Friday, October 8, 2010

Email Training Helps Business Flourish

Email has not just become a communication tool in today’s business; it has become the medium for breaking or making business relationships. Just like maintaining a website is crucial to promote your business and effectively sell your products, so is maintaining proper email etiquette. And to understand how to woo your clients and target audience you need to know how to write effective emails and that is possible only through email training.

There are some methods through which one can manage and write effective emails. The main purpose of email is to attract audience to a particular product or service your company sells. That is the basis of email marketing. When you compose an email message, keep in mind the following points:

1.Are the emails prepared in such a way that people are tempted to respond to them positively?
2. Are the emails written in such a way that your target audience tend to miss out on the USP?
3. Is the headline and subject of the email effective and attractive?
4. Do the first few lines of the email contain a gist of what the whole mail is all about?
5. Does the email prompt the reader to think and act?
6. Do your emails fall in the general category of spam?

The emails your employees type out and send is the identity of the company, so its mandatory that the target audience or prospective client get a positive impression out of it. Let us illustrate on some of the points mentioned above, the others are self-explanatory. The headline/ subject/ title of your email is very important because it signifies what your are trying to say; its almost the theme of your mail. Similarly, when you are typing the headline of the mail type a little more than a word so that it conveys a meaning to the reader. It should contain the essence of the message the email is carrying. Because of heavy spamming, people delete mails in their inbox right and left, so don’t crib if your mails are not read by the right audience. Be specific, but make one point and make it strong. Writing motivational words in the e-mail and identifying the key interest in your client will prompt him to open and read your mails. Use call to action words in the beginning and make it interesting. Avoiding spam and becoming an email sender that inspires people to open up and read is indeed a chore. You have to adhere to email professionalism and make it legally compliant to get across to people. It is not an easy task and need a lot of training to master.

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