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This opinion piece, published by DM News in November 2007, addresses a common but less talked about problem with email marketing – over-mailing to positively effect otherwise mediocre results; which is likely the result of an acquisition email provider using a compiled response file, and guaranteeing high open and click rates in addition to a positive ROI. This article provides insight on what the marketer, broker or agency can do to ensure they are maximizing the ROI from a given campaign, while disincentivizing over-sending behavior. It also illustrates that relying on open and click data to measure success can be very misleading since these metrics can easily be manipulated by the sender; in the end the real results are in the conversions. |