This Highly Popular Series Is a Must-Have Course for Everyone Who Does Email Marketing
Special Winter Pricing: Regularly, $1,300 is now 50% off—$650. Enroll here.
This -four-module Email Marketing Masterclass series covers the four essential areas of email marketing management: copy and design, deliverability, data and personalization, and optimizing content and offers through the customer journey. All of the workshops in this series provide strategies, examples, and checklists you can implement immediately in your company, no matter what email-sending platform (ESP) you are using. The series is led by best-selling author and email expert Kate Barrett.
You can take these courses à la carte, individually, or as a four-part Email Marketing Masterclass series bundle for a significant discount.
The four-module bundle discount is normally 35% off. But for winter, all of our courses are 50% off. That means that if you register for all four modules, you’ll save an astonishing 67.5% off of what each of these popular modules would cost separately.
Email Marketing Masterclass, Module 1: Improving Email Marketing Results with Better Copy, Design, and Strategy.
Special Pricing, Module 1 Only: Regularly $500 is now 50% off—$250. Enroll Here (Live Online).
Special Series Pricing: All four Email Marketing Masterclass workshop modules $1,300 are now 50% off—$650. Enroll Here (Live Online).
Email marketing is the foundation of any good multi-channel marketing strategy.
But if you’re finding that your current campaigns are stagnating, results are declining, or you just need a fresh approach to optimizing what you’re currently doing, this class will give you all the core principles you need to maximize your current email marketing strategy. In a world of crowded email inboxes and mobile viewers, you’ll have the tools you need to acquire and retain customers more effectively than ever before.
We’ll talk about best practices for both B2B and B2C businesses for email copy, design, and implementation. We’ll cover designing emails for engagement (and different devices) and writing winning subject lines and email copy. You’ll learn when and how often to send emails, gain a useful new understanding of your campaign metrics, and successfully conduct testing that gets results.
Key Takeaways:
- Optimizing your email design and structure: Key design considerations to ensure your emails maximize your audience engagement:
- Creating open-worthy subject lines.
- The anatomy of an email—key sections that every email should have, and that all need to be optimized, regardless of design.
- Optimizing for mobile and responsive design to enhance engagement across multiple devices.
- Optimizing the email for preview pane and blocked images to ensure your message always gets across and is actionable.
- Design techniques to draw the eye to your Call-to-Action (CTA).
- Optimizing your CTA color, placement, and wording to maximize clicks.
- Advanced email design: Interactive email to bring your message to life and help subscribers engage there and then:
- Video in email—key do’s and don’ts.
- GIFs—the right and wrong way to use them.
- What are AMP and Creative HTML and how can you use them to better deliver your content to subscribers and generate engagement?
- Techniques to create copy that converts and connects with your subscribers.
- Testing as a strategic issue; five steps to creating tests that get results you can use (across channels!).
- Testing as a strategic issue; 5 steps to create tests that get results you can use (across channels!).
Email Marketing Masterclass, Module 2: Improving Email Deliverability to get Your Emails in the Inbox.
Special Pricing, Module 2 Only: regularly $500 now 50% off—$250. Enroll Here (Live Online).
Special Series Pricing: All four Email Marketing Masterclass workshop modules $1,300 are now 50% off—$650. Enroll Here (Live Online).
Planning, creating an email, and pressing the send button is just the start of the journey to the subscriber. What happens next, and how you can help give your emails the best chance of reaching your prospect’s inbox, require consideration across multiple areas of your implementation and strategy.
If you’re seeing diminishing results at a specific email provider or overall or simply want to know how to maintain high delivery, this class is for you.
In this workshop, you’ll learn the difference between deliverability and inbox placement and how you can influence success in both areas for both B2B and B2C senders. We’ll discuss your sending infrastructure, list hygiene practices, spam content, and how engagement impacts your top-line results. We’ll also dive into specific strategies to monitor your campaigns on an ongoing basis and fix problems as they arise, including optimizing your email blasts for Hotmail and Gmail specifically.
This module is weighted towards B2C deliverability challenges. However, many of the elements are very similar in B2B, and the knowledge gained can be used across both markets.
Key Takeaways:
- Deliverability vs. inbox placement—what’s the difference?
- Understanding your sender reputation, including Domain vs. IP reputation, and getting your sending infrastructure right (DKIM, SPF, TSL, DMARC, BIMI, etc.).
- List Hygiene:
- Spam traps: what tools give you insight into spam traps and how you can get rid of them.
- Hard bounces, soft bounces, and blocks: what’s the difference, how to analyze them and how to handle them.
- Sending Permanence.
