Can Email Remain Relevant | Glenis Carroll, Fairfax Digital | iStrategy Sydney 2010
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Find out the benefits and relevance of Email Marketing. Presented by Glenis Carroll, GM Marketing-Media at Fairfax Digital during iStrategy Sydney 2010.
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Can Email Remain Relevant | Glenis Carroll, Fairfax Digital | iStrategy Sydney 2010
- 1. Workshop: Can email remain relevant? Glenis Carroll General Manager Marketing - Media Fairfax Digital
- 2. The end is nigh for email… …apparently
- 3. Media by time of day Nielsen: Australian Internet & Technology Report 2010
- 4. Motivations to become subscribers, fans & followers Source: The Collaborative Future http://www.exacttarget.com/sff
- 5. Task One What is good about email? What is bad about email?
- 8. Little interest in relevance
- 10. Let’s build a bigger list!
- 11. Deliverability Global Delivery Rates, 2H 2009 Source: Return Path 1H2 2009 Global Deliverability Benchmark Report
- 12. We need to be transparent Permission is critical Unchecked opt-in box Choice at the time address is given Clarity of what will be delivered Content Frequency Sender
- 15. We should be inquisitive
- 16. Add value to their experience
- 17. Trust
- 19. Engender loyalty
- 20. Manage your Data Address change should be easy – and prompted Monitor open rates and clicks Don’t overlook your deliverability rates Dump non-responders Respect bounces, complaints and unsubscribes
- 21. Task Two What are the three most critical things your business needs to do to enable email to be a sustainable channel. Or do you think email is no longer viable?
- 22. You are not as sexy as you think you are
- 23. “The greatest danger to email’s viability as a communications channel comes from marketers who don’t respect the channel or their customers and subscribers.” Loren McDonald, Silverpop
- 24. Glenis Carroll General Manager Marketing - Media Fairfax Digital gcarroll@fairfaxdigital.com.au LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gleniscarroll
Hinweis der Redaktion
- Over the last few years there has been a rising chorus of voices predicting the death of email.In 2004 an article written for PC magazine asked the question if email had peaked and become useless.In 2006 USA Today claimed that “E-mail has become the new snail mail' as the younger set goes with text messaging”Last year the WSJ wrote that “Email has had a good run as king of communications. But its reign is over. “ And earlier this year the COO of Facebook stated that since most teens are not using email, email is probably going away.”
- So in case you hadn’t heard, the end is nigh for email….well apparently anyway.The contributing factors to the death of email include Spam Social Technologies (FB/Twitter/SMS/IM)Now there are a lot of people out there far smarter than me who do research in this area but I don’t know if email is going to “go away”. My observation is that generally these statements are intended to be inflammatory to grab headlines or progress an agenda. And I find it very difficult to conclude that simply because teenagers are not doing something now means the future of that activity is in doubt. A Twitter stream popped up shortly after those Facebook comments pointing out that there are plenty of things that most teenagers do not do and which are therefore also at risk Drinking red wine Voting Having children Paying taxesAnd from my own experience, although I use social media more for my personal messages, email is still a vital component in my communication toolbox. I recently bought a property and I’ve been liaising with real estate agents, builders, strata managers, mortgage brokers, and my wife via email. Social media isn’t an appropriate channel for all these exchanges.And in case the younger members of the audience think I’m a bit of a dinosaur, I’d just like to clarify that I do in fact use more than just email. I’m no Justin Bieber but I have RSS feeds set up so I can keep in touch with the content I don’t want to have come to my inbox. I am on Facebook throughout the day. I tweet. I Skype. I instant message. And I email. I also use email to receive communications from businesses or companies. And guess what, I’m not alone in this.
- This is a chart from a research series put together by ExactTarget called Subscribers, Fans and Followers and which looks at the way people use email, Facebook and Twitter.What is interesting about this chart is that email is the most popular channel for receiving marketing material. 67% of people who signed up for an email said they did so in order to receive discounts and promotions, compared with 40% on FB and 31% on Twitter. Email is also more popular than the other channels for receiving product updates, entertainment, education and for exclusive content.What that tells us is that many people want marketers to communicate with them via email. But here’s the rub. If they invite you into their inbox, they have high expectations. They expect you to treat that invitation with respect, to provide them with value and to enrich their experience.And this is where we tend to get it wrong. And “if” email is dying, I believe as email marketers we have to take a big chunk of the responsibility for this.
