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7 Steps: How to Optimize Email Automation for Increased Sales Conversions

7 Steps: How to Optimize Email Automation for Increased Sales Conversions

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You’ve put in tons of time and effort to generate leads. You’ve used social media lead generation tactics and you’ve run successful landing page campaigns. Now what? How do you nurture your leads to increase your sales conversions? Use email automation. Email automation may not be a new concept in lead nurturing, but alarmingly, only 35% of B2B’s have an automatic email program in place. In this presentation, I give you 7 steps to optimize your email automation for sales conversions.

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7 Steps: How to Optimize Email Automation for Increased Sales Conversions

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7 Steps to Email Automation Optimization

Plan Your Campaign1

3 Identify paths, but keep it simple

Create your messages4

Develop your landing pages5

Know your Customer Sales Needs2

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A/B test, track and measure results

Optimize and repeat

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Plan Your Campaign1

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Plan Your Campaign

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List our your goals for each of your email automation campaigns

Develop your objectives so you can measure your results

Know your customer by listing out your target markets and creating personas, including their online behaviour

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Know your Customer Sales Needs2

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Know your Customer Sales Needs

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Think like your customer and what they need and want

Determine where they are in the basic sales cycle: need recognition, awareness, consideration, purchase

Ask questions your prospect would ask in each basic sales stage

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Identify paths, but keep it simple3

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Identify paths, but keep it simple

1Create a drip campaign matrix, to best connect with your prospect’s nurturing needs

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Keep your drip paths simple - overcomplicating can lead to paralysis

Add personalization tactics to deepen the relationship

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Create your messages4

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Create your messages

1 Plan out your drip campaign emails

Make each email successive to the next, deepening the ask with your prospects

Create subject lines and email copy that convert

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Develop your landing pages5

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Develop your landing pages

1Determine how many landing pages you need, to A/B test, or create successive click-throughs

Keep your landing pages consistent with your email messages

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3 Use landing page templates to make building your HTML and creatives easier

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A/B test, track and measure results6

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A/B test, track and measure results

1 A/B test a number of variables in your automated email marketing campaigns (such as subject line, trigger landing page, and your CTA)

Set up UTM tracking codes, and other measuring metrics to track your results

Measure and analyze your results to optimize your conversion rates and continuously improve

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Optimize and repeat7

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Optimize and repeat

1Continually optimize your email automation lead nurturing campaigns

Once you begin achieving the results you need, continue to run the automated emails

Watch your sales conversions grow

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