This document provides an overview of email automation and its benefits. Email automation allows businesses to build targeted email campaigns that nurture leads through a sales funnel, put lead nurturing on autopilot, and segment leads for personalized communications. It discusses how email automation works, including bringing traffic into an opt-in form and putting subscribers into a follow-up email sequence to move them toward a sale or conversion.
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A five minute guide to email automation
1. A Five Minute Guide to
Email Automation
Putting your business on autopilot
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2. Features of email automation
Build relationships with targeted campaigns
Puts your lead nurturing on autopilot
Personalised communications based on data profiling
Send timely emails at predefined intervals
Behavioural triggers determine what emails are sent
Automatically segment your leads for targeted campaigns
A/B split test your emails for higher conversions
Track your results through detailed reporting
3. Benefits of email automation
Nurture your leads through the sales funnel into being customers
Build longer lasting relationships with your customers
Expand your database through data profiling
Deliver premium content to subscribers with full profiles
Expand your brand reach through social sharing
Use drip campaigns to reengage with old customers
4. How does it work?
Traffic Sources and User Optin
5. Traffic sources bring leads to your site
Traffic comes to your site through many different channels
Social Media
Social Bookmarking
Webinars
Press Releases
Pay Per Click
SEO
Articles
Ezines
Forums
Affiliate Sites
Integrated Marketing
6. Getting User Optin
Single optin
Notified optin
Double optin
It doesnt matter where you are,
permission based marketing is the law!
People are happy to give you their name
and email address if you have something
of worth to offer
8. So what happens next...?
Your website with Your Email Marketing System
Optin form
Subscribers details are
User is taken to a sent to your database
Welcome Page
[Promotional Link
or sell up]
9. So what happens next...?
Your website with If youre using a double optin Your Email Marketing System
Optin form
Confirmation email
gets sent to the
subscriber Subscribers details are
User is taken to a sent to your database
Thank You Page
With information User taken to a
on what to do next Welcome Page
[Promotional Link
or sell up]
10. How does it work?
Email Automation
Your Business on Auto Pilot
11. How Email Automation works
Your Email Marketing System
After a user subscribes they are put into a follow-up sequence.
This example shows a request for more information on a product
1st Email Day 1
2nd Email Day 2
3rd Email Day 3 Contains product related information
and a CTA (Call To Action)
4th Email Day 10
As a general rule the 3rd or 4th email
is when the user takes action
5th Email Day 15
6th Email Day 20
7th Email Day 25
After which placed in a Long Term Follow Up sequence with value information
12. New follow up sequence starts
How Email Automation works bringing the user closer to the sale
Your Email Marketing System
1st Email
2nd Email
1st Email Day 1
Users record is tagged in the 3rd Email
2nd Email Day 2 Database and Emails 4 to 7 are stopped
4th Email
User clicks on the User taken to target
3rd Email Day 3
CTA product link product page
5th Email
4th Email Day 10
6th Email
5th Email Day 15
7th Email
6th Email Day 20
7th Email Day 25
After which placed in a Long Term Follow Up sequence with value information
13. New follow up sequence starts
How Email Automation works bringing the user closer to the sale
Your Email Marketing System
1st Email
2nd Email
1st Email Day 1
Users record is tagged in the 3rd Email User clicks on
2nd Email Day 2 Database and Emails 4 to 7 are stopped product link
4th Email
User clicks on the User taken to target
3rd Email Day 3
CTA product link product page
5th Email
Taken to the
4th Email Day 10
sales page
6th Email
5th Email Day 15
7th Email
6th Email Day 20 Thanks for Buying
Users record is tagged as Customer in the
7th Email Day 25 Database and Emails 4 to 7 are stopped
After which placed in a Long Term Follow Up sequence with value information