eMarketing: The Essential Guide to Online Marketing

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Figure 2.1 Steps to Executing an E-mail Campaign

Precampaign


Step 1: Strategic Planning

The first part of any e-mail campaign should involve planning around the goals you want to achieve.
These will probably be in line with the goals of your Web site, with e-mail marketing being used as a tool
to help you achieve those goals. As discussed in , you will decide on
the key performance indicators (KPIs)for your campaign as well. Promotional e-mails will usually have an
immediate goal:



  • Users make a purchase

  • Users download a white paper

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