money. It would be good to have an autoresponder so that your clients information can be programmed into the system. Then, at certain times of the year emails are sent out about certain interests that your clients have.

All about email marketing is legal when you follow some simple rules. One of the keys is to get a person to release their contact information to you so that they will receive information from you via email about the subjects you describe. It is very important that you do not abuse any privilege or trust with your clients. In this way, you will be able to continue to send emails to your clients for as long as you like on the subject matter that you have agreed to.

Every business should use an email marketing strategy. If you have products or services to sell to people more than the one time the get in contact with you, you should strive to get their email address and name and permission to send them your information. This way, you can send out special offers, product information, company information, news, etc. as you agree to and get more potential sales. Realtors, barbers and hair salons, product stores (Walmart, Target, etc.), restaurants and more. Every small business can use email marketing successfully.

Your own email marketing campaigns benefits are huge:

Communicate with your customer list instantly

Without having an extra marketing expense, you can earn extra cash from the special offers you make

You will receive more profits from recommended product sales

Have "Special Sales" when you want to clear excess inventory

Remember birthdays or other holidays with special sales

An email marketing strategy is easy for you to use as well as for your clients/prospects

Make sales without prospects coming to your store

Make sales without prospects coming to your store

It is relatively easy to set up your own email marketing campaign. You must first get a reliable autoresponder. Second, write a number of emails to your prospects thanking them for opting into your email program and enumerate the benefits you have promised such as discounts, coupons, information reports, etc. Third, you will want to continue to use a variety of ways in which to get people to give you their email address so that you may put them into their autoresponder. Fourth, on your email list you will want to continue to offer product and services of your business. Your email list will become another set of customers for you. As your subscriber list grows, so your sales will grow.

If you want to obtain more information as to how to set up and run an automated email marketing strategy for your business, take a look at the website below.

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