The Email Experience Council
Challenge
The Email Experience Council (EEC) brings email professionals together to learn about the latest email trends and techniques, advocate for innovative and ethical email practices and help members achieve more with their email programs. Founded in 2006 by an independent group of email professionals, the organization is now the email arm of the Association of National Advertisers and claims a broad international membership. Member Snapshot: EEC members include front-line and early-career marketers, senior marketers who have established solid reputations as thought leaders inside and beyond the EEC, agencies that serve their clients with email creative and strategic services and technology vendors serving the digital and email markets. Naturally, a membership made up of email marketers expects the organization’s email communications to reflect the email industry’s highest standards – and that was the problem that brought the Email Experience Council to InboxArmy. The Challenge Email Execution That Reflected Poorly on the Organization Lisa and her staff inherited a collection of outdated email templates for member communications – often requiring her to hand-code large sections, a skill she had to pick up on the job with little training. The emails themselves often went out with broken links and mismatched type fonts and were hard to read on phones and many email clients. The emails generated negative feedback from EEC members as well. “It was not a great user experience for our subscribers,” Lisa recalled. Something had to be done, and fast: Member engagement with the EEC emails – again, the primary means of communication between the organization and its members – was falling fast, and deliverability problems were keeping many emails out of members’ inboxes.
Solution
InboxArmy, with its extensive portfolio, solid industry recommendations and EEC background Lisa’s team began to search for an email partner to help the organization produce updated email communications that would set the standard for its membership. After reviewing a number of email agencies, the EEC chose InboxArmy after reviewing the agency’s long work history and receiving solid recommendations. The Transformation Process Professionally coded, well-designed email templates that reflect high email standards The InboxArmy design team “seamlessly took over” and replaced the old templates with a set of “clean, modern and user-friendly email templates,” Lisa said. “Over several years, they’ve worked to make our templates sleek and responsive.” Since the beginning of the partnership in the EEC and InboxArmy have revamped the EEC’s entire email marketing program, which now includes these categories of emails: Designing and Developing Sleek and Responsive Templates Creating Strategic Emails and Campaigns Biweekly Event Emails Quarterly Sponsored-emails Special Alerts and Seasonal Messages InboxArmy’s team continues to refine and update the EEC’s email templates to give both staff and the membership the best email experience possible.
Results
Fewer headaches, more time for membership education, community-building and growth After years of working together, Lisa has developed close working relationships with InboxArmy team members, including both agency leaders and individual team members. Lisa and her staff now have the time they need to concentrate on running the EEC- everything from member engagement and services, organizing in-person and online events, building community and memberships and working with the EEC’s operating board, the 18-seat Member Advisory Committee. Member engagement with EEC emails has also increased. Lisa and her team no longer have to field complaints from members about email fails like broken links and mobile-unfriendly messages.
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