Marketing Research Chart: Automated emails sent by organizations

Today’s email automation tools have made it possible to go beyond simple autoresponder "welcome" and "thank you" messages, to create a series of correspondences that are both thorough and organic in appearance. So, we asked marketers …

Q: What type of automated, event-triggered, lifecycle email messages does your organization deploy? Please check all that apply.

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When we asked about the types of automated, event-triggered, lifecycle emails being sent by their organizations, we found the two most-common results were the aforementioned "welcome" (50%) and "thank you" (48%) sends.

Also commonly selected was automated transactional sends, such as order confirmations and receipts, selected by 40% of surveyed marketers. However, post-purchase follow-up sends, such as satisfaction surveys, were deployed by just 25% of respondents, indicating a potentially costly gap in some marketers’ email programs.

Our surveyed marketers did not appear to commonly re-engage, as 15% indicated their organizations sent win-back emails, and just 9% sent shopping cart abandonment reminders.

Points to Consider

Do you feel there are gaps in your email outreach to prospects and/or customers? How do you feel these lapses in communication have affected your overall conversions? Do you have plans to improve customer email interaction in the future? What types of emails do you plan to add or enhance within your current email marketing campaigns?

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Useful links related to this research

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