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Mail & Digital: unlock more value from your customer relationships…

How Direct Mail should COMPLEMENT Email, not compete with it

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Building on research by Royal Mail and other independent sources, this presentation is packed with interesting figures about how people consume information in todays digital world, yet physical mail still has its part to play.

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Mail & Digital: unlock more value from your customer relationships…

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How? By understanding…

The impact of the digital revolution

Mail’s enduring strengths

How to use mail and email

together

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2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Apple launch the iPhone in

November

696th most visited site

Active 3G connections

29%

50% increase since 2008 with

19m live accounts

iPad released SMS outstrips voice calls for the first time

UK households own on average

3 mobile enabled devices

48% of emails are read on a

smartphone

33m users with 83% access via a mobile device

1 million UK accounts

One in ten (9%) of households own more than one

tablet and half of owners say they

couldn't live without them, up

from 34% last year

Remember when there were no iPhones? You should do!

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Source: Econsultancy Marketing Budgets 2013 Report

71%of companies are investing more in digital marketing

technology

The digital craze…

But…

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Source: Litmus Email Analytics, August 2013

We’re living in a fast pace, mobile world where we are becoming ever more ruthless with our digital inboxes…

51%of emails are deleted within

2 seconds

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The challenge?

To maximize the benefits

of email

This is where the strength of mail comes in…

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Source: Quadrangle, Mail & Digital, Part 1 2013

open all the mailthey receive69% 32% open all

they receive

Mail has higher engagement rates…

Mail Email

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Source: Quadrangle, Mail & Digital, Part 1 2013

say they receivetoo much mail47%

70% say they receivetoo many emails

100’s of emails in your inbox sound familiar?

Mail

Email

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1–in–3 not only look forward to the post arriving, but are disappointed if they don’t receive anything

Source: DMA From Letterbox to Inbox: Building customer relationships, 2013

70%enjoy receiving vouchers, coupons and discounts through the post

Mail is valued more by consumers in a digital world

1–in–4 would give up internet on their mobile compared to 1–in–10 who would give up their letterbox

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Source: Quadrangle, Mail & Digital, Part 1 2013

1–in–4leave their post out to revisit later

Making time for the post…

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Email and mail have unique yet complementary roles

mail + email = improved customer relations

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Even customers say they want a bit of both…

51%prefer

companies to use a

combination of both email and

mail

Source: DMA From Letterbox to Inbox: Building customer relationships, 2013

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Why?

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Email

Mail

Mail’s key strengths…

Feel more valued

Spend time reading it

Grabs attention

Delivers a brand impression

Easy to take in

17%57%

27%56%

31%56%

17%55%

36%48%

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* Our Neuroscience study of 160 adults supports this fact and shows that messages delivered by mail are encoded into long-term memory and have greater impact than TV or email

Mail is best for a more memorable message*

57%Say they are more likely to remember a message by

email

32%Remember messages

delivered by email

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Email

Mail

Email’s key strengths…

Easy to file

Confirmations and follow ups

Easy to respond to

57%

83%

40%

21%

14%

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34%

Does using email and mail together have any effect? Yes! Together the mediums create uplift in action

13%uplift on driving

consumersto a website

22%uplift onpurchase

uplift on using acoupon or voucher

Source: Quadrangle, Mail & Digital, Part 1 2013

When compared to using either on its own

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Mail

Source: Quadrangle, Mail & Digital, Part 1 2013

What do mail and email get customers to do?

Email

Thinking &Feeling

Knowing & Doing

Gets customers

Gets customers

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Mail and email can work together to support you through theentire customer life cycle…

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21%

Brochures and catalogues

Welcome packs

Bills or statements

Loyalty rewards

Issues or complaints

Information from companies not used before

Other products and services

Confirmation or follow-up messages

News and updatesReminders

63%

62%

53%

49%

40%

23%

26%

27%

42%

36%

43%

54%

57%

62%

39%

26%

22%

21%

17%

EmailMail

Source: Quadrangle, Mail & Digital, Part 1 2013

Do customers prefer mail or email… it depends!

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Use email primarily for

Information

Clickthroughs

Confirmations

Time-sensitive promotions

News

Status/account updates

Feedback

Use both selectively for

Billing

Thank yous

Welcome

Renewal

Newsletters

Notifications

Invitations

Reminders

Use mail primarily for

Letters

Catalogues

Coupons

Magazines

Brochures

Rewards

Samples

Official/legal

Tactile/creative

Arts programmes

Source: Quadrangle, Mail & Digital, Part 1 2013

How to get the best out of both

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An example of how you might use mail and email together

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Case Study: Monarch

A recent Monarch Airlines campaign featured a teaser email to make people look out for

something in the post…

The Results? over £2.2 million in sales. Monarch’s website saw 21.7% of DM recipients visit.

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Easy to take in

Grabs my attention

Enjoy receiving and reading

Feel more valued

Do something as a result

More professional

Spend time reading it

Gives a better impression

Easy to file

For sending reminders

Confirmation/ follow-up

Easier to respond to

Better for the environment

+2

-5

+9

+10

+14

-1

+5

+3

+10

+1

-1

+3

+17

+28

+16

+12

+13

+10

+27

+21

-1

-7

+15

+3

Source: Quadrangle: Mail & Digital Part 1, 2013 (n=1000)

-0

2013

Mail has a define role to play in alongside emailEmailMail

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Did you know…

Campaigns with mail show significantly higher ROI

than those without – 1158% compared with

320% on non mail campaigns.

18-29 year olds are the most engaged with

printed mail.