Preaching to the Converted: Increasing Revenue Through Your Current Customers

Your online programs are designed to capture, qualify and convert prospects. You bring in new customers daily, and with each mailing gather more data about your site visitors’ click habits and interests; data which in turn allows you to understand their behavior and optimize conversion. But first-time buyers, while important, generally have a lower average [...]

Offering the Right Incentives

Let’s face it; email marketers love incentives… and why wouldn’t we? With all of the email flying around, it’s difficult to convince people that they need to sign up for yet another email list. Potential subscribers know that their email addresses are valuable and need to feel that they are getting something of equal value [...]

Email Marketing Tip #36: Bringing New Subscribers Up to Speed

As we mentioned in last week’s tip, failing to acknowledge your new subscribers is bad business.  If your subscribers have put forth the effort to sign up for your newsletter, the least that you can do is send them a “Welcome” message (notice the emphasis on “least”). What you should be doing is bringing your [...]

4 Ways Email Marketing is Like Going to the Gym

Welcome to January- and time to start fulfilling those New Year’s resolutions! It’s no surprise that the gyms are packed as it seems everyone has some sort of goal to get in shape or be healthier in 2011, and getting back to an active routine after a long holiday hiatus has its challenges and rewards- just [...]

An Email Marketing State of Mind

Your perception of email marketing will determine the success of your email campaigns and how they impact your business. Too many people view email marketing as an expense or obligation. As a result, many businesses underutilize email and don’t capitalize on all it has to offer. If done correctly, email marketing can pay for itself [...]

Keeping ROI Sky-High! Tip #3

Ramp It Up According to the DMA marketers will only spend about $700 million in email advertising this year, compared to the more than $12 billion marketers are expected to put into internet search advertising, that’s more than 17 times what they’ll spend on email marketing!  How about shifting your  focus to where your average [...]

Keeping ROI Sky-High! Tip #2

Keep Doing What You’re Doing Staying consistent is extremely important in email marketing.  You want your customers to know who you are, what your selling and when to expect your messages.  It’s great to try something new, but be sure it has the same feel of previous messages or newsletters so you don’t confuse subscribers [...]

Keeping ROI Sky-High! Tip #1

Learn From the Past That one message barely get opened?  Think about what you could change in the subject line to get a better open rate. Get a really great click through rate on one particular message?  Figure out why.  What time did you send it?  Did you send it to the same audience as [...]

Email Marketing Averages 43 to 1 ROI – Seriously

Return on investment.  Pretty important statistic for, well, just about everybody.  These days especially we all need to keep track of what we spend and what we get out of it.  In 2009 email marketing had an ROI of $43.62 while the next best method, internet search advertising, came in at $21.85.  Businesses need to [...]

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