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The Global SaaS Leader in Relationship Marketing

Building an Email Marketing Strategy from Zero to Best in Class

July 2012

www.emailvision.com

Nick Gold Emailvision

Agenda – best practice building blocks

●  Introduction - goals

●  Build quality member data

●  Segmentation

●  Develop relevant programs

●  Automate

●  Maximise Results ●  Conclusion and Questions

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What is our goal as marketers?

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How do some marketers see big data?

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Practical advice from Emailvision’s global clients.

Where do you start?

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How marketers see data

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Member data? Collect at every opportunity!

Member data- build quality lists

Growing Lists ●  Grow list at every contact point

● Incentive for sign up

● Make sign up easy

● What are they signing up for?

● Forward-to-a-friend

Build quality data

Adding Value ●  Unsubscribe feedback

● Two-stage sign-up process ● Preference centre

Build quality data

Adding Value ●  Unsubscribe feedback

● Two-stage sign-up process ● Preference centre ● Data capture form

● Update links ● Active/non active members

Segment to maximise your data potential.

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Customer intelligence……..

“The management and analysis of customer data from all sources, used to drive marketing

performance and business strategy” Forrester, 2011

Customer Intelligence

Enables marketers to:

●  Rapidly query thousands or millions of records to display customer segments that can be used for marketing

●  Explore detailed profile data including purchase behaviour, location and responsiveness to past marketing campaigns

●  Test and adapt new campaign strategies in real-time

●  Maximise customer retention and cross-sell opportunities

Customer Intelligence

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Identify new target groups using

dynamic drag and drop segmentation

and query tools

Customer Intelligence

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Identify and target subscribers based

on their geo-location as well as their

relationship to the brand

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High spender data

Location data

Preference data

Demographic data

Opener data Click-through data

Transactional data

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Purchased designer shoes last month

Member of the loyalty program in Melbourne

Signed up for the newsletter, checked a preference for sports

Male and bought a winter jacket 4 months ago

Opened the last 3 email campaigns Click-through on the last

email campaign

Purchased 2 tickets to Perth in 2011

Develop Relevant Programs

● FMCG = purchase value

● Holidays = family/children

● Retail = product

Simple Tactics ● Get the categories right

● Clothing retail = male/female

Develop Relevant Programs

● Sony monthly newsletter

Alpha  product  information:  Product  code  begins  with  AMC  

Camera  product  information:  Product  code  begins  with  CAM  

Generic  product  information:  Product  code  is  null  

Alpha product information: Product code begins with AMC

Camera product information: Product code begins with CAM

Generic product information: Product code is null

Develop Relevant Programs

● E* quarterly statements

Alpha  product  information:  Product  code  begins  with  AMC  

Points over

Points under

Personalisation strings: Based on values in the members profiles

Switch statements used to dynamically insert content based on member points

Develop Relevant Programs

● Hotel Connect post travel

Alpha  product  information:  Product  code  begins  with  AMC   Amsterdam

Budapest

Switch statement used to dynamically insert images based on recent destination

Enhance relevancy with Automation

●  Proactive delivery of content

●  Precise delivery of content

●  Efficient and effective marketing department

Automation

●  Quick wins ●  Reactivation

●  Customer satisfaction

●  Time to lapse

●  Triggered reminders

Automation

●  Full lifecycle management

The Global SaaS Leader in Email & Social Marketing

Back to Basics with Email Marketing

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Maximise Results

●  90% of email sent in 2011 was SPAM ●  Hotmail sees 8m new IP addresses everyday. Good? Bad?

●  Do the basics right!

●  Build and manage your brand / IP reputation

● Manage data, volume, frequency, message structure, subject line, content mix, language.

●  Data Management ● Remove hard bounces after 1 attempt, deal with complaints, manage soft

bounces, honor unsubscribes ● Don’t mail to very old lists. And try to build lists organically. ● Validate by sending welcome messages or double opt in. Revalidate

regularly

Maximise Results

●  Test message structure and offers ●  Test regularly with a live test tool before you send

●  Monitor campaign success and tweak to get the best score from ISP’s

Maximize Results

●  In 2012 relevancy is key

●  ISP’s now monitor member inbox behavior.

●  Ensure delivery to inbox not junk ●  Achieve opens ●  Segment ●  Personalize ●  Automate ●  Make it relevant.

Who is Emailvision?

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•  International leader in marketing automation •  Offices in 22 countries •  750 employees •  4500 clients •  100 new clients / month •  $100M+ annual revenues •  Sending 500,000 global campaigns / month •  The 1st company to deliver SaaS Customer Intelligence •  Recognition as a technology leader by:

Our Mission

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Emailvision powers smart

email, mobile and social campaigns

that delivers results for our

clients

Custom  Applica.ons  

Email  

APIs  

Integra0on  

Custom  Apps  

Customer Intelligence

Summary

●  Develop a plan. Success does not happen by luck. ●  Get the basics right ● Build good data ● Segment ● Personalize ● Make it relevant ● Monitor deliverability carefully and ensure relevancy

into the inbox.

Find out more – Ask Permission

- Exclusive Australian partner -  Visit stand 1400 opposite

conference entrance -  Pick-up white paper -  Watch demonstration -  Call (02) 8024 5400