Your email campaign is like a car, needing regular inspection and upkeep stay on the road. Consulting your campaign reporting tools is that trip to the mechanic.
Get the Broad View
Your email campaign service comes equipped with reporting tools, offering at-a-glance performance insight and in-depth data.
Your reporting dashboard is a vital signs monitor for your email campaign, measuring opened and unopened emails, opt-outs, click throughs, among others.
Be Open to Change
The dashboard scratches the surface, it’s time to dig deeper.
The open rate tool tells you how many recipients opened and read your mail. An email-by-email evaluation is your best bet.
If your open rate falls short, go back and do a postmortem of underperforming emails. Divide your contact list in half or into thirds. Send out your next email at different times of day to these groups and gauge which one yields the best results.
Other reasons for lackluster openings could be…- Unrecognizable or Spammy-looking “from” names
- Equally shoddy email addresses
- Overlong and muddy subject lines
Go back over your content strategy to ensure you're executing it properly.
Over-the-Top or Under the Radar?
Email
marketing is a stricter baseball hitting count; TWO strikes and you’re
out. Your first swing and miss was the unopened mail. Strike two is
opt-outs.Are you sending your email too often? If bombarded enough, people feel as if their inbox is the landfill of the web. You also don’t want to disappear for months at a time and then abruptly ask to crash on their inbox couch.
Send out a survey polling recipients on their desired frequency of mailings. Take another look at your opt-in language. What tone of frequency did you establish on this successful form? What kind of content did you promise? Make sure the pitch matches your product.
Cash in the Chips You've WON
While trying to remedy any failures of your email campaign, don’t neglect to capitalize on the successes.Reach out to your regulars, recipients who consistently opened your mailings. Your reporting tools also offer a click through feature. This tells you who accessed your website or blog via the mailing.
Your message resonated with these recipients. Use this appreciation to make a customer out of a contact.
In Summation
You’ve paid for the email campaign service and the collected data. Consider the reporting tools to be a marketing currency mint. Now make sure you re-invest it wisely.
