The document discusses email marketing and provides tips for using email effectively. It outlines 4 steps to create a welcome email series that will engage subscribers. The steps include defining the audience, running targeted campaigns, eliciting measurable responses, and testing different days and times for sending emails. Additional tips include keeping emails short, using images, repurposing content, and having a clear call to action. The document promotes an upcoming email marketing workshop and offers a discount for attendees.
The State of Email and Social Media Marketing with Alex de CarvalhoHeidi Richards Mooney
On January 24, 2014 Alex de Carvalho shared the State of Email and Social Media Marketing with members of Women in Ecommerce. Here is his slide presentation. Members of WECAI.org have access to the video files of this presentation.
The Power of Email & Social Media MarketingVanessa CEO
Learn the basics, best practices, and proven strategies of email and social media marketing. Learn how to get your audience to open, read and act on your emails, measure the return on your marketing efforts, and how to combine it with your social media marketing efforts!
Ignored – or Engaging? How are your subject lines working – or NOT working – to capture the attention and interest of your audience? This fast-paced seminar will take a deeper dive into the mechanics of truly effective subject lines. We’ll cover:– The three keys that make or break your subject line (and how short your window really is.
The State of Email and Social Media Marketing with Alex de CarvalhoHeidi Richards Mooney
On January 24, 2014 Alex de Carvalho shared the State of Email and Social Media Marketing with members of Women in Ecommerce. Here is his slide presentation. Members of WECAI.org have access to the video files of this presentation.
The Power of Email & Social Media MarketingVanessa CEO
Learn the basics, best practices, and proven strategies of email and social media marketing. Learn how to get your audience to open, read and act on your emails, measure the return on your marketing efforts, and how to combine it with your social media marketing efforts!
Ignored – or Engaging? How are your subject lines working – or NOT working – to capture the attention and interest of your audience? This fast-paced seminar will take a deeper dive into the mechanics of truly effective subject lines. We’ll cover:– The three keys that make or break your subject line (and how short your window really is.
Growing your Business with Email and Social Media MarketingGhost Partner
Many small businesses and organizations find themselves seeking the right strategies, tools and tactics to make their marketing efforts as effective as possible. But between Facebook and Twitter, email and mobile, deals, and whatever new social network is rolling out that month—there’s a lot to keep up with. And there are only so many hours in each day.
3 Proven Sales Email Templates Used by Successful CompaniesHubSpot
76% of emails never get opened. That makes life for salespeople very difficult. So we've partnered up with Breakthrough Email to bring you email templates that are proven to engage prospects and close more deals. Start using them today and grow your revenue.
4 Ways to Win Your Competitor's Customer HabitsNir Eyal
Here's how to capture customer habits away from your competition.
For the original article, see: http://www.nirandfar.com/2015/01/competitions-customers.html
Three simple ways you can improve any business with IBM ConnectionsLetsConnect
Many organisations think productivity and communications gains come simply by making an enterprise social network available to their users. The truth is you must find a genuine purpose for the system for it to be adopted and grow. Join this session to explore three simple uses you can put IBM Connections to in your business which will drive productivity, community and improve communications. Based on real-life implementations, Alan will show you how you can get started today.
Do you need a Better Conversion Rate? - Growth Hacking TorontoTiffany daSilva
Here are the slides from a talk I did on conversion rate optimization for the Growth Hacking TO meet up group! Learn a little about Google Analytics, why your landing page probably sucks and the value of personas like Tony Darrell! Enjoy! :)
Trends in B2B Marketing: A Crash Course in B2B Email CreativeHannah Flynn
Too often, email campaigns are seen as something that "just anyone" on your team can put together. But in today's attention economy, strong creative can be the defining factor that gets your email to stand out in the inbox.
Join Howard Sewell of Spear Marketing Group, a leading B2B agency, as he uses real-world examples to highlight tips, techniques and key principles that can make or break your campaigns.
