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Email marketing
Our Journey…so far
e-marketing and how to avoid becoming just another spam’er
Part 1: Planning
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Manage the customers e-experience with RepublicMEDIA
e-mail marketing: Part of RepublicMEDIA e-strategy
All electronic experiences:
azcentral
Drive repeat traffic to site
Build brand as a destination
email marketing
Sell our products
Deliver qualified leads to advertisers
Generate revenue via advertising
e-transactions
Recognize customer interactions
Retain or renew existing customers
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First the bad news…
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Spam, on a
typical
afternoon.. 94% of what you see in the in-box is spam.
Source: Postini 1/10/07
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Spam reports in 24hrs
Source: http://www.spamcop.net/spamgraph.shtml?spamstats
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Spam is BAD
e-mail Marketing is GOOD!
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Decision point
e-mail marketing: Not worth the trouble, stop?
or
e-mail marketing: Must do as a part of changed business model?
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The e-mail Marketing Experience
Advertising Customer
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The e-mail Marketing Experience
Internal Product Promotion
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The e-mail Marketing Experience Newsletters
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Many Questions to Ask entering e-marketing
Dedication/commitment of resources?
Brand consistency?
What is the company’s goal and purpose of using email marketing?
Do you use email authentication or not?
Formal deliverability management team?
Do you formalize delivery testing methodology?
Who will manage ISP relationships?
Is content tested across major in-boxes?
How clean are data practices (opt-in/out, address sharing)?
Is permission asked to mail the customer?
How frequently to mail?
Response measurements in place?
Are messages guiding recipients to manage their address book?
What brand is used for the “From” (azcentral or The Arizona Republic)?
Spam filter avoidance techniques in place?
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Developing a RepublicMEDIA e-mail strategy
• Identify qualitative goals
• Analyze the current situation
• Simplify current processes
• Complete a competitive analysis
• Define the target audience
• Determine which types of e-mail meet our needs
• Develop a content strategy
• Set the frequency and send schedule
• Create quantitative goals
• Compile budget and ROI projections
• Evaluate results and tweak strategy accordingly
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Identify qualitative goals
• Sell and our products
• Generate revenue via advertising
• Deliver qualified leads to advertisers
• Entice people to register for events.
• Drive repeat traffic to azcentral
• Build our reputation as a trusted source
• Keep azcentral top of mind with prospects
e-mail marketing goals:
All qualitative goals revolve around one of two things:
Acquiring new customers and/or revenue
Retaining or renewing existing customers and/or revenue
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Developing a RepublicMEDIA e-mail strategy
• Identify qualitative goals
• Analyze the current situation
• Simplify current processes
• Complete a competitive analysis
• Define the target audience
• Determine which types of e-mail meet our needs
• Develop a content strategy
• Set the frequency and send schedule
• List control
• Create quantitative goals
• Compile budget and ROI projections
• Evaluate results and tweak strategy accordingly
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Analyze current situation
e-mail sent each week:
• Breaking Newsletters
• Internal Marketing communication
• Advertising communication
Delivery tools:
• Relationals
• Maestro
• Exact Target
• Lotus Notes
• Recruitment Advertising
• Real Estate Advertising
• Marketing/Business Development (via Digital Media group)
• Digital Media group
• Circulation
• Individual sales reps
Delivered by:
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Analyze current situation
How many email addresses do we have:
• Newsletter/breaking news subscribers:
•Opt-in for commercial email:
•Circulation subscribers/ex-subscribers:
•Businesses:
• Real Estate:
• Recruitment:
• General business:
• Classified: (Transient)
• No more than X a X per e-address for commercial
• ???? times per month per e-address for newsletters/breaking news
• Weekly sends for Real Estate/Recruitment
Frequency of email:
Analysis (in some areas) based on:
• Sends
• Opens
• Bounces
• Click thru
• Sales generated (attempt to do)
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Our Opt-in List (Opt-in for advertising)
As of March 2007
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Our list: Advertising Opt-in List
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Developing a RepublicMEDIA e-mail strategy
• Identify qualitative goals
• Analyze the current situation
• Simplify current processes
• Complete a competitive analysis
• Define the target audience
• Determine which types of e-mail meet our needs
• Develop a content strategy
• Set the frequency and send schedule
• List control
• Create quantitative goals
• Compile budget and ROI projections
• Evaluate results and tweak strategy accordingly
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Current processes
SAOE Mactive
Relationals
Opt-out scrub
Opt out Request
Maestro
Opt-out scrub
Opt out Request
SAOE Mactive
(B 2 B) (B 2 B and B 2 C)
Breaking News
(B 2 Anyone)
Exact Target
Opt-out scrub
Circ2000
Maestro
Opt-out scrub
(B 2 Anyone)
Quickclick
Advertising/Business Development/On-line Circulation Info Center
Opt out Request Opt out Request
Current Process
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Updated Process
SAOE Mactive
Relationals Exact Target
Opt-out scrub
Opt out Request
SAOE Mactive
(B 2 B) (B 2 C)
Breaking News
(B 2 Anyone)
Circ2000
(B 2 Anyone)
Quickclick
Advertising/Business Development/On-line Circulation Info Center
Step 3: Add cross system opt-out Final view
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Developing a RepublicMEDIA e-mail strategy
• Identify qualitative goals
• Analyze the current situation
• Simplify current processes
• Complete a competitive analysis
• Define the target audience
• Determine which types of e-mail meet our needs
• Develop a content strategy
• Set the frequency and send schedule
• List control
• Create quantitative goals
