Email Personalization Can Lead to Open Rate Success

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Written by: eTargetMedia

If you open up your inbox and find a flood of emails from those persistent business marketers, would you really go through each and every one of them? Neither would most people. Using email lists as a marketing platform can be a complete game changer when done the right way. At eTargetMedia, we know that in order to separate yourself from all the noise, you’re going to need to approach your emails with a certain characteristic that makes your readers want to peek inside out of curiosity.

How to Personalize

Email personalization can drastically improve your email marketing campaigns.

Understand the different characteristics of the people that you’re targeting. This could mean having some quirky buyer personas, or even looking into their goals.

Personalization is all about “not” coming off as a marketer in your emails. Honestly, nobody enjoys feeling like they’re being marketed to. As a marketer yourself, it’s important that you make your prospects feel like you’re catering to their needs and offering them a product or service that will add significant value to their lives.

Value Your Customers

If you’ve recently sold a product or service, take the time to draft a follow-up email and send it to the customer to thank them. Start it off with a “Thank you for purchasing/downloading!”

eTargetMedia offers email marketing lists that can be easily customized to automatically send follow-up emails to you valued customers. We know that there needs to be a level of familiarity to keep your customers continuing to open your emails in the future.

Email Segmentation on the Rise With Marketers

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eTargetMedia knows that it’s important for businesses to be able to reach their customers with messages that speak to their specific interests and needs. Our email lists are highly segmented by a range of demographic, geographic and lifestyle choices to allow marketing campaigns to connect the right message with the right audience. Research from the DMA National Client Email Report 2015 shows the importance and growing acceptance of targeting email marketing campaigns.

‘According to the report, only 3 percent of all companies surveyed failed to perform any segmentation of their email lists and messages. By contrast, the number of companies that do apply segmentation in their email marketing campaigns has risen steadily over the past three years.

Companies are not only more likely than ever to use some form of segmentation, but they are also performing more segmentation. In 2014, 42 percent of all respondents said that they use six or more customer segmentations in their email marketing, an increase of 5 percent in the past two years.

Using audience segmentation in email marketing isn’t just smart for businesses; it also helps to ensure consumers are getting messages that are relevant to their interests. Doing this makes them more likely to open future emails from all companies because they understand that there’s a good chance that there is something inside that they will be interested in learning about.

There are many different ways that email segmentation can help a company define their audience and control who is receiving their marketing campaigns. eTarget Media can help your business take the work out of this process with our highly segmented and curated opt-in email lists.

Tips to Maximize Your Email Marketing Campaign

Tips-to-Maximize-Your-Email-Marketing-CampaignWritten by: eTargetMedia

Have you looked through your email to find a product offer by a company that just doesn’t interest you at all? The next action that you might take is to either mark it as spam or just simply delete it. Many times, the title will just scream out spam which will immediately lose your trust with that sender.

Businesses continue to find success in generating leads through email. How do they do it? Here are some effective strategies that you can apply to your marketing strategy.

eTargetMedia provides targeted email listings for businesses looking to find clients within a specific niche field. Their high quality – and permission-based – email listing services are a fast and effective way to reach out to companies that are willing to listen to proposals. Utilizing this service will grant you opportunities to generate a lead and a business relationship that could blossom into something more.

Familiarity is obtained through a healthy relationship between a prospective client and yourself. Forcing familiarity too soon will only make your prospect back away. Personalizing your email to acknowledge a subscriber will provide them with a sense of caring. It takes little to no knowledge to show a client that you appreciate them.

For small businesses that are barely starting out, offering free content or a free service can boost your reputation from obscure anonymity to a household name. You’re going to see people take advantage of your freebie because – well, it’s free. Test out a list of free products that you offer and compile datasheets to see how they all fared. This will give you an idea on where your focus should be and what your subscribers want and expect from you.

