Authored by David Daniels, The Relevancy Group With all the channels and marketing messaging vying for the customer's attention it is becoming harder for marketers to not only remedy the consumer attention deficit order but also find meaningful ways to drive customer acquisition. This first eBook in a series on how to Create Engaging Email, will leverage The Relevancy Group's Connected Marketing Framework to provide proven tactics on how to drive subscriber acquisition. This eBook will expose marketers to cutting edge strategies on how to connect web analytics intelligence, social media and mobile marketing opportunities to exceed acquisition goals.

1. CREATING
ENGAGING
EMAIL:
Driving Subscriber Acquisition
Authored by David Daniels, CEO, The Relevancy Group LLC
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: TABLE OF CONTENTS
With all of the channels and marketing messaging vying • Page 4 – The Consumers Attention Deficit Disorder is Exacerbated by Our Short Burst Society
for the customer’s attention, it is becoming harder for
marketers to not only remedy the consumer attention • Page 7 – Marketers Must First Leverage Search to Drive Subscriber Acquisition
deficit disorder, but also find meaningful ways to drive
customer acquisition. This first Alterian eBook in a series
• Page 10 – Turn Your Registration Page into a Robust Subscriber Preference Center
on how to Create Engaging Email, will leverage The
Relevancy Group’s Connected Marketing Framework to
provide proven tactics on how to drive subscribers. • Page 12 – Connect Email Acquisition to the Entire Organization
This eBook exposes marketers to cutting edge tactics • Page 18 – Implement a Welcome Campaign to Ease Subscribers into The Email Newsletter Mailings
on how to exceed acquisition goals, including how to
leverage search, social and mobile marketing to drive • Page 24 – Leverage Web Analytics and Testing To Optimize Registration Pages
subscriber acquisition. Additionally, this eBook outlines
proven examples of how to build an effective email
• Page 26 – Email Acquisition is a Recipe Steeped in trial and Optimization if the Goals are Connected and Correct
welcome campaign as well as tactics to connect the
organization to common goals in order to drive email
subscriber acquisition across every channel that connects • Page 28 – eBook Series
the customer’s experience with the brand.
• Page 29 – Footnotes
David Daniels, CEO, The Relevancy Group LLC
• Page 30 – About The Relevancy Group
• Page 31 – About Alterian
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THE CONSUMERS ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER IS
EXACERBATED BY OUR SHORT BURST SOCIETY
With all of the media and marketing messages vying for our combined attention, it is becoming
harder for marketers to connect with and win the attention of consumers. This is in part driven by
the lack of relevance by many marketers which is further exacerbated by the shrinking attention
span of our own “Short Burst Society .” The Relevancy Group defines these behaviors as the
nascent fabric of our Short Burst Society:
• Of the 500 million Facebook users, 250 million quickly apply short status updates every day.
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250 Milpdates daily
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is declining and the time we spend reading them on our handheld devices is rising. users (
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popular media channel.
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Marketers across channels must realize that our Short Burst Society is driven by the increasing MARKETERS MUST FIRST LEVERAGE
number of direct channels such as social and mobile that the marketer must compete with and SEARCH TO DRIVE SUBSCRIBER ACQUISITION
connect to. This channel fragmentation is driven by the consumer’s device convergence that
allows time-starved and tasked individuals to do more with less, resulting in shorter windows for
the marketer to drive subscriber acquisition. Simply put, even when pushing relevant messages, While the number of searches conducted in the U.S. over the last year has decreased by 16%
as marketers we have a shorter window of opportunity in which to capture the consumer’s from 10.5 billion in July 2009 to 8.8 billion in July 2010, for the majority of site operators, search
attention and drive corporate value. But in order to drive such value, we must first capture the still represents the largest source of site traffic. Paid search and even optimized organic search
attention of a visitor to become a subscriber which too is a complicated task given the behaviors are top tactics to elevate search engine placement. The Relevancy Group often finds that pages
of our Short Burst Society. that are designed to drive visitors deep into the website to a product detail page often miss the
mark and waste that spend. Why? Because these deep product search optimized landing pages
are devoid of any email subscription or email newsletter promotion. In fact, a quick search for
“iPad cover” on Google found that of the 10 pages that we landed on, 40% of these pages did
not promote email registration on the page. Embrace these tactics to improve conversion of site
visitors to your newsletter program:
• Promote email registration on every page: Ensure that the visitor has the ability to
subscribe to your email marketing newsletter or that a link to your email preference center
is well promoted on every page of your website. Studies show that the best location to
“ place this on the webpage is the upper right hand corner of the page, as that is typically the
location where the eye is drawn to.
