4 Tips to Improve Your Email Marketing Open Rates

The open rate is the ratio of the number of recipients who opened or read the mail to the number of recipients the email campaign was sent to.

You also need to know the reason: why your subscribers are not opening your email. Once you know the reason then only you’ll be able to work on it and improve your open rates.

There are other important techniques as well to Improve Email Marketing Open Rates:

Subject Lines                                                                                                                                                  One of the chief factors that contribute to open rates is subject lines. Short, expressive, and something that gives the reader a reason to explore the message makes a good subject line. The subject line should be straightforward, avoid promotional phrases, CAPS, or exclamation marks in your subject lines.

Research, and avoid, typical spam words                                                                                            Words such as “free” or “act now” or dollar signs can be a red flag not merely for spam filters; they also stand out as suspicious words to the recipient.

Choose the right “From” name and email address                                                                              These should reflect a professional brand image to encourage recipients to open the email. The email should also be relevant to what you are offering to your customer.

Construct a well-structured message, that includes quality content with both text and images    Do not use one large image as your entire message. Make sure you have a good amount of both text and images in your message

Conclusion                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Though there are endless suggestions for improving open rates, these are some great starting points. Following these suggestions might be all you need to kick-start Email Marketing efforts and make email campaigns more effective.