8 Tips To Improve Your Email Deliverability Rates

Email Marketing is an incredibly effective and low cost way of marketing, and when done correctly it can yield an extremely high ROI. The one downfall of email marketing however is deliverability. An email deliverability rate refers to the percentage of emails that actually make it into a subscribers inbox. There are a number of reasons why an email may not make it into the inbox, the most common being that the message is classified by the email platform as spam. So how can you increase your chance of your email marketing getting into a users inbox?

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How To Calculate Your Marketing ROI

Throughout this website I use the term ROI a lot, but what does it actually mean? ROI stands for Return On Investment and in marketing your investment is how much you spend. Working out the return basically means working out exactly what your marketing investment has generated in dollar terms.

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How Marmite Grew Their Facebook Page By 2,975%

As a performance marketer I tend to shy away from branding and any marketing in which the ROI is unmeasurable. That said, when I see an online marketing campaign executed extremely well with an almost certain positive return on investment I can’t help but share it.

One of the best social media marketing campaigns I have seen executed in the past few years is Sanitariums handling of the Christchurch Earthquake in February 2011 which destroyed their factory and cut the supply of Marmite to Australasia until March 2013. The Marmite team made the best of this crisis and used it to generate significant brand exposure calling on those loyal to the brand to spread the word about the products relaunch.

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Marketing Your Business On Pinterest

Pinterest is a social media network used by 5.63% of New Zealand’s population where people ‘pin’ images that they find interesting so they can share them with their followers. As a virtual scrapbook, the main users of the website are women over the age of 35 which is a hard demographic to target online, therefore Pinterest offers a great opportunity for advertisers.

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