Jonny Davies - OTE Birmingham - Re-target Re-engage & Reap the Email ROI

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Topic: Re-target, re-engage, reap the email ROI You may be sending your email campaigns to a list of thousands every week but if a high proportion of recipients on that list are not responding to your campaigns then it will affect your open rates, click throughs and consequently the email conversions you’re achieving: size doesn’t matter, it’s performance that counts. Successfully re-engaging with the inactive recipients can make a massive difference to the ROI you are receiving from your email campaigns – so what are you waiting for?! Key takeaways: Understand how recipient engagement levels can affect email deliverabililty Learn how by re-engaging with dis-engaged customers will increase ROI and ensure you are not spending money unnecessarily Gain ideas for targeted email content and campaigns Sector specific examples of best practice re-engagement campaigns, including LA Fitness, Amnesty International, Deal Zippy and Hearst magazines Making your data work for you

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Re-target, re-engage, reap the email ROI

11th September 2013

Account Director – Jonny Davies

• Why re-engage?

• Re-engagement and content

• Re-engagement and data

• The multi-channel approach

• Create brand loyalists

What’s on the Agenda?

Why Re-Engage?

• Lifetime of product

• Your customer lifecycle

• Your brand

• How were you found?

Understand Engagement

£?The Cost of an Email Address

“… It is 6-7 times more expensive to gain a new customer than retain an existing

customer. …”Harvard Business Review

• Major ISPs monitor engagement in order to assign a reputation to all senders

• Positive actions vs. Negative actions

• Don’t become ‘graymail’

• Don’t let the negative responses stop engaged recipients receiving your emails

• Maintain your list – know who needs to go…

Deliverability

2012 has proven that email is very much still king; achieving thehighest ROI compared to any other channel, as well as thefollowing impressive stats from DC Financial Insights, 2012.

Increased ROI…!

“77% of customers prefer to receive permission-based promotions via email”

“Only 6% of customers preferring these messages via social media”

“ROI of 3000% achieved through email in 2012”

Re-engagement & Content

Segment & Target Accordingly Based on Rapport

• High image coverage• More frequent• Focus on the click/conversion

• Unique content• Louder subject lines• Aim for the open• Consider plain text or similar

• Know your content

• Incentivise recipients with a special offer – perhaps*

• Subject lines – be audacious!

• Serialisation

• Ask them what they want!

Re-engagement and content

“Win two First Class train tickets for just staying in touch!”

“Do you still want to hear from us?”

Incentive Campaign• Open Rate 5.1%

Incentive Campaign• Click Rate 2.2%

Incentive vs. Non-Incentive Re-Engagement Campaigns

Non-Incentive Campaign• Open Rate 6.5%

Non-Incentive Campaign• Click Rate 1.6%

No recipients clicked the unsubscribe option!

“We have a Katie shaped hole in our lives”

Consider Cleaning Your List

Think About…

• Matching against purchase history & your sub-conscious messaging!

• The value of an email and your customer lifecycle

• The number and age of the dis-engaged

Re-engagement & Data

For Engaged Subscribers

• Keep it simple & Invite the opt-out (and opt-in)

• Preferences /opt-down – make sure they are honoured!

• Learn from behaviours and patterns

• Invite feedback & listen

For Dis-engaged Subscribers

The Multi-Channel Approach

Consider Social Media Channels

SMS

Create Brand Loyalists

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”

Benjamin Franklin

Start Strong & Serialise

Create a Club

Post Purchase Love“Kayleigh, thanks for your visit, we’d like to treat you to a bottle of wine”

Key Take-Aways

• Consider the opportunity or risk that dis-engagement poses to you

• Think about sending differently

• Subject line is key!

• Analyse and evaluate your customer’s journey

• Target based on behaviour

• Think cross-channel for other engagement

• Reward loyalty and prevent dis-engagement!

Any Questions?