Running your own business isn’t easy. From managing your team to creating a marketing strategy, you wear many hats. Among these are sending emails to your customers, keeping them up-to-date with your brand and product offerings, and asking them for feedback. But the process of manually crafting, sending, and tracking each email can take up valuable time you could spend growing your business.
Thankfully, there’s a better way to keep your customers engaged and build long-term loyalty: email automation.
With automated email, your messages are sent at the most relevant times based on specific events or behavior. This makes them more effective than traditional mass emails that may not resonate with all of your audience members. Automated emails are a great way to nurture leads, encourage customer retention, and even increase website or app engagement.
The most common use of automated emails are welcome and re-engagement series. These are a great way to greet new subscribers, offer a first-purchase discount, and stay top of mind after a purchase. Drip campaigns—scheduled, automated emails triggered by subscriber actions—are also a fantastic way to nurture leads and build relationships.
Another advantage of automated email is that it can help you reach customers in the most relevant way possible, based on their interests, demographics, or purchase history. This ensures that your content is relevant to your target audience and doesn’t feel spammy or out-of-touch.
If your automated emails aren’t based on accurate segmentation, they can be a waste of resources. For example, an e-commerce platform that sends mature game suggestions to a customer base of mostly younger individuals would be off-target and likely annoy the customer.
Email automation is also a huge time saver, allowing you to set up a series of emails that are triggered by specific behaviors or events. This frees you up to focus on your core operations and allows you to respond to customer questions, issues, and complaints in a timely fashion.
It can be tempting to get caught up in the whirlwind of running your own business and let marketing tasks fall through the cracks. But neglecting your customers is never a good idea, and if you’re not using email automation, then you’re missing out on an opportunity to deliver personalized content at just the right time.
Luckily, there are plenty of solutions out there that can help you create and manage your email automation campaigns. The key is to find the right solution that’s tailored to your business needs and can grow with your company, so you can continue to reap the rewards of email marketing.
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