Send us a text

We cover the email marketing strategy for 2021 on What to Actually Do as an Email Marketer for iOS15.

Jimmy Kim, the Founder and CEO of Sendlane, a top email marketing platform, shares his winning tactics for iOS15 Email Marketing.

Here are the six things you can do as a marketer to prepare and adapt:

1. Consider Double Opt-in or Confirmed email

Yes, I know your # subscribers will be cut in half.

Yes, I know that it will hurt the experience

Yes, I know that… (ENTER 500 other reasons)

But now let me tell you WHY.

The laws are evolving and changing. You know about GDPR, CASL, CCPA… but do you know about: VCDPA, CPA, or NP law!

Those passed recently, and it’s continuing to create rules by the state on HOW you can communicate with customers, especially if your business is at scale.

You’d be shocked how much better everything is when you email the people that confirm their next email from you.

2. Segment data

Creating a segment of active, engaged users - aka people who have opened or clicked an email in the last X days... is your go-to the segment you use most.

That’s great, but it simply will not work anymore.

Instead, you will have to start expanding your mind and get creative.

ideas:

Revenue-based + Subscription based segmentation
Click and revenue/event-based segmentation
Website Visits or Any other recent signals
Segment based on audience preferences

3. Learn how to use the “other metrics”
Bounces, spam complaints, unsubscribes are all “other metrics” you barely pay attention to right now.

But when you can’t identify an open rate, you need to start thinking about it differently.

Spam complaints and bounces will matter even more - ESP’s flying a little blind, and so are you.

There’s going to be knee-jerk reactions to a high bounce rate (over 2%) and spam complaints over 0.1%. Remember, Google already doesn’t report back direct spam complaints to the email as Yahoo and AOL do. 

4. A/B testing subject lines are dead
Say goodbye to basic A/B split testing; it’s now useless.

Enter Multivariate testing.

You will need to test a lot more content primarily focused on CTA to improve CTR with the end goal of revenue.

Experiment like crazy and keep testing.

5. Segment by ISP
ISP = Internet Service Provider

And you need to start drilling down all your different ISP’s to learn more about how each segment is reacting and adjust for it.

It’s time to care.

6. And the most obvious one… CONTENT MATTERS
If you’ve been copying and pasting your last campaigns or borrowing from others, the day has come that content is essential.

The rise of copywriters, especially direct response copywriters, will start to appear.

SELLING with words is real, and it’s going to be the make or break point for your marketing efforts.

Full article from Sendlane here: https://www.sendlane.com/blog/ios-15-email-marketing

Visit Sendlane here: https://www.sendlane.com/

Feel free to reach out to Jimmy directly with any questions: jkim at sendlane.com (turn the at into an @ when you go to email him)