It is.

Iterating is.

Irritating.

(I never know if I can just casually springboard off my subject lines or if, when reading the email, you can no longer see or remember them, leaving you asking, “What is?”)

This summer, I “launched” a mini-course. I called it a guide, but now realize I should have called it a mini-course.

It was a series of emails that ended with a soft call to action to check out an offer. I called it an Optimization Audit. I wanted to change it but couldn’t land on anything convincing in time.

As it’s Tactical Tuesday, now’s as good a time as any to share some results/numbers. They’re not great or large, but they’re real.

A decent open rate throughout tells me the emails are engaging enough to keep opening.

Ditto the low unsubscribe rate.

Higher click rate on emails 3 (Customer Interview questions) and 6 (sign up for One Creative Moment – Daily) tells me people will click if it’s interesting.

Lower click rate on email 5 (the Optimization Audit offer) tells me it’s not a compelling offer (or I didn’t frame it right).

I expected zero sales, as I was asking for feedback. But near-zero curiosity tells me it’s time to iterate on what I put out there as my “first thing I can do” offer.

Having written that all out, I disagree with my subject line.

It’s not irritating, it’s exciting…but that doesn’t alliterate.

Always alliterating,
James