Email Marketing: A Strategy for 2016
Email marketing facts to keep in mind
Millennials are never far from their email. New statistics show that 70% of Millennials – people currently between the ages of about 20 and 40 – check their email before getting out of bed and while watching TV. They check their work email regularly outside of work hours, and check their personal emails from home. Nearly 6 in 10 Millennials report checking their email from the bathroom. Half check their email while on vacation and more than 4 in 10 check email while they’re on the phone. At the same time, some millennials report “email fatigue” or agreement with the statement that they check their email “way too much.”
Strategy: Less is more here. Use email marketing, but don’t use it indiscriminately! Planned email campaigns with targeted messages are more meaningful and useful to this demographic than anything else.
Mobility is king! 75% of Gmail users read their email on a mobile device. That’s big, when you consider that there are nearly 1 billion Gmail users. Here’s more: two-thirds of users prefer image-heavy emails over text-heavy ones. Takeaway: email is appealing to people on the go, so take advantage of that.
Strategy:Design email marketing campaigns that are mobile-friendly and image-conscious. By that, I mean make sure your outbound email (complete with graphics and images) will look good on mobile devices. Avoid big image files that require heavy downloads. Compromise by using meaningful, mobile-friendly colors and designs.
Know your customers. That’s good advice in any business, but when it comes to email marketing, know that one-third of your recipients will open your email on an iPhone, and 53% will open your email on an Apple device of some kind. Another 25% will open your email using Gmail or a Google Android device. 78% of your email recipients use two platforms.
Strategy: if you have to make choices about how your email will look when it’s received, go with the choices that look best and operate best on the iOS and Android platforms.
If you’d like more information about email marketing and how you can put it to work for your business, please contact our Creative Director, Dave Ramsell or give Dave a call at (330) 243-0651 to set up a consultation.
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