Today we talk about Email Marketing Follow-ups – What to Send Your List
Getting people to sign up on your email marketing list is an important first step, but it’s only the beginning of a successful sales funnel. Now you have to successfully market to them and transform them from prospects into customers. The point of an email list is to build relationships with your subscribers and qualify them. You need to keep in touch with them by continually offering a steady flow of new content and offers.
Fulfilling Your Promises
What should you give your subscribers? You should give them everything you promised them on your opt-in page. This may seem obvious, but it’s a very important point. Your squeeze page makes bold promises that you need to deliver on. You should be continually sending your subscribers helpful hints, news on current events, exclusive content, special offers, and any other valuable information that will help them.
Keep Your Email Marketing Messages Relevant
Once you have subscribers on your list, you may be tempted to send them a variety of promotions. However, you really need to stick to only content that’s relevant to what you initially promised. In other words, give them only what they signed up for.
If you send people content that’s not directly related or that seems like it is coming out of left field, it could cause people to become disconnected and you’ll most likely lose that prospect. This is especially true regarding promotions. Your promotions need to be laser-targeted to your audience. If you promote things that are irrelevant, your customer may feel as if you’re trying to take advantage of them.
Content vs. Promotions
As a rule of thumb, you should be sending out a higher volume of valuable content relative to promotions. Over-promoting may feel like spam to them, even if you’re offering good deals. It will seem like you only keep in touch when you want something from them. Think of youremail marketing campaign as a way to help your subscribers gain information, with occasional promotions being thrown in less frequently (with the purpose of eventually leading people to your back-end offers).
Listening to Your List
What kind of helpful content should you send out to your list of subscribers? You can find out by listening to them and paying attention to their needs. Your prospects and customers will tell you exactly what they need if you know how to do this correctly. You should research your market by connecting to them on social media sites, participating on forums, and reading blog comments. You can also come right out and survey your email marketing list directly.
Further Freebies
As you market to your list, keep the freebies and good deals coming. Like your promotions, mix them in with the regular content you’re offering. It’s important that you continue giving your subscribers valuable content as you are nurturing the relationship. If you build strong relationships now, it will translate to sales later. This is what’s called the ‘wow’ factor – exceeding people’s expectations so that they absolutely love you and can’t help but come back to your site.
How Much Is Too Much?
It’s tricky to know how often you should email your list. Different niches, as well as different lists within a niche, respond differently. Emailing every day may be a bit too much for some markets. Two or three times a week is usually the minimum frequency. The only way to know for sure is to experiment. Try different frequencies as well as different times of the day in order to monitor your response rate.
Moreover, make sure you stay consistent in the frequency with which you email your list. Don’t mail 5 times one week, then forget to email for then two weeks. People will forget who you are and might think they’re suddenly getting spam emails.
Planning Your Follow-ups
Use all of the tools available to plan your follow-ups. It is best to have your entire email campaign mapped out before you launch it. Use mind maps, spreadsheets, and other tools to create a long-term plan. Never attempt to wing it, except for the occasional time-sensitive content.
Assignment:
Use an email planning worksheet or another tool to plan out the topics for at least 7 emails in your follow-up series.
- Make sure you have several emails that first provide valuable content that’s relevant to your opt-in freebie, before you pitch a product or service.
- Use the P.S. area to refer subscribers to a resource or remind them of an earlier offer or valuable piece of information.
To your success
Dennis Koray
Skype: denniskoray
email: info@denniskoray.com
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