#117: Why I Cut Almost ½ My Email List (don’t make this mistake) - a podcast by Rick Mulready

from 2016-12-28T08:30

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We’ve all heard “the money is in the list”, right?

Well I made a BIG mistake with my email list recently.

You see, I removed almost half of the people from it a couple weeks ago.

Yep, you read that right -- I cut almost HALF.

That wasn’t my mistake, though.

Removing people from my email list was completely intentional. I wanted to get people off there who weren’t engaged in my emails.

We identified those on my list who hadn’t engaged in any of my emails (opened/clicked) in the last 90 days.

And this is where I made the big mistake and where I want to make sure you don’t make the same mistake I did…

On Today’s Show You’ll Learn:

How we ran this group through a re-engagement email sequence -- 4 emails over 2 weeks -- offering them free content to see if they would again engage with my emails. Within these emails we were looking to segment people into one of three groups.
When I added up the non-engagers + opt-outs + hard-bounces, it was a lot of people.
Starting a new year is the perfect time to clean your list -- especially if you’re making the same mistake I did by not having done it in a long time.
And a lot more…

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