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What is the definition of an email marketing strategy?
A strategy used to market products and services and nurture relationships in a human
and helpful way through the use of the email channel
When was the first email sent? *
1970's
How can email marketing fuel your overall inbound strategy?
Email marketing syncs closely to your CRM
What does it mean to create an inbound email marketing strategy?
Create a human, helpful, and customer-driven conversation and experience
You're looking to send an email to three different lists of contacts. You've created
each segmented list based off where those contacts are in their research process
with your company. What type of lists have you created? *
Buyer's journey lists
The significance of segmentation, the power of personalization, and the impact of
data-driven analysis are the three pillars of an __________ *
effective email marketing strategy
Without __________ for your emails, you won't know if your emails are successful
or not *
goals
You can use your database and contact management strategy to do a few things:
see the whole picture of every contact, organize contacts to keep a healthy
database at all times, and what else?
integrate your contact information with other tools you use
Inbound is the happy marriage between __________ *
context and content
Each year your contacts database will decay, so to successfully cater to the
needs and interests of your contacts, what do you need to begin with? *
The right contacts in your database
Before emailing any contacts in your database, what question do you need to ask
yourself or your team?
Do we have permission?
If you have an offer that's targeted towards your leads in your database and
wouldn't provide as much value to your customers, what could you segment by
to send only to your leads? *
Lifecycle stage
In your email marketing strategy, CATS refers to "The right content to the right
audience ____________ "
at the right time equals success
There are three best practices for creating a successful segmentation strategy.
Two of them are having a clean and organized database and collecting the right
information. What is the third? *
Understanding the implicit and explicit data
, You received an email this morning where the content didn't align with the
subject or the context in which you were receiving it. It was a jarring experience
for you. What was this email not doing?
Creating the right email by bringing content and context together
When you take a specific action on a website around a certain topic, and an email
is triggered to you that follows up with additional educational content around that
topic, this is an example of sending the right email. (True or False?) *
True
What helps to ensure you deliver the right email to the right person? *
Segmentation
By adding the following copy to your email, what are you doing for your
contacts? "Thanks for subscribing to my blog. I'm thrilled to have you here! You'll
be receiving updates from me on how to send better emails on a monthly basis,
but if you're looking to update your email preferences, you can do so anytime
here. Invite your team members to subscribe because when we learn together, we
grow together." *
Setting expectations
When sending the right email, there are three key things you'll need to
understand: why you are sending that email, your goal, and the value you're
delivering to the person on the other end of the send. This gives you the
foundation to __________. *
set the right expectations with those receiving your email by setting an appropriate and
contextual goal and then pairing that with information that will provide the most value
There are three key components to sending the right email. Two of the are the
right email and the right time. What is the third? *
The right person
Having an understanding of what you're trying to achieve is the most important
part of creating high-performing emails. What theme does this correlate to?
Setting a goal
In the ____________ stage of the buyer's journey, the potential buyer has defined
their problem and is actively researching different solutions.*
consideration
What are the two key actions to look at when optimizing each part of your email?
The open and the click
Words like "free" or "percent off" will not only trigger spam filters for your email,
but will also ___________. *
not sound like the email is coming from a real person
The snippet of copy that's pulled in from the body of your email is the
___________. *
preview text
You have one goal for your email, and your CTA should drive the reader toward
that goal. In addition to your CTA button, how else can you link to your CTA? *
By hyperlinking appropriate copy AND
By editing alt-text AND
By linking images to your offer