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A single email is never enough
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JD Burson
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A single email is never enough
By JD Burson - 02/17/03
“Repetition is the key to advertising (marketing)”. Those
words were said by a friend of mine, Jason Olson, back in
his days of selling radio and direct mail ads.
Jason, now the owner of Ultimate Web Designing
(http://www.ultimatewebdesigning.com), said that a particular
business owner was willing to buy a single month of
advertising to see if it would be cost effective to do a full ad
campaign. Jason told him that the consumer needs to be
“hit” with the marketing message repeatedly in order for them
to take in the message, understand it, and take action.
This also applies to email marketing. A very small percentage
of people will respond immediately while others need to see
your message a number of times before they even think about
responding to your offer.
It has been said that nearly 70% of the market is made up of
those people who take their time, shop around, and need to
see offers more than a few times before giving them any
consideration.
Therefore, your goal is to effectively reach, persuade, and
motivate this large segment…which is nearly impossible to
do with a single mailing. Repeating your marketing message
is essential to attract this all important group.
Statistics have shown that the majority of sales occur in the
follow-up process. However, you’ll need to do so in a timely,
consistent, and convincing manner.
Repetition helps the consumer comprehend your offer,
emphasizes how it would benefit them, and reinforces the
urgency. Try revamping your next email marketing campaign
into a string of messages and you will likely see a major
improvement over individual mailings.
By creating a sense of “NOW” with your email recipients,
and reinforcing that urgency in subsequent mailings, you
influence and guide your unresponsive prospects into action.
Also, try adding an extra incentive with each mailing and your
offer will become more valuable and more difficult to pass-up.
Email marketing campaigns can be entirely automated with
autoresponders. Your series of pre-written follow-up email
messages can be automatically delivered to someone who
responds to your offer or requests more information.
Keep in mind that your email marketing campaign is only
for your opt-in subscribers. Just as repeating your offer can
increase the response rate, unsolicited email (spam) can
increase your chances of earning a bad reputation.
Conclusion…In order for any marketing campaign to work,
the majority of your market needs to see your offer more than
once. When your offer is seen over and over, people will start
to remember it and realize the importance of it.
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Visit JD Burson’s web site to learn how to make money from home
(http://makemoney.ultimatewebdesigning.com) and pick up your
copy of his e-books on writing email messages
(http://email.ultimatewebdesigning.com) and autoresponder
messages (http://autoresponder.ultimatewebdesigning.com).
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