If you’re a small business person and you would like to use the power of email to communicate your sales message to your prospects and customers, here are three keys to doing it the right way and being effective.

It?s estimated that over 60 billion emails are sent daily. That?s ?billion? with a b! Admittedly, many of those are SPAM of one sort or another, but it?s also safe to say that hundreds of millions of them are carrying marketing messages. Sadly, most of those will never be opened. Of those that are opened, many will never be read.

As a small retailer or service business owner, your emails most likely WOULD be opened and read by your customers and prospects? IF you were using small business email marketing. Since you?re not, the question is why?

Email marketing and advertising offers you a surprisingly cost and labor-effective way to reach your customers and prospects with a laser-focused marketing message. Then, once you have found a strategy that works, it?s easy to repeat it. What could be bad about that?

Autoresponders enable you to essentially “set it and forget it” by providing a platform for email deliverability and list building. By automating much of the email campaign process, an autoresponder can free up your time to do what you are best suited to doing- building your business. You should strongly consider using an online autoresponder for your small business email advertising.

The third key to effective small business email advertising is consistency. The power of email is that it allows you to maintain regular, laser-targeted contact with your prospects and customers, thereby building a relationship with them. Relationship is the foundation of incremental sales. Your competitors are using email to build relationship with their customers, and trying to do so with YOURS. You absolutely must meet and surpass them, or you will find your customers defecting, and your business growth slowing.

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