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• Ensure the search scent carries through to email registration pages: It is important to
leverage your web analytics packages to ensure that you are using the same language or
“search scent” on your email registration page that your visitors are using in the searches that
they use to find your website. For example if “fashion forward apparel” is a top search phrase
that your site visitors use to find your website, ensure that the copy of your email registration
landing page uses the same words, such as “register for our newsletter to get the latest
deals and information about fashion forward apparel.” Conversions to your email newsletter
program will be more successful when you are using the same language that your visitors use
to locate your site.
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TURN YOUR REGISTRATION PAGE INTO A • Gather only the information that will be used for segmentation: While it is tempting
ROBUST SUBSCRIBER PREFERENCE CENTER to ask the subscriber a comprehensive list of questions to use for audience segmentation,
The Relevancy Group April 2010 survey details that 50% of marketers don’t conduct any
email segmentation at all. Only ask the subscriber questions that will provide meaningful
Often, marketers will make opting into their newsletter too basic in that it is simply an email segmentation. For example, Petco asks subscribers if they consider their pet part of their
address field. While this is an efficient user experience, marketers should not miss the family. Those subscribers that select yes are mailed to at a more frequent rate and Petco
opportunity to capture additional preference data from subscribers. Embrace these tactics found that these subscribers were more profitable.
to optimize your preference center registration page:
• Link to your privacy policy: While industry research illustrates that consumers are clearly
• Use standard field form names: When building your email registration form, ensure that concerned with privacy, few actually take the time to read privacy policies. Highlight elements
you are following the guidelines laid out by The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to on the email subscription form such as you will not share data with third parties.
name the fields using the standard names. This allows auto-complete features in a variety of
browsers such as Internet Explorer or the Google Toolbar to populate that form easily, thus • Build a list scrubbing routine to remove harmful addresses: It is not unheard of that
improving the site experience for the visitor. malicious site visitors will attempt to register with abuse@ or complaint@ email addresses,
which will likely land you in the spam folder. Work with your Email Service Provider to ensure
• Provide expectations: This is where you begin selling the subscriber on the notion that they that they have a standard scrubbing procedure that automatically suppresses harmful names,
should be subscribing to your email newsletter. This includes giving them, if not an exact or allows you to add domain level suppression to your email list to remove competitors from
idea, a general idea of how often they will receive email messages from you. joining your email list.
• Highlight an example of the email newsletter: Show subscribers exactly what they
are signing up for by providing a link to your most recent email newsletter in a thumbnail
snapshot of the newsletter. The copy should exude the benefits of why the visitor should
opt-in to the newsletter.
• Ask for permission: When combining email registration with shopping or site registration
forms, ensure that you add a check box that allows the visitor to opt-in to the email newsletter
or marketing piece. This single check box should be unchecked and allows the visitor to
express their permission and consent to receive such messages.
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CONNECT EMAIL ACQUISITION CHANGE MANAGEMENT SERVICES EXPERTISE
TO THE ENTIRE ORGANIZATION
The Relevancy Group is focused on evangelizing Connected Marketing and the value that it can Email
bring to an organization. One of the most important concepts of Connected Marketing is to Marketing
ensure that the organization works together holistically across silos to drive common corporate Search Social
goals, such as profitably driving email subscriber acquisition. This is the notion of being Marketing Marketing
comfortable with change to the point of embracing a culture of corporate change. With that Optimization Leverage
however, often when there is something new, the experts are fewer or harder to find, which is why
The Relevancy Group suggests dressing a tactic such as connected subscriber acquisition in the
expertise of change and strategic services.
Short-code Subscriber
Call Center
Mobile Email
Acquisition
Acquisition Acquisition
Email marketing acquisition relies on the
success of the connected company.
