As social networking spreads across the digital landscape, beyond dedicated sites like Facebook and MySpace, email marketers are uniquely poised to leverage the communications channel as a venue for exposing people to their products and brands. By creating email marketing campaigns with social networking aspects, you can tap into this internet trend to influence the influencers, nurture current email relationships and increase the size of your email list.
This presentation will show delegates how Air New Zealand successfully utilised email and social networking to increase subscriber lists, revenue and response rates. In addition the session will answer what many marketers want to know - "How do I identify the social influencers on my email list?" and “What do I need to do to manage the social networking phenomenon?” The presentation will also provide numerous case examples of how other brands have found strong success incorporating social networks and other channels into their email programmes.
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Email Working With Social Networks Adma July 9 09
1. Email Marketing Goes Social How Email and Social Networking can Work Together ADMA Forum 2009 July 9th, 2009
2. Speakers & Agenda Agenda How email intersects with social How does it work Case Studies Sneak-Peak: Social Email Study Results Questions & Answers Will Schnabel VP International, Silverpop Larry Lentz Online Marketing Manager, Air New Zealand
9. 92% of adult Internet users send or read email — more than regularly visit any social network* Email still delivers one of the lowest costs per order and 2-times the ROI of any other digital channel** *Pew American Life & Internet Study **AberdeenGroup Email is Alive and Well
21. Recipients share to the network Email recipient can add their own comments or endorsements Email Subject line becomes “Title” and “Mailing Notes” become the Meta teaser-text to be displayed. Select a thumbnail image from the email creative
38. Air New Zealand Company Overview Air New Zealand services the Asia/Pacific region, Europe, and North America as well as two dozen cities within New Zealand Have a successful email communications program Using dynamic content capabilities allows Air New Zealand to send relevant emails based upon subscriber’s origin city in addition to promotion of events based upon zip code Challenge Seeking new ways to engage and expand their existing customer base Solution Utilizing ‘Share-to-Social’ feature as a channel to build customer advocacy
67. Getting started with social email Focus on ‘Shareworthiness’ Make it easy to share Monitor social ‘buzz’ (and engage) Identify and reward your influencers Test everything and don’t be afraid to fail
68. Resources Whitepaper, Email Marketing Goes Social Social Study w/ full results available on www.silverpop.com
The answer is no. A new age in marketing has arrived, one in which people are more informed than ever and are increasingly taking brands into their own hands, seeking out relationships—knowledge-based, product-based and community-based—with the companies they choose to do business with.Basically, marketers have lost control.Customers now assert more control over the brand and fully expect companies to participate in dialogues with them.
“Social Media Consumption”– Jupiter Research, September 23, 2008“Social Technographics, Mapping Participation in Activities Forms the Foundation of Social Strategy,” Forrester Research, April 2007 3. “The Benefits of Facebook “Friends:” Social Capital and College Students’ Use of Online Social Network Sites,” by Ellison, Steinfield and Lampe: Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media Michigan State University; 2007 Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 4. “Targeting Influential E-mail Subscribers,” JupiterResearch, July 2008
Viral marketing with share to social
Users upload or create their content the same way they always haveUsers Place Cursor where they want the “share” links insertedUsers click new “Insert Social Network Share” button in the WYSIWYG EditorUsers Select which network sharing options they want to offer and what layout format they prefer
In this Facebook example, the recipient can verify that they want to post this email and adjust a few details of how the email posting will appear in their friends “News Feeds.” Each Social Network is a little different, but the all follow the general outline of this flow.
Once users post the email, all of their friends can see this as a story in the “News Feed.” They can also navigate to the poster’s profile page and review all of their recent activity including posts like this.
Best of all, users can create a list of the recipients who shared the email to Social Network. These Influencers are especially valuable to marketers, and in a few clicks they can be identified in a list. That list can be used to easily target this valuable group with special offers or special communications that will harness their value.
B2B Marketing emailB2B email marketing and social
From Larry Lentz: Share to Social allowed us to take a step back and view and analyze what we were sending out to our users. Although we saw the introduction of dynamic content being a huge step forward for us in delivering relevant content to our customers share to social made us look hard into our communication style. We questioned advocacy and how we could actually leverage our existing customers, people we have relationship opportunities with, to speak for us and on our behalf. So we stepped back and looked at our messaging and before every email we ask our selves “What about this email would make me forward this on to my friends and/or family.” If there is opportunity for immediate change then we change it, could be verbiage, could be call to action, could actually be the entire fare or campaign, but the point is we want to make sure we give that opportunity and that’s what share to social has done to Air New Zealand North America’s strategy.
Initial Testing
National Express did 3 important things with this email..Firstly - it was a compelling offerSecondly – there wasn’t huge amounts of confusion around the message being sharedFinally – they made it easy and explained what the links were for those unfamililar with the concept
Facebook result of sharing to social. Share-to-social and Share to your Network (STYN)
50% of our customers use S2SBiillions of emails160 clients in study North American, EMEA, Asia Pac80/20 B2C versus B2C
Email best practices still reign
Email best practices still reign
Facebook was offered in 100% of all mailings evaluated. In the mailings where it was offered, items were shared to Facebook 90% of the time.Twitter – 81%
4th most shared network, but 3 times the click rate
1/3 of all emails had no offer associated – yet the majority were still shared.
Single offers, with % off is best
Header is 1.5x better than footer
Consider implications for limited time offers…sharing content continues to be referenced for up to two weeks