MiniDegree Review CXL 10

Email MARKETING / THE BAD things you should never do.

My idea here is to share with you guys some powerful thoughts about email marketing. So, let's start from scratch.

Well, the first thing we should make sure is that our emails are made up of content from our blog, our best performing social stuff, especially great juicy videos, video does really well in email, all right? But don't use one big image or a bunch of small images.

About 25% of our audience, Outlook and some versions of Android, they're not going to load images or images are going to load really slowly on slow connections.So we're going to see nothing, none of that great copy, none of the calls to action.

Our email can't scale on a mobile device. So on 300 pixels wide, the copy on that button is hard to read, the paragraph copy is impossible to read. We should made that true text so that it can size up appropriately on a mobile device.

Do not, it's over, it's 2021, it's done, do not buy an email list.Under CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act) these folks probably are illegally selling you this list in the first place.

25,000 emails sent, they got a 9% open rate. They're amassing as big of a list as they can, and they may not charge us for the bounce rate, but those high bounce rates make our list vendor look like spam.So when they send your email, it's less likely to get to the inbox.

Don't send any purchase lists through your email platform.Cause most email platforms include in their terms and conditions that we're not allowed to send to anybody who has not given explicit permission, even though that's not required by law.

So if we've got a budget, let's talk about driving more traffic to our email signup form through media, through inbound lead generation and search engine optimization of your website, hopefully driving more traffic to our website, through a register to win promotion.

The last thing we want to never do is send our email without knowing what it's going to look like and whether it's going to land in the inbox. We're not spam.But we do look like spam through some of the words that we're using.

IDEAS THAT ROCK!

Our deal is in the pre header, so that if they never even open the email, they already know that today's deal is a good one.

So, how do we write subject lines in pre headers? One caveat to do that would be “don't pay off anything in the pre header” or “don't pay off in the body of the email”.

Biggest reason for that is not everybody's going to read the pre header in the inbox or in the body of the email.So we want to make sure that if it says “guess when our happy hours times are”, and we don't say that anywhere in the body of the email we haven't left that to the pre header alone.

Good resources: video and animation in general, animated GIFs can lift pretty significantly in email.

The way that we ask for that birthday is actually through something we call progressive capture. So “we'd love to send you a card on your birthday to celebrate every year with you”.

The other idea I want to focus on here is to make sure that we are not the only one saying how great we are. Referral programs are so powerful, and especially when we can join forces with social media. Official Referral Program where every person that we refer, we get to share my special discount with those people.So if we need a discount, we can use our discount code here or they've since actually added a first time email discount to their website.

ESP (Email Service Provider), well, MailChimp is a great fit if we have one location, if we need to start around free, if we don't know HTML. Emma might be a good fit if we're ready for some, a little bit more of that automation and segmentation capability, the one thing that MailChimp doesn't do very well is they give us one list and then we can create subgroups off of that list, with Emma, our list membership starts to become a feature or a profile attribute as opposed to “if we exist in this list and we exist in this list, we exist twice”.

So, how do we start with sending emails? First, we should ask permission to send email - entice prospects to opt in, rather than automatically marketing to them. Then make our emails a mix of text and image and keep mobile device readers in mind. We should create a content plan, including how email can support and share your long-form, video and social content. Also, we should create a testing plan in which we could learn but not over test. Email’s unique super power is data: send to the right subscribers with personalized content at the time that’s most relevant to them.

So, How to Optimize our Email Marketing List Growth? “If we're going to have a party we have to make sure we clean our house before we have people over”.

We sent on the first of the month, we're going to get people that open and click and complain, unfortunately that we're spam, but then on day 31we don't have any send volume in our history, but we might have a complaint.

Yahoo hasn't figured out that that's not real life and we can be penalized for that, seeing the negative tail-end of those results when we really don't have any volume in our history.

There's a little bit of a technical reason that we want to send at least once a month. We want to deliver relevant, valuable, engaging content, but that's also going to drive up our email open rates. Email open rates and click-through rates can help us get into the inbox as well because the more engaged our subscribers are the more Gmail and Yahoo assume this must be interesting mail and more likely to send that to the inbox.

We want to make sure that we're monitoring this, how that's impacting our inbox placement. For the subscriber side, being ready to welcome those people onto our list with a welcome email. B2B, B2C, prospects, clients, that all kind of needs a welcome email. Actually the welcome email drives five times as much revenue. 

