5. 49%US Online
Consumers are
always addressable
60%US consumers own
a smartphone
11-15%Marketers report of online revenue
attributed to email marketing
Did you know?
6. As of September 2013, 48% of email
was opened on a mobile device
10. BlueHornet Email Maturity Model
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SIGN UP
LANDING PAGES
WEB FORMS
PROMOTIONS
OPT-DOWN
WELCOME
BEHAVIORAL DATA
BASIC
SEGMENTATION
WINBACK
TRANSACTIONAL
TRIGGERS
POST-PURCHASE
UPSELL
REWARDS PROGRAM
FTAF
SHARE TO S0CIAL
11. BlueHornet Email Maturity Model
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SWEEPS
SIGN UP
PREF CENTER
TEXT TO JOIN
LANDING PAGES
WEB FORMS
PROMOTIONS
MOBILE APPS
PROGRESSIVE
PROFILING
OPT-DOWN
MOBILE TARGETING
WELCOME
BEHAVIORAL DATA
BASIC
SEGMENTATION
WINBACK
TRANSACTIONAL
SOCIAL TARGETING
ABANDON CART
TRIGGERS
POST-PURCHASE
UPSELL
REPLENISHMENT
TRIGGERS
ADVANCED
SEGMENTATION
REWARDS PROGRAM
ENGAGEMENT
SOCIAL
EMAIL
FTAF
SHARE TO S0CIAL
EXCLUSIVE OFFERS
REVIEWS
12. Value of Targeting
Example Statistics
Promotional Email
Example Statistics
Lifecycle Email
Open Rate 18.8% 40% higher26.3%
Click-through Rate 1.9% 9% higher2.1%
Conversion Rate 2.7% 3.1%
Average Order Value $62.89 16% higher$72.8
Revenue-Per-Email $0.03 42% higher$0.05
Unsubscribe Rate 0.099% 0.222%1
15% higher
124% higher
13. The Path to Personalization
DATA
Acquisition
Progressive Profiling
PERSONALIZATION
Content
Mobile Design
Social Integration
OPTIMIZATION
Testing
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15. Is Your Data Actionable?
95% 39% 39% 26%
Data within
organizations
that remains
untapped.
Marketers who
think data is
collected too
infrequently or
not real-time
enough.
Marketers who
say they can’t
turn their data
into actionable
insight.
Organizations that
don’t use real-time
on-site behavior to
personalize the
website experience.
Source: Monetate, June 2013
16. Engagement Data
• Engagement segmentation should be a core component of program
• Adjust timing of segment definitions based on your audience
• Define clear goals for each segment
• Set contact strategy around these segments: lifecycle programs,
frequency, content restrictions, etc.
Engagement Segment Definitions
New New subscriber in the past 30 days
Active Not new + opened or clicked an email in the past 60 days
At Risk Not new + last open or click was 61 to 90 days prior
Inactive Not new + last open or click was more than 91 days ago
17. – Progressive Profiling is
used to determine
what their subscribers
look for most in an
Insurance Company
– Add the answers to
subscriber profiles
– Leverage responses to
individualize content
Progressive Profiling
METLIFE
18. Progressive Profiling
CAMBRIDGE INTERACTIVE
– Pre-determine 3-5
additional elements to
drive relevance
– Present questions or
polls as sub content,
generated dynamically,
as determined by
profile completeness
19. Quantity VS. Quality
ACQUISITION STRATEGIES
QUANTITY
BOTH
Web/
Event
Acquisition
/Purchase
QUALITY
Referral
Organic Site Subscription
Subscription at Conversion
Text to Join
Social Subscription
Loyalty Programs
Sweepstakes
Contests
Co-Registration
Email Append
21. Test Use of Strategic Lightbox
100%+Result in lift in
average enrollment
22. Sweepstakes and Contests
– Minimize data collection (only
necessary contact info up-front)
– Name
– Email
– Phone (SMS Opportunity)
– Address
– Age
– Opt-In
– Promote social sharing as a referral
source
23. Social Login
Of consumers have
encountered social login
before… 50% use it with 91%
satisfied with the social login
experience
88%
Provides access to profile
information for better targeting
26. - Simplify your email deployment
process by creating one email that
contains multiple areas of unique
content for each recipient
- Communicate to subscribers on a
personalized and relevant level to
improve engagement and retention
- Improve revenue & engagement
per email rates by up to 2 times
Content Personalization
OVERVIEW
27. Global Hotel Alliance Loyalty Program utilizes dynamic
content to provide exclusive, individualized email
experiences based on over 1,000 content variations
and 7 Different Languages!
• Background Color: The background color changes
based on subscriber tier level of Platinum, Gold or
Black.
• Main Content: Text changes based on if a subscriber
is new to the GHA brand or if they are an existing
subscriber as as the subscriber’s brand affiliation.
• Member Account Summary: The account content
changes based on subscriber’s profile.
• Offer Content: Offers changes based on subscriber
brand affiliation and geographic region. These offers
are also randomized.
