How Local Email Marketing Can Help Your Local Business

Let’s say you have a business in Atlanta, Georgia or anywhere in your own state. You want to improve your online web presence, so you look into SEO, PPC and banner advertising. This is a very effective outlook thus far…but have you thought about adding an email marketing campaign to this plan? You can localize an email campaign in any city and thus establish your regional presence to a wide market of targeted Atlanta viewers.

Maybe you’re thinking that emailing campaigns are not for you. Perhaps you have heard bad things about email marketing, or have even tried working with email marketers in the past. If you did have negative experiences with email, then you probably utilized an outdated model of selling. All of the negative things you’ve heard about email is not what legitimate emailing marketing is.

SPAM email is the most common association with email marketing, and it is indeed a poor business decision. SPAM messages are usually filtered out by automatic web tools, and even if they do make it through to a customer’s inbox, these messages are usually deleted instantaneously without so much as a “scroll” to the bottom of the message.

However, smart email marketing involves selling your local products and services to customers who have already agreed to review your information. The best email advertising campaigns capture reader interest and then direct users to sign up for periodic ads and newsletters. At this stage, you are no longer spamming anyone. You are selling your products to a targeted audience.

One of the first rules of sales is that you should focus on building a relationship with new customers—whether or not they make a purchase the first day. This is the essence of email marketing. You can get your “foot in the door”, so to speak, by getting newsletter sign-ups. Then you can continually sell your products to an audience of interested users throughout the year.

How can email advertising work for a local business? Even if you’re based in Atlanta you still have a wide base of customers and a very diverse one at that. You don’t need to reach out nationally to sell your products or services to thousands of people. Atlanta has over 500,000 people and is known as a “beta” city—one with numerous industries in technology, entertainment, news, finances and produce.

You can use email marketing to reach a local audience! It all starts with one gesture: reaching out to your new prospects through email.

By: Christopher C. Bradley

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