What Has Your Donation Page Done for You Lately?: Testing, Optimization & Bes...donordigital
Mal Warwick | Donordigital Vice President Mwosi Swenson spoke with Jason Wilson of Share Our Strength and Dawn Stoner of Mal Warwick | Donordigital at the Direct Marketing Association Nonprofit Federation Washington Nonprofit Conference on February 27, 2015. Donation page optimization is the least-sexy part of online fundraising — yet investment in this area can mean real money (lots of it, in fact!) from the same traffic to your site. Learn how analytics-driven changes to donation pages that have raised tens of thousands of additional dollars at some of the largest nonprofit programs. Includes a quick review of the tools, technology and methodology needed for effective testing, then dives into best practices and real testing results — things you'd expect, things that you need to know, and things that surprised us all!
Email Marketing presentation for Startups and new business entrepreneurs. Topics include: Why Small Businesses and Non-Profits Use Email, What is SPAM, 5 Tips to Improve Your Email Marketing Results, What is the 2 x 2 x 2 Principle, How to Get Your Emails Opened, How an Email Service Provider Can Make Your Life Easier, How You Can Listen, Learn & EARN from Email Reports, Next Steps
An inspiration session and workshop I gave to marketing and communication team, focusing on societal and digital trends. Focus on disconnecting, retail innovation, education, happiness and storydoing.
From revealing why regular email doesn’t work, to insider tips and techniques like automated list building tools and the design elements that work (and don’t!), this webinar will give you the keys to the most effective marketing you can do: email marketing. We will show you:
– What it really is (and isn’t)
– What it can do for your business
– And the five easy steps you must take to harness the power of the inbox!
– Grow a healthy list
– Create great content
– Customize a beautiful, mobile-friendly template that matches your brand
– How to get your emails opened
– Tracking your results
Growing your Business with Email and Social Media MarketingGhost Partner
Many small businesses and organizations find themselves seeking the right strategies, tools and tactics to make their marketing efforts as effective as possible. But between Facebook and Twitter, email and mobile, deals, and whatever new social network is rolling out that month—there’s a lot to keep up with. And there are only so many hours in each day.
3 Proven Sales Email Templates Used by Successful CompaniesHubSpot
76% of emails never get opened. That makes life for salespeople very difficult. So we've partnered up with Breakthrough Email to bring you email templates that are proven to engage prospects and close more deals. Start using them today and grow your revenue.
4 Ways to Win Your Competitor's Customer HabitsNir Eyal
Here's how to capture customer habits away from your competition.
For the original article, see: http://www.nirandfar.com/2015/01/competitions-customers.html
Three simple ways you can improve any business with IBM ConnectionsLetsConnect
Many organisations think productivity and communications gains come simply by making an enterprise social network available to their users. The truth is you must find a genuine purpose for the system for it to be adopted and grow. Join this session to explore three simple uses you can put IBM Connections to in your business which will drive productivity, community and improve communications. Based on real-life implementations, Alan will show you how you can get started today.
Do you need a Better Conversion Rate? - Growth Hacking TorontoTiffany daSilva
Here are the slides from a talk I did on conversion rate optimization for the Growth Hacking TO meet up group! Learn a little about Google Analytics, why your landing page probably sucks and the value of personas like Tony Darrell! Enjoy! :)
Trends in B2B Marketing: A Crash Course in B2B Email CreativeHannah Flynn
Too often, email campaigns are seen as something that "just anyone" on your team can put together. But in today's attention economy, strong creative can be the defining factor that gets your email to stand out in the inbox.
Join Howard Sewell of Spear Marketing Group, a leading B2B agency, as he uses real-world examples to highlight tips, techniques and key principles that can make or break your campaigns.
What Has Your Donation Page Done for You Lately?: Testing, Optimization & Bes...donordigital
Mal Warwick | Donordigital Vice President Mwosi Swenson spoke with Jason Wilson of Share Our Strength and Dawn Stoner of Mal Warwick | Donordigital at the Direct Marketing Association Nonprofit Federation Washington Nonprofit Conference on February 27, 2015. Donation page optimization is the least-sexy part of online fundraising — yet investment in this area can mean real money (lots of it, in fact!) from the same traffic to your site. Learn how analytics-driven changes to donation pages that have raised tens of thousands of additional dollars at some of the largest nonprofit programs. Includes a quick review of the tools, technology and methodology needed for effective testing, then dives into best practices and real testing results — things you'd expect, things that you need to know, and things that surprised us all!
