How to Start E-mail Marketing from Scratch

If you are already running an organization with multiple marketing channels, I have no doubt in my mind that you must be using e-mail marketing. If you are a start-up still working on building up your marketing strategy, e-mail marketing is one of the first marketing channels I want to recommend that you set-up.

The fact that a dollar spent on e-mail marketing has a positive return on investment of around $45 becomes one of the major factor supporting this argument.

So, if you want to take the plunge to set this up, here is a short boot camp to do it with ease.

For making this process easy to understand, I have divided this into 5 parts.

Strategy

1. E-Mail Platform Requirements
2. E-Mail Marketing Goals
3. E-Mail Campaign Objectives
4. E-Mail Marketing Team Alignment
5. E-Mail Marketing Roadmap

Set-Up

1. E-Mail Platform Set-Up
2. E-Mail Marketing Soft Launch
3. E-Mail Reporting Set-Up
4. E-Mai Marketing Launch

Execute

1. Get e-mail data
2. Perform e-mail exclusion and correction
3. Segment Data
4. Upload Data
5. Create e-mailer
6. Create Test Campaign
7. Perform Test Run
8. Schedule Campaign

Optimize

1. Review Test Campaign Results
2. Review Subject Line Test Results
3. For first tests review against industry benchmarks
4. Review unsubscribe and bounce results
5. Review CTR
6. Review Conversion
7. Review overall campaign performance

Evolve

1. Devise an e-mail marketing automation strategy
2. Devise trigger based targeting strategy
3. Devise auto data upload through API strategy
4. Use e-mail templates
5. Formulate automated e-mail campaign strategy. e.g. a holiday campaign can be executed on a particular date based on a previous purchase pattern of an existing customer.
6. Use automation in landing page creation and conversion optimization

This is it for now, in part two of How to Start E-mail Marketing for Your Organization, we will cover e-mail marketing strategy and the sub sections above. I will ensure that I cover most of the e-mail marketing best practices so that you get the best out of your e-mail marketing channel.I want to do individual posts on each of these sections to provide more value.

Hope you benefit from it.

Cheers!