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10 Reasons For Every Small Business To Publish An Email Newsletter
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Dr.Mani Sivasubramanian
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The Ezine Marketing Center
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Just as email is to the Internet, email newsletters are the
'killer' applications for small business, both online and
off.
Publishing an email newsletter - or ezine - can help you,
the owner of a small business by converting
* visitors into repeat visitors * repeat visitors into
new customers * customers into loyal returning customers
* loyal customers into evangelists for your business
Yes, creating an ezine for your business is as vital as any
other promotion or marketing strategy. Indeed more so.
Think about it.
Let's say you run a major advertising campaign that brings
in 5000 new visitors to your business website. Five hundred
may be interested in what you're selling. Fifty of them may
order your product or service straight away.
But what about the other 450 - or even the other 4950 ?
How can you keep in touch with them, offer them other
products, impress them with your excellent quality and tempt
them to order something from you - now or in the future? The
simple answer - publish an email newsletter.
Here's the trick to make it work. In your ezine you must
offer something of value to your visitors. It may be
* detailed information about your product or service
* 'insider' information in your field of specialization
* special discounts or offers * free samples or trial
packs * troubleshooting tips or user guidance
* reviews of related products
In short it should be something that
* is valuable to your potential customer * is not
easily available elsewhere * is what your customer wants
or is looking for
Then you tell your website visitor about your email
newsletter and what you're offering in it. Invite them to
sign up for it - for free.
Once your visitors have accepted your offer and handed over
their email address, you have started establishing a
relationship with them. By providing them with useful
information, you will gain their trust and respect. By
making special offers, you will tempt them to try out your
product or service. By reminding them about your business
and website, you will get them to keep coming back again and
again.
And over time you will be able to convince them to order
from you. To become your customer. One you would have lost
forever if you didn't publish an ezine.
Your relationship doesn't end there. Indeed it's just
beginning.
As a business-person you're already aware that it is easier
- and costs less -
* to retain an existing customer than to find a new one
* to sell again to someone who has bought once from you
* to market more profitable products and services to
previous customers
An ezine can be vital to this process. Since you continue to
offer useful information in it, customers will keep
receiving your ezine. You will stay in their mind, retain
their interest and attention. When you offer a new product
or upgrade to your service, they will know about it - and
rush to order from you. And as your relationship grows, you
will easily be able to sell them your top-end, profitable
items.
It doesn't end there either!
When you continue to over-deliver on your promises, offer
your customers exceptional quality and support, they will
respond in kind - by telling their friends, their customers,
their contacts about YOU.
Word of mouth promotion is the best kind ever. Wouldn't you
rather take the word of a friend who has received excellent
service from a business over an impersonal advertising
brochure or website? Truly satisfied, ecstatic customers
will become evangelists for your business, attracting new
customers.
There are a few other ways an email newsletter can help your
small business. Building brand awareness, delivering updates
and announcements of new additions, creating opportunities
for joint venture partnerships, attracting sponsors and
advertisers - all can be done through your ezine.
But it requires repeated contact with customers over a
period of time. A long time. It doesn't happen in a day or a
week. As a small business working within a limited budget,
you don't want to spend a fortune keeping in touch with your
customer base.
An email newsletter is the answer to your dreams.
Fast, inexpensive, simple and professional, an ezine can act
as the ultimate marketing vehicle for your small business.
So if you don't already, go on and start publishing one
today. And watch your business EXPLODE !
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