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Page 1: Create an Email Strategy to Get and Keep Employees Engaged...If you want to create a communications strategy that gets and keeps employees engaged and contributes to a positive employee

Create an Email Strategy to

Get and Keep Employees Engaged

Page 2: Create an Email Strategy to Get and Keep Employees Engaged...If you want to create a communications strategy that gets and keeps employees engaged and contributes to a positive employee

• 2019 Internal Communications Channel Survey

• Case Study: Eric Baily and Matthew Dignan

How MSTRAVEL improves email relevancy with automation

• 2019 PoliteMail Benchmark:

Insights from half a billion internal emails

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What are your most utilized internal communications channels?

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How important are these channels to achieving your objectives?

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Do you measure any of your internal communications?

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Of the 37% who measure email, what tools do they use?

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Why measure? Improves results over time

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Microsoft Employees

Travelers

Campaign

Opens

Clicks

Results

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An airline is offering upgrades to Microsoft travelers between a specific city pair.

- Email relevant travelers with details 3 days before trip

We would like travelers to complete a survey after travel.

- Email traveler with link to MSTravel Survey 1 day after completion of trip if they have not been sent a survey in the last 6 months

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On a schedule Run SQL query Send Messages Log Results

Flow

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What can we learn from the results

of half a billion internal email messages?

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Mobile & Desktop Email TrendsReach non-desk workers via mobile email. Inclusivity is a company email address.

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What’s a good open rate?

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What do the top 20% do differently?Attention Rate is Open Rate – Ignore Rate

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Send shorter subject linesOf 6 words or less

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Send shorter messagesOf 500 words or less

0-2min 2-4min 4-6min 6-8min 8-10min 10-12min

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The longer a message gets, the lower the readershipThe majority of email sent is longer than 2 minutes

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How do the top 20% get higher engagement?Engagement Rate includes the % Read of the content sent, plus the click rate

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Send shorter messagesHighest engagement is with messages < 250 words

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Send very easy to read language

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Send more images

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Send more images

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Send to smaller, more targeted lists

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Send earlier in the week

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Send on a routine schedule

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How do the top 20% get higher click effectiveness?Effective Rate is unique click rate divided by unique opens (CTR is divided by sent)

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Send earlier in the morning

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Send from yourself

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Send fewer linksIf you really want someone to click something, send one link

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Summary of Email Best Practices

• Use short subject lines of 6 words or less

• Send less shorter messages, 250 words or less

• Use more images

• Send at the beginning, not the end, of the week

• For higher click rates, send fewer links, send earlier in the day

• Target sends to smaller groups

• Stick to routine schedule, same time of day