Unique Service Proposition

A Complete Service

Appleton Greene is the only email marketing service provider that provides a truly complete service for its clients. This service incorporates the acquisition of clearly targeted business contacts, that are selected from your preferred industry sectors and geographical locations and which have been cleaned, verified and have opted into receiving emails from Appleton Greene. With bounce rates less than 0.05% and spam rates of less than 0.0030%, these are consistently less than the legal requirement of 5%, and 0.1% respectively. This is because Appleton Greene complies with all internet service spam laws. The service also incorporates the development of your Email Marketing Templates (EMC), the implementation and management of your email marketing campaigns and a regular monthly reporting service, enabling you to measure ongoing performance and to be proactive about making improvements. We also use our own bulk email domains, to ensure that your transactional email domains are always secure

Whatever your requirements, we can manage them for you, however large or small they may be and you only need to deal with one service provider and one dedicated Campaign Manager. This makes it easy for you to ensure that you retain a healthy return on investment and a cost-effective and time-effective business service partner.

A Sustainable Service

Appleton Greene is the only email marketing service provider that provides a truly sustainable service. The majority of (EMS) providers only provide one or two email marketing blasts and charge much more for doing so. All of Appleton Greene’s Professional Email Marketing Campaigns (EMC) are implemented over a sustainable period of 12 months, that is to say, one email distribution each and every month. This enables your customers to have the time to consider what you have to offer and to respond accordingly.

In our experience, isolated email blasts are invariably a waste of time and money. This is because you are banking upon your customers being ready to make a decision, at the precise time that your email appears in their inbox. In reality, while your customers may be interested, it may just not be the right time for them. Like all forms of advertising, the most successful campaigns are those that are implemented over a sustainable period of time, because your customers become accustomed to seeing your emails and this creates confidence and familiarity. If they are not interested in what you have to offer, they can unsubscribe at any time, so if they do not unsubscribe, then we can assume that they are interested in what you have to offer. Your customers will initiate a call to action when they are ready to do so. This sustainable approach increases new business by a massive 88% and is why our customers keep coming back to us, time and time again.

Price Point

If we use Appleton Greene’s Gold Service as an example, the average cost within the email marketing industry, for the acquisition of say 7.5k business contacts, from a reputable contact database supplier, contacts that have been both cleaned and verified, would be $1.5 per contact, that is to say $11,250. It would also cost an additional $15k for an email marketing service provider, to send 12 monthly emails to your 7.5k contacts. This totals $26,250. By comparison, Appleton Greene provides the complete service for only $7.5k and also incorporates a license for the business contacts used, a complete monthly reporting service and access to a dedicated Campaign Manager. The campaign would also be implemented over a sustainable period of 12 months, incorporating 90k emails. Appleton Greene is able to provide an infinitely better service for considerably less cost, due to economy of scale and the desire to provide a professional service, not just the technology, ensuring a vastly improved return on investment for our clients and ultimately 80% repeat business for Appleton Greene, from our existing customers.

Exclusivity

Limited Availability

Appleton Greene now manages some 8,400 Professional Email Marketing Campaigns (PEMC) annually, on behalf of clients, consultants, learning providers, accountants, and lawyers, 80% of which are repeat orders and Appleton Greene has provided these services for 25 years. This should really tell you everything that you need to know about why Appleton Greene Professional Email Marketing Campaigns (PEMC), should represent an integral part of your own marketing strategy. Although campaigns all run for a consecutive period of 12 months, new campaigns are started on a quarterly basis, that is to say 2,100 campaigns per quarter during January, April, July and October every year.

This means that approximately 80% of our campaigns each year, that is to say 6,720, will be reserved for our existing customers. The remaining 20%, that is to say 1,680 campaigns each year, are then made available for new customers. Appleton Greene does usually grow its Professional Email Marketing Campaign (PEMC) client base by approximately 20% each year. Appleton Greene is a professional service provider, not just a technology service provider and as such we are understandably governed by the resources that we have have available within this department. As such Professional Email Marketing Campaign (PEMC) will always be subject to ongoing availability. Please therefore ask your Campaign Manager for further details about ongoing availability.

Contacts

Clean

There are database contact companies that advertise literally millions of CEO business contacts for only $100 or thereabouts. This may appear to be good value-for-money at face value, but these contacts will not be cleaned or verified. In other words, they are scanned from the internet automatically and the email addresses are not necessarily active, or safe to use. It invariably costs 0.01 to clean and verify email contacts, so 1 million contacts would therefore cost $10k to clean and verify and this process invairably reduces the number of valid contacts to less than 2.5% of the original quantity, in other words, you might end up with only 25k valid contacts from the original 1 million that you started off with. All of a sudden, these contacts do not look so cost-effective after all. These contacts would also not have opted into receiving emails from you or Appleton Greene, so any emails that we sent to these contacts would not comply with international spam laws. All business contacts that are acquired by Appleton Greene, are acquired from trusted business partners, but are still cleaned and verified independently by Appleton Greene. We also ensure that they have opted into receiving emails from Appleton Greene, in order to comply with international spam laws.

Permission-Based

In order to comply with international spam laws, business contacts need to have opted into receiving emails from you, or from Appleton Greene. We achieve this by forwarding a number of emails, asking these contacts to subscribe to receiving emails from Appleton Greene. If they do not, then they are removed from our database. We also then ask the contacts to verify or confirm that they would still like to receive emails from Appleton Greene a 2nd time and repeat this process annually. This is often referred to as a double-opt in process and is the recommended practice for all good email service providers, to ensure that our contact database is permission-based. Appleton Greene also obtains contacts via a variety of online applications relating to products, services and opportunities that individual contacts may be interested in. In all cases they will have opted into receiving email communications from Appleton Greene and can opt out by unsubscribing at any time.

