birthday email programs examples
DESCRIPTION
A well-designed birthday email program can be the gift that keeps on giving. In addition to giving you an opportunity to reach out to your customers with a highly relevant message, it also has the potential to generate high ROI on a relatively low level of effort. Despite these benefits, Silverpop research has indicated that seven in 10 email marketers aren't wishing their subscribers happy birthday. Even worse, three out of the four email marketers who don't send birthday emails say they don't intend to start. In this session, Silverpop's Loren McDonald sharea a seven-step Birthday Blueprint to help marketers build a successful birthday email program from the ground up. Specific steps outlined will include the following: Setting the Right Goals Collecting the Right Data the Right Way When to Send the Emails? Determining the Right Approach—Incentives or no Incentives? Designing the Right Message Single or Multiple Emails Things to Test and OptimizeTRANSCRIPT
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Saying Happy Birthday – How to Build a Top Tier Birthday Email Program that Delights and Drives Revenue
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About the Speaker / Silverpop
• Loren McDonald• VP, Industry Relations
• Twitter: @LorenMcDonald
• Google+: +LorenMcDonald
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Agenda
Why Birthday Emails?
7 Steps for Success
Additional Ideas
Q & A
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Why Birthday Emails?
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1. Everyone has a birthday!
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2. They get results!
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Almost 25X
better…
Birthday Campaign Indexed Results…
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3. They are a piece of cake!
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So why are 7 of 10 marketers spectators?
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48%“We don’t collect the data”
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Are you missing the birthday party?
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OK, let’s dive in…
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Goals?
DeliverySchedule?
Data
Incentives?# of Emails?
Design
Testing /Optimization
7 Steps to Birthday Email
Success
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Step 1: Establish Your Birthday Program Goal(s)
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Goals
• Birthday wish• Touch = incremental
revenue
Branding and customer
engagement
• Direct revenue benefit• Incentives – margin
impact
Driving online or offline visits and revenue
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Other Considerations
• Capturing age year enables additional targeting
Use of birthdate
data
• Subscriber, or?• Spouse/partner,
child, pets, etc.
Who is the target?
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Step 2: Determine a Delivery Schedule
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Initial Birthday Email Delivery Options
On the birthday itself
In the birthday week
Within a few weeks of the birthday
At the start of the birthday month
Well in advance of birthday
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Survey: 75% send on birthday or up to a week before
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Step 3: Collect the Data
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Which Data to Collect?
Month
MonthDay
MonthDayYear
Survey: 2/3 collect day/month/year
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Birth Data: Required or Not?
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Be Transparent
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Social Login…
Can help capture birth date…
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Name
Location
Birth Date
Gender
Friends/Contacts
Profile Photo
Interests
Source Janrain
Social Profile Data by Network
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Collect Birth Date Everywhere
Preference center
Welcome emails
Call center, in-store cards
Standalone emails / Surveys
Social media
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Step 4: Offer: Greeting Only or Incentive?
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No incentive
Navigation
A different kind of “touch”
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No incentive
OK, Let’s have a look…
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Standard Retail Incentive
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Results
• 52% Open Rate
• 13.8% CTR
• 10% higher conversion rate than their broadcast emails
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Step 5: Single or Multiple Emails?
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Survey: 77% send one email; 23% 2 or more
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Birthday and Belated Birthday Email
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Birthday Follow On Emails
Birthday
Convert Share Request
Open/Click Incentive
No Action Reminder
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Received March 1 for March 16 birthday
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How about 2-3 more emails?e.g., March 16, 30 & April 20
Received March 1 for March 16 birthday
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Step 6: Design Your Email
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Sample Subject Lines
• “Happy birthday!”
• “Happy Birthday (Subscriber Name)”
• “(Subscriber Name) Happy Birthday”
• “Happy Birthday from (Name of Company)!”
• “A birthday wish from (Name of Company)”
• “Free (Product/Item) at (Name of Company) for Your Birthday!”
• “To mark your special day”
• “Happy Birthday! Enjoy 25 Free Reward Points!”
• “Birthday Gift from (Name of Company)”
• “Happy Birthday, (Name of Subscriber) – Take 15% Off”
Be creative, but be clear Use humor as appropriate to
your brand Make CTA/incentive key focus Get beyond “Happy Birthday”
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Unique copy for each month
Famous birthdays
35 days
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Creative
Unique
Original
Fun
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Where do
your eyes
focus?
Navigation?
Links?
CTA
button?
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Think context!
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Step 7: Testing and Optimization
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Things to Test
Forms: Required, Language, Location
Incentives
Subject Lines
Copy
Design / Imagery
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Things to Optimize / Add
Forms
Design for mobile devises
Calls to Action
Multiple Emails
Measure Compare to Other Emails
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Additional Thoughts / Ideas
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Happy 1/2 Birthday First Name! We have a SURPRISE just for you!
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Birthday – Tell Your Friends…
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Birthday – Tell Your Friends…
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Get Creative
“Anniversaries”
Spouses
Children
Pets
Founders
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B2B???
Birthday emailsaren’t limited to B2C marketers
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Selected Takeaways
Start collecting birth date
Consider an incentive / CTA
Use personality in copy
Use a series of emails
Think outside the birthday
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Birthday Blueprint Whitepaper Available
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Q & A / Contact
Loren McDonaldTwitter: @[email protected]+: Loren McDonald
Thank you!On Twitter: @Silverpop
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