Email marketing can be a powerful strategy for any business. It increases customer engagement, brand awareness, and generates more sales. Small businesses make the same mistakes as big companies when it comes to designing and sending out marketing emails.
These common errors may not seem important at first but they can make it difficult for your business to achieve the best possible ROI from your email marketing campaign.
Before you send any further campaigns, make sure to check your emails for these top ten mistakes in email marketing before you send them out.
It is not adding value.
It is important that the reader understands what it means for them. They must understand that you are offering a solution and a promise of future events, and why they should choose you over all other companies.
While it can be tempting to concentrate on your product or service only, you often fail to show how customers will benefit.
Start your first email by asking a question to your email subscribers. Answer the question directly in your email subject line. Then, add a value proposition.
This is the best way to show them how you can improve their lives. What problem do you solve? What is the unique thing about your product?
Don’t assume that your customers will understand why you are needed. Tell them.
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Kudos is one example. On their website, they clearly show how their value proposition streamlines the online checkout process. This is a big mistake.
If they do not, their target market may be uncertain about their product offerings and close the email or delete it altogether.
Not segmenting your list.
Email marketing can help you send more targeted emails which will result in higher open and click-through rate. Segmenting your email list is a great way to target your audience. This allows you to create more relevant content and opens for your subscribers. A study by the Direct Marketing Association found that segmented campaigns resulted in a 7620% increase in revenue for marketers.
You could, for example, create a list that opens your emails regularly after signing up. These users would be contacted more often. These “hot leads” should be included to targeted campaigns that nurture them as they become long-term customers.
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Let’s say you use Mailchimp, an email marketing tool. This guide will help you to use the features and integrate the various Mailchimp lead scoring systems. It will also show you how to make the most of the tool and whether it is the right tool for you.
Setting expectations is not the same as keeping them.
If your email copy is not up to par, your readers will unsubscribe.
It is important to establish expectations right from the beginning. How often will you send emails, for example? Is it daily, weekly or monthly? These details should be clear and unambiguous.
You may disappoint your readers if you promise to email your audience every week, but instead email them every other day. You could also disappoint your readers if you promise to email your audience every day but only send one email every few months.
If your emails drift off-topic from your product or service, your audience may lose interest.
Reliable Couriers, for example, offers courier and rush delivery services that can be tailored to your specific needs. They wouldn’t send out an email discussing top interior design trends in 2022. They should instead focus on the 41% who are willing to pay for same-day delivery of furniture and other high-end items.
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Not proofreading your emails.
If you don’t proofread emails, it’s obvious that subscribers will distrust you. A bunch of spelling mistakes is a sign that you are not professional. A study showed that 92% of respondents thought spelling errors had a negative impact on the professionalism and credibility of a company.
Before you send out your email campaigns, be sure to keep these things in mind:
- Typos Don’t send emails with misspellings or grammar errors. To spot any errors or omissions, it is best to have another person look at the email.
- Broken Links – Before you send your email, double check that all links are correct. It’s so easy to link to another thing accidentally.
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All your emails sent from one address
Research has shown that trustworthiness is the key to an email’s open rates. It is therefore crucial to choose a consistent and effective “from” name as well as an email address.
You may be using an email marketing software to automate your emails. Many email marketing tools allow you to set multiple “from addresses”. This allows you to give context to your email campaigns by simply leveraging the “sent from” email address.
You can give your subscribers an idea of the content you are sending by adjusting your “From” address to reflect the purpose. You could use support@, invoices@ or newsletters@.
You don’t want all your emails to go directly to spam folders.
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It is easy to forget to include a call for action.
Your readers will know what next steps to take if you have a call-to-action. Your audience won’t know what to do if there is no call to action.
A call-to-action is a way to direct your reader to take the next step in their buying journey. If someone opens a newsletter that features new products, they will likely be interested in learning more.
It is simple to use this language as a call-to-action in a newsletter. This gives customers exactly what they want: more information about the new products. It is also important that your call-to action reflects the company’s language so that your marketing messages are consistent and cohesive.
Sending an email campaign is all about getting customers back to your site. So direct them where they want to go.
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Too many CTA’s in a single email.
Each email should have 1-2 goals. Make it clear to your reader what you want them do. The CTA gives the reader an opportunity to tell them what to do.
Every email that you send should include a simple and clear CTA. To make it easy for readers to identify your brand, use the same CTA buttons in all emails.
Use different colors and sizes to make your CTAs standout from the rest.
This welcome email from Freepik, a graphic design company, has only 2 CTAs. Visit our website and our blog to see more. It’s simple, clear, and easy to understand for new subscribers.
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A weak or nonexistent subject line.
Subject lines in email are what recipients first see when they receive an email. This can have a significant impact on your open rates, depending on how well you write them.
Your subject line should be clear, concise, and engaging. So that readers know what you’re talking about, it is important to include key words upfront.
Include an offer or deal that you think is attractive in your email campaign at the top of your subject line.
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Making your subject line too long.
Your subject line should not be too long. It will be cut in your inbox. Your subject line will be removed from most inboxes after nine words (roughly 50 characters). If they don’t click on it, you won’t get their attention.
If the first few words, which are your most important words, are all that is displayed in your inbox, then they should do the bulk of the heavy lifting. Or you risk losing their attention and being unread.
This is how to avoid making this mistake
- Keep your subject lines concise.
- Avoid using flowery language and filler words. They aren’t as effective or appealing.
- Instead of using power words and action-oriented terms, motivate people to open your email.
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Instead of personalizing greetings for each recipient, use generic greetings.
Personalizing your email marketing messages is a great way to increase open rates. Personalizing your email marketing messages can mean addressing the recipient by name, or tailoring the content to their needs.
If you don’t understand who your audience is and what their interests are, how can you expect them pay attention? It is essential to understand your audience. You already have a segmented list with subscribers so you know who they are and what interests them.
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The Key Takeaways
Email marketing is an excellent way to reach your target audience. Email marketing can drive traffic to your website. It also helps to build relationships with customers, which will help you convert them into repeat buyers. However, email marketing can lead to poor results if done poorly.
Avoid falling for this trap. Before you hit send, take a few minutes to make sure your email campaign is perfect. You can avoid these silly errors with a little bit of effort and time. Relax and enjoy the sales roll in.
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