Email marketers that are eager to increase their
subscriber base should first prioritize customer brand satisfaction, according to a recent MarketingSherpa report.
A satisfied customer is more than twice as likely to subscribe to a brand's
email marketing when compared to unhappy customer, according to the MarketingSherpa Customer Satisfaction Research Study.
The survey of 2,400
consumers suggests that customer brand satisfaction directly relates to a consumer’s willingness to engage with brand marketing content. The marketing research firm is a subsidiary of MECLABS
Institute, an independent research organization that investigates how people make decisions.
Half of consumers polled in the survey asserted that they often or always subscribe to a
brand’s email list if they are generally satisfied with the company’s products or services. An additional 21% of satisfied consumers responded that they sometimes subscribe to email, while
18% of respondents said they rarely or never subscribe to an email list, even if they are satisfied with a brand.
These statistics are completely reversed when consumers are questioned about
the marketing campaigns of brands that they are generally unsatisfied with. Only 23% of respondents asserted they often or always subscribe to an email list of brands that they have unfavorable
opinions of. On the opposite end of the spectrum, 53% of respondents asserted that they never or would rarely subscribe to the email marketing messages from brands they were unsatisfied with.
MarketingSherpa’s study suggests that customer satisfaction also influences the way consumers engage with marketing content. Whereas 30% of satisfied customers often disengage from email
marketing by unsubscribing, a much larger 50% of unsatisfied respondents asserted that they would often unsubscribe from email.
Overall, email volume and a lack of personalization were ranked
as the most likely causes of why customers unsubscribe from email. Twenty-six percent of respondents asserted that they unsubscribe because they receive too many emails in general cluttering their
inbox, while 19% of respondents said they unsubscribe when they receive too many emails from one company in particular. Twenty-one percent of consumers polled by MarketingSherpa unsubscribe from
emails that are not relevant to them.