Wednesday, August 13, 2008

What You Should Know About Email Marketing Software

By Ray Lam


Email marketing, with its ever-growing complexity and infrastructure, requires perfectly suited software. The right software yields maximum harvest from your email marketing strategy. It also broadens the marketer?s bandwidth.

There are many types of email marketing software that are designed to handle bulk email. As emails are the least responded forms of communication, bulk mailing is needed most of the time. Bulk email marketing is certainly one of the most cost-effective strategies on the Internet as the cost of a single email is minimal. Some software programs are shareware that do not require an initial investment at all. Even though these shareware programs generally don?t have many value-added features that come with paid software packages, for a small email marketing campaign they are more than enough.

Pay attention to non-responders. Most online business owners tend to target people who open, click and buy. There is however an even larger group of non-responders that you can nudge into paying customers. You should ensure that your emails are being delivered, then either change your message or phase out non responders to ensure you are targeting people that will become paying customers and not wasting your time.

Confirm and then re-confirm email addresses. You should come up with a system for reconfirming your regular subscribers email addresses over time so you don't lose anyone.

Automate Your Programs and Routines. To optimize your email marketing software efforts you should automate processes including subscriptions, unsubscribe, monthly newsletters and more.

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