1. Generate Leads
Your business needs to generate leads if you want to succeed and to grow. B2B leads are other companies that may have interest in making a purchase from you. This means that you provide a product that they can use to make a profit. This then allows you to set up deals with those retailers or companies to sell them your products for profit.
This image shows that nearly 2 out of 3 B2B marketers list generating high quality leads as one of their top three options for using automated software. This makes sense when you consider the difficulty of lead generation. You would have to go through different companies and handpick ones that you think would want to do business with you.
Marketers know that businesses save money and resources when they use marketing automation to handle lead generation. Make sure that you take advantage of email marketing automation so that you can use it to generate leads.
2. Use Autoresponders
While you could hire someone to sit at a computer and wait to respond to emails, some situations don’t need a person to do it. Email autoresponders help with this situation by automatically sending emails that your business created ahead of time. This allows them to send out relevant emails immediately to those leads.
Autoresponders can send emails based on different situation.
- Sending welcome emails for people that just signed up for your emails.
- Sending important information to different companies.
- Confirming subscriptions or purchases from those companies.
Overall, autoresponders make things easier for your company since they handle basic emails that can reuse the same template each time.
In short, you create welcome emails and other common emails ahead of time so that your autoresponder will send them to your leads as needed. After all, you shouldn’t have to create a new confirmation email every time you need to send one. Have the autoresponder handle all of those common emails to make things easier for your business.
3. Segment for Relevant Information
As you can see, segmenting emails allows you to increase your open and click-through rates. As you have your marketing automation segment your audience, you can see these benefits apply to you.
4. Lead Nurturing
When it comes to email marketing, you don’t just send one email and expect it to turn your leads into customers. If you want them to work, you need to nurture your leads. This means that you help those businesses become customers by continuing to send them relevant information and invitations to work with your business.
In essence, you want to nurture your leads by offering incentives for decision making. Your automated marketing software can do this based on their interactions with you. Look at this example:
- A business opens your email that mentions one of your products.
- The business’ representative goes on your website and looks at your different products.
- Your software picks up on this and sends them an email. This email contains a 10% discount on their next purchase.
You can set up your automated marketing software to send these emails to businesses when they perform certain actions. This includes any other types of emails that you want to send to them to help them through the lead nuturing process.
You may have different types of emails that you want to send to your leads. However, certain emails may not be relevant to some of your leads, but they are vital for others. With this in mind, you shouldn’t send every type of email to all of your leads. It can cause those businesses to have these negative impressions:
- Businesses feel like you don’t know what they want.
- They will see your emails as spam if you send information that doesn’t apply to them.
- They feel like your business has nothing to provide them.
You never want businesses to feel this way, so you can use email marketing automation to segment your audience. Doing so will benefit your business.
5. Collect and Analyze Data
You should always seek to improve your business and to adjust it so that you can work with other companies. You can accomplish this by collecting and analyzing data. Luckily, email marketing automation will collect that data for you so that you can see how you perform.
Automated software places all of the data into one spot so that you can easily access it and see the changes that occur in your email marketing. Consider these questions as you look over the data.
What areas did we improve in? Where did we perform worse?
What changes did we make that affected those areas?
Should we keep those changes or try something else?
You won’t have to collect and organize this data on your own. Instead, you can let the automated software collect this email information for you. This will allow you to look it over and make changes to improve your business.
6. Final Points
While you can handle email marketing on your own, you will make things easier for yourself by using automated software. Doing so will save you time, make you more money, and allow you to work on other aspects of your business. These five tips give you a general idea of the possibilities with email marketing automation and how it can help your business.
Keep in mind that email automation can do so much more for you, but these five tactics will help you get started and make it immediately useful. Use email automation to improve your business and build it up so that you can increase your reach in the B2B community.
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