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  • Writer's pictureJennifer Heppell

What is Email Marketing?


Email marketing is a method of directly marketing a commercial message to an audience using email. A wide variety of methods are used to promote, encourage, and measure the effectiveness of email campaigns. Unlike spam, opt-in email marketing involves the service of sending emails to those who have requested to receive them. A publisher could include a link in their digital newsletter that goes directly to a product info page on an ecommerce website. Survey 20 people in your target market and you’ll probably get a different story from each one, but one thing everyone can agree on is that email is extremely useful for communicating with clients, customers, and subscribers.



Email marketing is a method of directly marketing a commercial message to an audience using email.

Email marketing is a method of directly marketing a commercial message to an audience using email. It can be used to announce new products or services, inform customers about events, promote a business and its services, provide customer support, encourage feedback, and for other promotional activities. Email marketing can be done using email servers which send emails on behalf of various companies as part of their service or by setting up mail server software to deliver the messages; this is known as "self-service" or "do it yourself" (DIY) email marketing.


A wide variety of methods are used to promote, encourage, and measure the effectiveness of email campaigns.

Email marketing is a great way to reach your audience, communicate directly with your customers, build trust and loyalty with your customers, and increase sales.

In the past few years I've been using the services of MailChimp and Mailerlite. Both are great email marketing services that allow you to manage all aspects of your campaigns from sending newsletters and autoresponders to creating landing pages for collecting emails from potential clients.





Unlike spam, opt-in email marketing involves the service of sending emails to those who have requested to receive them.

Unlike spam, opt-in email marketing involves the service of sending emails to those who have requested to receive them.

It's important for you as a marketer to get permission from people before sending them emails. You can do this by having an opt-in form on your website, where people can enter their email addresses and agree to receive messages from you in exchange for some kind of incentive like a coupon or special offer.

You also need to make sure that when someone does give their information, they're giving it with full consent—meaning no one should be tricked into entering something on your site that will result in them getting spammed later on down the line!


A publisher could include a link in their digital newsletter that goes directly to a product info page on an ecommerce website.

Publishers and publishers should always include a link in their digital newsletter that goes directly to a product info page on an ecommerce website. They should also include links to their website, blog, social media accounts and email newsletter.

Publishers could include a link in their digital newsletter that goes directly to a product info page on an ecommerce website. For example, if the publisher is offering £5 off your next purchase at ABC Store, they can add something like "Click here" or "Get deal" as part of the editorial content of their email campaign and provide a direct link where readers can click through and purchase whatever they're trying to promote.


Survey 20 people in your target market and you’ll probably get a different story from each one, but one thing everyone can agree on is that email is extremely useful for communicating with clients, customers, and subscribers.


Email is a great way to communicate with customers and prospects. You can use it to share information, send coupons and discounts, remind them of upcoming sales or events. And if you're selling something online, email is an excellent marketing tool because it allows you to market directly to your audience without having to pay for advertising space on other people's sites—or even use up all your social media posts in one day.

You can also use email marketing as a feedback mechanism by sending surveys or questionnaires that ask customers how they feel about your company or products in general. This will help guide future product development so that you don't waste time creating products nobody wants (or worse yet - already has).


Compelling content and strong calls-to-action can help increase open rates and click-through rates

If you want to increase open rates and click-through rates, make sure that your emails have compelling content and strong calls-to-action.

  • Make sure that the subject line of your email is compelling. It should give a sense of what’s inside, so if someone sees it in their inbox they’ll be compelled to open it.

  • Make sure that there is an easy way for readers to navigate through your email. This can be done by adding links in certain parts of the message or allowing them to jump around easily with buttons or links at the top of each section (i.e., “Next section >”).

  • Make sure that each part of your message is relevant based on who receives it and what stage they are in their purchase journey (if applicable). For example, if someone has been researching products online for a few weeks but hasn't made any purchases yet, you should send them more information about pricing as well as testimonials from other customers who have purchased similar items before making a decision about whether or not theirs needs replacing soon too!


Conclusion

Email marketing isn’t going anywhere. It’s a tried-and-true strategy that has proven effective for decades, and it will continue to be so. Email has one huge advantage over social media: it’s a one-to-one communication channel that doesn’t require your audience to share or like anything before they hear from you. This means that email has the potential to reach a much larger group of people than Facebook or Twitter will ever be able to achieve on their own!


And if starting email marketing is too daunting or you just don't have the time. I offer a set up and a monthly email package. Just contact me for more information.




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