Marketing isn’t always just about marketing. Look at a list of the greatest ever (or most successful ever) marketing campaigns and you'll frequently find simple solutions, with very sparing work, overlaid on a great product or service that the market really was missing. The business is the cake, the marketing is the icing. The same is true of business email marketing. Today we are looking at the best practices that your company should engage in, before you start sending out business email marketing messages. Review the base product your business email marketing promotes Your company probably has a range of different products and services. If you follow general marketing best practices, your emails will only promote one of these at a time. But are those products the most suitable ones for email marketing? Consumers aren't stupid - their eyes cut right through all the adjectives and unsupported claims in any piece of text, and get right to the heart of whether the product is worth it, or not. If a peer review (anonymously conducted to ensure honest answers!) doesn't feel that your product or promotion is worth marketing, go back to the drawing board. Does your website creative and quality match the quality of your emails? A website that either: *Looks nothing like the design of the email message *Is lacking in general design quality Will sabotage your business email marketing efforts. If people arrive at your website only to find errors, loads of data jammed on pages, and insecure forms for ordering, all the marketing in the world won’t be able to make you money. It is best practice to build your campaign from the ground up - and the website itself comes much earlier in the priority list than the marketing. Do you have expert opinions on your business email marketing? Yes, DIY is always cheaper. But is it always more effective? Almost never. Unless you have specialist design, copywriting or marketing skills yourself, running your own business email marketing campaigns is likely to waste your precious time. Google has a million sites that will tell you about how to set up your own email campaigns in minutes for free … but they may even hurt your business reputation if they are executed with bugs. Expert help is always best in the long run!
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Chris Robertson is an author of Majon International, one of the worlds MOST popular internet marketing companies on the web. Learn more about Email Marketing.