What percentage of recipients open your marketing emails? Want to craft subject lines that encourage more people to open them?

The guys at Contact Monkey have crunched some numbers and their results clearly show shorter titles generate the most opens, especially if using “RE:” at the start. So if you want to get your email content in front of more people you have to make it look like a reply (Sneaky!).

Take a look at their results in the infographic below.

Email Marketing Tips The 5 Best & 5 Worst Email Subject Lines to Use

 

Mark Walker-Ford

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