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Emotions To Trigger In Your Email
Marketing Campaign
Most working professionals check their emails several times a day. If you’ve managed to get past
the gatekeeper and confirm an email subscription with your reader, they will see your newsletters
or promotions. Although, like most things in life, it’s not about getting it, it’s about keeping it. In
this case, your reader/potential customer has ponied up their email address, which is half the
battle. But what you really want is for them to actually read your mail once it’s delivered and
hopefully capture their attention enough to guide them back to your website and make a sale.
This is easier said than done.
Using words that are not only persuasive but also hit your readers’ emotional trigger points are
the surest way to encourage a reaction, or in other words, a transaction. Listed below are some of
the main emotions you’ll want to target along with some helpful strategies on how to go about it.
Fear
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You see, many of the decisions we make are just a way to avoid pain. We want to maintain the
most harmony with our emotions as possible, and the surest way to do so is avoid pain triggers at
all costs (unless you’re into that sort of thing). The rest of us would like to avoid, avoid, avoid.
Therefore, corporations that attach their campaigns to the emotion of fear develop their message
accordingly. As stated by Robin Wilson, a writer for Psychology Today, “They present a
scenario they hope will invoke our sense of fear. Then they show us a solution – a path back to
our comfort zone – that entails using their product or service. Fear is used to sell virtually
everything: cars, tires, and life insurance are classics.”
Trust
By contrast, many use trust as part of their email marketing campaign. When it comes to
receiving emails, the junk folder is usually just as busy as the inbox. Think about your on
personal mailboxes – how much spam do you have coming into your junk folder, or even worse,
into your inbox on a daily basis? The companies that are emailing you their annoying newsletters
were once upon a time a company you subscribed to because they were probably offering you
something you wanted for 5 minutes of your life, five years ago, and now you can’t get rid of
them.
You don’t want your company to be like them. And the only way to make sure that’s not the case
is to deliver what you promised and don’t trick them into anything. Don’t offer them a high
quality eBook in exchange for their email address and then blast them with promotions. As Jon
Miller says in one of his articles for Inc, “Sure this person signed up for a best-practices
newsletter, but our sales team needs all the help they can get, we’ll send out a promotion. There
isn’t an easier way to lose the trust of your reader. Your consumers do not care about your
schedule; they care about what’s relevant to them.”
Just because they were willing to give up their email address doesn’t mean they trust you yet,
and if you want to turn your email list into long lasting clients, don’t break their trust.
Belonging
The way you use your language will either make your reader feel spoken to or spoken at. The
tone can dictate whether you are making them feel like you care and you want them to be part of
something that will help them and their business, or it can feel like a hard sale which they will
skip right over.
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