FAQs

Why Email Marketing?

Email Marketing is the fastest and efficient way to keep constant contact with your customers. It is not only used as a communication tool but also a relationship building tool. It is a convenient tool used to drive traffic to website, announce upcoming events, product launch, exclusive invitations, offers and discounts. Smart Marketers todays use email marketing not only as a retention tool but also as a customers acquisition tool to recruit more new customers and help to grow their customers' database.

What is Email Mailing List?

Email Mailing List refers to the list of email addresses of your customers; some people prefer to call it email or customers database. For example if you have 100 customers and each of them gives you their email addresses, your email mailing list size is 100.

Why do I need to subscribe to the Email Marketing Services? Can't I just use Microsoft Outlook to email my Newsletter?

The advantage of subscribing to Email Marketing Services is it gives you more functionality and flexibility than using Microsoft Outlook. The email marketing system will allow you to see real-time how successful is your Email Delivery such as who open it, who clicked on your email message and links, how many valid and invalid emails. You can send a reminder to those recipients who did not open or response to your first email, this allows you to fully optimize the chance and ensure all customers are covered.

In addition, you can schedule your newsletter at a fixed time and date and let it run automatically. These benefits are not found in Microsoft Outlook.

What is the ideal size (dimension) of an Newsletter?

The size or dimension of Newsletter can vary. However, it is advisable the width of the eNewsletter to be less than 600 pixels because it is going to fit into the width of your email client's reading pane. The email clients can be your Microsoft Office Outlook, Outlook Express or web-based email in Internet browsers like Yahoo mail or Gmail.

Do you have any free email blast template?

Yes, once you sign up as a registered user, you are free to use the email blast templates. There are different categories available, click here to view some of the free professional email marketing templates. To access or use any of these email blast templates, please register as a member first, it is free for first 100 email list.

Do you offer Email Database?

No, we adhere to anti-spam policy very strictly. Clients are advised not to send email blast to purchased email list to avoid spam complaint.

How to choose the right email marketing plan?

Monthly Plan: If you intend to email your eNewsletter, promotion or offers to your customers weekly, bi-weekly or monthly, this is a ideal and economical plan for you. The setup fee is one-time basis and you will be charged monthly for subscription fee.

Pay-as-you-go Plan: If you email your promotion or offer to your customers only quarterly, annually or as-and-when when needs arise, this plan is more suitable for you as you do not need incur monthly subscription cost. However, there is a setup fee involved every time you sign up for this plan.

Which plan should I choose if I do not have fixed email list?

You may like to try the "pay-as-you-go" plan as you can pre-purchase the credits nearest to your maximum email size. You can always purchase additional credits at anytime if you run short of credits.

Why I received no response or conversion after my email blast?

There are many factors contributed to this, for example your subject title is not enticing enough to open for further reading, your email message went to the junk email box, offer sent to the wrong targeted market and etc. The most common problem is many clients purchased email mailing list from elsewhere instead of collecting the email list from their own customers. The recipients from the purchased email list did not know who was the sender and would immediately delete the email blast from their inbox. Some would even report the sender as spammer. Therefore it is important to get permission from your customers first before blasting them with any offers or promotion.

I want to send my promotion now but I do not have an email mailing list?

If you want your promotion to be known immediately, try other marketing channels such as advertising or PR. An email mailing list takes time to build but it is never too late to start now, you can start from today by collecting email addresses from every customers or potential leads you met. Another way is to put up a newsletter sign-up box in your website to start collecting email address. If you need help in adding a newsletter sign-up box, contact us today.

How do I get rid of the email service provider's logo at the footer?

Depend on the email service providers, some are willing to remove their logo free of charge while some required you to pay a fee. You can also ask them to replace their logo with yours if branding is important for you.

What are the commonly made email marketing mistakes?

Click here to read more about the most commonly email marketing mistakes you might have made.

The Email Marketing System looks complicated to use, do you have tutorial?

Yes, we have specially made a video tutorial for new users on how to use the email marketing system to your advantage. The video tutorials consist of step-by-step process on how to create an account to sending out an email marketing campaign. Check out the email marketing video tutorial here.

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