Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: RSS
Transcription:
(Prefer to read? Here is the transcription. Please excuse any typos.)
We were invited to speak recently at an event for recruitment business owners on the topic of email marketing and the conversation developed into some of the do’s and don’ts when you’re communicating with the database of clients and candidates through an email. There are two things that we always share with our clients that are ‘must dos’ and that is what I would like to share with you in this video.
Hi! I’m Sharon from Super Fast Recruitment with a recruitment marketing update. So what are those two key things then to remember when you’re communicating with candidates and clients through email? The first thing is the number of touch points that you need to have
Often people will say to us that they send out a newsletter quarterly to their database or they are thinking about sending out an email blast. By that they mean a one off email. Now what we would say to that is “Really? Don’t bother.” Now why? Why would I say that? You have to think about consistency of communication and how you need to nurture a relationship with people.
When you’re emailing people so infrequently like once a quarter, you’re out of their mind and then all of a sudden an email drops into their inbox. And this is the thing – so often that email that drops in – it’s a pitching email. Now people get really annoyed by that. You only have to think about yourself being at the receiving end of it. I think I unsubscribed to 3 or 4 newsletter lists last week and it’s purely because it came out of nowhere. I haven’t heard from them for several months and there it is it’s a pitch straightaway.
The thing you want to be thinking about is – based on some classic sales data, we need as buyers about 7+ touch points before we are willing to buy. Now, that means when you’re communicating with people through email, you want to be doing it much more regularly which leads me onto the second point and that is the other thing that we get frustrated by is the pitch email and it being completely over done.
So you don’t wanna go from one extreme to the other but do you want to think about the balance between sending out emails where they are adding value and then the pitch. Just think about the title people use in recruitment – recruitment consultant. Consultancy is about giving advice, adding value, getting businesses to think differently.
Now if you can do that consultancy piece through some of your email communication and then balance it with a pitch, you build and nurture that relationship in a much more powerful way. Now the result of that is when the pitch email comes in, people are much more willing to open it and read that promotional email and even more likely to probably respond to its well because they know that you’ve given them a lot of value.
So there you have two key things to remember:
You need to email people on a much more frequent basis. When it comes to business to business communication, generally in the UK, businesses ‘under email’. So if you’re able to add great value in the content that you send out, balance that appropriately with a promotional email and we would always recommend based on the data, 4 value-add emails to one promotional email.
And email people once a week. It is absolutely fine. You keep yourselves front of mind. You nurture that relationship and then when they see your promotional email, they are very happy to open that email.
So good luck when you are communicating with your database and do remember make it regular. This is Sharon from Super Fast Recruitment with a recruitment marketing update.
Tweetables:
Click To Tweet: [inlinetweet prefix=”null” tweeter=”null” suffix=”null”]How do you utilise email marketing to make the most for your business?[/inlinetweet]
Click To Tweet: [inlinetweet prefix=”null” tweeter=”null” suffix=”null”]If you’re able to add great value in the content that you send out, balance that appropriately with a promotional email. – Sharon Newey[/inlinetweet]
This video / podcast was hosted by Sharon Newey. Follow us on Google+!
Important
As an ambitious recruitment organisation, THE marketing strategy to master is email marketing. It will consistently deliver both candidates and clients.
In a special complimentary training Webinar, we give you the template for writing emails we use for our clients and the exact 4 campaigns that are working now.
You can register here.
