Maximizing Impact: How Email Marketing Benefits Businesses of All Sizes
Email marketing is one of the oldest forms of digital marketing and it’s still a powerful tool for businesses of all sizes to generate sales, build brand awareness, encourage customer loyalty and nurture prospects to become paying customers. However, despite its age, email marketing can be intimidating for many small business owners who are not sure where to start or how to get the most out of their campaigns. Maximizing Impact: How Email Marketing Benefits Businesses of All Sizes provides an in-depth look at how to best use email for business growth and customer engagement.
Unlike social media, email is direct and personal, so it has the ability to have more of an impact on your audience. For this reason, it’s a great way to connect with prospective and existing customers to drive engagement and sales, build trust, and create a sense of community among your audiences.
In a world where the coronavirus pandemic has significantly cut down foot traffic to retail locations and websites, email is one of the most effective ways for businesses of all sizes to announce a sale, share company news or remarket to existing customers. In fact, according to DMA’s Consumer Email Tracker 2021 report, relevance surpassed discounts and offers as the main reason why consumers like to receive emails from brands they do business with.
For smaller businesses looking to grow their reach and sales without investing a lot of time or money, email marketing is an ideal way to do so. With a large percentage of your audience already opting-in to receive emails from you (and with the ability for them to unsubscribe at any time), it’s a channel that can easily and efficiently be used to generate sales, nurture leads, promote new products or services, and much more.
When it comes to creating an email marketing strategy, it’s important that you have a clear understanding of your audience and what your goals are for each campaign. Segmenting your audience based on demographics, location, browsing history, email engagement, content preferences, and other data points allows you to deliver highly personalized content to your subscribers. This increases relevancy, which ultimately drives email opens and engagement.
It’s also important to create clear and enticing call-to-actions in each email. This will help your audiences know what to do next, whether that’s click on a link, visit your website, purchase a product or service, share your blog post on social media or reply to your email with questions. By defining the purpose of each email, you can ensure that your campaigns are always on-track to meet and exceed their objectives.
Once you have a clear understanding of your target audience and how to best reach them through email, you’re ready to start building your subscriber list. There are a number of ways to do this, including running competitions on social media or offering your blog subscribers the option to sign up to receive your emails in return for a regular stream of informative content.
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