26 May, 2012  |  Written by  |  under Email Marketing
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If you’re running an Email campaign, your first challenge is always getting people to actually read your emails. Without a decent open rate, your campaign won’t have a chance of getting off the ground. That’s why it’s essential that you understand how to write compelling subject lines that simply beg to be clicked.

 Few ways to ensure your email gets read:

1. Begin with a salutation: Your email ought to open by addressing the person you’re writing to. Sure, you'll be able to depart with leaving out the salutation when you’re dashing off an email to your friend.

2. Write briefly paragraphs: Get straight to the purpose – don’t waste time waffling. Split your email into 2 to four short paragraphs, all handling one plan. Think about using bullet-points for additional clarity, maybe if you are:

  • Listing many queries for the recipient to answer
  • Suggesting variety of different choices
  • Explaining the steps that you’ll be ending
  • Put a double line break, instead of an indent (tab), between paragraphs.

3. Stick to one topic: If you need to write to someone about several different issues (for example, if you’re giving your boss an update on Project X, asking him for a review meeting to discuss a pay rise, and telling him that you’ve got a doctor’s appointment on Friday), then don’t put them all in the same email. It’s hard for people to keep track of different email threads and conversations if topics are jumbled up.

4. Use capitals appropriately:Emails should follow the same rules of punctuation as other writing. Capitals are often misused. In particular, you should:

  •  Never write a whole sentence (or worse, a whole email) in capitals
  •  Always capitalize “I” and the first letter of proper nouns (names)
  •  Capitalize acronymns (USA, BBC, RSPCA)
  •  Always start sentences with a capital letter.

This makes your email easier to read: try retyping one of the emails you’ve received in ALL CAPS or all lower case, and see how much harder it is to follow!

5. Log off the e-mail: For short internal company emails, you'll be able to depart with simply putting a double area once your last paragraph then typing your name. If you’re writing a lot of formal email, though, it’s essential to shut it appropriately. Use yours sincerely, (when you recognize the name of your addressee) and yours faithfully, (when   you’ve addressed it to “Dear Sir/Madam”) for terribly formal emails like job applications.Use Best regards, or Kind regards, in most different things.

Even when writing to folks you recognize well, it’s polite to log off with one thing like “All the simplest,” “Take care,” or “Have a pleasant day,” before typing your name.

7. Behave yourself: Avoid sensitive subject areas, such as sex, race, religion and disabilities. Apart from being inappropriate email topics, especially in the workplace, you could find yourself in a lot of trouble over them. You may not think you are causing any harm, but others may think differently. You could end with a discrimination claim being made against you.

8. Tell recipients what action you want them to take: Be completely clear about the actions you want the recipients to take. Be specific and put all the material that is related to an action in one place. To get even faster responses, talk about how the action relates to the recipient's objectives, and always give due dates. It's also important to clarify what type of action you want the recipient to take. There are basically four types of actions you could request. If you make this level of detail clear, the recipient will be most likely to read the email and take the action right away. The four actions include:

Action: The recipient needs to perform an action. For example, "Provide a proposal for a 5% reduction in Travel & Entertainment expense."

Respond: The recipient needs to respond to your message with specific information. For example, "Let me know if you can attend the staff meeting at 9:00 A.M. on Friday."

 Read only: The recipient needs to read your message to make sure they understand something. No response is necessary. For example, "Please read the attached sales plan before our next staff meeting on August 12th."

    FYI only: The recipient should file your message for future reference. No response is necessary. In fact, even reading the message is optional. For example, "Enclosed for your records are your completed expense reports.

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Email Marketing MistakesWhether you’re new to email newsletter marketing business or a long time (Pro) Email Marketer, here are five common email marketing mistakes which is done by almost every email marketer.  

Even if you’ve made some mistakes, being real and genuine goes a long way. It not only perpetuates great content, but it attracts loyal subscribers.

 

 

Now, here are 5 email marketing mistakes:

1. Buying Lists

This is the number one mistake made by email marketers. It never pays to take shortcuts, and it will always cost you.

Buying a list will harm your business. In fact, it could put an end to your email marketing efforts all together!

This is what can happen:

  • Become blacklisted by your Internet Service Provider.
  • Fired by your email service provider.
  • Viewed as a spammer by those who you email on that list.
  • Ruin your business reputation.

Even if you try to keep it a “secret,” it will eventually catch up with you: “Where did you get these names from?”

2. Quantity Over Quality

Quality over quantity will always win out.

Just put yourself in the place of the recipient. If a recipient finds you in their inbox too often, you’ll be deleted before opening, and “marked as SPAM” if you’ve really crossed the line.

One email marketer I know shaved off almost 90 percent of his list after cleaning it up… but doubled his conversions! How does a smaller list improve conversion? It’s all about engagement. It’s interesting but when it comes to ISPs, they look at engagement when deciding to put your emails through. ISPs can see your metrics, so if you have a large list that’s pretty much dead, then they’ll suspect it’s a spam list.

3. Not Setting Expectations on Content, Frequency and Design

Don’t drop new subscribers straight into the mix.

Forgetting to setup a new subscriber introduction email is never a good idea.

If a new subscriber receives their first email newsletter, and it happens to be a little out of character, they may drop you straight away.

Give your new subscribers a feel for the content, frequency and a feel for the design of your newsletter. Use of autoresponders wold be great.

4. Focus on Open Rates

As easy as it is to focus on open rates, this should never be a measurement of success.

An open rate is the rate in which an email is opened.

That’s it.

An opened email metric is not a sale, an engaged reader or loyal subscriber.

It’s an opened email. That’s it.

5. Writing Content that is Boring or Re-purposed

Although I think reviewing pieces of popular, re-purposed content isn’t the end of the world, it is certainly not a centerpiece of strategy.

There’s nothing that leads to an unsubscribe than receiving an email full of something you’ve already seen, or long-winded marketing drivel.

Your relationship with your reader is the most important part of your email newsletter. You need their permission to market to them, which is the first step to building a great relationship. Now you need to send them useful content that tells them you care about them.

But that’s not enough… it has to be unique and useful. Bad email newsletter marketers will simply send rehashed blog posts, which is a bad idea. One selling point to entice subscribers is that your email newsletter is a place where you share special reports, information and findings.

For example, here are some good ways to think of the content you provide in your email newsletters:

  • Cornerstone content – This is the content that will make up most of what you give your readers… it’s what defines you. If you’re a SEO, then you’ll write about SEO. If you’re a graphic designer, you’ll give content based on graphic design.
  • Personal content – Don’t forget to share personal stories. Most of your readers will be around to learn what you have to say about your area of expertise. But sharing personal stories will build a great relationship with them.
  • Spicy content – Finally, you should also occasionally write posts. Write about a high-profile figure that you disagree with or something controversial. These email pieces are going to be the ones that probably get forwarded the most.
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