Provide internet value for email addresses

It's becoming an increasingly hard task to convince internet users to provide email addresses, yet collecting an email list is a central part of internet marketing. Without a reliable list of contacts from your target market, your web marketing plan can stall and die. So how do you convince a cynical internet user to hand over the goods?

Part of the difficulty is that the average internet user today is fully aware of how valuable their email address is. Not only have most internet users had to deal with spam in their inboxes for over a decade, most internet users are marketing-savvy enough to know that their email addresses are a form of internet marketing currency. A business simply asking an internet user to hand their email address over is much like a businessman begging on the street, and gets much the same reaction.

The answer is to offer them something of equal or greater value for their email address. In the past, this might have been the opportunity to win a prize or receive a publication. In today's market, a more immediate reward works a little better. Cake today sounds a little more interesting than the possibility of cake tomorrow.

It's important to note that competitions and e-newsletter subscriptions do still have a big place in website marketing, and are used to great effect. However, access to an application, permission to download software, or subscription to a podcast might prove a more tempting treat when you really want to boost your email list. Talk to our experts at Click Consult about the right kind of content to tempt your target market. The important thing is to discover what will really tempt your target market. An amusing little game might work for a certain audience but leave another audience cold.

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