 

 

10 Email Marketing Statistics That You Need to Know Now

10 Email Marketing Statistics That You Need to Know Now

By: eTargetMedia

The rise of social media and mobile marketing have had a big impact on digital marketing but email Email Marketing continues to deliver the highest returns on investment of any marketing channel. Email data proves that successful email marketing continues to grow and is leading all other digital marketing strategies.

The rise in use of smart phones, tablets and mobile devices has given every consumer immediate, on-the-go access to emails which is helping to drive the success of email marketing. In addition, social media has given marketers a new space to promote their email newsletters, increase email subscribers and offer special marketing campaigns that combine social media with email marketing. Email engagement has never been at a higher rate than it is now and email tracking is more sophisticated than it’s ever been.

The following statistics prove that email marketing is thriving and deliver the highest engagement, sales and conversion rates of all digital channels.

b1 Average Email ROI is Over 44:1
According to the Direct Marketing Association (DMA), for every $1 marketers spend on email, the average ROI is $44.

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b2 Email Delivers More Leads Than Any Other Marketing Channel
42% of businesses listed email marketing as the top digital marketing channel for lead generation.

 

b3Most People are Reading Emails on Smart Devices
More people are reading email on their phones than on desktop computers (over 85% of them are using a smart device).

 

b4Email Open Rates Are Growing
More people are reading email on their phones than on desktop computers (over 85% of them are using a smart device).

 

b5Put Information on Joining Your Email List On All Business Collateral
E-mail messages that include a social sharing button generate 30% more click throughs than emails without a social sharing button.

 

etargetMedia-06Email Effectiveness is Increasing 
43% of email marketers say email effectiveness is increasing and that they expect it to increase even more in the future.

 

etargetMedia-07Email Effectiveness is Increasing 
Over 70% of US consumers read email on their phones everyday (that’s over 100 million people) and that number is increasing daily.

 

etargetMedia-08The Number of Email Accounts is Projected to Grow to Over 5 Billion
The number of worldwide email accounts is projected to grow from over 4 billion accounts in 2014 to over 5 billion email accounts by the end of 2018.

 

etargetMedia-09Email’s Customer Acquisition Rates is 40 Times Higher than Social Media 
Email is 40 times more successful at acquiring new customers than either Facebook, Twitter or any social media site.

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etargetMedia-10Email Drives Online and Offline Purchases
81% of online shoppers said they were likely to make purchases (online or at a store) as a result of a targeted email campaign.

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About eTargetMedia

eTargetMedia has the knowledge and experience to implement a comprehensive email marketing strategy that will produce measurable results in traffic, customer acquisition, and revenues.  eTargetMedia’s services include online and offline direct marketing, including; Targeted Email Lists, Postal Lists, Email Append and Creative Services.

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Contact us to see how we can help you plan a successful email campaign:

Phone: 888.805.3282

Email: info@eTargetMedia.com

Web: www.eTargetMedia.com

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Three Questions to Ask Before Working With an Email Append Service

Three Questions to Ask Before Working With an Email Append ServiceUndertaking an email append campaign can help your business quickly and efficiently grow the number of recipients of your email marketing newsletters. By matching your incomplete contacts with information from third-party agencies such as eTargetMedia, you can greatly expand your outreach to potential customers who already know your brand.

There are a lot of companies providing email append services, and it’s important to find the right one if you want to get the best ROI for your campaign. Here are a few questions that you absolutely need to ask before working with any email append service:

“What are your sources for your email lists?”

It’s important that you know where the email append service is getting their email lists from before you start a campaign. Along with ensuring that they were obtained in an ethical manner, you also want to make sure that you can defend where they came from if a recipient asks questions about why they received an email.

“Are you compliant with industry regulations?”

Leading email append services such as eTargetMedia will make sure they are compliant with industry regulations and standards. This includes meeting CAN SPAM regulations and excluding all contacts on your company’s suppression list, the FCC’s Wireless Domains and the DMA’s “Do Not Contact” list.

“How long has your company been in business?”

When it comes to email append services, reputations matter. Make sure you are working with a company like eTargetMedia that has a long track record of success in the industry and it part of industry groups such as the DMA.

