Tweetable Takeaways from the Completely Email Conference

Tweetable Takeaways from the Completely Email Conference

Tweetable Takeaways from the Completely Email Conference

Bex Osborn

Marketing Strategist

31 Oct 2014

Did you miss the Completely Email Conference last friday? Fear not, Elliot & Jacques' deck can be found below ( click here for Mike's), along with some tweetable takeaways.

Enjoy... Top tip:

The first tenet of email marketing is stop emailing people.

#completelyemail — Tyler S Kenyon (@hey_tk) October 24, 2014 Spray and Pray, like Clippy, fine if you want to annoy everyone #completelyemail pic.twitter.com/CkQTjg2bJi — Jacques Corby-Tuech (@iamacyborg) October 24, 2014 Becs Rivett:

"Don't do spray and pray...learn about your customers, use your data and target those who care" #completelyemail — Maz Maritz (@MariusMaritz) October 24, 2014 Be careful - over aggressive or inappropriate retargeting emails can annoy your users and even make them unsub #CompletelyEmail — ActionRocket (@ActionRocket) October 24, 2014 Great point from Bex about over targeting.

Looks really desperate #completelyemail — Mark (@markstjohnson) October 24, 2014 #completelyemail if you put the email content in a subject line it might not be opened and get auto marked junk.

Subject line goal = open — Simon Dunant (@NewRiseDigital) October 24, 2014 The biggest thing that brought #email back into the highlight is #mobile #CompletelyEmail — Adestra (@adestra) October 24, 2014 #completelyemail People are more used to scrolling on an email on mobile, and prefer it to pinch-n-grab #embracethescroll — ActionRocket (@ActionRocket) October 24, 2014 #completelyemail think about how your readers are interacting with your email when they receive it.

pic.twitter.com/fgRgvqvL9m — Simon Dunant (@NewRiseDigital) October 24, 2014 #completelyemail I think video email will still have it’s day, the challenge is making sure your content is good/useful — Elliot Ross (@iamelliot) October 24, 2014 What does wearables mean for email.

Dread to think! Back to plain text! #completelyemail — Mark (@markstjohnson) October 24, 2014 #completelyemail what's in store for email in the near term future.

Start thinking about these for your campaigns pic.twitter.com/v3QMeDfid4 — Simon Dunant (@NewRiseDigital) October 24, 2014 #completelyemail interesting thought that social guys are paying more attention to email — Elliot Ross (@iamelliot) October 24, 2014 #completelyemail mobile email usage has grown 180% in three years pic.twitter.com/heZvbBXC63 — Simon Dunant (@NewRiseDigital) October 24, 2014 60% of marketers don’t do any, or only do basic mobile email optimisation • #completelyemail • Talk to me! pic.twitter.com/5fvTPSUD7w — ActionRocket (@ActionRocket) October 24, 2014 #Email is a bigger deal on phones than #social .

78% people check emails, more than people checking Facebook #CompletelyEmail — Adestra (@adestra) October 24, 2014 Hear the mobile first email argument a lot but shame more experts don't say to look at your OWN data not worldwide trends #completelyemail — Mark (@markstjohnson) October 24, 2014 Mobile before desktop...

Research tells us 80% of consumers would delete an email if it looks bad on their phone #completelyemail — AlphaQuad (@alphaquad) October 24, 2014 Mobile hasn't just arrived, it's taking over.

66% of all emails in the US are opened on mobile devices via @SadieAtGenie #completelyemail — Receptional (@Receptional) October 24, 2014 ...

Mobile users will browse emails on mobile device and switch to desktop later.

Optimisation vital #completelyemail — Kristie Marchant (@KristieMarchant) October 24, 2014 23% of every mobile hour is spent checking email! #completelyemail What are you saying to your customers? — Maz Maritz (@MariusMaritz) October 24, 2014 would you go for mobile friendly or mobile foe-y? @Mike_Ragan #completelyemail — Monica Vannozzi (@MonicaVannozzi) October 24, 2014 Crucial point by @Mike_Ragan , create emails based on your audiences behaviour #completelyemail — Jacques Corby-Tuech (@iamacyborg) October 24, 2014 Defining terminology @Mike_Ragan @ActionRocket #completelyemail pic.twitter.com/WhSX1BLlt8 — Cristina Trifonescu (@dewofslumber) October 24, 2014 A thank you email to active users just before Xmas massively increased transactions for a big brand says Alistair Simpson #completelyemail — Receptional (@Receptional) October 24, 2014 Simple email design doesn’t mean bad email design.

#CompletelyEmail — Beyond the Envelope™ (@Paul_Airy) October 24, 2014 Customers don’t care about channels.

They expect a fluid conversation #CompletelyEmail — Adestra (@adestra) October 24, 2014 So big data is just audience segmentation on crack? #completelyemail — Tyler S Kenyon (@hey_tk) October 24, 2014 Top tip:

with great profiling comes great responsibility #completelyemail #spideymarketing — Tyler S Kenyon (@hey_tk) October 24, 2014 'To guarantee inbox placement in Gmail redefine recency to 30 days not 90' @GuyHanson #completelyemail #deliverability — Mark (@markstjohnson) October 24, 2014 'International targeted email is the end-boss of email' #completelyemail Metaphor of the day award to @iamelliot pic.twitter.com/YL7kcQvpsH — Mark (@markstjohnson) October 24, 2014

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