The wonderful thing about marketing on the Internet is that there are many ways to do it. You have everything from pay per click to solo ads to classifieds to you name it. But many marketers are missing out on a big piece of the pie by either leaving email marketing out of the equation or not using it properly. I don’t know which category you fall in, but if you’re not making a solid income through email marketing, you’re missing out big time. This article is going to give you a few tips to improve your efforts in this area.

Email List building is one of the marketing strategies that must be implemented in every small business promotion campaign. Many online marketers do not understand the importance of building a quality targeted email list, or the best way to achieve it. You must gain your prospects’ trust and capture their contact information in order to build a list. Through this list, you can advertise your site or product to your prospects and later on turn them into paying customers. According to many of the famous online Gurus and Blogs that I have studied, research shows that people will keep ignoring your advert until they have seen it at least seven times.

Email marketing is the activity of promoting a company’s products or services via electronic messages, or emails, sent to potential buyers or brand-loyal customers. It is not an uncommon practice, but there are many pitfalls to be aware of as a marketer. These failures can be avoided by understanding a few things about how users would like to receive advertising messages in their email inboxes.

No spam, please

SPAM email is unsolicited email. From the sender’s point of view it’s a form of bulk mail, often to a list gathered from subscribers to an online discussion group or harvested by companies that specialize in creating email distribution lists. SPAM emails are unsolicited mails sent in bulk to valid email accounts. These can vary from harmless advertisements for commercial products to offensive material and financial scams.

A trickle, not a flood

Email marketing should not be obtrusive or too pushy, in terms of selling a product. People tend to have trust issues towards marketing via electronic means, since they have no real guarantee that what they see is what they will get. Thus, avoid hyping up the products or services too much, or they may think that it is too good to be true and end up not buying at all. Additionally, this applies to the frequency of email updates to subscribers to your marketing service. Once a day is excessive, yet once a month would not be very useful in pushing up the profit line. As a general guideline, once a week or once every two weeks should be good, except if you have a special message on limited offers. Remember not to flood inboxes, and youre good as gold.

Options for trust

It should be possible for users to unsubscribe from your email marketing service. This is often overlooked by marketers, and scares away the more Internet-savvy users. The fact that they can opt out of your informational messages is a good foundation for trust, since they will feel that you are simply offering a service with no strings attached. Building trust in the informational phase will translate into more purchases and of course better profits later on, so take note.

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