How to avoid Spam in an E-mail Marketing Strategy

It is a known fact that no business owner will ever intend to flood his potential customers with any kind of spam. If you want to make your business prosper, you too will want to stay away from the spamming technique. History shows that through spamming you get massive increase in sales, but that sales is always limited for a short period of time, and sooner or later you have to pay heavy penalties in order to get yourself out from law suits because spamming is in fact a criminal act.

You might be relaxed if the email marketing strategy you have adopted is termed as spam free. But, you should know that any strategy can result in spamming issues if you have not updated it on a regular basis. Email services from all over the World Wide Web are constantly implementing aggressive defensive strategies to prevent spam. From time to time, these strategies becomes so extensive, that sometimes a normal broadcast message by you ends up in junk boxes. Hence, you can only have a very effective email marketing strategy if you follow certain important guidelines as discussed below:

Never force emails upon any person. Any opt-in approach can prove better results and can also give you an insight about who to target. This way you can know which group of people to target, either the one with corporate email addresses or the one with the general email addresses.

You can also us the double opt-in technique, instead of using the single one. This type of opt-in gives your client a chance to confirm before they start receiving your communication. This perfectly ensures that in the end you are sure that people, who did confirm the list, are really interested in receiving your emails, and are not just marking them as spam. In this manner people who get interested in your products may decide whether to be interested in the next one, if you are offering more than one. They also get a fair choice to opt-out from the lists. It’s better to allow an opt-out option from individual products, instead of an opt-out from the entire list. This way you can give options to your customer to receive information about the products he/she likes, and block information about the products he/she don’t like. Also try to include a feedback form with your opt-out form, to know why the customer doesn’t want to receive information about a particular product, this way you will always know where to improve.