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The Danger of Email Marketing Benchmarks « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

Studies from multiple email marketing service providers show different numbers when it comes to delivery rates, bounce rates, open rates, clickthrough rates, and more. What can we do to improve clickthrough rates and, more importantly, to get people to buy/download/register? Our open rates average 30%. Is this good?

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Hard Data to Justify Your Marketing Automation Investment

Customer Experience Matrix

Eloqua “ The Business Case for Integrated Demand Generation ” offers data from Forrester, CSO Insights and several Eloqua clients. CSO Insights, “Optimizing Lead Generation: What’s the Payback,” 2006 Best in Class Average % higher % reps making quota 66.1% The data is a couple of years old but still valid. Statistics include: • 16.5%

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Presenting Effective Charts « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

How to Ensure Your Message is Clear Before creating a chart showing the latest web analytics, or the trends in email clickthrough rates explaining the recent results in webinar registrations, think about what exactly you are trying to say. Did we generate quality leads? Did we generate quality leads? What is the summary?

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Top 20 Tweets from Sales 2.0 Conference

Smashmouth Marketing

damphoux : @IDC "companies that reduce their investment in sales in 2009 will be gone in 2010" #sales20. jillkonrath : Video in newsletters increases clickthroughs by 40% - per Mark Wilson, VP, Corp. damphoux : Tom Barrieau, IDC demand generation / lead qualification largest segment of budgets right now #sales20. Warren Buffet.

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Top 20 Tweets from Sales 2.0 Conference

Smashmouth Marketing

#sales20 jepc : Gerhard Geschwandtner: " Trend 6: customers create companies instead of companies creating customers " #sales20 damphoux : @IDC "companies that reduce their investment in sales in 2009 will be gone in 2010" #sales20 greenleads : "Sales 2.0 combines customer focused processes with Web 2.0 Mktg at Sybase. That's an eye opener!

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7 Marketing Challenges in the Travel Industry Today

QuanticMind

According to a 2019 Deloitte report , US hotel gross bookings grew from $116 billion to $185 billion from 2009 to 2017. These are dynamically generated ads that populate with information based on an individual’s travel interests. Having a number of negative Google reviews can decrease clickthrough rates, not to mention limit sales.

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Why You Might Want to Be More Negative in Your Marketing

Hubspot

For a great example of using multiple villains in your marketing, just check out Career Builder's 2009 Super Bowl commercial, brought to my attention via Graeme Newell and 602 Communications. You will also generate some seriously ardent supporters. 6) Stir Up Some Controversy. 7) Use Data to Build a Case Around Why Something Stinks.