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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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I Need Hot Leads, and I Need Them Now

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Many are competing in early stage markets and need to get in front of their competitors quickly before consolidation and attrition take their toll. Building a marketing database of both short- and long-term prospects that at minimum meet specific demographic or target account criteria.

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

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No matter what your marketing resolutions this year – more content, better creative, etc. – Since email continues to be a dominant channel for most B2B marketers, let me suggest that a good candidate for #1 on your “to do” list for 2015 is to improve the way you measure email campaigns. Opens/Open Rate. Clicks/Click Rate (CTR).

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

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Congratulations: your last email campaign generated a really high click-through rate. It’s an issue that B2B marketers are experiencing with increasing frequency: open rates and click-through rates that don’t quite match up, typically in the form of an abnormally high “click to open” (CTO) rate. Bad for marketers.

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New Report Confirms Immaturity of Most Marketing Automation Deployments

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A new report from Forrester Consulting, commissioned by marketing automation provider Silverpop , offers little in the way of groundbreaking insights, but does provide plenty of data confirming what most already know: that many companies are failing to realize the true potential from their investments in marketing automation.

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Top 5 Benefits of Adopting Marketing Automation

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On Focus.com , Craig Rosenberg asks: “What are the top benefits of adopting marketing automation?” My response: Based on our firm’s experience , the most common benefits of marketing automation are these: 1. Marketing automation helps companies get more from their marketing budget by making the most of the leads they have.

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Calculating Statistical Significance: A Tool for Marketers

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In the client scenario above, however, even if the email campaign in question were to generate a response rate of say, 4 percent, the two test cells would need to differ by a significant margin (much more than 1 percent) in order to achieve statistical significance. For example: 1,500 names x 4 percent = 60 responses.