3. Reasons for using email marketing
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Karl Murray, ingage.ie
4. Golden rules when using email
• Make it relevant
• Don’t forget to engage
• Timely
• Deliver to specific groups or sub groups
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What?
Of users use email daily
Compared with 57% of Facebook
users
Exact Target Channel Survey: 2012
Fact
91%
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What?
Of people made a purchase as a
result of a marketing message
via email.
Compared with 20% of Facebook
users
Exact Target Channel Survey: 2012
Fact
66%
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What?
41$ return on investment
DMA: 2011
http://www.magillreport.com/Email-Remains-ROI-King-Net-Marketing-Set-to-Overtake-DM/
Fact
1$Spent on email marketing
10. E-zine Do’s and Don’t s
• Always get
permission
• Always link back to
website
• Give ‘unsubscribe’
option
• Include postal
address & reply
email
• Don’t buy email lists
• Never share lists
• Be Content aware!
• Don’t spam
– Spam is in the eye of the
beholder
• No attachments
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11. Build your lists
• Signup on website
– Add “subscribe form”
– Offer a benefit
– Ask for the ‘must haves’
• Tradeshows, events,
• Sales calls
• Facebook sign ups to ezine
– E.g. MailChimp/FB integration
• Customers - Online / Offline
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12. Build your lists
• Quality NOT Quantity
• SEGMENT your list
– Gender, Age, Geography
– History
– Customer status
– Other
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http://ico.org.uk/for_the_public/topic_specific_guides/
marketing/texts
14. Content Content Content ...
• Personalise it with Merge fields
– ‘Hi Simon,’
• Avoid
– ‘Free’
– ‘Discount’
– ‘Offer’
• Don’t shout with Red
• DON’T SHOUT WITH CAPITALS
• Leave out over-punctuation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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15. When you’re in design mode...
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• Keep HTML Emails to 500-600 Pixels in width
• Always – ‘Click here’ to view it in your browser
• Don’t Depend on Images for message delivery
• Beware of special characters in your emails
• Test the end product on different email clients
• Never design and send as one big image
16. When you’re in design mode...
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• Eye-catching Subject Line
• Calls to Action
• Links back to website