Use e-mail correctly, and your customers will stick around three times longer. It's the most personal online medium there is. With it you can sell to your customers again and again by building trust and creating an entire business around your own unique personality.
Google AdWords discussions are incomplete without a conversation about how to turn that costly millisecond click into a long lasting relationship. When an individual clicks on your AdWords ad, you pay 50 cents regardless of what happens afterward. If your potential client only looks at your page for a few seconds then leaves, chances are you won't see him again unless you pay again.
Fifty cents for five seconds of someone's attention-dang, that's $600 an hour! Kind of depressing if you look at it that way. On the other hand, if that person gives you her e-mail address, you can communicate with her on a regular basis for little or no cost. If you're trying to sell a $1,000 product, which is easier to get from your prospects: a $1,000 order or their e-mail address?
When your sales process is more involved, there is a greater need to divide it into more manageable steps.
The Power Of Your E-Mail Lies In Being Personal
So-so advertisers don't fully comprehend the very personal quality of e-mail. They don't understand how simple it is to take a good prospect and make them turn away simply by disrespecting that personal quality that is intrinsic with email.
It is essential to write as an individual. The exception is, if you are writing to someone who is a part of a group where each member knows the other members. Otherwise always compose your emails on a personal vein. Speak to your client, one person.
1. A "From" Field that Shows You're a Real Person
Consider that if speaking to an individual in the text of your message is working than think how to apply that to other areas of the email. How about your "from" field. Look at the different impressions that these "from" lines make:
Bill Kastl
William Kastl
William D. Kastl
Nakatomi Corporation
William D. Kastl, Nakatomi Corporation
Nakatomi Sales Department
Bill Kastl, Nakatomi Sales
Be genial and intimate while avoiding the "spam" look. This can be challenging because people who create spam always try to give their messages the appearance of a message from a familiar friend. The solution is to include an item so pointed to their individual interests that a spammer could not have thought it up.
Select a "from" field that will cement your customers to you.
2. A Provocative Subject Line
The key aspect of email is that the success or failure of it is all about settings. The subject line of your e-mail works not because they adhere to copywriting rules and formulas, but because it highlights the particular interests of a specific set of people at the right time.
If we showed you generic examples of e-mail subject lines, it would be almost impossible for them to not sound like spam. So let's take examples from a specific context that you understand: Google AdWords
When Google is NOT the Best Way to Get a Customer
Are Google Employees Spying on You?
Google's 'Don't Be Evil' and all that
Five Insidious Lies About Selling On The Web
These are no cheep sounding promotional that stab at the recipient, rather they suggest that there is a story to be told, making the reader want to find what that story is.
Google AdWords discussions are incomplete without a conversation about how to turn that costly millisecond click into a long lasting relationship. When an individual clicks on your AdWords ad, you pay 50 cents regardless of what happens afterward. If your potential client only looks at your page for a few seconds then leaves, chances are you won't see him again unless you pay again.
Fifty cents for five seconds of someone's attention-dang, that's $600 an hour! Kind of depressing if you look at it that way. On the other hand, if that person gives you her e-mail address, you can communicate with her on a regular basis for little or no cost. If you're trying to sell a $1,000 product, which is easier to get from your prospects: a $1,000 order or their e-mail address?
When your sales process is more involved, there is a greater need to divide it into more manageable steps.
The Power Of Your E-Mail Lies In Being Personal
So-so advertisers don't fully comprehend the very personal quality of e-mail. They don't understand how simple it is to take a good prospect and make them turn away simply by disrespecting that personal quality that is intrinsic with email.
It is essential to write as an individual. The exception is, if you are writing to someone who is a part of a group where each member knows the other members. Otherwise always compose your emails on a personal vein. Speak to your client, one person.
1. A "From" Field that Shows You're a Real Person
Consider that if speaking to an individual in the text of your message is working than think how to apply that to other areas of the email. How about your "from" field. Look at the different impressions that these "from" lines make:
Bill Kastl
William Kastl
William D. Kastl
Nakatomi Corporation
William D. Kastl, Nakatomi Corporation
Nakatomi Sales Department
Bill Kastl, Nakatomi Sales
Be genial and intimate while avoiding the "spam" look. This can be challenging because people who create spam always try to give their messages the appearance of a message from a familiar friend. The solution is to include an item so pointed to their individual interests that a spammer could not have thought it up.
Select a "from" field that will cement your customers to you.
2. A Provocative Subject Line
The key aspect of email is that the success or failure of it is all about settings. The subject line of your e-mail works not because they adhere to copywriting rules and formulas, but because it highlights the particular interests of a specific set of people at the right time.
If we showed you generic examples of e-mail subject lines, it would be almost impossible for them to not sound like spam. So let's take examples from a specific context that you understand: Google AdWords
When Google is NOT the Best Way to Get a Customer
Are Google Employees Spying on You?
Google's 'Don't Be Evil' and all that
Five Insidious Lies About Selling On The Web
These are no cheep sounding promotional that stab at the recipient, rather they suggest that there is a story to be told, making the reader want to find what that story is.
About the Author:
Need to optimize or "fix" your Adwords & PPC campaigns? Kirt Christensen manages over $600k in PPC spending & knows what it takes to make your account hum! When it comes to pay per click account management, he's the man!
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