Strategic Email Marketing: Unlocking The Code

The most important thing about email marketing, which is also something organizations often ignore, is the email message that is to be sent across. Sure, there are many considerations regarding the subject line, domain white-listing, and so on, but it all essentially boils down to the message that is being sent. Strategic email marketing is all about realizing this imperative reality and taking the necessary steps to ensure it doesn’t impede progress.

First of all, before designing the email message or writing the copy, it’s important to get a clear picture of what the product or service being marketed is all about. More often than not, concepts and thought processes are retro-fitted to suit the product/service. However, this retro-fitting is not always the best choice, and the message ends up being a mixture of what was supposed to happen and what ultimately happened. Strategic email marketing begins with a sound understanding of the offering one has to sell. The next factor to be considered is the design of the email message. There are a variety of layouts that  one can use, but only a select few appeal to the audience, and even fewer go with the look and feel of the offering. Hence, it’s important to pick and choose before going ahead with the execution, since if the look is not appealing, it’s pretty obvious that consumers would not even pay attention, let alone click through, which is the ultimate objective of almost every campaign.

Strategic email marketing also includes identifying the kind of database the message needs to be sent to. This is important because the right message also need the right recipients to deliver the kind of results organizations expect. However, if an organization is finding adhering to these steps too hard, there’s always the option of outsourcing, which also has a higher success rate for a much lower investment.