What will this mean for companies? Primarily how you get someone’s information and what you’re allowed to do with it will be what changes. The main thing to keep in mind is the ‘subscriber rights’ as long as you don’t break any of these you will avoid the up to €10 million in fines!

Subscribers rights you must adhere too:
• Right to be forgotten: An individual may request that an organization delete all data on that individual without undue delay
• Right to object: An individual may prohibit certain data uses
• Right to rectification: Individuals may request that incomplete data be completed or that incorrect data be corrected
• Right of access: Individuals have the right to know what data about them is being processed and how
• Right of portability: Individuals may request that personal data held by one organization be transported to another.

What changes should you make to your site?
You will need to obtain consent from your subscribers and contacts for every usage of their personal data, the surest route to compliance is to obtain explicit consent. All sign up forms on your site must now be opt-in, even at checkouts. On each of these forms to make sure that language in the sign-up confirmation, is specific, and covers all possible reasons for using the information being solicited. Be very specific about the intended use of the information and how you will process it. You must also keep records of the consent given. On your emails, there should be easily accessible “unsubscribe” and “preferences” footer options so your subscribers can change consent as they wish. Finally, you must inform visitors to your page about any cookies you have running.

What should you do with Existing client data?
You must ask people to resubscribe, unless you have proof they did so knowingly and according to GDPR guidelines. Maybe offer an incentive to get people to resubscribe if you can, something like a Discount code or free shipping on an order. Any emails who have not resubscribed by the 25th must be deleted and you must stop contacting them or face a fine of up to €10 million.

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Look at Email as a Channel

Once you’ve logged into Analytics, pick a suitable timeframe that you’re interested in and then, using the menu on the left, scroll down to Acquisition, and click on All Traffic > Channels.

In the main window, you will now see information separated out between all of the different standard Google Analytics channels. Interesting on its own merits I’m sure, but here you will see just how dependent you are on individual types of activity as well as opportunities for additional reach.

To drill down to just Email’s though, click on Email under Default Channel Grouping and lo and behold, we’ve filtered out all other traffic sources. (We didn’t say this was hard btw)

Tweak The Data

What you will likely be looking at now, are the pages that received the most traffic from your emails. This is often useful, but for the purposes of this exercise we want to see how each email performance, rather than which pages have received the most traffic.

Across the middle(ish) of the page is the Primary Dimension that we are looking at – probably set to Landing Page. Click on other, and type in and select Campaign. This should now group your information into individual campaigns – ideally, these should be named in an understandable way, allowing you to easily see which of your email have performed the best.

A campaign is usually set during the sending of each individual email. It basically works by appending information to the end links contained in your emails– you don’t need to know how that works, but it’s widely used all over the web for nerds (like us) to understand how users behave.

Rank & Compare

What you can know do is use the filters in Analytics to look at your date in different ways. By clicking on the checkbox and then “Plot Rows” you can see visually in the chart how those selected campaigns have performed.

You can also click on the column headers, to rank the data accordingly. Which emails sent the most traffic (you have to bear in mind the size of the send of course) and which emails generated most sales.

The trick is not to just consider absolute numbers. An email may not always convert directly (Multi-channel attribution is a big topic!) so what we’re most interested in is comparisons. Which emails you’ve sent have performed better? Take a look back on those mail shots – what was it about them that you can attribute to success/failure.

Why did X do better than Y. Is it the message, the offer, the timing etc. Was it a seasonal product? If so, should you do the same next year. This type of critical thinking will help you determine how to improve in the future. It means that even emails that bomb, are useful as they help you to adapt your future messaging/strategy.

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