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Email Marketing Power

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Email Kicks Ass

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Ringing! 79% use their smartphone for reading email… a higher

percentage than those who use it for making calls.*

In bed with you!

72% read email before getting out of bed**

Your email device is...

*source: Adobe – “2013 Digital Publishing Report: Retail Apps & Buying Habits**source: Mailchimp

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#1 Channel for permission-based marketing:

77% prefer to get marketing messages via emailvs

9% over the phone and 5% via SMS

#1 Channel for sharing:63% prefer to share content with friends/family via

email33% via Facebook

29% via phone

Source: Exact Target 2012 Channel Preference Survey

Email Marketing is...

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How often do you use the following?

Source: Exact Target 2012 Channel Preference Survey @manamica @digimegaphone

Emails Place in ContentMarketing

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LIST GROWTH

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How do I get more subscribers?

1.Ask

2.Make a promise

3. Set expectations

4. Deliver

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POP QUIZ!

a.Illegal

b.Rude

c.Ineffective

d.…all of the above

Sending unsolicited email is…

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Before…Before…

After…After…

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1900% increase. Not bad!1900% increase. Not bad!

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Why it worksWhy it works

1.Prominence

2.Promise

3.Proof

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GOOD

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BAD

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GET OPENEDsender name, subject lines and timing

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Sender Name

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Sender Name = Human

- Sonia Simone

Be a Be a PersonPerson

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Hi,

One of the business owners from Goldman Sachs program took your advice to use her name in her 'from' email. As a result, her open rate went from 20% to 39%.

People also responded to the email so it helped with customer service and client interaction.

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Subject Lines

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1.Subject lines fewer than 10 characters long had an open rate of 58%.

2.Personalized subject lines are 22.2% more likely to be opened.

3.For B2B companies, subject lines that contained “money,” “revenue,” and “profit” performed the best. 

4.64% of people say they open an email because of the subject line.

1.Adestra July 2012 Report

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BEST for open rates

•Posts1.Jobs2.Survey3.Week’s4.E-newsletter5.Issue6.Digest7.Bulletin8.Edition

Source: HubSpot, Science of Email Marketing, February 2011 @manamica @digimegaphone

WORST for deliverability

•Confirm1.Features2.Upgrade3.Magic4.Raffle5.Rewards6.Requested7.Follow Up8.Coupon

Source: HubSpot, Science of Email Marketing, February 2011 @manamica @digimegaphone

Tell, Don’t Sell

“…the best subject lines tell what’s insideand the worst sell what’s inside”

Source: MailChimp Email Marketing Subject Line Comparison@manamica @digimegaphone

Hot or cold, but never warm

Source: HubSpot, Science of Email Marketing, February 2011 @manamica @digimegaphone

Speaking of sentiment…

Source: “What Makes Online Content Viral?” Berger, Milkman, Wharton Business School

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Email Timing

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When To Send: Day of Week

Source: HubSpot, Science of Email Marketing, February 2011

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When To Send: Day of Week

Source: HubSpot, Science of Email Marketing, February 2011

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When To Send: Time of Day

Source: HubSpot, Science of Email Marketing, February 2011

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Other Impacts

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Beat the Spam Filter1. Don’t Spam!

2. Increase your text to image ratio

3. Make sure your email has an html and text version

4. Don’t use all caps

5. Avoid certain words that trigger red flags: free$xanaxviagrafree50%100%

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Google Tabs

Before After

ISPOpen Rate

Click Rate

Google 27% 9%

Yahoo 36% 9%

Other 36% 11%

ISPOpen Rate

Click Rate

Google 26% 3%

Yahoo 32% 2%

Other 28% 3%

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Yahoo Email Recycling What to expect

Yahoo will send bounce back emails alerting senders that the deactivated account no longer exists.

Yahoo will unsubscribe these accounts

If your list has a lot of Yahoo addresses you may see:•More Bounce-backs•More Unsubscribes

Why

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GET CLICKEDmobile friendly, magazine, segmentation

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Ouch!

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Mobile Friendly

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Be mobile or be deleted

Source: Litmus @manamica @digimegaphone

The Mobile Inbox

Your first line of textmatters!

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Mobile Email #FAIL

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Responsive Email

Desktop

Mobile

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Not Responsive… Not Responsive… but still mobile friendlybut still mobile friendly

1. Content on the left2. Buttons AND Links3. Big text4. Use “alt” tags and links

for images

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Make a Magazine

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Lots of Links

Source: HubSpot, Science of Email Marketing, February 2011 M

Source: HubSpot, Science of Email Marketing, February 2011

Lots of Links

M

Magazine: Curate

• 1 Featured Article• 2 Articles from others• Promoted eBook• Tweets, jobs, etc.

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Magazine: S, M, L

• 1 Featured Article• Statistic• Event, Video, etc.• Recent Projects• “SEO Horoscope”• Other Links

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Segmentation

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Get Data Smart - Split Your List“Seriously? Database says cat, female, high probability she hates water…” #fail

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Get Data Smart - Split Your List

“Hey, I’d click on that!…but I ate the mouse.”

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TESTING & TRACKING

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Testing

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What to test? Subject Lines? Landing Pages?What to test? Subject Lines? Landing Pages?

Source: 2011 MarketingSherpa Email Marketing Benchmark Survey

Measure & Improve: A/B Testing

Source: MailChimp

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Tracking

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Campaign Tracking

Campaign Tracking

Thank you, Email!

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Numbers: Sent, Delivered, Opens and Clicks

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Rates: Sent, Delivered, Opens and Clicks

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Measure, Test, Improve

1.Watch your stats

2.Listen for feedback

3.Experiment: landing pages,

subject lines, sender name,

formatting, topics, timing, layout

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BOTTOM LINE

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Bottom Line

“Send timely, targeted,

relevant, valuable emails

to people who asked for

them.”

DJ WaldowWaldow SocialSource: Internet Marketing for Smart People Radio

Thank you!

@digimegaphoneMana Ionescu @manamicamana@lightspandigital.comLightspanDigital.com