I would say open rate is one of those things that I definitely still respect and kind of see where things fluctuate with it. You can definitely definitely tell the difference between a quality newsletter and a not so color newsletter just based on the open rates that they're seeing. It'd be one of those for me on the paid acquisitions side of things because again, you can really tell just on like the surface level of engagement with the open rate whether you're acquiring in great engaged readers or not. If your ads are just like almost too sexy and acquiring just anyone and everyone and it's not really paying dividends in terms of like engagement for your newsletter. And again, you know, click rates.
Welcome back to another episode of the Send & Grow podcast. This week, SparkLoop cofounder Louis Nicholls sits down with Manny Reyes from Workweek Inc.
Manny was on the Morning Brew team before joining Workweek in a paid acquisition role.
In this episode, Manny & Louis discuss:
- the key differences in marketing & publishing a B2B newsletter vs. a B2C newsletter
- the best way for creators to get started with paid newsletter growth
- the most important metric Workweek looks at to determine paid growth budgets
- what Manny would do to get 100,000 subscribers starting from scratch
- ....and much more!
You can find Manny Reyes on Twitter, and Louis is at @louisnicholls_ .
Other links mentioned:
Workweek