E-mail marketing is similar to direct marketing which uses email as a method to send commercial content to a mailing list. In its most general sense, all email mailed to potential or existent clients might be deemed email marketing. All the same, the term is usually used to mean:

1) Sending e-mails with the aim of enhancing the relationship of a business with their current or old clientele and to boost customer loyalty and repeat business;

2) Sending e-mails with the intention of gaining new clients or persuading old customers to purchase something once more;

Studies have shown that the 1st thing people do once they turn on their computers for the day is open their electronic mail. Because of this fact, email marketing is has become an excellent and very impressive tool for advertising. By using advertising banners, click through message options, and other routes, a business can interest a new client as well as tempt a former customer into more purchases.

Internet direct mail has a lot of advantages over conventional paper direct mail:

1) It's faster. E-mail can arrive at the target almost in seconds. You are able to get out a campaign, get results, and begin to make money in a really short time period after sending your e-mail. This equates very favorably to conventional direct mail campaigns, which can take eight to twelve or more weeks to complete (from concept, copy, and design, through printing and mailing).

2) Response is immediate. Your customers will give a reply the day you send your message, and you'll get 90 percent of your answers in more or less four days. Because you get answers earlier, you will be able to plan the next campaign or rollout confidently.

3) Conventional direct mailing is restricted by geographical boundaries (currencies, time zones, changing postal regulations, and postal systems of varying caliber and dependability), e-mail is a worldwide medium. Successful campaigns can easily be rolled out globally.

4) It's less problematic to produce. The normal Internet direct mailing is a typed e-mail message produced right on your computer. Unless you would like to incorporate hi-tech graphics you don't need a professional graphic designer, Web developer or HTML programmer.

5) E-mail services works as well as or better than normal direct mail. E-mail makes the purchase quick, easy and at a time and place of the buyer's choice. This step-ups response rates. Personalization, which increases response, is easy and affordable.

Email marketing doesn't work as well for a one-time quick hit marketing strategy, unless it's directed at existing customers. Email lets you to build a steady, ongoing relationship with your best customers and prospects. That then becomes self-selecting - those who like to do business with you will value the regular communications. Those who don't can opt-out.

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