Tuesday, December 30, 2008

e mail marketing

By Rick Freeman

Even if you have a great website, if a person visits and leaves, it is likely he or she will not come back if you do not give them a reason to. When visiting ten pages or more a day, it is not hard to forget the names or addresses of one specific site that we might have visited. As any good webmaster realizes, if 1,000 visitors visit your site and never come back, they take all the potential revenue they could spend with them. Making a profit from those visitors is something you could have done. Still, if you want your customer to comeback, you need to convince them to join your mailing list!

Some may say that creating unique content can keep some of the visitors coming back, but very often, unique content is not the solution. If you really want to have your visitors return to your website, the best way to do this is by having them subscribe to your mailing list. The sign-up process for your mailing list should be a simple opt-in for the visitor that they can subscribe to before leaving the site. The information that your opt-in form will gather is the visitor's name and email address.

Your mailing list will allow you to follow up with your subscribers through email. You can get your subscriber to consider your offer, or endorse another offer to him or her. By getting as many visitors as you can to subscribe, you will increase your pool of potential customers and profit.

A simple way to build your list is through the writing of articles. The web is full of popular article directories, one of which is eZine articles, where people write and submit articles on a variety of topics.

Writing good articles that capture the audience's attention is the key to a successful viral marketing plan. The articles provide a way to market your product, but more importantly, allow you to show your expertise in the area.

You'll build your mailing list through the resource box you attack to the articles. Among the things you should include in the resource or bio box are a small amount of detail about yourself, as well as your web site's address. To fully take advantage of this mailing list resource tool, make sure you include the URL that will send visitors to the place where they can sign up for the mailing list.

Presuming your articles are worth sharing, eZine will republish them and expose your resource box to many potential subscribers. Viral marketing doesn't get much easier than that. As long as you include the appropriate details with your articles, this easy method should be effective.

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