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According to research conducted by the Direct Marketing Association, email marketing generated an ROI of $57.25 for every dollar spent on it in 2005. As such, it outperformed all the other direct marketing channels examined, such as print catalogs. |
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A report in mid- |
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47% of marketers surveyed by MarketingSherpa in early 2006 said that their top performing online marketing tactic in 2005 was "email marketing to house lists." The tactic was second only to search marketing in performance. |
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In February, 2006, a second JupiterResearch report concluded that spending on email marketing will rise from $885 million in 2005 to $1.1 billion in 2010. |
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In a survey of marketing managers and marketing directors in the UK, some 98.5% of respondents said their email marketing budgets would increase in 2006 or stay the same. |
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In a November 2006 survey of B2B marketers, email came second only to website development in terms of online marketing budget priorities |
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In an October 2006 survey of North American and UK marketing professionals, 81% of respondents intended to increase their email marketing budgets in 2007. |
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If you're wary of statistics, then consider the results obtained by real marketers in real organizations. And nearly all of those are published at independent media websites, not at vendor sites where they're just trying to sell their particular email marketing solution. |
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It allows targeting |
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It is data driven |
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It drives direct sales |
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It builds relationships, loyalty and trust |
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It supports sales through other channels |