For half of the marketing influencers globally – who surveyed -, message personalization is their most effective email marketing tactic. Meaningful call-to-action ranked the next with a rate of 38%, narrowly edging out list data segmentation with 37%. Mobile responsive design and automated campaigns lagged behind most effective email practices with rates 28% and 27% …
Looking at the previous years, email still an essential component of marketers’ strategy. Those saying the email was either ‘important’ or ‘very important’ totaled with a rate of 95% in 2016. The highest figure recorded, with 63% saying the email was ‘very important’. Only 1% of marketers surveyed said email marketing was ‘unimportant’.
A survey of 46 questions in total was hosted online in the UK shows that achieving engagement with consumers, increasing sales and brand awareness are the top three objectives for B2C email marketing campaigns. These objectives changing slightly for B2B marketers; as leading generation/acquisition is their top objective.
Only 22% of marketers aren’t using marketing automation, while about 78% of them use the marketing automation features with different rates of usage. At the end of the spectrum, only 4% of marketers are making high use of marketing automation features.