Python for Entrepreneurs Transcripts
Chapter: Growth hacking basics
Lecture: Email campaigns
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Let's talk about a pro tip that Michael taught me which fits into the funnel around the evaluation and sign up process.
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It can also be used for existing customers if you're emailing certain things out to them, like a new feature.
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Once you have perspective or current customers' email addresses, they've opted in to your email list you, can not only send them emails
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you can send follow up emails if they never even open the original email that you sent to them.
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A couple of cases where this is really good- if you've got an email newsletter and you're excited to announce the big launch of your application,
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and only 50 percent of people even opened that email, you can follow up a week later with another email slightly different subject line
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and hopefully get some percentage of that 50 percent which didn't open your original email to open up, and then read the new email.
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Likewise, if you have an existing customer base, you've got some great new features and 20 percent of the people
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just never even opened the email, you can do the same thing with them. Let's take a look in an example.
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Back in August, I sent out an email to my Full Stack Python newsletter list,
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an email list of any sufficient size is going to have a significant chunk of people who never even open an email that you send,
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regardless of how the subject line is worded. In this case, the subject line was
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"less than 24 hours to back the Python for Entrepreneurs video course", this was on when the course was originally on Kickstarter.
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Now I'm in MailChimp, and we can see the results of this campaign, if we just scroll down a little bit.
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A little over 50 percent of people opened up this email, 10.5 percent of people clicked through one of the links in the email;
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that is fairly common, and we can see over time, once we sent the email out, people tend to open it up in spurts
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and then there's a long tale of traffic over the next 24 hours. But what about after a week? Chances are most people
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are not going to be opening up their email, I know that I open up a lot of my email newsletters on the weekend,
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oftentimes I just miss things or I am bulk deleting a bunch of emails and getting a follow up email would be just fine by me.
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So what we can do in MailChip or most likely whatever email software you're using, is you can resend in an open campaign.
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I'll give the link out to this at the end. Essentially, once you have a campaign and you can replicate that campaign,
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you can change the title of it, and then you can send it out to a certain group, and if you follow these steps you get to the point where you can
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send it out to everyone who has not opened up this newsletter. So that's super helpful for bumping up the effective rate
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at which people open up your email newsletters. You want to be selective when using this, you don't want to spam people,
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but if you got a really important announcement and you want to make sure to maximize the number of people that open up the email
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that announces something that you've worked really hard on, this can be a great way to do that.
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You can go to this link here, and this shows you how exactly to do it with your own campaign.