is using email still effective way for marketing?

Email marketing was quite effective few years back. It requires lot of work. Due to spam laws in force on the one hand and popularity of RSS on the other, peoples' interest in email marketing is diminishing. You can same results if you incorporate RSS. Due to lot of hassle involved, medium marketers are not giving it too much weight.

Yes, email marketing is very effective *if* you know what you're doing. As they say, "the money is in the list" - very true. There are many different approaches to email marketing. One common approach is gaining your subscribers trust by providing quality and objective information. Most people say that it takes from 5-7 follow ups before a customer will buy your product (or affiliate product). So if you're not using a list your missing out on a lot of sales. Once you have a list you need to continually segregate the list. The most profitable lists are very small, but have very active subscribers. The best lists are definitely "customer lists" - meaning people who have bought through you already. The key to email marketing is quality - not quantity as many would have you believe.

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It depends on the product you marketing.Moreover you should have a good contacts on mails to everyone so that you can market effectively.

E-mail marketing is highly effective to drag targeted customers to your site/services. It is an art how effectively you can deliver your whole service in a single mail with an effective title so that the person should read the mail not delete it without atleast going through. Once he goes through if it is interesting he/she is sure to visit your site.

Depend, if you want to promote any software isnot effective but if you want to offer an website or a product (general) can be effective.

To be really successfull in email marketing all you need is a very big list of dedicated clients who are ready to buy what u sell.