Email Marketing Information

DoubleClicks Q3 2004 Report Shows Bulk Email Marketing Eficiency Increase


Wednesday, December 15 2004 at 16:00 EET

Internet marketing company DoubleClick published its final report over the bulk email marketing evolution this year. The figures show year-over-year increase in delivery rates (cleaner emailing lists), and a decrease in open rates and click-through rates. The variations are light, proving a steady and maturing environment.

DoubleClick's metrics

The data analyzed were based on more than 2 billion messages sent by hundreds DARTmail customers, measuring bouncebacks, open rates, click-throughs and conversions (open to sales, or click to sales ratio). The results were reported for 2004 and compared to 2003.

DoubleClick used unweighted averages for all analyzed categories. This helps eliminating the influence that large email marketers could have over category averages, as the report states.

The email marketing categories considered in the study were:

  • Business Products & Services
  • Consumer Products
  • Consumer Services
  • Financial Services
  • Travel
  • Retail&Catalog
  • Publisher - Business
  • Publisher - Consumer

Email marketing performances

The bounce rates show a slight decline overall, and a more consistent decline in the Travel category, down 54.5% from 14.3% to 6.5%.

Business Publishers was the only category that increased open rates, however slightly, from 38.2 to 38.3. For other categories, open rates declined. The open rates' decline in most categories is possibly owed to SPAM increase and reveals people's reticence to open messages they are not highly interested in.

Click through rates increased in only two categories, Consumer Publisher and Travel.

More interestingly, email-productivity has shown better figures in number of orders per email sent: 0.28% in 2004; but the average revenue per email sent declined 26.9 percent. The average email order throughout 2004 was $89, in a year-over-year declining trend.

Conclusion

About the overall productivity of bulk email marketing the report concludes: "email marketing is a maturing and relatively stable marketing tool. Improvements in list hygiene and address collection processes seem to have improved bounce rates, but flagging response rates suggest subscriber files are beginning to mature."

Iulia Pascanu writes for http://www.emailmarketingsoftware.org/ where you can find more information about Email Marketing Software. Please feel free to use this article in your Newsletter or on your website. If you use this article, please include the resource box and send a brief message to let me know where it appeared: mailto:iuliap@gmail.com

  


MORE RESOURCES:

Integrated Marketing System Includes Email Marketing, Online ...
PR Web (press release), WA - 2 hours ago
Igenti-market is the only system that integrates the three principal aspects of online marketing into one system. The system includes email marketing, ...


Leading Online Retailer 'The Parent Company' Centralizes Email ...
MarketWatch - Sep 3, 2008
Forrester's in-depth study details the financial benefits that The Parent Company is receiving by centralizing its email marketing for eToys, ...


Director, Email
Seattle Times, United States - Sep 3, 2008
If you are an analytical marketer with extensive experience in e-mail, you could be responsible for managing an extensive, dynamic email marketing program ...


Expert: Use email marketing to nurture current customers
Digital Response Media, UK - 23 hours ago
Writing for the American Chronicle, Fred Waters, co-founder of the Local Online Marketing Association, identified email marketing as a key channel for ...
Don't neglect existing customers in internet marketing strategy Business Feet
all 2 news articles


How to Capture the Growing Value of Email Marketing
PRarticle.com (press release), Canada - 20 hours ago
Learn about the power of eMail marketing and how, when done correctly, it is one of the most cost-effective solutions for you to generate leads, ...


Maxymiser launches email optimisation software
E-consultancy (press release), UK - 14 hours ago
Critically, our new email optimisation software allows organisations to optimise email marketing campaigns automatically without marketers requiring any ...


Email marketing 'should go beyond open rates'
Digital Response Media, UK - Sep 3, 2008
A new study has suggested that open rates are no longer effective when it comes to measuring the success of email marketing campaigns. ...
Open rates no longer indicate successful internet marketing strategy Business Feet
all 2 news articles


Chicago-based Law Firm Novack and Macey LLP Implements LetterMark ...
MarketWatch - 20 hours ago
"LetterMark Email has become a key component of our firm's marketing strategy," said Caroline Berger, Marketing Coordinator at Novack and Macey. ...


Are You Emailing Your Local Customers? Why Not?
American Chronicle, CA - Sep 3, 2008
Email marketing can also be highly effective for local services, both for converting prospects to customers and for reminders to existing customers. ...


Tangent Selects 5W Public Relations to Raise Profile of its ...
MarketWatch - 19 hours ago
Email archiving is something every business, no matter its size, type or industry focus, must do. The requirement is the result of a series of recent laws ...

e-mail email marketing - Google News

Article List | Index | Site Map
All logos, trademarks and articles on this site are property and copyright of their respective owner(s).
The comments are property of their posters, all the rest is Copyright © 2006 CanadaSEEK.com - All Rights Reserved.