Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Email Marketing For Your Business

Email Marketing For Your Business



Email Marketing has become the easiest and one of the most effective ways to sell your products and services on the internet. Many people make Thousands and some even millions by using this means of advertising.

The first way of using Email Marketing is by using an Opt-in list. This is where you will pay a company to use their list. *Hint* before doing so make sure they are a reputable company. The cost will vary from company to company but is relatively cheap. The downside to this is that you are sending your email to a broad audience. Some companies will have a more defined audience for you to choose from. Again do some research.

The second is the cheapest and most effective way of Email Marketing is to build a list of your own. Have an email form on your website so people can join.

This can be done in many ways, here are a couple of ideas.

Start your own Newsletter informing customers and future customers about new products, sales or special promotions.

Have a Newsletter on helping others with building a successful business and tell them about the business tools that you use. These are only a couple of ideas. Get creative.

Having your own list means that the people on it are there for a reason. So your audience is very targeted.

Kill 2 birds with 1 stone....What??
You can purchase an Opt-in list and advertise your Newsletter. So you are advertising to a broad audience, but you will narrow them down to the ones that sign-up to your Newsletter.

To really take advantage of this powerful marketing resource, make sure that your emails are catchy and to the point. Otherwise all of your work will have gone to waste.

Also, Never use a persons email address for your Email Marketing if they haven`t Joined your list or given you permission to do so. Nobody likes to get Spammed and it will ruin your reputation and credibility.

Email Marketing is a very effective way to reach thousands, even millions of prospective customers. So get cracking and start building your own list.

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