Email Marketing Facts That Will Blow Your Mind

If you thought the age of email marketing was dead, then think again. It is still one of the most relevant forms of marketing as it ensures one of the highest conversion rates when it comes to digital marketing. Being extremely versatile and user friendly, email marketing is one of the most effective and quirky methods in getting your point across. Here are some facts about email marketing which will definitely blow your mind and make you want to use this method instantly!

1. Open rate for emails 

Email marketing is ingenious in the sense that even if the mail comes to you with a really bizarre subject line, you still want to open it and read. Why? Simply because curiosity kills the cat! According to recent statistics, the average rate of people opening emails is 50 %, which means more than half the people getting your mails open them without giving a second thought to what they have received.

2. Email marketing has the highest return of investment 

Reinforcing the ideology that email marketing isn’t dead, numbers have proven that out of all the different forms of marketing, email marketing has the highest return of investment. In fact, email marketing has an ROI of 122 %, which is four times higher than the other forms of marketing, including methods like social media marketing, direct mail and paid marketing.

3. Email marketing works because it helps people connect with the brand

When you receive personalised emails from the brands you like, does it not make you feel extremely special? According to recent studies, over 71% of millenials like receiving emails about brands and products they like because it increases familiarity with the product. Furthermore, 66 % of GenEx users like interacting with brands online and one of the ways they can do so is through emails.

4. Email marketing through images is more effective 

According to several facts, our brain processes images 60,000 times faster than text. Increase the image to text ratio and make sure your email tells stories majorly through the images than through the text. Furthermore, the size of our human finger tip is 46px squared, so when you are sending mails, make sure the buttons is around that size and that it is easy for people to open the mails.

5. Targeted emails help in attracting customers 

When you target your emails towards specific customers, there is more of a chance that people who open these mails will buy at least one product. In fact, it has been recorded that close to 44 % of the people who open mails specifically created for them will buy the product for which the mail has been sent! Therefore, targeted mails increase the kind of interaction people have with the brand and improves relationships between the brand and you!

6. iPhones don’t let you send emails with long subject lines 

Email marketing tailor made for iPhone users is extremely effective. Why? It ensures the subject line you use has a limit of 32 characters, ensuring the text written is exactly what you want to convey, not more and not less. On a side note, do not send constant emails because it results in people unsubscribing to your product!

7. Videos with emails increase conversion by 300%

Just like people are more attracted to images when they look at an email, videos are extremely effective as well. When you are sending emails with the idea of marketing your content, include video content and make sure that you have an interactive thumbnail, so there is redirection to your website as well. Also, when you send videos with backlinks, there is an increase in traffic on your website, thereby improving the chances of your visitors’ conversion.

8. Outlook is the most used email interface

When it comes to looking at emails, around 50 % to 60 % of the working population spend anywhere between ten to sixty minutes browsing through their mails and looking at content on their phones and desktops. From all these people browsing through their mails, Outlook accounts for 56 % of all desktop emails and close to 16 % of all opens from different systems. Definitely still one of the most used forms of email!

9. Email marketing is more effective than tweets

Research shows that in comparison to promoting your data on social media platforms like Twitter, email marketing is far more effective. According to recently collected information, emails are 6 times more likely to be opened rather than tweets. Further, emails are 40 times more effective in acquiring new customers as opposed to Facebook!

10. Reach through email marketing is MUCH higher than social media

While email marketing is definitely the most effective way to promote your data, what comes as an added proof to this fact is 90 % of the emails you send definitely make it to the recipient’s inbox while only 2 % of the posts you put up are noticed by people on social media! The lesson here is to make sure you put out engaging content through your emails, so your ROI moves from 90 % to 100 %!

Email marketing increases the chances of people recalling your brand, ensuring it stays remembered for a long period of time. If you think we missed out on any other facts about email marketing, comment and let us know!