Understanding Your Most Valuable Marketing Channel: The Power of an Email Subscriber
We don't mean to step on the toes of any social media marketers, but it's time to shine a light on email subscribers. Email may often be seen as an old school channel, but the truth is, it pulls weight in the marketing arena that's unmatched by other channels. Why? Because of the special relationship that email creates between a brand and a subscriber.
Given that it's easier to build a personalized connection and track ROI with an email subscriber, we may even go so far as to say an email "subscribe" is more powerful than a social "like." Here's why.
Why You Should Invest in Email Now More Than Ever
How do you feel about your current email marketing budget? If your team doesn't have the budget to do everything it should be doing, you're not alone. Each business has to make decisions about which marketing channels receive how much money. Unfortunately, it's common for email teams to lack the resources they need to plan, test, and execute flawless campaigns.
There's a lot of noise in the marketing world. Between SEO, content marketing, paid social, and more, there's no shortage of competition for the marketing budget. So why should brands put their marketing dollars into email marketing? Here are five impressive stats that prove an investment in email is more worthwhile than ever.
Why Email Testers Are The Unsung Marketing Heroes
You know the effort you put into creating perfect email experiences day in and day out, but sometimes it's hard to articulate your contributions. Next time you find yourself explaining your efforts to your boss, keep in mind the following reasons why email testers are crucial to company success.
3 Reasons Why Email Testing Boosts Email Performance
When done right, email marketing drives business results like no other channel does. But a world of high returns also means that mistakes have a more immediate impact on your bottom-line. Brands that aren't optimizing the channel are leaving money on the table with every send.
Testing every email you send reduces costly mistakes and ensures that you're leveraging this valuable marketing channel to its fullest capabilities. Here's how.
The Email Metrics Marketers Measure—And The Ones They Should
What exactly should you measure when you send out an email? What metrics do your ESP and third-party analytics tools offer you? We asked thousands of marketers what metrics they currently track—and which ones they plan on tracking soon—in our State of Email survey.
Email Marketing Budget Changes in 2019: Where Email Teams Invest More—And Where They Cut Back
Whether email marketing is a new part of your business or an established component, building your budget for the year—and deciding how exactly you'll spend it—can be a daunting task. Did you ever wonder how your peers spend their email marketing dollars?
In our State of Email Survey, we asked thousands of marketers how their email marketing budget would change in 2019 and whether they're looking to increase or decrease investments in omnichannel integration, their email marketing tech stack, their staff, and more. Here's what we found.
Tips for Marketing Leaders: The Proven Tactics to Improve Email Marketing ROI
Email offers the highest returns for marketers year after year, coming in at 42:1 on average—up from 38:1 last year. In our CMO's Guide to Email Marketing ROI, we analyze email programs and ROI figures from hundreds of brands to examine which factors correlate with high email marketing returns—and which don't—and provide actionable advice on how you can help your team see measurable ROI improvements, faster.
Tips for Marketing Leaders: Help Your Team Overcome the Biggest Email Marketing Challenges of 2019
With an average ROI of 38:1, email marketing continues to be one of the most effective channels available to marketers. It allows you to build long-term relationships with your audience and delivers measurable results that outperform other channels like radio (ROI 6:1) and TV ads (ROI 1.3:1) by a long shot. When done right, email marketing drives business results like no other channel does. But that also means that brands that aren't optimizing the channel are leaving money on the table with every send.
Do you know which challenges are holding back your email program from delivering its full potential in 2019?
Remember when they said GDPR would kill email? It didn't.
Before the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation went into effect in May 2018, we heard dire predictions that the new, stricter laws would shrink email lists, throttle new opt-ins, and damage marketers' use of email to achieve their business goals.
Now, four months into the new post-GDPR reality, we have evidence that a clear majority of email marketers have not suffered the major list damage the doomsayers predicted.
The ROI for Email Marketing: The Good News and the Bad News
Email marketing's return on investment is 38:1 on average, according to a Litmus survey of 372 marketers worldwide. We explain why that's both good news and bad news.
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