ContactPigeon: Marketing Automation Makes an Impact on Black Friday 2017
NEW YORK (PRWEB) November 29, 2017 -- ContactPigeon, the all-in-one marketing automation SaaS startup which specializes in ecommerce with clients in US & Europe, has published the Black Friday 2017 email marketing report. The report is based on the email marketing activity of 200+ global brands on ContactPigeon’s platform on Black Friday 2017. The most interesting insights of the Black Friday email marketing report were summed up in an infographic, attached in the end of the press release.
Key findings include:
- More retailers are using email for Black Friday: +11% overall increase in total volume of emails sent on Black Friday 2017, comparing with Black Friday 2016
- Sales going up: +14% revenue increase, compared to same 24 hour period on Black Friday 2016.
- Desktop is (still) the Black Friday king: Despite the growing mobile usage, majority of the open and order conversions takes place via PC and Mac desktop. 51% of all Black Friday orders are made on desktop platforms, with average click rates of 43% and conversion rate at 7%.
- Android on the rise: On devices, Android tops iPhone this year in terms email consumed and conversions. 21% of the emails are open on Android devices compared to 17% on iphone.
- Emojis are not game winners: Two-thirds of Black Friday emails contain emojis in their subject lines. However use of emoji’s alone doesn’t ensure higher conversion to sales. In fact, sales email without emojis shows a 1.5x higher conversion rate than the ones that contain emojis.
- Most active hours in terms of order rates are 10am, 9am, noon and midnight (12AM Black Friday) at 4.8%, 4.1%, 4.0% and 3.3% respectively.
Both big corporations and SMEs ran Black Friday campaigns to attract more shoppers and win over the competition. In general, brands are trying to be proactive and more creative in their marketing approach in order to stand out from the rest in the crowded holiday retail landscape.
“We are excited to see new sales records made this Black Friday across many of our clients. Even more impressive is the role of email, especially triggered campaigns, contributing to the overall eCommerce revenue. Email alone as a channel makes up ~23% of sales attribution on Black Friday 2017.” said George Moirotsos, CEO & Co-Founder, ContactPigeon.
Key Trend = Marketing Automation
Email marketing has been around for lots of years and it’s penetration as a marketing tactic is undoubtful. However, as competition rises the necessity pushes the brands to evolve and step into “next generation” email marketing, thus investing in Marketing Automation software.
“The sales conversion for triggered emails delivered during Black Friday 2017 was 3 times higher than standard newsletters.”
You can find the full report here:
https://blog.contactpigeon.com/black-friday-2017-email-marketing-report/
About ContactPigeon:
ContactPigeon is an all-in-one marketing automation startup specialized in eCommerce.
ContactPigeon offers a suite of sophisticated features that allow eShop owners to monitor their visitors’ behavior and react with targeted triggered automation, so as to maximize the possibility of converting to sales. Some of these features includes: Email automations with Built-In Best Practice Scenarios, Dynamic Segmentation, Intuitive Drag & Drop and mobile responsive email builder, eCommerce Onsite Retargeting and Real time Web Analytics.
Founded in 2014, with presence in U.S, Europe & Greece, ContactPigeon has raised funds from VentureFriends VC and is currently trusted by some major brands and corporations like L’OREAL, Follie Follie, the BODY SHOP, Delivery Hero, ABB and others.
Joyce Qian, ContactPigeon, http://www.contactpigeon.com, +1 (800) 490-1732, [email protected]
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