HOW TO USE E-MAIL MARKETING SERVICES: Short Series On Book Publishing And Marketing In Nigeria
Welcome to Harmony Publishing, here we are covering a series of blogs on book publishing and especially marketing in Nigeria. We will be discussing using email marketing to advance your writing career.
USE E-MAIL MARKETING SERVICES & RSS FEEDS
Your mailing list is the foundation of all marketing and promotion efforts. You can even begin building this in advance of setting up a formal website or blog. There are many e-mail marketing service providers. MailChimp is free for up to 2000 e-mail addresses. Like AWeber, Constant Contact, Vertical Response and many others, MailChimp will manage your e-mail contacts, provide customisable templates for e-mail newsletters, track open and click rates, automatically handle subscribes and unsubscribes, and provide analytics. They make it very easy to create and embed a signup widget (an HTML snippet) on your website and blog posts too. To encourage visitors to sign-up for your e-mail news, entice them with an ethical bribe: free information, booklets, and stories. Automation or auto-responder feature can handle this for you, sending your prepared e-mail (or series of e-mails) when they enrol. Providing complementary information and stories asserts your professionalism, demonstrates your creativity, builds relationships and inspires reciprocity. Visitors to your website will expect to find a sign-up form in the upper right-hand side of your web page. Some authors shrug off e-mail newsletters because they offer an RSS feed on their site. Go ahead and use an RSS feed (Feedburner is a good one). The critical distinction I want to make is that RSS is not an e-mail address collection tool, it’s a notification system that some of your site visitors will use to stay up-to-date with your blog posts via e-mail or an RSS reader.
The people who have subscribed to your e-mail newsletter want to get to know you so reward them with more personal content than you publish in your other social sites. As a writer, you are uniquely equipped with the talent and skill to write great e-mail newsletters.
Thank you for reading today’s blog on book publishing and marketing. We are here for when you ready to publish your book.
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