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Simple steps for effective Email Marketing. List segmentation, split tests, trigger emails, email personalization, multi-angle reporting.

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London, September 11, 2013BEYOND BULK EMAIL CAMPAINGS

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Are your email campaigns still in Stone Age?

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• one generic email that fits all?

• deploying all messages manually?

• dispatch and forget?

Are your email campaigns still in Stone Age

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List segmentationsend emails that are relevant

Beginners - start by using simple demographic and behavioral segmentation

Example segments:

• males vs females

• active vs inactive

• customers vs leads

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Intermediate - tag links or entire emails based on verticals.Next, segment recipients that engage with certain type of content. Example segments:

• opened messages tagged "Online games"

• clicked on links tagged "Sport"

• converted after receiving message tagged "Finance"

List segmentation send emails that are relevant

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Advanced - leverage entire purchase history to find your most valuable and loyal customers.

Example segments:

• bought any product from brand "X" in category "electronics"

• last year bought products for £1000 or more

• last 24 months average order between £200 and £500

List segmentation send emails that are relevant

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Have you grown attachedto your email template?

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What to test?

• content

• subject lines

• from fields

• delivery date & time

Split tests never stop optimizing

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How to test?

• one variable at a time

• up to 5 versions is enough

• don't look for the highest opens or clicks

Split tests never stop optimizing

Instead ... aim at the highest conversions!

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Manual vs Automated ?

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Compared to manually scheduled

email campaigns:

• 461% higher open rates *

• 200% higher click rates *

Trigger Emailsaction-driven email campaigns

* ExpertSender aggregated statistics for July 2013 comparing trigger emails to bulk campaigns

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Trigger actions:• opening a particular or any previously sent message

• clicking on a particular or any link in previously sent message

• reaching a set goal after receiving previously sent message

• change of preferences in preference center

• abandoning shopping cart

Trigger Emailsaction-driven email campaigns

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Time triggers:• hours / days passed since the last website visit

• anniversary / monthly recurring date of the past event

Trigger Emailstime-based email campaigns

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Get Personal!

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Using first name tokens to address your customers in a more direct, friendly way:• not always have to work

• is a very basic method of email personalization

Email Personalizationbeyond [first name] placeholders

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True personalization comes with Dynamic Content capabilities:• conditional statements (IF/ELSE/ELSEIF)

• retrieving content from remote servers (syndicated content)

• retrieving content from Relational Data Tables (like purchase history)

Email Personalizationbeyond [first name] placeholders

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Email Personalizationbeyond [first name] placeholders

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Email Personalizationbeyond [first name] placeholders

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Find the right perspective

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• go beyond comparing stats for single campaigns

• analyze aggregated stats to find deliverability trends

• compare opens/clicks/conversions among major ISPs (Yahoo, Gmail) to learn true inbox placement

• check engagement separately for manual bulk emails and automatic triggers

• find email address collection sources that produce the best and least performing leads

Multi-angle reporting

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Marcin LuksDirector Business Development

[email protected]

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