In email marketing you have to go through many steps and almost in every step you need to do analysis and the email marketing campaign analysis is really important to achieve your top potential success.
I found the email marketing analysis processes available on the internet are good but sometimes I thought they are little out of reality so I tried to make it realistic so that you can get the best feedback against your email marketing costing.
Email marketing analysis starts from firing email that means after fire email what happen to your email that need to analyze and there has some metrics to do analysis.
Before starting an email marketing campaign, I would suggest you to know the core concept of email marketing. Because if you don't have a good idea about the concept of email marketing, it will be very difficult to get good results from your email marketing analysis.
Email marketing campaign analysis metrics
We will discuss about the analysis metrics step by step and which happen in really. There are 4 metrics to analysis email marketing campaign.
-
1Bounce rate
-
2Open rate
-
3Click rate inside email
-
4Unsubscribe rate
Bounce rate
Soft bounce rate:
It is server related issue. May be it is your server from where you are doing email marketing or maybe it is your subscriber's server from where he is using internet.
Generally get soft bounced is very rare. If it happens you can send it again.
Hard bounce rate:
This is the bounce where your subscriber’s email id is wrong. If you give a wrong email address then it is impossible to arrive and no matter how many times you resend, it will never arrive.
Open rate
Once deliver your email then the next step email is opened by the receiver.
Open rate = (delivered email × opened email) ÷ 100
Suppose delivered email quantity is 100 and 50 email are opened of them, then the open rate is 50%.
Now the things to note that why the receiver will open your email. Bellow I am giving some method that will help you to improve open rate but keep one thing in mind that you need to do test more and more.
How to increase email open rate
Subject line
keep a look on the email subject line. This is the first thing that is noticed by the receiver so you need to be more serious about subject line. Try to make this attractive.
Sometimes emojis can increase the chance of opening but mind it don’t use irrelevant emoji or without any reason.
You can test longer or shorter length subject to see that which work for you and your niche.
Pre-header text
Pre header text is shown besides subject line so this is important. You test pre header test as same as the subject line.
Time
Time is so important for increase open rate. My research says that 9am-11am is the best time to opening a mail but the problem is time priority is changed according to niche.
May be 9am-11am is best for weight loss niche but this time is not best for body building niche. So you need to keep testing.
According to campaign monitor 53% of the emails are opened on working days so try to fire email on working days but again this also need test that which date is work for your niche.
My humble suggestion for time management is that, suppose you have 100 email id now you divide them into 10 groups and send email 10 different times and later select 4 best time and then follow these 4 best time and later choose the best time among those 4 times.
Read the article to get a wide knowledge about email sending time.
Check preview
You need to check the preview of your email especially on mobile. If it not looks good then try to make it good. Sometimes it matter on increasing the open rate.
Relevancy
Maximum marketer make mistake here. Your client subscribes you for bodybuilding but you are sending him weight loss type email then there is no chance to open your email.
So keep relevancy between your subscriber’s type and email otherwise not only decrease your open rate but also increase your unsubscribe rate.
Click rate inside email
You send an email to your subscriber for taking him to your product page or another landing page or any page of your website and for that the subscriber need to click inside the email.
Click rate= (opened email × click inside email) ÷ 100
Around 48% of click ratio is good and you have to try to make more click rate and then you will be able to achieve 48% of click rate easily.
Mind it no interaction means no marketing, no outcome. Provide such a thing in your email that will compile him to see in front and as a result he will interact with the mail and must Try to start the email with subscriber’s name that will take closer your subscriber.
Actually this is about human psychology. Human psychology is responsible for buying something. This is possible to bring 95% or more sales from a list. But for that you have to know the psychological reason to buy.
I have recently done a course that is all about creating audience and convert them to such a team of fans who will be waiting to buy something you share or create. There you will learn how to bring a product in front of someone according to his psychological level so that he can't refuse it. Learn more about the course.
Unsubscribe rate
This is the last and very important metric. If people much unsubscribe you then it is mean that your strategy is not right and you need work on this.
All email marketing tools show the unsubscribe rate. But all unsubscribing reason will not be same. You have to find the most common reason of unsubscribing and work on it.
Conclusion
What I said for so long I think this is the real email marketing campaign analysis process. Even I analyze this way and this is work for me so it can be said that it will work for you too.
Every step I have told, you can do with almost every email marketing tool available in the planet.
If you have trouble understanding, feel free to let me know in the comments section.
Wow…….. It’s great. But why get response?
From our point of view GetResponse is the most perfect for doing email marketing. If you read the article then you will understand.