Fix Common Email Marketing Mistakes

Email Marketing MistakesIn the world surrounded by social media tweets, likes, pins, and hash tags it’s impressive to know that email continues to be effective. Email continuously reigns above all. It is still the most preferred communication channel of customers and business owners.

No wonder, having an email marketing strategy is a must.

An effective marketing campaign gets readers, gains customers, and promotes your brand. It is important that you stand out from all the emails that your readers receive on a daily basis.

However, it is the easiest marketing strategy to screw up. Once you hit that send button, you can’t delete it from the inboxes of your readers. You can’t fix the subject line and the content. Unlike a social media post that can be deleted, reposted, or corrected, once you send an email it can’t be altered.

You need to be aware of these common marketing mistakes. Check if you’re making these blunders, but don’t stress. It can easily be fixed. Included here are tips on how to fine-tune your email campaign.

1. You Never Proof Your Emails

Your email needs editing. An email campaign with spelling mistakes, poor grammar, and broken links make you look unprofessional. It can hurt your image and your credibility. Worst, it can make your email look like it is scam mail.

Best Practice: Before you hit send, double-check every element in your email. Make sure that everything is always perfect. Check your fonts and images. Make sure that the links land on the correct page.

2. You Never Test Before Sending

Your email might look strange if you didn’t test it across different platforms. Not everyone is using Yahoo, Gmail, or the same email program that you have.

Best Practice: Test that your emails are correctly displayed in different email platforms like Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, and Outlook. Make sure that your email message and images are displayed properly.

 3. Your Subject Line is Terrible

Your email subject line gives you the first impression. It makes you stand out from all the emails that flood your readers’ inboxes. Poor subject lines end up being deleted or worst, getting into the spam folders. Since your target recipient won’t get to read it, you’ve wasted time sending that email campaign.

Best Practice: Keep your subject line short and concise with about 50 characters or less. Customize it based on the people you’re sending it to. Again, test your email headline in different platforms to check if it gets flagged as spam.

4. You Sound Like a Salesman

Your readers hate being sold to directly. Any promotional copy turns them off. Your goal is to deliver something valuable to your readers, earn credibility, and give them something that can transform their lives.

Best Practice: Avoid marketing-speak and don’t simply sell your products or services. Talk about the benefits that it would give them. Make sure that it solves their problem. You’ll definitely reap rewards later on.

5. Your Email Timing is Off

It is essential that your email-marketing campaign needs to be sent at the right time. Avoid sending your email when people on your target segment are offline. The next time they check their emails, your own email gets buried below the list. When you do this, it’s less likely to get noticed.

Best Practice: Right timing matters. Send your email when your recipients are online. Deliver it fresh. Also, analyze people who use their smartphones since they can also check their emails outside the usual 9-5 time frame.

6. You Neglect Mobile Users

Half of your emails readers are probably using their tablets and smartphones to read emails several times a day. No matter how relevant your email content is. They won’t be able to read your email if your message is not optimized for these mobile devices.

Your goal is get your readers to read your message and take action. Check how your email looks on mobile devices. Also, keep your emails simple and the process as easy as possible.

Do you need help with your email marketing campaign? The Business Maximizer can assist you. Schedule your complimentary Business Breakthrough Strategy Session today!

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