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Editor’s note: Because email marketing continues to be one of themost used and most effective cornerstones of content marketing,Jodi Harris updated her 2015 article.

Think of a well-executed email strategy as the backbone of asuccessful content marketing program. It’s an essential structurethat supports your various content efforts and is the besttechnique for building a subscriber base – which is critical forachieving value from your content marketing program.

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Just how important is the email channel? Consider this: 93% ofB2B marketers report using email to distribute their content,according to CMI/MarketingProf’s B2B Content Marketing: 2018Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends—North America research. And,perhaps even more importantly, 74% of marketers who use emailconsider it to be the most effective distribution channel for theircontent.

But, just like most things in the world of content marketing, emailis not a set-it-and-forget-it tactic. Media trends, informationalneeds, and consumption preferences evolve; and people changecareers, upgrade their devices, develop new interests, and discovernew obsessions. If you aren’t prepared to maintain theeffectiveness of your email content to ensure that your experienceis always viewed as fresh, useful, and personally relevant, youronce essential resource can transform into a fly-like nuisance thatwon’t stop buzzing in your reader’s inbox – keeping it fromperforming to its full potential.

If you are looking to evaluate the fitness of your email content,CMI’s original 7-Minute Email Workout infographic is a great quick-start guide on how to test the strength of your e-newsletters andfine-tune your delivery strategies at all levels of experience –beginner, intermediate, and advanced.

Email is not a set-it-and-forget-it tactic,says @joderama. #emailmarketing

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Of course, it never hurts to go the extra mile when it comes toenhancing the impact and performance of your email efforts. Here,I revisit my original article on the topic and add some fresh tipsand takeaways from a few of CMI’s most trusted email experts. Ialso share some new examples to inspire you to branch out andget creative in how you use this channel to build and maintainyour vital audience relationships.

Build a strong list

Your email content won’t do your business any good if you aren’treaching the right people – or reaching enough of them to driveyour content marketing strategy forward. Fortunately, there areplenty of techniques at content marketers’ disposal when it comesto attracting consumers who will be delighted by your emailofferings.

As Aaron Orendorff explains, email list-building techniquestypically fall into one of three main categories:

1. Options – exclusive content offers, forms, and various types

of button ads to tempt readers to opt in to hear from you

regularly

2. On-site techniques – landing pages, pop-ups, and other

types of sign-up notifications to alert your site visitors to

your subscriber-only assets

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Your email content won’t do yourbusiness any good if you aren’t reachingthe right people, says @joderama.

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3. Off-site techniques – Social media fans and followers can

join your subscriber list without having to interrupt their

social experience on sites like Twitter, Facebook, or Medium.

For more details on each of these techniques, check out Aaron’svisual checklist:

Example: Salesforce’s sign-up forms

Salesforce takes a multistage approach to build its email lists. Forinstance, it initially attracts blog subscribers with a simple two-field form that clearly outlines what they are opting to receive:

The company also uses more detailed forms that requireadditional audience information in exchange for higher-valueassets, such as its industry reports. The longer forms provideadditional marketing benefits for Salesforce. They are used as apreliminary step toward customer qualification (i.e., identifyinghigh-quality leads) and help the company to better tailor itsoutreach to the needs of individual consumers.

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Cra� meaningful, compelling messages

Once your subscriber list is filled with consumers eager to hearfrom your business, you need to take steps to ensure that they likewhat they receive. Sujan Patel reminds us that this boils down tocreating email content that your recipients will want to read. Ofcourse, this means your content needs to be well-written andfocused on their interests (rather than your company’s); it alsomeans you must deliver on the promises made to your emailsubscribers – including publishing on a consistent, reliable basis,and avoiding unwanted surprises and not bombarding them withcontent they opted out of receiving.

To make sure all your bases are covered, follow Sujan’s toprecommendations summarized below:

Only send emails when you have something of value to

say.

Keep your messages simple, focused, and concise.

Write great copy – or hire a professional writer to do it.

Go easy on sales-y messages.

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Allow subscribers to customize the types and frequency

of the messages they receive.

Invest in creating a well-thought-out design that will

grab your readers’ attention from the get-go.

Example: The 21-Day Self-Care Challenge

Nonprofit organization Move to End Violence issued a challenge toits audience members to become more impactful and strategicchange agents by incorporating sustainable, mindful practices –like exercising self-care – into their everyday lives. According to thewebsite, what started out as a short-term email campaign thatinvited social change-minded activists to receive one self-care tip aday for 21 days became a wildly popular ongoing content initiative– helping to grow Move to End’s email database from 400 to 11,000subscribers in just over a year.

