The 4 Pillars of Email Marketing
In today’s MarketingSherpa Chart of the Week, we looked at the long list of organizational email marketing goals marketers told us they are focusing on for the next 12 months, and I implore marketers to narrow their focus to just the three or four goals that will really move the needle in their email marketing program this year.
This is not an exercise I’m unfamiliar with. As we launched the Call for Speakers for MarketingSherpa Email Summit 2014 at the Aria in Las Vegas, we also had to decide the email marketing pillars to focus on – and in the spirit of simplifying, this year you can enter MarketingSherpa Email Awards 2014 and submit a speaker proposal using the same form.
At Email Summit 2013, we built the agenda around five email marketing goals and two elements. Frankly, it was just too much. If you focus on everything, you focus on nothing.
So this year, we’ve narrowed down the Email Summit Call for Speakers and Email Awards Call for Entries to four topics. These topics are below, along with links to MarketingSherpa reporting to help you improve your email marketing, and perhaps get your juices flowing for your own proposal/entry.
Build and Cleanse: Efforts to build up email lists, or strengthen the program overall through cleansing make up this pillar. List data and management, database hygiene, list testing and optimization are examples of the types of campaigns to fall within it.
List Growth: 11% increase from sweepstakes for Waterford Crystal
Email Marketing: CNET win-back campaign sees 8% subscriber re-engagement
Create and Design: This pillar will recognize message testing and optimization, as well as delving into marketing efforts involving design creative, copywriting, messaging.
Email Marketing: User-generated content helps drive 16% clickthrough rate
Email Marketing Optimization: How you can create a testing environment to improve your email results
Deliver and Automate: This pillar will focus on marketers’ efforts with marketing automation and deliverability. The function and theories behind testing and optimization will also be discussed within this pillar.
Marketing Automation: 416% higher customer lifetime value from auto-email strategy
Connect and Integrate: The optimization of email integration tactics with social media, websites, mobile, offline and testing will make up this pillar.
Social Email Integration: Sony Electronics nets 3,000 clickthroughs from email to “pin” on Pinterest
Email Summit: Integrating mobile, social and email marketing channels
But, enough from us. We want to see what you’ve been working on, and more importantly, how your marketing peers can learn from your work. If you have any questions, we’re here to help. You can check out the FAQ … or just ask us.
Also, we put together a quick video to show you what it’s like to be an Email Summit speaker…
Courtney Eckerle, Reporter, MECLABS, contributed to this blog post.
Related Resources:
MarketingSherpa Email Awards 2014 (Winners have an opportunity to present the award-winning case study at Email Summit 2014)
MarketingSherpa’s Email Marketing Awards 2013 (sponsored by Responsys)
MarketingSherpa Email Summit 2013 Wrap-up: Top 5 takeaways for email marketers
Categories: Email Marketing email integration, Email Marketing, email summit 2014, list cleansing, marketing automation, social media integration
