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Email marketing: driving customer retention with email, a checklist

I found an interesting post on the Email Institute blog with tips to drive customer retention with email.

It contains some interesting insights that I would like to share with you, of course with permission of the Email Institute.

In these challenging economic times all marketers are under pressure to deliver smarter, more effective and accountable campaigns.

Acquiring new customers will always be important for long-term growth, but the demands of the economic slowdown leads to a greater emphasis on retaining existing customers and fortifying customer loyalty.

Email marketing: it’s time to invest!

If you want your email marketing program to succeed, you need to invest in the necessary resources, tools, creativity and time. You remember how, in the old days, we always said that “email marketing was cheap because it required no stamps”?

Well, those were the days that many of us looked at email marketing as the online equivalent of direct marketing. Email often still serves direct marketing purposes, but it has become much more than that. And, yes, email marketing still has a low cost per contact.

But for companies that want to go beyond good old email marketing (and that should be all companies), it’s time to spend that extra bit of time, intelligence, tools and effort.