LRN0038 - Improving Email Promotions
Course Description
Discover new ways to improve your email promotions, including when and what to email, and testing email copy. Learn how to analyze your email response rates, including getting the bench marks for open rates and click through rates. Acquire ways to improve your email promotion and responses for testing and tracking. This course is suitable for users of all levels.
Course Outline
Unit 1Why email marketing
Targeting promotions in the Internet Age
Return on Investment (ROI) for email promotions
The importance of permission marketing, relevant content, and opt-out options
Integrating email promotion with other kinds of marketing
Unit 2
How email works
How commercial email vendors function
Analyzing Open, click through and conversion rates
Cleaning and updating email lists
How HTML and text emails differ
Unit 3
Writing email copy
Writing a good subject line
Writing email body copy
Writing response and action copy
Design and formatting email promotions
Unit 4
Testing and tracking emails
Frequency and best times to email
How to test different emails
Following up on inquiries
Creating a one year email marketing plan
About Your Instructors
Dan Belhassen is an expert in eMarketing. He does writing, training, and consulting all over North America on the topic.
He is founder of Modern Earth, located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Modern Earth does a range of eMarketing for its clients, including email promotions, web site development, search engine optimization, and online advertising.
Dan spends about 3 hours a day researching eMarketing and is a popular instructor on the topic.
Susan Hurrell is an Online Marketing specialist with Modern Earth, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She helps clients know how to connect web viewers to the products, services or information they are searching for. PPC or Facebook ads, search engine optimization and dynamic sell-copy creation are her specialities to help websites deliver measurable results in viewer conversion, and increase traffic driven by online marketing initiatives.
Learner Outcomes
At the end of the course, you will:- Have an overall understanding of how email promotion works and how email promotions are delivered to people;
- Possess guidelines on how to write effective email copy;
- Know how to avoid spamming people and how to target emails to those people most interested in your product or service;
- Gain the technical knowledge to understand how commercial email vendors function and how to work with a commercial email vendor to optimize email promotions;
- Know when to email, what to email, and how to analyze your email response rates, including open rates, click through rates, and conversion rates.
Notes
Course Objectives- To provide participants with an overview and understanding of how email promotion works and how email promotions are sent to prospective and existing customers;
- To provide participants with the practical, how-to knowledge of the best times to email, best days to email, and how to test email copy.
- To provide participants with the knowledge of how to write effective email copy.
- To provide participants with the knowledge of how to avoid spamming people, how to target emails to the interests of people, and how to follow up with those people interested in one’s products or services.
- To provide participants with a technical understanding of open rates, click through rates, conversion rates, how commercial email vendors function, and what data to analyze to improve one’s email promotions.
Testimonials
"This was a very effective course. We have learned a lot of great ideas from this session." - Julie Schechter NanticokeApplies Towards the Following Digital Badges
- Digital Marketing Digital Badge - Online : Required Courses