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Implementing Email Marketing on your WordPress site

Becs Rivett

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• 7 years email marketing experience

• Work for MailPoet

• Twice named a world top email marketing influencer

Who am I?

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Why email?

• Sending out new blog posts

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Why email?

• To generate revenue for your eCommerce store

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Why email?

• To send newsletters

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Tools and pluginsEmail sending

Inside WordPress

External Email Service Providers

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Tools and pluginsGravity forms

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Tools and pluginsMagic Action Box

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Tools and pluginsOptin Monster

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Signup form placement

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Sign up design tips

• Avoid unnecessary information!

• Make it eye-catching

• What’s the hook?

• Incentivise

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What should I send?

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Content

• Research your competitors

• Sign up and look for inspiration

• Hold back some unique content

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Content writing tips

• Think about your audience

• Write as if it were just one person

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Content writing tips

• Don’t write War & Peace

• Break copy into chunks

• Be concise

• Get an action or a reaction

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S E E A T

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Keep it relevant!

Don’t always spray and pray

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How often should I send?

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What are ‘good’ results?

• Volume

• Frequency and relevancy

• Learn over time, identify changes

• Consistently < 15% opens is probably bad

• > 1% unsubscribes is also probably bad

• Engagement affects deliverability

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Good email practice

• Get consent

• Check if you need ICO registration

• Avoid using wp_mail

• Do list housekeeping

• Make unsubscribing easy

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Good email practice

• Don’t purchase lists

• Keep image file sizes small

• Use personalisation

• Plan your activity

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