Direct Marketing Association reports:

 

Email marketing continues to deliver a strong performance for brands and marketers. It is used by over 90% of businesses and provides a cost-efficient and powerful way for both broadcasting news and one-to-one communications.

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Email marketers are building a strong business case with a high ROI and less internal constraints.

• Email has an average ROI of $38 for each $1 spent. A big increase over the 24.93 reported in 2013.

• One in five companies report an ROI of over 70:1 .

• Internal resources and budget limitations are less often a constraint for campaign success.

• Over half of all respondents anticipate their company’s spend on email to increase during 2015.

Increased use of targeted campaigns and advanced tactics lead to higher effectiveness.

• Regular newsletters are classed as the most effective way of delivering email content to achieve campaign objectives, yet with a particular focus on segmenting the target audience based on purchase habits.

• Triggered and behavioural driven email marketing drive more revenue than in previous years, with a reduction in blanket email marketing.

• The overall expertise seems to be on the increase as only 12% of respondents rate their company’s competence as basic compared with 22% last year.

• 78% of marketers rate their company’s competence in email marketing as either intermediate or advanced, up from 70% last year.

9 out of 10 clients perceive email marketing as a channel of importance to great strategic importance for achieving business goals.

• The survey shows lower levels of ambivalence around the email marketing channel.

• A high proportion of companies’ email programmes remain managed in-house, with a slight shift from services outsourced to ESPs towards in-house management.

Direct revenue is most often a key email marketing objective and email marketing campaigns are very effective in delivering it.

• Driving revenue through sales tops the list of prime objectives, with over a quarter (26%) of marketers seeing it as the most important goal.

• Marketers are aware of the need for engagement with one in five (22%) naming it their prime objective.

• 60% of marketers use conversion rates to evaluate email campaigns effectiveness.

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