Guide to Follow up email Strategy
Today, we’re going to be looking at how to use follow
up emails to convert in a variety of scenarios. We’ll
be looking at examples and providing templates for the following types of email
follow up:
1.
Cold sales follow-up
2.
Warm sales follow-up
3.
Free trial follow-up
4.
Lead magnet opt-in follow-up
5.
Product sale follow-up
6.
Giveaway entry follow-up
7.
Contributor outreach follow-up
8.
Promotional outreach follow-up
Let’s get started!
The
cold sales follow up formula
Cold email
outreach is a big part of modern sales, and we’ve covered it fairly extensively on the
Close blog.
Before we can get to the follow up email, it’s important that our initial email is strong, so we wanted
to start by sharing a tried and tested cold sales email template with you.
The
warm lead follow up formula
With cold email outreach, there’s a timeline. If you follow our formula,
it’s 1, 2, 3, 4, done. You spend a week on a prospect and move on.
With warm leads, it’s a different story. There is no timeline. You
continue following up until you get a yes or a hard no.
How to follow up with free trial signups
The SaaS
business model is a bit different than most other business models. Rather than
pursuing a one-time sale, your goal is to get users signed up for an ongoing
subscription to your software.
How to follow up with lead magnet opt-ins
A lead magnet
is simply something of value given away in exchange for a website visitor's
email address.
Lead magnets tend to be educational in nature, and accordingly, the
follow up should nearly always be educational in nature.
How to retain customers with a strong
post-sale follow-up
It
costs 5x more to attract a new customer versus
keeping an existing one.
Every business model demands a slightly
different approach, but we’re going to focus on three highly effective
strategies for the purpose of this discussion:
1.
Onboarding
2.
Education
3.
Incentives
How to follow up with giveaway entrants
As we
discussed earlier, lead magnets are a fantastic way to build your email list
over time.
Giveaways allow you to place tangible, irresistible value in
front of your target audience without breaking the bank.
Tools like Rafflecopter or KingSumo
Giveaways make it easy for you to incentivize
entrants to receive additional entries by referring their friends.
How to follow up with expert contributors
One
phenomenal way to amplify your content’s quality and reach is to tap into the
expertise of other influencers in your niche.
This campaign got a 60% response rate and resulted in
Conversion Science’s most successful post of 2016.
How to follow up on promotional outreach
As more and
more marketers are realizing, creating really great content is just the first
step in the content marketing equation.
If this can work in the marketing niche, where people
are constantly bombarded by hundreds of emails, it will most likely work in
your niche as well.
Conclusion
The success of email marketing is ultimately in the follow up.
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