A case study showing how Lucky Voice doubled the size of their email list
Having more people to market to is better, it’s a "no brainer". Of course, I don’t mean bulking up an email database with poor quality data. I’m talking about more customers and potential customers who want to hear from you. Good quality permission-based data that maintains your delivery reputation and converts into revenue.
Lucky Voice shared with me nine list growth strategies that worked for them. They've also been good enough to share some numbers that showed how the tactics worked. Plus, as a bonus, they shared a couple of strategies that didn’t work. The insight from what doesn’t work is just as insightful as to knowing what does, so read on to find out what was learnt from success and failure.
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Your email list is priceless, which is why you need to build it up and increase your audience
Email is the champion of the marketing world. Almost 60% of marketers say email is their biggest source of ROI and they’re not wrong. With an average return on investment of more than $40 for every $1 spent, it’s hard to ignore the power of email marketing for both B2B and B2C companies.
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While the stats speak for themselves, another reason why building your own email list is so effective is simply because you own it. Sure, you can acquire lots of attention and followers on Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn. You can even create strong online communities there. But at any moment, these walled gardens could take it all away.
Then how will…
A discussion of best practices for email capture using popovers
The question on every marketer’s lips if they're considering a implementing a pop-up or popover for capturing email addresses or promotions should be:
Will using a pop-up help us achieve our goals as well as keep our customers happy?
In this article I will focus specifically on using popovers to drive subscribers - here are a few top-line tips on how to get started on achieving the right balance between your marketing objectives and customer satisfaction.
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1. Consider your audience
Your potential customers don’t care what conversion rate you want, what targets you’re trying to meet or when you need to…
Optimize your site to increase your email lists and generate more leads
Amazing, isn’t it? In spite of being pronounced dead more than once, email continues to drive the biggest growth for online stores and businesses alike.
Heck, it actually seems to be performing better and better every year.
The latest data published here on Smart Insights at the start of January proves that currently, email delivers approx. 30 times higher ROI than other channels. Plus, a staggering 95% of people rate it “important” or even “very important” to their organization.
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The catch? To generate similar results, you need to build a strong and vibrant list first.
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Learn how to shift your automated email marketing into hyper-drive by pre-defining 5 key segments based on fine-grained customer information and behavioral data
Email marketing has long been a cornerstone of any successful eCommerce operation, and, in much the same way, where email campaign segmentation and hyper-personalization were once considered optional, that is no longer the case. Together, they have redefined the rules for building automations, dramatically increasing the relevancy of automated campaigns to online shoppers. With this in mind, you would do well to include both types of activities in your email marketing playbook, lest you lose out on customers and leave money on the table.
Segmentation and Hyper-Personalization - Undeniable Benefits, Hard to Master
To drive home the point, consider the following: DMA (Data & Marketing Association) study found that segmented emails can generate up to 58% of all email revenues,…
Our recommendations and reviews on email marketing broadcast software options
Since I delivered one of the first training courses on Email marketing in 2001, I have regularly been asked for recommendations for affordable E-mail broadcast software packages for Email marketing and sending Enewsletters. Today, email services are far more sophisticated when I first became involved with Email marketing 15+ years ago. The main changes are:
All Email services have some features of Marketing Automation including dynamic content, automated email sequences based on actions and lead-scoring scoring based on content interacted with (particularly important for B2B Email marketing)
Many email services are now part of broader 'Marketing Cloud services' particularly relevant for larger businesses. These are covered in our enterprise marketing cloud review
This post highlights some of the options for businesses of different sizes that are most commonly used in the UK and delegates on my E-mail marketing courses have recommended to…
Chart of the Day: Inactivity Managment
What is inactivity in email data management?
Your email marketing platform tracks all activity relating to your email marketing, including opens and clicks. It also tracks clients who have not interacted with your emails. Different platforms also rate inactivity differently, for instance, some may class opens still as non-activity because recipients haven't clicked on any links. So, before planning your campaigns it's best to check first.
Win-back campaigns
Win-back campaigns are aimed to re-engage your subscribers. They usually focus on an offer or Unique Selling Point (USP) depending on what you think will entice your subscriber. Your win-back campaigns can be either automated or manual, however, automation does take the hassle from creating one-off manual emails. While planning your campaign, you need to decide on three things:
What does inactive mean for you?
What are you going to do to entice your clients back?
What are you going to…
Chart of the day: The biggest challenges for growing email list size include increasing sign-up rate and improving content
New research from Ascend2 found that improving email sign-up conversion rate and improving content quality and relevancy are both the biggest challenges for marketers when it comes to their email marketing list.
The research also found that improving list hygiene and reducing unsubscribe rates are also important.
Naturally, conversion rate increases are the biggest challenge but content is important to marketers, who realise that quality, relevancy and value of content is key to email marketing. It ultimately is what will encourage customers to interact with the brand.
Source: Ascend2 - Email List Growth Trends
Sample: 255 respondents split between B2B and B2C, most in a senior role (such as manager)
Recommended resource: Email Marketing Pre-Send checklist (Expert member resource)
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Take the test to see what stage your email marketing is at
Email is an amazing marketing channel, and is consistently quoted by reputable sources as one of the best performing marketing channels for return on investment. In their Marketer Email Tracking Study 2017, the DMA found that for every pound spent, the average ROI from email marketing was £30.01. Email marketing has more users than Facebook and Twitter combined and results show that customers actually prefer to view marketing communications via email. Radicati write that that there is predicted to be over 2.9 billion users of email by 2019, which is over one-third of the population. As the digital world is constantly evolving, email marketers need to make sure that they are using the most innovative ideas and embracing change in order to succeed.
Your audiences are changing and your customers are more savvy than they ever were. They…
Chart of the Day: What challenges you when it comes to email marketing? Part 2 of 4.
For email marketers, there will always be aspects of email marketing that are a challenge. The below chart looks at the various areas that email marketers are struggling with. I will be doing a 4 part series of issues pertaining to email marketing.
We will be looking at the following during the course of the series:
Targeting & Segmenting
Subscriber list growth
Tracking results
Main email marketing goal.
The second challenge in the series is "Subscriber list growth". Organically grown subscriber lists are challenging and it takes time to expand them. But having a large list isn't everything, you need to make sure it's an engaging list. Meaning clients trust your brand, open your email and ultimately click on the content that is relevant to them.
How do I grow a subscriber list?
In…
