Friday, January 16, 2009

Qualified Marketing Leads

By Jeff Dedrick

There are many different types of marketing. You can market online using traditional means such as banner advertising, text based ads, but the true powerhouse among online marketing methods is leads marketing. This juggernaut of a marketing tool has blasted its way on to the marketing scene and is here to stay. The power behind leads marketing is that it allows all your prospects to read about your product or service directly within their email box. Your product or service message is delivered right to their email, therefore there is no guess work involved with regards to estimating how much viewership your ad is receiving.

As always though, you need to be very selective with how you go about marketing using leads marketing. There are rules to follow if you decide to take on the task of bulk email marketing. You should always ensure that every lead you generate is truly a qualified lead and that the person has indeed opted in to receive information about your product or services. Another key aspect is to always give your prospects the option to unsubscribe from your list. These are all options that need to be implemented when you start an email marketing campaign.

When you dive into this form of marketing and decide that you'll be using your own resources to create the mailing list, you need to ensure you have white-listed servers. Using your own servers to market to your email list requires in most cases require that you have a relationship with the top free email providers such as Yahoo.com, Hotmail.com, AOL.com, Gmail and the other major email hosts. It's critical that you have a great relationship with these companies or you'll find that your email will not be delivered or if delivered appears in the "Junk Mail" box.

When starting any kind of leads marketing campaign on your own, ensure you have a step by step plan .You'll need a detail course of action, as there are quite a few steps needed to ensure that your marketing campaign is truly successful.

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