Planning Your Email Marketing Calendar

Описание: An email marketing calendar helps you stay ahead of time and be ready for anything on your way to a big sale or promotion day; however, there are some things you need to consider while preparing this calendar.

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00:00 Intro
00:22 What Is An Email Marketing Calendar?
01:33 Where Do We Start?
05:52 How To Structure An Email Marketing Calendar?
12:57 Why Is An Email Marketing Calendar Important?
15:41 Best Practices Every E-commerce Business Should Implement
17:13 Takeaways

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In an e-commerce business, doing the right thing at the right time is crucial, and so is sending the correct email at the relevant time. And this is what an email marketing calendar is for.

An efficient marketing calendar keeps you organized and prepared for any small or big-scale sales and promotions. So if you’re wondering what should my email marketing calendar look like? And how should I structure it? You’ve come to the right place.

In this blog, I’ll walk you through unique ways of keeping a calendar by providing you with different Email marketing calendar ideas through which you can leverage your marketing opportunities.

What Is An Email Marketing Calendar?
An email marketing calendar helps you understand how to create a schedule, manage, analyze, and structure your email sending to build good customer relationships, add value over time, and create a drumbeat of consistent communication with your audience. Such as through newsletters, e-book mailouts, and more.

These calendars ideally engage, educate and entertain your audience through which you add value to the customer experience.

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Where Do We Start?
To start building a helpful calendar, you should look at various things and ask yourself different questions regarding your marketing plans. Starting with;

Cadence
First of all, you would want to see how often you are sending to your audience in a particular period.

You will start from scratch if you’re not sending at all and have just entered this new realm. It will be a blank canvas on which you can work efficiently if you follow some dos and don’ts.

However, you’ll need to understand that you can not go from zero to a hundred right away in the beginning.

It would be best if you worked your way into it because going from zero to a hundred right away seems like an overwhelming task since it will be challenging for your team and tough on your audience. It would be uncomfortable and, more importantly, annoying for the audience to start receiving so many emails from a company they had never heard about or received an email from before. That would not be a great user experience.

So you should gradually start ramping up into it by deciding what your current cadence should look like.

Consistency
The second thing you will be thinking about is how you get into a consistent, replicable rhythm. In an e-commerce business, you cannot bombard your audience with messages, emails, and ads whenever and whichever way you want.

There must be some planning and consistency in how you approach your audience. You need to set a rhythm for yourself, so you don’t overwhelm your team as well as your audience. As our site’s name also suggests ‘Marketing rhythm”, finding your rhythm to grow your business is crucial.

So the focal point of your marketing calendar should be consistency over intensity. Building consistency into your system will make that system much more functional in the long run and make things more predictable and scalable for you and the business.