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Email Marketing List : The Importance Of List Building

Email marketing can actually be considered a science, with predictable results following standardized actions. With a large enough sample, if you mail one type of offer, you will get a predictable response that will vary from the predictable response to another offer.

Email marketing, like any form of direct response marketing, is driven by the rule of List, Offer, and Presentation (LOP). Essentially what this rule governs is the success factors in email marketing communications -- where "success" is a measure of how much response there is to your email advertisement or promotion. The LOP rule suggests that selecting the right "list" (i.e. your audience) contributes 50% of the success of any given email marketing campaign, and 40% comes from having the right "offer". The remaining 10% comes from the "presentation" or the creative component of the email that carries your offer to the email list.

So let's focus on the 90%. The rule suggests that 50% is attributed to the "List". For an email campaign, it's the email address list that you use. The promotional quality of the list is what's important. In the case of lists, quality is determined by the relevance of the members of the list to the promotion being made. Are they in the target marketplace? Are they decision makers? Is there evidence that they respond to this type of promotion? And lastly, how dated is the evidence? These are all questions important in selecting a list (or building one!)

Opt in email list marketing begins by purchasing an autoresponder service. I particularly like aweber, in fact, that is the only one I can recommend. You have to have a professional autoresponder service if you are going to do this in a professional fashion and not be banned by the various email services.

Put an offer to a high value item on your squeeze page that you can give away for free. Once someone has added themselves to your opt in email marketing list, begin to build a relationship with them by sending useful content, free gifts, and sales offers to them.