Category Archives: Email Metrics

Why Subscribers Unsubscribe to Your Email Messages

As usual, the good folks at Marketing Sherpa give us the insight we need about why we’re losing email subscribers … You can’t do much about #5 – Situation Changed – but by making sure that you get #1 and … Continue reading

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The Best Time to Send Email

I’ve now seen 2 email marketing authorities in the last 2 days cite 2 case studies saying that the best time to send your email marketing missives is on Tuesday. Marketing Sherpa & Mail Dog Papers (published by Mail Dog … Continue reading

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Most Important Factors in Getting E-mails Opened

Marketing Sherpa gives us an early peek (available free until 10/23/07) at the critical factors that will boost your email open and click-through rates according to a report to be released later this week by MailerMailer.com: What’s the most critical … Continue reading

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Does Email Marketing Matter?

Yes! But it’s not easy. But the payoff can be huge… A couple of stats: Forrester found that customers who buy email advertised products spend 138% more than customers who don’t buy through email. That’s a huge difference. Why? I … Continue reading

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Don’t Use More Than 49 Characters When Composing Email Subject Lines

Email Labs reports some interesting research on email subject lines. Subject lines of 49 or fewer characters garnered a 75% higher click-through rate while achieving a 12.5% higher open rate than email messages with 50 characters or more in their … Continue reading

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How Do Your Email Campaigns Compare?

Bronto.com, a provider of email software and list management services, recently released their first quarterly industry statistics report. This concise, 5 page report provides Deliver, Open & Clickthrough rates across several industries and in aggregate. Overall the breakdown is as … Continue reading

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