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Join us for an insightful session on crafting effective blog digest emails that engage your audience. Learn key strategies for scheduling social media updates, promoting your content, and segmenting your audience based on their buying process. We will cover best practices for writing compelling subject lines, personalizing email content, and ensuring compliance with CAN-SPAM regulations. By the end of the session, you will have actionable homework to implement these strategies in your marketing plan, along with resources to further your learning.
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Alan Perlman Alan Perlman @AlanPerlman
Course Details Goals & Research 104 101 103 102 105 106 Plan & Create Create & Optimize Promote Analyze Recap
AGENDA Creating a blog digest email 1 Scheduling Social Media updates 2 3 Promoting content on your own site 4 Class Homework & Questions
Target audience Target offer Target email
List Quality Does everyone on the list have a prior relationship with you? 1 2 Do you have an unsubscribe or suppression list? 3 The list was not purchased, rented, leased or gifted from a third party 4 Would they be expecting/ not surprised by your email?
Align Your Buying process • Use keywords that describe problem • Don’t yet understand solutions • Looking to be educated • Commitment is low Establish Buying Criteria Realize Problem or Need Perform Research Evaluate Vendors • Learn about how to solve problem • Understand what’s available • More educated questions • Commitment is low to medium Segmenting by the buying process & content • Establish “must haves” – • Price, Quality, etc. • Don’t want to missing anything • Commitment is medium -high • Narrow down vendors • Compare vendors • Looking for trials, demos, • consultations • Commitment is high
Analyze > Blog Analytics • How to find them • Other content to promote?
2 From Name & Email Address
3 Subject Line
Subject Line Best Practices Less than 45 characters 1 2 Action Oriented 3 Convey the offer or benefit 4 Consistency with the first line of the email
Subject Line Examples • Title of most popular article that month • 5 [Month] Blog Articles You Should Read • Here’s your [Month] Digest • The [Business] Top Ten- [Month] • Weekly [Coffee] Links- [Industry] • Top 10 [topic] articles this month • 5 articles on [topic] you can’t miss • Top 5 articles reviewing [service/product]
3-5 Links • 125 words or less of content • Personalize • Images • CAN-SPAM • Plain Text 4 Email Body
Email Body 1 2 3
Email Body 5 4
Class Homework Create & send blog digest email 1
“ Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about. Benjamin Franklin Image Credit: lhalstead
What Should I Promote? Blog articles 4 5 6 2 3 1 Landing pages Other people’s relevant content News and upcoming events Quick facts or quotes Customer stories
HubSpot’sBookmarklet Use to share other people’s content that you find on the Internet 1
20-30 updates per week (3-4 per day) 1 2 3 15 updates of your own content 15 updates are other people’s content
Class Homework Schedule social media for next week 2
Thank You Pages 1 • List articles that are relevant to the landing page offer the lead just received 2 • Call to action to read your blog content 3 • Display a RSS feed of your blog’s content 4 • Call to action to subscribe to your blog
Class Homework Add blog content or CTA to a thank you page Add links to blog & CTA to at least 5 website pages 3 4