What Is So Great About An Email Follow Up?

Posted by Nick Niesen on November 1st, 2010

If you are in business, any kind of business then it is important for you to learn how to make the customers and clients happy. The first rule of doing this is to make them feel listened to and appreciated and the easiest way to do that is to use an email follow up every tie you get a message form one of them. This can be done in one of a couple different ways, it does not matter which one you choose as long as you do choose one kind of email follow up.

These days the most common kind of email follow up is the autoresponder kind. With this kind of email follow up you will use a special kind of software program, one that will take all of the hard work and wasted time out of having to send follow-ups. With an autoresponder service all you have to do is tell it what to say when someone sends you an email and it will do it to perfection every single time. This is the easiest and the fastest way to deal with email follow up.

There is only one drawback to an email follow up sent with an autoresponder service software program and that is that it is not at all personal. The same message will get sent to every single person that sends you an email to that address. That is why it is best to use these kinds of email follow ups simple as a first resort. It will let the clients and customers know that you will get back to them in a certain amount of time and that you did actually get their message in the first place. This is important to people so make sure to do it right.

Then when you have the time you can get back to them with a more personalized email follow up. This can be in response to their questions or problems or it can just be another email follow up letting them know that you have not yet solved the problem but you are working on it. If you have any sort of timeframe you will want to put it in this email follow up in order to put the persons mind at ease about what is going on.

There are all kinds of reasons for people to use an automatic email follow up and not automatic email follow ups. What you have to do is learn when which kind of email follow up is most appropriate and which ones are going to make people more mad at you! Different businesses require different kinds of responses so talk to some of your peers in business, what do they do and what works for them in terms of email follow up/ You should also ask them what has proven disastrous, perhaps that way you will be able to avoid making the same mistakes as they did, that is always nice!