10 Ways Email Marketing Will Help You Make More Sales & Increase Your Income
Jun 05, 2024Email marketing still remains one of the most effective and reliable tools for driving revenue into your business.
When done properly, email marketing can create deeper customer relationships, boost sales, and enhance brand loyalty.
Plus, it will be running 24/7 in the background for you and enabling you to live life in the real world and spend less time on social media.
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Now, let’s dive into ten powerful ways email marketing can increase your revenue.
1. Talk to One Person Rather Than Everyone
Social media content means that we are trying to make our writing some personal, and yet we are still openly talking to a huge room.
It doesn’t feel overly personal, yet we know that the more our audience feels like we’re speaking to them directly, the more connection we will have.
And therefore, the more that person will trust us and want to work with us in the future.
Email marketing therefore allows you to:
- Address your audience directly by their name.
- Segment them into groups so that you only send them information that’s relevant to them.
- See how long someone has been in your audience and how engaged they are with your content.
Personalisation also increases engagement. This looks like people consistently opening your emails every week, clicking on your links, or replying to your emails.
All of which leads to higher conversion rates and, consequently, more sales.
2. Save Your Business Expenses with Low Cost Marketing
Compared to other marketing strategies, email marketing is highly cost-effective.
There are many platforms (like Mailerlite) who allow you to have functional systems for FREE!
And the best thing about it, is that it also acts as a CRM (customer relationship management) system so that you can keep all of your client and potential customer information in one place.
Other email marketing platforms range from ££ to £££ a year, but in most cases, the software is worth paying for as the additional features allow you to automate more and more processes inside your business.
The low cost of running email marketing and the high return on investment means that it is a popular choice for all successful businesses.
3. Customers Are More Likely to Stick Around
Staying in regular communication with your customers through email helps keep your brand at the forefront of their minds.
Sending our newsletters, updates, and special offers will build up a 'know, like and trust' factor to encourage repeat purchases.
Retaining your current customers and audience is often more cost-effective than acquiring new ones.
So make sure your email subscribers feel special by showing up regularly with personalised content.
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4. Encourage Engagement the Actually Matters
Likes and love hearts on social media may give us a little dopamine kick, but that stuff isn’t going to pay the bills.
So you need to focus on encouraging engagement that actually delivers results and brings your ideal clients into your world.
Email campaigns that include interactive elements like surveys, polls, and feedback forms can significantly increase customer engagement.
The more you can learn about your customers, the better your offers will be, and the easier they’ll be to sell.
Engaged customers are more likely to make purchases and recommend your brand to others.
Therefore you’ll be driving both direct and referral sales.
5. Promotions and Discounts That Are Actually Exclusive
Email allows you to send targeted promotions and discounts to specific people in your audience.
This means that you can reward loyalty or engagement and give your email list an exclusive offer away from social media.
This also encourages people to join your mailing list and stay there as they know they will receive special offers and treatment.
You can also offer exclusive deals to loyal customers or personalised discounts based on past purchases.
6. Save Time and Stop Hustling Hard for Every Sale
Time is money, and delivering your services can be time-consuming. You need time to work on your business, but if you’re busy serving everyone every minute of the day, you’ll get stuck in a loop and feel like you’re never progressing.
Email marketing can help you do the heavy lifting by automating responses and sending out content in a timely manner so that your audience AND clients feel continually served whilst you get to focus on more of the behind-the-scenes growth.
And in particular for sales…
Email automation tools enable you to create automated sales funnels that nurture leads and convert them into paying customers.
You can create sequences that guide subscribers through the “buyer's journey”, where you showcase your brand and your services in a way that gradually builds a ‘know, like and trust’ factor with your clients.
By creating an automated system that helps your clients to get to know you, you’re saving yourself HOURS of time on social media, and you will have the confidence to know that they haven’t missed anything important.
The faster your audience gets to know you, the more likely they are to buy from you.
However!
Not every inquiry turns into a sale. In fact, I bet you’ve had those calls with people who were never going to invest or couldn’t afford your services. So frustrating. But we don’t want to ignore these people or not help them.
So, email marketing is the best way to deliver free content that helps those who aren’t ready to buy, and it can also deliver enough content to attract those who might be interested in working with you in the future.
7. Numbers Are Your Best Friend
Email marketing platforms provide valuable insights into customer behaviour through analytics and reporting.
You’ll be able to see things like email open rates, link click-through rates, and sales conversion rates.
This type of information is invaluable and will help you to refine your strategies and make data-driven decisions that optimise your emails for better results.
Plus marketing and sales is a numbers game.
The more people you have coming into your world, the more likely you are to make sales.
You can expect that only 1-10% of your audience will buy from you (depending on what you’re selling). So you can do the maths here and imagine if you want 10 sales a month, you need a minimum of 100-1000 new people coming into your marketing world every month.
That’s a lot of people, and that’s why having automated systems is so important as well.
8. Keep Selling to Those Who Want to Keep Buying From You
Your current clients are the best people to sell to. They are already bought into you and your services, and there’s a high chance they’ll be hungry for more support from you.
Emails are an excellent medium for upselling and cross-selling your offers.
By recommending related products or higher-end alternatives to past or current clients, you can increase the average order value and therefore boost your revenue per customer.
And what about passive income?
Oh the dream.
The reality is that passive income sources can be quite a low ticket, and you don’t want to be hustling every small sale.
Email marketing will yet again save the day here and do all the hard work of selling for you in the background, leaving you to focus on those high ticket sales.
9. Building Better Relationships With Your Audience
Consistent, valuable communication through email helps build trust and rapport with your audience.
And yes, that means you should be emailing your list at least once a week.
When customers feel connected to your brand, they are more likely to buy your offers, and then continue coming back for further support.
Email marketing is also going to help you provide your clients with a great customer experience.
Inside Love Mondays Club, we always look at creating a streamlined customer experience which means that every person who becomes a client will receive exactly the same welcome and feel-good factor.
10. Get More People on Your Website
Email marketing can significantly increase traffic to your website.
By including links to your blog, product pages, or special landing pages, you can drive more visitors to your site.
In fact, if you’re reading this right now, there’s a strong chance you’ve clicked a link inside one of my emails and found this blog. So this is a great example in action of how it works.
Increased traffic to your website encourages people to then click around and explore other parts of your business.
This again, helps people to get to know you quicker and often translates to higher sales and better search engine rankings.
So the conclusion?
Email marketing is a powerful and versatile tool for increasing your revenue.
By focusing on personalisation, automations, and engagement, you can create effective emails that boost your conversions and sales.
Whether you're a small business or a large corporation, integrating email marketing into your overall strategy is a surefire way to achieve sustainable growth and success.
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