I’m Ros Hodgekiss, Customer Experience Programs Manager at Campaign Monitor, email marketing nerd, sailor and a Disaster Responder and Blood Transportation Specialist with the American Red Cross.
I live San Francisco, with roots in Australia and the Philippines.
My specialist areas include:
- Customer Experience – Driving retention and growth in the customer base, by designing, executing and iterating on a customer journey for new and existing customers. Projects include: Automated outreach to at-risk customers, live events & webinars, research and collaboration with Product, Product Marketing, Support and Customer Success.
- Project management – Following PMO principles, my achievements include launching Campaign Monitor’s new customer support portal and knowledge base. Results in FY18 Q1-Q2 include: IRT reduced from 33 hours to < 1 hour, 10% reduction in case time-to-resolution, Support Contact Index (SCI) reduced from 0.109 to 0.066.
- Email marketing – 10+ years of design, operations and analysis experience, including the publication of definitive HTML email guides and resources.
- Design & Code – Dynamic content & API integration on the ‘Email Personalization’ landing page and email. Visual refresh of support.myemma.com.
Sometimes I participate in webinars, conferences and workshops, like:
- Email Design and Content Workshop – Sydney, London, New York – Dec 2018 – Present.
- Getting Started Webinar – Nov 2018 – Present.
- ‘Leverage Email Marketing for Deeper Donor Relationships‘, Nonprofit Technology Conference, New Orleans, March 2018 (available as webinar)
- ‘Webinar: Owning the Inbox: Sure-Fire Tactics to Improve Email Deliverability‘, Campaign Monitor & Kickbox, March 2018
- ‘Webinar: How to Leverage Email and Mobile Messaging to Elevate Customer Experiences‘, Campaign Monitor & Vibes, January 2018
- ‘Using Email to Automate Customer Service and Success‘, The Email Design Conference, San Francisco, 2016
- ‘Going International: How to Localize your Email Marketing Campaigns‘, The Email Design Conference, Boston, 2015
- The Future of Email Marketing, London, 2015 (organizer)
- ‘Staying Relevant as a Community Manager‘, Community Roundtable @ SXSW, 2015
- ‘CSS Support in Email: The Problem we should be Fixing First‘, Inbox Love, Oct 2014
- ‘Customer-Centric Email Marketing‘, SXSW V2V, Las Vegas, July 2014
- ‘Adapt or Die: The Mobile Email Challenge‘, Future Insights Live, Las Vegas, June 2014
- ‘What’s Pushing Email Design Forward Today?‘, The Email Design Conference, San Francisco, London, Boston, 2013
- ‘Designing for Almost Every Device‘, Mobile Email Design Masterclass, February 2013
- ‘Optimizing HTML Email for Mobile‘, What Do You Know?, 2012
- ‘State of the Animation: Email, Video and the iPad‘, Ignite Sydney, March 2009
I also write a lot, too. For example:
- Campaign Monitor (2009 – now):
- Smashing Magazine:
- ‘What 22 Billion Newsletters Tell Us About Designing For Mobile Email‘, August 2014
- ‘Email Marketing for Mobile App Creators‘, August 2013
- ‘From Monitor to Mobile: Optimizing Email Newsletters with CSS‘ , August 2011
- Tuts+:
- ‘Working Harmoniously With Your Team on Web (and Email) Projects‘, August 2014
- ‘The State of CSS 3 in Email Templates‘, May 2010
We can start a conversation by talking about:
- Sailing – Drop the hook, I’m listening!
- Places we’ve travelled – I go walkabout, I speak Spanish. México City is my long-weekend escape.
- Cycling, skiing and the outdoors – Favorite tour? Glacier National Park.
- Food – Gee, I can’t pass on fried chicken.
- Things that make you happy.
If you see overlap between your Venn diagram and mine, please get in touch.
