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Email campaigns are effective ways to promote services and products regardless of the industry involved, and in view of the on-going economic slump they are becoming even more important. It is important to note however that as with other types of marketing, email marketing has strengths and weaknesses, advantages and disadvantages. Correctly used free email marketing enhances online credibility, reputation and sales. When casually or incorrectly done it can literally obliterate any relationships with clients.

Some of the pros of free email campaigns are: Email campaigns are relatively hassle free as their primary aim is to craft an email that will grab clients’ attention. Compared to many other methods of advertising email campaigns organized within a fixed budget can be cost effective. Immediately after the emails have been sent it is possible to gauge their success by the number of emails or other responses returned. Relationships, which can reach beyond email sales, may result in long term relationships. A global reach is possible with email campaigns as people from around the world are targeted. Emails can improve understandings regarding what clients expect of the product and the seller. Alterations in the design or content of the campaign can be made at anytime. Campaigns can be developed based on the likes and dislikes of the targeted receivers.

Some of the cons of free email campaigns are: Email lists take time to get up to speed, thus the opt-in list will take time to grow. It may be difficult for those who receive the campaign emails to distinguish them from spam. There may be more problems as the size of the opt-in list increases. There is no assurance that even a great marketing email will be delivered to the inboxes of clients.

It may be hard to meet each email publication deadline. Coming up with different content for each campaign can be difficult.

Smart email marketers enjoy a number of email marketers’ pros which include but are not limited to: Freedom to do whatever is right for them in the moment which gives them lots of options Freedom to experiment and learn. Once the basics are learned online emailing seems easy. When things are working well and are automated, time becomes exponential and more money is made at an increasing pace.

When a design goes well it brings an experience of incredible pleasure.

Auto responders are now available making email marketing both easier and more efficient because the marketer just types one message, clicks submit and it is sent to every name on his or her list. A subscriber to an email mailing list can be worth several thousand of dollars in future revenues so it important to quickly learn how to be a professional at email marketing and enjoy all ts pros.

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List building is probably the most essential part of any online business, if it’s successful. Many new marketers won’t bother building a list because they believe they should get sales first.

It does make sense to go after straight sales when you haven’t made any money yet. But as you will find out. it will slow your businesses growth quite dramatically.

If a new affiliate marketer is going after sales only, they are sending all their hard earned traffic straight to the affiliate program owner’s website. This way maybe 1 in 100 hits sent will convert and they will earn a commission (depending on the conversion rate of the offer).

The smarter way to do it is to send all their hard earned traffic to a lead capture page or squeeze page, getting the prospects email address and only then sending them on to the affiliate website which they’re promoting.

Now, out of every 100 visitors you will get around 10-25 email address in your auto responder and again depending on your capture page’s conversion rate, this can be as high as 50 out of every 100 visitors giving you their email address.

Now by getting these people’s email addresses rather than just sending them straight to the offer, you have leveraged your traffic. Now you can email them over and over with related affiliate offers. Further, now they are on your list they know who you are, with good content in your auto responder series, they will also like and trust your opinion. People who know and trust you are far more likely to be responsive to your affiliate recommendations.

These aren’t by any means the only reasons why you should build your list first before sending your traffic to an affiliate offer.

One of the biggest reasons you should set up your affiliate marketing business in a list building first type fashion, is because when it comes to doing joint ventures and ad swapping, the size of your list is what determines how much leverage you have to get lucrative joint venture deals and ad swaps with. Joint ventures and ad swapping are by far two of the fastest ways to build your affiliate marketing business. Any marketer that knows 2 bob worth can tell you that.

Therefore, it is in your upmost best interest to build this valuable asset, ‘your list’, right from day one. Don’t think I can build a list later, your business will suffer. List building will set you free.

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You read a lot about how email list building is important.I say that statement is Wrong.I would say that it is not important, but more than that, it is crucial to your success. You will also be working harder not smarter without building your list.Lets look at some proven strategies used by most successful marketers.

Perhaps you don’t realize the importance  of building your lists, in which case you are probably a newbie or don’t realize how most internet marketers make their fortunes.

Maybe you are just too busy running your business and working your butt off trying to keep your business profitable etc., or if you think that email list building is hard, complicated or expensive, so you didn’t do the crucial thing you needed to do. List building is much easier than you think.

There are  many tools and resources available out there on the internet that can make your email list building task relatively easy, inexpensive and even fun. Just like in most endeavours, there is a right way and a wrong way to do something and building your lists included. Also I am sure you are aware how much garbage is out there on the internet, so it’s hard to know who to beleive and what information to accept as truthful, up to date and/or complete.