- Spam content.
- Positive engagement, negative engagement, and complaint rates.
- The impact of your data collection processes on your delivery.
- The difference between B2B and B2C delivery.
- Gmail / Hotmail (Outlook) specifics:
- What’s the Inbox? Tabs available and how to navigate them.
- Gmail promotions tab:
- How to identify you have deliverability/Inbox placement issues.
- Pro-active and re-active strategies to enhance your results:
- Proactive: What statistics to monitor and what to look out for.
- Reactive: Engagement pull-back strategy, and what to do for B2B email management.
Email Marketing Masterclass, Module 3: Improving Email Engagement with Personalization and Automation.
Special Pricing, Module 3 Only: Regularly $500 is now 50% off—$250. Enroll Here (Live Online).
Special Series Pricing: All four Email Marketing Masterclass workshop modules $1,300 are now 50% off—$650. Enroll Here (Live Online).
A good email marketing strategy is made up of many different types of email for both B2B and B2C businesses—the more targeted and personalized those campaigns are, the better the results you’ll see.
But, in order to achieve this, you have to understand—and fall in love with—your data, the foundation of all high-performing email strategies.
Once you understand what data you have available in your business and what you’d love to have in the future (as well as how to get it!), you can start to understand all the opportunities it opens up. You can schedule emails at times that are relevant to your subscribers (based on their behavior, for example). You can personalize your content to suggest products, content or services that are right for that individual subscriber, at the right time.
In this class, we’ll explore all the different types of data you already have available to you. We’ll help you see what’s missing and show you how you can add it in the future. We’ll also look at:
- The top-level legal considerations of gathering data for marketing
- How you can start to break up lists to create targeted segments for your campaigns
- How to trigger automated campaign series
- How to add relevant content to your emails
- How your manual and automated campaigns sit in the customer lifecycle.
- How you can use email to better serve customers throughout their lifecycle to increase your results.
Regardless of which email platform (ESP) or vendor you currently use (or may decide to move to), this class offers system-agnostic training. The concepts you learn will help guide your strategy and help you to make platform decisions that will better personalize and automate your campaigns.
Key Takeaways:
- Using your data to enhance your messages and meet your goals:
- Fall in love with your data: understand your data hierarchy and the possibilities it offers to help increase your results.
- Analyzing your current situation to identify what data you have, and where, and how it’s used, (potential) issues, gaps and opportunities.
- How to collect more of the data you need and want from multiple sources.
- Connecting your data together.
- Considerations when dealing with your data:
- Privacy & marketing compliance USA: CAN SPAM, California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
- Privacy & marketing compliance: GDPR & ePrivacy.
- Connecting your content to your subscribers to encourage conversion: Segmentation, Targeting and Positioning your offerings (STP):
- Utilize your data together: RFM (eRFM)/lead scoring.
- How to identify customer needs: developing customer personas.
- Evaluate the overall attractiveness of each segment you want to create to determine which are worthwhile targeting.
- Creating a value proposition to present your offerings to your subscribers.
- Choosing your marketing mix—the 4 Ps.
- Sending one-to-one rather than one-to-many: Personalizing your messages to speak directly to each subscriber:
- Using dynamic fields to bring your content into each subscriber’s real-life situation (marketing moments).
- Adding dynamic content to adjust sections of copy, images, offers or CTA buttons depending on who is receiving your email:
- Using live dynamic content that adjusts each time your subscriber opens the email.
- The 5 stages of the customer lifecycle and how you can use this to better understand your subscribers needs:
- The 3 key automated campaigns every company should have in place from the start.
Email Marketing Masterclass, Module 4: Emailing Along the 5 Stages of the Customer Journey—Improving Email Results with the Right Content at Each Stage to Drive Engagement.
Special Pricing, Module 4 Only: Regularly $500, now 50% off—$250. Enroll Here (Live Online).
Special Series Pricing: All four Email Marketing Masterclass workshop modules $1,300 are now 50% off—$650. Enroll Here (Live Online).
The nirvana of any good email marketing strategy is to be able to send the right message to the right person at the right time.
By identifying who your customers and prospects are, and by establishing data points that identify where they are with you on their individual journey, you can create a series of automated campaigns to send to your audience and deliver exactly that.
But if you don’t know where to start when it comes to adding to your automated campaign strategy, and if you don’t understand what your customers need as they progress on their journey with you, this workshop will answer those questions. And what you learn will inspire you to maximize your campaign potential.
In this workshop, we’ll talk about the five stages of the customer journey and how they should influence your email marketing communications. We’ll also look at how you can use your data to identify customers and prospects at each of these stages, how to work out what content to send and when for maximum impact, and how to consider the human side of your messages.
