Conducting a successful email marketing campaign is not easy. Most of the recipients delete unread email messages even without reading them first. But there are only a few emails that grab the attention of the reader and encourage them to read them. This creates a big challenge for the email marketing executives to create and share marketing emails that are being opened and read.

Here are some of the steps that marketing professionals need to follow.

1. Create an Account at the Email Service provider.

The first step is to have a top Email Service Provider (ESP). This is an important contribution to the success of your email marketing campaign. Products and services provided by it send emails and track the key campaign metrics. The ESP also provides tools to analyze and execute the email marketing campaign.

The next thing you need to do is to determine your email marketing goals. Then you need to develop the budget for this task and all the features that you need to make your campaign successful.

2. Develop and manage your email contact database

One of the most important things you need to start your email marketing is, you need to develop a strong database of the recipients, and you also need to manage it in the best possible way. Then you need all your contacts to sign up for your list. The recipients can make a choice to receive more or lesser number of emails setting its frequency. You also need to remove unnecessary email addresses from the list.

You need to delete any email addresses that are invalid or incorrect. Email addresses that result in the hard and soft bounces must also be deleted from the list. All such email bounces will hamper your sender reputation.

3. Select the types of marketing emails you want to send

Now that your ESP is all set up and your marketing list is well set up, you can send all types of emails. Your emails can announce new content, product updates, internal updates, and details on the products. Marketing emails can also mention the recent orders, form submissions, newsletter distributions, welcome emails to the new subscribers, and nurture the existing leads.

4. Seek Permission

This is a legal requirement for all email marketers. Your email consumers must opt-in for your services on their wish. Otherwise, you will risk all your emails being labelled as spam. The overall idea is to convince the consumers that your marketing emails are worth subscribing to. And to earn this, you have to spend a lot of time to make an overall improvement in your language and graphics to gain the permission request.

 

Avoid making the permission request to be boring and dry. You must use personalized and targeted language and never forget to add a clear call to action.

5. Understand the Audience

It is highly necessary to know who you are sending your emails to and why you are sending it is very necessary. The audience is the factor that helps to determine what type of content you want to share with them.

The email campaign that you are planning will be highly dependent on your business. Emails must share all the important things that are taking place in your business. You can also share tips, tricks and offers for your products and services. You also need to pay attention to all the buying trends in the market as well as cater to customer feedback.

6. Be Authentic

Marketing might fail completely for your business if it does not mean something for your company. Avoid all the things that can lead your customers to unsubscribe from your mailing list. Make content that is of the highest quality and ensure that it looks authentic. This will also make you sit and identify what your vision is and how your email campaign will accomplish it. Each of the emails sent within the campaign must have a goal for the sender.

7. Share Valuable Content

As we have already understood, it is not easy for marketers to add more email subscribers. The fact is, it is even harder to make them stay. The best way is to make your content so engaging that the readers connect with them immediately. This is the best way to make your email receiver feel valued and cared for. This will also improve your response rate. The best way to do this is to put yourself in the shoes of the readers and share emails that are highly relevant.

Emails must also be highly simple and do not overload them with images and huge blocks of information. Also, do not forget to add a strong call to action so that the reader knows what to do exactly.

8. Track Success  

Most of the email marketing services offer analytics capabilities or even integrate with third-party providers such as Google Analytics. Email marketing needs to keep track of the three most important analytics include, including open rate, click-through rate, and the rate of unsubscribers.

The open rate shows how many people have opened your emails. This is also a way to determine how engaged your readers are. If the open rate is low, know what the areas that are missing your reader’s value are. This will encourage you to work to develop a stronger personal relationship with them.

The CTR is an indication of the number of clicks made by the readers on the links shared in your email. A low CTR denotes that people are not opening links that you want them to. So make updates in your emails accordingly and improve your CTR. Lastly, the rate of unsubscribers indicates the number of people who are clicking on the unsubscribe button on your emails. If this rate is high, you need to find out what is there in your emails that your subscribers do not want to see.

All these elements will help you to do email marketing in the right way. Reaching the consumer with the right message is not an easy task. Keep your goals simple and share messages that are directly targeted to the audience to make the highest impact to see the success in your marketing initiatives.

Source – Business news daily