With the January sales behind us, February is an excellent opportunity to take stock of your email strategy. Email marketing remains a mainstay of the modern marketer's toolkit, but many marketers haven’t kept up with the current capabilities of the channel - this can lead to issues with creativity, consistency and quality.
To prevent consumers tuning out, marketers need to ensure they’re not just going through the motions with email. Join our complimentary webinar to hear from email specialist and member of the DMA’s Email Marketing Council, Skip Fidura - In this session we’ll help you tune up your email strategy for 2017 and show you:
- What to consider in your creative - from responsive email to subject lines
- How to improve deliverability and sender reputation
- How to increase automation without sacrificing personalisation
- The 6 key metrics for reporting
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2017 Email Tune-Up
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James Lawson
Consultant Editor
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Skip Fidura
Digital Director
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Popular with MarketersThis presentation is from “2017 Email Tune-Up”, a marketingfinder webinar.
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Popular with Marketers
95%
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Popular with Marketers
95% 10+:1
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Email is popular with Consumers
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Too Many Emails
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50%
Of all
77%
Millennials
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Where Can We Improve?
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Where Can We Improve?
• Data Capture
• Segmentation and
Automation
• Creative and
Copywriting
• Deliverability
• Testing
• Analytics
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Think BIG
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Start Small
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Start Small; Scale Quickly
Scale QUICKLY
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…but where do I start?
BenefitLow High
Cost
High
Low
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…but where do I start?
BenefitLow High
Cost
High
Low
INVESTDON’T BE DISTRACTED
PLAN FOR THE FUTUREIGNORE
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…but where do I start?
BenefitLow High
Cost
High
Low
INVESTDON’T BE DISTRACTED
PLAN FOR THE FUTUREIGNORE
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Data Capture
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Explicit Data
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Implicit Data
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What Data do you Need?
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What Data do you Have?
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Data has a Shelf Life
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Data has a Shelf Life
• No paper forms
• No Chinese Whispers
• Real-time Validation
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Think About ALL Touch Points
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Fred Perry
Problem:
• No single view of customer
• Not capturing store traffic
Solution:
• Implemented e-receipts at all till
points
• Nightly Feed to combine with
ecommerce data
Results:
• Single view of customer
• List growth
CASE STUDY
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Barbour
CASE STUDY
Background:
• Founded in 1894
• Recently started selling direct –
on and off line
Problem:
- Delivering a luxury brand
experience on-line
- Little direct relationship with
customers
- No real databaseThis presentation is from “2017 Email Tune-Up”, a marketingfinder webinar.
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Barbour
CASE STUDY
Solution
• Implemented Pop-over
after testing alternatives
• Welcome Program to
collect more data
• Implemented basic
segmentation based on
explicit data collected
through a preference
centre This presentation is from “2017 Email Tune-Up”, a marketingfinder webinar.
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Barbour
CASE STUDY
Results
• 20,000 new email addresses in
first three months vs. 1,200 in the
previous three months (1,667%
increase)
• Total sales from email has grown
over 600% with some campaigns
generating six figure revenue
• Click to open rates over 30%
• Unique open rate over 40%This presentation is from “2017 Email Tune-Up”, a marketingfinder webinar.
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Problem:
• Need to capture language
Solution:
• New data based on page
• Old data had to ask
Results:
• Each list grew by more than
100%
• Open rates nearly doubled
Dune
CASE STUDY
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Segmentation and Automation
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Upstream and Downstream
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Upstream Automation
Personalisation
• “Hi Rebecca”
• Could also include
– Loyalty points
– Last destination
Dynamic Content
• Destination articles
• Could also include
– Loyalty tier
– Real-time based on weather
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£/email
Number of Segments & Volume of content
Revenue per email
Cost per email
Point of maximum returns
Increasing
returns
Diminishing
returns
Negative
growth
The relevancy scale
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Downstream Automation
• Account Creation or Welcome
• Birthday
• Abandon Browse
• Abandon Basket
• Post Action
• Recommendations
• ReplenishmentThis presentation is from “2017 Email Tune-Up”, a marketingfinder webinar.
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Account creation or welcome
Email1:
- what’s new
- Online and
offline content
- Push to
purchase
Email3:
- An offer
- Educational
content
Email2:
Relationship
building content
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Account creation or welcome Email4:
- Reassuring tone
- Easy. Secure.
