Email Marketing

 How to do email marketing?

Email marketing is an act of sending a commercial message typically to a group of  people using email

Email marketing is used by thousands of businesses of all sizes across the globe.

 

Benefits of Email Marketing

1. Low costs

One of the most obvious advantages of email marketing is its lower cost compared to mainstream marketing channels.

There are no print or postage costs and no fees paid in exchange for exposure on a certain billboard, magazine or television channel.

But Email marketers should consider investing in specialist software to automate, track and evaluate their emails.

 

2. Reach an already engaged audience

Email marketing is one of the only channels that consumers ask to receive.

The majority of businesses using the platform only send messages to those who have signed up to receive them.

 

3.Drive revenue

Marketing Week reports that email generates around £29bn retail sales annually.

Use psychology in email marketing to help improve your results.

Use AIDA(Awareness,Interest,Desire,Action) model in advertising

 

4.Easy to share

Subscribers can forward brilliant deals and offers to their friends at the click of a button

 

 

5.Reach a global audience

Social Media marketing platform lets you instantly send a message to thousands of people across the world – but there’s no telling who’s actually reading your content.

 

6.Instant impact

Due to the immediacy of email, a business can start seeing results within minutes of its emails being sent.

A 24-hour flash sale is a brilliant marketing deploy that can be utilised by email, as it creates a sense of urgency and convinces subscribers to take immediate action.

Businesses typically have to wait weeks until they see sales come in as a result of print or broadcast campaigns .

STEPS in Email Marketing

1.       Acquire a database of email ids.

2.       Segment(subset) the database into lists based on:

·         Demographics

·         Location

·         Acquired marketing channel

3.       Signup for email service providers.

Some popular email service providers are,

·         Mailchimp

·         Benchmarkemail

·         Amazon Simple Email Service

·         Aweber

4.       Create a email campaign

5.       Select the email list and send

 

 

Creating Email campaign using MailChimp

Mail chimp has a way of providing free emails  upto  a certain level.

No need to put credit card information to use this service.

 Goto MailChimp.com and signup.

 

Click on continue and then enter some personal details like address

Finally you see campaigns , Audience(Lists) , Reports…

 

Now select “campaigns”

Then click on “Create Campaign”

Now select “Email” in the upcoming dialog box.

Next give campaing name

Now click on “Begin”

In the next screen select “Add recipients”

Now in the next screen, select  “Import contacts”

Now choose “Integrated service” and then “Google contacts”

Now click on “Continue Setup “ button which will be in the bottom of the screen

Now in the next screen and click on “Continue to Match”  while selecting  all  fields.

Make sure you click on “I understand “check box “ then only “Continue To Match “ button enabled in the bottom

 

 

Now if you find “skip All” then click on it.

“SkipAll” will appear if  FirstName , LastName , Title , Organization , Address(W,H,O) not available for your email contacts.

Later click on “ContinueToOrganise” button

Now in the next screen , Select “News letter “  for  “Tag All Contacts” and choose “subscribed” as status of these contacts.

Also check “update existing contacts”

Now click on  “Continue To Review “ button

Now in the next screen , click “Import”

 

Now enter “From “  ,  “Subject “ and “Content” fields.

Finally when you click on “Design Email” àSelect Templateà choose “Basic” -à”one column” and click on it.

 

Now upload an image in “Logo” column.

And give some description about the news in the next column.

 

you can click on “continue” to continue the campaign.

Finally click on “Send”

Finally have a look at  “reports” menu

You can see how many people opened your mail and how many clicked on the links 

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