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Monthly archives for January, 2009

What is the Right Frequency to Send your Emails?



When it comes to email marketing it is difficult to tell someone or a company exactly what the frequency of email distribution should be. Each business and audience will react differently. It is really up to you to figure out what that perfect frequency is.

The only way to really figure this out is to do as many tests as possible for a certain amount of time. keeping track of all statistics on opens and unsubscribes will be important. You will have to keep track of what time your email goes and and then analyze the data. Your best bet is to put all the info in a spreadsheet and do this for either three or six months to be able to make an accurate decision. After you have decided on a time frame to analyze this information make some small changes to your distribution schedule and then analyze the numbers to see what type of significant changes that occurred from the changes that you had made. This type of testing is very important so that your business is not missing out on any opportunities. Before you do this you will need to figure out if you want to send one or two emails out per day. Once you have made this decision then you can start to perform these tests. You could also as part of your test include increasing from one to two emails per week or the other way around.

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Don’t Forget to use Survey’s



Email marketing comes in many different shapes and colors and as a business you should really test as much as possible so you know what works and what doesn’t. By using an email survey periodically you can isolate information you are trying to look for.

Email surveys can allow you to find out information regarding your audience that normally would be difficult to dig up. There is a great deal of information you can find out to help clean up your marketing efforts. Just asking your email recipients will not get them to act. You have to offer something in order to get them to stop what they are doing and respond to your survey request. usually a free give away of some sort like a t-shirt, and iPod or Laptop will work, depending on your budget of course. When an email recipient or customer gives you detailed information on how large their family might be or any personal interests they will expect something in return. People in general will not divulge personal information if the chance of something coming there way doesn’t exist.

Here are some items of information that a survey can reveal:

Industry:This could be a very powerful piece of information. If your product spans across many verticals but you find out one is very top heavy that leaves room to either further target that industry or pick up slack in others.

Company Size: With this information you can target products in email campaigns that could isolate specific attributes of specific company sizes

Specific Marketing Efforts? If you can understand what type of marketing efforts your email recipients are currently executing you can target products and services according to those needs.

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