Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Bulk Email Marketing Service

By Jeff Dedrick

Bulk email marketing is a marketing form where unsolicited emails are send to customers in massiveness. However, the definition may vary depending on both the sender and recipient of the emails. Whereas senders refer to bulk email marketing as an online service where products or services are marketed to two or more people concurrently through their email address, recipients would always refer that to as spam or junk email.

Bulk email marketing can make or break your company's profile completely and you should beware while opting for bulk email marketing. You first need to understand what spam is and the ensuing repercussions before you can embark on using it. Spam simply refers to sending unsolicited emails in large volumes to people without their consent. Since countries are enacting laws against spam, sending the emails can land you into real trouble such as having all your company's emailing addresses obstructed from all other emailing networks and your company's website being blocked and banned from all search engines. Of course this translates to tarnishing your brand name to your target audience.

You sure do not want any of this to happen to your company. The best way you can avoid it is to apply a few tricks and guidelines that will maximize the chances of reaching your target audience without being branded a "spammer". First and foremost, endeavor to address all your email recipients by their names and don't just email indiscriminately; try to have a target audience.

Email marketing have opt-out options but most of them don't work. Ensure you provide one that works along with active links in the emails. Be as precise as possible in your email starting with the subject line. Long emails and attachments only fill up the space and end up being deleted. Avoid sending any html files; apart from taking long to open or not opening at all, they use up a lot of space and are generally disliked and linked to spam emails.

Another tip that your company can apply is using permission email. This is a marketing form of sending solicited emails that clients have opted for. This you can do by using ways that will make your clients opt into your list such as using incentives or providing an opt-in space check box in your other advertising methods such as your website.

To be on a more safe side, since email marketing can be very cost effective and you would want to maximize the opportunity, familiarize yourself with "can-spam" guidelines.

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