1 00:00:01,050 --> 00:00:05,990 There are a couple of important decisions and steps you need to take before sending him any messages 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:11,440 to the mailboxes of your customers and potential customers that you need to have an audience to thank. 3 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:14,670 You're going to be your own audience by using several strategies. 4 00:00:14,910 --> 00:00:20,280 For example, if you're an e-commerce star before each purchase, you can add the checkbox that the 5 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:25,620 user agrees to receive marketing communication from your company, or you can create a valuable newsletter 6 00:00:25,740 --> 00:00:31,710 and include an option to sign up for you on your website or other interesting materials like reports 7 00:00:31,710 --> 00:00:35,880 or research available to those who are going to receive marketing communication from you. 8 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:41,730 This is the best and recommended way of building your e-mail marketing audience because these people 9 00:00:41,730 --> 00:00:45,090 already expressed interest in what you have to offer or say. 10 00:00:45,300 --> 00:00:49,860 They agreed to be contacted by you and often already are paying customers. 11 00:00:50,190 --> 00:00:54,120 This approach, however, takes time and outreach is sometimes limited. 12 00:00:54,450 --> 00:00:57,820 The second approach is to buy an ideas from an external partner. 13 00:00:58,140 --> 00:01:03,330 There are a lot of different companies sending data, most of them claiming that it was collected 100 14 00:01:03,330 --> 00:01:03,700 percent. 15 00:01:03,700 --> 00:01:09,720 Figure you can buy contacts from any country and with any working specification you want, you can type 16 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:14,490 by e-mail database into Google and thousands of results will appear this way. 17 00:01:14,490 --> 00:01:17,030 You can quickly send your campaign and video reach. 18 00:01:17,570 --> 00:01:20,550 However, there are a lot of problems with this approach. 19 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:25,530 Data is usually low quality and was used extensively by other companies. 20 00:01:25,710 --> 00:01:28,980 So these people already receives hundreds of promotional emails. 21 00:01:29,330 --> 00:01:33,470 Also, you have to pay for an external database, which is quite expensive. 22 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:36,150 Sometimes you need to face legal problems as well. 23 00:01:36,630 --> 00:01:42,060 My advice is to focus on building your own database or combining both approaches if you need results 24 00:01:42,060 --> 00:01:42,430 fast. 25 00:01:42,960 --> 00:01:47,260 Once you have your audience, the second decision is what do you want to send to your audience? 26 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:53,730 You can send various kinds of messages with the author of your company with informational content updates 27 00:01:53,730 --> 00:02:00,390 from your company, invitation for a mentor or organizer anymore, usually by an e-mail marketing plan, 28 00:02:00,540 --> 00:02:03,230 and write down when to send that message and to whom. 29 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:05,970 Remember to always tell your end goal in mind. 30 00:02:06,150 --> 00:02:10,980 If you want to send more, you can include coupons in your messages and authentic during the period 31 00:02:11,190 --> 00:02:16,260 when you sell products and promotional prices, for example, like Friday or Christmas. 32 00:02:16,710 --> 00:02:21,780 If you want to increase awareness of your company's services, you can send e-mail with case studies 33 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:24,530 or rate campaigns or company prepack in the past. 34 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:26,730 You should also segment your audience. 35 00:02:26,910 --> 00:02:30,920 Not every message is interesting and suitable for every person. 36 00:02:31,350 --> 00:02:36,720 If someone is in your company for more than 10 years, sending him or her welcome message, introducing 37 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:40,140 your company may be either pointless or unknowingly to the user. 38 00:02:40,410 --> 00:02:46,200 You can create multiple segments or groups of contacts and while contact them, including multiple segments, 39 00:02:46,410 --> 00:02:51,570 for example, you can create the segments for your customers and another segment for companies from 40 00:02:51,570 --> 00:02:55,040 your country and include one contact in both of these groups. 41 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:59,880 You can create demographic based segments like men or women or customers. 42 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:05,540 Under 25, you can create behavior based segments like high spenders or frequent buyers. 43 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:09,300 I will show you later how to create segments in an e-mail marketing tool. 44 00:03:09,570 --> 00:03:13,560 But you should have the general idea about your clients and how to segment them. 45 00:03:13,890 --> 00:03:17,990 Since you mentioned e-mail marketing tools, you should choose one according to your needs. 46 00:03:18,270 --> 00:03:21,360 They basically charge you a small monthly fee for using the service. 47 00:03:21,590 --> 00:03:26,520 An additional fee based on the number of contacts you have and the number of e-mails you want to send. 48 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:32,430 One of the most recognizable companies name in the marketing category are making constant contact. 49 00:03:32,550 --> 00:03:38,220 And then in lieu, we will use Manging as an example in Distractor, which was previously focused 100 50 00:03:38,220 --> 00:03:39,510 percent on the marketing. 51 00:03:40,170 --> 00:03:46,110 But now they are expanding to become a full CRM and marketing platform stelae that e-mail marketing 52 00:03:46,110 --> 00:03:47,460 options are best in class. 53 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:51,900 In the next year, we will cover signing up and basic configuration of the two.