 

5 Key Email Marketing Metrics For Measuring the Success of Your Email Campaigns

5-Key-Email-Marketing-Metrics-For-Measuring-the-Success-of-Your-Email-CampaignsEmail marketing is one of the most powerful marketing
channels. It is the most successful marketing medium in
reaching new customers and increasing engagement and
loyalty from your current customers. One of the most
important elements of a successful email marketing campaign
is tracking campaign data and measuring your ROI. Here
are the 5 email marketing metrics you should be tracking to
evaluate your campaign success.

1. Delivery Rate: Delivery rate is one of the most important metrics in evaluating email campaign success. A
good delivery rate is over 95%. That’s why it is important to use an experienced and reputable email company.
They always have the most reliable email lists and get the highest delivery rates.

2. Open Rate: Tracking your open rate is another very important metric for successful email campaigns. If you are
sending out emails but customers aren’t opening them, you need to evaluate your subject lines to make sure you are
giving your customers a reason to open your emails. Having an engaging subject line can either make or break
your campaign.

3. Click-Through Rate: Track your click through rates to determine which messaging and which elements on
your email message generate the most clicks from your customers. Test different messages and calls-to-action by
tracking each link with a different tracking tag.

4. Conversion Rate: Track the sales and conversion rates of your email campaigns so you can easily calculate
your ROI. This will help you generate a good return on investment and determine what’s working and what needs to
be improved.

5. Unsubscribe Rate: Sometimes email receivers will unsubscribe from your message. Tracking your unsubscribe
rate will help you determine if you are sending your emails out too frequently, to the wrong people or with the
wrong messaging.

Tracking your email campaigns will help you measure the overall investment and ROI of your campaigns. Email
marketing is a very powerful marketing tool and by tracking these key metrics and using the data to improve your
campaigns, you will ensure that your campaigns succeed.

Contact eTargetMedia to find out how we can help you target
your email campaigns to maximize your campaign results.

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5 Ways to Reengage Your Customers Through Email Marketing

5-Ways-to-Reengage-Your-Customers-Through-Email-MarketingFor many consumers, email is the main way they stay connected to their favorite businesses. Most adults choose email as their favorite marketing communications channel. Over 90% of email users state that they like to receive marketing emails from companies that they do business with according to Marketing Sherpa. No one can deny the power of email but even though consumers embrace email, they can also experience email fatigue when marketers over email to them which results in email disengagement. When your customers become disengaged from your business, there are many steps you can take to increase engagement and retain them as a customer:

Personalize: Personalizing the content in your email message helps increase engagement substantially. Make your email message relevant to your customers’ needs and they will be more responsive to your emails. Ask your customers what interests them to help customize the content to their needs.

Discover What Motivates Your Customers to Respond: One of the most important steps in reengaging your customers is determining what engages them most. Do a series of email tests and use your tracking and performance data to evaluate what motivates your customers to engage and what leads them to disengage. Build upon that data to help increase engagement in future campaigns.

Let Your Customers Control the Email Experience: Give your customers the option of when they want to receive your message, how often they will receive it and the content contained in the message. When you let your customers control the email experience, it is less likely that they will become disengaged.

Create Unique Email Offers: Consumers will be more interested in engaging with your email messages if you send them unique content and offers that they won’t find anywhere else. Consider using special promotions that you only send through email campaigns. This will entice your customers to engage more with your email.

Identify Inactive Subscribers: There is no point in emailing people who are not engaging with your emails. Identify inactive subscribers and remove them from your email list if they have not engaged with your emails over an extended period of time. Removing inactive subscribers will help you increase subscriber engagement as well as the overall performance of your email campaigns.

 

Contact eTargetMedia to find out how we can help you target
your email campaigns to maximize your campaign results.

