Crafting Your Own Email Marketing Plan

November 11, 2011 by  
Filed under Email Marketing

Article by Emily Bon

Most people trying to succeed with online business understand that an

email marketing plan can be one of the best tools to have by their

well thought out plan can make all of the difference in terms of the

success you see with your program and your efforts. Email marketing can

prospects into customers and much more. Still, you need to know how to

to your own advantage, so use these tips to begin unlocking the secrets

and take things to the next level.

List Building

Any email marketing plan has to start with list building, the actual

act of adding people’s names and addresses to your database to send out

emails. The first thing you have to do is never buy any list or

forums or other places on the Internet. All this does is fill your list

instantly, but that huge list will be filled with individuals who don’t

care what you’re selling and will mark you as SPAM because they don’t know you.

Instead, build your list with highly interested individuals, including

really are interested in what you have to say. These people can be

everyone from prospects and customers to employees, partners,

but one of the quickest and easiest ways is with a simple sign up

button on your website.

One of the most effective tools is a signup button on your website. Be

page. Then, to encourage people to make the leap, give them some kind

In order to get people to actually sign up however, you’ll need to give

them a reason for it. So offer them an incentive such as a free eBook,

as a free eBook filled with useful tips.

Turning Prospects into Paying Customers

Finding prospects is one thing, but an email marketing plan also has to

cover how to turn those prospects into customers, otherwise you won’t

interesting. Otherwise, it doesn’t matter how many names you have on

way to do this is to send out consistent messages filled with useful

kinds of topics related to your business or industry.

several different things. First, you’ll be staying in the minds of the

people on your list, and you’ll increase your reach. Second, you will

minds of your prospects at will. Then, coupled with the fact that

you’re increasing the trust in that relationship with your prospects,

you will find that over time all of those prospects will turn

When you’re ready to make your move, don’t forget to include a great

call to action. Never assume that people know what they are supposed to

what you want. This is a call to action, and you need to have an

effective, clear, easy to understand call to action that tells people

Tracking and Improving Performance

time to test out what you’re doing, and then to tweak your approach to

To improve the performance of the messages within your email marketing

few different groups, and sending each one a slightly different version

same email to each group and see what performs better. Use statistics

original message. You can change subject lines, email templates, the

into one super optimized, high performance message.

see which factors produce the best results for your business.

An email marketing plan can help you unlock the doors to success in the

With the right email marketing plan by your side, you can accomplish

directly and in the long term, improve your reputation and more, and

business, and you can see them all for a very low, cost effective and

on your strategies, the sooner you’ll start to reap the benefits as

producing these great results.

Want to find out more about WAHM Marketing, then visit Emily Bon’s site on how to choose the best email marketing plan for your needs.

About the Author

For about 10 years now I am a work at home mom who has learned about running a small home business. My background has been a decade-long successful wedding business, Master’s in Internet Marketing, and consulting wonderful moms on how to market their businesses.

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