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Content Personalization
IN ACTION
28. – Use subscribers first
name and a real-time
content in email
partner to personalize
the Starbucks cup
Real-Time Personalization
STARBUCKS
29. Time-Based Personalization
Ideal Email Channel Revenue Distribution by Email Type
Most robust email marketing programs derive at least 55% of email channel revenue from
lifecycle marketing and transactional email
Promotions
&
Newsletters
60%
Transactional
25%
Lifecycle
15%
Emails Delivered
Promotions
&
Newsletters
45%
Transactional
20%
Lifecycle
35%
Email Revenue
30. Time-Based Personalization
PROGRAM EXAMPLES
• Membership Renewal
• Welcome Series
• Anniversaries
• Event/Geo Based
• Lifecycle Applications
• Re-Engagement of At-Risk
Members
• Social Connection
31. – Grow social program
awareness and increase
“friends” by sending an
email focused solely on just
your social programs
Social Connection
35. Vehicle for Testing
– Use subscribers as a
focus group
– Test elements like
branding and
positioning, voice and
tone, tag lines and
more
– Learn what is
resonating with your
customers before
taking the leap
38. – Email is not dead. In many verticals, email remains the cornerstone of the digital
marketer’s strategy
– Change is the only constant. Stay focused on your audience and cater to their
ever-changing behaviors
– Relevance is still king. Make sure you look at creating personalized experience
from a content, timing, behavior and display perspective
– Big Data is great, but, in the meantime, leverage the small data you have in big
ways
– Test & Optimize
Key Takeaways
Hinweis der Redaktion
To start off, let’s look at some really informative data from blueHornet’s 2014 consumer views study.
60% - US consumers own smartphones – Forrester forecasts that smartphone adoption will reach just about 2 billion users globally by end of 2015
Percentages (first) comes from Brief – Email Marketing Gets Responsive (Forrester Research)
Percentage (last one) comes from Janrain US Consumer Research report (Industry Research Social Login)
Email represents 3.5% of marketers digital budget
$2B is being spent on email marketing in the US
And in order to be effective today, email marketers need to arm themselves with the data in order to win the battle of the inbox. Marketers aren’t just competing with their biggest vertical competitors – they are competing with every single brand in their recipients’ inbox. And the best way to break through that is to get smarter and more prescriptive about the email being sent. Which means that it is all about data, data, and more data.
The BlueHornet Email Maturity Model is the tool we use to help our clients understand where their email programs stand today and where they may have opportunity to move their subscribers up the value chain. The more engaged your subscribers, the more powerful they are to your brand.
And the key to driving email program evolution is in the data. Ongoing collection and integration of multiple data sources is critical to improved targeting, meaningful segmentation and increased content relevance for your consumers. The more value they get from you, the more valuable they are for your program.
The BlueHornet Email Maturity Model is the tool we use to help our clients understand where their email programs stand today and where they may have opportunity to move their subscribers up the value chain. The more engaged your subscribers, the more powerful they are to your brand.
And the key to driving email program evolution is in the data. Ongoing collection and integration of multiple data sources is critical to improved targeting, meaningful segmentation and increased content relevance for your consumers. The more value they get from you, the more valuable they are for your program.
- Segmentation and dynamic content is intended to increase the performance metrics of email programs
- Success should be measured through multiple metrics and compared to performance of “default” version of email
In today’s environment, the three biggest challenges are data. Specifically, acquiring the data, analyzing the data and leveraging the data. According to a study conducted by monetate, 39% of respondents claim to not be able to turn their data into actionable insight and 95% believe that the data within their organizations remains largely untapped.
Start with what you have…
You have engagement data – when they last opened clicked. AND, you know when they signed up.
Find out more about your customers over time to deepen the relationship, demonstrate interest in them personally and express the value received in exchange for the sharing of information.
Find out more about your customers over time to deepen the relationship, demonstrate interest in them personally and express the value received in exchange for the sharing of information.
We are going to review some tactics – new and old – and let’s determine if they provide quality subscribers or are tactics that drive quantity.
Sweepstakes and contests - Quantity
Referral Programs - Quality
Organic site subscription - Quality
Subscription option at conversion - Quality
Text to subscribe - Quality
Social Sign On - Quality
Social Subscription - Quality
POS/POP – Both
Loyalty Programs – Quality
Co-Reg – Quantity
Email Append – Quantity
These are just some of the most common ways to acquire email addresses.
- Keep language simple and use strong “submit” CTA
- Use the dimming effect to make the lightbox stand out
- Don’t “trap” someone (include an ‘x’ in he upper right corner)
- Deactivate lightbox for any links coming from your emails as well as for existing subscribers (not through email)
- Limit appearance to once per visit, and only repeat on subsequent visits if enough time has lapsed (suggest once every 30 days)
***Test optimal timing and page location for triggering form
-Use prizes that will attract strong targeted prospective customers
- Use progressive profiling
- Allow consumers to login to site with Facebook (or other social) credentials
- Obtains email permission (email address registered with site)
- Auto collection of birthday
- Percentage (88%) comes from Janrain US Consumer Research report (Industry Research Social Login)
Retail is leading the way with highly personalized communications
Application in association worlds
-name on registration badges (promoting event registration)
Shows that testing results can ultimately lead companies to have a dynamic personalized email program, based on success metrics and what those specific subscribers like to see from your company. A personalized email program should be the goal of all email marketers.
Acquiring the data, analyzing the data and leveraging the data.
Overcome these challenges, data is key to your email marketing success.