Daniel Burstein

Email Marketing: Only 21% of marketers integrating mobile with email

April 12th, 2013

No marketing tactic is an island, so in the MarketingSherpa 2013 Email Marketing Benchmark Report, we asked marketers about which marketing channels they are integrating with their email marketing …

Q: Which marketing channels does your organization integrate with your email program? Select all that apply.

As usual, we asked your opinion of this research …

 

 

Mobile integration requires investment

A question is raised in the blog about the poor representation of mobile in email integration. That’s because the top two mediums hog up the highest share of the marketing budget, with the balance to the next three. Mobile integration requires new planning and visual strategy for which there is very little or no dollars left.

– Shailesh Merai, Creative Lead, Omesa Creative Studio

In the MarketingSherpa Chart of the Week article in which this chart originally appeared – “Marketing Research Chart: Marketing channel email integration” – Brad Bortone, Senior Research Editor, MECLABS, asked, “Are you surprised by how poorly mobile integration placed in this chart, when compared to other tactics?”

Shailesh chalks the reason up to investment, or lack thereof, in mobile. From his experience, most budget goes to the top two integrated tactics (75% of marketers integrate the website with email, 56% integrate social media with email).

According to Shailesh, the rest of the budget goes to the next three most integrated tactics with email – 40% of marketers integrate email with events (for example, tradeshows and webinars), 35% with blogs and 31% with search engine optimization and/or pay-per-click advertising.

This leaves only 21% of marketers integrating email with mobile.

To help you secure the budget and resources you need, here are a few articles to show your marketing and business leaders the benefits of mobile email integration, along with the challenges you need resources to overcome …

Mobile Email Marketing: iPhone-targeted landing pages boost conversion rate 40% for Ritz-Carlton Destination Club

Mobile Email Marketing: 50% more app downloads from device-targeted ads

Email Marketing: 58% of marketers see mobile smartphones and tablets most impacting email

Mobile Marketing: 31% of marketers don’t know their mobile email open rate

 

8% of marketers integrate email with SMS (text)

SMS is the most underused marketing strategy with the highest open rates.

– David Gross, Director of Business Development, PropertyPilot

For the uninitiated, SMS stands for short message service, and is more commonly known as text messaging. If you would like to follow David’s lead and try your hand at text message marketing, here are a few articles to help spark your thinking …

Integrated SMS, Social and Email Promo Capitalizes on Weather Event: 5 Steps

Mobile Drives Email List Growth: How to use SMS and relevant content to add opt-ins

Email Marketing: Why Newegg’s daily-deal alert emails garner a 60% average open rate

Mobile Marketing: New program achieves 11% redemption rate on text offers

Daniel Burstein

About Daniel Burstein

Daniel Burstein, Senior Director of Editorial Content, MECLABS. Daniel oversees all content and marketing coming from the MarketingExperiments and MarketingSherpa brands while helping to shape the editorial direction for MECLABS – digging for actionable information while serving as an advocate for the audience. Daniel is also a speaker and moderator at live events and on webinars. Previously, he was the main writer powering MarketingExperiments publishing engine – from Web clinics to Research Journals to the blog. Prior to joining the team, Daniel was Vice President of MindPulse Communications – a boutique communications consultancy specializing in IT clients such as IBM, VMware, and BEA Systems. Daniel has 18 years of experience in copywriting, editing, internal communications, sales enablement and field marketing communications.

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  1. April 17th, 2013 at 17:08 | #1

    This is really nice example and my choice is website which is 75%. “Only 21% of marketers integrating mobile with email” this is big surprise for me!

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