How to Craft Effective Amazon Product Review Email Templates
So you acquired a new customer via your stellar advertising efforts, now what? Our partners at FeedbackWhiz put together a short article detailing how you can leverage email to not only nurture relationships with your customers, but also gather more reviews to help improve that all-important conversion rate and ability to win more customers in the Amazon jungle. If you’d like to learn more about how reviews affect your advertising performance, check out our article on FeedbackWhiz’s blog here.
Communicating with your customers by email is an important part of your seller toolkit, but doing it right can require a little delicacy. There are strict Amazon guidelines around how you should communicate with your customers and what you should and shouldn’t say.
When crafting an effective Amazon product review email, the tone is certainly important, but so is the layout of the email. How and when you deliver your email content will have an important impact on the way your customer responds.
Creating email templates can save you time and money, enabling you to send effective Amazon product review emails with little more than a click of a button.
Here’s everything you need to know about crafting and sending the most effective emails possible.
When to Send Your Emails
First, let’s think about the scheduling of each email. When it comes to email campaigns, less can often mean more. Customers may respond to emails initially, but things often trail off quite quickly. If you send too many emails or schedule them at the wrong time, it can reduce their impact and could even cause irritation.
In general, you should send a maximum of three emails and each of them must have a purpose. The receiver needs a good reason to open the email — otherwise, it’s heading for the trash folder.
Always think about your end goal. What outcome do you hope will be produced by the email? Do you want the receiver to click through to leave a product or are you hoping to build your relationship with them in the hopes of creating a repeat buyer?
It is important to never send an email to an Amazon user who has opted out of receiving emails. Amazon allows buyers to opt-out of receiving emails that do not contain or relate to crucial information related to a purchase.
Crafting Effective Subject Lines
When it comes to emails, the first thing someone sees is the subject line. If you’re sending lots of emails and nobody is opening them, it could be because you are not writing compelling subject lines. In other words, you are not giving the customer a clear reason to click to open.
It is important to note that your open rates can vary depending on the type of product you are selling. If it’s an expensive item, people are much more likely to open emails about it than they are to open an email about a less expensive, smaller item.
However, in general, you should hope to see an open rate in the area of 35% and customers leaving product reviews at a rate of 1–2%.
Those figures, though, will be boosted if you can encourage more people to open your Amazon product review emails. This all begins with your subject line. Avoid vague subjects — tell the receiver exactly what the email relates to and why they should open it.
For example, when sending an order confirmation, you could start with: ‘Hello, your order [[ORDER_ID]] is on its way!’ This will encourage the buyer to open it up to see when they can expect the item to arrive.
Crafting an Effective Email Layout
When designing an email, getting started is often the most difficult part. If you can prepare a number of templates in advance, it can save you these creative headaches at the time of sending. The exact look of these email templates will be different depending on when you send them and what you hope to accomplish but here are a few general design rules to keep in mind:
- Keep it simple: A clear and concise design will allow the buyer to focus on your key message.
- Be useful: The content of the email has to be of value to the buyer.
- Ask for one thing: Try to only ask for one thing in the email. If you ask for more, you may well get nothing.
- Set the right tone: Be personal, friendly and useful — try to avoid sounding as if you’re desperately trying to sell something, even if you are.
Here is a sample effective template idea that can be used for different situations:
1. Order Confirmation
You want to reassure them that the product they ordered has been safely dispatched.
Subject: Hey there, Regarding your Amazon Order [[ORDER_ID]]
Thank you so much for your purchase of [product name]. We go to great lengths to ensure our product meets the highest standards. We hope you enjoy it. If you do have any questions, you can contact us at [customer services email].
In the meantime, you can track the progress of your product here [link to tracking page]
2. Purchase follow up
This could go out to the customer in the days or weeks following purchase. This is a good time to try and get a buyer to leave a product review because the product is still fresh in their mind.
Subject: Re: Amazon [[ORDER_ID]] Tell us how we did!
Hello,
We hope you’re enjoying [order ID]
We do our best to ensure all our products meet and exceed your expectations. As you know, Amazon depends on people like you for feedback on their products to help other customers. If you can spare a few minutes to leave feedback, it will help us to continue improving our service.
Many sellers will stop there, which is fine, but it may be useful to send a third and final email. You can use this final email as an opportunity to include additional information, like a user guide or e-book, to help the buyer get the most from your product. Customers love to receive this sort of information and it shows them that you are willing to do a little more than others to keep them happy.
Send this a little while after the product has been delivered. This gives the buyer a chance to use the product for a longer period and meaning they may be able to give a more thoughtful, detailed, product review. Remember, some products require time to take effect (think beauty supplies or supplements). First impressions any not be the most accurate so waiting can be to your advantage.
Try something like this:
Subject: Regarding your Amazon Product [Product Title]
Hi,
Our records show it has been a few weeks since you received [our product]. We hope you’re continuing to enjoy using it, but if you do have any questions don’t hesitate to contact [customer services] for support.
There are many different ways for you to enjoy [our product]. We’ve put together this handy guide to show you some of the fantastic things you can do with it.
We are always striving to get better and rely on feedback to help us improve. A little of your time and a few words would go a long way to ensure this while helping other buyers make an informed decision. If you have not already left a product review, it would help us and our buyers tremendously if you can do so.”
Effective Color Coordination
In designing emails, simplicity is almost always the best option, but this does not mean that you can ignore details. Intelligent use of color can increase sales.
Red, for example, is often thought of as the best color for encouraging purchases. It excites us and represents desire or anger. It can prompt us to action.
Green, on the other hand, as a milder effect and is often used in products that seek to summon up an image of nature.
Yellow is the first color on the spectrum that the eye sees. It is a great attention grabber.
Carefully consider the message and brand image you are trying to convey and use your colors accordingly. If it is not pleasing to the eye or sends the wrong message to your buyers, it will not be effective.
Images and gifs can also make the emails stand out. High-quality images of the product being used help the buyer envisage the different ways they can use it.
Measuring Your Results
Finally, tracking your metrics will help you understand what does and does not work in your email templates. There is no one, clear, recipe for success with automated email templates so you need to pay close attention to your own results and make adjustments where necessary.
Using a software tool like FeedbackWhiz can help you not only design eye-catching templates as shown in the example earlier, but it can also help you accurately target the audience and timing using different triggers. Other features include: Tracking open rates, A/B testing subject lines, and monitoring any reviews that you receive. The more information you can gather about your sent emails, the finer tuning you can do and the more effective your email campaigns will be.
