Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Effective Email Marketing Campaigns


How To Implement Effective Email Marketing Campaigns



Are you interested in using email marketing to enhance the traffic and sales of your website? It can be a confusing process if you don’t know where to start. You will need to establish your goals before you send the first email. What are you hoping to accomplish? Make sure these goals are clear and realistic.This will help you measure the success of the email marketing campaign. This is a great way to learn what works and what doesn’t for future email marketing campaigns. While your particular goals will vary, some common ones include increasing sales, getting more traffic to the website; improve awareness of about your company and what products or services you offer, and
building a solid relationship with your customers.


As you start measuring the success of your email marketing campaign, make sure you are comparing the data only against your own information not that of the industry. For example did your sales increase by 10% and traffic to your site increase by 25% after your email marketing campaign rather than discovering the rate that sales and traffic increased for the entire industry
you are in.

Don’t be discouraged if your first email marketing campaign doesn’t do as well as you hoped, especially if you are a new business. It takes time to build trust with consumers. Make sure you use your original email address when you send out the emails. This will help it get past the spam filters.



Make sure you take the time to update your email listings. Remove any requests to opt out quickly and efficiently to respect the consumer’s privacy. You will be wasting your time to email to incorrect addresses or those who don’t want your materials. Never change the first part of a person’s email address even if the mail is undeliverable. However it is a good idea to look for misspellings in the email service provider name
such as Yahoo being Yaho or Hotmail being Hotmall.


Some businesses like to use an email marketing template. Don’t get too comfortable with a successful marketing campaign though! This is because customers become bored easily with the same format. You need to keep their interest by mixing things up a bit in future email marketing campaigns. Opt in email marketing
software collects email addresses from your website. This is a great method that is simple for getting you a data base started. As your data base grows you can choose to send your future email marketing campaigns to everyone on the list or just a selecttarget group based on their purchasing history.

You will need to design your email marketing campaign very well. It needs to be attractive to hold the attention of the consumer long enough for them to decide it is worth reading. You don’t want your efforts to be mistaken for common spam or junk mail right? Make sure all the content is spelled correctly. Keep the
text short and to the point. Readers who open your email may choose to delete it or save it to read later if it looks to lengthy. You want them to open it, be captivated, and read it. The first sentences need to identify your company and what you are offering. Place the important information first. Then reader is likely to keep reading. Give them a sense of urgency for responding by clearing stating the day the promotional offers
expire.

Monday, April 19, 2010

How To Write An Outline

Outline To Success



Are you interesting in writing an e-book?  If so, do you know what you would like your e-book topic to be about?  Better yet, do you have an idea as to what you would like to write?  If you do, you are urged to write it down now.  When push comes to shove, there are many writers, even professional writers, who
fail to remember everything that they wanted to include in an e-book, even in a standard article.

Writing down all of your e-book ideas is a great way to ensure that you don’t forget any important points that you wanted to mention.  Although writing down your ideas is great, you may want to take it a step further.  You may want to create an outline for yourself.  An outline can act as a guide for you; a guide that will not only help to ensure that you don’t forgetanything, but it may also help you write better articles.

Outlines, including e-book outlines, come in a number of different formats.  Despite different formats, there are some items which are almost always included in an outline. These items are a thesis statement or the main e-book topic, headings, and subheadings.  When doing an e-book, you may want to do an outline for each chapter that you plan on writing.  While it may seem like a lot of work, your work should pay off in the end. As it was mentioned above, you can create your own outline format, but you may want to think about using the sample
outlined below.


CHAPTER 1 (Thesis/Point ) -

Paragraph #1 (Heading) – This is where you would write the main point you would like focused on.

Paragraph #1 (Subheadings) – This is where you could go into more detail on the points that you would like covered in your paragraphs.

The above mentioned example was just a sample of the format that you could use. In all honestly, it really doesn’t matter how you compose an outline, as long as you do.  In fact, there are a number of benefits to first developing an outline for your e-book. As it was previously mentioned, an outline is likely to reduce your chances of forgetting something that you wanted tomention.  In the end, this is likely to improve your final
product.  In fact, an outline may be what helps to set your e-book apart from the other thousands.

An e-book outline will not only help you create a better product, but it may also help you do it in a shorter period of time.  Outlines, even e-book outlines, are known to make writing easier and faster.  When you have an outline, you already know exactly what you want to write and even how you want to write it. Essentially, this means that you can just focus on writing. You shouldn’t have to stop and come up with new ideas or think about what to write.  In fact, an outline may help eliminate the chances of you experiencing writers block.  Writers block tends to be associated with interruptions.  If you have an outline,
you will rarely find yourself stopping to think.

For the best chance of success, you are urged to create an outline that you feel comfortable working with.  The above mentioned outline sample is used by many, including many e-book writers.  However, it is important to remember that what works for one individual might not work for another.  If you find yourself having a difficult time preparing or reading an outline, you are urged to keep on experimenting.  After time,
you will likely find an outline format that you enjoy working with and one that may increase your productivity.

