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		<title>Organizing Your Email Marketing Campaign</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Knox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have recently decided to try implementing an email marketing campaign, you can compliment yourself on becoming involved in one of the most effective types of online marketing for your business. Whilst several business owners tend to shy away from email marketing campaigns because they consider these campaigns are always viewed as spam, others [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>If you have recently decided to try implementing an email marketing campaign, you can compliment yourself on becoming involved in one of the most effective types of online marketing for your business. Whilst several business owners tend to shy away from email marketing campaigns because they consider these campaigns are always viewed as spam, others recognise the importance of this type of advertising and are willing to spend a good deal of time and effort into orchestrating their email marketing campaign. These <a href="http://garyknox.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/E-Mail-Message.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4316" style="border-image: initial; border-width: 4px; border-color: white; border-style: solid; margin: 4px;;  float: left; padding: 4px; margin: 0 7px 2px 0;" title="E-Mail Message" src="http://garyknox.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/E-Mail-Message-300x243.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="243" /></a>business owners will in all likelihood find they are able to enjoy an advantage over their competitors who do not take the time to implement an email marketing campaign.</p>
<p>One of the first elements you should consider when you make the decision to commence an email marketing campaign is the type of information you wish to include in your emails to likely clients. This is very important because the information you provide will help your email recipients to determine whether or not they think your products or services are worthwhile. You can include a mixture of information in marketing emails. This may include, but not limited to the following:</p>
<p>1. Full length informative articles.</p>
<p>2. Short articles enticing readers to visit your website for more information.</p>
<p>3. Links to additional websites which may be of interest to your readers.</p>
<p>4. Links to your own website.</p>
<p>5. Advertisements for your products or services as well as additional products or services your customers may value.</p>
<p>Once you determine the type of content you wish to integrate into your email marketing, it is time to consider how you would like to structure your email marketing campaigns. Two of the most common structures include an informative email with subtle advertising or an in depth e-newsletter with a wealth of information as well as some subtle advertising and even some graphics. Selecting the format of the emails you will be sending out are important because they will dictate the staff you will need to help you in your email marketing effort. You will likely need the assistance of a professional writer to assist you with the content in either emails or e-newsletters but if you opt for an e-newsletter you should also consider engaging a graphic artist to assist you in designing an attractive layout and creating graphics as required to produce an appealing layout for your e-newsletter. Of course all of this can be done by yourself but the results may not be quite as professional looking.</p>
<p>Next you should consider how you plan to create an email distribution list. This is significant because merely purchasing an email list is not likely to be effective. You may reach hundreds, thousands or even millions of Internet users by sending emails to all of the members of this email list but there is no guarantee any of them will have an interest in your products or services. However, if you build your own email list of previous clients who have specifically requested further information as well as potential customers who have also requested additional information you will have a well developed list which includes for the most part members of your target audience. This is ideal because you are much more likely to sell products or services to members of your target audience than you are to sell products or services to members of an email group which is not filled with those who might be interested in the products or services you offer.</p>
<p>Once all of these preliminary decisions have been made, you can begin to produce the actual emails themselves and can begin to dispense these emails. Once you have sent out your first batch of emails, you can take some time to assess the effectiveness of the first email before you send out the second batch. This will be valuable because if you ascertain the first batch was not very successful you can solicit feedback and make changes to the second email before sending it out. If the second email is more successful than the first, you can conclude the alterations you made were beneficial.</p>
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		<title>Combining Email Marketing with Other Types of Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Knox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether you decide to do your marketing online or offline, one thing does not change. This is the concept that no individual marketing scheme will be as effective as a combination of two or more marketing strategies. This doesn&#8217;t signify it is necessary for you to implement every acknowledged marketing strategy to promote your business [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>Whether you decide to do your marketing online or offline, one thing does not change. This is the concept that no individual marketing scheme will be as effective as a combination of two or more marketing strategies. This doesn&#8217;t signify it is necessary for you to implement every acknowledged marketing strategy to promote your business but rather it implies that it is worthwhile to market from a few dissimilar perspectives to help you accomplish your business associated goals. This article will examine the importance of combining email marketing with other types of marketing to produce a successful multi-tiered marketing strategy and will also offer some advice on overseeing more than one marketing strategy at once.</p>
