E-mail marketing consists of 6 steps. The first is to figure out what you are going to do and begin the planning process for your e-mail marketing campaign. The second thing you must consider is figuring out what you want to offer. You can offer a discount or useful information but make sure it is relevant to the list of people you are sending the e-mail to.
Choosing your e-mail list is the next step. Open rates and click through rates of e-mails are generally low, as you would expect with a direct mail piece. That is because in most cases the e-mail list is not very targeted and is many times disregarded.