In the world of the business and the corporate world, email has become the convenient mode of communication between the brand owner and customer. The task of sending the series of the email according to the segmented audience varies greatly, depending on the product/ service they are offering to the customer.
The email marketing campaigns are going strong and so does the people behind them are always struggling with the innovative ideas. Scrolling through the different web pages about how to have the positive email conversions, email marketers are themselves now confused about what to do and how to make the recipient to open their brand/ business email.
Many of the email marketers are following the set of rules laid by the top marketer team from the qualified brand/ business. It must have worked for them but not necessarily can work for everyone. There is nothing to be sad or worry about. We have shared some of the Do’s and Dont’s which can be helpful to you for your email marketing campaign.
DO NOT BE MYSTIFIED ABOUT THE ALREADY LAID RULES
Often times, as an email marketer, you must have read or heard about that the TUESDAY is the best day to send the email to the positive open & conversion rate. For some, yes, and other time, NO. It is not necessary that if for the business A the Tuesday happens to be the best day to send the email and receiving the positive outcome, it will work for you as well.
Every business is different, therefore following any set of rules or the myths will not give you the boost to your email marketing campaigns. The reason why TUESDAY was chose the best day for the email is,
l People are not yet over the weekend hangover, therefore Monday is not suitable for the positive open conversion rate.
l Wednesday and Thursday, the people are struggling to be in the mood of the work, therefore the idea to shoot the marketing email on these days is risky.
l Friday again the working people are gearing up for the weekend.
l Weekends are when the people log in or check their emails, hardly.
So the day left for the week is TUESDAY.
It is not the full proof theory, but yes, for some brands and the business the Tuesday has worked for their email marketing campaign on the positive note. There are some stats which says that the Tuesday is the worst day to send the emails and believes that the weekends are the best time to shoot the number of email series to the customer.
WHAT TO DO?
Which day will work for you is all dependent on the size of your email list, your target audience and also what you have for the customer to offer. As the brand owner, you can lead and instruct the email marketing team to run the email test campaign and then come to the conclusion which day is best for your business for the engagement with the customers.
MAINTAIN THE TONE OF YOUR CONTENT
As the email marketer, you are bound to go for the perfection in the email templates. Design, template size, logo, colors, content, fonts, and CTA. When you focus too much on these aspects of the email marketing campaign, the one thing you lose the focus on is the tone and the interpretation of your message with the customer.
WHAT TO DO?
You can run the test email with the plain email template. Do not be surprised! According to the Unbounce fact, plain email templates i.e. No logos and the colors has 35% better performance. When there are no logos and the colors in the email template, all you can then focus on the engaging content of the email. If you think it is relevant to shoot the long tail emails to the customer for the better interpretation of your message to them, you should not shy away from testing such emails as well.
ENSURE THE ACCURATE DATA
The analyzation of the data of your email marketing campaign is necessary for the engaging open and click-through rates. Many of the top-notch companies ensure the proper usage of the data which includes the customer’s behavior and also the factors which they ignore or encourage them to open the email.
WHAT TO DO?
The analysis of the data for your email marketing can help you to study the insights and also it will let you segment the target audience related to your business. According to the MailChimp data, the segmented email campaigns had the 14.41% open rate compare to the non-segmented email campaigns. Also, the click rate for the segmented email campaign increased by 63.75%. The personalized email templates as well are successful with the 26% more open rate on an average.
MOBILE FRIENDLY
There is increasing number of the Smartphone users in the world, optimizing almost everything on it. While the brands are creating and shooting the email templates, there are certain email campaigns which are not compatible with the small screens i.e. Smartphone. Without ignoring the fact and the data researched; from 2011 to 2015, the email open rate on the Smartphone has grown from 8% to 55% respectively. The number is continuing to grow still.
WHAT TO DO?
The stats are enough to make you understand that the email marketing campaigns should be optimized for the Smartphone screens as well. It is advisable as well as suggestive that the email marketers should first focus on the mobile users and then on the huge screen. While doing so, avoid the phrase such as- ‘ if you are having difficulty reading the email, click here.’ placing the right CTA keeping in mind the mobile screen should also be taken care of by the email marketer.
SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION
The social media revolution has made the world go around to play safe every time they have introduced something new. The email marketing campaigns work on the aspects of the content and also how popular the brand is on the social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. The number of likes and the followers make the customer trust on the even basis when they are new to your business.
WHAT TO DO?
Include the social media plugins into the email templates. You can channelize the audience to your social media page or account and also ask them to share it or make the use of the hashtags which you have asked them to do in the email content. Offer the personalized promotions who are following your page and sharing the email content with their friends.
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