<p>As the old saying goes, &#8220;Two heads are better than one&#8221;, and this is certainly <a href="http://garyknox.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/E-Mail-2.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4295" style="border-image: initial; border-width: 4px; border-color: white; border-style: solid; margin: 4px;;  float: right; padding: 4px; margin: 0 0 2px 7px;" title="E-Mail  Messages" src="http://garyknox.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/E-Mail-2-300x199.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="199" /></a>true when it concerns marketing. You may enjoy a good deal of success with email marketing but this does not mean you should not attempt other types of online marketing such as website creation, participation in industry associated message boards, placing banner ads, organising an affiliate marketing campaign and generating inbound links to your website. Whilst it is possible that not all of these strategies will be effective for your business, you are likely to discover at least one additional option which complements your email marketing and assists you to attain your business related goals.</p>
<p>Alternately you may even wish to combine your email marketing campaign with more traditional marketing strategies such as radio ads, television ads and the print media. Simply because these types of advertising do not take place online, does not mean they will not be able to assist you generate further business. As a matter of fact advertising both online and offline can allow you to attain a larger target audience. This is because you will in all likelihood reach Internet users around the world but can likewise reach potential customers who do not utilise the Internet for buying or researching products or services similar to the ones you offer.</p>
<p>Popular marketing strategies to merge with email marketing include banner ads and message board participation. These are all online activities and each one individually is fairly simple. However, in combination these simple activities can produce a powerful statement. You might send out emails providing useful information about your products or services, buy banner ad space on websites which might be of interest to your potential customers and participate in industry related message boards where you can earn the respect and pique the interest of possible customers. Even if your potential customers are not presently in need of the products and services you offer, seeing your business name so frequently can have a branding effect. Branding is basically a process in which consumers see a company name so often that they are more likely to select a product from this company when they are require an item the company offers.</p>
<p>If you are planning to combine multiple forms of advertising, you should be mindful that this can make it difficult for you to measure the effectiveness of each marketing strategy. This is particularly true of the marketing strategies that are implemented concurrently. When you are only employing one type of marketing strategy, you can broadly speaking attribute increases in sales or website traffic to alterations in the marketing strategy. However, when more than one type of marketing strategy is in effect, ascertaining which strategy is creating the sought after effect can be quite difficult. This situation can be dealt with by not making changes to more than one marketing strategy at a time. This will help to pinpoint which changes produce an increase in sales or website traffic. It can likewise help you to check when changes to your marketing strategy have a detrimental outcome on your sales and website traffic. However, if you are having trouble ascertaining which marketing strategy is most effective you could consider asking customers to answer survey questions in order to provide information such as how they learned about the products or services your business offers.</p>
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		<title>Marketing Effectively With Email</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Knox</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>Like any type of marketing, email marketing calls for a good deal of time and effort to ensure the marketing campaign is effective. This is crucial because an ineffective marketing campaign of any type is a waste of money and resources. Expending a great deal of time, energy and money into an email marketing campaign which is not reaching the members of the target audience and is not convincing receivers of the email to make a purchase or visit your website is not worthwhile. In this article I will discuss how to carry out an effective email marketing strategy to ensure your business, financial and personal goals are being met.</p>
<p>Among the most important aspects of marketing effectively with email is to ensure your marketing<a href="http://garyknox.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/E-Mail-Message.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3910" style="border-width: 4px; border-color: white; border-style: solid; margin: 4px;;  float: right; padding: 4px; margin: 0 0 2px 7px;" title="E-Mail Message" src="http://garyknox.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/E-Mail-Message-300x243.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="243" /></a> efforts are getting to the members of your target audience. One method of doing this is to ask previous customers as well as potential customers to join your email distribution list. This will help to guarantee the majority of members on your email distribution list have an actual interest in your products or services. This is significant because you are much more probable to generate sales when you are marketing to this type of an audience than you would if you were marketing to a much greater audience without an interest in your products.</p>
