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Email Marketing to Facebook Email Addresses

Facebook Messages – Facebook Email Address

The internet has been rife for a few months with the news of Facebook Messaging coming up.  Facebook is not just launching an email platform but a whole new way we send messages to each other. So it integrates your emails, sms, Facebook messages from your friends etc.

Given the amount of users Facebook has, and the fact that we use Facebook to connect to most of our friends, there is no doubt that this is the next big thing when it comes to emails and messaging. This could potentially be the next hotmail or gmail.

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Facebook messages is live

Facebook messages is also now live, which means that some users are starting to get their Facebook email address as well. I have just recently got mine and started to play around with it. Over the coming days and weeks, more and more people will start having their own Facebook email address. You might start seeing Facebook addresses on your email subscribers lists soon.

Email Marketing to Facebook Email Address

With the introduction of Facebook email address, which we believe is going to be the next biggest email platform, the question for all email marketers is

How do we optimise our email campaigns for Facebook email addresses?

To make sure that when we are communicating with Facebook addresses, it all displays properly, we are doing some tests with generic emails to see which ones work well and which ones don’t.

Testing the new Facebook Email Address

So here is what we are doing. We are testing all the emails to our Facebook address. We are sending a text email, a html email with a signature, an email with an attachment and finally an email from the dzineMail platform to see how they show up on Facebook messages.  Here are the results.

Text Email to Facebook

This just shows normally like any other message you get in Facebook.

Testing Normal Email to new Facebook Email Address

Testing Rich HTML with Signature to Facebook Email

Rich HTML with signature gets stripped down to just normal text. What is also a bit weird is that if you have two contacts with the same name, then the display picture might be pulled from the contacts name rather than email address.

There is an expand button which we thought would show the HTML but just came with a blank email.

Testing Rich HTML to Facebook Email Address

Testing PDF Attachment to Facebook Email

The next stage was testing a PDF attachment to the email address. Here are the results. This worked very well.

Testing PDF Attachment to Facebook Email Address

Testing Image Attachment to Facebook Email

The next stage was testing an image attachment. There was no doubt that this was going to work very well as well.

Testing Image Attachment to Facebook Email

Testing an Email Marketing Email to Facebook

So we finally come to the last test where we are seeing how a normal email marketing formatted email shows up in Facebook emails. Not to be too dramatic but the result of this could very well change how we do Email Marketing forever.

Result: so we sent out an email and we got the email with the subject line.

Email Marketing in Facebook Emails

And we clicked on expand

Email Marketing - Facebook Emails

So a normally formatted email marketing email doesn’t show up in Facebook.

Update 7th Feb 2011 – emails now showing in Facebook

The emails are now showing in Facebook for properly formatted email addresses. 

 

Guide to Email Marketing to Facebook.com Addresses

Based on the results we have created a Email Marketing Best Practice Guide which is a PDF download.

Download Facebook.com Email Marketing Guide

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More Testing and summary

We will be doing more testing and summarizing the results in a download. Please subscribe to our newsletter to receive the emails.

If you want to get social with your email marketing, please read through our blog or get in touch with us at suman@dzineclub.com

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