020 - Email Marketing Trends

Published: Feb. 19, 2016, 12:06 a.m.

b'Welcome to Episode 20 of HubShots!\\n\\nRecorded: Friday 12 February 2016\\n\\nFor show notes please visit:\\nhttp://hubshots.com/episode-20/\\n\\nWelcome: recorded live at the HubSpot Sydney Office #sydspot\\n\\nShot 1: Inbound Thought of the Week\\nHubSpot has a useful stats page, detailing some interesting data points around email marketing: http://www.hubspot.com/marketing-statistics#topic-email\\n\\nFor example: 80.8% of users report reading email on mobile devices. (HubSpot)\\n\\nCampaign 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/\\n\\nFor example:\\n\\nAutomated email messages average 70.5% higher open rates and 152% higher click-through rates than \\u201cbusiness as usual\\u201d marketing messages. \\u2013 Epsilon Email Institute\\n75% of Gmail\\u2019s 900M users access their accounts via mobile devices. \\u2013TechCrunch\\nShot 2: HubSpot feature/tip of the Week\\nHubSpot\\u2019s email designer has a really cool feature for allowing \\u2018smart content\\u2019 \\u2013 content you can swap in/out based on the contact\\u2019s details and lifecycle stage.\\n\\nSmart content within emails: http://knowledge.hubspot.com/smart-content-user-guide/how-to-create-smart-content-in-a-hubspot-email\\n\\nShot 3: Challenge of the Week\\nWhat to do with inactive subscribers: https://blog.mailchimp.com/inactive-subscribers-are-still-valuable-customers/\\n\\nShot 4: Opinion of the Week\\nAdding 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/\\n\\nCampaign monitor intereviews a number of industry experts to get their take on what\\u2019s likely to happen with email marketing in 2016: https://www.campaignmonitor.com/resources/guides/email-marketing-predictions-2016/\\n\\nSummary: Hyper-targeted emails will become the norm according to Daniel Codella \\u2013 ZURB\\n\\nShot 5: General Tip of the Week\\nA reminder of HubSpot\\u2019s findings on when the best time to send your email is: http://www.hubspot.com/sales/best-time-send-email-report-2015\\n\\nSummary: 11am Monday through Saturday, 9pm Sunday night\\n\\nWisdom: THE ONLY WAY TO WRITE A GREAT EMAIL IS WITH A CLEAR GOAL IN MIND.\\n\\nShot 6: State of Inbound Item of the Week\\nRe-visiting some interesting points/stats we\\u2019ve covered previously, for example HubSpot\\u2019s findings on why recipients unsubscribe from emails: http://research.hubspot.com/reports/native-advertising-rises-as-consumers-opt-out\\n\\nShot 7: Motivation of the Week\\nThere are now so many \\u2018workplace collaboration\\u2019 options being used (e.g. Slack) that a lot of general work emails are getting moved to these tools. And that means there\\u2019s less competition for the Inbox: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/what-comes-after-email/422625/\\n\\nAction item: there\\u2019s actually more opportunity for email to work for you\\n\\nShot 8: Resource of the Week\\nA whole bunch of useful resources to think through:\\n\\nExcellent list of tips for email marketing: https://www.semrush.com/blog/better-email-marketing-results/\\nEmail training videos and resources: http://academy.hubspot.com/email-videos-training\\n5 Different Types of Behavioral Emails You Can Start Sending Today: http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/triggered-emails-marketing-automation\\nReallygoodemails.com \\u2013 Well-designed emails in action: http://reallygoodemails.com/\\nQuick Answers: http://academy.hubspot.com/quick-answers\\nShot 9: Community Item of the Week\\nInbound.org threads related to Email: https://inbound.org/hub/email'