You Botched That Marketing Email. Now What?

You rely on email as a tried-and-true communication medium. It's a great way to reach the audiences that have shown an interest in your brand or your products or services.

But as reliable as email tends to be, the marketers who use it are not perfect. All email marketers will make a mistake at some point. And when you make that mistake, you'll need to be ready to respond appropriately.

Exactly how you respond depends on the degree of severity and who was affected. Here are six email mistakes you may encounter as a marketer, along with guidelines for rectifying them.

1. Multiple Emails

Along with being one of the most common email mistakes, it's also among the most annoying for the recipient, who probably trusted you with occupying at most one slot in the inbox each day.

Multiple identical emails clog up the recipient's inbox, which can be a sin worthy of an apology. The catch in this situation, though, is that an apology would require a subsequent email, which is the very problem you're apologizing for.

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