Many people do not believe in Email Marketing anymore. Remember those days you received an email and it was address in your name or business name directly. Remember how excited it made you as it seemed so personal? over the decades, this method became overused to the point that it began to lose meaning. Now that we got that out of the way, let us proof to you that everything we mentioned above it ONLY true to a limited extent. Email Marketing still exists and is still considered one of the most powerful tools in a Marketing Plan.
Data has shown and proven that a very high percentage of consumers still check their email on a daily basis and anxiously await marketing emails from their preferred brands. That goes to show any business that Email Marketing communication is still alive but it also goes to show that Email Marketing goes hand in hand with a well built brand.
Once you have established a brand for your business and made use of Social Media platforms to attract, engage and retain consumers, then an Email Marketing plan will work and deliver optimum results for your business.
Some Benefits?
Ability to Create Personalized Content: Your business has the flexibility to promote a service or offer in a different way than Social Media platforms. You have more space to show case your product and talk about it and directly send it to personal emails of target consumers who are interested to increase your sales.
Send Timely Campaigns: When you create an online campaign, it takes a tremendous amount of time to plan and organize and run and wait for it to learn and push out to consumers. Whereas Email Marketing can be sent out immediately and will reach mailboxes directly within minutes.
Cost-Effective: Email Marketing tends to be very effective on a promotional level and a budget level. Email Marketing campaigns tend to more const-effective.
Owning It: Any Social Media platform can disappear at any given moment. The content your business has published there will disappear and so will your followers with it. Not to say that this will happen but to show you how with Email marketing, you own your content and you own your customer contact list.
In this article, we just took a moment to list out a few benefits of Email Marketing. However, there are many more reasons as to why every business of any nature should invest some resources into this form of Digital Marketing. To sum this up, let’s just say that Email Marketing is not dead and can still improve sales and drive revenue and create a Digital Buzz.