Overwhelmed Recipients
On the twelfth day of Listmas, my data showed to me overwhelmed recipients…
Almost everything on our list from the 12 Days of Listmas has one result: Recipients are overwhelmed. According to The Radicati Group, the “average” email address should anticipate receiving 72 pieces of email per day in 2017. The Radicati Group, Email Statistics Report, 2017-2021, 4 (2017), https://www.radicati.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Email-Statistics-Report-2017-2021-Executive-Summary.pdf (last visited May 30, 2024). That doesn’t sound like much until you remember that many people have two email accounts (one for personal use and one for business).
Since both the number of accounts and the number of messages include business and personal accounts, the average user should anticipate getting 144 emails per day. Many of those emails will be marketing emails. As it happens, send rates for marketing emails go up at the end of the year, so those numbers will skew a bit lower in January through October and higher in November and December.
In a telling 2015 blog post, Layla Thomas points out that there seems to be an inverse relationship between send rates and open rates in the last quarter of the year:
The blog post points out the most likely reason for this: As seasonal sending hits its high water mark, the consumers that the messages are aimed at have the least free time—the result: overwhelmed recipients. Overwhelmed recipients tend to be less forgiving of missteps in areas like overmailing or data repurposing.
And there you have it. We’ve had “12 days of Listmas.” I hope these posts have been as fun and informative for you to read as they’ve been fun for me to write.
Y’all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Emails sent to dead folks,
Bringing back the old stuff,
9 inundated servers,
8 annual mailings,
“That’s our business model!”
“We’ve gotta make our numbers,”
5 SBLs,
4 authentication failures,
sending 3 times daily,
2 purchased lists,
and that’s why they’re having slow delivery.
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