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Email Marketing Consulting Services

Focus Email Marketing Consulting Services provide everything you need for a new email marketing campaign, advice for your messaging and design, or training on best practices. You will receive the right strategy and tools to improve performance and results. We provide the following consulting services to get the most out of your email campaign.

Campaign Launch:

Don't worry even for your first launch of email marketing campaign. What format should you use? How do you segment the email list? How do you code the HTML? When should you send the mails out? Which variables should be used for testing? Focus provides all the answers in this service package include:

Focus offers the following deliverables:

  • Best Practice resources
  • Initial campaign launch assistance
  • List set up assistance
  • HTML & text message review for known rendering challenges
  • Help with using enhancers (view online, profile update, unsubscribe)
  • Quality review prior to mailing
  • Follow up call to explain reporting

Best Practice Training:

Focus provides you knowledge of best practices on latest email marketing. We conduct an in-depth review on message creative, strategy and results to maximize returns from your current email marketing campaign. Then, our consultant will give an on-site presentation and training on industry best practices in the following areas and how they can be applied to your particular program.

Focus offers the following deliverables:

  • Subscribe/Unsubscribe Practices
  • Managing Customer Expectations
  • Building Quality lists
  • Segmentation & Personalization
  • Creative Strategy, Copy and Subject Lines
  • Increasing Recognition by Recipients
  • Delivery Challenges
  • Testing Strategies

We also directly deliver you:

Initial discovery call with consultant.
Full-day session for onsite presentation.
PowerPoint presentation with findings, analysis, samples, and recommendations.

Email Marketing Program Review (Pre- or Post-Launch with Focus):

Focus provides a strategic review of your entire email marketing platform before and after your launch. Evaluate your current email marketing program in the following areas and identify room for improvement or best steps to move forward.

Focus offers the following deliverables:

  • Strategic Email Marketing Services
    • Online marketing program goal definition
    • Customer contact strategy definition
    • Segmentation analysis
    • Campaign strategy, analysis & optimization
  • HTML and Text Messages
    • Overall design & format: length, readability, brand consistency, font, colors, etc.
    • W3C compliance
    • HTML rendering in 35 email clients/environments
    • Use of navigation
    • Rendering and design for preview panes & blocked images environments
    • Use of an administrative footer and/or functionality (address used, profile update, referral, etc.)
    • Proper use of links
    • From name and address
    • Sample subject line styles
    • Copy style
  • Subscribe/Unsubscribe Processes
    • Ease of finding opt-in form on Web site
    • Design/layout of opt-in form and page: Number of form fields, samples used & Copy, use of pre-checked boxes, privacy policy link/copy
    • Appropriateness of profile, demographic, preference questions asked
    • Single or double opt-in process
    • Design and copy used in subscription confirmation Web pages and emails
    • Additional initial messages sent: "Welcome", "Best of", recent issue, etc.
  • Relevance
    • Frequency and options
    • Use of segmentation and personalization
    • Value of content/offers
    • Consistency with Web site, ability to convert/take desired action on Web site
  • Message/Campaign Metrics
    • Open, click-through and Click-to-open rates
    • Bounce, unsubscribe and spam complaint rates
    • Visual link activity (hot spotting)
    • Other key metrics (average number of actions/orders, revenue per email, etc.)
    • Key metrics by domain/ISP and segment
    • Active/Inactive subscriber report (after several months using Focus)
  • Deliverability
    • Deliverability rates by ISP
    • List Quality: Percentage of "role" accounts (abuse@, support@, postmaster@)
    • Message content spam score: Core template / Sample messages

We also directly deliver you:

Full-day session for onsite presentation.
PowerPoint presentation with findings, analysis, samples, and recommendations.

Campaign Review - Creative, Messaging, Calls-to-Action:

Focus conducts a campaign review, which is much narrower in scope from the whole entire program review, providing a thorough audit of your messages and performance, and recommendations of how to drive the most results.

