No one can deny the role email marketing plays in promoting companies online. Yet whilst marketing via email is a powerful tool, best use of the medium isn’t always obvious to the beginner. Below are some tips and tricks which if followed can greatly enhance your email campaign.
Firstly, where possible always address recipients by their name – even if they are just one subscriber among thousands. It stops them feeling like number and they are more like to read the message if it looks as though it was intended for them. Usually the first name is enough but for some campaigns you may find that using the recipients last name will be more appropriate. Simple changes in the registration process can make this an automatic process.
Avoid email marketing during the holidays; during the holiday season people tend to be away from their computers and therefore check their emails less, or are more likely to be actively seeking out deals rather than passively receiving offers. If you and dozens of other companies email during the holiday it is quite likely that when the recipient returns they will only check the important emails, deleting everything else that has piled up during the time they have been away.
