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Email Engagement Metrics: Going Beyond Open Rates
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Email Engagement Metrics: Going Beyond Open Rates

If you’re still judging your email campaigns by open rates, it’s time to upgrade the ole playbook. Sure, they were the gold standard once upon a time, but let’s face it – open rates just don’t cut it anymore. Why?  For starters, privacy updates like Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection have thrown a wrench into the works, making open rates unreliable for tracking engagement. Plus, an open doesn’t tell you much. Did they skim your email? Did they take action? Or did they just open it by mistake? The reality is that click-through rates, post-click behavior, and time on page are where the real insights live. In fact, email campaigns that focus on advanced email engagement metrics see up to 3x higher conversion rates than those relying on opens alone. This post is all about going deeper...
Email Preheaders: Tips to Increasing Your Open Rates
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Email Preheaders: Tips to Increasing Your Open Rates

By Sean Tinney March 6, 2024 Less than three seconds. That’s the average amount of time you have to capture a subscriber’s attention in his or her crowded inbox. Talk about a short window.So what’s an easy way to make an impact and stand out? Include an email preheader in each message you send.  When viewing a message in your inbox, an email preheader — also known as the Johnson Box or preview text — is a snippet of text shown next to or underneath the subject line. The email preheader length will vary by device and which Internet Service Provider (ISP) like Gmail or Yahoo! subscribers use. However they are typically between 50 to 100 characters or about 6 to 11 words.  Below, you can see an email preheader example on a desktop inbox, and another on a mobile ...
Surviving the Leap from College to Real-World Design
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Surviving the Leap from College to Real-World Design

2 days ago So, you’ve finished college and are ready to showcase your design skills to the world. This is a pivotal moment that you’ve worked hard for. But you may find that design in the real world is quite different from what you experienced in your courses. Don’t worry! This shift is not a setback but an exciting part of your journey. College provides a solid foundation, but real-world design jobs offer a vas...
Building the Metaverse With Open Source — Bot Libre Metaverse | by Bot Libre | Oct, 2022
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Building the Metaverse With Open Source — Bot Libre Metaverse | by Bot Libre | Oct, 2022

The virtual experiences that are promised from the metaverse will make several ordinary experiences more captivating and more inclusive as more persons have access regardless of distance and even time. Students, teachers, co-workers, family, friends, romantic partners and even strangers getting to know each other can find deep connection, productivity and success from the metaverse.It’s clear that people already understand the immense value of web3, in a recent Forbes Digital Assets article, “the market was worth $478.7 million in 2020, and experts expect it to grow to $800 billion in just four more years.”With such open enthusiasm, an open-source platform is the necessary engine that will drive the growth of the metaverse. By using open source to create the metaverse, it is possible to ad...
See how this writer gets 70% open rates with zero additional work using Auto Newsletters in AWeber
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See how this writer gets 70% open rates with zero additional work using Auto Newsletters in AWeber

By Sean Tinney August 4, 2022 See what steps this content writer took to get paid for his content and to automate his newsletter Randy Cassingham is the founder and writer for This is True, a website, blog, and newsletter called “TRUE” that uses “weird news” as a vehicle to explore the human condition in an entertaining way. TRUE is the oldest entertainment feature on the internet, running weekly for nearly three decades. The newsletter started June 26, 1994 — and has never missed a weekly issue. It is older than Google, Amazon, and eBay. “While I haven’t gotten ‘rich’ from it, I have something that many rich people don’t have: The freedom to live exactly where I want and work and ‘play’ pretty much every day” “One of the big reasons I can do it all is because AWeber’s...
Learning Chatbot from Scratch: Rasa Open Source 3.x Installation and Set up on macOS | by Hui Xi | Jan, 2022
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Learning Chatbot from Scratch: Rasa Open Source 3.x Installation and Set up on macOS | by Hui Xi | Jan, 2022

I started to explore chatbot design two weeks ago and decided go with Rasa for my first chatbot development. As a leading open source chatbot platform, Rasa recently upgraded from 2.x to 3.x. While users are encouraged to upgrade to the latest version, I encountered some hiccups during installation and fortunately all got resolved through Rasa forum and googling. In this article, I am going to guide you through the installation process step by step, and also include all the tricks leading towards running your first chatbot example on macOS.Problem 1: ImportError when running “rasa init” after successfully installed Rasa 3.0ImportError in sanic packageSolution: downgrade sanic to 21.9.3 via running “pip3 install sanic==21.9.3”. Credit to nik202 on Rasa community forum.Problem 2: Trying to i...
Email Tagging Tips to Skyrocket Your Open Rates
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Email Tagging Tips to Skyrocket Your Open Rates

