3 Effective Email Marketing Tips for Business Expansion

Email MarketingEmail marketing is the best way to communicate with your subscribers to build strong relations with them. It is very much important the way you communicate with them, which can bring repeat in your business. The communication is effective when you are not trying to ‘fake’ it.

Analyze the emails written to a client compared to the emails written to your friends and family. Notice the casual way of talking when you’re writing to friends and family; while the emails written to your client would be formal and somewhat tensed. You see you are trying to sell to the client and you’d never be talking in a casual way.

Try out by writing an email to a group of friends asking them to check out the hot VPS Hosting Plans you have seen on bodhost.co.uk. Put your affiliate link in the URL and send it to your friends. You will find that most of your friends will open the email from you. They will checkout the hosting plans you are recommending and they will definitely make up their mind to buy it if they want one.

The conversion rate will be high because the way you recommended the product in a casual way will grab their attention. So the point is never sell a product to your subscribers; recommend it in a way that would make them open their wallets and buy the plans.

The fact is that subscribers no matter who they are don’t want to be sold to. They’ll simply whine and unsubscribe instantly if you try to hard sell because they don’t know you in person, hence, they don’t trust you.

So the first and the leading rule is to build trust like you’d build a friendship with a group of people. To build trust, you need to follow these 3 effective email marketing tips.

Never sound like a salesman – Never, ever sound like you’re selling them stuff. You might have experienced this yourself in the real world. What do you do if a person knocks at your door and try to sell you a product right on your doorstep. You’d ignore him and close the door immediately. But when you get a call from your friend about a hot product he purchased today, you’d definitely want to check it out.

Always build trust first – Building trust is a tricky thing. You might wax a lot of people in the process. But don’t give up. If some people unsubscribe from your list, that’s fine. Don’t worry about them. They won’t buy from you no matter what you do. So it’s good to ‘clean’ your list in the process.

One way to build trust is to send product review emails of the famous products in your niche. Don’t become their affiliate in that process. Just give you honest opinion about the products. Give them things of great value. For example, you might have some old report lying waste on your hard drive. Brush it up and edit it accordingly. Remember, it should have good value. Good information.

Communicate in a casual way – Be casual. Communicate as if they are friends with you. Use casual words like “hey check this out” as a subject of the email. Don’t try to increase your conversions by selling hard. Don’t pound them with offers; inform them. Tell them about your stuff. Make them look at your sales page and the sales page will do the conversions. Don’t try to make your email a sales pitch.

Hope this article has been helpful to you and good luck with your email marketing.

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Dmoz: The Proper Way of Submission

Dmoz Directory

Dmoz is an Open Directory Project which is an important step for any website promotion. It is a very important directory which provides search results for many of the huge search engines and online portals. Dmoz directory is a human edited directory and you must follow the proper way of submitting your website, if you want your submission to be successful.

First and very important point is to ensure that your site has unique and fresh content. If, your website is publishing a group of affiliate links or if your website is a replica of other sites that are available in huge numbers on web, then possibly your submission will be rejected. If you are selling or dealing with affiliate products you can show Dmoz editors by adding contents like product reviews or any other information that your website has some unique to offer.

Make sure your website contains no spelling mistakes and your site looks and work decently. Though the editors are looking for original content, they are only human and will be annoyed by errors and by a clumsily built site. It is my experience that professionally designed sites, with good content, always make it into the directory eventually.

Confirm that your contact information exists on you website. Not only the e-mail addresses but also put the physical address and telephone number on your site to get easy entrance in the category. Especially, if you are selling something, you need to build credibility with your customers, and in this case, with the Open Directory editors, by providing genuine contact information.

Choosing the proper category is very important when you submit to these types of directories. There is nothing to worry about when you submit your website to a robotic search engine, but you should choose a correct directory when you submit to a directory. Walk through the categories and check where similar sites to yours have been listed in the directory. When you are sure about the proper category for your site just press the add URL link. Avoid submitting to the categories where your site doesn’t meet the criteria or else your submission will be rejected. Read the notes carefully if mention for any particular category and then submit.

Always keep a record of your submission date, category and the category editor in order to make an inquiry about the status of your submission this information is very necessary. As it is an human edited directory it can take weeks or months to review and accept your submission.

Spamming the directory can cause a rejection to your submission. Avoid submitting your web site again n again. Just submit once and keep patience. Generally you are only allowed to submit to one category, though if your site is huge and has many subdivisions, you may be able to submit sections of the site to different categories. As submissions come in a huge numbers to the categories, it may take time for processing your submission. If you hastily resubmit your site, then it will end up on the bottom of the list of sites to be reviewed, as they are stored according to date.

If you have to enquire or have any questions regarding your submission, then contact the editor in the proper way. Send a message to the editor of that category. You can check the bottom of the category page for the editor name. Another excellent way to make contact with the editors is through their online forum. Provide them the proper date and category to which you have submitted to check the status of your submission. You can ask questions about the procedures etc, but make sure that you don’t argue with the editors.

Dmoz Open Directory Project

Next time, when you submit to Dmoz Open Directory Project, ensure that you follow the above guidelines to get your submission successful.

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