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Email Marketing Best Practices: Focus on Your Customers

…it’s about them.

Them being the person getting those emails your team is sending out in the hopes of getting opens, click throughs and sales.

I have seen a couple of articles lately driving this point home which reminds me that although it’s common sense to make our emails about the recipient, we often lose sight of that.

This customer-centric attitude goes beyond email marketing best practices. All marketing needs to be customer-centric. Perhaps in email, it’s easier to forget, however, as our recipients tend to be numbers not people. When it’s email, it’s very much about the technology and the metrics.

If your emails are about you and what you’re selling, your customers won’t be as interested as they would be if your emails were about them. A customer—or potential customer—is likely to be much more engaged with content and offers that speak to them, not at them.

Does your email marketing team keep the idea of the customer front and center? Are you really emailing to people? Or are you emailing to numbers and metrics?

What are some email marketing best practices you could implement at your organization to help your team be customer-centric in their approach?

About the Author: Sharon

Sharon Ernst from BetterFasterWriter.com is on a mission to improve the business and marketing writing skills of today’s workforce with her blog, newsletter and online classes. Her newest class on intermediate email copywriting covers 19 tips and techniques non-copywriters can put to use right away for better results. The class has real-life examples and before/after comparisons to make the lessons stick. Find her class at www.betterfasterwriter.com/intermediate-email-copywriting-class. When she’s not busy helping employees, managers and marketers master their writing skills, she and her husband are busy raising pigs, cows, chickens and vegetables on their 20-acre farm.

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