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Using Social Media to Improve Email Marketing Effectiveness Ryan P. Phelan Vice President, Strategic Services BlueHornet @ryanpphelan

Using Social Email to Improve Enterprise Email Marketing Effectiveness

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If your company is looking at ways to shift budget from other marketing channels toward social media, be careful not to make either/or decisions that could adversely affect overall business success. Today's leading brands recognize that email marketing can act as an effective conduit to achieve better performance across traditional and emerging channels--especially social media. You will learn about why email is more important than ever in the growing social landscape. Walk away from this session with a better understanding of how to use email and social together to drive consumers through the customer lifecycle—from initial acquisition to a lifetime influencer.

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  • 1.Ryan P. PhelanUsing Social Media to Improve Vice President, Strategic ServicesBlueHornetEmail Marketing Effectiveness @ryanpphelan

2. Industry Experience > Director, Email Marketing & Acquisition at Sears Holdings > Responsible for East Coast Operations at Responsys > Director, Email Marketing & Online Advertising at infoGROUP, Inc Thought Leadership > DM News: Email Gets Personal (Cover Story) > Keynote address March 2012, EEC12 > Recent Article: Changing Consumer Perceptions of the Email Channel, Simms Jenkins - bit.ly/RP_P1 > Co-Chair of the EEC List Growth & Engagement Roundtable > Member of:Ryan PhelanVice President, Strategic Services Various Email Discussion Groups on: 3. AskQuestions! 4. Think 5. AOL 1995 WHO remembers the good old days? 6. AOL 1995 WHO remembers the good old days? 7. Where are we today with Social Email? 8. Im So Confused(and freaked out) 9. HomeDepot.comMinimal Placement instead ofsharing specific itemsJoin not share 10. 1-800-FlowersJoin not shareHallmark is all about happy, why notshare that? 11. A&FPlainBlandBoring 12. BananaRepublic.comCould easily share this discount 13. TargetLike not share 14. MacysI have never bought, I have rarelyopened 15. GillyFacebook votes are in?When did you ask me tovote? 16. Abercrombie & FitchDoes FB reviews matter?Why not website reviews? 17. Paulas ChoiceWHOO-HOOOOO!Rationale for being on Facebook! 18. Social Media Programs> Promotion> Customer Service> Relationship 19. Goal: Lets trysomething new! 20. Social Sharing Transactions 21. You dont always know how excited someone is to purchase something> Great use of social push post purchase from website> Look to integrate this into transactional emails 22. Segmentation 23. How can you care about a customer if you dont know them?All customers wantto be valuedallcustomers want tobe recognized 24. Automated Execution> Automated recognition of email behavior Set it and forget it trigger email messages Looks at email behavior so you have more time 25. Tiered system for graduated or differentiated reward> Customize the message The better thecustomer, the greaterthe reward Does not always needto be a discount Focus on engagement Try Thank you 26. Shhhhh, dont tell anyone> Secret Rewards Program Want to avoid gaming the system Calls to action/Messaging should be relationship based Express thanks 27. Give Them Content, Not Just Discounts 28. Consumers dont just want discounts. 29. This model is not sustainable 30. Why do you unsubscribe from emails?Its not just ouremails, its their entireinbox 31. Contextual Posting 32. All social media channelshave their own method think about what you post 33. Social Media is not just Facebook & Twitter 34. Conclusion> Social Email is more than just the icon Let consumers choose what to share include in transactional Use segmentation to increase your customers loyalty Make sure the context of what you are posting is channel specific Social Media is not just Facebook or Twitter 35. Questions? 36. Ryan PhelanVice President, Strategic [email protected] x36113Want to learn about email marketing? Follow me on Twitterand watch #emailmarketing!> @ryanpphelan@bluehornetemail