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Know your marketing performance: benchmark (and why you must do it)

Modern B2B

Know your marketing performance: benchmark (and why you must do it). Our clients ask us all the time about benchmarking. Is our LinkedIn ad clickthrough rate above average? What metrics should businesses be benchmarking? By benchmarking this, you really will drive marketing excellence.

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The Danger of Email Marketing Benchmarks « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking The Danger of Email Marketing Benchmarks A recent article from BtoB Online about email deliverability reminded me of how dangerous this whole thing of email marketing deliverability numbers can be. Is this good?

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Paid, owned and earned media: What they are and where social fits into the mix

Sprout Social

However, if you want to measure how performance is trending over time, rely on benchmarking. You can benchmark against your industry and direct competitors but if you want to set more meaningful goals, benchmark against your own historical performance. Website : Traffic, new users, bounce rate, search rank.

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Hitting the right note: Learning how to show subscriber love

Litmus

The email itself had an incredible open rate of 47.8%! That’s well above our own benchmarks. And we’ve done the research: Subject lines that include personalization can result in a 50% higher open rate. Wistia reported that video thumbnails in email can increase clickthrough rate by up to 40%.

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Confessions of a marketer: Webinar recording + Q&A

Litmus

Figuring out the metrics to monitor are usually determined based on the objective of the message (conversion rate of your main CTA), other behavioral indicators (open rate, clickthrough rate, devices and read rates), and health-based points (bounce rate, deliverability, and unsubscribe or spam rates).

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Metrics for Email Marketing: 17 Email Metrics You Must Track in 2023

Optinmonster

To achieve this goal, you might track several metrics, such as open rate, click-through rate, conversion rate, and revenue generated from the email campaign. Email Open Rate Open rate is how many people actually open the email that you send to them.

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6 Signs Your Email Newsletter is Failing (and How You Can Fix It)

Hubspot

While yes, buying lists will increase your overall list size immediately, your open and clickthrough rates will take a sharp turn for the worst -- never mind your spam rates. 2) Your open rates are taking a dive. 3) Your overall clickthrough rates are dismal. Wait, wait, wait.