Here are some guidelines for email marketing metrics with respect to prospect-development types of emails targeting IT professionals. If your campaign falls into this range, you are meeting industry standards.
Unique open rate: 10 to 20% after 3 blasts
Click-thru rate: 2 to 5% (based on the unique open rate)
It’s important to keep these metrics in mind when evaluating your campaign.
Also, conversions on click-thrus can vary. Maybe you are running an event or webinar, in which case 33% to 50% conversion on click-thrus can be expected. So plan your starting list accordingly. A list of 10,000 contacts (assuming it is very clean) with a strong performing email will generate 2000 opens, and 100 click-thrus. So anywhere from 30 to 50 registrants from email alone can be expected from the campaign. This is a best case scenario assumption on opens and clicks.
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