Of the 1,006 US digital buyers surveyed in a June 2018 study from Yes Lifecycle, just 9% of respondents said they don’t ignore emails from retailers.
But why? For one, they get too many of them.
More than half (55%) of respondents said as much, with younger digital buyers—those ages 18 to 23—more likely to feel this way than their older cohorts. Nearly as many respondents (50%) said they disregard emails because the product recommendations they’re seeing are irrelevant.
There were also those who felt that the emails hitting their inbox were too personalized, and ultimately creeped them out (12%) or lacked the kind of personalization the survey respondents were looking for (11%). Read the rest at eMarketer.
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