Segment your list for increased relevanceand impact

As a smart marketer, you surely recognize how important it is tocreate content that targets a particular persona – the audiencemember who will benefit most from the insights you plan to share.This is particularly true for email content, given how discerningtoday’s consumers are when it comes to allowing marketers to

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penetrate the inner sanctum of their inboxes. Remember, as CMIfounder Joe Pulizzi always says, if your content is meant foreverybody, it won’t end up benefiting anybody.

By segmenting your subscribed audience by known interests andcommunication preferences, you can deliver an email experiencethat’s more personally resonant as well as relevant – somethingthat, according to Andrea Fryrear, will increase the likelihood thatthe recipient will do something with that content, such as sharingit.

How do you gather the insights you’ll need to accuratelycharacterize and categorize your email subscribers? Andrearecommends asking a few targeted questions at the start of yoursubscriber sign-up process to gauge their top priorities andengagement preferences:

How o�en would you like to receive emails from us?

Daily? Weekly? Monthly?

What particular topics are you interested in?

What kinds of content interest you the most? Text?

Video? Infographics?

Example: Eventbrite

According to Eventbrite’s Mark Walker, the company recentlyupdated its newsletter to personalize event picks based on therecipient’s stated preferences and order history. Not only does thistechnique increase the likelihood that recipients will find

If your #content is meant for everybody, itwon’t end up benefiting anybody, says@joepulizzi. CLICK TO TWEET

Delivering #email content that's resonantwill increase likelihood the recipient willshare it. @andreafryrear CLICK TO TWEET

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Eventbrite’s content to be relevant, the emails are algorithmicallygenerated – so they can easily scale to target all subscribersregardless of how they are segmented.

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Surprise and delight your recipients

Once you incorporate segmenting capabilities into your emailprogram, you can adjust your email content in all sorts of ways – including how you get your messages to stand out from all theother emails your subscribers receive on a given day.

For instance, as Mathew Sweezey points out in his presentation atContent Marketing World 2016, your subject line and sender details(prime email real estate) are the only pieces of information readershave to quickly determine if an email is worthy of their attention.As such, he recommends customizing this valuable bit of realestate to speak to the recipient’s current stage in the buyingprocess. Here are his guidelines for achieving this:

Stage 1: This audience is asking generic questions. They

may not even know the keywords in that space. If they

see a vendor’s name in the prime email real estate, they

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know the email is from a marketer. In the prime email

real estate, don’t include keywords or brand names.

Stage 2: This audience is looking for social proof to

support their research. Use the subject line to give them

ammunition to get support from others. In the prime

email real estate, use a keyword or brand name, but not

both.

Stage 3: This audience wants to be assured that they

have researched all the viable options before they make

a decision. In the prime real estate, use a keyword and

brand name.

Example: Xerox’s Get Optimistic

When the marketing team at Xerox was looking for a way todifferentiate its messaging from its numerous competitors, the big,audacious idea it came up with was optimism. It started a biweeklyemail campaign targeted to CIOs called Get Optimistic, whichprovided a look at the future of technology, business, and theworld through an optimistic lens. This e-newsletter quickly grew inpopularity, leading the marketing team to expand it into a full-fledged print and digital content initiative – Chief OptimistMagazine – which has reportedly helped the company generateover 1,000 new sales appointments and more than $1 billion inpipeline revenue.

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Nurture your subscribers on an ongoingbasis

Email newsletters may be one of the best ways to build andcommunicate with your target audience, but, as Gini Dietrichpointed out during CMI’s ContentTECH virtual event, there’s apotential flaw to consider: “New subscribers only see your newemails. They don’t see anything that came before it.”

To quickly help your subscribers – new and old, alike – get betteracquainted with the value your business provides, considercreating an email drip campaign. As Stephanie Stahl explains, adrip campaign is a progression of pre-written marketing emailssent automatically on a set schedule or directly triggered when areader takes an action – like signing up for an e-book on aparticular topic, or registering to attend a conference or webinar

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your business is hosting. Below are some of the forms this usefultechnique can take:

By cra�ing a series of messages customized to address a topic orpurpose, marketers can nurture their subscriber relationships andincreasingly earn their trust. However, Gini cautions, unless youare certain the subscriber data is accurate, you need to be carefulabout using it to personalize an email. “Good personalization canhelp you convert. Bad personalization will actually kill yourefforts,” she warns.

