7 Tips to Make Your Email Marketing More Successful

7 Tips to Make Your Email Marketing More Successful

Many businesses send emails out to their customers, having offered some incentive for them to sign up first. We have all heard the old saying that the gold is in the list, but unless that list actually opens your email there won’t be any gold within sight.

There are many ways to make your email marketing more successful.

Here are 7 tips to help you.

  • As mentioned, getting those emails opened to start with can be a challenge. When an email comes into the inbox, all the recipient sees is the headline. So if you are having trouble getting your emails opened, you need to pay attention to what intrigues people. In fact, humour and mistakes that others make are two biggies. People love to laugh and if they know your email will do that for them, they will be eager to open it. They also like to know that other people made a boo-boo because it makes them feel better about doing similar things. Plus, it also makes them feel slightly superior if they haven’t made the same mistake.  So your email heading can be something outrageously funny or even just outrageous, or it can tell them what mistake you made and how you fixed it. Or perhaps you can recount a mistake someone else made and how you – and they – can avoid it.
  • Keep your email simple, short and to the point – including the joke, if you tell one. No one has time to read lots of unnecessary information. Your recipients have busy lives too, so respect this and send short notes with bullet points. For further information, include links they can click on if they want to.

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