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Article Series: Opt In Email
Increase Website Traffic Using Opt-in E-mail Leads
Advertising with opt-in e-mail techniques
is a very successful means of generating business. Addresses
collected through your website can be stored on a database
for use later or responded to immediately. An important aspect
of e-mail marketing is to send out e-mails that will direct
the prospective lead to your website. This will generate
more traffic to your website and in turn generate more leads.
As the prospective lead likes what they find they will let
others know of your site and your traffic continues to increase.
What is the best way to create e-mails that will draw the
lead to your website? We will first look at the methods of
opt-in:
An additional feature that will either draw that potential
prospect to your website or send them to your competitor
is how your e-mail is worded and grammatical errors. If you
send out an e-mail that is poorly worded and difficult to
read along with spelling errors there is a high probability
that your prospects will delete it on sight never want to
hear from you again. There really is no reason for this to
happen with Word documents and spell checkers all over the
place. Would you place much value if you received an e-mail
that looked like that? Your prospective leads will look at
your e-mail and immediately decide if they are going to visit
your website by what they see in the e-mail. If you have
not taken the time to send correspondence that is free of
errors, they will presuppose your website will look exactly
the same way. Take a little extra time and read the mail
you are going to send out for clarity and errors.
Other areas to consider in designing your welcome e-mails
that will direct them to your website:
Design
When
you are designing your e-mails, look at them from the
prospective leads point of view. Are they appealing
at first glance? Do your e-mails compliment your marketing
materials? When you look at your e-mails do they make
a positive
statement or do they look confused because your colors,
images, and formatting are sporadic? When you look
at your e-mails
do they make you want to go to the website to see what
other items are offered?
Subject
Line
Is
your subject line dry and boring or will the first impression
your customers read reflect
your
personality and what you are selling? Do not be careless
in creating your subject line this is the first thing
your prospects see. Take time to check that your words
are well
chosen and your grammar and spelling is without errors.
Remember the goal is to entice them to want to go to
your website.
You want to generate more traffic through your e-mail
leads.
Content
Is
the content of your e-mail interesting to your target
audience? Is the content poor? Does it support
what you are trying to sell? Will your prospects want
to delete your e-mail on sight or visit your website
to learn
more about the products and services you offer? Whether-or-not,
you like it your audience will connect the poor content
of your e-mail with your website and take for granted
that your
product is just as bad.
Utilities
The
easier your e-mails are for your prospective leads to
navigate through with items, such as signing up,
changing their preference, the higher the probability
you will keep them around longer. The same holds true
with
your website, if it is confusing with so much material
that they
feel overwhelmed they will not return. If your e-mails
are difficult to figure out, they will not want to
waste their
time trying to figure out your product or website either.