Example: The Start-up Sales Success Email Course

CRM provider Close.io created a drip campaign to deliver a freecourse designed to help start-ups get better at sales. At the bottomof the first email, a testimonial from someone already enrolled inthat same course is included. What Sujan Patel points out is thattestimonial doesn’t push (or even mention) Close.io’s products.Instead, the testimonial reinforces the value of the course,consequently addressing a key question (potential objection) thatsubscribers are most likely to have – is the course worth continuingwith?

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Measure and optimize

The above tips and guidelines will take your email content effortsfar. But, as Jessica Best contends, you aren’t truly ready to unlockyour “email rock star” badge until you are prepared to do twothings:

Accurately measure the returns on your marketing

investment – not just opens and clicks

Understand how to maximize your content assets and

email framework

Jessica recommends calculating email return on marketinginvestment (ROMI) by taking the amount of revenue a campaigngenerated, subtracting your expenses for creating and deliveringthat campaign, and dividing the result by your expenses. (She alsosuggests visiting the email marketing ROI website for a simplecalculation tool that comes in handy for this task.)

 

Once you understand your baseline email ROMI, Jessica offers thefollowing high-impact ideas for optimizing, enhancing, and

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amplifying your email content:

Look for ways to automate and extend the email

experience, such as delivering your welcome message as

a series of customer-nurturing (i.e., drip campaign)

emails.

Ask for the referral: While sometimes this amounts to no

more than a new subscriber or lead, it can also mean a

purchase under the right circumstances.

Use motion to move your audience: Not only can

including animation and relevant motion effects in

emails add emotional appeal to your messages, it can

drive up response rates up to threefold, according to

Jessica.

Take advantage of video: While embedding a video in

your email messages simply doesn’t work well in the

inbox setting, there are ways to get around that. For

example, you can offer text about why readers might be

interested in watching and link to the full video.

Make email a two-way conversation: Use your email

content to convey how receptive your company is to

hearing from its audience by encouraging subscribers to

ask questions and offer their feedback or even inviting

them to take a detailed user survey.

Tell a great story: Even some of the most seemingly

mundane of businesses can harness the creative muse

and deliver an emotionally resonant experience through

this marketing channel.

Example: Noodles & Company

Fast-casual restaurant Noodles & Company created a full-blowncampaign to support email sign-up referrals, offering a chance toearn entries for its Travel the World sweepstakes. According toJessica, the restaurant received almost three times the number of

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new email address sign-ups in one month as a result of thecampaign, which also led to a 200% increase in monthly sales.

Conclusion

Don’t overlook the value that email offers for strengthening yourbrand’s relationship with customers and prospects. Email may nolonger be a shiny new tactic on the content marketing scene, butwith the right strategy and a little upkeep, it still packs a powerfulpunch.

Got a great email content example to share? Let us know whatwe’re missing out on by posting in the comments.

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Reuben • 14 days ago

Wow! Thanks for an interesting article. There're so manyinformation that make things so much easier now. I findbuilding an email list difficult. Segmentation definitelymakes it easier to get to know your audience, which inturn makes it possible to add a personal touch to yourmessage. I'm a newbie in all of this and I was wonderingwhen is the right time to switch to marketing automation?I'm using GetResponse and they already have thisoption, but I'm not sure what's the right reason toswitch?△ ▽

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Vishwajeet Kumar • 21 days ago

Hello Jodi,

Thanks for mentioning these great tips for crafting emailsfor subscribers. In addition to this I would like to give myemails a personal touch. It helps me to create a strongbond with my subscribers and gain their trust. Thanks forwriting these great piece of content.

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Jodi Harris • 20 days ago> Vishwajeet Kumar

Spot on, Vishwajeet. This is something we like todo with our own weekly newsletters, as well. Itnever hurts to make your subscribers feel moreconnected to the business delivering the message– no matter what tactic you choose to work in.△ ▽

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Probably the most important aspect would be to knowyour audience. That is the key to successfulcommunication.△ ▽

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heidicohen • 22 days ago

Jodi--I agree that many content marketers (as well asmarketers in general) underestimate the power of theiremail marketing. Email is the jewel in your marketingcrown. You can't just burn through your list withpromotional content or you'll kill it. Happy marketing,Heidi Cohen - Actionable Marketing Guide△ ▽

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