Asking the people who just signed up for their emails for that next step, for that next ask, were definitely missing an opportunity. Make sure that we're asking them for what's next.

A Re-permission campaign. If we asked everybody's permission to send to them in the first place this is going to be a list of people who are subscribed, but now we're asking them basically to opt in again.

If we're going to get a 20% open rate on (cuts out) about 5%, maybe 8% are going to click that yes button. Another maybe 2% are going to unsubscribe and then the rest of our list is going to do nothing at all (chuckling). 

If somebody has purchased, we´re not taking that person off my list, let's make sure that we don't take those folks off the list unless they have also not purchased, or not shopped with us. About 85% of our emails are going to make it through to the inbox.The rest are going to a junk folder.

We're not going to grow our lists by buying names. Guessing at email addresses. is actually illegal. Ask for, trade value, and earn your subscribers' permission.

WARNING: 

The WRONG Way to Grow 

Don’t buy, rent, trade, or borrow lists. 

Don’t harvest addresses. Scraping emails from the web or guessing at them and auto-opting in is illegal. 

Don’t assume permission. It’s illegal in most countries (if not the U.S. yet) and a bad quality list growth tactic globally. Ask for and EARN your subscribers’ permission.

 PROMINENCE, PROMISE, PROOF, PROGRESSIVE PROFILING

 PROMINENCE

✔Try lightboxes up on “exit intent” for 4-8x faster growth. A lightbox can drive eight times as many sign ups as the static form on the page can. (pop up)

 ✔ Requested an email address in exchange for larger content offers (webinars, eBooks, etc.)* VALUE CONTENT

 ✔ At least one invite should be on the home page *Requiring an opt-in in exchange for a download. Offering is forbidden under GDPR (General Data Protection Rules). 

We can ask for an email address with an (unchecked) checkbox! “Would you like to sign up for our loyalty club which is basically just an email subscription where you get credit, or points, for the things that you buy as long as you use that loyalty membership every time you buy?’

Knowing that our value is unique, knowing that what we send in email is unique and not just the same thing that they would get through Instagram, for example, offer that value here and then give them a link to sign up.

B2B

 “Do you want to receive further information from our brand?”

We cannot require that collection of data in exchange for a piece of value. Meaning, we would actually have to offer our slides, in this case, whether or not we gave our email address, or our email permission, rather. We would give the information but we can't require that we are going to be added into a marketing list in exchange for getting the slides from a presentation, it has to be an unchecked checkbox. Part of the signup form for our app usage should be “Can we send you marketing emails?”Big asterisk here is make sure that we also have a way of getting those emails from your mobile experience into your email experience.

PROMISE

Promise is what we can offer, our value and setting expectations. Don't (cuts out) promise, privacy. We'll never share your information with a third party and you'll have the option in any of our emails to unsubscribe

PROOF

We're looking at the number of people who have signed up, How do we validate that promise?

We ask for a couple of things and then as part of the welcome series, not just a welcome email, but email two or three, in a welcome series, we ask for the birthday information so that we can encourage them to donate their birthdays to …

REFERRAL CAMPAIGN

So “it was one email talking about a trip around the world”,very cool promotion, and we get to take a friend if we forward this email to get somebody to subscribe and then they get an entry by subscribing and it was actually just a forward to a friend link. There are referral programs, softwares out there that will actually set the entire thing up for us where we click on refer five people and it takes us to a web page where we can sort of fill out that form.

PROGRESSIVE PROFILING

Choose a relevant, symbiotic partner who has the attention of our target audience. Swap content, not lists. Offer value and entice subscribers to opt in directly for our emails. Swapping offers may not always fit. Exclusivity of the offer matters

Partner Targeting Exercise Brainstorm: Are complements, not competitors. Have similar buyers or prospects and have similar need states

Who is a compliment, not a competitor?

We should test our unengaged subscribers, test sending to them less frequently.Do they actually unsubscribe less often? Do they re engage more often if you just send 'em less stuff?

We can always let subscribers choose. “Do you want our monthly newsletter, or do you want to get an alert every time we release new research, new data?”.

That can be controlled through a Preferences Center inside our email platform. “If you have another email address that you use more often give us that now so that before you never check this email again you can take your really juicy email content with you”.

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