Monday, February 2, 2009

The Role Of Email Marketing In An Online Business

By Jeff Dedrick

As the internet continues to become a bigger part of our lives we are going to become more inundated with ads, that will promote businesses and services, and any owner needs to jump on that bandwagon and strike while the iron is hot. Every business owners needs to recognize the internet as a prominent tool that is only going to become more and more part of our everyday lives. Over half of all internet users check their email at least once a day. This is a key demographic that is out spending money and are in need of new goods and services.

Email marketing is a form of direct marketing and it uses email as a way to effectively communicate to a person or companies their services or products. Because almost every person in the world uses email in some forms it is a great way to market without being evasive or in their face. Businesses will put together email lists full prospective clients.

Often times an audience is turned off by the fact that a business will call them during dinner or while they are at work. Sometimes people consider the advertisements that people send them in the mail, "junk mail, and get irritated by the fact that they have more garbage then they would normally have. Through email, there is no access paper being wasted and internet users can check out the business marketing on their own time. The way it works is that an owner or an employee will put together an opt in list or an opt in email. This is called list marketing and is used by different companies around the world.

The last thing people want to do is spend money, no matter if they want ant need the product or not. Email is very non-evasive and gives customers the chance to look at the information on their own time and make a well informed decision on what is best for them. Because email marketing is a form of direct marketing it can be called MLM marketing as well. List marketing is the people responsible for creating the leads for businesses. This works because companies will develop email lists full of addresses and decide which ones will be a part of their opt in email. The other nice thing about email marketing is that companies can keep track of how effective their email campaign is going.

They can track the responses in a variety of ways. These ways include: autoresponders, web bugs, unsubscribe requests, read requests, bounce messages, read receipts, click through, and others. Not only that, but in the whole "green age" using email saves paper and that helps everyone. Some people do get irritated by the junk mail, but this is nothing compared to what they feel when their dinner get interrupted. It will be the choice of the email recipient whether they want to opt in or opt out of the email. Not only is email marketing becoming more convenient and popular it is cheaper as well.

Some other benefits of email marketing are the fact that over half of internet users check their email at least once a day. Researchers estimate the fact that firms in the United States will spend over $400 million dollars on email marketing and not only that, but they are able to track their exact return on their investment and can make sure they are getting their money's worth. As technology grows, email and internet marketing is going to become more prevalent and more popular, especially because it doesn't use any paper and is "very green".

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