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Promoting your products or services by email can be a powerful and flexible form of direct marketing. Through email, you can communicate your messages more quickly and cost-effectively than using paper-based marketing.

You can tailor your message to specific types of customer. You can also build customer relationships and acquire new customers through relevant, well targeted emails that interest recipients.

Marketing emails are regulated by the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations. These define what you can and can't do in terms of sending unsolicited marketing emails. You will also need to comply with the Data Protection Act, which applies to personal data used in email marketing.


According to figures from the Direct Marketing Association (DMA), email marketing has now overtaken direct mail in terms of volume. its cheaper, more measurable and better targeted email can be than direct mail.

Omacon can advise and set up your email campaigns from only £200 so contact us now to get started.




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Plan your email campaign

It’s important to plan your email campaign well in advance of your send date. You need to give yourself time to make
sure your email campaign is as good as it can be.

When planning your email campaign, consider the following;

Who is your target audience?
To make your email relevant, you need to identify your target audience and understand their needs. This will allow
you to design an email creative that will engage them and encourage them to respond. You may identify more than one
target audience and they may have different requirements. One email creative may not be suitable for all.

What are your objectives?
Identify what the main aim of your email campaign is. Do you want to raise awareness of your products and services,
generate leads and sales or improve customer retention?

What is your budget?
It’s important to agree a budget and stick to it so you can prevent costs escalating. Work out your campaign budget
by considering the return you expect to get from it by undertaking return on investment (ROI) analysis.
How are you going to implement and track your campaign?
You might need to engage a third party to design and build your email for you, or to send and track your campaign.
We can now conduct all aspects of your email campaign for you - from email address selection, to building the
creative, broadcasting the campaign and tracking response. Contact us for more information.


Segment, personalise and be relevant
Use the information you have identified about your customers to send them targeted, relevant messages. Segment your
customer list and if possible develop specific offers for each target audience. The better your targeting the more
likely your campaign will be a success - 80% of an emails success is down to the targeted list; 20% the creative.

Write a great subject line
In order to maximise your email open rate you need to write a good subject line for your email – it’s the first
thing your customer will see when they are deciding which emails to read and which to junk! Keep your subject line
simple, to the point and tell the reader what to expect inside. Don’t use words like “free” which might trigger
spam filters. Personalising the subject line to the recipient and including your company name works well to
encourage high open rates.




Design a strong campaign creative

It is very important when designing your email campaign creative that you design a strong wire-frame template and
consider these tips;

Give readers the choice of both HTML and text versions of your email.

Logo in the upper left corner is always a strong placement.
Make good use of the top 2 to 4 inches of your email design which is prime reading space.
Keep your message short – keep scrolling to a minimum.
Don’t use lots of different fonts and colours.
Make your call to action prominent and clear so that your audience knows what to do.
Make both images and text clickable.
Don’t use one big giant image as this may be mistaken for spam - always include some text.
Make sure copy is easily scannable – web readers won’t read every word.
Don’t try to make your emails too fancy with Flash as it can be removed by anti-virus programs trying to protect
email programs getting infected.
Include an unsubscribe link in the footer of every email campaign you design.
If you need more help with your email design, we can now design an email creative for you. We have a variety of
different email packages available to suit businesses and budgets of all sizes. Contact us today for more
information.

Direct customers through to a relevant landing page
You’re doing well if you’ve managed to persuade your customers to open and read your email – don’t lose their
interest when they click through by sending them to your home page or a basic product listing page.

You should be sending customers through to a purpose built landing page designed to convert click throughs into
leads and sales. Tips for designing your email landing page include;

Every email campaign should have its own specific landing page.
Only use content on the landing page which is relevant to your email campaign.
Mirror the landing page headline copy to your email campaign so that customers can quickly see the page is relevant.
Make sure the most important information is displayed where it is likely to be read (at the top and/or to the left).
Make sure your copy is easily scannable.
Make your call to action prominent and clear so that your audience knows what to do next and are directed to the end
goal.
Make your call to action clickable.

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