Posts Tagged ‘email marketing’

Increase Email Effectiveness Now With These Key Tips

January 19, 2012

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By now you’ve sent enough in the way of Newsletters and Custom Promotions to know the basics. Here are a few tips on how to supercharge your Newsletters and Custom Promotions to get what you really want from email marketing – more business:

Tweak your subject lines so your customers are enticed to want more.

The subject line is the awesome new sign you put outside your business so people walking across the street are curious enough to walk in and check things out. Here are some tips to make your Email Subject Line pop and increase open rate:

  1. Keep your subject line under 45-50 characters. Many email clients cut you off right around there.
  2. Segmentation is important here – you can have a friendlier tone with customers who’ve been in more recently, but perhaps you want to be more formal with your inactive customer base.
  3. If you have an incentive in your email, try to include it in your subject line message.

Here are some great enticing subject lines from my inbox just today:
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“all caps vs. ALL CAPS” – Your Data Quality Makes a Difference In Experience

May 11, 2011

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Please join me in welcoming a new member to our team – Brittney. If you’ve called in for assistance recently, chances are you’ve already worked with her! Brittney’s point on the importance of data quality is critical to small businesses. Time flies by so fast that it’s difficult to focus on making sure the information being added to your database is clean. Take a few extra seconds to slow down so you can give your customers the online marketing experience you want to. Enjoy!  ~ Annie

Emails, text messages, and chats have become popular forms of communication for everyday users of the internet and modern technology. These communications are efficient, but it becomes difficult to decipher tone from content. It is up to the users to make sure that messages are conveyed as true to the original intent as possible. (more…)

Email Marketing Best Practices: Stand Out From The Masses

February 16, 2011

5130704003 554ca5449f Email Marketing Best Practices: Stand Out From The MassesWe are lucky that Esther decided to join Demandforce – she has a heavy background in email marketing and this blog post shows it. Enjoy! ~ Annie

You are one small fish in a big pond of businesses that have caught on to the email-marketing train. Amidst the many that get mailed on a daily, scratch that, on an hourly basis, the question is how do you prevent your email from being ignored? How do you make your email stand out by first making it into the inbox and second capturing the attention of the reader?

There are a few simple tips to capturing and keeping the attention of your readers. Follow these and you will find that your email is reaching more inboxes and being read by more readers! (more…)