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If you’re ready to implement your email marketing campaign, and you’ve already selected some quality email marketing software, you should take time to analyze what factors make for a quality email in an email campaign.  Below you will find some great tips for designing a quality email that were derived from various experts in the field of online marketing.  

Be sure to send your emails to a select group of interested recipients

Most failed email marketing campaigns didn’t work because the sender treated every email recipient the same. The person who loved blue wallpaper got the blanket email featuring the green wallpaper. Even though the the persons who preferred the green wallpaper were satisfied, the others who got the email were turned off. Don’t make the same mistake. Get all the data you can about your targeted recipients to include past buying habits to geographic location. Analyzse the data and target your emails to specific lists accordingly. If you have a group of people who love one type of service you offer and another group that couldn’t care less, strategize accordingly.

Be sure to personalize your emails

Address your prospects by name in your emails if at all possible. It is best to have your emails sent to your recipients from the same address and sender name each time. The more personal you can get, the easier it is to build trust. You’ll also have a better chance of your emails being opened and read.

Make sure that your layout is simple

Avoid filling your copy with excessive and loud graphics, big fonts and other way out front items. Keep your layout clean and simple. Insure that the layout is very easy to navigate, yet professional in appearance. A overly busy layout will turn your recipients off and send your email campaign or newsletter right into the trash file.

Don’t overdue with excessive copy

It’s tempting to use three paragraphs to describe a product you really love and think your customers should love as well. But avoid doing it. Use small paragraphs and economy of language to cater to the short time frame your customers have to go through all their emails. If you have something you want to expand upon, link to the rest of the story via a landing page on your site.

Include a call to action

What’s the purpose sending an email touting products if you don’t ask your customers to do something beyond look? Your call to action can do many things: ask customers to click on a link, ask customers to fill out a survey, ask customers to make a purchase. Regardles of the the call to action you want, make sure that it is very prominent and clear in your emails.

Develop a really notable subject line

The subject line of your email is the most critical element and it must be optimised to insure the highest likelyhood of the email even being opened by the intended recipient. Do your due diligence. Come up with an honest, compelling subject line meant to grab the attention of your customers. Avoid hot-button words and phrases like “make money!” and “earn cash!”. Go for subject lines that pique the recipient’s curiosity, but tells the truth at the same time.

Success for your email campaign isn’t completely guaranteed by the above, but your probability for increasing sales and return on your effort will dramatically improve.

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