November 18, 2008
The Top 3 Deadly Email Marketing Mistakes You Should Avoid
When you decide to have an email list, it is not just a matter of sending your subscribers your promotional ads. There are many factors to consider in avoiding many complications. While there are so many ways you can encourage people subscribe to your list, there are also some things you must do to avoid subscribers from wanting to get off from your email list.
It is crucial that you keep your list clean and manageable. Arrange it by using the many tools and technologies available for your opt-in list. Do not worry; your investment in this marketing strategy is well worth it with all the coverage you will get which will likely be converted into sales then to profit. As a tip, here are three things to avoid when emailing your list.
1) Not take notice of your bounces. These are the e-mails that bounce. Bounced emails, also known as undeliverable messages, are those messages that, for some reason, were not successfully received by the intended recipient.
There are bounces that happen or occur due to user unknown, closed mailboxes, services unavailable. There are those bounce messages that are simply undeliverable ever. Some other reasons for this can be an invalid email address, a misspelled email address, or an email address that was abandoned and erased already.
Manage your list by putting markings on those that bounce. Erase an email account from your email list so that you have an accurate statistics and records as to how many subscribers are actually receiving your mail.
2) Not provide an unsubscribe feature in your site and an unsubscribe link in your mails. When someone in your list sends a request to be unsubscribed, always take that request seriously. If you don’t take them off your list and keep sending them your e-mails, you are now spamming them.
When you are reported as a spammer, you and your business can get into a lot of trouble. You can be reported to the authorities and maybe blacklisted by many ISPs. You will lose a lot of subscribers this way and many more in potential subscribers.
3) Provide pornographic or shocking and disturbing content in your newsletters. It is sometimes hard to decipher the age of the recipient and many complaints may stem from these. Stick to the nature of your site and business.
Always remember these tips so that you can have a healthy relationship with your subscribers as well as be kept within the boundaries of what is allowed in sending mails to an email list.
Filed under Email by Henry Zeng
