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The Danger of Email Marketing Benchmarks « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking The Danger of Email Marketing Benchmarks A recent article from BtoB Online about email deliverability reminded me of how dangerous this whole thing of email marketing deliverability numbers can be. Is this good?

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How to Devise a Strategic Email Marketing Plan for 2011

Hubspot

2011 is quickly approaching and you need to gain a clear understanding of what your new email marketing plan will look like. How are you going to meet your new goals in 2011? To get us started now, here are some ways to devise a strategic email marketing plan for 2011: Explore Top Challenges. Increasing deliverability?

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effective marketer principle 4: take responsibility for decisions

The Effective Marketer

Make sure to add this person as part of your plan and also to allocate the appropriate time it will take for this person to review and approve – or not – the deliverable) The names of people who will have to be informed by the decision (after you create a new piece of marketing collateral do you announce it to the sales team?

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Email Marketing: How Much Is Too Much? #MKTGdebate

Hubspot

1) Emails targeted to customer loyalty programs have a 40% higher open rate. Well, if targeted emails have a higher open rate, that should enable you to send more emails to that group as they are more receptive to your messages that contain such well-targeted content. Source: ReturnPath, 2011 ).

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Does Your Drip Marketing Leak Leads?

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Effective drip marketing will reduce spam rates when prospects expect and appreciate your messages but it doesn’t stop there. The lead nurturing process must be measured to determine email open rates, click through rates from offers, and opt out rates. Does Your Drip Marketing Leak Leads?

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The Ultimate List of 2012 Email Marketing Stats

Hubspot

The data is divided up into four categories: email performance, subject lines, email behavior, and deliverability and devices. 1) Email clickthrough rates dropped to 4.4% 3) Email open rates decreased in Q2, down slightly from 26.2% to 25.6%, the first quarter-over-quarter drop since Q1-Q2 2011. in Q2, jumping 8.5%

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B2B Cold Email Subject Lines: What’s Hot, What’s Not

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This email subject line from Sumo got a 64% open rate by teasing a new trend. Anything that offers how-to info gets good opens,” Catabay says, “because we’re helping and disarming.” As Act-On’s Nathan Isaacs says , “You can’t buy beer with open rates.”. This worked for a hot minute in 2011. How-to content.

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