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The Idea Behind Autoresponders

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

The idea behind autoresponders is to establish an enduring relationship with your subscribers. When people opt into your list, they usually expect something in return — valuable content, special offers, product bonuses, etc. Since they gave you the permission to email them, you already have taken the first step in building a relationship. That is what autoresponder marketing is all about. However, you must consistently provide them with value, and the best way to achieve this is by effectively using autoresponders.

All internet marketers should use autoresponder marketing. It is easier to sell to an existing customer than it is to find a new one. Creating an email series requires some time and effort, but once it is up and running, all you have to do is sit back and watch. The whole process should be automated as much as possible.

What you basically need to do with your autoresponder marketing program is setting up an email series to be sent to your subscribers. Once they subscribed, they should receive a welcome email, with some information about your business, products or services. Then every days or weeks, they should receive other emails, in which you provide them with valuable content.

Autoresponder marketing is great for building a relationship with your list. If you email people with valuable content, on a regular basis, they are more likely to read your emails, and ultimately purchase your products or the products you promote. Building a list is not only about size but also conversion.

Autoresponder marketing is one of the most effective ways to make money online. It is a proven technique and remains among internet marketers and home business owners.

Here are some tips:

Send short, eye-catching emails to your subscribers with a short description and a link to a page of your website.

Offer a free trial of your product to your prospects and send them instructions to make use of the trial through the autoresponder. When the free trial ends, you will want to follow up with the potential customers to get them to buy because you now have their email addresses.

Offer training to your affiliates if you run an affiliate program because this is a great way to offer them value. The affiliates who are marketing your product will always be on the lookout for ways to improve, and when you automate everything you will get maximum results, as long as your training offers value. Your affiliates can be trained in a variety of ways when you make use of an autoresponder.

Write reviews about products in the target market and deliver them to your list through the autoresponder. You will be providing value to your subscribers and at the same time making a commission from the sales you generate when someone buys the product through your affiliate link.

When someone buys one of your products, you then follow up the purchase with an offer for a second product. The second product could be another of yours, or it could be an affiliate promotion.

Use your autoresponders to conduct simple polls.

Use your autoresponders to deliver training courses.

Use your autoresponders to deliver a “rate card” for advertising on your website.

Email marketing does not have to be difficult; however you need to stay with it to reap the benefits and achieve long term results. Remember the money is in the relationship with your email list, not in the email list itself.

*Did You Know?  Autoresponders can be divided into two categories:  an outsourced ASP model — these autoresponders operate on the provider’s infrastructure and are usually configurable via a web-based control panel and server-side which enables users to install the autoresponder system on their own server.

Are You Optimizing Your Email Marketing?

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Are you correctly utilizing data to optimize your email marketing?

It is time to get scientific! Well, at least more knowledgeable about your email marketing. You are ready!

While Emercury.net can assist you with all facets of your email marketing campaigns, there are subjects you must consider for success.

To optimize your database for the best email personalization, keep in mind — the more you can focus your message on the customer, who is your reader, the greater the effect your message will have.

A data strategy is required when utilizing email marketing. Business owners want to drive targeted email communication and marketing offers. Emails permit click measurements, which allows for easy ROI tracking. Another opportunity would be to optimize the click call to action with landing pages. It is important that marketers continually test, optimize, and refine all aspects of their strategy.

Remember, welcome messages are important because they reassure prospects that your company has a pulse, and they also reduce SPAM complaints by reminding new subscribers they have been added to your list. Welcome messages are also critical for response rates. They are an important tool for prospects to interact with your company. Many of your email recipients are presumably in a buying mode. They might even have other browser windows open to your competitors when your welcome message arrives in their inboxes. In that sense, welcome messages do a lot more than just tell new subscribers they have been added to a list. To improve response, the welcome email should also contain the following:

  1. A personal message from the CEO, founder, or owner;
  2. A coupon or other incentive to buy;
  3. Links to your most popular entry-level products;
  4. A good testimonial or two.

Most importantly, welcome messages must serve as two-way communication tools. Replies to welcome messages should be encouraged, and you should respond to inquiries immediately.

Other tips to consider:

  1. Set a goal to tailor at least one email message a month per subscriber.  We all have some data on every subscriber – use this data.
  2. Consider a different subject line for different segments, based on interest level. Replace generic promotions with specifics – a targeted whitepaper or an untapped product feature. Track performance by segment against generic messages.
  3. If 30% open your email that means 70% did not find your message helpful, or did not bother to select it from their inbox clutter. The impact of inactive subscribers was never neutral, but now carries even more risk. Subscribers will quickly block (complain by clicking the Report SPAM button) or unsubscribe from senders who annoy them – which is any brand sending irrelevant, poorly timed or too frequent offers, regardless of permission. Plus, ISPs like Yahoo!, Gmail, and Hotmail are increasingly looking at engagement metrics to determine the value of each marketer or publisher.
  4. The only way to make money is to either increase revenue or reduce costs, or both.  In email marketing, the “cost” side is counted in lost opportunity. When a subscriber complains (clicks the Report SPAM button), they are gone forever. Complaint and deliverability data are essential parts of a good email marketing optimization effort.

Finally, while using these techniques can help your business succeed, there is even more you can do to tip the odds in your favor. You will want to become familiar with a technique that is called marketing optimization. This is a technique that is intricately connected to data mining. With market optimization, you will take a group of offers and customers, and after reviewing the limits of the campaign, you will use data mining to decide which marketing offers should be made to specific customers.

*Did You Know — Response rates are almost always higher for new subscribers to an email list. According to the “Email Marketing Benchmark Guide” subscribers click through at a 25 percent higher rate in their first month than in their second, and 67 percent higher in the first month than after the first year.

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