Email Campaigns
Once you
have a large following around the Internet, it's time to take your branding to
a more personal level. You will want to try to harvest as many email addresses
as you can in your activities and get permission to market to these people
directly. Once you have that, you will want to establish an email marketing
campaign that starts to show people on a one-to-one basis what your company or
your products are all about.
YOUR EMAIL
SIGNATURE
The first
place to brand within email is by way of automatic signatures. If you don't have
one set up to point people to your website, to your offer of the week, or to a
personal biography, you are missing a great opportunity to brand. If someone
contacts you for anything, it's the perfect opportunity to sneak in some
information on your private brand via the automatic email signature.
YOUR
INTRODUCTORY EMAIL
Twitter will
allow you to automate direct messages to people who follow you via direct
messaging. You’re on your own with Facebook. Either way, you can join
SocialOomph and send out direct messages for each person who follows you,
giving them an introductory message that shows more about you and your brand to
them. Every introductory email should seek to contribute value and to not sell
anything. There will be plenty of time to sell something later;
first, try to establish a genuine connection
with people, but make them aware of your brand.
A PLANNED
EMAIL CAMPAIGN
Set up
planned email campaigns using a service like AWeber.com. You can offer the same
type of casual, informational style that is popular with social networks, but
include links to your products and offers. Include branding information like
videos and applications that can help people understand more about you and your
company. Always mix in free branding offers with sales offers. This way, when
they open an email, they don't expect that they'll be sold every time. People
just don't like that. It's like answering the door to a pushy salesman.
However, if they find that you give away free
information
about 50% of the time that might benefit them, they’ll be more likely to open
that email.
Try
different branding subject headlines in different emails and run split testing
to see what gets a better reaction. AWeber.com will give you statistics on open
rates and click-through rates. Once you start to watch the results of your
branding efforts, you have to have direct feedback on what is working and what
is not. It will tell you how to tweak your marketing so that your message
becomes more appealing every time you send out a new email, increasing brand
awareness and sales at the same time.

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