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5% -- bounce rate benchmark for email marketing campaigns (2020)

2020  · Smaily

If email marketing campaigns have a constant bounce rate exceeding 5%, it is recommended to clean the list.

  • Constant bounce rate above threshold indicates a need to clean the mailing list
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5%
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2020
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email marketing campaigns
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30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Smaily Primary Tier A
https://smaily.com/are-my-email-marketing-campaigns-good/ ↗
Confidence: 57/100 Vintage: 2020 Channel: Wayback
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The Most Important Question in Email Marketing: Are My Campaigns Good?
How am I doing compared to others? Are my results better or worse than my competition’s? What are other companies in my field doing? What do the results of my email marketing campaigns even mean? Well, keep on reading, and you will find answers to all of these, plus some other questions! Smaily is t…
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email marketing campaigns: 5% bounce rate benchmark. Source: Smaily (2020). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/email-bounce-rate-threshold-5-percent
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