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Essential emailmarketing tips for your 2012 direct marketing campaign
Dr Dave ChaffeyDownload:
SmartInsights.com/tfma2012
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About Dave Chaffey
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Best-practice advice & consultingwww.smartinsights.com
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YOUR EMAIL MARKETING JOURNEY:Assessing your email marketing capability
Email marketing maturity stage
A. Goal setting & evaluation
B. Contact strategy and policy
C. Segmentation, targeting & personalisation
D. Email marketing integration & governance
E. Test & learn
Stage 1. Initial‘Pray and Spray’
None None; Enewsletter / Solus emails
0 Segments Limited integration of broadcasts and data
Limited
Stage 2. ManagedImproving relevance
List growth Segmented response
Basic contact strategy and rules
2-6 SegmentsBasic contact strategy
Campaign integration (DM or phone)
Subject line Offer testing
Stage 3. DefinedSegmented relevance
Marketing outcomes “Beyond the click”
Basic lifecycle communications
Simple event-triggeredWelcome reactivate
ESP, web analytics & social media integration
Template layouts
Stage 4. QuantitativeContextual relevance
Subscriber engagement
Individualised contact strategy
Recency, Frequency, Value
Auto-triggers based on web behaviour
Individual / segment testing
Stage 5. OptimisingOptimised relevance
Integrated web and multichannel
Integrated online & offline contacts
Multi-layeredDynamic content insertion
Right-channeling based on value & preference
Real-time and multivariate
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The main barriers to effective email marketing in 2012?
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Agenda
6 Tactics that will matter most in 2012? 1 Engagement 2 Mobile Email 3 Email contact strategies 4 Channel integration 5 Social-email marketing 6 Email marketing optimisation
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Tactic 1: Engagement strategies
Key questions: Q. How do you measure engagement? Q. Are you getting the sell-inform-entertain
balance right? Q. Do you have the publishing resources
to create engaging content?
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3 more advanced ways of measuring email engagement
How do you measure engagement with email?
Open/clicks/CTOR is NOT good enough, instead…
Opens/clicks/CTOR/revenue: 1. At position in lifecycle 2. By segment 3. By offer / email type 4. Aggregated over a longer time period
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Measuring list activity – email engagement/disengagement
These “hurdle rates” are for whole list. Repeat:
By segment By product categories purchased
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TIP: Measure the overall health of your list through activity / inactivity levels over
time
Measure Period Number of Subscribers % of list total
Never Open All time 48,000 16.0%
Last 6 Months 168,000 56.0%
Never Click All time 96,000 32.0%
Last 6 Months 144,000 48.0%
Never Bought All time 48,000 16.0%
Last 6 Months 192,000 64.0%
Never Bought Online All time 96,000 32.0%
Last 6 Months 216,000 72.0%
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Start with the customer!Getting the sell-inform-entertain balance right
http://www.ruderfinn.com/rfrelate/intent/intent-index.html
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Every business is a multi-channel publisher now
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Tactic 2: mobile marketing
Key questions: Q. How important is mobile email use for
your audience? Q. Is user mobile email experience
satisfactory? Q. Is mobile driving commercial outcomes?
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The rise and rise of mobile marketing
Source: Campaign Monitor, 3 billion emails, 2011
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The desktop in decline…?Share of device page traffic for News category (weekday)
Source: comScore Custom Analytics, U.S., August 2011
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British Airwayse-Dialog helped BA launch a new suite of mobile applications in late July/early August. The campaign was prompted by an increasing penetration of smartphones, and an analysis of the devices most commonly used by members to access standard Executive Club emails.
Innovation in Email MarketingWinner: e-Dialog and British Airways
About the winning entry: To promote the launch and maximise downloads of the Executive Club mobile application, BA and e-Dialog developed a unique strategy, using historical customer data to target smartphone users in a highly targeted email-to-mobile campaign.
Judge’s comments: A smart and progressive email marketing campaign that – as well as being innovative in its scope – generated some great results.
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Mobile Email Design Tips
A narrow email width Single column layout Super subject line Large headlines & CTAs Bullet proof buttons Graceful Degradation
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Smart Insights - Style Summary
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Tactic 3: Channel integration
Key questions: Q. How does email work with other
channels to drive results? Q. Have we reviewed attribution? Q. Are we using email to drive offline
outcomes?
