We've previously referenced the research of Nielsen Norman Group showing that
email newsletter subscribers spend an average of 51 seconds on each newsletter in their inbox.
Since
email newsletter subscribers spend, on average, about 51 seconds scanning an email newsletter they have just opened, you don't have much time to attract readers» attention.
Not exact matches
Rather than bombarding your
subscribers with constant
emails and
newsletters choked with promotion and snippets of information,
spend some time at the end of each month and create content that is of a high standard and offers value to the reader e.g. a free short story, a competition, a survey (and results), some exciting news that will be of interest to YOUR readers.
That is,
subscribers don't necessarily «read»
emails; they scan them (Nielsen Norman Group's usability study (
Email Newsletter Usability — Third Edition, June 2006) determined that users, once engaged, spend an average of 51 seconds on each newsletter in the
Newsletter Usability — Third Edition, June 2006) determined that users, once engaged,
spend an average of 51 seconds on each
newsletter in the
newsletter in their inbox).