7 Email Marketing Sins Are making Your Customers Unsubscribe – How to Rebuild Trust? [Part II]

Now that you have learned why people are unsubscribing from your email list, here we explain the ways marketers can gain trust and sell products to those customers again. Here are the six types of emails work at their best in this regard.

1. Welcome email

The first is the welcome email which initiates the first communication between you and your subscribers after they have signed up with your brand. Like the first handshake with your prospects, a welcome email must be concise, cordial and inviting. Include signup details, introductory coupon codes or offers (if any), an expression of gratitude, and brief introduction about your business. We recommend that you keep to a few bullet points on types of offers and content they may be receiving after signing up with you. It’s a way to be transparent with them, and also it sets expectations (or even enables them to set expectations about) how often they’d like to receive emails from you. Also, you need to ask your subscribers to add your email address in the whitelist in their email address books to prevent heading to spam.

2. Alert or notification emails

Let your subscribers know about any potential suspicious activities on their accounts. Instant alert or notification mails will restore the trust in your brand that it takes care of subscribers’ accounts with fast communication. At the same time, you can also send alert mails of certain activities, trends, weather updates, alerts on probable risks of contamination of diseases in an area or in a season. You can also use send notifications about their purchases with details on purchase receipt, shipping status, expected time of delivery etc. By keeping your subscribers and customers in the loop of current happenings with timely and relevant messages, you gain huge amount of trust from subscribers in return.

3. Apology emails

Never ever feel scared of seeking apology, even for those accidental mistakes. Apology emails come in exceptionally handy in minimizing the risk of losing customers or subscribers in the event of any email blunders. Have you mistakenly sent an email announcing a deal which is no longer valid or which has expired? Did you send them a broken link that takes them to an error page? Have you stated an inaccurate fact or statistics in your mail? Before your subscribers snub you for the blunder that took place, send them an apology mail instantly before they discover it – that ways your consumers will still be able to trust you despite your mistake and the problem being aware that you take the ownership and are able to fix it, without much delay.

4. Educational emails

Create a collection of content on tips, tricks, best practices and guides to keep your subscribers and customers educated about the product and problems they face. You can create videos with steps of instructions and screenshots, infographic content with rich visual graphics on tips, facts or data, how-to articles, news articles pertinent to the product or services you are selling, e-books and things like that. This kind of educational content helps a great deal in establishing thought leadership and reinforcing your knowledge and expertise in the field. You can also curate and include articles by key influencers in the market what they say about your product, services or the brand to set off instant confidence of your targeted consumers in your brand.

5. Newsletters

Plan and schedule the delivery of newsletters for your targeted audience with a combination of industry updates, latest news, launches and updates on your upcoming products, upcoming events to be held and that they can join, any special mentions on your social channels by key influencers, and any important declaration you want put forward. Make sure you send these newsletters on a regular basis so that they can anticipate your next issue. In case you need to postpone the newsletter, send out an email stating the reason for the delay, when they can expect it, and offer them something of genuine value so that the delay will be associated with a good memory. You can also provide them with links so that they can follow digital meetings with you for a more personal level interaction.

6. Giveaway emails

Are you wanting to give something to your valuable customers? You can offer something useful related to your service, without necessarily offering any of your services for free such as, a free consultation, a free membership, tickets to training shows or seminars that offer training, and guides for products you are selling. Any of these will likely impress your subscribers and customers. In that case, you can send them emails to communicate the exclusive offer you present to them. Many such shows and seminars can motivate them to buy your products in case they were initially hesitant – for example, photography classes or seminars can encourage your customers to buy high-end cameras from you since they can trust you in helping them and presenting them with opportunities to hone their skills by taking part in these kinds of events. You can also give away free gated content such as e-books or special training manuals to help clear their doubts about your products.

Thus, you can build customers’ trust and nurture positive relationships with your prospects and buyers by using your email marketing campaigns. Have any questions or doubts? Call us at (408) 502 6765 or via our social channels Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to get professional assistance.