Permission Based Email Marketing -The Strategy That Works!

by Ray Lam

This is fast becoming the most acceptable form of email based marketing. It is an excellent way to expand upon your current base of customers and provides a cost-effective method of communicating with existing clients, partners, and associates. It also allows companies to communicate with people who have explicitly opted in to receive information on specific topics.

The correct way to conduct an email marketing campaign is implied in the name of the strategy: permission based. Without a prospect’s permission, sending an unsolicited email will often be perceived as spam. Once you have a prospect’s permission to communicate with him through email, it is important that you follow the following tips to maximize the effectiveness of your email promotional campaigns.

A professional email tool can save your business time and money, and simultaneously provide a wealth of intelligence about your customer base. Permission based email marketing will get you in the door and help you to establish long-term customers and clientele (which is what growing a successful business depends on). Confirmed opt-in validates that an email list is truly permission-based, and it has become the standard for qualifying a list as a legitimate, non-spam means of business communication.

Many email marketers make this critical mistake. They send email after email to their subscribers without stopping to think of the people behind the email addresses. As a result, their email marketing campaigns often seem lifeless and dull.

When writing your emails, always focus on building the relationship that you have with the people on your subscriber list. Speak to them individually (even though you are writing to everyone at once) and you will gain their trust, respect and attention.

Permission based email marketing is legal, while sending unsolicited commercial email is illegal in a growing number of states across the country. It’s clear that permission based email marketing is becoming a preferred sales communication of consumers.

Personally, I prefer the Confirmed Opt-In process and use it for my Permission Based Email Marketing. The advantage is, your new subscriber is confirmed as a high level prospect for your offers and opportunities. They have been given the chance to “think twice” about joining your list, plus you have reduced the probability of someone else signing them up without their knowledge.

The theory of reciprocity is often attributed to Dr. Robert. B. Cialdini. Through numerous experiments and by observing human behavior, Cialdini noticed that when something generous was done for a person, that person often felt motivated to reciprocate the goodwill. This tendency of human behavior is directly applicable to your permission based email marketing campaigns.

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