Email Marketing: Key takeaways from an award-winning campaign that increased online sales 66%
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It’s a new year. Start it off right with an email marketing strategy that achieves results. In this MarketingSherpa webinar, you’ll learn how an e-commerce company implemented a creative and audience-centric approach to increase online ticket sales by 66%. Join Daniel Burstein, Director of Editorial Content, MECLABS, and Paul Ramirez, Vice President of Operations, Eventful, as they share an inspiring look back at what made a data-driven campaign into something great. This campaign earned Eventful an E-commerce Best in Show award in MarketingSherpa Email Awards 2014, presented by ExactTarget.
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Email Marketing: Key takeaways from an award-winning campaign that increased online sales 66%
- 1. Email Marketing E-commerce site increases online ticket purchases by 66% with relevant content
- 2. Ask questions and tell us what you learned on Twitter! #SherpaWebinar
- 3. Speakers Ryan Blomberg Paul Ramirez Director of Engineering Eventful Vice President of Operations Eventful Daniel Burstein Director of Editorial Content MECLABS @DanielBurstein
- 4. Watch Daniel Burstein, Director of Editorial Content, MECLABS interview Paul Ramirez, VP of Operations and Ryan Blomberg, Director of Engineering, Eventful, on Eventful’s Email Award winning campaign for email personalization and relevance. Watch it now! Access other webinars
- 5. Related Resources • Email Marketing: How a triggered alert program maintains 40% open rate, 60% click-toopen rate for millions of subscribers • Email Marketing: Weekly newsletter sees 400% lift in reactivation of inactive subscribers with personalization • Email Marketing: E-commerce site increases online ticket purchases by 66% with relevant content • Content Marketing: How to serve customers when they shouldn’t buy from you • Email Deliverability: Only 39% of marketers maintain an opt-in only subscriber list
- 6. It all started with a struggle http://www.flickr.com/photos/gzlu
- 7. Results Open rate 44% Unsubscribes 25% Site visits Online sales 12% 66%
- 8. How did Eventful achieve this? • Eventful creates algorithms based on: • 7 years and 21 million subscribers to create recommendations • Now incorporates non-performer events (festivals, etc.) • 3 databases (Personal information, Events, Performer Info) – weekly newsletter • Increase sends with improved subscriber relevance • Track anonymous site visits
- 9. Eventful Site: Request a performer Pop-up style alert
- 10. “Demand it!”
- 11. Total demands
- 12. Tell Pearl Jam where to come
- 13. List Building: “Demand it”
- 14. You’re not done yet…
- 15. Confirmation email Subject Line: Please confirm – Pearl Jam demand in Jacksonville metro area
- 16. A web of recommendations
- 20. Increase sends with Performer Alerts Subject line: “Toby Keith coming to Empire Polo Club”
- 22. Opportunity for further preference Opportunity to select more artists
- 23. Opportunity for further preference Opportunity to select more artists 400% reactivation of inactive users
- 24. Performer Alerts More emails mean more opportunities to engage Opportunity to select more artists
- 25. What do these have in common? Wiki Commons Wiki Commons
- 27. What do these have in common? Non-performer events that should be alerted Wiki Commons Wiki Commons
- 28. After adding non-performer event alerts Site visits 12%
- 30. Opens with preferences Personalized for performer preference
- 31. Opens with preferences I’m not interested
- 33. Opportunity for further personalization “Tell us who you like”
- 34. Artist Tracker After sign up
- 35. Artist Tracker: After an artist is selected
- 36. Event requests Who’s in demand
- 38. Top takeaways 1 Turn a challenge into a strength by evaluating your resources 2 Keep customer preferences at the focus of your strategy 3 Innovate to keep ahead of changes
- 39. Thank you! Paul Ramirez Vice President of Operations Eventful Ryan Blomberg Director of Engineering Eventful Daniel Burstein Director of Editorial Content MECLABS @DanielBurstein
Hinweis der Redaktion
- Paul has more than 20 years experience designing and executing multi-channel marketing, sales, and operating strategies for professional and consumer service companies. As VP of Operations for Eventful, he leads fulfillment for Eventful's advertising, promotions and sponsorship revenue channels and leads product development strategy for its content and commercial email platform.Prior to his arrival at Eventful, Paul was SVP of Marketing and Alliance Strategy at Client Shop, Inc., where he positioned San Diego's fastest growing company for acquisition by Internet Brands, Inc., an Idealab company. Before that, Paul served as GM and EVP for Affinity2, a Knowledge Universe Company, where he created and launched its online platform and community, substantially increasing the company's enterprise value. He is solely responsible for the creation, launch and success of Apple Computer, Inc.'s first authorized mail order catalog targeting consumer, home and small business users. Earlier in his career, he founded and led the marketing department for Jenny Craig Weight Loss Centres' largest franchise division.Paul holds a BA and MA degrees from the University of California and was a research fellow at the Claremont Graduate School IAC. Ryan Blomberg:Accomplishments• Architect of Eventful's email platform. Eventful's custom-built, high performance email platform supports data-driven, fully personalized email creation and delivery. Eventful's email products range from weekly newsletters reaching millions of users every week, to personalized notifications about events users really care about, to commercial email targeted using Eventful's extensive knowledge about our user's preferences and behaviors.• Architect of Eventful's recommendations engine, which provides engaging personalized content to our email and websites. Eventful recommendations draw from Eventful's extensive database on user preferences and behaviors, across web, email and mobile. EducationBachelors of Computer Science, University of California, San Diego
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