At a recent event the question was raised how does social networking fit in with your email marketing strategy?
There were some obvious things – many pointed to putting links to their Facebook or Twitter page in their email newsletters. On the whole most people still don’t understand how to use the social networks and are finding their way. Indeed it reminds me of 6 years ago when everyone knew they “should be doing email marketing” but had no idea why, they just heard it was the thing to do and there was lots of money in it!

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Have you ever looked into how many of your email list ‘never’ open your emails? From our experience it can be anything from 40% to 70% of your list that do not open any of your emails, in many cases for 6 months.
So what can you do with this massive potential goldmine? Here are the options:

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With many products and services once you have purchased one particular product you won’t need it again. For example if I buy a big TV I am not going to buy it again and if I holiday in the Sahara desert one year it is unlikely I will want to go there next year (unlike those of us which get our 7 days sun in Spain).

Also, if I buy from a particular product category – say a book – does this mean I am only going to buy books from a company? Clearly not as next time I might come back and buy a CD. But targeting around this purchase would mean you would be focussing on books.

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Chris Pannell works in our Client Services team and has kindly agreed to tear himself away from helping our clients to share a few pearls of wisdom with you all.

In this video Chris summarises what triggered email marketing is and the benefits it can achieve.

What is a web version?

You will often see at the top of an email a piece of text which says something like “If you cannot see this email properly click here”.

This will link to a version of the email in the browser and is often referred to as the web version.

Why is it needed?

Different email clients render emails in different ways. Some might mess up the formatting so it is not legible. This is certainly the case with some mobile email clients although thankfully this is quickly changing.

The other reason is if images are not displayed. While some recipients will know how to turn images on, it is sensible to give people this additional option.

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