Watch out for those email addresses that customers type in.
TowerData reports that 8.4% of the addresses entered on web forms using its Email Validation APIare
invalid.
It may sound like a small percentage, but not when lost sales are factored in.
“Say you capture 1,000 new emails per month,” writes Brian Cardona, president
of TowerData, in a blog post on the TowerData site. “If 8.4% are invalid, that’s up to 84 lost per month or 1,008 new emails lost per year. Taking the average value of $24, that’s
$24,192 in lost value, or 4% in annual sales.”
“Bad data is hurting marketers, and these numbers prove it,,” he adds.
What would constitute an inaccurate email
address?
“When a user signs up on your site, there’s a whole slew of things that could go wrong,” Cardona continues. “Typos, such as writing “gamil”
instead of “gmail.” Poor syntax, such as missing an “@” sign. Or even simply fake email addresses.
Cardona argues that the solution is stop bad emails at the point of
entry and prompt customers to enter correct addresses,
TowerData studiedtens of millions of email addresses verified in 2018.