Emails are my favorite marketing strategy. If you follow me on Insta, you’ll know how frequently I nerd out about emails. Especially directly following a social media outage (insert eye roll). If you’ve been a client of mine, you’ll also know I almost always add an email strategy to my services because, well, here are all the reasons why:
No dodging the algorithm!
Emails are MUCH more likely to get your message to the part of your audience that’s ready to buy. This is HUGE. It’s a gamble when you post on social media or run online ads – will they see it? Will they see it enough to convert to a buyer? With emails, you’re putting that direct connection right into an inbox. No algorithm to fight. When you’re concerned your message isn’t getting through a well timed, well crafted email can confirm you’re getting communication to the right people. Whether they choose to open it, read it or take you up on your offer is up to your audience, but you will know you’ve done your part in getting your offer as in front of their eyeballs as you can.
The happy medium of messaging
Emails can give just enough info without demanding too much time from your fans. A couple paragraphs of great advice or a few steps to success and they’ll be hooked and appreciative. It’s the happy medium between super short social posts that are difficult to craft and more lengthy blogs that take time and regular updating (if you want to stay SEO’d). Now, I’ve had a lot of practice writing emails – both for my business and slews of campaigns for the corporate job, but my weekly email only takes me about 30 minutes tops to write, refine, link check and schedule in MailChimp.
Automate that sucker
Emails can be AUTOMATED. Oh sweet goodness, this is the BEST part. I personally use MailChimp to schedule them and it’s a time and life saver. I can create several at once, schedule and done. Or, if I feel the content needs to be extra fresh – say I’m promoting a monthly giveaway or a recent blog post – I can put it together and schedule to send that day. Today’s email platforms are versatile and offer tremendous convenience for set-it-and-forget-it marketing.
Oh, hey, I can just click right here. How convenient!
Emails help the user take immediate action. With social, you’re always “link in profiling-it” – so annoying! That extra step your fans have to take to get to your website, blog or video link is actually a huge downside to the effectiveness of marketing. For every step required, the audience is more likely to bail and not move forward. With emails, you can link directly in the body copy and reduce the amount of steps your readers have to take to find your services or product or blog or video or whatever it is you’re promoting. Or, add a fancy button to really grab their attention and encourage a click through.
It’s free!
For a small business with a few hundred people on your email list, you can get by doing emailing for free. Even a growing business with larger lists to manage can still keep email marketing very affordable. In fact, the first thing I recommend to an entrepreneur looking for a simple, no cost marketing plan is weekly or bi-weekly emails. There are other free ways to market, sure, but the amount of time most other methods take compared to half an hour a week on a great email that gets right in front of your audience makes this marketing tool a no brainer.
I hope I’ve convinced you to join my club as an email marketing lover! If you need help getting your email strategy off the ground, it’s one of my favorite offerings.
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