- Helpful guides
- Clear CTA ‘start’
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Account creation or welcome
Emails 5 & 6:
- First offer code
- Urgency
- Tone – ‘don’t miss out’
- Stronger CTA ‘shop
now’
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Birthday
• It is a nice thing to do
• Do not need an offer
• Reason to connect
outside of the booking
season
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Creative and Copywriting
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Mobile
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49. TIP 1 - Know your audience
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50. TIP 2 - Readability
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51. TIP 3 – Customer-centric copy
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52. TIP 4 – Actionable language
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53. TIP 5 – Sell the sizzle
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Deliverability
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55. Email Filtering
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MYTH #1
Sending plain text messages to
subscribers is good for your
deliverability, inbox placement rate,
and open rates.
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MYTH #2
If I get recipients to click links
within my email, the ISPs will see
that I am sending to engaged users
and therefore my deliverability will
be improved.This presentation is from “2017 Email Tune-Up”, a marketingfinder webinar.
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59. 59 | 2017 Email Tune-up | @SkipFidura @dotmailer
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MYTH #3
Subject lines should not exceed a
certain size, nor should they
contain special characters or
certain words.
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Testing
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Cardinal Rules of Testing
1. In every campaign
2. One variable at a time
3. Clear hypothesis
4. Defined success and failure metrics
5. Implement learnings and move one
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Analytics
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“Half of the money spent on advertising is
wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which
half.”
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66. 66 | Faster. Better. Smarter. | @TinkTaylor @dotmailer
The Ultimate Irony
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• Time taken to use the platform
• Getting the data in and out
• Lost opportunity cost of not having
time to implement a better
marketing strategy
• Outgrowing system and learning
new tools
The True cost of email is more than CPM
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Traditional Email Metrics
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Opens or Clicks?
Campaign A
Check out our new
British film of the month
Emails delivered: 10,000
Unique opens: 2,000
Open rate: 20%
Campaign B
Check out Benedict Cumberbatch’s
brand new film!
Emails delivered: 10,000
Unique opens: 1,500
Open rate: 10%
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Opens or Clicks?
Campaign A
Check out our new
British film of the month
Emails delivered: 10,000
Unique opens: 2,000
Open rate: 20%
Unique clicks 200
Click through rate 2%
Click to open rate 10%
Campaign B
Check out Benedict Cumberbatch’s
brand new film!
Emails delivered: 10,000
Unique opens: 1,500
Open rate: 15%
Unique clicks 300
Click through rate 3%
Click to open rate 20%
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The alternative metrics
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Engagement
How does my open rate compare… ?
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Engagement
Camp 1
Open rate 25%
Camp 2
Open rate 25%
Camp 3
Open rate 25%
Camp 4
Open rate 25%
Rates alone can steer us in the wrong direction
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Engagement
Camp 1
Open rate 25%
Camp 2
Open rate 25%
Camp 3
Open rate 25%
Camp 4
Open rate 25%
Rates alone can steer us in the wrong direction
Open Reach 55%
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Customer Value Analysis
This analysis will show you:
• How each channel is performing
• Channel performance relative to the others
• The value of multi-channel customers
• The optimal COA for each channel
• How big a discount should you offer and when
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Customer Value Example
Both FacebookEmail
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Customer Value Example
Recipients Purchasers Revenue
Avg
Purchaser
Value
Average
Value
Email 100,000 10,200 £ 159,000 £ 15.59 £ 1.59
Facebook 30,000 1,400 £ 26,000 £ 18.57 £ 0.87
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Customer Value Example
Both FacebookEmail
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Customer Value Example
Purchasers Revenue
Avg
Purchaser
Value
Average
Value
Email 100,000 10,200 £ 159,000 £ 15.59 £ 1.59
Facebook 30,000 1,400 £ 26,000 £ 18.57 £ 0.87
Purchasers Revenue
Avg
Purchaser
Value
Average
Value
Email Only 90,000 9,000 £ 135,000 £ 15.00 £ 1.50
Facebook Only 20,000 200 £ 2,000 £ 10.00 £ 0.10
Both 10,000 1,200 £ 24,000 £ 20.00 £ 2.40This presentation is from “2017 Email Tune-Up”, a marketingfinder webinar.