• Compile budget and ROI projections
• Evaluate results and tweak strategy accordingly
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Competitive analysis
• Who is the competition
• Local
• B 2 B
• Job sites
• Television sites
• Radio
• National
• B 2 B
• Job sites
• News sites (search engines)
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Developing a RepublicMEDIA e-mail strategy
• Identify qualitative goals
• Analyze the current situation
• Simplify current processes
• Complete a competitive analysis
• Define the target audience
• Determine which types of e-mail meet our needs
• Develop a content strategy
• Set the frequency and send schedule
• List control
• Create quantitative goals
• Compile budget and ROI projections
• Evaluate results and tweak strategy accordingly
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Target Audience
• Generational /Age based
– Boomers
– Gen X
– Millennial (Gen Y)
• Interests
– Newsletters
– Advertising Opt-in
– Page view history to predict/align advertising (future)
– Print Interests
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Developing a RepublicMEDIA e-mail strategy
• Identify qualitative goals
• Analyze the current situation
• Simplify current processes
• Complete a competitive analysis
• Define the target audience
• Determine which types of e-mail meet our needs
• Develop a content strategy
• Set the frequency and send schedule
• List control
• Create quantitative goals
• Compile budget and ROI projections
• Evaluate results and tweak strategy accordingly
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Types of emails
meeting needs
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Business to Consumer
HTML with
Text underlay
Optimized for
top three in-boxes
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Types of emails
meeting needs
Business to Business
Text Optimized for
top three in-boxes
Future build to
introduce HTML
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Types of emails
meeting needs
Newsletter
Text Optimized for
top three in-boxes
Future build to
introduce HTML
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Developing a RepublicMEDIA e-mail strategy
• Identify qualitative goals
• Analyze the current situation
• Simplify current processes
• Complete a competitive analysis
• Define the target audience
• Determine which types of e-mail meet our needs
• Develop a content strategy
• Set the frequency and send schedule
• List control
• Create quantitative goals
• Compile budget and ROI projections
• Evaluate results and tweak strategy accordingly
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Content Strategy
• The over riding principle of our email
marketing efforts:
• Build our reputation as a trusted source
• Keep RepublicMEDIA top of mind with prospects
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Developing a RepublicMEDIA e-mail strategy
• Identify qualitative goals
• Analyze the current situation
• Simplify current processes
• Complete a competitive analysis
• Define the target audience
• Determine which types of e-mail meet our needs
• Develop a content strategy
• Set the frequency and send schedule
• List control
• Create quantitative goals
• Compile budget and ROI projections
• Evaluate results and tweak strategy accordingly
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Email frequency
• Commercial mail no more than .
• A single advertiser no more than .
• A RepublicMedia promotional piece at least once a month. – To keep brand and company name top of mind.
• Take lead from readers. – Monitor opt in/out trends
– Give readers a choice
• Watch trends – Declining response, open and click-thru rates can be signs of
contact fatigue. Don’t assume – people prefer to forward to spam/delete folders rather than unsubscribe.
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Developing a RepublicMEDIA e-mail strategy
• Identify qualitative goals
• Analyze the current situation
• Simplify current processes
• Complete a competitive analysis
• Define the target audience
• Determine which types of e-mail meet our needs
• Develop a content strategy
• Set the frequency and send schedule
• List control
• Create quantitative goals
• Compile budget and ROI projections
• Evaluate results and tweak strategy accordingly
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List control
• Circulation list – Subscriber/Ex-subscriber list
– E-billing (future)
– Transactional (future: stop/start/vacation/missed delivery)
• azcentral list – Newsletter subscribers
– Advertising opt-in list
• Advertising list – Relationals (Contract businesses)
– Mactive (Transient)
• Overlapping addresses – Opportunity for duplication of messages: over-sending
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Developing a RepublicMEDIA e-mail strategy
• Identify qualitative goals
• Analyze the current situation
• Simplify current processes
• Complete a competitive analysis
• Define the target audience
• Determine which types of e-mail meet our needs
• Develop a content strategy
• Set the frequency and send schedule
• List control
• Create quantitative goals
• Compile budget and ROI projections
• Evaluate results and tweak strategy accordingly
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Qualitative Next Steps: Measures
•Reporting metrics
• Sends
• Bounces
• Opens (identify consistent non-opening addresses)
• Unsubscribes
• Click thru
• Sales
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Tracking The Consumer Experience
Campaign Planning process
• Advertiser Needs
• Customer Behaviour
Post Campaign Analysis
• Advertising Result
• Customer Behaviour
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Developing a RepublicMEDIA e-mail strategy
• Identify qualitative goals
• Analyze the current situation
• Simplify current processes
• Complete a competitive analysis
• Define the target audience
• Determine which types of e-mail meet our needs
• Develop a content strategy
• Set the frequency and send schedule
• Create quantitative goals
• Compile budget and ROI projections
• Evaluate results and tweak strategy accordingly
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Budget and ROI projections
Sorry……….you’re on your own.
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Developing a RepublicMEDIA e-mail strategy
• Identify qualitative goals
• Analyze the current situation
• Simplify current processes
• Complete a competitive analysis
• Define the target audience
• Determine which types of e-mail meet our needs
• Develop a content strategy
• Set the frequency and send schedule
• Create quantitative goals
• Compile budget and ROI projections
• Evaluate results and tweak strategy accordingly