The winners of MarketingSherpa’s 7th Annual Email Marketing Awards were announced on its website this month, the annual awards feature the best email marketing campaigns of the past year, as selected by a panel of five expert judges from MarketingSherpa’s editorial, analyst and marketing staff.
Some of the email & CRM companies behind the winners campaigns include StrongMail, Eloqua, SalesForce and Optivo.
The awards from US-based marketing specialists MarketingSherpa are presented annually at the “Email Marketing Summit”. The next summit will take place in Las Vegas from 7-10 February 2012. The awards honour exceptional email marketing campaigns and took place this year for the seventh time. Email Expert will be present at the Summit and reporting back.
StrongMail Best Promo Email
StrongMail Agency Services Division were behind the Travelocity win-back campaign. A Gold Prize winner in the “Best Promotional Email or Campaign” category, the winning campaign was selected for its skillful application of creative and strategy that enabled the campaign to increase ROI more than 100% from previous efforts.
“Email marketers are constantly challenged to extract more value from their lists,” said lead judge Adam T. Sutton, Senior Reporter, MECLABS Primary Research. “Many turn to inactive or non-purchasing subscribers to boost conversions – but this can feel like squeezing blood from a stone. This team used a touch of creativity and a solid strategy to not only engage, but increase sales from these tough subscribers, and it increased ROI more than 100% from previous efforts.”
Eloqua: Best Personalisation
Eloqua client, The Center for American Progress and Center for American Progress Action Fund won a silver award for best personalization/segmentation strategy at the MarketingSherpa 2011 Email Awards.
Paul Teshima, SVP of Customer Strategy and Success at Eloqua said, “Eloqua has analyzed 10,000 months of our clients’ marketing data, which allows us to develop benchmarks for a variety of marketing practices. By truly understanding and applying targeting and segmentation strategies, American Progress is one of our top performing clients across multiple benchmarks.”
Optivo: Best Audience Engagement
Gold in the “Best Audience Engagement” category went to Condor Flugdienst GmbH. The German airline was distinguished for its innovative reactivation campaign, the jury was not won over by the impressive rate of reactivation’s.
Managing Director of optivo GmbH, Ulf Richter, believes that other companies can learn from the campaign conducted by Condor: “Inactive newsletter subscribers are a challenge for every marketer – but simultaneously represent an optimisation potential that is relatively easy to tap in to. The case of Condor proves that it is possible to reactivate a significant fraction of inactive users without simply using costly incentives that will often only have a short-term effect. As is always the case in marketing, the principle of “brain beats cash” also holds true here. It’s the development of an intelligent concept what pays real dividends.”
Complete List of Winners
Best-in-Show Grand Prize Winners
B2B: Citrix Online – Content Marketing Strategy
B2C: JetBlue – Remarketing Triggers
Best Promotional Email or Campaign
Gold: Travelocity – Win-back Campaign
Silver: Avaya – “Show Me Avaya Flare”
Honorable Mention: MidwayUSA – Black Friday/Cyber Monday Campaign
Honorable Mention: California State Parks Foundation – Sponsor a Vehicle
Best Audience Engagement
Gold: Condor – Reactivation Campaign
Silver: General Paint – Data Enhancement Campaign
Honorable Mention: EllisLab – Reactivation Email
Best Personalization/Segmentation Strategy
Gold: Clare Florist – List Segmentation & Targeted Campaign Design
Silver: Microsoft – Office 365 Trial Conversion Program
Honorable Mention: Provenance Food & Wine – “Meet Your Makers”
Best Email List Growth Campaign
Gold: Citrix Online – Content Marketing Strategy
Silver: Souplantation & Sweet Tomatoes – “Club Veg” Initiative
Honorable Mention: Wale – Email List Creation
Best Triggered Email or Auto-Responder Series
Gold: JetBlue – Remarketing Triggers
Silver: Feld Entertainment – Welcome Series
Honorable Mention: PostcardMania – Automated Follow-up
Best Email Innovation
Gold: No winner this year
Silver: rabbit eMarketing – Birthday Campaign
Honorable Mention: Wyndham Rewards – “Excuse to Escape”
Thanks for this post. I see so many bad email campaigns it will be interesting to see what the best of the best look like (I have now subscribed to Condor Flugdienst…) Most emails I see – mainly in the IM arena – have gimmicky titles with unrealistic and misleading content. I have unsubscribed from endless lists in the last few months. There has to be a better way than this… just how to find it.