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Customer Value Analysis
Spend no more than:
• £1.50 to acquire an email
• £0.10 to acquire a FB fan
• £0.90 for an email recipient to
become a FB fan
• £1.30 to capture the email for a
FB fan
Spend limit to convert:
• £13.50 for email subscribers
• £9.90 for FB fans
• £17.60 for Both email
subscribers & FB fans
Average
Purchaser Value
Average
Value
Email only £15.00 £1.50
Facebook only £10.00 £0.10
Both £20.00 £ 2.40
Ave Value: Total Rev for Channel / Db size
Ave Purchaser Value: Total Rev for Channel / No of
purchasers
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Conclusion
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Thank you James and hello everybody. Just to be clear, this webinar is not about providing hospice care for email. Despite what you may hear in the press email is neither dead nor dying.
The very fact that you have taken an hour out your busy day to join us today would indicate to me that you would say that email is important or very important to your overall marketing strategy…
… and you would agree with 95% of all UK marketers based on data doon to be released by the DMA.
Why is it popular? Well, over 50% of marketers see a return of more than 10 to 1. In other words they make 10 pounds for every one they spend.
It’s the preferred mode of marketing for consumers.
The key stat for me here is the Millennials in the top left corner. I keep hearing that they will not use email. However the stats prove otherwise…
They are in fact the most prolific users of email on their smartphones. They do not use email to maintain relationships with friends and family but we are brands and therefor neither friend nor family regardless of how strong a relationship we may be able to build. So, email is popular with marketers and it is popular with consumers – the very definition of a win/win.
BUT … We may be killing it…
I apologise to those of you who are zero inbox people. When I present this in the office I have a colleague who wants nothing more than to grab my phone and clean this up. I don’t show you this to highlight that I do not keep on top of my personal email. I show you this to highlight that inboxes are full and getting fuller.
Consumers
61% get more than 21 per week
B2C Marketers
4.3 contacts per month
25% more than 5
With the proliferation in email, it is probably not surprising that consumers think that a lot of the email they get is irrelevant. In fact, 85% of UK consumers say that more than ½ of the emails they receive are irrelevant.
What scares me though is that 42% of email marketers AGREE! 42% of marketers say that only some or none of the emails they send are relevant to the recipients. Well today, we are going to start to fix that…
...because the same populist groundswell that delivered Brexit and President Trump will hit email as well unless we head it off. More than 50% of consumers have at least thought of deleting their email account because they were getting too many emails and this stat rises to an alarming 77% for Millennials.
So, where can we improve? Well as the sign says, we can improve everywhere but before we get into that, let me introduce myself. I am Skip Fidura, client services director at dotmailer and non-exec board member of the DMA. I am also the chair of the boards Responsible Marketing Committee and as a way to get to know you a little better, let’s get a sense of your challenges. James, I think it is time for a poll.
Think Big
Start Small
Scale Quickly
Now I know what you are thinking. “Skip, this agile approach to marketing is all well and good but there are loads of places to start small across the six topic areas you mentioned. How do I know which one to pick?
What I failed to mention earlier is that a key part of my role at dotmailer is leading our consultancy, so of course I am going to have a 2X2 matrix.
This simple model works very well for our clients. We evaluate every tactic for both benefit and cost. I have
Top right; this is where you want to focus your energy and resources.
Bottom left: Why is your business is doing it at all but BUT you cannot not always control that so you have to be good at ignoring it as a distraction.
Top left: Should probably be under your control or at the least you should have strategic input into how they operate
Bottom right: Channels that fall in the bottom right box either need to work better or you need to kill them
So lets plot tactics on the matrix. We can add a third dimension around the ease of implementing these tactics. The bigger the dots, the easier it is to implement the tactic.
Remember the goal of this is to just pick where you are going to get started so there is no point focussing on tactics that will be really hard for you to implement.
Don’t get analysis paralysis.
Explicit data is simply data collected directly from the recipient. People answer the questions based on how they want to be perceived.
Wine club
Doctor
The reality is probably something closer to this but we would only know this by collecting behavioural or implicit data. At dotmailer we tend to think of this as digital body language.
When going about collecting data, the first thing you need to ask yourself is what data do you need? This may seem obvious but as marketers we tend to want as much data as possible, so we need to be pretty ruthless with ourselves. You can only collect data that you are actually going to use. You also need to think about what data people will actually give you.
For example if you are a travel company, people are unlikely to tell you their travel budget but are more likely to tell you their preference of star rating for hotels.
Next you are going to have to look at the data that you have. This can be a little bit like looking for something in my daughters room and the older your business the messier the room.
