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Email List Management - 4 Rules of Thumb to Manage Your Email List

Email is a very effective way to communicate with your customers and build your brand name as well. On the whole, the cost of email marketing is less, compared to the traditional means of advertising. The following are some rules of the thumb you should always remember.

Email should be used as customer retention tool

Emails are a great way to convince your potential clients to make purchases. At the same time, you can also keep your present customers engaged. However, it may not be a good idea to try and convince new customers, with whom you've not had a previous business relationship. You may have to invest a lot of time and resources, and the return on those investments may be nil or negligible.

Use email list management software

A number of companies use regular email clients like Microsoft Outlook to send mails to their clients. This ploy may save money required to invest in email list software. With time, it becomes difficult to manage the campaign because you will not be able to keep track of mails that did not reach your subscribers. You will also find it hard to manage unsubscribe requests. The email servers in your office will get overloaded and the speed of the Internet will suffer.

Divide your list on the basis of clients' interests

The easiest way to maintain your email list is to let them decide the content and frequency of your emails. Companies often club all the subscribers in a single list and send them the same mail. The other mistake they make is they formulate a new list for every new mail. An easier way is to divide your list on the basis of interest. In doing so, you will be able to develop emails that are a lot more specialized and to the liking of your clients.

Your email should reflect your brand

HTML based email is similar to full fledged web pages. They should be similar to or miniatures of your parent website. Restrict the width of your emails to a maximum of 620 pixels. In doing so, your clients will be able to view them in preview panes of email clients or browser window. Avoid loading your email with images. Instead, load them on your servers and provide links in the emails. Do not use JavaScript either, because your subscribers will get warnings that will make your email look like it has a virus attached to it.

Emails will surely emerge as your single most important mode of communication with your clients, if you follow these rules of thumb.

Yani Canersmith is a best practices activist and advocate for Benchmark Email http://www.benchmarkemail.com/email-marketing/email-list-management, a leading Web and permission-based email list marketing service.

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Steve STRAUGH wrote on 2009-11-24    


Dear Ellen, Right now I feel like i don't know where to turn to.My wife of 41 years has been a wounderful person..We have fallen into some hard ship and in this town everyone knows everyones business..And I don't want that. I charish my wife..Sence March of 2008 finding out my son has parnoid schizopherina which is a subject not talked abot nationwide. In june 2008 our home was flooded we lost everything but we are not the type if people that has to have everything new..We lost our van got what we could and its on the blitz..I get a small ss check and seems the harder I try I get no where..My wife who stood by me my childeren I charis her so much.Now she is losing her sister and can't get to see her due to financial matters ..If i could i would sell my so to pick up the pices of her tearing heart to get her a van she could drive..Of course thats not possiable couldn't afford it nor the taxes..The holidays at this point I cant even get into for my grandbabies Im straped to the end.And trying to keep up sometimes I want to give up.. I love my wife and childeren so much but feel devistated with this streak of a black cloud hanging over us.I love her so much she has taken care of me and my childeren during all the health problems..I am not able to work due to severe back and nerve damage..My wife was in a car accitent in 1986 and has cervical spine damage but she never gave up on us or never gave up on her sister when she was diganosed with brest cancer in 1999..She has stuck with her through it all..As she stuck by my side during several surgerys and never gave up..Each day now I see her heart chipping away because of not being able to do or be wit her sister..Thanks Ellen I needed to let out to someone..Secne my son came home from hospital her got her to watch your show and loved it..Hope your Holidays are Filled with Joy. A great fan of yours always. Steve Straugh (aka pepsi_lover53) thats me lol

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I need help finding my email after it got accedently logged of on 11/14/09 Thank you

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