Your book marketing email is sure to fail most of the time, no matter how well you
write it, no matter how great the offer is. But you only need a certain percentage of favorable respondents to make the email
campaign a success.
So
why do 75%-98% of recipients never buy from you?
1. The email
bounced back and is no longer good. Emails
change every day – update your list.
2.
You
emailed the wrong person at an organization.
The HR secretary may not be as good as hitting the manager of training
and development for a book about improving your sales skills.
3.
You
contacted the wrong organization. A pool
cleaning company doesn’t need a parenting book.
4.
Your
email was picked up by a spam filter.
Ok,
this may already doom half of your list.
Let’s continue.
5.
You
didn’t make a clear call to action.
6.
Your
call to action was rejected because you didn’t show why it was necessary.
7.
Your
offer is nothing exceptional and perhaps a lousy one compared to others.
8.
Your
email had errors in it.
9.
Your
email looked unappealing – font, color, images, length, margins.
10.
The
person reading your email is an intern, assistant or spouse who can’t fully
appreciate what you wrote and thus it doesn’t get forwarded to your intended
recipient.
Ok,
we’re not done yet. But you get the
point. Any number of factors – alone or
in conjunction with one another – can and will lead your mass email campaign to rejection.
But,
for the emails that make it through to the right person and they take the time
to open them, how will you influence them to take an action step?
First,
read my earlier post on creating the perfect book marketing email (http://bookmarketingbuzzblog.blogspot.com/2014/03/creating-perfect-book-marketing-email.html).
Second, embrace the following pointers:
Second, embrace the following pointers:
1.
Know
what your reader’s point of view is and craft an email that supports or
challenges it.
2.
Determine
how you’ll write to people you don’t know.
How can you address their concerns, fears, or suspicions?
3.
Decide
what your reader needs to know. What is
the most important point?
4.
Think
about how you’ll organize your email.
Map it out so you see in which order you introduce certain bits of
information.
5.
Consider
that your email will be read on mobile devices.
How will this impact what you present?
6.
Examine
how descriptive you are. Are you vague
or specific? Are you wordy and confusing
– or concise and clear?
7.
Read
your email for a tone check. Are you
abrupt or polite? Are you casual or
professional? Do you sound energized or
unenthusiastic?
8.
Is
your email too long or too short?
9.
Do
you state early on why you are writing to them and how you know them – or why
you reached out to them, even if a stranger?
10.
Do
you avoid repetition of phrases or words?
11.
Use
words the recipient will understand.
The
secret sauce to crafting great book marketing emails is really this: Avoid all
of the obvious mistakes and groom your mailing list. Once you get past all of the filters and
holdbacks, your email will be read and if it makes a decent offer it will be
acted upon.
Good
luck!
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Brian Feinblum’s views, opinions, and ideas expressed in this blog are his alone and not that of his employer, Media Connect, the nation’s largest book promoter. You can follow him on Twitter @theprexpert and email him at brianfeinblum@gmail.com. He feels more important when discussed in the third-person. This is copyrighted by BookMarketingBuzzBlog © 2014.
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