The other thing to remember is that some data has a shelf life. If I ask you for your age, I know that will be out of date in no more than 366 days but if I ask your date of birth, I know your age forever.
Not only does data have a shelf life you also need to think about the quality of the data when you collect it. We already talked about the challenges with explicit data so here I am talking about the data collection methods. Whenever you are going to collect data try to reduce the potential for error as much as possible. It is better to have the person enter the data than saying it to somebody but if they are completing it on an offline form, bad handwriting and the resources needed to digitise it become barriers to getting the data entered accurately and in a timely manner.
Not only does data have a shelf life you also need to think about the quality of the data when you collect it. We already talked about the challenges with explicit data so here I am talking about the data collection methods. Whenever you are going to collect data try to reduce the potential for error as much as possible. It is better to have the person enter the data than saying it to somebody but if they are completing it on an offline form, bad handwriting and the resources needed to digitise it become barriers to getting the data entered accurately and in a timely manner.
Even if the person is entering the data directly and electronically, there is always the possability of fat finger syndrome so adding validation to the form will improve the quality of the data you collect.
Now that you are ready to start collecting data, where should you look? Anyplace you interact with your customers is a good place to collect data.
Email - obviously
Ecommerce
Social
Facebook
Instagram
Pinterest
Face to face, which is exactly what Fred Perry has done
We all know Fred Perry as well as we all know the challenge they faced – collecting new email addresses but also building a single customer view. They had the ecommerce side all covered but they still generate a large proportion of their sales off-line in their shops. They leveraged the fact that most UK consumers have one or two email addresses and those with two tend to have a personal and a marketing or a personal and a work which means they will use the same address for marketing comms over and over. They leveraged this fact by implementing e-receipts in their shops. Even if they do not get an opt-in they can use the email address to match the offline data with their ecommerce data and get that 160 degree view of the customer.
Barbour had the opposite problem though they were founded in 1894, they were late to the digital marketing and ecommerce
Their history brought with it another challenge in their brand heritage and their three royal patents, which is why they were quite reluctant to try a pop-over. Let’s face it, none of us like pop-overs but they work in both B2C and B2B scenarios.
Once we convinced them to try a pilot the results became clear and the full roll-out has been very successful.
Dune had a different problem. They have ecommerce sites in four different languages but had no idea of each recipients preferred language. Getting this data going forward was as simple as tagging the language of the page for each recipient but they had to come up with a way to get the language preference for their existing registrants. Their solution was quite simple – a link for each language in their emails. What is great about this is the typical approach would be to have a link to a preference centre or some other landing page, instead Dune catured the data directly from the email – basically a preference centre without the centre.
So for data it is all about what do you need, what do you have and getting it in a way that ensures the best quality. Now that you have the data, let’s use it.
This is mission control in Houston in 1969. To put this into perspective those two screens on the right are about the size of an iPad. Interestingly the computer on the Apollo rocket had less memory and less computing power than an ipad.
This is the same room today. The explosion in screens is a great example of the changes we all face – more data, more technology, more power.
…but technology is just an enabler. In our office that iPad that put two men on the moon is used to make a flat white. Now the coffee is good but I am not sure the technology adds a whole lot to it.
…when all you need to make a cup of coffee is this.
Upstream = making it easier to get your campaigns out the door
Downstream = what we think of when we thin of marketing automation – reader does X so we will send Y.
The theory here is
Targeted segments with dynamic content, delivers relevancy.
Relevancy delivers results
Greater relevancy means you can send more often… generating more sales
However there is a cost associated with creating segmentation & dynamic content
Its much easier in B2C ie pulling in product feeds than B2B perhaps.
Therefore there is a diminishing return on creating segments for segments sake and the same for content
Making sure you have spent less time ‘doing’ & more time on your segment & content strategy
Elemis here, deliver a personal service so they do face to face, they are trying to replicate this via their email
Emails 1 & 2 no offers whatsoever, its all about getting to know you & about you getting to know Elemis as a brand by giving expert advice
Email 3 softly no offer, but a treat, free gift
Email 4 a bit harder with the offer … but also add guides and reviews/testimonials
Email 5 & 6 they go in harder with an offer… ‘are you deaf just buy something ’ 10% & 20% discount
Why leave to emails 5 & 6? Why not offer in immediately… Well that’s leaving money on the table.
