Preface

Email marketing is a powerful and cost-effective way to connect with your customers and build relationships with them. It allows you to share valuable information, promote your products or services, and keep your brand in mind with your audience.

However, it’s important to approach email marketing with a strategy in mind. Simply sending out a mass email to your entire list without any thought or planning can result in low engagement and even harm your brand’s reputation. And noting such a huge gap in why small businesses and enterprises could not utilize such a common and low-cost tech like emails is what inspired the idea behind this ebook.

With a vast understanding of what businesses need and how the audience responds to the email content, generating new business and leads, avoiding email bounces, and all this while maintaining top-of-the-line email security for the business, we took it upon ourselves to share my knowledge and write this ebook to aid businesses, startups, enterprises, and individuals looking to make the most of emails to boost their brand.

Introduction

Email marketing is a highly effective way to reach and engage with potential customers and can be an integral part of your overall marketing strategy. By sending targeted and personalized emails to a carefully cultivated list of subscribers, you can build relationships, drive traffic to your website, and ultimately convert leads into paying customers.

But before you start sending out emails, it’s important to have a plan in place. This ebook will cover the basics of email marketing and provide you with the tools and strategies you need to create successful campaigns that attract and retain new leads for your business.

We’ll start by discussing the importance of getting a custom domain and email content and share tips for sending emails to new leads. From cold emailing and avoiding email bounces to circling out unwanted email content and leveraging email authentication standards, this ebook will share vital information for your business to ensure that you’re sending the right message to the right audience at the right time.

Chapter 3: Tips and Tricks for Sending First Emails to New Leads

Emails are crucial to connect to new leads and communicate with potential customers. A mailing list can do wonders for businesses and expand their reach to attract new customers. When it comes to first emails, they matter just as much as first impressions, which is why businesses need to understand the art behind sending first emails to new leads.

Essential Tips for First Emails That Businesses Need to Know

Here are tips and tricks for sending first emails to new leads.

1. Clean Email Content: Lead generation needs specifically crafted emails. Businesses need to lose long messages and discard templates and follow the best practices to design new emails from scratch, focusing on the following:
   1. Simple but Attractive Fonts.
   2. Highlight crucial information and format all text correctly.
   3. A design template that is easy on the eyes.
   4. A clear call-to-action button that is visible on all kinds of devices.
2. Creative Call to Action: Pitching to new leads requires a solid and innovative call to action which captivates the readers and hooks them to follow through. You should use short action-oriented texts such as “Grab the Discount,” “Reserve a Seat,” and similar ones and play with phrases that create an urgency like, “10 Spots Left” and “20% Off Today.”
3. Leveraging Social Media: Leveraging your business’s social media channels is crucial as it can grow the emailing list. Pairing a call to action with your social media is a sure way to get clicks and increase the following of the social media channels. 
4. Email Automation: You should utilize automated email software to send bulk emails to specific leads. Setting up email automation can help free time for increased business productivity and improve email marketing campaigns.
5. Valuable Content: The email content for the first emails to new leads need not be fluff to attract clientele. Instead, providing helpful content that the individual cannot ignore is best. Try to understand the audience’s pain points and create an intent based on these, highlighting how your business can help.

Final Words: Why Welcome Emails are Important

Businesses must understand the importance of welcome emails as well. Welcome emails should be sent to new leads since they are more engaging than other marketing emails and save time. If you are using an automated email campaign, welcome emails will prove a great ally in showing new leads and customers that your business cares about them and establishing a good brand image and trust.

Chapter 4: Things You Need to Keep in Mind While Sending Cold Emails

Cold emailing is challenging since there is no prior relationship or contact with the target audience. And with emails, you cannot modify the content in real-time, which is why business owners need to craft these well to get the best results and onboard potential customers. But how do they do this? Let us see.

Cold Emailing Tips for Businesses

Any great cold emailing strategy must focus on the following:

1. Short Emails: When it comes to emails, especially cold emails, show and actionable content wins. Instead of a long email filled with boring paragraphs, make the email short and enjoyable for the recipients so they take a minute to read it and provide an attractive call to action that they cannot ignore.
2.  Appreciation: Gratitude goes a long way in emails too. So, let the audience know that you appreciate their time and show a little submissiveness to let them get a sense of command and power. This will make them feel good and reach out to you because they’re getting appreciation for helping you out. And once they reach out, you reel them in.
3. Tailored Email Content: The first step to a cold email is researching and providing personalized and tailored email content. Instead of a generalized email template or greeting, stand out and send a bespoke email that catches the recipient’s attention and shows them you care enough to look into their needs.
4.  Validation: Instead of an unsolicited approach, it would be best to validate yourself and your business in the email as well. You have done the research, but the recipient has not, which is why it is important that they know who you are and understand the business to promote trust and credibility.
5.  Outline the Needs: Next, you should let the recipient know you’ve prepared for them. How so? Show them why they should care about the email and respond by highlighting their problem areas and needs. Then showcase how your business can aid in solving that problem.

