IC TRAVEL AGENT June 2014 | Page 18

No Spam E-Mail Tactics How many times can it be said and read? No communication without permission. Answer: you need a way, a strategy, a plan to win a prospect’s email address. The reason you are hunting for email addresses is this: more than 75% of people outside your agency prefer to receive product offers by email – NOT by social media. So to win that email address, your marketing plans should include a tactic that causes someone unknown to you just now, to enter their email address, thus opting in. Giving you permission to follow up. From this report comes sixteen tactics marketers are using to encourage would be customers to send in their email addresses. Review them and check to see if you can use the same ideas. 11. Sales associates request email as part of check-out process 12. Email acquisition tied to loyalty program registration promoted in-store 13. Require email to register mobile app 14. Email acquisition tied to emailed receipt or ticket delivery 1. General email sign-up form on website 2. Require email to create an account on website 3. Sign-up requests specific to different sections on website 4. Registration with immediate incentive 5. Email capture via Facebook 6. Promote content via social media that requires email registration to access 7. Drive online loyalty program registration requiring email 8. Paid search advertisement that drives to landing page with email opt-in 9. Capture email during inbound sa