There are a few key factors that need to be considered before you can do an effective email marketing. There are 7 simple factors to look at. When applied properly, it can change the way your emails are written.
The first step is to personalize the email. Personalizing your email either in the body or the headline would capture the attention of the reader. This reduces the probability that they will delete the email as spam. With the vast amount of spam that are sent out every week, it is not surprising that an impersonalized email would be regarded as one.
Statistics have shown that over 40% of emails received every week is spam, thus, it would be rather important that the email you send is personalized.
Second, do not "sell" your product/service/website in the title. It would be better if you could create curiosity. With curiosity, the reader would most likely open the email to see what you have to offer. One example of a heading that is “selling” your product is ‘Learn how to earn income online’. This way, the readers already know what the content is about. Most likely, if they are not interested to earn income online, they would delete the email immediately.
Third, do recommendations. Recommend the product that you are selling like you are recommending a movie to your friend or family. It is unlikely that you tell them everything that was shown in the movie right? Therefore, recommend the product like how you would recommend a great movie, just the necessary. Provide the necessary information regarding the product. When readers are well informed, they are more likely to buy your product.
Fourth, format your email to improve readability. Readers are Not in favour of long, chunky emails. It gets tiring to read those emails and before they get to the end of your email, they would probably have clicked the “next” button. Thus, it is recommended that you truncate your emails to many short paragraphs instead of a few long ones.
Fifth, is to create a story. Readers are more inclined to read stories as compared to cold hard facts. Although what they wanted to know was pure information, but they rather read it like a story. With a story, boredom doesn’t usually set in and thus, they are able to complete to read your “story”.
Sixth, let the readers know what they have to do. When there is no ‘call to action’, readers do not know that they have to do certain things, like signing up to your newsletter. Thus, place your ‘call to action’ at various places in your email. An example of a ‘call to action’ would be, “ To subscribe to my weekly newsletter, click here www.yourdomain.com”
Lastly, always get feedback. You would want to feedback from your readers as you want to encourage them to respond to you. When readers respond to you, you are creating a valuable lifetime relationship. Readers who are familiar with you would begin to build trust, only then, they would buy what you are selling to them.