During the class we’ll also show you how to map your customers’ emotional journey and use that knowledge to create more impactful, engaging emails that get results; for both B2B and B2C businesses.
Regardless of which email platform (ESP) or vendor you currently use (or may decide to move), this class offers system-agnostic learning of concepts you should consider within your strategy and platform considerations to better personalize and automate your campaigns.
This course is a practical session giving you the techniques and ideas to build out your own customer journeys, identify exactly what your audience needs, and determine when and through which marketing channel this is best delivered. You’ll also get lots of examples of different types of campaigns throughout to inspire your content and creative strategy.
Key Takeaways:
- The opportunity automated campaigns can bring for your business:
- Why automated email campaigns engage your audience better than any other campaign type.
- The importance of planning multi/omni channel campaigns to increase engagement.
- The five stages of the customer journey and how you can use these to better understand your subscribers needs at specific times:
- How to map your customers emotional journey—enabling you to develop content, targeting and multi/omni channel experiences.
- Key email campaigns to consider at each stage of the journey to drive engagement; for both B2B and B2C businesses.
- How to add value for your customers, to help them move to the next stage of their journey.
- Planning your automated campaigns for success:
- The starting point of every automation—your data.
- Creating automated campaign branches.
- Your automated campaign hierarchy.
- Setting your campaign rules.
- Evaluating your automated campaign KPIs, including core KPIs to focus on, and how to analyze your automated campaign series over time.
How to Convince Your Boss Why You Should Take this Class:
According to eConsultancy*, 87% of surveyed senior executives agreed that the events of 2020 and 2021 have rewired customers to be digital-first. But customers don’t just expect rich digital experiences. To make a lasting impression, businesses need to provide personalized content that creates a unified journey across channels. Email marketing is at the forefront of delivering on customer’s expectations of personalized communications that deliver on their expectations, with the right content and offers at the right time. This email masterclass series prepares marketers to think through how to turn your email marketing program into a customer-centric, high-performing multi-touch digital experience.
*Digital Trends 2022 Experience Index Adobe and eConsultancy
The Presentations:
- The workshop is hands-on and practical.
- The workshop is live so that you can ask your questions.
- Can’t attend the live workshop? No problem. All DMAnc.org workshops are recorded, and we’ll send you the recording, workbook, and any supplementary materials within a day of completion after we’ve had time to edit the recording.
- Step-by-step instructions in numbered lists with the links so you can do this yourself.
- Everything is clear with lots of illustrations and examples. You can copy the examples, edit them, and use them in your work.
Download Material:
- Video of the presentation with slides and audio.
- PDF of the complete presentation.
Who is the course for?
Anyone who manages the email marketing and marketing automation strategy for their company, including:
- Email Marketing Managers.
- Demand Generation Managers.
- eCommerce Managers.
- Digital Marketing Managers.
- and Agency Account Managers who manage the email marketing strategy for their clients.
The Presenter:
Kate Barrett
Kate Barrett is the founder of eFocus Marketing, providing specialist email marketing consultancy, management and training services to companies around the world.
With a proven track record and over 16 years’ experience, Kate’s expertise and passion has helped a large range of companies (including Ann Summers, Ordinance Survey, Nissan, Marks & Spencer, Argos and Ted Baker among many others) develop comprehensive strategies, implement, manage and optimize campaigns, as well as solve complex email marketing issues.
Kate is also an instructor for CIM.co.uk and DMAnc.org, keynote/speaker at events, and author of the bestselling book ‘E-telligence. Email Marketing isn’t dead, the way you’re using it is’ (e-focusmarketing.com/book/)
Website: e-focusmarketing.com.
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/katebarrettonline.
Publications:
- eFocus Marketing Blog: https://e-focusmarketing.com/blog/.
- Only Influencers Blog: https://www.onlyinfluencers.com/most-recent-articles/search?query=kate%20barrett.
- Spotler & eFocus Marketing Podcast.
Workshop dates and times:
WINTER
Module 1: Improving Email Marketing Results with Better Copy, Design, and Strategy.
Thursday, January 16, 2025.
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM PST.
Module 2: Improving Email Deliverability to Get Your Emails in the Inbox.
Thursday, January 23, 2025.
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM PST.
Module 3: Improving Email Engagement with Personalization and Automation.
Thursday, January 30, 2025.
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM PST.
Module 4: Emailing Along the 5 Stages of the Customer Journey—Improving Email Results with the Right Content at Each Stage to Drive Engagement.
Thursday, February 6, 2025.
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM PST.
