Monday, February 2, 2009

Email Marketing - How Important Is It For Your Business

By Jeff Dedrick

Email marketing has become an important player in the lead generation world. Often times a company will choose this form of marketing because of all the benefits it has to offer. Not many people know how to get a new business of the ground and what it takes to succeed in operating your own business. A heavy majority of the work with any business is leads and finding different ways to generate them. There are a lot of ways to acquire leads, but no matter how you get them; the most important thing is to make money off of them. There are two different styles of leads that businesses use to contact people directly and theses are called MLM leads. MLM leads consist of both sales and lead marketing, both of these types of lead generation are affective, but it is important to recognize the differences each one has.

Sales leads are a whole different animal and should be treated as such. These lists will be sold hundreds and maybe thousands of times around the country and businesses need to be aware they are not the first ones attempting to contact these potential leads and need to come in with a fresh approach. From this information they will come up with an opt in list and figure out which are the best possible candidates from their list.

Companies that use sales leads are involved in finance, insurance, or the mortgage business. Because almost everyone needs these types of services, these leads will almost always be random people, who have qualifying scores and the financial marks that meet the necessary requirements for potential loans. From this information they will come up with an opt in list. Marketing leads are a little different from sales leads. They can also be called MLM leads and involve a more direct marketing approach. Marketing leads tend to be more brand specific and will generally have a unique offering.

But these leads are often way more expensive so it's key to take the best approach and make each one count because every name on your list, whether it's an opt in list, email list, or list marketing is going to represent, potentially a lot of money. Sales leads often involve financial businesses and will include personal information about people's credit scores and finances. Sales will have things like their FICO scores and what kind of mortgage a person is in; so off the bat the business knows a little bit about the potential consumer already and are not swinging blind heading into a conversation.

Not every product or service is for everyone and not every single person is going to do business with you. It is all a numbers game and the more emails you put out there to prospective clients the more money you will make. Once a user receives their email it is up to them if they want to opt in email.

The email will go out and reach a large targeted amount of people and the business can sit back and track how many responses they are getting and how effective their email campaign was. The only negative connotation associated with email is that is up to the user whether or not they want to open the email and they can sometimes discard it without even bothering to look at what is inside. This can be very frustrating for businesses because they can track the amount of people looking at their email and some may want to have that more personal feeling of talking to people directly on the telephone. Everyone needs these types of services in their life and they want to work with someone they can trust. If you come across as a person that is going to benefit their life, then you are already one step ahead of the curve. - 21151

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