Whatever your niche market happens to be, in fact even if your business is primarily offline, you need to focus on building your email lists for the following reasons.

One, by making it possible for your visitors and potential customers to leave their info in the optin box you are not leaving money on the table or bleeding traffic and you are starting to build a relationship with them therby being able to send them your sales offers in the near and distant future.

There is a proven way to capture your visitors names and email addresses and establish this relationship but I don’t have room for that here. The best way is to offer them something of great value or to help them solve their problem. This can be a free subscription, newsletter, ebook, report or something else of value to them which you offer to send them via email if they leave their name and email address.

The right way to establish a relationship with your list, once you capture their names and email addresses, is to continue to send them useful and helpful information. The more value you give to them the more trust and respect you will get and they will become to see you as a friend and guess who they will rather buy from, a stranger or a friend.Sorry no prizes for a correct answer there.

A good reason to concentrate on your email list building is that you will make it much easier on yourself by freeing yourself from the hard work of promoting your business and expenses associated with it, like advertising costs. Whereas by having an email list of your own you can send out an offer to all your list by a click of a mouse, which will cost you next to nothing except some time to write your email and offer.

As long as your sales offer is of value to your list and you don’t abuse this ability to reach your list by bombarding your list with constant sales offers without providing value in return, those people on your list will buy from you time and time again and stay on your list.

Now that you know, if you did not already know, how crucial email list building is to your success, go and put your efforts into learning how to build your lists as soon as possible.

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Email Marketing Opt In List Building Tips Off line business owners and Internet business owners are both using email marketing opt in list building. The reason is that it is a profitable way to market products online to customers who agree to receive email.

This is what makes a list an opt in one. People agree to receive email which is different than sending out spam emails.

With this type of email marketing business owners have the right to contact their subscribers whenever they want. The key is offering helpful information a person would want to continue to receive.

If at anytime a person doesn’t want to receive emails any longer they can unsubscribe from your mailing list. This is as easy as clicking a link at the bottom of each message being sent.

People have short memories online today. They may be surfing around and subscribe to a list and within a couple of hours forget they have even done it.

For this reason opt in email marketing is critical. This requires your subscriber to not only fill out a short form, but also to confirm their intentions by clicking a link to their email list.

This is good for both the Internet business owner as well as a subscriber. Internet businesses do not want to have subscribers on their list that don’t want to be there. By confirming their intentions they agreed to receive email from you.

The larger your opt in list becomes the more profitable it can be to you. This is a very quick way to market products as opposed to some of the old fashioned marketing methods.

For example direct mail is something some business owners still do because it does work. However that can be quite costly and generally you will not send out a piece of direct mail out to anyone more than a handful of times a year.

The only real cost you have with email marketing is the cost of your autoresponder. Of course you do have the cost of building your list initially and continuing to add new subscribers to it.

Building a list can be done on blogs and websites. It can also be done by promoting splash pages in various ways throughout the Internet.

Enticing a person to give you their name and email address is a skill. However if you are providing something of value in return for that person’s contact information it becomes a fair trade off.

These opt in email marketing list building tips can have an impact on your future business. Having a list to send email to is an asset that many Internet marketers cannot place a value on.

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Using a Combination of Marketing Techniques When you are laying out your marketing plan, you need to decide whether or not to do your marketing online, off-line, or to use a combination of both. Regardless, most business owners are aware that a single marketing strategy will seldom be as effective as multiple marketing strategies. While it certainly is not necessary to implement a lot of marketing strategies, combining two worthwhile strategies can help you achieve your business goals. If you combine e-mail marketing with another single type of marketing, it will allow you to create a multi-tiered strategy that is not that difficult to manage.

Many businesses currently find great success with e-mail marketing.

This does not necessarily mean that they should avoid other online marketing techniques including having a website, participating in other message boards that are relevant to the industry, utilizing online banner advertisement, affiliate marketing campaigns, etc. In fact, it is well known fact that not every marketing strategy will be effective for every business. It sometimes takes trial and error to find out which ones work best for your business.

Some businesses find that e-mail marketing campaigns work extremely well with more traditional marketing methods. In fact, radio and television advertising as well as traditional print media can often enhance e-mail marketing efforts. If you have elected to use both on and off-line marketing methods, a combination of traditional media and e-mail marketing can be very effective. In spite of the popularity of the Internet, there are many people who still resist using the Internet for either purchasing or researching products.

