What is Small Business Email Marketing?

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There are many keys to success for a small business and one of the most important is how cost effectively you acquire new customers and clients. The better you are at attracting new business for less money than your competitors the more profitable you are likely to be – assuming that the cost of getting those new customers is less than the revenues they create.

Another key to the profitability of each new customer is how long they remain customers, how much of what you sell they purchase, and how inexpensively you are able to handle their customer service requests.

The Internet in general and small business email marketing specifically make it possible for you to minimize the costs of acquisition and service for both new business and existing customers alike. Your advertising, promotion, marketing, and customer service dollars can be leveraged like never before.

First, let’s define what email marketing is. Simply stated it is sending marketing communications via email to individuals who request it. For example you put a special email address in your Yellow Pages ad or on your web site – one that references a particular product or promotion.

Once someone asks to be included – agrees that it’s OK to contact the via email, you may wish to use several email marketing channels such as ezines to customers, prospects or vendors; email product or seasonal promotions and so forth. In other words email marketing is the direct marketing solution for the 21st century – the electronic equivalent of sending a printed newsletter or sales brochure except, now it’s online.

All product purchases take place via a “buying cycle” from the moment a prospect first hears about it until the sale is consummated. Different industries and different products have longer or shorter buying cycles. Small business Internet marketing gives you the opportunity to pre-sell your products because the cost of communication is so low and inexpensive systems can easily be set up that push people along from one minor point to the next until they are ready to buy.

Whether the individuals are existing customers or new prospects email marketing allows you to pre-sell them, making them more likely to buy your product or use your service by giving them something/information of value before asking them to make the ultimate buying decision. Providing useful information to your prospects helps them make a more informed buying decision – resulting in greater product satisfaction and a more profitable transaction for you and your customer.

Small business email marketing is also a valuable method for communication between a your company, your business contacts and others – not just for pure marketing/sales reasons. When used effectively, it is an extremely efficient and affordable solution for keeping existing and potential customers & clients in the loop regarding up coming events, product offerings, sales, special promotions and much more. The most effective email marketing is targeted as specifically as possible to those individuals most likely to find the message’s content valuable, well-timed and relevant to them.

Also, because of its low cost email marketing is the perfect tool for increasing exposure of your products or services. Because most people check their email continually – if you have a valuable relationship with the people on your list, a higher response rate from your target audience over direct mail will be the likely result, all the while saving you time and money.

The use of email marketing as a direct marketing solution for small business continues to grow growing rapidly due to it affordability and effectiveness.

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B2B Email Marketing – Still the Killer App!

Email marketing is far from dead, no matter what the so-called experts say. In fact recent software applications are putting the power of Fortune 500 companies in the hands of Main Street businesses – leveling the playing field at last.

There are challenges to be sure, such as creating and maintaining an opt-in list – so you won’t jeopardize your company’s good name and your established goodwill in the marketplace.

Delivering the message you want to the people you want to receive it – perhaps a special offer for people renewing their service contracts that’s only available to people beyond the first year after purchase.

And properly managing responses so the right actions are triggered automatically!

But finally these issues can be handled cost effectively, so it’s not the big guys who are the only ones in a position to control email marketing anymore.

Here are three of the benefits of B2B email marketing – besides the obvious, that it is cheap, immediate, and interactive.

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Email Marketing – Your Email Must Have Relevant Content

When I was listening to Jordan Ayan of SubscriberMail.com mention the importance of Relevant Content as it applies to email marketing I thought to myself that 99.9% of the so-called email marketers need to hear this.

For years I have worked as a translator between the online world an Main Street. I have consistently tried to point out to online marketers – that they need to make their copy relevant to the mainstream business community.

That their message should not be written for their (the marketer’s) colleagues to read, but for people with traditional businesses to understand and see the values in, for them.

In the beginning the email marketers relevancy test hit the “home run” wall. Every message was directed at companies large enough to have IT staffs just waiting for their otherwise indecipherable message.

Way backĀ  in 2000 at the Internet Expo in new York, I met a guy who was manning a booth for one of the important players (since gone broke, oops) – when he saw my press badge he was all over me.

I asked him, as I looked at the spectacular booth with its flashy displays, who his company did business with. His response was typical – Fortune 500 companies.

I didn’t let him down but my first thought was that what they needed was 500 well sourced email addresses – not a million dollar booth.

When you develop your email campaign, having a subject line that is relevant (and clever enough to get them to open it) and a message that is relevant to them, right then.

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Email Marketing for Small Businesses

Small businesses are now marketing themselves on the Internet. Email Marketing for small business has several different strategies, and this on will work well for your small business, using a courier company as an example. Minnesota Courier Servicee

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Why should we consider using Flimp eVideo Marketing solutions?

Audiovisual and rich media content drives higher engagement rates and ROI. The Flimp Platform enables marketers to easily create web video marketing campaigns that provide rich analytics.

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