by connell44 » Wed Mar 24, 2010 6:14 pm
Businesses engage in email marketing because it works. And works well. Here are the numbers...
* According to research conducted by the Direct Marketing Association, email marketing generated an ROI of $43.62 for every dollar spent on it in 2009. The expected figure for 2010 is $42.08. As such, it outperforms all the other direct marketing channels examined, such as print catalogs (reference).
* The Ad Effectiveness Survey commissioned by Forbes Media in Feb/March 2009 revealed that email and e-newsletter marketing are considered the second-most effective tool for generating conversions, just behind SEO (reference).
* A summer 2009 survey of Irish marketers found 79% rating email marketing as important or very important to their marketing strategy (reference).
* Shop.org's State of Retailing Online 2009 survey of retailers found that "E-mail is the most mentioned successful tactic overall" (reference).