Once you set up your email campaigns it’s easy for time to go by and to let everything get a little stale. If you’re not getting the results you used to get, it’s probably because you’re in an email rut. And if you want to get out of the email rut, it’s best to come up with a plan to update and improve your email marketing at least once a year.
Every year take the time to update technology, redesign your artwork, improve your calls to action (CTA), optimize for new devices and so forth.
1) Update Technology
Are you still using the same technology that you were using five years ago, or even two years ago? If so, you might want to take a hard look at what’s out there that’s new and improved to figure out if you want to make a change. There is so much technology available now to make your email marketing campaigns successful that you don’t want to miss out by not staying informed about new offerings. This is true whether you switch technology or not; your own email marketing technology might offer new functionality that you don’t even know exists until you check it out for yourself.
2) Create New Designs
Every year you want to update your artwork to reflect the changing times as well as reflect your brand in such a way that your current customers as well as future customers take notice. You want to remain fresh, memorable and modern. Update your newsletter graphics, and maybe make a change in the look and feel of each newsletter that you send out. Creating new designs for your logo, or other art work and marketing collateral will breathe new life into your email marketing campaigns.
3) Improve Your CTAs
What worked a year ago might be old news today. As technology improves and people become more educated, you may need to try new ways to get your market to act upon your CTAs. Plus, it’s likely you have learned more too about what type of CTAs work best for your market. Revisit the CTAs you have in place now, and try to improve upon them so that you’ll get even more results.
4) Optimize for Mobile
It’s past time to optimize your email marketing for mobile. Most emails are now read with mobile devises. If your email marketing isn’t responsively designed, you’re likely missing out on most of your market. Your email marketing technology probably has easy templates and designs that are responsive but what about the items you ask your audience to click through to see? Are they responsive? If not, they need to be.
5) Renew Your Drip Campaigns
Even if you’re promoting the same products and services today that you were promoting last year, it’s important to update your drip campaigns anyway. As you learn more about what your audience needs and their pain points, you can easily improve upon your drip campaigns in both design and words. A little refreshing and improving will go a long way to getting more customers.
6) Update Segmentation Strategy
Most people start out with segmenting their email marketing between buyers and non-buyers but you can go so much further with that. You can segment by product interest, device interaction and more. You will get a lot better return on investment the more you can segment your audience because it will enable you to deliver the best message to each audience.
7) Integrate Social Media
You probably already use social media in your marketing campaigns. But, do you have your email marketing integrated with social media in a way that allows your subscribers to help you get more subscribers, as well as help your subscribers join you on social media? You should be cross-promoting your email list with your social media to get the most results. If your audience is reading your emails and interacting with you on social media, you’ve got the best of all worlds and the most chances of conversions.
8) Study Your Metrics
Nothing is done until the paperwork is done and that includes email marketing. You should probably study the metrics of your email marketing before and after each marketing campaign and then look at some things more thoroughly each year to find out what is working and what is not working. Which subscribers are engaged and which are not engaged? Do you know?
By keeping on top of these things you can actually get out of your email rut and stay out of it. Make plans to revisit these things every single year because as technology improves and changes, to stay on top you need to improve and change too.
