What is the most popular B2B email newsletter format? How many messages do marketers send each month? Whom do newsletters come from? How long are they?
To find out, Find A Way Media examined 78 marketing email newsletters sent by B2B companies that operate in a range of different verticals. The researchers analyzed messages sent by the firms over a three-month period to determine format, length, sender, and frequency trends.
The researchers identified four common B2B newsletter formats:
- The Summarizer (emails that packaged pieces the firm had published)
- The Hard Sell (emails focused on product/service benefits)
- The Homepage (emails that curated content from across the Web and provided analysis/context)
- The Forwarder (emails that provided no context and were simply generated when the firm published a new piece of content)
Some 69% of the messages examined fell into The Summarizer bucket, 18% into The Hard Sell, 8% into The Homepage, and 5% into The Forwarder.
Some 66% of the B2B firms included in the study send email newsletters from an account that uses the company name, 18% send emails that come from a specific person at the company, 13% from a person who is not identified, and 3% from a made-up name.
B2B firms send 5.8 emails per month, on average, to subscribers (the median number was 5).
Email newsletters from B2B marketers are 273 words long, on average.
About the research: The report was based on a study of 78 marketing email newsletters sent by B2B companies that operate in a range of different verticals. The researchers analyzed messages sent by the firms over a three-month period to determine format, length, sender, and frequency trends.
