What Disney V.I.P. Treatment Can Teach You About Email Marketing

As a fan of Disney, I think one of the greatest services they offer is a VIP guided tour.

This allows you to do things such as skip to the front of the line, get led in through secret back doors, and basically do more in one day (and in great style) than most may ever imagine.

It’s a premium service so as you can imagine, there are people who say the price is exorbitant. These are the same people who complain about having to wait in long lines at Disney and only having time to go on 4 rides during the entire day.

Maybe if they considered that you can, for example, go on 12 rides in the time it takes others to go on one ride, they would see the value. Maybe they’d realize in the end, with a guide you can do in one day what it takes the average person multiple days, even a week, to do.

I see this in business all the time. People look for the easiest, fastest, or cheapest route without considering the whole picture.

Email marketing is a prime example.

Many businesses think, because it’s so inexpensive to use, they don’t need to put as much thought, time, or planning into it as they do with direct mail campaigns.

Then these same people complain about their poor open rates, declining click-throughs, and deflated results.

If you want better results, you have to consider the WHOLE picture. And you have to invest in making your emails better.

For instance, one disadvantage of email is that there is a lot more emails flooding your customers’ inboxes every day. Way more obviously than there are pieces of mail being delivered to their regular mail box.

That means a lot more competition for eyeballs.

So you don’t want to be sloppy about what you are sending.

Rather than firing off an email in ten minutes and blasting it out to your entire list without much thought or consideration, take the time to establish a plan with conversion goals so you know exactly what you want your audience to do before you ever write your email.

And make sure you’ve included the core elements needed in each email you send.

Consistency is also a factor. Whereas you can do a campaign in the mail at random times, once you start sending emails, you should deliver them consistently week in, week out without exception.

If you send email in a hit or miss, random fashion, and go missing from their inbox, people will forget about you in a heartbeat—even if you return to a regular, predictable schedule at a later date.

This doesn’t mean you can’t send emails at other times apart from your schedule. If you take care of the readers on your email list by sending valuable, relevant emails at regular intervals, they will pay attention at other times too.

There are many strategies you can combine with your email marketing to improve your results and increase your profits too—in many cases, well beyond the standard ROI you see quoted in studies.

In fact, rarely do I consult with a client where there aren’t untapped opportunities within their email strategy. Ways to combine email with other media to get higher response.

Strategies to use with their opt-ins that can separate the looky-loos from hyper-active buyers, increase their profits, improve click-throughs, or even create more loyal customers, clients, or patients.

Split test your subject lines, layout, email length, time sent, call to action, and so on and then examine your results to see what is working and what isn’t.

There is no free pass to the front of the line. If you want your emails to be the first thing your customers want to open, you have to invest in making them worthy.

On Friday, Dave Dee and I discussed everything you need to know about email marketing. For four hours, Dave grilled me about the strategies I’ve used to multiply my clients’ email marketing results.

We went through the core elements every email needs to have. And I revealed email marketing secrets I use to magnetically attract clients, customers, patients, and prospects—automatically. This was my first time talking specifically about email marketing—so there was a lot I’ve never revealed before.

If you’d like to watch that session, hear what I had to say, and get a copy of the swipe file and templates I shared, click here now for the details.

Source: Dan Kennedy