Josh Mendelsohn's (Constant Contact) presentation from Social Media Marketing & Monitoring 2011 New York. An excellent guide to integrating social media marketing and email.

1. Email and Social Media Marketing
Best Practices for Marketing Success
Josh Mendelsohn
@mendelj2

2. Who is Constant Contact?
• Focused on helping small businesses and non profits be successful
through email marketing, social media marketing, and event marketing
• Based in Waltham, MA
• Over 480,000 paying customers (businesses and nonprofits)
• All Constant Contact products come with unrivaled knowhow,
education and free coaching with a personal touch, including award-
winning customer support
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3. Why Email + Social Media?
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4. Let’s Go Back to the Beginning: Why Do We
“Market”?
More…
We Want  Customers
More!  Clients
 Volunteers
 Donors/Members
 Brand Awareness
 Sales
 People spreading the
word!
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5. In this room, we all know that Social Media
Marketing can work for businesses
More Likely to More Likely to
Buy Recommend
51% 56%
Chadwick Martin Bailey and Constant Contact Consumer Pulse 2011
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6. But Facebook obviously isn’t Perfect…
96% of fans never revisit fan pages
Fans are 40-150x more likely to see
your post in their News Feed
Yet, most fans never see your content
in their newsfeed
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7. But Facebook obviously isn’t Perfect…
96% of fans never revisit fan pages
Fans are 40-150x more likely to see
That’s why post in their News Feed
your Facebook alone is not enough…
It’s one avenue for getting your message
heard and shared
Yet, most fans never see your content
in their newsfeed
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8. The truth is that on it’s own, email is still the
dominant channel
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9. The truth is that on it’s own, email is still the
dominant channel
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10. Email marketing drives even more sales and
referrals
Likelihood to Likelihood to
Buy Recommend
68% 64%
ExactTarget, "Subscribers, Fans and Followers: The Collaborative Future." September 8, 2010
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11. And the ROI is pretty good too
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12. Social media extends the reach of email
marketing
MarketingSherpa
Email Marketing Benchmark Survey 2010
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13. The Inbox and the News Feed work
together
Email is still the best way to get your message heard
Social Media is the best way to get your message shared
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14. Those using Email AND Social are seeing
results
• Faster list growth: From June
2010 through August 2011, those using both
social media and email marketing saw 14.43
percent list growth, while those using only
email marketing saw 8.96 percent list
growth.
• Larger average list size:
Those using both tactics have email lists
that are 53 percent larger on average than
their email-only counterparts.
• High click-through rates: The
average click-through rate for those using
both email and social media marketing was
59.3 basis points higher than for those using
email only.
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15. 10 Things We Can Learn From
SMB’s about Email + Social
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16. 1. Build a marketing strategy, not a social
media strategy
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17. 2. Include a Social Call to Action in Your
Emails
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18. 3. Build Campaigns, Not Emails or Posts
3. Facebook post to support
your email
1. Have a clear call to action
2. Include a social call to action 4. Re-engagement post
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19. 4. Connect Your Social Sites to Email
From mid-August to mid-September, Constant Cont
Customers added 1.5 Million Names to their Email lists via the
Facbook JMML App.
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20. 5. Focus Your Message
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21. … Have more to say? Save it for Later
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22. 6. Think Mobile
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23. 7. Remember, just because you can, doesn’t mean
you should (tactics must be valuable and
sustainable)
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24. 7. Remember, just because you can, doesn’t mean
you should (tactics must be valuable and
sustainable)
Even as users grow, posts drop
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25. 8. Find out what your audience wants and
responds to
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26. 8. Find out what your audience wants and
responds to
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27. 9. Create a great customer experience
You Must Provide a
Great Customer Experience
There is No Marketing Cure for Sucking
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28. 10. Rinse and Repeat
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29. Questions?
Josh Mendelsohn
Constant Contact, Inc.
Email: jmendelsohn@constantcontact.com
Twitter: @mendelj2
www.constantcontact.com
www.socialquickstarter.com
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