A new edition into the Maxemail reporting suite is our “Email Engagement Report”.

One of the questions marketers often ask is; if I get 20% open rates for each email campaign, is it the same 20% or a different 20% each time? And how many subscribers never open an email?

The engagement report answers all of these questions by providing an open and click rate for each individual recipient based upon the emails you select. For example if a recipient has received 5 emails, but only opened one and not clicked on any, the report will show their open rate as 20% and click rate as 0%.

The report also shows the last time that someone opened and clicked on an email. This means you can either target those who have not opened in the last 90 days with a different message or even simply create a segment to suppress those that have not opened or clicked in the last 365 days.

Of course you don’t want to suppress those who have only recently signed up, so the report also outputs their first email and a count of how many emails they have received.

Additional data fields can also be added to the report to show how different segments are more or less engaged with your email marketing.

Revolution, the champions for innovation in the digital marketing sector have Highly Commended Emailcenter for our expert use of email as a marketing channel.

This welcome commendation comes on the back of our endorsement from The Institute of Direct Marketing (IDM), who gave Emailcenter an award for being the email service provider that offers the “best use of email marketing”.

Emailcenter received the commendation from Revolution for the work conducted for toptable.com, the restaurant booking service. toptable.com tasked Emailcenter to create an email programme that would stop customers from defecting and turn them into loyal, regular users of the toptable.com website.  A year on from the start of the new eCRM programme bookings from defectors increased by 1,600%, proving that when customers are communicated with in a way that suits them, great results follow.

We took a few snaps of the event. Head on over to the facebook page to take a look.

At a recent event the question was raised how does social networking fit in with your email marketing strategy?
There were some obvious things – many pointed to putting links to their Facebook or Twitter page in their email newsletters. On the whole most people still don’t understand how to use the social networks and are finding their way. Indeed it reminds me of 6 years ago when everyone knew they “should be doing email marketing” but had no idea why, they just heard it was the thing to do and there was lots of money in it!

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Have you ever looked into how many of your email list ‘never’ open your emails? From our experience it can be anything from 40% to 70% of your list that do not open any of your emails, in many cases for 6 months.
So what can you do with this massive potential goldmine? Here are the options:

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Here is a scenario many email marketers might be familiar with:

Your boss comes along with the need to send an email to your customer database with a fantastic special offer. Having already sent an email that week you are concerned you might be bombarding your customers but he is the boss and at least it is a great offer.

So you send the email and the campaign is a great success. The next week at the department meeting the results of the emails sent the previous week are discussed and it has been the best sales week for email ever. So as the two emails led to this record week you now have to send two emails a week to the database. Read More