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10 Qualities of a Great Network Marketing Opportunity
Finding the best network marketing business is like finding a needle in a haystack. With the advent of the Internet, more and more are being offered, but how do you know which one is right for you? More important, which ones are scams and which...
Newsletters: Your Readers and You
One of the Hottest Commodities on or off the Internet is "Information". In this age of technology people more than ever want to know and they want to learn. I imagine you yourself are reading this in hopes of clicking away with more than you started...
Promote Your Article
Promote Your Blog Well, you've joined the others and have created a blog. It is time to tell the world about your online journal. Most blog services generate an RSS feed. If your blogging software does not create an RSS feed, consider using software...
Will You Remember 2001
Has this been a year you will remember? The last couple of weeks, I have asked this question of many. Every answer was yes. My next question was - Reasons? If you are one of the majority, the answer is September 11. I certainly see the...
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What is the difference between men and women? This question has confounded philosophers from the beginning of time. But it would be valuable to explore this issue from the perspective of today’s business world. What’s the difference between men...
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Times Square vs. chocolate e-mail marketing
Times Square is a marketeer's ego wall. With more billboards than there is coffee at an AA meeting, Times Square is the Internet's ground zero for spray-and-pray marketing. Definition of spray and pray: (1) in near panic, spray fresh VC funding on big image advertising; (2) pray in several languages that the right people come to your site; (3) tell VCs your dog ate their money.
Because our VCs would never believe the dog story, we decided to spend our marketing dollars on other, less glamorous, measures. I'd like to tell the story of one particular campaign, because it yielded a 36% click-through, added tons of people to our permission database, and exposed a qualified group of people to our brand.
1000 pounds of chocolate It all started with the bare essentials of an e-mail campaign: a targeted opt-in e-mail list, an intriguing subject line, a personalized message, and 1000 pounds of chocolate. Okay, let me explain the chocolate. We knew we had to come up with a compelling offer that would elicit response and enhance our brand, so we co-marketed with a well-known chocolatier to give away wrapped boxes of truffles.
We blasted the mass e-mail out with the subject line, "mmmm…c h o c o l a t e !" When users opened the e-mail, they were told they could give chocolates to a special someone simply by registering on our site. In Pavlovian reaction, respondents flooded the site and over 20% of those who visited converted into opt-in registrants. Though it took only a minute, the registration process involved answering several demographic questions; giving us your gift recipient's name and e-mail; and filling in five e-mails of people you think would be interested in giving chocolate to a friend.
After the registrant hit "submit," the five people they recommended were instantly e-mailed with a personalized invitation to come to
our site and give a gift of chocolates. The gift recipient got an e-mail notifying them they had been gifted by their friend - with the giver's personal message embedded in the e-mail -- and to claim the gift on our site. Over 80% of the recipients visited the site and claimed their gift. We made sure these people also filled out some demographic information. Within a week, the person received a wrapped box of truffles and a gift card telling them who we were.
Love fest The result was a love fest. The gift giver looked like a spontaneous Santa Claus. The recipients were excited because they received an unexpected goodie from a friend. Lastly, our company got more mileage out of the campaign than a '76 Datsun in Tijuana. First, a vast majority of the registrants opted in to our e-mail list, so we ended up with a big database of potential customers to whom we could send relevant and tailored marketing messages. (Ten percent of the number of people we originally e-mailed ended up on our opt-in list.) Second, we gained a detailed snapshot into our prospective customer, as thousands of people told us everything from income to dressing style. Lastly, the nature of the gift and the spirit of the campaign reflected well on our brand.
All told, it cost us less than $3 to acquire an opt-in user about whom we have several data points. By comparison, it can cost more than $7 to execute the same campaign through a big affiliate network (the "per form" deal). With the venture community growing increasingly critical of the viability of B2C business models, a humble e-mail marketing campaign with a twist might make more sense than a Times Square billboard.
About the Author
Jesse Stein is VP of Marketing at smartcasual.com, a New York based e-retailer of brand-name business casual apparel. Reach him at jesse@smartcasual.com.
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