E-telligence

efocusmarketing/Kate Barrett
E-telligence

Kate Barrett is the founder of eFocus Marketing (https://www.e-focusmarketing.com) – a specialist email marketing agency based in London providing consultancy, management and training services to companies around the world. Welcome to my brand-new podcast ‘E-telligence’!

  1. 01/07/2020

    E-telligence 024 - E-telligence Masterclass: How AMP can transform interactions with subscribers - April Mullen

    Welcome to another episode of E-telligence. Today we’re bringing you a really interesting episode all about AMP and creating interactive email.   It’s my pleasure to be joined by April Mullen to talk about the practical application of AMP into our strategies and how it can help transform the interactions we have with subscribers.   In episode 10 of this podcast, we spoke to Jay Oram from Action Rocket about Interactive email design and he gave some fantastic tips and code to start really digging in to that for your business in our show notes (you can find that at https://e-focusmarketing.com/podcast/episode10/) and we mentioned AMP briefly, but In today’s episode we talk more about the promise of AMP (and interactive email) and what this means for marketers.     AMP is the acronym for Accelerated Mobile Pages, a mobile-friendly framework for website developing. The AMP project is pretty new; announced by Google in 2015 the first AMP pages appeared in February 2016. And now it’s available in email! Having started as a Google project, its now opensource and we’re seeing other mailbox providers picking it up – including Microsoft and Yahoo! The whole point of AMP is to change the static to the dynamic – to provide a mini website experience right there within your inbox; in theory making it easier, faster, more intuitive for subscribers to take an action and engage with your messaging.   For example, instead of receiving email notifications when someone is mentioned in a Google Docs comment, they can just see an up-to-date comment thread right within Gmail. They can then simply reply or resolve a comment without ever leaving Gmail or the email itself. Many companies like Booking.com, Despegar, Doodle, Ecwid, Freshworks, Nexxt, OYO Rooms, Pinterest and redBus, have already started to use dynamic email “to make their emails more actionable and relevant.” And that’s ultimately what we are aiming for. Ease of action and specific to that 1 person. Sending the right message, to the right person, at the right time (through the right channel of course).   Join April and I to discover…   The possibilities and opportunities using AMP brings How AMP for email will change the role of email marketer The challenges we foresee for AMP Potential use cases for AMP and a real life example How you can get started

    38 min
  2. 17/06/2020

    E-telligence 022 - E-telligence Masterclass – AI – the fact, fiction and how to get ahead in the new world order - Victoria Peppiatt

    For this episode of the E-telligence Masterclass, we’re going to talk about the growing role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and it’s place in our marketing and  email marketing strategies. And it’s my absolute pleasure to welcome Victoria Peppiat  – Co-founder and COO of Phrasee, which empowers brands with the most advanced AI-Powered Copywriting technology. to join me in this discussion today! AI is the buzzword of the moment!   But how many of us actually know what it is and how we can use it in our marketing to improve our results and make better connections with our audience? A study by Vitreous World based on a survey among global marketers confirmed that many don’t!   67% don’t fully understand how to make the most of AI to deliver results.    68% think AI has become a buzzword that marketers don’t really understand.   70% say they don’t use it, and a further 8% don’t know if they do or not.    67% don’t know how to evaluate the different AI technologies available to their businesses.     I’m always talking about being customer centric and using the right tone, wording, phrasing, content, product recommendations, content recommendations and generally meeting the needs of your customers, surprising and delighting them and actually going above and beyond to start to anticipate their needs before they even know they have them! But many people haven’t yet fully started to explore how technology and machines can better help us to do that – and you are certainly an expert when it comes to that.   According to Microsoft research (‘Maximising the AI opportunity’), organizstions already on the AI journey are outperforming other organisations by 5% on factors like productivity, performance, and business outcomes.   Join Victoria and I for a riveting conversation about..   What AI is (hint: it’s not robots taking over the world) and the difference between general and narrow AI How to define the use case and determine exactly how we want to use AI for in our strategy How we define how and where AI might enhance marketing performance The importance of people in AI How can we get it right and, importantly, at scale using AI without compromising on the quality of the content or your brand voice? Ethical marketing using AI and why its so important 5 steps to get started with AI and gain a competitive edge   Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Spotify or whichever podcast provider you’re listening through, follow us on Youtube for more video-based content and find eFocus Marketing on all the socials.

