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Tim Watson, chair, DMA Email Best Practice group Enhance your email marketing workshop www.charitycomms.org.uk/events

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TIM WATSON

Email Marketing Consultant

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About me

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Agenda

• New growth opportunities

• Improve what you’ve got

• Group exercise

• Closing remarks

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$690 million

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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/

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Getting over the subscribe hurdle

www.emailvision.com

Image credit: flickr fdecomite

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Which of the following tactics is your organization using to drive email list growth?

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Source: Emailvision

Signup location on page

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ClickZ subscribe placement

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Transaction process - in or out?

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Ensure the ask is seen

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Strike at the right time

www.emailvision.com

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Blogs posts

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Give idle fingers work

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Simple works too

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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

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Social is helping with conversation

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Turn conversation into conversion

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Move followers and fans into email

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What the social experts do

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Social Connect

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Improve what you’ve got

Source: ContentVerve

31.54% more signups

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Touch points exercise

• List all touch points

• How could each be used?

• What would cause signup?

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What did you find?

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bounce back example

Header

Footer

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Which touches to use?

• Opportunity value

• Right context

• Complexity & cost

• Data accuracy

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If you want more…

• Ask more often

• Ask in more places

• Ask more effectively

Oliver asks for more

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Questions? Connect and get answers – Tim Watson

Twitter: @tawatson

Email: [email protected]

Web: http://www.zettasphere.com

LinkedIn http://uk.linkedin.com/in/tawatson

Get more email marketing strategy and updates to your inbox TEXT GetTips and your email address to 84101 Or visit http://www.zettasphere.com/signup/

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