“It’s obvious email marketing is dead.”
“The days when AOL advertised ‘You’ve got mail!’ are long over.”
It’s hard to argue that receiving email is now often met with a groan. The reason? We’re inundated with emails. The average person gets 121 a day. The human race as a whole gets 193.3 billion. Business emails account for 108.7 billion. These are big numbers.
Perhaps, we overdid it — too much of a good thing. But, wait a minute, there must be a good reason why that much email is circling the globe, and if so, that’d mean that claims about the death of email marketing can’t be true. In fact, I’d guess that those who make these claims are only measuring their own subjective sense of overwhelm…
