Survey Says: Email Strongest Performing Media Buy
debbiDatran Media recently released their second annual survey of over 2,000 online marketers, regarding their insight into the best online promotional methods.
Over 82% said they were planning to increase their use of email marketing in 2008. ROI from email marketing was anticipated to be much higher than other promotional avenues by 55% of respondents. When compared with other media buys, email came in on top, over display, search, print and other media channels.
Interestingly, email serves a double purpose, as seen by survey respondents, who leveraged email as a sales tool as well as utilizing it as a media channel.
Email was used to send newsletters by 80% of the respondents. In addition to using email as a sales tool, it was also used to reactivate dormant customers, enhance customer relationships and increase brand awareness.
An important note is that over 81% send TARGETED email campaigns, with less than 19% sending untargeted campaigns. The majority of targeting was based on actions or demographics / location.
Debbi Bressler
Email Marketing Specialist
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February 20th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Hi Debbie,
Thank you for sharing this article.
Email marketing is very effective, that’s why most marketers are using it. Others have even gone a step ahead to include surveys in their marketing.
Recently Google has introduced free surveys to marketers, which is working great with good results. One of the Autoresponder services has introduced a short video to show its customers how easy email marketing and surveys are.
Therefore email marketing will be the best option for any serious online marketer.
February 20th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Hi Charles,
Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
We agree that email marketing is here to stay!
Debbi.