How To Build an Email Marketing Campaign That Pays
The question isn’t “should you be using an email marketing campaign?”. The question is: How to build an email marketing campaign that pays.
So maybe you are thinking about putting email marketing to work for your business. Good decision!
The key is to make sure you set up your email marketing campaign so well that you get the best possible outcome: Sales.
This article is designed to help you avoid come of the more common mistakes made by rookie marketers and maximize your email marketing campaign to get the best possible results.
Some of the most common mistakes made include things like:
- Not personalizing your messages. Emails addressed to the individual receiver by name are much more likely to be opened than the same blind subject line.
- Incorrectly personalized messages. Proofreading can help you catch little mistakes in the tokens that can cause your email to be sent to **FIRSTNAME** instead of the actual name of your reader.
- Incorrect links. Let’s say your message gets opened, and your subscriber reads it. They want to know more so they click your link and … get lost. Proofreading helps here, too!
- Your messages getting routed to the spam folder. It can happen and it’s easier than you think for your messages to get routed to the spam or junk folder. When that happens, your message is lost. Check out these tips for improved deliverability to help you message get to the inbox.
- Bouncing email addresses. Having invalid or unknown email addresses in your list can cause your deliverability rate to tank. And many autoresponder services charge you for the size of your list, no matter how many are actually deliverable. It makes more sense to use a service that removes bouncing or unknown email addresses.
So let’s say you’ve done the research. You’ve done the proofreading. You’ve written a good subject line and it is personalized to address each reader by name. You’ve checked your links. Your list is good. Your list is clean. It’s time to send your email marketing message.
This is where the line gets drawn for many email marketing professionals. The days of just being able to send out a quick ad or offer are pretty well over. With a vast majority of email being labeled as “spam”, and a lot of valid emails falling in to boxes where people don’t actually read the message, it can be challenging.
Still, successful email marketers report outstanding ROI (Return On Investment). Some report email marketing returns as high as 4300%! So how do they do it?
Is there a secret to their success? Not really. Once all the technical and deliverability stuff is covered, the key is to use email marketing to build a strong relationship with your readers. Note that I didn’t say “sell to your readers”. They joined your list because they already want to know more about what you can do for them, how you can help them. And when you show them how you can help them, sales are going to happen.
So make sure your messages focus on providing real value to your readers. Build trust by sending them valuable relevant information so that they actually expect and watch for your email messages.
The email marketing world has become a tough place for sloppy email junkies that just send out blatant ad after ad, never providing real value, and never connecting with their readers.
But when you provide relevant and valuable information to your readers, you are giving yourself a tremendous competitive advantage.
Your readers, when they look at the many many messages in their inbox are asking, on some level: “Why would I want to read this?”. If you build a reputation that your messages are just going to be another sales pitch, your messages are getting deleted. But if your messages provide valuable information, your message has a much better chance of getting opened.
Is the technical stuff important? Absolutely! But the big difference between a technically correct email and a profit producing email marketing campaign is seen when you focus your content on providing real value to your readers. This means you are sending information that they asked for. Your message is directly focused on their goals and desires.
How Focusing On Your Readers Helps Your Business:
When your readers are looking for your emails, this makes it very easy to create traction and see results when you launch new products, enhancements, and services.
Your customers that trust you are more likely to buy from you again and again. Repeat business is much more profitable than constantly going after new business.
When your messages are being opened, your overall deliverability reputation improves. This is a huge long-term benefit that should not be overlooked.
How do you know what your readers are looking for?
Your capture page should be clear about the information you are offering. When someone requests that information, you know that is what they want to know about. Keep your message focused on the benefits you listed.
If your offers changed based on age group or specific interests, be sure to request that information. Many times, a name and email address is fine. But if you really want to target your messages, set up your forms to ask those types of questions from your visitors.
Or you can set up additional campaigns to further segment your list by interest as you move along in your email marketing.
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All Comments
bashir
May 5, 2016
Does TrafficWave host capture form for her customers,
For example, as an internet marketer I am using TrafficWave as my Auto responder , do I have to have another hosting account for my capture form. If not , does TrafficWave has the hosting of capture form along with the autoresponder service?
Exp!icit answers will be appreciated
Thanks
admin
May 5, 2016
Hello, Bashir. Be sure to refer to the following:
http://blog.trafficwave.net/2014/06/trafficwave-net-how-to-set-up-hosted-capture-pages/
wernerclub
April 22, 2016
Brian Rooney, Boa noite como iniciante estou precisando de sua ajuda para usar este e-mail para divulgar. Quero saber de você se a possibilidade para a divulgação. Como Affiliate do SFI eu poderia usar o seu sistema para divulgação do site, da lista para divulgação ou não a possibilidade. Se houver possibilidade posso contar com você.
admin
April 25, 2016
Hello, Wernerclub.
You can use this system for your SFI business just like all businesses use this system for their particular products, services, and opportunities. The key will be to set up your autoresponder campaign with your letters.
If you need help with creating those letters, I recommend the following guides:
Guide To Creating Powerful AutoResponder Letters
How to Build a Responsive Email Marketing List
Once your letters are set up, you will to add capture form code to your blog or web site. You can also set up a capture page on our Hosted Capture Pages.
From there, your next step will be to begin driving traffic to your capture page or web site.
As you go forward, test your results, make changes, test those results, make changes, test those results, etc…
If you are brand new to this type of marketing, expect to invest a bit of time learning new skills and techniques.
The end result is that you can build targeted prospect lists for your SFI business and begin growing your business with email marketing.
Keep us posted on your progress!
premlal dewli
April 15, 2016
very nice,
i have set up emails in auto responder but do i have to send them. i was in impression that once we set up ads and set thier frequency .auto responder sends them please larify my doubts. i have set up every thing as per your instructions .can you please send me blueprint how we send autoresponder mail each day and what else i need to do
thanks
premlal
admin
April 16, 2016
Hello, premlal.
If you have set up your autoresponder campaign with automated followup letters, your autoresponder sends your follow up letters to anyone who subscribes, automatically. There is nothing for you to do to “send” letters as your autoresponder handles that. Your focus, once you have your capture forms or capture pages set up is to drive traffic to those pages so folks can see your offer.
If they want to learn more, they will fill out the form. From there, your autoresponder takes over, sending the letters you set up.
Talmadge
April 15, 2016
How do i promote and make money with you on the pay plan that was told to me by Luca Vablais that send me a email about this program?
admin
April 15, 2016
I’m not really sure what Luca Vabalais sent you, but here is how we teach our affiliates to earn through our system: http://blog.trafficwave.net/2015/10/how-to-recruit-more-and-retain-better-customers-and-distributors/
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