Some businesses have elected to combine e-mail marketing with banner advertisements as well as message board participation. Each of these simple activities are all online, they can create a powerful Internet presence. E-mails can be designed to provide your audience with useful information regarding your products or services. Banner advertisements can be placed on your website and may be of interest to your possible clients. Those businesses who elect to participate in industry specific message boards have found that they are able to establish themselves as credible sources far more quickly.

One of the advantages of having a multifaceted marketing campaign is branding. It is important to remember that potential clients do not always currently need the product or service that you are offering. However, pursuing an aggressive marketing strategy keep your name in front of them, and keeps your brand in the public eye.

When combining multiple marketing strategies, you have to remember that it may not always be easy to evaluate their effectiveness. It is often wise to implement various marketing strategies so they are not running concurrently. By focusing in on one type of strategy at a time, you can track increases in sales or traffic to that particular strategy.

In order to allow you to determine which strategy produces the best effect, changes should not be made to an individual strategy until you understand exactly what effect it has on sales and traffic.

From time to time, you may in fact notice that certain marketing strategies have a detrimental effect.

If any reason you are unable to determine which marketing strategy is working, you may want to consider creating a customer survey.

Surveys can help determine how somebody found out about the product or service that you are offering. They can also provide you valuable insight to how people found your service, decided on your service, and what they think about your service.

A solid marketing plan is required to help any business grow. The more well thought out your marketing plan is, the more likely you are to have success in your business.

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You want to send email to a list of 10 to 10’000 recipients.

The fundamental question is: Should you purchase software that you can install on your computer and send the mails from there or should you use an online services instead? Both methods can be called “Auto-responder Software“, but the operational differences are quite significant. I will explain what to look for:

Deliverability

I bet that you would like your emails to reach the recipients… This is a huge criteria when picking an auto-responder software. If you install a software on your computer, you are using your Internet connection and your provider to dispatch your mails. Depending on the software it will use the providers mail server (smtp server) exactly the same way as Outlook does or it will have its own smtp server built in, in which case it will use the computer as the mail server. If the computer is used as the smtp server, mail will very likely only reach part of the recipients, because spam filters will recognize the non public nature of your “mail server” and simply refuse acceptance. If the software forwards mails to your provider’s mail server, you will likely reach the provider’s limit for sending out mails very quickly. Because providers want to avoid that their clients send spam, the number of mails that can be sent within a certain period of time can be quite low (50 or 100 mails per day).

If on the other hand you are using a auto-responder software service and that service is doing a good job, then you can count on the largest possible deliverability rate, because that is how these services can distinguish themselves.

Sending Spam

Using your own auto-responder software installed on your computer, you can – within the restrictions mentioned -  send anything you like (also spam). If you do send spam you will very likely be caught rather quickly and either the smtp server will be blocked for you or even the Internet connection. The reason for that is that the provider simply does not want to be considered accepting spam coming from his network.

Using the hosted service you will not be allowed to send spam at all. The restrictions and online tests are quite rigorous. If you send spam you will get caught and banned from the service.

Functions

Both types of auto-responder software can provide a host of functions such as:

• using templates for graphical html mails
• automatic conversion in text mails
• managing users (adding, editing, sorting, selecting)
• creating mailings where newsletter and recipient get combined
• personalized content (where names and other information gets pasted into the text of the mail)
• creating follow up campaigns (automated dispatch of series of mails in predefined time intervals)

There is a bias towards hosted auto-responder services for these tasks, as the server has more direct access to the information

• tracking (statistics as to the performance of mailings)
• bounce management (what happens to mails that don’t reach the recipient)

Cost

Locally installable auto-responder software is usually sold as a licence for a number of computers or servers. The upfront amount is charged only once.

Hosted server side autoresponders charge a monthly fee that varies with the number of contacts you are holding in their data base.

Speed

A hosted service takes the message and mixes in the recipients data (mail address, etc.). Once you have initiated the task, it is out of your hands and out of your computer. The server sends the mails into the Internet directly. Delivery is much faster than when dispatched from your computer, which has to send each mail individually through a relatively slow upstream to your provider.

Gathering contact information

To efficiently do that you need a webform that you place on your website or squeeze page. A subscriber fills in the form and gets stored in the data base. If you use a hosted service the webform can interact with the service directly and trigger responses instantly. Working with an autoresponder software from your computer requires your computer to be on to react. The setup of your own network is also much more complicated as it requires often times dynamic DNS settings (much more complicated than using the hosted autoresponder.)

Conclusion

If you want to be a serious Internet Marketer you will have to pick a hosted Autoresponder Software, anything else is not really an alternative.

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