(see figure 1)
In-store, Transactional
In-person Message
Acquisition Acquisition
Customer
Support figure 1
Acquisition
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Regardless of the approach, the organization must understand the value of what an email • In-store email acquisition: This can take a variety of forms, at the point of sale (i.e. cash
subscriber represents to the corporation as that knowledge will empower and validate the register), self-service kiosk or at a marketing event such as a trade show. With all of these
connected company. In a study that The Relevancy Group conducted with the DMA’s email forms, there is a cost of adding the email address request to the transaction time or
experience council, we found that the value of an email subscriber is worth $118 dollars. As a infrastructure that is required to achieve it. Multi-channel retailers such as Borders and Office
marketer, it is important to communicate the value of the email subscriber to the enterprise in Depot do a good job at the point of sale of asking for or confirming the email address that
order to universally strive to collect email addresses at every customer touch point opportunity. they might already have on file for the customer. In these instances the email address is
To that end, marketers must embrace these tactics to continually drive email subscriber acquisition: so valuable to these companies that they actually give incentives to the cashiers if they ring
up sales that are accompanied by the customer’s email address. In these instances they are
• Collect and measure email acquisition in the call center: Understanding the value of an often used as the primary customer identifier to run loyalty and rewards programs. Evaluate
email address is paramount to making the decision to elongate the talk time of a phone call these costs and do not dismiss the awesome opportunity that these face-to-face client and
by five to ten seconds to ask for an email address. Understanding such value can offset the prospect interactions offer to grow your email list.
cost of the longer phone call. Call center phone agents should be scripted and trained to
ask clients for their email address and to ask them for permission. Most call center client • Print and magazine advertisements: A useful means to gauge the effectiveness of print
interaction systems can easily facilitate such a field and extracting that data from those campaigns is to promote email registration. For example, retailer Sephora runs ads in major
systems does not need to require direct integration to your email marketing software. Often, fashion magazines promoting their newsletters that detail a unique URL landing page to an
the most successful companies employing this tactic monitor, grade and incentivize call center email registration microsite. This allows Sephora to maximize their advertising spend as well
agents in order to ensure that they are asking for the clients email address on every call. as provides a directional measure of success to that print advertisement, which is quantified
by the number of email subscriptions that are generated from that offline ad spend.
• Use mobile SMS texting as an email address capture tool: Increasingly, marketers
are using SMS (short message service) codes to spur consumers into providing their
email addresses. Major airlines, retailers and technology companies are leveraging print
“An Email Subscriber advertisements, in-store signage, billboards and banners to drive individuals to text their
name and email address to a short code in order to opt-in to email marketing newsletters and
is worth $118.00” promotions. As hundreds of millions of consumers walk around equipped with SMS mobile
devices, text to email capture can be an effective means to gather the email address of the
time constrained consumer.
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• Service related and transactional email messages: Consumers largely use email to contact
customer service on a pre and post-sale basis and clearly every organization uses an email
message to confirm online transactions. While these email addresses cannot simply be
captured for the purpose of outbound email marketing, the outbound service or transactional
reply should include a reminder in the footer that promotes email registration for marketing
messages and/or newsletters.
• Leverage your organization’s social presence to drive email address acquisition:
Marketers must actively promote email subscription options on Facebook, Twitter and Blog
landing pages. It is imperative that email marketers connect to and leverage their social
presence, fans and followers to drive further email subscriber acquisition. A useful tactic is to
understand which current email subscribers are acting as low-cost acquisition sources to other
subscribers by measuring which subscribers are sharing content and acting as advocates to
others. As it is brand appropriate or meets the corporation’s industry guidelines, experiment
with incentives for fans to bring other subscribers into the fold. Discount coupon site
Groupon has been able to grow their monthly sending size from tens of millions to hundreds
of millions within the past year by using such an approach.
