To Develop an Email Strategy use a road map. For this you have to develop your email marketing strategy plan. A strategic plan is an evolving document. As your knowledge of, and experience with, email marketing grows, you'll want to chop and change your plan to incorporate the new ideas that you've learned, and remove those that aren't meeting your expectations.

This plan will contain the appropriate set of steps that you can use in your own email marketing campaigns. This process will involve the following tasks:

1.Check out the competitors.
This step helps you to understand what you're up against, gives you the chance to gather ideas for your own campaigns from those of your competit

ors, and work out what will give you the edge to make your communications more effective.

2.Decide your job
After that it's think about what we you to achieve through the newsletter. Rather than considering this very broad question, let's break it down into a series of smaller questions that address specific issues.

3.Target audience
Next step is to think about readership: who are we trying to target with our emails.

4.Budget
Once you have what feels like a workable set of bottom-line and means-to-an-end goals, it's time to look at the budget that you'll need to achieve them. As with goal-setting, this process may take some time and effort, and you may end up adjusting your bottom-line goals in order to stay within your budget.