Social marketing vs. targeted e-mail marketing

Jerry
November 25, 2009

Both social marketing and targeted e-mail marketing are important parts of any product campaign. Each has its own set of unique marketing bonuses. Here are the best points of each.

The popular sites such as Facebook and Twitter offer a company the chance to slowly develop an avid following of potential customers who are interested in its products or services. Many of those followers will appreciate a notice of a sale or a special discount that can only be found by being a follower or friend. The problem that you will face is that many of those same followers will become tired of constant sales pitches. You will have to maintain fresh tweets and content on your page that do not deal with a recent sale or you will lose followers. As opposed to social marketing, targeted e-mail marketing offers the benefit of an opt-in group of recipients. These people really want to hear about your special offers and on-line deals. To make things easier you can fully automate the process. Hiring one writer to fill out all of the e-mails for the year at one time and scheduling them on a site such as Aweber is simple and hands free. One thing to be wary of is how your subject lines are written. They have to pique a reader's interest enough to keep them from hitting the delete button. Social marketing is time consuming and targeted e-mail marketing can be costly at first. Both have their down sides, but both can be very profitable if used as part of a holistic marketing campaign.

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About Jerry Brisinger

I am the Marketing Director of a small media development company. We deal with hardware,software, and hard goods. As part owner of that company, I am able to see many of the true inner workings of the decision making process. Over my years in the marketing field I have striven to show simplify people's way of thinking on the subject. Many executives and small business owners try to over complicate the entire idea. They are wrong. In my posts I hope to show you what it is that I mean.

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