The 10 Most Inspirational Leaders LEADING THE WAY TO SUCCESS, 2024
Email Marketing and Automation Transformation
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Transforming Email Marketing
and Marketing Automation
Dr Dave Chaffey, co-founder and
Content Director, Smart Insights
ExCeL London, March 21st and 22nd 2018
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State of Email marketing and Marketing Automation report: Smart Insights / GetResponse
Average
Open
Rate
= 27%
CTR
= 3.9%
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Co-founder and Editor of
SmartInsights.com - a marketing
advice community with > 1/2
million uniques/quarter.
Premium members in over 100
countries use our planning
guides, templates and online
courses to Plan, Manage and
Optimise their digital marketing.
We also offer consulting and
training for members.
Digital Marketing strategist, consultant, trainer and author since ‘97
Free Basic
membership
About Dave Chaffey
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Q1. How do you measure email marketing?
Email marketing and Marketing Automation Excellence report: Smart Insights / GetResponse
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Location: Published / Surveyed: Sample: Source:
Original source:
Worldwide Dec 2014 (Not repeated) Collected from 395 million email opens Litmus
% Email CTR by position
Litmus-Mailchimp research – retained although out-of-date since an interesting, valid stat for informing email
Analysis and
Recommendation
Email marketers know the first
links in a mail are the most
effective. This data proves it!
Make the most of the first 3
CTAs in particular. Response
is lower across the board on
mobile.
This is an old report, but we
have retained it since relative
importance of clicks is unlikely
to have changed.
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Automation 5. Use a layered targeting
system with dynamic content
Email 'Type' Customer Lifecycle Segmentation
Prospects Nursery Development Lapsing Lapsed
Lifecycle P2C programme Nursery programme Spot the winners Prevent Lapsing programme Lapsed programme
Behavioural Triggered by customer behaviour: ABBA, BnB, Accessories etc (max.1 email per week for each programme)
Newsletter Sent wk. 1 each month to all contacts with personalised content
Feature Email Sent wk. 2 each month to all contacts
Offers and Deals Sent wk. 3 each month to all contacts
NPI Sent wk. 4 each month to all contacts
Source: Harriet Mitchell Smart Insights Digital Impact conference
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Customised content: (Customer Profile)
• EDE (Electronic Design Engineers)
• Non-EDE (Electronic Design Engineers)
• Promo Excluded (Key and Corporates)
CLC Module
Customised content: (Customer Lifecycle)
• Nursery
• Development
• Acquisition
BEH Module
Customised content: (Behavioural data)
• Abandoned Baskets
• Browsed Not Bought
• Propensity to Buy (A recommendations model)
• Top Sellers
Product modules can vary in number and format.
Maximum of 8 modules per email.
Product Modules
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Predictive analytics for automation example
Analysis of historical
Transactions and
customer profile data
Predictive scoring
of prospects
and customers
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Have you reviewed your capability gap?
Free benchmark templates: smartinsights.com/guides/digital-marketing-benchmarking-templates
Showing the need to integrate web experiences with other paid, owned, earned channels
AI becomes important when you get the basic Marketing Automation and Personalization in place
Marketing automation is key, here is another example of automated real-time personalised messaging which works well for Smart Insights
Compare response rates to email marketing due to use context and personalisation
A couple of examples of future Natural Language Generation.
Left = generates email subject lines for you. Right = writes copy for you!