Episode 10: Marketing Industry Trends for 2016
Welcome to Episode 10 of HubShots! Recorded: Tuesday 08 December 2015 In this episode we cover: Welcome Our first podcast recording in the same...
Recorded: Friday 12 February 2016
Welcome: recorded live at the HubSpot Sydney Office #sydspot
HubSpot has a useful stats page, detailing some interesting data points around email marketing: http://www.hubspot.com/marketing-statistics#topic-email
For example: 80.8% of users report reading email on mobile devices. (HubSpot)
Campaign Monitor has a similar (but more up to date) list of stats: https://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/email-marketing/2016/01/70-email-marketing-stats-you-need-to-know/
For example:
HubSpot's email designer has a really cool feature for allowing 'smart content' - content you can swap in/out based on the contact's details and lifecycle stage.
Smart content within emails: http://knowledge.hubspot.com/smart-content-user-guide/how-to-create-smart-content-in-a-hubspot-email
What to do with inactive subscribers: https://blog.mailchimp.com/inactive-subscribers-are-still-valuable-customers/
Adding emotion and stories can help your engagement with email recipients: http://newslettermarketing.io/2016/02/11/beyond-open-loops-how-this-overarching-strategy-glues-your-subscribers-to-your-every-email/
Campaign monitor intereviews a number of industry experts to get their take on what's likely to happen with email marketing in 2016: https://www.campaignmonitor.com/resources/guides/email-marketing-predictions-2016/
Summary: Hyper-targeted emails will become the norm according to Daniel Codella – ZURB
A reminder of HubSpot's findings on when the best time to send your email is: http://www.hubspot.com/sales/best-time-send-email-report-2015
Summary: 11am Monday through Saturday, 9pm Sunday night
Wisdom: THE ONLY WAY TO WRITE A GREAT EMAIL IS WITH A CLEAR GOAL IN MIND.
Re-visiting some interesting points/stats we’ve covered previously, for example HubSpot's findings on why recipients unsubscribe from emails: http://research.hubspot.com/reports/native-advertising-rises-as-consumers-opt-out
There are now so many ‘workplace collaboration’ options being used (e.g. Slack) that a lot of general work emails are getting moved to these tools. And that means there’s less competition for the Inbox: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/what-comes-after-email/422625/
Action item: there’s actually more opportunity for email to work for you
A whole bunch of useful resources to think through:
Inbound.org threads related to Email: https://inbound.org/hub/email
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