Do I Really Need Email Marketing?


by Chris Haycock - Date: 2007-10-19 - Word Count: 740 Share This!

Email marketing is a wonderful way to reach large amounts of customers in a short amount of time. This is a very inexpensive, but very effective, marketing method. It will result in getting more traffic to your website thus generating more sales. Email marketing can be used by any type of business regardless of the products or services they have to offer.

One huge advantage of email marketing is that it can be effective for both large and small businesses. When it comes to regular commerce, the larger company can afford to print up colorful fliers and ads. This is much harder for smaller businesses due to the expense. Email marketing can be done using software, so that even small businesses can create effective and professional looking email marketing campaigns on a small budget. This will hopefully help them increase their sales.

Email marketing is an effective way to deliver the information you want to get to consumers in the method they enjoy using. Almost everyone has email these days and it is common to log on and check for messages several times each day. It also allows you the opportunity to reach consumers around the globe. There are no boundaries when it comes to location with this method of marketing.

On average email marketing costs 78% less than other types of marketing. This saving is after the cost of research, testing, and sending the emails. It also takes the cost of consulting into consideration. Email marketing consulting is often less expensive than other marketing consultants. This means you can choose to save money or maybe invest more, but reach more people. In addition to saving money, you save valuable time. Your emails can be scheduled to go out at times when you are out of the office or working on other projects.

To appeal to your consumers, email marketing allows you to use graphics, games, music, videos, and other types of materials to gain their interest. This is something most other marketing concepts don't allow. Yes, they offer one or two choices, but with email marketing concepts your imagination is the limit. Since you have the name and purchasing history of the individual, you can personalize the email. This makes the customer feel more trusting towards you as well as more loyal to the company. It is much better than getting a piece of mail at home that says dear customer. You'll be able to create marketing lists that allow you to send a marketing campaign just to your target market. This is a very effective way of sending different campaigns to different customers.

The process of email marketing gives you tools for measuring the success of your marketing campaign. You can measure the click through rate, conversion rate, find out how a person linked to your website, and many more ways of analyzing data.

Customers can choose to opt out by clicking the link in your email marketing campaign. This saves you money by knowing who isn't interested in receiving your information. There is no way to know that with other types of marketing campaigns. For those who are interested in your email marketing campaign, you will see the responses quickly. This is a great way of knowing what is effective for future marketing endeavors.

Email marketing is one of the most common as well as most successful marketing methods available. With the volumes of consumers on the internet everyday it only makes sense to use it from a business point of view. Email marketing is a great way to reach a volume of people quickly and inexpensively. Email marketing is a great opportunity to communicate with your customers. This is an effective way to be able to analyze your marketing tools so you will know what is working and what areas you need to continue improving.

There are many tools out there to help you with your email campaigns. A lot of them are free. Just enter something like "Free email tools" into your favourite search engine and try a few out. It could be the best days work you ever did. Do you really need email marketing? I'll leave you to answer that!


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Chris Haycock is an information publisher specialising in helping people start their own home based business. You can get an absolutely no cost two hour video on how to create your own information products in one day, without writing a single word, and start your own niche ebook business, by going to:
http://www.easyebizz.com

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