<p>An additional aspect of marketing effectively is to hire an experienced professional writer, assuming that you are not one already, to draft the content for your emails, e-newsletters, email courses or any other methods you are using to email your message to potential customers. Having your content written can give you a substantial edge over the competition if they are drafting their content themselves. The quality of your content is a reflection on your business and badly written content with no substance will reflect poorly on your business.</p>
<p>Effective email marketing should also be penned in a fashion which will appeal to the target audience. If necessary you should conduct market research to determine demographical information for your target audience. This research could also determine preferences the target audience may have for receiving marketing information. This might include the type of language employed, the format of the emails, the layout of the emails and even aesthetic appearance of the emails. Attentiveness to these details can make the email marketing campaign significantly more effective.</p>
<p>Finally, effective email marketing should not be viewed as spam. This is a difficult situation. In many cases an email marketing campaign will require distributing mass emails but care should be adopted with these efforts to avoid having these emails interpreted as spam. This is significant because most Internet service providers include spam filters which utilise algorithms to each email account to ascertain which messages are spam and which ones are legitimate. Emails which are held to be spam may never reach the intended recipients. Emails which make it through the spam filters could also be automatically deleted if the Internet user considers it looks like spam. For this reason care should be taken to ensure all marketing emails furnish quality content, advertise only subtly and ideally are only sent to email recipients who have specifically requested information about your products or services. This will give you the best opportunity possible to reach your target audience and have a favorable impression on them and hopefully tempt them to make a purchase or visit your website.</p>
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		<title>The Right Content for Your Email Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Knox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Email marketing might include sending email adverts to a large distribution list, publishing and distributing an e-newsletter and sending informative emails with a soft sell approach to encourage recipients to make a purchase or visit your website. Whether you choose to employ one or all of these email marketing techniques, you will be faced with [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>Email marketing might include sending email adverts to a large distribution list, publishing and distributing an e-newsletter and sending informative emails with a soft sell approach to encourage recipients to make a purchase or visit your website. Whether you choose to employ one or all of these email marketing techniques, you will be faced with one specific dilemma and that is writing the content which will appear in these emails. This is critical because these emails might be the first impression potential customers are receiving about your products and services. Superior content<a href="http://garyknox.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Email-Message.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3901" style="border-width: 4px; border-color: white; border-style: solid; margin: 4px;;  float: right; padding: 4px; margin: 0 0 2px 7px;" title="Email Message" src="http://garyknox.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Email-Message-256x300.jpg" alt="" width="256" height="300" /></a> will always afford the potential customers a good first impression which might make them more likely to purchase your products or services.</p>
<p>The importance of engaging a professional writer to assist you in your email marketing campaign cannot be emphasised enough. It is one of the most critical elements to the success of your campaign. You may be a decent writer or you may have a staff member who you think can do a good job producing the content for your email marketing but unless you or your staff member are a professional writer by trade, the quality of the work will in all likelihood not be of the same quality as a professional can produce. This could be very detrimental particularly if your competitors are hiring writers to create their content. Your emails will likely not be viewed as favourably as the emails composed by professionals.</p>
<p>The content you choose to include in your email marketing campaigns is for the most part a matter of personal preference but there are a few methods which have traditionally been more successful than others. The type of content which may be effective frequently includes informative articles, short useful tips, links to relevant websites, advertising for complementary products and even some subtle forms of advertising which are intended to persuade the recipients of the email to either make a purchase or visit your website.</p>
<p>Full length insightful articles which are likely to be of interest to the members of your email distribution list are an excellent idea for your email marketing campaign. These articles are a good idea because they will in all probability contain information which the recipients of your email will appreciate. In addition, these articles give you the chance to include information about your products or services in the copy of the email. This can be a subtle form of advertising when it encourages the recipients to purchase a product or service or visit the website without directly requesting the recipient to do so.</p>
