Chart of the week: Discounts, receipts and advanced notice of products/sales are the top performers for email content according to customers, but marketers are not following suit in their email comms
The Data & Marketing Association (DMA) published its Marketer Email Tracker 2020 last week. Combining insights by marketers and customers alike, the report explores email’s multi-faceted role in communicating with consumers across all stages of the customer lifecycle – not just as a transactional channel, but one that can be used to inform and build long-lasting relationships.
Email is customers' top pick of the channels
Research by DMA found that email topped every channel when customers were asked their preference for receiving information, including appointments/reminders, customer service, new products, and tutorials.
In this report, email outperformed all other channels listed below:
Messenger
Post
Text
Face-to-face
Online
Phone
Social media
Email
This news is music to email marketers' ears, since this…
The industry vibe is everyone gets too many emails, brands send too many emails and email marketers often see open rates in the 15% to 25% range
Why don’t more people unsubscribe from email? It’s a perplexing question.
The industry vibe is everyone gets too many emails, brands send too many emails and email marketers often see open rates in the 15% to 25% range.
Yet unsubscribe rates are typically around 0.25% - according to email industry benchmark reports.
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The new "Email Addiction" consumer research report just published by Zettasphere and Emailmonday provides an answer.
The report is based on results of a consumer survey and sought to get…
Whether you’re buying dedicated solo emails, newsletter sponsorships, or native email ads, email advertising is consistently the king of ROI for generating new leads and customers
Just how much bang for your buck can you expect to get out of email marketing campaigns? According to one study, each dollar invested in email campaigns yields $44 on average in return. Also, consider that 91% of users like getting emails from companies they do business with, and it’s clear why email is the largest source of new revenue for 59% of marketers.
One of the most overlooked but best ways to acquire new leads and customers to market to via email is — surprise, surprise — email advertising. That’s because prospects who initially engage with your brand in the email medium tend to purchase at far higher rates in this same medium compared…
Chart of the Week: Q4 2018 saw email engagement stay mostly stable but triggered emails still outperformed BAU messages, despite the lower volume
A huge part of improving email performance is benchmarking against industry standards to see where you are above or below average. The latest Epsilon ‘Email trends and benchmarks report’ takes a look at Q4 2018 to see how emails performed compared to the rest of 2018 and previous years.
Key takeaways
The majority of email metrics for Q4 stayed relatively stable compared to the rest of 2018. Emails that were triggered by specific actions taken by website visitors or customers received fairly strong results while business-as-usual (BAU) emails stayed stable.
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Overall, the fact that BAU…
More valuable tools and technologies are to come for marketers this 2019, but it will only serve you well if you understand what lies in the future for email marketing
There are around 3.7 billion email users in the world today, with the figure likely to grow to 4.3 billion by 2022. This makes email marketing a viable strategy to put your efforts into, especially as the ROI for it is around 3,800%. It also remains an important source of information for B2B companies.
No matter how useful email marketing is for your digital outreach, it still doesn’t warrant unwanted emails. According to a survey by DMA Insights, 53% of consumers say that they receive too many irrelevant emails from companies.
More valuable tools and technologies are to come for marketers this 2019, but it will only serve you well if you understand what lies…
Chart of the Day: How Length and Personalization Impact Email
Performance
The Email Urban Legend
I'm not talking about those awful email chain letters from the 1990s.
I'm talking about "keep your subject line length short". We all have heard this, right? I call this an email urban legend because it had never been correctly tested but it has always been accepted. But is this correct? Should we just accept these email legends?
Always question
It's hard to know what is an email urban legend and what is researched advise. The answer is to always look for research statistics. 10 years ago, short subject lines probably were true, but with a number of different devices available is that still true?
Chart
If we look at some authentic research like the chart below, we can see that only 5% of the emails in the research had a…
Chart of the Day: New consumer research shows why it's important to get into the primary inbox
Here's some useful insight for email marketers who are looking to understand changes in the inbox behaviour of consumers. It's a new report from the DMA showing how busy consumers manage their busy inboxes. The research looks at a range of issues including 'ghost' accounts; unsubscribes and in-depth focus on the behaviours of younger consumers, including 'Millennials and what motivates consumers to share their email address.
How many email addresses do consumers have?
This is the specific question we'll look at here. The answer is... more than you might think, although as a marketer you may have more than most.The chart shows two is most common which will typically be because people have a work and an inbox email.
The proportion…