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IMPLEMENT A WELCOME CAMPAIGN TO EASE • Ask Subscribers to Add Your Address to Their Address Book: An important tactic to
SUBSCRIBERS INTO THE EMAIL NEWSLETTER MAILINGS combat against image rendering issues and erroneous spam blocking is to ask the subscriber
to add your email address to their address book. This should be an element in every email
marketing message, but with the introductory welcome message, more creative emphasis
A key part of email acquisition is the follow-up mailing or set of mailings that happen immediately should be placed on this part of the message. One important consideration with this tactic is
after the subscriber opts-in. Just as with the physical world of retail, a store merchant will treat not to change the from address across your email marketing campaigns, as the benefits of a
a returning customer differently than a brand new prospect that walks into their store for the subscriber adding your address to their address book can only be leveraged if you continue
very first time. This simple analogy provides the primary lesson that you should follow when to use the same from address across all of your mailings.
acquiring new subscribers via email. A common mistake of marketers is immediately lumping
new subscribers in with old subscribers and sending them the same weekly email communication. • Use Click-to-view to Further Adjust for Image Rendering Issues: Place a hyperlink at the
A better practice is to set up a string of three to four messages that eases the subscriber into the top of your email that states “View This Email in Your Web Browser.” This link will take them
typical mailing flow. Implement these tactics when building a welcome campaign: to a hosted version of your email newsletter. As with the add to the address book feature,
this element should be in every message, but highlighted with a bit more prominence in this
The Welcome Message: welcome message.
This first message should come immediately after the subscription takes place and should serve
to both confirm the subscription and welcome them to your email marketing program. Beyond • Set and Reinforce Mailing Frequency Expectations: As with the subscription page best
these elements this message contain the following elements: practices, remind your subscribers how often they will be receiving your email messages.
• Promote Social Interactivity Options: If your organization has a Facebook page or
• Use a Compelling Subject Line to Spur Open Rates: The most effective welcome Twitter feed, the first welcome message is a perfect time to prominently promote this social
message subject lines typically thank and welcome the subscriber but also offer some sort presence. In addition to the “welcome gift” that you may be offering in the first message,
of either discount or notion of exclusivity. For example subject lines such as “Thank you for these options should be placed in the top portion of the email body (i.e. “above the fold”).
subscribing, here is your welcome gift” have worked well to immediately engage subscribers. Additionally the social following and share options should be in every subsequent email from
The welcome gift can be a free shipping offer, a dollar discount or any small incentive that this point on.
will spur the subscriber into action. Marketers should use A/B testing techniques to discover
which subject lines are the most effective in driving open rates.
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Nudge: The Second Message in The Welcome String – Invite Interactivity:
In this message you should begin to add some of your most popular offers or products, a slight
variation of the message that they signed up for:
vant
• Highlighting One or Two Products: Recall that subscribers are a part of the “Short Burst
Rele ntent
Society” and are time starved when consuming information. By making this message shorter,
it should not only assist in capturing the subscriber’s attention but also provide them with a
sense of what they can expect in future mailings.
• Reserve Message Real Estate to Capture Additional Subscriber Information: In this
second message, use a short polling question that asks the subscriber for their opinion or to
co
vote on a particular topic. This polling question is essentially a mechanism to mask
gathering additional lifestyle or attitudinal information that can be used to further segment
your subscribers. Call to
• Provide a Compelling Call To Action: For business to business marketers, the call to action
in the email creative may be to download a white paper or request further information from a
sales person. Such an approach in a business to business context helps to further qualify the
action
prospect as more engaged or “hot” than a subscriber that chooses not to click. Similarly, for
business to consumer marketers offer both a discounted shipping and percentage off offer
as well as ask the consumer to select only one. This information can be utilized to segment
subscribers by which types of offers best resonate with them.
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The organization’s ability to test these concepts and mailings
Nourish: The Third Welcome Message Should Resemble A Typical Mailing: throughout the welcome campaign will ultimately determine
The third welcome message should be the bridge to ease the subscriber into the organization’s the success of the email marketing program.
Compelling Subject Lines
typical email marketing message content. Show the subscriber that they are part of the pack.
• Add to address book
• Leverage the Voice of The Customer: While the content of this message should resemble Invite Interactivity • Reinforce expectations
the typical email newsletter content, this last welcome message offers the subscriber the • Promote social interactivity
opportunity to hear of experiences from other subscribers, such as highlighting testimonials • Highlight one or two products
and/or product reviews. • Capture additional information
• A compelling call to action CO ME
• Educate the subscriber about additional support resources: This last message in the WEL
welcome string is a fine place to educate the subscriber about the additional support or
community resources that may be available to them. This approach is particularly apt for
business to business marketers to highlight community resources or for business to consumer
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NUD
marketers to showcase customer support awards and additional channels outside of email to
interact with the organization.