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Wonderful Subject Lines Drive Email Open Rates

Wonderful-Subject-Lines-Drive-Email-Open-RatesBy: Karen Waddell | VP of List Services, eTargetMedia

What’s the Point?
On average you only have six to ten words to entice a subscriber to open your email. Beyond 10 words and the subject line may get truncated; even worse your email may
get relegated to the trash folder unopened without the subscriber ever seeing your message. Your subject line needs to tell the subscriber exactly why they should open the email. Get to the point, briefly! Why are you sending an email? The subject line should be a teaser of what’s in the email message. The subject line is the primary reason someone will either open or delete your email. Be descriptive. Be clear. Be relevant!

Subject Line Musts:
• Use Buzzwords: Exciting, Wonderful, Upgrade, Now, Go, Happy.
• Keep it Simple. Subject lines should be 45 characters or less. Definitely not more than 60 characters.
• Ask Questions. Spark the subscriber’s interest and get them engaged with your offer.
• Use #Hashtags: If the audience is familiar with your brand, #’s will increase interaction with the email
and your social marketing.

What to Avoid:
• Words written in all CAPS.
• Excessive Punctuation!!! Avoid characters such as !, $, %
• Company Name: Don’t waste precious subject line space when your company name already displays
in the “From Line”.
• SPAM Trigger Words: Free, Cheap, Save, Guarantee, Affordable, Congrats, and Deals.
• Emoji’s & Emoticons: Many email clients do not support special characters and special characters may not render.

 

Contact eTargetMedia to find out how we can help you target
your email campaigns to maximize your campaign results.

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How Small Businesses Can Benefit from eTargetMedia’s Email Lists

How-Small-Businesses-Can-Benefit-from-eTargetMedia-Email-ListseTargetMedia offers targeted email and postal lists to major corporations including Fortune 500 companies. This doesn’t mean that our services are just for big companies. In fact, small businesses are a major part of our client list. Our unique level of service and offerings can help any small business to market more efficiently and get the most return for their investment.

Here are just a few of the reasons why our services make sense for small businesses:

Quality of Lists: One of the things that sets eTargetMedia apart from our competitors is that quality of our email lists. We only use permission-based email lists where recipients choose to “opt in” to receive advertising and marketing messages from businesses in areas of their interest. This means that a person who receives your email is more likely to have a positive response.

Categorization: eTargetMedia’s mailing lists are heavy segmented. You can find specific sub-lists involving people’s interests, gender, geographic location, annual income and more. This means that you can apply a high level of targeting to your campaigns. When combined with the quality of our lists, this means that you have the best chance to get a high ROI for your campaigns – a must for any small business.

Low Rates: The high quality of our targeted postal and email lists doesn’t mean that they are priced too high for small businesses. Our rates are highly competitive with other leading companies in the industry. Depending on the type of list that you want to rent or buy, we can help you find a targeted list of contacts that is well within your budget.

Email Marketing is on the Rise! 2015 is a Record Breaking Year for Email.

Email-Marketing-is-on-the-Rise!-2015-is-a-Record-Breaking-Year-for-Email.By: eTargetMedia

This year has been a record breaking year for email marketers with email marketing continuing to be the top performing direct marketing channel. Smartphones and mobile devices have given email marketing a boost as people are now able to check their email anytime, anywhere from any device.

According to a recent study, over a quarter of all online purchases that were generated from an email marketing message were placed on a mobile phone or tablet. As consumers continue to adopt the mobile lifestyle, email will continue to be one of the top activities performed on a mobile device. The increase in mobile purchases shows that it’s even more important to design mobile responsive emails, increase email customer engagement, and make your landing pages and shopping carts easy to navigate on a mobile device.

Here are some important email stats:
• Email marketers saw the highest number of emails opened per consumer in the first half of 2015.
• Email continues to influence consumers in making purchases.
• Over 75% of consumers make at least two purchases a month based on an email campaign.
• Mobile clicks made up almost 50% of all email clicks this year.
• Email marketers are more successful at generating customer engagement than ever before.
• Mobile email and desktop click through rates are both steadily increasing.
• Mobile orders made up over 25% of email orders.

Contact eTargetMedia to find out how we can help you target
your email campaigns to maximize your campaign results.

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