Focus offers the following deliverables:

  • Overall design & format: length, readability, brand consistency, font, colors, use of navigation
  • Rendering & design for preview panes and blocked images environments
  • Use of an administrative footer / functionality e.g. address used, profile update, referral
  • 'From name' and 'address'
  • Sample subject line styles
  • Copy style
  • Review of opt-in forms
  • Brief analysis of message metrics (list quality metrics)

We also directly deliver you:

Review of findings via phone.
PowerPoint presentation with findings, analysis, samples, and recommendations.

Campaign Deployment:

Focus assists you in setting up and deploying your email marketing campaign with basic service includes complete email management.

Focus offers the following deliverables:

  • Required 72 hours for schedule & delivery - creative received 48 hours prior to delivery
  • Set up of enhancers for viewing online, unsubscribing, updating profile
  • CAN-SPAM compliance review
  • Set up of target mailings according to client-specified demographics/filters
  • Client to provide the following:
    • HTML email and text only email (Images & Copy)
    • Mailing list(s), unsubscribe list, suppression list
    • From line, from address, reply to address, subject line
    • Proof list & seed list

We also directly deliver you:

Quality review prior to mailing.
Follow up call to explain reporting.
A/B split test using maximum of 2 filters and 2 creatives.

Reminder:If campaign set up exceeds 4 hours, each additional hour (or increments of an hour) spent on each particular campaign will be billed at our standard hourly rate.

Subscriber Acquisition & Retention:

Focus helps avoid excessive spam complaints, dormant and inactive segments in your list. We will review your eDM performance and the acquisition practices. Then, provide you best practice permission and messaging strategies for a quality list of active participants.

Focus offers the following deliverables:

  • Ease of finding opt-in form on Web site
  • Design/layout of opt-in form and page: Number of form fields, samples used & Copy, use of pre-checked boxes, privacy policy link/copy
  • Appropriateness of profile, demographic, preference questions asked
  • Single or double opt-in process
  • Design and copy used in subscription confirmation Web pages and emails
  • Additional initial messages sent: "Welcome", "Best of", recent issue, etc.
  • Strategies for reactivation of inactive recipients prior to purging

We also directly deliver you:

PowerPoint presentation with findings, analysis, samples, and recommendations.
Review of findings via phone.
Technical assistance for implementation if required.

Testing & Segmentation Strategies:

How can you test your content variations or identify which calls to action pull better? Let Focus help by reviewing your message creative, offers, strategy and results. You can plan elements for testing and improving ROI.

Focus offers the following deliverables:

  • Design & layout elements
  • Subject/From lines
  • Day & time frequency
  • Personalization & segmentation
  • Filter creation assistance
  • Distribution groups assistance
  • Reporting & analysis

We also directly deliver you:

Report of suggested items for testing and analyzing results.
Review of findings via phone.

Quarterly Assessment:

Constant changes in email environment pose great challenges to email marketing and would affect your campaign results. You may encounter problems when open rates or click rates decline as a result of rendering challenges from new email clients like Outlook 2007, or delivery rules at the major ISP's have shifted.

Focus will periodically assess your e-marketing program to overcome those changes in email clients or technology with recommend strategies, and to provide current best practices for testing and improvements. In short, we help you keep generating high ROI from your program.

We also directly deliver you:

Review of client email metrics.
Review of findings via phone.

Deliverability Reputation Assistance:

Deliverability reputation may affect whether a client accept your email. Focus will review your accounts and look for potential deliverability problem spots that generate spam complaints and damage sender's reputation. We evaluate how members are opted-in to receive messages, frequency of mailings, list hygiene, or the HTML creative.

Focus offers the following deliverables:

  • Focus trial using client mailings
  • Review authentication records for accuracy
  • Review campaign metrics for excessive spam complaints & invalid addresses
  • Identify sender practices - lead to spam complaints & recommend improvements

We also directly deliver you:

Review of findings via phone.
Follow up call to inspect changes.

On-Demand Recommendations:

Instead of choosing a complete full service program, simply approach Focus professional services team as needed. We can provide on-demand assistances such as analysis of design and format, a potential deliverability issue, approaches to personalization, or analysis of recent message results.

We directly deliver you review of findings via phone.