The document discusses trends in email marketing, focusing on deliverability, social media, and mobile. It notes that email volume has increased 44% from 2010 to 2011. It recommends improving deliverability through better engagement, database quality, content, and campaign frequency. It also discusses the growth of social networks and mobile usage, and how email marketers need to adapt campaigns for these new channels through optimized content and integration with CRM systems. The future of email may include more dynamic content like video and live updates integrated directly into messages.
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2011 The future of email
1. The future of e-mailing:
Focus on Deliverability, Social and
Mobile
Trends
Bruno FLORENCE
Consultant Florence Consultant
2. Consulting Company
email & cross-Channel marketing
Expertise Training Research
Multi-
Email
channel ‘How to
Academy
CRM select
your
email
provider’
Email report
Enterprise
Marketing
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3. Some References
Choix d’outils Bilan/Audit E-mailing CRM Multicanal Délivrabilité
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4. More Information
www.pignonsurmail.com www.florenceconsultant.com
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5. Agenda
Deliverability
Social Networks
Mobile
Future
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10. Trends
• ISPs/Webmails know how to filter the ‘black’ spam
• Users want tools to sort and manage
Commercial emails
Personal emails
Spam
• ISPs/Webmails have implemented
Automatic tools for sorting emails
Filters based on individual behaviours
Emails categorization
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11. Examples
5 pts
Opened &
Clicked
2 pts
Opened
Opened & 7 pts
Answered
Stored in the 1 pt
folder
Propensity Score
ChateauOnline : 15
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13. How to Improve Deliverability?
• Improve consumers engagement
• Improve the following techniques
25 % Routing technical architecture
40 % Database quality
10 % Email content
25 % Campaigns frequency
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14. New KPIs To Measure Engagement
• Measure how long the email has been opened
Proposed by Litmus EmailAddress
a.demoulin@dolist.net
Engagement MailClient
Forwarded Outlook
MailClientDetail
agnessol@netetcom.com 2s Outlook Outlook 2010
alain.assouline@advensoft.com 17 s Outlook Outlook 2007
alex.gonzva@dormane.fr 10 s Thunderbird Thunderbird 3
• Measure how the email is read
Device (mobile, tablets, etc.)
Reading software (Webmail, Outlook…)
• Measure engagement on Social Networks
Sharing
Influencing
Visiting social networks
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15. Plan
Deliverability
Social Networks
Mobile
Future
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17. eCircle Research: Interactive Dialogue with
Facebook, Twitter, email & Co
• Research Methodology:
Method: on-line panel / France
When: September 2010
Population: Adults 14-69 years
No. of valid answers: 1,225
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19. Usage Per Channel
Users distribution across channels
6% Email: 100% of responders
Newsletter: 90% of responders
Social Networks: 62% of responders
56%
4% Email + newsletter + SN
56% of responders can be contacted via ALL channels
Email + newsletter
34% of responders can be contacted by email + newsletter
but not SN
Email + SN
6% of responders can be contacted by email +SM but not
by newsletter
34%
Email
4% of responders can be contacted ONLY via email
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20. Distribution Per Channel
and Age
• 50+: Newsletters
• 20-39: All communication channels
• 14-19: Reduced engagement with Newsletters
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21. SNCD Research
Methodology
o On Line questionnaire / France
o From June 23, to July 9 2011
o No. of valid answers: 2,264
o Representative for Age, Sex and Occupation
o Representative of Social Networks users
26. Social Users
Segmentation
12 %
To reconcile with
CRM
26%
Minutes par jour
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27. Reconciliation Between CRM and Social
Networks
• Promote Social Networks
• Share Data
Sharing
Influencing
• Forms in FB
Gathering fans addresses
• Personalized pages
Personalized Dialogue
• Applications
• Facebook Connect
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28. CRM & Social Networks Integration
Provides
• Profiles
People who share
People who influence
Members of the Fan Page
Users of FB Applications
• Relationships Strategies for these profiles
Brand awareness
Gifts, events invitations, etc
Match with marketing segmentation
Ability to test & learn
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29. Example Of segmentation
Inactifs
Décrocheurs Partageurs
Influenceurs
Indécis Inactifs Facebook
Contributeurs
Etoiles montantes
Superstar
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
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30. Segmentation
by Usage
17 %
73 %
61 % 13 %
51 % 5%
Minutes par jour
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31. Plan
Deliverability
Social Networks
Mobile
Future
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32. > Behaviour and Usages
There is a high potential for Mobile Internet.
