Email Marketing Works
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009Guest Post: By Carrie Wilkerson
For many businesses there are many ways you can market your business. Some may work and some may not. You must try them a few times before you know for sure.
One technique that works very well for almost any business is email marketing. There are two types of email marketing that you can use. Mainly the difference is the cost involved.
Email marketing is used by more and more businesses every day. You need to gather email addresses so you will have a list to send your information to. You need to make sure you are careful about the way you gather email addresses because you don’t want to be hit with SPAM. Have a button or sign-up form on your site for people to use.
You can send out weekly or monthly newsletters, flyers, special notices, or solo ads to the people on your list. You don’t want to send too many emails though because you will run the risk of losing subscribers because they can’t keep up with everything you send.
Email marketing is a great way to keep your business in front of your list on a regular basis. When you keep yourself in front of them, they will remember you and what your business offers when they are in need.
Weekly communications are the best way to do this. Create a newsletter that you can send out. It doesn’t need to be anything huge. List your specials, highlight on a product or service you offer, and tell them how to contact you. Of course you can have it longer by including an article, other tools or products that you don’t offer, but that they may need or want, or you can include information that they may find interesting.
Email marketing can be done through your regular email or you can use online programs to create them. Online programs such as Aweber, 1ShoppingCart, and Constant Contact are just a few of the popular ones that you can use.
Keeping your business in front of your email subscribers is important. It’s a way of building trust and reminding them of what you offer and how you can help them with their needs.
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Carrie Wilkerson is the voice of experience. From corporate life to teaching high school to direct sales, she has ‘been there and done that’ professionally and personally. An ‘overnight mom’ to 2 toddlers through adoption, her priorities instantly changed and so did her workplace. She’s now built several businesses and coached others to do the same while overcoming extreme debt, losing 110 lbs and having 2 more children, for a total of 4, ages infant through 12!
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