Email Marketing: Simple Strategies for Success

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Email Marketing:Simple Strategies for Success

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Shelly CedarbladeOwnerWoo! Social Media Marketing

[email protected]

facebook.com/woosocialmediamarketing

@SCedarblade

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• Email is marketing• Email is more than “email”• What do you write about?• “Now, Later or Never”

three little words that rule your world

• Drive responses & action• Next steps

Agenda

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agenda

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at its core, marketing is abouteliciting a physical and measureable

RESPONSE

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1. Define an audience 2. run a campaign that targets those people

it’s pretty simple

3. Elicit a physical, measurable response

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when you’re really marketing…

real marketing helps remove emotion and assumption from the decision-making process

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if that doesn’t work, stop doing that. if this works, do more of this.


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re-work it, re-word it, move it to another spot, try again and see if they realize that they care.


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a “NO” isn’t a failure, it’s great insight and data at very low cost


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look at this email newsletter

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look at this email newsletter

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• Lots of physical, measurable response

• Easy to brand with colors, logos, etc…

• 4x the ROI of direct mail*

• Helps to measure and monetize social media

• Authentic engagement with a one-to-many tool

Highly visible, delivered right to the inbox!

email is hard to beat for real marketing value

* Direct Marketing Association

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you rely on word-of-mouth

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you rely on word-of-mouth

“Forward” and “Share” are your new best friends

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flip the funneltraditional marketing

find

keep

convert

new marketing

find

keep

convert

“Flip The Funnel: Retention is the New Acquisition”-- Joe Jaffe (@jaffejuice)

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you

meet

there’s a cycle to relationships

you do more

business

you do business

you

talk

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reach past your own list!

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how can you grow your list?

of consumers will fill out a card to receive email alerts when asked to by a clerk at a local small business.

Source: Transact Media Group

57%

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at register with the check at

end of the meal

on registrationforms

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• Text to join• QR Code opt-in• Sign-up on your

website• Mobile apps

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it comes back to word-of-mouth

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agenda

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where to start?what should I write about?

when should I send my email?

how do I get it opened?

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what should I write about

• what you know that they don’t

• what you have access to that they don’t

• “original” isn’t required… just be interesting and relevant

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what types of emails are there

discounts +coupons

downloads

supporta cause

eventinvites

hints + tips

B2B services

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LESS IS MORE. FOCUS.• Keep it short

• Pictures are key, but keep them small

• Videos get clicked

how much is enough

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a picture is worth…

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repurpose and reuse

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make it easy on yourself

• focus on a theme or topic

• write articles or find related resources on a single subject

• come up with a weekly or monthly theme

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give it a try…

• write down 3 things that you know that “they” don’t

• write down 3 things that you have access to that they don’t

• write down the top 3 questions you get from your audiences

• this is your starter content!

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win the battleof priorities• who is it “from?”• what’s the “subject?”• when do you send your

communication?

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WHO IS IT FROM?winning the battle of priorities

how will you be most recognizable?

SPAM

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2SECONDS 2WORDS 2TODAY

SUBJECT OR HEADLINEwinning the battle of priorities

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SUBJECT OR HEADLINEwinning the battle of priorities

[don’t do this] March Newsletter

[do this instead] Tomorrow: Need 3 Hammers – Can You Help?

[don’t do this] Joe’s Pet Store Newsletter

[do this instead] 3 Tips: help your dog beat the heat

[don’t do this] Children’s Classes

[do this instead] Limited Spaces available for Children’s Classes

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WHEN TO SEND & POST• for social media

• 3-5 times a week is plenty• use automated tools to help

• for email• monthly is most common • when are they likely to take the action

you want?

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1. divide your list into 3 groups of people

2. select three days in the week to test

3. send your e-mail, watch for best response

FIND YOUR BEST DAY

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FIND YOUR BEST TIME4. use same 3 groups

of people5. select three times on

the day with the best results

6. send email at 3 different times of day

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WHEN TO SEND & POST

best day best time

DO NOT BE ROMANCED BY A HIGH

OPEN RATE – MEASURE ACTIONS!

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• 67% don’t see images by default

• text links get more clicks than buttons

• place your logo left or center in email

• include company name in text

• key action must be above scroll line

• do not give too many choices

• make all images clickable (and with text labels)

test it on yourself!(and on your mobile device)

PRACTICAL ADVICE

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have ONE objective

• know what you want them to do• fewer choices mean more action• make it easy and obvious

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fewer choices mean more action

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VS

Outsold 3-1

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make it easy and obvious

• One click away• Above the scroll line• Left or center, avoid right• Not just a graphic, include text link

as well• Not in a list of other options• Make sure you measure response

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never send the whole article

How do you know if they cared?• Post or email a short tease• A few sentences• Link to full piece on your website

or blog• Or link to PDF in Constant

Contact account• Save list of readers in a separate

category for later

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Click to read more…

SAVE AS LIST

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Want more referrals?

Just like real life, you have to ask…• Add Forward to a Friend• Turn on Social Share bar• Include Join My Mailing List• Offer something special• Use Simple Share• Make sure to archive your emails

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save some time

• welcome emails

• auto-responders

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Be yourself!• Use conversational copy

• Include photos of people: you, your staff, etc.

• Once in a while, pull back the curtain

– “I’m running in a 5K”– “Here’s my dog at the

park”

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