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Getting a Response from Email Marketing

June 2, 2014 By Gail Gardner 38 Comments

How to Get Responses to Your Email MarketingSome people feel like email marketing is not a worthwhile investment because they assume that they are not going to get any response, but the facts do not support that position. Think about how many times you have gotten an email from one of the big online sellers and then gone back to the site to check out more items or even to make a purchase. This is something that most people do many times over; each purchase that they make then makes it easier for these follow-up emails to be created around relevant topics, which helps to get even more responses.

The key is to use email marketing campaign services for follow-up
purposes more than you use them for modern cold calling.

The problem with sending out messages to people who have never bought anything from you or expressed an interest in what you sell is that these people will probably delete the emails without ever reading a word that they say. They won’t recognize the subject or the sender, and they’ll send the messages to the trash without giving you a chance. They may even block you so that you cannot send them any more of these messages in the future.

When you use the emails to create repeat customers, though, it is far easier. They have already bought items from you, so they theoretically enjoyed the experience and liked the products that they bought; it is very important to do a good job in these areas so that they like your company. You can then put information in the email that directly relates to what they bought before, knowing that they will be intrigued, which goes a long way toward making another sale. For example, if you are selling propane grills online, a follow-up email could advertise grilling utensils or grill covers, both things that you already know that they need if they bought a grill.

The best thing about this is that creating these repeat customers is always going to be your top goal anyway. Getting new people to buy things is fine, but repeat customers help you grow. They will buy things for months and perhaps years to come. You can count on their purchases. The email marketing should be geared toward this far more than anything. Not only will it be more successful, but it will give you the type of customers that you want.

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Gail Gardner is the founder of GrowMap.com. She is a Small Business Marketing Strategist who mentors small businesses, bloggers, and freelancers. After 23 years in the field with IBM and 5.5 years managing AdWords accounts, her focus shifted to small business marketing strategy. GrowMap.com is listed by Cision as a Top 100 Site for Marketers and has received three Small Business Influencer Awards from Small Business Trends. Named by D&B a Top 50 SMB Influencer on Twitter, you can follow Gail @GrowMap and on LinkedIn.
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  1. Luna Williams says

    September 7, 2017 at 11:50 am

    Email Marketing is getting must for small business owners. Google also Giving Email Traffic to Site. Being a Blogger I must say that Everyone should implement this on their blog to get a better result. But I want to ask admin which Marketing Strategy is better for SEO Social Media Marketing or Email ?

    Reply
  2. Michael Flint says

    March 13, 2016 at 8:54 am

    These internet marketing tips are really helpful for the new bloggers, Especially to increase the social traffic. really awesome to read this special article.
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  3. Mark says

    February 28, 2016 at 8:15 pm

    This is a great article for Internet marketer, still after so many month it is useful for me. thanks for sharing admin
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  4. James Bond says

    September 27, 2015 at 6:36 pm

    Really Email Marketing is one of the best option to earn more & more. In the staring I usually use the social media options but after using that more & more improvement in the results has automatically started to come.

    Reply
  5. Mark talner says

    July 10, 2015 at 6:38 pm

    That’s great admin, these email marketing tricks really help my blog to gain a good social traffic. These tricks really help user to gain a good amount of traffic. Thanks for sharing
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  6. Michael Thomson says

    July 8, 2015 at 4:35 am

    Really a knowledge article for new blogger, i learn so many marketing and promotion tricks form your blog. glad to read such a great post. thanks for sharing
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  7. Mark James says

    July 2, 2015 at 4:11 am

    Excellent article about email marketing, I am using social media from so many year but marketing your own business with email marketing is just a awesome experience and really help you to gain social traffic. thanks for sharing
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  8. Mark James says

    June 28, 2015 at 5:28 pm

    To promote well email marketing as well as the social media is must. I find a great results in the social media. so thanks for sharing such a amazing post.
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  9. James Flynn says

    June 5, 2015 at 7:26 pm

    Both social media and email marketing are the two great ways to generate a high amount of traffic to your blog. Overall nice and useful post for me.

    Reply
    • Gail Gardner says

      June 5, 2015 at 11:08 pm

      Thanks for taking the time to comment, James.
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  10. Rahul Dhiman says

    April 24, 2015 at 3:14 am

    There are lots of services all over the on internet related to email marketing. I really appreciate the hard work you put on this post to show case this service.
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  11. Sudip says

    April 15, 2015 at 5:38 am

    Email marketing is probably the best way to build a community around your blog. You will get regular reader, make money and do various things using your email list.
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  12. Jasmeet kaur says

    February 23, 2015 at 4:41 pm

    To make you site more popular you need a perfect social media planing and things like email marketing can make your business more higher than others

    Reply
  13. Michael gambler says

    February 8, 2015 at 6:00 pm

    Hey admin, i am using social media and Other marketing campaign on my social site, but don’t know why my site isn’t making a passive income, tell me what do do.

    Reply
    • Gail Gardner says

      February 9, 2015 at 11:26 pm

      Hi Michael,

      I blame the con artists who sell people on the idea that making money online is easy. It isn’t. Most get very little traffic. Many have no idea how to build a site that converts whatever traffic they can get. I personally know many people who used to make money in affiliate marketing. Most of them now provide services because it became so difficult to make a living.

      I’m not saying no one can make money online. Many do. It just isn’t easy and it gets tougher every day. One reason is that people have less disposable income. The other is the competition gets stronger as they gain experience and more people try to replace salaries with online income.

