Tutorial- Automated Email Campaigns

 

Setting up Automated Email Campaigns:

 

There are two ways to set up Automated Email Campaigns.

 

Let’s look at the Traditional Drip Campaign first.
This example is for Donors in the Campaign Foundry Version of Business OneTouch.

 

The front shows the campaign is active- just pick your date and time for the campaign to run.
Under start type you can either have it run on a particular day or date, in this case, we chose Product Purchase.

 

When someone donates money or purchases a product, that sets off the email campaign.

 

When you move to the emails tab, you will see your emails set up to run.

 

In a traditional Drip Campaign the initial email is set off by an action (donation or product purchase), and then you choose the number of days after that action to follow up with an email.
In this example the email goes out immediately, so we choose 0 days after start.

 

The Distribution list chooses who the email goes to.
There is also an email templates laying out the actual email the user will see when the information from the database is added to personalize it.

 

Once past the first email, we can follow up with another email and then a third some time after that.

 

In this example, we sent out an ebook after the first action and then sent follow up emails asking questions like:

 

                Did you receive the ebook?
               
Have you had a chance to look at it?
               
Would you like to donate more money to the candidate?
               
Would you like to know more about other issues in the candidate’s platform?
etc..

 

 

 

Next, let’s look another type of campaign.

 

In this case it’s a volunteer set up.
This doesn’t fit into the Traditional Drip Campaign because in this case, someone has signed up to volunteer on a particular day.
So, the initial email goes out as soon as they sign up.
After that, we don’t want emails to go out based on when they signed up, but based on when they signed up to volunteer.

 

So an email can be set up to go out a week before their volunteer day as a reminder.
Then another email can go out on the morning of their volunteer day as a reminder and including tips for them as they volunteer.

 

There are multiple ways to run these campaigns, and they can be personalized based on the actual user’s take.

 

For example, if we tag them as someone who has signed up from the Dallas area, we can then follow up only with people from Dallas who read the email, who didn’t read the email, etc.

You can make these emails contingent both on things like day or date, on what type of donation that they gave, on how they volunteered, or even based on whether they didn’t read the original email (that subject line may not have made sense to them or it may not have been interesting to them).

Tutorial-Create Email Template

 

Creating a new Email Template:

 

First mouse over the “Sales & Marketing” tab, move cursor to “Email Marketing”, then click “Email Templates”

 

This will bring you to the list of templates.

 

Click “Create New”
First give your new template a name (this example uses Networking Follow Up).
Next, set the person who is sending the email and the person who is receiving the test emails.
Lastly, make it Active and click save.

 

Now move to the Email Template and give your email a subject (keep this generic).
Modify yours to be more specific based on your email campaign.

 

First, go to the Database Tool and insert the current date.
Write a salutation (use Database Tool to insert First or Last name).
Add a few more lines to the body of your template.
You can also use Database tool to insert your Company Mission.
Finish your template and use the Database Tool to insert your Company Name, Address and Logo.

 

Click Close (this also saves your data).

 

You should now see your new active Email Template.

 

Tutorial: Automatic Audience Segmentation

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Identifying your customers and supporters is one of the biggest challenges facing any organization. This five-minute video shows how Business ONETouch segments your audience automatically. These are HD videos; be sure to change the settings by clicking the gear in the lower right corner if you’re not getting that quality.

(00:12)     Everyone has issues, just pick 3 for example.

If you’re a business, if you founded a health food company because that’s your passion, you still have areas of focus inside that vertical.

They might be long term

  • Health and anti-aging
  • Current illnesses or general feelings of unhealthiness
  • Weight loss

If you’re in politics, top 3 issues might be:

  • Immigration
  • Economy
  • Taxes

If you’re a nonprofit- you have a religious school for example, top 3 issues might be:

  • Religion
  • Quality of instruction
  • Quality of area public schools

These issues can be used to identify the people in the audience who are interested and passionate about the things that you are interested and passionate about. This forms a connection

(01:15)   For example, Quality of Instruction with the religious school.

Break that down into different ideas about main theme:

  • Quality of instruction- Graduation and College attendance rates
  • Standardized test scores
  • Concern about quality of local schools

(01:55)     Use these issues and variations on issues discover who the customer is.

(02:08)      Start by writing an email template.

Here is an outline of how this will work:

  • Provide background
  • For this example, create 3 email templates just for issue 2
  • Create 9 email templates total

Start by emailing everyone and noting which emails they read, which they click on and what actions they take.

(03:12)     Mark which customers were sent a particular email.

If they read it, mark that they read it.

If they click through to the more information, mark that.

(03:27)     After the first email is sent on issue 2, send a second email to target the people who got the first email and not the ones who read or clicked.

Use a second or a third email to identify who’s interested in that issue but for a different reason.

Do the same thing again before the third email.

Now see who has gotten the College Email and the Test Scores Email and hasn’t read or clicked on either one.

(04:18)     Now the audience is segmented into 4 groups:

  • People who are interested in issue 1
  • People who are interested in issue 2
  • People who are interested in issue 3
  • Group 4- people who ignored all 9 emails, they fall into two groups:
    • People who don’t use email

People who are not your customers

 

Tutorial-Create Email Template

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Step-by-step-Creating a new Email Template: 

  • Mouse over “Sales & Marketing” tab
  • Move cursor to “Email Marketing”
  • Click “Email Templates”

This will bring you to the list of templates. 

  • Click “Create New”
  • Give new template a name
  • Set the person who is sending the email
  • Set the person who is receiving the test emails
  • Make it Active
  • Click save

Now move to the Email Template.

  • Give email a subject (keep this generic)
    • Modify yours to be more specific based on your email campaign
  • Go to the Database Tool and insert the current date
  • Write a salutation (use Database Tool to insert First or Last name)
  • Add more lines to the body of template
  • Use Database tool to insert Company Mission
  • Use the Database Tool to insert your Company Name, Address and Logo.
  • Click Close (this also saves your data)

You should now see your new active Email Template.

Marketing Tutorial

Welcome to the Marketing and Sales 101 Tutorial with Business ONETouch. The tutorial walks you through a complete set of campaigns that will build your customer database and drive your sales, including:

  • Launching a Birthday club to get prospects to sign up
  • Basic email campaigns
  • Advanced email remarketing to specific customer groups
  • Social media campaigns

And feel free to post questions!

Adding your social media accounts to the ONETouch Tool

a.      Click SITE SETTINGS, which is the tab on the right

                                                              i.      Click Employees at the top of the center column under Company Settings

                                                           ii.      You’ll see one employee listed: Business Master. Click on Business Master

                                                         iii.      Change the information here to the actual employee you’d like to use for sales and marketing; for example, email campaigns will show an Employee as the sender

                                                         iv.      You should at least change the email address, names and phone

                                                            v.      If you’d like, click on each tab and fill out the rest of the information. This is not required

                                                         vi.      Clicking SAVE saves; clicking CLOSE saves, then closes. When you’re done, click CLOSE

Marketing Tutorial

Welcome to the Marketing and Sales 101 Tutorial with Business ONETouch. The tutorial walks you through a complete set of campaigns that will build your customer database and drive your sales, including:

  • Launching a Birthday club to get prospects to sign up
  • Basic email campaigns
  • Advanced email remarketing to specific customer groups
  • Social media campaigns

And feel free to post questions!