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Email Marketing Trends 2014
Tim Watson
Email Marketing Consultant
Zettasphere Ltd
Six Trends to follow and use to increase the value of Email Marketing

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Poll: How will your Email Marketing budget
change in 2014?
 Decrease budget proportion on email marketing
 Keep spend proportion unchanged
 Increase proportion on email marketing

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TREND 1 – MORE EMAIL

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Year on Year Trend Continues Up

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Achieving Acceptance of Increased Pressure
 Targeting - based
on behaviour
 Trigger Emails
 Blended Automation

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Behaviour Driven Content

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Real Time Geo-target Behaviour

Click rate increase 80% over previous year campaign
Source: Moveableink

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Basket Abandon

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Amazon Browse Abandon

Source: Zettasphere

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Category Browse Abandon

Source: MarketingSherpa

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Triggered by App Use

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Blended Automation
1

2
3

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Publishers monetize
‘Google like’ Ads in email

Source: LiveIntent

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TREND 2 – OFFLINE GETS DIGITAL

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Poll: Are You Involved in Offline Activity?
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


We don’t have any offline activity
I’m not involved in offline
Involved as stakeholder
Have responsibility for offline

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Emailed Receipts

Almost 40% of in-store customers walk out with an electronic receipt
Source: Yreceipts

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Hawkin’s Bazaar Capture Customers

Source: emocial

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SMS-2-Subscribe

3.3x more email addresses than publishing a URL
Case Study and Solution details http://www.zettasphere.com/SMS-2-Subscribe/
Source: Zettasphere

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TREND 3 – MAJORITY MOBILE

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9 minutes spent daily on email using a mobile device.
7.6% of the total 119 minutes of phone use per day. O2 –
“Mobile life report” UK (2013)

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

Population 6.9 billion
PCs 1 billion
TVs 2 billion
Mobiles 5 billion
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Email Client Share of Opens
30%
25%
20%

15%
10%
5%
0%

Source: October 2013 emailclientmarketshare.com

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Device Habits
How do you buy something you saw in an email on your phone?

Source: DMA UK Email Tracking Report 2013

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1: Skinny

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2: Scalable
Desktop

Mobile

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3: Responsive

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Responsive Possibilities
 Hide content on a
mobile
 Change font sizes
 Change email width
 Resize images
 Re-stack row modules
into columns
 Re-stack horizontal
navigation links into
vertical button panel
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New Tricks

Static call to action

Source: CampaignMonitor

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Is it Worth it?
Split test of 12 brands of same creative/offer.
True test of responsive vs. non-responsive
Client Sector
Mortgage
Education
Education
Cash Advance
Cash Advance
Health Insurance
Credit Card
Credit Card
Credit Card
Retailer
eRetailer
Online Dating

Responsive Click
Rate Uplift
23%
15%
6%
8%
7%
12%
3%
6%
20%
-2%
2%
5%

Average 8.75% increase
Source: Zetainteractive mobile strategy

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Ensure a Safe Landing

Mobile orders up 98%, Conversions 20%

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Poll: How Mobile are Your Emails?
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



Not necessary for us
Work fine as they are
Plan to re-design for mobile in Q1
Re-design low priority for us currently
Have been specifically re-designed

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TREND 3 - VIDEO

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Video
How effective is video email marketing in your organisation?

Source: Web Video Marketing Council

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Majority use Still Frame and Play button

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Personalised Video

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TREND 4 – OPEN RATE RETIRES

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Open Rate Retired as a Business Metric

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Recency (Open Reach) not Open Rates
Monthly Campaign
Size

Open Rate

Click Rate

Opens

Clicks

50,000

15%

5%

7500

2500

Fortnightly Campaigns
Size

Open Rate

Click Rate

Opens

Clicks

50,000

12%

4%

6000

2000

50,000

12%

4%

6000

2000

12000

4000

Totals

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TREND 5 – INTELLIGENT INBOXES

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Can They Make Email Better?

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Gmail Tabs – The Verdict

Source: ReturnPath

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One Thing NOT to Worry About

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Summary – questions please!
 Follow me on Twitter @tawatson
 Email me at twatson@zettasphere.com
 Email Marketing tips
www.zettasphere.com/signup
 Open Reach Whitepaper
 http://www.zettasphere.com/the-problem-withclassic-email-campaign-metrics/

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