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Email Promotions and Editorial Content: The Makings of a Successful Email Calendar

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Customer loyalty is important in any business, throughout all industries. Loyal customers will continue to do business with you and will likely spread the word about your products or services.

Email marketing lists help to

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Customer loyalty is important in any business, throughout all industries. Loyal customers will continue to do business with you and will likely spread the word about your products or services.

Email marketing lists help to keep track of all of your loyal customers. They also allow you to reach out to these customers and keep them informed about what’s new and exciting about your business.

It’s important to realize that email isn’t just about selling products. It should be viewed as your primary means of sharing great content.

In order to put a successful email marketing strategy into play, you should be offering a mix of editorial content and promotional materials. Aligning the two will help even more as the validity in the products is seen even clearer that way.

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Ideas on a successful email calendar:

-Combining a mix of editorial and promotional content will help maximize customer lifetime value.

-Create a cyclical email schedule that includes editorial and promotional content.

-Allow 20-25% of your emails to be promotional in nature. This way the editorial content is outweighing the blatant promotions.

-Promote for your best selling products or time-sensitive events the most.

-A week in review email is a great way to recap your entire editorial content from the week while promoting for your products through in-line text ads and banners on the right of left nav.

Good online editors should compile content a week in advance to properly align products with editorial content and to assure publishing deadlines will be met.

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By Amanda MacArthur

Research Director & Managing Editor

Amanda is responsible for all the articles you read on the Mequoda Daily portal and every email newsletter delivered to your inbox from us. She is also our in-house social media expert and would love to chat with you over on @Mequoda. She has worked with Mequoda for almost a decade, helping to evolve the Mequoda Method through research, testing and developing new best practices in digital publishing, editorial strategy, email marketing and audience development. Amanda is a co-author of our four digital publishing handbooks.

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