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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. I work for a B2B software company and we do regular email blasts. Our open rates average 30%. How can we improve open rates?

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6 Marketing Automation Lessons I Learned the Hard Way

Hubspot

Due to increasing adoption rates, analysts are predicting a more than 50% industry revenue increase this year. Recent acquisitions (Eloqua acquired by Oracle, Pardot by ExactTarget, and others) are also signs of a market headed in the right direction. Use a solution-based approach: Problem: Email open rates are trending down.

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Email Marketing vs Marketing Automation Software

TrustRadius Marketing

Email marketing software is designed to send “batch and blast” emails with some segmentation, drip campaign, automation and analysis capabilities. Top Rated marketing automation vendors include Marketo , HubSpot , SharpSpring , Act-On Software , Oracle Eloqua , Pardot , Infusionsoft by Keap , Adobe Campaign , ActiveCampaign.

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Cetera Creates Award-Winning Nurture Program with a Combo of Marketing Tech

Vidyard

They wanted to go beyond the ease of the classic batch-and-blast email nurturing of the past and evolve with a more strategic approach. Using these three technologies integrated with their marketing automation platform (Eloqua), the company was able to qualify better leads, faster. They wanted to bring in more MQLs, faster.