{"id":16380,"date":"2014-12-01T08:30:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T14:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crazyeggblog.wpengine.com\/?p=16380"},"modified":"2026-01-06T15:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T23:15:17","slug":"4-email-marketing-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crazyegg.com\/blog\/4-email-marketing-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Shocking Email Marketing Studies That&#8217;ll Make You Change the Way You Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s just all get on the same page for a minute.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what we already know about email marketing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>email is the most powerful marketing channel that we have available<\/li>\n<li>email has an ROI of 4,300%<\/li>\n<li>email is the second <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.custora.com\/2013\/06\/e-commerce-customer-acquisition-snapshot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">biggest acquisition channel<\/a>, right behind organic search<\/li>\n<li>email <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kissmetrics.com\/email-crushes-social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has more active users<\/a> than all the social media platforms combined<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, what <em>don\u2019t <\/em>we know?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve written this article to show you some email marketing data that you probably haven\u2019t seen yet.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few studies that have come out recently that contain some shocking data. The problem is, this glistening data is buried underneath mounds of other repetitive metrics in abstruse whitepapers and fenced behind really long opt-in forms.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the studies I see look like this. Is this fascinating or what?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"342\" height=\"220\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16381\" src=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-1.png\" alt=\"quartile\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-1.png 342w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-1-300x192.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yet clustered in those lines of data are some marketing gems that we need to know about.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m just bringing it out in the open. Why? Because if you grasp this information, I think it will actually change the way you do email marketing.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what you need to know, backed by the studies.<\/p>\n<h2>1. Just focus on your subject line. Everything else pales in comparison.<\/h2>\n<p>Whenever you think of <em>email marketing<\/em>, you should automatically think <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crazyegg.com\/blog\/email-subject-line-hacks\/\">subject line<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>In order to make email marketing successful, you must make your subject lines better. Email marketing is only as successful as your subject lines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.experian.com\/assets\/marketing-services\/white-papers\/ccm-email-study-2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Experian conducted an email marketing study in late 2013<\/a>, just in time for the holiday season. The study explored nine different verticals and thousands of responses on a medley of email marketing topics.<\/p>\n<p>They discovered that a full 94% of brands carry out testing on their email campaigns. Good so far. Even better, these brands carried out more types of tests in 2013 than ever before. Types of tests they conducted included creativity, frequency, time of day, day of week, HTML vs. text, CTA, product placement, and numbers of products.<\/p>\n<p>What test subject had the biggest impact?<\/p>\n<p>By far, subject lines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"947\" height=\"687\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16382\" src=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-2.png\" alt=\"email campaigns\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-2.png 947w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-2-300x217.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 947px) 100vw, 947px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Testing is great, but testing subject lines has the most explosive impact, a whopping 226% higher than the next closest testing topic.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a huge advocate of testing. Here is the proof as to how successful it really is.<\/p>\n<p>Let me give you a personal example. <a href=\"https:\/\/neilpatel.com\/2014\/10\/23\/how-to-write-email-subject-lines-that-will-increase-your-open-rate-by-203\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I tested email subject lines for Quick Sprout<\/a> marketing emails. In a series of five tests, I was able to get a 203% increase in my open rates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"669\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16383\" src=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-3.png\" alt=\"quicksprout\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-3.png 700w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-3-300x286.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The moral of the story is to test your email subject lines. Get ready to enjoy that huge uptick in open rates.<\/p>\n<h2>2. If you want clickthroughs, then use less content in your email for each link.<\/h2>\n<p>Have you ever wondered how to get more clickthroughs in your emails?<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re an email marketer, of course you have. Email marketers have three main goals in life:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>to increase open rates<\/li>\n<li>to increase clickthroughs<\/li>\n<li>to take a two-week vacation someday<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Getting better open rates is absolutely critical to a successful email marketing campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Reducing the amount of content relative to links is one way to increase engagement and clickthroughs.<\/p>\n<p>This data comes from Mailchimp, the consummate cruncher of all things email marketing data. As part of their analysis of a gazillion emails, they studied the ratio of words per URL vs. click\/open rate, and discovered a fascinating little downward curvy line.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-4.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16384\" src=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-4.png\" alt=\"url vs click open\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-4.png 720w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-4-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-4-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mailchimp.com\/what-good-marketers-can-learn-from-v1agr-spammers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Image from Mailchimp.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In case those numbers create gaze glaze, let me spell it out.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The less content you have per link that people can click on, the <em>more <\/em>likely people are to click on your link<\/li>\n<li>According to the data, using 8-12 words per URL is the ideal spot for enhancing clickthroughs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Viewed another way, the effect of content to link ratio on click rate looks like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-5.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"737\" height=\"411\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16385\" src=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-5.png\" alt=\"words per link\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-5.png 737w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-5-300x167.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 737px) 100vw, 737px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The average English sentence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technical-expressions.com\/businesswriting\/rewrite\/write-readably.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">has 14.3 words<\/a>, and the highest URL CTRs take place around 12 words. Simple take away:\u00a0 One sentence per link is the best ratio for your URLs.<\/p>\n<p>But how many links should you have? It really doesn\u2019t matter, as long as you get the ratio right. When URL count is graphed against the open rate, we see an uphill trend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-6.