Did you know that Email Marketing is 40 times more effective than Facebook or Twitter when it comes to gaining new customers? (Monetate). It’s important that you do it right to maximize your marketing efforts. With that being said, call to actions (CTA’s) can make all the difference when building effective email campaigns.

Here are a few pointers when constructing successful CTA’s on your email campaigns:

1. Use buttons not text (or use both together) – according to campaignmonitor.com the use of a button attracts more of the customer’s attention and can increase conversion rates by 28%.
2. Make the Call to Action Short- Keep your CTA down to 5 words or less. Often times longer CTA’s is one of most damaging mistakes with email. Typically, you only have about 8 seconds to capture your reader’s attention. Make sure your CTA is short and sweet yet effective.
3. Have Only One Call to Action- Statistically; you will get better results if you limit yourself to just one call to action. Having too many can confuse the reader and you will lose their attention. If you cannot get away with having only one CTA be sure to give priority to the most important.
4. Tell People What to Do – Many marketers may know this, for others, it might be an eye opener. You have their full attention now tell them EXACTLY what you want them to do. For example, “Shop Now”, “Look Inside” and “Buy Now”. For a list of more CTA phrases visit here.
5. Make the Call to Action Stand Out – Use a color people will notice and place your button in a non-cluttered area. Although most marketers put their CTA above the fold, don’t be afraid to put it below your body copy based on how your message is told.

There is an interesting tactic to see if a call to action pops enough. Blur your eyes and look away from the page, then look back quickly and see which element you notice first. This method may not work for everyone, but it may give you a guideline of how clear your CTA needs to be.

There you have it, these are just a few of the many CTA ideas agencies use. Marketers all over are constantly looking for new and fresh ideas to make their messages stand out. If you are looking for CTA help on your next campaign CAS can help!  Give us call today 866-461-4693 or visit us online.

Email Marketing is alive and well and will be for a very long time.   Don’t listen to the naysayers who declare that email marketing is “dead”.  There are over 205 billion email messages sent per day. That means 2.4 emails are sent every second and up to 74 trillion emails are sent yearly.  This number is expected to rise at an annual rate of 3% over the next 3 years.

On average, subscribers receive 416 advertising emails per month. For every $1 spent on email marketing, the average return is $44 (Source: campaignmonitor.com).

CAS, Inc. offers effective ways to reach your best prospects via email.  We have complied one of the most robust databases in the industry with the ability to segment highly refined audiences for your targeted email content, postal messages or phone communications. Download our new nSightful Xchange Data Card here.

6 advantages to Email Marketing:

1)  Email Marketing provides the ability to distribute information to a wide range of specific, potential customers at a relatively low cost.  Compared to other media investments, email is less expensive per contact. The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) has found that email marketing has a return on investment of 4,300 percent.

2)  With the right email campaign, an exact return on investment can be tracked and has proven to be high when done properly. Email marketing is often reported as second only to search engine marketing (SEO) as the most effective online marketing tactic.

3)  The delivery time for an email message is short (i.e., seconds or minutes) as compared to a mailed advertisement such as a postcard, magazine or flyer (i.e., one or more days).

4)  An advertiser is able to “push” the message to its audience, as opposed to website-based advertising, which relies on a customer to visit that website.

5)  Email messages are easy to track. An advertiser can track users via autoresponders, web bugs, bounce messages, unsubscribe requests, read receipts, click-throughs, etc. These mechanisms can be used to measure open rates, positive or negative responses, and to correlate sales with marketing.

6)  Tracking and response metrics enables you to tune your email by a process of testing different creatives, subject lines and call to actions.

Whether you are marketing to internal data or looking for new email prospects CAS has you covered.  With over 200 demographics and 132 million email addresses CAS can construct a highly responsive and targeted email marketing campaign for your business. Contact us today 866-461-4693.