adestra: what words to use in subject lines
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Wednesday 11th September 2013
How Obama brought the sexy back to email And also – how you can have better subject lines
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Parry Malm
• Heads up account management team
• With Adestra since 2010
• Used MessageFocus since 2006
• Blogs on Econsultancy sometimes
• Likes beards, bacon and whiskey
This is me
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Oh wait.
• 2.4 billion internet users worldwide
• 2.2 billion webmail accounts (not including B2B)
• 1 billion Facebook accounts
• 200 million Twitter accounts
• 187 million LinkedIn accounts
• 32 MySpace accounts
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Today’s Agenda
1. Subject lines kind of matter for today’s publishers.
2. And here’s why.
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His campaign’s digital team
• 30 people total
• 24 focused on email
• 4 on social
• 2 did… erm… something else, presumably
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Subject lines are kind of a big deal.
• We had a hunch
• We tested that hunch
• It was awesome and just may change your life* *This is not a guarantee.
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Caveats
• Correlations, not causation
• Long run averages
• Large spread due to large data set
• Not the silver bullet…
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Methodology
• 2.2 billion emails across the last 12 months
• >95,000 cross-sector campaigns including B2B Publishing, B2C Publishing
• 40% UK, 60% ROW
• All English language
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Statistics are fun.
• Look at variance from the mean, not nominal statistics
• Also look at 1st-3rd quartiles to describe spread
• It almost broke Excel
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Change screens Parry!
• Oh yeah! Glad I put in this reminder.
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This is the fun part!* *It’s not actually fun
Want your keywords tested?
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But it works.
• Revenue per $1:
• Email: $39.40
• Search: $22.38
• Display: $19.71
• Social: $12.90
• Source: DMA
