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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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Response rates from tactical, sales-driven campaigns are likely to be lower (because they only attract highly qualified, late stage leads), so companies need to spend more money to generate relatively few opportunities.

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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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Campaign Makeover: Simple Changes Increase Email Response by 25 Percent

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Both click-through and response rate increased by 25 percent, even though the previous campaign had been one of our top performers. Shortened body copy text. Added bullets to emphasize key learnings. Clarified the call to action. Added a “Download Now” button. The results were significant.

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Does Renting Email Lists Make Sense Any More?

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I can vividly remember getting 8-10 percent response from rented lists in the early days, but even 1 percent response from a rented B2B email list today is considered wildly successful by most standards. Which means that even though the production cost of email is still attractive, the actual cost per response has skyrocketed.

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Measure Your Way to Lead Nurturing Success

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In our firm’s marketing automation practice , we define success not as email clicks, response rate, or even overall engagement, but instead: clear, demonstrated, and attributable movement of leads through the lead lifecycle – for example, inquiry to MQL, MQL to SAL, and so on.