Inactive Email Subscribers Reactivation Strategies
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The document discusses strategies for managing inactive email subscribers, emphasizing the importance of understanding subscriber behavior and engagement to maximize revenue. It outlines an action plan that includes reactivation efforts, automation, and minimizing the number of inactives through targeted communication and preference management. Key takeaways include the necessity of proactive engagement rather than passive suppression of inactive subscribers.
Inactive Email Subscribers Reactivation Strategies
- 1. Inactive Email Subscribers: Tips for Taming the Beast #SPOPWebinar
- 2. Speakers • Carey Marston • SmartPak • Email Marketing Manager • [email protected] • Loren McDonald • Silverpop • VP, Industry Relations • Twitter: @LorenMcDonald • Google+: +LorenMcDonald
- 3. Agenda Framing the Challenge SmartPak Overview Action Plan Summary/ Q&A
- 5. Remove your inactives; Send less email! Don’t remove your inactives; Send more email! The Inactives Debate
- 6. “Inactives” are about human behavior… not deliverability.
- 7. Goal for this Webinar… Get you to think a little differently about inactives…
- 8. 1. Reactivate early 2. Automate/Programs 3. Focus on mimimization
- 9. Why Do You Care About Inactives?
- 10. Inactives Are a HUGE Issue
- 11. Typical Actives vs. Inactives Ratio
- 12. Impact of Inactives Lost potential revenue Inefficiencies/Reduced ROI Fuzzy metrics Potential reduced deliverability
- 13. Retailer X Inactives Challenge 450,000 Subscribers 40%-50% Inactive (no opens + clicks for 12 months) 200K-250K non-responders
- 14. Hypothetical Revenue Loss Actives Inactives # Subscribers 250,000 200,000 Average Revenue Per $0.12 Email Delivered 4 X week X 53 weeks $6.4M ~ 212 emails Potential Lost Revenue $5.1M
- 16. About Our Email Program • ~1MM emails sent, per month Email Volume Transactional • Email generates 34% of all online Promotional & Triggered Email, 11% marketing channel revenue Email, 89% • Healthy transactional and triggered email program drives high return • Email team comprised of: – Email Marketing Manager Email Revenue Transactional – Email Designer & Triggered … and three businesses to support! Promotional Email, 37% Email, 63% In 2010, launched 11 automated campaigns with Silverpop, growing revenue 40% year-over-year 16
- 17. SmartPak’s Email Program Framework Email Channel Promotions Transactional Lifecycle SmartPaks On-Hold SmartPaks Newsletters Confirmation Welcome Order Confirmation Order Reminder Offers Shipment Abandoned Cart Confirmation SmartPaks SmartPaks On-Hold Confirmation/Welcome Today, 26 transactional Post Purchase and lifecycle emails per Password Review day, and 10+ promotional Recovery emails per month Credit Card Failure SmartPaks Up-sell Notification SmartPaks Cancel Confirmation 17
- 18. SmartPak: Inactives History Became aware of impact in 2007 Analyzed database = ~50% inactive Tested suppressing inactives = exact same number of opens/clicks
- 19. SmartPak: Current View Win-back = Revenue opportunity Potential deliverability impact Reach through other channels
- 20. SmartPak: Current Inactive Definition No No Opens 6+ Months Purchases 40%-45% of database
- 22. Inactives Action Plan Root Causes Define & Minimize Segment Automate Reactivate
- 23. Why Recipients Go Inactive Never fully engaged - just wanted the incentive Interests / needs have changed Content did not meet expectations Emails are being routed to junk folder You send too often for their taste You send un-personalized, irrelevant emails Long sales/purchase cycle Inability to update email address / change preferences
- 24. Determine Root Causes Are certain acquisition sources producing a higher rate of inactives? Has increased frequency numbed them? Is your email program stale and boring? Are you attracting the right audience? Are you delivering against expectations? Do you have deliverability issues?
- 25. Analyze… By list source Age on file Customer segment/profile Subscriber survey responses Creative test results Response by message type/frequency changes
- 26. Action Plan – Define & Segment
- 27. Defining Inactives – Sample Parameters Email activity (opens & clicks) Time on list Purchase/Conversion activity Web site/Other channel activity Sales/Purchase cycles/Seasonality Customer value/Ideal profile
- 28. All Inactives Are Not Created Equal
- 30. Understand Your Inactive Segments More Potential? Less Potential? Past customer Never purchased Organic Opt-in Sweepstakes Recent purchase Long ago purchased High customer value Low customer value Engaged in other No engagement channels anywhere
- 31. Are inactives worth keeping? Do we treat segments of inactives differently?
- 32. Predicting Subscriber Value Potential • Leading online retailer • Suppressing inactive subscribers • Hypothesis that “high value potential” subscribers existed among inactives • Leveraged third party data (purchase behavior, demographics, etc.) and advanced modeling to predict Subscriber Value Potential.