Email Marketing presentation for Startups and new business entrepreneurs. Topics include: Why Small Businesses and Non-Profits Use Email, What is SPAM, 5 Tips to Improve Your Email Marketing Results, What is the 2 x 2 x 2 Principle, How to Get Your Emails Opened, How an Email Service Provider Can Make Your Life Easier, How You Can Listen, Learn & EARN from Email Reports, Next Steps
An inspiration session and workshop I gave to marketing and communication team, focusing on societal and digital trends. Focus on disconnecting, retail innovation, education, happiness and storydoing.
From revealing why regular email doesn’t work, to insider tips and techniques like automated list building tools and the design elements that work (and don’t!), this webinar will give you the keys to the most effective marketing you can do: email marketing. We will show you:
– What it really is (and isn’t)
– What it can do for your business
– And the five easy steps you must take to harness the power of the inbox!
– Grow a healthy list
– Create great content
– Customize a beautiful, mobile-friendly template that matches your brand
– How to get your emails opened
– Tracking your results
Proactive, outbound email marketing should be an important, key component of your overall marketing or customer/member communications strategy. Email marketing is cost effective and easy to measure. Suitable for all experience levels, this session will teach you how to master email marketing communications with a comprehensive look at best practices and winning strategies for getting and keeping quality subscribers, increasing deliverability and open rates, writing good headlines and content, saving time, getting readers to take action, and more!
Are you seeking the right strategies, tools and tactics to make your marketing efforts as effective as possible? During this session you’ll learn some simple but powerful tips to help get your messages opened and read, shared and socially visible. And you’ll learn about great tools you can use to help engage with your existing supporters as well as expand your reach to new ones.
Slides from Social Media for Nonprofits- Vancouver | June 25, 2013
Nonprofits need to leverage every tool to get new members, dedicated volunteers, and donors, donors, and MORE donors! Learn how to integrate email marketing with social media to broaden your social footprint. This interactive session will feature live case studies, tips, tools and new technologies that will help your email “go social”— inspiring broader reach, instant action and long-term engagement.
All the online marketing tools you need for your small business or nonprofit.
Grow your business using Constant Contact®, connect email, events, surveys, promotions, and Facebook.
Nonprofits need to leverage every tool to get new members, dedicated volunteers, and donors, donors, and MORE donors! Learn how to integrate email marketing with social media to broaden your social footprint. This interactive session will feature live case studies, tips, tools and new technologies that will help your email “go social”— inspiring broader reach, instant action and long-term engagement.
Build Your Marketing Toolkit with Email and Social MediaVanessa CEO
Many small businesses and organizations find themselves seeking the right strategies to make their marketing efforts as effective as possible. But, with so many different marketing activities that they could focus on, they often miss some of the important marketing concepts that will help them understand why those activities are so important. This presentation is designed to uncover some of those core concepts and show that a little bit of marketing knowledge can go a long way.
Ignored – or Engaging? How are your subject lines working – or NOT working – to capture the attention and interest of your audience? This fast-paced seminar will take a deeper dive into the mechanics of truly effective subject lines.
Free Webinar: E-Mail Blasts Made Easy: Best Practices Revealed!June Bachman
Email marketing remains the most effective online marketing way to directly reach your prospects and clients. Join Wendy and June of bWyse to explore strategies for improving your open rates, customer engagements and how to grow your contact lists. Register to attend our FREE webinar and learn how to create professionally designed, effective email marketing campaigns that drive more traffic to your website.
At the end of our edutainment workshop you will:
-Understand the tools for designing emails
-Be able to grow your contact database
-Know how to leverage social media with your email
-Have an email marketing strategy you can implement
-Understand the different types of email campaigns
-Be able to improve sales conversions through email
-And much, much more!
Email marketing allows you to easily keep in touch with your customers. It is one of the most effective ways to retain your customer base. Join us to learn the key leverage points for a successful email marketing campaign.
Presentation from Global Entrepreneurship Week Kansas City on Content Marketing for Startups!
