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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Effective Tips to Improve Your Alexa Ranking

The internet businesses which occupy online marketing, struggle to improve their conversion rate. There are various ways of attracting targeted traffic.

Some webmasters concentrate on achieving a good Page Ranking in the Search Engine Result Pages (SERP), while some are satisfied with huge traffic.

Website owners think that Google is the only way to achieve their goals, but there are few that also think that a high position in the Alexa ranking may benefit them as well.

Before thinking about Alexa you should know, what are the advantages and disadvantages of Alexa Ranking? Is it really worth?

Advantages:

  • Alexa Traffic Graphic can be used as a competitive intelligence tool, but you should take into consideration the fact that the audience sample size is fairly small. Just enter your competitor’s site in the “Compare Sites” section and measure the results of your web marketing efforts in comparison with your competitors’.

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  • As opposite to Google’s PageRank system, the lower your ranking number in Alexa, the better it is.
  • It helps Webmasters and advertisers see the real marketing potential of your Web site. The better your Alexa rank, the higher they may be willing to bid to buy advertising space on your Web site.
  • Personal pages or blogs are also ranked in the same way as ordinary Web sites. They will even get a distinctive mark (*)
  • Because Alexa ranking helps you with information about your Web site, it is a good instrument for search engine optimization.

Disadvantages:

  • Not everybody has the Alexa toolbar installed, so there might be millions of Web sites that, even if they have a lot of traffic, will not be ranked by Alexa.
  • Many people say that it is inaccurate and that Alexa traffic can be greatly influenced (or “gamed”, as some prefer to call it).
  • Subdomains are not ranked separately, and neither are subpages within a domain. The overall traffic is calculated for the top-level domain viz. homepage of a website only.

How to Get Better Alexa Ranking

If you wish to increase your Alexa traffic ranking, you just need to follow these simple rules:

  • Download the Alexa toolbar install it and surf your own site on it.
  • There are free alexa widgets available that you can place on your Web site. It will attract visitors to check it out.
  • Write some useful, quality and attractive content, mostly webmaster-related. Promote it on webmaster forums and on social networking sites. The idea is to get as many computer and Internet savvy people as possible to visit your site, since the probability that they will have the Alexa toolbar installed is high.
  • Write down blogs and articles about Alexa. The links to your pages you will get, will help improve your raking.
  • Submit your articles on some popular sites like digg.com, del.icio.us, or stumbleupon.com
  • Optimize your site pages for Alexa related keywords.
  • Let your friends know about the Alexa toolbar from you, ask them to download and install it on their computers, and then ask them to visit your site.
  • Use an Alexa redirect. This means placing http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect? in front of your Web site’s URL. Alexa will then take into consideration clicks on redirected links even if the visitor does not have the Alexa toolbar.
  • Apparently, Asian people are huge fans of Alexa. Therefore, many people suggest posting in Asian social networking forums.
  • Whenever you post on webmaster forums, include your site’s URL in your signature. It is very likely that most webmasters have the toolbar installed, and there’s a great probability that they’ll visit your site.

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