Friday, August 31, 2012

How to Qualify Prospects for a Successful Email Campaign and Achieve Brand Loyalty


An email campaign entails formulating advertising messages for your goods or services that are targeted to your internal and external customers for the purpose of building relationships as well as acquiring new relationships. Email campaigns consist of electronic sales letters, flyers, cards which are geared towards increasing your customer base and building brand loyalty.
It can be quite challenging especially for a new internet marketer to learn the ropes of getting quality email addresses of genuine potential customers to target for your online advertising message. However, all is not lost because there are some tried and true methods that have been used over time to genuinely qualify your prospect list for successful email campaign. These methods will guarantee an increase in your customer base, sales output and build customer loyalty.
When preparing email marketing campaigns, we suggest that you tailor your advertising message to the right audience you are targeting. This will entail ample research of your audience likes and dislikes, demographics, location, e.t.c. The idea is to make your articles or emails relevant and action oriented as possible. Your goal is to illicit your prospect to always want to open and read your emails because you always 'hit the right spots'.
Always schedule your emails according to your prospects availability. Entice your audience with promotions, discounts, freebies to get them to sign up for your email campaign list. Once you have a sizeable number, it will be prudent to conduct a customer survey to gather data on the frequency of emails they would like to receive, suggestions of possible topics to cover, ways to improve articles so that you always give the customer what they want.
Lastly, it's advisable to use the email addresses you have acquired over time not only to sell your products or services but to forge strong bonds and hence build customer loyalty. These bonds that have been forged over time are rather sensitive and need to be treated with special care because they can always extricate their address from your mailing list, if they sense that your main agenda is self promotion. Always remember that your sole ambition of using email campaign is to establish and position your business and create that top of mind awareness as a trusted provider of a particular product or service. It's by creating this customer loyalty and credibility that will result in a stream of loyal customers and by extension an increase in sales.
In order to be a successful online marketer or promoter you need to learn everything there is to know about promoting products, agendas, services on the internet. Consistency is key in getting your brand name known in the internet world.


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