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Benefits of Email Marketing

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Hannah Barden
Benefits of Email Marketing

Email marketing is a great and popular strategy used to obtain new customers and remain in contact with existing ones. It is also very diverse, meaning you can send out lots of different types of emails depending on the audience you want to reach. For example, if you want to give a discount to your loyal, returning customers then you can send that email specifically to them only using mailing lists. Usually, people send out email marketing to increase conversions, engagement, website traffic, brand awareness and customer loyalty. As long as you have consent that someone has signed up to your email campaign, usually through a form, you are able to add them to your list.

Here are the biggest benefits that email marketing can bring to your business. If you haven’t thought of it as a possibility in your marketing strategy, maybe now is the time to begin.

 

Build Working Relationships with Customers

Being able to send out personalised emails to existing customers who may buy from you but don’t necessarily promote you or connect with your brand on other channels, is a big benefit of email marketing. Through tailoring the content of emails to people who have previously bought from your business, you can target them to engage and know more about your brand. You can also add things such as links to social media or feedback forms. Let them know the history of your brand, the aims and goals of what you want to achieve. This way, you’re allowing your customers to develop a personal relationship with your brand.

 

Promote Upcoming Company Occasions and Promotions

Email marketing is a great way to create hype around upcoming occasions for your company, new products/services or promotions that are going to happen. You’re able to provide secrets and hints as to what is coming up and drive people on your mailing list to anticipate the launch. This means that when the time comes to launch, they are ready to invest in it and convert.

 

Provides Useful Insights

Not only does email marketing work for attracting new and existing customers, but it also works really well in providing business insights into what is working for your marketing goals and what isn’t. Many email marketing tools provide you insights into things such as open rate, click-through rate and more. Remember marketing isn’t always straightforward, sometimes you have to reevaluate your plan based on the data you get and change direction to something that will work better. This goes for email marketing too and is why many email marketing tools offer A/B testing.

 

Increase Revenue and Sales

Through email marketing, you can offer special promotions to certain people and encourage people to sign up to your marketing with incentives such as, “10% discount off of our summer clothes range when you sign up to our email marketing.” You can even showcase new stock or a specific type of product that you think certain email subscribers will be more likely to choose. Encourage users to check out with a discount code if they have left without completing a purchase, too. It is known as email remarketing. All of these will contribute to increased sales and consequently revenue if you have targeted the customers in the marketing funnel stage of being ready to convert with slight encouragement.

 

Establish your Brand 

As your brand grows bigger and bigger, a lot of companies don’t know where to take them. Starting with email marketing is a good way to establish your brand when it has gotten larger with more returning and new customers. People are more likely to be involved with a brand that can add value to their lives and you could show them this through email marketing. Reaching them through email when they perhaps don’t have the time to find out that specific product or piece of information.

 

Save Time and Money

Comparing email digital marketing to regular marketing techniques, email is a lot cheaper and saves time. In particular, when creating email campaigns, it is best if you create templates with various content options to do. Then it is a case of just tweaking one or two things and automatically sending them out to the correct mailing list. This will save a lot of time that you can spend doing other business activities and is cost-effective if you are able to generate plenty of warm leads.

 

Starting Email Marketing

When you start with email marketing, you need to make sure you have enough people signed up to send your emails out to. Make sure you have plenty of opt-in forms around your website that are easy to fill in. There are many email marketing tools you can use to send out your emails, one of them being MailChimp which is popular.

 

Think of the type of emails you want to send out and try to plan the sort of content you want to include based on the topics you want to speak about. Will the email be for new product launches? Will it be for company updates? Once you know your topics, you can create templates for each campaign.

 

Writing the content for emails needs to not be too long or too short. No one wants to read lots of paragraphs of an email. Your subject line should always be interesting with either call to actions or promotional information. Speaking of call to actions, you need to remember to have these strategically placed in your emails next to the action you want your reader to make. Such as, “contact us today,” with a hyperlink through to a contact form. Readers are lazy, we want things handed to us on a plate. Remember to include imagery in your emails but don’t overdo it and don’t make the image too big so that readers have to scroll for hours just to get to the text below.

Finally, include all the necessary extras such as social links, contact links and unsubscribe buttons.

 

Follow these and you will be well on your way to a successful beginner email marketing campaign. We hope these benefits listed above are also useful for showing you how email marketing may benefit your business. Not got any time to begin your email marketing campaign or don’t know where to begin? Get the experts out to help.

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