Why email marketing?

Engage Customers. Build Strong Relationships.

Email marketing helps you keep customers and prospects engaged by using attractive, professional-looking email communications to stay in regular touch with them and build strong relationships. It's better and more effective than many other promotional tools. You can engage and educate your clients and potential customers with newsletters, special offers, event invitations, marketing materials, or other documents.

One of the biggest advantages to using email marketing is the tracking capabilities. With most services you'll have access to reports on bounced, forwarded, delivered/undeliverable and sent emails; as well as conversions, click-throughs and more.

Once you have a professioally designed and branded template, you can even schedule email delivery for when your audience is most likely to check email, so you'll increase the likelihood they'll read it and take action. Using your own database list, you can create smaller customer lists based on their interests. Then you can send more relevant and targeted messages to them. They'll be more likely to respond – and more likely to act on your emails.

Email marketing offers several advantages over traditional (print based) direct mail:
- Your message is delivered virtually instantaneously.
- Your customers can respond to your promotion immediately.
- You can track the process of your campaign in real time.
- Your message can be specifically targeted at those groups most likely to respond to your promotion.
- The message can link directly to your website with a simple point-and-click.
- The overall cost is substantially lower than other direct marketing.

 

My email marketing services

Your Brand. Your Design. Your Message.

HTML emails custom designed for you
Email marketing campaigns are tailored to suit your specific needs. Whether you’re after a one-off email design, a campaign series, or a custom template for regular use, I’ve got you covered. I will work to ensure your emails are perfectly designed to reflect your brand and communicate with your customers.

I work as part of your team
I can do as much or as little of the work according to your schedule. I can design template(s), landing pages for you to use or handle entire campaigns. I am happy to take your content and prepare and deliver your campaigns for you on a regular fixed schedule.

I'm flexible
I'm not locked into one sending platform for email delivery. I am happy to work with your existing email marketing service or recommend a solution if you don’t have one. It’s up to you.

Only pay for the things you need
Every job is different. I work with you to define an effective marketing strategy, and provide an upfront estimate based on your requirements – not things you don’t need.

 

Current Research

Current. research on email marketing.

72% of respondents to an Econsultancy survey in early 2011 described email's ROI as excellent or good. Only organic SEO scored better . (reference)

According to research conducted by the Direct Marketing Association, email marketing was expected to generate an ROI of $42.08 for every dollar spent on it in 2010. As such, it outperforms all the other direct marketing channels examined, such as print catalogs. (reference)

ForeSee Results, the Michigan-based global leader in technology-driven customer satisfaction analytics, released its annual report (February 3, 2011) on the state of social media effectiveness for retailers in the United States. The report shows that social media interactions are a primary influence for only about 5% of visitors to retail websites. The research indicates that, in fact, more traditional marketing techniques like promotional emails, search engine results, and even advertising influence far more visits to retail websites.

Other highlights of the ForeSee Report include:
Traditional marketing techniques like promotional emails influence not only more traffic; they deliver better-quality traffic. Some of the most satisfied site visitors arrived at the site because of previous familiarity with a brand, promotional emails, word-of-mouth, and product review websites.

Most customers are eager to engage with retailers, but prefer to do so via email or on retail websites, rather than on social sites. In fact, only 8% of online shoppers said that’s social media was their preferred way to interact with a retailer. (reference)

A January 2011 survey by BtoB Magazine found 63% of respondents likely to increase spending on email in 2011 (second only to websites) with 29% keeping spend constant . (reference)

The 2011 Digital Marketing Outlook Survey from the Society of Digital Agencies revealed that 70% of brand marketers planned to invest in email marketing in 2011. (reference)