The bubble has already burst on email marketing as the latest fad for touching
lots of customers or lots of prospects as the lowest possible cost. Indeed
over the last few years, many companies have tried and failed at successfully
deploying email marketing campaigns to nurture their relationships with their
prospects. Yet despite the let down and the disappointment on the part of
many executives email marketing still is a very effective tool to reach your
prospects and stay in touch with them so that when they are ready to make
a buying decision you can convert them into closed sales.
What were finding today is that lots of companies are worried about
being accused of being spammers. And so the spam laws have definitely put
a damper on peoples perceptions of the power of email marketing. Another
factor that has tend to lessen the impact of email marketing is the perception
is that everybody is sending out E-newsletters on all sorts of topics which
gives the picture of information overload that is going on in the marketplace.
Indeed, you could subscribe to numerous e-newsletters and end up overloading
your email inbox with emails of value on all sorts of different topics. Yet,
most executives dont have time to read e-newsletters in detail. So
its time to rethink your email marketing strategy by deciding how a company
can actually deploy email marketing without falling into the category of
being a spammer or providing just another unread newsletter to its
prospects.
One idea is to use email marketing to send very targeted offers to segmented
populations. Our company is using email marketing to offer free guides and
whitepapers to specific prospects that are in a specific segment of our potential
target market. This is a great way to distribute information and do lead
conversions with some of your best prospects and also stay in front of them
on a regular basis without overloading them with information.
Email marketing still has its place in the overall sales and marketing mix.
Many companies have become disappointed with the results that theyve
gotten from this aspect of their marketing programs. But email marketing
still has its place and by using nurture marketing and direct drip campaign
techniques, it is possible to use email marketing to improve the overall
progression of your prospects until you can convert them into actual customers.
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