Getting Started with Email Marketing
Before you get overwhelmed with the vast possibilities of email marketing, let’s break down a few key steps to get you started building a strong email campaign that will delight your customers. You can think of these steps as the way to create a successful email marketing strategy. Create an Email Marketing Strategy Each of your customers receives 121 emails every day. That means, if you don’t take the time to develop a strategy, your emails will get lost in crowded inboxes, or worse, be sent to the spam folder. You can learn how to build an effective email strategy and send emails that people actually want to read. It just takes a plan (one that can be broken down into a few key steps). Think of the following five steps as an outline for your email strategy. We’ll dive deeper into some of these in a moment. 1. Define Your Audience An effective email is a relevant email. Like everything else in marketing, start with your buyer persona, understand what they want, and tailor your email c...