Saturday, December 27, 2008

Sure Fire ways to expand your Network with Email Marketing.

By MLMAbsolute

In sales, customer are your lifeline. Therefore, you need to maintain contact with them for many purposes. You can contact them for feedback survey, product updates, or upcoming promotional events.

Doing MLM/ Network Marketing online lack the human touch that offline marketing have. But it is possible to make up for that flaw.

The only important thing you need to remember when doing MLM / Network Marketing is PEOPLE. You need to connect with people. Online, we call them leads. You need leads to have any sale. Not only you need leads, you need targeted leads, that is people who are interested in your product or services.

These targeted leads will make up your future sale. They have seen your website, expressed their interest, but have not purchased. So you take their contact and update them of your company, new products, or promotions. This helps them to remember you, like how people think of Pizza Hut when they think of pizzas.

Email Marketing is not just sending information and updates. There are many things you need to take note when doing Email Marketing. Here are some tips on how you can maximize the results from your Email Marketing Campaign.

Be Professional

When composing email-messages, you need to keep in mind some points to make your emails look more professional.

- Who is it from?

People will see who sent them the email before opening them. This makes your email address very important. To look more professional, please refrain from using free email accounts like @gmail, @yahoo or @hotmail. Use something that your customer recognizes, such as your name or company name. e.g. support @yourcompanyname.com. Most hosting package gives you a number of emails account you can create under your own domain name.

Another factor that determines if a person opens up your email is the subject line. Your subject line must attract them or create interest to know more. Generally as a rule, keep it under 50 characters.

- Message text

In the Main body in your email, quickly identify yourself, and proceed to the main purpose of the email. If someone referred them to you, state the source of referral. Limit the use of fanciful pictures, make your email look profesisonal, unless you have a special style you portray in your website, keep it professional.

Increase The Effectiveness of Your Email

Increasing the effectiveness of your emails means to increase action rate. Action in terms of the people reading the emails to visiting the website. Here are 6 tips on how to improve your emails to increase your conversion rates.

- Brand yourself/ The Company

You need to brand yourself or the company in order to make people remember you. Good examples of branding are; The Rich Jerk, Success University, and many more. Stick with the brand image you created, and use it consistently in every email you send out. Put your Brand in the subject line, so people can recognise you instantly.

- Honesty

In your Email, do not trick readers with false and untrue information to open email. You have to be honest. Not only is being honest a virtue, it is a legal requirement too.

- Create urgency to take action

In order to make readers take action, you have to instill a sence of urgency in them to take action. Use time sensitive words like "Buy Now, While Stocks Last, Limited time, For first 100 sign ups only".

- Entice them

Give readers benefits to open the email in the subject line. E.g. Redeem you Free Gift now! You can also incorporate the urgency to open the email in your subject line.

- Keep to the limit

In your main body, you can use bolds, colors, and capital letters to emphasize the benefits of your product / service. But bear in mind not to over do it. Using too much bolds, capital letters and colors will not only confuse your readers, it will also piss people and spiders off. Spiders may filter your email and classify it as SPAM.

- Simple and Sweet

Personally I limit my emails to the main points of my purpose. Of course you should practice your own discretion as to the audience and purpose of the email.

*P.S Include a unsubscribe tab for all your email correspondence. It is a legal requirement for all email newsletter to include the unsubscribe option to reduce SPAM. - 15275

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