A look at the value of email, mobile and social marketing in South Africa: email, mobile and social. Highlights:
• Email, Mobile & Social – The Facts and Figures
• Email Marketing ROI – Show Me the Money
• The Social Inbox – Complement not compete
2. The Current SA Landscape -
Online
Population: 51 700 000
Million
14 000 000 online users = 27% penetration
rate
9,4 Million 5,5 Million 2,7 Million
18% 10% 5%
Source: http://themediaonline.co.za/2013/07/fourteen-million-internet-users-in-south-africa/
Source: http://www.bdlive.co.za/opinion/columnists/2014/03/09/signpost-smartphones-to-rule-the-continent
Source: http://www.adlip.com/market-5-5-million-active-s-twitter-users-2014/
Source: Bluemagnet – The state of social media in SA 2013
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What is the first thing you do when going online What is the second thing
78 % of people
read their emails
first thing in the
morning.
Source: Everlytic, Demystifying the inbox research study 2012
Behaviour -Email
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5. Source: Everlytic, Demystifying the inbox research study 2012
Behaviour -Email
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61 % of
people
constantly
check their
email.
9. Lets Understand WHAT Email Marketing
Is.
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Email marketing is:
• Reputation management
tool
• Trusted and widely used
• Used for lead generation
• Customer centric
• Personalised
Email marketing is not:
• Spam!
• Dead
• For brand awareness
• Company centric
• Impersonal
12. Email Viewed on Tablets and Mobile @Everlytic
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5,98% of
people are
viewing their
emails on
tablets
52,97% of
people
are
viewing
their
emails on
mobile
phones.
Source:Source: Demystifying the inbox: research study 2012
13. The SA Mobile Landscape @Everlytic
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Source:Source: Demystifying the inbox: research study 2012
Active
Smartphones: 16
300 000
Active
subscriptions: 68
390 000
14. The SA Mobile Landscape @Everlytic
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Source: http://www.bdlive.co.za/opinion/columnists/2014/03/09/signpost-smartphones-to-rule-the-continent
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18. Why @Everlytic
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If an email doesn’t look good
on a mobile device, a
whopping 80%
of people will delete it without
reading it
19. HTML Vs Plain Text @Everlytic
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HTML stands for HyperText Markup
Language. It’s the way web pages
and email templates are coded so
that text is formatted and images are
added.
Plain Text is regular text, with no
formatting options such as bold,
italics, underlines, or special layout
options.
Source: http://blog.cakemail.com/html-vs-plain-text/
25. The Difference Between Social And
Email
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Source: http://blogs.terrapinn.com/total-customer/2013/11/08/infographic-email-marketing-social-media-win/
26. It All Fits Together @Everlytic
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Source: http://blogs.terrapinn.com/total-customer/2013/11/08/infographic-email-marketing-social-media-win/
30. POPI @Everlytic
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What is this mailer missing?
• Explicit consent
– Can send one mail to gain
consent
• Footer
– Complaints link
– Unsubscribe link
• Company Details
• Buying of database?
31. Some future insights @Everlytic
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Source: http://imsoup.com/11513/the-state-of-email-marketing-dos-and-donts-for-your-
success/
Source: http://davidboozer.com/a-blog-is-your-email-marketing-campaign-publish-hit-
• The use of email filters is increasing.
• Younger demographics (18 to 44 years)
show less tablets and more smartphones
• Video in email
• Remarketing and email.
• A blog is your email campaign
33. @Everlytic
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Drive traffic to the website
Increase sales
Encourage repeat purchases
by existing clients
Email generates
10% of
wantitall.co.za’s
total sales.
How does a typical work day start for most working adults in South Africa ? Once we have turned on our PC’s, what is the first thing we do?
78% of people first look at their emails once they go online, then they go to news, social networks ect…….
61% of us are constantly checking our email? (ok admit it how many of you are currently checking your email on your mobile/ tablet now? Or at lest since you’ve arrive at MarKex?
How does a typical work day start for most working adults in South Africa ? Once we have turned on our PC’s, what is the first thing we do?
In a recent study commissioned by the UK Marketing Network, conducted with their 50 000 members, it showed that email marketing is one of the most trusted and widely used marketing tactics today. Email and Social media are in fact both sitting at the 81,3%, which makes sense as email and social media compliment each other, and we will discuss this in more detail later on in the presentation. Email marketing spend is also increasing
60 % of B2B marketers believe eNewsletters are effective.
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68 million mobile subscriptions, which means there are more phones than people in South Africa. A 132% mobile penetration. There are people that have a cellphone but no bank account.
Currently there are about 16,3 Million active smartphones in South Africa.
Given that the networks are adding at least a million smartphones a quarter, penetration will reached 33.3% in March at the end of this year. That’s one in three South Africans with a smartphone. And as you can see if we continue to map this out its only going to get bigger. And where South Africa goes the rest of Africa follows, for those marketers whom are looking beyond SA opportunities.
23% of smartphone users use their phone for email. This is second to instant messaging and ahead of social media.
How does this affect your campaign?
Emails can be received and viewed in both HTML or Plain-Text formats. Depending on the email client or particular settings your recipients are using, an HTML campaign may or may not be able to be displayed.
If HTML is recognized, your recipient will see the campaign with images, text, and designs you may have chosen when you created your campaign.
If the HTML is not recognized (which may happen if the recipient is opening the email on a mobile phone, for example), it is important to have a plain text version of your campaign as well so that an email client can default to it.
Remember that plain text emails are not as easily trackable. We also recommend you try to limit the characters in the length of the URL – not only will it look sloppy when not masked by a title, but anything over 80 characters will cause the URL to break.
Your plain text version can include URLs, such as http:// and ftp://
Hints:
Generate a plain text version based on your HTML version by clicking Generate from HTML on the Edit plain-text version section in the Email Campaign Builder. Additional formatting is still required.
If you would like to know what HTML code works best for particular email clients, you can refer to the Email Standards database and Litmus
1) Mass emailers are on their way out. If you don’t personalise a mail you will be “filtered”.
2) Understand what your target audience is using (device) to read your mailers and think about how you can improve the experience for them. Also take into account HTML vs Plain text formats.
3) Previously technology challenges have made the implementation difficult but as technology improves, this trend will increase.
4) Setting up drip campaigns to talk to your customers at different stages of their buying cycle has proven a successful conversion strategy.
5) Gmail recently released news that gmail is now moving to its new grid style promotion tab (similar to pinterest), but content is still king, so this where your blog meats social media which meets emailers.
He used email and social media to raise funds for his campaign through donations.
“75% of the $934 million raised by Obama was attributed to digital and nearly all of that $700 million was raised through email”. - http://dmaemailblog.com/2013/03/20/how-the-obama-campaign-succeeded-with-low-open-rates/
He used email and social media to raise funds for his campaign through donations.
“75% of the $934 million raised by Obama was attributed to digital and nearly all of that $700 million was raised through email”. - http://dmaemailblog.com/2013/03/20/how-the-obama-campaign-succeeded-with-low-open-rates/
He used email and social media to raise funds for his campaign through donations.
“75% of the $934 million raised by Obama was attributed to digital and nearly all of that $700 million was raised through email”. - http://dmaemailblog.com/2013/03/20/how-the-obama-campaign-succeeded-with-low-open-rates/