[Ebook] Marketing Bloopers Reel! How to Avoid Common Email Blunders

SHARE:

By: Lizzy Funk We’ve all done it. No matter how much experience you have in email marketing , it is bound to happen at least o...

By:


We’ve all done it. No matter how much experience you have in email marketing, it is bound to happen at least once in your career:

You develop this amazing, compelling, simply breathtaking email that is going to convert oh-so-many people. You hit send and then lean back in your chair with satisfaction, arms crossed and feet up on your desk.

But, then, as your eyes scan your computer screen (so that, of course, you can bask in all the glory that is your email), you see it. You see what you didn’t see the first 100 times you previously read the email back to yourself:

A BIG MISTAKE.

Panic ensues. YOU made a mistake! Noooo!

The emails from recipients start coming in. The phones ring off the hook…cue the horror music! This is surely every marketer’s WORST nightmare (seriously, just typing this out makes me nervous!).

So, my fellow marketers, get ready to feel a little bit uncomfortable as we dive into the various ways emails can go very, very wrong:

Incorrect Personalization

In a time when everything is personalized from your thermostat to your watch and of course your email, it is that much more important to ensure your personalization is accurate before you hit the send button. Make sure you have the right token, location, and language ahead of time.

Irrelevant Information

As a customer, have you ever received an email and thought, “Does this company have any idea who I actually am?” For example, even though I have been out of college for quite some time (and, no, I’m not telling you how long it has really been), I still get messages from my former bank telling me about how to save money as a student. Irrelevant information can be caused by wrong segmentation and results in consumers receiving an email that has little or nothing to do with their interests or needs.

Poor Proofreading

This one sounds obvious—but you would be surprised by the number of emails we all get each day with minor (and even major) proofreading mistakes. Examples of these mistakes include broken links, wrong banners or images, and both spelling and grammar errors. As a rule of thumb, always get a second, third, or even fourth set of eyes on your email before hitting send.

Non-Optimal Email Cadence

Another blunder we should all be avoiding is simply sending too many emails. Your audience already has a full inbox; don’t add to it by sending excessive emails. Doing this can lead to unsubscribes or being flagged as spam, totally defeating your goal of getting your subscribers’ (positive) attention.

Avoiding Blunders

So how do you avoid these types of blunders? Be proactive.

There are two ways that you can be proactive in your organization. The first is to create a checklist of everything you need to verify before hitting send. Here is an example of a checklist:


The second is to create an action plan for if and when an email blunder occurs. This plan makes it easier for you to jump into action because it includes a pre-determined notification plan and identifies what role team members are supposed to play. This means that you don’t have to sort all this out while in panic mode. And it saves precious time. As a part of creating your plan, you will want to:
  • Identify stakeholders (who in the organization can help resolve this blunder?)
  • Develop a notification plan (who gets notified and when?)
  • Plan for different scenarios (have various notification plans based on the severity of the blunder)
Learn more about the types of email blunders and how to recover from them in our latest ebook: Top Email Marketing Blunders and How to Avoid (and Recover From) Them.

Do you have an email blooper that you’ve recovered from? I’d love to hear about it in the comments section below!


Source

COMMENTS

Name

ad,8,affiliate,15,analytic,1,audience,5,automation,33,blog,18,brand,11,business,36,call to action,1,campaign,30,content,93,conversion,16,CTA,8,customers,14,deliverability,9,digital,30,email,557,entrepreneur,9,facebook,17,gmail,6,google,11,google analytics,1,graphic,1,headline,4,home,10,instagram,6,internet,14,IoT,1,landing page,19,lead,20,list,47,marketer,27,marketing,294,mindset,40,mobile,4,niche,5,online,36,opt-in,14,pinterest,2,ROI,1,segmentation,10,SEO,8,snapchat,1,social media,102,spam,13,stat,7,strategy,10,subject line,38,subscriber,30,success,15,test,13,traffic,20,trend,12,twitter,9,TYP,3,video,10,webinar,1,website,8,youtube,3,
ltr
item
#DIGITAL: [Ebook] Marketing Bloopers Reel! How to Avoid Common Email Blunders
[Ebook] Marketing Bloopers Reel! How to Avoid Common Email Blunders
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMzLvnoErlvzGRsJURO-58Zo6ATJZfjF5wDGAOvXL0U6P1KoBZZsWaQ5MJ_GDdTq1phG08idlGeoKuSCzhEoODyN9xeaqKCY8VG57PzlziihIDUkaEMy5GmcoeS2h5nSRcW16hJCaxh18/s400/MKTG-10658-istock-photo-needed.jpg
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMzLvnoErlvzGRsJURO-58Zo6ATJZfjF5wDGAOvXL0U6P1KoBZZsWaQ5MJ_GDdTq1phG08idlGeoKuSCzhEoODyN9xeaqKCY8VG57PzlziihIDUkaEMy5GmcoeS2h5nSRcW16hJCaxh18/s72-c/MKTG-10658-istock-photo-needed.jpg
#DIGITAL
https://www.infinclick.com/2017/02/ebook-marketing-bloopers-reel-how-to.html
https://www.infinclick.com/
http://www.infinclick.com/
http://www.infinclick.com/2017/02/ebook-marketing-bloopers-reel-how-to.html
true
7265473034940166968
UTF-8
Loaded All Posts Not found any posts VIEW ALL Readmore Reply Cancel reply Delete By Home PAGES POSTS View All RECOMMENDED FOR YOU LABEL ARCHIVE SEARCH ALL POSTS Not found any post match with your request Back Home Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat January February March April May June July August September October November December Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec just now 1 minute ago $$1$$ minutes ago 1 hour ago $$1$$ hours ago Yesterday $$1$$ days ago $$1$$ weeks ago more than 5 weeks ago Followers Follow THIS CONTENT IS PREMIUM Please share to unlock Copy All Code Select All Code All codes were copied to your clipboard Can not copy the codes / texts, please press [CTRL]+[C] (or CMD+C with Mac) to copy