Month: January 2012
Successful Email Marketing Campaigns - January 19, 2012 by Staff

Successful Email Marketing Campaigns

Online marketing campaigns such as email marketing campaigns are growing increasingly popular. Email marketing and advertising is the sending of emails to mailing lists of carefully selected recipients for email marketing purposes. There are several reasons why people are moving toward email marketing services.

1. Global Reach – with email marketing, you reach a global audience. Developing a mailing list is easy and you can include people all over the world. According to a recent study, the average American spends about 10 hours each week on the Internet and 70 percent of the population access to the Internet. This is all the reasons to be excited about online email marketing.  Not only do you get a wide audience, you also get a precise targeted audience. This means you will get a greater return on investment. This is important as it means you do not have to waste your time reaching people who are not likely to purchase your product. To get a targeted audience, make your own mailing list, do not lease or buy one.

2. Minimal Cost – this type of online marketing is cheaper than traditional marketing methods such as direct mail marketing. Sending emails is cheap, especially true using MailGrail's online email marketing service, and you do not even have to enlist the services of an online marketing company. There are low overhead costs since you can do everything yourself.

3. Economic and Friendly – running an email marketing campaign is very economic and user friendly.  If you want to lower your expenses, online marketing campaigns are the best option since email marketing services do not endure outside costs.

4. Feedback – instant feedback from your recipients is a huge advantage with email marketing. This will help you in product develop as well as providing a faster response rate compared to other options.  Emails are generally faster because of minimal production time since you can send emails in bulk and because you send emails with a single click of a button.  Most ESP's provide email campaign performance statistics to review how your campaign is doing. MailGrail email marketing service provides these tolls and delivers a simple and powerful statistical data. Getting measurable results is important in that it will help you in shaping your campaign. Emails are personal and this will lead to customer loyalty.

Other benefits of running an email marketing campaign are that you do not need formal training when using email marketing tools, you can personalize your message, and you get to interact with the recipients, which is important in product development.

 

Email Marketing and the Internet - January 16, 2012 by Staff

By now, everyone understands the importance of a successful website – but most are frustrated by the performance of their online Email Marketing.  By following these rules you can quickly improve your marketing performance.

  • Make clear on the purpose of your website.
    Is the purpose of your website to provide a service, sell something, give information? Each and every page on your site should have one specific focus.
     
  • Your website should not be about you.
    Your prospective clients and customers are not that interested in you. They’re interested in what you can do for them. Communicate with them, meet their needs, address their concerns. Above all, give them solutions and solve their problems. Then you’ll have a website that people will want to visit and return.
     
  • Give People Free Material and Advice.
    Don’t hold back. If the purpose of your business is to add real value to theirs – start now.  Give your visitors information they can use that will make a real difference.
     
  • Get your Customers Email Addresses – and then use them
    Businesses that are good at collecting email addresses rarely follow up by communicating with their customers and clients in an effective way.  Use MailGrail's Email Marketing Service to thank people for their business, make them a special offer, give them a free article or report, send a newsletter, recommend a product or service they may be interested in, ask for referrals, share some news that may be interested in, ask why they’ve not done business with you … the list is only limited by your imagination. The point is this, you could grow your business by 10, 20 or 30% just by adopting an effective email marketing strategy.
     
  • Automate your Emails with MailGrails autoresponders
    One of the reasons that Email Marketing is so powerful is because if you set it up properly, your entire email operation can be automated. Using MailGrail's autoresponders you can decide who gets which emails and when they get them. You can even create a system where people who purchase a particular product or service receive a series of emails leading them to further purchases. And the entire process is automated – which means that you can lie on the beach while the profits roll in.
     
  • Test Pay Per Click Advertising
    Pay per Click propels you to the top of the search engines without spending months on search engine optimization that probably won’t work anyway. Unlike most internet advertising, you only pay when someone visits your site. How much you pay will depend on how much competition there is amongst other advertisers in your category.  As with all marketing, the golden rule is to TEST and measure the results.
     
  • Use Video on your website
    Video is revolutionizing the internet and those who are embracing its power are reaping the rewards. For minimal time and cost you can turn your website into a multi media vehicle that gives your customers the most effective direct experience of you possible. If you combine video with MailGrail's Email Marketing Service, pay per click and advanced internet marketing, the results can be exponential.
     
  • Become obsessed with split-testing
    All highly successful online Entrepreneurs are passionate about testing. Split testing lets you continually test alternative versions of your web pages, to see which bring the most customers and sales. Tools such as Google’s Website Optimizer enables you to do this at no or low cost.