How to Build a Powerful and Effective Email Marketing Strategy
Even though it has been around for quite some time now and many other channels of communication have emerged enabling businesses to communicate with their customers and stakeholders, email remains a firm favorite of businesses, large and small. In fact, due to its familiarity, universality, and flexibility, email is actually thriving even with the new generation of mobile device users who are using it to communicate 24×7. However, unless businesses have an effective email marketing strategy in place, it is quite likely that the time, money, and effort in sending off the emails will be wasted to a great extent. Some tips on getting it right:
Get Together an Acquisition Strategy
If the growth in numbers of your audience is your priority, as it will invariably be, you need to begin by thinking about all the places and occasions where the audience is already engaging in some way with your company or brands. Now you need to find out how you can enhance that experience and drive better and more interactive engagement. This can be as simple as optimizing the opt-in form for mobile devices.
Make Your Communication Mobile-Friendly
With more and more customers accessing their emails over mobile devices, you are bound to lose out badly if your email communication is not optimized for these devices. A survey reveals that 63% of American customers immediately delete the emails that they cannot read with ease on mobile devices.
Getting Recipient Permission
It is extremely important that you, as a sender of marketing emails, get the permission of the recipients so that they feel that they have consciously chosen to engage with you and not been randomly selected to be spammed. The process of opting-in automatically refines your database so that only those who are genuinely interested in your company and products are present in the database, avoiding the usual label of being marked as spam.
Use Relevant and Targeted Data
Whenever you need to send out communication using bulk email marketing services in Mumbai, you need to make sure that you are only addressing the relevant audience and not using a shotgun approach by sending to your entire database. If your communication is filtered so as to be location or gender-specific then you are likely to get superior results due to enhanced customer relevance and experience. If you are active on social media, do not use the same contents in your email as consumers are constantly looking for different information on these channels.
Personalized Email Communication
Customers who have opted-in to receive email communication from you will appreciate the communication, even more, when they are addressed by name, and the contents reflect that the recommendations have been made as per the recipients’ preferences and past purchase behavior. According to experts the addition of personalized recommendation can increase click-through by 25-35% and conversion by as much as 15-25%.
Drive Deals With Email Marketing
According to studies,those who prefer to receive information about deals over email as compared to any other channel, including social media, such as Facebook comprise the largest segment. The behavior is explained by the simple fact that the deals stay in the inbox and can be read at leisure, unlike the flurry of posts in social media that can leave you scrambling, and possibly missing out something that might have been really interesting. The best thing to do is to publicize your deals on social media and encourage customers to sign-up for your emails.
Conclusion
Along with a strong website and social media presence, you can use email marketing to engage with the customers in a way that is meaningful to them. You need to customize your email marketing efforts to cover a large assortment of devices that range from conventional desktop computers to the latest in mobile phones and tabs. Encouraging opt-ins from customers will refine your database and you will be able to deliver exclusive, customized and targeted communication through a focused email marketing exercise.
Author bio: Jonathan Caser is a senior customer consultant working with GingerDomain.com, a leading digital marketing services provider.