Email Marketing Information

Run Profitable Contests Using Autoresponders


Running a contest for your e-zine subscribers or web site visitors is one way you can generate interest and give more exposure for products or services you want to promote.

A contest could be as simple as spotting a word or a set of words within an e-zine's issue or searching for a graphic on a site. A contest can run for one issue, or it can last for a month or more.

If you plan to run a contest, make sure you have a "contest management response system" in place.

This could be as simple as an automated e-mail receipt to let your participants know their entry has been received.

Run a contest that asks your participants to send their responses to specific e-mail addresses. Then create an automated receipt confirmation for each account.

Include a link to your products, affiliate links, or services in your confirmation receipt.

Every time someone enters your contest and sends her entry, she receives a confirmation message. Thus, you've just exposed your products to your contestant.

Encourage multiple entries and your contest participants get exposed to your promotional texts multiple times.

Ok, what about contest prizes?

If you publish an e-zine and you sell advertising space, you can give away free ad space to the winners.

If you have your own product, or a product you have resell rights to, you can give away free copies of it to your winners.

If you have a service, why not put that up as a prize?

In any case, though, let your prospective contestants be interested in the prizes. Yes -- put the complete prize descriptions, along with the contest mechanics, on autoresponder too.

And then include links where they can purchase the prizes. Hey, some people might not want to wait to win your contest! So it's good to cover all bases.

Run a contest that lets autoresponders handle entries and confirmation receipts and you'll have a promotional tool that can bring in profits for you!

About The Author

Copyright (c) 2004 Shery Ma Belle Arrieta-Russ

Shery is the developer of creative, motivating and fun e-mail courses for writers. Sign up and take an e-mail course today...free! http://writingbliss.com


MORE RESOURCES:

LeadPro Email Marketing Adds Partner Friendly Features to Automate ...
Live-PR.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria - 15 hours ago
05.09.2008 13:08:27 LeadPro Email Marketing and Lead management service adds several partner friendly features in order to automate routine email marketing ...


Leading Online Retailer 'The Parent Company' Centralizes Email ...
PR-USA.net (press release), Bulgaria - 5 hours ago
Forrester's in-depth study details the financial benefits that The Parent Company is receiving by centralizing its email marketing for eToys, ...


Email marketing 'can help develop customer relationships'
Business Strata - Business News, UK - 14 hours ago
Email marketing is one way firms can develop their relationships with exiting customers, one expert has asserted. Making his comments in the American ...


How to Capture the Growing Value of Email Marketing
PRarticle.com (press release), Canada - Sep 4, 2008
Learn about the power of eMail marketing and how, when done correctly, it is one of the most cost-effective solutions for you to generate leads, ...


Expert: Use email marketing to nurture current customers
Digital Response Media, UK - Sep 4, 2008
Writing for the American Chronicle, Fred Waters, co-founder of the Local Online Marketing Association, identified email marketing as a key channel for ...
Don't neglect existing customers in internet marketing strategy Business Feet
all 2 news articles


Email marketing 'should go beyond open rates'
Digital Response Media, UK - Sep 3, 2008
A new study has suggested that open rates are no longer effective when it comes to measuring the success of email marketing campaigns. ...


Director, Email
Seattle Times, United States - Sep 3, 2008
If you are an analytical marketer with extensive experience in e-mail, you could be responsible for managing an extensive, dynamic email marketing program ...


Firms should build own email marketing list 'rather than take a ...
Business Strata - Business News, UK - Sep 2, 2008
The use of product reviews within email marketing could be beneficial to many businesses, according to an expert. Kristina Knight of online advice website ...


Email marketing can drive sales
The Australian, Australia - Aug 28, 2008
EMAIL marketing often earns the scorn of recipients, with its offers of anatomical enlargements, new relationships and miraculous investment returns. ...


Suite26: innovative email marketing
E-consultancy (press release), UK - Sep 2, 2008
Suite26 is the latest addition to the Global Gold Email Marketing product portfolio. This new application integrates with a CRM system and Survey ...

Email-Marketing - Google News

home | site map
© 2006