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Using Branded Email Marketing To Drive Traffic Deeper into your Site

Using email marketing to reach out to your existing and prospective clients is about more than just driving traffic to your site on an ad hoc basis.

Of course your home page is your main “billboard” for your site and its pages, but driving traffic deeper into your site to individual pages or blog posts is definitely a more effective marketing strategy.

Why? Well, if you are running a product special or are quoting a specific piece of information on your site having a call to action within your email that references a specific page on your site will likely result in a higher response rate from the reader. This way you are steering clients towards the information they want.

This is a far better strategy than driving traffic just to the homepage as it is less likely that the reader will take the time to go through pages on your site looking for the information they require. Think of linking to specific pages in your emails as a more focused way of driving site traffic.

Custom designed email stationery is the only way to project a professional image. Read our previous blog post 5 Crucial Elements of a Successful Email Marketing Campaign to give guidelines on what makes a successful email marketing campaign.

5 Crucial Elements of a Successful Email Marketing Campaign

Do you have a highly-responsive email subscriber base that opens your emails and clicks through your website regularly? Or are you finding that dozens of subscribers simply push the “unsubscribe” button each time you send out a newsletter or mass email? Tweaking your email marketing campaign can be tricky because you don’t always know what is really working. Is the subject line hooking the recipient in? Are the images you’re using keeping your reader interested? Or is the content you’re delivering really providing value to your recipient? You may not always be able to answer these critical questions, but you can set up your email marketing campaign for success.

Here are just five crucial elements of a successful email marketing campaign:

1. Invest in Quality Design

    Don’t just send out a basic email through a standard template. Invest some marketing funds towards a branded email package that allows you to send a customized newsletter or email signature with your logo and colors clearly presented upon opening the message. This not only gives you a more professional presentation, but can also help you market your brand.

    2. Define What You Want

Take the time to ask the whys behind your email messages. What’s the motive? Why are you sending out these messages to your prospects? Define exactly what your purpose is, whether it’s sending out coupons or special offers, announcing a new product or service, or inviting prospects to an event you’re hosting. Be specific about what you’re actually marketing and communicating so that you can create a tightly focused, high-impact message that gets noticed.

3. Review Your Email Acquisition Strategy

    Are you working on building a targeted email subscriber list, or are you just using a random list from an email database purchase? Make sure you have a solid email address acquisition strategy in place so you’re not sending out hundreds or thousands of emails to people who have little or no interest in doing business with you. Clean up your list regularly by asking current subscribers if they want to continue receiving your emails.

    4. Maintain a Good Email Reputation

Don’t tease recipients with subject lines that don’t really deliver what’s stated. Make sure you’re clear from spam filters by testing your emails regularly. Remove emails from your database when people unsubscribe, and make sure you’re not sending duplicate emails by mistake. Make sure you always give recipients the option to unsubscribe. Good email marketing practices will help you maintain a good reputation and positive relationship with your recipients.

5. Be Consistent and Impactful

    Instead of sending out multiple emails on a whim, set up a schedule so that you can be consistent with your efforts and take the time to create an impactful message. Your recipients will appreciate it and you may be able to generate more leads from each email send with a “less is more” approach.

5 Ways to Prevent Email Unsubscribes

You put a lot of effort into gathering email addresses from current and prospective customers, building your email database, and creating a high-impact and useful newsletter for your loyal subscribers. Don’t let all that hard work go to waste! If you are finding that many people are dropping off your email list by clicking the “unsubscribe me” button, it’s time to make some changes. Losing email subscribers can make it difficult to market you products and services to a highly-receptive market. Remember that branded emails also offer the benefit of keeping you at the “top of mind” of your recipient. Make sure those emails get opened, get read, and that the links are clicked!

Here are five ways to prevent email subscribers from unsubscribing from your mailings:

1. Deliver what you promise.

    Don’t use the email subject line to “tease” your reader into thinking they are going to see or read something that you can’t actually deliver. Most email subscribers will just unsubscribe the first time you do this, and once they’re gone, it will be hard to get them back. Make sure that the subject line you choose actually states what you’re about to deliver. You can be creative without turning off your readers!

    2. Choose fresh and timely topics.

When you’re sending out a weekly or bimonthly newsletter, make sure you’re sharing information and content that is truly useful. Few people want to open and read emails that will bore them. Most people are looking for practical and useful solutions to common problems, or a fresh perspective on an idea. Take the time to evaluate what type of content you’re sending out. When the subscriber finds your emails valuable, they won’t be unsubscribing in the near future.

3. Keep them interested.

    Provide a preview of the content for the next email, highlight an upcoming event, or embed a coupon in each email so that your subscribers will retain and look forward to your emails. Keeping your audience interested is essential for maintaining a large email database.

    4. Don’t send emails too frequently.

It’s likely that your current subscribers are bombarded with all sorts of emails on a daily basis. Remember that you’re not the only one they’re hearing from on any given day, so it’s important that you keep your emails short and sweet, and also to send only one or two per month. Unless you’re sending out weekly deals or some other type of incentive, most of your email subscribers will be happy to hear from you no more than twelve times per year.

5. Give them a chance to reconsider.

    You can modify the settings of certain email programs to ask the subscriber if they really, really, want to unsubscribe. In some cases, the extra step makes them pause and think about it again. Making it slightly difficult to unsubscribe with just one click can help to retain some of your subscribers. Just remember that if they are not receiving anything valuable, they’re likely to go through as many steps as needed to get themselves off your email list.

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