How can a great email marketing campaign fit with a strong content strategy?

We’ve all been on the receiving end of email marketing, but many won’t realise just how much preparation an email marketer needs to put into an effective campaign.

While it is true that some companies will still rely on a wasteful, scattergun approach by emailing anyone and everyone, having and knowing how to use an email marketing software package is central to executing an effective marketing strategy. At the best digital marketing agency in the UK, we understand that devising and executing your email marketing plans in the right way is central to your success. 

What can you do to create a structured email marketing plan?

Indeed, to take it to the next level, the best thing you can do with your email marketing is work to integrate it into your wider content strategy, alongside things like a marketing blog.

Consider how this works:

• Good content attracts readers and gets them to the start of the buyer journey and marketing funnel
• Next, you must ease them through the all-important consideration stage
• At this point you can co-ordinate content with your email marketing
• For example, if a call-to-action in your content gets people to sign up for emails or fill in a form with more details, you will have their permission to contact them further. 
  

Having aimed your initial content at a particular buyer persona, the responses you receive will help you to narrow down your target market more and this enables you to segment your mailshots. Mailchimp, Hubspot, Constant Contact, Get Response, MailGet and Platformly are among the different packages out there that are designed to enable you to calibrate your mailshots to focus on your qualified leads.

As well as using your software to segment your initial mailshots, you may find you do this several times. For example, you may swiftly establish from the data they provide what services your contacts are likely to be interested in. You can also segment them according to whether they wish to receive certain forms of communication.

How can you avoid over-complication?

To keep your overall strategy balanced, make sure just three types of communication are used in emails.

• Regular mailshots with promotions and special offers will be the primary focus for new contacts to attract them to your services, although these can continue to be sent throughout the buyer journey.
• Those who have responded to a call-to-action or are existing customers can be sent surveys and newsletters
• Auto-conformation emails are important to enable those responding to a contact that their communication has been received and you will be back in touch shortly.
  

What errors must you avoid? 

Naturally, there are plenty of errors that can derail this strategy. Failure to segment properly can lead to unwanted contacts. Not checking the content of anything you email can be catastrophic, especially if the same email is going to many people. Therefore, always take that bit of extra time to test your emails and spot anything that may be amiss, from typos and factual errors to bad links.

Effective emails can also loop back to your content, by containing links to your blogs. These, in turn, can help nudge people further along the buyer journey.

Nor should it be forgotten that once potential customers have become actual ones, there can be golden opportunities for retention, increased custom and the transformation of happy customers into advocates whose recommendations to family, friends and colleagues can go further than even the most sophisticated marketing strategy.

Your email marketing is likely to be paramount at this stage. While further content may interest existing customers, it is at this stage that special offers, loyalty-based packages and incentives to recommend services and products to others can be part of email campaigns.

At its best, content marketing features authoritative, objective and interesting content, not something that is pushy or ‘salesy’. It is the gateway that brings forth the potential contacts, who can be established as your qualified leads for email campaigns.

How BeUniqueness can help

 

At BeUniqueness, we know the value of a fully joined-up marketing strategy. With our extensive expertise in running email marketing campaigns for companies in Manchester, we can provide your firm with the professional and attractive email campaign it needs to take your leads through every stage of the buyer journey. We can also do this in conjunction with a joined-up marketing strategy that ensures your email campaign fits in with your other activity.

 

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