{"id":13013,"date":"2012-04-20T06:28:06","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T06:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smartinsights.com\/?post_type=guides&#038;p=13013"},"modified":"2023-03-03T11:25:10","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T11:25:10","slug":"email-sequence-contact-strategy-template","status":"publish","type":"guides","link":"https:\/\/www.smartinsights.com\/guides\/email-sequence-contact-strategy-template\/","title":{"rendered":"Email sequence contact strategy template"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>How will this spreadsheet help me and my business?<\/h3>\n<p>Research shows that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartinsights.com\/email-marketing\/behavioural-email-marketing\/\">behavioural email marketing<\/a> is a powerful technique to automatically follow-up online customer actions to help increase conversion to sale at a low cost. However, the technique is still used by relatively few companies. One barrier to setting up these event-triggered email sequences is the time it takes to specify the sequences if behavioural email marketing is a new approach to the company or agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"product-info\">This spreadsheet is a template for marketers to create a messaging sequence that supports their business for the range of potential behavioural or event-triggered campaigns including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Welcome sequence for a new subscriber or lead to an email list<\/li>\n<li>Welcome sequence for new customer (onboarding)<\/li>\n<li>Reactivation of customers or subscribers who lose engagement<\/li>\n<li>Abandoned shopping cart follow-up emails<\/li>\n<li>Shoppers browse or search on a site but don't buy follow-up<\/li>\n<li>Time to repurchase or replenishment emails<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What does the spreadsheet include?<\/h3>\n<p class=\"product-info\">This example template was developed for an event-triggered 'Welcome' email sequence based around a brochure download. It's a classic inbound\/permission marketing lead generation approach which can be used for B2C or B2B campaigns where access to content or a trial service is given in return for an individuals details. The template includes three worksheets, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A 'ReadMe' tab explaining how to use each field with an example of how to lay out the creative<\/li>\n<li>A grid showing a row for each message in the sequence with 16 columns (some optional) for defining communications requirements, targeting, trigger rules and messaging. Three example fields are shown for an email sequence.<\/li>\n<li>A template of 8 other campaign control issues that must be defined including tracking, testing, unsubscribes and message suppression.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can read more about how to plan email sequences in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartinsights.com\/email-marketing\/behavioural-email-marketing\/how-to-plan-event-triggered-email-campaigns\/\">introduction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Who will find the spreadsheet useful?<\/h3>\n<p class=\"product-info\">The spreadsheet will aid collaboration between a range of people who may be involved with setting up and reviewing behavioural email campaigns including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Marketing or e-commerce managers responsible for creating communications strategy<\/li>\n<li>Email marketing execs<\/li>\n<li>Email or digital marketing consultants<\/li>\n<li>Agency or email service provider consultants<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It can be used to agree communications goals between marketers and then brief specialist copywriters and designers.<\/p>\n<h3>Latest updates<\/h3>\n<p>This content has been updated into our latest worksheets styles, has been given a colour grading system, and has been given a relabelled example to aid readability. You can now clearly see how activities are grouped together as you move from preliminary technical and marketing information into crafting the email creative before finalizing your personalization options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How will this spreadsheet help me and my business? Research shows that behavioural email marketing is a powerful technique to automatically follow-up online customer actions to help increase conversion to sale at a low cost. However, the technique is still &hellip;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":129278,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_glsr_average":0,"_glsr_ranking":0,"_glsr_reviews":0,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Email sequence contact strategy template | Smart Insights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Design an improved email sequence with our quick template. 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