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Marketing company eCircle recently conducted a study in order to gauge the effectiveness of email marketing in comparison with display advertising, and the results were astounding. The campaign monitored the results obtained from both a display and email campaign that was run in conjunction with each other.
The exposure of display advertising rose during the campaign to an average of six contacts per unique user, while the email campaign returned an average exposure of one or two contacts per unique user. Email therefore generates a constant volume of advertising pressure and thus achieves significantly better ROI. In this study it was shown that email increased inclination to buy by up to 47%, statistics that prove its status as an optimum conversion driver.
Email is indispensable and the numbers prove it. In terms of click through rates digital display advertising struggles to compete as many online users now suffer from what some marketers call “banner ad blindness”. On average, display ads only gain around 1 click every 1000 impressions – a low figure by most standards. Email on the other hand has the potential to deliver open rates of up to 20%, while interaction through the medium can allow business to send traffic to their websites and grow their database.