As you can see, it is fairly easy to create an outline for your next e-book. In fact, there are a number of benefits to using one.  If you currently do not use outlines, you may want to give them a try.  If you don’t think that they helped you, in the long run, you can return to your original way of writing; at least you gave them a chance.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Effective Email Marketing Campaigns

Are you interested in using email marketing to enhance the traffic and sales of your website? It can be a confusing process if you don’t know where to start. You will need to establish your goals before you send the first email. What are you hoping to accomplish? Make sure these goals are clear and realistic. This will help you measure the success of the email marketing campaign. This is a great way to learn what works and what
doesn’t for future email marketing campaigns. While your particular goals will vary, some common ones include increasing sales, getting more traffic to the website; improve awareness of about your company and what  products or services you offer, and building a solid relationship with your customers.


As you start measuring the success of your email marketing campaign, make sure you are comparing the data only against your own information not that of the industry. For example did your sales increase by 10% and traffic to your site increase by 25% after your email marketing campaign rather than discovering the
rate that sales and traffic increased for the entire industry you are in.

Don’t be discouraged if your first email marketing campaign doesn’t do as well as you hoped, especially if you are a new business. It takes time to build trust with consumers. Make sure you use your original email address when you send out the emails. This will help it get past the spam filters.


Make sure you take the time to update your email listings. Remove any requests to opt out quickly and efficiently to respect the consumer’s privacy. You will be wasting your time to email to incorrect addresses or those who don’t want your materials. Never change the first part of a person’s email address even if the mail is undeliverable. However it is a good idea to look for misspellings in the email service provider name
such as Yahoo being Yaho or Hotmail being Hotmall.

Some businesses like to use an email marketing template. Don’t get too comfortable with a successful marketing campaign though! This is because customers become bored easily with the same format. You need to keep their interest by mixing things up a bit in future email marketing campaigns. Opt in email marketing
software collects email addresses from your website. This is a great method that is simple for getting you a data base started.  As your data base grows you can choose to send your future email marketing campaigns to everyone on the list or just a select target group based on their purchasing history.


You will need to design your email marketing campaign very well. It needs to be attractive to hold the attention of the consumer long enough for them to decide it is worth reading. You don’twant your efforts to be mistaken for common spam or junk mail right? Make sure all the content is spelled correctly. Keep the
text short and to the point. Readers who open your email may choose to delete it or save it to read later if it looks to lengthy. You want them to open it, be captivated, and read it. The first sentences need to identify your company and what you are offering. Place the important information first. Then reader is likely to keep reading. Give them a sense of urgency for responding by clearing stating the day the promotional offers
expire.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

What Is A Good Page Length For Search Engines

You’ve decided to create content for your web pages, but aren’t sure how many words each page should have to ensure that search engines and visitors come back often. It’s a dilemma that many web site owners face. They don’t want to have too little words, but they don’t want to have too many words, either. It’s a delicate balance that every web site owner has to know in order to have a site that is search engine optimized and visitor friendly. In this newsletter, we will discuss the appropriate length for pages, and the reason why your pages should adhere to this length requirement.


What is a good length for pages?

Ideally, each page should have at least 700 words, but no more than 1500 words. Anything less than 700 words and search engine spiders might just skip over your site entirely; anything more than 1500 and spiders won’t take the time to search through the content for keywords.


When I write the content, what should I strive to do?

You should strive to write content that is entertaining and easy to read. Don’t drone on and on just to meet the 700 word requirement. Find things to talk about that are relevant to your site and come up with ways to say them in a concise manner. Remember that search engine bots aren’t the only thing to come to your site—people are also coming to your site and they will want to read content that makes them want to visit again. Aim to
please them first, then the search engine bots.


How do I please search engine bots?

Pleasing search engine bots is as simple as having 700+ words of content and some keywords sprinkled into your content. Keywords are words that the search engine bots immediately spot and use to figure out how to rank your site. In a document of 700 words, you’ll want to have at least 7 keywords, but preferably around 21, throughout your content. When using keywords, make sure to sprinkle them naturally throughout the document so that you do not distract your reader from what the content is about.


Why should I have pages with content between 700 and 1500 words?

The reasons for this are simple. Having pages with content of 700-1500 words will please visitors and search engine spiders. Pleasing both will help your site attract more traffic and become successful.


Visitors who come to your site want to see useful content. If your content is short, chances are, it’s not very useful to visitors. Good content is content that is worthwhile to read and tells the visitor something they don’t already know. It must be packed with information and details. Few can accomplish this in less than 700 words, which is why it is often necessary to usethat many words.


However, it is also important not to be too wordy with your content. People want to be able to quickly get the content they need. They don’t want to read through hundreds of words of fluff. In order to get what they came for. So be concise and try to make sure your content doesn’t go over 1500 words.


Spiders who come to your site want to have a good amount of content to “chew” on. That is, they want to have enough content to report back to the search engine database. Less than 700 words really isn’t enough content for a spider to bring back to a search engine database, so spiders tend to ignore pages with
under 700 words.

Spiders, much like human visitors, also don’t like pages with excessive amounts of words. Pages with 1500 words are usually a big turnoff to spiders, and even if a spider does visit the page, chances are they won’t report the contents of the page back to the search engine database for which they work. That is why you must strive to be concise not just for human visitors, but for the robot(spider) visitors as well.

If you are able to limit your pages to between 700 and 1500 words, you will do well with human visitors and search engine spiders. That’s the goal of every web site owner and should be your goal as well.