Personalized Problems: How Powtoon swiped a hack from their sales rep to increase email opens – and webinar attendance ft. Anna Levitin

Email Swipes

When you have robust data on your leads’ pain points – how do you best use it? If you’re Anna Levitin and the Powtoon team, you use your leads’ language to craft highly relevant subject lines – and increase email opens, webinar registrations, and webinar attendance rates.

About our guest

Anna Levitin is an Email & Lifecycle Marketing Specialist, formerly Email & Marketing Operations Lead at Powtoon. Anna is an email enthusiast with a talent for AB tests, segmentation, and positive ROI. Cultural anthropology background empowers her passion for understanding customers' behaviors, anticipating their needs, and delivering personalized content. She has vast experience working with SaaS and e-commerce products. Anna is an international speaker at email conferences, podcast guest, and vivid evidence that email is far from dead.

Ideas you don’t want to miss

(05:23) How webinars fit into the overall Powtoon content strategy - and how they use them to build community and celebrate their customers

(09:14) How they deeply personalize their webinar flows based on each user’s data

(10:49) How they swiped from one of their sales rep’s hack to increase open and attendance rates

(19:26 How they use design to demonstrate the varied benefits of their webinars

(21:42) How they weave feedback throughout the customer experience to continuously personalize the user experience

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