You probably think content marketing takes too much time and doesn’t pay off. Find out how one person can drastically increase organic web traffic with content marketing.
Email marketing is directly sending a trade message, typically to a group of people, using email. In its broadest sense, every email sent to a possible or current customer could be considered email marketing. It usually involves using email to send ads, request business, or seek sales or donations, and is meant to build loyalty, trust, or label awareness.
Increasing Engagement in Email Marketing and Social Media | Marketing Retirem...Our Kids Media
Tips to Increase engagement and improve performance of your social media marketing and email marketing campaigns. Improve your open rates and click through rates.
Designed for marketing retirement homes, retirement communities and senior care. Will help you market to seniors and boomers in Canada. [Comfort Life Marketing Academy, Lunch & Learn, November 2013, Presented by Kim Fowler]
If your emails aren’t making it to the inbox, what’s the point of sending? Inbox placement relies heavily on subscriber engagement, and no matter how great of a sender you are, there’s always room for improvement.
What if you could improve your chances of getting better inbox placement by implementing just a few key ideas to increase email engagement?
Getting more actions on your emails – opens and clicks – not only means you’re connecting with customers and prospects, but you’re also vetting yourself for a beneficial position in the eyes of ISPs. The rules of the modern inbox dictate the higher an email’s engagement, the better that message’s inbox placement.
Join us for this webinar with Amy Garland, Senior Strategic Account Manager, and Erica Malick, Strategic Account Manager, to gather actionable insights and specific ideas for getting better email engagement and inbox placement in 2015.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 5DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 5. In this session, we will cover CI/CD with devops.
Topics covered:
CI/CD with in UiPath
End-to-end overview of CI/CD pipeline with Azure devops
Speaker:
Lyndsey Byblow, Test Suite Sales Engineer @ UiPath, Inc.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Future of Agility: Supercharging Digital Transfor...Neo4j
Leonard Jayamohan, Partner & Generative AI Lead, Deloitte
This keynote will reveal how Deloitte leverages Neo4j’s graph power for groundbreaking digital twin solutions, achieving a staggering 100x performance boost. Discover the essential role knowledge graphs play in successful generative AI implementations. Plus, get an exclusive look at an innovative Neo4j + Generative AI solution Deloitte is developing in-house.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Art of the Possible with Graph - Q2 2024Neo4j
Neha Bajwa, Vice President of Product Marketing, Neo4j
Join us as we explore breakthrough innovations enabled by interconnected data and AI. Discover firsthand how organizations use relationships in data to uncover contextual insights and solve our most pressing challenges – from optimizing supply chains, detecting fraud, and improving customer experiences to accelerating drug discoveries.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
Welcome. Today we’re going to have some fun and learn a lot…we’re going to expose for you the connection between email and marketing, share with you some practical tips for getting the most out of your email marketing efforts.
(Introduce yourself). Thanks for taking the time today to learn more about using email marketing and social media to grow your business. We hope you will gain insight into some if the key strategies for using Constant Contact tools – both for your own business and also for your clients.
Here’s a quick look at what we’re going to go over today. We’ll talk about Marketing, and the fact that email is one of the strongest formats for real marketing.We’ll talk about how email goes beyond just the messages you send and really leads tomore referral business as well as repeat businessWe’ll talk about what kinds of content work well How to time your messages and to get more people to stop and read themWe’ll go over some important tactics for getting more response from your campaignsAnd we’ll talk a little bit about where you go from here.
Marketing has changed….maybe you’ve noticed? How many of you use [click to build] Facebook for business? How many are on Linked In? Twitter? Anyone tweetingright now? (remind of twitter handle) [click to build] Who uses Pinterest? Instagram? YouTube?[click to build] And how many have checked your email today? (all hands up) …. And right there is one of the key messages I want you to take away from today’s session – not everyone uses each of the social media channels…but these days it’s safe to say that just about everyone you are trying to reach for business has an email address.[click to next slide]
So let’s start by talking about marketing, and I realize that you know what marketing is, but I want to make sure we are all on the same page in terms of real marketing, plain and simple. It’s worth a couple of minutes to go over it.
