it's time to start thinking beyond the holidays: slides

IT’S TIME TO START THINKING BEYOND THE HOLIDAYS Presented by Matthew Ramos

BEFORE WE GET STARTED

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Today’s moderator:

Joy Ugi Digital Marketing Coordinator

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TWEET!

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TODAY’S SPEAKER

Top 5 things to know about me – 1. Grew up in a small town in Texas.

2. Graduated from the University of

Texas at Austin – Hook ‘em Horns!

3. I’ve worked in the email marketing space for 3.5 years and have worked with many Fortune 500 clients.

4. Hate lettuce on my sandwiches, but LOVE salads.

5. I love working with my clients to increase their ROI and meet their personal KPIs.

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Matthew Ramos Senior Strategic

Account Manager WhatCounts

PICTURE THIS

Your sweepstakes have ended and your special red and green colored websites with dancing gingerbread men have been taken down and you’re now officially back to the daily grind. Hopefully you’ve all had a fruitful holiday season, but now more than ever you need to make sure you keep the momentum up and not get too comfortable in Q1.

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AGENDA

In this webinar, you’ll learn:

– How to engage with your customers using what you already know

– How to retain your new & loyal customers

– How to use social media and email together

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ENGAGE YOUR SUBSCRIBERS WITH WHAT YOU ALREADY KNOW

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LET’S USE OUR WEBINAR’S SIGN UP FORM

• This is the form you filled out.

• We could use any of these data points to market you.

• Based on audience size, it’s better to market to you in a programmatic way.

• What do I mean? – We’d treat our audience

differently if 1 million people registered vs. 50.

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AT THE VERY LEAST, USE GENDER

As much as I love, the creative to these emails, I’m not female and would much prefer emails that are targeted to the male demographic. I’ve purchased men’s clothing before and they should know I prefer men’s clothing moving forward.

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CLIENT EXAMPLE

Data Point: This particular client had state info on their customers. On the opening day of the World Series we targeted the state of Mass. and Miss. to promote their custom cookie bouquets. Subject Line: The World Series Starts Today. Get 10% off Fan Favorites. Average open rate: 2.6% points higher than most other campaigns.

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CREATE A BIRTHDAY PROGRAM

If you are collecting birthday info, USE IT! We can EASILY create a birthday trigger for you that would be sent DAILY. These perform extremely well: • Transaction rates are 5x promo emails. • Daily birthday yield higher conversions. • Monthly yield higher open rates.

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DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT YOUR CLIENTS?

Make the sign up process easy. However, in your welcome email ask them to visit your preference center site to fill out their preferences to receive relevant information.

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CREATE IMPLIED PREFERENCES

Use click data to help identify their preferences. This is pretty much done by the recipient clicking on a link within the email. We can use this click data to imply their preference and send campaigns to that specific demographic.

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WISHLIST PROGRAM

Use your wish list as a means to target. The customer has taken the time to fill out their wish list and has shown a level of interest in a product. You should be sending reminders about their wishlist after the holidays.

Subject Line could be: Didn’t get everything you wanted for Christmas? Super Subject Line: How about we help with 10% off your wish list today.

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SURVEY YOUR CUSTOMERS TO SEE WHAT THEY’RE THINKING

Subject Line: Your Opinion Counts Use Survey Monkey or a third party service provider to send out a survey to your customers asking for valid feedback.

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SYMBOLS IN SUBJECT LINES

• URL: http://fsymbols.com/all/#more • Just copy and paste directly in the subject line under the

template level

• Solid symbols tend to work best universally across all ISPs.

CREATE A MYSTERY OFFER

Send a mystery offer that teases your subscriber to engage. You can cater the offer based on their likelihood to engage with the email.

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MAP OUT YOUR LIFECYCLE

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Acquire

• Email Sign Up above the fold on the website.