<p>Short product reviews can also be very useful and helpful when you include them in your email marketing campaign. These reviews can help to attract a great deal of attention particularly when the reviews concentrate on the products you provide and offer favourable reviews for these products. This type of information can either be subjective in nature or can remain objective by merely stipulating the features of the products and providing other concrete pieces of information as opposed to opinions of the products.</p>
<p>Advertising is often quite an important component of an email marketing campaign. This advertising may either be direct or indirect in nature. Direct advertising may include banner adverts or other graphical adverts which encourage website visitors to click through the link to reach either your website or a sponsor’s website. Indirect advertising may apply to content in the copy of featured articles which subtly encourage visitors to make a purchase or visit your website. The indirect marketing in an email marketing campaign usually supports the products or services you provide whilst direct marketing will likely promote products and services offered by sponsors who paid to have advertising space in the email. Email recipients are generally aware these graphics are part of an advertisement and will decide to click on these links when they have an interest in the products or services being offered.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Knox</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>With the inundation of available products and information on the market today, you will have approximately three seconds—yes, three seconds—to hook a buyer’s interest and keep him or her reading. Fortunately, there are ways to breach this barrier and keep the consumer riveted to your message.</p>
<p>• <strong>Passion</strong>. Remember when you were choosing the topic for your product? Personal interest was a key element in that decision-making product. Now that you have a topic you believe in, let that passion show in your autoresponder messages. Mention those aspects of your product you find particularly fascinating and give them your personal endorsement.</p>
<p><a href="http://garyknox.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/E-Mail-Message.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3848" style="border: 4px solid white; margin: 4px;;  float: left; padding: 4px; margin: 0 7px 2px 0;" title="E-Mail Message" src="http://garyknox.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/E-Mail-Message-300x243.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="243" /></a>• <strong>Write casual</strong>. Make your message read the way a conversation in a restaurant would sound. Big words might impress some people, but most of them just want to know what you have to say—and they aren’t going to rush to the dictionary in the middle of reading your message to find out what you’re talking about. Use short sentences and keep it straightforward and direct. Don’t be afraid to use contractions instead of the more proper two word phrases. Do, however, make sure your spelling and grammar is correct. You want to seem friendly, not sloppy.</p>
<p>• <strong>Be personal</strong>. You are writing a message that will be read by thousands of people, one at a time. Each person who opens your message is an individual, and will be far more at ease if you address them as a person rather than a piece of the collective public. Use the word “you” as often as possible, and limit the use of “I.” You don’t want to tell them why you’re so great. You want them to know how purchasing your product will benefit them, and why they should part with their hard-earned money to hear what you have to say.</p>
<p>• <strong>Eliminate extra words</strong>. As previously mentioned, keep your message simple and clear. If you have an “effective web site marketing technique,” don’t say it’s a “wonderfully amazing, mind-blowing web site marketing extravaganza method.” No one wants to try and cut through all the fluff and hype to try and decode your message. It’s also annoying.</p>
<p>• <strong>Use decisive language.</strong> Try to use action verbs whenever possible—this means replacing as many instances of “are,” “is,” “was,” and “were” in your message with stronger wording. For example: instead of writing “If your web site has been languishing with low sales, this program might be able to help your business grow,” say: “Your web site sales will increase dramatically with this program.” Write your messages with the confidence that your product is worth paying for, and your subscribers will be more comfortable buying.</p>
<p>• <strong>Give reasons and incentives.</strong> Don’t be afraid to repeat the benefits of your product throughout your message. Just as repetitive contact is effective in converting prospects to buyers, repetitive reminders of benefits—without bludgeoning people over the head with them—can reinforce everything they stand to gain from a purchase. Also, reveal some of the information in your product within your marketing message without giving everything away, and then state that even more exciting information can be found when you purchase a product.</p>
