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Business Email vs Personal Email for Marketing – Which One Should I Use?
Question from us at Acumen to You: “Are you using business email addresses or personal email addresses when marketing to potential customers?”.
Question we get from our customers: “Should we be marketing to only business email addresses or can we also market to them using their personal email addresses?
This is concern is understandable, especially in today’s climate when everyone is hyper concerned about doing the “right thing” or not “overstepping” in some way.
Business vs Personal Email Breakdown
The reality is that for many people there is a big overlap as to when they use personal or business email addresses.
There is no rule here either, sometimes customers choose to use their personal email and other times business.
Here is the good news… It Doesn’t Matter!
There has been numerous research studies showing the prevalence of business vs personal email use and they all have similar insights.
People use both when submitting their information online.
Again that is great news.
One study even showed that C-Level executives across all size companies provided a personal email address 50% of the time.
The truth is that most people can’t even describe under what circumstances they might submit a lead generation form using a business or personal email address.
So What Should You Do With Your Marketing Email?
Send it to everyone!
If a lead chooses to give you a personal email address then honor that decision by sending them your marketing material to the email address they gave you.
We could honestly talk for days on this, but we wanted to share a quick answer to a burning questioning (or held belief) that many marketers have.
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