Rules of Email Marketing - Part 2

You are aware of the first five thumb rules of your Email Marketing. The last five are crucial too as they help in ensuring that your mails are delivered to the inbox and not filtered off mid way. 
The last five rules are

1. To ensure that your mails are delivered, you may start your mail with message that says that ‘to ensure that you do not miss out on any of our mails, you may add our info@companyname.com to your address book.  
2. Avoid sending mails from names like info, subscribers, news, administrator etc. Try using names of people working with you and keep it consistent. A reader decides to open your mail or not in a fraction of a second. Unless your name is familiar to them, they will not open the mail. 
3. Some can receive only text messages and some HTML messages. Ensure that your messages are both in HTML as well as in text format.
4. To ensure that your mails are not filtered by the spam filters, make sure that you do not use all caps and exclamation marks in your subject line. 
5. Build your list at every opportunity you have. Use sign up forms, call to action buttons and everything possible to ensure your customers come back to you.

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Rules of email marketing - Part 1

Everything has certain set of rules which has to be followed. Many do bend the rules for some quick results. Quick results are possible, but when you follow the rules, your return is for the long run. 

Similarly there are certain rules, time tested rules of generating Email Marketing Leads. It is due to its success that these patterns have become rules today. OnlineLeads has collated the top 10 rules which will be shared in 2 parts.

1. Do not spam. Send mails to those who have opted in to receive your mails. 
2. Take time in creating some original content for relevant target. Segmented data should be ideally used and content have to be tailored for each target segment 
3. Send your emails on an automated and regular basis. It doesn't matter how often you write, but whatever is the frequency you have chosen, you better follow it. 
4. Not just the frequency, but also make sure that your mails do not reach your customers while they are planning their weekend. The best times to send your B2B mails is from Tuesday to Thursday, just when the day begins or just after the lunch break. 
5. However, the formulas change from B2B to B2C. when the mails are being sent to customers, you can send them post 5 pm till 8 pm and also during weekend. 

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• Giving you access to the email addresses of C-level executives and decision makers 
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We offer Email Appending Services by using our large master database and with the help of our proprietary verification technology. 

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Callers for million dollars

Hello ****.
I am calling from *****
We have some great offers and you might be interested
We will not take much time
When shall I call you back
Blah blah bhah ...

Despite registering with the 'Do not call' registry, these calls still continue to haunt you. As a customer, you have only heard of these Telemarketers who would try to push certain offers, irrespective of their need and necessity. Although, these marketers are being used for pushing every other service, Telemarketing leads can bring in a huge difference to your business.

Telemarketing teams can be proficiently used for promoting a business to upsell, cross sell and even for things like Appointment Setting, Breakfast Meeting etc. Telemarketing can bring in a huge number of sales to a business, once a positive image of the company is projected. Many goof up in this, when they try to be extra friendly, they end up being too intrusive. The conversation sounds more rehearsed than natural.

The job of a telemarketer is not just making calls. There is more to it. When done proficiently, you can see the difference in your revenue. The need for Telemarketers are huge and getting the perfect professional pick is not a matter of luck, but a possibility.

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Be the first with Market Research

Market research is not just looking around at the market and planning your next move. Many businesses are under the impression that, if they look at what their competitors are doing, then they would get a fair idea of the market. But unfortunately, it’s not that simple. You have to spend some time and put in some efforts to understand what is happening in the market and planning ahead of it.

• Who is your target audience? 
• What is their requirement? 
• When do they need it? 
• Which is the best place to sell it? 
• How do you take your product to your target audience? 
• What is the reason behind this need? 
• What is your competitor’s next step? 
• What are the changing market trends? 

The biggest mistake committed by most of the companies is that, they track their competitors. When the competitor launches ‘Product A’, you launch product A1 which will act as competition to Product A. Doing this, all that you do is follow your competitors. Its called as launching a Duplicate.

Why not be the first one at every step? Market Research does not promote you in mocking your competitor but will help in keeping you updated about your competitor’s next move. Tracking this, you can plan your next step in advance, and be ahead of your competitors.

