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2010 Email Marketing Benchmark Report - HR/Recruitment Sector

Posted By: Thomas Shaw, 1:46pm Monday 02 August 2010    Print Article

The latest Sign-Up.to 2010 UK Email Marketing Benchmark Report (Q1 & 2) analysed over 200 million email marketing messages sent through their online marketing platform in the 6 months from 1st January - 30th June 2010. The breakdown of statistics by sector did not paint a very flattering picture for the HR/Recruitment industry.

HR/Recruitment on first glance has taken a hammering, seeing click-to-open rate drop from 21.70% to 3.51%. Such a massive decline deserved some investigation - what we found was exactly what we mentioned above - the majority of these campaigns have switched to detailing all of the required information in the body of the email and soliciting responses by email rather than through a website.

Overall
  • Open rate: 17.98%
  • Click-through rate: 3.56%
  • Unsubscription rate: 0.20%
HR/Recruitment Sector
  • Open rate: 18.55%
  • Click-through rate: 0.65%
  • Unsubscription rate: 0.22%


The chart below gives us a good indication of the level of engagement that the email campaigns themselves generate, by looking at the proportion of people who click on a campaign after opening it. Where the aim of a campaign isn’t to generate a click to a landing page (in the case of informational emails or those designed to elicit a response by email) this isn’t a good measure but for most industries it’s a very good way to compare engagement.





Article URL: http://www.recruitmentdirectory.com.au/Blog/2010-email-marketing-benchmark-report-hr-recruitment-sector-a387.html

Article Tags: email marketing sign-up.to uk email marketing benchmark report statistics email metrics email open rates

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 Brad Stewart (10:45am Tuesday 03 August 2010)

Thomas, this is scary stuff indeed... just when I am researching this very topic. Quite valuable aswell to know... cheers Brad.


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