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Response increases by 25% for campaign
First Campaign,
Open rate, 8 to 10%
CCR = 0.2%
Second Campaign,
Open rate, 50 to 75%
CCR = 0.2%
Multi-message example Email campaign 1
Source: E-consultancy Masterclass - BCA
Remailing to opening-non converters
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Response increases by 40% for campaign
First Campaign,
CCR = 0.2%
Second Campaign,
CCR = 0.2%Source: E-consultancy Masterclass BCA
Remailing with urgency
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Combined response from e-mail and direct mail is 125% better than no e-mail.
Pre-mail, with online response
Response increases, 100% for direct mail piece.
Teaser e-mail. No online response Direct Mail
Direct Mail
Source: E-consultancy Masterclass 2005 - BCA
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Jan Feb April
CRM product launch event
E-mail (E1-3)
Direct mail mailer (M1-4)
Mar
M1(15)
M2(14)
M3(16)
M4(11 )
E1(29)
E2(17)
E3(14)
Explanatory notes:1. Each list member received 4 mails and 3 e-mails unless they responded.2. Number of individuals who attended event from each ‘wave’ in brackets.3. Total list size unavailable.4. M1 generated 100 visits to site, E1 120 visits to site.5. Offer and creative varied for each wave.
Telemarketing (list creation)
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http://www.smartinsights.com/analytics-conversion-optimisation-alerts/qr-codes-location-demographic-statistics/
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Is Blippar relevant?
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Tactic 4: Contact strategies
Key questions: Q. Is our layered segmentation effective? Q. Have we optimised our triggered
emails? Q. How do we grow value?
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Relevance!
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Common Email targeting options
Targeting approaches Method
1. Classic profile-based demographic segmentation
Target customer groupings according to their characteristics & motivations
2. Customer value Assess customers by current and future value potential
3. Web design personas Target 2-10 typical customer journeys
4. Customer lifecycle Target messages according to length of time using online services
5. Purchase and response behaviour
Use “sense and respond” behavioual targeting based on RFM
6. Channel preference Communicate with customer in their preferred media (and according to value)
7. Tone and style preference Communicate with customers according to their tastes inferred from demographics or behaviour.
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Tip – create a layered segmentationAn example from eBay
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Recent
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Gender, Geography
Consumer/Business
Transactional Value Segmentation
Propensity Models
Kids
Last purchase
Tech Fashion Cars & Parts
Last category
KeywordKeyword personas
Category clusters
Recent Activity
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Do you send out emails based on the following triggers?
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Integrating SMS into email campaigns
Confused.com is the UK’s comparison site of choice for car, home, travel, life, and more.
Keeps its customers up-to-date with guides, tips and information and renewal advice
To extend email’s impact they followed it with an SMS using our platform to send both email and SMS messages.
Contains two custom published fields: first name and the lowest
price offer for insurance.
Confused.com Renewal Reminder
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Tactic 5: social-email
Key questions: Q. Are social sharing links and social
content effective? Q. Do you cross-promote social channel
OVPs? Q. Do you have a plan for social sign-on /
email integration?
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Social email marketing is much more than SWYN…
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Integrating social into Enews
Source: http://www.retailemailblog.com/2011/09/am-inbox-pulling-social-content-into.html
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Tactic 6: Email optimisation
Key questions: Q. How advanced is our incentive
optimisation? Q. How structured is our creative
optimisation? Q. Mobile optimisation?
35 © e-Dialog Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Offer optimisation
Summary A simple, generic (branded-only)
retargeting email achieved a 10 percent uplift in online conversions
A bespoke retargeting email that offered a 5% discount via a time-limited promotional code of 72 hours, more than doubled this conversion rate
A bespoke retargeting email with the same discount, but this time with a time-limited code of 48 hours quadrupled the original conversion rate
http://www.smartinsights.com/email-marketing-ecrm-alerts/email-remarketing-an-example-of-how-to-test/
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Creative optimisation
Test version A
Send Volume: 10,000
Sample criteria: Random
Click through rate: 6.1%
Test version B
Send Volume: 10,000
Sample criteria: Random
Click through rate: 4.5%
Main Broadcast
Send Volume: 180,000
Click through rate: 5.8%
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