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The Best Methods Of Using Email Introduction

We’ve all been at meetings where a lead we’ve been pursuing is present and we have to approach them cold. There’s a persistent rumour that some people are a natural at this but there’s little doubt introducing themselves to strangers is a skill learnt by multiple failures and successes. Using emails to secure leads for … READ MORE »

Thank you for subscribing

That first email to those who have just signed up to your email marketing list will probably have the highest open rate of any you send. It is your first interface with your new customers. This welcome email has a number of functions. You will want to: 1/ get them used to the From Address … READ MORE »

How many questions in a form

It seems I have been wrong. I’ve said that in all probability, the fewer the number of questions in a form the higher the completion rate. You will, of course, want as much detail as possible and it is the eternal balance between completion rates and information. The obvious answer has been to limit the … READ MORE »

Multi page forms

Email marketing truths are not eternal. Circumstances change in response to outside forces as well and internal ones, and you should change with them. Let’s face it, if you don’t, your competitors will and you will fall behind. Take forms; everyone, including me, has said that the shorter the forms the more people will complete … READ MORE »

Don’t upset anyone

Professor Higgins said in Pygmalion that every time a man opens his mouth he irritates someone. It goes for email marketing as well. You cannot satisfy everyone and you will therefore lose a certain percentage of potential subscribers by a casual, ill-judged phrase. In those cases where a few tweaks can lower that percentage, it … READ MORE »

Be careful with gender

There is one truth in email marketing that no one disputes; the more information you have on your subscribers, the better your targeting will be. You can gain such information in a number of ways: interpretation of returns from campaigns, personal contact and asking them, to name the obvious ones. The main problem with the … READ MORE »

Balancing your sign up forms

On the one hand you know you should keep sign up forms for those subscribing to your email marketing list as short possible, and on the other you want to know everything about the person as quickly as possible. So you are in a bit of a quandary. It is easy enough to find extremes. … READ MORE »

Doubles all round for email marketing?

There is no doubt that double opt-in, i.e. where a subscriber, however they subscribed, is sent an email asking for confirmation that they wish to receive your offers, gives better results that the single opt-in. All research confirms this, the only dispute being by how much. However, most samples are taken from a range of … READ MORE »

Using a Website to Gain Subscribers

The most cost-effective way of collecting subscribers to an email marketing list is via a website. Once set up, the systems and automated sign-up forms require little or no monitoring over and above checking on figures. The keywords here, though, are largely QUALITY CONTENT. The one thing essential to gaining subscribers using this method is … READ MORE »

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