The document discusses email marketing and provides tips for creating effective email campaigns. It begins by explaining why email remains a powerful marketing tool, noting its ability to personalize messages and track engagement. It then discusses setting up an email service provider and growing an email list. The document outlines best practices for email design, segmentation, personalization, automation and metrics. Throughout, it emphasizes testing strategies and always learning from campaign results.
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Why Email Marketing
Wielding the most powerful tool in a marketer’s toolbox
Jessica Best
Director of Data-Driven Marketing
jbest@barkleyus.com
@bestofjess
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About Barkley
We modernize brands.
We’ve designed an agency built for the future. Barkley offers a unique combination of skill
sets and robust practice areas that focus on integration and innovation.
Analyze. Strategize. Activate.
We’re more than just a communications agency. We help companies review their business
practices to become more impactful, more efficient, and more customer-focused.
We are analytical at the core.
We integrate client customer data to provide you with the most complete picture of your
target audience possible – educators, administrators, buyers, etc.
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Email can send direct:
At the time that it’s most relevant to
the recipient
With the products/content that are
personalized
Can track individual recipient
engagement
… and automate your follow up
Email gets delivered:
Average email read rate: 25-30%
(compared to < 10% with social)
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Getting Started: Don’t Send It From Your Inbox
Learn an Email Service Provider (ESP). It starts at FREE.
Allows you to create designed layouts based on templates
Automatically manages unsubscribes & complaints
Automatically manages your bounces (bad apples) and
de-duplicates your list
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Getting Started: Learn the Rules of the Game
The better your “sender reputation,” the better your chances
of getting through to the inbox.
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The Anatomy of an Email
1 Subject Line
2 Pre-header
3 Branded graphic header
4 Main message
5 Call-to-Action
6 Supporting Message
7 Footer
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The Anatomy of an Email
o What’s the Pre-header of this
email? How does it play with
the subject line?
o What’s the value proposition?
o What’s the call to action?
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The Anatomy of an Email
o What’s the Pre-header of this
email? How does it play with
the subject line?
o What’s the value proposition?
o What’s the call to action?
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Email Design Quick Tips
Keep it skimmable/short (drive to click for more)
Use a balance of images & true text (for those
with images turned OFF on their device)
Try rich media (animation & “video”)
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Great Email Marketing is Accessible via Mobile
Business-to-
Business
Deskto
p 79.4%
Mobile
20.6%
Business-to-
Consumer
Deskto
p 49%
Mobile
51%
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Pop Quiz: Which subject line won?
A. Help us solve hunger.
B. Donating 1 million meals.
C. You can help solve hunger.
Most Opens
Most Clicks
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My Best Day at the Office
“I think I speak for all of us when I say…
Thank you for saving our
business.”
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My Worst Day at the Office*
*Only 1 of many gut-wrenching days of making a very visible mistake!
Editor's Notes
Went to Mizzou, studied everything, landed on Journalism > Strat Comm. Was a TriDelt and my first internship was with music: Jazz Series
First job radio. Second job curtain speeches. Then I started in KCDMA and met my boss for the last 8 years at emfluence, Dave.
Also through KCDMA, I recently moved to Barkley.
Saw this on KISSmetrics and loved it: if you imagine a full cup of rice is the number of emails sent every day, then by comparison, all the daily posts on Facebook would make a miserable 10 grains—barely enough to pick up with a chopstick. And all the tweets sent every day would be a measly 4 grains. In fact, Facebook and Twitter combined make up just 0.2% of the number of emails sent each day.
Not including spam.
The Roasterie spends about $150 to send a newsletter each month and find that it drives hundreds in revenue every time.
53% of Hallmark Baby’s entire revenue for the year was driven by email marketing.
In 2016, only 73% of valid email marketing makes it to the inbox in the US!
Where do you meet new customers? Where will you capture new email addresses? How about new customers? Loyalists?
Offer value in exchange for a valuable asset: email address.
DON’T call out preheaders yet
What’s the Pre-header of this email? How does it play with the subject line?
What’s the value proposition?
What’s the call to action?
What’s the Pre-header of this email? How does it play with the subject line?
What’s the value proposition?
What’s the call to action?
What’s the Pre-header of THIS email?
FOCUS ON SEGMENTATION NOT VARIABLE IMAGES HERE
There’s now a billboard on I-35 that uses this exact phrasing… for this exact client. I wonder where they learned it