Email-Marketing - The Complete Guide To Email Newsletter Marketing

Email marketing is one of the most powerful, effective ways to market your company and its products, but it's often overlooked.

Email - What is Email?

Well, unless you've been hiding for a generation, email or electronic mail, has become the #1 form of communication in modern society. According to recent estimates, the number is approaching around 60 Billion email messages per day!

Email is popular. Friends and family use it to stay in touch across long distances. Co-workers use it when it's more convenient than getting up and walking over or picking up the phone. Email is used to verify who you are (on various websites)... email is everywhere.

Knowing that email use is so prevalent it brings us to our next section - why email marketing?

Why Email Marketing?

In preparing for this article I was able to come up with 5 major reasons why a company or entity should do email marketing. These 6 reasons really ignore email marketing's statistics - low cost, high effectiveness, etc. and really just concentrate on the benefits to your business after you've implemented:

The Amazing Return On Investment
Sales & Discounts
News
Surveys
Saying in Front! (of your competition, of your clients, of vendors)
Return on Investment - According to Direct Marketing Association, email marketing generated an ROI of $51.58 for every dollar spent on it in 2006. The expected figure for 2007 is $48.56, and the prediction for 2008 is $45.65. Email marketing to in house lists outperforms all the other direct marketing like print pieces, brochures, sales pamphlets, etc. Email marketing is incredibly inexpensive to produce and replicate, but incredibly effective.
Send Information - there's always stuff going on at your business. You have updates, you have changes, you have information that your customers would appreciate having, and would appreciate knowing. Email marketing allows you to get out this information in an extremely efficient manner. Compose one email regarding a recent change at your business - target an appropriate group of clients (more to come regarding targeting) - and suddenly thousands of people you do business with every day know exactly what is going on. Sending information - the real heart of email - is probably one of the biggest (and simplest) reasons why you should be doing email marketing.

Sales & Discounts - Are you holding a special sale or offering long-time clients a special discount? Let your customers know and you could be bringing in many more times the business you are now. They say it's most effective to sell to an existing client. Email marketing is a prime way to efficiently (but personally) communicate sales, deals or discounts to your audience of potential and existing customers.

News - Communicate your good news! In business people like to know they are working with growing, prosperous companies. It rubs off! I met Colin Quinn a few years ago and contribute that awkward meeting in the Newark airport to my success today.

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