Econsultancy: Email Marketing

10 February 2010

Peter AbrahamEconsultancy.com

iStrategy - Email Marketing

10 Feb 2010 iStrategy - Email Marketing

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Today - Three sections...

1. Your Email Marketing capabilities and a plan to excellence.

2. Email Marketing budget allocation and ROI, how they compare to other media.

3. Challenges that affect email marketing success and some thoughts on improving.

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• People are used to it - use it every day• Adaptable to all stages in lifecycle• Cuts costs – direct mail, telemarketing• Offers short time to market• Short test to roll cycles• Infinitely personalisable• Delivers best Return on Investment...

• Agree?

Why is Email still hot?

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ROI of Digital Channels

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Who killed email? - Wall St Journal...

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Who killed email?

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Email has a widely-aged audience?

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Source:


• RSS? - hasn’t gone mass market• SMS? - no links• Twitter - maybe? But we’re still on the

adoption curve• Social networks? - maybe? still rely on

email• iPhone apps? - maybe? When the walls

come down

• So actually Email is alive and well!• It’s why you’re here isn’t it?

Who killed email?

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Integrate this stuff with your email

10 Feb 2010 iStrategy - Email Marketing05 March 2008 Advanced Email Marketing

1. Your Email Marketing capabilities and a plan to excellence

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Email staged capability matrix.Where are you on here?

1 2 3 4 5

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Source: Email Marketing Best Practice Guide: Econsultancy.com


Your email capabilities...

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Source: Econsultancy Email Marketing Best Practice Guide


Your email capabilities...

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2. Email Marketing budget allocation and ROI, how they compare to other media.

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• Email Marketing Calculator - calculate the value of your email database

• http://www.emailcenteruk.com/email-marketing-knowledge/calculator.php

What’s an Email address worth to your business? Do you know?

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http://www.emailcenteruk.com/email-marketing-knowledge/calculator.php

http://www.emailcenteruk.com/email-marketing-knowledge/calculator.php


Spend on Email Marketing

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Source: Email Marketing Census 2009: in association with Adestra (ESP): Econsultancy.com









ROI of EMail

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Spend on Email Marketing

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Budgets are moving from print to online - how much are you grabbing?

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Conversion model for email response

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3. Challenges that affect email marketing success... ...and thoughts on how to improve them - back to basics...

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Who said email was easy? It’s taken 20yrs!

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Source: The Email Best Practice Guide: Econsultancy.com


Concentrate on three things... Deliverability, measurement and monitoring! Good old fashioned marketing.

• If it gets delivered your half way home.

• If you’re measuring you’ll see trends and patterns

• If you’re monitoring you’ll know when to change tact

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What do YOU want ME to do as a customer? - Go to the website or other medium? - Register? - Buy stuff? - Turn up again soon? - Give you some feedback? - Keep the relationship alive? - Keep coming back? - Recommend you?

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Where do you need focus?



Sending less - better targeted?

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Getting your message delivered

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Improve Reputation Management - Clean your Data and up your ROI!

- Remove bounces

- Removes complainers

- Remove un-subscribes

- Your list gets smaller but the returns will be better

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Does it need to be image rich?No images required, just the facts


Would you prefer text…as part of registration process?

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Here’s a Blacklist checker…

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Source: http://www.mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx

Or get your Email provider to do it.

http://www.mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx


Self service - Adjust number of messages/alerts received

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Self service - announce other channels available

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More self service...reminders

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Gives you an excuse to bring them back


Alert me when in stock

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Clear navigation - don’t make me think - assists customer journey

Good analytical insight - feedback


If your product is complex...assist! 7 days of free training by email...Day 7


Landin page - Lazy marketing...you know me!!

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So pre-fill please - don’t make me think


Triggered

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• Use Behavioural data



What did I ask you again?Repeat back what the user asked...

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Freemium model? Up click rates

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Test factorsNew Origin subscribers•Test group slit 50/50 AB - 50 to receive the "add to address book"•Each subscriber remained in test group for three months after sign-up

Hang on...say...4.5%x AOV £25x 2,000= £50k Wow!


