AWeber .... How To Be More Effective With Email Marketing

Email is the communication tool of the 21st century. Not having an email address is quickly becoming the equivalent of not having a phone number. However, many people lack an understanding of how to effectively market and grow your home business with email. In order to make email work for you there are some basic rules and some not so basic rules that you must follow. Here are ten ideas on how to make your email profitable and work for you to increase your business.

1. Always use an autoresponder with opt-in. There is way too much spam out there today and people get really sick and tired of it. Failing to use an autoresponder with your email is like randomly calling people on the phone without following any kind of rules or paying attention to the do not call list. You can easily end up in trouble with your internet service provider, or even worse with the government or with big fines. I find that many people are willing to opt-in if you can prove to them that it is worth their while to do so and if you simply ask them to do so.

2. Make sure that you give your web site visitors more than one chance to join your list. This means including an opt-in box on all the pages of your website and maybe even in the middle of the text somewhere. Make it easy for people to find your opt-in box and take the action to join your list.

3. Give people a specific reason to join your list. Tell them what they will receive from you when they join. You can even offer your potential subscribers a free ebook or some other incentive for joining.

4. Make sure that the messages you send to your subscribers stay on topic and that you actually give them the promised information.

5. Pay attention to the frequency of your emails. While you do not want to go too long without sending out an email, you also do not want to send your emails too often. I find that every 4-7 days is good unless you are offering a newsletter and then you will want to develop a set schedule and make absolutely certain that you send our your newsletters when you say you are going to.

6. Focus your emails on selling yourself and not just your business and products. People want to get to know you and what you have to offer that is different and unique and how you can help them, not just about what you are trying to sell them.

7. Include a call to action at the end of each email. It can be an invitation to look at a website, purchase a product, give you a call with your phone number, listen to an opportunity call or anything else relevant to the content of your message.

8. Work on making the subject line in your email relevant, interesting and catchy. This is the first think your readers see and so it must catch their attention in order to get them interested.

9. Avoid including too many ads or promotions for more than one product in your emails. This confuses people and will turn them off and cause them to unsubscribe.

10. Include a survey or a comments box on your unsubscribe page and take note of the reasons why people unsubscribe and take action to resolve the issues or make changes in accordance with the feedback you are receiving.
Follow the above tips to your email success and watch your sales soar and your online relationships improve.

This isn't an all inclusive list obviously. I'm sure you can think of a few more tips to add .... especially once you get your own email marketing campaign going and see what works (or not) for you. But at least the above 10 are a good start on the basics to build from

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