Last Updated on December 17, 2024 by Caesar
You can send the most informative, persuasive, and enticing emails in the world. But if they don’t get opened, they don’t matter. Chilly rates on email outreach can be caused by a multitude of things, but your email deliverability is one of the biggest culprits. This is when your emails reach the inbox but never get opened. The reasons behind poor email deliverability are also numerous. However, one of the interconnected factors is the overall health and engagement metrics of your email list. With higher open rates comes better click-throughs and conversions. Let’s explore some advanced email marketing techniques to boost your email list health and engagement so your audience opens those important emails.
Employ Double Opt-In
The majority of email service providers offer double opt-in as a feature. If you’re not using it, start today. Double opt-in requires users to confirm their request to join your email list by responding to an initial confirmation email. This ensures that anyone who signs up really wants your emails, and it weeds out fake email addresses generated by bots, as well as accidental entries like “[email protected].” You may believe in double opt-in limits rather than grow your audience —but remember, these engaged readers are more liable to open your emails than those who signed up simply because it was easier than saying no.
Allow Users to Self-Select Email Topics
Every audience is diverse and typically has different segments with different interests. Whether you have one audience or multiple, give them some say in what topic emails they receive. You may have an audience segment that loves every email you send, including company updates, product news, promotional offers, educational content, and case studies. But more likely, there are many readers who only care about one or two topics out of all of them. Self-selection requires you to present options at the time of sign-up, whether this be a simple checkbox list or a more complex preference center later on. Only send emails based on these selections so your audience receives only relevant content.
Segment Your Email List
Search any article or blog on email marketing best practices, and you’ll see this strategy mentioned over and over again. That’s because it works so well in increasing engagement metrics like open rates and click-throughs. But segmentation should go hand-in-hand with self-selecting topics and even double opt-ins to be truly effective. For example, consider a new subscriber who just opted in to receive topic A after confirming their email address. If you send her emails about topics B, C, D, and E, she’ll likely mark you as spam or unsubscribe entirely. But if you have another list segment of long-time subscribers who regularly engage with topics A through E, feel free to send them an email about topic A mixed in with topics B, C, D, and E.
Clean Your Email List Regularly
In general business practice, there’s an old adage that goes something like “waste begets waste.” When it comes to digital marketing and technology solutions that require user input, as email sign-ups do, wasted space leads to wasted function; what this means for your email marketing is that when you allow invalid email addresses and disengaged users to clutter up your lists and cause unnecessary bloat, even valid, engaged users may not receive their important emails as intended. Cleaning your list regularly means removing hard bounces each time you send your campaign run and taking a closer look at soft bounces and users who have not engaged lately (and be sure not to remove users who recently clicked). You want to keep your list size down but also maintain its overall quality score with your email service provider.
Boost Engagement with Strategic Follower Investments
Doing this can really amplify the effect of your email marketing campaigns, and if you invest in followers, in plays, and in plays of your podcast, your emails can be seen as much more effective. Showing a strong, engaged audience on your platforms makes your brand more credible and attractive. Social proof is perceived as someone who’s been successful by a majority of people, and it’s this that builds trust with your email recipients, and the greater the trust, the more likely they will open and engage with your emails. This strategy, combined with tailored email techniques like segmented lists as well as personalized subject lines, works synergistically to improve your engagement. Additionally, an obvious spike in your follower count paves the road for natural growth because people find subject matter automatically becoming popular. If brands want to expand their reach, making strategic investments in audience metrics can make a radical difference to increase opens.
Optimize Send Times
Once upon a time in an email’s life, there was always one date stamp that was golden — early Monday morning. After a decade of rising work-from-home policies followed by the advent of mobile devices putting work emails into everyone’s pocket at any time of day or night, the “best time” became much less pronounced. What this means for open rates is that everyone now has their own “best time” based on their individual habits. Luckily, most major email service providers offer some form of send-time optimization or algorithm. Proper training of this algorithm starts with segmented lists combined with regular engagement monitoring. Localize the best times, too, especially for global audiences. Combine all this together for improved open rates.
Conclusion
higher email open rates can only be achieved by a strategic mix of thoughtful practices as well as advanced techniques. Double opt-ins allow users to select topics of interest, dividing your audience and keeping your email list clean, your email will reach a receptive and engaged audience. But to maximize your results, too, you can also use social proof through strategic follower investments and data driven insights to optimize send times. When used together, these methods combine to become a strong force to increase open rates, generate deeper engagement, and, ultimately, deeper conversions. Using this arsenal of tools will truly allow you to reign with success with your email marketing campaigns in the digital competing world.
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