Thursday, August 4, 2011

Email Marketing: How does it Work?

Selling of products or services through the use of email is called email marketing. It is quite similar to direct mail marketing except that the latter uses postal system to deliver messages and the message itself is printed on paper, unlike the email that works even without the use of the postal system. A company that utilizes email marketing creates an advertisement through letter and sends to a number of recipients. 


Same with direct mail, email marketing is sent in bulk. The company or the marketing representative will send the message to hundreds or thousands mail recipients all at once with just one click of the mouse of their email marketing software. The command will tell the server to send the same messages to every email address on the list and sends it to thousands recipient at the same time. Basic hosting accounts have the same functionality. 


Email marketing is the best reason why it is important to ask customers email during product surveys, trade shows and events. Another clever way to ask for customer's email is for company's newsletter or product catalog sign up. Email marketing software has a functionality to choose selected groups of email to send different types of messages. In this way, the company can target specific customers with interest of purchasing a certain product or services. This kind of feature is important as not all customers are interested in the same particular product. Customers vary in needs, tastes and preference. This is the thing that companies who are using email marketing should be aware of. 


One interesting tip: If a certain customer signed up for home improvement products then it is imperative to send him products about home furniture. Nothing can be more annoying opening your email with a hundreds of emails marketing offering some products that you are not interested and you did not signed up for in the first place. 


Another wonder of email marketing software is that it keeps track those who opens the message and what did they reader do after the messages was opened. The links embedded in the email has a tracking capability. The software can also see if a certain recipient labeled an email as spam, or if the recipient just open and delete it afterwards. With these amazing email marketing software capabilities, email marketers can alter or change their email marketing efforts for it to be effective.

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