how to destroy your email program
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HOW TO DESTROY YOUR
EMAIL PROGRAM
January 14th, 2011
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Bury the sign up at the bottom of the page.
Make it 3 pt font and smaller than all other
text on the page.
Never test placement of your email sign up.
If they do find it make them go to another
page and require 15 pieces of information from
them that you will never use.
Make sure you make the social media
buttons way larger and more prominent than
your email sign up, because you can easily
measure revenue on them.
What about hide and seek on the unsubscribe?
6 points for email1. Put it all the way at the bottom and make the subscriber scroll and scroll
and scroll.
2. Make it so they need a magnifying glass to find it buried in the legal
mumbo jumbo.
3. After they click unsubscribe tell them it might take 9 days to process
and then send them more email in the meantime.
4. When they unsubscribe, send them an email asking them if they meant
to unsubscribe. Rinse and repeat….over and over.
5. Offer no link. Ask them to reply to the email with the word
“unsubscribe” in the subject line. Make the reply address
6. Lighten the text wherever the unsubscribe is so its hard to read.
#4 – Get Dirty
Ask the real tough questions in your program
POLL TIME
Do you know how long it has
been since subscribers opened
or clicked your email?
1 week
3 months
Never
Who cares
Who Cares….keep them on your list.
In.ac.tive [in-ak-tiv]:
adj.
1. Potential
Antonym: Not dead yet.
Things you should do to keep being dirty.
1. Forget about purging inactives. Who cares if they aren’t responding to your email. They might one day….right?
2. Your reputation means nothing with the ISP’s. Just set up a separate sub-domain when it goes bad.
3. Never take an active part in your delivery and put all your eggs in one basket.
4. Feedback loops are for wimps. Live dangerously and never check to see what your spam complaints are.
5. Increase your frequency to your inactives. Eventually they will unsubscribe or buy something.
6. Cave into pressure from senior level management and keep everyone on your list for as long as you can.
Send more. Make more.
Short term gain.
Who cares about long
term effects.
POLL TIME
Do you feel as if you send
too much or too little email?
too much
too little
I don’t know
60 emails
in 25 days.
82 emails in
44 days.
61 in November…
but wait, there’s more
Source: Chad White – The Retail Email Blog
64 thru December 27…
118Source: Chad White – The Retail Email Blog
Forget this stuff.
Why even tell them?
POLL TIME
Do you feel your acquisition
goals are realistic?
heck yeah
heck no
what goals?
3
7
Set unattainable goals
+ 10,500%
3
8
Live the dream…
Sanity Check
Oink. Oink.① Send as much email as
you can. Send it to the
point where the subscriber
can’t take it anymore. All
for the sake of making
your revenue number
today.
② Acquire email address
from any source you can
get your hands on. Never
measure the long term
impact of each of the
sources.
③ Buy a list of 50,000,000
email address for $99 or
less.
④ Cram as much content into
your emails as you can.
⑤ Never change. Never test.
Assume that since you are
making money, everything
is ok.
W
h
Social Media is
the new cool kid.
In 2010, 60% of US
Internet users ages
35 to 44 and one-half
of those in the 45-to-
54 age group will use
social networks at
least once a month.
- eMarketer
W
h
Email is for
old people
In fact…have you heard its dead
ABANDON SHIP!!!!
Email is not a
conversation?
27% of business executives worldwide
said they had already integrated social
media strategy into the email
marketing strategy. An additional 24%
said they have formulated an
integration strategy and are currently
researching implementation tactics. -
eMarketer
18% of business executives wanted to
add social components to their e-mail
campaigns and did not know where to
begin. - eMarketer
90% of respondents plan to integrate
social media into their email
campaigns in 2010. - GetResponse
DID YOU?...Really?
All right, we got
10,000 fans!
……now what?
Now this is
integration!!
43% of respondents revealed that they don’t need to show
positive ROI to get social media funding from their organization.
- King Fish Media
Does email have a seat at the table?
70% of email marketers say they don't have enough staff to prove ROI.
- EmailStatCenter.com
Make email
marketing the
myspace of the
marketing
department…
Get sucked in.
1. Hire twice as many people dedicated to social media.
2. Everyone knows that getting 10,000 likes on facebook is better than 5,000 email address.
3. Don’t follow anyone on twitter, just get followers and copy your email subject lines into your tweets. Its FREE!!
4. Triple your social media budget and steal the money from your alloted ESP’s money.
5. Send out 140 character emails.
6. In fact…abandon your email program for a quarter and watch the revenue pour in.
#1
E.E.
Blame others
when you
don’t execute
Email: So simple a
monkey can do it
Make email a priority
for someone with
other responsibilities
Always worry about how
your program is doing
compared to others.
Burn what you have or will learn.
But that’s not all…
#.75 Gut vs. Data
I like the
blue
button
Our
competitor
is doing it.
We should
do it too
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