It gets worse.
Most marketers consider the click-through rate as the most important e-mail campaign metric. In the B2B space, these average below five percent. That doesn't mean five percent of your list, but five percent of the one in seven people who even saw your e-mail.
In other words, you'll be lucky if .5 to one percent of your broadcast e-mails generate end user interaction of any kind.
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