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🥄 A breakdown of Magic Spoon’s email marketing.
🎨 Testing creative where business meets simplicity.
🔑 A key creative tip you should definitely be trying.
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Magic Spoon has some of the best emails in the game. Pilothouse's head of email, Julien, helps us break them down.
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Magic Spoon leads off with a contest angle rather than a discount in their pop-up. This route can help prevent the expectation of discounting early on, which is something Magic Spoon likes to avoid.
The opt-in rate will potentially be higher than a discount offer, but conversion rates can be lower depending on the backend follow-up flow.
The design and copy are perfect.
Magic Spoon reinforces the brand with a killer headline: "Do you believe in Magic?"
Notice the mid-level CTA "Try Now" at the top.
It’s softer than "Buy Now" which we love.
The reviews answer KEY objections that users might have.
For example:
Each review answers those questions - apply this to your own brand!
Magic Spoon uses lots of faces throughout their email photography. It’s a small detail, but incorporating a human element goes a LONG way.
If you didn’t convert on the first email, Magic Spoon hits you with this.
Right away they’re focusing on key value props: Low carb, high protein.
The variety pack is the main focus which is a high AOV and helps consumers figure out which flavor is their favorite.
Don’t risk pushing one particular flavor early on. The consumer might not like it and give up on your brand.
Introduce them to a couple of flavors. Even if they don’t order the variety pack, they’re aware of your offerings.
This is absolutely vital to have in your welcome series flow.
It’s a great way to connect consumers with your brand early on.
It’s a simple email that answers the following:
Notice the soft CTA "Learn More."
This helps transfer users from the email to the website where they’ll potentially make a purchase.
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"This is a classic ‘back in stock, but never went out of stock,’ email," notes Pilothouse’s Julien.
Notice the two CTAs which help measure intent.
Once someone clicks on either button, you can funnel them into further campaigns
The copy is spectacular and the product-specific testimonials and UGC-style images complete this email. 🚀
This email helps build a human element into the Magic Spoon brand with killer copy and a look into one of their values: Weirdness.
While 99% of this email is about their people and hiring, they do sneak the CTA in: "Fill your bowl."
We don’t know the data behind this email, but I think we’d be surprised how many sales they get off this.
Test it out for your own brand.
Up to this point, Magic Spoon has delivered all value-based content.
They established the brand, why they’re great, and why you should buy.
All this is done before providing any type of discount.
Every brand is different – some provide discounts in the first email while others, like Magic Spoon, want to establish themselves first.
This email comes eight days after signing up and the coupon is perfectly placed in this email.
The girl pointing towards the coupon is a nice touch as well.
Notice the time limit – just 48 hours.
These types of emails can be super boring but Magic Spoon crushes it.
Notice that they’ve changed the font color – a simple but important element that continues to drive the brand.
Highly engaging graphical emails that you can mark as transactional (like this one) are extremely underutilized, notes Julien.
When marked as transactional, it means the email will be delivered to those who purchase no matter if they’ve opted out of marketing emails.
Notice that they’re anticipating questions and trying to provide answers early on – GREAT customer experience move.
The estimated delivery date is in its own box which is harder to execute than you’d think – great work.
The transaction data is standard, but it’s in Magic Spoon colors. Plus, the graphics and floating cereal make this an exciting email to receive.
They’ve probably had supply chain issues before so they’re getting ahead of it by stating "If you didn’t receive everything in your order, hang tight."
Again, it’s a great CX move and something ALL brands should apply if you’re having logistical issues.
Magic Spoon’s emails are heavily loaded with images.
The Pilothouse team suggests incorporating more HTML so it doesn’t hurt your deliverability rates.
Remember this for your own brand!
Tip from the Pilothouse team: 70:20:10 Rule
When planning out your performance creative, you’ll want to follow the 70:20:10 rule:
✅ 70% of your creative should be iterations of winning content.
✅ 20% of your creative should be expanding on smaller scale tests that showed promise, but may not have met the mark quite yet.
✅ 10% of your creative should focus on brand new ideas. Think outside the box. Something that will really catch people’s attention.
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