[WMD 2015] SendGrid >> Pedro Sorrentino, "Email Strategy For Starters: When, How & Why You Should Email Your Customers (Or Not)
1. Email Strategy For Starters:
When, How & Why You Should Email Your
Customers (Or Not!)
by @pedrosorren | Pedro Sorrentino
Ecosystem Development Manager, SendGrid
2. Foundry Group Series A
TechsStars 700K Seed
Bessemer Series B
Some Debt Financing
Bain Capital Series C
Over 400 Billion Emails Sent. Almost at 20B emails a month
7. "Consumers interest in email marketing
actually increased during the peak of
the holiday shopping season"
Source: Return Path - State of the Inbox, Quarterly Snapshot: Q4 2014 || 2MM Subscribers
19. How Engagement is getting measure by ISPs?
Inbox is not a global concept. You may have stellar reputation
as a sender but things get segmented now at the user level.
Opens (Not that much)
Clicks (Yes!)
Moving to a Folder
Replying (Yes!)
Basic Authentication (DKIM, DomainKeys, rDNS, DMARC)
Source: Email Evolution Conference (#EEC15)
44. HOW I LOST OVER 20 POUNDS BECAUSE OF EMAIL
Holy Shit 200 Pounds
RunKeeper Comes In
Connect Withings + Run Keeper
-10+ Pounds Period
+7lbs Pounds Period
Acquisition Activation
Retention
Referral
$$$
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