Thursday, November 20, 2008

The Top 3 Deadly Mistakes To Avoid When Emailing Your List

By Henry Zeng

When you decide to have an email list, it is not just a matter of sending your subscribers your promotional materials or catalogs. There are so many things to consider in avoiding many complications. While there are so many ways you can make people subscribe to your list, there are also some things you must do to avoid subscribers from wanting to unsubscribe from your list.

It is important that you keep your list clean and manageable. Arrange it by using the many tools and technologies available for your email list. Do not worry; your investment in this marketing strategy is well worth it with all the coverage you will get which will likely be converted into sales then to profit. As a tip, here are top 3 deadly mistakes to avoid when emailing your list.

1) Not take notice of your unsuccessful sends. These are the e-mails that bounce. Bounced emails, also known as undeliverable emails, are those emails that, for whatever reason, were not successfully received by the intended subscriber.

There are bounces that happen or occur due to user unknown, closed mailboxes, services unavailable. There are those bounce messages that are simply undeliverable ever. Some other reasons for this can be an invalid email address, a misspelled email address, or an email address that was abandoned and erased already.

Manage your list by putting markings on those that bounce. Erase an email account from your opt-in list so that you have an accurate statistics as to how many subscribers are actually receiving your mail.

2) Not provide an unsubscribe feature. When someone in your list files a request to be unsubscribed, always take that request seriously. If you don't take them off your list and keep sending them your emails, you are now sending them spam.

It will ruin you and your business when you are reported as a spammer. You can be reported to the authorities and maybe blacklisted by many internet service providers. You will lose your list in this way and many more in potential subscribers.

3) Provide pornographic or shocking and disturbing content in your newsletters. It is sometimes hard to decipher the age of the recipient and you may get a lot of complaints. Stick to the nature of your site and business.

Remember these tips so that you can have a healthy relationship with your subscribers as well as be kept within the boundaries of what is allowed in sending mails to an email list. - 15790

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