Saturday, November 15, 2008

The Top 3 Deadly Email Marketing Mistakes You Should Avoid

By Henry Zeng

When you decide to have an opt-in list, it is not just a matter of sending your subscribers your promotional ads. There are many factors to consider in avoiding many complications. While there are so many ways you can encourage people subscribe to your list, there are also some things you must do to avoid subscribers from wanting to get off from your email list.

It is essential that you keep your list clean and manageable. Arrange it by using the many tools and technologies available for your email list. Do not worry; your investment in this marketing strategy is well worth it with all the coverage you will get which will likely be converted into sales then to profit. As a tip, here are three things to avoid when emailing your list.

1) Not take notice of your bounces. These are the e-mails that bounce. Bounced emails, also known as undeliverable messages, are those messages that, for some reason, were not successfully received by the intended recipient.

There are bounces that happen or occur due to closed mailboxes, services busy, or the inbox of the recipient is full at that time. There are those bounce messages that are simply undeliverable ever. Some other reasons for this can be an invalid email address, a misspelled email address, or an email address that was abandoned and erased already.

Manage your list by putting markings on those that bounce. Erase an email account from your email list so that you have an accurate statistics and records as to how many are actually getting your mail.

2) Not provide an unsubscribe feature in your site and an unsubscribe link in your mails. When someone in your list sends a request to be unsubscribed, always take that request seriously. If you don't take them off your list and keep sending them your e-mails, you are now spamming them.

It will ruin you and your business when you are reported as a spammer. You can be reported to the authorities and maybe blacklisted by many internet service providers. You will lose your list in this way and many more in potential subscribers.

3) Provide pornographic or shocking and disturbing content in your newsletters. It is sometimes hard to decipher the age of the recipient and you may get a lot of complaints. Stick to the nature of your site and business.

Remember these tips so that you can have a healthy relationship with your subscribers as well as be kept within the boundaries of what is allowed in sending mails to an opt-in list.

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