Email Marketing Strategy Just because you can do something doesn’t necessarily mean that you should! It’s an old adage and one many email marketers would do well to consider before embarking on their email marketing strategy. If we start from what is possible the prospect of drawing up an email marketing strategy, budget, resource and timelines is daunting. I like to start from the other end, not what is possible but what does the business need. It sounds simple and the oft flippant response is more sales but that doesn’t always hold true. So start with a blank canvas and decide your business’s short, medium and long term goals, they may all turn out to be the same – sales,…
Email strategy
Creating a sense of urgency in email
Creating a sense of urgency can be extremely powerful in email marketing, and marketing in general. Urgent situations cause us to suspend deliberate thought and act on rash, snap impulse decisions. Urgency causes people to act quickly. Many times what is stopping a subscriber from converting on a landing page or email is people thinking too hard, not responding to our calls-to-action or simply waiting too long to act. Raising the urgency level in our emails cuts into this to create a significant improvement to conversion rates. In this post I’ll go through some of the methods you can use to create urgency and some examples of how companies are already doing it in their emails. Using a countdown timer…
Email strategy – getting the basics in place
Creating a strategy for email marketing will keep you in the race for customers. Continuity is key – both in terms of implementation and in identifying and reacting to change. Outlook (Hotmail), Gmail, Yahoo et al have been employing user interaction (or lack thereof) to determine whether emails are delivered in the inbox or junk folder for some time now but engaging users should, of course, be a marketing fundamental. Email is the mainstay of online marketing – commercial tools for sending mass marketing emails have been available in the UK since 1999. Every year since has shown double digit growth in email marketing spend despite the decline in the cost of email volume. Why? Because people like emails. Well,…