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Email marketing secrets 
that most marketers don’t 
know 
By Elizabeth Yin, October 30, 2014
Who am I? 
● EIR at 500 
● CEO/co-founder LaunchBit 
(adtech for SaaS, Batch 2, acq 
by BuySellAds ‘14) 
● Xoogler product marketing 
● BSEE Stanford, MBA MIT 
Sloan
Today’s talk is on 
● Overview of email marketing 
● Improving your open rate 
● Improving your click-through-rate
Email marketing means so many 
different things...
Newsletters are a great business...
...but only if you 
● Can get signups specifically for your 
newsletter 
● Have high engagement (open rate / CTR) 
● Get scale 
● Have high value brand advertisers in your 
industry
Here are the numbers: 
● $20-$50CPMs for email ads 
● $100-$300CPMs for dedicated emails 
100k subscriber list w/ daily email (at ave 
$30CPM) -> $1M revenue per year
But use transactional emails for marketing 
● Emails should be 
○ Dynamic 
○ Personalized 
○ Differentiated
What can transactional emails be used for? 
● Keeping your audience engaged 
● Nurturing leads via drip sequence 
● Thanking your audience
What “numbers” should I 
be aiming for?
Letter from a YC founder
A pretty good open rate is 20%
But open rates decline
You need to look at cohorts
What does average open rate mean?
A couple ways to 
increase your open rate
A/B test subject lines ONLY if... 
● You are sending the same transactional/drip 
emails over and over 
● AND you send 100k+ emails per month
Try different subject line formats
Send at a different time
A couple ways to 
increase your click-through- 
rate
We analyzed lots of emails...
Most people click on the first or 
second link (< 5 links)
Put your call to action upfront
Breakdown of the campaigns we 
analyzed
Doing the math...
People click “evenly” on 5+ link 
emails
So, reduce your links...
Digest emails “teach” people to click
Non-black fonts have a significant 
impact on click-through-rate
One-column newsletters have a low 
impact on click-through-rate
Questions? 
elizabeth@500startups.com

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