21st Century EMAIL MARKETING is a NEW DAY

Sending and receiving information via e-mail has become an important everyday tool in communication so it makes sense how important this medium has become in sales and marketing. Because E-mail has been used for so long,  some new trends appear to be cropping up. In those new trends, traditional e-mail marketing has been unable to adapt to new changes.

Recently, the professional e-mail marketing services provider Epsilon indicated that under the new trends of using e-mail, e-mail marketing is also showing  more diversified and specialized features. Based on this reform, new e-mail marketing can play a greater role.

Traditionally, most people send and receive messages through a computer, but Epsilon's latest survey shows that less than 70% of messages are processed through computers, while more than 30 % of messages are now processed through PDA, smart phones or other mobile devices.

With all of the new devices, it has been harder for users of email marketing to adapt quickly and smartly. In the past, due to the aesthetics consideration, e-mail marketing often used the HTML format to publish, which takes up larger space, that many of these new devices cannot receive. Therefore, the use of text documents quickly and easily transfer information will also become an important ways of email marketing.

In addition, e-mail is gradually replacing some traditional channels of communication, such as: mailing bank bills, promotional mail and telephone sales. Compared traditional paper mail, e-mail delivery is a cheaper, faster, and also carries more extensive and direct information dissemination.

However, the popularity of e-mail applications also stands out as another trend. The proliferation of spam, so that the definition of spam has changed. As a result, if traditional e-mail marketing  does not pay attention to avoid these two points, it would be easy for users to opt their e-mails out as spam, and it will certainly affect the effectiveness of marketing messages.

Nevertheless, if the content is relevant, personal and time-sensitive, the email can still drive consumers to respond. Perhaps the user will not purchase a car or a house because of an email, but these messages DO attract the attention of consumers and make potential customers.

Because of these new trends, it makes the e-mail marketing more complex to be monitored, performance extends outside the inbox. People become more and more difficult to measure the impact of a message, email marketing, and thus towards a more professional path. What companies did to establish the corresponding mailing list, and associate with database management has been unable to meet this demand, the use of professional email marketing solutions increasingly offers a better solution.

First, the policies and arrangements of email marketing plan must be the framework of customer experience and life cycle.

Second, e-mail marketing is no longer a separate strategy. The consumer and the brand communication infiltrate through multiple channels.

Third, the database and its structure must be able to achieve multi-channel communication.

Fourth, in the circumstance of people and information technology are mixed in variety of channels, the channels and segments of the media and monitoring and measurement of the investment distribution become more important, is also very difficult.

Fifth, we must break the "marketing planning calendar" mode to co-ordinate activities, and adopt timely preparation of the marketing plan process. In communication, the content must be the same attention to the timeliness and relevance.

E-mail marketing is growing deeply and professionally, while the addition of new modes of transmission and the proliferation of spam, e-mail marketing also brought new challenges.

Compare to SNS, 3G, instant messaging and other applications, e-mail has become more traditional, these emerging applications are bringing Internet marketing new ways and meanings, therefore, they also begin to bring e-mail marketing more competitors.

While e-mail will not be replaced by a new marketing tool for now, as long as users demand, companies will be forced to find new solutions to incorporate these new features.

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