Sending Emails That Get Read In Ten Easy Steps
Emails are more than who, what, when, where, and why. But if they are not read what's the purpose.The average business man has 15 emails they routinely read on a daily basis. How can you make your one of those 15, buy following some simple lessons.
1.You need a catchy personalized subject line that refers to a product or a service. Include a date or many of the spam blockers will discard it. Then all your work is lost.
2. Never use capitals, multiple exclamation points. Don't illustrate with slashes, dots or dashes.
3. No more than six lines or wider than 65 characters. Especially on your introductory email.
4. Know exactly what you want to accomplish. Is it going to qualify leads? Or generate further leads?.
5. To make a highly effective email, it should indicate a new product, service, premium or specially discounted price. Offers that stimulate a response.
6. Did you think about the type of person receiving the email? People for ages have been trying to figure out people and their personalities in an easy and concise manner, My friend Michael Dlouhy has done personality colors. This is fully explained in a few other articles. .
For example a yellow personality is a nurturer, who wants emails that ask about their family before business. Company information in "flowery" words. The green personality you always email them first. It should be at least four long pages of all company information. Needs to be grammatically and spelled correctly The red personality has their name in all capitals, it's to the point, with no feeling. The blue personality will have two short pages loaded with company information, including a P.S. and PP.S .
7. Keep track of your customer's personal information and questions. The FAQ's are put on the FAQ page. Please respond to your customer's concerns quickly and personally. This creates goodwill, even if their angry, admit your mistake. Ask them how you can fix it. You are building loyalty in customers. The more information you collect now, the better you will serve them in the future.
8. Always put contact information in the email, in an easy place to find on every email you send out. The same goes for your website, contact information is your lifeblood. This is where your customer service page becomes important to add those FAQ, names, emails, phone numbers of people who can help. You need to build loyalty.
9. Use emails for sending greetings of birthdays, anniversaries, and/or other special occasions. Thank you messages for their business.
10. You can make this a campaign of sending prewritten, non-personal emails, the customer will see right through that. Think about what you want on your busy day. How often do you want to be interrupted by a stranger, verses someone who is starting to deserve your trust or already has it
Email is a great tool but don't abuse them. Remember email is one of the tools to build trust. You have to have trust before you have sales.
What do you think, how many emails from the same known person would be considered annoying? How many emails actually get read by you, from an unknown source? Does it have a catchy subject line? You be the judge, your decision can make or break the beginning of a business relationship.
Thanks for reading for reading my article bonnieeckert@cox.net
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Added: April 18, 2008