This document summarizes an email marketing strategy presentation. It discusses the importance of email marketing and some key metrics like open rates. It provides best practices for email design like using clear subject lines and calls to action. It also discusses testing different email designs and the rise of mobile email usage. Mobile considerations like touch targets and single column layouts are covered. The presentation emphasizes the need to optimize the email experience across different devices and clients.
8. Email is big
— 91% of consumers use email at least once daily
— 66% of consumers have made a purchase as a result of
an email that they’ve received
— The average mobile internet user spends 42% of their
time on email
— 61% of smartphone users send/receive email daily
— Email marketing spending will reach $2.5 BILLION by
2016
Sources: ExactTarget 2012 Channel Preference survey; Forrester US
Interactive Marketing Forecast; Nielsen; Pew Research Center
17. Email 101
Email ≠ Spam
— It’s all about permission
— Not implied
— Not purchased
— Expires after a certain period of time
CAN-SPAM
— Physical Mailing Address
— Unsubscribe Mechanism
— Can’t require an account login
— Process Unsub Request within 10 days
25. Sender Subject line
• What is recognizable, trustworthy and relevant?
First impressions matter
26. Sender Subject line
• What is recognizable, trustworthy and relevant?
• Does the subscriber have a relationship with a person, or
the brand?
First impressions matter
56. Designing for Performance
Every email should have a purpose.
— Why are you sending this email?
ü Drive leads
ü Increase brand awareness
ü Is it relevant?
— Who are you sending to, and what do you know about them?
ü Internal vs. external; B2B vs. B2C; demographics
— What do you want subscribers to do once they receive your email?
ü Register for a webinar
ü Read an article
— How are you going to measure success?
ü Open/click data
ü Number of leads generated
ü What do you want the subscriber to do?
— Is email the best way to communicate your message?
57. Email hierarchy
— Content hierarchy
— Prioritize important information
— Prune extraneous and irrelevant content
— Visual hierarchy
— Use color, weight, size and placement to
provide emphasis
— Bullets are your friends
— Use a mix of rational and emotional appeals
— Utilize background colors, bullets, numbers,
borders effectively
— Use strong and clear calls-to-actions
— Buttons tend to perform better that text links)
58. Designing for Performance
— Email is the ideal environment for fast, easy and cheap testing
— What works for one campaign / company doesn’t necessarily work
for another
— Things to test
— Time of day
— Day of week
— Subject Lines
— Creative look and feel
— Imagery
— Pre-Header
— Navigation
— Content Layout
64. PIER 1 RESULTS
MEASURES: CTR of Delivered Emails
Unsubscribe Rate
Sales Generated by Subscribers
WINNER: Generated 86% More Clicks Than Other
Competitors
Generated 25% More Sales Than Nearest
Competitor
73. AAA OHIO RESULTS
MEASURES: CTR of Delivered Emails
Projected Renewal Revenue
WINNER: Outperformed Control CTR by 26%
Outperformed Projected
Revenue of 2nd Place by 4%
76. HTML coding/rendering
— HTML for email is not HTML for the web
— Code like it’s 1999!
— Use HTML tables for layout
— Specify widths for table elements
— Images should be in their own table cell
— Avoid CSS for positioning or layout
— Proper syntax is key
— Use ALT text
77. — No JavaScript
— No Flash
— No HTML5 or CSS3
— No External/Linked CSS
— Use inline CSS instead of embedded (Gmail doesn’t support
embedded CSS)
— HTML forms (not supported everywhere)
— Background Images (not supported in Outlook 07)
— Web-based email clients behave differently based on the
browser (IE vs Firefox)
HTML coding/rendering
78. Rendering
— TEST TEST TEST
— Only comprehensive testing will
ensure that your email appears
the way you want it to in your
subscriber’s inbox.
— Subscribers view emails in
many different environments:
desktop email clients, web-
based email clients, mobile
devices.