Pumpkin spice and everything nice. Fall in Boston is arguably the prettiest season with the most festive activities around. As we are snuggling up in our sweaters and sipping mulled wine, new email marketing trends have emerged during the autumn season. Recently,
SaleCycle released an updated list of email marketing statistics in 2018 and we're here to update you all on the end of the year trends!
Bottom line, email marketing is still very important. We hope these stats help you fine tune your email marketing strategy!
Is Email Marketing Worth It?
While many have claimed email is no longer the major contender for marketing, email campaigns still deliver the best return of investment. According to Econsultancy’s 2017 Email Marketing Census , out of 689 companies, three-quarters of respondents reported email marketing is good or excellent for ROI. More so, the average proportion of total sales that client-side marketers can attribute to their email marketing is 22%. GetResponse broke emails marketing into each industry with its Email Marketing Benchmarks 2018:
Subject Lines
Subject lines may be the hardest one-liners to catch the eyes of customers but out of 500 SaleCycle clients, about 43% and 46% opened when the company name and customer name, respectively, was incorporated into the subject line. Product name and details also had a 44% open rate.
Left on Read
We’ve all deleted emails and never opened them. That’s why Return Path’s Hidden Metrics of Email Deliverability report presents the percentage of emails that end up in spam folders, are replied to, forwarded, or even complained about. Specifically, this chart shows the percentage of emails deleted without being read. Sad.
Don’t Give me ‘tude
How do people feel about email marketing? According to bluehornet survey(pdf), 1,800 US consumers reported how many times they check their email account:
Plan of Attack
GetResponse also looked at how different email marketing tactics impacted email open rates:
Bottom line, email marketing is still very important. We hope these stats help you fine tune your email marketing strategy!