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5 Reasons Landscapers Gain A Huge Competitive Advantage By Using Email Marketing Campaigns

5 Reasons Landscapers Gain A Huge Competitive Advantage By Using Email Marketing Campaigns

All landscapers should be aware that there are many marketing channels and strategies that you can use to promote your landscaping business online. Whether you opt to pursue these yourself or employ a digital marketing agency to do it for you will be down to your preference and available budget, but, whichever you choose, we strongly recommend that you ensure email marketing is part of the plan.

It is often stated that the measure of how well something works is the length of time it remains in use. We are sure those who remember ‘My Space’ will concur that if we were suggesting that as a way to promote your landscaping business, you would quickly discard that idea. However, we are not suggesting ‘My Space’ but instead email marketing.

Email has been in use for as long as the internet has, and more to the point has been used by businesses of all kinds to build a captive audience and to promote their products and services. That will certainly include landscaping businesses which means if you are not yet using email marketing, you are in danger of being overtaken by your competitors in terms of gaining new clients and clients who make repeat purchases of landscaping services.

You might be asking “What are the benefits of using email marketing?“, and that is a question that we hear often. The answer is outlined below within the five reasons why email marketing can provide your landscaping business with a huge competitive advantage over other landscapers.

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Newsletter content ideas to keep your newsletter interesting

Honestly if you are being consistent and sending a newsletter out once a month you want to keep it fresh and mix in 1-2 of the content ideas but also use other things to rotate. So below I am including newsletter content ideas to keep your newsletter interesting, using these other ideas when you just don’t know what to share.

Reader Group – Do you have a Facebook reader group? Share it, tell your subscribers what you do in the group. Many new to you readers might not know about it, or know how to find it and letting them know in your newsletter is a great way to cross promote your various marketing avenues.

Available Books/Reading Order – You would be surprised to find just how many fans don’t actually know all the books you have out. They might have found you after you got established, or have a hectic life and don’t check your website often and realize your back catalogue. So share it with them in graphical form. Do a graphic with all your novels that are currently out, if in a series put them in order. If you don’t have a lot you can include novellas too, but if you do have a lot then just mention for a full list including novellas to follow a link to your site.

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