Email marketing is a type of direct marketing which uses email as a way of communicating commercial or fundraising messages to a specific audience. The term usually refers to:
- sending emails with the purpose of improving the relationship of a businessperson with their current or previous customers
- sending emails to acquire new customers or persuade current customers to purchase something
- adding advertisements to emails sent by other companies to their customers.
The various advantages of email marketing include:
- Compared to other methods of mass marketing such as direct mail or printed newsletters, email is less expensive.
- The delivery time is short (a few seconds or minutes) compared to mailed advertisements (one or more days).
- Repeat business can be generated affordably and automatically.
- Over half of all Internet users check or send email on a typical day.
- The advertiser is able to 'push' the message to the audience, as opposed to website-based marketing which depends on a customer to visit the website.
- Email marketing is 'green' (paper-free).
At Business Software Solutions, our email marketing services include:
- design and coding of HTML emails
- design and coding of HTML newsletters
- setup of newletter sign up features
- sending HTML emails and newsletters to client provided mailing lists