Setting up and operating an email marketing business is one of the best ideas you can have, as email marketing is considered as one of the most effective methods in enabling the direct approach of a large amount of potential and existing clients. Moreover outsourcing is something that companies seek for in a significantly rising degree, as it can be a cost effective and time freeing method for them. These are mainly the reasons why email marketing companies today flourish, however if you are one of them you need to consider some elements that make the company stand out for its standards and services.
First of all you should keep in mind that businesses that seek your services consider email marketing as a crucial component of their entire marketing campaign. This means that it is of significant importance that you meet their needs and deadlines and achieve the goals they have first of all envisioned. You should be able to work fully professionally and effectively, gathering data and information for your work, building the right mailing lists, targeting correctly the market groups and performing all series of necessary actions for a successful campaign.
If you want to be among the top services you need to provide great services such as:
Creation of email messages with well appointed and quality content that look both creative and inspiring so as to achieve a good response rate.
Perform a series of tasks, like updating the subscription lists often, incorporating new members and deleting the non existing, trying to find new subscribers and working parallel campaigns that can bring more customers and more subscribers for your lists.
Provide a series of data information to the buyer, such as rates, percentage of clients who respond, number of emails sent and emails opened or deleted, click-through ratios, and any kind of feedback you get.
Of course in order to be able to do so you need some good software which is functional and easy to use that allows you as professionals to work faster and more efficiently. Personalizing the messages you sent, keeping good records and track of the emails, offering templates and editorial services to clients who don’t wish for the whole package but rather some particular services, and most important constant contact with the clients and buyers, through a customer service support that should be available at least during business hours and that can provide help and meet requirements of all clients at all times are a few things that a good email marketing company should endeavor to provide.
Setting up and working as an email marketing company is not the easiest thing to do if you are not up to working professionally and seriously. Especially if you are new to the business prepare yourself for some long hours, because you need to establish yourself in the market and make companies and individuals trust you.
Keeping a good record and a track of your email marketing campaign can be a really time consuming and difficult task, especially since there are so many rules and circumstances that are completely out of your control and your expertise. This is not something bizarre or unusual. Especially if you are a beginner, tracking your email marketing results can be a nightmare. Let’s see some of the things you should keep in mind when tracking down your results and what you should be looking out for.
The rate of delivery and opening is most crucial for every email marketing campaign because it is the most important factor for the amount of traffic you will get and the potential clients you will gain. Spam filters and folders, black lists and particular email rules, usually in built by the ISPs are your main enemies, and can significantly affect the delivery of the emails and of course your total rates. Tracking bounce rates is the first thing you should do. Your provider can grant you access to that with some simple work, so as to be able to track the bounce rates from your management panel. If you figure out that a large amount of emails don’t get to their destinations, then you need to do some simple things to ensure that this will not keep happening.
- Ask your clients to add you to their email white lists.
- Use the same email address always.
- Respond to spam reports. This is crucial because it can save your business and your campaign if you respond fast enough.
Once you know that your email is delivered, it is important to see who is opening it and who is not. If you use HTML designed email then that is easy, because there are logos and prints you can use that load when somebody opens the email, giving you the desired information for your records. Of course if you want to get a better ratio of emails sent and opened you need to do a few things
- Make your email look professional and interesting. People receive many similar emails every day, so yours should stand out somehow.
- Use well appointed keywords and eye catching titles.
In order to have full and credible records you need to track down the email’s life for at least 7 days, although the first 60 hours are the most crucial, as 90% of the emails are opened within that time. If you think you cannot keep a good track of that you need to either consult with an expert or buy an email management software and service that can facilitate the procedure for you and make your tracking records really helpful and efficient, so that you can benefit from statistics and make your work even better.
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