February 9, 2012

Email Marketing: Is More Than Sending Emails.

Email Marketers must  be commercially smart and have a business brain.

Email Marketers must know and understand financial statements of a business and how their efforts affect them.

Email Marketers must cordinate activities with all the other business departments and not work in isolation.

Email Marketers must be able to show Outcomes or Return On Investments.

Email Marketers must be Consistent and Persistent.

but above all…

Email Marketers need to:

  • CARE, HELP and Build TRUST with their Lists.

It’s only after all these will they start to see success.

Believe in Yourself
Kurt 

Email Marketing: 14 Business Tips In This Month’s Email Express

Here’s Volume 4 of The Email Express.

Inside you will discover:
“10 Tips On How To Increase Your Conversion Rates
And Get Your Downloads Working For You”. 

PLUS…

“My Four Steps Of Customer Service Value.”

You can download the Email Express direct by clicking
on the Belvedere image.

No handing over your name or email address required.

Also it is getting close to Christmas and you should be
planning what to offer and sell to your clients.

As a valued reader of my blog I’d love to help you. 

I have various coaching levels. It’s only a matter of finding
the right one to suit you.

Contact me at kurt@johanseninternational.com.au or via
my contacts page to the right.

I don’t bite.

Remember be CONSISTENT and PERSISTENT with
your email marketing efforts.

Believe in Yourself
Kurt

Email Marketing: Christmas Tips Report

A very special Christmas Tips Report direct for you.

Each year I like to put out a “Christmas Email Marketing Report” to help businesses with their email marketing campaigns.

This year is no different.

It’s my way saying thank you for following me.

You can grab by clicking on the gift package image:

Inside the 14 pages you will dis.cover:

  • How to Write To Different Age Groups;
  • How to Segment Your Product and Services;
  • How To Add Value To A Sale But Not Lose Money;
  • How To Get The Buyer To Continue Selling For You;
  • How To Overcome The Biggest Fears Of Prospects;
  • 11 Christmas ‘Delivery’ Headlines You Can Steal From Me;
  • 11 Pre-Christmas Headlines You Can Copy In Your Emails;
  • 12 Other Headlines To Use If You Don’t Wish To Mention Christmas;
  • Plus Sensational Tips To Create Christmas Sales Countdown;
  • Take time to read it and digest it and IMPLEMENT.

Here’s the download again: http://www.kurtjohansen.com/christmas-tips/

Enjoy !
Believe in Yourself

Kurt

Email Marketing: It’s Here So Get On Board

I was walking through my local WestField Mall yesterday and
I thought, “It’s here isn’t it.”  ”These merchants are switched on.”

Now it wasn’t everywhere mind you but it was obviously around.

There were posters hanging from the ceilings and posters glued
to shopfronts.

And all of the smart businesses were talking the same theme.

                                              Christmas.

Take a look at what Westfield have placed on their website.

I know, I know you are thinking, “Surely it’s not Christmas time already?”

But the fact is people are now going to start thinking about what to
get their loved ones.  And if you are smart you will start to create
offers they will jump through hoops to get to.

Don’t be put off by the talk of the economy and do no marketing.

Whether they do or not, Christmas is a time people spend so
make sure you are out there in front of your customers.

Believe In Yourself
Kurt 

 

Email Marketing: “Not Everyone Opened My Email, Why?”

Hi,

I received a question from a person using email marketing the other day
which has been intriguing me ever since.

They asked, “Not Everyone Opened My Email, Why?”  ”Can you help?”

The short answer was, “Sure, I can let you know why.”  ”But to get to the real
issue we will need to drill deeper.”

We conversed and I had them on their way in quick time.

But then I thought why not share my research which I have found useful, with you.
Then you can  gauge your email marketing effectiveness.

I have learnt a lot over the 4 years I have been email marketing and I’d like to
save you some time to get there quicker and help you get terrific results.

So here you go.  

Seven more tips to get your emails propelling through cyberspace like a
dolphin chasing a school of herring.

My Seven Tips Are:

1. Unless you are sending to one person you will probably never  experience
100% open rates. (And even sending to one may not get 100%…) So don’t get
hooked too much with open rates.  But if you want a number then…
No I am not going to do it – it doesn’t really matter.

2.  Pay more attention your recipients are actioning the way you wish them to.

3. Email Marketing is very much like many advertising streams.  That is, it is
always about the right message to the right person at the right time.
Timing is critical in marketing and advertising.

i.e. What I mean about timing is:

If you just walked out of restaurant having gorged on a 10 course meal,
no matter how great a new meal deal presented to you was, if it had to be taken
within the next 30 minutes, you would not be in a position to oblige.
(Mind you my Golden Retriever pooch would give it a massive go.)

4. Have a series of emails to back up your first email.  I use a ‘Step Diagram’
which enables me to program a series of emails rather than one email blast.

5. Have a strategy to send people another email who have clicked on a
link or visited a website link you inserted.

6. Have a strategy to send people an email who haven’t opened the first one.

Be careful, DO NOT send the same email again.  NO NO !!  The reason being
is many people read emails in the ‘preview frames’ of their email program.
You do not wish to bore them with the same email.  The tactic to send an
email to ’non-opens’ is  sound.  Just change the message around that’s all.

7. The strategies and tactics I mentioned in tips 4,5 & 6 are really all about
segmentation.  Segmentation is crucial and critical aspect of email marketing
which cannot be ignored.  Don’t send all messages to all people.  It just doesn’t
work.

