Eliminate the clutter: Tips Spring cleaning for your e-mail contact list

Spring is finally in the air, and the sun comes a new energy, a new direction of the exit Inspire. Here at the campaign headquarters, we started the season with the cleaning, which often accumulates in the winter months, that actually makes you feel refreshed and ready for new challenges. While it may be difficult to clean the compartments that we, as sellers, especially our massive contact lists. Therefore, for the best overview of the backpack spring cleaning for your business, I turned to our delivery team to determine the best ways to update a contact list and a new sunny outlook for start new season.

Care of your contact list can not only influence the success of email marketing campaigns future, but is also an essential part of their strategy. Here are four steps to remove the background image:

The loss of "winter weight"
If the own lists organized contacts important for the further supply of the email. Of course, your courier service provider (ESP) filter and remove withdrawals and bounce automatically from the list, but what about those who are at all not to open your email? No need to spend time and money fills thousands of junk files - so clean!

The first step is to identify all inactive contacts. Enjoy your data analysis to examine the "last open" and timestamp "last click" identify risk contacts the. Spread the goals of those who are active and with your brand one, so you can focus on the next steps for each group.

Discover social cues
In the process of spring cleaning, it is important to engage in introspection and the effectiveness of their content with your customers. Consider this example: If you talk to someone at a party and bring them a boring topic to repeat or like a broken record, is likely to lose interest, no longer react and consider "the need to go to the bathroom" for a short break. However, if this person carefully and take your bookmarks, they see the opportunity to get in changing topic of conversation to stay and chat more to engage something new.

This scenario perfectly reflects the relationships in e-mail marketing involved: the contacts on foot Do not. Instead, be vigilant and re-engage with their customers, while the door is always open (and the permission is granted, always). The key is to get the list of tools such as segmentation, split A / B testing and automation to gain "social" influence and to keep a better understanding of the subtle clues of the essential. If you notice, some contacts showed a decrease in click or less time spent. At the contents of your old winter, spring into action with a new approach sectoral users in separate lists and use Split Testing A / B to try new content or pictures, more interest may

Update your relationships
Once you have identified your inactive contacts, you must log on again (in other words, tell them what they want to hear). Easier said than done. The best approach is to develop a creative and interactive program contact and interest in this particular audience restoration. Consider a survey of customer feedback to find out what the favorite of spring are looking forward to creative content for a re-engagement campaign brainstorming or offer seasonal discounts on offer popular products. The key to this strategy is the reclosing use "re-opt-in" e-mail form background and select subscription with your subscribers. Let them choose whether they want to continue the relationship with your company, and if so, we will control the frequency and type of e-mail that you wish to receive. Once you have in place a solid plan, you will be fully prepared to dust off the snow in winter and spring will revive a new relationship.

Planting new seeds
Once your resume campaign that have run in. an updated list of those who (re-) elected for those who did not interact with e-mail, it is important to know that you will end the relationship to be - declare that you have noticed that they do not appear, the one you love how they (do not read the news or go on the website), and ask them one last time to confirm that they do . If there is no response, cut them off. To make room for new clients who would like to engage with your brand.

Now that you have cleaned and organized your list, you have to clean a lean machine is average email marketing really effective in open driving, the number of clicks and ultimately revenue. Go ahead, give your list a scrub and spring success!

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