Make Your Email Newsletter Work for You
Once you’ve created an email newsletter, you may have realized that — no matter how often it’s sent out — it doesn’t automatically generate leads and sales. Unfortunately, few things in life succeed on autopilot. Rather, you have to continually work at them. It’s the same with an email newsletter. So, to be sure that your email newsletter generates the results you want, regularly review your newsletter program by answering the following questions…
Using Email to Drive More B2B Referrals
When it comes to achieving a high return-on-investment (ROI) from email campaigns, it’s often a lot more challenging for business-to-business (B2B) versus business-to-consumer (B2C). Why? For B2B, the lists are generally smaller and their products and/or services are typically not sold directly online. Instead, B2B is more about getting referrals and bringing prospects down the “sales funnel.” In this article, we focus on 4 ways you can use email to help drive B2B referrals.
How to Fix a Problem Email List Without Losing Advertisers
When you have an email list of thousands, you’ll experience a growing number of inactive users over time. That means, you have a growing number of subscribers who no longer open your emails. It may have been marked as junk or connected to an inbox rule that drops your email into some folder no longer reviewed. In fact, it’s not uncommon to see 25% of your list go inactive each year. This is one of the primary reasons why we need to continually add new subscribers to our email lists.
Use Social Networking to Jump-Start Your List-Building Efforts
Online social networking is quickly becoming an integral part of everyday life for millions of people today. How can your business benefit by using this popular technology? One important way is to use social networking to give your list-building efforts a jump-start. Here we share two main FulcrumTech strategies for doing just that.
Should I rent an email list? What you need to know before renting a list…
This is one of the more frequent questions I get from people. Many marketers think that obtaining (buying or renting*) an existing list is the silver bullet of list building. Unfortunately, this will usually lead to undesirable results and, likely, enormous frustration.
18 Ways to Build a Bigger, Better List
When it comes to building a great email list, there’s no quick fix. Some people may be tempted to purchase a list, but that’s an approach I recommend against. “Home-grown” email lists require substantial time and ongoing effort, but the list quality, ROI and ultimately your online marketing success are worth the investment. In this feature, I identify six major list-building strategies, as well as provide a few specific ways to effectively implement each of these strategies.