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		<title>Effective Email Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Knox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Email marketing certainly has a set of unique advantages over other types of marketing both online and offline. Perhaps one of the most significant advantages to email marketing is the ability to reach a worldwide audience with minimal effort. It is certainly possible to reach a worldwide audience with other types of advertising but traditional [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>Email marketing certainly has a set of unique advantages over other types of marketing both online and offline. Perhaps one of the most significant advantages to email marketing is the ability to reach a worldwide audience with minimal effort. It is certainly possible to reach a worldwide audience with other types of advertising but traditional types of advertising such as television, radio and the print media are not nearly as effective for reaching potential customers around the world all at once.</p>
<p>Another major advantage to email marketing is it is extremely affordable. This is significant because there are many other types of marketing, including Internet marketing, which are significantly more expensive than email marketing. The costs associated with email marketing are minimal. Ideally you will already have a list of email recipients who are interested in your products and services so there is no cost associated with obtaining a list of email addresses. Additionally the cost to send out emails is minimal and can be considered part of your regular operating costs. All of these factors already make email marketing extremely cost effective.</p>
<p><a href="http://garyknox.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/E-Mail-Message.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3720" style="border: 4px solid white; margin: 4px;;  float: left; padding: 4px; margin: 0 7px 2px 0;" title="E-Mail Message" src="http://garyknox.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/E-Mail-Message-300x243.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="243" /></a>However, there is some cost involved in email marketing. Primarily this is the costs associated with writing the advertisements and creating any graphics which will accompany the email advertisements. This will require hiring a writer to write the copy for the advertisement and a designer to create and implements the graphics. The cost of these services will vary pretty widely but in general you will pay more for writers and designers with more experience. This is because these writers and designers are expected to be able to produce a higher quality of work than those with less experience could produce.</p>
<p>The most obvious disadvantage to email marketing is the possibility of having your email marketing viewed as spam. This is a very important problem because it could prove to be quite costly in terms of the profit margin for your business. Each day Internet users are bombarded with unsolicited emails serving as advertisements. This problem has reached epic proportions and the abundance of spam infiltrating the email boxes of innocent Internet users has to be cautious and suspicious about any email they receive which is unsolicited and appears to be promoting a particular product or service.</p>
<p>Emails which contain subject lines or content which appear to be similar to spam may be automatically transferred to a spam email folder by the email system. Emails which are not automatically deleted may be deleted without being opened simply because the recipient does not recognize the sender of the email. Both of these problems can result in essentially wasted time for the business owner because the recipients are not even viewing the emails advertising the products and services offered by the business. Additionally, they may result in complaints being lodged against the company for being a purveyor of spam.</p>
<p>Now that you understand the advantages and disadvantages of email marketing, you might wonder how you can maximize the advantages to use email marketing to your advantage. The most important factor to consider is your email distribution list. This should consist of former customers who have expressed a desire to receive emails with information and advertisements as well as potential customers who have also expressed interest in more information.</p>
<p>The content of the emails should also be carefully considered. They should certainly highlight the products and services you offer but should do so without appearing to be a hard sales pitch. A writer with experience in writing this type of copy should be able to assist you in providing insightful and accurate copy which also entices the reader to find out more about your products and services. Finally your emails should provide the readers with a call to action. This should be a statement urging the reader to take a specific action such as making a purchase or researching a product.</p>
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		<title>Gauging the Reaction to Your Email Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Knox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Email marketing can in reality be a good deal more effective than most people imagine. Several business owners do not invest very much time, energy or money into organising an email marketing campaign because they erroneously believe all email marketing is considered as spam. However, this is simply not true. Business owners who have identified [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>Email marketing can in reality be a good deal more effective than most people imagine. Several business owners do not invest very much time, energy or money into organising an email marketing campaign because they erroneously believe all email marketing is considered as spam. However, this is simply not true. Business owners who have identified how to market via email successfully, enjoy a good deal of success with this type of marketing.</p>
