the power of email & social media marketing
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Learn the basics, best practices, and proven strategies of email and social media marketing. Learn how to get your audience to open, read and act on your emails, measure the return on your marketing efforts, and how to combine it with your social media marketing efforts!TRANSCRIPT
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Email Marketing:simple strategies for success
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Vanessa CabreraChief Creative OfficerYour Social Media Mentor, Inc.www.yoursocialmediamentor.com
Facebook.com/yoursocialmediamentor
@socialmediamntr
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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• Website Match
agenda
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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• Website Match
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.
when you’re really marketing…
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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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• 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• Website Match
agenda
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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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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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how can you grow your list?
at register with the check at
end of the meal
on registrationforms
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how can you grow your list?
• Text to join• QR Code opt-in• Sign-up on your
website• Mobile apps
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Integrate Email Marketing with Social Media Marketing Make a Join My Mailing
List available on allsocial media platforms.
Make social mediabuttons a consistentpart of all emails.
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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• Website Match
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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• 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• Website Match
agenda
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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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HOW TO AVOID SPAMMINGActions to avoid within your Subject Line
SPAM
• The words: free, guarantee, spam, credit card etc• ALL CAPITAL LETTERS• Excessive punctuation !!!, ???• Excessive use of “click here”• $$, and other symbols• No “From:” address• Misleading subject lines
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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
October Newsletter
Joe’s Pet Store Newsletter
Children’s Classes
do this instead
4 new craft beers just arrived - Oktoberfest is
here!
3 Tips: help your dogbeat the heat
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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• 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• Website Match
agenda
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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
• Simple Share
• Automatic Welcome Emails
• Autoresponders
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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”– Share your humor
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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• Website Match
Agenda
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Website Match!
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