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Email Marketing 101 Liz Ryan: CEO, Relish Tray Media
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Housekeeping tips
• Learn the basic components of an email marketing program
• Get ideas of how to beef up your email marketing program through
lifecycle messaging
• Examples of creative for onboarding new subscribers to optimize
engagement
What’s in store
Liz Ryan CEO
Presented by
• Liz Ryan • CEO, Relish Tray Media
• Boutique Chicago based Marketing Agency focused on Email Marketing
• 13 Years Online Marketing Experience focused on email marketing
Email Marketing: 101
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Benefits of Email Marketing • Cheap • Measurable ROI • Direct Marketing, customizable, 1:1 conversation • Dynamic - relatively easy to change, create, and
quick to customer
Benefits of email marketing
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• Cheap - Everyone can afford to do it, which set up unique challenges for differentiation
• Hard to find experienced talent – although this is getting to be less of a challenge as email has become a more mainstream medium.
• Executive buy in – overcome stigma of “SPAM”
Challenges of email marketing
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• Promotional Messaging • CRM • Newsletters • Transactional or Triggered
Ways in which email marketing establishes a dialog with customers
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Promotional
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• Product Suggestions • Customer satisfaction
surveys • Event Reminder
CRM
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Newsletter
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Transactional • Confirmation • Welcome Email • Password Retrieval
Transactional
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• Target Audience/List • Creative • Lifecycle Management Plan • Deployment
Components of an email marketing program
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• Define • Existing list
– Entire List – Segmentation
Target audience
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• How your list build practice will effect engagement. Three basic ways to grow your list – Buy - BAD – Rental and partnerships – ok when done right – Organically or direct – the best
• Traffic on site • Paid search • Display • On Premise
List Growth & Sources
• Demographic data – Collected at sign up – Appended through third party providers
• Behavioral data • Subscriber supplied information
Targeting and Segmentation
• Spam Filters • CAN SPAM compliance • Subject Line • Message body
– Professional graphic design with a knowledge of the intricacies of graphic rendering in different email clients
– Professional copy editor, easy to set your program a step ahead
– Can use templates to make updating easy
Creative
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• Message body – Personalization -Dear [Mr. Jones] or -Please give us feedback regarding the
apartment you rented at [location]. – Segmentation based on demographic info -different creative for different locations
Creative
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• In-House – High tech resources – ISP and compliance in house requires knowledgeable
Human Resources • Email Service Provider (ESP)
– Small like Constant Contract • Good for small lists/small business (not equipped for large lists or
corporations) • Templates and list management takes little human resources • Limited personalization/lifecycle management • Limited analytics
Deployment
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• Email Service Provider (ESP) – Large like ExactTarget, Silverpop, Strongmail
• More expensive • Better for high volumes • Highly customizable user experience capabilities • Generally a high learning curve for email marketing manager
and/or team • Better and customizable analytics • (Many) include tools for integration with social media marketing
Deployment
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• Message and voice • Value of email to the recipient • How email fits into marketing mix • Competitive intelligence • Resources • Marketing Objectives • Lifecycle • Cadence & Timing
Considerations
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• Warm and fuzzy • Open a dialog/Conversational • Comedic and entertaining • Just the facts • Highly promotional – Rent Now!
Message and voice
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• Customer-centric medium: Why do they want to receive it, not why it benefits YOU
• Discount • Valuable information • Exclusive information • Email specific opportunity like early announcement of a
promotion or property availability.
Value of email to recipient
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Email should: • Compliment other channels • Reinforce overall marketing message • Keep within brand image
Multi-Channel – Integrated Marketing
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How are your competitors using email to reach their marketing goals? – What are they doing well? – What can be improved upon? – How can you differentiate?
Competitive Intelligence
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• Human – who will carry out the daily task of deployment, creative development, analytics
• Technical – in house or outsource? • Financial – Costs of human resources,
technology
Resources
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• How will you measure success? • Email is relatively easy to measure ROI
– Sales • Specific increase in revenue? – Web analytics to track
revenue, retail store sales – Clicks or website visitors?
• Specific increase in web visitors – Web analytics for traffic referrals
– Membership or newsletter signups. – Other
Marketing Objectives
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• By campaign • By list • By segment • By property • By email type • By season
Measurement
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• Sent • Delivered • Opened • Clicked • Bounced • Spam Complaints • Engagement
Metrics
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Campaign Name Week Day Type Sent Delivered % Opens % Unusbscribes % Clicks %
Campaign 1 1 Tuesday Newsletter 1,442 1,403 97.30% 211 15.00% 2 0.10% 71 5.06%
Campaign 2 2 Wednesday Newsletter 1,432 1,410 98.50% 228 16.20% 8 0.60% 74 5.25%
Campaign 3 3 Thursday Newsletter 1,404 1,379 98.20% 211 15.30% 5 0.40% 67 4.86%
Campaign 4 4 Friday Newsletter 1,480 1,462 98.80% 208 14.20% 11 0.80% 56 3.83%
Campaign 5 5 Saturday Newsletter 1,407 1,379 98.00% 196 14.20% 2 0.10% 72 5.22%
Campaign 6 6 Sunday Newsletter 1,444 1,413 97.90% 227 16.10% 2 0.10% 81 5.73%
Campaign 7 7 Tuesday Newsletter 1,385 1,358 98.10% 192 14.10% 0 0.00% 63 4.64%
Campaign 8 8 Wednesday Newsletter 1,420 1,394 98.20% 204 14.60% 3 0.20% 77 5.52%
Campaign 9 8 Thursday Newsletter 1,474 1,440 97.70% 219 15.20% 1 0.10% 83 5.76%
Campaign 10 8 Friday Newsletter 1,484 1,452 97.80% 218 15.00% 2 0.10% 71 4.89%
Campaign 11 8 Saturday Newsletter 1,564 1,537 98.30% 208 13.50% 3 0.20% 69 4.49%
Campaign 12 8 Sunday Newsletter 1,488 1,458 98.00% 211 14.50% 4 0.30% 59 4.05%
Campaign 13 8 Tuesday Newsletter 1,454 1,431 98.40% 187 13.10% 3 0.20% 57 3.98%
Campaign 14 8 Wednesday Newsletter 1,469 1,439 98.00% 176 12.20% 2 0.10% 61 4.24%
Campaign 15 8 Thursday Newsletter 1,381 1,350 97.80% 134 9.90% 4 0.30% 37 2.74%
Campaign 16 8 Wednesday Newsletter 1,511 1,476 97.70% 230 15.60% 5 0.30% 69 4.67% Total 23,239 22,781 98.03% 3,260 14.03% 57 0.25% 1067 4.68%
Typical Dashboard
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