<p>Before we can discuss how to ascertain the reaction to your email marketing campaign, it is crucial for business owners to understand how to design and execute an email marketing campaign which is successful. Potentially among the most important elements of this type of campaign is to ensure your marketing efforts are not considered by the recipients as being spam. One way to do this is to carefully develop your email distribution list. Whilst you can reach a tremendous audience by sending out your email marketing materials to a large email list, this is not effective if you do not <a href="http://garyknox.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Marketing-1.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3632" style="border: 4px solid white; margin: 4px;;  float: right; padding: 4px; margin: 0 0 2px 7px;" title="Marketing Campaigns" src="http://garyknox.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Marketing-1-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="300" /></a>know very much about whether or not the members of this email list are even interested in your products or services. It is important to mention that attaining a huge audience is not as important than reaching a highly targeted audience.</p>
<p>Centering your email marketing efforts on millions of recipients who do not have a specific interest in your products or services is not nearly as effective concentrating your email marketing efforts on only hundreds of email recipients who are in all probability very interested in your products or services. This is because you are often more likely to generate sales from a small, target group than you are from a large group without a specific focus.</p>
<p>Now that you know a little bit about email marketing and how it can be effective, you might question how you can ascertain just how effective your email marketing campaigns are in the long-term. This is important because it is not worthwhile to invest a good deal of time, energy and money into an email marketing campaign if your efforts are not getting results. Similarly, if your email marketing campaign is widely successful, you may want to consider organising extra marketing efforts to further your success.</p>
<p>Customer surveys are among the easiest ways to evaluate the response to your email marketing campaign. Asking customers to complete simple surveys when they make a purchase can furnish a good deal of insight depending on the questions you ask. Questions such as where the customer learned about your products and services may appear rather innocuous but this information can actually be quite valuable to the business owner. Learning where a customer learned about the products and services you offer, supplies excellent feedback for which of your marketing efforts are generating the most interest. If you receive a lot of responses stating customers learned about your products or services through emails, this is a good indication that your email marketing campaign is effective.</p>
<p>Another very popular method used to evaluate the reaction to your email marketing efforts is to closely monitor your rate of sales in addition to your website traffic immediately after you send out a new email to members of your distribution list. This can be helpful since an increase in sales or website traffic after an email was issued is a strong indication that the email was well received and encouraged recipients to visit the website and make purchases. However, it should be noted that there is one caveat to this method of evaluation. It can be quite difficult to determine whether or not the emails caused the increase in website traffic and sales if more than one marketing effort was made at the same time. For instance if you issue an email at the same time as you launch a new banner advert, you cannot determine which one is more effective and is driving the increase in sales and traffic. Therefore you need to organise your campaigns in such a way that evaluating the response is easier.</p>
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		<title>Creating Email Lists for Marketing Campaigns</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 11:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Knox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you plan to do some Internet marketing to promote your business endeavor, you should seriously consider email marketing as at least one tier of your Internet marketing campaign. Many business owners shy away from email marketing because they believe all email marketing campaigns are purely spam. However, this is not true and not partaking [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>If you plan to do some Internet marketing to promote your business endeavor, you should seriously consider email marketing as at least one tier of your Internet marketing campaign. Many business owners shy away from email marketing because they believe all email marketing campaigns are purely spam. However, this is not true and not partaking in this type of marketing can cause your business to lose out on a great deal of business. By not appealing to potential customers via email, your business may lose a great deal of business to competitors who are using email marketing campaigns to reach customers around the world. However, the first step of an email marketing campaign should be creating an email distribution list.</p>
<p><a href="http://garyknox.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/E-Mail-Message.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3503" style="border: 4px solid white; margin: 4px;;  float: left; padding: 4px; margin: 0 7px 2px 0;" title="E-Mail Message" src="http://garyknox.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/E-Mail-Message-300x243.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="243" /></a>Once you have made the decision to start using email marketing to promote your business you are likely facing the dilemma of compiling an email distribution list. This is essentially a list of email addresses to which you will email your advertising and promotional materials. One common way to gain a list of email addresses is to purchase a list from distributors. However, this method is not very effective at all and we do not recommend it. The problem with purchasing an email list if you have no way of knowing whether or not the members of the list would have any interest at all in your products or services. This is very important because while you want to reach a large audience with your email marketing you also want this audience to be members of your overall target audience.</p>