• Experiment with new media, use animated GIFs to explain complicated products: Due
to cost as well as delivery/rendering issues the use of full-run sound and motion video is not
a compelling alternative for most marketers. Instead, for marketers that have complicated Show the subscriber that
products or those wishing to highlight customer testimonials, the use of animated gifs can RIS H
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they are part of the pack
be a compelling tactic as a call to action. Placing a “player arrow” over the image or the
• Use The Customer’s Voice
words “click to hear and see the full video” is an excellent tactic to drive subscribers to
a landing page. • Educate the subscriber
• Experiment with new media
• Ask to confirm mailing preferences: Subscribers tend to be motivated to change
preferences upon receiving messages that they do not want. Promote in this final
welcome message the option of altering their newsletter preferences to better enhance
their experience. Maximize New Subscribers By Connecting
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LEVERAGING WEB ANALYTICS AND TESTING • Tag email subscription pages with the same vigor as shopping carts: A shopping cart
TO OPTIMIZE REGISTRATION PAGES conversion is less likely to occur until the organization can capture a visitor and drive them
through the email acquisition tunnel. Accordingly, marketers must place the same scrutiny
on email registration pages and preference centers that they do on shopping carts. The
While the aforementioned tactics offer the organization an excellent array of best practices to corporation must be able to answer these questions: What is the most effective driver to
advance email subscriber acquisition, these ideals can only be fully optimized through web convert visitors to email subscribers? At what point does a visitor not become an email
analytics measurement and the notion of testing. To that end, in order to optimize acquisition subscriber? What are the elements within the preference center causing roadblocks or the
techniques as well as many of the other concepts that we will touch upon in this eBook series, stepping stones to email list growth success? Without a proper web analytics framework
marketers must embrace the following tactics on the next page. and focus on answering these measurement driven questions, the marketer will be at a
disadvantage to optimize visitor to subscriber conversion.
• Test the content within registration preference center landing pages to optimize
acquisition: As marketers, we are one of the only professions where the notion of failure
– when we apply it to optimization – is actually tolerable. Certainly doctors, lawyers and
expert professions such as pilots are not allowed to dabble in this notion of testing, of trial,
error and optimization. Only baseball players can be considered successful when they
succeed a third of the time. As marketers, we are fortunate for the tools and measures that
are available to us; that is, if we actually use them. Marketers must trial differences in email
subscription landing pages by creating A and B versions. First, trial collecting differing
amounts of data from the subscriber, such as on the A version five questions of demographic
data and on the B version seven questions of demographic data. Then measure and ask the
organization, which one wins? Does the winner provide us the appropriate knowledge to
drive the subscriber conversion and experience forward? Debate internally how much is too
much subscriber data and do we actually have the human resources to leverage this data and
affect a change? Another test might be the creative, copy and layout of the subscription
page or the prominence of the link to the email subscription or preference center. This is yet
another test that can provide the lesson of continuous improvement to drive qualified email
subscriber list growth.
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EMAIL ACQUISITION IS A RECIPE STEEPED IN TRIAL AND
OPTIMIZATION IF THE GOALS ARE CONNECTED AND CORRECT
In closing, the marketer has an array of internal resources and tactics to drive new subscriber
list growth and we have provided you with the best of the best practices to optimize that goal.
However, at The Relevancy Group, we find that email marketers are often incentivized and
rewarded purely for list size and list growth. While that should be a component of the marketer’s
success through the aforementioned tactics, we must caution the organization on placing too
much emphasis on the incentive of list growth or size. Why? Because email marketers are and
will continue to be faced with subscriber churn, that is, current subscriber addresses going bad or
simply the notion of lapsed non-engaged users. Marketers and the organization must understand
that list growth and new subscriber acquisition is a key performance indicator but not the end
all of performance metrics for an email program. While this end all incentive is all too common
for the majority of marketers, it also creates a dis-incentive to remove non-engaged and lapsed
subscribers from email list rolls.
Corporations should have a common goal to drive email subscriber and corporate value. An
inability to look at the value and success of new subscriber acquisition as well as the notion of
lapsed subscribers will create an organization that is incentivized to purely grow list size and
not cut the subscribers that may actually do harm to their engagement, sender reputation and,
ultimately, the return on their email marketing investment. It is the ability for the organization to
work holistically across channels and other difficult topics that we will cover in subsequent eBooks
in an effort to educate and provide the best practices of email marketing optimization.