By Kelsey Johnson December 3, 2021 Learn how tagging can be used to Increase your email open and click rates . Each person on your email list is unique: In a real conversation, you wouldn’t talk to VIP clients in the same way you would talk to new leads. So why would you send them the same email? Short answer: You shouldn’t. You can use tags and segments to send emails that cater to the specific needs and interests of your subscribers. Tagging is easier — and more important — than you think. Here’s why: The days of one-size-fits-all email marketing are gone. Your audience expects to get interesting emails — with topics they care about. But your subscribers are snowflakes! They don’t all care about exactly the same things. The more your audience likes your emails, the ...
See Your Email Open Rates Explode With These 6 Simple Tricks
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See Your Email Open Rates Explode With These 6 Simple Tricks

By Nahla Davies November 10, 2021 Get the 6 simple tricks you need to see your email open rates explode. The holidays are right around the corner, and most businesses are hoping to capitalize on the festivities. Marketing teams have been hard at work analyzing market research and understanding what their buyers are looking for from their brand. What have they discovered? Online spending by Black Friday shoppers is projected to surpass the $14 billion spent last year by 20%.  With this in mind, ecommerce and other online retail businesses have been honing in on their email marketing campaigns so that they can reach their goals for the end of the year.  Many sales and marketing professionals spend hours carefully crafting the perfect email, combining rich content with ...
The Ultimate Rasa Cheatsheet. A beginners’ guide to Rasa Open Source | by Nikoletta Ventoura | Oct, 2021
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The Ultimate Rasa Cheatsheet. A beginners’ guide to Rasa Open Source | by Nikoletta Ventoura | Oct, 2021

Let’s start with the basics:Rasa Open Source is a framework for Natural Language Understanding (NLU), dialogue management, and integrations. Rasa also provides RasaX, which is a toolset (GUI) to improve a bot created with Rasa.This is a continuously growing framework for the development of dialogue systems and no wonder there is the need for some help when you start working with Rasa. I got your back though! Here is a comprehensive cheatsheet for all the main commands and functionalities you need!Filesdomain.yml → the “universe” of the bot, i.e., it has a list of all the intents, responses, custom actions, slots, and forms. Don’t forget that every time you add a new intent or entity you have to also add it in your domaindata/nlu.yml → the training data for the natural language understandin...
Apple iOS 15 Mail Privacy Protection Open Rate Trends
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Apple iOS 15 Mail Privacy Protection Open Rate Trends

By Tom Kulzer October 1, 2021 Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection (MPP) rollout in iOS 15 has Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection (MPP) rollout in iOS 15 has caused fascinating changes in open rate metrics. The most interesting of which is the change in behavior of when we see opens being detected. Let’s dive into a few charts using data from hundreds of millions of delivered messages. Apple Mail opens by a percentage of total mail sent Below you’ll see the raw volume trends of user opens as Apple iOS 15 is adopted on an hourly basis. Raw opens by hour as Apple iOS 15 is adopted. More Night Time Readers? Look closely and you’ll see the peaks and valleys are different on older iOS versions vs. Apple’s new MPP proxy in iOS 15. Putting proxied iOS 15 tr...
Split Test Subject Lines to Maximize Open Rates
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Split Test Subject Lines to Maximize Open Rates

By Kelly Forst April 20, 2021 Morning Brew reached 1,000,000 opens with this split testing strategy. Plus, learn how you can do it in AWeber. Stuck between two subject line ideas? It’s impossible to know which will yield the best results without running a split test — commonly called an A/B test. A split test gives you real feedback on which subject line your audience was more drawn to opening. This is how the most successful marketers optimize their open rates.  Take Morning Brew, for example. Morning Brew is a popular newsletter with more than 2.5 million subscribers. Their daily newsletter includes business and tech news of the day written for a business-minded millennial audience.  In August 2020, Morning Brew hit a major milestone — 1,000,000 opens of its...
How to Get Better Open Rates with Email Preheaders
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How to Get Better Open Rates with Email Preheaders

By Sean Tinney December 14, 2020 Want more of your subscribers to read your emails? Then you must pay attention to your email preheader. Less than three seconds. That’s the average amount of time you have to capture a subscriber’s attention in his or her crowded inbox. Talk about a short window. So what’s an easy way to make an impact and stand out? Include an email preheader in each message you send.  When viewing a message in your inbox, an email preheader — also known as the Johnson Box or preview text — is a snippet of text shown next to or underneath the subject line. The email preheader length will vary by device and which Internet Service Provider (ISP) like Gmail or Yahoo! subscribers use. However they are typically between 50 to 100 charac...