Posts Tagged ‘email’

The ROI on Your Marketing Dollars

Friday, September 11th, 2009
Marketing ROI

Marketing ROI

Times are tough for organizations large and small right now in 2009.  Oftentimes organizations overlook the power of marketing and look to cut expenses in that area. As a marketing professional I am saying “Don’t Cut Your Marketing Budget- Increase it!” but I am also a business owner, and as a business owner I am saying “Don’t Cut Your Marketing Budget- Increase it!”

Here’s why:

What does improving a website’s conversion rate do for an organization’s Roi on marketing budget.

Let’s suppose your site draws 100,000 unique visitors per month and you have an average conversion rate of  2.5%. If you average sale is $50, then you gross about $125,000 a month. Let’s also say that after some optimization work and a few split testing actions, you increaseyour overall conversion rate by just 10% (very achievable goal with Marketing Performance), and your conversion rate is now 2.75%. Your monthly gross is now $137,500. The incremental annualized revenue realized is $150,000 more than where you began.

Now, imagine if you do nothing. How much money are you leaving on your competitors table?

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Did email win the election for Obama?

Monday, November 24th, 2008

Email is such a vital part of today’s marketing mix. Already, much has been written about President-elect Barack Obama’s campaign and its highly effective use of new media and direct marketing tactics to tap into and engage with a wide base of supporters. Many say this strategy gave Democrats the crucial edge needed to win this year’s election.

It wasn’t just Obama’s presidential campaign that used email effectively this year; it was the Democratic National Committee program as a whole. They followed email marketing best practices to engage and inform their subscribers, as well as solicit donations.

Here are a few lessons we can all take away from the DNC’s email program from the past year: (more…)

Keep the path clean to email conversions

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

When was the last time you signed up for your own emails? Perhaps better yet, when was the last time that you watched one of your parents sign up for your emails? Would they be able to do it — or would they get confused about certain elements of the process?

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