Email Marketing - Dangers of Email Marketing Without Purpose

One of the things I have discovered with my emailabout what they are doing online, then I strategically
marketing is that when I do not have a clear purposesend them a sales page that connects with the
for my week of emails, I generally tend to do lesseducation I have been sending the last few days.
business than if I know exactly which email I amWhen you do not have purpose, you may also make
going to send each day, and to which segment ofthe mistake of sending people unrelated products or
my list.product offerings.
Why? I think that one of the biggest advantages toFor example, if you do not have purpose in your pet
email marketing with a purpose, or specificallysupplies web site and email campaign, you might be
choosing which items you are going to promote, ortempted to send out an email everyday promoting a
which content you are going to send people, aheadproduct for different types of pets, one each day.
of the time you send it, is that you can make yourBut the majority of your email subscribers are not
email campaign coherent. This allows you toowners of one kind of pet. There are many kinds of
specifically direct people to think a certain waypets and respectively many kinds of pet owners.
before they ever read your sales letter.By targeting your leads, in this case, running several
On one of my most lucrative campaigns, I will literallylists, one for cats, one for dogs, etc., you can
plan 5 days of content and responsive emails thatimprove your response rate immensely.
lead my subscribers to feel very specific thoughts