There you go another 7 Tips all from a question I received about,
“Not Everyone Opened My Email, Why?”

Believe In Yourself
Kurt 

 

 

Email Marketing: 10 Top Tips For Email Success Are…

Hi

As you are enjoying your  long-weekend break in Australia, I thought I would
give you an article on email marketing you can contemplate over wherever
you are relaxing.

You could say it’s your long-weekend homework but gosh
I wouldn’t do that to you, would I ?

Let’s say it’s a long-weekend learning experience for you.

So here you go, read and digest these ten tips for maximum
email marketing wealth.

My Top Ten Tips Are:

1. Write a Subject Line which will make your intended audience click.
I have spoken about email subject lines in the past.  It’s so crucial to
learn how to write them and how to use them. If you need more help
with subject lines click here: SUBJECT LINES.

2. Write your important items at the top of your email so those people
who read their emails in the ‘preview frame’ get to read your best part of
the message quickly.

Also many people read emails via their phones.
Make it easy for them too.

3. Check out your formatting.  Leave white space. Keep line length to
around 60 characters.  People would rather scroll down than across.

4. Write your emails as if you are talking to one person.  Make it a
real conversation.

5. Focus on content they would like to receive.  It’s about helping them.

6. See if you can offer something but remember it’s not always about
sales.  You need to be able to add value to people’s lives.

7. Keep your image sizing down to a minimum.  Try to get you images
around 72 dpi and keep them small in size.  This way they will not clog
up your recipients inbox.

8. Make sure you know and understand what you can do and cannot do
by law.  In Australia we use the Spam Act 2003 in the USA they use the
Can Spam Act.

9. Use a ‘PS’ at the end of the email.  Two ‘PS’s’ work even better.

10. Try placing your picture at the end of the email.
Remember: ”People Buy From Friends”

There you have it.

My top 10 email marketing tips for you to ponder over this long weekend.

Believe In Yourself

Kurt

Email Marketing: Father’s Day – There’s Still Time For…

Hi Everyone

A  couple of my clients have asked me today;
“Is it worth sending out a Father’s Day email this week?”And the simple answer is YES.

There IS still time for a Father’s Day Promotion.

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You see, you can easily blend a message with the theme of urgency

Like:

“48 Hour Father’s Day Sale”

“Father’s Gift Ideas – Only Until They Last”

“Father’s Day Gifts – Order Today – Delivered Tomorrow”

With Father’s Day in Australia this Sunday, the 4th September,
many people would be wondering what to do with or what to
buy dear ol’ Dad.

So if you have a product or service you know would be
welcomed by this males species then let your lists know.

And are you aware…Retail statistics tell us poor ol’ Dads have, on average,
$10 less spent on them than Mothers on Mother’s Day.

$10 LESS ON DADS… SACRILEGE !!!

Can you build this somehow into your promotion?

Don’t miss out on this opportunity when people are in the
moment to buy.

Although you thought you may have missed the boat,
Father’s Day Sales Promotion are still alive and and well.

And…

Can make you customers happy and you money.

Believe in Yourself

Kurt

Email Marketing: How To Write Emails That Sell

Hi Everyone

I do prescribe to writing marketing emails a set way.

That is, I have discovered over the years staying true to a set formula is crucial to
gaining maximum open rates and responses.

One way which you should adopt is to write the email in the first person and as if
you were writing to a friend.

If you are looking at writing emails about your products and services write like you
just bought the product or service and wish to tell your friend about it.

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“Hi Pam, I’ve just bought this new…and it’s pretty good.  It has a … and a… which
means I can now this…

Can you believe it?”

“I know.  I have been talking about this for a while now.  Well I have finally done something about it.

and…

I’m stoked.”

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Writing in the ‘First Person’ will dramatically increase your email marketing open,
read and response rates.

Believe in Yourself
Kurt

 

Email Marketing: Do You Use Any Of These 4 Email Subject Line Types?

Hi Everyone

Email Subject Lines are crucial to get your emails opened.

There are specific ‘types’ you can employ which work best.

In this month’s edition of “The Email Express” I take you on a journey of discovery and reveal the FOUR most effective email subject line types and provide examples.

The Email Express is monthly publication delivered to my Email Coaching Clients but this month you have the opportunity to read it too.

Just click on this link to take you to the Four BEST Email Marketing subject line types to use..

Believe In Yourself
Kurt

Email Marketing: Free Recording On How To Make Money With Emails

Hi Everyone

During the week I was fortunate to be interviewed by Krishna Everson
on my “7 Killer Tips To Get Your Emails Opened, Read and Acted Upon.”

The interview is full of my 7 proven strategies and pure gold tips and
techniques to make more money in your business using email.

It’s simple and easy and here at your fingertips.

http://instantteleseminar.​com/?eventid=21392436

Plus…

At the end of the interview there is an offer from me to help you for FR.EE.

Now, this interview does take around 60 minutes and I know you don’t have that
time alone.

So why not play it in the background whilst you are working away on something else.

You won’t be sorry and I must admit this is one of the best interviews I have
done because Krishna sucked out all my thoughts and made me tell all.

She stripped me down, extracted the best goodies and now it is all revealed in
this audio.

And…

It’s FR.EE

All my major tips and secrets to make money with emails are revealed.

So %%First Name%%, listen here Kurt’s Interview with Krishna you will not be disappointed.

And make sure you grab the fr.ee offer at the end.

Take advantage of me.

Believe in Yourself
Kurt