When a Market Research professional does this job, he gets involved in collecting, recording and making sense of all the available information which will help a business unit to understand its market. The research will help in answering questions such as –

Market research helps firms in planning their future instead guessing their future. Request a Quote to know what Market research can do to your business

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Make your followers your fans

Social media marketing is not an easy task. At the same time it’s not that difficult too. Whenever OnlineLeads has come across the social media marketing requests from the small businesses, all that they want to know is how could they get more fans and followers.

But what they usually fail to understand that they already have a large following. How do you turn those fans into customers is all you need to know?

That's the challenge social media and public relations consultants are taking care of. Online leads has a team of professionals for whom this is just as simple as their daily chore.

Social media marketing is the online way of word of mouth advertising. A prevailing presence of company on various social media sites not only helps connect with customers but builds better relationships, drives repeat business, attracts new customers and increases conversion rates.

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Are you getting personal with your clients?

Don't you feel good when somebody talks to you by addressing your name. Similarly, just imagine all your conversations with your customers are addressed with their name. How good they would feel.

We have found that our best results in e-mail marketing are closely coupled to how well we customize the content. Based on the context, we use e-mail in a variety of ways. Primarily, we’re trying to help our users take the next step in their next purchase. For example, if buyers searched for and looked at an item but did not purchase it, the goal is to help them find a similar product and complete the transaction at very attractive price. If they lost something, we want to help them find another item like the one they lost at a great price.

There is, of course, a balance to be struck. Not every interaction can be entirely personalized; we would quickly be repeating the same message if we relied only on personalization. As a result, we mix personalized messages with popularity-based messages. Even here, though, we try to be targeted, letting buyers’ activity help us understand the best categories in which to recommend merchandise.

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6 common mistakes on landing page

Despite having a great, well thought landing page you are always failing to capture leads as much as you deserve. There are many mistakes which happen in the landing page design. However, certain things which shouldn't be included in the perfect landing page, when done it does make a difference. At times the wrong thing might work perfectly well for certain businesses, and many a times, it’s just opposite.

However, certain rules remain constant for all. Many companies to save up their expenses use local professionals to create landing pages, which usually lands nowhere. Not in the search engine and not even in the minds of the customers.

So what are the biggest mistakes made while designing a landing page? OnlineLeads lists out the most common mistakes regularly made on landing pages. This includes

1. Inclusion of the main navigation. This is a distraction and may lead your customers to escape and land on some other page before they get lost 
2. Not matching the Headline of the Landing Page to the Corresponding CTA – this is important because it is the one which show the link between the visit and the form filling 
3. Too much of content - Ever heard of the adage less is more. It is perfect for the landing pages. Lesser the content better does it work 
4. No specific benefits of the offer are spoken. This is what happens in most of the landing pages which have everything but the benefits of the offer. 
5. The social sharing buttons are missing. And even if the image exits, they are not linked. 
6. Companies end up designing just one Landing- Ideally when it comes to landing pages, it’s always better to have more.

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What’s your rank in the search?

SEO is a new term, but is not alien to those who are professionally involved with it. When your brand is not in the top search page, then the possibility of getting good returns through online leads is very poor. Companies have to invest quite a bit of their time and professional expertise on their search rankings.

Being found on the search portal is not the only role and objective of the SEO, but it has a lot more to do with it. The major elements of an SEO includes 

• Rankings 
• Backlinks 
• Traffic 
• Bounce rate 
• Conversions 
• Profit

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Making you understand - Customers

If it is for sale, it has an ideal customer. Isn't it? Whenever your product is designed you have your customers in your mind. But what happens most of the time is that the customer focus is lost when you have a lot of customers.

That’s when you need a tool which can help you in understanding your customers. Its not all that hard, atleast when it’s with us. OnlineLeads mission is to help our members easily understand their visitors, so they can make good decisions to become more successful online.

We have set out a number of founding principles to support this aim which includes Fast, Responsive, Quick loading Service. There are many webmasters, bloggers, marketers and other website owners who are frustrated their existing web analytics tool and are wanting a fast loading service that wouldn't slow down their website.

