Four Bulletproof Tips for Email Marketing Success

Four Bulletproof Tips for Email Marketing Success

With all the new social media platforms and exciting digital content, these days email marketing may a little old fashioned. But email marketing can make a big impact on your audience and our bottom line! According to a study by Campaign Monitor For every $1 spent on email marketing $44 is made in return.

Email marketing can appear easy (an average office worker receives 121 emails a day and sends around 40 business emails daily) but getting results can be tricky. However, there’s good news for you. Even if you’re new to email marketing, there a few simple tips that increase the success of your campaigns by leaps and bounds. Let’s take a look:

  • Tip 1 - Get Your Email Opened
    A journey of a thousand calls to action begins with just one click! Remember, your message doesn’t do any good if it never gets seen. That’s why it’s important to spice up the inbox. Make sure your subject lines are compelling and put some power in the “From” line. Would this email get more attention if it came from the brand, the CEO, or even the sales rep? These factors are all a reader has to quickly determine if they want to read your message, so make it count.
    Struggling to write the perfect subject line? Use Send Check It to get insights and make improvements before it goes out:
    https://sendcheckit.com/email-subject-line-tester
  • Tip 2 - Test for Success
    If you have the ability to test your messages, do it. One of the best ways to immediately improve the efficacy of your campaign is to employ A/B testing. A/B testing is simple - you send a percentage of your audience one of two different subject lines as once. After a predetermined amount of time (~4 hours), the subject line that received the highest open rate within the test group will be sent to the remaining audience. With this simple test, you can immediately improve your results and gather important data for future use.
    Want to test using Emojis in your subject line? Here is a great tool to find the right one: https://getemoji.com/
  • Tip 3 - Include a Call to Action! Seriously
    If you want to see your email engagement increase, you have to use strong calls to action. A call to action will both encourage and measure the engagement you’re seeking. Many people starting out in email marketing fail to think about the reader’s journey, and will, therefore, fail to connect the immediate message with next steps. Ensure that you’re giving readers a reason to take the next step, and what that step actually is. Isn’t the whole point of an email to trigger an action? For marketing to be truly effective, you need to meet your audience where they are. Give them the information that is important to them, and spell out exactly what you want them to do.
  • Tip 4 - Tell Your Audience What They Care About
    To really reach your email audience, you have to consider what is important to them...what they care about. They already have their own lives - why should they care about what you have to say? What makes your message important, and therefore able to stand out? Often businesses will simply shout at their audience, tell them why THEIR company is so cool/hip/helpful/awesome. In reality, they’re not touching on what their readers really care about...themselves. The audience is so focused on themselves that they simply don’t care. It is your responsibility to dig through the noise and hit their emotions. If you aren’t careful, your message will get lost in a crowded inbox.

We hope that these tips are useful for your next email marketing effort. Remember, every campaign is an opportunity to learn something new about your potential customers. Seize your opportunity!

If you have questions about email marketing best practices, marketing in general, or just need a friendly ear, contact us today at info@revenue.wp10.staging-site.io. We’re here to make sure you get more revenue from every email.