8 Common Email Mistakes
Wonder why your last email marketing campaign failed? Tired of sending out thousands of emails only to see a lousy open rate and just a few conversions?
It's time to determine if you're making some common mistakes in your email campaigns. Email can go wrong in any number of ways, but fixing it usually doesn't take that long or cost that much money. Many mistakes are relatively simple to fix, after all.
Let's look at eight common errors:
1) Bad subject lines. Many people will not open an email if it does not have a clear subject line describing its contents. Get to the point ("50 percent off summer shirts!"), use the recipient's name in the subject line if you can, avoid ALL CAPS and spell everything correctly.
2) Not testing before sending. Don't write an email pitch and send it without having someone else look at it. Share it with a few colleagues and have them read it on laptops, cell phones and other mobile devices to ensure it looks good in different email programs and on various screens.
3) Poor design. Recipients can quickly tell if you threw together the design without much thought or direction. If you try to get cute with backgrounds or graphics, your message may appear muddled and get dismissed.
4) No call to action. The email should be a call to do something, but that needs to be clear and in the first few sentences. If you want readers to download your new white paper, get a link up high inviting them to do just that. If you want them to purchase a product, tell them about your sale and link quickly to your site.
5) Reply addresses that make you look small. Use an email attached to your website for responses, not Yahoo or Gmail or other mass programs. You can use a personal touch, too, with your company domain by using your first [email protected].
6) Not getting permission. Seems obvious, but it's not. You need to ensure people on your list have opted into receiving your messages. If not, you could be legally liable. That should be enough of a warning for you to avoid spamming people or using everyone's email you've collected. And once permission is gained, start sending occasional emails. Waiting too long will have recipients' asking, "Who is this company?"
7) Failing to understand spam filters. Spam is the equivalent of an online jail and you don't want your finely crafted message to end up there. Skip exclamation points, colored fonts, weird images, caps and HTML coding that was written in a word-processing file.
8) Not reading the campaign statistics. Every email program has great statistics to inform you of what worked and failed. You need to read your open rates, how the A/B subject-line test worked, and how the delivery and unsubscribe rates look.
Next time you line up an email campaign, take a look at this list before sending anything out. If you have successfully avoided these pitfalls, hit the send button.
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