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Email strategy planning - creating a mailing concept

Mar 13

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The development of a mailing concept is often neglected or reduced to a minium. "We send a quarterly newsletter yes", you get to the question about a mailing strategy often heard. However, a consistent use of the medium can someone go far beyond. Especially in e-commerce sector, it has become an essential customer retention and sales agents.

Primarily it's about a good mix of automated and manually create threads mailings. This one describes the design process at best a fictitious user of the registration / purchase to Newsletterabbestellung. Depending on your site it can easily happen that there are several scenarios for this type needs. Thus, the example being a B2C and a B2B User and a press representative. The whole can then be visualized as follows nicely on a graph.

Mailing Strategieplanung

Mailing strategy planning

Elements of the concept can be for example the following mailings:

Welcome mail
Welcome mail after registration. This mail should explain to the user directly to the added value it receives through this registry, and what steps are to do next. For example: "Thank you for your registration, you can now enter your personal profile here"

Info Newsletter
May include classical newsletters a healthy mix of information and offers. Is especially important for a premium rate for subscribers to offer. It provides, for example, to tips for making better use of a product, integrating special offers exclusively for newsletter subscribers or contests.

Standalone / campaign mailings
Mailing in which only a single product is presented. This mail should be sent only to subscribers relevant groups, as there is the danger that users feel disturbed.

Hot News
Relatively simple mail for which current information as quickly and easily can be sent.
Objective: Rapid information of the subscribers about current events such as traffic jams, etc.

Collect user data
Special mailings to the user clearly divided into user groups. This can be for example press releases to the linking of two topics. All subscribers have clicked on the topic then get a result in later newsletter on A. For more information about the user data collection I have in the post: " User data to determine elegant and serious , "explained. In general, this process is integrated with other mailings, but since I do make an important point to increase efficiency, I can see it here again listed separately.

Purchase termination
Registered users can cancel the order process automates a mail with the chosen and alternative products. In addition, should evidence of shipping conditions, or lack Faqs not return right. Orders are often interrupted by reason of uncertainty. Uncertainty about additional shipping costs, payment methods, or uncertainty in the operation play an important role. These uncertainties should be taken exactly in the mail as much as possible.

Birthday Mailing
Automated Geburtsstagsmails with a little bonus for the user is always well received. XING sent as birthday mailings with complimentary premium Schnupperabos. Such actions are usually well received by customers and motivate customers to buy.

Winback Program
Users who no longer could long have logged onto the website an email with the motto: "We miss you" get. Depending on your site and mail the user of this product may

But again, like so everywhere, the whole concept has to be individually appropriate to the company, target group, matched to available resources and product are. So it may be that a monthly newsletter is absolutely sufficient, or even that additional mailings must be included. Moreover, in practice, often used mixed forms.

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Future Marketing Newsletter

December 30

RSS feeds are becoming increasingly popular and slowly recognizes the broad mass of the benefits of feeds. This raises the question of how to proceed in the future. Will disappear newsletter or the RSS feeds only experience a short hype? Neither, in my view it will be important in future versions to offer both distribution and to make active use.

The trend is towards personalized mailings newsletter mailings at lower volumes. The times in which static mass mailings sent to some 100,000 recipients were are over. Firstly, the user only one annoyed by untargeted emails, then the interest is not a major part of the user on the other hand will be followed by less and less interesting for the customer mails, by the mass of information. For these reasons, conversion rates will decline and cancellation rates rise.

From this the following measures can be derived:

  • Aware of high quality subscribers eighth.
  • RSS feeds advertise in the newsletter and unsubscribe pages.
  • User data to collect and send appropriate mailings to small, highly targeted distribution may be.

How to get subscribers to high-quality?
The general answer is certainly a little difficult. Basically, however, that users get the most information about the expected Inhlat the newsletter should. Who "buys" likes a pig in a poke? Therefore, it is certainly not a bad idea to link the application form directly to a sample newsletter mailing. In addition, should the login page directly to the benefit of potential subscribers by the application has to be explained. I hope there is a benefit? Otherwise, should the same be reconsidered, because no apparent benefit to the subscribers can not expect high numbers of applications from interested users. In addition to the benefits of even the possibility of de-registration and an information on the use of personal data is not useful.
If a user of the website should be convinced to sign the registration process in the double opt-in process will be conducted. This will be fun applications or faulty email address immediately rejected.

Also true hands off of gambling as an address generating measure. With competitions can indeed be generated in a short time a large number of addresses, but the quality usually suffers less. Often there is only one interest in the profits of a fundamental interest in the products the site is not, therefore, future newsletters will not be considered.
Purchase of email addresses. Again, I'm very skeptical. While there are cases where it makes perfect sense to buy at addresses such as a new product / new brand to promote. However, should forth the origin and quality of the data are very closely scrutinized.

So together again:

  • Double Opt In use
  • Explain the benefits for subscribers
  • Indicate the nature of the use of personal information and opportunity to opt out
  • Minimum, an exemplary transmission are available online.
  • Fingers away from the lottery address acquisition
  • Beware of purchasing address

For the coexistence of newsletters / RSS feeds and the collection of user interests , I will then write in the next few days a little bit.