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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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?

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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Can your marketing teams work in isolation?

You cannot generate leads when your teams are not working in sync with each other. You have to have all the teams working, if not at the same time, atleast in such a way that they support each other.

Along with the social media marketing what is more trending these days is the inbound marketing. Its when you create such compelling content that attracts your leads to land on your website. A proper analysis will help you om understanding what attracted whom to your website.

Many companies who took up this inbound marketing strategy, spent huge sum on getting people create attractive content. However, just with these content, you cannot generate all the online leads you expect on your site. You have to use some outbound marketing strategies to promote them on social mediums, and through advertising and promotion. With valuable content in your hand, advertising to promote that content is both effective and desirable.

Online leads works in getting both, inbound and outbound in sync.

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Enabling Email campaigns to work

Creating an email marketing campaign is easy, regardless of the skill level or experience one has. However, when opted for email marketing services, many of them include a wizard to help you through the creation of your email, newsletter or survey.

You can test and try its effectiveness, its appearance and deliverability, before you actually start the campaign. Wording and images help in ensuring that the email providers won't mark it as spam and that your subscribers won't find it in their junk mailboxes. Some direct email marketing services also link to popular social networking sites to maximize the reach of your email campaign.

However, these email marketing services are not helpful if they are not easy to use. It's important that you choose an email marketing service that is easy to use. Whether or not you know the ins and outs of email campaigns, HTML coding or how to use monitoring reports and statistics, the service you choose should provide the tools and explanations necessary to help you easily create an effective campaign.

If you are one of the email marketing service providers, you have to provide help options to get your clients started, include a user manual, a wizard to walk them through the creation and monitoring of their email campaign, FAQs, a blog, tutorials and articles that explain how to create effective campaigns. Support be provided to contact the company by email, phone or live chat.

Email marketing services are an excellent way for your business to regularly communicate with your email subscribers and customers. Regular newsletters and advertising email campaigns allows companies to grow their business effectively, and surveys give them valuable feedback and keep them on track.

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Make the best use of campaign reporting

Writing mails and shooting them to the entire database could be easy, but do they really help you reap any benefits. Not really. That’s why Email marketing services have come into existence.

Apart from a predefined template, personalization buttons and segmented targeted list, Email marketing services provide reports, graphs and statistics that show you how your email campaign is doing. You can analyze how many customers have clicked your emails, opened, downloaded and even which links did they spend maximum time on.

You can also see how many people have unsubscribed and how many forwarded your emails on to the others. These reports also let you know how many emails bounced, or didn't reach their intended destination, and how many are still unopened. Some email services work with Google Analytics to give you even more data to contribute to a successful campaign. Most email marketing services help you maintain your list of contacts by automatically deleting email addresses that bounce.

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What to look for in an Email Marketing Services

Email marketing services has become an inevitable part of every marketing strategy. It seems difficult at the first stage, and when done without much focus, it loses out its authenticity. However, when done properly, creating an email campaign could be as simple as adding names to a database, customizing an easy-to-use template and looking at how effective your emails are via simple pie charts and bar graphs.

While investing on an email marketing service, you have to look for

• Services that offer intuitive tools
• Services that will help you quickly upload your list of contacts
• Products that gives you the flexibility to adjust the designs on your email marketing messages
• Companies worth reflecting your company's image

In addition to up-to-date designs, companies also have to search for products that are easy to learn and use so that you can invest your time with your customers instead of online chat with tech support.

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