Why You Need to Segment Your Email Marketing

The Power of Segmentation

One key way to ensure that your emails are relevant to your recipients is to segment your list so that your email recipients only receive email content that's relevant to their particular needs and interests. And when it comes to segmentation, the possibilities are endless, as you can always get more and more granular with your segmentation criteria. But on a broader level, you can generally segment based on categories such as geography (i.e. where they live), demographic/personal information, interest types (i.e. preferred content subjects or formats), behavior (i.e. how engaged they are with your company/content/brand), or industry/role. So if someone visits your website and downloads an ebook on a particular topic, you could put them on a special list and send them more information about that topic, since you already know it interests them. 

The Effect of Segmentation on Click-Through Rates

Furthermore, When I analyzed over 100K emails sent from HubSpot's customer base, I discovered that those with only one list had a lower average click-through rate (7.3%) than those that segmented their overall email database into 2 to 6 lists (8.3%).

The takeaway here is pretty obvious. If you aren't already segmenting your email list to improve the relevancy of your email marketing, you should be. Check out this article on 27 great ways to segment your list for inspiration to help you get started, and give the contacts in your email database what they really want.

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