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Email subject lines: Icons, urgency and
simplicity
Wednesday 27th May 2015 10.00 BST
Olly Beckett, Sr Database Marketing Manager, Expedia
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• cloud.IQ Marketing Director
• International speaker and trainer for
Econsultancy and Institute of Direct and
Digital Marketing (IDM)
• 15+ years experience in email marketing
• Worked with and trained brands including
Paul Smith, M&S, Schuh and many more.
Your host
Kath [email protected]@KathPay
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• Sr Database Marketing Manager at Expedia
• 10+ years experience in email marketing
• Guest speaker at the Direct Marketing
Association
• Extensive experience in global campaign
management
Your speaker
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Subject line relevance
Who are you trying to talk to?
• Increasing open rate: good
• Increasing open rate by sending the right subscribers to your site:better
• Example:Our best deals this weekOur best Flight deals this week
• Don’t lie or be too vague!
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• Are you only looking at open rates?
• How do your subject lines affect transactions?
Recommendations:
• A/B test subject lines against each other and roll out winner as part of send. Aim to do this as often as possible
• Decide which metric is most important for you; Shoppers, Orders etc - Be careful here; if Orders will be your main
metric then you will be reliant on website performance
• Use more than one metric to measure campaign success
CVR
Opens
CTR
Downloads
Shoppers
CTO
Subject line testing
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• How many sender names do you have?
• Use sender names to distinguish your most important programmes
• Do not use so many sender names that your subscribers are uncertain about who has sent your email
Sender names
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Icons ✈ ✂ ♫ ❄ ☀ ★ ♥ ❀ ✿ » ½☺ ♬ ♪
• Ensure icons work on all platforms and devices• Reserve for your most important campaigns• Icons also called UTF Symbols (this is a good source…remember to test!:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters#Miscellaneous_Symbols)
• Don’t overuse:
This stands out
None of these do
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• Does urgency work for your subscribers?
• Example subject lines:
– Last chance to save!
– HURRY: Sale ends tonight
– Ending tomorrow: discounted flights
– 72HR SALE
• Tempting or off-putting?
Urgency
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• Short subject lines and email content
• Do you want subscribers to read your email or go to your website?
• More emails with little content can be more effective than few emails with lots of content
Keep it simple
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• Too much content can be too distracting
• Simple messages get your main point across quickly
• Test which works best for your subscribers
• Ideal situation: build an email with dynamic content relevant to individual subscribers
• Simple subject line = simple email
Keep it simple
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• Over 50% of people now read Expedia emails on a mobile device
• Those who read your emails on mobile may be a different type of customer Adapt your message accordingly
• Is pre-header now as important as subject line?
• If you’re too detailed in your pre-header it may put most of your subscribers off
Mobile
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• Automated process that generates numerous subject line combinations
• Hundreds of thousands of combinations tagged and used to target
• Used in both subject line and body copy
• Not possible to get to this level of targeting manually
Machine learnings
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• Expedia goal: Right Message, Right Person, Right Time
• Always test anything new, but don’t get too wrapped up in testing
• Check everything on Mobile (everything; sender name, subject line, eyebrow text, images…everything!)
• Start segmenting, even a little targeting goes a long way
Conclusion
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Next up: Cutting through the clutter in the
inbox – Exploring the Benefits of Real-Time
Thursday 28th May 2015 11.00 BST
Dave Holland, European Regional Director, Liveclicker