MBA2726 Q&A Wednesday: How Do I Increase My Email Open Rates?
The $100 MBA Show
Omar Zenhom
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Most people think if they want to increase their email open rates, they have to resort to tricks that are incredibly annoying, like weird subject lines, emojis, capital letters, forewords, regarding final notice. |
| 0:13.2 | Please do not be that person, okay? That's so annoying. You don't need any of that. If you want to dramatically increase your open rates consistently, there's only one thing that actually works. |
| 0:24.2 | Becoming someone worth opening. |
| 0:32.5 | Welcome back to the $100 MBA show. |
| 0:34.8 | I'm your host, Omar Z Zen Home, where I deliver practical business |
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| 1:01.2 | getting from the show. It only takes a few seconds, but it makes a huge difference. Thanks for being |
| 1:06.2 | a part of our journey to help others on their journey. Today on Q&A Wednesday, I'm answering a question from Peter who asks, how do I increase |
| 1:15.1 | my email open rates? |
| 1:16.3 | And I'm going to do that by sharing everything I know about how to get people to open your |
| 1:21.6 | emails. |
| 1:22.3 | Most of it, I learned from a friend of mine who's an incredible copywriter. |
| 1:26.9 | His name is Matthew Kimberly, |
| 1:27.9 | and he's one of the best email communicators on the planet. I'm going to be sharing you all |
| 1:33.2 | the strategies that he taught me about how to get people to really love opening your emails, |
| 1:39.0 | be rushing to open your emails, and it has nothing to do with spammy subject lines. I'm going to be giving a ton of |
| 1:45.4 | shoutouts to Matthew Kimberly because really he's taught me everything I know on this topic. And |
| 1:50.4 | if you ever seen this guy go to work, he's incredible. His emails get opened. They get read. |
| 1:56.7 | But most of all, they get remembered. People actually reply to him. They ask for more. |
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