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Rita Drolet

6 Years Ago

E-mail Campaigns

does the E-Mail Campaigns bring you any Sales?

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Travel Pics

6 Years Ago

I guess it depends who is on your list and what they signed up for.

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Michel
📷 Travel Photography That Sells.

 

Val Arie

6 Years Ago

Rita, love your pic! Exactly how I feel. I agree with Michel.

 

Frank J Casella

6 Years Ago

Yes, Rita, here is my thread on the subject .. instead of me writing it all again here.

https://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=3723570

 

Jeff Folger

6 Years Ago

Rita, I've read Frank's and many others and none of them come right out and say what the magic is to put in your email.
Yes Frank puts out good info but to me they all stop short of what to put in the email.

I send out some that prep my mailing list for free shipping on the Black Friday weekend.
If I doing a show somewhere, I'll tell them when and where in case they want to meet the artist.

I do not send these out weekly or even monthly. Only when I have what I believe is a value add for the subscriber.

I'm not trying to sell something in these communications. This is because of rule one. People hate salespeople and hate to be sold. When is the last time you answered you phone and it's a robo call and you waited for a real person so you could buy their product...
I bet that is a low number.

These are as I said communications so I try to communicate information that I feel they may find useful.

I work in a call center and I know people hate to be sold something, but if you make a connection with them then there is a much greater chance that when you do offer something for sale they will be receptive to it.
Jeff

 

Shelli Fitzpatrick

6 Years Ago

I only have a small list so far but I have been sending out a once a month update newsletter just showing what new art I have created and in the last one I included a small free digital download image with a success quote on it that they can use for social media, blog posts, phone wall paper or print as a post card. I don't know what I am doing either but I am hoping to learn and grow my email list!

Good luck to you.

 

Frank J Casella

6 Years Ago

"Rita, I've read Frank's and many others and none of them come right out and say what the magic is to put in your email.
Yes Frank puts out good info but to me they all stop short of what to put in the email. "

Good point Jeff.

What you're doing with email campaign, as Jeff suggested, is you're selling the click ... on the email and then on the link.

You don't make the hard sell, rather you share your stuff, your story, and post your call to action ... the click.

It doesn't matter how many or how little number of subscribers you have, as long as they are quality and they click open your mails.

For example, I have several lists of a few thousand combined, and a subscriber open rate of 62% and a click on the link rate of 12%. When I had 200 subscribers it was a lot lower open rate, but once you grow it then you have more that don't respond. So you have to keep cleaning the dead subscribers so that your list is clean and sends better. My lists mostly grew by my present subscribers sharing my mails with others they know. So even if you don't have the link click rate, you could have a higher forward rate. So you work on your subject line more than the content of the email, to get the email click open rate.

With email, the subscriber has two options: Click open. Delete. But they always see the subject line to make that decision.

Hope this helps.





 

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