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Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

How to Get 90% Open Rates

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In episode #2374, we share how to get 90% open rates on your messages! Getting your subscribers and audience to engage with your marketing messages is a huge part of successful work in our field. Tune in today to hear about how you can boost your numbers and the surprising communication avenues we think are worth checking out right now. TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:21] Today’s topic: How to Get 90% Open Rates. [00:30] The power of a good subject line! [01:35] Realistic numbers for different types of messages and subscriber lists. [02:36] Finding new channels to stimulate higher open rates. [04:19] Remember to prune your list! [06:41] That is it for today! [06:53] Go to https://www.marketingschool.io for more resources! Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: Subscribe to our premium podcast (with tons of goodies!): https://www.marketingschool.io/pro Ogilvie  Attentive  Andrew Chen   ConvertKit  Leave Some Feedback: What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect with Us:  Neilpatel.com Quick Sprout  Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel  Twitter @ericosiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Marketing School, the only podcast that provides daily top-level marketing tips and strategies from entrepreneurs that practice what they preach and live what they teach.

0:11.5

Let's start leveling up your marketing knowledge with

0:14.0

your instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.

0:18.6

Today we are going to talk about how to get 90% plus open rates on your emails and I'm

0:26.1

going to start this off first because I've actually seen this recently right and

0:29.9

so the key thing for me I'm seeing 90 to 93% open rates or so.

0:34.3

On cold emails, it's about 90% on kind of warmer ones,

0:37.3

it's 93, maybe even 95% or so.

0:40.2

But the key thing for me is you have a good subject line, right?

0:43.5

And so I'll give you an example.

0:45.1

Recently we're kind of inviting some people

0:46.8

that I know that are in my network, and I just said,

0:48.8

hey, come hang out in Miami at the Four Seasons,

0:51.6

February 12 to the 14th, right?

0:53.4

And that open rate in itself, it's a good offer, right?

0:55.5

One, it's an event in Miami.

0:57.4

Oh, it's at the four seasons, right?

0:58.6

Oh, if you're available during that time,

1:00.1

it sounds interesting, right?

1:01.4

And so when I ask a question like that, that prompts curiosity, but there's also a lot of

1:06.8

curiosity around the subject line itself, right? So the subject line, Ogilvie himself says that 80 cents on the dollar is already spent when you write your

1:13.4

headline and so that's one big piece of it. I found that like for me I don't know what are your

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