2013 September 02 Archive - EXEIdeas

When you are running an SME, you must be aware that making a lead over others is a key factor for your success. It requires a planned marketing to achieve success while working as SMEs. There are different ways to advertise on the Internet, one of them is email marketing, which is considered the most effective method for many reasons. Some of the reasons are as follows:1.) Broad Range Market:Almost every person has an email address nowadays, that makes it possible to reach large number of consumers for advertisement of your SMEs. With this approach, you cannot only access to the locals but also to foreign clients. Moreover, it enhances the chances of success, but ethically it is good to get a prior permission of person to send him/her advertising material.2.) Hands On Market:Mostly people start advertising their business in phone directories in form of ads. It becomes indirect marketing. While using email for the same purpose provides direct approach to your possible client. It builds a direct communication channel between you and your client, and they can contact you directly through email for getting more information.3.) Target Market:When you are using an open channel for advertising such as newspaper, brochures, radio, TV, etc., you are sending your message without focusing any specific target market. In this case, a few people respond to your marketing campaign. However, use of email enables you to divide your target market into specific groups that provides an ease to send messages to relevant people to get a quick response. You may divide your customers list on basis of gender, age, interest, and geographical boundaries that grant you an opportunity to implement your marketing plan more effectively.4.) Providing A Backup:Using email for marketing and promotions provides you data relevant to your marketing campaign. Through this data, you have an opportunity to create reports that can show you the factors, which may cause a success or failure. A thorough reporting of previous campaign enables you to perk up your marketing plan to be a more effective one.5.) Quick Response And Engaging:It is really amazing to get a quick response via using email marketing, as many people contact you when they receive your email. Keep in mind that the real purpose of email marketing is to build a long lasting relationship with them by fetching them to a community, by giving them tips, and by engaging them with you to make them an active participant of your next campaign. Your regular messages to you customers via email strengthen your relationship with them and make your communication channel long lasting. 6.) Inexpensive:In most cases, the SMEs advertising gulp most of the project budget due to its costly mechanism that can be a cause of failure. Email marketing is really an inexpensive medium to spread your advertising materials. Paying minimal charges enables you to reach a wide range of customer within no time, which means that you can get all the benefits of e-marketing such as low cost, short time, and wide range of clients. 7.) Less Intrusive:When you use other marketing mediums such as radio, TV, or newspaper, mostly prior activity is disturbed by giving the advertising message. However, the case is quite different with email marketing, as it does not break off the activity in progress and conveys the message successfully. If you have built a good relationship with your consumer, they will look forward to your messages. Email marketing does not interrupt your activities and provide you a good opportunity to reach the maximum number of people, as you can send email to hundreds of people in one click. Research has proved that email marketing gives a vital response in marketing. Every dollar spent on it gets a good return that is why email marketing becomes a successful way of running your marketing campaign effectively. The only thing that should be considered while using email for marketing is your appropriate approach. Your correctly done e-marketing ensures your presence in front of your consumers and facilitates you to transmit your advertising material against minor charges. In this sense, email marketing actually serves you as a commission agent that works without commission. #ath{background:#f8f8f8;margin:0 0 40px 0;padding:10px;border:3px outset #e8e8e8;-moz-border-radius:10px;border-radius:10px;overflow:hidden;font-size:14px;}.pro{background:#FFF;float:left;margin:0 10px 0 0;padding:4px;border:2px inset #e8e8e8;}.social{float:right;}About the Author:This guest post is written by Muhammad Azam who is an avid blogger. He loves to write on gadgets, social media marketing and on other blogging related topics.Find Me On GooglePlus, Twitter