Email Marketing and Content
Email marketing may include sending email advertisements to a large
distribution list, publishing and distributing an e-newsletter and sending
informative emails with a soft sell approach to encourage recipients to make a
purchase or visit your website. Whether you opt to utilize one or all of these
email marketing techniques, you will be faced with one specific dilemma and
that is writing the content which will appear in these emails. This is critical
because these emails may be the first impression potential customers are
receiving for your products and services. Superior content will give the
potential customers a good first impression which may make them more likely to
purchase your products or services. This article will discuss some proven
techniques for ensuring the content you use in your email marketing campaign
will reap the maximum benefits.
Creating Content
You may be a decent writer or you may have a staff member who you think can
do a good job creating the content for your email marketing but unless you or
your staff member is a professional writer by trade, the quality of the work
will likely not be of the same quality as a professional can produce. This can
be very damaging especially if your competitors are hiring writers to create
their content. Your emails will likely not be viewed as favorably as the emails
written by professionals.
Informative Articles
The content you decide to include in your email marketing efforts is largely
a matter of personal preference but there are some methods which have
traditionally been more successful than others. The type of content which may
be effective often includes informative articles, short useful tips, links to
relevant websites, advertising for complementary products and even some subtle
forms of advertising which are meant to persuade the recipients of the email to
either make a purchase or visit your website.
Good Idea
Full length insightful articles which are likely to be of interest to the
members of your email distribution list are an excellent idea for your email
marketing campaign. These articles are a good idea because they will likely
contain information which the recipients of your email will appreciate.
Additionally, these articles give you the opportunity to include information
about your products or services in the copy of the email. This can be a subtle
form of advertising when it encourages the recipients to purchase a product or
service or visit the website without actually asking the recipient to do
so.
Product Reviews
Short product reviews can also be very useful and helpful when you include
them in your email marketing campaign. These reviews can help to attract a great
deal of attention especially when the reviews focus on the products you offer
and provide favorable reviews for these products. This type of information can
either be subjective in nature or can remain objective by simply specifying the
features of the products and offering other concrete pieces of information as
opposed to opinions of the products.
Advertising
Advertising is often a quite important part of an email marketing campaign.
This advertising may either be direct or indirect in nature. Direct advertising
may include banner ads or other graphical advertisements which encourage
website visitors to click through the link to reach either your website or a
sponsor’s website. Indirect advertising may apply to content in the copy of
featured articles which subtly encourage visitors to make a purchase or visit
your website. The indirect marketing in an email marketing campaign is usually
supporting the products or services you offer while direct marketing will
likely promote products and services offered by sponsors who paid to receive
advertising space on the email. Email recipients are usually well aware these
graphics are part of an advertisement and will choose to click on these links
when they have an interest in the products or services being offered.