In this month's Email Marketing Manual, we take a look at improving one acquisition campaign, email marketing for a one-man business, the tricky balance of images and text and the pitfalls of running online competitions.
If you're trying to drive sales using email marketing, it's vital that you not only make the products as desirable as possible, but make the purchase process obvious – if you don't, your efforts may be wasted.
For a one-man business like Bruce Holdsworth Books, web and email marketing help to achieve sales figures well beyond those that could be expected when trading solely offline.
Designing email advertising requires finding a careful balance between text and graphics. Long tracts of text will put your readers off, while too many images could send your email heading for the spam filters.
Running online competitions and promotions using email marketing can be a great way of driving sales and increasing awareness, but could they end up being more of a hindrance than a help?