It’s not a statistic to be proud of but a recent report from Sophos found that India is spewing more spam than ever before. While the country is home to 5.3% of the world’s internet users, the globe’s third most connected country, it is passing along a staggering 16.1% of all spam. Asia overall accounts for 48.7% of spam relaying. Nearly half of worldwide email users come from the Asia Pacific region.
This clearly presents a challenge to Indian business marketers who have signaled their intent to increase their budget allocations for email and SMS marketing in the year ahead. Octane.in found that 63% of their respondents planned to increase their budgets up to 10% in the upcoming year and the highest proportion of these (20%) believed that stopping their emails from being directly routed into a junk folder was their biggest challenge.
32% of Indian marketers believe that a strong anti-spam law like the CAN-SPAM (USA) with heavy fines and jail sentences would act as a suitable deterrent to negate the menace of spam in India.
The Indian situation also needs to be considered in a world context. When you remember that the first email was sent in 1971 note also that a typical company of 300 employees in today’s business environment has 350 email accounts and receives 392,000 emails per month. They also block 1.3 million spam message filters and viruses per month.
According to data from IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Centre Spam represented 70% of email traffic in 2011 and the figure was around 68% in February of this year.
Will the situation improve? Certainly, spam filtering is a far sophisticated art than it once was but the sheer volume of email is also rising exponentially.
The Radicati Group’s research estimates that the total number of worldwide email accounts will increase from 3.3 billion accounts this year to over 4.3 billion accounts by year-end 2016; an average annual growth rate of 6% over the next four years. Instant Messaging (IM) accounts are also predicted to increase in a similar fashion from 2.7 billion in 2012 to 3.4 billion by year-end 2016.
The email should be considered as a ‘social channel’ as the marketing intent and the behavior it tries to produce can be compared to social channels such as Facebook.
So what measures should you be taking to ensure your email gets through? Here are six tips:
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