Why build an email list?
You've heard it over and over again. Get an email list. Start building it today. Why? It's your most valuable asset online today and you own it outright.
As a marketing channel email isn’t going anywhere. In a recent Direct Marketing Association study 75.8% of marketers said they are using more email than they were three years ago. (Source Forrester)
When all is said and done it is one the most effective methods of communicating with your audience and building a community that sees value in your business and does business with you either by purchasing your products or services and referring your business to the wider social media circles.
And it allows you to market to them again and again.
How? with valuable content. And that is why we will always recommend that we produce reports and content that can be downloaded via supplying your email on every site we build. These can be FAQ's, white paper reports, local news and latest product and updates.
Customers are researching looking and informing themselves online before they make a purchase.
Building a library of articles and tips and hints questions and answers, reports, infographics, ebooks are all a great way as well to get your expertise out there. This enables your business or service to become the authority in your field. The go-to guys for reliable relevant information. You become the specialist and that is invaluable.
Make loyal customers that seek you out for your expertise and information or products.
How do you build that following? By helping others. Give away information and expertise that assist's in solving the customer's pain or achieving their goals. Content that is of real value and use to your potential customers in exchange of their email. Below are a sample of reports that will be used to grab an email of a potential customer by providing them relevant content that they want and are looking for. Produced for the client to provide content on their new site. These were designed and researched and written for the client as a library of articles from frequently asked questions.
By offering that content and allowing them to provide you with their email for the download of that special report on skin care trends or the latest ebook on retaining wall building methods. Once you have their emails it will allow you to develop a long-term business relationship with special offers and updates that direct them to your website, business, and products. How aggressively or softly you want to market to this segment will be entirely up to you and their needs and responses.
So why an email list?
Simple. It enables you to constantly remarket via email to those customers again and again. Remember the 80-20 law. You generate 80% of your income from the 20% of your customers. Email lists allow you to do that.
Contact me now for more information on how we can help you to produce relevant content that will suit your market.