• Sign Up found at Checkout

• Sweepstakes

Inspire

• Batch Welcome Series (Touch 1-4)

• Abandoned Cart Program

• Survey Email

• API

Welcome

• Loyalty Program

Engage

• Birthday Program

• Wishlist Program

• Abandoned Cart Program

• Mystery offer

Purchase

• Upsell / Cross sell in confirmation email

Re-Engage

• Rate and Review Program

• Abandoned Cart Program

• Winback

• Re-Engagement

Retain

• Frequency

Control

• Opt Down Unsubscriber

SIMPLE STRATEGIES TO RETAIN YOUR SUBSCRIBERS

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CLIENT RETENTION

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According to the Harvard Business School, increasing customer retention rates by 5 percent increases profits by 25 percent to 95 percent.

Let’s explore how you can best retain your customers.

Source: https://www.helpscout.net/blog/customer-retention-strategies-that-work/

CREATE LOYALTY PROGRAM

Create a Loyalty Program to keep customers close.

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Get ideal customers to be VIPs. Studies show that people love being VIP or gold members of programs. There is one caveat, though. This only works when people know there is a class below them on the totem pole.

LOYALTY PROGRAMS CAN WORK

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Source: http://www.marketingprofs.com/charts/2011/4398/loyalty-programs-boost-email-success

GREAT EXAMPLES OF LOYALTY PROGRAMS

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TRAVEL CLIENT EXAMPLES

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MARKET YOUR FOUNDATIONS

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Stand for something. The quickest way to get customers to ignore you is to not stand for anything. A study by the Corporate Executive Board that included 7,000 consumers from across the U.S. found that of those consumers who said they had a strong relationship with a brand, 64 percent cited shared values as the primary reason. If you want loyal customers, you need them to care about you.

CLIENT RETENTION

• Mailed monthly credit card processing.

• If you have a monthly membership fee, you should send a reminder their credit card is about to expire and one when it does expire.

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HOUSTON CHRONICLE - PREFERENCE CENTER

Problem: Sending to many breaking news alerts and giving too many options to opt out. Resolution: Create an opt down preference center to allow people to opt out of certain types of breaking news alerts.

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OPT DOWN STRATEGY

Link them back to the preference center site when they click unsubscribe to allow them to opt down rather than fully opt out.

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FREQUENCY CONTROL

Give your users the option to select their frequency upon sign up.

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FREQUENCY CONTROL

Update your unsubscribe page to give the subscriber the option to opt down. This is a great strategy to follow after the major onslaught of holiday traffic.

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NORDSTROM UNSUBSCRIBE

Love this one because it allows you to opt down and only receive “The Men’s Shop” emails.

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UNSUBSCRIBE SHOULD INCLUDE SOCIAL OPTIONS

Make sure to include social options as second chance.

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HAPPY MARRIAGE BETWEEN SOCIAL AND EMAIL

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ASK YOUR FACEBOOK FOLLOWERS TO JOIN YOUR NEWSLETTER LIST

Don’t be shy.

Post a monthly Facebook post asking for people to sign up for your newsletter.

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INTEGRATE CURRENT COMMENTARY INTO YOUR EMAILS

Have great feedback on Facebook? Ask for permission from the poster and include it into an email.

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SOCIAL! SOCIAL! SOCIAL!

Make sure to cross promote your other channels. Make sure your loyal email followers follow other channels.

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POST EMAIL OFFERS TO FACEBOOK AND TWITTER

Use our Social Providers Functionality To Post Offers

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1-800-FLOWERS.COM

Great Example of integrating Social into Email

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BROOKSTONE EXAMPLE

Another great way to integrate social and email.

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TIME FOR QUESTIONS!

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JOIN US FOR OUR NEXT WEBINAR

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Analytics for 2014: The Numbers that Matter

Thursday, Dec. 5 at 2 p.m. ET Speakers: Director of Services

Kristine Zimmerman Digital Marketing Coordinator Joy Ugi

Sign up!

http://www.whatcounts.com/email-marketing-resources/webinars/analytics-2014-numbers-matter/

REACH OUT TO US

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