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In the Brave New World of “best practices” email marketing, you eventually hit a wall.
Try as you might, you can’t lift responses much further with the tools and resources at your disposal.
You’re stuck.
And yet a sizeable majority of your subscribers still aren’t opening, clicking, reading, downloading, buying etc.
So what do you do?
One answer is to realize that what we understand by optimization…isn’t. Then you discover hidden facets to your emails that you can improve, together with your bottom line.
All very mysterious, so let’s explore…
Most topics in email marketing focus on what you might call the two pillars of functional optimization. (I love making words like that up).
The first pillar is building an email program that gives your messages the best chance of getting attention. That covers the technology, sign-up form optimization, welcome messages, preheaders, “share this” links, subject lines, design, etc.
The second pillar is delivering value. So when the message gets seen, it gets a response. That covers your offers and content, and includes all the things you do to improve the value you deliver: targeting, segmentation, trigger messages, etc.
Nothing wrong there. These are the right things to focus on.
The idea of delivering value is where we need to add new perspectives.
We know the typical subscriber has to decide whether giving an email some attention is worth his or her time. And the big factor in that decision is the likely value of that email.
So we try and deliver as much value as possible. But…we tend to see this value as purely functional:
What offer (item, price, discount, coupon) can we send that has the best chance of getting the subscriber to buy the relevant product or service?What information (topic, length, perspective, level, etc.) can we send that has the best chance of getting the subscriber to actually read it?Again, nothing wrong with that. It’s the foundation on which most successful email programs are built.
But success still relies on serendipity.
However targeted you manage to be, you’re still relying on catching the subscriber at the right time, in the right frame of mind, with the right current need. All of which are hard to plan for (especially the last two).
It doesn’t matter how optimized you are, you can’t please everyone every time with this kind of functional value. That’s the brick wall we all eventually face.
One solution is to recognize that value isn’t only created through a “functional transaction” (relevant offer or content).
We don’t read novels to do our jobs better. We don’t read emails from friends because they contain relevant offers. We don’t go to the cinema to get information. We don’t view paintings because of the value of the canvas and frame.
Value also comes from entertainment, inspiration, storytelling, humor, creativity, quirkiness, style, emotion, humanity…all things that rarely get considered in the function-dominated best practice literature.
And therein lies your chance.
Quality content, permission, creative design, value, relevancy, timing, personalization, customization etc. are important factors that take your email marketing amplifier all the way up to 10.
But these other, softer, difficult-to-measure elements may take it up to 11.
For example, I read every email that Michael Katz sends out. He has an informational newsletter about using email newsletters to market professional services.
I don’t learn too much from Michael.
Not because he hasn’t anything useful to say (he has), but because I’ve been studying the topic for over ten years and know my way around already.
So why bother to read every email?
Simple…every article is an entertaining read. He has style, humor and personality.
I have many calls for my attention, but I still find myself reading Michael’s articles, because he’s managed to establish a personal, emotional connection that overrides any content issues.
That’s the goal: an email optimized for functional value and performance, but which also has the emotional connection that keeps people engaged even when this functional value misses its mark (as is inevitable in any email program).
So how do you work on optimizing the non-functional aspects of your email’s value? Good question!
Part of the reason we focus on functional value is because it’s easier to measure, calculate and create.
It also fits with our technology-oriented view of the web. Most of the tools we use are there to help us optimize what we offer and what information we give out. They don’t help us decide how to present that offer or information.
Non-functional value is, therefore, harder to create, but here are some quick suggestions…
Creating more value for subscribers becomes easier when you start thinking of them as…subscribers. Not as numbers in a database or an email address.
As J-P De Clerck recently wrote:
“Whatever they are called: ultimately, they are just real people like you and me. 80% water, some flesh and bones, a brain and plenty of desires, issues, problems, challenges and dreams.”
Or as The Prisoner puts it:
“I am not a number, I am a person”
We are seduced by our wonderful campaign reports, spreadsheets, databases and other technologies into ignoring the human element in favor of numbers. Data is good. Data is important. But data is data and people are still people.
It’s hard to build an emotional connection with a number.
Once you keep the human aspect top of mind, you automatically start to plan, write, design and implement in a way that’s better suited to subscriber needs and emotions.
It can be helpful to remind ourselves of the real meaning of popular email marketing metrics. For example, “clicks” are not clicks, they’re people interested in buying/reading/learning more…
Suggesting you add personality to emails is a glib thing to say.
Those with a brand personality to project and protect have a head start (and a set of self-defined limits). But the rest of us are left wondering quite what a bit of personality is supposed to look like.
In essence, it’s anything that distinguishes the email from the mediocre. The mediocre is the bland sales or corporate style of writing and designing that everyone gravitates to because it’s safe, and because it’s easy to do by committee.
The lure of mediocrity is particularly strong in informational B2B newsletters: content-based vendor emails all tend to look and sound the same. And, yes, I’ve fallen into that trap, too.
All it takes to steer clear of mediocrity is more of a human voice. It doesn’t mean you have to be a writing master like Michael Katz. It just means recalling that the recipient reads the message as an individual, not as an “audience” or a group of spreadsheet cells.
For a longer discussion of personality in newsletters, there’s a whole book chapter on the topic available free online here.
