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Effective European Performance Based Email Marketing for Affiliates

Introduction

Speakers

James LittleClient Services DirectorAffiliateFuture UK

Peter ChaplinDirectorFreeMaxMedia

Jim MansfieldCEOIntela

An Introduction to Email

• Over 100 billion emails are sent every day across the globe• European internet users now at over 425 million...

• Email remains the primary reason for an individual to go online• Users spend approx 80% of their time online on email.

Email Marketing S.W.O.T

Strengths, Weakness, Opportunity, Threats

Affiliate Marketing through Email

Affiliate Marketing through Email

• SPEED & TIMING

• SEGMENTATION

• MULTIPLE CALL TO ACTION POINTS

• PERSONALISATION

• OPTIMISATION & ROI

Affiliate Marketing through Email

• COST IMPLICATIONS

• CREATIVE AVAILABILITY

• CAPPED PROGRAMS

Affiliate Marketing through Email

• CREATE NEW MEDIA

• MONETISE AN UNUSED ASSET

• IMPROVE CONVERSION RATE

• PERSONAL & ANTICIPATED

• REACH A WIDER, UNTAPPED AUDIENCE

Affiliate Marketing through Email

• LEGALITIES, ‘SPAM’ & REPUTATION

• RETURN ON INVESTMENT

• LOSS MAKING POTENTIAL

European Regulations and Best Practice

What the different laws are for Opt in and complaints

Getting into the Inbox

Privacy LawsEU Directive – the Privacy and Electronic Communications Act 2003

Registration example

ISP Reputation

Summary

Privacy law compliance is essentialBut Inbox delivery is the hardest partAnd one leaving point….FaceBook could change the game again

Segmentation and Testingin European Email Marketing

Email in Europe

• Bigger, mainstream brands seem to opt for email in Europe, which means they demand more control over their affiliate programmes

What to Expect• The email affiliate should expect:

– To always use only advertiser approved ‘from’ and ‘subject’ lines

– To prepare a test message prior to every broadcast (broadcast cannot go out unless message is advertiser approved)

– Specific date and times for campaigns to go out that are agreed upon by advertiser and publisher

– All leads are subject to approval by advertiser – there is no guaranteed payment on pixel fire. Make sure to understand payment terms prior to doing business, they are often times longer than in the UK or US

Segmentation

• Benefits– Higher CPM rates– More efficient use of infrastructure– Relevance to user

• The top three fields would be:– Gender, age, & postcode

Segmentation by Interest

Accident Advice -NT

Accident Advice -T

Financial -NT

Financial -T

Gaming -NT

Gaming -T

Health&Beauty -NT

Health&Beauty -T

Prize Draw -NT

Prize Draw -T

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Offer Vertical eCPMssplit by Targeted (T) and NonTargeted (NT)

Testing

• We test an offer to our clicker file to gauge performance

• Offer performance is judged by eCPM• If the eCPM is higher than the average eCPM

for that list, we will broadcast to the rest of our database

Seat CampaignDelivered 57561

Opens 2693

Open % 4.68%

Clicks 714

Click % 26.51%

Revenue $1,303.26

EPC $1.83

eCPM $22.64

eCPM by Country

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Case Studies

o Campaign Name: Moon Bingo

o Campaign Objective: Generation of depositing players for launch of their re-designed website. Emphasis on quality + quantity

Ongoing campaign since May 2009

Campaign Examples – Moon Bingo (UK)

Case Study – Moon Bingo & OfferX

Type Volume CPM EPC

Test Campaign 20,000 £21.00 £7.63

Rollout 1 200,000 £17.67 £7.41

Rollout 2 500,000 £15.12 £6.89

Total Volume - 1 month 720,000 £15.99 £7.07

o Campaign Name: Planeta Directo

o Campaign Objective: Generation of qualified leads for the sale of Planeta’s range of products

Ongoing campaign since February 2009

Campaign Examples – Planeta Directo (Spain)

Case Study – Planeta Directo

• Email advertising through AffiliateFuture accounts for approx 23% of all sales Planeta generates through all online channels (not only affiliate marketing).

• Average conversion from lead to sale is 10% across all affiliates. This conversion rate increase to an average of 16% and a high of 30% for some products when promoted through email as a channel.

• Through email marketing, AffiliateFuture has helped this client to increase their gross margin by over 25% on the products we promote.

• Planeta Directo sees the following as the core benefits of email marketing as an affiliate channel – segmentation, improved conversion and the ability to drive high volume in a short time period..

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