Final Words: Why You Need to Avoid Cold Emailing Templates

Stick to your creativity, and take some inspiration, but do not opt for a cold emailing template. Some templates might be good for mass newsletters or other emailing campaigns, but when it comes to cold emailing, you need to put in effort for the business by following the above. And your business will get noticed.

Chapter 5: How to Avoid Email Bounces

Email marketing strategies require successful email delivery. How will potential customers and business prospects respond if your emails are not reaching them? Businesses need to understand email bounces and learn how to avoid them.

Why are Bounced Emails, and How do they Affect a Business?

When an email cannot be delivered to the recipient, an email bounce occurs, and you receive an error. This can be a hard bounce, where the recipient’s email address does not exist, or a soft bounce, where the recipient’s email is either complete or if the email is flagged as Spam. Email bounces have adverse effects on businesses as these lead to:

• Less Effective Marketing Strategy
• Unachieved Sales Targets
• Reduced Business Reputation
• Reduced Collaboration with ESPs (Email Service Providers)
• Business Domain Getting marked as Spam

So, how can you avoid email bounces? Let’s see.

How Can Businesses Avoid Email Bounces

1. Correct Sign-Ups: Since your email list needs correct and functioning email addresses, your business and its website require a good sign-up page that collects this information and ignores fake emails using a captcha system. Furthermore, it would be best to employ a double-opt-in, so all email addresses are verified via an in-mail click during registration. 
2. Avoid Spam Content: Spam filters ensure that any email to the recipient’s mailbox is not Spam. Sometimes these filters are triggered by promotional offers or elements within a business email. You need to invest in a tool to help you track and alter the words, links, formats, and any spam-triggering content to ensure the emails do not bounce back and are not marked as Spam.
3. ESP (Email Service Provider) Reputation: ESPs check the legitimacy of your business which is why you need to send authentic emails in small campaigns. Avoid sending emails to addresses that mark you as Spam, and the ESP will notice a good reputation for your business and email campaigns.
4. Employ Email Authentication: For adequate email security and deliverability, you must authenticate all emails. This boosts your business’s credibility and ensures that all emails are genuine and original. Email authentication standards will be discussed in detail later in the coming chapters. 
5. Consistency: Instead of random lots sending out emails, it would be better to stick to a consistent email-sending strategy. Such scheduled emails should be based on customer engagement patterns, so you avoid email bounce back and get the required results.

By following the above and maintaining a clean emailing list, your business can strive and keep growing without the fear of email bounces.

Chapter 6: Are there any Words or Phrases you Need to Avoid in Emails?

While sending out emails, businesses need to ensure that they leave out particular words or phrases, as these can be harmful to the business. Why so? Let us see.

Spam Trigger Words

Some certain words and phrases are flagged as they are common to fraudulent or malicious emails. When an email provider gets an email, they identify these and either mark the emails as spam or route them away from reaching the recipient’s inbox.

Thus, if your email contains a spam-triggered word, your email strategy will be of no use since the email will not reach the recipient and decrease the reputation of your business.

Words or Phrases You Need to Avoid in Emails

Email providers use several factors to decide whether the email content contains spam. These may be missing unsubscribe buttons, poorly designed emails, extreme punctuations, or spam-triggered phrases that promise huge returns trying to solicit a response. These are distinguished as per parts of the email, as follows.

1. Email Subject: You must avoid over-promising and strange formats while crafting the email subject. Stick to a simple one that conveys the email content best.
2. Email Content: While drafting the email content, you should steer clear of using words such as:
   • #1
   • 100% more
   • 100% free
   • 100% satisfied
   • Additional income and similar promises

Similarly, avoiding words that create a sense of urgency would be best. Using these once is fine, but bombarding emails with such phrases will surely get you into spam. Some examples include:

• Act now
• Apply now
• Become a member
• Call now
• Click below

You should always proofread the emails that your business is sending out. A good way to ensure that there are no spam phrases or words is to use a spam check tool to validate all emails.

Words or Phrases that Can Affect Your Email Marketing Strategy

In addition to spam filters, there are some words or phrases that should be avoided while sending emails. These include:

• Rude or condescending words such as Fine, No, Need, and Thanks.
• Words that imply a lack of confidence include Sorry, Just, Actually, and similar ones.
• Content fillers that break the recipient’s attention, such as Statistically, So, Basically, Pretty Much, and more.
• Make sure you follow the above guidelines, so your emails appear confident and showcase the ability and growth of the business.