The Power of Email Marketing

Small Series of Tips: Break Up the Monotony

To learn more about multichannel campaigns, check out the MineThatData blog. http://minethatdata.blogspot.com/

The other ideas discussed so far are all for creating "primary content" — the main focus of each campaign you send.

Even with an idea of where to start, and plenty of writing experience, you may find it exhausting to continually crank out thoroughly outlined, researched and proofread articles for your email newsletter.
Quick tips/ideas can supplement your main email content. They fit well in the sidebar of a 2- or 3-column

HTML email, or near the end of a plain text one.

The tough part about motivating yourself to keep doing those types of campaigns is that you know that some people simply won't end up reading the article thoroughly. They won't have time, or they'll want something they can scan through quickly.

This is where little "asides" or "mini-articles" can help. Since these are short, people are likely to read them, and they also require less of your time than a full-fledged article (so you can write a bunch of them in advance, and then just drop them into your campaigns as needed!).

Take a topic that you'd planned to turn into a full-fledged article — the primary content for one of your email campaigns — and break it up into bite-size packets of information. Then, put each of them into a different campaign under its own heading.

For example, a chef could use part of each email newsletter issue to highlight a little-known cooking tool and what it's used for (maybe linking to a page with more details, a demonstration by video, recipes and/or a purchase link).

Multichannel Marketing: Sync Your Communications

If you're taking advantage of other marketing channels like direct mail, radio and/or print media, think about how you can tie your email marketing campaigns in with those other media.
You might use email to alert subscribers of an upcoming promotion, or to look out for a flyer/catalog/postcard you're sending them (or vice versa — you could use email to follow up after a campaign run in another media).

Marc recently blogged on multichannel marketing and gave an example of how a retailer coordinated email and postal campaigns to raise their response rate.

To learn more about multichannel campaigns, check out the MineThatData blog. http://minethatdata.blogspot.com/