Emotional value is also helped by creativity and innovation. Two more recommendations that are so easy to say, less easy to do.
Again, the key step is recognizing and resisting the pull of mediocrity…developing a mindset or production environment that encourages you to develop unique, memorable, engaging campaigns, irrespective of the actual offers or content those campaigns might contain.
Off the top of my head:
Of course, all these ideas and concepts need testing and need to deliver, results wise. Personality doesn’t work if it’s the wrong personality for your audience.
So I’m curious. Do you agree? And what emails always grab your attention, even when the offer or content isn’t relevant right now?
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Once a year do I update my guide to the best people and places to get good, solid, reliable email marketing information from.
This is not exclusive.There are so many great email marketing resources online right now that the final reduction is necessarily subjective. ultimately, is a selection of personal favorites based on ten years of watching the space.
Please feel free to link your Favorites in the comments, of course ...If there are enough, you can publish a "reader's tips" follow-up post.
1. Media Post's Email Insider t is probably my favorite multimedia site, hosting various excellent columns written by experts with a strong background in the field.
If I had to call on top of each column, I will go for Loren McDonald ' s, which probably is how to think about and use email marketing.
2. letters ClickZ was since the first marketing media websites to publish a marketing email column have five, now has many long-time industry stalwarts.
Everything is good value, but especially my favorites is anything written by Derek Harding, Ed Heinrich, Stephanie Miller or problematic DIMM Jenkins.
3. MarketingProfs offers many great resources, but the e-mail newsletter "Get to the point: email marketing" may be preferable. Receive summaries or email marketing articles on the main site, plus notes helpful posts from other sources.The summaries are often better than the original articles.
4. Other broader marketing sites with useful email marketing modules include Econsultancy and eMarketing & Commerce.
5. iMedia Connection has slipped my personal rankings or sooner, but you can find more good stuff from the regulars email as Wendy Roth, Chris Marriott, and others.Caution articles from Dylan Boyd.
Marketing Sherpa group Email Marketing Benchmark Guide has achieved iconic status in the industry. main site Sherpa group is also a good source of case studies and other reports.
Emailstatcenter.com website is the place to start looking for public stats. Is the strategy of problematic DIMM Jenkins (mentioned above).
[SIMEiWSII page lists 30 + sources of email marketing data and benchmarks]
Look for studies published by ExactTarget. Morgan Stewart is one of the few experts out there with an understanding of the email, a wider range of marketing channels and statistical analysis. I blog.
There are hundreds of relevant blogs/newsletters out there, but the following account for most of the links I have through my Google Reader.
Keep in mind that many of the following provides several ways to access the content (feed, email, Twitter, etc.)
The guide of Email Jim Ducharme make a great job of highlighting the best of the web marketing email by phone daily roundup. site also a great source of service alerts and email radio hosts.White Chad operates email official blog that is a super public source of insight into what the big retailers are doing with their MailChimp blog emails.often comes with great ideas and stats.eROI Dylan Boyd has a super perspective on email marketing in a broader context, he brings us through The Email Wars.The Bronto, bloggers impresses with the concerted effort to bring information useful to the community, without publicity. Probably one of the best around blog Blue Sky Factory.stands out because the people there are also very clued in social media and their implications for email and because it has DJ Waldow, social superhero.three focused design blogs to throw your: Smith-Harmon (lots of examples with comment), style campaign (very detailed focus mobile design) and Campaign Monitor (chock full of useful mail resource plan); Please check this post for lots more top design sources.Deliverability blogs are listed here (my favorite is the Word to the Wise, which is about as objective as I receive online).ideas Inbox AWeber is very educational and useful for small businesses (see also below).J-P De Clerck writes wisely and regular social media, email and the linkages between the two social Email marketing and Conversionation.Experian CheetahMail's blog has caught my attention recently. one of the contributors is Jordan Lane, which also has a good blog in Alchemy Worx emailmoxie.com.the newsletter takes common themes and offers a new perspective or tips that everyone that this contest was true.Most of the resources listed above are for individuals who work regularly with email marketing. Here I would like to highlight some resources facing small firms and those dealing periodically with email marketing ...
If you write an e-mail newsletter and haven't read articles by Michael Katz, you need to do.Janine Popick's blog posts at vertical Response receives a focus on small enterprises and go beyond the mechanics of email marketing to cover other business aspects relating to the "small" emailer.constant contact has a huge user base: small businesses see the Learning Center for blog posts, articles, webinars, etc.Most of the names scattered throughout this post deserves follows from Twitter; However, I would like to see a few extra Folk who stand out for their excellent spreader of useful information or that don't fit some of the other categories.
Good info distributors:
John Chester, Shannon Holato, Andy Thorpe, Jordie van Rijn, Remy Bergsma, Email Institute, The Email Wizard, Chris Donald, J-P De Clerck, newzapp, Noah Fournier, Fred Tabsharani, Scott Hardigree …
Andrew Kordek, Scott Cohen and robinteractive is three active twitterers client side of the equation: always have a good prospect, since most content producers are vendors in this space.
(I'm sure I've forgotten many large Twitter accounts to follow: reminds me in comments!)
Finally, the marketer's Email Club is probably the biggest networking site out there for email marketers and includes a forum and many other useful resources. was founded by the wonderful Tamara Gielen.
Now about your suggestions ...
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