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Excuse the ESP plug on the video, but I love the way Filofax are integrating Social and Email

A Little Conversation Helps

Jordie van Rijn recently interviewed me for Social Email Marketing in advance of the Fusion Marketing Experience Conference where I will be speaking at in March, so here are a few snippets from that conversation.

'a few times last year, I talked about it all being about the conversation. I admitted at the end of that that it was a big fat lie. It was actually all about the conversion… It’s just that a little conversation helps.'

'There is no such thing as Best Practice. You define your own Best Practice, for your Brand your Customer and your Business Model'

'Although we talk about it now, I think Marketers will still remain surprised about how difficult it will still be to attribute return to different channels'

For the full interview click here.

Jordie is an independent email marketing consultant with his company eMailMonday.

What is the Meaning of Influence?

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What to Do When Permission Goes Away

Following on from my 'I'm a subscriber get me out of here' post I came across this interesting piece from Clickz

Fusion Marketing Experience, Brussels

The preliminary line up for the Fusion Marketing Experience event in March has just been announced. I’ll be presenting a keynote alongside some great speakers presenting through out the day including 

• Olivier Blanchard
  
• Dave Chaffey
  
• Dela Quist
  
• Trey Pennington
  
• Joost de Valk
  
• Richard Sedley
  

There is an early bird discount on tickets so visit the Fusion Marketing Experience website 

I'm a subscriber, get me out of here!

It was no laughing matter when I read on the Return Path site that found only ''one out of 47 brands that enable customers to opt-out of emails offer alternative communication channels, such as social media, RSS, traditional post or SMS, as part of their unsubscribe process''

Of course ideally we wouldn't want any of our subscribers or customers to unsubscribe from our newsletters or promotional emails, but of course it happens.

And of course it could happen purely becasue the customer has actually on moved on and is generally not interested in what you have to offer. More often than not, however, it is as a result of us as marketers not following the basics of giving the subscriber what they want, when they want it and in a format they want.

Now of course as they want to unsubscribe we should make that process as painless as possible, but use it as an opportunity to learn something to make our future campaings more relevant.

So here is my top 10 tips for that process

1 - Provide a way to unsubscribe directly via the website (rather than only via an email message)

2 - If you must make users log in to unsubscribe, give them simple ways to recover their usernames and passwords

3 - On the unsubscribe page, list the user’s email address and current newsletters, and a simple way to unsubscribe from any or all newsletters.

4 - Make the unsubscribe process self-explanatory. If you have to include instructions, include them in the email and on the site and make sure they are clear

5 - Offer users an option to change the frequency of the newsletter as an alternative to unsubscribing

6 - Provide a confirmation screen verifying that the user’s email address has been unsubscribed from the newsletters

7 - On the confirmation page, list other ways to receive updates from your company, such as through social networks or a blog

8 - If you ask users for feedback about why they are unsubscribing, make the feedback process optional and as easy as possible

9 - Send only one email confirmation to users after they unsubscribe, listing any newsletters users have asked to stop receiving. Don’t send them any email after that

10 - Unsubscribe users immediately. If this isn't possible, tell users how long it may take for your system to register their changes

(Photograph: ITV/Rex Features)

Measuring your Social Message Impact | Social Media Today

''As we all tweet, tag, post, connect, follow and like - we all wonder if our message is reaching anyone out there. There are all sorts of metrics that people are using - from virality to engagement, from influence to chatter. Closed nature of the data behind all social networks isn't helping much either. They are probably saving all of their data till they can resell it to us in one form or another :) Good for them. In the meantime, we need to figure this stuff out.''

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Measuring your Social Message Impact Social Media Today