Secrets to a 40-50% Email Open Rate with Jess Campbell

Newflash: You’re probably not emailing your list enough!

In Q4 of 2022, Jess Campbell, founder and principal at Out in the Boons, wrote over FOUR HUNDRED emails for nine campaigns! As you can imagine, she learned a lot, and she’s here today to share the nuts and bolts of email marketing - from coming up with creative subject lines, to personalizing and segmenting your email content.

While most nonprofits are emailing their lists one or two times a month, Jess says we need to be more consistent. I have no doubt this episode will inspire you to rethink your email strategy.

In This Episode:

• Why we need to be more consistent with emailing our lists (and 1-2x per month is not enough!) Jess aims for three emails a week for each of her different audiences.
• How emailing your list more often can actually lead to a healthier list, more open rates, more clicks, and more engagement.
• Jess’s origin story of falling in love with nonprofit fundraising, and the “slap in the face” moment that inspired her to launch Out in the Boons.
• Why shorter subject lines (with an emoji!) tend to have higher open rates.
• The industry standard benchmarks for open rates across all nonprofits and the best cadence for structuring a welcome sequence.
• How to convert your social media followers to join your email list (because the people who are paying attention to you across different channels are your most engaged supporters)

Resources & Links

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Learn more about Jess’s company, Out in the Boons and DM her on Instagram at @outintheboons_. She is also on TikTok and LinkedIn.

Jess and I recommend email platforms like Flodesk, ActiveCampaign, and ConvertKit. You can get better conversion rates and inbox placement by using Klean13, a list hygiene software.

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