Potential Customers Prefer Email Marketing
April 19, 2012 By Ted PaffIn a previous post, I noted 5 reasons to build a customer email list.
Communicating with your customers via email is important because:
- Repeat customers matter – Email reminders are one of the most effective ways to drive repeat business.
- Referral customers matter – The most impactful way to get more referrals is to periodically ask your customers… via email.
- While you are working on capturing more market share, so are your competitors. That means they are working to take your customers. Periodically emailing your customers reminds them that they are your customers.
New data from the folks at eMarketer shows that, of all of the digital forms of communication that you can have with your customers, they prefer email.
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In part 2 of this post, I will share some thoughts on what to say in your email marketing. Stay tuned!!
January 31st, 2013 at 5:41 am
[...] have written quite a bit about email marketing for 2 main reasons: First, as demonstrated in this survey, email remains the channel through which most customers prefer to communicate with the businesses [...]