That ability to see lots of physical and measurable response is just one reason email is so great…Turns out, email is hard to beat. It’s really where you should start – and where your clients should start when they decide to start marketing. It’s the hub of all engagement including social media marketing because it’s where you store your list and manage the graphics and store the stats on who opened your emails, what they clicked on, whether they shared it…There is an awful lot of physical, measureable response for a very low cost – relative to more traditional forms of marketing. Even if you are wrapping your own creative and project management services around our email product, it’s still a low barrier cost as compared to print, radio and payperclick.The average return on email marketing is $87 per dollar spent. Helps quell the concerns many small businesses have in terms of the value of social media. Email is so easy to measure that combining the two brings the value of social media activities up as well. Email offers a whole lot of opportunity for genuine, authentic engagement for your clients and their customers in a one-to-many tool.
Yes, when you use email, you are marketing. Which brings me to being able to tell you that email is more than just “email” (the message, the words, the thing that takes up “space” in your Inbox): I now want you to transition from thinking about marketing at a high level to thinking about email as a tool…What does email do? It communicates! It extends your reach! It helps you build your list! It slices bread (ok, no it doesn’t, but it’s pretty great nonetheless! )Best of all? You can grow your business, because email helps you nurture your relationship and it’s a one-to-many tool. Meaning one person can send to many people and if you’re doing it right, you can be genuine and authentic and really reach those people as if it were on a one-to-one basis.
We’ve told you a little bit about marketing and why it’s important, and how email fits into the marketing mix and can be a primary driver of your business. Now it’s time to move forward and talk about ways to make the most of your email marketing efforts – and we’re going to do that today by providing you with some tips and advice we’ve gleaned from the efforts of over 500,000 customers.
There are two key pieces of thinking your email that can often seem like a reflection of the old “which came first” debate: figuring out what you want to write about or making sense of some of the practical realities of email (like how to ensure your emails get read, or when to send them). We’re going to start with the “chicken” – coming up with what to write or send to your audience, after which we’ll talk about helping your email get opened and when to send it.
“What should I write about?” This is a very, very common question. It’s likely the most common question you will have yourself, and it’s also important to know how much to write. The answer can actually take some of the pressure to write a lot of great, engaging content off of you and ease some of that pain by giving you an opportunity to focus on what you know and how you can help.At the end of the day, the answer is simple. [click to build] You write about what you know that they don’t know. You share your knowledge and raise your profile as an expert in your field. What you are trying to do is build what is called a resource relationships, Where when their need for what you do comes up, YOU are the person that comes to mind. And it’s a good idea to share just for the sake of sharing. Giving your knowledge away. You cannot be afraid to give away the farm. Nothing you write in an email or on facebook is going to eliminate a paying customer’s need for you and your services. Nothing you write is going to replace your experience, or more importantly your comfort level with that experience.[click to build] provide insights into information that you have access to that they don’t‘[click to build] the best part is that you don’t always have to write original content…just be interesting and relevant (it’s OK to “borrow” content from others, and share it with your own comments or thoughts…ABOVE all else, be generous…give away the farm…let people enjoy the full range of expertise you have to offer.(If you have a longer session, this is a great time to ask people in the audience what they do for a livingand give them some ideas for content so that you get the room thinking in these terms)(Also if you have a longer session, you can give an example of a business that “gives away the farm” and drives business doing so)[click to next slide]
[click through these samples, letting people see them as ideas]discounts (what most people think of)e-books or downloadable contentserviceshints + tipsexperiences or eventssupport a causeJULIE: perhaps mention a couple of specific examples, for example: “Download our free Spring Gardening guide” or “Free Tradeshow Booth consultation” or something like that…[click to next slide]
(ask if anyone in the class wants to get a long email from anyone else in the class. No one will raise their hand.) No one has ever raised their hand. If you are a church, a chamber of commerce or a school, you probably have long emails and we are all okay with getting those. Our children and our businesses rely on you and we want to see activity – we are willing to get a long email from you. (right? Ask the crowd) …we don’t read them, but it’s okay that we see them.So take the pressure to create or write off of yourself. Instead focus on being the resource. Less is more. Always.There is no rule that says your newsletter needs to have three articles, three pictures and three links. One thing is plenty. There is a Constant Contact customer whose newsletter is called One Thing – he did it to make it easy on himself and it works really well – people can absorb it and he’s not under the gun to come up with a bunch of content to fill it.Your emails and their social media activities are NOT for telling people everything that they do. That is part of the hole people dig for themselves when they start writing their emails, they try to say everything. That is not what your emails and social media posts are for. That’s what your website is for. Your emails and your social media is about offering one thing at a time and tracking whether or not it moved the needle. Plain and simple.Mobile stat from: research from:email open by platform: https://litmus.com/blog/email-client-market-share-stats-infographic-june-2012
Content can be visual as well…and you can satisfy the appetite of your audience for visual content in several ways…here are some examples:non-profit, sharing information about themselves that’s in the press…and letting logos and large pictures tell the story more than textrestaurant sharing their current specials…featuring their specials in a visually-branded email template that reflects their company branda non-profit, sharing an event notice….drawing the reader in with a large image on a simple templateB2B, showcasing the services they have…again, a simple template, with just the right amount of visual “punch” to spice it upanother event notice…this one is all visual, showing the creative event poster in the email itself.
