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9 Most Advanced Techniques of Email Marketing

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9 Most Advanced Techniques of Email Marketing

When we hear the term Email Marketing, most of us assume that it’s a tool of the past. As most emails land up in the promotion tab these days, email marketing seems to no longer be effective. But I want to bust some myths about email marketing in this article. I’ll discuss how you can excel in email marketing along with some of the most advanced techniques in the email marketing space.

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Here are 9 tips to scale your email marketing efforts:

  1. Have a clean list

Before you start email marketing you will need to build a good and a clean list to which you can share more information related to your product and services, subtly and without being too promotional. You might choose various channels to generate lists for email – such as Facebook lead generation campaigns, giving away free materials such as e-books, guides, presentations, templates, etc, or search engine marketing campaigns. Once you have a clean and verified list of leads and prospects your marketing efforts will be more fruitful.

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You may also choose to verify email addresses and contact details dropped by leads with an OTP based verification along with double opt-in email verification. A lot of email marketing tools have these features built in within them.

  1. Focus on the subject line

Most of the marketers today don’t focus on the subject line of the email. Initially, our entire focus is to complete the email main body’s copy. Once we have finalised the same, we start thinking about the subject line. Whereas it should be the other way round. Before you start writing an email you should keep the user’s perspective in mind and consider that they will only open your mail if the subject line is catchy.
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You might have the best email copy in the world but if you have a bad subject line, chances of users reading your mail are very less. Therefore, while writing an email copy one should come up with alternatives for the subject line, take feedback from a few friends or colleagues and then freeze on one. Ideally, one should spend maximum time writing effective subject lines than the body copy of the email.
Here are some examples of effective subject lines:
Make listiclesTop 10 ways to write effective emails!
Start with a use caseThis is how Hitesh wrote effective emails, do you want to learn the trick?
Give numbersHow Hitesh made over $10,000 using email marketing!
Build suspenseDo you know the secret to writing effective emails that people open?
There are many more creative ways to lure users to open your emails.

  1. Use plain text emails

You might be wondering why you should use plain text emails instead of fancy designer ones?
Nowadays marketers prefer sending plain text emails as the chances of these emails landing in the primary inbox become very high. If you have too many images displayed in the emailer the email service provider will automatically push your emails to the promotion tab or spam folder. Also, plain text emails appear to be more natural and more personalised. Users nowadays prefer reading such emails as compared to emails with images.

  1. Send emails from an individual’s name instead of company name

People like talking to people. It is a good practice to use a person’s name instead of putting across your company name in the sender’s email address. This trick not only helps in making your email more personalised but also helps in increasing open rates for your mail.

You must have noticed, usually, spammers use this trick by placing a female name in the sender’s address. This leads to a lot of open rates for them. But you can use the same trick to connect with your audience and build a positive affinity, you may choose to use the name of your CEO or any personnel from senior management of the firm.

  1. Set up preview text

One of the best practices to increase open rates for your email is to set up a preview text in the email marketing tool. A preview provides additional information about your email as compared to the subject line. You should keep the preview text short, to the point and avoid jargon.

  1. Busting Myths of Email Marketing! UpGrad Blog Keep your emails short

You should avoid writing long emails. Nowadays, people have developed the habit of skimming through content quickly. Therefore, it is imperative that we keep emails very short and crisp. Also, one should not sell hard in the email, instead focus on providing valuable content that will engage users.

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  1. Leverage drip marketing

Drip marketing is a very powerful tool if used effectively. It is a method through which you can automate your emails and run an email marketing workflow. This method not only helps you to nurture existing customers but also ensures that users who don’t interact with your communication are opted out of the list and lets you focus only on the most active users.

You can use MailChimp, drip.co or Get Response for scheduling your drip marketing campaigns.
Use personalisation

Personalisation is one of the key aspects of any email marketing campaigns. Though this one is obvious, many marketers fail to acknowledge and utilise it properly. Also, you can ask customers for their feedback and preferred time of communication and what types of content they would like to receive. Such feedback will help to connect better and also you may notice higher conversion and referrals for your campaign.
As a cautionary note – it is important that you do not over-personalize your emails as this could annoy your customers. One should maintain a balance while sending personalised emails.

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  1. Leverage Analytics

One of the key features that an email marketing tool provides you is powerful analytics. If you wish to excel in email marketing, you should keep a close watch on the analytics and open rates of your past emails. After sending a few emailers, you will be in a better position to understand which types of e-mails are working and which are not.

There is much more to the world of email marketing. The way we do marketing now is changing at a very dynamic pace. One should keep in mind that email marketing should be considered very seriously while planning the digital marketing mix.

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Hitesh Motwani

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Hitesh is a founder and CEO of Socialopedia, Digital media consulting company. His experience in Digital & Social media marketing, public relations, corporate communications and branding spans more than a decade. In an earlier endeavor with Ogilvy and Mather, he led some of their flagship clients such as Twitter, Future Generali Life Insurance, Swiss Re, Bandhan Bank, EXIM Bank, CFA and many more. He also enjoyed heading the PR and Marketing department for Crompton Graves and leading the account for Tata Group when he was with Rediffusion Y&R. Hitesh has been training various participants on Digital Media Marketing for close to a decade and he has consulted several start-ups. He is a passionate digital media trainer and a visiting faculty at IIM Bangalore.
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1What is a marketing mix?
A comprehensive marketing plan comprises of multiple areas of focus that are referred to as the marketing mix. For marketing to be effective, it cannot fixate on a single message. It has to communicate across a broad range of areas.

Marketing professionals can reach a large audience through such broad means of communication. The success of any marketing mix depends upon its communication being grounded in reality.

To ensure that their communication does not get carried away, marketers use the four Ps of marketing – product, price, place, and promotion, as guiding principles to their strategies. This helps them to prioritise their activities and allocate resources accordingly.

Getting the marketing mix right is especially important for companies looking to revise existent offerings or launch new products.
2What is jargon?
The specialised terminology that is usually associated with a particular area or field of activity is known as jargon. It is used in the context of a specific domain or discipline and is usually not understood outside its purview.

The context is often an occupation. This includes academic or vernacular fields, a certain profession or trade, etc. The main difference between jargon and the rest of a language is that jargon is a form of a special vocabulary.

It comprises of words that only exist in the context of the domain. It may also comprise of ordinary words that have specialised meanings when taken in the same context.
3What are listicles?
Listicles usually comprise of multiple items based on a specific theme enumerated in a list. They may also contain additional information that is used to qualify the points made in the list.

Listicles are a good way to communicate. It allows the readers to absorb the information quickly by scanning the bullet points.

They are also easy to write. Content writers prefer creating listicles as opposed to long and convoluted paragraphs since they deliver the information quickly and effectively.

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