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    Advantages of Email marketing

    In my experience, the main advantages of Email marketing are:

    1. Relatively low cost of fulfilment. The physical costs of email are substantially less than direct mail.
    2. Direct response medium encourages immediate action. Email marketing encourages clickthrough to a website where the offer can be redeemed immediately this increases the likelihood of an immediate, impulsive response.
    3. Faster campaign deployment. Lead times for producing creative and the whole campaign lifecycle tends to be shorter than traditional media.
    4. Ease of personalisation. It is easier and cheaper to personalise email than for physical media and also than for a website.
    5. Options for testing. It is relatively easy and cost effective to test different email creative and messaging.
    6. Integration. Through combining email marketing with other direct media which can be personalised such as direct mail, mobile messaging or web personalisation, campaign response can be increased as the message is reinforced by different media.

    Disadvantages of Email Marketing

    In my experience, the main disadvantages of Email marketing evident are:

    1. Deliverability. Difficulty of getting messages delivered through different internet service providers (ISPs), corporate firewalls and webmail systems.
    2. Renderability. Difficulty of displaying the creative as intended within the in-box of different email reading systems.
    3. Email response decay. Email recipients are most responsive when they first subscribe to an email. It is difficult to keep them engaged.
    4. Communications preferences. Recipients will have different preferences for email offers, content and frequency which affect engagement and response. These have to be managed through communications preferences.
    5. Resource intensive. Although email offers great opportunities for targeting, personalisation and more frequent communications, additional people and technology resources are required to deliver these.

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    Hello Friends....

    Advantages of Email Marketing are

    1.your store is open, 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week. Further, your customers are worldwide in reach, and can shop anytime that they want to2. the cost of spreading your message is next to nothing. Emailing your subscription base is more oftne cheaper than sending a letter through the mail
    3.updating your subscribers can be done almost instantly through email. Visitors to your website can get up to the minute information on each visit. If you are having a sale, your customers can start shopping at the discounted prices literally as soon as they open their email


    Disadvantages of Email Marketing are


    1.online marketing is not free. The cost of software, hardware, wed site design, maintenance of your site, online distribution costs and of course, time, all must be factored into the cost of providing your service or product.


    2. slightly over 50% of households shop online. While that number will continue to grow, you are reaching less than two out of three households


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    Hello Friends......

    There are many reasons which make marketing through emails a favorable mode of communication. It is the best source of distributing information to a multiple range of people at a very low cost as compared to other means of advertisement, such as direct marketing.

    The company can track its return on investment which is really high if done properly. It is believed to be second to search marketing and is a very effective online marketing strategy

    It gives the marketer the option of pushing the customers to read their messages and all the information regarding a product. If the advertisement is attractive, a lot of customers will go through it and get informed at one time and the best part is that it is a paper free advertisement.

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    Before starting any email marketing campaign check your service provider's Acceptable Use Policy to see if they have any restrictions on the number of emails sent, and sending unsolicited emails.
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    Email is quickly becoming one of the most popular forms of . This is because there are many distinct advantages to the concept of. However, email marketing does have some disadvantages as well. In this article we will examine the advantages and disadvantages of and will also provide some insight into how to plan and execute an effective email marketing campaign.

    Email marketing certainly has a set of unique advantages over other types of marketing both online and offline. Perhaps one of the most significant advantages to email marketing is the ability to reach a worldwide audience with minimal effort. It is certainly possible to reach a worldwide audience with other types of advertising but traditional types of advertising such as television, radio and the print media are not nearly as effective for reaching potential customers around the world all at once.

    Another major advantage to email marketing is it is extremely affordable. This is significant because there are many other types of marketing, including marketing, which are significantly more expensive than email marketing. The costs associated with email marketing are minimal. Ideally you will already have a list of email recipients who are interested in your products and services so there is no cost associated with obtaining a list of . Additionally the cost to send out emails is minimal and can be considered part of your regular operating costs. All of these factors already make email marketing extremely cost effective.

    However, there is some cost involved in email marketing. Primarily this is the costs associated with writing the advertisements and creating any graphics which will accompany the email advertisements. This will require hiring a writer to write the copy for the advertisement and a designer to create and implements the graphics. The cost of these services will vary pretty widely but in general you will pay more for writers and designers with more experience. This is because these writers and designers are expected to be able to produce a higher quality of work than those with less experience could produce.

    The most obvious disadvantage to email marketing is the possibility of having your email marketing viewed as spam. This is a very important problem because it could prove to be quite costly in terms of the profit margin for . Each day Internet users are bombarded with unsolicited emails serving as advertisements. This problem has reached epic proportions and the abundance of spam infiltrating the email boxes of innocent Internet users has to be cautious and suspicious about any email they receive which is unsolicited and appears to be promoting a particular product or service.

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    Hello friends

    Advantages and Disadvantages Of Email MArketing Owing to the lots of distinct advantages to the concept of email marketing, it has soon turn-out to be the most accepted forms of Internet advertising. However, email marketing does have some disadvantages as well. It encompasses the dazzling advantages over other types of marketing both online as well as offline. One of the weightiest advantages to email marketing is the ability to get in touch with a worldwide audience without putting any relentless effort.
    Another major advantage to email marketing is that the cost associated to it is minimal. Hence, it is within the means of everybody. There are many key reasons which make the email marketing cost-effective. It has the ability to distribute information to a wide range of specific, potential customers at a pretty low cost. As you will be enclosing a list of an email recipients, so there will be no cost connected with taking a list of an email addresses. Moreover, the cost of dispatching the emails is negligible. Furthermore, E-mail, in terms of sending and responses, is more immediate in comparative to traditional mailing. Whenever you are going to convey your message, you will be able to get the prompt response without any stretch of time

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    Email marketing (or e-mail marketing) is the use of email to send a targeted message, information or offer to a designated set of customers. Email is a powerful ‘push’ method for online marketers as opposed to the pull medium of websites, but due to the rise of SPAM, it is essential to use full opt-in list for email marketing to ensure ethical and legal compliance.

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    These days emailmarketing has become very essential in promoting one's business.

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    A major advantage to email marketing is that the cost associated to it is minimal. Hence, it is within the means of everybody. There are many key reasons which make the email marketing cost-effective. It has the ability to distribute information to a wide range of specific, potential customers at a pretty low cost. As you will be enclosing a list of an email recipients, so there will be no cost connected with taking a list of an email addresses. Moreover, the cost of dispatching the emails is negligible.

    The most evident disadvantage to email marketing is the possibility of having your email marketing viewed as a spam which is a matter of concern and thus, should be taken into a consideration because it could prove to be somewhat pricey in terms of the profit margin of your business.

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    Internet is growing so more and more people are communicating through email, direct email communication allows an advertiser to 'push' it's message to the target audience. However, email recipients are difficult to keep engaged, ...



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