Email Marketing - Why Do Open Rates Go Down Over Time?

How to Keep Your Open Rates HighAnother reason could be that, although they were
This is something that happens through a wide scopeexpecting your email, and they were online when you
of actions, and everything you do with your list willfirst email went out to them after they subscribed, they
impact your open rates.are rarely online, and when they do go online, they
One of the things you can do to keep your open rateshave hundreds of emails to open, and yours is
high is to simply avoid things that cause the open rategenerally going to get lost in the list of emails.
to go down. The idea with this is that when someoneThe bulk of those reasons are somewhat unavoidable
subscribes to your list, theoretically your open rate isby you.
100%. (It may be less than that because a spam filterThe next reason is something you can work on to
got your email, or the subscriber decided they didn'timprove open rates after the first email. Perhaps they
really want your free gift after all).downloaded your free gift and it wasn't everything you
After one email, the open rate goes down. Why?promised it would be. Now they do not trust you. They
Either they just wanted the free gift, and nothing youstop opening your emails, and one by one, your email
did in the email or in the free gift was enough to spuropen rate goes down.
the subscriber to continue to open your emails.