For your email marketing communication strategy, don’t be a sheep

Chart of the Day: What is the most popular type of email marketing communication?

In email marketing, there are so many different ways to communicate with your client. But which are the most popular? And if they are popular, does that mean they are correct?

In today's chart, it is unsurprising that most use newsletters at 74%. This is a simple way of keeping clients up to date with news or content and has been an email marketing standard for many years. However, some simple additions to your communications strategy could make dramatic differences. For instance, having a multi-step automation for new subscribers/customers, reactivation emails and automated triggers through a client's lifecycle require a bit maintenance, but only 26%, 10% and 18% of the users surveyed actually use these in their strategy.

It's always good to know what others are doing in their strategy, but is it the right path for your company? Not necessarily. You need to lead the way in order to attract customers, so don't be sheep when it comes to your email marketing strategy.

The research was designed by the teams at Smart Insights and GetResponse and written by Dave Chaffey and Robert Jones at Smart Insights, so includes not only useful benchmarks for you to compare your performance against, but also our trademark visual mindtools to help you review your approach and take practical actions to improve results.

View the full report Email Marketing & Marketing Automation Excellence 2017.

 

• Source: Email Marketing & Marketing Automation Excellence 2017
• Sample Size: 2500 marketers from 126 countries across 19 industries
• Recommended Resource: Email Marketing Guide

Contributer : Smart Insights