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Understand campaign metrics and analytics

Email Campaigns provides metrics and analytics that allow you to evaluate the performance of your email campaigns directly from Sage Sales Management.

Written by Product Learning

What are campaign analytics?

Campaign analytics show how recipients interact with your email campaigns after they have been sent.

These metrics help you measure:

  • Campaign reach

  • Engagement levels

  • Delivery quality

  • Recipient interest

  • Call-to-action performance

Campaign data is updated automatically after the campaign has been sent.


Access campaign metrics

Go to:

Campaigns → Campaigns

Select a sent campaign and open the:

Summary

From this section, you can view metrics, charts and engagement data.


Key metrics available

Unique opens

Unique opens show how many individual recipients opened the email.

This metric helps you evaluate:

  • Subject line effectiveness

  • Initial recipient interest

  • Send timing

A strong open rate generally indicates:

  • Engaging subject lines

  • Good domain reputation

  • A relevant audience


Unique clicks

Unique clicks show how many recipients clicked at least one link in the email.

This metric helps measure:

  • Genuine interest in the content

  • Call-to-action performance

  • Overall campaign effectiveness


Unsubscribes

Unsubscribes show how many recipients chose to stop receiving marketing communications.

A high unsubscribe rate may indicate:

  • Irrelevant content

  • Excessive email frequency

  • Poor audience segmentation


Bounces

Bounces represent emails that could not be delivered successfully.

This may occur because of:

  • Invalid email addresses

  • Non-existent mailboxes

  • Recipient server issues

  • Poor domain reputation

Keeping bounce rates low helps improve future deliverability.


Engagement funnel

Email Campaigns includes a visual engagement funnel.

The typical journey is:

Sent → Delivered → Opened → Clicked

This funnel helps identify potential issues throughout the communication process.

From Sent to Delivered

From Delivered to Opened

From Opened to Clicked

A significant drop may indicate:

  • Deliverability issues

  • Invalid email addresses

  • Domain blocking

  • Poor sending reputation

This stage helps evaluate:

  • Subject line quality

  • Send timing

  • Initial recipient interest

This stage helps analyse:

  • Content quality

  • Clarity of your calls to action

  • Genuine campaign engagement


Performance over time

Analytics also show when recipients interact with your campaigns over time.

This helps identify:

  • Peak engagement periods

  • The best times to send campaigns

  • How quickly recipients engage after delivery

These insights can help optimise future campaigns.


ink performance

The Link performance section shows which links received the most clicks within the email.

This helps identify:

  • The most popular products

  • The highest-performing content

  • The most effective calls to action

  • Your audience’s genuine interests


Delivery health

The Delivery health chart compares:

  • Delivered emails

  • Bounced emails

A high bounce rate may indicate:

  • Outdated contact databases

  • Domain reputation issues

  • Invalid email addresses


Using campaign metrics in Sage Sales Management

Campaign analytics help you:

  • Improve future campaigns

  • Refine audience segmentation

  • Identify your most engaged audiences

  • Discover your highest-performing content

  • Prioritise sales follow-up activities

Sales teams can also use these insights to prepare more personalised and contextual follow-up conversations.


Best practices

To achieve the best results:

  • Review campaign metrics after every campaign.

  • Analyse opens and clicks together.

  • Monitor bounce rates regularly.

  • Optimise your sending schedule.

  • Test different subject lines and calls to action.

  • Keep your contact lists up to date.

Common issues

Open rates appear too low

Check that:

  • Your subject line is relevant.

  • Your sending domain has been verified.

  • Your emails are not being delivered to spam folders.

There are too many bounces

This may happen if:

  • Your database contains invalid email addresses.

  • Your contact database is out of date.

  • Your sending domain has a poor reputation.

Click rates are low

Review:

  • The email content.

  • Your calls to action.

  • The email design.

  • Recipient segmentation.

Recommendations for marketing and sales

Campaign metrics help you:

  • Better understand customer behaviour.

  • Create more relevant campaigns.

  • Improve the quality of your communications.

  • Identify new sales opportunities.

  • Increase the effectiveness of sales follow-up.

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