Those that brought in emails 1-4 don’t get emails 5 & 6 as we recognise the purchase and change the CJ
And even phones come in different sizes
It looks good on my device. Fact point: more mobile than desktop email. Think email first
Know your audience. Who are they? What are their motivations? What do they want?
David Ogilvy once said, “ the consumer isn’t a moron; she is your wife. You insult her intelligence if you assume that a mere slogan and a few vapid adjectives will persuade her to buy anything.”
Who’s opened up a Whatsapp essay before?TLDR – too long didn’t read
Fewer words to get to your point
My next tip – create customer-centric copy.
Okay, my next tip: use actionable language
Get, order buy, sign up, start
Here’s my final tip.
Pictures do tell a thousand words
Honestly, I’m not sure which is more baffling: the fact that this myth was ever created or the fact that it has persisted for as long as it has.
In reality, the sending of plain text emails has zero effect on your deliverability, meaning the plain text has zero bearing on the ability to pass your email off to any receiver (ISP).
Plain text messages also have zero impact on your inbox placement rate. There are a lots of factors that weigh in on your ability to get into the inbox (as opposed to the spam or bulk folders) – among them are domain reputation, IP reputation, content, etc. – but whether your email is HTML versus plain text isn’t one of them.
But the biggest part of this myth that needs to be busted is that emails composed in plain text receive better open rates than emails that are composed in HTML. I guess the idea here is that if it’s in plain text, the ISP will just pass it through straight to the inbox, having concluded, “This must be a personal message,” or “this is just a transactional message” and the recipient will be able to read it no matter what device or browser they’re using, so they’ll open it every time.
Not only is that logic wrong because one doesn’t correlate with the other, it’s also impossible to prove because plain text emails don’t process opens at all! If it’s in plain text, there’s no image pixel to be downloaded, so there’s nothing to tell the ESP Platform that the recipient opened the email.
In February of 2015, I sat down with some key email program personnel from Comcast, Microsoft, AOL and Google to discuss how they measure activity within the inbox and what senders of commercial email should be doing from their point of view. Matt Moleski from Comcast, Paul Rock from AOL, John Scarrow from Microsoft and Sri Somanchi from Google were all at the meeting. User click behaviour was one of the many topics we talked about when discussing how they measure engagement vs how email marketers measure engagement.
When asked about monitoring and or measuring user click behaviour, each receiver agreed that they don’t look at that. None of them track what a user clicks within the message itself. In fact, they all view tracking what a user does inside of an email as a violation of privacy. Google showed me an internal privacy policy which prohibits the monitoring and/or tracking of what a user clicks on within an email! Whether a recipient clicks on a link within a message or not, has no impact on the reputation score that they give to a sender. Therefore, clicking links in an email will do little to improve deliverability.
Back to that meeting I had last year…. Subject line came up.
One very interesting point shared by all of the receiver representatives was the fact that subject lines don’t matter. That’s right - subject lines don’t matter (not size, not content, not special characters, not even FREE FREE FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! – yes, you can have as many exclamation points as you want). They are not looking at subject lines at all.
That being said, if a subject line happens to trigger a user behaviour that is a negative signal, this will have an impact on inbox placement for that recipient. This means that although the receiver isn’t looking at the subject line, the users are, and if the users react negatively, it can hurt. When a user marks a message as SPAM, it will definitely affect any future emails to that particular recipient. If the negative reactions are large scale (meaning many users take the same negative action), there will most likely be a global issue as a negative reputation score will be assigned to you. I would also caution any sender that words like FREE still matter to the FTC – so if you use it, make sure it isn’t misleading.
The ultimate irony is that marketers cannot even agree on the attribution of one of our most famous quotes. If you are from America, then you know that this was first uttered by John Wannamaker a Philadelphia retailer. If you are British however, then William Lever founder Lever Brothers is your man.
As humans, we are always searching for one theory that will explain the nature of the world and the universe. As marketers we are no different, we are looking for one methodology that will help us measure, learn adapt and optimize our campaigns. We are always searching for the silver bullet of campaign metrics?
Make sure you measure the true cost of email.
Many people simply buy based on price of the tools, or something like the CPM costs.
Consider the
Human costs of production of HTML
Human costs of data segmentation
The opportunity costs of not analyzing & testing
and therefore refining your message & Strategy?
We use opens & clicks to prove we are doing a good job
They are easy to measure & capture…
BUT We have to pay attention to what the data is actually telling us!
