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14% -- response rate for cold email marketing for B2B SaaS (2019)

2019  · LighterCapital

According to ConstantContact, the average response rate for business emails sits around 14%.

  • Represents the lower end of a range (14% to 23%) reported for business emails generally, attributed to ConstantContact
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cold email marketing for B2B SaaS
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https://www.lightercapital.com/blog/cold-email-marketing-saas-customer-acquisition ↗
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Cold Email Marketing: SaaS Strategies for Customer Acquisition
Cold Email Marketing: SaaS Strategies for Customer Acquisition - Jan 31, 2019 - 8 min read Updated: Jul 18, 2024 Many SaaS companies have huge success using cold email marketing to grow their business, while others end up frustrated with little to show for their efforts. If email marketing is still …
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cold email marketing for B2B SaaS: 14% response rate. Source: LighterCapital (2019). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/cold-email-marketing-saas-response-rates
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