Creating Personalized Email
Experiences
Modern Email Marketing
Today:
• Understanding Nature of Today’s Email
• Understanding What’s Possible
• Why Go Personal
• Examples
Email as a Medium
Personal Communication
• Inbox Placement
• Personal Screen Space
• Agreed to Receive Your
Email!!!!
• Perception of Privacy
How Email Works:
-Why It’s So Complicated
-No standards for email client
-different rules for sizes
-different rules for fonts
-different rules for images
Multiple ESPs with different rules
Reference:
http://www.howtogeek.com/56002/h
tg-explains-how-does-email-work/
How the Web Works:
-Why It’s Easier
-Open standards accepted by all
Reference:
web.stanford.edu
Gates:
• Access to Internet on All Ends
• ESP Rules for Routing
• Your Org’s Network Gates
• Your Org’s Email Spam Filters
• Your Email Client Browser
• Your Email Client Browser
Settings
Getting to a Website
Getting an Email
Conclusion of Email
• Someone who has said “Yes! I want your email!” needs to be treated in a very
precious manner
• If you think email is simple, you’re either that sophisticated or that unaware
• Email that gets into the inbox needs to get opened because look how hard you
worked to get it there!!
Bottom Line it for Me
• Fact: Email isn’t easy. Email is a skilled art/science
• Fact: Email takes a lot of time to do manually for creation, testing & distribution
• Reality: Email use and perception have changed with social/web
• Reality: Mobile reading on email increases intimacy aspect of email as a medium
• Reality: Most associations don’t have dedicated email marketers
• Business Need: Desire to continue to sell through email and provide member benefits that
translate to high engagement
Anatomy of an Email
Newsletter
What Are the Component Parts
• Header Image/Logo
• First Name
• Date
• Content
• Ads
• Sponsored Content
• Ads
• Content
• Job Listings
• Event Listings
• Product Listings
• Footer Info
• More images
• Unsubscribe
• Update Your Preferences
Anatomy of an Email
Newsletter
From a Personalization Standpoint
• Header Image/Logo
• First Name
• Date
• Content
• Ads
• Sponsored Content
• Ads
• Content
• Job Listings
• Event Listings
• Product Listings
• Footer Info
• More images
• Unsubscribe
• Update Your Preferences
Rethink the EPC
Not Just for Compliance, but a Key Driver of Personalization
• Footer Info
• More images
• Unsubscribe
• Update Your Preferences
Key Personalization Input:
• Email Subscriptions
• Frequency
• Topics
• Demographics
• Day of Week
• Time of Week
• Areas of Interest
Other Personalization Drivers
• Website Activity
• Member Profile Data
• Social Media Data
• Event Registrations
• Purchase Transactions
• Committee Roles
• Social Community Activity
• Any Digital Data that Adds to their Digital Footprint
Rise of Email Personalization
Email Now
Rise of Automation: Top Trend
• Let technology do the work
• Let staff do the thinking
• Personalization Trend
• Individual Email Sends: Use drip campaigns for personal emails that are in
context with what the user is actually doing
• “Blast” Email Sends: Use email automation capabilities to deliver hyper-
personalized emails en masse
ICE Emails:
(Intelligent Contextual Email)
• Member profile-driven
• Event-specific
• Based on additional logic
e.g. zip code location
• Cross-sell & upsell
ICE Emails:
(Intelligent Contextual Email)
• Curated content
• Content for all
• Ability to interact
ICE Emails:
(Intelligent Contextual Email)
• Member profile-driven
• Event-specific offers
• Interactive
• User-driven
Don’t Dare to Dream
Get to the Dream
First_name=Jillian
Gender = female
Age = 34
Searched = watches, next day
Browsed = best sellers
Viewed blog = 5
Last purchase = 3 months
List = High LTV
Event Data for Personalized Content
Intelligent ContentEvent Data for Personalized Content
Last Browsed
Last Browsed
31
Personalized Experiences
32
Personalized Experiences
33
Personalized Promotional Content
34
Personalized Promotional Content
OPEN RATES
REVENUE
CLICK RATES
5X 3X
3X
36
Cordial Experiments
37
Cordial Experiments
38
Cordial Event Analytics
39
Cordial Event Analytics
Whew! Summary
• Email is VERY viable as a channel, but you need to understand how to
use the medium in today’s world
• Consider email personalization projects that are based on automation
and built for you to run without you
• Consider all the data you have about your
members/prospects/customers and what you could do with that info
if you have it!

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Editor's Notes

  • #30 At it’s core, Cordial is a data driven platform. We allow customer to push ALL necessary data into the platform including product catalog data, order history data, customer purchase data and content. We also provide listeners that pull real time observed customer behavior data. All of this data becomes actionable in our rules based automation engine and informs our machine learning algorithms that optimize the content, targeting and timing of the experiences delivered.
  • #31 At it’s core, Cordial is a data driven platform. We allow customer to push ALL necessary data into the platform including product catalog data, order history data, customer purchase data and content. We also provide listeners that pull real time observed customer behavior data. All of this data becomes actionable in our rules based automation engine and informs our machine learning algorithms that optimize the content, targeting and timing of the experiences delivered.
  • #36 One of our clients has many sites on anything astrological related. (tarot cards, horoscopes etc..). High degree of personalization, I mean, people get mad if they don’t get their horoscope before they go to work. But with such active engagement, how do you possibly apply that to timezones around the world, device experiences and then personalize while still monetizing advertising in those messages? YOU didn’t know I had things in common with Jennifer Garner did you? (laugh) Net is, this brand fetches content and feeds up to 100 variants at the time of send. Add Justin and Liveclicker to this and you can serve all or parts of the content on-demand at open. It changes how you think about the experience .