You may be a big or small business owner who communicates with clients via email on a near-daily basis. That means you have a near-daily opportunity to enhance your reputation and build stronger bonds with your clients. Today, over 50% of emails are read on mobiles and other devices. Your email is most likely to be read and digested in a quick glance while the receiver is on their phone, flitting back and forth between other tasks.
Composing email means being clear, concise, and actionable. You can achieve this with a few simple strategies:
1. Determine whether your clients want your email
If you’re venturing into the realm of online marketing and don’t have an opt-in email list strategy, then you’re no better than wandering around in the dark. Your email list is your lifeblood in an your marketing operation. So it should be comprised of all the people who’ve chosen to be part of your promotional campaign. You have to earn their trust through promotion and the presentation of your products and services that they either couldn’t get elsewhere or get at a considerable discount.
2. Write your subject lines like headlines
For your email to be read, it has to be opened. Your goal should be to compose a subject line that is clear and ideally provocative. A client should be able to know what your email is about simply by reading the subject line. This means each new topic warrants its own email with its own specific subject. 33% of email recipients decide whether or not to open an email based on subject line alone!
3. Establish your credibility
Why should I care? is the tacit question hovering in most people’s minds as they open an email, especially if it’s from someone they don’t know. This is why establishing your brand credibility early on in the message is crucial. Tell your clients why your brand is different, what is your story, or why they should invest in your product or service.
4. Be responsive and friendly
Clients want to feel like they’re a priority and that you’re there to assist them when they need it. Email analytics helps you track all subscriber activities which can give you details of your interested clients. You can also reap benefits of email automation, for tracking abandons and sending triggered emails based on your client response. This will help you build a community of your customers, and retain them for more future purchases.
5. Proofread and preview on mobile devices
Avoid the panic of realizing you misspelled something important or forgot to include a discount deadline. Carefully proofread your emails before hitting send. Consider A/B testing to analyze different parameters that work for your marketing emails like subject lines, timing, segmentation based on location, gender, age, buying history, etc.
Today more than 48% of emails are opened on mobile devices and 69% of mobile users delete emails that aren’t optimized for mobile. So keep up with the consumer trends and optimize your marketing emails for all devices.
It is essential to sharpen your email habits with the attention they deserve. Beyond some basics known to all, these above email etiquettes can make or break your relationships with clients.