Effective Cross-Channel Marketing Solutions for BtoB Companies
How SMBs Use Email Marketing + Groupon to Drive Sales
1. Email Marketing 101 How Small Businesses Use Email to Drive New and Repeat Sales
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3. Teaches companies how to leverage customer data and interactive marketing technology to drive sales, serve customers, and build long-term brand loyalty
4. Voted one of the “50 Most Influential People in Sales Lead Management” in 2009Joel Book Principal, Marketing Research & Education Group ExactTarget @joelbook jbook@exacttarget.com
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18. 58% of Online Consumers Begin their Day with Email. Source: ExactTarget SUBSCRIBERS, FANS, & FOLLOWERS Report #1, Digital Morning Full report available at www.exacttarget.com/sff
57. MIKE’S USES EMAIL TO DRIVE ONLINE SALES 150% Increase in Online Sales Using Email! 2009 Christmas Holiday Email Online Sales Promotion
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60. + 62% of consumers who redeemed Groupons at MikesCarwash.com have become Mike’s Carwash email subscribers! KKBWSTD jbooth@sampleemailaddress.com jbooth@sampleemailaddress.com
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63. Send email that rewards customers for their loyalty. (It fuels word-of-mouth!)
64. Use email to drive online sales. Mike’s eStore is always open and not weather-dependent.
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66. 5 Tips for Effective Email Marketing Design your websites(s) to engage visitors. Provide multiple opportunities on site to subscribe to email. Use Search and Social Media to attract prospective email subscribers to your website. Send a Welcome Email to each new subscriber. Thank them for subscribing. (Optional: Invite new subscribers to download coupon for purchase.) Create a Subscriber Preference Center. Use it to identify customer needs and interests. Serve subscribers! Deliver information, offers and invitations that are timely and relevant.
68. ExactTarget’s New Design Toolkit Whether you’re a savvy designer, a marketer, or an executive, our new Design Toolkit has everything you need to improve your interactive design. In this three-part kit, we’ll help you master three important facets of interactive design: Design Philosophy. Seven Design Principles That Will Drive Customer Engagement Taking Design Beyond Email. 5 Easy Ways to Improve Conversions Across All Interactive Channels Designing for Today. Eight Tips on Designing for Outlook 2007 and 2010 Go to the RESOURCES section of www.exacttarget.com or https://3sixty.exacttarget.com
Dreamfields uses SEO, PPC and Word of Mouth to attract consumers to www.trydreamfields.comConsumers are invited to register for Dreamfields’ email newsletter and receive a $1 coupon as a “Thank You”In less than three years, Dreamfields has built an opt-in database of 500,000+ consumer email subscribers and 20,000 healthcare professional email subscribersDreamfields uses ExactTarget to deliver offers, recipes, and coupons to subscribers; invites them to visit the Dreamfields page on Facebook where they can exchange their recipes and experiences with other consumersDreamfilelds is now using ExactTarget’s Social Forward capability to invite subscribers to forward Dreamfields email with friends in their social networks. This will have an enormous impact on subscriber database growth and product salesAs of August 20, 2009, Dreamfields sales are up 13% year to date while all other brands in the category are down or flat.For FY 2009, Dreamfields 8.3 million pounds of pasta, a 177% increase over FY 2005Dreamfields has reduced its advertising budget by 95% since converting to its digital marketing strategy
About Mike’s Car WashOpened in 1948 in Fort Wayne, grown to 34 locations. (28 in Indiana and 6 in Ohio)Family-owned and operated500 employeesEmail Marketing Campaign Drives 60% Increase in Fathers Day Gift SalesUsing email marketing software from ExactTarget, Mike’s Car Wash generated a 60% increase in online purchase of Father’s Day car washbook sales over 2008Current goal is focused on expanding the email subscriber database and using this database to execute targeted one-to-one direct marketing promotions of car wash book sales for events like Christmas, Father’s Day, Mother’s Day, etc.Mike’s Email Subscriber Acquisition StrategyMike’s Car Wash ran its “Talk to Mike’s” survey promotion for approximately 30 days at all 36 of our Indiana and Ohio locations. During that time, approximately 400,000 invitations to take our survey were distributed on receipts. Out of the 400,000 Mike’s acquired 37,907 unique, usable addresses. Only allowed one free wash per email address so repeat customers were not able to receive multiple free washes. The promotion we ran was fairly complex. Mike’s elected to give a free wash to each customer who completed the survey with the extra condition that the free wash would mirror whichever wash service the customer had purchased (Express, Choice or Works). This meant that Mike’s had 3 different emails that could be sent via triggered sends depending on the type of wash the customer had purchased. Another condition of the promo was that each wash coupon code had to be unique. Mike’s accomplished issuing a unique code using ET’s live offer functionality which allowed them to create a barcode image with a unique code automatically at the time the email was sent. The codes used in the emails were pulled from a dataset that Mike’s uploaded into ET’s system. So that Mike’s could send the customer the correct type of wash, Mike’s required the customer to provide their “Sale ID” which is a unique identifier in Mike’s POS system database. Using the Sale ID Mike’s was able to pull their sale information from the POS. Once Mike’s had that data, they used the ET web services API to trigger the correct email. Checking the Sale Id also allowed Mike’s to ensure that the individual taking the survey was in fact a customer and that they had not used the Sale ID to complete the survey before.