Clearly Targeted

Appleton Greene never recommends a scatter gun approach to email marketing. Clients can sometimes be dazzled by quantity rather than quality, thinking that the more contacts they have, the more interest they will generate. In reality, the reverse is true. If your recipients are not actually interested in what you have to offer, then this will merely result in a higher quantity of unsubscribes or spam reports and a disengaged contact list. Appleton Greene therefore ensures that your business contacts are directly related to the industry sectors and geographical locations of your choice and they are target towards the Key Decision Makers (KDM) for your products or services. This approach improves recipient engagement, the quality of these recipients and ultimately product or service orders.

The Details

Your database contacts are obtained exclusively from your own choice of industry sectors and geographical locations, featuring: Contact Name; Job Title; Company Name; Company Address; Web Site Address; Industry Sector; Geographical Location. You can select up to 5 industry sectors, in order of preference and 5 geographical locations, in order of preference. You can also select the size of the companies that you would like to target in terms of annual sales and the number of employees. This ensures that your contacts will be as close a match as possible to your preferred client portfolio. Appleton Greene has a large global database of companies and contacts the contact information is guaranteed to be valid. Indeed all Appleton Greene contacts have opted into receiving information twice, firstly, when they initially complete an application or registration form and secondly, when we send them an email to confirm that they would like to receive information from us. Appleton Greene achieves this by implementing strict terms and conditions on its contact database procedures. Different contact database laws apply to different countries. If your chosen client companies are located anywhere within the United States of America, Europe, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, Japan and China, then we will not have any problem providing you with company contacts from Appleton Greene’s Global Contact Database (GCD) annually. For other locations and emerging markets, we may need to check on availability. Remember that you need to select geographical locations where your prospective client companies will be located, not the locations where you may be resident.

Emails

Four reasons for a successful campaign

There are principally 4 reasons why your Appleton Greene Professional Email Marketing Campaign (PEMC) will succeed: Choosing the right Email Marketing Template (EMT); Incorporating 12 Critical Success Factors (CSF), one for each of your 12 monthly emails; incorporating a clear Call To Action and having a good, user-friendly Service Order Process, which is automated online via your web site.

Email Marketing Template (EMT)

Clients can choose their own HTML Email Marketing Template (EMT), but Appleton Greene recommends that clients use the same brand and template that Appleton Greene uses for all clients. The reason for this, is that our contact database will be used to seeing the same template and the same corporate brand and this reduces the number of users misinterpreting the email as spam and ultimately unsubscribing or reporting the email as spam. They understand that the email is still being distributed from Appleton Greene, via Appleton Greene email domains and IP addresses and just features a different associated partner, product or service. Clients can still incorporate their own logo and corporate brand within the Appleton Greene Email Marketing Template (EMT). This helps to establish credibility for the client and improves open rates, click rates, and service orders. Clients are of course welcome to use their own Email Marketing Templates (EMT) and email domains, if they prefer, but we do not recommend this.

Critical Success Factors (CSF)

We ask our clients to provide the content for one Critical Success Factor (CSF), for each of the 12 monthly emails that are being sent out by Appleton Greene on their behalf, that is to say 12 Critical Success Factors (CSF) in total. This ensures that there is unique content featured within each of the 12 monthly emails and this in turn ensures that your emails will arrive safely within your customers’ inboxes. If all of the emails contain exactly the same content, then this will adversely affect the performance of your campaign and will also reduce the amount of emails that arrive within the recipient’s inboxes. By providing some unique content at the beginning of each email, together with unique content within the subject line of each email, this enables email service providers to establish clear differentiation and ensures that your emails are not wrongfully identified as spam.

It also provides your customers with something different and interesting to read about, encouraging greater customer engagement and the way in which they will brand your company. You can simply start by making a list of 12 powerful selling points that you believe your product or service has. At Appleton Greene, we refer to these as Service Benefits. Then make a list of 12 needs or objectives, that you consider your target market (industry sector and geographical location) will have. We refer to these as Key Corporate Objectives (KCO). You then need to match one Service Benefit with one Key Corporate Objective (KCO). Try to ensure that you match the strongest Service Benefits with the strongest Key Corporate Objectives (KCO). Try working through this process several times, until you are happy with the choices that you have made. A strong Service Benefit, matched with a strong Key Corporate Objective (KCO), equals a very powerful Critical Success Factor (CSF). Dedicate some quality time to this process until such a time as you are happy that you have done your best. If you personally get excited by them, then there is a distinct possibility that your prospective clients will too. Alternatively, if you feel uninspired by them, so too will your prospective clients. Now you need to write one paragraph, in your own words, consisting of between 200 and 300 words, which clearly explains the Key Corporate Objective (KCO) that you believe your prospective clients will have and the Service Benefit that you propose would satisfy this objective. You do not need to refer to you or your product or service directly, just talk about the Critical Success Factor (CSF). If you do not have the time, or the resources to do this yourself, you can always outsource the task to an Appleton Greene Professional Editor.

Call To Action

All of your emails should incorporate a clear Call To Action for your clients, something that they need to do in order to take the next step, or to register their interest. This can include, but is not limited to: placing a service order; requesting a telephone conference; reque