Email Marketing Census 2011 Presentation
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This document summarizes the findings of an annual email marketing census conducted in 2011. Key findings include: - Many companies are sending more emails and spending more on email marketing compared to 2007. However, integration with other channels remains a challenge. - Email consistently provides high returns on investment but many companies still fail to implement best practices like testing. - Barriers to effective email include outdated lists, lack of focus on deliverability, and disconnected systems between email and other channels.
Email Marketing Census 2011 Presentation
- 1. Email Marketing Census 2011Linus GregoriadisResearch Director [email protected]://econsultancy.comIn association with Adestra
- 3. Findings
- 4. Approach to email and use of ESPs
- 5. Volume of email and budget
- 8. Integration
- 9. Social media
- 10. QuestionsMethodologyOnline survey in January and February 2011Fifth annual Email Marketing CensusOver 850 respondents, including539 company email marketers230 supplier respondents (ESPs/agencies)Majority of respondents UK-basedAcross a wide range of business sectors
- 11. What’s changed since 2007?|4|Course Title
- 12. Number of emails sentCompanies sending more than 50,000 emails each month
- 13. Annual spend on email marketingCompanies spending more than £50,000 per year
- 14. Use of ESP services
- 15. What hasn’t changed since 2007?|8|Course Title
- 16. Ranking of channels for ROI Proportion of companies ranking as ‘excellent’ or ‘good’Email consistently top/second top channel for ROI since 2008
- 17. Average split of online marketing budgets
- 18. Use of best practices|11|Course Title
- 19. Companies using range of email practices
- 20. Change in use of email marketing practices
- 22. Companies not doing, or even planning
- 23. Photo credit: Jesse Therrienon stock.xchngOnly 32% of companies carry out a regular amount of testing. Most of them just tip their toes.|16|Course Title
- 25. Barriers to effective email marketing|18|Course Title
- 26. Barriers to effective use of email (top five)
- 27. Barriers to effective use of email (2007)
- 29. Photo credit: Crystal Leigh Shearin on stock.xchngFew organisations are adopting a focused, strategic approach to deliverability…|22|Course Title
- 30. Impact on improving deliverability64% think that clean and up-to-date lists have major impact
- 31. Primary data sources for acquisitionFor your acquisition emails, what best describes your primary source of data?
- 32. Primary data sources for retentionFor your retention emails, what best describes your primary source of data?
- 34. Level of integration with other activities
- 35. Photo credit: Josh Kluteon stock.xchngSocial mediaMore than half of companies say that disconnected systems/technologies are the single biggest barrier to effective email integration.|28|Course Title
- 36. Barriers to effective email integration
- 38. Relationship between email & social mediaAlmost half (45%) manage as two separate channels
- 39. Relationship between email & social media“People in charge of email and social media don’t have the vision necessary to leverage the complementary nature of those media.”52% of companies say that social media is not a significant source of new email subscribersOnly 37% of companies say that email is successful in generating social media activity“Too many cooks – not enough integration.”“Content within email is mainly sales as opposed to social and rich content that appeals to sharing on social networks.”“We don’t use email marketing for the purpose of generating ‘conversations’ – an area which is needed to take a strategic stab at.”
- 40. Measuring the impact of email on social media - challenges
- 41. Focus for 2011|34|Course Title
- 42. Email marketing focus for 2011
- 43. SummaryIncreased uptake in some areas of best practice, but many companies are still failing to do the basics, including testing and basic steps to improve deliverability.On-going struggle to integrate email with other parts of the business so that it doesn’t function in a silo. The desire is often there, but not always the technology or the know-how to join things up. Email remains a fundamental channel for engagement and for ROI. Companies are taking a big gamble if they don’t invest resources here.
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