Saturday, August 9, 2008

Bulk Email Marketing

By Ray Lam


You can purchase an email database that specializes in bulk email Internet marketing, or you can create your own list by allowing your web site visitors to opt in for a newsletter, eCourse or specials and updates.

For starters, to grasp the benefits of bulk email marketing one has to realize that it has many similarities to a TV commercial aired during prime time. Many viewers ordinarily turn the sounds of their Televisions low during commercial breaks. Others turn it off completely while still others leave the room. But because of the huge audience reached many a TV commercial ends up generating lots of sales and profits. One can easily enjoy the same benefits of TV commercials from their bulk email marketing.

All they have to do is take a lot of time in creating the sort of subject lines that will draw their target market and at the same time cause as many people as possible to open their emails. This is because despite the fact that all legal bulk email marketing is permission-based (meaning that all recipients have opted to receive it) this does not mean that they will always automatically open the emails. Without observing this simple rule, the benefits of bulk email marketing will tend to remain elusive.

It is a good point to address the recipient by first name. And finally, the subject line should be short and to the point. Complaints about unsolicited emails from a large number of Internet users may result in blocking your account by the Internet service provider (ISP).

Since spammers do exist, there must be a market in spamming. If you believe this method will work for you, and that there are enough people out there not using spam blockers, then go ahead and try the unsolicited bulk email route. The response rate will be very, very slim, but it might be enough.

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