Monday, February 2, 2009

Email Marketing - How Important Is It For Your Business

By Jeff Dedrick

Leads are important in any business and the only way to accumulate them is through lead generation. Lead generation is the accumulation of leads. Leads are a list of potential clients that a business plans on marketing their services or products to gain their trust and loyalty, and ultimately do business with them. There are two different types of lead generation: they are sales leads and lead marketing.

Sales leads are a whole different animal and should be treated as such. These lists will be sold hundreds and maybe thousands of times around the country and businesses need to be aware they are not the first ones attempting to contact these potential leads and need to come in with a fresh approach. From this information they will come up with an opt in list and figure out which are the best possible candidates from their list.

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.

The email will go out and reach a large targeted amount of people and the business can sit back and track how many responses they are getting and how effective their email campaign was. The only negative connotation associated with email is that is up to the user whether or not they want to open the email and they can sometimes discard it without even bothering to look at what is inside. This can be very frustrating for businesses because they can track the amount of people looking at their email and some may want to have that more personal feeling of talking to people directly on the telephone. Everyone needs these types of services in their life and they want to work with someone they can trust. If you come across as a person that is going to benefit their life, then you are already one step ahead of the curve.

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