August 12, 2008
Permission Based Email Marketing -The Strategy That Works!
Businesses are increasingly using permission based email marketing as their preferred method for building customer relationships while keeping their reputation intact. While everyone with a website should use email newsletters and promotions to bring their subscribers back to their site, businesses that are not online, can also benefit from email marketing. Businesses without websites can easily send newsletters, promotions, announcements and invitations by email and generate an email reply, a telephone call, an appointment or a personal visit.
A professional email tool can save your business time and money, and simultaneously provide a wealth of intelligence about your customer base. Permission based email marketing will get you in the door and help you to establish long-term customers and clientele (which is what growing a successful business depends on). Confirmed opt-in validates that an email list is truly permission-based, and it has become the standard for qualifying a list as a legitimate, non-spam means of business communication.
Many email marketers make this critical mistake. They send email after email to their subscribers without stopping to think of the people behind the email addresses. As a result, their email marketing campaigns often seem lifeless and dull.
Research and practice has proved that the output coming from the permission based email list is comparatively much higher than any other direct marketing tool. It has a magnetic effect on the traffic flow. No sooner does the email fire, that the click report, automatically generates a higher hit ratio.
Permission based email marketing is legal, while sending unsolicited commercial email is illegal in a growing number of states across the country. It's clear that permission based email marketing is becoming a preferred sales communication of consumers.
Personally, I prefer the Confirmed Opt-In process and use it for my Permission Based Email Marketing. The advantage is, your new subscriber is confirmed as a high level prospect for your offers and opportunities. They have been given the chance to "think twice" about joining your list, plus you have reduced the probability of someone else signing them up without their knowledge.
The content of your newsletter must be relevant to what the person has subscribed. Since this is an anticipated marketing form, you will have to meet certain expectations as to the content and its relevance to their particular needs. This is where other marketing strategies fail. In permission based marketing, it already answers the "what's in it for me?" quality that most customers look for through the relevance of the things they gain from the effective Internet marketer.
Filed under eMail Marketing by Ray Lam
