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The One Thing Your Competition Can't Buy
Many companies don’t even realize that their email list of contacts is the most valuable piece of data they own. It provides a low cost and instantaneous communication channel to many of the most important people to their success. And unlike other more traditional marketing, it can provide real-time, measurable results.
You have probably heard that it is far less expensive to keep a customer than to acquire a new one. This holds true for most other groups, associations and non-profits also.
And your email newsletter can help you communicate and stay “top of mind” with current business relationships – and increase retention – while also allowing you to share knowledge and promotions with prospects, too.
It’s all about increasing the lifetime value of your contacts. Remember: Competitors can always buy their way into your market – and match your pricing, your products and services, and even the “look and feel” of your brands or organization.
But the one thing they can’t purchase? Your relationships.
Every E-newsletter you send helps solidify the connection between your organization and your customers, members, participants, clients, volunteers, donors… and even prospects!
Even More E-Newsletter Stats
In 2008, 60.8% of US businesses surveyed said that sending an email newsletter was a component of future marketing plans.
…and has this number gone up since then?
What day of the week is most popular to send your publication? Percent of newsletters being sent by customers weekly:
Monday 17.1%
Tuesday 17.0%
Thursday 16.2%
Wednesday 15.8%
Friday 14.5%
Saturday 10.3%
Sunday 9.0%
49% of email marketers said their E-newsletter routinely justified itself. Only 10% said their newsletters were not being justified at all by revenue.
Packaged food giant ConAgra found that consumers who subscribed to their email newsletter generated 34.25% more product sales overall.
30% of small businesses execs say they had an improved image of a vendor from the (email) newsletter they received.
No surprise there…
44% of marketers surveyed believe the biggest challenge in email is providing ongoing, relevant content.
Luckily, we’re here to help!
Content Should Come With a "Born On" Date
It is important to remember that being relevant online is not the result of an “event” or singular campaign, but a continual, ongoing effort.
Your site may be listed as one of the top search results right now, but that’s no guarantee it will stay there.
If your website isn’t being continually updated with new, fresh content, (eventually) the search engines will simply move on to sites with newer information. Ideally, this means you’ll have new content on your site every time the search engine crawler (an automated program used by search engine companies to review websites) visits.
This can be as simple as quickly updating an old post or page. Just make sure something is different. This shows that your site is being actively monitored and managed, which is obviously a good thing.
This ensures that the crawler will have fresh content to index and new links to explore. Thus, it will never see your site as stale and decide to drop it from the rankings.