How to Get Your Email Marketing Off the Ground
Jesse McCabeDirector, Product Marketing
March 19, 2013
Ken AppleDirector, Customer Support
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Company Overview
• Founded July 2009
• TechStars graduate(Boulder, CO)
• 110 employees across 4 offices
– HQ: Boulder, CO– R&D: Anaheim, CA /
Romania
$27M venture capital raisedSeries B closed Jan 2012
Angel investors include:-Scott Petry (Founder, Postini)-Matt Mullenweg (Founder, Wordpress)
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Delivering Email at Scale
• Serving 100,000+ customers
• Sending over 7 billion emailsper month
• Transactional and marketing email solutions
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Today’s Facilitators
Ken AppleDirector, Customer
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Jesse McCabeDirector, Product
Marketing
Today’s Facilitators
Ken AppleDirector, Customer
Support
Jesse McCabeDirector, Product
Marketing
What will you learn?
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Poll Question
• Which best describes your current title?– Marketing Manager– Marketing Director– Marketing Executive– Developer– Operations– CEO– Other
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Poll Question
• Which type of email do you typically use within your organization?– Transactional Email– Marketing Email– Both– I Don’t Know
Why Marketing Email?
• Email (on avg.) drives a 4000% ROI!!!
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ROI Per Dollar Spent by Marketing Channel
Source: Return Path Email Intelligence Report Q3 2012
What will you learn?
Create
Ease of Use!Survey Result…
So Easy Mom Can Use It!
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Address lists must be uploaded?
Address lists must be uploaded?A/B Testing is Possible?
Address lists must be uploaded?A/B Testing is Possible?
Multiple lists auto de-dup?
Address lists must be uploaded?A/B Testing is Possible?
Multiple lists auto de-dup?
SG manages recipient Unsub requests?
Address lists must be uploaded?A/B Testing is Possible?
Multiple lists auto de-dup?
SG manages recipient Unsub requests?Free Plan Includes the Newsletter?
Address lists must be uploaded?A/B Testing is Possible?
Multiple lists auto de-dup?
SG manages recipient Unsub requests?Free Plan Includes the Newsletter?
Can’t get individual email activity?
Address lists must be uploaded?A/B Testing is Possible?
Multiple lists auto de-dup?
SG manages recipient Unsub requests?Free Plan Includes the Newsletter?
Can’t get individual email activity?Some people never use UI?
What will you learn?
DeliverCreate
Deliverability matters!Survey Result…
“It doesn’t pay to hit ‘send’ and hope for the best.”
Manager Email Programs, REI
What is Deliverability?
Poll Question
• Which of the following best describes what deliverability means to you?– Driving customer engagement– Reaching your customers’ inbox– Maintaining a strong sender reputation– Creating relevant content that my
customers will want to read– Maintaining a clean subscriber list to
send to
What is Deliverability?
3 Concepts You Should Know Before Hitting Send
3 Concepts You Should Know Before Hitting Send
3 Concepts You Should Know Before Hitting Send
Delivery Tips
Delivery Tips
Commercial email accounts for 70% of
spam complaints
Return Path – Email Intelligence Report, Q3, 2012
What will you learn?
DeliverMeasure
Create
Measurement!Survey Result…
Email Engagement Metrics
• Requests & Deliveries
• Email Open Rate• Click Rate• Click-through-rate• Bounce Rate• Spam Reports• Unsubscribes
Example Campaign Metrics• List Size: 12,391• Engagement Metrics:
– Deliveries: 10,485– Unique opens: 2,791– Unique clicks: 717– CTR: 25.69%– Bounces: 38– Spam Reports: 9– Unsubscribes: 4
• Campaign Cost: $500• Trip Price: $1200
How Do I Know If My Campaign Was Successful?
Campaign Metric Analysis• Engagement:
– Delivery Rate: 84.62%– Open Rate: 26.62%– Click Rate: 6.84%– CTR: 25.69%
• ROI– Conversion Rate: 5%
(36 customers)– Revenue: $43,000– Cost / Email: $0.04– Revenue / Email: $4.10– Campaign ROI: $101.50
What About APIs?
What will you learn?
DeliverMeasure
Grow
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Grow and Scale!Survey Result…
Reliability & Scalability
What Did We Learn?
DeliverMeasure
Grow
Create
Thank You!
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