      There is no easy path to making money. “Passive” income really isn’t. You can’t just build a site and let it make money. If you get one generating an income you have to keep working on it to stay there. Or build a new site if it declines. Online marketing isn’t for the faint of heart.
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  14. Arjun singh says

    February 7, 2015 at 6:17 pm

    Email marketing is also a great way to generate traffic online, in a good way, in the initial days i ins’t focus on my email marketing but now a day i am planing to focus on it.
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  15. James Scouch says

    January 18, 2015 at 6:17 pm

    Most blogger in these days are focusing on email to make there blog more popular. i am still making a good income from my blog due to high ranking.
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  16. Masud Hasan says

    October 29, 2014 at 6:02 am

    Well email marketing is a big way to take place in web business . For this you must have a beautful story to get feet back.

    Reply
  17. Phill Collins says

    October 20, 2014 at 12:12 pm

    Great post. You need a perfect strategy for email marketing…
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  18. Sudip Majhi says

    September 18, 2014 at 3:59 am

    Although, this is quite different from your article but I would like to ask you a question. Which is the best? MailChimp vs. Aweber vs. InInbox vs. GerResponse
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    • Gail Gardner says

      September 18, 2014 at 6:51 pm

      Hi Sudip,

      The primary reason many use MailChimp is they have a free level. But if you ever share an affiliate link they may not only delete your account, but also break every link in every email you ever sent through their service.

      Aweber was #1 for a really long time and is still widely used. One thing I don’t like about it is that if you subscribed previously you can’t subscribe again – it tells you you’re already subscribed even if you can’t find any emails.

      GetResponse has a lot of new features and is gaining in popularity. You will definitely want to check into them. Start with Why Create Hype Switched from Aweber to GetResponse.

      I have never heard of InInbox.

      Reply
      • Sudip Majhi says

        September 19, 2014 at 1:10 am

        Oh. Thanks for the info. I didn’t know the MailChimp drawback. Thanks again.

        Reply
  19. Ginna James says

    August 17, 2014 at 11:25 am

    Great tips. I think email marketing is also a good way to publish a blog socially. Many eCommerce sites are also believe that more than 5 % total revenue in a year is coming from this way. Overall nice post and i am going to try in on my blog.

    Reply
  20. Meghan says

    August 12, 2014 at 11:02 am

    Email is one of the important mode of communication in online business. thanks for sharing the article.

    Reply
  21. Aditya Antil says

    July 18, 2014 at 7:02 am

    Hello Gail,
    Its quite interesting to know the facts that email marketing can give a lot of benefit to a business.But the strategies should be planned and proper mail should be written. Though most of the people think that its a phishing/spamming mail and without seeing they delete that mail which usually arrive in their spam or junk box instead of the inbox.

    Reply
  22. Meghan says

    July 11, 2014 at 7:31 am

    email marketing plays a important role in online business ….informative article.thanks for sharing

    Reply
  23. Richard Benson says

    June 19, 2014 at 9:35 am

    How can we increase or promote online business through email marketing as some of my major clients face that they did’t get company email and sometime they find email in junk or in spam folder…need helpful reply
    Thanks
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    • Gail Gardner says

      June 20, 2014 at 2:16 am

      Hi Richard,

      Do you mean they are having issues with deliverability of the emails they send? Some provide detailed information on how to whitelist their emails at the time of subscribing. Individual emails can land in spam while most emails sent don’t. There are algorithms that evaluate every message sent and received and reroute some into spam. Using an email provider that shows you those numbers can help you write email messages so that they are less likely to be sent to the junk/spam folder.
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  24. Muhammad Fayyaz says

    June 12, 2014 at 5:16 pm

    I have recently started with emails and sold 1 product, I was not aware of the influence of email marketing unless I started it. I started it to bring visitors back to my site, I never thought that people would buy things from me through emails but 1 peep did. It was a cool experience to generate a sale from an email.Muhammad

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  25. Jeanne says

    June 11, 2014 at 10:24 am

    Email marketing is different from other marketing channels because you can almost immediately track responses and trends. So I believe users like it more.
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  26. Bradma says

    June 11, 2014 at 5:40 am

    This article is good and on reading this article i know how to get responses to our email marketing. In the article they told right that some people feel like email marketing is not a worthwhile investment, because they assume that they are not going to get any response, but really the facts doesn’t support that position.

    Reply
  27. Michael Carrick says

    June 10, 2014 at 10:53 am

    A fine intro to the power of email marketing services. If you manage to pull out an example email and stress on different sections and why and how they work I believe users will love it even more.

    Reply
  28. Shahbaz Ali says

    June 9, 2014 at 12:57 pm

    email marketing or newsletter is very important factor in internet business development because in this business audience or visitors are very important, need to attractive with audience or visitor, must need to send newsletter for update or sale promotion. great article.
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  29. Komandor says

    June 4, 2014 at 4:55 pm

    If you will care about your clients, they will buy your products.

    Thanks for interesting article!

    Reply
  30. Raj Kumar says

    June 3, 2014 at 10:41 am

    Nice article Gail,

    I guess email marketing campaign must be done using a powerful strategy to get some results.
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  31. Kristina Roy says

    June 3, 2014 at 8:46 am

    I am really impressed with your post. You shared good post about email marketing that were difficult to discuss. This post will help me to increase my knowledge about digital marketing. Thanks to share your knowledge with us.

    Reply
  32. Sam says

    June 3, 2014 at 4:24 am

    Nowdays Email Marketing Plays An Important Role In Online Business , It Attracts More Clients And Costumers To Our Product ..

    Great Post !! 🙂

    Reply
  33. Harry K. Thompson says

    June 3, 2014 at 1:57 am

    People in your contact tarn from receiving a detailed email from you …Find out how Get Response ranks beside other email marketing services. … Email Marketing Gets the Results You Want

    Reply

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