Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Making the Business Case for Email: Is 11,000% ROI not good enough for you????


I had a conversation with one of my bosses this morning and she was explaining to me how she has to make a business case for email to her boss in regards to getting it into next year's budget.  We had just run a series of emails through a provider and our conversation got me curious.  I decided to run a quick ROI calculation using the American Marketing Associations super-convenient ROI Calculator.  The results were overwhelming: 

Number of pieces/Cost: 73,553 at a cost of $1,103
Number of respondents: 1,231
Number of buyers (or in our case givers): 815
Total program revenue: $129,316

Cost per response: $0.89
Cost per giver: $0.01
Cost per piece: $0.01

ROI: 11,624.02%

Here's a screenshot of the actual calculator:


Now, I've got an MBA....but you CERTAINLY don't need to know that that's a good deal at twice the price!  

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