return path academy on 7 september 2016
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Welcome to the Academy
Alice Spencer
Technical Account Manager
Dale Langley
Director, Professional Services
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Let’s talk about trust
Persuading consumers to opt-in to your
email marketing program
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Which are most effective in encouraging consumers
to sign up for emails?
Source: 2015 DMA National Client Email Report
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Trust creates more responsive lists
Source: Return Path “Frequency Matters – the key to optimizing email send frequency”
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Getting to the Inbox
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What drives inbox placement?
77%
17%
6%
Sender Reputation
Content
Domains in Content
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What defines sender reputation?
Complaints List Quality Infrastructure
Length of Sending
History
Message Quality Subscriber
Engagement
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A high sender score doesn’t always mean high
inbox placement
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Why Engagement is
Important for Mailbox
Providers
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It’s all about engagement
Inbox Engagement
• Regularly logs-in
• Reads and sends email
• Files email
• Complaints/This is Not Spam
Email Engagement
• Opens
• Clicks
• Shares
• Purchases
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The Hidden Engagement Metrics
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Spam placement rate
• Hidden in your “delivered” rate
• Inbox + Spam = Delivered
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The read rate
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The read rate
Subject line:
Whatever the weather Tesco can help you have a great bank holiday
This campaign
17% Benchmark
24%
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The read rate
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Mailbox Engagement
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The read rate
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Deleted without reading rate
The “Ignore Rate”
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Complaint rate
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• They didn’t ask to receive your email
• They don’t recognise the sender
• The email wasn’t what they expected to receive
• The email isn’t of interest or relevant
• They are receiving too much mail
• There isn’t an easy way to unsubscribe
Why do subscribers complain?
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How frequency affects inbox placement
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Manage frequency
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“This is Not Spam” – rarely used, but highly
trusted
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“This is Not Spam” and deliverability
Source: Return Path “This is Not Spam” Report
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Forward rate
Source: https://litmus.com/blog/send-it-forward-get-your-emails-shared/email-sharing-infographic
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Forward rate
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ThinkGeek: Reply to this email
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But don’t do this
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Winning back lost subscribers
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The carry-forward effect
Source: https://returnpath.com/downloads/email-win-back-report/
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Doing it well
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Doing it well
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Benchmark Win-Back
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Threadless Win-Back email performance
Read %
ISP-Marked Spam %
User-Marked Spam %
Forwarded %
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The Future
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Let’s talk about it…
• Hyper personalisation
• Kinetic emails
• Contextual content
• Machine learning
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Let’s talk about it…
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Thank You!
See you at the Return Path World Tour on the
afternoon of Monday 10th October.
Register: www.returnpath.com/events/rpwt-london/