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• The Relevancy Group describes the “The Short Burst Society” as a life-stage and life-style segment of our worldwide population that knows
PLEASE WATCH OUT FOR THE FOLLOWING IN THE SERIES no boundaries. It cannot simply be defined by demographic, social-economic differences, although there are some concentrations within
these pods. “SBS” is an attitudinal and behavioral distinction that applies when one consumes and responds to information across a variety of
FOR CREATING ENGAGING EMAIL EBOOKS: digital devices, in the spoken word, or in a writing that would make a post-card seem verbose. Visit http://ShortBurstSociety.com for additional
information.
• Source: Facebook, September 2010 http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/press/info.php?statistics
eBook 2 – Segmentation and Targeting
• Source: Nielsen “What Do Americans Do Online” (August 2, 2010) http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/what-americans-do-
eBook 3 – Measuring Email Performance online-social-media-and-games-dominate-activity/ Note that the article points out that while their metered consumer panel illustrates a decline
in the amount of time that consumers spend with email online, they cite their own survey which finds that email time spent on mobile devices is
increasing to remain the top mobile Internet activity.
eBook 4 – Leveraging Web Analytics
• Source: The Pew Internet and American Life Project study “Cell Phones and Adult Americans” (September 2010) details that 82% of adults own
eBook 5 – Harnessing Social and Mobile Marketing a mobile Internet device that is also a cell phone, 72% of whom use texting. http://pewinternet.org/~/media//Files/Reports/2010/PIP_Adults_
Cellphones_Report_2010.pdf
• Twitter Statistics Source: Twitter has105,779,710 member users, according to a slide presented by Co-founder Biz Stone during his opening
remarks of the Twitter’s Chirp developer conference, April 2010. The growth’s not over either — Twitter says it’s still adding 300,000 users per
day. Moreover, as many have speculated, most of Twitter’s traffic — 75% of it in fact — comes from third-party clients and applications.
http://mashable.com/2010/04/14/twitter-registered-users/
• Multiple studies on the use of channel skipping technology are in conflict. Some such as The Pew Internet and American Life Project detail
higher numbers than a recent Duke University study. However, even taking the lowest number and the highest, the mid-point is likely to end
up around half of the TV viewing US population practices this increasingly common behavior. See also: http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/
CREATING study-finds-commercial-skipping-dvrs-dont-affect-purchases-ti/2
ENGAGING • Nielsen – Top Search Sites July 2010 http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/top-us-search-sites-for-july-2010/
EMAIL: • Learn more about the WC3 web-form recommendations in their online resource, available at http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html
Driving Subscriber Acquisition • Source: The Relevancy Group, April 2010 survey of 674 email marketers.
Authored by David Daniels , CEO, The Relevancy Group LLC
• The Relevancy Groups, Connected Marketing Framework 4 can be found at www.cmf4.com The Relevancy Group defines Connected Marketing
as: Marketing that is integrated across channels in a manner to leverage addressable customer, subscriber or prospect data in order to drive
greater campaign effectiveness. Additionally Connected Marketing is empowered by the Connected Company, an organization that plans
and executes marketing across corporate silos and business units. Because of the integrated complexity, Connected Marketing requires that
marketers work with providers that provide strategic services in order to deploy all of the necessary channels including email, mobile, social,
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search and offline/in-store.
• This equation of email subscriber value was developed through a joint DMA, eec and TRG (The Relevancy Group) effort. Download this
spreadsheet from the book “Email Marketing An Hour A Day” to measure the value of subscribers http://media.wiley.com/product_
ancillary/38/04703867/DOWNLOAD/ValueofEmailAddress.xls
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Alterian blog at www.engagingtimes.com.
According to Direct Magazine, David Daniels is “one of the most influential experts in email
marketing, if not the most influential.” Until January 2010 he served as Vice President and
Principal Analyst with Forrester Research and JupiterResearch. David is co-author of the book
“Email Marketing An Hour A Day” and has been a contributor to the Weekend Today Show on
NBC. David has held senior level positions at Apple Computer, Urban Outfitters/Anthropologie,
Micro/MacWarehouse, ProTeam and CDA Computer Sales.
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