<p>When you purchase an email list you may be sending your email messages to some users who might be interested but this is largely coincidental and is not likely to be well received because the message was not solicited.</p>
<p>Internet users are very quick to delete materials they believe to be spam without even opening or reading the emails. In fact some Internet service providers include spam filters which may automatically delete your emails if your messages are deemed to be spam. These filters run complex algorithms on the subject heading and content of the message to determine whether or not it is spam and are quite adept at weeding out spam. Therefore you run the risk of having your email marketing effort turn out to be a complete waste if the majority of recipients never even read or receive the message.</p>
<p>A far better way to create an email distribution list for your email marketing campaign is to ask current customers as well as interested potential customers to register with your website to receive additional information and periodic updates about your products and services as well as other information which might be of interest to them. This provides you with a database of email addresses from current customers as well as potential customers who have a genuine interest in your products and services and who are interested in learning more about these products and services.</p>
<p>Once you have a list of interested customers or potential customers you can send emails or create e-newsletter for distribution to the members of your email list. These documents should contain a wealth of valuable information as well as a soft sell pitch for your products and services. This information will be valued by the readers and may help to persuade them to try your products and services.</p>
<p>You might also want to include useful links to either your website as well as other websites which may be of interest to your readers. Your content should also contain a portion which urges the reader to take a specific action such as making a purchase or at least investigating a product further.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 07:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Knox</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>Do you understand email marketing? If you do not, you do not have to worry just yet. This is because the concept of email marketing is still comparatively new, whilst it has been around for some time many business owners have not started to capitalize on this marvellous marketing tool <a href="http://garyknox.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/E-Mail-2.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3535" style="border: 4px solid white; margin: 4px;;  float: right; padding: 4px; margin: 0 0 2px 7px;" title="E-Mail 2" src="http://garyknox.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/E-Mail-2-300x199.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="199" /></a>yet. Nonetheless, there are some savvy business owners who are already applying email marketing techniques to create additional business for themselves and to gain an advantage over the competition. Whilst not having a great deal of knowledge about email marketing is not an immediate threat to your business, you should start learning about this concept to ensure it does not turn into a problem for you later as increasingly more business owners in your niche start to take advantage of the concept of email marketing. In this article it is intended to provide information on email marketing which should be of value to business owners who do not have experience with the subject matter.</p>
<p>Business owners should first understand the choices available to them in terms of email marketing. The most common options include sending out mass emails with promotional materials, publishing and distributing e-newsletters and offering correspondence courses via email. The advantage to all of these marketing strategies is the ability to attain a universal audience. Unlike traditional ways of marketing such as television and radio adverts or print media adverts which only reach an audience in a specified area anybody with access to the Internet can profit from your email marketing techniques.</p>
<p>Mass emails are the most popular form of email marketing. This includes emails which are sent to hundreds, thousands or even millions of recipients at once. The problem with this type of marketing is the potential for having your emails considered as spam. This is likely to occur if you send your emails to recipients who have no interest in your products or services and have not showed an interest in having emails from you.</p>
<p>E-newsletters are also becoming more and more popular as a form of email marketing. E-newsletters can be a simple or as complex as you choose and could include text, graphics, advertisements, links or any combination of these components. Among the first decisions you will have to make is whether you wish to make your e-newsletter purely text or include graphics in the e-newsletter. If you are on a tight budget, it might be worthwhile to only include text to avoid the need to employ a graphic artist. You may be able to integrate graphics yourself but they will not look nearly as professional as the graphics supplied by a professional. Likewise you can certainly compose your own copy for your e-newsletter but you will probably create a much better impression if you hire a professional copywriter to produce the content for you instead.</p>
<p>Employing a professional graphic artist and a professional writer might appear like an extraneous expense but it is actually quite important. Your e-newsletter may be the first impression many potential customers get of you and your work so it is important to make certain everything is of the highest quality.</p>
