Email Marketing Benchmark Report
Executive Summary
Email still dominates as a marketing and sales channel.
For many years, email has enjoyed favored status as a marketing and sales channel. However, the challenges in the way of email marketing success continue to mount: legislation, filtering & blocking technology and the reluctance of recipients to engage via email are growing obstacles to success. These challenges are worsening, quite likely because of “batch & blast” email practices and overall poorly conceived email campaigns. In short, it’s becoming harder to use email as a marketing channel. While most marketers are diversifying into additional channels, few have abandoned email. It’s familiar, inexpensive and still gets results.
What will email marketing success look like in the year ahead and how will marketers achieve it?
To find out, Demand Metric in partnership with Ascend2 fielded the Email Marketing Survey and completed interviews with 518 marketing and sales decision-makers and practitioners from around the world. We thank these busy professionals for sharing their valuable insights with you.
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Table of Contents
- Executive Summary
- Achieving Revenue Goals
- Email Marketing Objectives
- Current Email Marketing Success
- Obstacles to Email Marketing Success
- Email List Size
- Email Tactic Usage
- Email Tactic Effectiveness
- Changes to Email Marketing Effectiveness
- Email Tactic Execution
- Email Programs & Channel Integration
- Email Marketing Software Improvements
- About Marketo
- About Demand Metric & Ascend2
- Appendix - Survey Background
Research Methodology
Surveys are conducted online from a panel of more than 50,000 Ascend2 research subscribers, representing US and international marketing and sales decision-makers and practitioners in a range of contact roles, company types, sizes and geographic regions.
The questionnaire used incorporates standardized research practices across all studies while maintaining a proven 3-minute survey format. Survey findings are examined in a quantitative context by experienced analysts and reported objectively.
The Demand Metric and Ascend2 2014 Email Marketing Benchmark Report was administered online in February 2014. During this period, 518 responses were collected that were qualified and complete enough for inclusion in the analysis.
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