Q. Do you have subscribed to an Internet pack for you
mobile?
9 % of web users
only use mobile
35% of web users have an internet package 2010)
(ipsos
Source : Mediametrie
33. > Emails
Emails are read more and more on Mobile devices
Q. Par quel moyen consultez vous vos boites mail?
Personnel professionnel répondants
Base = 1307
99% 97%
29%
17%
4% 3% 1% 1% 1% 1%
Ordinateur Téléphone mobile Tablette numérique TV connectée Console de jeux
34. How to Define your Mobile Strategy?
• 2 steps:
Measure the strategic potential
% of your recipient reading emails on mobile
Revenue generated from mobile devices
Do you already have mobile applications in your
company?
Adapt your communication for mobile
Create specific content for mobile
Adapt email content
Create strategies dedicated to mobile users
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35. Monitoring Mobile Success
• 3 dimensions
Context of opening
Click on specific links
Buying on the website from a mobile
• Open & click
Opening emails on mobile is trackable
Operating System
Device type
Software used to read the email
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37. Reading Emails on Mobile
• Visuals rendering are different depending
on devices
iPhone: almost always opened
Android: images frequently blocked
BlackBerry : almost never opened
Others (Symbian…) : almost never detected
• Emails opening not 100% tracked
Opening numbers are minimum
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39. The Fastest and Cheapest Solution
• Propose a link to a mobile version of your
newsletter
Measuring the clicks helps you to estimate your
percentage of mobile readers (between 0.5 et 7
% per campaign)
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41. Tools to qualify Opens on Mobile
• Your ESP?
• Litmus: litmus.com
• Ad4screen
• Returnpath
• Florence Consultant
• …
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42. Ad4screen
• Provider of Mobile Marketing
• Sells a dedicated tag to add to your newsletters
Ad4Tag®
• Measure ‘Opens’
• The banner, within the emailUne bannière au
sein de l'email qui peut se personnaliser en
fonction du contexte d'ouverture
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44. Florence consultant (Reachtag)
• Mobile Analysis
500,000
Measure and qualify the mobible ‘market share’
450,000
400,000 Example on a 2M customers database
350,000
300,000
Identifiants
250,000 cumulés
200,000
150,000
nouveaux
100,000 ouvreurs sur
50,000 mobile
0
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45. 5 types of Email to Optimize for Mobile
• Emails related to mobile applications
• Service emails for helping business in Stores
• Alerts emails
• Emails with coupons and promotions
• Emails following up a purchase via mobile
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46. Optimizing emails for Mobile
• Interesting only if:
% of mobile users is >10%
You have mobile applications
The revenue from purchase via mobile is
significant
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47. Advices
• Mistakes to Avoid
Create a version for every kind of mobile
• Good Practices
Ask customers if they’re mobile users
Forget to adapt visualisation on PC
Increase the part of the text
Create a mobile landing page
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49. Managing Mobile: Add the phone
number
• Phone numbers are active
• Ability to automatically update agenda and
contacts
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50. Plan
Deliverability
Social Networks
Mobile
Future
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51. Technical Openess for Webmails
• Hotmail (364m users), Yahoo (380m users) and
Gmail (200m users) are now in competition with
Facebook (600m users) that offers
Video
Flash
• An evolution that has already started for
Hotmail, Yahoo and Gmail
Video Integration
Dynamic content now authorized
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53. Latest Innovations
• Dynamic Emails
Hotmail Active Views
• Dynamic Images within Email
Financial data live
Latest Tweet
Countdowns
• Video in email
• Geo-location
On Gmail with Movable Link
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