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16386\" src=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-6.png\" alt=\"url count\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-6.png 720w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-6-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-6-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Readers can engage with the links that they want to, and they are more likely to do so when the content is paired with 8-12 words.<\/p>\n<h2>3. Transactional emails get more eyeballs. This is an opportunity.<\/h2>\n<p>Want to know what kind of emails <em>really <\/em>get opened the most?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s transactional emails. Check it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-7.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"732\" height=\"305\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16387\" src=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-7.png\" alt=\"unique open rate\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-7.png 732w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-7-300x125.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Transactional emails have a median open rate of 38%, compared with 17% of overall emails and 17% of nontransactional emails. This data comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverpop.com\/marketing-resources\/white-papers\/all\/2014\/email-metrics-benchmark-study-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silverpop\u2019s 2014 Email Marketing Metrics Benchmark Study.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>38% is a very high open rate, no matter who you are.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mailjet.com\/support\/what-is-a-transactional-email,18.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A transactional email<\/a> is one that is sent to a user automatically based on something that the user does.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Welcome emails<\/li>\n<li>Subscription confirmations<\/li>\n<li>Shipping notices<\/li>\n<li>Order notifications<\/li>\n<li>Password reminders<\/li>\n<li>Receipts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Basically, it\u2019s a triggered email \u2014 something that\u2019s automatic and personalized, just for you. This is what it looks like in my inbox:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-8.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"663\" height=\"235\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16388\" src=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-8.png\" alt=\"gmail\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-8.png 663w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-8-300x106.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please note that \u201ctransactional\u201d emails <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mailjet.com\/support\/bulk-marketing-transactional-etc-what-s-the-difference-between-the-types-of-emails,112.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aren\u2019t exactly the same<\/a> as \u201cautomated\u201d marketing emails. Sure, they\u2019re automated, but not in the denotative sense of automated marketing. They are, rather, personal emails prompted by the user\u2019s behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Transactional emails are actually kind of boring if you think about it. I mean, how often have you re-read or printed and framed a \u201cpassword change confirmation\u201d email?<\/p>\n<p>But these emails are the most-opened type of email of all time.<\/p>\n<p>This data is important, because it suggest an <em>opportunity<\/em>. If your transactional emails are the most-opened emails of all time, then you can use these emails for extra marketing spin, and maybe another CTA or two.<\/p>\n<p>Experian\u2019s study provides some data to back this up. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.experian.com\/assets\/marketing-services\/white-papers\/ccm-email-study-2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The report states<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u201cTransactional emails are a great means of garnering an additional sale. According to&#8230;study, the highest transaction rates (for transactional mailings) were seen in those emails that included upsell or cross-sell sections.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>For emails, that included order confirmations, shipping confirmations, and return confirmations, marketers were able to snag additional sales.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-9.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"592\" height=\"362\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16389\" src=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-9.png\" alt=\"higher transaction rate\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-9.png 592w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-9-300x183.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Look at this email I got from Amazon that confirmed my order.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-10.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"695\" height=\"253\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16390\" src=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-10.png\" alt=\"amazon\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-10.png 695w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-10-300x109.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And that email included a pitch to buy even more stuff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-11.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"823\" height=\"413\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16391\" src=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-11.png\" alt=\"customers also bought\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-11.png 823w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-11-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 823px) 100vw, 823px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amazon knows what they\u2019re doing. This was a transactional email. Yes, I opened it because I wanted to know that my order was confirmed. And, yes, I was tempted to buy even more stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Use your transactional emails as a marketing opportunity.<\/p>\n<h2>In your subject line, be straightforward and explicit about who you are.<\/h2>\n<p>Mailchimp\u2019s Subject Line Comparison study has some eye-opening information.<\/p>\n<p>They lined up emails with the best open rates and compared them with the worst open rates.<\/p>\n<p>Best open rates: 60-87%<\/p>\n<p>Worst open rates:\u00a0 1-14%<\/p>\n<p>The pattern indicated that the best open rates had subject lines with the following features in common:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The subject line states the company name.<\/li>\n<li>The subject line describes the subject of the email.<\/li>\n<li>The subject line is very clear, not cute.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here the list of 20 subject lines that made the winner\/loser list.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-12.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"493\" height=\"654\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16392\" src=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-12.png\" alt=\"best worst open rate\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-12.png 493w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-12-226x300.png 226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 493px) 100vw, 493px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-contenswtt\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-13.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"491\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16393\" src=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-13.png\" alt=\"best worst open rate 2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-13.png 491w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/email-studies-13-230x300.png 230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like my number-one assertion above, subject lines are important. More to the point, get those subject lines streamlined according to these open rate best practices. A clear identity and subject is crucial to creating an email open rate that gets results.<\/p>\n<h2>Conclusion<\/h2>\n<p>It often pays to look at the metrics. If you can see past the mind-numbing spreadsheets with lots of zeros and percentage symbols, I think you\u2019ll see some valuable stuff.<\/p>\n<p><em>What are you going to change in your email marketing? <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s just all get on the same page for a minute. 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