Is email marketing dead? Far from it. But it requires a new way of doing email marketing. In this session Mana will cover what you need to know to:
--Grow your list
--Create mobile ready emails Over 70% of email views come through mobile devices – make sure you’re emails are optimized for mobile
--Improve open and click-through rates
--Use marketing automation to move contacts from subscribers to buyers
3. • email has an ROI of 4,300%
• email is the second biggest acquisition channel, right
behind organic search
• email has more active users than all the social media
platforms combined
WHY?
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4. 79% of email recipients….
use their smartphone for reading email… a
higher percentage than those who use it for
making calls…
THE ERA OF THE EMAIL DEVICE
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Adobe – “2013 Digital Publishing Report: Retail Apps & Buying Habits” (2013)
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5. 91% of consumers…
check their email at least once per day on their
smartphone, making it the most used functionality.
IT’S EMAIL ALL DAY LONG
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ExactTarget “Mobile Behavior report” (2014)
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7. EMAIL TRUMPS ALL OTHER
MOBILE ACTIVITIES
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8. Click to open rates are 40% higher for brands
that send exclusively responsive emails versus
brands that only send non-responsive emails.
IT’S ALL MOBILE
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Yesmail “Email Marketing Compass: The Season of Mobile” (2015)
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11. Sender
• Use a friendly name not “customer service” or
“info”
Subject Line
• Keep it short – 4 to 7 words max
Preview text
• Ditch “if you can’t see this click here”
• Use this to deliver the “hook”
• Use it as an extension of the subject line
MIND THE MOBILE
INBOX
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14. FOCUS ON THE SUBJECT LINE
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15. • Personalization
– Personalized subject lines are 22.2% more likely to be opened.
• Deliver on promise
– Don’t promise information and deliver sales
• Know your customer
– Don’t talk about meat recipes in subject lines of emails going to
vegetarians
USE THE PEOPLE TO PEOPLE
RULE
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16. FIND YOUR POWER WORDS
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Word
Open % change
when first
Open % change
when last
[first
name,fallback=customer]
14.68%
Invitation 9.45% 7.69%
Introducing 7.36%
We 5.87%
Your/You 4.07% 6.20%
Year (eg. 2015) 3.89% 2.84%
Update 3.69%
New 3.26%
Source: Campaign Monitor
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17. “… the best subject lines tell what’s inside and the
worst sell what’s inside…”
TELL DON’T SELL
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18. • Include a deadline
• Feature dates
• Add extra energy
– Subject lines that end in exclamation marks do better
than those that don’t
URGENCY AND EXCITEMENT
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Source: MailChimp Email Marketing Subject Line Comparison
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22. Use the Zeigarnick effect
• When information gaps exist without closure, it causes a sense of distress
and suspense.
• Invoke the reader’s curiosity and make them feel like they’re missing out
on something valuable or interesting
Social Proof
• Include testimonials and customer reviews
• Use statistics that show that people like them are “buying” from you
FOMO AND SOCIAL PROOF
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23. Change “your” to “my”
• This small change increased
click-through rate by 90%
BE ONE WITH THEM
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24. 8-12 WORDS PER URL = BEST
CLICK-THROUGH RATES
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25. THE POWER OF BEHAVIOR-
BASED CUSTOMIZATION:
MARKETING AUTOMATION
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27. Mechanics
A system that allows you to collect and categorize user behavior
data and trigger custom communication based on this data
Uses
• Lead nurturing
• Improving conversion rates
• Upselling
• Improving sales efforts (lead scoring, automating repetitive tasks and
more)
MARKETING AUTOMATION?
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28. The most valuable features of marketing automation for users are:
• lead nurturing (57%),
• analytics and reporting (52%), and
• list segmentation (39%).
SURVEY SAYS…
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Marketo
29. Mechanics
A system that miraculously does the communicating on your behalf
Uses
• Lead generation
• Fixing a bad website
• Replacing sales efforts
MARKETING AUTOMATION IS NOT
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30. KNOW YOUR BUYER’S JOURNEY
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33. Mana believes in digital marketing done with purpose. Her mission is to
bust digital marketing myths and put marketing back in social media
marketing. Mana believes in purpose and storytelling as the keys to
digital marketing success. At Lightspan, Mana and her team focus on
driving traffic to clients’ websites and building profitable connections
through social media and content marketing. In March 2014, Mana was
awarded the “Chicago Woman Making History” Outstanding
Entrepreneur Award by the City of Chicago Treasurer’s Office.
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in a study published in the Wall Street Journal, researchers tested how powerful social proof was as a powerful driver of human behaviour. They used 4 different messages to try and convince people to use fans instead of air conditioning:
Message 1: Informed the customer that they could be saving $54/month on their utility bill.
Message 2: Told customers that they could prevent the release of 262 pounds of greenhouse gasses every month.
Message 3: Encouraged customers that saving energy was a socially responsible thing to do.
Message 4: Let customers know that 77 percent of their neighbors were already actively using fans to save energy.
The study found that Message 4, the one that invoked the positive social proof, was the most effective. It was even more effective in getting people to take action than the messages about saving money or protecting the environment.
in a study published in the Wall Street Journal, researchers tested how powerful social proof was as a powerful driver of human behaviour. They used 4 different messages to try and convince people to use fans instead of air conditioning:
Message 1: Informed the customer that they could be saving $54/month on their utility bill.
Message 2: Told customers that they could prevent the release of 262 pounds of greenhouse gasses every month.
Message 3: Encouraged customers that saving energy was a socially responsible thing to do.
Message 4: Let customers know that 77 percent of their neighbors were already actively using fans to save energy.
The study found that Message 4, the one that invoked the positive social proof, was the most effective. It was even more effective in getting people to take action than the messages about saving money or protecting the environment.
https://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/email-marketing/2014/07/improve-email-click-through-rate-psychology/