Monday, February 2, 2009

Email Marketing - How Important Is It For Your Business

By Jeff Dedrick

Whenever a business is taking a lead marketing approach, it is important to recognize that these leads will only be sold one time. List marketing is the people responsible for creating the leads for businesses. These leads will not be going out to hundred of businesses so the competition is not going to be there. There are two main types of lead generations and they are called sales leads and lead marketing.

Sales leads are going to be sold to multiple businesses so you generally will not be the first contact and it is important to be fresh and creative when you dial the number so that they will take a liking to your charming pitch. Sales leads will have personal financial information so you can be well informed of each individual and make the necessary pitch.

Companies will often follow up with sales leads with a telephone call, and this is a way to touch base and they can let customers know they are in an adjustable rate mortgage and need to be in a fixed rate, in order to save money on their home and help prevent them from losing it. Marketing leads can also be called MLM leads and have a more direct approach with future customers.

But these leads are often way more expensive so it's key to take the best approach and make each one count because every name on your list, whether it's an opt in list, email list, or list marketing is going to represent, potentially a lot of money. Sales leads often involve financial businesses and will include personal information about people's credit scores and finances. Sales will have things like their FICO scores and what kind of mortgage a person is in; so off the bat the business knows a little bit about the potential consumer already and are not swinging blind heading into a conversation.

Another way businesses will take advantage of lists and prospective customers is to reach out over the internet through email. This works because companies will develop email lists full of addresses and decide which ones will be a part of their opt in email. Mass emails about businesses reach a large amount of future clients and there are all sorts of creative ways a company can market their goods or services. It will be the choice of the email recipient whether they want to opt in or opt out of the email.

Some people may find the idea of bulk mail or pop-ups annoying, but it is an effective way to get your message across and a way to get people to recognize your site because brand marketing is key to survival in the cut-throat world of business. The nice thing about the internet is that it allows people to choose whether or not they want to receive the email. A company will require a double opt in and this has consumers manually clicking on an accept button that says they want to receive emails from this company offering special promos and discounts. This way they can stay up to date on all their businesses and can take advantage of special rates.

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