You probably understand the importance of capturing your website visitors contact information using an opt in form and building a large email list of potential customers. This is an extremely effective tool to help you develop a relationship with your online visitors. For the most part, this is the only way to build a relationship since many of these people won’t come back to your website again. Once you’ve got an email list you can use broadcast email marketing to let them know about any new product or service you’re offering.

When it comes to contacting your email list you basically have two ways to do it, you can just load a series of pre-written emails into an auto responder service that will send out the emails over whatever period of time you choose. That way every one who signs up to your list will receive all the emails in your series one after the other in order until they’ve received them all, or you’ve added more.

This method is a fantastic way to keep in touch with the people on your list and since the method is all automated it doesn’t take any time from you (once you’ve written and loaded the emails, of course).

But if you’ve got a sale coming up or you’ve just added a wonderful new service and you want to let all of the customers on your email list know about it right now, you want to send an email broadcast. You can set this message to go out at a certain time or a certain day but the point is that everyone on your list will get this email at the same time… if that’s what you want.

You can even customize a broadcast so that only part of your list will receive it. It’s up to you. But this is the method you will want to use if you have some hot news that you just want to let everyone know about right away without adding this message to your series and have to wait several days for some of the people on your list to receive it.

In order to be as effective as possible here are a few things you need to make sure you are doing when it comes to composing your email messages:

1. If you want as many of the people on your list to actually open and read your email as possible you have to make sure that whatever headline you choose is interesting and compelling. You want to excite your readers and make them eager to open your email. Make an interesting headline.

2. An interesting headline will only take you so far though. It’s also important that your message is on point and short. For the most part you want your reader to be engaged in your message before they’re finished reading the first paragraph. If you can hook them and get them to read your whole message you will have a much better chance of getting them to take the desired action.

3. Don’t be afraid to ask them to make a purchase, or do whatever else it is you want them to do such as sign up for your newsletter, etc. You’d be amazed at how many marketers actually fail to ask for the sale. Whatever action you want them to take, provide them with a clear and easy to understand call of action.

Broadcast email marketing is a great way to let everyone on your list know about something special you have like an offer, a discount or a service.

A helpful tactic is to use your existing customer email list to find more customers and a great way to do that is to offer your existing customers an incentive to get their friends and family to become a customer too. For example, if you have an offline store you could offer everyone on your list a coupon off of the price of a purchase if they refer someone else to your store and that person signs up for your email list. There are a lot of ways you can do this but you get the point, an email list can be a wonderful way to leverage your existing customer base.

If you are willing to spend some time to build a list of customers, or potential customers, and then spend some time to keep in contact with them and build a relationship with them by offering them information and special deals just for being on your list, you will have an extremely powerful tool in building your business. Email marketing, when done correctly, can be like money in the bank.