What you ought to know about Email markeing
Put simply it works
Based on research conducted by the Direct Marketing Association, email marketing is predicted to return an incredible £23.91 for every pound spent in 2007. To put this in perspective, that's more than double the average return for other forms of online marketing and more than 6 times the return from print brochures.
* It's cost effective - While the cost of actually designing your email creative can be comparable to direct mail, the big savings start when you consider there are no printing costs and you can get your message delivered for around 1p per recipient.
* It's immediate - Email generates an immediate response, instead of waiting for a subscriber to visit your site you can get your message to them when it counts. The majority of your recipients will see your message in the first 24-48 hours.
* It's relevant - Email makes it easy to segment your subscribers using a variety of criteria like demographics and past campaign behaviour (such as clicking a certain link). This way you can ensure your message goes to the individuals most likely to be interested in your offer.
* It's completely measureable - More than any other form of marketing, email can provide actionable data on the results it generates. Keep track of who opened your email and when, what topics they were interested in, who forwarded it on to a friend, how many sales were generated and much more.
* Emails are a great way to get in **closer contact with your customers**. It doesn't rely on your customer remembering to visit your site, or seeing a print advertisement.
* You can **personalize emails to suit the particular interests of that customer**, instead of sending a generic brochure.
* You **only pay for people you are actually sending to**, instead of shot-gunning out to the world at large.