- 33. Approach & Results • Segmented inactive Campaign Revenue per subscribers by Value Subscriber Potential and conducted $0.18 reactivation test 8.4x • Results: High vs. Low $0.02 segment • 1.8x higher Open Rate Low Potential High Potential Segment Segment • 8.4x higher Revenue per subscriber
- 34. Action Plan - Reactivate
- 35. Typical Reactivation Rate: 1%-2% High Performers: 10%+
- 36. Re-engagement Series - Incentives
- 37. Re-engagement Series Results • Performs poorly (as expected) – 5.8% Open rate – 1.8% click through rate – 1-2 orders per fiscal quarter • Non-responders are removed
- 38. Tell us what you want
- 43. SmartPak: Attempt #1 We miss hearing from you! As a valued customer and subscriber to our e-newsletters, you are the first to learn about new products, promotions, sales and healthcare information. Don’t miss out on all of this valuable insight that comes straight to your email inbox. If you prefer to receive your e-newsletters at a different email address, please click here to update your profile. We hate to see you go! But if you choose to no longer receive our e- newsletters, please click here to unsubscribe. We hope to hear from you again soon. As a thank you for being our valued customer, please use this code (xxxx) to apply free shipping to your next order with us. - Your Friends at SmartPak
- 44. #2
- 45. #3
- 46. SmartPak: Reactivation Metrics Metrics Reactivation Other Emails Bounces 3% - 7% 0.57% Open Rates 3% 18% Reactivated 13,000 so far AOV $111.19 $119.09 Avg Rev/Email $0.06 $0.20
- 47. Action Plan - Automate
- 48. Automate: Activate Early Inactives New subscribers don’t open/click first XX messages/X weeks Move these early inactives into “activation” track Send survey, different offers; best of, diff subject lines, testimonials, etc.
- 49. Sample “Month 4” and “Month 7” Program Broadcast emails: 3-5 per week No activity for 3 months – moved to reactivation track Month 4: 1 email per week Update Sweepstakes Unique Offer New Brands Preferences Month 5-6: Normal 3-5/week Month 7: 1 email per week Promote other What You Are Unique Offer Survey channels Missing
- 50. Action Plan – Minimize
- 51. The best reactivation strategy is to minimize inactives to begin with.
- 52. Opt-in process Preference mgmt. Expectation mgmt. Minimize! Targeted / Relevant Welcome / Content Onboarding
- 53. Opt-in Source / Process
- 56. Ask for More Information
- 57. Relevant Content – Post Purchase Follow-Up Emails Sent after 1st Supply order
- 58. Crazy Content See Our Models Nearly Naked in Our New X-Ray Catalog
- 59. Footers – Make it Obvious Include links to all 3 main options: - Update preferences - Change email address - Unsubscribe
- 60. Enable Preference Changes Change: - Preferences - Email address - Frequency - Topics - Publications
- 61. Opt-down alternative to opt out
- 62. To Remove or Not?
- 63. No Maybe Yes
- 64. Remove, suppress or retain? • Send less • Treat differently Retain • • Monitor reactivation Have resources to deal with • Deliverability • Business decisions / low value Remove subscribers • Cost/Resource Savings • Make sure they are truly inactive
- 65. Takeaways / Q & A
- 66. SmartPak: Some Lessons Learned OK to suppress Most inactives ARE inactive Right definition/approach is key Be careful
- 67. SmartPak: What’s Next? Early activation/automation Testing Track the life of inactives More behavior-based automation
- 68. Takeaways Don’t ignore inactives – be proactive Focus on minimizing Automate reactivation, rather than one-offs Test and Analyze
- 69. Questions? Carey Marston [email protected] Loren McDonald Twitter: @LorenMcDonald [email protected] Google+: Loren McDonald
- 70. Resources • Resource Center • White papers • Webinars • Blogs • Case studies • Newsletters • http://www.silverpop.com/marketing-resources/index.html • Many presentations on SlideShare • www.slideshare.net/Silverpop
- 71. Thank you! On Twitter: @Silverpop www.slideshare.net/silverpop www.silverpop.com
Editor's Notes
- #47: Campaign centric currently. Through re-engagement campaigns, we have reactivated about 13,000 names back onto our active mailing list. We reactivated about 5x more names when we targeted those who hadn’t opened in 6 months vs our current definition of open + purchase history.
- #67: We have learned that it is OK to suppress these recipients from the file. Through reactivation campaigns, we win back very few subscribers and have proven that much of our inactive list is truly inactive. We have also learned that you need to have the right message as to not confuse current customers. Before we integrated purchase data into email, we only looked at open rates as our inactive indicator (customers who had not opened/clicked in 6+ months). Our first attempt at a reactivation campaign did get some recipients’ attention by us indicating that we missed them and hadn’t heard from them in a while…there was a response from customers getting our monthly automated shipments who were quite confused. We tweaked the next campaign’s messaging by focusing it solely on the fact that they had not been viewing our emails and they were missing out on great offers, healthcare tips, etc. A bit more “big brother” but there was less of a response from current customers, if any at all. Our current creative (now that we also take into account purchase history) ties a message of both email non-responsiveness and come back and buy from SmartPak. Lesson learned: know your audience and tailor your messages to all potential recipients. A reactivation campaign can certainly be confusing if the recipient is not truly inactive, and you could potentially be throwing a reactivation offer to customers currently buying from you.
- #68: *Automation and identifying these subscribers earlier in their email life to attempt to wake them up before we view them as inactive. We know we have them on our list, and it’s a problem for all companies, but how can we do something about it to prevent such a dramatic loss of recipients? Send them exclusive offers to entice them to make another purchase or open the email. Subject line and offer testing with inactives. What entices them to open and make a purchase? Looking forward to testing some programs with Silverpop. I would also like to set up a process that tracks these recipients. After reactivation, are they more likely to fall into the definition of inactive again? Are they serial inactive email recipients who constantly need a jolt?