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What Response Rate Should I Expect From My Campaign?

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On Focus.com , Adam asks: ““What percentage success rate do people (expect from) direct mail campaigns? We (get) 7% response rate when marketing to existing customers and 2% to new customers.”. A survey invitation generates much higher response rates compared to say, a free trial offer.

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How to Measure Email Success in 2015: A Call to ROI

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Opens/Open Rate. Clicks/Click Rate (CTR). Click to Open (CTO) Rate. Leads/Response Rate. Opens, clicks and leads can be thought of as measures of volume – the amount of response that a campaign generated. So even measuring response rate doesn’t tell the whole story. MQLs/Cost Per MQL.

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Email Bots: What They Are, Why They Matter, and How to Stop Them

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Until those fixes become available, however, no matter what interim solution email marketers employ to mitigate the effect of bots, the best advice may be to simply de-emphasize or even ignore clicks as a performance metric and campaign trigger, and focus on more downstream measures such as lead rate (response rate) and even ROI.

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Measure Your Way to Lead Nurturing Success

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This new report shares insights, ideas, best practices, and real-life examples of how to measure lead nurturing performance beyond basic email metrics like open and click rates. implementing a lead nurturing campaign at the very front end of the qualification process, to complement telemarketing follow-up by inside sales.

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Why I Don’t Care About Spam Rates and Sender Reputation (and Neither Should You)

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This is not to say that instituting a few common sense best practices designed to minimize spam score and maximize deliverability is a bad idea. Response rates and even ROI are the metrics that should guide your email strategy, not spam rates. Testing emails thoroughly prior to launch is just one.)

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New White Paper: Top 10 Tips for Lead Nurturing Success

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Inside, you’ll discover the secrets to success and core lead management principles that can increase response rates, convert more leads to opportunities, and accelerate the ROI from marketing automation software. 10 Best Practices for Lead Generation & Pipeline Acceleration. Download your copy of the white paper here.

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New Report Confirms Immaturity of Most Marketing Automation Deployments

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“When we implemented (marketing automation) the first time, we jumped in without planning and found that it was not the best way to drive leads to sales.” Metrics – putting in place reporting and analytics that show demonstrate business value, not just response rates.