5 Questions to Ask to Get your Email Marketing Strategy Right

5 Questions to Ask to Get your Email Marketing Strategy Right

5 Questions to Ask to Get your Email Marketing Strategy Right

Email marketing continues to be an integral part of content marketing.

According to Statista, by 2023 there would be 4.3bn email users globally which is roughly half the population of the world. Another report by DMA shows that for every dollar spent on email marketing, it gives an ROI of $42. Email can be a great tool to distribute thought leadership content. In fact, the primary objective of distributing content across other social platforms or advertising online is to begin the email relationship. So how do you get your email strategy right? Here are 5 questions to ask to get a good email strategy.

1. Why: In the “why” phase, the objective is to identify why you are carrying out the mail campaign?- Is it for them to try your serviceparticipate in your program or give a referral?

2. Who: In the “who” phase, identify a single unifying persona that you need to keep in mind while you craft your content. Eg: where does this person spend more timewhat type of content they consumewhat format they prefer?

3. What: In the “what” phaseidentify the sequence of information that the prospect needs to achieve his/her goal. Eg: industry trend insights, your point of view on the pain point, proposed solutions you have to offer and demonstrated the example of delivering value to the client.

5 Questions to Ask to Get your Email Marketing Strategy Right


4. How: In the “how” phase, take what youknow about the prospect in order to best present the information you may possess. Eg: if your target audiencespends more timewatchingvideosduring a particular period of the day on a platformyouneedto have your content available in video format shown to him/her during that period for better engagement.

5. When: In the “when” phase identify when you propose to send the mail out and in what frequency. According to Statista, 49% prospects are ok to receive an email from brands once a week.

The goal of your email communication should be to strongly differentiate your brand, nurture your buyer across various stages of the buying cycle and thereby generate better ROI for your business. Working with an expert content marketing agency can help you garner better ROI for your email campaigns.

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  • Marissa Paige

    Email marketing is far from dead.

  • Fiona Jayne

    Super interesting!

  • Callum Burke

    Great infographic

  • Scott Harvey

    Every promotional email goes straight into the recycling bin without me looking at it.

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Karthik Nagendra

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Karthik is the Co-Founder of Pink Ladder and Founder & Director of ThoughtStarters. He has over a decade of experience in branding, communication strategy, executive communication & thought leadership marketing, human resource and operations management. He has been instrumental in creating many award winning programs for leading brands like MeritTrac-India's largest Skills Assessment Company, Wipro Technologies and Accenture. He has worked closely with leading universities, industry bodies, analysts and research firms globally and acted as a catalyst in providing best practices and insights to customers across sectors. He has authored papers & articles in international journals & has been a guest speaker at many Ivy League Universities globally. He is a serial entrepreneur, always on the look out for the next big idea! Karthik has a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Bangalore University and an MBA in Marketing & Finance from IIPM Bangalore.

   
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