Best practices for building and maintaining an effective email marketing campaign

Safalta expert Published by: Abhishek Gautam Updated Tue, 17 Sep 2024 04:16 PM IST

Highlights

You need to keep the best practices and strategy when creating an email marketing campaign and know the metrics you need to monitor and analyze after creating the campaign for better results.
 

Email marketing is part of digital marketing and a powerful tool in digital world for growing our business and connect with the customers in this digital world and we are reach a good target audience by using Email marketing and drive sales. As we know, we also do this with other social media channels and marketing channels, but according to marketers, email marketing is more value for money and means giving better results than other channels. By using email marketing, we can directly reach to our targeted customer and also communicate with them, building personal connection, which is not possible in many other marketing channels, like if we run online ads for brand awareness so customers reach our brand or business but we cannot directly communicate with them, but in email marketing, customers can directly connect with us and we can also convince them because of the direct connection. Email marketing is very important component of successful Digital marketing strategies.

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Table of content

  • Know your target audience  

  • Attention grabbing & attractive subject line

  • Create attractive and relevant content

  • Optimize for mobile

  • Monitor the performance

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1. Know your target audience
In a general way, if you want to do any task you need to know first about your motive to do that task same as when you create an email marketing campaign so you should keep in mind your targeted audience. I mean it is essential to understand what you want to achieve, whether it is to increase sales, create brand awareness, or build loyalty with customers for the brand, suppose you need to email marketing campaign for sale your digital marketing course so your targeted audience is who search for an online course like this if you run your campaign and send email to that audience who search for police exam course so it means you send mails that audience who are not your targeted audience and you get no conversion, so these all things need to be clear in your mind for better results, so you should know about your targeted audience in the marketing field.


2. Attention-grabbing & attractive subject line
You listen to a line that says, “First impression is last impression.” This is a general line but this is somewhere applied in this point because your email subject line is first impression for viewer, which should be attractive; otherwise, the possibility is that the viewer will not open your mail or all your content will be wasted no matter whether the content is good or even helpful for the customer. Also, you have a line, “ What is seen is what is sold.” It means appearance is everything, so choose attention-grabbing subject line or subject line that is related to content and always keep these things in  mind.

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3. Create attractive and relevant content
The content of your email should be related to the subject line, informative, and relevant to the customer's needs and interests. You can use brief paragraphs, points, and headings to make content easy to see and fast-scan. Always we need to focus on explaining how our product or service is beneficial for customers and helpful for customers rather than explaining the features of our product or service. Also,  we need to focus on storytelling in our email content and use narratives to connect with the customer and make the content more relatable to the customer. This point is also very helpful in email marketing for better results.

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4. Optimize for mobile
As we know, most of users check emails by phone because it is easy and time-saving, so our email should be mobile-friendly and content should be according to small screen. Don’t need to use big images and large blocks; otherwise, they create readable issues for recipients and also look so odd and because of this higher chance, user can skip the mail without reading properly. We can use a single-column layout, which is helpful to easily read and scroll the email for users, so keep your email content short and add mobile-friendly URLs; this is necessary for better results.


5. Monitor the performance
Tracking the performance of email marketing is essential to understand how effective your campaign is and make effective decisions. By monitoring your campaign performance, like key metrics such as open rates, click-through rates, conversion rates, and subscriber unsubscribes, you can know about the interests of your audience. The metrics in email marketing that you need to track are Open rate, click-through rate (ctr), Conversion rate, Bounce rate, unsubscribe rate, Spam complaint rate, Delivery rate, Revenue, Return on Investment (ROI), and Subscriber growth rate These all metrics need to be monitored properly for better results and know your campaign growth and about your targeted audience.

Free Digital Marketing E-Book : Download Now  Email marketing is a constantly growing technique of digital marketing and also the best Return on Investment (ROI) according to digital marketers who already work in the digital marketing industry for many years and also cost-effective and easy to do so by implementing these best and simple practices which is mention in this blog you will be able to create successful email marketing campaign and reach your targeted audience and get better results of your investment for grow your business, so many techniques are there which will be helpful for an email marketing campaign.
 

How should I send emails to my list?

For this send emails based on your targeted audiences according to your requirements.
 

Which metrics need to be monitored in our email marketing campaign?

Open Rate, Through Rate, Conversion Rate, Bounce Rate, Unsubscribe Rate, Revenue, Return on Investment (ROI), etc. these all are the metrics that you need to monitor from time to time in email marketing for better results and know your audience
 

What is the best time to send email?

Experiment to find the best time for your targeted audience there is no fixed time to send email because there is no direct connection to timing to get better results.
 

The most important thing to email marketing for user

Create content mobile view because most of the users read an email on a mobile screen.
 

How to optimize email for mobile?

Use mobile-friendly templates, Large font sizes, Use mobile-friendly URLs.
 
 

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