OnlineLeads excels in providing client-specific services. Our web analytics experts analyze a website to unearth visitor behavior and their experience on the website. Based on data collected, our experts recommend changes to a website, so as to make it more user-friendly and bring about an increase in conversion rate.

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Are your landing pages news jacked?

One of the best ways of being on top in the business is by being in the news. Remember when Kate Middleton got married in April of 2011, her wedding dress was the talk of the town. No matter what the forte of each designer was, they came up with the similar wedding dresses to promote them in style.

All the headlines, tags and descriptions had Kate’s taste etched into it. Why? Because Kate and her wedding dress was in use and everybody were trying to newsjack this event.

When something is buzzing big time, it creates high demand. Companies often leverage newsjacking for this type of technique and it works very well for offers, too.

Definitely in a B2B business you cannot talk about the wedding dress design, however you can talk about how it was marketed and it worked well for the brand name. When your offers are newsjacked, you can optimize your landing page and generate a lot of prospective leads.

OnlineLeads can help you generate more leads when you speak about your strengths in your offer.

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What drives your brand?

Different companies have different modes to drive their brand name. There are many marketing vehicles that can drive home your brand message. Some of the best vehicle which can drive your brand can be

• Public relations and publicity  
• Trade shows  
• Phone directories   
• Online (your website, blog, social media such as Twitter and Facebook, advertising) 
• Broadcast media (television, radio)  
• Print media (newspapers, magazines, specialty publications)  
• Print displays and direct mail (brochures, fliers, signage) 
• Professional assistance (consultants, designers, and agencies)

OnlineLeads has its potential in driving traffic from all the directions. Its expertise lies in all the mentioned mediums. One of the major aspects that business owners often overlook, is thinking about how to maximize those brand communications activities that they are currently using.

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Lead management a necessity

From the minute a lead enters your webpage till he makes the final purchase, a lot goes into it. The time in between plays a major role in converting ensuring that the lead converts and remains with you and not anywhere else.

The process of lead management is crucial in making the convert happen. OnlineLeads has a professional experience in lead management and making the leads take the final call to convert. We hear you asking the question why lead management is necessary. It is necessary because 

• It helps to convert online traffic into leads using dynamic landing pages and progressive forms 
• It is easy to measure evolving lead quality with automated lead scoring based on multiple dimensions 
• You can develop raw inquiries into sales-ready leads via relevant, personalized lead nurturing campaigns

With OnlineLeads you can automatically qualify more prospects and quickly develop them into sales ready leads. Want to take a try?

Did you thank your customer?

Yes. Although we are taught to thank all those who show or express their gratitude towards us in cash or kind, this is often forgotten when we grow up. In businesses we take our customers for granted. We do the business but forget to thank them for choosing us.

Just imagine how difficult it would be for our customers to take the decision and chose us over so many of our competitors. Don’t they deserve a thank you atleast? 

Having a thank you page with navigation to your main webpage is essential. When someone completes a form on your website, don’t stop there. Increasing engagement is important for marketers so that prospects turn into loyal fans.

Once someone reaches a thank you page - the page that a visitor arrives on after completing a form, you can use that space as an opportunity to promote more offers and content. 

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Are your leads lost in transit?

Many prospects who are routed through offers and CTAs fail to get captured or converted after they land on the landing page. This could be because of a number of reasons like poor visibility, lack of catchy forms, poor color contrast etc.

Every landing page has to be optimized and OnlineLeads helps in creating landing page optimization. A landing page usually has a lot of elements which cannot be taken for granted. 

The main elements include

• A headline with a sub-headline 
• Description about the offer 
• A catchy supporting image 
• A quote from a customer 
• A security badge 
• And a easy to fill up form to capture leads

Not just having all these elements in your landing page will guarantee leads. You need to know how, where and what to be incorporated.

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Offers that cannot be missed

The offers in your webpage which boasts of the success of your customers will succeed only when the offers are done well. An amazing and unavoidable offer holds the key to your success as well as your customers.

