E-Mail Forensics

You're asking more and more for projects that are vaguely similar to what I would call "E-Mail Forensics".

• Tell me how e-mail buyers perform.
• Tell me how e-mail clickers perform. Do they become buyers?
• Tell me how e-mail inactives perform? Should I prune them?
• What merchandise divisions do my e-mail customer file purchase from?
• What merchandise divisions do my e-mail customer file view online?
• Does my e-mail list purchase offline? Do e-mails influence offline behavior?
• What is the lifetime value of an e-mail address?
• Are there hidden "personas" in my e-mail file? Can you identify them?
• Can you simulate the impact of zero, one, two, three e-mail campaigns per week?
• Are the vendors right? Should I do the additional work to create personalized, targeted e-mail campaigns?
• Does the merchandise offered in an e-mail marketing campaign end up being the merchandise that is purchased online by e-mail subscribers?
• Does e-mail marketing drive incremental sales, or are all of the sales cannibalized from other sources?
• What is the average life of an e-mail address? What happens to long-term value when an e-mail subscriber unsubscribes?
• How does e-mail marketing interact with catalog marketing?
• How does e-mail marketing interact with paid search?
• If e-mail marketing causes paid search to happen, should I be conducting a fully integrated profit and loss statement? How do I do that?
  
• How can I accurately forecast the incremental sales of each e-mail marketing campaign?
• How should I merchandise each e-mail marketing campaign to maximize sales?
• Is it important to collect e-mail marketing addresses in stores?
• What is the five year sales trajectory of my e-mail customer file?
• If an individual customer has three e-mail addresses, which e-mail address should I market to?
• If an e-mail marketing message causes a customer to visit the website and not purchase, have I improved the net present value of my customer file?
• How does a "square inch" analysis translate to e-mail marketing?
• Can you segment my e-mail file into actionable customer cohorts?
• Are various e-mail suffixes (@gmail.com) more valuable than others?
  

These are the questions you're asking me to address. Combined, they form a product, a product I loosely call "E-Mail Forensics".

What am I missing? What would you like to see in an e-mail forensics project? Ready to work on a project? Send me an e-mail with your needs!