I’m sure there are obvious reason why email marketing is important to any growing business but many business and website owners really don’t realize just how powerful a properly though out email marketing campaign really is. With sales cycles growing and increasing your business must constantly be reminding people that you exist. Not only through sites like Twitter but email marketing as well.
Whether you are selling products online or offering a service you must find a way to consistently place yourself and your business in the eyes of your audience. If a website visitor leaves behind their email address it is because they want to hear from you again. Which means simply, send them stuff! sales cycle are not what they used to be. From the time someone first comes to your website or speaks with you until they time they are ready to actually purchase something it is important to keep in contact. If already perform a regularly scheduled email marketing campaign than you are one step ahead of the game. During that potential clients thought process you will repeatedly land in their inbox with a friendly newsletter reminding them that you are still around. Chances are that potential client or customer will search around for other online businesses before they pull the trigger with yours and there is a great deal of room for distraction out there. Email marketing could help you reduce that sales cycle if done right. Even if it is only once per month it is better than not sending your email subscribers anything.
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Do you Want More Email Subscribers?
Are you curious as to why people don’t sign up to your email newsletter? If you answered yes to this than you have to ask yourself a few things first. How is your subscriber field on your site set up? Is your website built to attract email subscribers?
People are not just going to land on your site and give you their email address. You have to lead them down the path. No matter what you want you offer on your website you want to lead them down the path to what ever effort you want them act on. You should always have an email newsletter sign up form on every page of your site. If one of your main focuses is to get that email than you must make it clear and visible. The worst thing you can do is have an email subscriber field on one page of your site. Most website traffic will not try to find the page. If they are already on a page than they will subscribe only if it is convenient for them. Make it as convenient as possible. Getting that email is very important so that you can stay in touch with that person. If they showed interest by subscribing once than they will want more information from you as you have it. Don’t make the web site visitor hunt for the page to submit their email. If you are launching a new website tell the web designer that you would like an email field located on your website in a prominent location on every page of your new website. If you are launching a service based business this will be extremely important to have so that people don’t have to hunt around and navigate away from a page that might have a service they are interested in hiring you for.