Email blast is actually the act of sending out one email to a large mailing list. This used to be something that most marketers used when the internet was new, however people soon grew tired of it and it became known as spam. An email blast can come from stores and businesses that send out one email to everyone on their list informing them of either a sale or a special announcement.
The biggest problem with an email blast is that it does not give you an opportunity to build a relationship with your customer. You are primarily just throwing something at what is mostly a bunch of email addresses hoping that someone will take notice of it. This sort of email marketing is almost dead as even free email service providers such as Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail will most surely throw your email into the spam folder.
The major difference between a newsletter and an email blast is with a newsletter your subscribers have willingly subscribed to hear from you. A newsletter helps you build a relationship with your subscribers who eventually and hopefully become paying customers.
Email blast might be good for one day sales offers or partner offers but even then for it to work you will need to have a really large database of email addresses. Out of probably a thousand email addresses there might be a few people who might visit your website and out of those there probably might be one or two people who buy from you.
Today’s internet marketing is all about building long lasting relationships. It’s about reaching out and attracting people to your business. If anything email blasting is just going to give you a bad name, so if you are really serious about promoting your services and products build a targeted email newsletter subscriber list.
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