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Permission Marketing. 92% go to internet to see email. Advantages of email Cost Virtually real time distribution Interactivity – direct links to web sites Higher click through rates Email is proactive and better at targeting. E-mail marketing strategies. Acquisition Permission marketing
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92% go to internet to see email. Advantages of email • Cost • Virtually real time distribution • Interactivity – direct links to web sites • Higher click through rates • Email is proactive and better at targeting
E-mail marketing strategies Acquisition • Permission marketing • Sponsored newsletter • Sponsored discussion list • Advocacy marketing (referrals) • Partner co-marketing • Retention • CRM • Corporate newsletter • Reminder service
Plain text/link – 10% use – 3-4% response – 2 c • Clickable text – 60% - 6-8% response – 3 c • Images and HTML – 30% - 12-15% response – 5c • Interactive and Graphics • Broad • Segmented • One-to-one • Browser sniffers – find which browser a customer uses and optimizes for the richest media
Why don’t advertisers do this themselves? • Large technology investment – bounced messages, spam blocking software, bandwidth, management of large databases, expertise • Spam – can affect reputation of brand • Online different from off line • Opt-out versus Opt-in
CTR Conersion • Banner 0.5% 1.0% • Direct mail – purch list 0.7% NA • Direct mail house list 1.0% NA • Email – purch list 10% 10% • Email – House list 14% 10% • 1500 per campaign set up cost and 2-5 c/mail
Low barriers to entry • Scalability • Rich Data • Relationship management • On and off line convergence
Competitors • Avenue A (AVEA) • CyberGold (CGLD) • Digital Impact (DIGI) • Double Click (DCLK) • Message Media (MESG) • MyPoints.com (MYPT) • 24/7 Media (TFSM) • YesMail
What is opt-in email?It is the most successful online marketing tool ever devised. It is 2-3 times more effective than conventional direct email and 10 times more effective than banner advertising.
Why opt-in email? • Cost effective 20c per email • Fast and responsive – 5% within 24 hrs • 15% within 72 hrs • Politically correct • Versatile – product, catalogs, coupons, newsletter, surveys etc.
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