Email Marketing Rules

Posted: Tuesday, December 27th, 2011 by | Filed under: , ,
Delivering emails

Delivering emails

Designing email newsletter marketing campaigns can be difficult. Coming up with content, promotions, subject lines and enticing copy can be time consuming, but email direct marketing can ensure your business stays on the radar of both your customers and potential customers. The CAN-SPAM Act gives guidelines for collecting email addresses legally as well as sending email newsletters appropriately.

Email marketing allows you to be creative, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that you should. In terms of your content, follow these simple rules so your email doesn’t end up in the trash. Read more …

Make Sure Your Emails Get Delivered

Posted: Monday, December 19th, 2011 by | Filed under: , ,
Email deliverability

Email deliverability

Unfortunately, everyone that uses email encounters spam. Email consumers receive so much spam that they have become hesitant about opening any messages where they don’t recognize the sender. This may become challenging for anyone looking to issue out email newsletters.

Email newsletters are a great way to communicate with your customers and even employees. Delivery newsletter emails may be difficult though if you’re working with a large database. Deliverability refers to the obstacles and issues that need to be overcome in order for your email to reach your inbox. Things like wrong email addresses, spam filters and blockers and email server issues can all affect the successful delivery of email messages.

When constructing an email marketing campaign, especially one that involves an email newsletter, be sure to do you research about spam first. Authoritative benchmarks for determining spam are:  legal standards, professional standards and consumer preferences. Most consumers expect email newsletters or other marketing emails to come through trusted sources. Email newsletters should follow the appropriate standards so they don’t end up in spam boxes. Read more …

Email Marketing Tracking

Posted: Thursday, September 1st, 2011 by | Filed under: , ,

Now that you’ve built your email marketing campaign, it’s time to blast it out to your email database. Whether you’ve built the HTML yourself, or you’re using an newsletter marketing program, you should always evaluate tracking data. There are a few important results you want to evaluate. This data will help you understand who is reading your emails, what they’re interested in, which email addresses are invalid and more. To understand your results, there are a few different areas you should be aware of:

 

Open rate

This term refers to the number of email recipients from your list that opened the email message you sent. This number is usually displayed in a percentage and total number of message opened.

 

Bounce rate

Bounce rate refers to the number of emails that were undeliverable. — some email addresses may be invalid, some email accounts block unknown users. A hard bounce means that the email you sent was returned because delivering it was impossible. Either the email account doesn’t exist or it’s wrong in your database. A soft bounce is the delaying of email messages. Sometimes the system has difficulty delivering because the mailbox is full or the server is temporarily down.

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Email Subject Line Best Practices

Posted: Monday, August 29th, 2011 by | Filed under: , ,

Knowing all the areas you need to cover in your email newsletter marketing campaign will give you the most value from your work. Once you’ve had a chance to evaluate the focus areas of your email, it’s important to craft an effective subject line. The subject line is almost as important as the content laid out in your email. It gives your customers a quick overview of what type of content is in your email.

An effective subject line will prompt your audience to open your email. It’s important to give your readers a peak at what’s inside through the subject line. Marketing with email is strategic and writing a subject line is tough.

There are some challenges that come with crating an effective subject line. Most email programs only display a certain number of characters (usually between thirty and fifty). This gives you a limited amount of space for your subject line. Aside from space allowance, your subject line needs to be catchy and intriguing – something that will cause your reader to open your email. Keep these things in mind when creating a subject line:

Theme: Most newsletter marketing campaigns are designed around a theme. Your email will most likely stay within a certain theme, which means your subject line should stay within that theme as well. Read more …

Successful Email Marketing Strategies

Posted: Monday, July 25th, 2011 by | Filed under: , ,

We’ve talked about the importance of newsletter marketing in a previous blog, but wanted to touch on a few important areas and talk about why newsletter marketing is so important. For a small business, it’s important to take advantage of any internet marketing opportunities available to you.

Email newsletter PAC NJ for July

Email newsletter PAC NJ for July


Web marketing hasn’t replaced traditional marketing entirely, but it has become very relevant for small businesses. Developing good newsletter concepts and designs can be time consuming and difficult. If you feel the challenges of newsletter marketing are too challenging or you just don’t have time, consider hiring a web designer or web marketing agency to relieve you of the work! Read more …

Newsletter Marketing

Posted: Monday, June 20th, 2011 by | Filed under: , ,

Newsletter blasts are a great way to stay in touch with customers, offer new products and promotions and share new content from your website. Email blasts also serve as great web marketing tools. Take this email newsletter from Professional Audio Consultants (PAC) as an example.

Outdoor audio and video specials

Outdoor audio and video specials

For local businesses, it’s a great idea to offer a promotion in your email blasts. Since summer is almost here, outdoor activities are on everyone’s mind. PAC focused on an outdoor theme for their June newsletter, offering a 10% discount off any outdoor equipment. This is a great way to bring your customers in, have them inquire about new products and offer a discount.

Also included in the newsletter is information links. PAC used two different approaches, one link to the website’s outdoor audio/video page where you can find helpful information about outdoor products. The second link was to a blog post written by the company’s President. Here, there’s more of an opinion/personal view, but still with informative content about outdoor audio/video products. Overall, you want to inform your customers. Read more …