We get hundreds of spam mail daily that we don’t even care to open it and read. Getting prospects to open emails, read them, and then take action, might seem a matter of luck but there’s a definite science to it. With every email marketing campaign come analytics that helps marketers understand what works and what doesn’t. Testing different subject lines, calls to action and endorsements all help inform successful campaigns with high open and click-through rates. Here are few points that will make your new email campaign better than previous one.
1) GET THE SUBJECT LINE RIGHT
There’s an art to persuasive ‘action’ copy that makes the recipient want to read more. Ask questions in subject lines, tease another action out of the recipient with a bold statement, or play on aspirations or suspicions. Observe the following subject lines:
“Find out how XX did XX in just one hour!”
“Why are your colleagues earning more than you?”
“You shouldn’t open this email if…”
“Disaster recovery technology for you”
General tips on subject lines:
-Keep the line 50 characters or less
-Think carefully about using the person’s name in the subject line (some claim it makes the message look like spam, but others claim it increases open rates)
-Pose a question
-Make a geographical reference appropriate to the recipient, if possible
2) MAKE IT SCAN-ABLE
Make the email contents short and promote key features. A good way to ensure the most important information is conveyed quickly is using bullet points and subheadings within the message for key takeaways like product results. It’s also been suggested that centralizing headings encourages the eye to move from section to section.
3) GET ENDORSED, BE SOCIAL AND VALIDATE THE OFFER
Endorsement encourages prospects to take you seriously and investigate your offering further. This can be done with:
-Recognisable customer logos
-Customer testimonials
-Customer name drops
-A customer case study video (also good for pushing traffic to your site)
-Validation (i.e. making your organization look like the real deal) can be achieved with simple clickable buttons. No one knows where a link in an email will lead. But a clickable button looks better and gives readers the impression that whatever you’re selling is valuable enough to bother creating a custom email template for. The other advantage is you can design the buttons to be bigger and more colorful in order to catch the eye, before moving them to wherever you want them in the body of the mail to make them stand out and as clickable as possible.
Finally, social proof is important. If your recipients see all their industry peers/a greater audience have already committed to the action, then they’re more likely to as well.
4) CALL TO ACTION (CTA)
This is the most important part of the email. This is where you get the recipient to take the action you want them to take. And this action falls into one of three categories:
Direct-response: Call, Register, Purchase, Checkout, Download, Donate
Lead generation: Contact us, Request a Quote, Start, Verify, Access, Receive, Fill in a form, Enrol
Engagement: Watch, See, View, Read, Discover, Uncover, Check Out, Visit
Make the CTA prominent and easy to access and consider offering an incentive to create a feeling of exclusivity and action urgency.
And make sure when the recipient does click through they see the CTA reflected on the landing page so they’re in no doubt this is where they want to be.
5) METRICS
The results of your current email marketing campaigns should inform future campaigns. If you have a very low click-through rate, change your CTAs. If you have a low open rate (20 percent is considered good), change your subject lines, or try changing the time of day the email is sent. Make sure you log and date all your changes so you can keep a record of what worked best, and get good metrics make sure you’re using professional mail software – it’s inexpensive and works well – have a look at MailChimp and Constant Contact for starters.
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