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The challenge of re-
engagement
“My current marketing efforts aren’t working
for all of my recipients, how do I grab their
attention and win them back?”
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Summary
• Why re-engage?
• Evaluating your customer journey
• Creating engaging campaigns
• What if they don’t want your emails?
• What next?
• Key take aways
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Deliverability
• Big ISPs monitor engagement to assign a
reputation to all senders
• Don’t become ‘graymail’
• Don’t let the negative responses stop your
engaged recipients receiving your emails
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Target based on rapport
• More imagery
• More frequent
• Focus on click/ conversion
• Safer content
• Louder subject lines
• Focus on the open
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Subject line is key!
65% - A special offer
37% - A topic that interests me
32% - A brand that I like is mentioned
8% - Something controversial
8% - A question
6% - Something emotive
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To incentivise or not to
incentivise
No Incentive
5.1% open rate
2.2% click rate
Incentive
6.5% open rate
1.6% click rate
No recipients clicked to opt out!
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What next?
• Matching email data against purchase
history
• The value of an email and your
customer lifecycle
• The sub-conscious messaging of being
in the inbox
• How many of your recipients are
disengaged?
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• Consider the risk dis-engagement poses to you
• Consider how you measure engagement
• Evaluate the customer journey
• Subject line is key
• Match messaging to customer behavior
• Use filters to monitor engagement levels
• Don’t forget your other marketing channels
Key takeaways
Why re-engage?
Do you know how much it costs you to collect an email? 60p DV - £2.50 BrandAlley
Depends on –
Traffic source
Sales person
Etc etc.
Our recent research shows that 63% of recipients delete most marketing emails without reading them.
Positives –
Clicking to open the email in the inbox,
Senders’ presence in address book,
Recipient loading the images,
Inbox being set to always load images from particular sender,
Replies,
Forwarding,
Marked as ‘not spam’
Negatives –
Marked as read without opening,
Deleting without opening,
Deleting after opening,
Ignoring altogether,
Marking as spam,
High number of hard bounces,
High number of repeat soft bounces,
Junked for content
75% of mail reported as spam by Hotmail users is mail that Hotmail defines as legitimate mail. But they understand that it doesn’t matter that this is legitimate, that it’s opt-in, that it’s not spam. It’s still mail their users don’t want.
Keep re-engagement strategy separate from your day to day sending – different profile, domain and IP pool.
A customer engagement metric that measures the proportion of your base who have opened at least one message over a period of time. You can apply reach to all standard metrics, like click or purchase, but here we are focusing on open reach.
Click behaviour or with an integration you can see purchasing behaviour.
See how many first time openers
Aim to move people up the filters
Evaluating your Customer Journey
Bulk, transactional, automations, abandon cart etc.
Watchfinder are a very successful luxury watch retailer and they really do understand their customers
this understanding has led them to create an annual turn over in excess of £13 million.
Biggest sale to date? A Patek Phillipe at a staggering £350k
So what’s important to them?
40% of shoppers research online and purchase offline
Location – they know where their customers live and who are most likely to convert – higher propensity to spend in certain areas
Identified 4 groups of consumers with a specific journey to conversion – personalise communication accordingly
Average conversion worth is £2.5k
22% conversion directly from email - 40% of customers research online and then buy offline. So Watchfinder know that email is a vital element in the customer journey to purchase
See how powerful understanding your customer journey can be!
Law of diminishing returns refers to a point at which the level of profits or benefits gained is less than the amount of money or energy invested
See real value with their customers at 3 years
RCN Pub - start to make £ in month 8/9 of subscription
This should inform actions and determine re-engagement behaviour before recipients start to disengage.
Creating engaging campaigns
Testing is so important as it’s not always the obvious choice that wins
With the exception of special offers, the subject lines that resonate best with consumers include topics that fit their interests as well as brands they like.
Relevancy not personalisation - people are happy to use email as a marketplace, as long as they like what’s on offer. Almost two fifths (38%) hate feeling like companies are stalking them via email.
Personalisation - only 17% said it would prompt them to return to a brand that they’d previously abandoned.
However they prefer no personalisation at all to that based on demographic assumptions, while including people’s names had no discernible impact. Think outside the box
38% tempted
34% intrigued
28% amused
21% informed
17% special
2% shocked
Research - the emotional impact of successful email campaigns and found people would rather be tempted than amused or informed. This is mirrored by the fact that two thirds of UK consumers are most likely to open email with offers in the subject line.
First Great western –
Incentive – Win two first class tickets to anywhere
Adding in a ‘click no’ option often makes people click ‘yes’ – it’s a psychology thing
What if they no longer want your emails?
Spam is defined as unsolicited bulk email but in the eyes of the recipient spam is just unwanted email…
Your audience may be more active on social than in their inbox
Just because they don’t want your email doesn’t mean they don’t want to stay in touch
Having at least one touch point helps maintain brand loyalty
Don’t replicate your email experience on social or vice versa – make both channels deliver value to your customers
Use SMS to make sure that you have the most up to date email address/ information
If you aren’t able to access the data to make an informed decision regarding when to cut the cord then anyone that hasn’t engaged in a year should be eliminated from your usual sending but consider….
32% of consumers check their emails over 10 times a day! With 58% checking over 5 times a day and a whopping 90% checking more than twice a day!