Simple changes...

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Source: Experian Cheetahmail Case study


ReMarketing

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•30% of UK shoppers admit that they would go back online and complete their purchases if something as simple as a small discount or free postage and packing was offered to them

Test factorsFollow-up emails to registered customers who abandon their shopping basketReminder emails about an existing shopping basketFollow-up emails to registered customers that received a system error during checkoutTargeted promotions based on an item a visitor browsedIncentive promotions for out-of-stock or back-ordered items

Source: Experian Case study


Free Shipping = Higher transactions

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But it doesn’t have to be a small purchase! Bigger bundles.

Source: Smith-Harmon_Retail_Email_Guide_to_Multichannel_Engagement.pdf


Free Shipping = Higher transactions

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Some of the best-performing campaigns are sent to small, highly targeted segments of subscribers, with both the product and free shipping offers geared to the selected audienceAND The use of dynamic content to automatically populate the most relevant product images and copy also can significantly strengthen this tactic and make it easier to employ.



Mobile - your email list just got bigger.

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•Email usage on mobile devices has nearly doubled since 2004 according to AOL, and the Email Experience Council predicts that 60% of emails will be read outside of the inbox by 2009.

•To cater to this rising demographic, create a text-only version of each email you send this year and link to it at the very top of the template, above any logos or images. Accompany this link with copy such as, “Viewing on a PDA? Click here to view this email in text.”

Source: Cheetahmail Case study


Mobile - sms alert in email

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Source: http://stylecampaign.com/

http://stylecampaign.com/


Mobile and Social - drive traffic

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Make life easier for them and you...

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Announcements - Offers to your mobile

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Just because it’s email doesn’t mean you should forget all those other channels - conversion is your goal!It’s all about Joined up marketing.


Mobile and Social

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Local personalisation

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Email and crowd sourcing

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• Email assists product marketing



Demonstrate functionality - search

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• From the ‘don’t make me think’ school of marketing



Mobile and Social

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• Use keyword insight from onsite and search engine searches to assist purchasing.

• Use Analytics to provide popular categories

• Feed back email to site customer experience team



Mobile and Social = Kickstart Viral

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Multi-channel

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Source: Cheetahmail Case study


Multi-channel - TV & Email

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Dual landing pages

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Different landing pages

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How many calls to action?Think! What do you want them to do?

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Plenty of data...

Registration Data

Transactional Data

Click-stream data

Do more analysis!

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Be Strategic. have an email testing programme

Q1 tests

Registration incentives

From Fields

Subject Lines

Q2 tests

Frequency testing

Personalisation

Price tests

Q3 tests

Automated campaigns

Re-activation strategies

Q4 tests

Segmentation models

Churn analysis

New format

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Forget about averages.You are where you are. You can’t beat your own data.

- Last campaign is benchmark

- Keep testing

- Keep measuring

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Email as Business Intelligence

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• These guys monitor email campaigns from across the US...and now twitter too


It’s all about seeing the bigger picture…

There are only a few critical areas to measure

- Segmentation size! - Open rate - Click-through rate - Conversion Rate - Average Order Value!

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Summary

- Deliverability, measurement & monitoring and testing are critical to ROI!

- Know the true value of your data, if your Email has the highest ROI, go for more budget

- Have a plan to excellence. Keep learning and assess that learning as the discipline evolves - people with skills are key, technology is only an enabler! Remember 90/10

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Thanks for your time

...why not Email your questions to me: [email protected]

For good resources - check the sources or drop me an email.

Econsultancy is a global independent community-based publisher, focused on best practice digital marketing and ecommerce. Our hub has 80,000+ members worldwide from clients, agencies and suppliers alike with over 90% member retention rate. We help our members build their internal capabilities via a combination of research reports and how-to guides, training and development, face-to-face conferences, forums and professional networking.

For the last 10 years, our resources have helped members learn, make better decisions, build business cases, find the best suppliers, accelerate their careers and lead the way in best practices and innovation.

Join Econsultancy today at http://econsultancy.com.

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