<p>Correspondence courses provided via email is the final email marketing strategy I will discuss. These courses could be either provided for a fee and turn into a source of revenue themselves or they may be made available free of charge. The hypothesis behind offering these courses for free is they frequently contain subtle advertising urging visitors to invest in the products and services provided by your business. Whether you charge for your email correspondences courses or offer them for free, attention should be taken to check the information incorporated in these courses is entirely accurate. This is vital because potential customers who receive these email courses will be gauging your business based on the quality and accuracy of these email courses. If they are filled with errors the potential customer may question the quality of your work and search out the products and services offered by others including your direct competitors.</p>
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		<dc:creator>Gary Knox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Email marketing is not just all about unsolicited emails with advertisements making outrageous claims. Unfortunately the abundance of spam which inundates Internet users each day has caused many to formulate a negative opinion about email marketing but savvy Internet marketers who understand how to market successful enjoy an advantage over the competition by turning to [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>Email marketing is not just all about unsolicited emails with advertisements making outrageous claims. Unfortunately the abundance of spam which inundates Internet users each day has caused many to formulate a negative opinion about email marketing but savvy Internet marketers who understand how to market successful enjoy an advantage over the competition by turning to e-newsletters to reach more potential customers.</p>
<p>An e-newsletter is very similar to newsletters which are printed and distributed via mail or other avenues. The most significant distance is the method of distribution. While traditional newsletters are typically mailed to the recipients or distributed in person, e-newsletters are distributed exclusively online. These e-newsletters may be either emailed in the body of an email message or may be included as a link in an email which directs the recipient to the website for the e-newsletter. In either case the recipient can read the e-newsletter while online and print it out or save it to their hard drive for future use.</p>
<p>The contents of an e-newsletter may vary somewhat drastically depending on the business the e-newsletter is promoting, the purpose of the e-newsletter and even the personal preferences of the business owner and the employees producing the e-newsletter. However, the general format for an e-newsletter is to include useful information in the form of full length feature articles or shorter pieces offering useful tips. The e-newsletter should also contain at least some subtle advertising for the products and services offered by the producer of the e-newsletter. These pieces of advertising should not be blatant and should allow readers of the e-newsletter to formulate their own opinions regarding the products or services.</p>
<p>The content of an e-newsletter should make up the bulk of the document. This may include full length feature articles which provide information for the readers. It may also include shorter pieces which may offer tips, review products or offer advice to the reader. The key to providing high quality content in these e-newsletters is to have them written by a capable writer who is knowledgeable about the subject matter. The writer may have an understanding of the subject matter or may simply be able to research the subject and learn enough to write accurate and informative articles on the topic. In either case the distributor of the e-newsletter should carefully review the content for both quality and accuracy before publishing the e-newsletter.</p>
<p>Distributors of e-newsletters should also consider including graphical elements into their e-newsletters. This may include product pictures or any other relevant graphics which provide meaning to the text of the e-newsletter. A graphic designer can assist you with this endeavor by helping you to create graphics, crop them appropriately and place them in a prime location on the layout of the e-newsletter.</p>
<p>Finally, distributors of e-newsletters should carefully consider their audience before using email for marketing purposes. The primary consideration should be whether or not the target audience is likely to be receptive to marketing in the form of emails or an e-newsletter. If they are likely to respond to this type of marketing it is worthwhile to pursue an email marketing campaign. However, care should be taken to ensure the emails sent to the target audience are designed specifically to appeal to these potential customers. This type of specialization should include the type of language used in the copy, the layout of the email or e-newsletter and the graphics used in the email or e-newsletter. Additionally, the copy should be filed with information which will be useful to the recipients. Another factor to consider is to whom to send the emails. Sending these emails to a large group of recipients who have not requested information from you and have no interest in your products and services is a waste of time. It is a better idea to ask customers and potential customers if they are interested in receiving more information and having them join an email distribution list if they wish to receive more information. Sending your emails to this distribution list ensures the majority of recipients will have an interest in your products or services and are not likely to automatically delete your emails as spam.</p>
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