What Are The Benefits Of Email Marketing?

If you have been considering incorporating email marketing into your business marketing I think it’s a great idea. You’ll be able to build a relationship with your customer and meet them right at their inbox.

Email marketing reaches people that have already proven that they are interested in what you have to offer. Bam! This is the key component to why email marketing works better than so many other types of marketing.

One of my favorite stats by GetResponse, the email marketing tool, is:

“More than 8 out of 10 people will open a welcome email, generating 4x as many opens and 10x as many clicks as other email types.”

How fantastic is this! Just a welcome email will garner a lot of email opens. Can your social media marketing compare to this?

Why Email Marketing Is Important For Business

Email marketing allows you to reach your prospect and clients one on one. Most people check their email often - and if your info is in there they might be happy to get it.

Make note, the information you are sending them in your emails needs to be something they are interested in.

If you can get this part right, your return on your time invested can be very worth it. If you can have fun doing it…even better. Enjoying your marketing can make the work easier and better for your daily input.

What Is The Most Important Aspect Of Email Marketing?

Email marketing has a lot of great qualities about it. It’s hard to choose just one. But, if I had to I would say the most important element of email marketing for your business is good content.

Good content that is applicable to your audience is one of the most important aspects of email marketing. If you want to reach your people and keep them opening your emails, the information you send them needs to be very relevant to their needs.

There are a lot of other areas that are important features of email marketing as well.

1. Good Lead Magnet
2. Timing
3. Avoiding Spam
4. Testing
5. Consistency
   
   

If you want to start at the beginning and develop an email marketing plan for your business it’s not really too difficult. The hard part will be consistency. People can be fickle and forgetful. If they don’t see your content for a while, sadly, you will probably be forgotten.

If you can make your email marketing a habit, you can go further with your consistency and efforts.

How To Start Email Marketing For A Small Business

Take a few minutes a day to start your email marketing project. It can really help pay off and get more leads and business in the long run.

As I mentioned above, start your email marketing strategy with a good lead magnet. A lead magnet is a giveaway type of product that will benefit your customer. Starting an email marketing strategy for a small business can be broken down into a few basic steps.

1. Creating a lead magnet that solves a problem for your customer.
   
   
2. Talk about your lead magnet on social media, in your blog, and other search platforms like YouTube and Pinterest. *Take note to research which platforms are best for your topic or business.
3. Have people sign up for your lead magnet.
   
   
4. Email them regularly.
   
   
5. Test what works. Do your headlines get a lot of opens? Does your content make your subscribers stick around? If not, maybe they just aren’t your market or you can try to create different info and see how they respond.
   
   
6. Incorporate marketing and selling your product or service.

How To Write An Email To Sell A Product Or Service

For some reason, I think selling and talking about what people have for sale can be tough for many people. It really doesn’t have to be. If you know what you have to offer and how it can help people solve their problems - please, we all want to hear about it!

There are a number of ways you can write an email to sell your products or services. And, it’s good to note it probably won’t happen instantly. Building your relationship with your customer base and proving your expertise over time by writing consistent emails will greatly help you sell your product with email marketing.

It also doesn’t have to be complicated to write emails to send to your customers. Break it down into a few steps.

1. Share helpful content.
   
   
2. Share success stories if you have them.
   
   
3. Share case studies.
   
   
4. Tell them about how you went from bad to great with your product or service.
   
   
5. Share a video review of your product.
   
   
6. Share How To’s to solve their problems.
   
   

You can see where I’m going here. There are so many things you can share with your prospects and subscribers.

After you share a little in the beginning ask them to visit your website. Maybe you have some great resources they could use for their business. Encourage them to visit your other social media or video content.

And, then you can start offering your product or service.

You can do this in the regular emails you send. You can also offer your product or service in stand-alone emails that don't go out with your regular email subscription.

It doesn’t need to be scary to send out this type of email. You have an awesome product or service, right? The people that signed up and subscribed to you think so, too. (or they probably wouldn’t have signed up - some yes, they just want the freebie)

Now all you need to do is share what you have to offer and how much it is. Or ask them to reach out to you for more info.

How To Write Your Emails To Get Leads

There are endless ways you can write your emails. They can be formal, casual, informative and educational, entertaining and the list goes on.

What can be most important to get leads from your email marketing is being consistent. Just doing it and continuing to do it can be super beneficial to your email marketing process and success. As you work on this part of your marketing you can adjust and test what you create to do this type of marketing even better over time.

Getting leads with your email marketing is more about putting one foot in front of another.

Making a plan and working the plan. And as a small business, you can make adjustments quicker than a big business to change what you are sending out to fit your customer's interests and needs.

It’s also important to remember, email marketing is NOT email sales blasting. It is not recommended to use email marketing to blast specials and buy buy buy from you all the time. Once in a while, your customers want this, yes. But, if it's all you are sharing, you better be the big guys like Home Depot, Kohl's, or Chipotle.

Even the big guys send out content that isn’t just selling their product. They know how important it is to build a relationship with their prospects to ease them into buying. (not everyone, no, but many people).

And, maybe you don’t want what they have to offer, but if you continue to reach out customers will remember you more often and consider buying from you in the future.

Are You Ready To Incorporate Email Marketing Into Your Business Plan?

Remember to start with your lead magnet and start to share it around. It needs to be something people can use quickly and that will be helpful to them. One of my favorite lead magnets helps people reuse the content I create for them in their online marketing. You can check it out here.
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You can also reach out to me if you want help creating your email series to start up your email marketing quickly!