Email Marketing : Grow Up Your Business

Online, August 12, 2012 (Newswire.com) - Email marketing is directly marketing a commercial message to a group of people using email. In its broadest sense, every email sent to a potential or current customer could be considered email marketing. It usually involves using email to send ads, request business, or solicit sales or donations, and is meant to build loyalty, trust, or brand awareness. Email marketing can be done to either cold lists or current customer database. Broadly, the term is usually used to refer to:

Sending email messages with the purpose of enhancing the relationship of a merchant with its current or previous customers, to encourage customer loyalty and repeat business,
Sending email messages with the purpose of acquiring new customers or convincing current customers to purchase something immediately,
Adding advertisements to email messages sent by other companies to their customers

Researchers estimate that United States firms alone spent US $1.51 billion on email marketing in 2011 and will grow to $2.468 billion by 2016.[1]

Email newsletters

Email Newsletters are direct emails sent out on a regular basis to a list of subscribers, customers. The primary purpose of an email newsletter is to build upon the relationship of the company with their customers/subscribers.

Email Marketing can be used for various ways -

Generating more website traffic
Gaining and maintaining customer loyalty
Increasing your website user-base
Educating people about your products or services
Brand building
Lead generation
Customer feedback collection
Advertising

Advantages

Email marketing (on the Internet) is popular with companies for several reasons:

An exact return on investment can be tracked ("track to basket") and has proven to be high when done properly. Email marketing is often reported as second only to search marketing as the most effective online marketing tactic.[4]
Advertisers can reach substantial numbers of email subscribers who have opted in (i.e., consented) to receive email communications on subjects of interest to them.
Almost half of American Internet users check or send email on a typical day,[5] with email blasts that are delivered between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. outperforming those sent at other times in open and click rates.[6]
Email is popular with digital marketers, rising an estimated 15% in 2009 to £292m in the UK