Are you missing the opportunity to go global? When more than 70% of the world’s 2.3 billion Internet users are not native English speakers—and 85% of Internet users don't make purchasing decisions unless they can access information in their native language, relying on English for all your messaging may be holding you back.
We’ll provide practical tips and real‑world examples to help you solve design challenges, address code considerations, and learn the techniques for sending localized campaigns.
Big thanks to Ros Hodgekiss and Elliot Ross!
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The "Mr. Worldwide" Award Goes To...
Jacques Corby-Tuech
Curse Inc
@iamacyborg
Ros Hodgekiss
Campaign Monitor
@yarrcat
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Understand:
The localization opportunity
Content and compliance challenges
Learn about:
The tools and techniques used
The key players that should be involved in localization
See:
Real-world examples of international email campaigns
What You'll Get From This Talk
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More than 70% of the world’s 2.3 billion
Internet users are not native English
speakers
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56.2% of consumers say the ability to
obtain information in their own language
is more important than price.
12. Regional Organizations
Local teams
Sometimes multiple agencies
Franchised businesses
One Central Organization
Less local knowledge
One agency/ESP
Central management
Who Sends International Campaigns?
13. Example: ETX Capital
All handled from UK office
Translated in-house &
agencies
All HTML managed in-house
21 distinct websites
18 languages
One ESP
14. 6 continents, 100 countries
Campaigns managed by local
offices
Use one Campaign Monitor
account
Example: British Council
22. Delivery rates - as well as
opens and clicks - differ from
region to region
China has very low daily
delivery thresholds
(Tencent, QQ)
May be necessary to "batch
send"
Engagement & Delivery: Different Conditions
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Legislation, by region:
US: The CAN-SPAM Act
Canada: CASL
Europe: Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive
China: Regulations on Internet Email Services
Australia: The Spam Act
Email opt-in is king. When in doubt, talk to your ESP
Compliance: Different Laws in Different
Regions
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Not all promotions are created equal:
Sweepstakes in Massachusetts
Sweepstakes in Quebec
Gambling around the world (FCA, CYSEC, FSP)
When in doubt, consult a legal professional
Compliance: Different Laws in Different
Regions
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Spelling & Grammar (British vs. American English)
Dates and times (including pesky daylight saving time)
Currencies
It's the Little Things....
36. Direction & Character Encoding
Right-to-left
Arabic
Hebrew
Line-breaks break things
Thai
Chinese (x2!)
Encoding
Greek
Russian
Letter Symbol HTML
à à à
á á á
â â â
ã ã ã
Ros
Challenge: Multiple languages in a region
Intl campaign examples
British Council (Asian language campaigns): https://campmon.com/hex/Customer/2/46206
Korea: http://createsend.com/t/y-93E6CBA2F09D79AA
Taiwan: http://createsend.com/t/y-59C0893A3901CF39
Persian: http://createsend.com/t/i-59DC570C1B6A9729
Russian: http://createsend.com/t/i-55487DEA1C939FB4
Eat Creative - Japanese & English http://createsend.com/t/y-56AFF65F7DA6D45E/C67FD2F38AC4859C
Ferrari Japan: http://createsend.com/t/j-3CD2526CBEA4F225
David Austin Roses Japan: http://createsend.com/t/t-2118A7D6978BB481
Nike Japan, Japanese v English: http://createsend.com/t/t-9FFCB990B266940A
http://createsend.com/t/t-8FA90F5A0B8FB945
Intercontinental Tel-Aviv: http://createsend.com/t/j-6B6D86E4FC6EA9FB
Saudi Embassy Egypt (Arabic): http://createsend.com/t/i-D806894EA46B65EF
https://basecamp.com/1928257/projects/8237222/todos/157774754?moved=true
Ros
Centralized email sending, but local contacts, content and offers
Ros
Jacques
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Ros
See: http://www.emailmarketingtipps.de/2012/07/16/new-email-benchmark-data-for-your-records/
http://www.onlyinfluencers.com/email-marketing-blog/entry/how-to-begin-marketing-in-china
The major ISPs in China (Tencent, sina.com, QQ) have very low daily delivery thresholds. You may not notice this if you have a small audience in China, but if you have a substantial list in China, you will see a lot of bouncing. Return Path Sender Score Certification can help (Return Path is very knowledgeable about the email market in China in general as well), but you may want to utilize an ESP inside of China. They will tend to have stronger, more direct and personal relationships with the ISPs which will help.
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Traditional!
Character for "dragon"
Jacques
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Ros
Jacques
Jacques > Line breaks
Sometimes responsive/fluid widths don't work
Can't style copy for "good looks" like you would in English
Common to use images to maintain integrity/lack of line breaks
Ros & Jacques
In the most conservative Asian countries it is prohibited to show open eyes in the advertisement. Thus advertising agencies have to be very imaginative when showing people. The most popular solutions of the problem are:
– Pixelization
– Wear glasses
– Close eyes with pleasure
Read more at http://designyoutrust.com/2011/04/advertising-in-arabic-way/#pbkh0liyX5c2xS2f.99
http://qz.com/482553/italians-are-emotional-the-swiss-are-punctual-this-shopping-site-is-making-billions-by-tailoring-its-services-to-european-stereotypes/
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http://www.textfixer.com/html/html-character-encoding.php
Jacques
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Ros
Things can look familiar, but at second glance, are not. Don't assume we're all the same. Which country is this?
https://medium.com/@mwichary/what-i-learned-about-languages-just-by-looking-at-a-turkish-typewriter-fc840aab1b0a
Ros
Ros
You can aspire to be as visually consistent, or complimentary like Coke - Ros