Marketers are humans and so are our customers. And it’s very easy to lure a human into buying something by speaking about the benefits he would gain by just the purchase. The offers are designed in such a way that its ultimate goal is to get people to say “yes” to our offers. 

OnlineLeads in his lead marketing package makes its offers exclusive, scarce, and in high demand, which always becomes more desirable. Whether they are whitepapers, free trials, memberships, sales promotions, or download, these irresistible elements can overcome a lead’s typical friction, doubt, or concern. 

OnlineLeads offers are usually designed in such a way that it can trigger a physiological reaction that makes an offer more valuable. 

We hear you ask, so how do you create irresistible offers?

Gaining through scarcity tactic

Ever wondered how to convert most of your visitors into customers? With great offers!
A professional like OnlineLeads can help you generate the maximum number of leads through creating irresistible offers. This is an offer which ends by the end of this month.

Did this trigger a chord in your mind? Are you planning to call up Onlineleads immediately to avail the service? We are open to your requests at any point in time, including now.

However, what made you think about grabbing the offer immediately is the limited offer that triggered your mind. If you look at the principle of supply and demand, you will understand that when supply is limited, demand goes up. Scarcity usually has a psychological influence on us, making us want something even more if there isn't enough to go around. Scarcity is great because it creates a fear of shortage, and thus a sense of urgency.

Through limited time bound, quality bound, first come first serve basis, you are sure to gain in the number of leads. It’s not just the limited offer but the way this limited offer is positioned and marketed plays a major role in marketing. When offers end within a certain time frame, and have limited number of people who can buy makes big impact.

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Making lead generation a cake walk

One of the biggest challenges faced by most marketers is that of generating high number of quantity as well as quality leads. A perfect lead generation engine is what keeps the funnel full of sales prospects even when you are in your deep sleep.

Surprisingly, only 1 in 10 marketers feel their lead generation campaigns are effective. There can be a lot of moving parts in any lead generation campaign and often times it’s difficult to know which parts need fine tuning.

OnlineLeads with its lead generation services can help companies to expose the top techniques marketers should utilize to increase leads and revenue. These tactics have been tested over the years and have been used by most of our clients.

So what goes into a best-of-class lead generation engine? 

The route to successful lead generation

There are a number of ways of lead generation and every brand and every individual uses it according to their comfort. The comfort could be dependent on the cost, people, brand etc. But a lead generation process has a number of mechanics which makes it to stand out.

Lead generation being the most important part of any brand name’s customer base, high priority is given to this segment of marketing. OnlineLeads talks here about some of the most practical and tactical perspective, according to which a marketer needs four crucial elements to make inbound lead generation happen.

• Offer 
• CTA 
• Landing page 
• Form

An offer is like the candy you show your customers so that you can lure them into buying knowing more about your company. This is a piece of content that is perceived of great value. Offers can include compelling ebooks, whitepapers, free consultations, coupons and product demonstrations. If this works, the rest just follows

A call-to-action (CTA) is the medium used to download or experience your offr. This could i=be in plain text, an image or a button that links directly to a landing page so people can find and download your offer.

A landing page, is a dedicated page which will explain your customers about the offer and not about you or your company. This is not a webpage, but a specialized page that contains information about one particular offer, and a form to download that offer.

Once you have your customers reach till your landing page, he has to take a decision. This decision can be captured when you have a form Forms will collect contact information from a visitor in exchange for the offer.

OnlineLeads is focused mainly at capturing a high number of leads in a less given time. Want to generate more leads for your company?

Get a bigger market bite

Gone are the days where you can get away with trial and error system to gain market share. Things have changed to a more strategic approach where you have to do what works.

The true winners of the future will understand that it's all about creating quality for your audience where they'll remember you. This not only applies to digital, but marketing as a whole. You have to deliver what is in demand, and stick by it to make it work.

What does creating a brand mean? It means creating something that makes people like and remember you. If you can get those two parts right, the sales will flow in. Quality will be the only answer as technology and people continue to evolve.

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