Open rates are captured when a recipient downloads a small ‘invisible’ image embedded in the HTML.
In B2B Outlook Images turned off, by default. I can digest the content without “opening”.
Mobile devices, Iphones download images automatically. Flick through my inbox, I track as open, but am I really engaged?
THERE FORE You cant rely on these as a measure of success
A practical example.
Stats from a client (Odeon Cinema) The film The Imitation Game.
Which subject line test won?
Hands up for Campaign A – Open rate of 20%
Hands up for campaign B – Open rate of 10%
Any guesses?
This is of course a trap!
B had lower open rate…. BUT
B had a greater unique clicks
B subject line helped: more specific content, it mentioned the actor.
We need to be looking at the all the metrics
Ideally also be looking at bookings. Version B made most bookings here.
Worth bearing in mind: Often not practical to factor revenue into a tests, due to lag between marketing & the sale
So what should we focus on?
I’m going to give you some alternatives that will drive the success of your business.
Not instead of but on top off
Another question asked all the time:
“How does my open & click rate compare to my industry peers?” …. Its doesn’t matter… Own Benchmarks
Lets now look at Customer engagement or rather Open Reach
This is the metric you should focus on.
Think of this as:
Customer interaction
Over time
Across the whole customer base
Here’s an illustration
Send 4 campaigns.
Each has an open rate of 25%. Make the Average open rate 25%!
Intelligent email marketers will know this is not a problem,
But some say… normally your boss:
“This is terrible, 75% of our customers are not engaged!”
Look at opens across all campaigns .. Never have 100% overlap of openers.
Its not the norm. People interact with different campaigns, depending on what they have on in their life.
Here we find 55% percent actually opened over time.
This % goes up the more campaigns you send. A great argument for sending more email more often.
Open & Click reach is the unique openers / clickers across all the campaigns in a given period (your usual biz cycle (daily / weekly / monthly / quarterly)
Reach is better measure of REAL engagement. & it shows trends & what is happening over time.
Traditional attribution modelling is either
Too simple… last click! Guess what… search wins hands down every time with this
If you only did search, your company would soon suffer. So we know last click attribution is not useful.
Other models too complicated, set up by some data boffin, to complex for us to use on daily basis.
So lets look Customer Value Analysis
Traditional attribution models work from sales made
Lets work back from the total sales we want to achieve instead.
Here we have a B2C company that are only marketing on Email and Facebook. So, you will have email recipients and Facebook fans. Once we have identified who is in each of these groups, we can look at the revenue generated by the customers in each then compare the two channels to each other. Let’s put some made up numbers to this.
So, we have 100,000 email recipients. 10,200 of them made a purchase over the past quarter generating £159,000 in revenue and you can see that dividing the revenue by the number of purchasers we get the average purchaser value of £15.50 and then by dividing revenue by email subscribers we get the average value of an email address, which is £1.59. The same analysis works for the 30,000 Facebook fans and this analysis shows that Facebook is definitely the better channel at driving value from purchasers…
… but I can almost hear you all saying, “hang on a second here Skip, aren’t we double counting the people who get the email and are fans on Facebook?”
Well spotted because yes we are…
… in reality there is an overlap in the Venn diagram. So, you will have email recipients, Facebook fans, and people who interact with both. Once we have identified these three groups we can look at the revenue generated by the customers in each then get a true comparison of the two channels. Let’s add this into our example.
Now we see that people that interact with
Email only drive £15 from purchasers and £1.50 across the board
Facebook only drives £10 and 10p respectively
But both is where the money is with £20 from purchasers and £2.40 from all contacts
So, what does this tell us:
You can spend up to £1.50 to acquire an email address and a further 90p to convert that email recipient to a Facebook fan but you should spend next to nothing on Facebook fans alone
You can spend up to £13.50 on people who only receive your email to get them to convert
If next quarter’s target is £200k, there are a number of things you can do but if nothing else changes you will need 11,038 new email addresses of which 1,200 will also be Facebook fans and 1,250 will be purchasers.
One word of warning here I have purposely structured these numbers for the purpose of this illustration. They do not always work out this cleanly. Remember that you might have a channel with a very high average purchaser and overall average values but pumping a lot of money into these may not generate increase the revenue linearly.
In this example we look at stats of those who brought via email, those who brought via facebook only & those that interacted with both!
Calculate
Ave Value - Db size / Total Rev
Ave purchaser value – Total Rev / No of purchasers