World Travel Market – Using email with social & 5 top email marketing tips for travel marketers

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Email and social should be the cornerstones of a travel company's digital marketing strategy but all too often ‘share this’ is the extent of the integration. In this presentation Marc demonstrates all that is possible using some thought provoking sector specific examples to illustrate his points.

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World Travel Market – Using email with social & 5 top email marketing tips for

travel marketers

It’s all about the top lip

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A little about Pure360

Cue obligatory splash of clients...

And it isn’t about me

@marcmunier

CM of @pure360

Talks a lot about:• email • digital marketing

Occasionally dresses up as smurf.

Social and email together

Driving social interactions through email

Driving email interactions through social

Somail

Social in email was AMAZING

Insert these simple logos ===

And you’ll increase traffic to these sites by 1000%*

*according to a 2009 Marketing Sherpa report.

Driving social interactions

People try and do too much

Not so great

Textbook example

Simple LinkedIn Example

The principle is the same

Takeaways

Email is FANTASTIC at driving social interactions

BUT

Just sticking a logo on your standard email will not work

As with any aspect of marketing – focus on one thing at a time.

Social and email together

Driving social interactions through email

Driving email interactions through social

Somail

Driving email interactions via Twitter

Driving social interactions via Twitter

UKF Drum & Bass – affective sign up

• 51.5% open rate from contacts who signed up via Facebook

• 38% click through

innocent drinks

Facebook

Email Signup is ok……

But the future is the register button:

Social and email together

Driving social interactions through email

Driving email interactions through social

Somail

The mashup

There are some general rules we can follow:

Twitter:

• Keep it short

Facebook:

• Make it sharable

LinkedIn

• Relevancy is king

What to do with all that data?

Personalised campaigns using what you know:

Instead of “share this”

Try “click to share with your 540 friends”

Campaigns based on:

Go one step further

Quick note on video in email

http://bit.ly/4SQINFO

Ok so the email is too long

& doesn’t have an external view link

But:

Excellent use of video without the drawbacks.

So what did we cover

• Focus on driving social interactions

• Use social to draw people into email

• Email and Social work really really well!

Bonus session! – 5 top tips

1. Capture

2. Manage Expectations

3. Welcome

4. Personalise

5. Design

#1 Capture

A captured email address is marketing spend “banked”

PPC

SEO

Social

Content

Telemarketing

Word of Mouth

#1 Capture

#1 Capture

#1 Capture

1# - Last thought on capturing

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What are the ten things

1. Capture

2. Manage Expectations

3. Welcome

4. Personalise

5. Design

#2 Manage Expectations

#2 Manage Expectations

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Link to the last newsletter Talk about frequency

What are the ten things

1. Capture

2. Manage Expectations

3. Welcome

4. Personalise

5. Design

#3 Build the relationship - welcome

Source: Econsultancy best practice guide

#3 Welcome – reasons to do it

Don’t leave it – act now

• Shorten sales cycle

• Reduce discounts

• Increase conversions

• Increase engagement

#3 Welcome example

Case Study – Park Holidays

Welcome mailings

What are the ten things

1. Capture

2. Manage Expectations

3. Welcome

4. Personalise

5. Design

#4 Personalise

If you have the data it is easy peasy....

#4 Personalise

Look at what you have:

Domain?When they signed up?Where they came from?Where there are ?Who are they assigned to?Date of Birth What products are they interested in?

If you don’t have data you need to be a little more creative

#4 Personalise

What are the ten things

1. Capture

2. Manage Expectations

3. Welcome

4. Personalise

5. Design

#5 Design for the preview pane

#5 Design for the preview pane

Thanks for listening...

...I can’t wait to hear all your questions!

@marcmunier

marc.munier@pure360.com