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3 Ingredients for Successful Online Marketing

How email newsletters, conversion architecture and incentives will help build your audience.

Online marketing expert and ecommerce guru Andrew Palmer ran a campaign last year to build subscriptions to Agora’s free email newsletter, The Daily Reckoning. Palmer tested a self-titled “free on free” offer that gave every user who signed up for The Daily Reckoning a

How email newsletters, conversion architecture and incentives will help build your audience.

Online marketing expert and ecommerce guru Andrew Palmer ran a campaign last year to build subscriptions to Agora’s free email newsletter, The Daily Reckoning. Palmer tested a self-titled “free on free” offer that gave every user who signed up for The Daily Reckoning a free special report titled Real Asset Explosion: Make Ten Times Your Money in the Astounding Resource Boom of 2006-2007.

The tactic was a success. It generated 17 to 55 percent more signups than solely offering a Daily Reckoning subscription and further solidified Agora Financial as a leading website publisher. Lessons taken from Agora’s example, combined with marketing research from the Mequoda Research Team, have helped us identify three essential components to a successful online marketing system.

  • Email Newsletters should be free and frequent. An email newsletter must contain valuable content, a featured product and links to the product’s sales letter landing page.
  • Strong Conversion Architecture is essential in capturing relevant users and directing them to a conversion—such as signing up for a newsletter or buying a product. Prime examples of strong conversion architecture include deploying OFIEs, OFINs and floaters that drive traffic to rapid conversion landing pages. Publishers should also drive all pay-per-click efforts to rapid conversion landing pages, as Agora did.
  • Incentives act as a catalyst for acquiring new customers. They can be free downloads or products that instantly gratify users in exchange for their email address.

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These three online marketing system components will increase a publisher’s database of names and bring a publisher’s product to more users more frequently. These components, however, are only part of the entire Mequoda Internet Marketing System, designed specifically to acquire, build and monetize the publisher/user relationship.

By Don Nicholas

Founder & Executive Publisher

Don Nicholas serves as Executive Publisher for Food Gardening Network and GreenPrints. He is responsible for all creative, technical, and financial aspects of these multiplatform brands. As senior member of the editorial team, he provides structural guidance, sets standards, and coordinates activities with the technology and business teams. Don is an active gardener whose favorite crops include tomatoes, basil, blueberries, and corn. He and his wife Gail live and work in southern Massachusetts surrounded by forests, family farms, cranberry bogs, and nearby beaches. Don is also the Founder of Mequoda Systems, LLC, which operates and supports numerous online communities including I Like Crochet, I Like Knitting, and We Like Sewing.

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