- One of the problems with email marketing is that too often we are lazy. I’m not saying that the people sending the campaigns are lazy but that our strategies are lazy. And I believe that often this comes from the misconception that email is easy and anyone can do it. After all, I know how to send an email, how hard can it be!How many of you have had your MDs or CEOs tell you just to send the offer to the entire base, regardless of its relevance.Email marketing is a science. Just like direct marketing is a science. The rigour you apply to a DM campaign should also be applied to an email marketing campaign. You wouldn’t conduct a $100,000 direct mail campaign on a whim without any due diligence and so why do we allow ourselves to do this for email campaigns?The answer is because the cost of an email campaign is virtually nil. It is nigh on impossible to do an email campaign that doesn’t deliver a positive ROI. And this is why we have spam…because you can deliver a profitable campaign despite achieving a conversion rate of 0.0002%.
- As a result, we take a batch and blast approach. We send to anyone and everyone foolish enough to give us their email address. Who cares about segments, profiles, behaviours, preferences? Why bother finding out the interests of our subscribers?It’s all too hard anyway, and doesn’t improve the ROI, if anything it might actually decrease the ROI by decreasing the size of the audience you send to.
- We’re not that interested in improving the relevance of our messages. We know it makes sense but it’s just too difficult to be relevant to everyone. Instead we convince ourselves that as long as it’s broadly relevant then it’s fine. And so we either send out email that is so generic that it loses its impact. Or we send an offer that we know isn’t relevant to everyone receiving it.
- The trickle-down effect of this is that we start to lose engagement. That subscriber who willingly provided us with his email address because he thought we’d respect it becomes disillusioned as we continually send him irrelevant content or offers, or we show our hand by constantly talking at him and demonstrating that we only see him as a potential sale, nothing more.So he unsubscribes OR he stays subscribed but stops clicking, stops opening and becomes inactive.
- As more and more subscribers tire of being sold to the responsiveness of the list falls which means we need to send to more people. So we undertake campaigns to grow our list, to get it bigger. We’re still not interested in relevance or engagement but at least we have a big list!
- KEY MESSAGESDeliverability is key to the success of any email program yet it is largely ignored13% of “delivered” email does not make it to the inbox in Asia PacificISPs are relying more heavily on engagement to determine whether and where an email will be delivered to (Hotmail, Priority Inbox)Poor permissions drive spam complaintsOver 55% of spam complaints are emails the user has opted in to receive (McAfee)There is a trend towards disposable email addressesACTIONS/TAKE-OUTSDetermine how much of our email hits the inboxOur subscriber base is a key asset however we neglect itOur email marketing program has the potential to be a source of competitive advantage provided we improve the way we manage itPut in place rules to remove disengaged members, avoid spam traps and suspend accounts we identify with invalid email addressesConsider sender certificationImprove unsubscribe function
- KEY MESSAGESWe should be single-minded in building engagement – it’s all about conversations, respect and trust (not big lists or batch and blast tactics)Having more engaged subscribers means improved responsiveness, more referrals, and better deliverabilityACTIONS/TAKE-OUTSEstablish a brand-specific Welcome strategy for every FD brand that initiates the relationship, sets expectations, and builds engagement (including apps)Understand the scope of our disengaged audience and the potential for reengagementExplore opportunities for 1 to 1 communication in eDM, newsletters, and other channelsFind other ways to deepen our users experience (Omniture, get feedback on content)
- We need to find out more about our subscribers...
- When you expand your metrics beyond just ROI then you become more interested in finding ways of adding value to your subscribers’ experience.
- Trustthat you won’t abuse their decision to provide you with access to their inbox
- And respect- Of their preferences and their individuality
- If you do this well you will build loyalty amongst your subscribers and they will reward you by sticking around, remaining engaged, buying more, and telling their friends about you.Doing all this requires a change in our mindset (…)
- You are not as sexy as you think you are.The reason I have included this slide is because as marketers we tend to live under this misconception that everyone thinks anything to do with our company is the single most fascinating thing in the world. And so we feel the need to share it. With everyone. So what I’d like you to do, is take a copy of this slide, blow it up, put in on the wall next to your desk and look at it before you do any email campaign. What it should do is cause you to ask yourself, “Is this message really relevant for the subscribers I’m about to send it to?”Are you sending it to the right segments?Do you even have the right data to segment – if not, how are you going to start collecting it?Have you personalised it effectively…and I don’t just mean you’ve entered my name. What other information do you have about me that is relevant and that would engage me more. If it’s a newsletter, how about suggesting an article that you think I’d be interested in based on what you know about meIs the timing right? If not, can you use trigger-based rules to do this better?
- I said at the start that it’s become a bit of a sport lately to claim the death of email is fast approaching. In all honesty I don’t know what will happen. Maybe email will become redundant, maybe it won’t. But one thing is certain, how people use email is changing. It’s less about personal communication now and is instead an effective channel for receiving messages from people or sources that they trust. This is great news for marketers but we need to make sure we don’t abuse that trust. Because if the death of email is nigh, then “the greatest danger to email’s viability as a communications channel comes from marketers who don’t respect the channel or their customers and subscribers.”