Understanding Email Marketing 101 - List Building That Works

By Wilson Resturbee


It is a common occurrence to encounter email marketing strategies that are promoted everyday. Everybody is trying to sell some book or some course on flashy methods for making more money from your list. You might be one of the people that wants to try a course like this, simply because your email marketing strategies are not doing too well. The important thing is to ignore these shiny new things, and get back to basics, in order to "reinvigorate" your list and start making money again. You can get careless and forget the foundations from which you began to make money with your list, something that happens to all of us. So when you need guidance to get through this rough time, returned to the basics. Let's look at some strategies for doing this.

Your email messages should tested for effectiveness. You should be testing everything in IM because it is essential, but email marketing tends to make it a lot easier than it would be with a site or articles.

Great customer service should be one of the main factors that influences your decision when it comes to selecting a list service provider. You want to be able to talk to a real person if you run into problems. Even if this doesn't have much to do with direct selling, it is critical that all your emails get to the right place and this is helpful.

Let people who have unsubscribed from your list go. Panic sets in with many email marketers and they try to save the lone "duckling" that has wandered off by badgering them into coming back. Ensure their email has been removed from your list of subscribers and send a simple message saying you're sad they are leaving. If somehow their email is still on your list and you've been sending them messages, then send them a personal apology. They might even return on their own after they see that.

It's easy to try and work overtime to attempt to fix things when your sales and subscriber numbers start falling. You'll only antagonize people. Going back to basics is the only way to fix those numbers. You have a good foundation in place for a very good reason, right? You'll be surprised at how quickly you can recover once you concentrate on applying what worked for you in the beginning.




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