LESSON #2 – Email Aesthetics
“MARKETING STRATEGIES THAT EMPOWER SUCCESS”
I hope you`ve had time to “digest” the ideas presented in Lesson #1. Today`s lesson is going to build on the basics.
Here is the second Lesson of the marketing course. (If you change your mind, just go to the end of this email and click the link.)
In today`s “Marketing Strategies that EMPOWER Success”
lesson, you`re going to learn how the APPEARANCE of your email message affects the way your prospects feel about you and what you have to offer.
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EMAIL AESTHETICS
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It`s an old, old saying, but it`s true: you only have one chance to make a good first impression. And in email, the first impression is always visual — a consumer LOOKS/SEES before he/she READS.
Imagine walking by a grotesquely garish storefront with all kinds of things hanging off the front porch, every floor painted a different color, and odd music playing through loudspeakers. Would you want to walk in the front door? No way! You`d assume that the owner is a kook, at best, or a deranged axe murderer, at worst.
Did you ever have an ugly looking email land in your mailbox? You know what I`m talking about: an orange background and yellow borders, multi-colored text in all sizes from gigantic to microscopic, a message that looks like
it was created by a crazed six-year-old? If you did, I bet
you didn`t feel the urge to read it. You probably just wanted to delete it as quickly as possible.
=> PUT OUT THE WELCOME MAT
You want your email message to be friendly and inviting, not bizarre and scary. The suggestions below — and they`re just suggestions, not hard and fast rules — will go a long way towards making recipients` eyes say “come on in!” to your message.
=> DO`s and DON`Ts FOR ATTRACTIVE EMAILS
-DON`T use COLOR fonts in your message. (Leave that to junior high girls who want to write about Britney and
Justin)
-DO use BLACK TEXT ON A WHITE BACKGROUND. (When you`re “speaking” in black-and-white, people will give their full attention to your message without being distracted by your color scheme.)
-DON`T use UNCOMMON FONTS. (If someone`s system doesn`t recognize the font you`ve selected, they could see gibberish instead of your brilliant message).
-DO use the email marketers` FAVORITE FONTS: Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New
And please.
-DON`T use flashing buttons or banners in your email! (Your prospects have undoubtedly gotten their fill of “bells and whistles” when they`ve surfed the Internet. They don`t need more from you.)
=> GET HYPER” WITH EMAIL HYPERLINKS
An “email hyperlink” is just techno-talk for a link in your email to a website, or email address. Sounds simple enough, and it is — unless you try to contact a prospect on AOL who may not be able to receive “clickable” links.
Don`t worry. There`s a “fix” for this: simply type mailto:
in front of your email address (no space in between, and include the : )
For a link to a web page, you need to write your link this
way: <a
href=http://www.getresponse.com/t/1311498/>http://www.getresponse.com/t/1311498/</a>
. (And tell your recipient they can copy and paste this link into their browser if it`s not highlighted.)
=> ALWAYS USE SIGNATURE TAGS
Today, it`s common practice on the Internet to tell people about your product or service with a SIGNATURE TAG, which is
3-6 lines of text (usually) that is automatically added to every message you send.
If you`d like to add a tag to your messages, simply open your email program. Find the SIGNATURES TAB (located in the TOOLS/OPTIONS menu in Outlook Express). Follow the (simple) instructions for creating a sig file. Easy as pie…and the results will amaze you.
That`s it for now, but get your “net” ready. Next lesson we`re going to hunt down and CAPTURE EMAILS.
Sincerely,
Andy Huang
http://www.getresponse.com/t/1311499/
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