extending your reach - strategies and tactics for growing lists
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Tim Watson, chair, DMA Email Best Practice group Enhance your email marketing workshop www.charitycomms.org.uk/eventsTRANSCRIPT
TIM WATSON
Email Marketing Consultant
About me
Agenda
• New growth opportunities
• Improve what you’ve got
• Group exercise
• Closing remarks
$690 million
How they did it
• Had a big list
• Sent a lot of emails – See
http://blog.emailexperience.org/blog/contributors-to-the-eec-blog/how-the-obama-campaign-succeeded-with-low-open-rates
• Optimised through split testing – See http://www.zettasphere.com/lessons-from-
obama-frankenstein-email-testing/
Getting over the subscribe hurdle
www.emailvision.com
Image credit: flickr fdecomite
Which of the following tactics is your organization using to drive email list growth?
Source: Emailvision
Signup location on page
ClickZ subscribe placement
Transaction process - in or out?
Ensure the ask is seen
Strike at the right time
www.emailvision.com
Blogs posts
Give idle fingers work
Simple works too
Reach out through partners
Web sign ups with incentive
13%
Social sign up 14%
Online competitions 23%
Friend get friend 2%
Partnerships 28%
Facebook Welcome 2%
Facebook voting app 5%
From online service
10%
Events 3%
Source: Lucky Voice & Emailvision
Social is helping with conversation
Turn conversation into conversion
Move followers and fans into email
What the social experts do
Social Connect
Improve what you’ve got
Source: ContentVerve
31.54% more signups
Touch points exercise
• List all touch points
• How could each be used?
• What would cause signup?
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What did you find?
bounce back example
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Which touches to use?
• Opportunity value
• Right context
• Complexity & cost
• Data accuracy
If you want more…
• Ask more often
• Ask in more places
• Ask more effectively
Oliver asks for more
Questions? Connect and get answers – Tim Watson
Twitter: @tawatson
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.zettasphere.com
LinkedIn http://uk.linkedin.com/in/tawatson
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