Saturday, December 27, 2008

Increase Your Network With Emails

By MLMAbsolute

In networking business, you need to network with people. The best way to maintain contact with people online is through Email Marketing. You can use it for many purposes; appreciation for joining/ purchasing, product updates, promotional updates.

The invent of online Network Marketing created a gap in the personal touch in marketing. You need to fill up the gap to succeed in Network Marketing

The only important thing you need to remember when doing MLM / Network Marketing is PEOPLE. You need to connect with people. Online, we call them leads. You need leads to have any sale. Not only you need leads, you need targeted leads, that is people who are interested in your product or services.

These are your potential cash cows. You need to follow up with them, update them regularly, forming a relationship. The purpose of doing this is to increase their awareness of your company or product. Imagine, today if you keep seeing the advertisement of, say, MacDonald's, the next time you make a decision on where to eat, you will probably be thinking of MacDonald's. You need to get them to see your advertisements. The easiest way is to send them emails.

Email Marketing is not just sending information and updates. There are many things you need to take note when doing Email Marketing. Here are some tips on how you can maximize the results from your Email Marketing Campaign.

Be Professional

When composing email-messages, you need to keep in mind some points to make your emails look more professional.

- Who are you?

People will see who sent them the email before opening them. This makes your email address very important. To look more professional, please refrain from using free email accounts like @gmail, @yahoo or @hotmail. Use something that your customer recognizes, such as your name or company name. e.g. support @yourcompanyname.com. Most hosting package gives you a number of emails account you can create under your own domain name.

The next factor to take note is your subject line. Keep it clear, concise, and under 50 words. You can try to create interest in readers in your subject line.

- Main body

After your reader decides to open your email, you have to grab this opportunity to sell your purpose to them. Identify your self and the purpose of your ourpose to them immediately. Keep the style of the email close to the style of your website. State the referrer if you have.

Skyrocket the Effectiveness of Your Emails

Increasing the effectiveness of your emails means to increase action rate. Action in terms of the people reading the emails to visiting the website. Here are 6 tips on how to improve your emails to increase your conversion rates.

- Focus on Branding

You need to brand yourself or the company in order to make people remember you. Good examples of branding are; The Rich Jerk, Success University, and many more. Stick with the brand image you created, and use it consistently in every email you send out. Put your Brand in the subject line, so people can recognise you instantly.

- Honesty

Be honest in your subject line. Don't trick them to opening the email with misleading or false information. Be cautioned that it is a requirement to state accurate subject line.

- Instill sense of urgency

Creating a sense of urgency will make the reader make a decision. You can instill the sense of urgency in readers by using words like "for the first 50 customers, Limited time, early bird discount" in the email to make readers feel the need to take action soon.

- Entice them

To further entice them to read our email, you can also give them some benefite to do so. Everybody likes free stuffs. Include a gift in your subject line to entice them to open the email. Some examples are; Get your free E-Book, Redeem your free trial, etc...

- Know your limits

Do not use too many bold, capital letters, bright colors, and punctuations( !!!!) in your text. It makes your text very confusing and distracting. But worst of all is that, the email filters may classify it as SPAM.

- Simple and Sweet

Personally I limit my emails to the main points of my purpose. Of course you should practice your own discretion as to the audience and purpose of the email.

*P.S. It is compulsory (legal requirement) for you to include an "unsubscribe tab" in your emails to reduce SPAM - 16003

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