Email

6 February 2020, London: British email users want to have as little to do with spam as possible! Only a quarter of Brits (25%) mark suspicious emails as spam or move them to the ‘Spam’ Folder, while the majority (55%) delete potential spam unread. Nearly seven percent (7%) read the email first and then delete it and four percent (4%) simply leave the spam unopened in their inbox. Fewer than 1% of users say that they reply to the spam. These are the findings of a representative survey of 2,000 people in the UK commissioned by German email service providers GMX.

Reading, UK, 21 March 2019 – UK brands are undermining consumer trust and risking revenues by failing to deliver consistent, multichannel customer service, according to the 2019 Eptica Digital Trust Study.

While brands answered 69% of all routine queries via the web, email, Facebook and Twitter, this masked wide gaps between different brands, sectors and channels. For example, a bank took 8 days to respond to an email. One fashion retailer answered a tweet about ethical sourcing policies in 17 minutes, yet another took 50 hours.

The primary responsibility in email marketing is to create a subscriber list that helps to connect with the targeted audience willing to click on your emails. It is also your responsibility to improve the value of email communications. Email marketing success depends on two crucial factors. The first is composing the right kinds of email messages that catch the eye and appeals to the mind.

There is such a buzz about social media that often old tried and tested method like email are overlooked. While it is easy to label email as being old and cluttered, email gives marketers direct access to potential and actual customers. However, it can be quite difficult to continuously add to your list of email subscribers. It is in this context that Instagram with its 800 million-plus followers and the highest engagement level of all social networks can play a useful part.

Some useful techniques to harness the power of Instagram to add to your list of email subscribers include:

Today, the World Wide Web has taken an enormous toll in today's life, and the old methods of communication have been replaced thoroughly with emails, messages, Twitter, etc. With the continuous time, more and more plans are coming up to make our life easier. However, our affinity towards the use of email for communication can never be replaced. As per the studies, it has been found that every 9 out of 10 people have an email address. Some people possess email addresses, but they prefer not to use it much. Still, we can say that email is an effective mode of communication today.