    32 min
  3. 20/05/2020

    E-telligence 020 - E-telligence Masterclass – Pure 360 – Mark Ash

    Changing the email marketing status quo – how to win friends and influence people with your email marketing. Today we’re going to talk about changing the status-quo around email marketing and it’s my absolute pleasure to welcome Mark Ash – CEO of Pure360 to join me in this discussion today! Pure360 are the sponsors of the DMA’s most recent reports: the Marketer Tracker (released in March) and the Consumer Tracker (released in January) so we will be referring to some of the stats from those in this episode – if you don’t already have a copy, head over to the Pure360 website and download them – we’ll add the links into the full show notes for you which can be found at https://e-focusmarketing.com/podcast/episode20/   These reports both highlight some of the key challenges and trends marketers experience when it comes to creating good email marketing campaigns. And the world is changing. We have to make sure that our strategies and how we implement these into our daily campaigns is adapting and changing too – otherwise, email as whole wont die, but your results are going to see a steady decline. And we don’t want that! Having a customer centric approach to your email marketing is absolutely vital. And this means understanding what your customers want as well as how and when you can deliver this to them in a way that’s going to truly connect. Especially when we have times like we’ve seen this year with the global Covid-19 pandemic, but just in day to day life as well. Being human, is key to good email marketing.   Join Mark and I for this episode and discover:   Why there is still a difference between what marketers think vs. what consumers want How to communicate with senior leadership better in order to get buy in for your email marketing in the future (resources, support and learning opportunities) Some of the key considerations we need to have when it comes to the new way of interacting with subscribers Why data is at the heart of everything that you want to do and how you can use it to better understand your subscribers at a human level Why we need to move from a product-led approach to a customer-led approach and how you can do that in your business How you can overcome the challenge of technology when it comes to the successful execution of your email marketing campaigns The need to change the way we view metrics to evaluate ongoing success

    39 min
  4. 22/04/2020

    E-telligence 018 - E-telligence Masterclass – CRO – Boost Your Website Performance and Email Marketing Sign-Up Rate - Tom Jepson

    For this E-telligence Masterclass all about CRO, it’s my pleasure to welcome Tom Jepson from Footprint Digital as my guest!   CRO stands for Conversion Rate Optimisation it can make a massive difference to not only your email sign up rate but also the overall success of your campaigns and revenue.   Conversion Rate Optimisation is the process of finding out what works and what doesn’t in a specific area – for example on your PPC ads, landing pages, and for our purposes in email marketing, your sign-up forms. And of course, you can use the exact same principles within your email marketing campaigns too – everything is a test and learn opportunity to improve. It’s about learning why visitors to your website aren’t doing the things you want them to do and then improving elements to maximise the number of people who take your desired action. But don’t forget, Conversion rate optimisation is a process – there’s no quick fix. You need to methodically and strategically work through a series of well thought out options in order to find the best combination of elements for your business and situation.   So, for the purposes of this episode, we’re going to focus on your website and more specifically, your forms and email sign up forms and what we can do to optimise your opt in conversions. We’ll be discussing   Why CRO is so important Why you need to fight assumptions The 5 key phases of a successful CRO strategy What tools can be used to help you with your research, implementation and analysis Examples of elements on your sign-up form you can test   For all the links mentioned in this episode, visit our website for the full show notes and your FREE CRO CHEATSHEET DOWNLOAD > www.e-focusmarketing.com/podcast/episode18

    47 min

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Kate Barrett is the founder of eFocus Marketing (https://www.e-focusmarketing.com) – a specialist email marketing agency based in London providing consultancy, management and training services to companies around the world. Welcome to my brand-new podcast ‘E-telligence’!

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