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Email Marketing

Everybody receives tons of junk mail every year and usually everybody hates receiving junk mail. Most people will throw away the junk mail before they even open it. However, if you are marketing offline, mass mailings can be effective if you send them to a large number of people. There will be a percentage of people that do read and respond to junk mail and therefore can make this a feasible method of offline direct marketing.

Email marketing is very similar to offline mass mail marketing, with one very important difference; when you are marketing online, you can only send marketing emails to people who have already requested to receive information from you. You can be assured that people who have chosed to receive your emails, will probably read and respond to your offers.

Email marketing is the most popular and commonly used communication tool on the Internet. It is an efficient way to distribute your message to a large number of people who have requested information from you. Email marketing can generate high response rates and gives you measurable results with instant feedback.

The number one rule for email marketing is not to send commercial email to people who have not requested to receive information from you. Nobody will thank you for stuffing their mail boxed with a bunch of unwanted marketing material.

If you are using an email campaign to promote a business or opportunity, make sure and include contact information or a website link where interest individuals can click and be redirected to a website or landing page that is relevant to the email campaign. The website or landing page should include a contact form that can be filled out and submitted. Once an interested individual has submitted the contact form, get in touch with this person as soon as possible, preferably within one day. Get into the habit of returning emails at a minimum of once every 24 hours. Acknowledging the person and contacting them can either make or break the deal.