7 Ways to Generate More Sales With Email Marketing

What is email marketing?

The concept of email marketing is simple. Essentially, it is using emails to send commercial messages to a group of people.

The main reasons for sending emails are to build loyalty, trust, or brand awareness. You are sending emails to your current customers and to potential customers because it is a chance to speak to them directly - and at the end of the day, it results in making sales.

Many new internet brands nowadays overlook email marketing, thinking that is not something for their company and simply ignore it. Silly, isn't it?

But the fact is - email marketing is more effective than social media when it comes to converting people > subscribers and customers! Here are some main benefits:

📋 Emails are easy, effective, and inexpensive

📋 You can measure them and their traffic

📋 You can track who has opened your email, which links were clicked, and how many people unsubscribed

“Email allows us to engage our audience in a creative, personalized way that blog posts or tweets can’t.” - Corey Dilley

But how do you do to make more sales with email marketing?

There are several ways to generate sales with email marketing. In this post, there are 7 easy ways to make it happen.

👉🏻 Use automation

As the word states, this is about letting emails move automatically. Meaning; without doing the work all the time, you can create emails with the right message to reach the right people at the right time.

For example, welcome emails we receive every time we subscribe to a company's mailing list aren't really necessary, but people notice when there isn’t any email welcoming them for subscribing.

And according to Mailchimp, 74% of people expect to receive a welcome email when they subscribe to a mailing list. Crazy, right? Automated emails make subscribers more receptive.

Other emails are the 'abandoned cart' emails. Sometimes, shoppers on your website add things into a shopping cart, but for different reasons, abandon it. These emails can help you recover those lost sales. You just have to know your audience, and then you can start recovering their interest. A good platform for marketing automation is Wishpond. You can automatically send welcome emails, content and reminders which will allow you to spend more time focusing on more important things. You can even personalize this content and close deals faster.

According to Harvard Business Review, sales and marketing arising have ranged from 10% to more than 30% and investment returns have often exceeded 100%.

Sounds too good to be true, right? Let us take advantage of this excellent opportunity.

👉🏻 Personalize your emails

Personalized emails are targeted emails made to reach the subscribers by leveraging the data and information you have about them. The most used data is their name.

According to Campaign Monitor, personalized emails are 26% more likely to be opened. So, it is granted that using subscribers’ names in the subject line of any email will make them click on your campaign.

Obviously, not every one of them will click on it, but at least you know that at least half of them will.

Birthday emails are quite effective. Imagine getting a special promotional code just you and only you, because it is your birthday 🎂🎉. According to Experian, these emails have:

📧 179% higher unique click-through rate

📧 342% higher revenue per email rate

📧 481% higher transaction rate. Subscribers are incredibly more like likely to purchase from the Birthday emails than a normal promotional email.

Right here is a good example of email personalization from Spotify. This action encourages the recipient to attend some artists events with Spotify, based on the data collected (which is the location in this case).

At the same time, it helps to ensure that the user is actively using the platform, and therefore continuously reminded of their value.

👉🏻 Add a sense of urgency to your emails

Adding urgency in your emails could put subscribers under pressure to act as quick as possible. Adding content that helps nudge your subscribers to act right away. The secret to creating a sense of urgency here is word choice. Words like:

“5 more days left to register”

“Limited time only”

“Last chance to purchase”

Here is a great example of urgency in emails from END.