The cost of paying for somebody to click your ad on Google can be anywhere from $1 to $10: that’s for just a click! So what does it end up costing to get somebody to call you or email you? This is a big dilemma for many small business owners looking for new clients. In fact, sometimes it might seem easier to just send a good, old-fashioned letter!
Xero is often used as a data base of customers you’ve done business with but there are other ways of building a much bigger database – your email software. Every person who is interested in what you do and gets a quote is a potential subscriber to your email messages.
I wrote before about the value of a database when things are quiet and there are smart ways of building a database without changing too much about what you do.
The most important issue to consider when building a database is that you remain antiSPAM compliant. That means your subscribers should have the option to easily opt-out from receiving any future messages. Technically they need to opt-in as well!
MailChimp email marketing software is free for up to 2000 subscribers, something they are now referring to as your Audience, and that is PLENTY for most small businesses. This makes it the perfect choice because you can now just focus on using it.
Read about our MailChimp & Email Marketing Training Course which is currently in development
Neville uses Telstra’s Online Services for his website and email services and I’m working with him to find a better way to attract new customers but also to be more organised with his digital business setup.
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So I received this letter in the mail the other day. It was novel and it made me smile, but truth is, I threw it in the bin within a day. Trouble was, it wasn’t relevant to me and so I ended up binning it (although I obviously thought it would be an interesting and relevant blog topic!)
The cost of the mailing and the paper would have been $3 or so; then there’s the time to manually insert and seal for all those letters which would have been much more. But I simply wasn’t looking for the services that company offered. Talk about throwing a wide net in the hope of catching something!
The great benefit of creating a relevant website (I recommend WordPress of course) and even creating and paying for Google Ads, is that you will reach people who are searching for, and interested in what your ad has to offer. I say “what your ad has to offer” because the potential customers should also think your website landing page is useful too. More to come on this soon.
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