Jul
23

How to Get Email List Open Rate of 51.4%

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What’s the Point of having an email list of prospects if
NO ONE opens the email and just DELETES it!

It’s important to make the email as personal as possible.

It’s the same with snail mail – do you open junk mail?
No, But I Hand-written letter, for sure you’ll open it.

The Same MUST go for your Email Aweber auto-responder messages!

Which Subject like catches your attention the most?

Hey people, Check this out
Hey Ryan(whatever you name is), Check this out

Of Course the One using your Name stands out the most,
SO USE IT in your emails! (statistically proven as well)

Normally It’s setup something like this
Hey {firstname},Check this out.

I can’t believe 53% don’t use personalization in their emails!

Subject line personalization using the date generated an
average open rate of 51.4% compared to personalization using
the subscriber’s first name generating 40.9% open rate.
Newsletters sent without personalization of any type in the
subject line generated average open rates of 28.9%.

17% of newsletter subject lines sent in the last 30 days
contained date personalization while 19% used the subscriber’s
first name. 56.3% of subject lines did not contain any type
of personalization. Interestingly, using the subscriber’s
full name or last name generated lower average open rates
at 20%.

Michael Rasmussen

Categories : Make Money Online

9 Comments

1

Good looking website!! Lots of nice content. I am also a student of Alex’s in his current 2.0 class. Keep up the good work!
Lee
.-= Lee´s last blog ..Day starts with struggles, but, ends with success! =-.

2

Hey Brad,

I don’t get it – Aweber makes it SUPER EASY for even a complete NEWBIE to add personalization to email messages yet they STILL don’t do it?

What more do they want? Aweber to write the emails for them?

Madness…

David
.-= David´s last blog ..Progress Update 24 July 2009 =-.

3

The Bradmeister,

I think you’re the first in a long while that has addressed how to improve email open rates…

Totally awesome… Thanks for including MR’s stats

Cheers,

Rob
.-= Rob Canyon´s last blog ..Do you ever sit back and think to yourself… can I really do this business. =-.

4

Very interesting stats. It sure doesn’t pay to be lazy with your emails does it? Hey, the more lousy emails there are the better chance that ours will get opened.

Bob
.-= Bob Hughes´s last blog ..Welcome To My Blog =-.

5

LOL Bob, yup it’s thats true!

6

Very true.. personalization of mailouts gives users a sense of closeness. I always use that, lots of times users still feel i only wrote it for them :)
.-= Wakas Mir´s last blog ..So I launched my hosting company =-.

7

Hi Brad great job on the blog.
Michael Rasmussen is a real good benchmark for email marketing.Ive bought products from him in the past and its a real art to get someone to trust you in an email.
People have got wise to email marketing they will not open one else you use the whats in it for me concept….give them loads of free content regularly and then pop a suggestion in occasionally it works.

Personal opinion but i also do not open emails for “googleslayer” or whatever give me a real name please

thanks for the post

rich
.-= Richard´s last blog ..Driving Traffic with Social Media =-.

8

I really like your site. It has good content that’s actionable and there are things here I can take away and start using instantly.

Thanks for this post. I had no idea a date in the headline created such a response. More than 51% open rate you say? I’m definitely trying that.
.-= Gil´s last blog ..The ’secret’ that anyone successful has, and everyone that’s failing online doesn’t =-.

9

Hey Brad. Doing a great job here.

Terrific Blog

Steve reh
.-= steve reh´s last blog ..My Newsletter Is Up =-.

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