Engage Your Email Campaign Audience

When writing for your e-mail campaigns or social media the best way to engage your audience is to have a strong persona that you and your brand are exuding. These marketing efforts have done wonders for engaging select audiences for big name brands. Business 2 Community has listed some of the top ways to engage readers in email campaigns:

Persona

What kind of person are you or what do you want to be perceived as? First, get to know your customers in order to ascertain the kind of voice or persona they’d respond to best. If you have a very specific target audience, you may only need to cater to one type of voice. However, as is often the case, your target audience and their preferences can vary and it helps to have a flexible voice that maintains the overall persona. Your persona could easily be friendly, playful, warm, inspiring, authoritative and professional but never negative!

Tone

Tone is the underlying vibe that echoes from your communications. It’s important to watch out for negativity as this resonates poorly with any audience. Tone is the underlying vibe that echoes from your communications. You can use tone to establish credibility, place your brand as a trend or passing fad or alert your followers as to whether or not your brand is going to be transparent or tight-lipped. Maybe you want to show off, inspire, be creative and fun all at the same time — just don’t show off too much. A dose of humility will engender a positive and receptive reaction from your customers. Your tone should be personal, honest, direct, humble and come across as positive and attractive.

Language

No one really likes a preachy tone. How do you demonstrate to your customers that you’re an expert in your field without speaking over their heads? Easy. Adjust your language. Your followers likely speak a certain type of language and you should try to match their communications. Your language can be complex, savvy, fun, whimsical, simple or serious — no matter what, cater your language to your followers!

Purpose

Why are you trying to get your brand in front of the public? What is it that you’re doing here? Your brand voice can genuinely help your customers understand who you are and what you can do for them. Your purpose is really something you have to determine for yourself but it could be to engage, delight, educate, inform, enable, sell or amplify.

Pulling it all together

Once you’ve thought about the above four attributes of your voice, you need to develop a plan of action. How would you like your brand to be received? Describe that reception and write down some of the ideals you would like to convey to your customers. Rewrite those things to reflect the voice you have developed for your brand. Here’s an example:

Plain voice: We’re having a clothing sale on Saturday.

Playful, personal, fun and informative voice: Clean out your closet and celebrate! The buy-one-get-one-free sale at Sally’s Clothing Bonanza starts this Saturday! What are you looking forward to replacing?

Take the time to carefully plan out various scenarios until you get the hang of the voice. If you need additional help with a brand, consult Mission Web Marketing for assistance. No matter how you convey your message, have fun with it!

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