Repurpose and reuse everything. These are example of the same single piece of content being shared at different times, in different ways on various channels. All keep the conversation going. All are slightly different. There is no reason to kill yourself trying to write new content every day or event every week – find ways to use it more than once.
Make it easy on yourself. Instead of making a complicated marketing calendar,Choose a theme or a specific vertical and focus on being the hub or resource for that subject. It can be monthly, weekly, quarterly – just use the theme to create guidelines for yourself so that you are not staring into the abyss of having to find something to write about. Go narrow and allow that subject to expand and alwaysMake sure that you are the resource. The hub of information and access.
Make it easy on yourself. Instead of making a complicated marketing calendar,Choose a theme or a specific vertical and focus on being the hub or resource for that subject. It can be monthly, weekly, quarterly – just use the theme to create guidelines for yourself so that you are not staring into the abyss of having to find something to write about. Go narrow and allow that subject to expand and alwaysMake sure that you are the resource. The hub of information and access.
We started by looking at the “What” for your emails (what you write)…now we’re going to talk a bit more about the “how”…
Examples from customers…can be built quickly either before or after the audience interaction piece…List of customers, in order:BolocoBlue PenguinTee FuryFish and BoneJill Singer Graphics
(This is alternative to the previous slide – up to the speaker which one to use)Examples from customers…can be built quickly either before or after the audience interaction piece…List of customers, in order:BolocoBlue PenguinTee FuryFish and BoneJill Singer Graphics
Use the same three groups of people and now you will choose three different times of day you want to test.So, a morning, midday and afternoon or evening. The next time you are ready to send out an email,Send it on your best performing day from the last test. Send the first group their email in the morning,The second group gets it midday and the third group gets it in the afternoon or evening. And look at your stats. You will know which time of day did the best. So now you will know the best day and the best time of that day to send your emails for the best response. Please make sure you are not romanced by a high open rate. Just measuring the open rate will notGive you a clear picture of success. You might have a lot of people open it but very few take theAction you want them to take. Measure the physical, measurable responses
So now you have the best day on which to send and the best time at which to send. Excellent!! But let me caution you… [click to build] DO NOT BE ROMANCED BY A HIGHOPEN RATE – MEASURE ACTIONS!
Source for 67%: Jeanne Jennings, Marketing Sherpa: “Preview Panes, Image Blocking and My Pitch to Have Microsoft Outlook Turn Images on by Default,” June 2010
Source for 67%: Jeanne Jennings, Marketing Sherpa: “Preview Panes, Image Blocking and My Pitch to Have Microsoft Outlook Turn Images on by Default,” June 2010
Remember our discussion of what marketing was all about? It’s about eliciting a physical and measurable response…so let’s dig deeper into that idea.
I hope you have a better understanding of the importance of email as an integral part of your marketing mix and some of the practical tips you can take home with you today.I have just two more pieces of advice, and then some next steps you can take.
Restaurant vertical
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